1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:02,400 Speaker 1: Good morning, Jason. How are you. I'm doing well. How 2 00:00:02,400 --> 00:00:04,640 Speaker 1: about your guys doing great? Thank you. How is the 3 00:00:04,920 --> 00:00:09,600 Speaker 1: quote unquote grind of training camp going so far? I'm 4 00:00:09,680 --> 00:00:12,320 Speaker 1: going it's the same old thing. Once you get out 5 00:00:12,320 --> 00:00:14,800 Speaker 1: there in the football field, you're just trying to get 6 00:00:14,800 --> 00:00:17,840 Speaker 1: better as a team. Obviously this year is a little 7 00:00:17,880 --> 00:00:20,320 Speaker 1: bit different for the fact that has been so long 8 00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:22,759 Speaker 1: since we've been together. So you're trying to get a 9 00:00:22,760 --> 00:00:24,959 Speaker 1: lot done in a short amount of time to be 10 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:28,080 Speaker 1: as prepared for the season as we possibly caring for 11 00:00:28,200 --> 00:00:30,680 Speaker 1: you on a personal level and maybe for the defense 12 00:00:30,800 --> 00:00:34,400 Speaker 1: as a group. Where are you in the evolution? Are you, 13 00:00:34,400 --> 00:00:36,440 Speaker 1: you know, to the point where you're competing and it's 14 00:00:36,440 --> 00:00:38,120 Speaker 1: at a high level, or are we still sort of 15 00:00:38,159 --> 00:00:40,440 Speaker 1: building and learning? Where? Where are Where do you feel 16 00:00:40,440 --> 00:00:44,200 Speaker 1: like you're in the process? Oh? I think those two 17 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:46,280 Speaker 1: things go hand in hand. I don't think you're ever 18 00:00:46,960 --> 00:00:50,000 Speaker 1: at a point where you're not competing and you're just learning. 19 00:00:50,040 --> 00:00:52,760 Speaker 1: And there's never a time once you start competing that 20 00:00:52,880 --> 00:00:55,560 Speaker 1: you're not learning. I think a great example of out 21 00:00:55,600 --> 00:00:59,000 Speaker 1: of the Godlie my brother he's now in the eleventh 22 00:00:59,080 --> 00:01:01,600 Speaker 1: year the same defense and not there a lot he 23 00:01:01,640 --> 00:01:05,080 Speaker 1: comes into work, not only competing every single day, but 24 00:01:05,319 --> 00:01:09,160 Speaker 1: also being extremely coachable and taking advantage of anything that 25 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:11,640 Speaker 1: he can learn, whether it's from a coach, whether it's 26 00:01:12,240 --> 00:01:14,640 Speaker 1: a new player or an old player. So I think 27 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:16,800 Speaker 1: those things go hand to hand. I think we'll continue 28 00:01:16,840 --> 00:01:20,080 Speaker 1: to do those things each and every day. One of 29 00:01:20,120 --> 00:01:22,440 Speaker 1: the words that we've heard the most when people are 30 00:01:22,480 --> 00:01:24,680 Speaker 1: talking about Cam Newton and what it's like with him 31 00:01:24,720 --> 00:01:27,280 Speaker 1: out on the practice field is energy. Do you agree 32 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:31,520 Speaker 1: that that's the word that jumps out at you as well? Yeah, 33 00:01:31,080 --> 00:01:33,920 Speaker 1: he definitely brings a ton of energy, and I think 34 00:01:33,959 --> 00:01:37,160 Speaker 1: with that also, you know, experience and knowledge is that 35 00:01:37,240 --> 00:01:40,040 Speaker 1: God has been playing in this league for a long time, 36 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:44,600 Speaker 1: a great height of success, and he going after the 37 00:01:44,600 --> 00:01:46,360 Speaker 1: table each and every day is he's working with his 38 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:48,720 Speaker 1: guys on the side of the ball, and as we're 39 00:01:48,760 --> 00:01:52,400 Speaker 1: competing against him. Obviously there's a competition at quarterback that 40 00:01:52,440 --> 00:01:54,360 Speaker 1: a lot of people are focusing on. But on your 41 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:56,560 Speaker 1: side of the ball, you guys return what you know, 42 00:01:56,600 --> 00:01:59,400 Speaker 1: at least the skeleton of the number one defense in football. 43 00:01:59,560 --> 00:02:01,480 Speaker 1: He asked, fact of the team. Is there a pressure 44 00:02:02,320 --> 00:02:04,920 Speaker 1: on the defense and maybe on the secondary in particular, 45 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:07,520 Speaker 1: to be the foundation upon which this team is built. 46 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:11,680 Speaker 1: I think something that Bill says each and every year, 47 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:14,480 Speaker 1: it doesn't matter what you did last year. It doesn't 48 00:02:14,480 --> 00:02:17,519 Speaker 1: matter what you've done anywhere else. All that matters is 49 00:02:17,560 --> 00:02:21,000 Speaker 1: this upcoming season. I think for us that's our main focus. 50 00:02:21,320 --> 00:02:24,320 Speaker 1: Last year is over with, and even to that effect, 51 00:02:24,320 --> 00:02:25,840 Speaker 1: we didn't get to where we wanted to get to 52 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:28,840 Speaker 1: last year anyway. So for us is are how can 53 00:02:28,880 --> 00:02:31,200 Speaker 1: we get better? How can we improve each and every day? 54 00:02:31,440 --> 00:02:33,800 Speaker 1: And I think especially in our secondary, with so many 55 00:02:33,840 --> 00:02:36,880 Speaker 1: guys retirement and a lot of experienced guys, they're just 56 00:02:36,960 --> 00:02:39,560 Speaker 1: trying to push each other in every way we can, 57 00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:42,959 Speaker 1: whether it's Hey, he's massive disposition, Hey learned this one 58 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:45,560 Speaker 1: as well, just being able to push one another and 59 00:02:45,560 --> 00:02:48,640 Speaker 1: compete each and every day to try to get better. 60 00:02:49,360 --> 00:02:52,520 Speaker 1: Bill this morning talked about what Stephen Belichick and Brian 61 00:02:52,639 --> 00:02:56,320 Speaker 1: Belichick bring to the coaching staff. You're uniquely positioned. You've 62 00:02:56,360 --> 00:02:59,040 Speaker 1: known Stephen going back to the Rutgers days he was 63 00:02:59,080 --> 00:03:01,560 Speaker 1: coaching last year at the position that you were playing. 64 00:03:01,720 --> 00:03:06,359 Speaker 1: What kind of coaches Stephen Belichick, oh Man, A lot 65 00:03:06,440 --> 00:03:10,080 Speaker 1: like our staff in general, very knowledgeable of the defense 66 00:03:10,120 --> 00:03:14,040 Speaker 1: and knowing everything that's going on, and knowing what's expected 67 00:03:14,080 --> 00:03:17,760 Speaker 1: of us from from Bill and from each and every 68 00:03:17,760 --> 00:03:20,600 Speaker 1: coach that's on this staff. And I think Steve, obviously 69 00:03:20,600 --> 00:03:23,600 Speaker 1: being a younger coach, can connect with so many guys, 70 00:03:23,600 --> 00:03:25,640 Speaker 1: and he's a guy that he knows the history of 71 00:03:25,639 --> 00:03:28,760 Speaker 1: this organization. Although he might not have been coaching back 72 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:33,360 Speaker 1: in the early two thousands, he knows all about those players, 73 00:03:33,400 --> 00:03:35,280 Speaker 1: all about what it was done here, and I think 74 00:03:35,440 --> 00:03:38,640 Speaker 1: he brings that tradition and his knowledge each and every day. 75 00:03:39,120 --> 00:03:41,280 Speaker 1: So I think he's done a great job just continuing 76 00:03:41,280 --> 00:03:44,520 Speaker 1: to teach guys and also I think positively impact guys 77 00:03:44,520 --> 00:03:47,240 Speaker 1: and build them up, to build confidence in each and 78 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:49,200 Speaker 1: every guy to take the field and they able to 79 00:03:49,240 --> 00:03:52,520 Speaker 1: complete their job. You guys, as football players as the NFL, 80 00:03:52,560 --> 00:03:54,840 Speaker 1: are obviously not in a bubble. But when you look around, 81 00:03:54,840 --> 00:03:57,520 Speaker 1: not only your team, which has not yet placed anybody 82 00:03:57,560 --> 00:03:59,880 Speaker 1: on the COVID list, and you look around the league, 83 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:03,880 Speaker 1: the numbers are great. Is that a testament to the players, 84 00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:06,960 Speaker 1: the coaches, the teams, the families, how seriously they're taking 85 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:11,320 Speaker 1: this and how they're working through the protocols. Yeah, I 86 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:13,880 Speaker 1: believe so. And I think the one thing for us 87 00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:16,320 Speaker 1: right now being in the middle of the training camp, 88 00:04:16,960 --> 00:04:18,960 Speaker 1: it makes it a little bit easier for us. We're 89 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:21,800 Speaker 1: we're in the building all day. You get a little 90 00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:23,920 Speaker 1: bit of time off and you're so tired. Help for 91 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:25,599 Speaker 1: the most part, you're getting ready to go to bed, 92 00:04:25,680 --> 00:04:27,880 Speaker 1: or you're studying and you're getting ready for the next day. 93 00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:30,520 Speaker 1: But like you said, I think guys have done a 94 00:04:30,520 --> 00:04:33,640 Speaker 1: great job of being responsible on that time away from 95 00:04:33,680 --> 00:04:35,359 Speaker 1: the building, whether it be an all day, whether it 96 00:04:35,400 --> 00:04:38,520 Speaker 1: be an evening, of making sure they're making the right decisions. 97 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:41,200 Speaker 1: And we said that early on. And we're all in 98 00:04:41,279 --> 00:04:44,520 Speaker 1: this thing together, not only players and coaches, but trainers, 99 00:04:44,560 --> 00:04:47,559 Speaker 1: everybody in our dining and staff. There's so many people 100 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:49,360 Speaker 1: that are in the building right now that make this 101 00:04:49,520 --> 00:04:53,159 Speaker 1: thing go, and we're all responsible to one another to 102 00:04:53,320 --> 00:04:55,520 Speaker 1: hold each other accountable and make sure we're doing things 103 00:04:55,600 --> 00:04:59,240 Speaker 1: safely or outside the building just to keep this thing running. 104 00:04:59,279 --> 00:05:02,240 Speaker 1: And you said, it doesn't only go for us, but 105 00:05:02,320 --> 00:05:04,359 Speaker 1: it goes for all thirty two teams, because at some 106 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:06,680 Speaker 1: point we're going to start competing against each other and 107 00:05:06,760 --> 00:05:08,560 Speaker 1: we're going to need that kind of safe space to 108 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:12,360 Speaker 1: continue to do so. For the coming months, there were 109 00:05:12,360 --> 00:05:14,600 Speaker 1: a lot of questions for everyone, I assume for you 110 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:17,279 Speaker 1: as well before you got to training campus to how 111 00:05:17,320 --> 00:05:19,520 Speaker 1: this was going to be, what the protocols were going 112 00:05:19,560 --> 00:05:22,960 Speaker 1: to be. Now that you're in it and involved in 113 00:05:22,960 --> 00:05:25,400 Speaker 1: it on a daily basis, has it been better than 114 00:05:25,440 --> 00:05:30,000 Speaker 1: you expected? I don't really know what I expect. You 115 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:33,480 Speaker 1: should be honest with you. I mean, this last however 116 00:05:33,560 --> 00:05:37,080 Speaker 1: many months in the march, our country has been absolutely insane, 117 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:39,200 Speaker 1: so it's hard to know what you would expect. But 118 00:05:39,600 --> 00:05:42,279 Speaker 1: I will say as an impressive just to see not 119 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:46,000 Speaker 1: only the way protocols in the way we've spaced out 120 00:05:46,040 --> 00:05:48,760 Speaker 1: in our building, the way we've gone about things, but 121 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:51,120 Speaker 1: I've been more importantly just to see the way so 122 00:05:51,160 --> 00:05:54,360 Speaker 1: many people have worked to make those things come. In 123 00:05:54,360 --> 00:05:58,719 Speaker 1: sub tuition, we're for our food service. We have food 124 00:05:58,720 --> 00:06:01,080 Speaker 1: being made for each individ because we can no longer 125 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:03,559 Speaker 1: do bluffe. I think you on the surface, you allow 126 00:06:03,680 --> 00:06:05,400 Speaker 1: that was great, but I think when you really dive 127 00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:07,680 Speaker 1: into it, that's a lot of extra work for a 128 00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:10,000 Speaker 1: lot of other people. And that's going on throughout my 129 00:06:10,240 --> 00:06:12,680 Speaker 1: entire building. A lot of people that I've been here 130 00:06:12,720 --> 00:06:15,520 Speaker 1: for numerous years are putting in a ton of extra 131 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:18,400 Speaker 1: work to make sure that this thing is ran properly 132 00:06:18,400 --> 00:06:21,160 Speaker 1: and that everybody is as safe as possible. One of 133 00:06:21,200 --> 00:06:23,479 Speaker 1: the receivers I'm reading a lot about and a guy 134 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:26,760 Speaker 1: we know has a high compete level to steal a 135 00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:29,920 Speaker 1: term from hockey is Gunner. I'm wondering what you've seen 136 00:06:29,960 --> 00:06:32,040 Speaker 1: from Gunner as a guy that you know arrived as 137 00:06:32,040 --> 00:06:34,560 Speaker 1: a former college defensive back, makes the roster a year 138 00:06:34,560 --> 00:06:36,719 Speaker 1: ago as a punt returner, a wide receiver, and what 139 00:06:36,839 --> 00:06:40,000 Speaker 1: he looks like as a wide receiver in year two. 140 00:06:40,839 --> 00:06:44,599 Speaker 1: Gunner's a lot like everybody else in this organization that 141 00:06:44,960 --> 00:06:47,599 Speaker 1: he works his butt off. I've gotten a chance to 142 00:06:47,640 --> 00:06:50,479 Speaker 1: be around him obviously is last year and now this 143 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:54,240 Speaker 1: year and a little bit throughout the offseason. He's just 144 00:06:54,680 --> 00:06:57,280 Speaker 1: he's a hard worker and he's talk and I think 145 00:06:57,680 --> 00:07:00,599 Speaker 1: that's something that you love to have. Just tough guys, 146 00:07:00,640 --> 00:07:03,919 Speaker 1: and he's somebody that, um, he's gonna come one hundred 147 00:07:03,960 --> 00:07:07,719 Speaker 1: percent no matter what the driller, no matter how sore, 148 00:07:07,920 --> 00:07:09,800 Speaker 1: whatever he is in the middle of the training camp, 149 00:07:09,800 --> 00:07:13,320 Speaker 1: he's gonna give one hundred percent on everything special teams, 150 00:07:13,400 --> 00:07:17,520 Speaker 1: whether it's covering a kick, whether it's returning a kick. Uh, 151 00:07:17,560 --> 00:07:19,640 Speaker 1: they asked him to play defense, he'd go out there 152 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:23,000 Speaker 1: and play defense. I think that's what kind of sticks 153 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:25,800 Speaker 1: out of our gunner. He's just continuing to get better 154 00:07:25,800 --> 00:07:28,040 Speaker 1: each and every day like the rest of us. Finally, 155 00:07:28,040 --> 00:07:30,560 Speaker 1: before we let you go, are you missing the podcast? 156 00:07:30,640 --> 00:07:33,200 Speaker 1: You and your brother were breaking scoops in this offseason 157 00:07:33,280 --> 00:07:37,840 Speaker 1: during the podcast. Yeah, I was kind of man at 158 00:07:37,840 --> 00:07:39,760 Speaker 1: a high tower and telling they should have broke the 159 00:07:39,840 --> 00:07:43,680 Speaker 1: news when they came on the podcast. But Una, man, 160 00:07:43,720 --> 00:07:47,320 Speaker 1: we're focused on football right now. I think, uh, men did. 161 00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:49,400 Speaker 1: We're just trying to find ways to have fun off 162 00:07:49,440 --> 00:07:53,400 Speaker 1: the field. Man. The podcast came out of unique conference 163 00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:56,400 Speaker 1: where everybody was kind at home and the idea came 164 00:07:56,480 --> 00:07:57,880 Speaker 1: and it was there was a lot of fun being 165 00:07:57,920 --> 00:08:00,520 Speaker 1: able to connect all the fans and whether we're talking 166 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:02,960 Speaker 1: football with life and at some point we'll get back 167 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:05,120 Speaker 1: to it. But I think right now for us, the 168 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:08,200 Speaker 1: main focus is football and both of us have older 169 00:08:08,240 --> 00:08:10,920 Speaker 1: guys sean to do everything we possibly can to help 170 00:08:10,960 --> 00:08:13,679 Speaker 1: this team become as good as they possibly can. Jason, 171 00:08:13,720 --> 00:08:15,760 Speaker 1: we appreciate the time. It's always best of luck to 172 00:08:15,840 --> 00:08:19,280 Speaker 1: you all. Thank you, appreciate for God. Thanks Shake care. 173 00:08:19,440 --> 00:08:22,640 Speaker 1: That is New England. Patriots defensive back Jason mccordy