Drew Bledsoe
Drew Bledsoe
Drew McQueen Bledsoe is an American football quarterback who played fourteen seasons in the National Football League. Bledsoe is best known as the starting quarterback for the New England Patriots from 1993 to 2001. He also played for the Buffalo Bills and the Dallas Cowboys. During the 1990s, he was considered the face of the Patriots franchise...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionFootball Player
Date of Birth14 February 1972
CityEllensburg, WA
CountryUnited States of America
We feel like we missed out on an opportunity here, ... We made a lot of mistakes in the ballgame that really hurt us in the end.
That was the plan. The way our defense was playing, we wanted to keep the pressure on them.
That was probably my No. 2 reason for coming here, outside the talent that was around, ... I know Bill, I believe in him as a coach. I believe in the way he approaches things.
I will tell you this that everybody that plays against Lawyer is aware of where he is and aware of his ability to make big plays. As far as his speed, his aggressiveness, his physical style, I haven't seen a falloff at all.
You keep hearing everybody wants a more mobile quarterback, ... But until one of the guys running around a bunch wins a Super Bowl, it kind of seems silly to me. Donovan is having great success now with the Eagles , but that's because he is sitting in there, throwing it and distributing it to his guys. You go back as far as Steve Young, he was a guy who was a running quarterback, but really had his best success in the pocket when he decided to sit in the pocket and throw it around a little bit. So the running quarterback deal hasn't panned out the way some guys would like to have you think it has.
We couldn't get out of our way the first quarter. It was very frustrating, but it was good to see the way our offense responded.
When I was 21, I just listened to him and didn't say much. Now he asks my opinion.
We put our defense in some horrible spots. They had to keep us in the ball game until we could kind of get it together.
We never thought we'd see this happen to our team. I didn't think that this team was capable of losing a game like that.
With the weapons they have, we know we're going to have to score points, ... You never know exactly how these games are going to go, but it would be a very, very strange scenario for this to be a 9-6 game.
We've got to go back to work on Monday and try to prepare better. The only other option is to quit - and there's no quit in this team.
We thought we had a chance to throw it on them if we picked up the blitz.
To fall behind like we did and be able to respond and make the plays that we had to,
He's a big target down there in the red zone. Plus, he's very physical. He's been there before. He knows what to do.