He's a drop-back, three-step quarterback. His forte is throwing the football, ... Physically, I think his talents fit well with that style offense. It's similar to what he did in high school.

Football really helped me. Even if it didn't help me technique-wise for soccer, it made me a better athlete.

All this may seem trivial, but football is what we do, and that's what our jobs are.

I've never been around a football player like him. He'll be on the sideline, and he'll say to me, 'May I ask you a question?' And then he'll cross that sideline, and he's completely different. It's like the Twilight Zone.

Everybody looks at the football part and that's what they are going to read about in the paper, but we try to get these kids to be solid people and teach them lifelong skills. I have to give the credit to the kids because they have responded.

He's a good football player,