WEBVTT - Andy Dalton on 2011 Draft Class, Promising Sign From Bryce Young, and Second-Act Endeavor 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:08.200 We're here live in LA with Off the Edge with 0:00:08.280 --> 0:00:10.920 Cam Jordan. I got, I got so much to say today. 0:00:11.160 --> 0:00:12.840 I think that I'm just blessed to be here with 0:00:13.119 --> 0:00:16.120 another guy from draft class twenty eleven. I'm bringing in 0:00:16.239 --> 0:00:19.040 my guy who's a quarterback for me two seasons ago. 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:23.480 Andy Dalton started off in twenty eleven, drafted to Cincinnati. 0:00:23.560 --> 0:00:27.560 Had had a phenomenal career with the Bengals. Bengals you say, 0:00:27.560 --> 0:00:30.680 Bengals are Bingles Bangles Bengals, and then you know, comes 0:00:30.760 --> 0:00:33.400 comes comes down to New Orleans two years ago. Was 0:00:33.440 --> 0:00:35.800 one of the great one of my greatest teammates. Finally 0:00:35.800 --> 0:00:37.120 getting to go on a double date with me and 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:38.840 my wife and then he kicks us to the curb 0:00:38.960 --> 0:00:43.680 for the Carolina Panthers. I appreciate you tuning. 0:00:43.479 --> 0:00:46.000 In, tapping in, Bro, that's how we're gonna go into 0:00:46.000 --> 0:00:47.080 this thing, and let's do it. 0:00:47.120 --> 0:00:50.320 You know, yeah, you know, you and your wife, me 0:00:50.360 --> 0:00:52.760 and my wife. We sit down at whatever Greek restaurant 0:00:52.760 --> 0:00:55.240 it was in New Orleans. After the season, I was like, huh, 0:00:55.320 --> 0:00:56.960 we have dinner dinner buddies now. 0:00:57.200 --> 0:00:59.480 Talking about our big plans of how we're gonna do life. Together, 0:00:59.520 --> 0:01:01.760 and next thing, you know, I'm no longer there. 0:01:02.880 --> 0:01:05.320 We're gone, like all my friends have been years. 0:01:05.680 --> 0:01:07.480 It just means we're old. You've been doing things the 0:01:07.560 --> 0:01:08.640 right way, you know. 0:01:09.200 --> 0:01:10.880 You know for all the things that we've talked about. 0:01:10.920 --> 0:01:13.520 You know, somewhere somewhere during that season we bought we 0:01:13.560 --> 0:01:16.040 brought back red red rocket, red rifle. I think I 0:01:16.040 --> 0:01:18.360 messed that up seventy five times during the season. I 0:01:18.400 --> 0:01:21.240 was like, for whatever it was you were, you were slinging, 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:24.320 wheeling and dealing uh the rock, and and it came 0:01:24.360 --> 0:01:26.880 back up for for a solid two or three weeks 0:01:27.520 --> 0:01:29.520 like we were. We were in team meetings, we had 0:01:29.520 --> 0:01:33.039 the Cincinnati Bengals play where you became red rifle and 0:01:33.280 --> 0:01:34.160 red rocket, red. 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:35.559 Rifle, red rifle, red rifle. 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:36.720 Yeah, double R. 0:01:36.880 --> 0:01:39.199 Well, then there's obviously a great when you were miked 0:01:39.280 --> 0:01:40.600 up one time, you were giving me a lot of 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:43.840 love on the sideline, a lot of red rifle comments. 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:47.880 Uh, double r double R. I love it. 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:51.080 Oh man. Did you have any any favorite travels this 0:01:51.120 --> 0:01:51.560 off season? 0:01:52.840 --> 0:01:55.320 Trying to think we uh, you know, being in in 0:01:55.520 --> 0:01:58.280 Carolina and being in Charlotte, We've we've done a couple 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:01.559 of little weekend trips down to like Charleston are out 0:02:01.600 --> 0:02:06.080 to the mountains and highlands and cashiers and stuff like that. 0:02:06.160 --> 0:02:09.360 But then we didn't Yeah, then exactly, I knew nothing 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:11.160 about that whole part of the country. Next thing, you know, 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:13.040 we're living there and we're going to the mountains, we're 0:02:13.040 --> 0:02:15.520 going to the beach and uh jaj and I just 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:18.040 did just get back from the Bahamas, so that was okay, 0:02:18.120 --> 0:02:19.040 that was a pretty good little trip. 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:20.639 We go get get a little get a little little 0:02:20.720 --> 0:02:22.760 vacation in love love that part. 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:25.480 Well, we're part of the Bahamash. We were in Nasau. 0:02:25.639 --> 0:02:28.799 Okay, did you did you do the little was that? 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:31.519 Is that the one where they had the pigs the swimming. 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:32.320 We did not do that. 0:02:32.360 --> 0:02:35.040 Okay, there's one of the zombers, but there's apparently one 0:02:35.080 --> 0:02:35.760 in a Nassau. 0:02:36.040 --> 0:02:38.520 Sure, what about you, you're the one that's all over 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:38.880 the place. 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:42.160 No, man, Look, I just uh I had to get surgery. 0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:44.799 So that's didn't bring my travel plans. But I did 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:47.480 just come back from Liberia, you know, hit Ghana early on. 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:51.720 Love Ghana so much I doubled back for second Africa trip. 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:54.600 I think the next one. Uh me and me and 0:02:54.720 --> 0:02:56.880 Nikki are going to like try and dip into Japan. 0:02:57.440 --> 0:03:00.280 Yeah, I think I saw something. She something happened where 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:04.399 they alls. Maybe mother in law couldn't couldn't come watch 0:03:04.440 --> 0:03:06.000 the kids, and so she had to stay back. 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:07.560 And you know, I was like, man, I gotta go 0:03:07.600 --> 0:03:13.160 to Ghana by myself. Crazy. Over a thirteen years headed 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:15.560 into fourteen years, it's been. I mean again, it's been. 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:17.560 It's been a blessing. But is there a way you 0:03:17.720 --> 0:03:20.160 prepare or how does that change over the years where 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:23.160 you know, when you started off at year one versus 0:03:23.360 --> 0:03:25.960 going into year fourteen, is that preparation changed for you 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:26.240 at all? 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:28.720 It definitely has, And I think you know, especially when 0:03:28.760 --> 0:03:31.200 you get into the season, you obviously have seen so 0:03:31.320 --> 0:03:34.560 much football, you know how certain teams are going to 0:03:34.600 --> 0:03:37.400 play you, so you can spend time on little details 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:39.520 rather than the big picture of it all. 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:40.320 And so. 0:03:41.880 --> 0:03:45.520 As you know, you get into your thirteen fourteen whatever 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:47.560 it is, and you're not having to think as much. 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:50.960 You're just able to react and play and know what's coming. 0:03:51.040 --> 0:03:51.360 And so. 0:03:52.920 --> 0:03:55.600 The preparation from an end season standpoint, and then offseason, 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:58.320 you know, everybody's got the got their different way of 0:03:58.360 --> 0:04:01.280 doing things. But I feel like I've got a good 0:04:01.360 --> 0:04:02.440 routine of everything that I do. 0:04:02.720 --> 0:04:04.720 Having us here, let's just talk about it. I talked 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:08.000 with Roman and Peanut Tillman earlier and they, you know, 0:04:08.040 --> 0:04:10.520 they challenged me on our draft class, and. 0:04:10.600 --> 0:04:12.600 You know, I was like, what did they challenge you with? 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:14.720 I don't know. Our draft class is the greatest ever. 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:16.840 I just I was like, it's the best, We're the best. 0:04:17.080 --> 0:04:18.480 Just look at the first round. 0:04:18.920 --> 0:04:21.960 Which which is crazy because we can bring up second, third, fourth, 0:04:22.200 --> 0:04:25.200 But it seems like every draft class is is sort 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:29.159 of heavily regarded by their first class. Right, They're just like, 0:04:29.200 --> 0:04:30.800 all right, the first class. You look at the first 0:04:30.880 --> 0:04:32.560 round and you're gonna be like, all right, that's your 0:04:32.600 --> 0:04:34.560 draft class, which is crazy because there was guys like you. 0:04:34.680 --> 0:04:38.159 There was guys like justin Houston, there's Richard Sherman. But 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:41.440 just look at the first round. I don't know, out 0:04:41.440 --> 0:04:43.720 of what thirty two pigs there had been, I'm looking 0:04:43.760 --> 0:04:47.760 at what fifteen Pro bowlers? It's crazy hard to miss. 0:04:47.920 --> 0:04:49.800 It's crazy hard to miss. 0:04:49.600 --> 0:04:52.880 The significant progress on how to draft the draft class? 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:54.640 Yeah, what and Pro bowlers? 0:04:54.640 --> 0:04:57.600 And there there's gonna be arguably a lot of Hall 0:04:57.600 --> 0:04:58.880 of famers in that right too. 0:04:59.120 --> 0:05:01.719 That's what I'm just so. 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:04.359 I mean again, I guess if you say best draft 0:05:04.360 --> 0:05:07.960 class ever, it's that's subjective. Everybody's got an opinion, but everybody, 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:12.520 I mean, there's there's I think the numbers aren't gonna lie. 0:05:12.480 --> 0:05:14.279 On this one. That's what I'm saying. You should just 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:17.279 trust trust the numbers. That happened. You know, there was 0:05:17.320 --> 0:05:20.760 Cam Newton number one. Uh, then we go Von Miller, 0:05:20.839 --> 0:05:25.479 Marcel Darius. Then it gets even better, aj Aj You 0:05:25.520 --> 0:05:27.400 guys came together. That's a hell of a draft class. 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:30.120 You drafted Andy Dalton and AJ Green and put them together. 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:33.279 So that's a great connection. Uh. Then from there you 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:37.159 know Patrick Peterson, Julio Jones, Alden Smith, and then you 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:39.240 know the quarterbacks of the first round. After that it 0:05:39.400 --> 0:05:44.360 was J Jake Locker, Blaine Gabbert, Christian Ponder and Okay, fine, 0:05:44.760 --> 0:05:47.480 uh but then you have Tyrone Smith, J. J. Watt, 0:05:48.040 --> 0:05:51.000 Nick Fairley. Nick Fairley was a dog for something, you know, 0:05:51.440 --> 0:05:53.160 Robert Quinn. 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:56.920 There's a lot of hundred guys in this j Yeah, J. J. 0:05:57.080 --> 0:06:00.719 Watt, Robert Quinn, myself, Ryan Kerrigan stopped at like what 0:06:00.880 --> 0:06:03.440 nine nineties, ninety four and a half. I'm like, come on, 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:06.560 just get two hundred. Finish it. But you know there 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:08.760 was there's a tackle Nate Solder, what a couple of 0:06:08.800 --> 0:06:13.320 championships with ye with the Patriots. You know we had 0:06:13.839 --> 0:06:15.800 I know you weren't there. We had Prince of Mukamira. 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:17.479 Yeah, come to the come to the Saint. 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:20.400 I was not there, but I've been around Prince Prince 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:21.080 the great guy. 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:23.720 Great guy. But just talk about that first draft like 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:26.040 there was, there was excellence, and then we're still in 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:28.000 the top twenty. Then there was you know, me at 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:31.760 twenty four, mark Ingram twenty eight, Mohammad Wilgerson that you know, 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:35.400 was that twenty thirty and then Cam Hayward Pro Bowlers. 0:06:35.520 --> 0:06:38.160 Yeah, this provo is all over. That all over that 0:06:38.240 --> 0:06:38.760 drafts all. 0:06:38.640 --> 0:06:40.760 Over And then you talk about again, second, third, fourth 0:06:40.839 --> 0:06:44.200 round guys like you again justin Houston, Richard Sherman. There 0:06:44.279 --> 0:06:46.480 was guys that were just making names for themselves from 0:06:46.480 --> 0:06:48.640 our draft class. I'm I'm just going to continue and 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:50.400 stay we're the best draft cleft to ever. 0:06:50.520 --> 0:06:52.160 In the amount of times that we talked about this 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:55.280 when we were teammates a couple of years ago twenty 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:57.320 eleven best draft class, Boom dam. 0:06:58.480 --> 0:07:00.679 I'm just gonna keep saying it. I'm hope that everybody 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:03.159 hears me. So I'm just gonna do like if you 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:07.920 if there was a hypothetical draft, do over right, give 0:07:07.960 --> 0:07:10.800 me your accomplishments and your performances. Do you slide into 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:12.600 that first round? Where do you think you'd be selected? 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:15.440 I mean I would think that I would be the 0:07:15.480 --> 0:07:18.679 second quarterback taken. I think Cam still goes number one overall. 0:07:19.200 --> 0:07:21.600 I mean just I mean, look what he was able 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:23.680 to do and in his time and when he was 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:25.800 at the height of his career, I mean, he was 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:27.920 one of the most one of the more exciting players 0:07:27.960 --> 0:07:31.000 in the league for sure, And so I would assume 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:33.480 that I would probably be the second quarterback taken. 0:07:33.600 --> 0:07:36.960 But you take Blaina, Blaine Gabbert or no Jake Locker 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:38.160 at Tennessee. 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:42.080 So but I'm not mad about what happened. 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:42.760 Absolutely not. 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:44.560 If I could go in the second round instead of 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:46.160 the first round and have aj Green go in the 0:07:46.200 --> 0:07:49.760 first round and that be my guy all day, I'm 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:50.880 taking where I went. 0:07:51.120 --> 0:07:53.559 Yeahere do you go like a seven thousand yard seasons 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:57.000 in a row eight thousand something crazy something ridiculous crazy. 0:07:57.560 --> 0:08:00.640 You're out there just red rifling that thing, just wheeling 0:08:00.680 --> 0:08:05.200 and dealing. What do you think is the most significant 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:09.360 change that's happened in this you know, games evolution from 0:08:09.400 --> 0:08:13.080 when you started, when we used to mall quarterbacks and 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:16.440 I have to worry about, you know, the rules implied 0:08:16.680 --> 0:08:19.240 to where we are at now now we're all wearing 0:08:19.600 --> 0:08:20.840 Jimmy's at practice. 0:08:21.400 --> 0:08:25.920 Well, I think the style of play has also changed 0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:29.560 because it was a very much run first league when 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:33.760 we first came in the league. And now obviously it's 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:36.079 all about the past game, all about the quarterback, all 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:38.240 about trying to score. 0:08:38.120 --> 0:08:39.240 Points and all that kind of stuff. 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:40.920 And even that has changed because now you can throw 0:08:40.920 --> 0:08:42.440 over the middle and not get reprimanded. 0:08:42.559 --> 0:08:43.400 It's used to be able. 0:08:43.440 --> 0:08:45.920 To your rookieyear you threw over the middle, you had 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:47.560 people coming down heel. 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:53.480 It's I mean, the player safety stuff. It makes it 0:08:53.559 --> 0:08:57.560 hard on somebody that's playing defense. You know where you 0:08:57.559 --> 0:08:59.760 can hit the quarterback, where you can hit a receiver. 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:02.200 Is it in the head, is it in the shoulder? 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:05.280 Is it it's it's tough to be defender these days, 0:09:05.400 --> 0:09:07.760 it's it's hard to play. But I mean, I I 0:09:07.840 --> 0:09:11.080 understand the argument if we want to protect guys, but 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:14.440 at the end of the day, how do you Your natural 0:09:14.440 --> 0:09:15.880 instincts are going to take over. 0:09:16.000 --> 0:09:18.080 And no doubt if I'm if I'm coming downhill, do 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:20.800 you think I'm really thinking, No, you're not my head. 0:09:21.160 --> 0:09:22.439 Let's go across the bow it. 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:24.319 I have to make sure that's going to come into 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:27.360 this whole hip drop hip drop tackle things. 0:09:27.400 --> 0:09:29.960 I don't even know what I now. Yeah, until they 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:31.520 made it a thing, and now it's. 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:33.560 Like, I don't know. 0:09:33.640 --> 0:09:35.959 Are you're in the middle of making a tackle you're 0:09:35.960 --> 0:09:37.320 going to think I can't do that and let go. 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:39.240 Don't let me swilve all my hips. In fact, let 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:41.280 me let him go so he can gain more yards. 0:09:41.760 --> 0:09:44.840 Yeah, okay, I'm all for fifteen yards. Let's keep it. 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:45.720 Let's keep it going. 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:49.520 First down sucks for you can also move me on 0:09:49.559 --> 0:10:11.760 down the field. That hurts bro. 0:10:12.320 --> 0:10:14.480 Now that you're over at Carolina and you've you've gone 0:10:14.520 --> 0:10:16.640 through a few teams, uh one, do you have a 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:19.439 favorite franchise. I'm gonna say this. I'm just gonna say, Okay, 0:10:19.559 --> 0:10:21.439 I'm not gonna let you answer that. And then two, 0:10:21.520 --> 0:10:23.880 you know when you when you went to Charlotte, you know, 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:25.960 before they drafted Bryce Young, I was like, all right, 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:28.840 he went from starter in New Orleans two starter Charlotte 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:31.079 and then they drafted Bryce Young, and you know the reins 0:10:31.080 --> 0:10:33.600 were given. How is your relationship between you and him? 0:10:33.720 --> 0:10:36.880 You know, you were excellent for us and then became 0:10:36.960 --> 0:10:40.680 our starter and took over. Does that is that sort 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:43.280 of you know, I guess it. You can't mirror Charlotte 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:44.800 or what is what is the expectations? Then? 0:10:44.960 --> 0:10:47.320 Well, you know when I left New Orleans, I obviously 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:50.600 got to start for it's fourteen games or something like that. 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:53.240 Yeah, and uh, I felt like I played pretty well. 0:10:53.520 --> 0:10:56.360 And for me going into that that free agency that year, 0:10:56.400 --> 0:10:58.959 you know, there wasn't uh, there wasn't a ton of 0:10:59.000 --> 0:11:00.679 opportunity for me to go and to be the day 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:02.600 one starter. I got to Carolina and knowing they had 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:05.160 the first overall pick, you know what's going to happen there, 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:07.720 regardless of how good I was playing in the off 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:09.600 season and the OTAs and all that kind of stuff, 0:11:09.640 --> 0:11:12.240 And in training camp it's the number one overall pick. 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:13.760 He's going to play, and so. 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:17.559 I knew that going in, so it made it easier, 0:11:18.080 --> 0:11:20.959 like mentally going into it and saying, Okay, regardless of 0:11:21.040 --> 0:11:23.400 what you do, you still prove yourself. From day one, 0:11:23.480 --> 0:11:25.600 I walked in and said, like, you know, I'm going 0:11:25.679 --> 0:11:28.840 to show you what I can do. And you know, 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:31.320 I felt good about what I was able to do 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:33.760 this past year and just being on the team and 0:11:33.800 --> 0:11:36.640 to help Bryce and to help him grow. Obviously, it 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:39.320 was a year of he had to handle a lot 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:41.640 of adversity. There was a lot of things that were 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:44.000 kind of stacked against him that he had to try 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:46.320 to overcome and had to handle. And he's never had 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:50.080 a season like that in his life, from high school 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:52.920 to college, being in a Heisman Trophy winner and what 0:11:52.960 --> 0:11:54.559 he was able to do with Alabama to and then 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:56.760 get into the league and have to handle that. But 0:11:58.000 --> 0:11:59.920 I think what we've been able to do this offseason 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:02.240 and to try to bring in the right pieces and everything, 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:04.040 I think we're trying to help set him up to 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:07.800 have a more successful season than obviously we had last year. 0:12:08.800 --> 0:12:10.319 I'm not saying that's gonna be easy to do. 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:14.640 But when we play Saints, it's two wins on the 0:12:14.640 --> 0:12:16.079 schedule for us. 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:20.640 Yes, okay, was there a moment or throw or a 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:22.680 game from last season that you can point to say 0:12:22.720 --> 0:12:25.079 that like Bryce is going to be okay and figure 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:25.800 it out. 0:12:26.000 --> 0:12:29.280 There was a game we played against the Packers. We 0:12:29.360 --> 0:12:33.560 did not end up winning the game, but you could 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:37.280 tell he kind of took over in the game and 0:12:38.000 --> 0:12:41.960 was like everything was flowing. He was he was playing 0:12:42.000 --> 0:12:44.600 on time, playing in rhythm, making big players, getting out 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:47.480 of the pocket, finding guys down the field, and it 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:50.560 was a game like, okay, this is what this is like, 0:12:50.760 --> 0:12:53.040 shows what he can be if we kind of get 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:55.760 everything around him built built the way it needs to. 0:12:56.440 --> 0:12:59.040 And so that was a game and even though like 0:12:59.120 --> 0:13:02.400 I wanted everything just to win that game, to felt like, okay, hey, 0:13:02.440 --> 0:13:04.880 you've got to feel that moment of you were feel 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:07.200 like you're taking over the game and you found a 0:13:07.200 --> 0:13:10.200 way to win. We obviously didn't win, but it was 0:13:10.240 --> 0:13:12.280 a game that felt like, Okay, this is definitely something 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:13.119 you can build. 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:16.679 On, okay, right, and building block, especially for a young quarterback, 0:13:16.760 --> 0:13:20.120 is key. Confidence is key. Not that you know it's. 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:22.520 Year one, it's your year one, you know, but. 0:13:22.559 --> 0:13:24.280 As a number one overall pick, you know how bright 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:25.240 that spotlight was. 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:28.320 Yeah, No, for sure, and I think especially with the 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:30.240 success of some of the other quarterbacks in that in 0:13:30.240 --> 0:13:33.960 that draft class too. Yeah CJ. I mean, he had 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:36.719 an unbelievable year. But the best thing for you, as 0:13:36.760 --> 0:13:39.640 you know, is experience to be out there. If you're not. 0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:41.640 If you're not out there, you're not getting that experience 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:42.160 and you're not. 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:44.200 That trial through fire is real because then then you 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:46.560 really figure out that mental spot too, like you figure 0:13:46.559 --> 0:13:49.000 out if you're a dog and that that's like able 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:51.040 to weather the storm or do you sort of like 0:13:51.080 --> 0:13:53.640 tuck the tail, like I can't do this right? Like 0:13:54.080 --> 0:13:56.520 you could shine bright whenever you're having immediate success, but 0:13:56.559 --> 0:13:58.720 are you still shining as brightly like when you're not 0:13:59.000 --> 0:14:02.240 for sure in being in that role? Does does that 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:04.400 change how you approach how you take care of your 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:07.440 body at all, mentally and or physically, well. 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:11.160 Physically, This is the best I've ever felt because you're 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:13.160 not taking any hit. You know, I got one. I 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:15.800 got one game this year and uh, you know, I 0:14:15.920 --> 0:14:17.719 felt the little sore and felt like I was part 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:20.280 of it. Then after that my body was feeling great 0:14:20.280 --> 0:14:22.680 and the best I felt going into an off season. 0:14:23.520 --> 0:14:26.480 But I think it allows you time to focus on 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:28.840 some other things too, you know, your body being one 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:31.400 of them. You know, making sure I probably spent more 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:33.320 time in the weight room and training room and stuff, 0:14:33.360 --> 0:14:35.840 just because you, I mean, the toll You're not having 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:38.160 to to do all the extra stuff that you know 0:14:38.560 --> 0:14:39.520 the starter has to do. 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:42.840 And so yeah, I feel like I'm in I'm in 0:14:42.880 --> 0:14:43.640 a great place. 0:14:43.480 --> 0:14:46.880 Right now, okay, mentally meaning that I'm not ready to 0:14:46.920 --> 0:14:48.800 go whenever that that I figured. 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:50.600 You say, you all walked in into the off season 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:53.280 feeling the best you've ever felt. That probably bodes well 0:14:53.360 --> 0:14:54.880 just in case your number is called. 0:14:55.720 --> 0:14:59.000 It is to you what my hill is now is tennis. 0:14:59.480 --> 0:14:59.560 Ye. 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:01.240 Yes, I wasn't expecting. 0:15:01.480 --> 0:15:03.280 I mean I sort of I should have should have expected. 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:05.400 You should have you knew that that was going on. 0:15:05.920 --> 0:15:08.720 JJ was getting your no no out there. 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:10.800 Get my wife Nikki out there and starting to play. 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:13.640 Now She's like, babe, what are we going to play? Yeah, 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:16.960 we're not. I was like, my body hurts. Actually, I'm 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:18.680 looking forward to pick a ball that's gonna be mine. 0:15:18.720 --> 0:15:21.400 Well, the good the good thing is tennis translates so 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:24.000 well to playing quarterback with all the different movements that 0:15:24.040 --> 0:15:27.880 you do. And so I've been all in and uh, 0:15:28.360 --> 0:15:30.120 that's been my office game changer. 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:32.440 How much longer do you want to play? 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:36.120 How much longer do you want to play? Again? 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:39.000 The conversations that we had in the conversation sitting in 0:15:39.000 --> 0:15:42.320 the locker room waiting for this, Yeah, you know, I 0:15:42.360 --> 0:15:43.880 want to go as long as it keeps making sense 0:15:43.880 --> 0:15:45.920 for me and my family and my body feels great. 0:15:46.080 --> 0:15:49.000 I feel like, you know, I can keep going. I 0:15:49.000 --> 0:15:51.800 think it'd be fun to to touch forty years old. 0:15:52.000 --> 0:15:55.320 Wow, yeah, so you're you're my hero. 0:15:55.840 --> 0:15:59.280 We'll see thirty six right now, be thirty seven in October, 0:15:59.400 --> 0:16:02.160 so only a couple more years. But we'll see if, 0:16:03.200 --> 0:16:05.080 as you know, we get to this thing and we 0:16:05.440 --> 0:16:08.240 evaluate after each season and see if we want to 0:16:08.280 --> 0:16:11.640 keep going. But I'm still loving it. I still enjoy 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:14.280 the game, still still love all the stuff that goes 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:14.680 into it. 0:16:14.720 --> 0:16:17.760 And so and that's why we're here at there, we 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:20.600 are at the broadcast workshop. What are you looking forward 0:16:20.600 --> 0:16:21.200 to this week? 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:25.000 I think there's so many different avenues and different you know, 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:28.520 realms of the media, and we as players see it 0:16:28.520 --> 0:16:29.200 from one side. 0:16:29.280 --> 0:16:30.920 Now you obviously different. You've got your. 0:16:30.800 --> 0:16:34.480 Whole cool graphic up here with off the Yeah yeah, this. 0:16:36.040 --> 0:16:39.640 Off the Edge podcast and and all the different things. 0:16:39.640 --> 0:16:42.000 But you get to see the different side of the 0:16:42.040 --> 0:16:45.120 media and and kind of get to experience all the 0:16:45.160 --> 0:16:47.920 different things rather be from calling a game to doing podcasts, 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:50.320 to being in studio and all the all the different things. 0:16:50.400 --> 0:16:52.960 So I'm just here to learn from the people that 0:16:53.200 --> 0:16:56.480 are going to be presenting to us, kind of get 0:16:56.560 --> 0:16:59.320 some of their knowledge and and hopefully, you know, see 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:02.560 what if this is something that I want to pursue 0:17:03.080 --> 0:17:05.919 moving forward, And you know, I think it's it's definitely 0:17:05.920 --> 0:17:09.960 a great opportunity that the NFL puts this thing on 0:17:10.040 --> 0:17:11.919 that we get a chance to come learn from the 0:17:12.240 --> 0:17:14.360 everybody here and involved. 0:17:14.119 --> 0:17:15.879 See if you want to pursue. So you see yourself 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:18.520 in the space, like how active do you see? Are 0:17:18.520 --> 0:17:20.760 you going to like Pat McAfee, like build out your 0:17:20.800 --> 0:17:23.280 own studio in Charlotte and just make the media come 0:17:23.320 --> 0:17:24.800 to you, or are you going to you know, do 0:17:24.920 --> 0:17:26.919 like you know these these quarterbacks do and have the 0:17:26.960 --> 0:17:29.280 deal done years in advance and then just. 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:33.480 Go hey, we'll see I'm here. So that's step one, right, right. 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:36.800 Step. Step one is showing up. Ye can't can't, can't 0:17:36.840 --> 0:17:39.280 get a blessing if without ever stepping into the church. 0:17:39.320 --> 0:17:42.080 You know, So I understand, gotta gotta step in and 0:17:42.080 --> 0:17:45.679 see what makes the most sense. I look forward to 0:17:45.680 --> 0:17:48.119 that just because, like people don't know how fun you are. 0:17:48.119 --> 0:17:50.199 You know what I'm saying, Like I feel like they 0:17:50.560 --> 0:17:52.360 know any Dalton the quarterback. 0:17:51.960 --> 0:17:54.320 I always have our lit I was talking out here 0:17:54.480 --> 0:17:58.440