The guy won 13 or 14 games for us, so obviously, your confidence level in him is much higher. He's been so diligent in how he's prepared and how he's studied. If there's a route we want to put in, he now understands the concept, and it can be successful. That's the exciting part.

The ideal scenario is what we have been doing for the past couple of weeks. For us, we have been so little pass that it seems like when we go 50-50 run and pass, it makes it look like we are really airing it out.

You can't point the finger at that. There were a lot of factors involved with that game. We certainly weren't giving him a lot of time to throw the ball at times.

You can't take away his ability to create when he gets out of the pocket,

He came here with a good idea of how to block. It's actually been surprising how well he's done with that aspect of the game.

I could lay it out for you, play by play, ... but a lot of it was just getting lucky and catching them in the right thing. They run a zone blitz, you can catch them inside, they blitz, with man coverage behind it, you can catch them with the toss.

He's in so many different places. You have to make sure you're protected, scheme-wise.

I don't think he's a guy who enjoys it that much. But he's handled the whole thing well. A lot of that has to do with how he was brought up. Small town. Good family values. He's more interested in hanging with the guys and playing football.

He's won a lot of games here as a starter for us. Certainly, we'd like to play better. It's disappointing we didn't play better than that in our game. Thankfully, it's only the third game and we have lot more games to go.

He throws the ball on the move as well as anybody I've ever seen. That's two touchdowns he's had this year on the same kind of throw. And he hit Hines in stride ? it's incredible.