Speaker 1: Welcome to the Official Jets Podcast. I'm Eric Allen. We
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Speaker 1: get the second half of the season underway in style
Speaker 1: with Garrett Wilson. Garrett, I wanted to ask you how
Speaker 1: you're by a week I was, man, it was great. Um.
Speaker 1: I feel like I took full advantage, you know, spent
Speaker 1: it up here and got some sleep, got my legs
Speaker 1: back under me. So I'm feeling, you know, going in
Speaker 1: this week time. I gotta imagine a lot of people
Speaker 1: from Ohio state and wanted you back. Huh. I wanted
Speaker 1: to be back, um, but once again, you know, I
Speaker 1: feel like once I travel and kind of get into that.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't, uh, I don't know. It takes
Speaker 1: my body a while to get acclumated, you know. So
Speaker 1: so I wanted to, you know, just take everything off
Speaker 1: my body for the week and and you know, get
Speaker 1: rejuvenated for for the Patriots. All right, So you wanted
Speaker 1: to get rejuned rejuvenated, I should say, And you had
Speaker 1: the opportunity to go to the world's most famous arena, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Manson Square Garden for the latest UFC fights. What was
Speaker 1: that like? On Saturday night? That was my first time
Speaker 1: ever attending to fight. And it's really cool, man. It's different.
Speaker 1: You know you kind of have people going in and out. Um,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden at the end of the stadium
Speaker 1: is full, but you kind of like, how do you
Speaker 1: get this way? You know, no one was sitting down
Speaker 1: ten minutes ago, and um, yeah, man, it was really cool.
Speaker 1: You know, you got a lot of emotion depending on
Speaker 1: you know, who you think is gonna win. And and uh,
Speaker 1: I didn't know. I was honestly as big of a
Speaker 1: fan as I ended up being by the end of
Speaker 1: that night. So it was really cool too. You know,
Speaker 1: experience at UFC fight, What was your favorite fight of
Speaker 1: the evening? And can you talk about your partnership with
Speaker 1: that location what you were doing throughout the evening. Yeah, so, um,
Speaker 1: on Location provided us with a suite. Um, I did
Speaker 1: an interview before we did the before we went up
Speaker 1: and got in the Swede and got to our seats,
Speaker 1: we did an interview which was really cool and UM
Speaker 1: overall just just made it a good, good experience for me.
Speaker 1: You know, I didn't really know what I was getting
Speaker 1: into going to the fight, but they kind of guided
Speaker 1: me through it, tell me where I was going, show
Speaker 1: me how to get around MSG and walked past Stephen
Speaker 1: the you got to say hello, you know, stuff like that. Man.
Speaker 1: It was cool. UM. So yeah, No, on Location was
Speaker 1: really helpful. But UM, tell me what the tell me what.
Speaker 1: The first part of the question was on sorry your
Speaker 1: favorite brawl the evening, favorite fight of the evening at
Speaker 1: a son your loss? So I had to say, way Lee,
Speaker 1: I believe her name was UM the co main event.
Speaker 1: She was She was awesome. I feel like she got
Speaker 1: it done fast. I kind of knew she was gonna
Speaker 1: get it done fast. UM and I kind of watched
Speaker 1: like some YouTube videos before are leading up at her
Speaker 1: because I just heard she was a beast and Taytor
Speaker 1: was all in on it and she did a good job,
Speaker 1: so she was fun to watch the main event. What's
Speaker 1: your major takeaway from that where somebody has control for
Speaker 1: four rounds and then something flips. Yeah, I mean I
Speaker 1: feel like I feel like Pereira had his his mindset
Speaker 1: when he came out that fifth round that he's got
Speaker 1: to end here because he knows that if it, if
Speaker 1: you don't knock him out, he was gonna lose, you know.
Speaker 1: And yeah, I mean that's the mindset you can take
Speaker 1: into a lot of different things you're doing life. You know,
Speaker 1: it's never over till it's over. Um. You know you
Speaker 1: gotta finish um. And yeah, just like I said, you
Speaker 1: know it's never over to us over. I mean he
Speaker 1: was he was clearly losing the fight, at least from
Speaker 1: my my judge eyes up in the box, right, I
Speaker 1: think I think I was right. I feel like that's
Speaker 1: the majority the not understanding of it. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean he came out in round five and really proved
Speaker 1: something so unexpected and also just the emotion that all
Speaker 1: those fighters have after winning. Man, it's uh it's awesome
Speaker 1: to see because you know, you put as much into
Speaker 1: it as they, and um, you know, I see a
Speaker 1: few parallels. You know, we're playing playing football and um,
Speaker 1: you know. But besides that, like you know, it's not
Speaker 1: a team sport, it's everything is on them, you know,
Speaker 1: And I think it's really cool, man, just every other
Speaker 1: pressure on it and everything. Did it get real quiet
Speaker 1: when it was clear that out of Sagna was out,
Speaker 1: because I think most of the crowd was probably behind him, No,
Speaker 1: for sure, Um, I would say it sounded like about
Speaker 1: eighty nine of us were there to see out of signa,
Speaker 1: you know when and keep the boat. But yeah, man, Pereira,
Speaker 1: I mean he was getting booed. Oh yeah, he handled it, man,
Speaker 1: he handled it and I pushed through at the end.
Speaker 1: So it did get quiet, if I remember correctly, he
Speaker 1: got quiet. I was something mad, honestly, I probably I
Speaker 1: was mad, I'm not gonna live and I was mad.
Speaker 1: I kind of lost it for like the ten secons
Speaker 1: right after the fight and had to get up out
Speaker 1: of there. But it definitely got quiet, Like you know,
Speaker 1: I wasn't the only one feeling that way. Do you
Speaker 1: see any parallels what happened there and what's happening with
Speaker 1: you guys on the road so far this season, Because
Speaker 1: I'd go back to Cleveland and think about how you're
Speaker 1: league quiet that stadium became. When Corey has the long
Speaker 1: touchdown reception, you guys will cover the on side kick
Speaker 1: and then you end it with the touchdown reception from Joe. Yeah, um,
Speaker 1: I mean it kind of. I kind of do see
Speaker 1: some parallels. You know, we're we're on the road team,
Speaker 1: and you gotta embrace those embrace those moments. You know,
Speaker 1: you gotta embrace being the underdog, being the the one
Speaker 1: that everyone sup wants to see fail. Man, you gotta
Speaker 1: embrace those moments and kind of use it to fuel you.
Speaker 1: And um, yeah, you know, for obviously did a good
Speaker 1: job of that. But we've done a great job with
Speaker 1: that throughout this season, you know, winning on the road,
Speaker 1: and hopefully it's something that can carry into the second
Speaker 1: half of the season. You know. But um, when you
Speaker 1: have that that mentality and and um that you know
Speaker 1: we got we have something to prove and we're going
Speaker 1: on the road, and that you know this we could
Speaker 1: turn this into our place. I feel like it carries
Speaker 1: over well and Um, yeah, I feel like we've done
Speaker 1: a good job of that so far. How much you
Speaker 1: like the vibe of New York, of playing here, like
Speaker 1: you just attended a big time event in the city.
Speaker 1: But MetLife Stadium is rocking now because everybody's on award.
Speaker 1: With the Jets being six and three, I mean, the
Speaker 1: stadium is a whole lot different than the first three
Speaker 1: weeks you know, we were in there. The last couple
Speaker 1: of weeks have been electric in there, and um man,
Speaker 1: it's really special playing up here and especially winning, you know.
Speaker 1: Um obviously I haven't been anywhere else. I can't speak on,
Speaker 1: you know, anywhere else as far as NFL, but I
Speaker 1: can't imagine it being better than this, you know. And
Speaker 1: and as far as off the field, man, you got
Speaker 1: every opportunity at your feet, you know. I feel like
Speaker 1: you can never you can never run out of things
Speaker 1: to do as far as in this, you know, twenty
Speaker 1: five mile radius. It's really crazy and I just blessed
Speaker 1: to be here. And every day, you know, I wake
Speaker 1: up in New York, I'm like, what I'm gonna do today? Man?
Speaker 1: I really got all the options I practice, but what
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do? And I love that about. It's really
Speaker 1: special out here. You're the only rookie receiver who had
Speaker 1: ninety yards receiving in his first nine games in the
Speaker 1: National Football League. You've high expectations for yourself, always have.
Speaker 1: What do you think about your start here? I feel like,
Speaker 1: you know, it's had its ups and downs, um, you
Speaker 1: and I feel like I'm I'm I'm starting to get
Speaker 1: it a little bit. I'm starting to, um feel like,
Speaker 1: you know, feel like myself again, at least personally. I know,
Speaker 1: I'm feeling like myself. And and uh yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: it's been everything I expected and then something. But but
Speaker 1: you know, for me to put a lot of pressure
Speaker 1: on myself and expect me not to mess up and
Speaker 1: make some make some mistakes here and there, and this
Speaker 1: is my first time experience, and you know, something like this,
Speaker 1: UM was unrealistic for me. So you know, I'm glad
Speaker 1: I um had some had some bumpy starts and bumpy
Speaker 1: mumpy games, you know, to get those hopefully out of
Speaker 1: the system and never never returned. But overall, man, I
Speaker 1: feel good. I feel like I'm learning every week. I
Speaker 1: feel like I'm getting better every week, and you know
Speaker 1: that's that's all I can really ask for how would
Speaker 1: you describe those bumps? Like from my fire people would
Speaker 1: be like, geez, take care of business out. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean personally, I I know my ability and I and
Speaker 1: I put some balls on the ground some drops early.
Speaker 1: Um and I started it. I started in camp, so
Speaker 1: you know, and I started and O t A is
Speaker 1: actually and and it carried into the start of the
Speaker 1: season and uh, just getting into my routes fast blocking wise.
Speaker 1: You know, there's a lot of things that we go
Speaker 1: watch the film that when you when you really go
Speaker 1: and watching dig deep and look for something to get
Speaker 1: better at your fine. You know, I'm not watching it
Speaker 1: just to see you know why this Uh you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not watching my film to see how I scored
Speaker 1: that touchdown. I'm watching it too correct how I could
Speaker 1: have scored faster, made and made it easier on myself
Speaker 1: to make a catch. And uh, that's that's gotta be
Speaker 1: the mentality I take into the film room taking to
Speaker 1: the practice field. You know, I gotta find some to
Speaker 1: improve on every day just so I can keep building. Man,
Speaker 1: because the moment I don't, you know, you start, you're
Speaker 1: gonna fall off. And I don't want that to be
Speaker 1: the case, you know, but yeah, those bumps, they haven't
Speaker 1: been two bumpies so far. But overall, I just know
Speaker 1: myself and know that I lest some plays on the
Speaker 1: field and I would want them back. How big were
Speaker 1: the last two weeks for you and the young quarterback
Speaker 1: Zach Wilson, because there was a spot there where hey,
Speaker 1: a lot of balls weren't coming your way. But we
Speaker 1: saw it against the Patriots, we saw it against the Bill. Like,
Speaker 1: can you guys carry that momentum now heading into this
Speaker 1: uh post by stretch? Yeah, it's just building. Um, it's
Speaker 1: been building since since he got back, since camp, honestly,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know we had the hiccup in between
Speaker 1: where he got hurt and uh ever since he got backman,
Speaker 1: we've just been continuing to building. It kind of goes
Speaker 1: back to what I'm saying, get better every day and
Speaker 1: that that's not just in the film room, not just
Speaker 1: on the predit field with Zach, with our relationship, you
Speaker 1: know all those things. And uh, Zack has a similar
Speaker 1: same mindset about that. You know, we always trying to
Speaker 1: improve something. He comes in the in the room and
Speaker 1: talks about what we uh you know, what we can
Speaker 1: do this week to exploit something or what we need
Speaker 1: to work on what he saw in film, and and
Speaker 1: for me personally being a young dude and him being
Speaker 1: a young dude, man, that's great for me. I need
Speaker 1: to hear that. I need to to hear my quarterbacks
Speaker 1: thinking because at the end of the day, I want
Speaker 1: to be what he wants me to do. I want
Speaker 1: to be whatever he wants me to be. You know.
Speaker 1: I want to get the ball as much as possible.
Speaker 1: I want to make the play. I want to um
Speaker 1: make every play that that he throes to me. And
Speaker 1: so it's important that we have those conversations, that we
Speaker 1: have those that we have those talks and corrections so
Speaker 1: that we can, you know, be on the same page
Speaker 1: and and be be hitting on all cylinders when it
Speaker 1: comes out of Sunday. Do you have an opportunity to
Speaker 1: watch any ball on Sunday? I wanted to ask you
Speaker 1: about the Vikings game with the Buffalo Bills. It's a
Speaker 1: great game, man, I've never seen nothing like it, for real.
Speaker 1: It's crazy. So obviously that was a good finish for
Speaker 1: you guys, because look at you guys sitting there are
Speaker 1: six and three a half game behind the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: You're tied technically with the Buffalo Bills, but you have
Speaker 1: a better record than them and also beat them inside
Speaker 1: the division. But I wanted to ask you about two
Speaker 1: performers in that game. Yeah, justin Jefferson. What do you
Speaker 1: like most about his game? And what did you see
Speaker 1: on Sunday that you really appreciate it? Just the way
Speaker 1: he gets in and out of his brakes, Man, it's
Speaker 1: really uh special in his ability to to deceive the dvs. Man,
Speaker 1: he's got a really special rocker step, you know that
Speaker 1: you don't see in a lot of receivers where they can.
Speaker 1: To me, it looked like he played hoops growing up,
Speaker 1: like he uh, you know, it's got a little crossover
Speaker 1: and then not like he's got all that and you
Speaker 1: can tell he translates to the up I feel real well.
Speaker 1: And then um, but you know him and his quarterback
Speaker 1: on the same page all the time, and it's, uh,
Speaker 1: it's really fun to watch. Me. I had a whole
Speaker 1: lot of fun watching that game. And uh, I didn't
Speaker 1: know it was at noon, right, It wasn't nothing. One
Speaker 1: of the Neon games was at four. It was because
Speaker 1: the excuse me, Yeah, I didn't know that game was on,
Speaker 1: so turn on TV and that game is. I'm like,
Speaker 1: it's real good, you know, seven and one and six
Speaker 1: and two and uh yeah, I mean the Bills gave
Speaker 1: it to him. I think I'm not gonna lie, but
Speaker 1: I mean overall, justin Jefferson, that was top five performers
Speaker 1: I watched, you know, really yeah, I would say top
Speaker 1: five man. I mean when did Yeah, it's when you
Speaker 1: make the catches. Um, that's special. I mean the dB
Speaker 1: caught it for him and uh he went and got it. Man.
Speaker 1: He took it from him in his fourth down. I
Speaker 1: think it was fourth and long and minute left. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's special. That's when you gotta do that, when
Speaker 1: you gotta make those plays. And he did it. Man.
Speaker 1: That's that's uh, you know, that's what we grew up
Speaker 1: talking about. Some of my pops grow up telling me,
Speaker 1: you know this, big players make big plays. You know.
Speaker 1: That's that's the definition of that right there. What about Diggs.
Speaker 1: It's funny. It's funny because I was watching uh interview
Speaker 1: you had with Caroline here recently, and one of the
Speaker 1: shots the folks in the back used was you doing
Speaker 1: a one handed catch at practice. What did you think
Speaker 1: about his one handed His one hand was sweet. I
Speaker 1: honestly thought that was a better catch, But the moment
Speaker 1: of it is what was sways, the tips, the tips,
Speaker 1: the scale. But yeah, dis played well as well. Man.
Speaker 1: He's really fun to watch and got to go against
Speaker 1: his former team. You know, I feel like he had
Speaker 1: no chance, no choice but to with the ball out. Honestly, Um,
Speaker 1: you know, the vikings came out fine. Justin Justin Jefferson
Speaker 1: had like seventy yards in the first first drive, you know, so, um,
Speaker 1: Digs had the ball and he did that. Man, he
Speaker 1: really bawled and him and him and Josh Allen also,
Speaker 1: you know, they got a great connection, always on the
Speaker 1: same page, and even when they're not, you know, Digs
Speaker 1: are gonna make a play for him or vice versa.
Speaker 1: And it's Uh, that was one of the better games
Speaker 1: I've watched in a long time. Man. What makes so
Speaker 1: impressive Because he doesn't run routes that you typically see
Speaker 1: a receiver run. I would say he's he's just very unique.
Speaker 1: The way he pressed it, Um, I think his false
Speaker 1: acceleration is really good. He's got a great ability to
Speaker 1: look like he's he's um pushing vertical really hard when
Speaker 1: really he's perfectly under control, and the dB has a
Speaker 1: hard time, you know, being able to tell if he's
Speaker 1: running full speed or if he's jogging, and you know it,
Speaker 1: it's a false acceleration and it truly is a skill.
Speaker 1: You know, you gotta build that. You know, you don't
Speaker 1: want to always look like you're running to go and
Speaker 1: you're running to go, you know. So I feel like
Speaker 1: he does a good job of setting things up. And
Speaker 1: also you can tell he's a great in the film room.
Speaker 1: You know, Um, I think first play last week, they
Speaker 1: come out and he slips inside on the on the
Speaker 1: go ball against us and catches it down the sideline
Speaker 1: for about thirty forty And that's film where you know
Speaker 1: he ain't no sauce was gonna play it like that.
Speaker 1: But you watch film and you could tell that's what
Speaker 1: I see in him, and UH got a lot of
Speaker 1: respect for that, And you know, you gotta chip on
Speaker 1: the show. You always go out there with something to prove,
Speaker 1: you know, do you take parts of each of their
Speaker 1: games because you can see it the way you have
Speaker 1: you have a unique style. But also at the same time,
Speaker 1: your buddy your teammate Tyler Conchland, who played with Justin
Speaker 1: in Minnesota. He was the first guy here said, you
Speaker 1: know who I see Garrett, I see a little bit
Speaker 1: of Justin Jefferson. Yeah. No, I try and take something
Speaker 1: from from both of their games, for sure. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: i'd be I'd be dumb not to They're both such
Speaker 1: great players and and do things so well that, um,
Speaker 1: you know, being a young dude coming into the league
Speaker 1: and that didn't really know what exactly what I was
Speaker 1: getting into, you know, that's all I was watching is
Speaker 1: J Jedded Davante you had of um Stefon Diggs. You know,
Speaker 1: I love. I love being a student of the game
Speaker 1: and studying the other receivers and and learning how they
Speaker 1: attack dbs and trying to add something to my game.
Speaker 1: You know. But but um, you know, they all move different,
Speaker 1: We all move different, and you know there's certain ways
Speaker 1: you can add certain things that it only doesn't Jets
Speaker 1: you can do that, you know, because it's way his
Speaker 1: body moves, you know. But like, um, what I can add,
Speaker 1: I'll try and add for sure, you know. And um, yeah,
Speaker 1: did you talk Togs after the game. I ain't talked
Speaker 1: to him I wanted to. Man, I feel like I
Speaker 1: saw him and I wonder I had got approached by
Speaker 1: someone to do like a little talk thing, and by
Speaker 1: the time I turn around, he was gone. Man. You know,
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't blame him, you know that. I
Speaker 1: know I am after the loss. You know, it's say,
Speaker 1: who say, what's up to? Whoever come up to me?
Speaker 1: But besides that is I'm out of there, and uh,
Speaker 1: hopefully next game I'll be able to chop it up
Speaker 1: with him because you know, obviously one of my favorite receivers.
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Speaker 1: New York, Tennessee, and Virginia. When we look ahead to
Speaker 1: the Patriots, do you feel, as an individual and as
Speaker 1: a team that you guys let one slip away the
Speaker 1: first time you met him? I do, um. And the
Speaker 1: thing is with this league man, that it doesn't really matter.
Speaker 1: You know, it doesn't really matter. You gotta go out
Speaker 1: and win the game. You know, you gotta go out
Speaker 1: and do it. Um. You could look at the watch
Speaker 1: the film and and think get an idea of how
Speaker 1: this game go or how you're gonna play, But but
Speaker 1: you gotta go out there and do it on Sunday.
Speaker 1: And we left a lot of players on the field.
Speaker 1: We didn't played our best and and we got beat
Speaker 1: because of it. And um, yeah, that's the reality of it.
Speaker 1: With this lead man, You're not just gonna You're not
Speaker 1: just gonna really, um stumble upon a win. You know,
Speaker 1: no matter what the circumstances are you gotta go go
Speaker 1: win the game, and uh yeah, you had a big
Speaker 1: game against them though, and Belichick, Yeah, you go over
Speaker 1: a hundred yards um and I believe you had around
Speaker 1: eight catches. You probably targeted nine times. And that's one
Speaker 1: of the most impressive stats when you look at your
Speaker 1: stat line a lot of times, is that not only
Speaker 1: you're coming out with the receptions, but your percentage is
Speaker 1: so high in terms of the targets that you're coming
Speaker 1: down with the football. But Belichick's known over the years
Speaker 1: to take away what an offense does, well, what do
Speaker 1: you think he's gonna have in store for seventeen? The
Speaker 1: second time, they got me a few times on Judean,
Speaker 1: you know, getting into the flat and uh checking the
Speaker 1: slot receiver. And I feel like I'll see a lot
Speaker 1: more of that. They watched film the one time they
Speaker 1: are at least one of the two times that he
Speaker 1: did he got me and I was on the floor,
Speaker 1: didn't get into my route. So I feel like they'll
Speaker 1: probably do that. But you know, I'll have a plan.
Speaker 1: I'll have a different plan than going into this game.
Speaker 1: You know, we just played him two weeks ago and
Speaker 1: and I just saw this DV group, man, and I
Speaker 1: feel like I have a good plan of how how
Speaker 1: to go about it. Man. So a lot of a
Speaker 1: lot of respect of Belichick, but um, you know we
Speaker 1: got something over here, and you know, I'm confident of
Speaker 1: my booty. Whatever you got for me, you know we're
Speaker 1: gonna be all right. Yeah, you're a football player. You
Speaker 1: get it done from the outside in the inside. Do
Speaker 1: you have preferences or it just depends on the game,
Speaker 1: you know, as far as where you're lining it up,
Speaker 1: it definitely depends on the game. But like slot is
Speaker 1: easier slots, the easy, easier receiver position. Just as far
Speaker 1: as you can play with a lot of more backyard
Speaker 1: football rules, you can play with a lot of field.
Speaker 1: Um you got don't have a sideline, you know, shortening
Speaker 1: your your releases or not your really yeah, your releases
Speaker 1: next to angles. You know, you when you're on the
Speaker 1: sideline in the boundary especially, you know you can't really
Speaker 1: get that wide on your release because the sidelines right there. Um,
Speaker 1: you're in slot, you got the whole field, you know.
Speaker 1: And the Nickel knows that too, He's worried about the
Speaker 1: whole field. So I feel that whenever I'm in a slot, man.
Speaker 1: I feel like, you know, you could really use uh
Speaker 1: a lot of those things against him, and that's one
Speaker 1: of the harder positions to play on defense as well,
Speaker 1: you know that nickel positions, so there's so much traffic.
Speaker 1: There's so much traffic, so much to deal with. But
Speaker 1: on offense, you know, I'd like to use all that
Speaker 1: with me, you know, like I could, I could run
Speaker 1: him into that linebacker, you know, if he's running with me.
Speaker 1: That are those type of things and slot slot you
Speaker 1: can play with a lot of field. I like the
Speaker 1: outside though, like you said, I want to be able
Speaker 1: to play play both and do it well. I want
Speaker 1: to be able to play both. Well. Yeah, it was
Speaker 1: like a fifty fifty split. I think if you look
Speaker 1: at the first nine games, how much does it change
Speaker 1: the dynamic whenever you guys get Corey back, because he
Speaker 1: was such a big part of this offense, and can
Speaker 1: you speak to the transition. I guess that you guys
Speaker 1: constantly have to under goal just because of injuries, right
Speaker 1: because if Corey comes back, and obviously this team continues
Speaker 1: to try to find ways to get Elijah the ball
Speaker 1: as well. Yeah, man, CD, Having CD back will be huge,
Speaker 1: because first off, you know, that's the big dog in
Speaker 1: the room, that's that's an event man. And we all
Speaker 1: looked at him, and you know, he didn't want to
Speaker 1: break us out of practice. He don't want that break
Speaker 1: us out before the game. You know, get us, get
Speaker 1: us in the right headspace. And uh, you know, just personally,
Speaker 1: I know, I love him so like having him back,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna just feel better taking the field with with CD. Man.
Speaker 1: You know, it's um something that he brings to the
Speaker 1: field that that not everyone does. It's not it's not
Speaker 1: always the play that the players that get the glory,
Speaker 1: and you know he does it. He does everything so well.
Speaker 1: But but he's also willing to put his body on
Speaker 1: the line for the team and for his teammates, and
Speaker 1: and uh that's a special part for me. Man, seeing
Speaker 1: him go down, you know I was, I was really worried.
Speaker 1: But to know that we're gonna get him back in
Speaker 1: a few weeks here and maybe this week, you didn't
Speaker 1: really excited. So um, yeah, I can't wait to see
Speaker 1: CD out there. You know, do you tell Elijah to
Speaker 1: keep his head off or you being a rookie that hey,
Speaker 1: I know different guys have different situations, and you know
Speaker 1: that he's very valuable, valuable parts to this team. It's
Speaker 1: just a matter of time before he gets going. You know.
Speaker 1: With me and his relationship so good, we we really
Speaker 1: talk about anything everything, so that uh, you know, I
Speaker 1: try not to tell him anything as far as that,
Speaker 1: you know, keep your head up, normal stuff like it's
Speaker 1: gonna come and he and he he knows that. But yeah, man,
Speaker 1: we we just push each other every day. That's the
Speaker 1: main thing with me. We're gonna push each other. We're
Speaker 1: gonna we're gonna be like good route, good route, bad
Speaker 1: hands on that one, you know, And that that's that's
Speaker 1: me and his relationship. You know, I don't wanna try
Speaker 1: and you know, influence his his mindset or anything. You know,
Speaker 1: we all here for for our reasons and and got
Speaker 1: different things to prove. And um, you know, that's that's him,
Speaker 1: that's that's CD, that's ms A's me, all of us,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, we're gonna keep pushing, That's all
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say. You know, whenever he gets his opportunity,
Speaker 1: he's gonna take advantage. I confident in that because that boy,
Speaker 1: the boy's nice and you guys continue to encourage each
Speaker 1: other exactly. Man, it's all loving that room. So uh yeah, man,
Speaker 1: we all just come in each day and and do
Speaker 1: us asked of us. And you know, whether it's a
Speaker 1: lot or a little, um, it's not ill to us.
Speaker 1: You know, we just love each other really, all it
Speaker 1: is receiving room. We just love each other, man, and
Speaker 1: it's special for it to be that way. I'm sure
Speaker 1: it's not that way everywhere. While are you sitting here
Speaker 1: right now? Because he might be able to be in
Speaker 1: an NBA room? You know, he had multiple Division one
Speaker 1: scholarship offers. You were tearing it up on the hardwood
Speaker 1: back in high school. Yeah, you were good. Boy. Was
Speaker 1: that a hard decision for you to go football? It
Speaker 1: wasn't because I was five eleven, six ft type so
Speaker 1: um my pops played. He's six five and just looking
Speaker 1: at it, six ft point guard. If I was six five,
Speaker 1: if I'll still probably be a point guard, you know.
Speaker 1: So like that's well, that's how the league's turning as
Speaker 1: far as the NBA. And it was a business decision. Man.
Speaker 1: I love basketball is my first love. I love football too,
Speaker 1: and yeah it's a business sis And I love playing
Speaker 1: and you know I was six ft. You got like
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons, gonna gonna match up with me on Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you can get to the rim, I can get
Speaker 1: to the room expressive. There's just gonna be a whole
Speaker 1: lot harder to get the ball off. I started to
Speaker 1: realize that when the au and I really I was
Speaker 1: really good, I'm not. I was really good at basketball.
Speaker 1: I was able to finish. I was a great finisher,
Speaker 1: um that finishing around people. But man, it's just they
Speaker 1: seven ft seven to all of a sudden, these dudes
Speaker 1: seven six. Now it's just leagues turning and and yeah,
Speaker 1: it was a business saison. That's the best way I
Speaker 1: could put it, you know, going to college to play basketball,
Speaker 1: I had to play football. It was a business decision.
Speaker 1: I wanted to to give myself the best opportunity to
Speaker 1: make this a long term, long term success for me.
Speaker 1: Do you watch some of your dad's old highlights from Dad,
Speaker 1: I've seen I've seen a few clips just back in
Speaker 1: the eighties, early eighties. I've seen a few clips. Um,
Speaker 1: I never pulled up a whole game and nothing like that.
Speaker 1: I should, but yeah, I've seen a clip when they
Speaker 1: beat Duke with coach k I think they'd beat Notre
Speaker 1: Dame Bobby Knight. He was like seventh all time and
Speaker 1: scoring David's all time at Davison. Yeah he is. Um.
Speaker 1: Do you play with him like yeah, oh yeah. We
Speaker 1: we all played going up. That's how we got good.
Speaker 1: It's trying to beat our pops. And he played until
Speaker 1: he was about he did so he played different leagues,
Speaker 1: different rec leagues. What kind of lessons did he give you?
Speaker 1: Wayingell me lessons man that you ain't gonna get nothing
Speaker 1: to you, like you ain't gonna let you, just let
Speaker 1: you win. Um, And no one beat him. I was
Speaker 1: the first brother to beat him, and I was in
Speaker 1: eighth grade when I beat him. He was just getting
Speaker 1: a little older. Couldn't guard me, that's all the way.
Speaker 1: He just couldn't guard me. But if I played him
Speaker 1: on horse or anything like that, I still lose. You know,
Speaker 1: what do you give you the outside shot? How do
Speaker 1: you try to defend you? I mean he was trying
Speaker 1: to guard me for really, just trying to guard me,
Speaker 1: do all of it. And I'm I'm blowing by him,
Speaker 1: you know, but and I knew what he couldn't. What
Speaker 1: do you what his strength were and stuff like everybody
Speaker 1: wouldn't be able to do, so I was just using
Speaker 1: my speed. Um. But yeah, man, so many great lessons
Speaker 1: growing up with three brothers and the older dad. That's
Speaker 1: still competitive man. I mean we were talking trash with
Speaker 1: Pops and I was probably too young to be saying
Speaker 1: some of the things I said. He was going at
Speaker 1: it man, you know. And uh, since I was a
Speaker 1: young kid, I watched my older brothers compete with with
Speaker 1: my pops. And they all seven years, eight years, nine
Speaker 1: years older than me. So I wanted to be involved,
Speaker 1: you know, I wanted I was watching and I feel
Speaker 1: like I was left out because they would say I'm
Speaker 1: not old enough and stuff like that. So you know,
Speaker 1: I kind of was able to get into it earlier.
Speaker 1: They kind of let me in early. But we had
Speaker 1: a lot of great lessons. Who was your favorite player
Speaker 1: NBA player? Um? Probably Carmelo when I was growing Up's
Speaker 1: your dog's name? Yeah? I love Carmelo. I love Karmelo. Um.
Speaker 1: That ain't right though, but you in such a different game. Yeah, No,
Speaker 1: I didn't play. I wouldn't. I wasn't saying I wouldn't
Speaker 1: say I was trying to play with him. Like growing up,
Speaker 1: like high school favorite player was like Derrick Rose because
Speaker 1: he was at Semeon we lived in Illinois and um
Speaker 1: we was living in Chicago and he was at Semion
Speaker 1: and he was just the man, like he was one
Speaker 1: player in the country, like he was crazy. And uh
Speaker 1: one of our friends that like Brandon Paul who play
Speaker 1: against and played at Illinois, really good player in Illinois.
Speaker 1: They would like go at it a little bit and
Speaker 1: we would always watch And I love Derek bro I
Speaker 1: love him growing up. I still do. Man happy on
Speaker 1: the Knicks. Now, Hey, U t when you were at
Speaker 1: Lake Travis. Yeah, we're a lot of people hounding you
Speaker 1: or they understood, Hey listen, he's got roots back there
Speaker 1: and see bus so he probably gonna go to hisle state.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I mean they were hiding me a little bit,
Speaker 1: just just because that's how it is in Texas. Man.
Speaker 1: Everyone thinks that Texas is and all the all, and
Speaker 1: for me, it wasn't that. And uh, you know, I
Speaker 1: got a lot of love for for Austin, but it
Speaker 1: just wasn't right for me to go to Texas at
Speaker 1: least at that moment. And uh, my dad and mom
Speaker 1: had a big you know, big influence on my decision,
Speaker 1: and they helped me out. You know, they were great
Speaker 1: at reading people, and uh, we love coach the Day man.
Speaker 1: So that was really what it came down. How much
Speaker 1: did Day help you as far as not only what
Speaker 1: you did in college, but what you're doing now every
Speaker 1: day at the pro level. Yeah, I mean he he
Speaker 1: had been around these pro ranks and and knew how
Speaker 1: practice should look and knew how you know, our individual
Speaker 1: drives should look. Along with coach hard Line, you know,
Speaker 1: they both build a schedule and built a practice and
Speaker 1: environment for us as receivers and young players that get
Speaker 1: you ready for this. Uh this steps to the next level.
Speaker 1: And I feel like you see it all over the
Speaker 1: league with with Buck oys being good players at the
Speaker 1: next level. And yeah, I'm really thankful for that. Man.
Speaker 1: I feel like it's honestly started started back with Urban
Speaker 1: there and uh and and and they had they had
Speaker 1: something built there to where players knew how to practice.
Speaker 1: The brotherhood was real and and it wasn't no taking
Speaker 1: the playoffs. It was iron on iron versus iron every practice,
Speaker 1: you know, and uh, you know it wasn't going against
Speaker 1: Scott's that practiced life now we're going and I still
Speaker 1: carry a lot of that with me, you know, run
Speaker 1: on the field. You know, it's just different different. It's
Speaker 1: different because I see people from other schools as well,
Speaker 1: and it's just different the way they went about business there.
Speaker 1: And uh, I'm thankful for it. Man. I feel like
Speaker 1: it's it's uh responsible for you know who I am
Speaker 1: right now? Post Special was this rookie class you got
Speaker 1: you got yourself, Cat Sauce, got your main, you got
Speaker 1: Max Mitchell, you got Bruce Hall who was having an
Speaker 1: outstanding year before he got hurt. You got Michael Clemens,
Speaker 1: you got Rocker and probably forgetting somebody. But I mean
Speaker 1: it's it's some dogs in there, man, and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: t a like there's so many there's so many dogs
Speaker 1: in there that that's bringing something to the table, bringing
Speaker 1: something different to uh to this team. And and you know,
Speaker 1: we all we all know we're rookies, but we wanted
Speaker 1: to have an impact and and be people in the
Speaker 1: in the facility that people counted on and relied on. Uh.
Speaker 1: I feel like we're doing a good job with that, man.
Speaker 1: So so it's just getting better every day now. That's
Speaker 1: that's the goal. And that's always been a goal, but
Speaker 1: we got to just continue on. It's about being consistent
Speaker 1: and how often can you do it? And and we're
Speaker 1: trying to, uh, you know, build that as young players
Speaker 1: and and I feel like, you know, the facility is noticing.
Speaker 1: What do you think about? What's the head if you
Speaker 1: talked about now you got this final stretch of games,
Speaker 1: this organization hasn't made the playoffs. That's two thousand time.
Speaker 1: But sitting there right in front of you right now,
Speaker 1: obviously everybody's gonna talk about the process. Can't get anywhere
Speaker 1: ahead of your yourselves because it's the Patriots first, but
Speaker 1: just where you've kind of set yourself up four in
Speaker 1: terms of this run. Yeah, man, it's gonna be a
Speaker 1: lot of big games that you know, as a as
Speaker 1: a competitor that you want to be in. And um,
Speaker 1: you know, I look at the schedule. I see the Patriots,
Speaker 1: I see the Bills Dolphins again obviously, um I see
Speaker 1: the Minnesota Bears and justin NEGETI play against my dog again.
Speaker 1: You know, like it's gonna be a lot of big
Speaker 1: games that means something, and as a competitor, that's all
Speaker 1: you want. Man. You know, it's easy to get up
Speaker 1: out of bed when you're playing for the playoffs spot.
Speaker 1: You know, we're playing for a seven and three record,
Speaker 1: you know those are those are easy to get up
Speaker 1: out of bed for it. And you know, I'm just
Speaker 1: excited that we're in this, we're in this situation. You know,
Speaker 1: no one had us here. We believed and that's all
Speaker 1: that mattered. And now we're here, and you know, what
Speaker 1: are we gonna do with it? You know, it'll be
Speaker 1: special this the second half the season, you know, hopefully
Speaker 1: to go prove the world that we're we're here to stay.
Speaker 1: We're justin, just on the fleet. Yeah, we were a
Speaker 1: big fight Saturday night. You have plenty of big fights
Speaker 1: ahead of you. Congratulations on the start to your career.
Speaker 1: Can't wait to see what's ahead in the second half. Man,
Speaker 1: appreciate that. Make you part of me on m M Yeah,