Phil Simms
Phil Simms
Phillip Martin Simmsis a former American football quarterback who spent his entire 14-year professional career playing for the New York Giants of the National Football League. He is currently a television sportscaster for the CBS network. After playing college football at Morehead State University, Simms was drafted in the first round by the New York Giants of the National Football Leaguewith the number seven selection overall in the 1979 NFL Draft. Simms was named Most Valuable Playerof Super Bowl XXI,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionFootball Player
Date of Birth3 November 1954
CitySpringfield, KY
CountryUnited States of America
Why will T.O. and Bill work? Why will T.O. and Bill work?
Winning a Super Bowl gives you a bigger chip in the game, and people perceive you to be better than you are. It gives you a stronger voice in the game. For a young quarterback, it verifies to the organization and to your teammates how good he is and that he's the man that can lead them. He'll carry that tag forever.
The team performed even better than I thought they would,
I didn't realize he can throw garbage pretty good. Yeah, he's a trash-talker. You wouldn't believe it looking at him, the voice of CBS golf. I do it a lot, and I was surprised at how much he slings it back.
He's the perfect quarterback for a team that likes to run it. Because he's big enough to stand there and shake off tacklers and get 4- and 5-yard passes off, which you need to do a lot of when you're a running team because you're in a lot of third downs.
He's a more rested quarterback this year. He admitted it; he was tired last year.
I'm happy for him. I believe in his talent. I believe it's evident.
I'm not sure, and I've done quite a few of his games. How much is he bluffing? How much is real? I know over the years, a couple of teams have cracked his code. They knew exactly what he was doing. But that's only good for one game. He changes his stuff a lot.
I liked the energy I saw in preseason, ... It had a different feel to it.
Did they time it up right? Is the offense the same, or will it take a step back?
Not changing ruined Buddy Ryan . He wouldn't change from the 46 defense, even when people figured it out. Not Bill. He changes every year.
It was a rough weekend. I don't know which was the worst call. There were a lot of them that creep into my mind.
I've seen a difference in him and I can't tell you how impressed I was the way he was in Indianapolis. I hate to compare, but he does have one thing in common with Tom Brady. They have a tremendous sense of being calm on the field. It shows. He doesn't get rattled and that's pretty unique for a second-year player like him.
There is unbelievable freedom for an analyst to be in a two-man booth, ... In a two-man booth, Troy will be able to set up a game. He will decide what he wants to show and teach an audience. It's like a quarterback being able to call his own plays.