Post by GordonG on Oct 2, 2018 22:38:13 GMT -5
gathered from various articles.
"Obviously, I can play better, need to play better. I feel like I have a good feel of the offense. We're getting completions. Not turning the ball and making mistakes," Manning said. "I think I can do a better job of just feeling the rush or feeling when you have time to maybe push the ball down the field, but I think I do a good job of keeping us in good down and distances and giving us opportunities to make plays."
"Risks are not what you want to take. You throw the ball down the field when it's not risky, and then there's forcing things and that leads to turnovers that leads to mistakes,"
“It’s not like there’s shots down the field that I’m not taking,” Manning said. “It’s just a matter of whether you want to scramble around, whether you want to buy the time and let things — where they’re not gonna be open on the way you draw it up — but can guys move around and find areas in the zone to get open on scramble drill. So it’s just kind of weighing those options sometimes.
“Sometimes you can look at it and say, ‘Oh, I had time here’ and then look at other ones and say, ‘I wouldn’t have had time there to do that’ and therefore it leads to sacks or fumbles,” he added. “So it’s just kind of having that feel, feeling the rush and having a good understanding of when you can do it and when you can’t.”
"It didn't feel like a struggle for whatever reason. I think in the first half, we had four drives. The first one was great. Like I said, you don't have to have big plays to have good drives. You're getting completions and you're getting 10 yards, you're running the ball, you're getting four or five yards, and you just don't have third downs. You go first down, second down, first down. That's what you want to do. You want to get a couple of shots or where you get some plays down the field, and those happen, and you want to take them, and we took some. We just didn't hit any," Manning said.
"Sometimes it just depends on the play that's called," Manning said Monday. "And how they're playing it. Sometimes when you want to keep a tight end in or you're expecting some sort of one-high zone, or expecting pressure and they're showing that, and all of a sudden they play zone or they play two-high, you only got three guys in route, that's where you got to weigh those odds.
"Do I want to buy time and scramble around and try to get someone that based on this play and their coverage which is not designed to get open, you can maybe move around and create something."
"A few times, they did bring some pressure," Manning said. "We couldn't get the ball out quick enough. We got a sack and just go into some third-and-long situations where we had some negative plays. For the most part, first and second down was very productive, but we had a few drives where you just had the negative plays. The incompletions and the runs for one or two yards are not the problems. It's the penalties, it's the sacks that hurt you."
"Obviously, I can play better, need to play better. I feel like I have a good feel of the offense. We're getting completions. Not turning the ball and making mistakes," Manning said. "I think I can do a better job of just feeling the rush or feeling when you have time to maybe push the ball down the field, but I think I do a good job of keeping us in good down and distances and giving us opportunities to make plays."
"Risks are not what you want to take. You throw the ball down the field when it's not risky, and then there's forcing things and that leads to turnovers that leads to mistakes,"
“It’s not like there’s shots down the field that I’m not taking,” Manning said. “It’s just a matter of whether you want to scramble around, whether you want to buy the time and let things — where they’re not gonna be open on the way you draw it up — but can guys move around and find areas in the zone to get open on scramble drill. So it’s just kind of weighing those options sometimes.
“Sometimes you can look at it and say, ‘Oh, I had time here’ and then look at other ones and say, ‘I wouldn’t have had time there to do that’ and therefore it leads to sacks or fumbles,” he added. “So it’s just kind of having that feel, feeling the rush and having a good understanding of when you can do it and when you can’t.”
"It didn't feel like a struggle for whatever reason. I think in the first half, we had four drives. The first one was great. Like I said, you don't have to have big plays to have good drives. You're getting completions and you're getting 10 yards, you're running the ball, you're getting four or five yards, and you just don't have third downs. You go first down, second down, first down. That's what you want to do. You want to get a couple of shots or where you get some plays down the field, and those happen, and you want to take them, and we took some. We just didn't hit any," Manning said.
"Sometimes it just depends on the play that's called," Manning said Monday. "And how they're playing it. Sometimes when you want to keep a tight end in or you're expecting some sort of one-high zone, or expecting pressure and they're showing that, and all of a sudden they play zone or they play two-high, you only got three guys in route, that's where you got to weigh those odds.
"Do I want to buy time and scramble around and try to get someone that based on this play and their coverage which is not designed to get open, you can maybe move around and create something."
"A few times, they did bring some pressure," Manning said. "We couldn't get the ball out quick enough. We got a sack and just go into some third-and-long situations where we had some negative plays. For the most part, first and second down was very productive, but we had a few drives where you just had the negative plays. The incompletions and the runs for one or two yards are not the problems. It's the penalties, it's the sacks that hurt you."