Byron Leftwich Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

Leftwich: The best part is all of the mistakes on offense are correctable.

Leftwich: We've had a chance to play together two years, and we know what good and bad look like. We understand the difference. We know how good a football team we have. On paper, we have a great football team.

Leftwich: I'm not one of those guys trying to throw Bill Musgrave under the bus. I look at it, maybe I didn't play well enough last year to help us win just one more game to get into the playoffs. I mean, that's the easy fallback to say it was all his fault. I think, me personally, I'll take some of the responsibility for that also. I could have done some things better to make that thing work.

Leftwich: They're having one of the best camps out of all the receivers. No, I'm not too surprised they're having a good camp.

Leftwich: I always feel like what I've got is weatherproof. I can play through anything: rain, sleet, snow. I always tell the coaches, 'Don't be afraid to throw the ball in the rain or snow.

Leftwich: We made it into the play. It's just something that me and Jimmy have going on. There's a lot of balls Jimmy catches that aren't designed to go to him.

Leftwich: Reggie's been making plays all summer. Look at what he's done: Reggie doesn't drop the ball. We just haven't given Reggie the opportunity to make plays, and now we're going to give him the opportunity to make them.

Leftwich: I can already tell you that when we watch the film, it's going to be frustrating.

Leftwich: I don't want to say what it is right now, but it wasn't the knee. I'm happy the knee is OK.

Leftwich: They've gotten faster. That's their style. They're just running around, trying to make plays.

Leftwich: I made a mistake. I have to deal with it.

Leftwich: That could have been ugly. That could have been it for a while.

Leftwich: Matt is going to be Matt. He's just beginning to play wide receiver out there. You can't really compare him to anybody. The closest person you can compare him to is Randy Moss. They're different type receivers. But I'm telling you that this guy has got the talent that not a lot of people on this planet have. There's not a lot of guys that big and that fast who can do the things he can do.

Leftwich: Jimmy and I are on a level where I know what he's going to do. We've got that vibe where we understand each other, that we're able to do things outside of the route and make things happen.

Leftwich: Those are things that scare us, but hopefully those things turn out well. You hope it's nothing major, but you never know.

Leftwich: That's exactly how I broke my leg in college. That was exactly the situation. I was looking at the game and I went 'ooh.'

Trivia

His height is 6'5".

His favorite people to throw to on the Jaguars are Jimmy Smith (WR) and Alvin Pearman (RB).

He was the third famous person to come out to Marshall.

His greatest game at Marshall was the 64-61 win in overtime against ECU in the 2001 Motor City Bowl.

He got hit by a car twice