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I think the officials and NFL owners are playing to the type of game that people want to see.

Everybody's watching when you're the quarterback. The other players see how much you want it.

Having been in football all my life as a player and a coach and having been on the sideline, I think the closer we can get to bringing people what it's like standing and watching the game on the sideline, with a better view, would be the perfect situation for television football.

I've addressed this before, and I'll say it again: The league has to take a long, hard look at full-time officials. The officiating has been inconsistent all season long.

Especially in football, it is not a QB's game... even though the media likes to make it into that - it takes the whole team.

I'm definitely a football fan, so I try to stay up with how teams are doing, and you end up getting a lot of buddies that play on certain teams. I wouldn't say I watch too much of other quarterbacks.

The quarterback has to get rid of the ball quickly, so there's not a lot of time to make moves to gain separation.

In all the years that I've been in football - I went directly from coaching to broadcasting - I never really had a lot of experience watching it.

We need to let the referee's sole thing be to protect the quarterback and get those late hits out of there. They even have a stat on television that says 'knockdowns.' Knockdowns means that you knock him down after he throws the ball. The assumption is, if it's legal, we'll make excuses for them.