Speaker 1: Drake Green Live or since the Super Bowl about his recovery,
Speaker 1: his progress.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I see him every day.
Speaker 1: Uh you know that that boot on his foot's getting
Speaker 1: smaller and smaller. Uh, you know, day by day he's
Speaker 1: working to getting back to on his two feet, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, he's as optimistic as he can be, right.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's such a devastating injury, especially that time
Speaker 1: of the of the year, you know, the last game
Speaker 1: of the season. So you know, I felt for him
Speaker 1: obviously in the moment that it happened. I felt for
Speaker 1: him ever since, you know, just just checking in with
Speaker 1: him often, and uh, like I said, he's had the
Speaker 1: best mindset just about it and continue to stay optimistic
Speaker 1: and knowing that he'll be back stronger than ever.
Speaker 3: Working with Nick now on the defense, Just how has
Speaker 3: that been different so far?
Speaker 1: Early?
Speaker 2: But just how's that process going? Yeah, it's great. You know,
Speaker 2: I love Nick.
Speaker 1: I love what he brings to the table, and I
Speaker 1: think he's always been a really smart and uh invaluable
Speaker 1: asset to what we do on defense ever since he
Speaker 1: came on to the team. You know, he worked a
Speaker 1: lot with the linebackers early on and kind of has
Speaker 1: bounced around with some of the defensive backs, and now
Speaker 1: he has his opportunity, you know, to lead the defense.
Speaker 2: And I have full confidence in him.
Speaker 1: I think the way that his mind works and his
Speaker 1: ability to teach is exactly what you want.
Speaker 2: And so I'm really excited to work with him.
Speaker 4: Much contact with Brandon Staley, and he's been involving.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's been around. He's been around, uh you know
Speaker 1: as I've been working out here.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: We we got a couple opportunities to just sit in
Speaker 1: chat with one another. And I love, you know, what
Speaker 1: he's gonna be able to bring to our defense and
Speaker 1: kind of implementing different things in his mind. The way
Speaker 1: that he works, you could tell, like you know that
Speaker 1: he's he's been around for a long time and knows
Speaker 1: his stuff, and so I'm excited to have him as well.
Speaker 5: Cut a little bit of surprise, A big surprise.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean huge, huge surprise.
Speaker 1: You know, for ever since I've been here, that's been
Speaker 1: you know, we called him the blueprint for how to
Speaker 1: be a Niner. You know, that was the longest tenor
Speaker 1: Niner uh that's been here. And the guy, a guy
Speaker 1: that's done it right, uh, through and through you know,
Speaker 1: and you know to say, I've been in this thing
Speaker 1: long enough where at this point nothing surprises me. You know,
Speaker 1: there's there's there's this, There's decisions that have to be made.
Speaker 1: You know, this is a business at the end of
Speaker 1: the day. And you know, for him, I'm happy for
Speaker 1: him and the new opportunity that he has in Jacksonville
Speaker 1: to go and succeed there, h and provide for his family.
Speaker 1: And we obviously got some big shoots to feel at
Speaker 1: that position. And it's not up to just one guy
Speaker 1: to just come in and be the new Eric Armstead.
Speaker 1: You know, it's gonna take uh, you know, the whole
Speaker 1: group to elevate their game.
Speaker 2: To make up for that, you know. So yeah, I'm
Speaker 2: sad to see him go for sure.
Speaker 5: I mean not you personally or several other guys, but
Speaker 5: this core group may not have much longer to go,
Speaker 5: just exactly intact like that.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: That's uh, that's part of the business. You know, I
Speaker 1: don't know how long this the core group is going
Speaker 1: to be be around, and uh, you know, you got
Speaker 1: to treat every year like it's you last, you know,
Speaker 1: and uh, you don't know how long you're gonna be together.
Speaker 1: So you got to make sure that you go all
Speaker 1: out every single season that that you have because, uh,
Speaker 1: that window for winning super Bowls it's not always open,
Speaker 1: but as long as I've been here, it's been open,
Speaker 1: and so we got to make it happen.
Speaker 6: This draft is especially big because of that, when we
Speaker 6: know the window is still open and you guys are
Speaker 6: obviously very good, and do you want to see guys
Speaker 6: drafted who can.
Speaker 2: Help right away?
Speaker 1: I mean I always want to see us draft great players.
Speaker 1: Uh you know, uh, you don't want to see as
Speaker 1: draft bad players. So I think, you know, the draft
Speaker 1: is always really important obviously you see how how important
Speaker 1: it's been here and guys playing a lot of a
Speaker 1: lot of snaps you know, as rookies and as young
Speaker 1: players here in this organization and being stable players for us,
Speaker 1: And so I am excited about the draft.
Speaker 2: You know, every year is important for the draft though.
Speaker 5: Nickornson and what you think of him and how you
Speaker 5: think he's gonna send to that to the DC spot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like I was like I was talking about, you know,
Speaker 1: I really like Nick. I think, you know, having played
Speaker 1: the having played the game for a long time, you know,
Speaker 1: he knows a lot of ball and I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think he did a great job the last couple
Speaker 1: of years of doing the ball meeting. You know, people
Speaker 1: talk about, uh, you know, how important the ball is
Speaker 1: around here, you know, taking the ball away, protecting an offense.
Speaker 1: He was the one that ran that mean and did
Speaker 1: such a great job with it, you know, you know,
Speaker 1: in part of doing his job on defense, but you know,
Speaker 1: has that leadership ability to be able to stand in
Speaker 1: front of a group and command the command the room.
Speaker 2: Uh. You know. So I think he's gonna do a
Speaker 2: great job. I'm really excited about him.
Speaker 4: How much is his experience in your system in the past,
Speaker 4: how much is that going to help the transition this
Speaker 4: year as opposed to last year was a little challenging.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, it's gonna it's gonna be great. I think
Speaker 1: it'll be a great transition. That helps, you know, the
Speaker 1: fact that he knows the system, has been around it,
Speaker 1: and we just got to get better at the fundamentals
Speaker 1: and technique of what we do as well as implementing, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, some some tweaks in there as well, you know,
Speaker 1: because we've been running the same thing for a long time.
Speaker 1: You know, teams know we're running. Uh, you know, we're
Speaker 1: not afraid of that. You know, they know what we're running,
Speaker 1: but gonna run it better then, you know than whatever
Speaker 1: they know that we're how we're running it right, So
Speaker 1: I think that's the whole key to what we do.
Speaker 1: But there does have to be kind of some some
Speaker 1: tweaks in there to make sure that we are switching
Speaker 1: things up a little bit, and I think Nick's going
Speaker 1: to do an amazing job.
Speaker 6: The role do you expect to have in terms of
Speaker 6: those tweaks and actually shaping what the scheme looks like?
Speaker 1: Oh, my role has always been to just go out
Speaker 1: there and execute whatever they tell me to do. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm obviously at a point in my career where I'm
Speaker 1: extremely confident in my abilities and helping lead the group
Speaker 1: day in and day out. So I'm gonna continue to
Speaker 1: do that and find ways to get better to ultimately
Speaker 1: help the team win games.
Speaker 7: Why they brought in Brantage Daily sort of have a
Speaker 7: new set of eyes because teams do know what you
Speaker 7: guys are gonna do, and you can sort of help
Speaker 7: you kind of go in a different direction.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you can never have too many smart
Speaker 1: guys in the room, you know, I think he knows
Speaker 1: a lot of football. And having a guy who's been
Speaker 1: successful in this league, especially on the defensive side of
Speaker 1: the ball, you know, and playing and or coaching in
Speaker 1: different schemes, I think for sure is to our advantage
Speaker 1: and can help us a lot.
Speaker 4: Face is added to that linebacker co what's the communication.
Speaker 5: Been with them?
Speaker 2: It's been great, you know. I love every year, you know,
Speaker 2: and we add to the group. Uh.
Speaker 1: Dev Andre has been obviously awesome as a as a
Speaker 1: seasoned veteran in this league, and I've watched and mired
Speaker 1: his game for a long time, being an All Pro
Speaker 1: and Pro bowler, and adding into the group I think
Speaker 1: is going to be really big. And Ezekiel being a
Speaker 1: stud for Arizona for a lot of years. We came
Speaker 1: out of the same year and I always knew forty
Speaker 1: seven on Arizona because that was the guy we're always
Speaker 1: circling and the special teams means as the guy that
Speaker 1: we had to stop, you know. And so I think
Speaker 1: both of them as free agents, and then whoever we
Speaker 1: add in the draft rookie wise, I think are just
Speaker 1: gonna make our rown better.
Speaker 5: I'm deep in the postseason for the last five years.
Speaker 5: When you get the band back together, what is the
Speaker 5: bigger toll that you have to face? Is it the
Speaker 5: physical part of playing those extra games or the mental
Speaker 5: part of coming so close again?
Speaker 2: It just starting zero and zero all over. Yeah, they're
Speaker 2: both tough.
Speaker 1: It's it's hard to choose one because I mean, the
Speaker 1: mental part is real, right like you talk about, uh,
Speaker 1: not only you know, the mental the emotional toll of damn,
Speaker 1: we were so close, man, and it takes everything out
Speaker 1: of you. You've got to make sure that you're really
Speaker 1: intentional about your offseason. You know, however long or short
Speaker 1: it may be. You got to be intentional about getting out,
Speaker 1: get away, get your recovery in, and get that reset,
Speaker 1: because when you come back, you gotta be ready to go.
Speaker 1: Nobody cares about what happened last year, you know, teams
Speaker 1: who either didn't make the playoffs, teams that made the
Speaker 1: playoffs win the Super Bowl, didn't win the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: Everybody starts on the same ground level, you know, and
Speaker 1: I know I'm excited, I'm rejuvenated, ready to go, and
Speaker 1: you know everything's ready to go.
Speaker 2: Let's go.
Speaker 6: Contract extensions with the Niners and ot drama.
Speaker 2: No again, yours was kind of the exception.
Speaker 3: You signed relatively early in mid July and we didn't
Speaker 3: hear anything about that.
Speaker 2: I mean, was it pretty drama free?
Speaker 4: And do you have any device you could send achievings?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Man, I mean it's always uh, you know, a lot
Speaker 1: of things happen behind the scenes that people don't see,
Speaker 1: even though people, you know, you say that I didn't
Speaker 1: I had a drama free experience.
Speaker 2: My experience was great.
Speaker 1: You know, there was constant communication between my agent and
Speaker 1: and the you know, the guys who were involved in
Speaker 1: that deal, and we got something done that was you know,
Speaker 1: great for both sides. But anytime there's that amount of
Speaker 1: money on the line, you know, you're talking about you know,
Speaker 1: tens of millions of dollars that are you're being paid to,
Speaker 1: you know, to perform at the highest level, it's gonna
Speaker 1: take time, you know, and so whatever that takes. And
Speaker 1: you see that obviously, even the guys that a lot
Speaker 1: of things happened behind the scenes are out in the media.
Speaker 1: Behind the scenes whatever, uh, after it's done, you usually
Speaker 1: don't really hear about it again, you know, and those
Speaker 1: guys usually perform at a high level and do a
Speaker 1: lot of good things for us. So yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: there's you know, whatever it is, what it is, it's
Speaker 1: part of the business. And yeah, I can only speak
Speaker 1: on my experience, right, So.
Speaker 4: You know, the Dwight Clark Award, and this year it's
Speaker 4: going to Drake green Law. How proud are you of
Speaker 4: him and what he's become.
Speaker 7: In his NFL career.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm so. I'm so proud of him.
Speaker 1: Uh, you know, And I kind of made my little
Speaker 1: statement about him winning the Dwight Clark Award and it
Speaker 1: was a huge honor for me last year winning it,
Speaker 1: and I kind of spoke a little bit about Dre
Speaker 1: and the type of teammate he is and what he
Speaker 1: means to this team. You know, guys are people outside
Speaker 1: the building they see Dre and they see him on
Speaker 1: Sundays making the big hits in the in the splash
Speaker 1: plays and going crazy. But I mean, we have so
Speaker 1: much respect for him in this locker room and who
Speaker 1: he is as a person and a player, the way
Speaker 1: that he comes to work, the things that he's overcome
Speaker 1: and his life and in his career, and so I mean,
Speaker 1: it's no better person to win the award this season
Speaker 1: or this year than Dre.
Speaker 3: We had a couple of months after the Super Bowl,
Speaker 3: you and both had like life changing events.
Speaker 2: You had your first child, brought got married.
Speaker 3: When you put everything together on where does that stuff
Speaker 3: fit in and does take some of the sting away
Speaker 3: or they just totally separate?
Speaker 2: How do you sort of process that?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that's that's my number one, you know,
Speaker 1: having uh well obviously first marrying my wife and then
Speaker 1: now it's having our our first baby boy together. That's uh,
Speaker 1: that goes above everything. Family is number one for me,
Speaker 1: and then the football stuff comes second. And that doesn't
Speaker 1: mean that football doesn't mean it's not as important. It's
Speaker 1: not important to me. But yeah, I had to obviously
Speaker 1: get over that loss pretty quick because I had something
Speaker 1: that was really important, uh coming up. And uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I think that they both play hand in hand as well.
Speaker 1: You know, I think now I have even more to
Speaker 1: play for, uh in this game. I already had a
Speaker 1: lot of motivation, a lot of inner drive, but to
Speaker 1: to look at my son every day and know that
Speaker 1: I'm playing for something else as well, Uh, it could
Speaker 1: get pretty scary. So yeah, so like the pitch, we
Speaker 1: can go and we can go in detail about the pitch.
Speaker 1: But you know, I guess that that's what happens when
Speaker 1: I guess when you don't warm up, you know, you
Speaker 1: overshoot it, and then or I guess you don't overshoot,
Speaker 1: you undershoot, right, So uh yeah, I'll leave that to
Speaker 1: sleep derivation.
Speaker 2: I like that, you know, I would love one. I
Speaker 2: would love one. I would never turn it down.
Speaker 1: I don't care how how bad I dart it. Surprisingly no, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess guys don't care about baseball and the football
Speaker 1: team so exactly. That was very underprepared for that one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I should be way more prepared. I'll get a couple
Speaker 1: more practice throws next time for the next one.
Speaker 2: So all right, guys, Yeah,