It really starts with getting less third-and-long situations, and that’s what we’ve gotten ourselves into early. Our short yardage has hurt us. We’ve missed on three third-and-ones and one third-and two. If you convert those,...

We’re from two opposite backgrounds, but whatever’s inside of him, from his core growing up, there’s a quality I like in that he enjoys the game still as a kid. I think that’s important at...

I think he did a great job last year of taking a lot fewer hits. He understands how important his health is to this team and that he doesn’t need to put himself in harm’s...

He’s definitely coming along now. Still, the coach in me wants to see consistency, game after game.

The line and the backs have done a great job of adjusting to the fronts they’re seeing. A week ago, it was more safeties and linebackers at the line of scrimmage. This week, it was...

Steve said it will take two to three years with the same coaching staff to be able to do things like that regularly.

Now all of a sudden, you’ve got a moving target. You can’t cookie-cutter him into a drop-back quarterback mentality. He provides too much of a threat to a defense. He can change the field position...

He is creating his own position right now.

This is the first year that he’s starting off in the same offense, healthy, back-to-back.

There’s nothing particular – not one player or one protection, and they had the right blitz on – that’s going to happen at times. But the quarterback not getting it out, the coach saying, ‘Hey,...

When it’s taken away from you like it was him, the feeling you have for the game grows a little bit inside you. You find out what it means to you, and that your tranquility,...

Really, when all is over and done with, people will judge a quarterback by wins and losses. That’s the best criteria you can have. Sure, we want him to improve his completion percentage. We’d like...

That’s one measuring stick, certainly, for quarterbacks. But of all those games, how many ended up as victories for that guy’s team?

It doesn’t happen overnight. We’re delighted with Mike’s progress.

We’ll do stuff that Matt is more comfortable with if [he starts]. Each week the quarterbacks will tell us their favorite passes in different situations, first, second and third downs, different situations.