For me, a quarterback's best friend, especially a young quarterback's best friend, is a coach who believes in him.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In football, it's the ultimate team sport. You have to have good people around you as a quarterback for things to happen.
I believe in my God-given athletic ability and the coaches that have been blessed around me. I believe I can do the job as a quarterback in the NFL.
Coach Richt is a good friend of mine. I respect Coach Richt and worked for him for a year and respect the man he is and respect what he stands for.
In football, I don't have a lot of friends. The people who I really trust, there are not many... Most of the time, I'm alone.
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.
If you win a Super Bowl before you're fired, you're a genius, and everyone listens to you. But a coach is just a guy whose best class in grammar school was recess and whose best class in high school was P.E. I never thought I was anything but a guy whose best class was P.E.
I'm very good friends with my former coaches. We speak on the phone a lot.
The quarterback is an extension of the coach and has a certain type of swagger mentality, on and off the field.
Bill Belichick was probably the most organized coach that I've ever been involved with.
I've always been privileged to play for Coach Belichick, who I've always said is the best coach in the history of the league.