Quarterback play starts with your eyes and feet. Those have to be in the right place and have to be on time.
This is the honest truth: I could absolutely care less on yards per game. I think that's a totally overblown stat.
I've seen a rebuild, and I've seen how quickly things can turn around when guys buy in.
When I graduated from Utah, I was headed into the biggest job interview of my life, the NFL Draft.
It wasn't until I stopped worrying about my own validation and finally refocused my energy on things I could actually change that I finally grew as a person and as a professional.
The No. 1 stat is wins. As a quarterback, you get evaluated on winning.
That's the great thing about the NFL: A team can get hot and win a championship.
Utah will always be special to me. They were the school that gave me an opportunity, and I grew so much as a person and player there.
As flashy as draft picks are, the reality of them helping out in Year One anyway is not necessarily the case. That's not the reality.
Winning is all that does matter.
For me, it's about winning games. I'm trying to score more points than the other team. I don't really care how we do it.
I don't really care how many yards I throw for; as long as we score more points than the guys we're playing.
To continue to fight, not get frustrated, to stay together and find a way - I think that's important. I think good teams do that.
It's football. Guys get hurt all the time.
It's fun to come in when it's first down. It's not fun to come back in when it's third-and-long.
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.
I don't measure myself in my contract in terms of what I'm making.
It's far different aging as a quarterback than aging as a tight end.
There are a lot of peripheral things that you have to deal with in this league, and I dealt with a lot of them when I came in. It's everything from being on your own to facing the media.
If you don't go out there and play winning football, they're going to try and find somebody who can.
