Latest / Press Pass / Press Pass | Evan Engram: "We all answered the bell today."
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- 0:00Speaker 1: My fiance is blown me up right now. She couldn't
- 0:03Speaker 1: make it, but she watched the whole thing. She was
- 0:05Speaker 1: been a big support for me. My mom's here actually,
- 0:07Speaker 1: so she's gonna be by the buses or get fair
- 0:10Speaker 1: a big hug. And all my family friends are blowing
- 0:13Speaker 1: my phone up right now. So that a day like
- 0:17Speaker 1: this was coming. I mean the way I prepare and
- 0:19Speaker 1: a way I work and the way we work, Um,
- 0:22Speaker 1: anybody can have a day. Uh you know we we've
- 0:24Speaker 1: seen just the time we have in that room. Um,
- 0:28Speaker 1: half days like that and uh today it was just
- 0:32Speaker 1: you know, God allowed it to be seventeens day and um,
- 0:36Speaker 1: it was a lot of fun. Just keep getting I
- 0:40Speaker 1: mean especial to me. You had a couple I know
- 0:41Speaker 1: they're drops or but what's up like for you as
- 0:45Speaker 1: a player, going you just keep going. Yeah, it's a
- 0:49Speaker 1: it's it's it's big, it's a it's a rhythm builder. Um.
- 0:51Speaker 1: You know you get that first catching or even the
- 0:54Speaker 1: first two opportunities kind of just flushing them, letting them go,
- 0:57Speaker 1: um and um, just having the opportunity to keep coming.
- 0:59Speaker 1: You want to capitalize and once you get that one
- 1:01Speaker 1: and then that second one, getting to the flow of
- 1:03Speaker 1: the game. UM, you kind of settle in UM, and
- 1:06Speaker 1: then you know, the defense kept giving us the ball
- 1:08Speaker 1: and so we were able to kind of sustain jobs
- 1:10Speaker 1: get some points. And uh. It just that just that
- 1:13Speaker 1: just kind of gets UM players in the rhythm and
- 1:16Speaker 1: an offense in the rhythm as well. Evan just kind
- 1:19Speaker 1: of go off of that. I mean, what is it
- 1:21Speaker 1: like to be in the zone though you speak about rhythm,
- 1:24Speaker 1: but when if somebody catches, somebody ares you, you're kind
- 1:26Speaker 1: of able to do whatever out there. I guess in
- 1:28Speaker 1: the moment, what what does that feel like for maybe
- 1:31Speaker 1: those who don't understand, UM, it's uh, it's kind of
- 1:34Speaker 1: uh ufork. You know, it's once you learn some things
- 1:38Speaker 1: mentally UM that you can apply on the field or
- 1:41Speaker 1: in a professional or whatever you do. UM, you kind
- 1:43Speaker 1: of learn how to become mentally trained and use it
- 1:46Speaker 1: to your advantage. UM. It's uh, it's a good tool
- 1:50Speaker 1: to have, UM. And so you know, as as the
- 1:52Speaker 1: opportunities came making plays, UM, getting downfield, making plays with
- 1:56Speaker 1: the ball and hands, they act stuff, UM, that confidence
- 1:58Speaker 1: goes up. But also it's important, you know, to kind
- 2:01Speaker 1: of stay in the moment, stay centered, UM, and focus
- 2:04Speaker 1: on your breathing and UM, just be ready for the
- 2:06Speaker 1: next play, because a good good player, bad play. UM,
- 2:08Speaker 1: you want to continue to move on. UM. And the
- 2:10Speaker 1: game kept going on, We kept needing plays. UM, they
- 2:13Speaker 1: kept dialing my name, UM, and I just would to
- 2:15Speaker 1: go make a place for the team. I think, is
- 2:17Speaker 1: it to beat these guys here? Yeah, you know it was.
- 2:23Speaker 1: Had had a nice little history lesson this week on
- 2:25Speaker 1: the history between these two teams. Um Man. You know
- 2:28Speaker 1: where we are in our season, UM, and what we
- 2:31Speaker 1: kind of have to do this last stretch of games.
- 2:34Speaker 1: This one was big, UM. And uh we kind of
- 2:36Speaker 1: got a glimpse of that last night as a motivation. UM.
- 2:40Speaker 1: And we came out. We were ready. We had a
- 2:42Speaker 1: great week of practice, We had fun at practice, UM,
- 2:45Speaker 1: and we just trusted our process and we put our
- 2:47Speaker 1: process to the test today UM Man Defense, UM, offense,
- 2:51Speaker 1: special teams had a big one called back, which is unfortunate,
- 2:54Speaker 1: but UM, you know we all we all answered the
- 2:57Speaker 1: belt today. It was it just it was fun. Good.
- 3:00Speaker 1: Do you feel like everybody is starting to take on
- 3:03Speaker 1: a new trust with Trevor the way he's playing, I mean,
- 3:06Speaker 1: he's he's earning it. Yeah, for sure, he's earning it.
- 3:09Speaker 1: And it's not even like he had to earn our trust.
- 3:12Speaker 1: We worked so hard the offseason. Um, it was easy
- 3:14Speaker 1: building a relationship with him. Um, it was you know,
- 3:17Speaker 1: there was some diversity early on, there was some success,
- 3:20Speaker 1: like he's earning it, and even you know, battling the
- 3:23Speaker 1: injury last week, coming back in the game last week,
- 3:25Speaker 1: and then um, you know, doing everything he could this
- 3:28Speaker 1: week to be ready for the day, and then how
- 3:29Speaker 1: he played the day and how he was in control
- 3:31Speaker 1: of the huddle and how he moved Like he's earning it, um,
- 3:35Speaker 1: and he's showing it. And uh, it's just a natural
- 3:37Speaker 1: thing to really deal with. UM. And uh it's something
- 3:40Speaker 1: that we can continue to build on and with the
- 3:42Speaker 1: talent like his um accountability has of himself as a leader. Um,
- 3:46Speaker 1: it's a it's it's a good fit for sure. You
- 3:49Speaker 1: said questions you think people will still have about Trevor,
- 3:52Speaker 1: like what he can do, what he can show you honestly,
- 3:55Speaker 1: you know it only like he doesn't worry about that.
- 3:57Speaker 1: We don't worry about that. Um. We know what we have. UM. Internally,
- 4:02Speaker 1: he knows who he is. We have a really unique
- 4:05Speaker 1: group of personalities. UM, and uh, leadership in our in
- 4:09Speaker 1: our on our team, especially in the skilled position group.
- 4:12Speaker 1: And uh you know we're we're all all of that
- 4:15Speaker 1: care all that stuff is in the building, um, in
- 4:17Speaker 1: our locker room and then on the practice field and uh,
- 4:21Speaker 1: you know we're not really paying attention to whose question,
- 4:23Speaker 1: Like we know what we got and we're gonna continue
- 4:25Speaker 1: to build and continue to work. Show you. Yeah, it was.
- 4:35Speaker 1: It was a little little video, a little video um
- 4:39Speaker 1: some uh, some stuff that has happened over the years. Um,
- 4:43Speaker 1: the matchups, UM, some interviews. Uh it was cool. Um,
- 4:47Speaker 1: but it was you know, it was. It was cool
- 4:49Speaker 1: to flip that switch today and it's something like we
- 4:52Speaker 1: see we'll see them again. Um, and they're a good team.
- 4:54Speaker 1: We just we had we had. We played really well today.
- 4:56Speaker 1: So we're gonna have to continue to work, continue to prepare. Um,
- 4:58Speaker 1: we got Cowboys next week and then we'll see him
- 5:00Speaker 1: again at the end of the year. Two Derrick and
- 5:03Speaker 1: Rey's knighting on you order is that part of the video? No,
- 5:06Speaker 1: we didn't see that one. No, it was it went
- 5:09Speaker 1: back a while, It went back a while, but I
- 5:12Speaker 1: didn't see that one. Maybe a clip in there, but
- 5:14Speaker 1: not like a full blown show of it. For sure.
- 5:18Speaker 1: Hope that that last game is meaningful against them. How
- 5:22Speaker 1: motivating is that over these next three to make sure
- 5:25Speaker 1: that when they helped to Jacksonville it's part of the
- 5:27Speaker 1: division you're talking about, Like today's game, Yeah, I mean,
- 5:31Speaker 1: we gotta we gotta turn the page and we gotta
- 5:33Speaker 1: focus on the Cowboys. Um, they're one of the best
- 5:35Speaker 1: teams in the league. So um, we got focused on
- 5:38Speaker 1: that and you know we don't handle that then, so uh,
- 5:43Speaker 1: that's a that's a task at hand in itself. Um.
- 5:46Speaker 1: And then when it when it comes to getting ready
- 5:48Speaker 1: to go to go again with these guys, we'll we'll,
- 5:50Speaker 1: we'll be there. Thank you all.