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You have to be a good team, but you have to be lucky and stay away from injuries.

In football, it's the ultimate team sport. You have to have good people around you as a quarterback for things to happen.

Look at Baltimore back in 2000. They had an outstanding defense. They could run the ball, and they had a quarterback that didn't turn it over that much. I think that is a plan that can bring you great success.

Football is about having the best offensive play possible. I always like to play offensive football, and nobody will convince me otherwise.

I learned from Chuck Noll in Pittsburgh that speed and explosiveness on defense is the way to build a team. Both are difficult for your opponent to assimilate in practice and then in games it is even harder to match.

Great quarterbacks, good quarterbacks, make plays.

I think you always try to put the offense in the best position to make good plays, which usually requires us to move multiple people around and give them an opportunity to impact a game in a lot of different ways.

It takes a very tough man to play defensive line at any level of football, but to be able to do it on a Division 1 level, or a professional level, it takes that intensity, that aggression, and you have to be tough.

As a football team, you head into the season the same way with confidence and a positive mindset that you are going to win a bunch of football games.

Young quarterbacks do well because they have a great defense.