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- 0:00Speaker 1: I feel I feel great. I feel uh happy to
- 0:02Speaker 1: be back out with the boys and stuff, starting to
- 0:04Speaker 1: get back in the swinging things. Uh, just really happy
- 0:07Speaker 1: to to be playing ball with the with the team again.
- 0:09Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 0:10Speaker 3: How hard was it to miss the last few games?
- 0:12Speaker 2: I have to watch?
- 0:13Speaker 1: That's not something i'd say, I'm I'm used to doing.
- 0:15Speaker 1: But you know, definitely, Uh you feel, you feel the
- 0:19Speaker 1: love for the game, just seeing being out, you know, watching, uh,
- 0:23Speaker 1: hoping the best for everybody staying in it. You know,
- 0:24Speaker 1: still gonna going over game plans, telling telling your boys
- 0:28Speaker 1: little notes and shit that might help or stuff that
- 0:29Speaker 1: might help them. I you love the game. I don't
- 0:32Speaker 1: ever wanna leave it.
- 0:33Speaker 4: You know.
- 0:33Speaker 1: That's the kind of feeling you get when you're away
- 0:35Speaker 1: from it. Uh So it's I appreciative of it. But
- 0:37Speaker 1: I'm definitely ready to get back on the field.
- 0:38Speaker 2: I think you gonna be ready Sunday.
- 0:40Speaker 1: That's uh, that's what we're shooting for. I still got
- 0:41Speaker 1: practice to do, so I'll tell you how practice is
- 0:44Speaker 1: going throughout the week.
- 0:46Speaker 5: There was a I mean, let's have the s This
- 0:48Speaker 5: team had the same records two years ago and made
- 0:50Speaker 5: that run. So what when did that turn when did
- 0:54Speaker 5: you guys? And is the same mind so this year
- 0:56Speaker 5: game to.
- 0:56Speaker 1: Game, game to game, I think we made that royal
- 0:58Speaker 1: when we uh blocked out outside noise. When we focus
- 1:01Speaker 1: on one week at a time, Uh, winning played instead
- 1:03Speaker 1: of winning the whole game, and you start worrying about
- 1:05Speaker 1: the end result during the middle of the game. You
- 1:07Speaker 1: know you're not playing at your best. You just gotta
- 1:08Speaker 1: play hard, play fast, worry about our style of play
- 1:11Speaker 1: and the rest to take care of yourself.
- 1:13Speaker 3: Two of the last three. Do you feel like the
- 1:14Speaker 3: team's starting to kind of turn the corner a little bit?
- 1:17Speaker 1: Uh, we're working out worried up this game. Obviously, we
- 1:19Speaker 1: had that London trip you know, came. All you can
- 1:21Speaker 1: do is spend time with each other.
- 1:23Speaker 6: Uh.
- 1:23Speaker 1: I think we got a little closer to the team.
- 1:24Speaker 1: You know, new team every year, so it's always cool
- 1:26Speaker 1: to be out there. Uh get close with all the
- 1:28Speaker 1: boys and stuff. Uh, new new mindset. We're we're talking
- 1:31Speaker 1: about like attacking a week this week. That's how I'm
- 1:33Speaker 1: focused on, you know, a week. It's all different.
- 1:36Speaker 2: Sorry.
- 1:36Speaker 7: How do you tell when the foot is like full
- 1:39Speaker 7: go full ready? You don't you trust it like you
- 1:42Speaker 7: did before?
- 1:43Speaker 1: Yeah, Uh, throughout practice, Uh, getting some more live reps.
- 1:45Speaker 2: Uh.
- 1:46Speaker 1: Obviously we didn't have all the paths and stuff today,
- 1:47Speaker 1: so uh just keep implementing myself in those situations. And uh,
- 1:51Speaker 1: you know, adrenaline obviously takes over a lot of it.
- 1:54Speaker 1: Uh playing fashion. I think they say you're gonna feel
- 1:56Speaker 1: a little slower anyway. So as long as I know
- 1:58Speaker 1: the soreness outfield, I'll be alright.
- 2:00Speaker 2: How did great folks?
- 2:03Speaker 7: Says coach Peterson today said that he envisions a scenario
- 2:08Speaker 7: of you and Vendrell potentially playing side by side moving forward? Yeah,
- 2:12Speaker 7: Uh what would that mean for for you? What would
- 2:14Speaker 7: that mean for him?
- 2:16Speaker 2: Mean?
- 2:16Speaker 3: Defense?
- 2:17Speaker 4: For the defense?
- 2:18Speaker 1: I mean just watching him play, you know, electric, you know,
- 2:22Speaker 1: getting to the ball. They call him missile and all
- 2:24Speaker 1: that stuff. You know, it's just definitely contagious, the energy
- 2:27Speaker 1: that he brings. You know, still a young guy. Uh,
- 2:29Speaker 1: just kind of teaches him the nuances of the game.
- 2:31Speaker 1: That's all he really needs now. Just understanding you know,
- 2:33Speaker 1: where they're attacking him and stuff. But bright spot for sure,
- 2:36Speaker 1: and just keep building on his game. He's gonna be
- 2:37Speaker 1: a lights out player. So I'm I'm gonna enjoy you know,
- 2:40Speaker 1: con continue to teach him and play alongside of him.
- 2:43Speaker 1: Obviously we have a talented linebacker room. We got Devin.
- 2:45Speaker 1: He's playing well too. So really watching them is gonna
- 2:48Speaker 1: make me step my own game up. To be honest
- 2:50Speaker 1: with you, I got a uh a responsibility on the
- 2:52Speaker 1: field to be able to be a player at my
- 2:54Speaker 1: best at all time. So yeah, uh, I think you
- 2:56Speaker 1: know high rod water raises all boats.
- 2:58Speaker 2: I think so.
- 2:59Speaker 1: I I definitely away watching them two ball out and enjoy,
- 3:02Speaker 1: you know, balling out with them.
- 3:04Speaker 5: Just Gottaford on Love quarterback as he's playing right.
- 3:07Speaker 1: Now, he's playing well, Scott and report. You know he's
- 3:11Speaker 1: lighting teams up. You know, you see it. Definitely, you
- 3:15Speaker 1: know they do. They do take shots early and downs.
- 3:19Speaker 1: They'd like to stay on track. They got the whole
- 3:20Speaker 1: Riders thing. Look at the sideline. They can't go hurry
- 3:22Speaker 1: up on you.
- 3:23Speaker 8: Uh.
- 3:24Speaker 1: He checks it down at the right times. A lot
- 3:25Speaker 1: of times they flood zones and stuff in thoder to
- 3:27Speaker 1: put the ball. So also an athletic dude who can
- 3:30Speaker 1: roll out and hit throws too. So kind of a
- 3:32Speaker 1: mobile quarterback that can make all the throws that you
- 3:34Speaker 1: that he needs to make. We gotta be on our coverages,
- 3:36Speaker 1: keep in the pocket, kind of same thing we can
- 3:38Speaker 1: week out with these.
- 3:39Speaker 9: Mobile guys, packers, corners. What do you see from them
- 3:41Speaker 9: on tap?
- 3:43Speaker 8: They got a good group, a good group of dbs.
- 3:46Speaker 8: I got some pretty good dvs back there. But I mean,
- 3:48Speaker 8: we just gonna come out this week and try to
- 3:50Speaker 8: do what we've been doing to try to come out
- 3:52Speaker 8: there and get better and practice and go out there
- 3:54Speaker 8: on Sunday and beat the best.
- 3:55Speaker 10: That we can beat as a group is out here.
- 3:57Speaker 10: Obviously is a guy that likes to chart. It's a
- 4:00Speaker 10: game when you aren't afraid the chart just kind of
- 4:04Speaker 10: going into that game. Is that Christian said, it's part
- 4:07Speaker 10: of the game, something that kind of makes it a
- 4:09Speaker 10: little bit funny.
- 4:10Speaker 8: You feel the same way, Yeah, for sure. I mean
- 4:12Speaker 8: that's that's football. This don't happen. It happens all the time.
- 4:16Speaker 8: I mean, you gotta keep playing. Don't let them really
- 4:19Speaker 8: let that get to you. Just keep playing.
- 4:21Speaker 2: You like to play.
- 4:22Speaker 4: Guys that'll talk back and forth.
- 4:24Speaker 2: I mean it don't matter to me. I mean it
- 4:26Speaker 2: is what it is.
- 4:27Speaker 3: We can talk because keeping football.
- 4:30Speaker 9: Jorian said that he felt like last week being there
- 4:32Speaker 9: for ten plus days was so important for bringing this
- 4:35Speaker 9: whole group together. How would you evaluate that off the
- 4:37Speaker 9: field part of it.
- 4:38Speaker 8: I would say the same. I feel like it was
- 4:40Speaker 8: big for us as the team, just coming together. I
- 4:43Speaker 8: feel like it bonded us closer together. We were able
- 4:45Speaker 8: to go out there Sunday play for each other rather
- 4:48Speaker 8: than just playing for ourselves ourselves.
- 4:50Speaker 3: I feel like it helped us out a lot. What's
- 4:53Speaker 3: your forensic motivation?
- 4:55Speaker 7: What kind of gets you going off of the field
- 4:57Speaker 7: outside of wins, loss and motivation?
- 4:59Speaker 4: Really motivates at the end of the day.
- 5:02Speaker 8: Really just me wanting to be the best that I
- 5:03Speaker 8: can be. Me just wanting to be the best in general.
- 5:06Speaker 8: I would say that's my motivation, Just always wanting to
- 5:08Speaker 8: be the best at everything I do.
- 5:11Speaker 11: Seven games in, does it feel like the game's kind
- 5:14Speaker 11: of slowing down a little bit getting adjusted in the
- 5:16Speaker 11: NFL speed?
- 5:17Speaker 3: Yeah, not for sure.
- 5:18Speaker 8: I feel like each and every game in ends to
- 5:20Speaker 8: slow down a little bit, just getting better, just getting
- 5:22Speaker 8: more reps throughout practicing, just seeing different defensive looks. I mean,
- 5:26Speaker 8: I feel like the game is going down a lot.
- 5:28Speaker 9: When you're on the field. Can you feel like the
- 5:30Speaker 9: run game and the emphasis on the run game opening
- 5:33Speaker 9: up more for you. Yeah, you said, yeah, Like can
- 5:36Speaker 9: you when you're running the ball seventeen times, do you
- 5:38Speaker 9: feel like that, like on the field, can you physically
- 5:40Speaker 9: feel like that's opening up opportunities for you guys like
- 5:43Speaker 9: passing game?
- 5:43Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, yeah for sure.
- 5:44Speaker 8: Just as we were able to run the ball pretty
- 5:47Speaker 8: very well last game. As long as we like just
- 5:49Speaker 8: keep chipping away in the run game, I feel like
- 5:51Speaker 8: it'll open up the past game for us. So yeah,
- 5:54Speaker 8: I feel like it helps out a lot. Sure.
- 5:56Speaker 12: No differences in tribal life as a pro compared to college,
- 5:59Speaker 12: you guys, just London?
- 6:00Speaker 3: How different is that for you this year?
- 6:03Speaker 8: It's very different, just being we have travel a lot more.
- 6:06Speaker 8: You got more games and stuff, and we were able
- 6:08Speaker 8: to go out there and go to London.
- 6:10Speaker 11: Uh.
- 6:10Speaker 8: In college, I mean you don't really you don't really
- 6:12Speaker 8: have that, But I mean you just gotta take a
- 6:14Speaker 8: step by step and just adapt to it. Yeah, But
- 6:17Speaker 8: I mean it's cool with just being able to go
- 6:19Speaker 8: over to London and do experience things like that.
- 6:21Speaker 2: Though.
- 6:21Speaker 9: Have you been able to take a second and reflect
- 6:24Speaker 9: upon the last seven weeks and what you've been able
- 6:26Speaker 9: to do uh.
- 6:27Speaker 8: Yeah, recently I have just I mean, but I'm trying
- 6:31Speaker 8: to like keep going, just stay in the moment and
- 6:33Speaker 8: just keep going, just keep taking the day by day,
- 6:35Speaker 8: step by step, and just keep getting better and do
- 6:38Speaker 8: even better, do bigger things.
- 6:39Speaker 9: What was kind of the moment that forced you to reflect,
- 6:42Speaker 9: Like was it like on the plane or was there
- 6:43Speaker 9: just like the second where you went, wow, I can't
- 6:45Speaker 9: believe this is happening.
- 6:47Speaker 8: I think it was just like more of like a while,
- 6:48Speaker 8: I can't believe this is happening, just like like after
- 6:51Speaker 8: the game, like yeah, almost all them plane ride home,
- 6:54Speaker 8: just just up thinking about like just like little things
- 6:57Speaker 8: like that you surprise yourself. I wouldn't say I surprised myself.
- 7:02Speaker 8: I mean I know my abilities. I know what I'm
- 7:04Speaker 8: capable of, so I just try to come out and
- 7:07Speaker 8: just be the best that I can be and do
- 7:08Speaker 8: what I know I can do.
- 7:09Speaker 13: First mate, I mean, I had like a broken hand
- 7:11Speaker 13: in high school. I think I broke my hand once
- 7:14Speaker 13: my rookie year too. But I've never missed more than
- 7:17Speaker 13: one game at a time. So as bad as you
- 7:20Speaker 13: want to be back on the field, is there anything
- 7:22Speaker 13: a game from that kind of perspective.
- 7:23Speaker 3: Just seeing things happen from the outside a little bit.
- 7:25Speaker 13: Absolutely, you you gain a ton of perspective. I'm just
- 7:30Speaker 13: watching the game, how it's played, what it takes to
- 7:33Speaker 13: win games, and stuff like that. And I was telling
- 7:35Speaker 13: everyone when I got hurd all, I did a lot
- 7:37Speaker 13: of mental work and everything I do in the off
- 7:39Speaker 13: season thinking it was going to prepare me for football,
- 7:41Speaker 13: but actually prepared me for this injury. And I haven't
- 7:44Speaker 13: been you know, I haven't been sulking, I haven't been
- 7:46Speaker 13: depressed wallin. I've just been attacking the rehab and attacking
- 7:49Speaker 13: everything and trying to stay in my playbook and be
- 7:51Speaker 13: ready to go.
- 7:52Speaker 3: And today felt good. There wasn't a lot of thinking.
- 7:54Speaker 13: It was just all the thinking I did for three
- 7:57Speaker 13: months kind of just manifested itself and act and it
- 8:00Speaker 13: felt good. I know Doug has said before going to
- 8:02Speaker 13: London and kind of got ben eyed you guys because
- 8:04Speaker 13: basically a round each other for two weeks.
- 8:06Speaker 3: Do you feel like I kind of had the same
- 8:07Speaker 3: effect again this year? Absolutely?
- 8:09Speaker 13: I mean you, once meetings are over at five o'clock,
- 8:12Speaker 13: you got nothing to do but sit in the mail
- 8:13Speaker 13: room with the guys and just talk and I think
- 8:16Speaker 13: that was a really big thing for us, and he
- 8:18Speaker 13: even said it this morning, and we can't lose that
- 8:20Speaker 13: coming back here. We can't just go our separate ways now,
- 8:23Speaker 13: and staying together, staying tight, is going to be the
- 8:26Speaker 13: key going on this round we got here.
- 8:28Speaker 3: With the next four games, it's.
- 8:30Speaker 7: Hard to know exactly how it would have played out,
- 8:31Speaker 7: but it sure looked like from an outsider's perspective that
- 8:34Speaker 7: you were going to win a starting job going into season.
- 8:38Speaker 7: Did you feel like that that make it any more
- 8:41Speaker 7: disappointing that you felt like you had had maybe your
- 8:43Speaker 7: best camp to that point.
- 8:46Speaker 13: It's pure speculation. You never know, but I know what
- 8:50Speaker 13: I from what I could control. I was definitely playing
- 8:52Speaker 13: the best football in my life. And it's definitely disappointing
- 8:56Speaker 13: because when you come back, you don't know if you're
- 8:58Speaker 13: going to be the same or not. So that's just
- 9:00Speaker 13: kind of the unknown. But like I said earlier, the
- 9:04Speaker 13: mentals are good. I'm still confident in my abilities and stuff,
- 9:06Speaker 13: and I'm just gonna need reps. I'm just gonna need
- 9:10Speaker 13: reps to get the playbook back and stuff like that.
- 9:12Speaker 13: So I'm not sure if it'll be this week or
- 9:14Speaker 13: next week, but in a good spot for sure, and
- 9:17Speaker 13: hopefully once I get my chance, I can just go
- 9:19Speaker 13: ball out.
- 9:20Speaker 7: Do you want to temper expectations? I mean, the fan
- 9:22Speaker 7: base loves you anyway. Now you're considered the savior of
- 9:26Speaker 7: the defense. Just on some level here you need to
- 9:29Speaker 7: temper expect.
- 9:30Speaker 3: It wasn't always like that, was it? Sorry? What was
- 9:35Speaker 3: the question? I I kind of got just sidetracked.
- 9:37Speaker 13: I was like, that's just it's crazy where I've come
- 9:39Speaker 13: from man to hear to hear you say I'm the savior.
- 9:43Speaker 7: The fan base definitely thinks that. I'm sure, I mean,
- 9:46Speaker 7: because they love you anyway. Right, Yeah, So do you
- 9:48Speaker 7: have to need a temper expectations?
- 9:49Speaker 3: I mean you kind of just did saying I need
- 9:50Speaker 3: some reps.
- 9:53Speaker 13: No, put the expectations. I'm We're gonna freaking ball when
- 9:56Speaker 13: I'm back out there, for sure. But I'm just gonna
- 9:58Speaker 13: do what I do. Bring bring my leadership, bring my energy,
- 10:01Speaker 13: bring my want to my will, my not going to
- 10:04Speaker 13: take no for an answer, Like they wake up and
- 10:07Speaker 13: pray to the same god I prayed to. Type mentality,
- 10:09Speaker 13: It's true, that's how you have to approach this thing.
- 10:11Speaker 13: So whenever it is whether it's I can't control results,
- 10:16Speaker 13: but I can control running around with my head on fire,
- 10:21Speaker 13: hair on fire, and plan as hard as I can
- 10:23Speaker 13: to get dubbed.
- 10:24Speaker 9: So you have to worry about not being too emotional
- 10:27Speaker 9: when that return does come.
- 10:28Speaker 13: No doubt, Yeah, because you're kind of no doubt absolutely,
- 10:31Speaker 13: you know you don't want to don't want to lose
- 10:33Speaker 13: your head, and you want to stay even keel. But
- 10:36Speaker 13: motivation is not going to be an issue. And that's
- 10:38Speaker 13: why I feel really good. Is you know, I even
- 10:41Speaker 13: said this before, like the heroes of this team are
- 10:44Speaker 13: going to be the guys that were zero and four,
- 10:46Speaker 13: one and five when we do turn it around, They're
- 10:48Speaker 13: going to be the ones because they've been going at
- 10:51Speaker 13: it since August and they've had no rest. And for
- 10:54Speaker 13: a guy like me, I'm coming in fresh legs, fresh energy,
- 10:57Speaker 13: fresh motivation. So that's my big that's my biggest thing
- 11:00Speaker 13: is I'm coming in with just a lot of piece
- 11:04Speaker 13: and stuff like that, and I'm you know, I'm not
- 11:06Speaker 13: bogged down. But the season, so just looking forward to
- 11:08Speaker 13: that opportunity.
- 11:09Speaker 3: You were here in twenty two, that team was two
- 11:11Speaker 3: and five. Yeah, have the switch went on.
- 11:13Speaker 2: The run made it to the playoffs.
- 11:14Speaker 11: Are there any lessons you can share with some of
- 11:16Speaker 11: the young guys the team about there's still a lot
- 11:18Speaker 11: of games left to play.
- 11:19Speaker 13: It's just crazy because like nothing changed that year. It
- 11:23Speaker 13: wasn't like there was just some x's and o's scheme.
- 11:27Speaker 13: We just kept kept chipping away and started getting dubs.
- 11:30Speaker 13: And I think when we get into these late, you know,
- 11:34Speaker 13: early November games, I think this when we get dangerous. Honestly,
- 11:39Speaker 13: teams are starting to look at playoff pictures. They're starting
- 11:42Speaker 13: to look at divisional races and they're not really thinking
- 11:44Speaker 13: about us, and I think that's when we can, you know,
- 11:46Speaker 13: sort of jump on teams. And that's really what we
- 11:48Speaker 13: did late in twenty two. I mean jumped on Dallas,
- 11:51Speaker 13: jumped on Baltimore or stuff like that. So and it's
- 11:54Speaker 13: not gonna take I mean, if you were to look
- 11:56Speaker 13: at it on paper, you'd say, oh god, we played
- 11:59Speaker 13: we play Minnesota, we played Green Bay, we played Detroit.
- 12:02Speaker 3: But it's like we have such a talented team.
- 12:04Speaker 13: And I've been on bad teams here, like bad teams
- 12:08Speaker 13: that you knew we're gonna lose, like you literally had
- 12:10Speaker 13: no chance. But this team is seriously so good. And
- 12:14Speaker 13: I can't remember who asked it, But back to your
- 12:15Speaker 13: point about being away from it, like this team is
- 12:17Speaker 13: damn good. We got a damn good team. It's just
- 12:21Speaker 13: you gotta go make plays. And I think we didn't
- 12:25Speaker 13: make plays early, but you take that variance, the things
- 12:28Speaker 13: are gonna flip. And as long as we just stay
- 12:31Speaker 13: you know, ten toes down and just put up, push
- 12:33Speaker 13: all the chips into the middle, we're gonna be fine.
- 12:36Speaker 7: What's clear, intrinsic motivation throughout these tough times, what really
- 12:39Speaker 7: kind of gets you up away from the game.
- 12:42Speaker 3: You're not to go through something like this. Intrinsic motivation,
- 12:46Speaker 3: love that, love that wording.
- 12:47Speaker 13: My motivation is just to have no regrets, to to
- 12:51Speaker 13: put all my chips in and whatever happens happened.
- 12:54Speaker 3: So I've definitely been motivated.
- 12:56Speaker 13: And you know, being on the sideline when you when
- 12:58Speaker 13: you come back, you can get lazy of not staying
- 13:01Speaker 13: in your playbook, not get keeping up on your conditioning.
- 13:04Speaker 13: So I've been Those have been two big things for me.
- 13:06Speaker 13: And I just love the ball. I love that feeling,
- 13:10Speaker 13: you know, winning games, making plays.
- 13:12Speaker 3: Flying around. So that's that's my motivation.
- 13:15Speaker 9: I'm sure you go into games saying, hey, I wanna
- 13:17Speaker 9: break tack you. So I want to be that guy
- 13:19Speaker 9: that keeps going.
- 13:19Speaker 14: Yeah, you know, just just just whenever you get opportunity
- 13:22Speaker 14: to be at open field. Of course, you know the
- 13:24Speaker 14: line work details off to get us there, so why
- 13:27Speaker 14: not finish the guys off and you know, make somebody
- 13:30Speaker 14: miss and do do what.
- 13:31Speaker 4: You're supposed to do out there.
- 13:32Speaker 14: So just keep working and taking the day by day
- 13:36Speaker 14: and trusting the process and being where.
- 13:37Speaker 4: I fee that.
- 13:38Speaker 9: So, why has this run game been so successful the
- 13:40Speaker 9: last three weeks?
- 13:41Speaker 3: Tak it been?
- 13:43Speaker 14: It been successful because you know, we just stick to
- 13:46Speaker 14: it and uh, we come back to it when when
- 13:48Speaker 14: it's a bad run or it's a good run, we stick.
- 13:50Speaker 4: With it and we pound and pound and pound. And
- 13:53Speaker 4: the guys.
- 13:53Speaker 14: Up front have been doing at great job. You know,
- 13:56Speaker 14: all those guys have been on great been doing a
- 13:58Speaker 14: great job. And it's just a blessing to be able
- 14:02Speaker 14: to see those guys work together, me working with those
- 14:05Speaker 14: guys and the other backs work and I'm sure it
- 14:08Speaker 14: just feel like sometimes we all on the same page
- 14:11Speaker 14: and that's the best feeling.
- 14:12Speaker 4: Sorry, we got it in a little bit late.
- 14:14Speaker 5: Have you ever been on a team that's run the
- 14:15Speaker 5: ball seventeen straight times in the football game before?
- 14:18Speaker 2: How long ago was.
- 14:19Speaker 14: That seventeen times front of Gus mazin my freshman year.
- 14:25Speaker 14: We definitely pound the ball a lot with Gus Mazine,
- 14:29Speaker 14: but you know, seventeen times, that's a lot. I didn't
- 14:33Speaker 14: know we did that until we got into the meetings. Yeah,
- 14:35Speaker 14: and he coach Prince said it.
- 14:37Speaker 5: That's gotta be a good feeling though, when hey, it's
- 14:39Speaker 5: going that well, why would you throw the ball right
- 14:42Speaker 5: as a player in the huddle when you hear that again,
- 14:44Speaker 5: that's got to give you a Okay, let's let's keep
- 14:46Speaker 5: let's keep this ball rolling.
- 14:47Speaker 4: Oh yeah, let's keep it going.
- 14:48Speaker 14: You know, just keep trying to keep us ahead and
- 14:51Speaker 14: sticks get some positive ever run. And that's what it
- 14:54Speaker 14: comes down to. Those guys up front doing a great job,
- 14:57Speaker 14: Tripped doing a great job. We just got to keep
- 14:59Speaker 14: clicking as a team and take the lift things series
- 15:02Speaker 14: And that's what I feel like we're doing right now.
- 15:04Speaker 14: And I just thank God for all us coming closer
- 15:06Speaker 14: and get those opportunities.
- 15:08Speaker 5: Yeah, just is is that sustainable?
- 15:11Speaker 2: Moving ahead?
- 15:11Speaker 4: What happened last week?
- 15:12Speaker 2: The kind of the team coming.
- 15:13Speaker 5: Together at the grove, comes out with a win, bringing
- 15:16Speaker 5: back over here. Is that a real thing?
- 15:18Speaker 2: Can that carry over?
- 15:19Speaker 3: Yeah?
- 15:19Speaker 4: You know it come over. You know we all got
- 15:21Speaker 4: team bun the time.
- 15:22Speaker 14: We all got to sit there and the grove and
- 15:23Speaker 14: look at each other's face all day.
- 15:25Speaker 4: You know, all day.
- 15:28Speaker 14: Actually I'm talking about all day. So you know, it's
- 15:31Speaker 14: an energy thing. I feel like it. It came back.
- 15:33Speaker 14: We had a great practice today, but we just got
- 15:34Speaker 14: to take care of the lift things and go out
- 15:36Speaker 14: and secure.
- 15:36Speaker 4: A high level.
- 15:37Speaker 9: What se what do you seeping the Packers defensive front
- 15:40Speaker 9: on tape.
- 15:40Speaker 4: Oh, those guys are real good, you know.
- 15:42Speaker 14: Uh they d line, the linebackers, Uh, the safeties, the corners,
- 15:45Speaker 14: they real good.
- 15:46Speaker 4: They good defense, fly around, they move fast.
- 15:48Speaker 2: You know.
- 15:49Speaker 14: Just looking forward to see what those guys come with Sunday.
- 15:52Speaker 14: They I know they're they're they play fast and I'm
- 15:54Speaker 14: looking forward to playing with those guys.
- 15:56Speaker 11: They take for you personally, how great is it to
- 15:58Speaker 11: be able to get in a rhythm as a running
- 16:00Speaker 11: back in the game, we saw what's the point you
- 16:02Speaker 11: guys in the region you kind of signature the out
- 16:04Speaker 11: one to feed you and they did just that and
- 16:05Speaker 11: just talk about how they go into the rhythm can
- 16:07Speaker 11: help you.
- 16:07Speaker 14: Oh that's I feel like that's how the game come
- 16:09Speaker 14: down to. You know, I'm consistent to pray that. Then
- 16:13Speaker 14: I just get going, just just get in the floor
- 16:15Speaker 14: of things and feel the game out. You know, as
- 16:18Speaker 14: a runner, you feel the game out, the.
- 16:20Speaker 4: Better the game gonna be. And uh it's it's just like.
- 16:23Speaker 14: You get one run and you don't get another one
- 16:26Speaker 14: to ten players after you.
- 16:28Speaker 4: It's kind of like the first run of the game.
- 16:30Speaker 14: So when you come back to back to back, it's like, Okay,
- 16:32Speaker 14: I can see this, or I can see this, Oh
- 16:34Speaker 14: I can make this. Guy missed al we run the
- 16:36Speaker 14: same run one time and then we come back to
- 16:39Speaker 14: it and it didn't work, but you missed it. Then
- 16:41Speaker 14: you hit it for longer this time. So it just
- 16:43Speaker 14: it be things like that. Just getting really miss very
- 16:45Speaker 14: important as a running back and the old line. But
- 16:47Speaker 14: I I feel like running ball, get the old line going.
- 16:50Speaker 12: Just running the ball, just kept running, run and running
- 16:52Speaker 12: it and uh, I just always getting getting downinate what
- 16:54Speaker 12: you coulda came up with points. But at the end
- 16:56Speaker 12: of the day, I feel like that kind of we
- 16:57Speaker 12: kind of post out will on them.
- 16:58Speaker 4: You know, we gotta continue to do that to be
- 17:00Speaker 4: successful in this league.
- 17:01Speaker 2: What was your review of Parker's touchdown?
- 17:03Speaker 12: Now, it was crazy So when he scored, he came
- 17:05Speaker 12: to outside, like, man, you definitely had that plan because
- 17:07Speaker 12: like he had a celebration and everything ready, So he
- 17:10Speaker 12: definitely had that going into Sunday.
- 17:12Speaker 3: What's been your intrinsic motivation? I mean throughout this time
- 17:14Speaker 3: where it's just kind of been up and down for
- 17:16Speaker 3: you. You don't know if you're feeling healthier or not.
- 17:18Speaker 7: What what's really motivated you out of the field, out
- 17:21Speaker 7: of coming back?
- 17:21Speaker 3: What's really been your motivation?
- 17:23Speaker 2: Just to be the best player that I can be?
- 17:25Speaker 2: You know, I feel like.
- 17:28Speaker 12: I just wanna be the best player and the best
- 17:29Speaker 12: team that I can be. I feel like my motivation
- 17:32Speaker 12: is to colme here and win games. I mean, uh,
- 17:34Speaker 12: losing weekend week out, man, you can kind of get
- 17:36Speaker 12: depressed and uh, no one wants to ever be there,
- 17:38Speaker 12: and uh, it's truly motivation to win games.
- 17:41Speaker 2: Man.
- 17:41Speaker 12: Let's see, I'm heart we still want so I feel
- 17:44Speaker 12: like that makes me feel great and I just gotta
- 17:45Speaker 12: get back and get healthy so I can help the
- 17:47Speaker 12: guys whenever they need me. So I feel I just
- 17:49Speaker 12: gotta just be better for myself and for the team.
- 17:51Speaker 5: I was just the rehab going how far away do
- 17:53Speaker 5: you think you might be?
- 17:55Speaker 12: I feel like he's going good. I mean, I feel
- 17:57Speaker 12: like it's going They could be this week, could be
- 17:58Speaker 12: next week. But I feel like I got to keep
- 18:01Speaker 12: pushing it, keep seeing where I'm at and seeing how
- 18:02Speaker 12: far I can go and without aggravating anything, and just
- 18:06Speaker 12: try to keep pushing myself to be better for Sunday.
- 18:09Speaker 5: I mean, and seeing Tank on the side, you're on
- 18:11Speaker 5: the sideline the whole game, seeing that go, I mean,
- 18:15Speaker 5: as a running back in this offense, the way this
- 18:17Speaker 5: thing has been going, that's gotta be.
- 18:19Speaker 2: I mean, it's a different view for you.
- 18:21Speaker 5: How was that view of what happened on the Sunday
- 18:23Speaker 5: pretty good?
- 18:24Speaker 4: I mean it was amazing.
- 18:25Speaker 12: I mean, I feel like anytime we run the ball
- 18:27Speaker 12: in one and twenty times, I feel like we give
- 18:29Speaker 12: ourselves a.
- 18:30Speaker 4: Great chance to win a game.
- 18:31Speaker 12: And you can go look at that statistically, and that's
- 18:33Speaker 12: what it has been the past couple of years, and
- 18:34Speaker 12: I feel like there's a formulas success for our team.
- 18:37Speaker 12: We got to just keep leaning on to that, keep
- 18:38Speaker 12: leaning on in the running game, and I find ways
- 18:40Speaker 12: to get to keep a defense on the sideline, let
- 18:43Speaker 12: them get rest of them get rested up. And I
- 18:45Speaker 12: feel like I love when the game is played through
- 18:46Speaker 12: the running backs. I mean, I'm running back myself. So
- 18:49Speaker 12: it was pretty amazing, pretty inspirational to see the guys.
- 18:52Speaker 4: Go out there and have a great day like they did.
- 18:54Speaker 2: And final one for.
- 18:55Speaker 5: Me, it feels like this team's getting healthier defensive side,
- 18:58Speaker 5: especially some guys are coming back. Feels like this week
- 19:01Speaker 5: you're getting closer. What can this team do with a
- 19:04Speaker 5: full allotment of players off the injured list?
- 19:08Speaker 3: I mean, the Scot's a lembit for us.
- 19:09Speaker 12: I feel like for us, we kind of dug ourselves
- 19:11Speaker 12: a whole. So we got to keep taking in one
- 19:12Speaker 12: week at a time and realizing that what we want
- 19:15Speaker 12: in the end stars now, and we had no room
- 19:17Speaker 12: for Era. And I feel like we all learned from
- 19:19Speaker 12: the stakes that we've been kind of putting on a
- 19:20Speaker 12: film weekend and week out, and we kind of know,
- 19:23Speaker 12: we kind of know what we.
- 19:24Speaker 4: Want kind of we want to go.
- 19:25Speaker 12: There's only one roads to get There's no shortcuts and
- 19:27Speaker 12: with everyone getting back getting healthy is going to make
- 19:29Speaker 12: the team even much better.
- 19:31Speaker 9: I know a couple of guys have said that it
- 19:32Speaker 9: was what you guys needed to bond off the field.
- 19:35Speaker 9: How would you evaluate off the field impact of.
- 19:37Speaker 1: Being over there?
- 19:38Speaker 6: Yeah, definitely, you really have no choice over there. But
- 19:41Speaker 6: we actually do like we really are family, We really
- 19:44Speaker 6: do love each oub, we love working together, so kind
- 19:47Speaker 6: of put us back in a little training camp mode.
- 19:49Speaker 2: Definitely.
- 19:50Speaker 6: The first weekend was a good little punch in the
- 19:52Speaker 6: face some more adversity for us to overcome, and we
- 19:55Speaker 6: really did that throughout the week. I thought energy was great,
- 19:58Speaker 6: attention to detail was great, and it showed on Sunday, Uh,
- 20:01Speaker 6: complete domination. Obviously things are clean up, but we gotta
- 20:04Speaker 6: keep building on that. We have to be consistent with
- 20:06Speaker 6: all of that and make account as we go forward.
- 20:09Speaker 9: Have you ever been a part of a team that's
- 20:10Speaker 9: run the ball seventeen straight times?
- 20:14Speaker 2: It was Yeah, I mean the game was kind of weird.
- 20:16Speaker 6: Honestly, it felt like a blur, So maybe that was
- 20:19Speaker 6: that's the reason for sure, But yeah, I mean, I
- 20:22Speaker 6: mean that's a that's a mentality type of description of
- 20:26Speaker 6: a of a you know, a part of the game
- 20:29Speaker 6: running the ball seventeenth straight times. That's that's moving the football,
- 20:31Speaker 6: that's being dominant up front, that's controlling the trenches, and
- 20:34Speaker 6: that's running backs making good cuts. It's a great compliment
- 20:38Speaker 6: for all offense. So, like I said, I gotta keep
- 20:40Speaker 6: building on that.
- 20:42Speaker 3: Heated up over the last three weeks. What do you
- 20:43Speaker 3: think that's the reason.
- 20:45Speaker 2: I mean.
- 20:47Speaker 6: He's resilient. Yeah, I mean he's resilient. That's simply put.
- 20:53Speaker 6: Whenever adversity hits, uh, he takes it personally. He gets better,
- 20:57Speaker 6: He attacks the things that he needs to get better at,
- 21:00Speaker 6: and he pushes through.
- 21:01Speaker 2: Uh.
- 21:02Speaker 6: He's our leader, he's our captain. He's a great example
- 21:04Speaker 6: of things aren't gonna always go your way. There's gonna
- 21:07Speaker 6: be some adversity at that position. You're gonna hear about it.
- 21:11Speaker 6: But he, you know, he shut down the noise and
- 21:12Speaker 6: went to work. Uh, and he's not done. He still
- 21:15Speaker 6: wants to be better. He's still gonna keep improving.
- 21:16Speaker 2: So that's that's just example of being resilient. We're gonna
- 21:21Speaker 2: continue that too.
- 21:23Speaker 7: You guys don't have back to back home games here
- 21:25Speaker 7: in Jacksonville.
- 21:26Speaker 12: You're traveled to London.
- 21:26Speaker 4: How can that impact.
- 21:28Speaker 3: You guys in the long run on the road games
- 21:30Speaker 3: and just life on the road.
- 21:33Speaker 2: I mean, we don't really. It is what it is.
- 21:36Speaker 6: We're gonna kick it off at one one pm somewhere,
- 21:38Speaker 6: so but uh yeah, I definitely, uh, you know, throughout
- 21:42Speaker 6: the years here, we've always kind of felt like our
- 21:44Speaker 6: backsman against the wall. So obviously being on the road,
- 21:47Speaker 6: uh contributes to that. But we trying to win games,
- 21:50Speaker 6: so wherever we are, we gotta do that.
- 21:52Speaker 3: I know, a couple of weeks ago, how does the
- 21:54Speaker 3: field Just being back on the field healthy after this
- 21:55Speaker 3: week's on.
- 21:56Speaker 6: The sideline, Man, it's it's a blessing. I'm for like
- 21:59Speaker 6: a kid, you know, getting back out there. Definitely it
- 22:02Speaker 6: was weird, you know, being out Obviously it was tough. Definitely, Uh,
- 22:07Speaker 6: you know, God, I felt like, I really believe God
- 22:09Speaker 6: was showing me a different perspective, especially first year being
- 22:11Speaker 6: the captain. Just being able to sit back and kind
- 22:13Speaker 6: of see things. I think that was definitely by divine purpose.
- 22:17Speaker 6: So obviously hate being away, but took advantage of it
- 22:21Speaker 6: and I felt great out there, felt great getting back
- 22:23Speaker 6: in the groove and just helping our offense and whatever
- 22:26Speaker 6: I'm assive to do, just trying to be great at it,
- 22:29Speaker 6: and I just want to continue to be that for
- 22:30Speaker 6: the team.
- 22:31Speaker 2: What's the jams out about this Packers?
- 22:33Speaker 4: Besides the takeaways?
- 22:34Speaker 6: Physical, fast, they're athletic, they played with some juice. They
- 22:39Speaker 6: got some guys that could talk over there. They'll they'll
- 22:42Speaker 6: they'll get they'll get going, and they're rolling. Had a
- 22:46Speaker 6: big game winning field goal last week, so they're gonna
- 22:50Speaker 6: have some juice.
- 22:51Speaker 2: Coming in here.
- 22:52Speaker 6: And uh, it's a it's a good team in my face,
- 22:54Speaker 6: and it'll be a good It's gonna be a great
- 22:56Speaker 6: test for us. Everything that we're trying to do this year,
- 22:58Speaker 6: we need to win these games. So it's gonna be
- 23:01Speaker 6: a great, great week for us to get to work,
- 23:03Speaker 6: a great opponent for us to go and try to
- 23:05Speaker 6: beat and see where we're at.
- 23:06Speaker 2: Are you a talker? You're not. You've been in sing
- 23:08Speaker 2: a long time.
- 23:09Speaker 3: I don't I don't really see you talking a.
- 23:10Speaker 2: Lot back, right, Uh nah, I'm not really.
- 23:13Speaker 6: Uh There'll be times where I get going a little bit,
- 23:16Speaker 6: but I just kind of like to stay a lot
- 23:19Speaker 6: on what I'm doing and what I.
- 23:20Speaker 2: Have to do.
- 23:22Speaker 6: Uh Yeah, that's that's about it.
- 23:25Speaker 2: Yeah,