When I scramble and do those things, I try to look downfield, look for the playmakers, put it in their hands, and let them make all the big plays happen.
PATRICK MAHOMES IIGood third-down teams are teams that usually have success in this league. –
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When I was young I used to eat ketchup sandwiches – just bread and ketchup.
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You can have the big arm, and that’s good, and it helps out in the games, but it doesn’t help you necessarily win games.
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They had a good game plan and they came out fast. We started slow, but we picked it up. You just have got to trust in the process and not try to do too much and things will start happening and having success your way.
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I was that little kid: I was the one that was looking up to athletes and getting to see them and getting to be a part of it, and I remember those experiences.
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The furthest I have even thrown the ball was 85 yards. But I had a little wind at my back, so I don’t claim that one.
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The team aspect of football and just playing quarterback, having the ball in your hands, having to make the plays, that was definitely something I loved.
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Every experience, good or bad, you have to learn from.
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You see Tom Brady, you see Alex Smith, and you see all those guys in the pocket and how quick they are with their footwork and how they get the ball out fast. I have to get like that.
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I’m a little quick – I can run a little bit – but I know I can’t make a lot happen. So my thinking always was, ‘Why don’t you put it in the fast guys’ hands and let them make plays.
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I didn’t start playing football a lot until I was in high school. I played it in seventh and eighth grade, but I didn’t play Pop Warner or anything.
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Until you get there, you never know what to expect.
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East Texas isn’t known for producing quarterbacks. I was never really on the football circuit. I wasn’t the type of guy that put my name out there.
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I just try to learn from every mistake that I make so that I never make them again.
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I want people to know that I’m going to leave every single thing on the field.
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Playing the scout-team quarterback in practice really helped develop my game.
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Coming from college, where they tell you exactly what you have to do, and they tell you have to be at this at this time, you kind of get punishment for that. Now you’re in the NFL, and you have to do it on your own.
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It’s not like I mean to throw no-look passes. I think it kind of happens out of instinct. As I do it, I’m like, ‘Dang, I didn’t even mean to do that.
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Never change who you are, and be the best you can be.
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You dream of your first NFL start when you’re a little kid, playing football in the backyard, but until you get there, you never know what to expect.
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If you want to win games in this league, you have to be efficient.
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I try to just focus in on being in the same routine every single day.
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Definitely, as a competitor, you want to get out there and play.
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I love being able to come in every single day and work out and watch film and practice with guys who are all striving for the same goal.
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Confidence Tell Coaches The quarterbacks that win. Those are the quarterbacks that are talked about for being great.
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I feel like, even if something goes wrong, I have confidence in myself and my team that we’ll fix it.
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You have to learn and develop from every experience you see on the field. I might see an unscouted blitz. I might see different coverages than I’m expecting. So I need to process and make those adjustments as I go.
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