Jesse Palmer
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"Jesse James Palmer" is a Canadian sports commentator and former college and professional American football/football player who was a quarterback in the National Football League (NFL) for four seasons in the early 2000s. Palmer played college football for the University of Florida, and thereafter, he played professionally for the New York Giants of the NFL before spending half of the 2006 season with the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League (CFL). Palmer was cast in 2004 as the bachelor on the fifth season of the reality television series The Bachelor (US TV series)/The Bachelor. He is now a college football analyst for ESPN/American Broadcasting Company/ABC in the United States and a football analyst for The Sports Network/TSN in Canada.

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I want the team to be better, ... So it is kind of unfair to be selfish and not try and help my teammates out. I am very competitive, though, and I do want that backup job and I'm playing as hard as I can to get that. I'm not going to not talk to somebody, especially Tim who I've known now since our rookie year together. We came out the same year, so we met at the (scouting) combine.

It's funny - there have been a lot of changes, obviously, since I've been here, and it hasn't really been that long, ... It was great playing with Kerry and Jason and guys like Kurt, and getting a chance to take different things from all those guys.

In terms of my time, it's not today.

This is no different than any other year, ... It is one of those things that I think each and every year there is competition at different positions on the field. What I try to do is focus on myself and worry about me getting better and be the best pro I can be.

I feel like I had a good camp.

I was able to make a play, ... The only thing you can control is what you do when you get an opportunity to play.

We moved the ball well and ate the clock. We would have liked to score touchdowns but Jay just kicked the ball great.

I think everybody gets frustrated. If you're competitive, you certainly want to play. It's one of those things where you have the desire, but I understand my role here. Right now in training camp, it's time for me to get better. It's time for me to focus on Jesse. When the season starts, I'll understand my role then.

[Lorenzen] had good poise. He ran his team well, ... had a real nice (throw) off of play action.