"I think people are like, `He's a quarterback, he's trying to [shut] everything out.' I think that's just who he is, man," Matthews said. "And I don't think enough people respect that in this age of people on social media, everything's always out there. To kind of have this guy, who was the last quarterback before the [new] CBA — all this news about him, this and that, he got hurt this year, he came back this year, all this stuff — I think sometimes it looks like he doesn't care or something or he's just passive. He's not, man. He has a very competitive spirit. He's just very private. I think that's a great thing.