Who cares if they throw a football that has no air pressure? What does it matter? Why don’t we let the quarterbacks do whatever they want to the football? I don’t understand why there’s any rules.
Aaron Rodgers is a great quarterback, and he’s going to keep his team in every game he plays.
There’s not much simplifying. You gotta know what you gotta know. That’s how the quarterback position is, and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
My job is to make the quarterback position as easy as we can.
And my father didn’t have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didn’t have black quarterbacks, and I don’t think I could have made it in basketball, because I was only 5′ 11″. So I just picked baseball.
I’m just a quarterback. I’m just who I am.
Look at Baltimore back in 2000. They had an outstanding defense. They could run the ball, and they had a quarterback that didn’t turn it over that much. I think that is a plan that can bring you great success.
Quarterbacks are always ready.
I’ve never played, on the field, any other position besides quarterback. Never been on a special team. Never been on defense.
Any rookie that can develop a mentorship with a former quarterback like Jim Kelly, it’s going to be huge.
With any player, especially at quarterback, I don’t care if you’re talking Tom Brady or Peyton Manning or Drew Brees: you want to make sure to continue to hammer down the fundamentals, and it all starts with your feet. Everything starts with footwork.
I coached the Bucs with a Florida State quarterback named Brad Johnson. Things worked out all right.
I want to be the best quarterback at Texas Tech, the best quarterback in the Big 12.
Aaron Rodgers has always been one of my favorite quarterbacks.
I think, between the tattoos, the way I dress, the way I talk, people don’t think it should go together with a franchise quarterback or someone that’s leading the team or representing the organization.
I don’t think I’m ever surprised at how high the quarterbacks go. There could be a lot of teams that often times don’t have a lot of first-round grades on guys that are going in the first round, and that’s just the nature of the business.
I think when you look at the quarterback position, and this mastery of the craft we talk about, it really is an advanced degree. It’s like going to med school, or law school, or getting your PH.D. It really is that type of educational effort, on the field and off the field.
Honestly, being a 5’11” quarterback, not too many people think that you can play in the National Football League. And so for me, you know, I knew that my height doesn’t define my skill set, you know? I believed in my talent. I believed in what God gave me. I believed in the knowledge that I have of the game.
Now, would we like to have that super quarterback? Absolutely. And if we have the opportunity to get that person or develop that person, that’s what we’ll do.
I try to get in people’s heads. My job is to get the ball, so if I’m talking trash to an O-lineman or quarterback or receiver, and they start thinking about me, that’s good, because they aren’t thinking about the game anymore.
Quarterback – it’s a boring, monotonous position that revolves around consistency.
I think the number one job as a quarterback is protecting the football.
As a quarterback, you have to go out and take care of the ball. That is your No. 1 priority.
It’s always a lot more fun as a quarterback if you can do things you don’t normally get to do. So if I can catch a pass and make a play for the team, that’s what I’m willing to do.
I had to find stories no one else was writing, so I got away from the quarterback and the coach. I’m still looking for stories no one else has written.
Quarterbacks coach, I would do at Tennessee. Head coach? Absolutely not.
I think, as quarterback and as a football player, you always want to get better.
As a junior in high school, I had some injury problems with my arm and shoulder from baseball, so I didn’t play quarterback as a junior. I played a little wide receiver, linebacker, and safety.
Every quarterback’s goofy. Every player out here is goofy. Don’t think they’re all serious.
Our quarterbacks were getting hurt; a couple got kicked out of school. The coach asked who wanted to try out for QB. I went and tried out, and from there on, I was a quarterback. I was ineligible in 10th grade until spring, so I did baseball. I started in left field and pitched.
I’ve said publicly, and it’s true, I’ve had a lot of wonderful things come my way. But personally, the greatest thing I ever accomplished was when I was named the starting quarterback at Ole Miss. That was my childhood dream, as it was thousands of kids in Mississippi.
There was a period of time where the two most wanted guys in the state of Oklahoma were me and Josh Heupel. Me for suggesting that you could throw the ball at Oklahoma and in the Big 12. And Josh Heupel for having the temerity to play quarterback and not be able to run faster than 5 flat.
Any quarterback that understands what the offense is really about is going to succeed.
I can’t compare quarterbacks as apples and oranges in my mind because everybody’s in a different system.
If you look historically at the draft at quarterbacks in the top 10, about half of them flame out very quickly.
We need the quarterbacks. It’s a passing league and a quarterback-driven league. We need the Peyton Mannings in football uniforms out there playing – the Tom Bradys, the Drew Breeses, the Philip Riverses – we need those guys instead of them standing on the sideline.
The No. 1 stat is wins. As a quarterback, you get evaluated on winning.
More often than not as a quarterback, your performance is a reflection of the guys around you. I’ve been fortunate to be around some pretty good guys.
We used to establish the run and wear teams down and try not to make mistakes, and we’d rely on our defense to keep us in the game and make big plays to put us in position to win. Kyle Orton might not be the flashiest quarterback, but the guy is a winner, and that formula worked for us.
Marino was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2005, and his name always comes up when the conversation centers on the greatest quarterbacks of all time. But his greatness comes with an asterisk: He never won the Big Game.
I set the bar high, and I’ll do anything, whatever it takes to win. I care more about this game than most people ever will. When you mix a lot of those things with a winning mentality, it’s a good thing to have as a franchise quarterback.
That’s the thing: To be successful in the NFL, you have to start by having a quality coach and a quarterback that can kind of lead the team. If you have the trust of the quarterback, then you can build everywhere else.
You have to be able to do everything as a quarterback, and that’s not necessarily taking care of your job but making sure you’re preparing everyone else to go out and play well. And make sure you have them in the right mindset when they step on the field.
I want to leave a great legacy behind, not just be a quarterback drafted in the first round who doesn’t produce.
It’s definitely tough on the pass rushers when they say you’re taking a quarterback down and you fall on top of them and it’s roughing the passer. Ain’t really much you can say, it’s just tough.
I’ve always kind of been even-keeled. I think that’s a good trait for a quarterback to have.
I don’t play too much into the color game, because I don’t want to be the best African American quarterback, I want to be the best quarterback.
That’s what you kind of see with Matthew Stafford. He makes some incredible plays, even with his arm in different positions. But the consistency’s not there that you need at the position to be one of the top quarterbacks in the league, and I think that’s where cleaning up the technique will help.
Playing quarterback is a glamorous job. It’s awesome. It’s everything I dreamed it would be. But after a while, it loses its glamour. Somewhere along those 15 years, it becomes a job. Especially at the end, it became work. Game day was awesome, but all the rest of it was work.
I think the keys to defining quarterback mobility is a person that can extend plays. Not necessarily a Lamar Jackson-type… but a guy that can get a first down, be able to move around in the pocket, make a guy miss.
Pilates works all the small muscles in your body and there’s so much core that comes with it – and core is so important for a quarterback.
We did all the strategy right on the field. Today, the coaches call all the plays, so all the quarterbacks have to do is perform. They are more or less programmed.
The most important thing I learned is I have to get my body in shape, because those men look good. Not just the other quarterbacks – everyone. Their bodies look good.
Obviously, I love the idea of athletic quarterbacks.
The positions I played in football, being a quarterback and a defensive back, you had to kind of have a little independent thinking.
That Bears quarterback is no good. He’s washed up. He’s 30.
Some quarterbacks, you worry about the passing, not really getting out of the pocket and scrambling.
I definitely would embrace that opportunity to be the No. 1 overall pick, obviously that every quarterback would love to be that. It’s no different for me.
