Every game is decided by one or two plays that teams do or don't make; you've got to make them or else you lose.
You just have to keep the same mentality of trying to prove yourself every single day. But it's a lot of easier when you have people telling you how bad you are than when people are telling you how good you are.
I have always been a pretty accurate quarterback going back to high school and it is something that I have prided myself on.
You want to go No. 1. But you also want to go to a great organization that is committed to winning. Committed to winning Super Bowls.
I think people really underestimate the power of just wanting to do it, and hard work, and competitive spirit, and preparation.
Coming in, if you are the No. 1 pick, the team that is picking No. 1 is there for a reason. There are going to be ups and downs - you've just gotta stay steady through the process.
I understood it was a poor area when I was young because you're driving through it and you see these low-income homes that I hadn't really seen before. I'd lived in upper-middle-class neighborhoods before we moved to Athens and The Plains. You understand, but you don't really understand the magnitude until you get older.
You want to go No. 1. But you also want to go to a great organization that is committed to winning. Committed to winning Super Bowls.
Whatever team I go to is going to be a challenge at the beginning and I'm going to have to persevere through it.
There's a commonality in a lot of the great quarterbacks in the league, that they have the chip on their shoulder - from something. Aaron Rodgers, Tom Brady, Patrick Mahomes, Russell Wilson - I mean, they all have something that got them to have a little chip on their shoulder, that makes you continue to work really, really hard.
Coming in, if you are the No. 1 pick, the team that is picking No. 1 is there for a reason. There are going to be ups and downs - you've just gotta stay steady through the process.