J. J. Watt Quotes

Our quarterback is going to be Alex Smith.

What quarterback doesn't like some speed on the outside?

A guy like Drew Brees is a guy that knows how to undress a defense. Most of the time he knows where he's gonna go before he even gets the ball. So he's ready to deliver that ball almost as soon as it comes to his hands.

Young quarterbacks do well because they have a great defense.

We're not running the ball again until we get ahead. Shula was calling the plays, but I told them, 'I don't care what he calls. We're throwing every pass from now until we get the lead.' To Shula's credit, he always gave me that option.

When you play quarterback, you have to process information quickly, get the ball out of your hand to the right guy.

If you pay a QB $10 million, you don't want him to run the ball.

Look at guys like Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers. Those guys have great arms, but people talk about them more as a quarterbacks and the intellectual side of the game and how they really dissect defenses - and then the arm is something else that helps them with that.

I'm a drop-back passer, and those seldom win Heismans.

Playing quarterback you have to have quick reactions. You've got to be able to know pretty much everything that's going on on the field, lateral quickness, lateral movements in the pocket.

There probably isn't another position in all of team sports that I can think of that has the same level of import as the quarterback.

You've got one football and a lot of times, defenses dictate where the ball goes.

I'm good at extending plays and finding throwing lanes.

You have to have a deep passing game within your offense. It's got to be incorporated in some form or fashion.

Aaron Rodgers - I love the way he scrambles and how he plays the game - he always makes great decisions with the ball.

As a quarterback, you have to go out and take care of the ball. That is your No. 1 priority.

In football, time and space are the same thing.

Everybody thinks when I say a guy is a good game manager, that's a negative, but I think it's a real positive. You have the ball in your hand every time when you're a quarterback. Whether you're handing it off or throwing to somebody, I think that's extremely important.

It was not that long ago when the accepted wisdom in football was that the running game had to be established - that was always the obligatory verb: established - before passes could become effective. My, we know how that has changed. Now the pass is established from the get-go, and running is an afterthought.

I think there's a special relationship between the center and quarterback.

I actually watched Tom Brady a good amount in college. My coach in college was Kliff Kingsbury, and he actually was a backup for Brady at one point, and so he showed me things that he liked with Tom and his pocket movements and stuff he did within the pocket that I've tried to put in my game a little bit.

Carson Wentz, when you watch him on tape, No. 1, I just like a big guy that has athleticism.

So the truth is, if there's a lesson to be learned from mobile quarterbacks, it is deliver the ball from the pocket, which demands mastery of the data that is involved working in the pocket, which is, 'I know everything about everything.'

If you can grab a ball and throw it, you can grab a ball and throw it. I don't care how tall you are, either. I'm not gonna see over a 6-foot-7 left tackle. You've gotta find lanes; you've gotta know where your guys are. It's not about the height: if you can win ball games, you can win 'em.

Joe Flacco and Ben Roethlisberger are big guys with strong arms.