Bill Cowher Quotes

The better quarterbacks are real consistent. Rookie quarterbacks are not.

I was always a big fan of waiting a year of two to groom an NFL quarterback; let him learn and mature.

Coaches are well aware, especially at quarterback, that it's not the system but the player who comes first.

Sometimes you can have the quarterback and no system. Sometimes, you can have a system with an average quarterback and do well.

I've never had a dumb quarterback. I think if you're dumb, it's difficult to overcome.

The test of a quarterback is where his team finishes.

It's important for the coach when you arrive to understand the players and to understand every single player's strength and their weakness.

My reads, operation with the offense, timing with the receivers, routes, sitting in the pocket, trusting my line - everything is always a work in progress.

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.

We played a different style under Mark Sampson, and all credit to him, because we did really well. It worked for us; we were quite direct, but we were successful at doing it.

I think Mark Hughes is the type of manager people want to play for.

Don't ever underestimate Mike Gundy throwing the ball with his quarterbacks.

You have to approach it the same way with any quarterback. You're going to try to do the best for your guy.

I mean, Mike Riley is an idiot, but I can't do anything to change that. He wasn't supposed to be a head coach in the NFL.

No matter how well you do in the regular season, it has to be capped off with a championship to really mark your legacy in the game.

I got to talk with some of the great offensive minds in football. Bruce Arians, Byron Leftwich, Andy Reid, Ben McAdoo, Bill O'Brien, I met all those guys and tried to take something away from each of them. Hue Jackson, people that are known for developing quarterbacks, I got exposed to a lot of stuff I hadn't seen before.

We were super successful under Mark Sampson because teams didn't expect us to play the way we played. We were so direct and played to people's strengths.

I'm not going to be happy until Cleveland wins a Super Bowl.

A quarterback has got to take control and I feel like I've done a good job with that. Not just what we're doing offensively, but in the locker room getting to know guys and hanging out with guys. All of that is going to make you a better team.

I'm just telling you: I don't know what the heck I'm talking about - I'm just an old funky college coach - but Deshaun Watson is the best by a long shot.

Every manager is different in one way or another, but what stays the same is coaching Barcelona players - players who want the ball, who want to be protagonists on the field - so each manager who's been here has been able to take advantage of that, and, luckily, I feel we've become more complete because of it.

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.

Guardiola knows that the little details that can make us better. He analyses the game instantly - that's his biggest strength, his best characteristic.

If Kaepernick is trying to become a backup quarterback, and we're seeing guys like Mark Sanchez and Geno Smith being picked ahead him, then you can argue that he is being blackballed.

Van Gaal does a good job wherever he is.