‘”He had a non-traditional journey,” Beane said on The Pat McAfee Show. “Junior college, emailing all these coaches to get a scholarship, gets one offer at Wyoming. We know all the people that were questioning ‘could he play quarterback at the NFL?’ He gets drafted where he was drafted. He was criticized, we were criticized for doing it. He never wavered, he took the criticism. He’s always had that chip. Doing our research, this young man, he had a chip long before people were giving him reasons to have a chip. He’s got a chip now, as excited as he was and honored to win the MVP. He knows and we know the ultimate goal is to win a championship. That didn’t remove any chip winning the MVP.”‘