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Speaker 1: Welcome to NFL Daily, where we love a little bonus content. Look,

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Speaker 1: we had a lot of opportunities to talk to players

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Speaker 1: this is going to be a bonus episode. And we

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Speaker 1: love a theme, and so the theme here Wide receivers.

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Speaker 1: Michael Pittman joins us first and has a lot to

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Speaker 1: talk about when it comes to the Colts and just

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Speaker 1: his future with the team, Alex Pierce's future playing.

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Speaker 2: With Philip Rivers. We got Adam Thielen.

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Speaker 1: We got Christian Watson of the Packers, another guy, a

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Speaker 1: potential twenty twenty seven free agent, and obviously right in

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Speaker 1: the middle of a great offensive season for the Green

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Speaker 1: Bay Packers and one of the favorites next year going

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Speaker 1: in for the NFC. So these were great conversations and

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Speaker 1: we're just going to play them all for you, one

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Speaker 1: after another, and then you'll hear us next.

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Speaker 2: At the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: Looking forward to that and hope you enjoy Michael Pittman

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Speaker 1: coming right up. Welcoming in Michael Pittman, veteran wide receiver

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Speaker 1: of the Indianapolis Colts.

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Speaker 2: He's here with e a.

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Speaker 1: Sports excited to talk to you, Michael, like I've loved

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Speaker 1: to watch you for a long time, and especially coming

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Speaker 1: off this season, I feel like we have so much

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Speaker 1: to talk about.

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Speaker 2: But like that that was a season though your colt.

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Speaker 3: Said, yeah, no, I mean everything started out great and

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Speaker 3: we thought, hey, like for the first like ten weeks,

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Speaker 3: Daniel goes on to break his leg and then keeps

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Speaker 3: on playing with a broken leg. I mean, that guy

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Speaker 1: When you when you first heard that he's gonna be

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So at first when Shane came in and like

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Speaker 3: a half days of practice. The guy hasn't played in

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Speaker 3: five years, and take Seattle down to the wire right

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Speaker 4: To a lead?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, a minute to go, And and like he like

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Speaker 3: And and I feel like that's why we even played

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Speaker 5: That Monday night football game was so cool because we

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Speaker 5: the audience got to hear the MIC's turned up.

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Speaker 6: They turned the center micup. I don't know if you

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Speaker 7: Watched that broadcast specifically.

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Speaker 5: I know you watched all the tape, but they turned

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Speaker 5: doing all the things. But you you had heard that you.

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Speaker 5: I mean you obviously hear it every snap to snap.

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Speaker 5: you to hear all of these. It's almost like he's

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Speaker 3: I mean, Philip is full of a lot of sayings.

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Speaker 1: It hits me that yet you've now been in the league.

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Speaker 1: I still think that you you are a young player,

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Speaker 1: this Colts team we talked about it was kind of

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Speaker 2: What did it mean to you that after.

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Speaker 1: The way the season ended, they decided to bring Chanstiking

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Speaker 3: Yes, So I think that that tells everybody that they

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Speaker 4: If we can figure out a.

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Speaker 3: Way to sustain that and keep that going, I mean,

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Speaker 3: but you know, like that all sounds nice and then

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Speaker 5: You know, it's interesting too, because I think it was

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Speaker 5: continuity like this, especially at head coach, obviously directly impacts

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Speaker 5: didn't go further than that, Like there's an urgency. It's

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Speaker 5: almost reminds me of like a player going into the

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Speaker 5: but it's like it's that that urgency, that feeling of

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Speaker 5: It felt like that externally watching from the outside, and

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Speaker 4: Absolutely.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, when you when you talk about those weapons. Your

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Speaker 4: Thank you, City of.

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Speaker 2: Got to keep it together.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I mean obviously they got to do what's

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Speaker 3: I don't really know, but I just know, like back

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Speaker 3: It puts a little bit more urgency on it because

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Speaker 5: What I I was we were talking off there. I

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Speaker 5: And there's a mix of people in there, veterans, young players.

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Speaker 5: Like everyone was felt very connected. D Line, you know,

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Speaker 5: really refreshing for Daniel Jones to go in and feel

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Speaker 6: Did you I'm guessing your score increased by quite a bit.

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Speaker 2: And I'm great having.

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Speaker 7: You on, Michael, Thank you, thanks for being here.

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Speaker 1: Really excited about our next guest, Christian Watson, the Packers

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Speaker 2: Welcome Christian.

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Speaker 1: What what brought you to the Bay area hanging out

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Speaker 10: Just get out do a couple of things in the

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Speaker 10: that's it's kind of been like you know, mutual in

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Speaker 10: that way. And I feel like that's you know, been

448
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Speaker 10: really helpful for us as as a young offense because

449
00:20:14,359 --> 00:20:15,639
Speaker 10: it's kind of just helped us, you know, kind of

450
00:20:15,640 --> 00:20:17,520
Speaker 10: like you said, just grow and and you know, mess

451
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Speaker 10: really well together. Uh So, I mean yeah, I mean

452
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Speaker 10: I guess.

453
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Speaker 8: Yeah, it's okay.

454
00:20:22,600 --> 00:20:23,920
Speaker 7: If you made him cooler, it's fine.

455
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Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean I don't want to say cooler, but

456
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Speaker 10: I mean probably I feel like he's definitely kind of

457
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Speaker 10: leaned into, you know the fact that we have a younger,

458
00:20:32,400 --> 00:20:34,840
Speaker 10: you know, developing and growing offense over these past.

459
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Speaker 8: Couple of years.

460
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I would imagine there's something kind of rejuvenating about

461
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Speaker 5: that because, as you're saying, that collaboration, but also like

462
00:20:43,160 --> 00:20:45,680
Speaker 5: you guys are all kind of doing that second phase

463
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Speaker 5: of growing up, growing up as an adult essentially together

464
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Speaker 5: all with the same group.

465
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Speaker 7: You know each other really really well.

466
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Speaker 5: You're doing one of the most difficult jobs in sports,

467
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Speaker 5: if not the most difficult jobs in sports to do

468
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Speaker 5: under a microscope, you all have the same sort of

469
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Speaker 5: of empathy for each other, I think, and like, I

470
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Speaker 5: don't know if it would seem to me that there's

471
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Speaker 5: something very cool about like he's worked with Vets prior

472
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Speaker 5: to you guys coming in for quite a long time,

473
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Speaker 5: and then now he's got this.

474
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Speaker 7: Incredibly young team. I would feel like that would be.

475
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Speaker 5: Rejuvenating in a way, just to feel that collaboration and

476
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Speaker 5: like feeling like everybody's growing together one Uh.

477
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Speaker 10: I mean, I definitely feel like he does a good

478
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Speaker 10: job at kind of understanding uh, you know, the players

479
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Speaker 10: that he has, and you know how he kind of

480
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Speaker 10: has to approach you know, different guys or you know,

481
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Speaker 10: a different group of guys.

482
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Speaker 8: I feel like he really, you know, has a good.

483
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Speaker 10: Understanding of you know, how to just approach you know,

484
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Speaker 10: different stuff. So yeah, I mean it's definitely been. It's

485
00:21:40,280 --> 00:21:43,399
Speaker 10: definitely been uh, you know, just easy. Uh, you know,

486
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Speaker 10: working working with Matt and you know, learning from him.

487
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Speaker 1: You got a favorite like deep ball catch your career,

488
00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:53,520
Speaker 1: favorite contested catch of my career? Sure, or even this

489
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Speaker 1: last season, anything stand out. I'll let you think about

490
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Speaker 1: it while I well, I give you some props that

491
00:22:01,720 --> 00:22:03,880
Speaker 1: there's not a lot of receivers exactly like you right now,

492
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Speaker 1: like vertical receivers guys who take the top of like

493
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Speaker 1: I think of and Alec Pierce right now. I think

494
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Speaker 1: about guys who are like you've averaged seventeen eighteen yards

495
00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:16,679
Speaker 1: per catch like your whole career.

496
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Speaker 2: It's part of what you do.

497
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Speaker 1: You're at a higher volume this year and you're still

498
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Speaker 1: doing it deep. So I know there's like an art

499
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Speaker 1: to that. Maybe you could explain to the listeners what's

500
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Speaker 1: what what the is the art to being you.

501
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Speaker 4: Know, a deep ball job?

502
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Speaker 1: No, just specifically, like what makes those deep balls? And yeah, yeah,

503
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Speaker 1: if one of them stands out of one that, like

504
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Speaker 1: you know, you loved in your career, Yeah.

505
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Speaker 8: No, I mean I don't, I don't.

506
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Speaker 10: I mean I have to really like sit down and

507
00:22:42,720 --> 00:22:44,560
Speaker 10: think about, you know, my whole career. But I mean

508
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Speaker 10: one that just kind of sticks out to me right away.

509
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Speaker 10: So it was kind of like you know, the catapult

510
00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:52,560
Speaker 10: to you know, you know, my career and the success

511
00:22:52,560 --> 00:22:55,280
Speaker 10: that I've had was just the Dallas game my rookie year.

512
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Speaker 10: You know, I got a go ball from Aaron Rodgers

513
00:22:59,200 --> 00:23:02,000
Speaker 10: down the sideline and you know, score did my backflip

514
00:23:02,080 --> 00:23:03,919
Speaker 10: and uh, you know kind of the rest was the

515
00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:04,800
Speaker 10: rest was history.

516
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Speaker 8: I mean, that's definitely one that you know, always sticks

517
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Speaker 8: out to me.

518
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Speaker 10: But I mean I feel like it's just always kind

519
00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:13,760
Speaker 10: of been, you know, something that I that I've done.

520
00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:15,480
Speaker 10: I don't think I've ever you know, really looked into

521
00:23:15,760 --> 00:23:17,760
Speaker 10: looked into it too much. You know, I've always been,

522
00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:20,480
Speaker 10: you know, a fast guy who you know, can you know,

523
00:23:20,560 --> 00:23:23,040
Speaker 10: run really fast, you know, you know, in a straight line.

524
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Speaker 10: So you know, any opportunity I get to to you know,

525
00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:29,159
Speaker 10: just run fast and uh you know be you know,

526
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Speaker 10: be the defender that way. I feel like that's just

527
00:23:31,440 --> 00:23:32,840
Speaker 10: kind of always what I've done. So it kind of

528
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Speaker 10: just feels Natteral have.

529
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Speaker 2: The right quarterback for it.

530
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Speaker 5: Yeah, And when we talk about, like I brought it

531
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Speaker 5: up earlier, one of our favorite things on this show

532
00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:43,680
Speaker 5: and it happens we on a weekly basis, which we.

533
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Speaker 6: Love to see is like the deep ball.

534
00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:50,480
Speaker 5: But he can't like he has to make it a

535
00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:53,800
Speaker 5: fatal way jumper, and it looks so easy, but there's

536
00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:57,000
Speaker 5: like this like cool like there's this art to it,

537
00:23:57,080 --> 00:23:59,960
Speaker 5: and this like makes it so much more difficult.

538
00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:02,480
Speaker 7: Well but it's not difficult, if that makes sense.

539
00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:04,919
Speaker 5: Like that's got to kind of juice you guys up

540
00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:07,480
Speaker 5: a little bit that he's capable of doing stuff like that.

541
00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:08,840
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, no, I mean he's the rule.

542
00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:12,320
Speaker 10: He's definitely had a little a little swag to his

543
00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:14,639
Speaker 10: game when it when it comes to that, he definitely,

544
00:24:14,760 --> 00:24:18,080
Speaker 10: uh is on point with his with his fadeaways. Uh

545
00:24:18,119 --> 00:24:19,800
Speaker 10: And yeah, no, I mean it just it makes the

546
00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:21,399
Speaker 10: highlight a little bit better when you you know, you

547
00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:22,880
Speaker 10: pan from a fade away to you.

548
00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:24,120
Speaker 8: Know, a touchdown down the field.

549
00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:24,800
Speaker 9: Uh.

550
00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:26,639
Speaker 10: So you know, I always like, I always like it

551
00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:28,720
Speaker 10: because adds a little bit more swagged than my highlights

552
00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:32,399
Speaker 10: as well. So yeah, it's it's definitely, you know, it's

553
00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:33,800
Speaker 10: it's a big part of his game. I mean, I

554
00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:35,640
Speaker 10: feel like he's kind of just you know, been cool

555
00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:38,680
Speaker 10: in that area of you know, being poised back there

556
00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:40,800
Speaker 10: and you know, making plays when stuff is breaking down

557
00:24:42,160 --> 00:24:44,359
Speaker 10: and yeah no, and you know, even if it's not

558
00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:46,199
Speaker 10: breaking down, maybe just hit a fade away just just

559
00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:49,040
Speaker 10: for the fun, uh, and you know, it always works.

560
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Speaker 7: That's what we love about him. He plays like it's

561
00:24:51,119 --> 00:24:52,960
Speaker 7: fun and you do too.

562
00:24:52,920 --> 00:24:55,480
Speaker 5: And and it's just a cool pairing. For that reason,

563
00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:57,840
Speaker 5: among many others, we had him on our show.

564
00:24:57,840 --> 00:24:59,359
Speaker 7: We had Jordan on our show last year.

565
00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:01,560
Speaker 5: We were very proud of ourselves because we got him

566
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Speaker 5: to like laugh a lot and like kind of just

567
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Speaker 5: be like you know he was because he's so professional

568
00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:08,159
Speaker 5: and and and he's a little quieter.

569
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Speaker 7: You know all that stuff. What is the Jordan love that?

570
00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:13,800
Speaker 5: You know, like, what's the side that maybe you see

571
00:25:13,840 --> 00:25:16,399
Speaker 5: all the time and you're like surprised that like media

572
00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:17,600
Speaker 5: like us are talking about him.

573
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Speaker 7: In this way.

574
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Speaker 10: I mean, he's definitely he's definitely the fun, energetic, laughing

575
00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:23,800
Speaker 10: He's definitely that guy.

576
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Speaker 8: That's what I see every day.

577
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Speaker 10: I Mean, he's the he's the quarterback of of you know,

578
00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:30,919
Speaker 10: an NFL football team. You know, I'd say, you know,

579
00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:33,399
Speaker 10: he's uh, you know, one of the best you know

580
00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:35,240
Speaker 10: in the league to do it. So I feel like

581
00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:36,920
Speaker 10: he's got to have that presence, you know when he's

582
00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:39,840
Speaker 10: talking to everybody, but you know, he's he's he's just

583
00:25:40,080 --> 00:25:41,320
Speaker 10: you know, one of the guys at the end of

584
00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:43,760
Speaker 10: the day. Uh, I mean he's got that you know,

585
00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:47,199
Speaker 10: that humor to him and uh, you know, he's just

586
00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:47,840
Speaker 10: one of the guys.

587
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Speaker 6: Does he is he aware of the Toyota Toyota than thing? Like,

588
00:25:51,480 --> 00:25:53,359
Speaker 6: are you guys aware of the Toyota thing?

589
00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:55,520
Speaker 1: Okay, he's making money.

590
00:25:55,560 --> 00:25:55,800
Speaker 4: Okay.

591
00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:57,720
Speaker 7: I was like, at least he's making money. I guess

592
00:25:57,720 --> 00:25:58,679
Speaker 7: it's good. I love that.

593
00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:02,080
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, because that's an I'm on unexplainable to mankind.

594
00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:03,280
Speaker 8: Yeah. Yeah, I don't know.

595
00:26:03,359 --> 00:26:04,919
Speaker 10: I don't know how it came to be or what.

596
00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:07,119
Speaker 10: But yeah, now he's definitely he definitely turns it up

597
00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:08,960
Speaker 10: the master. And that's why Yota for sure.

598
00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:12,880
Speaker 1: Last thing for you, what's it like playing in this division?

599
00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:15,040
Speaker 1: What's it been like, and what's it like, you know,

600
00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:18,080
Speaker 1: thinking about it moving forward? Because the Lion's basically got

601
00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:21,280
Speaker 1: in your way last season in twenty four. I mean,

602
00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:24,560
Speaker 1: it's a it's a loaded division. You guys have obviously

603
00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:26,959
Speaker 1: been been a consistent playoff team, but Lion's getting your

604
00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:29,120
Speaker 1: way and this year, you know in the end that

605
00:26:29,119 --> 00:26:32,480
Speaker 1: the Bears getting your way. When you play the Vikings,

606
00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:35,440
Speaker 1: you got to deal with Brian Flores and them. It's

607
00:26:35,560 --> 00:26:38,119
Speaker 1: just like kind of what's your what's your mindset of

608
00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:41,680
Speaker 1: these rivalries right now and then these different different teams

609
00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:43,800
Speaker 1: kind of stopping the Packers along the way.

610
00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:46,720
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, I mean it's definitely a tough, tough division,

611
00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:50,760
Speaker 10: a competitive division. But I mean I think that's you know, exactly,

612
00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:52,520
Speaker 10: you know, that's exactly what I want. You know, I

613
00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:55,040
Speaker 10: want it to be you know, those you know, competitive

614
00:26:55,119 --> 00:26:58,760
Speaker 10: chippy you know, the the energy and the vibe elevated

615
00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:00,800
Speaker 10: for those games. I feel like that, uh you know,

616
00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:03,240
Speaker 10: it just brings a different you know, and you spring,

617
00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:04,840
Speaker 10: the different energy to to those games.

618
00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:06,040
Speaker 8: Those are the type of games.

619
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Speaker 10: I want to play, and I want to play in those,

620
00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:08,719
Speaker 10: you know, big time chippy games.

621
00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:09,480
Speaker 5: Uh.

622
00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:11,240
Speaker 8: So, you know, I think, you know.

623
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Speaker 2: The games were awesome for the average fan just watching

624
00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:15,800
Speaker 2: that trilogy.

625
00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:18,679
Speaker 6: Yeah, no, dog in the fight like it was a gift.

626
00:27:18,920 --> 00:27:21,960
Speaker 10: Yeah, really so, I mean I enjoy it, But I

627
00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:23,359
Speaker 10: you know, at the end of the day, obviously, I

628
00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:25,159
Speaker 10: think that you know, the Packers are are still the

629
00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:27,040
Speaker 10: team to be in the division. I'm excited to see,

630
00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:29,600
Speaker 10: you know, how it you know plays out this next year.

631
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Speaker 7: I know we have to let you go, but really quick.

632
00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:34,160
Speaker 5: Like we love on the show too that like coaches

633
00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:37,080
Speaker 5: are now getting more showing more personality too, Like we

634
00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:40,560
Speaker 5: love real beef between coaches, Like we love all of.

635
00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:41,880
Speaker 7: That locker room.

636
00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:45,160
Speaker 5: Like what do you guys make of like Matt being

637
00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:47,160
Speaker 5: a little dry, like sarcastic, but like kind of coming

638
00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:50,719
Speaker 5: out and taking a stand I guess in the division

639
00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:52,040
Speaker 5: is like, hey, I'm I've been.

640
00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:55,400
Speaker 7: Here actually and you know I'm not going away.

641
00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:57,680
Speaker 5: And like kind of the the chippiness back and forth

642
00:27:57,720 --> 00:28:00,720
Speaker 5: between Bears and Packers in that regard, uh.

643
00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:01,800
Speaker 10: You know, I mean I feel like you got to

644
00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:03,320
Speaker 10: have a little bit of that. I mean I feel like,

645
00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:04,960
Speaker 10: you know, it starts, you know, from the from the

646
00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:07,040
Speaker 10: top down, and in terms of you know that that

647
00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:10,399
Speaker 10: rivalry and and that beef. You know, obviously there's a

648
00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:13,359
Speaker 10: you know, obviously a professional side to it too. You know,

649
00:28:13,359 --> 00:28:14,960
Speaker 10: you don't got to do too much of it. You know,

650
00:28:15,080 --> 00:28:16,720
Speaker 10: you got to you know, let your you know, play

651
00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:19,879
Speaker 10: do the talking as well. But I mean, yeah, no,

652
00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:21,800
Speaker 10: I you know, I love you know when we're not

653
00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:23,680
Speaker 10: when the coaches showed a little bit of personality and

654
00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:25,560
Speaker 10: you know, put that stuff out there. I feel like it.

655
00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:26,679
Speaker 10: It brings the vibes to.

656
00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:27,199
Speaker 8: The team too.

657
00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:30,159
Speaker 5: Yeah, we had Liam Cohen and we had him on

658
00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:32,600
Speaker 5: earlier too, and you know that was a highlight moment

659
00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:34,920
Speaker 5: I think for coaches anyway, and him and Robert Salid

660
00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:37,360
Speaker 5: kind of going going back and forth earlier this year,

661
00:28:37,359 --> 00:28:40,440
Speaker 5: so we we love the competition more.

662
00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:44,320
Speaker 1: Yes, it'll be happening in the NFC North. Great job,

663
00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:48,440
Speaker 1: Thank you, Christian Watson. Great season. Had like a I

664
00:28:48,520 --> 00:28:51,760
Speaker 1: do the big free agency list on NFL dot Com,

665
00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:53,240
Speaker 1: so I'm always scouting the future years.

666
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Speaker 4: It was.

667
00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:56,280
Speaker 1: It was a short term contract extension for Christian Watson

668
00:28:56,280 --> 00:28:59,680
Speaker 1: before this season, but but who knows, it's getting better

669
00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:03,160
Speaker 1: and better. I'm looking forward to to what's next for you,

670
00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:04,760
Speaker 1: and who knows, you might be on that list next

671
00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:07,880
Speaker 1: year or maybe packers are smart, they'll back up the

672
00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:10,760
Speaker 1: truck for you and you'll sign long term there.

673
00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:13,600
Speaker 2: Thanks again, Christian Watson. Appreciate you.

674
00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:15,520
Speaker 8: Yeah, thank you, I appreciate it. Thank you.

675
00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:20,479
Speaker 1: Welcoming in Adam Feelin to the show, who just wrapped

676
00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:23,480
Speaker 1: up an incredible thirteen year career.

677
00:29:23,520 --> 00:29:25,280
Speaker 2: I'm giving you credit for that. Practice squad.

678
00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:28,320
Speaker 4: Thank you. Everyone skips that, so I appreciate it here

679
00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:29,760
Speaker 4: we're on this I love it.

680
00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:35,000
Speaker 1: Twenty thirteen and one of the craziest NFL stories now

681
00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:37,960
Speaker 1: that it's over, because I don't think the average listener

682
00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:40,800
Speaker 1: or fan even remembers at this point, but like one

683
00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:44,240
Speaker 1: of the only tryout, like rookie tryout players I can

684
00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:48,240
Speaker 1: remember having like an extended, incredible career. So that's just

685
00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:50,920
Speaker 1: a long congratulations for wrapping it up, because it's a

686
00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:53,360
Speaker 1: really cool story for people that don't know part. You know,

687
00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:56,959
Speaker 1: had a rookie tryout, made the team D two college

688
00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:59,560
Speaker 1: and then and then has this great career obviously with

689
00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:01,840
Speaker 1: the Vikings and then wrapping up here with the Steelers.

690
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Speaker 2: So congratulations Adam.

691
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:05,480
Speaker 4: Oh, thank you. Yeah, it's wild to look back at it.

692
00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:05,720
Speaker 4: You know.

693
00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:07,760
Speaker 9: It's like when you're playing, you don't really give yourself

694
00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:10,360
Speaker 9: that ability to look back on things. You're kind of

695
00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:12,640
Speaker 9: just always going for the next thing, the next year.

696
00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:14,400
Speaker 9: You know, what do I need to do to get better?

697
00:30:14,440 --> 00:30:16,600
Speaker 9: So now just be able to take a deep breath

698
00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:19,600
Speaker 9: look back at everything. It's it's it's crazy, it's wild,

699
00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:23,280
Speaker 9: but very blessed and thankful for a crazy career.

700
00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:27,400
Speaker 5: This is perhaps a very invasive question. Okay, how are

701
00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:28,240
Speaker 5: you processing it?

702
00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:31,320
Speaker 4: Do you all long to have right now?

703
00:30:31,440 --> 00:30:31,840
Speaker 2: How long?

704
00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:35,840
Speaker 4: No, it's it's been awesome honestly, right now.

705
00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:37,720
Speaker 9: It doesn't feel any different because this is like a

706
00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:40,880
Speaker 9: normal offseason, right you get a little break from training

707
00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:43,600
Speaker 9: all those things. I will say that I've kind of

708
00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:46,560
Speaker 9: dove into the retirement life as far as I'm playing

709
00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:50,400
Speaker 9: pick up basketball at six am on Tuesday and Fridays

710
00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:55,800
Speaker 9: and not lifting very heavy. I did about a fifteen

711
00:30:55,800 --> 00:30:58,680
Speaker 9: to twenty minute leg workout this morning, which felt awesome

712
00:30:59,040 --> 00:31:00,960
Speaker 9: because I didn't have to worry about doing this like

713
00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:05,520
Speaker 9: long elaborate warm up and sprinting and training.

714
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Speaker 4: Uh So, I'm I'm diving right into that, which is

715
00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:08,640
Speaker 4: which is great.

716
00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:10,680
Speaker 5: I was a little worried when you said, start to

717
00:31:10,680 --> 00:31:12,959
Speaker 5: say pick up basketball. It's really worried you were going

718
00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:15,960
Speaker 5: to start to say pickleball, which won't we don't classify

719
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Speaker 5: as a sport on this show.

720
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Speaker 4: Okay, do you like pickleball? It's okay to like athletics sport.

721
00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:25,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, it just seems like, you know, go for like

722
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:28,640
Speaker 1: a sports sport, like there's an you know, tennis, you know,

723
00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:31,400
Speaker 1: just do it, go the whole way.

724
00:31:31,280 --> 00:31:33,720
Speaker 2: If you're gonna play, if you're gonna play a racket sport, I.

725
00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:36,400
Speaker 9: Will say that have you done individual like one on

726
00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:38,760
Speaker 9: one pickle ball, Like that's a serious workout.

727
00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:41,520
Speaker 7: You know the answer to that question, Yeah, he has

728
00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:44,280
Speaker 7: not done it. Based on his answer, true, true.

729
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:46,480
Speaker 9: True, Maybe it's a great sport watch out, though you

730
00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:47,280
Speaker 9: will get addicted.

731
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Speaker 1: I will not get addicted, and I will not let

732
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Speaker 1: my my family play it either.

733
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Speaker 5: No.

734
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Speaker 1: I always think about like when I watch receivers who

735
00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:00,760
Speaker 1: win in different sorts of ways and under stand the

736
00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:03,480
Speaker 1: subtleties of the position and get better throughout the course

737
00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:06,120
Speaker 1: of their career, like who they learned from, and you've

738
00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:09,280
Speaker 1: played with and played for like such a variety of

739
00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:11,959
Speaker 1: different coaches. You obviously spent that time in Carolina too,

740
00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:14,920
Speaker 1: which I didn't mention off the top. I'm I'm curious

741
00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:21,000
Speaker 1: of any of the players or coaches who you looked

742
00:32:21,040 --> 00:32:22,840
Speaker 1: up to who taught you the most about kind of

743
00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:24,400
Speaker 1: learning learning the positions.

744
00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:27,560
Speaker 9: Unfortunately, I'm gonna give you a very politically correct answer

745
00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:30,520
Speaker 9: because it's it is true, but it sounds kind of crazy.

746
00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:36,080
Speaker 9: But honestly, it was like such a there's so many

747
00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:39,440
Speaker 9: people that kind of influenced my abilities to play receiver.

748
00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:42,160
Speaker 9: And I go back to high school, like coaches in

749
00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:44,240
Speaker 9: high school, I remember like so many things that I

750
00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:47,680
Speaker 9: remember them kind of like preaching like I used in.

751
00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:48,480
Speaker 4: My NFL career.

752
00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:51,120
Speaker 9: Like my my head coach in high school was like,

753
00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:53,440
Speaker 9: you will not play if you can't block. Like I

754
00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:56,240
Speaker 9: remember like being a sophomore and like thinking I was

755
00:32:56,240 --> 00:32:58,960
Speaker 9: pretty cool because I made the varsity team and making

756
00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:01,560
Speaker 9: all these coool catches and practice and and I remember

757
00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:04,040
Speaker 9: him like getting after me because like I wasn't blocking

758
00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:06,680
Speaker 9: and uh, and he was like, you won't play if

759
00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:08,480
Speaker 9: you can't block, And that kind of stuck with me

760
00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:12,360
Speaker 9: my whole career into the NFL. I remember my college

761
00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:14,400
Speaker 9: coach like some of the drills that we would do

762
00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:17,600
Speaker 9: really helped me in my NFL career as far as

763
00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:20,600
Speaker 9: the top of the route stuff. And then there's so

764
00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:22,960
Speaker 9: many players right that I watched growing up, Chris Carter,

765
00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:25,240
Speaker 9: Randy Moss, guys that I watched when I was in

766
00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:29,480
Speaker 9: college that that we're having tons of success, Julio Jones

767
00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:32,880
Speaker 9: and and Kelvin Johnson. And then when I got to

768
00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:35,480
Speaker 9: the league, you know, Greg Jennings was there with the

769
00:33:35,520 --> 00:33:37,520
Speaker 9: Vikings and just kind of learning his process. You know,

770
00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:40,000
Speaker 9: he was an older player at the time, but just

771
00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:42,240
Speaker 9: being able to pick his brain a little bit. Jerious Wright,

772
00:33:42,280 --> 00:33:46,160
Speaker 9: who was kind of this slot receiver that was just

773
00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:48,160
Speaker 9: like mister Clutch.

774
00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:50,840
Speaker 4: And no one really knew how valuable he.

775
00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:53,640
Speaker 9: Was to the team, but learned a ton from him.

776
00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:57,000
Speaker 9: And then just guys that I played with Diggs just

777
00:33:57,000 --> 00:33:59,920
Speaker 9: just watching him and how he ran routes, how he

778
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:03,320
Speaker 9: caught the football and his aggressiveness run after the catch,

779
00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:07,320
Speaker 9: Guys that were on other teams, like Davante Adams watching

780
00:34:07,360 --> 00:34:09,880
Speaker 9: his releases. So it's a really long winded answer. So

781
00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:12,160
Speaker 9: I'm sorry, but.

782
00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:12,839
Speaker 7: We're a very long winded show.

783
00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:17,080
Speaker 9: I liked it, but I really did take so much

784
00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:20,239
Speaker 9: of everyone's game. And then really cool was when Justin

785
00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:23,600
Speaker 9: came in and he just kind of provided this really

786
00:34:23,680 --> 00:34:27,359
Speaker 9: unique new style of playing receiver that I hadn't really

787
00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:29,759
Speaker 9: seen in person, and so I really pulled a lot

788
00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:32,080
Speaker 9: of things from his game and used it, tried to

789
00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:34,560
Speaker 9: use it, not as good as him, but tried to

790
00:34:34,640 --> 00:34:37,080
Speaker 9: use it in my game, which which again that's the

791
00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:37,919
Speaker 9: beauty of this game.

792
00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:41,480
Speaker 4: It's so fun to see the different styles, the different.

793
00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:44,880
Speaker 9: Types of competitors and you're playing the same position, you're

794
00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:47,000
Speaker 9: running the same routes, but everybody has a little bit

795
00:34:47,040 --> 00:34:50,480
Speaker 9: of a unique way to do it. And I will

796
00:34:50,520 --> 00:34:53,600
Speaker 9: say everybody had the same thing in common, and I

797
00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:57,359
Speaker 9: feel like it's something that's lost in translation of how

798
00:34:57,400 --> 00:34:59,600
Speaker 9: to play receiver high level, and that's playing with speed.

799
00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:01,640
Speaker 4: Is a lot of times people want to be like.

800
00:35:01,680 --> 00:35:04,560
Speaker 9: Oh, he's good in zones or he's really crafty, but like,

801
00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:07,080
Speaker 9: you can't be crafty in the NFL, like you have

802
00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:09,880
Speaker 9: to be you have to play with speed and explosiveness

803
00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:11,359
Speaker 9: and you have to be able to stop on a dime.

804
00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:13,359
Speaker 9: If you can do those things and you can catch

805
00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:15,360
Speaker 9: the football and have body control, you'll probably be a

806
00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:16,080
Speaker 9: pretty good receiver.

807
00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:17,880
Speaker 7: What I I love all of that.

808
00:35:18,120 --> 00:35:21,200
Speaker 5: But what you also were able to do and to

809
00:35:21,239 --> 00:35:23,960
Speaker 5: have the tenure that you had, was to really understand

810
00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:25,520
Speaker 5: where to attack defenses.

811
00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:28,359
Speaker 7: To do that, you had to really understand.

812
00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:30,400
Speaker 6: The evolution, de evolution and re evolution.

813
00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:33,359
Speaker 5: Of defenses as they reacted to offenses over time.

814
00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:36,520
Speaker 6: What did you study, who did you watch?

815
00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:41,120
Speaker 5: What tape provided usefulness to you in terms of understanding

816
00:35:41,160 --> 00:35:44,880
Speaker 5: like the little nuances and shifts of how especially you know,

817
00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:47,200
Speaker 5: passing defense was going to try to attack you.

818
00:35:47,560 --> 00:35:48,120
Speaker 4: That's crazy.

819
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Speaker 9: As you're saying that, I'm like thinking, like I almost

820
00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:52,920
Speaker 9: started to laugh because it's like the difference from when

821
00:35:52,920 --> 00:35:55,200
Speaker 9: I first came into the NFL to now and how

822
00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:58,879
Speaker 9: defenses are attacking and playing. It's almost like comical because

823
00:35:58,920 --> 00:36:01,120
Speaker 9: it's like a whole different game, you know. They like

824
00:36:01,239 --> 00:36:04,400
Speaker 9: every coach has like influenced the game in some way,

825
00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:08,920
Speaker 9: and and then and then the ones that have success

826
00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:11,160
Speaker 9: people try to mimic it right and they're like, oh, Okay,

827
00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:12,000
Speaker 9: that's really good.

828
00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:13,640
Speaker 4: I never thought of that. I'm gonna use that.

829
00:36:13,920 --> 00:36:15,680
Speaker 9: And then offenses started to pick it up, and then

830
00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:18,200
Speaker 9: they have to do something new and unique. And so

831
00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:20,520
Speaker 9: I think about just like when I first came in

832
00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:22,880
Speaker 9: the league, like there wasn't a lot of like Cover

833
00:36:23,040 --> 00:36:27,080
Speaker 9: zero all blitzes. You know, it's more like either you're

834
00:36:27,120 --> 00:36:29,239
Speaker 9: playing man or you're playing like Cover two with two

835
00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:32,000
Speaker 9: high safeties and and a lot of quarters coverage in

836
00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:34,680
Speaker 9: first and second down because you could protect the run

837
00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:38,680
Speaker 9: and the past. And then now it's just like, how

838
00:36:38,719 --> 00:36:42,080
Speaker 9: can we make Cover two look like Cover zero? And

839
00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:45,160
Speaker 9: you start in Cover zero and everybody just bails out

840
00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:48,520
Speaker 9: into this like cover two coverage, and they try to

841
00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:51,680
Speaker 9: make you throw hot when you really can't and play

842
00:36:51,719 --> 00:36:52,919
Speaker 9: this like cat and mouse game.

843
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:54,880
Speaker 4: So it has changed a lot for me.

844
00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:57,960
Speaker 9: Thankfully in my career, I didn't really have to worry

845
00:36:57,960 --> 00:37:00,200
Speaker 9: about that because they told me what to do, like

846
00:37:00,239 --> 00:37:01,600
Speaker 9: I gotta run a slant run. I gotta run a

847
00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:03,480
Speaker 9: slant route. There there's not really much you can do.

848
00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:07,040
Speaker 9: So really what I would study is, Okay, what are

849
00:37:07,040 --> 00:37:09,640
Speaker 9: they teaching technique wise to these corners, So like we're

850
00:37:09,640 --> 00:37:10,799
Speaker 9: playing the Bears.

851
00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:12,680
Speaker 4: How do they teach them? Are they soft shoe guys?

852
00:37:12,719 --> 00:37:14,919
Speaker 9: Are they backpedaling kind of at the snap when they're

853
00:37:14,920 --> 00:37:16,920
Speaker 9: press coverage? Are they quick jam? Are they going to

854
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:18,440
Speaker 9: put one hand on you? Are they going to put

855
00:37:18,440 --> 00:37:20,440
Speaker 9: both hands on you? And then once you kind of

856
00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:23,160
Speaker 9: feel that, it's like, all right, my studying.

857
00:37:22,640 --> 00:37:24,600
Speaker 4: Is kind of done. Now I just have to kind

858
00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:26,879
Speaker 4: of run the route that's called and adjust on the fly.

859
00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:31,760
Speaker 5: To that point, this might be maybe a very rudimentary question,

860
00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:34,920
Speaker 5: but sometimes we hear defensive coaches talk about changing their

861
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:37,560
Speaker 5: zoning rules and the depth of their drops and all

862
00:37:37,560 --> 00:37:38,880
Speaker 5: of those types of things to.

863
00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:39,960
Speaker 7: Mess up receivers.

864
00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:44,160
Speaker 5: Who really are trying to gain a leverage advantage based

865
00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:46,040
Speaker 5: on all of those little techniques and traits that they

866
00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:47,640
Speaker 5: know that their corners are playing with.

867
00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:49,720
Speaker 6: Is that Are we there yet?

868
00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:53,920
Speaker 5: Because you hear you know, you see coaches the Salas

869
00:37:54,160 --> 00:37:56,799
Speaker 5: and Flores certainly, but you see like some of these

870
00:37:56,840 --> 00:37:59,960
Speaker 5: really top tier defensive coaches like take what they think,

871
00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:02,880
Speaker 5: what they know the offense knows about their rules, and

872
00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:04,200
Speaker 5: then f with them a little bit.

873
00:38:04,800 --> 00:38:06,760
Speaker 6: Are we there yet across the league?

874
00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:09,319
Speaker 7: Do you think? Or are we sort of like scratching the surface.

875
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:10,160
Speaker 4: Of all of that. No, that's good.

876
00:38:10,239 --> 00:38:14,400
Speaker 9: I think it's interesting because every week you're like, Okay,

877
00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:17,200
Speaker 9: this team is in this family, this is the type

878
00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:19,040
Speaker 9: of defense they play, and you're like, this is how

879
00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:21,480
Speaker 9: people attack them. Well, the funny thing is that on

880
00:38:21,520 --> 00:38:24,080
Speaker 9: the flip side, they know how teams are going to

881
00:38:24,160 --> 00:38:27,520
Speaker 9: attack them, and so the more simple the defense, the

882
00:38:27,560 --> 00:38:29,840
Speaker 9: more the easier it is for them to know exactly

883
00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:32,359
Speaker 9: how teams are gonna attack them, like the old like

884
00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:36,800
Speaker 9: Seattle cover three, lean the safety the other way, carry

885
00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:41,359
Speaker 9: the other side, like like they knew the attackers right,

886
00:38:41,440 --> 00:38:43,839
Speaker 9: so like they that's all they practice is the how

887
00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:45,680
Speaker 9: are they attacked? But then like you go into this

888
00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:48,279
Speaker 9: offensive meeting and you're like, oh, like we're gonna kill

889
00:38:48,320 --> 00:38:50,239
Speaker 9: these guys, Like this is easy. Like all you do

890
00:38:50,360 --> 00:38:52,600
Speaker 9: is is, you know, set a guy down here and

891
00:38:52,680 --> 00:38:55,640
Speaker 9: throw it over the top, like it's pretty easy. But again,

892
00:38:55,680 --> 00:38:57,560
Speaker 9: like they practice that, so it's again it's this cat

893
00:38:57,600 --> 00:39:00,560
Speaker 9: and mouse game of like okay, like they might know this,

894
00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:04,239
Speaker 9: but we're gonna do this. And I think the offenses

895
00:39:04,280 --> 00:39:06,640
Speaker 9: that just like maybe kind of throw that out the

896
00:39:06,680 --> 00:39:08,719
Speaker 9: window and just like all right, we're just gonna be

897
00:39:08,760 --> 00:39:11,400
Speaker 9: really balanced with our approach and then we're gonna run

898
00:39:11,440 --> 00:39:13,359
Speaker 9: the ball. We're gonna have play action, we're gonna have keepers,

899
00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:15,600
Speaker 9: we're gonna have quick hitters, we're gonna have down the

900
00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:18,200
Speaker 9: field shots when we know that it's a certain coverage.

901
00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:20,080
Speaker 4: You know, we got a quarters coverage and we know

902
00:39:20,160 --> 00:39:22,520
Speaker 4: that they're gonna play it on this down. I think

903
00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:23,280
Speaker 4: those are the offense.

904
00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:26,480
Speaker 9: And I think honestly that's Seattle like in Clint Kubiak,

905
00:39:26,560 --> 00:39:29,600
Speaker 9: Clayton clay was my oc Like that's the Kubiak way

906
00:39:29,719 --> 00:39:32,399
Speaker 9: is like we are going to be uh, We're gonna

907
00:39:32,440 --> 00:39:34,880
Speaker 9: attack in all the different phases of the game and

908
00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:37,560
Speaker 9: keep it really simple for us and complex.

909
00:39:37,160 --> 00:39:39,360
Speaker 4: For the defense. But when you charge to play this

910
00:39:39,440 --> 00:39:40,520
Speaker 4: cat and mouse game in.

911
00:39:40,440 --> 00:39:44,439
Speaker 9: Like perfect play versus perfect defense, I think it gets tough.

912
00:39:44,880 --> 00:39:47,880
Speaker 2: I am. I heard you say cat and mouse game.

913
00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:49,719
Speaker 1: There, and I immediately thought of the quarterback you just

914
00:39:49,719 --> 00:39:52,000
Speaker 1: played with, Aaron Rodgers, who just loves to play like

915
00:39:52,040 --> 00:39:55,400
Speaker 1: I got cat and mouse with with his opponents. You

916
00:39:56,080 --> 00:39:59,280
Speaker 1: were just there with him, and that there were great

917
00:39:59,320 --> 00:40:01,680
Speaker 1: moments towards the end of the season. I thought, like

918
00:40:01,719 --> 00:40:04,080
Speaker 1: he played his best ball of the year with the Steelers,

919
00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:04,840
Speaker 1: that there.

920
00:40:04,680 --> 00:40:06,200
Speaker 2: Were rough moments.

921
00:40:06,640 --> 00:40:10,040
Speaker 1: If you were trying to convince a doubter, maybe like myself,

922
00:40:10,200 --> 00:40:13,600
Speaker 1: who looks at kind of the breadth of the entire season,

923
00:40:13,800 --> 00:40:16,280
Speaker 1: just like numbers like success rate and how that offense

924
00:40:16,840 --> 00:40:21,440
Speaker 1: was moving, and thinking about the future in Pittsburgh, maybe

925
00:40:21,480 --> 00:40:24,120
Speaker 1: you wouldn't try to convince me, but that like that

926
00:40:24,200 --> 00:40:27,359
Speaker 1: he would still make sense as a starting quarterback for

927
00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:29,759
Speaker 1: that team in the future, Like why would that be?

928
00:40:30,239 --> 00:40:30,319
Speaker 6: So?

929
00:40:30,560 --> 00:40:32,440
Speaker 9: Okay, I'm gonna start this in a weird way to

930
00:40:32,440 --> 00:40:34,760
Speaker 9: answer this question, but I'll come back, I will, I promise.

931
00:40:35,120 --> 00:40:38,439
Speaker 9: But okay, first of all, quarterbacks, right, they get all

932
00:40:38,560 --> 00:40:41,480
Speaker 9: the heat, Yeah, all the blame, and they get all

933
00:40:41,520 --> 00:40:44,000
Speaker 9: the praise, right, like, if you're good, if your team's good,

934
00:40:44,080 --> 00:40:47,960
Speaker 9: like best quarterback ever, he's MVP, Candid, all these things,

935
00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:50,799
Speaker 9: and if your team's not winning or your offense playing well,

936
00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:52,120
Speaker 9: it's all the quarterbacks terrible.

937
00:40:52,120 --> 00:40:54,600
Speaker 4: He can't do anymore. He's getting to all these things.

938
00:40:54,960 --> 00:40:58,399
Speaker 9: And granted, they get paid really well, so it's still

939
00:40:58,400 --> 00:41:00,480
Speaker 9: a good job to have, right They get paid paid

940
00:41:00,560 --> 00:41:02,279
Speaker 9: very well compared to everyone else in the league.

941
00:41:02,920 --> 00:41:05,799
Speaker 4: But it's just kind of just that's just kind of

942
00:41:05,800 --> 00:41:06,279
Speaker 4: how it is.

943
00:41:06,719 --> 00:41:08,400
Speaker 9: And I say that all to say that there's so

944
00:41:08,640 --> 00:41:11,600
Speaker 9: many factors that lead into individual success in THEFL and

945
00:41:11,600 --> 00:41:13,120
Speaker 9: that's why we love it. It's the greatest team game

946
00:41:13,120 --> 00:41:17,520
Speaker 9: there is because it takes eleven guys on every individual

947
00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:18,760
Speaker 9: play to have success.

948
00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:19,600
Speaker 4: They have to do their job.

949
00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:22,480
Speaker 9: If one guy doesn't do his job, the quarterback can't

950
00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:25,600
Speaker 9: throw the balls getting hit. And so I think there

951
00:41:25,640 --> 00:41:28,360
Speaker 9: was so many of those times in my time in

952
00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:31,520
Speaker 9: Pittsburgh that just one guy and sometimes it was me, right,

953
00:41:31,640 --> 00:41:33,840
Speaker 9: one guy wasn't doing his job and didn't do his

954
00:41:33,920 --> 00:41:37,279
Speaker 9: job well enough, and it made maybe the quarterback look bad,

955
00:41:37,680 --> 00:41:40,520
Speaker 9: or the offensive coordinator look bad, or maybe the running

956
00:41:40,560 --> 00:41:43,120
Speaker 9: back look bad, right, so so, and again that's why

957
00:41:43,120 --> 00:41:45,080
Speaker 9: I love this game. It's so fun to be around

958
00:41:45,120 --> 00:41:49,279
Speaker 9: because it's you could have all the playmakers, you could

959
00:41:49,320 --> 00:41:51,440
Speaker 9: have all the guys on paper that it should have

960
00:41:51,520 --> 00:41:54,719
Speaker 9: an explosive offense. You got this quarterback as a Hall

961
00:41:54,760 --> 00:41:57,360
Speaker 9: of Famer, and you're still gonna have games where you

962
00:41:57,400 --> 00:42:00,440
Speaker 9: just don't move the ball. And that's why, like every

963
00:42:00,480 --> 00:42:03,600
Speaker 9: game is so interesting to see what happens. But again,

964
00:42:03,880 --> 00:42:04,960
Speaker 9: I told you I was gonna have a long winter

965
00:42:05,080 --> 00:42:07,120
Speaker 9: question or answer and it was gonna come back around.

966
00:42:07,160 --> 00:42:09,040
Speaker 9: And I say that, I'll to say that he can

967
00:42:09,080 --> 00:42:13,520
Speaker 9: still do it. His process is unbelievable. And to see

968
00:42:13,520 --> 00:42:17,000
Speaker 9: some of the throws he made in practice and him

969
00:42:17,040 --> 00:42:19,279
Speaker 9: to do it day in and day out, like he

970
00:42:19,480 --> 00:42:22,239
Speaker 9: was out there competing on Wednesdays.

971
00:42:22,160 --> 00:42:26,279
Speaker 4: And like it just like when you're on a when

972
00:42:26,320 --> 00:42:27,040
Speaker 4: you're in.

973
00:42:27,239 --> 00:42:29,520
Speaker 9: A huddle with a guy like that that is out

974
00:42:29,560 --> 00:42:32,279
Speaker 9: there given everything he's got every single day. He has

975
00:42:32,320 --> 00:42:34,560
Speaker 9: this process. He's got us over there watching film on

976
00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:38,400
Speaker 9: Tuesday nights. He's talking ball. He's explaining ball on Wednesdays

977
00:42:38,440 --> 00:42:41,400
Speaker 9: and Thursdays to all the young guys of Hey, you

978
00:42:41,440 --> 00:42:43,120
Speaker 9: know who's the O line blocking here talking to the

979
00:42:43,200 --> 00:42:46,440
Speaker 9: running back, so they understand, Okay, this is the blocking scheme,

980
00:42:46,480 --> 00:42:48,520
Speaker 9: so this is how I cut off of it. There's

981
00:42:48,520 --> 00:42:49,960
Speaker 9: not a lot of that in the NFL. There's so

982
00:42:50,080 --> 00:42:51,960
Speaker 9: much going on that you don't get to really teach football.

983
00:42:51,960 --> 00:42:53,719
Speaker 9: And he's doing that, he's taking the time to do that.

984
00:42:54,480 --> 00:42:55,880
Speaker 9: He can still do it, and he can still do

985
00:42:55,920 --> 00:42:58,360
Speaker 9: it at a high level. He just needs some pieces around

986
00:42:58,400 --> 00:43:01,080
Speaker 9: him that you know that they can kind of all

987
00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:01,680
Speaker 9: do it together.

988
00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:04,360
Speaker 1: See that practice, that prep stuff. That's something there's no

989
00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:05,120
Speaker 1: way I can know.

990
00:43:05,160 --> 00:43:05,560
Speaker 2: That's why.

991
00:43:05,640 --> 00:43:07,280
Speaker 1: That's why I wanted to ask and get the answer

992
00:43:07,840 --> 00:43:10,840
Speaker 1: and really great perspective, not long winded, but we do

993
00:43:10,960 --> 00:43:13,680
Speaker 1: have to get to another guest. So I really appreciate

994
00:43:14,080 --> 00:43:16,839
Speaker 1: Adam feeling your time and good luck.

995
00:43:17,160 --> 00:43:24,000
Speaker 4: I appreciate it. Thank you, Adam,