Speaker 1: I didn't found out to this morning. I went to sleep,
Speaker 1: and uh, when I woke up, obvious, I was like
Speaker 1: what for real, Like no way, you know. Then you know,
Speaker 1: I got to work, and then you know, a couple
Speaker 1: of guys maybe it talked about it. So I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously I was kind of extremely shocked. You know. I
Speaker 1: think even if you looked at the last couple of speeches, um,
Speaker 1: Trump's kind of narrative was a lot of nostalgia, obviously
Speaker 1: talking about the things he had accomplished, leaping up to it,
Speaker 1: and then but it was still kind of like if
Speaker 1: I don't win, it's rigged. So he was already coming
Speaker 1: up with a plan. Was like it was not rigged now,
Speaker 1: I guess, you know, so that's kind of funny to me.
Speaker 1: And then obviously Hillary had already moved on to things
Speaker 1: that she was planning on doing, you know, post winning
Speaker 1: the election, so I think everything you know, had set
Speaker 1: up and everything just kind of looked like it was
Speaker 1: gonna be Hillary. But you know, I woke up this
Speaker 1: morning found out down one, so you know, definitely disbelief.
Speaker 1: But hey, I think Malcolm hit on it. This is America.
Speaker 1: People have a choice, Um, We're gonna to live with
Speaker 1: our choice. So hey, you know, go with it. How
Speaker 1: woach I've watched it, um, I mean there's no there's
Speaker 1: no telling because the rewind play rewind play around I
Speaker 1: played I mean a countless um and then we actually
Speaker 1: went back in the red zone, uh did today and
Speaker 1: we hit it for a touchdown UM today, So we
Speaker 1: just had to go back rap it. We've talked about
Speaker 1: it and me and Carson had extensive conversation about it.
Speaker 1: So you know, we've like from the quote unquote disappointment
Speaker 1: of it. We moved on from that because it's a
Speaker 1: play that we've hit plenty of times. Like I said,
Speaker 1: we hit the same throw earlier that game. It just
Speaker 1: happen to be in the field. So in the field,
Speaker 1: it's a totally different field for that throw as opposed
Speaker 1: to the red zone. But as far as you know,
Speaker 1: getting better at it and making sure it's something that
Speaker 1: we could perfect, it's definitely something that we're still staying
Speaker 1: on because that needs to be one of our throws
Speaker 1: that's like got to be a stable for us, the
Speaker 1: same way you know Aaron Rodger and Jordy Nelson have
Speaker 1: that back shoulder I mean slot fade things like that.
Speaker 1: That has to be something that me and him due
Speaker 1: to a T So he's willing to work on it.
Speaker 1: I'm going to work on it. It's gonna be something
Speaker 1: that we're going to just continue to get better at. Okay,
Speaker 1: he still has a great deal of faith to the
Speaker 1: Receiver Corps as a whole in terms of being able
Speaker 1: to get the job done, and he singled out DGV
Speaker 1: as a guy who he sees maybe not the catches,
Speaker 1: we sees incremental improvement on the field, routes getting crisper,
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. Are you seeing that too, that
Speaker 1: he's fitting in better and better? Yeah, I think lots
Speaker 1: of times. That has to do with a lot of culture.
Speaker 1: Lots of times. And when you know, I don't know
Speaker 1: how I wasn't in Tennessee, you know, with him, but
Speaker 1: I know when he was in Tennessee. You know, some
Speaker 1: of the guys who receivers there aren't there, you know anymore,
Speaker 1: and so and then maybe some of the older guys
Speaker 1: they were older, so those vets, maybe we're in the
Speaker 1: back half of their career where you know, they don't
Speaker 1: have to put as much out in the field to
Speaker 1: go perform you know, in games, and so I mean
Speaker 1: to be honest, I felt a large responsibility for it
Speaker 1: when I was out, because when I'm in there, like games,
Speaker 1: we're gonna get done in games, but practice is gonna
Speaker 1: be on a whole nother level. Like we're gonna go
Speaker 1: out in practice like and we're gonna get better. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be full till and when I was out, you know,
Speaker 1: I felt like we weren't able to get that same
Speaker 1: you know, intensity and practice sometimes. So we're getting Crisper,
Speaker 1: we're doing those things, but the intensity just had to
Speaker 1: be hired, you know. And so I feel like, you know,
Speaker 1: now with all hands on deck, everybody's back, that's just
Speaker 1: the next thing that's going to take DGB to the
Speaker 1: next level. I think he's definitely his rossal guy, Crisper.
Speaker 1: He's more focused, learned the plays, doing those things. But
Speaker 1: now it's just him bringing that dog out and I
Speaker 1: just feel like that's just something that we got to
Speaker 1: continue doing practice. That's something I'm gonna want to motivate
Speaker 1: him to do. I know, Nelly comes out and works
Speaker 1: his butt off every single day, and it has to
Speaker 1: be that whole. That has to be the field and
Speaker 1: I said this before when I got like, people can
Speaker 1: say whatever they want about this Receiver Corps. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be honest. I on re Twitter, So I don't know
Speaker 1: what people think about me. They may think out good,
Speaker 1: they might think I sucked. But at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, I'm gonna go grind and especially now that
Speaker 1: I'm healthy, I'm gonna make sure that this Receiver Corps
Speaker 1: understands that we got responsibility to do, especially every day
Speaker 1: in practice, We're gonna go to work and then we're
Speaker 1: gonna go put the product out there on the field.
Speaker 1: I was wondering, like, do you ever watch other receivers
Speaker 1: like Yea, such as Julio Joe and what kind of
Speaker 1: things you can well? I you know, um, I used
Speaker 1: to tell Pya all the time. You know, there's only
Speaker 1: so much you can watch guys like Julio and Calvin.
Speaker 1: You can't learn to be six five two sixty, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. I don't know how. But at
Speaker 1: the same time, though being a big receiver, I love
Speaker 1: watching Julio the way he gets in out of his breaks.
Speaker 1: I think him and aj Green, I mean, when it
Speaker 1: comes to getting in and out of their breaks as
Speaker 1: taller receivers. They do it as if they were like
Speaker 1: a five ten slot guy. He's strong, he's powerful on
Speaker 1: deep balls. The way he picks up his knees and
Speaker 1: where he gets going is I mean, second to do
Speaker 1: in this league. And then just when it comes to
Speaker 1: the screen game quick slants getting the ball in his
Speaker 1: hands and then turn into like a running back. It's
Speaker 1: something that I admire by his game. He's definitely going
Speaker 1: to be, you know, a big person out know our
Speaker 1: team is going to be looking as far as defense,
Speaker 1: but you know, just as another receiver in the league,
Speaker 1: I definitely can admire a lot of things about his game.
Speaker 1: I think that's why he's one of the best in it.
Speaker 1: It seems like passes in this pass game that we're
Speaker 1: off and maybe receivers and Carson not on the exact
Speaker 1: same page. That's what I almost felt like watching. Do
Speaker 1: you guys get that sense where it seems a little
Speaker 1: off right now than where it was. Let's take the
Speaker 1: first few games, okay. I think sometimes you can't take
Speaker 1: like the first stampshot of something and then think, okay,
Speaker 1: there is like that. I think you find out how
Speaker 1: something is over time and the consistency is going to
Speaker 1: show you, Okay, this is where we are and this
Speaker 1: is where we need to get to. So right now,
Speaker 1: we're at the halfway point the game. Before the halfway point,
Speaker 1: Carson through for three to sixty, which is great, but
Speaker 1: we also had some things that didn't look right. So
Speaker 1: if we're still throwing for three to sixty with things
Speaker 1: not looking right, that means we have something good in place,
Speaker 1: which I think everybody knows. We understand that. I know
Speaker 1: the coaches understand that. That's why even with Carson's first
Speaker 1: couple of throws in the game, at no point do
Speaker 1: we take our gas foot off the pedal. We're going
Speaker 1: to let Carson throw because he has the ability, he
Speaker 1: has the swagger, so we're always gonna let him do that.
Speaker 1: But as far as some of those little things, like
Speaker 1: I said, you know, I'm not big on excuses, but
Speaker 1: it still was weak one when you first got to
Speaker 1: get to working with everybody, Like, there's still some things
Speaker 1: that we have to work out, but like I said,
Speaker 1: it's not these big gaping things I feel like are
Speaker 1: going to be the difference between all. We gotta wait
Speaker 1: till you know, two years from now. The figure howt
Speaker 1: is gonna loo. No, it's something we can fix right now.
Speaker 1: And we even worked on some things that's today in practice,
Speaker 1: so I'm confident in it. I know he can make
Speaker 1: the throws. Now, it's just getting the time and down
Speaker 1: and make sure everybody needs to be, you know, where
Speaker 1: they need to be on certain plays. And I think
Speaker 1: we're gonna get to be able to do that. You know.
Speaker 1: It's it's crazy because obviously, um we do have the
Speaker 1: running backs, you know, and I feel like offensive line
Speaker 1: has played, you know well, especially the last few weeks.
Speaker 1: I mean it seems like I know we mentioned it,
Speaker 1: but you know, somebody's gone. It's like outside out of mind.
Speaker 1: But obviously Lane Johnson losing lane huge and still is huge,
Speaker 1: So that shows up obviously some in the running game. Now,
Speaker 1: do we want to just come out there and throw
Speaker 1: the ball like crazy? I mean, I like it, but
Speaker 1: at the same time, you know, we want to make
Speaker 1: sure it's balanced. We want we got too me great
Speaker 1: running backs were not to be balanced between ken y'all,
Speaker 1: Smallwood Ron and we already know what spros can do.
Speaker 1: I mean, we need to be able to run the
Speaker 1: ball and we need to be able to run effectively
Speaker 1: and then throw the ball off of that. Get our
Speaker 1: tight ends more involved. That's why I was extremely happiest
Speaker 1: exact get involved in the past game the way he did.
Speaker 1: I think that's going to be something that's going to
Speaker 1: continue to get better. But I think that it definitely
Speaker 1: is going to get more balanced. I think that's coach
Speaker 1: Peterson's goal to have as balanced as possible and then
Speaker 1: to win on both run and pass are great. You'd
Speaker 1: love to watch them for going against the Falcons? Is
Speaker 1: there any more added the pressure to do big plays
Speaker 1: and to make big plays? Um? I would? I would say, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, when you see a team putting up the
Speaker 1: numbers the way they are, you know. The first thing though,
Speaker 1: is I don't put anything past how good our defense is.
Speaker 1: So I don't look at it like, Okay, this team
Speaker 1: is going to put a lot of points now, so
Speaker 1: we got to put up a lot of points. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't speak that. I know our defensn't go out
Speaker 1: there and shut down anybody. But for me, I know
Speaker 1: when the office is coming in who has played well,
Speaker 1: you know, especially a receiver like a Julio, I tell guys,
Speaker 1: we gotta you gotta feed off that. You don't want
Speaker 1: somebody just to come in here and go off and
Speaker 1: then we're the guys over here not even trying to compete,
Speaker 1: just trying to do our thing. We gotta put that
Speaker 1: chip on our shoulder and go out there and compete. Two. So,
Speaker 1: I mean, even when we went to UH Atlanta last year,
Speaker 1: we came out and I just felt like we were
Speaker 1: competing offensively in the second half the way we should
Speaker 1: have the whole game. But I felt like we fed
Speaker 1: off a lot of what they were doing too. They
Speaker 1: came out the first half, they were swinging the ball around,
Speaker 1: Julio was doing this thing, and then they were just
Speaker 1: Roddy was playing streaming. Well. I was like, guys, we
Speaker 1: gotta picked this up. And then we were able to
Speaker 1: get some of that going. So I think there is
Speaker 1: a little bit of Adam motivation for the offense. But
Speaker 1: at the same time, I'm not going to sit out
Speaker 1: here and say, oh, they're going to put up a
Speaker 1: lot of points. So we got to too. I got
Speaker 1: extreme faith in our defense. I know they didn't go
Speaker 1: out there and stopped them, and we just gotta got
Speaker 1: them do we gotta do when you look at their
Speaker 1: secondary the physicality from from Neil, how they have three
Speaker 1: smaller fights corners. What are some of the things that
Speaker 1: stand out when you look at them, and especially for
Speaker 1: you personally in the slot position, you have the size advantage.
Speaker 1: Is that's something that too, I can take advantage. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's something that obviously having that size advantage in the
Speaker 1: slot and I have played against Pool in college before too,
Speaker 1: so that's something that that we are looking to. But
Speaker 1: also they do play a lot more zone. So sometimes
Speaker 1: just getting like, Okay, I'm really ready for this match,
Speaker 1: I don't know how many times I'm actually going to
Speaker 1: get that. You know, they run a lot more zone,
Speaker 1: so it's something that I've been getting ready for us,
Speaker 1: finding like the different holes in the defense. But as
Speaker 1: far as on the outside, which is always pretty much
Speaker 1: man and man, the way they play defense, a lot
Speaker 1: of respect for their corners. I think Trufant is one
Speaker 1: of the most underrated corners probably in the game. I
Speaker 1: don't know why he doesn't get talked about more. But
Speaker 1: as far as like physicality getting in and out of
Speaker 1: his breaks, recovery on past plays, I feel like he's
Speaker 1: got the total package when it comes out and he's
Speaker 1: extremely consistent. So um, I guess people don't talk about
Speaker 1: and don't talk much. Very quiet guy. So um, he's
Speaker 1: just a guy that everybody has to be ready for.
Speaker 1: I know the guys are excited about it. We watched
Speaker 1: a little bit of filming him today. We're gonna watch
Speaker 1: more um this afternoon. So he's just another guy we
Speaker 1: gotta be ready for. Also, Alfred is another corner who's
Speaker 1: who's very very capable to of gom out there and
Speaker 1: making plays. He had a big player I think versus Oakland,
Speaker 1: big pig might get got called back, but he's definitely
Speaker 1: has ability. Even gotta be ready for him too. Three
Speaker 1: and O at home, one and four on a road,
Speaker 1: which been a difference. And how do you I just
Speaker 1: feel like you're a different team at home. We have
Speaker 1: we have played better at home, and I know it's
Speaker 1: something that we've been able to feed off of as
Speaker 1: far as you know, the fans. And it's just a
Speaker 1: I mean atmosphere's links second and nine. But like I
Speaker 1: don't like to get up here and like do like
Speaker 1: we just got to go out and win. Like it
Speaker 1: can be a home away thing at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, there's made one game where I felt like, Okay,
Speaker 1: when I look back, we got out played. The other
Speaker 1: games we gave away, So we gotta just go back
Speaker 1: detail our word and say we're not going to give
Speaker 1: up these games anymore. Especially later games. We got to
Speaker 1: really focus in and hone in and feel like, Okay,
Speaker 1: what do we need to accomplish. Let's get it done
Speaker 1: so we can stop giving up these wins. And I
Speaker 1: think that's something that we're gonna do