| Q: What will you bring to a
team? Martin: Just a guy who buys into the team aspect. You win as a team, lose
as a team, work as a team. I’m a leader. I like to come in in the third or fourth
quarter, pull the guys together and say, "Hey, we’ve got to win the game."
Q: What kind of questions are the NFL teams asking you?
Martin: General questions about my responsibilities at Tennessee. How we ran our plays
at Tennessee, how the plays were called. We talked about terminology, checks,
route-reading. And my development overall as a quarterback.
Q: How would you assess your development as a quarterback?
Martin: I feel like I’ve grown a lot the last two years. I was a starter the last
two years. The first two years I knew it all in the books, in my head, on paper. But you
don’t actually start growing until you play and get experience with it. I grew the
most the last two seasons and had a fairly successful career.
Q: If you’re going to be a successful NFL quarterback, what aspects of
your game are you going to have to work on?
Martin: I’m going to have to be a freshman again. It’s going to feel like a
freshman year. Learn from a different coach teaching me. Have a good relationship and good
communication with the coaches on (my new) team so that I’ll know where I am, and I
won’t get in a football game and get shocked by a play call. It’s going to be a
totally different game for me, speed-wise and knowledge-wise. And I look forward to the
challenge.
Q: Where do you think you fit in in this draft?
Martin: You hear a lot of things, but I have to see it to believe it. I’m one of
those guys who has to touch it to know that it’s real. I’m just going to sit
back, and when I’m drafted, I’m going to be loyal to that team like they were
loyal to me when they picked me.
Q: How has Peyton Manning helped you prepare for the NFL?
Martin: We talked a lot during the season, on a weekly basis, maybe more. I’m
always updated on what’s going on in the NFL, different defenses and things like
that. He’s helped me out a lot in terms of understanding where I am now and
what’s ahead of me.
Q: Do you study and watch tape as much as he did?
Martin: You have to make it a habit as a quarterback to be successful. Peyton and
myself, we take it to another level. We’d watch other quarterbacks, we’d watch
other offenses — sometimes things we didn’t need to know. As I got older and
matured, I felt like all that film work really helped me out.
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