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Quarterbacks need to make their team better. If it's a bad team, they can even make a bad team better.

The last thing the NFL wants to do is make problems for the colleges.

My advice to the next quarterback that misses an entire year is to understand there is a little difference going out on the road again. You miss that. When you're hurt, you do not feel like you are part of it.

I would hope this experience would help me if that NFL opportunity were to arise. But I also know that it's a totally different league. There's a lot more to it.

A labor strike will tear away a lot of the good things going for this league.

I think that's one of the great things about the Pittsburgh Steelers - we're not a big free-agent team. We build guys up through our system to have a better understanding of our defense.

The quarterback, you can play with a lot of big injuries. You get a little injury like an index finger or a thumb that most people can play with, sometimes you can't. I've stayed away from some of those.

When you are a free agent like I was, it definitely makes a big difference when you know there's stability at the quarterback position.

Peyton Manning is doing things that I think no other quarterback in the history of the league has done at the line of scrimmage... I just think they are a team right now that's got a real chance to run the table.

There are times when I'm watching an NFL quarterback struggling to get through the game, and I get bitter to some extent.