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- The guys is an animal.
He's tough.
- Drew Adams is a competitor.
He is a kid that wants to win in everything you do,
whether it be ping pong or football or basketball,
whatever he is involved in
he wants to win.
- One of the better players that I have ever played with
which is really fun, exciting,
so he's a good kid and a really good player.
- So you combine the humble Drew
with
character
and intergrity. With a man who's just
relentless and tough on the football field and competing at
such a high level. Um, you've got yourself an all American
kid right there.
- He, honestly as a Quarterback,
he brought all the tools
that you need to be to be a Quarterback.
He can throw the ball when running.
He did everything right.
The Quarterback is kind of expected to be a leader
on the team and that's something that I
definitely take great pride in.
I try and be a leader through everything I do,
and I've tried to make that a big part of my life,
and I think that's something that football
has definitely helped me with.
- Well you know it was first me, I decided to put him in
at this... our first Playoff game my first season.
And uh, you know just watching him from 9 games straight,
I knew that kid was capable, and uh, he came out
and I'm sure a lot of people were questioning what we were
doing that first game against Minneapolis, but
it paid off for us. You got the victory and uh you know
the rest is history.
- Coach Pedersen made the decision to put in Drew
and when that happened I guess it was kind of just
kept rolling with it that kind of mentality,
so I don't think any of us ever had any doubt
because we knew the kid could play, honestly,
he showed it pretty well.
- It definitely wasn't something that I was expecting.
My Freshman year... I mean I wouldn't say I didn't...
I mean I knew I had the ability to do it.
I had the confidence in myself.
But it was just something that didn't happen very often,
and that's where I owe a lot of credit to Coach Pedersen
and the whole coaching staff, and all my teammates
for just trusting me and putting me in that spot
and trusting that I had the ability to do it.
- He's going to give everybody a chance to be successful
that's what I think leaders do.
So whether that is his positive attitude and making sure
that the team Is, you know, rallying the team
and having a postivie attitude I think that's one of his
best attributes, however I think, in the same manner
he also takes responsibility so he deflects blame off of
other people, and takes it himself, and I think
that the third thing that has to do with being a leader
and making others better around him is that he puts himself
in position,
he puts balls in position for kids to make catches,
and to free up the running game, you know I think our
Running backs were highly more successful because
Drew was such a good passer, and I think our receivers
were really good because he could put the ball in the money
and give them a chance to catch it where the defense
couldn't catch it.
- Obviously my Sophomore season getting to
State Championship was pretty great, and I played with a lot
of great teammates, a lot of guys that I've grown up with
Playing with my cousin too, who was on the team,
and all of his friends, that was a pretty special season.
And then my Junior season too, making it back to the dome
was pretty crazy and to be there twice in a row
and then my Senior season was one that I'll remember forever
Obviously, just my last high school season
and I broke a couple records, broke the State record,
and uh, they were all pretty memorable seasons.
- Drew will be the first to tell you that it took
a lot of great receivers, a lot of great linemen,
a lot of great backs to make all of this happen,
and so, he'd be the first to compliment and congratulate
those guys on his record because he knows
as well as we all know it wasn't really an individual record
as much as team record, but Drew made all of that possible
by throwing the football.
- It was just a pretty cool feeling to know that my name
would actually be in that forever.
Obviously I couldn't have broken the record
without my teammates, and coaches, and I had a lot of
great teammates throughout the way, I mean a lot of guys
who were playing Division 1 football now and making
big impacts. So... I was just really fortunate to be in the
situation that I was, being placed around a lot of great
athletes, a lot of great teammates, and having a coach
who trusted me and was able to put me in that position.
- We didn't obviously expect that to happen.
I knew Drew was good, but I didn't think he was
going to be "Best in the State" good, especially from
how I knew him... just knew him as a Freshman, and I've
known him since he was a little kid, it's just kind of cool
to say that I know somebody that's in the record books
and that I've known him since he was little and got to play
with him, so it's pretty cool for sure.
- You know, I've been very fortunate in a 25 year span
to coach a lot of very good football players,
and Drew as far a passing Quarterback is without a doubt
the best passing Quarterback that I've ever coached.
- The fact that he is, you know, he was really close to
being the "All-Time passing" leader in the state of Iowa,
"All-Time Touchdown" leader, is up there in receptions,
and the guys 6 ft. and got it done.
I mean he's incredibly accurate with his throwing,
If you could take a kid and like revolve a program around
a kid, wouldn't it be Drew?
I mean it's like that... he is your "All American Kid".
I mean it's like he gets along well with everybody.
I don't know anybody who dislikes him.
He's one of your hardest workers, you know speaking of
toughness. I mean he goes on the basketball court
and is tough, in the football field he's tough,
and you know he's making other people better around him,
so if you could pick one kid to rally a team around
it's probably going to be him, just because of all the
attributes he brings to a program.
- I think his best contribution, you know the obvious answer
is all of his passing and everything else that he does,
I think his best contribution to our football team
is his leadership ability.
The ability to get guys together, get guys to
believe in each other, get guys to work hard
during the entire season and make the whole team successful.
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