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Life is funny in a lot of ways. Can you talk about how you were about to try out for the Bears when you got bit by something on your honeymoon. Can you imagine if you would’ve made the team and how different things could have been?

“It’s amazing how much perspective we gain after the fact. I think so much of my life…it’s hard to see sometimes why we’re fighting some of the battles we’re fighting. And then much later…you start to see how those moments…not just shape your career, but really shaped who I was and shaped the man I became. So when I finally did get my shot in St. Louis, I was ready to seize it. I believe there was a training process for me both on the field and off…that really helped me to be able to handle the situations I was placed in in my career. To be able to stay strong and say confident in this moments, there’s just so much to the journey. A lot of people don’t know how it started and some of the things I struggled with and where I was before that. I wasn’t always in a place of faith and a confidence of faith like I am now and that caused me to waiver a little bit early in the my career.”

On helping two different organizations (the Rams and Cardinals) get back to relevance:

“For me it’s the bigger picture, the blessing of having an opportunity to truly impact two different organizations. To be able to leave my mark much bigger than football. To instill in people this idea of character and work ethic and wanting to be excellent in everything you do. That to me that’s the stuff that’s exciting. To be able to prove that you can accomplish things no one thought you could. The coolest part is it happened twice. That it wasn’t just the first time in St. Louis. When everybody kind of said ‘OK, it’s over, it’s done,’ I got the chance…to show people again.”

Former St. Louis Cardinal QB Jim Hart recently said he envied your right arm the most of anybody:

“Honored to have Jim say that because I don’t think too many people would recognize my arm as being special. But what I always felt like I had that very few people had was great anticipation and great accuracy. I think that’s kind of what Jim was alluding to. The beautiful thing about what happened in St. Louis…was A: that system played to my strengths. The ability to anticipate and see things and throw to windows was so perfect for what I did. And then you couple that with the talent I had around me and guys that were so efficient. Isaac Bruce, I don’t think I’ve ever met a better route runner. And Marshall Faulk, who understand what I was seeing as a quarterback.

“All those things came together that really allowed me to play to my strenghths. I remember there would be times when (Mike Martz) would ask me why I threw a certain ball (because it was a tight window). I remember thinking, ‘Tight window? That was wide open.’ And you go back and watch the film and think, ‘Wow, that was a tighter window than I thought it was.’ You get into a zone where you see things so clearly and everything’s so defined…that things did seem a lot more open. They seemed like they were a lot easier.”