Latest / Press Pass / Press Pass | Shatley, Engram and Oluokun on MCMC, Texans Matchup & Finishing Strong
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Welcome back. Thanks.
- 0:02Speaker 2: Yeah, gready to move back.
- 0:05Speaker 1: Ahead from these guys.
- 0:08Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been great, uh being back, good to see
- 0:11Speaker 2: everybody you know, and be able to be able to
- 0:15Speaker 2: finish it.
- 0:15Speaker 1: You know what happened? How did you? How did this
- 0:18Speaker 1: all come about?
- 0:20Speaker 3: Uh?
- 0:20Speaker 2: Just you know, I've been home training, working out, and
- 0:23Speaker 2: you know, Trent, you know, give me a call and
- 0:26Speaker 2: stayed ready and here I am.
- 0:28Speaker 1: So he stayed pretty good shape. How'd you feel out there?
- 0:31Speaker 2: I mean I thought I was in pretty good shape,
- 0:33Speaker 2: but football shape is a little bit different. Yeah, I was.
- 0:35Speaker 1: I felt all right out there.
- 0:36Speaker 4: I thought you were on the verge of retirement when
- 0:38Speaker 4: you when you when you still?
- 0:40Speaker 1: I still am.
- 0:41Speaker 2: I just like I said, I wanted to finish this
- 0:43Speaker 2: year just you know what incredible opportunity to kind of
- 0:48Speaker 2: finish it away I want to.
- 0:49Speaker 1: Yeah. Is that part of it?
- 0:50Speaker 4: Was that part of the whole time of staying in
- 0:52Speaker 4: shape and everything in case?
- 0:53Speaker 1: Yeah?
- 0:54Speaker 2: Absolutely, I said I want to finish it this way,
- 0:56Speaker 2: and yeah I got the opportunity, So very grateful.
- 1:00Speaker 4: When did you think of that?
- 1:00Speaker 3: But because I mean, when you got let go, you
- 1:02Speaker 3: could easily say, okay, retirement starts right.
- 1:05Speaker 2: Yeah, I had that fault, but uh, honestly managing one,
- 1:10Speaker 2: it just didn't feel right.
- 1:11Speaker 3: You know.
- 1:11Speaker 2: I was still like if I was already planned on
- 1:13Speaker 2: playing this year, and so I thought, I'm just gonna
- 1:15Speaker 2: stay in shape. It's a good opportunity I do. If not,
- 1:17Speaker 2: then that's fine. But yeah, I just didn't want to
- 1:20Speaker 2: look back and think, man like, what if I have finished,
- 1:22Speaker 2: or or what would it felt like to finish? So
- 1:24Speaker 2: I didn't want to, you know, have that regret.
- 1:26Speaker 4: What's ben Ley Kingham with a family and and it
- 1:29Speaker 4: has it been hard enough where you might play on
- 1:31Speaker 4: even more?
- 1:33Speaker 2: I had that thought of playing some more after I
- 1:35Speaker 2: sat with the family for a while. Uh love them,
- 1:38Speaker 2: but it's a lot. Uh, but I do think if
- 1:40Speaker 2: I came back, uh, my wife might divorce me. So
- 1:44Speaker 2: this is this is it?
- 1:45Speaker 1: For sure?
- 1:46Speaker 3: Can you give us a rough estimate as to how
- 1:49Speaker 3: much lighter your wallet will be as a result of
- 1:51Speaker 3: doing this.
- 1:53Speaker 2: I don't know what you're talking about, Tyler.
- 1:58Speaker 5: Did you talk to any other teams or it was
- 1:59Speaker 5: just a matter.
- 1:59Speaker 2: Of I just wanted to be here. One other team
- 2:04Speaker 2: reached out earlier, but like I said, it was at
- 2:07Speaker 2: this point, it's where else I'm gonna we wanna go.
- 2:09Speaker 2: You know, I just wanted, I wanted to finish here
- 2:11Speaker 2: and uh, like I said, just blessed to be here.
- 2:14Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 2:14Speaker 4: What's what's it been like to watch us since you
- 2:16Speaker 4: were around this team in August? None of us, nobody
- 2:18Speaker 4: in town expected two and night.
- 2:21Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been telling. You know, I just hate it
- 2:23Speaker 2: for the guys, especially just still being so close with everybody,
- 2:25Speaker 2: you know, and uh, watching just week in week out,
- 2:28Speaker 2: you know, close games. Guys are fighting hard and still
- 2:30Speaker 2: talking to the guys. I know, I know how hard
- 2:32Speaker 2: they're working, and you know, you just hate to see
- 2:34Speaker 2: it cause it's just all that work just feels like
- 2:37Speaker 2: it's not paying all. You're not seeing the foods of
- 2:38Speaker 2: your labor. Yeah, like I said, I mean the guys
- 2:41Speaker 2: are working hard, and you never know anything can happened.
- 2:44Speaker 4: We turned around, you send some confidence that you guys can.
- 2:47Speaker 2: Absolutely, I think everybody's still you know, very confident, very
- 2:50Speaker 2: very excited to still have these opportunities.
- 2:52Speaker 3: Left best best, Uh, I think I got the best
- 2:55Speaker 3: on the team. North Florida Schools, Uh, North Florida School
- 2:59Speaker 3: Special Education, second family honestly for me here and Jack's
- 3:04Speaker 3: uh their support for me has been uh limitless, their
- 3:07Speaker 3: per just their perspective on life, how they attack every
- 3:10Speaker 3: single day, how much uh, how great the help is
- 3:14Speaker 3: there for the people there, and they just they've given
- 3:18Speaker 3: me so much joy over the last three years here.
- 3:20Speaker 3: And I I'm privileged to uh have them on my cleats.
- 3:24Speaker 3: Try to score like four touchdowns this week, brings bring
- 3:27Speaker 3: some touchdown balls back to 'em and then bring the
- 3:29Speaker 3: cleats to him as well. So how nice is it
- 3:31Speaker 3: to be able to support that out on on the field. Uh,
- 3:34Speaker 3: I mean it's just, uh, it's really what it's all about.
- 3:37Speaker 3: You got all these were so we were so idolized
- 3:40Speaker 3: for running around and chasing the football and we have
- 3:43Speaker 3: so much impact doing that. And yeah, to be able
- 3:46Speaker 3: to represent on on our cleats, on our feet, on
- 3:49Speaker 3: our tire, Uh, everybody loves paying attention to cleats nowadays.
- 3:53Speaker 1: Everybody has all these cool cleats.
- 3:54Speaker 3: So to put a to put a good cause with it,
- 3:56Speaker 3: it's definitely a privilege and I definitely uh uh don't
- 3:59Speaker 3: take it lightly.
- 4:00Speaker 1: I'm really excited about it.
- 4:02Speaker 4: Is it cool for you to or is it special
- 4:04Speaker 4: for you to settle down into Jacksonville? Obviously, you signed
- 4:07Speaker 4: the contract to be able to continue these kind of
- 4:09Speaker 4: relationships and that impact.
- 4:10Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure. Like I said, we're we're blessed to
- 4:13Speaker 3: play this game. We have such a great impact. And
- 4:17Speaker 3: that's just a love and support I've gotten here from
- 4:19Speaker 3: the entire fan base.
- 4:21Speaker 1: It's definitely.
- 4:23Speaker 3: It's it's a great blessing for me in my career
- 4:26Speaker 3: and my life and my family.
- 4:27Speaker 1: And then you have.
- 4:28Speaker 3: Great causes like this that do such a great job
- 4:30Speaker 3: in the community already, but also show support. And also
- 4:34Speaker 3: I mean I've gotten so many cool gifts from them
- 4:36Speaker 3: and so many cool good luck videos and shout outs
- 4:39Speaker 3: and stuff. So for them to do what they do
- 4:40Speaker 3: every single day and still have time to show support,
- 4:43Speaker 3: it means a lot to me for sure.
- 4:46Speaker 1: What about getting back at it.
- 4:48Speaker 4: How refreshed do you feel refreshed the youth since this
- 4:52Speaker 4: building feels about it?
- 4:53Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's the goal. I want to know.
- 4:56Speaker 3: One day at a time, one game at a time,
- 4:57Speaker 3: one play at a time. I think everybody I know,
- 5:00Speaker 3: everybody has the right mindset. We're we're not out. Uh,
- 5:04Speaker 3: anything can happen. Like I said, We're gonna take it
- 5:06Speaker 3: one day at a time and just attack Uh, we
- 5:09Speaker 3: got each other's backs. Uh, We're gonna continue to play
- 5:11Speaker 3: for the love of the game and love of each
- 5:12Speaker 3: other and and give ever give it everything. We got
- 5:15Speaker 3: to see what happens.
- 5:15Speaker 4: He played her plenty of times. What does it mean
- 5:17Speaker 4: for we're Trevor to be trying to get there whether
- 5:21Speaker 4: he can or not. Kind of went through this little.
- 5:23Speaker 1: Bit last year too. But does it say something when.
- 5:26Speaker 4: That guy in particular is trying to make it on Sunday?
- 5:28Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's nothing new.
- 5:30Speaker 3: Uh who he is and the competitor he is, and
- 5:33Speaker 3: how much he cares for the team, and how much
- 5:34Speaker 3: he loves football, how much he wants to come out
- 5:36Speaker 3: and be great and push through any adversity. So that's
- 5:39Speaker 3: nothing new. That's who he is obviously. Uh, we'll see
- 5:43Speaker 3: what happens. We'll be ready for whatever. Uh.
- 5:46Speaker 1: But I know one six is.
- 5:47Speaker 3: Uh, that's just a that's just the type of guy
- 5:49Speaker 3: he is. That type of competitor is he'll put it
- 5:51Speaker 3: all on the line no matter when or where.
- 5:54Speaker 1: He just he loves playing ball.
- 5:56Speaker 3: His favorite Thanksgiving food, Favorite Thanksgiving bro. I snapped the
- 5:59Speaker 3: other day we did little early Thanksgiving with the family.
- 6:01Speaker 3: I went crazy on some candy Jams, mac and cheese.
- 6:04Speaker 3: I probably could have been a little bit better, but
- 6:07Speaker 3: the candy Yams, mac and cheese collar Greens combo is like,
- 6:10Speaker 3: that's that's my top, that's that's my top two not
- 6:13Speaker 3: too for sure.
- 6:14Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm running it back. This is me and
- 6:17Speaker 1: the wife this Thursday.
- 6:18Speaker 3: So I'll make a little smaller dish with my candy
- 6:20Speaker 3: gams and and.
- 6:22Speaker 1: My mac and cheese.
- 6:23Speaker 3: And she does a great job with the turkey. She
- 6:25Speaker 3: went crazy on the turkey this past weekend. So we're
- 6:28Speaker 3: gonna run it back tomorrow and then I'll come back
- 6:31Speaker 3: with some grades. I'll let y'all know how to let.
- 6:35Speaker 1: Because you mentioned that, you.
- 6:39Speaker 3: Know, it's just something about that combo. It's just you
- 6:43Speaker 3: got like literally on one floor, you get the candy gam,
- 6:45Speaker 3: you get some mac and cheese, and then you take
- 6:47Speaker 3: up out of that, and then you followed up with
- 6:49Speaker 3: the collar green.
- 6:50Speaker 1: It just it just doesn't miss.
- 6:52Speaker 3: I don't know. It's just definitely got to do the
- 6:54Speaker 3: candy gams right. But if y'all need if y'all need
- 6:58Speaker 3: lessons or needed the recipe, you let me know.
- 6:59Speaker 5: I got alright, most k most most important question about price.
- 7:04Speaker 2: What is your response to Anton Harrison not wanting to
- 7:08Speaker 2: be part of stuffing okay for thanksgivings?
- 7:11Speaker 3: Uh, I mean, these kids are just different nowadays, so
- 7:16Speaker 3: you just gotta let them be at this point. So
- 7:18Speaker 3: uh but yeah, just yeah stuffing. Stuffing is uh is
- 7:22Speaker 3: a staple. You gotta have it somewhere. But yeah, these
- 7:25Speaker 3: kids are different nowadays, so these guys are kind of
- 7:27Speaker 3: just let let.
- 7:28Speaker 1: Them do what they do.
- 7:29Speaker 2: You going with fresh or can print? Are? Uh?
- 7:32Speaker 3: Honestly, I don't mind the can. It gets the job done. Uh,
- 7:36Speaker 3: but my mom did make some fresh this past weekend,
- 7:39Speaker 3: so uh, I gotta go with moms.
- 7:41Speaker 1: Lay the stressing people for sure. I need to break
- 7:43Speaker 1: up the food questions.
- 7:44Speaker 2: But was there You've been in locker rooms where the
- 7:47Speaker 2: season hasn't gone right and things.
- 7:49Speaker 4: Have not gonna right in the locker room and it
- 7:51Speaker 4: hasn't been that way here, kay wa?
- 7:53Speaker 3: Was there ever a part of you that wondered are
- 7:55Speaker 3: we gonna.
- 7:55Speaker 4: Hold together the way we need to and the way
- 7:58Speaker 4: it has?
- 8:01Speaker 1: Wait? Ask the question, did you.
- 8:03Speaker 4: Think were you worried that it might not hold together?
- 8:07Speaker 3: All? Honestly?
- 8:10Speaker 1: Know?
- 8:10Speaker 3: Because no, honestly, because we I think it's just the
- 8:16Speaker 3: way we work and the way the way guys have
- 8:17Speaker 3: committed to our work schedule since since OTAs.
- 8:22Speaker 1: I just think there's just a locker.
- 8:24Speaker 3: Room for the guys. No matter what the result is,
- 8:25Speaker 3: We're blessed to play this game. We're blessed to come
- 8:27Speaker 3: in here and work, and that's what we bought into.
- 8:30Speaker 3: And obviously the results haven't been what they are, but
- 8:33Speaker 3: I think we all have a deep appreciation for the
- 8:35Speaker 3: game for us to continue to stick together and keep fighting,
- 8:39Speaker 3: so I never once doubted it. It is a real thing,
- 8:41Speaker 3: that is reality. Guys can check out, but I haven't
- 8:44Speaker 3: since that here at all, and I don't. I don't
- 8:47Speaker 3: think that'll happen at all going forward.
- 8:49Speaker 1: I'm very proud of that, honestly.
- 8:50Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's hard to it's hard to, you know,
- 8:53Speaker 3: stick your chest out and say that because obviously the
- 8:55Speaker 3: results are what matters in this league. But I think
- 8:58Speaker 3: it's just a great test meant to the guys in
- 9:01Speaker 3: the locker room and the guys that make the choice
- 9:03Speaker 3: every morning they come in here and work and commit
- 9:05Speaker 3: to making the right making the ship right, and to
- 9:08Speaker 3: continue to fight for the for the right result for
- 9:10Speaker 3: the result we want. Uh, there's there's wonders.
- 9:13Speaker 5: Know they get great as HGT scores and everything, putting
- 9:15Speaker 5: these kids getting opportunity to go to college or do
- 9:18Speaker 5: whatever trade that they're practicing all the way through high school.
- 9:20Speaker 5: So always happy to put them on the map, happy
- 9:23Speaker 5: to donate to them, happy to get people knowing about them,
- 9:26Speaker 5: cause I think they're doing a great thing for the city.
- 9:27Speaker 3: How important is it to you to be able to
- 9:29Speaker 3: like bring that out on the field with you in
- 9:31Speaker 3: that small way?
- 9:32Speaker 1: It's cool, man.
- 9:33Speaker 5: I just feel so proud, you know, kind of where
- 9:34Speaker 5: I came from, kind of putting light on where I
- 9:36Speaker 5: came from. You know, I don't really tell a lot
- 9:39Speaker 5: of people about my story and stuff, but you know,
- 9:42Speaker 5: people I feel you know close to me, uh what
- 9:45Speaker 5: I represent, you know, the education part of my journey,
- 9:48Speaker 5: and then giving people opportunity that I had obviously, you know,
- 9:52Speaker 5: I was getting the opportunity early and did the most
- 9:54Speaker 5: with it. Some kids don't get that same shot, but
- 9:57Speaker 5: you know, getting them in front of stuff that that's
- 9:59Speaker 5: gonna give them going forward. I think it's just so important, uh,
- 10:02Speaker 5: to their futures and the future of this country for real, as.
- 10:05Speaker 4: You get a little deeper into your career, do you
- 10:07Speaker 4: get more perspective on things like that and your platform and.
- 10:13Speaker 5: Yeah, this it it's it's it's really cool cause you
- 10:15Speaker 5: just know how blessed you are to come out here
- 10:17Speaker 5: and uh play every day. A lot of times you
- 10:19Speaker 5: get kind of lost in the other side of your
- 10:23Speaker 5: life cause you know, everything I do right now with
- 10:25Speaker 5: football football football, Uh, I'm not just a football player.
- 10:29Speaker 5: I really want to be the best football player to
- 10:30Speaker 5: ever be. By the end of the day, I'm a
- 10:32Speaker 5: human being and I'm a role model to a.
- 10:34Speaker 3: Lot of people.
- 10:36Speaker 5: And I'm a you know, a citizen of this country.
- 10:39Speaker 5: And as a citizen, I feel like now that I've
- 10:41Speaker 5: I've gotten to a point where I can help other
- 10:43Speaker 5: people climb up. It's my duty put them on that,
- 10:47Speaker 5: give them, give them. Uh, you know, something to look
- 10:49Speaker 5: up to, not only in sports, but you know, a
- 10:51Speaker 5: lot of times people don't realize the whole education part
- 10:54Speaker 5: got me to the sports part.
- 10:55Speaker 1: Uh.
- 10:55Speaker 5: I'm always gonna put that education first and keep advocating
- 10:58Speaker 5: for that, and they can open the door to so
- 11:01Speaker 5: many things going forward in life.
- 11:02Speaker 1: Favorite things. Giving folk, there's.
- 11:04Speaker 5: So much you know, thanksgiving I don't eat that turkey
- 11:06Speaker 5: no more.
- 11:07Speaker 1: Uh.
- 11:07Speaker 5: I used to have to challenge my way through that.
- 11:12Speaker 5: But all them desserts, like all the pies and stuff.
- 11:15Speaker 5: But then I like the sweet corn. I like the
- 11:17Speaker 5: uh sometimes like the different types of rice is that
- 11:20Speaker 5: my mom.
- 11:20Speaker 3: And them used to make.
- 11:22Speaker 5: It's also good stuff inspire really depends on the day,
- 11:26Speaker 5: cause that you know back in the day, sh that's
- 11:27Speaker 5: they used to last like a month afterwards we have
- 11:29Speaker 5: summer dayn leftover. So uh, I like I like stuff
- 11:33Speaker 5: in and all the pies.
- 11:35Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm with you.
- 11:37Speaker 4: What what gives you hope and and confidence? It it's
- 11:42Speaker 4: gonna look different Sunday than it's looked right, especially the
- 11:46Speaker 4: last time you guys played it.
- 11:47Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 11:48Speaker 5: Uh, you know we got to have this little break,
- 11:50Speaker 5: uh kind of reset our minds. But I think just
- 11:53Speaker 5: the emphasis on you know, the little things going forward
- 11:57Speaker 5: and uh just you know, finding a joy every day
- 11:59Speaker 5: coming in to work, uh, putting the work in hope
- 12:01Speaker 5: and seeing that coming truition for a win.
- 12:04Speaker 3: But really you focusing on one play at.
- 12:05Speaker 5: A time, even through practice. Now you gotta focus on
- 12:08Speaker 5: your your one play. You know, all those culmination come
- 12:11Speaker 5: to a win, not just focusing output. You know, it's
- 12:13Speaker 5: focused on the little things, one player at the time,
- 12:16Speaker 5: and then see where it takes.
- 12:16Speaker 4: Us kind of all stuff together the wrong situation where
- 12:21Speaker 4: it could've been.
- 12:22Speaker 3: Easily going wrong, you know what I mean.
- 12:24Speaker 5: Yeah, that's just the uh credit to the guys on
- 12:27Speaker 5: the team. I've been every interview, people ask you about
- 12:29Speaker 5: the locker room, and you know, we don't have people
- 12:33Speaker 5: ready to point thinkers or if it is it's nipping
- 12:35Speaker 5: the what I don't know that day I'm saying.
- 12:37Speaker 1: But you know, we we cut that out.
- 12:38Speaker 5: Real quick like and it it's it's it's special, but
- 12:42Speaker 5: we want wins to come from that obviously.
- 12:44Speaker 2: Uh.
- 12:45Speaker 5: It it's cool to you know, have everybody keep get
- 12:47Speaker 5: uh keep working towards the same thing. Uh, nobody's checked
- 12:50Speaker 5: out or nothing like that. We all wanna get a right.
- 12:52Speaker 5: Uh you know how very many games we got left
- 12:53Speaker 5: of this season, we wanna get a right.
- 12:54Speaker 1: And I think that's just.
- 12:55Speaker 5: Real like pride towards who uh being on this team,
- 12:57Speaker 5: prize towards you know, being in this city. But you
- 13:00Speaker 5: know we have a duty to get this right before
- 13:02Speaker 5: the before the season.
- 13:03Speaker 2: En is you got for AFC South games in a
- 13:05Speaker 2: last six weeks.
- 13:06Speaker 3: Is it a chance to kind of make a statement
- 13:08Speaker 3: of the division of.
- 13:08Speaker 1: Like moving forward?
- 13:09Speaker 3: Oh?
- 13:09Speaker 5: For sure, divisional games are always the best games. And uh,
- 13:12Speaker 5: you know they came this late in the year. Uh,
- 13:14Speaker 5: you know all they do is on tape now, so
- 13:17Speaker 5: a lot of times you already know what the uh
- 13:18Speaker 5: the team's gonna do. They know what we're gonna do
- 13:20Speaker 5: is by executing better all the way through the game.
- 13:22Speaker 5: Being able to be more physical in the AFC South
- 13:24Speaker 5: is really important. So it's always a statement when you win.
- 13:26Speaker 5: To win a divisional game.
- 13:28Speaker 4: Did it take you a bit longer to get over?
- 13:31Speaker 3: Uh?
- 13:31Speaker 1: Last the Detroit game the way that was?
- 13:33Speaker 4: And uh, a lot of guys in the locker room like, hey,
- 13:36Speaker 4: we're gonna hide my emotions here for a second. D
- 13:39Speaker 4: did did those emotions roll over for days for you
- 13:43Speaker 4: or or what?
- 13:45Speaker 3: Uh?
- 13:45Speaker 5: It's kind of just uh been the emotion of the
- 13:46Speaker 5: of the whole year. Really that game was was telling,
- 13:51Speaker 5: but you know it was one game did not look
- 13:53Speaker 5: at all how I wanted as a professional football.
- 13:55Speaker 1: Player to look.
- 13:57Speaker 3: So you gotta look at yourself.
- 13:58Speaker 5: I I don't know about emotional, like being emotional, not
- 14:00Speaker 5: really helping nobody. At the end of the day, you
- 14:02Speaker 5: gotta look in the mirror and look at yourself and say,
- 14:04Speaker 5: what do I need to be doing to do better?
- 14:06Speaker 5: You know, it's a week I forgot what week I
- 14:08Speaker 5: was eleven. Uh, you know, it's been eleven weeks and
- 14:11Speaker 5: we haven't looked right. So really be honest with yourself
- 14:13Speaker 5: looking in the mirror. What can I bring you know,
- 14:15Speaker 5: after this bye week coming to the team the right
- 14:17Speaker 5: energy and uh, you know, if you're leading by example,
- 14:20Speaker 5: what do you need to do better to lead to
- 14:21Speaker 5: get people you know along in the in the same
- 14:25Speaker 5: boat with you, to to have everybody geared up towards
- 14:27Speaker 5: making the the necessary steps in order to win.