![]() ![]() To win football games is very demanding – everything is important. You can spend time with each other in the locker room or whatever – this year we can't do much – but getting to know people is one thing getting to know them on the football field is most important. ![]() "I think all of that stuff just comes with practice. unique situation for all of us, and certainly for him playing this year, but he's done a great job in the time he's been in there and we're going to have to play good to beat this team." Training camp – there wasn't a lot of people there is no one at the games, so it kind of feels a little different. Now you come in, there's not a lot of media attention – you don't see them on a daily basis. I think Justin played at a big-time college program too (Oregon), so they had a big following. We played in front of 100,000 people every week, so it was a big-time college program. I played at a school where there was a lot of expectation. It was a long time ago that I was in that situation, but it didn't feel too big for me. It's a little different than when I started, although the school I played at (Michigan) was probably more of a pro-style team, so it was a little easier for me than it was for some others. Some younger quarterbacks can play and kind of do some of the things that they did in college, which makes the transition a little bit easier. "It feels like a continuation of college, I think, for a lot of the younger players because they're getting into the league and the game probably has morphed a little bit into what the college game kind of has been. (On what he remembers from starting as a young quarterback as Chargers QB Justin Herbert will be doing on Sunday) There's been enough coaching there's been enough reps to trust that these guys can get the job done. I see it as whoever's out there, I trust and believe. We don't mind giving guys opportunities to be their best self, play the game that they love and try to play it at a high level. ![]() There's a lot of guys in this league that can play good football that guys just know of, just need opportunities. That's what the game of football is really all about. If it's Mike, Chris, Scotty – if it's not those guys if it's other guys – just constantly trying to put them in position to be successful. It's just really my job to put these guys in position to have success, regardless of who it is. Especially on the offensive side of the ball, I know what the guys can do I know what they bring to the table. "First, I just go about it like I tell you guys – I trust in everybody on this team. The penalties that we've gotten in the second half just put us in bad positions." That's what was killing us in the second half of last week – really, in the second half of the week before. We're just trying to be smarter on first and second down to put us in a better position for third down, so we aren't in so many third-and-longs. In this league, that's going to always put you in third-and-long, and you try your best to stay out of those situations because obviously you're not going to convert a high percentage of those. I think what's happened is the third quarter has been a big quarter for us when we've gotten a lot of penalties and we're in a lot of second-and-20s, first-and-20s. I think we did a good job of that, really, training to execute in the second half. I think we've done a great job of that coming into football games. We all know each football game comes with 50, 60, 70 plays and you've got to be able to execute consistently down in and down out. "It's just constant execution and what you said – it's really happening early in games. (On the team starting fast offensively and how the offense maintains that production in the second half of games)
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