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Speaker 1: Good morning, James. How are you doing good? How are you?

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Speaker 1: We're doing fine? Thank you? Anything exciting for your bye week?

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Speaker 1: Or did you just hang around the house and relax,

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Speaker 1: just hung around the house, relax the wife baby. They

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Speaker 1: really do much. Now. Do you watch like college football

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Speaker 1: NFL like all like both days or do you kind

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Speaker 1: of get away from it and take a little bit

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Speaker 1: of a break now watch everything? Um, good football games

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Speaker 1: going on yesterday and on Saturday, so pretty good weekend

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Speaker 1: for football outside of Wisconsin. Do you have a rooting

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Speaker 1: interest do you? Do you have some of your old

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Speaker 1: college teammates or even some of your old Patriots teammates

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Speaker 1: that are that are other places that you keep an

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Speaker 1: eye out on saying like an NFL or yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean obviously you're rooting for Wisconsin, but like yesterday

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Speaker 1: for example, you probably have guys that you play without

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Speaker 1: Wisconsin or former Patriot teammates that are around the league.

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Speaker 1: Do you have like a you have a special interest

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Speaker 1: into those games? Oh yeah, definitely trying to check out

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Speaker 1: you know, some my former teammates or you know, former

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Speaker 1: teammates high school things in that nature. Have a lot

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Speaker 1: of friends that play across the league. So anytime I

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Speaker 1: have an opportunity to watch them. It's pretty cool. Now

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Speaker 1: when you watch football and you know, just sitting there

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Speaker 1: on watching Sunday, do you kind of watch the other

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Speaker 1: running backs throughout the league so maybe you can pick

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Speaker 1: some stuff up or you know, just see what you

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Speaker 1: you know, your counterparts are doing. I watch everything. It's

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Speaker 1: not just running backs. Um, they watch a team that

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Speaker 1: we may be playing, layer down the road or things

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Speaker 1: of that nature, just to see what they're doing and

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Speaker 1: just really enjoy the game. You can't help but watch

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Speaker 1: it like a like an athlete when you know you're

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Speaker 1: playing in the NFL. So he kind of scouting everybody else.

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Speaker 1: In terms of the scheduling of the bye week, totally

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Speaker 1: out of your hands obviously, But is it worse in

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Speaker 1: the respect that you go into the bye week off

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Speaker 1: a loss, so you've got even more time to sit

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Speaker 1: and stew about it. Oh, it doesn't matter of a loss.

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Speaker 1: The loss is never good feeling. U. I mean, bye,

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Speaker 1: we gives you some time to make some correction, to

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Speaker 1: lift yourselves in the mirror. And he's come back ready

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Speaker 1: to go. What's it gonna mean to get Isaiah Winden back? Obviously?

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Speaker 1: He's not eligible to play this Sunday against Philly, but

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Speaker 1: the following week against Dallas he could could be activated.

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Speaker 1: It's a good football player, Ocous. He's been banging up

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Speaker 1: a little bit, but he definitely makes a difference. Would

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Speaker 1: be good to have him back out there. So you're

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Speaker 1: gonna be heading out of Philly, just come off a

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Speaker 1: game from playing down in Baltimore, hostile environment. Now you

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Speaker 1: headed to another hostile environment. What are some of the

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Speaker 1: things that you might be able to take from playing

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Speaker 1: on the road in Baltimore and maybe now saying hey,

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Speaker 1: this is what we gotta go to do in Philly

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Speaker 1: and we can expect. Oh, think definite want to get

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Speaker 1: off to a fast start, especially when playing on the road.

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Speaker 1: Don't want to let them jump out on you and

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Speaker 1: use the crowd against you. So start fast and just

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Speaker 1: coming that the defense and special teams and think that's

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Speaker 1: all about. We've noticed a lot of a lot of

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Speaker 1: love for your catch in the Baltimore game, even in

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Speaker 1: the aftermath and the last week or so. I guess

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Speaker 1: the feeling is that running backs in the NFL aren't

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Speaker 1: supposed to be able to make catches like that. UM,

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Speaker 1: I think most running backs have more of than cable

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Speaker 1: of making catches like that. Some of them, some good athletes,

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Speaker 1: guys who can are very versatile catch, running, block, And

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Speaker 1: I said, the quarterbacks give us an opportunity we can

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Speaker 1: try and go up there. Make aloft James, going back

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Speaker 1: to your rookie year, what was the biggest adjustment going

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Speaker 1: from the college game to the pro game? And it

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Speaker 1: could be anything. It could be sort of the you

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Speaker 1: know that, what the opponent was, you know, picking up

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Speaker 1: the you know, the playbook or whatever. What was the

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Speaker 1: toughest adjustment for you? I think you're just getting into routine.

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Speaker 1: You have a lot of free time as a professional athlete,

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Speaker 1: so it's just find a ways to take care of

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Speaker 1: your body or picking which days you do what things

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Speaker 1: you know, you know, Monday breaking down your opponent, Tuesday lifting,

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Speaker 1: getting treatment, whatever. It is just finding that routine so

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Speaker 1: you can just be the best you can be when

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Speaker 1: you go out there in the practice field and when

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Speaker 1: the Sunday comes around, um, you feel it as good

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Speaker 1: as you can to go out think of your teen's

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Speaker 1: best effort. Now. Kind of piggybacking off that question a

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Speaker 1: little bit, I know every guy has it in the league,

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Speaker 1: every player has that one guy that when they were

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Speaker 1: younger that they might have looked up to, and that

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Speaker 1: person helped them with some of those routines and what

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Speaker 1: you need to do. Who was the guy for you

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Speaker 1: when you were a young guy that you are kind

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Speaker 1: of in that Room's quite a few guys, and all

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Speaker 1: the running backs help me. Brandon Bowden, Shane Vrain, but

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Speaker 1: Garrett Steve really, Jonas Gray and Brandon LaFell too. He's

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Speaker 1: he's a big help for me too. My rook year