Quotes about Colt and JJ working together

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About the difference between their offense and offences in the NFL, Colt said:
"In our offense, no pressure is on the quarterback. The receivers know all the audibles. The offensive line calls all the protections. In the NFL, it's the opposite. The quarterback calls all the protections and any audibles to the receivers." (ESPN)

ESPN Note: "Colt Brennan is juggling a double major of sorts in football this fall. Not only is the Hawaii senior attempting to lead the Warriors to a Western Athletic Conference championship and a BCS bowl berth -- after Boise State last season, every WAC boy can dream, can't he? -- but Brennan also is trying to learn to read defenses the way that NFL quarterbacks do."

ESPN Note: "Jones, a former NFL quarterback and head coach, believes that Brennan will succeed in professional football. He likes his attitude and his affinity for work. He likes his quick release. There is a size issue -- Brennan, listed at 6-foot-3, 196 pounds, said he is to "205, fluctuating" and understands that he needs to be diligent in the weight room to acquire the "body armor" he will need in the NFL."


JJ said that accuracy like Colt's
"is God-given. You can improve a quarterback's technique, his fundamentals, all that kind of stuff. but when you get under pressure, you revert … to kind of what comes naturally to you as a quarterback and either you can hit the guy or you can't. He is a very, very gifted player. I've only seen three guys, and this is kind of a thing when I'm watching film. Jeff George, Dan Marino and Colt are the only people I've seen, when they release the ball, sometimes their right foot is off the ground. They're the only three guys on film I've ever seen do that. And that's a God-given thing." (ESPN)


Asked what effect does the right foot in the air has, JJ said:
"I don't know what it means, but I'm going to start looking for it in a high school kid." (ESPN)


About the knock on college QBs in the run-and-shoot struggling in the NFL, JJ said:
"Obviously, average quarterbacks or guys in the middle of the range get better, and the great ones are great no matter what they do. [If] Joe Montana played in our system, he'd figure it out." (ESPN)


ESPN Note: "Jones believes that Brennan is far from average. And he believes that Brennan will have an advantage when he goes to the NFL next year because defenses blitz him from the time he runs out of the dressing room to the moment the game is over."


About how Colt is prepared for NFL blitzes because of the ways teams try to blitz them, JJ said:
"I mean, we see every blitz. We see everything imaginable in the years he has spent with us. He has seen it over and over and knows what to do." (ESPN)


About how JJ is already preparing him for the NFL, Colt said:
"He's already teaching me [defensive] fronts, ways to break down fronts, stuff I just never needed to know to be in this offense. Instead of film [sessions with Jones] being 30 or 40 minutes, it's now an hour and five [minutes], where I'm getting a lesson on stuff I never knew before." (ESPN)