Speaker 1: Good this time of year, coming in for the early
Speaker 1: days of the off season program. What does it mean
Speaker 1: to you what you try to accomplish.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it means a lot to me. You know, I'm
Speaker 2: just not only getting dialed in with the playbook, making sure,
Speaker 2: you know, I got everything down, but you know, just
Speaker 2: getting together with the guys in the locker room, throwing
Speaker 2: a little bit working out. Uh, just kind of a
Speaker 2: reacclamation period. Last year when you came in, it.
Speaker 1: Was basically learning the offense game plan, the game plan.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 1: Now if you just kind of you start over.
Speaker 2: Again, Yeah, definitely. I just start from square one as
Speaker 2: if it's my first day and I don't know anything,
Speaker 2: and you know, just trying to learn as much as possible.
Speaker 2: But yes, it's nice to be able to start from
Speaker 2: square one and getting right with Coach Turner and making
Speaker 2: sure it's not just learning the plays but learning every
Speaker 2: single detail of the positions.
Speaker 1: Change how you approach this season.
Speaker 2: My approach will be the same, you know, still just
Speaker 2: try to get as big, strong fast as I can mentally,
Speaker 2: just you know, like I said, caught up with every position.
Speaker 1: Is this your normal Adam, where you spend the whole
Speaker 1: off season program with a team or is it different
Speaker 1: this year because of you know, the mid season trade.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've always shown up. I like breaking it up
Speaker 2: and coming here and being where I'm gonna play and
Speaker 2: really honing in on football for a little bit, and
Speaker 2: then I'll do more strength and conditioning stuff in my
Speaker 2: own individual time. Is that what you did in Carolina
Speaker 2: as well? You would come yep. Yeah, in Carolina, you know,
Speaker 2: we always had similar learned in a new offense, but
Speaker 2: we always had different coaches come in. So I think
Speaker 2: I had five coordinators in five years, so I was
Speaker 2: always learning the plays.
Speaker 1: What's the first thing you told Sam Darnold about this offense.
Speaker 2: When he was looking at I told him it's fun.
Speaker 2: You know, I got a lot of weapons and unbelievable
Speaker 2: mind calling plays. He already knew all that stuff though.
Speaker 2: You know he had he had watched all the tape
Speaker 2: and you know he was a fan from Afar, so
Speaker 2: he was fired up to get here the quarterback of
Speaker 2: the Niners. Getting Sam. Sam's great. He can do every anything.
Speaker 2: You can make any throw. He's smart, He's able to,
Speaker 2: you know, pick up things quickly and do his job.
Speaker 2: Doesn't play beyond you know anything and and just does
Speaker 2: exactly what he's told all the time and then adds
Speaker 2: a lot of flair to it too. You know, I
Speaker 2: got the privilege to play with Sam, not enough, unfortunately
Speaker 2: I had some injuries. But he's another guy too who's
Speaker 2: who's just a gamer and he's tough as hell. He's
Speaker 2: played through a lot and never made excuses. So happy
Speaker 2: he's here.
Speaker 1: You get a Sam, I saw you court side at
Speaker 1: the Warriors game, sitting there with them the other day.
Speaker 1: What's your investment.
Speaker 2: Level like right now with the playoffs and how much
Speaker 2: it's been fun to watch? Been really fun to watch? Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean it was. It was a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: You know, being able to see those guys up up
Speaker 2: and close is impressive. You know, I think you forget
Speaker 2: how how big, strong and fast these dudes are and
Speaker 2: how athletic they are. So it was a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: And you know, watching guys like Steph Curry do his
Speaker 2: thing live in person, it's definitely a different feeling than
Speaker 2: watching it on TV. And the average person doesn't know
Speaker 2: about Sam Donald that you can share. I don't know
Speaker 2: what people don't or do know about him, but I'd
Speaker 2: say like his toughness, to me is something that I
Speaker 2: don't think gets a lot of credit for, but just
Speaker 2: knowing kind of the stuff that he went through in
Speaker 2: New York and then in Carolina and to be able
Speaker 2: to just keep his head down and continue to work
Speaker 2: as hard as he did showed a lot of perseverance, determination,
Speaker 2: toughness all that.
Speaker 1: The second time in three years you've been with the
Speaker 1: team and Sam Arrives, what did he do in Carolina?
Speaker 1: They just kind of get acclimated and make himself part
Speaker 1: of that team.
Speaker 2: Just did his job and he was himself. You know,
Speaker 2: he did everything the coaches asked him to do, and
Speaker 2: he was himself and that's all you know, really can
Speaker 2: ask for teams propensity to take a big swing when
Speaker 2: they need to.
Speaker 1: They did it with Trent, they did it with you,
Speaker 1: they did it when they traded up for Trey, And
Speaker 1: I don't think a lot of people had him getting
Speaker 1: hard Grave. What did you think when the pard Rave
Speaker 1: edition came an offseason?
Speaker 2: Definitely happy, But don't have to play against them. You know,
Speaker 2: he's a stud and he's a guy who you know,
Speaker 2: obviously has had a lot of success in his career
Speaker 2: and just adding another piece to the defense obviously helps
Speaker 2: the team.
Speaker 1: The team is willing to do to take those big swings.
Speaker 1: Is that.
Speaker 2: Inner change the team you think for sure? Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 2: I think everybody knows where our head is at, and
Speaker 2: you know, from from the top down, we know we
Speaker 2: know what we want to accomplish and and where we
Speaker 2: want to go.
Speaker 1: It's obviously part of the deal.
Speaker 2: But you've lost a lot of free agents, a lot
Speaker 2: of key guys this offseason.
Speaker 1: Have you felt that in the locker room hasn't been
Speaker 1: a little bit different kind of reacclimating without some of
Speaker 1: those guys.
Speaker 2: It's always the tough part of this game is seeing
Speaker 2: guys go. But uh no, I mean we're we're all
Speaker 2: still so tight. You know, our core guys are still amazing,
Speaker 2: and you know, it's part of the process. It's it's
Speaker 2: part of the off season is reacclimating and getting everybody
Speaker 2: in line for for one common goal.
Speaker 1: Really experienced coaches working with the running backs here with
Speaker 1: with coach Land and coach Turner, is that different than
Speaker 1: anything that you previously your career And how does that
Speaker 1: kind of communication pattern work in the room. How much
Speaker 1: have you gotten for both of them? Uh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've gotten a lot. This has been, you know,
Speaker 2: the most fun I've had in a meeting room in
Speaker 2: my career. You know, these guys are so detailed on
Speaker 2: every single thing. You know, you could I could sit
Speaker 2: there and listen to Coach turn it for hours on end,
Speaker 2: because you know he he coaches the x's and o's
Speaker 2: and beyond the x's and o's, and you know, it's
Speaker 2: it's a it's honestly an honor to be in that
Speaker 2: meeting room. And I think all of us, all of
Speaker 2: us running backs feel that way, you know. And Coach Lann,
Speaker 2: who is head coach experience, knows the whole offense. So
Speaker 2: you're constantly getting you know, pointers from not just the
Speaker 2: H but the X, you know, all these different positions
Speaker 2: and understanding the full dynamic of the play, not just
Speaker 2: you know, our job and moving on. And so it's
Speaker 2: been a lot of fun to learn. I've approached it
Speaker 2: as if I'm a rookie again and just learned from
Speaker 2: square one. On your engagement, I was curious how that
Speaker 2: all win feels like the most nervous you've ever been
Speaker 2: in your life. I appreciate it. Definitely nervous, you know,
Speaker 2: it's a different kind of nervous, but yeah, I was
Speaker 2: definitely nervous. And yeah, she said, yeah, I tricked her
Speaker 2: in the saying yeah, so that was that was good
Speaker 2: and now I'm fired up about it, thank you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's follow What was your interaction like with Steve
Speaker 1: Willis and what are the partners getting there?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Coach Wilkes is awesome. I think you know, I
Speaker 2: could talk about Coach Wilkes a lot and just the
Speaker 2: type of man he is. But you know, it says
Speaker 2: a lot to see how all the Panthers players reacted
Speaker 2: to him and them vouching for him to get the
Speaker 2: head job. That's a testament to who he is and
Speaker 2: and and that explains a lot about not just the
Speaker 2: coach he is, but the guy he is. So happy
Speaker 2: he's on our side. Said that Brock was it has
Speaker 2: been really positive and just working at every day.
Speaker 1: Have you seen that from him as well?
Speaker 2: Definitely? Yeah, I mean Brock, like I said, I think
Speaker 2: everybody talked about it last year and who Brock is,
Speaker 2: But yeah, it's no surprise now that that he's a
Speaker 2: guy who he's going to show up to work every
Speaker 2: day with a positive attitude and do do his job
Speaker 2: at the best of his ability and he's done just that,
Speaker 2: so it's been good seeing him and seeing how hard
Speaker 2: he's working. Thanks guys.