Quarterback Development Quotes

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.

Playing the quarterback position, there are so many things you need to master that improvement ends up taking place on graduated levels.

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

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.

Everyone knows quarterback is a position where it takes a while to really start playing well.

I think that for a lot of young quarterbacks, sometimes it's difficult to get thrown into the fire quickly because from my experience, either you learn how to be a professional from the veteran players.

When I got drafted, I was a spread-option quarterback. It was, 'OK, you've got to get under center, throw to the fullback, throw to the tight end. You've got to learn to be a pro quarterback.' And there was a learning curve there, and I did have to learn some of that.

I like to be try to be a mentor to some of the younger quarterbacks in the NFL.

I'm still growing each and every day. I'm trying to become a better person, a better player and an all-time better QB.

Playing the scout-team quarterback in practice really helped develop my game.

As long as you keep your body healthy quarterback is a position where you should get better as you age.

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.

I'm getting better as a quarterback. A lot of that is an understanding of the game, of myself, of who I'm playing against.

If quarterbacks learned the West Coast offense in college, oh man - it would make a huge difference.

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

I give NFL quarterbacks a lot of leeway for a couple of years.

Scarcity of quarterback talent ought to inspire innovation in a sport that desperately needs it.

I see young quarterbacks just coming into the league, and they're throwing screens and layoffs right away. As funny as this might sound, I really learned a lot by going downfield, even in tight coverage.

As you progress high school, college into the league, you can tell the difference between quarterbacks with their timing and the way the ball comes out of their hand.

Being around a couple good tight ends in my history, both in Philadelphia and Carolina, namely in Chad Lewis and then in Greg Olsen, you see how that helps a young quarterback whether he becomes a security blanket, he can turn a five-yard completion into a 15-yard gain.

I've just tried to do everything I can personally to be the best quarterback I can be, whether it's doing extra work for my rehab, extra work in the film room, on the board, extra work out on the field with my drops and footwork.

What the Jets did with Mark Sanchez, they took a rookie quarterback and went pretty far with him.

We are in a situation where we can have a developing backup quarterback because of the excellence of Tony Romo. We can have that behind him. To me, that's what you're ideally striving for.

There is obviously going to be a transition. There is a transition with every quarterback going from college to the NFL. I'm excited for it.

I think early in my development as a quarterback, before I ever got a Division I college offer or anything, my brother was in the spotlight, first-round draft pick. People expected me to be him, but I was underdeveloped, undersized, unrecruited... so it was tough at that point.