Kansas City Chiefs Quotes: Bob Sutton, Phillip Gaines, Tyler Bray

Jun 17, 2014; Kansas City, MO, USA; Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Tyler Bray (9) throws passing drills during the Kansas City Chiefs minicamp at University of Kansas Hospital Training Complex. Mandatory Credit: Denny Medley-USA TODAY Sports

TYLER BRAY

Q: How much does it help when you get the script the day before? Are you pouring over that thing at night to make sure that you can spit it out come the next day?

BRAY: “Yeah, you’re reading over the script, you want to draw up the plays. Even when you get the install, you want to draw it up, make sure you know where you want to go versus which defense, and you can look in a mirror and call it out; act like you’re in a huddle and call it out. I sometimes, on the phone with my fiancé, I’m giving her the plays. She has no idea what they mean, but I’m just working on calling them.”

Q: So, are you visualizing this stuff in your head, man? When they call the play do you kind of think of it in your head and that helps you memorize it or is it straight memorization?

BRAY: “The more and more you say it in your head, and say it out loud – I mean, saying it out loud helps a bunch, and then writing it down on paper.”

AA: If Bray can remotely get the mental side of the game down then he has to make this team. Also, Bray is engaged?

Q: Aaron (Murray)’s picked this stuff up pretty good, was there any point in OTAs when he got one of those wrong calls and you’re just like ‘that was me last year.”?

BRAY: “There have been some of those moments where I was like ‘Ok, I do remember that.’”

Q: Tyler, how about your movement within the pocket this year? “Can he throw from the pocket?” That’s what the NFL’s all about. Tell us about how going from college, to your last year here, and now this year, how much more comfortable are you with it?

BRAY: “A lot more comfortable. You’ve just got to feel it. You’ve got to get used to looking downfield and making your reads while knowing where everyone’s coming [from].”

Q: Is that just something you have to do on the field, is it something you can practice in the offseason, or is it something you just learn playing in the game?

BRAY: “It’s just something you learn, we’ve been doing this now for years, since Pop Warner, so there’s a certain point where you kind of get the feeling, because you can’t look down and wonder where everyone’s coming on the loose side of the defense.”

Q: Of the complicated plays, have you talked about how much you have to be able to say, how much you have to know on the field? How much harder does that make that make moving around in the pocket? Having to know all this more information than maybe you would at a Pop Warner league.

BRAY: “You’ve just got to know if you want the play to go to the left, and you get flushed out the right, what routes you have on the right.”