There’s something to be said with your quarterback your leader being there on Day 1.
The heartbeat of a football team is the quarterback position and I think everyone who has any intelligence about the game understands you must have consistency at that position to be a championship team.
I have always been a pretty accurate quarterback going back to high school and it is something that I have prided myself on.
Playing the quarterback position, there are so many things you need to master that improvement ends up taking place on graduated levels.
They’re not defined by what they’ve done and where they’ve played. It wasn’t NFL quarterback Craig Kupp and NFL guard Jake Kupp. They were just Dad and Grandpa.
I don’t believe you could be a 39-year-old quarterback in the NFL and eat cheeseburgers every day. I want to be able to do what I love to do for a long time.
As a quarterback, you have to love it. As much as you like to turn around and hand the ball off – the whole traditional football game – as a quarterback, you gotta love putting it in the air.
This is the ultimate team sport, and I really feel that the quarterback position is the epitome of that.
One thing that translates from college to the NFL is winners, and, I think, being a quarterback, that’s the biggest thing: being recognized, winning games.
The world of football has changed. ‘We’re going to start a freshman quarterback!’ ‘Oooh really?!’ That was taboo. It’s not a shock anymore.
I hope Mitch Trubisky is the best quarterback of all time.
If you have to name me starting quarterback to go be a starting quarterback, then I probably have some issues I need to address.
There’s gonna be ups and downs throughout the season. And what defenses do to try and attack different quarterbacks, I mean, you can definitely see it. It’s how you respond to it. It’s how you get over that next step.
You look at Matt LaFleur and where he’s been. It seems like successful quarterback play follows him.
As a quarterback, there’s no better way to finish your year, in winning a Super Bowl, than with a touchdown pass. The chances of that happening, by the looks of most of the Super Bowls, is a very rare chance. Fortunately for me, I had an opportunity.
Head coach and quarterback have a record attached to them. And I have always felt a great responsibility to help lead our team to win games, the division and ultimately the Super Bowl.
I remember when I was 6 years old and my brother used to go seek out guys that were 13 to come over and play football against me while he was the ‘permanent quarterback.’ I didn’t know exactly what the age difference was, but I was already playing against older guys.
I love protections, I love plays. If you don’t like that being a quarterback, you’re not going to last long.
As a quarterback, I appreciated the passer rating whether you threw the ball a majority of the time or if you didn’t throw it as much. You were judged on a level playing field, and I thought teams should be ranked similarly.
I don’t want to be a quarterback that has all these stats but didn’t win a lot of games.
Young quarterbacks do well because they have a great defense.
When things go well, the quarterback is the one who sees all the attention. When things go wrong, they are the ones who get criticized the most.
Playing quarterback in the National Football League, getting to the Super Bowl is an incredible challenge.
In a given year, there may be two or three NFL-ready quarterbacks at the college level. In another year, there literally may be zero.
Some of the best quarterback play is when you’re able to move in the pocket and still make throws down the field because it’s not going to be clean every time.
My quarterbacks have to be a member of my family, and that has nothing to do with football. Trust is everything. We have to connect on a deep level in order to really be able to build something together.
You look at the best players in the league, the best players at quarterback – I mean Drew Brees, Peyton Manning, the top names – none of those guys are throwing it through a brick wall. They’ll have touch.
Sometimes, quarterbacks just get hurt. So do running backs, so do linemen, so do wide receivers. Blaming innovative schemes for these injuries is shortsighted.
You learn, across the league, with very successful quarterbacks, nobody does it by themselves.
I don’t want people to think you have to look a certain way or be a certain mold to be able to be a quarterback.
The only thing I’ve ever wanted to do is play professional football, and be a professional quarterback, so now that it’s here and it’s getting close, it’s just kind of making all that pain and suffering and waiting and working hard worth it.
As a quarterback, you certainly don’t want to hamstring your team in any way because – I know this more than anyone – you rely so heavily on those playmakers around you.
Don’t let the Monday morning quarterbacks stop you from being bold. You’ve got to set a high bar.
I think the first thing that my sons will tell you, that I never tried to be their coach. And I didn’t give them as much advice as some people might think, being a former player myself and a former quarterback. If they asked, I gave them my opinion.
You don’t want to read about your quarterback in the newspaper every day of the week.
If you’re a quarterback and you keep throwing interceptions, you change quarterbacks.
Peyton Manning is doing things that I think no other quarterback in the history of the league has done at the line of scrimmage… I just think they are a team right now that’s got a real chance to run the table.
Defensive guys don’t really understand. It’s totally different for offense. Defensive guys are convinced they know us but they just don’t understand. Quarterbacks have so much that they have to read and adjust to. They have to look at everybody on the defense. It’s totally different for the offense.
I’m pretty much a .500 quarterback in my career so far and I don’t think that’s where you want to be, and that’s not why you are brought in or people or excited about you.
I got put into leadership roles very early in life from fifth grade, sixth grade. I always ended up being the quarterback or the leader of the sports teams, and it’s kind of benefiting me now.
But yet I don’t think I should be labeled just a black quarterback, because it’s bigger things in this sport that need to be accomplished.
I’m not your typical quarterback. I don’t like when people say, ‘Quarterbacks aren’t supposed to run,’ or, ‘Quarterbacks aren’t supposed to work out a certain way.’
This stereotype as Marcus Mariota as a spread quarterback that just runs read options all the time, that’s ridiculous.
The great ones have the ability to focus and tune everything else out and see more than the others. Average quarterbacks have tunnel vision. They see what’s in front of them. The better you get, the more that tunnel expands, and the more guys on the field you see.
I was a runner, a failed quarterback, third-string quarterback, but in track I was a 2-miler.
Playing the scout-team quarterback in practice really helped develop my game.
There’s a lot of pressure that comes with being a NFL quarterback wherever you’re at, and I’m ready to tackle any situation that’s in front of me.
The quarterback position is a role of leadership, and I feel just who I am as a person, I bring different types of leadership to the table.
I was a quarterback in college. I hoped to go to the NFL, and I didn’t get drafted. I then became a free agent. I could sign with whoever I wanted to, and I ended up going to Pittsburgh.
That’s always going to be the issue though when you’re playing with a young quarterback. There’s going to be ups and downs.
I want to be remembered as the greatest quarterback who ever played. You have to go out and prove it first, and then you have to go out and work hard.
If you look around, there are very few really super quarterbacks. There are just very few. If you’re lucky enough to have one, lucky enough that one of these Andrew Lucks is available when you have the top pick, then that’s just a matter of luck. You can’t attribute that to anything else.
When you play quarterback in the NFL, you’re going to get scrutinized.
Without linemen like Orlando Pace, quarterbacks wouldn’t be anything.
Third down is a big thing with a quarterback: pinpoint accuracy, making good decisions.
I’m a great pass catcher. I’m excellent in pass protection, which is the most important thing. You can’t play, you can’t get on the field if you don’t protect that franchise quarterback.
Some people get nervous when I run because quarterbacks, they gotta go down and stay healthy.
I think the quarterback position, moreso than in all of sports, no other position compares – you rely on so many people to do your job.
At the end of the day, I want to have an opportunity to play quarterback in the NFL.
I have a lot of empathy for quarterbacks.
In middle school, I played quarterback. I was at a tiny school, so you played offense and defense – I played linebacker, and in high school I stopped playing around my sophomore year because of my acting stuff.
I wanted to be in the situation where I could have a chance to go to the NFL and be a great quarterback and take care of my family.
