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.
PATRICK MAHOMES IIThe 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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I just try to learn from every mistake that I make so that I never make them again.
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Good third-down teams are teams that usually have success in this league. –
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Until you get there, you never know what to expect.
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No one really sees pro athletes behind the scenes. They don’t know how hard they work. They don’t see how you work on the basics. They couldn’t possibly know. You wouldn’t think that someone who hits like Alex Rodriguez needs to use a tee every day. But that’s how he stayed on top of it.
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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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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 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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You have to be secure with the ball. You can’t lose it.
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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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Not a lot of people see that when you’re growing up. You don’t get to see that people really have to work hard to become as good as they are.
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When you’re in this league, you have to do something every single day. You have off days, but those off days are usually watching film.
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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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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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Definitely, as a competitor, you want to get out there and play.
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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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