Speaker 1: How would you evaluate when you played the shot? I
Speaker 1: thought it was okay. You know, it definitely wasn't where
Speaker 1: it needs to be. UM, for sure. You know we
Speaker 1: were ultimately we were seven at nine, you know, And
Speaker 1: that's what it all boils down to. UM. I thought
Speaker 1: I learned a lot, you know, I thought I grew
Speaker 1: us as far as mentally and physically on the field. UM,
Speaker 1: definitely nowhere near where I want to be, UM and
Speaker 1: where I think we can be as a team. UM,
Speaker 1: But I thought we did some good things at times too.
Speaker 1: We take some time to kind of reflect. I know,
Speaker 1: we kind of got thrown into the fire a week
Speaker 1: before the season as a starter, you know, UM, and
Speaker 1: it probably never really stopped until media now. I mean,
Speaker 1: what takes some time to kind of think about what happened.
Speaker 1: And Yeah, with my time off that I take just
Speaker 1: for for mentally and physically, I definitely need to reflect.
Speaker 1: You know, it's just a year ago this time my
Speaker 1: life was crazy different, you know, and how many things
Speaker 1: have changed and what all just transpired in terms of
Speaker 1: this season. UM, definitely needed take some time to reflect
Speaker 1: and UM kind of just sit back and look at
Speaker 1: all the crazy things that have happened, um in my life.
Speaker 1: Some of your fellow rookies earlier today said, did it
Speaker 1: felt like a long season, but it went fast? And
Speaker 1: they some admitted that there was a point this season
Speaker 1: where they felt like it really you know, hit them.
Speaker 1: I guess kind of the wall type of thing. Did
Speaker 1: you at any point feel that and have to overcome
Speaker 1: that's not really honestly, Um, I did feel it was
Speaker 1: long season, but like like they said, I did feel
Speaker 1: it went very fast. It was kind of crazy. Um
Speaker 1: that it's over now, you know. Um. But I never
Speaker 1: really experienced that wall. As a matter of fact. Later
Speaker 1: in the year that it got I was finally getting
Speaker 1: in the swing of things, finally getting used to that routine. Um,
Speaker 1: And so I never really felt that too too much
Speaker 1: at all. So I'm thankful for that. Jordan said that
Speaker 1: maybe they'll move the wide receiver quorderback get together in
Speaker 1: San Diego to a nice cabinet far the you guys.
Speaker 1: He wants to go to Northdakota real bad. I might.
Speaker 1: I told him I could take you right now, but
Speaker 1: you might not. Everyone to come back. It's pretty cold.
Speaker 1: But he wants to go up there. So we'll see
Speaker 1: what we do with in the offseason, but UM, totally fun.
Speaker 1: Whatever we do, we gotta get together and do something.
Speaker 1: Of course, and you look around the league, most top
Speaker 1: quarterbacks have like a novel one definitive receiver. You guys
Speaker 1: kind of lack that this year. Do you want to
Speaker 1: build something there? And do you need that? I mean,
Speaker 1: is that something that UM top quarterback generally needs at
Speaker 1: some point? You know, that's hard to say, you know.
Speaker 1: I thought we did a good job of spreading the
Speaker 1: ball around. You know, I think that was kind of
Speaker 1: part of the game plan going into the season. UM
Speaker 1: we had a number of weapons, you know, that could
Speaker 1: get the job done, so I wis looked for mismatches.
Speaker 1: You know, that was the biggest thing from from Jordan
Speaker 1: Matthews when he was in the slot to Earth's on
Speaker 1: on safeties and linebackers. Sprowles always creates mismatches outside UM
Speaker 1: with Nelson and DGB and some of the younger guys
Speaker 1: stepping up. I thought we did a good job of
Speaker 1: spreading the ball around, for sure, but it is a
Speaker 1: good recollable. Quick have a guy that you don't need
Speaker 1: to create mismatches, He's always going to be a mismatch.
Speaker 1: Because he's so good. I mean, that's always that's always helpful.
Speaker 1: But um, at the end of the day, you know,
Speaker 1: we we were very confident in the guys we've had.
Speaker 1: Nonetheless over the past few months. What sense have you
Speaker 1: gotten about the role that you play within this organization
Speaker 1: and in this city? UM? I mean I try and
Speaker 1: block out a lot of that stuff, honestly, Like I
Speaker 1: understand the significance of the position on the quarterback UM
Speaker 1: in the NFL and especially in this city. UM, I
Speaker 1: get it. You know, I'm very aware, but UM, I
Speaker 1: try to not let that pressure or any of those
Speaker 1: other things really affected all handled things. UM. But at
Speaker 1: the same time, I'm very aware of what's going Is
Speaker 1: it as you expected though when you came in, or
Speaker 1: is it is it even even more so than what
Speaker 1: he thought? It's probably what I expected, you know, It's
Speaker 1: what I expected. UM, But it's pretty cool. You know.
Speaker 1: I embraced that that opportunity, and I'm very fortunate to
Speaker 1: be in the question, what was the toughest thing you've
Speaker 1: had to adjust to playing football in the NFL? UM,
Speaker 1: I'd probably just say the speed of the game, you know,
Speaker 1: I think for for every rookie coming up. Um, every
Speaker 1: single opponent every single week, can can fly around, can
Speaker 1: make plays, um can beat you, you know. Um. And
Speaker 1: I think just the speed of the game. I thought
Speaker 1: I adjusted to it fairly quickly, but I think that
Speaker 1: was one of the biggest things. Um. No matter where
Speaker 1: you come from, everything is just faster, everything about Like
Speaker 1: for you this morning, having come from a past of winning,
Speaker 1: to be packing up and know that other teams are
Speaker 1: not Yeah, not a good one, you know, not a
Speaker 1: good one. You know. Yeah we won last night and
Speaker 1: that was cool, but um, it was weird last night
Speaker 1: and this morning coming in like, we're not gonna be
Speaker 1: back here that same team, that same locker room will
Speaker 1: never be the same, you know. And it's kind of
Speaker 1: a crappy feeling. Um, but we're gonna use that now,
Speaker 1: you know. I'm gonna I know, I'm gonna personally use that.
Speaker 1: I never want to have that feeling again. I don't
Speaker 1: want to be playing into January. Um, for the rest
Speaker 1: of my career, God willing, you know. And um, what
Speaker 1: do you see what happens? What we're talking a party,
Speaker 1: the urge to pick up a football for what we
Speaker 1: do to quit that ar man hard to say actually
Speaker 1: obviously probably go go hunting and just hang out. Um,
Speaker 1: nothing real crazy. Um yeah, I don't know. If you're
Speaker 1: not a beach guy, you wouldn't go with Trump to ball.
Speaker 1: I don't know. We'll see, we'll see, we'll see what
Speaker 1: we're talking some parting words to you, instructions almost and
Speaker 1: what he wants to see you improve upon. Um, we
Speaker 1: didn't really go really in depth. You know, we kind
Speaker 1: of just talked more about overall, you know, as as
Speaker 1: a team. Um, I think we can all get better.
Speaker 1: You know, I think we all need to be better. Um,
Speaker 1: in situations. You know, I think there's a lot of
Speaker 1: you know, I thought we were really good football team
Speaker 1: between the twenties. You know, I think we could do
Speaker 1: some good things. But situationally, I think we all just
Speaker 1: need to be better, myself included. Um, And we just
Speaker 1: kind of discussed some some different things. And um, yeah,
Speaker 1: nothing really in depth as hard as person, what's not
Speaker 1: the same play caller or other than the season as
Speaker 1: he was later or that kind of progresses. Maybe you
Speaker 1: got more comfortable in the offense, It started to get
Speaker 1: more comfortable with each other. Yeah, I thought it was similar.
Speaker 1: You know, I thought this play calling in his approach
Speaker 1: was was very similar. One thing I was appreciated with
Speaker 1: with coach Peterson was like he valued my input, you know,
Speaker 1: even for as a rookie. He valued, you know what,
Speaker 1: my opinion on things. And um, I thought that was awesome.
Speaker 1: You know, I thought that was awesome for me. Um
Speaker 1: And you know, I thought he did a good job.
Speaker 1: Was there one game and in particular where you kind
Speaker 1: of felt like everything it's slow down for you and
Speaker 1: you kind of like, you know, I really get this now. Um,
Speaker 1: I don't really think there's one specific game. Um. I
Speaker 1: thought just as the season went on and just every
Speaker 1: every game kind of just you know, whether whether I
Speaker 1: was out there playing well or not. I just thought
Speaker 1: mentally it was starting to click more and more, and
Speaker 1: some teams do more, you know, some teams do do
Speaker 1: a lot more and present any different looks and make
Speaker 1: things complicated. But um, I thought it was kind of
Speaker 1: just every single game, and I was just if things
Speaker 1: are slowing down a little bit more of a gradual process.
Speaker 1: And the way the way you saw it, boy, I
Speaker 1: don't know, I don't know how to go back in
Speaker 1: in review that stuff. Um, yeah, I don't know. Was
Speaker 1: there another Was there another team or for quarterback that
Speaker 1: you looked at the course of the year and said,
Speaker 1: I admire the way they're doing things and you want
Speaker 1: to emulate. UM. You know there's a couple of guys,
Speaker 1: you know, whether we played him or some him on
Speaker 1: TV or whatever. UM, you see guys playing a high
Speaker 1: level and you respect that. You know, I see we
Speaker 1: got see Aaron Rodgers running in football the first hand.
Speaker 1: You know what unfortunately was against us. But UM, just
Speaker 1: the way he controls things, and you know the temple
Speaker 1: he plays with. UM, A lot of respect for him
Speaker 1: and what he does. UM. Guy like Big Ben obviously
Speaker 1: he struggled when he was here, but a lot of
Speaker 1: respect for what he does. Russell Wilson, we were there
Speaker 1: when we were there playing them. UM, gott see all
Speaker 1: those as. I could go on and on with the
Speaker 1: list of names, but UM, slot respect for some of
Speaker 1: those soci I'm sorry. Is there a specific something mechanically
Speaker 1: that you want to work on in the office, anything
Speaker 1: you think is important for you to UM, well, for stars,
Speaker 1: I don't want to think about that right now. I'm
Speaker 1: taking Once I start taking thing about that, then I'm
Speaker 1: gonna have to really fight there, just pick up the ball. Um.
Speaker 1: But uh, yeah, you know, I just you got to
Speaker 1: continue to front, continually refine your mechanics. Um. I don't
Speaker 1: think there's anything one big glaring thing, but just got
Speaker 1: to be consistent with will you will you seek out
Speaker 1: like a Tomhouse type of person to work with you.
Speaker 1: It's definitely in consideration. Yeah, we're working through some of
Speaker 1: those things. And again I don't have a lot of
Speaker 1: answers from yet because I haven't had a ton of
Speaker 1: time to think about it. But I could see that
Speaker 1: happening in college and you had a specific type of
Speaker 1: off season routine as far as what you do. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: we always have. That's the nature of college football. You're
Speaker 1: strength and conditioning coordinator is running the show pretty much then,
Speaker 1: so it's always been very detailed and laid out. So
Speaker 1: this season, this offseason will be a little different when
Speaker 1: you try to maybe incorporate some of the things he's done,
Speaker 1: without a doubt, Without a doubt, ya, when you see
Speaker 1: the success that the Dak had with the Cowboys, you
Speaker 1: syear is that how do you react to that as
Speaker 1: a competitor or you just look at the situation he's
Speaker 1: in and take it for what it is. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I try not to compare apples tapples in that regard.
Speaker 1: You know. Yeah, he's a rookie quarterback, which he's done
Speaker 1: some some really good thanks for them, you know, and
Speaker 1: that's a good team or a good football team. Um
Speaker 1: So again I try not to compare apples tapples. Um.
Speaker 1: I know, in the long run, it'll be fun. It'll
Speaker 1: be fun to play against those guys twice a year,
Speaker 1: um for hopefully long time.