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.
PATRICK MAHOMES IIEast 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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It’s a challenge for all quarterbacks, though: You want to make the big play; you want to throw a touchdown every single play. But at the same time, you have to know that it’s a process.
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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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I was a good student and stuff like that.
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I have a lot of guys around me that help make my job easier.
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Throughout my whole football career, I have always known I wasn’t the fastest guy.
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You can always regret just missing it, but as a football player, you have to move on to the next play.
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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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If you want to win games in this league, you have to be efficient.
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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 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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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.
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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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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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You have to be secure with the ball. You can’t lose it.
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