I have always been the tallest guy in my class, going back to first grade. Announcers have always had fun with it.
There's not a lot of time to have conversations on the field during the game. That's where the trust and the practice comes into play, through practice, through off-site throwing sessions; that's where you build that trust and build that cohesion with a wide receiver.
Obviously it happens very fast on the field during the game; if anything, it's more of a feel. You feel when the pocket is collapsing around you. You feel when someone is close to you. It is a split-second decision.
My wife will act as the offensive coordinator at times during the evening. I'll have her read the full play to me. I'll sit there and try to picture it, spit it back out to her, make sure I'm verbalizing it the right way so that when I step into the huddle the next day in practice, things are coming out clear.
I get too hyped before games.
You can't take a single day for granted in the National Football League. Every single day, you need to earn your spot on the roster.
I could probably stand up and have a press conference and thank 100 guys within that Denver organization, along with all those teammates I played with.
If you stay present and don't look too far ahead - or in the rearview mirror - everything will work out.
I think anytime you put the weight of the world on yourself saying, 'I have to perform,' or, 'I have to get a completion. I have to throw a touchdown,' nine times out of 10, I think you're going to fail.
I have tremendous respect for coach Gary Kubiak. I love that guy.
I have tremendous respect for both John Elway and Peyton Manning as people and as quarterbacks in the NFL, but I was not concerned one bit with playing in their shadow.
