Like Testaverde, they eventually calmed down. Sometimes we'd look at one guy, it wasn't there, so you took off. Now, maybe you hang with the receiver a little longer. Maybe you come off a read. The bottom line is, you've seen things over and over, so your reads are crisper and more exact.
Veteran quarterbacks talk of seeing a slower game.
The field seems to get a little bigger, guys seem to slow down a bit. You're just able to see everything develop, able to see what the defense is doing. Things are clicking much faster. The problem is the NFL makes bodies old before their time. Even Favre, who was the league's MVP for three years running, is not quite physically what he was.