1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:00,880 Speaker 1: Bitter sweet. 2 00:00:00,920 --> 00:00:02,640 Speaker 2: I felt better as the game went on to the 3 00:00:02,640 --> 00:00:04,760 Speaker 2: second half. I think the offense had a better job executing, 4 00:00:05,320 --> 00:00:07,800 Speaker 2: but it was too late at that point. But I 5 00:00:07,800 --> 00:00:09,520 Speaker 2: think we ended off on a good note. We're carrying 6 00:00:09,520 --> 00:00:11,120 Speaker 2: some of the energy going to practice this week. 7 00:00:11,320 --> 00:00:13,720 Speaker 3: When you watch the film of yourself, what did you see, 8 00:00:13,760 --> 00:00:15,440 Speaker 3: what did you take away from and what would you 9 00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:16,159 Speaker 3: like to improve on? 10 00:00:16,960 --> 00:00:20,640 Speaker 2: That one interception stands out to me the most. Again, 11 00:00:20,680 --> 00:00:22,640 Speaker 2: I was just trying to be a little too aggressive. 12 00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:25,720 Speaker 2: I just got to see that guy get down to 13 00:00:25,760 --> 00:00:28,720 Speaker 2: another option that I have. We had a good run 14 00:00:28,760 --> 00:00:30,440 Speaker 2: play before that. To try to just keep staying in 15 00:00:30,440 --> 00:00:32,800 Speaker 2: the positive and don't have any negative plays. 16 00:00:34,400 --> 00:00:37,800 Speaker 4: What was your reaction to your dad's viral moment there 17 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:40,680 Speaker 4: in the in the stands reaction to the floor down plant. 18 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:44,240 Speaker 2: I come from his blood line and his lesh and blood. 19 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:49,760 Speaker 2: I'd understand frustration. I mean, I don't know everybody. I'm 20 00:00:49,760 --> 00:00:51,400 Speaker 2: assuming we specially when you don't convert it. If you 21 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:53,920 Speaker 2: had converted it, there would have been no issues with anybody, 22 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:56,320 Speaker 2: regardless that's my father, anybody else in the stands. 23 00:00:56,360 --> 00:00:58,440 Speaker 1: I know how it goes, but that's just part of 24 00:00:58,480 --> 00:00:58,760 Speaker 1: the game. 25 00:00:59,640 --> 00:01:01,920 Speaker 4: I used to are you allowing yourself to kind of 26 00:01:01,960 --> 00:01:03,640 Speaker 4: bring in some of that from the outside, from your 27 00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:05,520 Speaker 4: family and friends and the reaction to this, I mean 28 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:08,240 Speaker 4: imagine they must feel like this is a wild ride 29 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:09,120 Speaker 4: that you're on here. 30 00:01:09,160 --> 00:01:12,800 Speaker 1: Do you talk to them about it now? Experience that's 31 00:01:12,920 --> 00:01:14,720 Speaker 1: the giants? 32 00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:16,600 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean they're here with me. Like I said, 33 00:01:16,640 --> 00:01:19,760 Speaker 2: like I stay at home clearly as everybody knows now right, 34 00:01:21,880 --> 00:01:23,800 Speaker 2: So yeah, I mean I live in a small town. 35 00:01:24,080 --> 00:01:26,360 Speaker 2: Everybody you know and you can. You won't go somewhere 36 00:01:26,360 --> 00:01:29,240 Speaker 2: without seeing somebody you know. So it's just all the 37 00:01:29,240 --> 00:01:32,080 Speaker 2: support is unreal. And yeah, they're living the moment with me. 38 00:01:32,440 --> 00:01:35,120 Speaker 3: Did you know you made People magazine for that story? 39 00:01:35,720 --> 00:01:38,000 Speaker 2: I did not, but I do now. I'm not surprised 40 00:01:38,080 --> 00:01:42,880 Speaker 2: that that though. Okay, yeah, I'm not surprised at this point. 41 00:01:42,920 --> 00:01:44,399 Speaker 2: I've seen a lot of things and a lot of 42 00:01:44,400 --> 00:01:46,640 Speaker 2: people posting a whole bunch of stuff about it. 43 00:01:46,680 --> 00:01:49,240 Speaker 1: But I mean it is what it is at this point. 44 00:01:49,520 --> 00:01:50,280 Speaker 1: Just saving money. 45 00:01:50,520 --> 00:01:52,920 Speaker 4: If you wandered into your favorite bagel store or something 46 00:01:52,960 --> 00:01:54,920 Speaker 4: in Ceedar Grove and I had that experience, or have 47 00:01:54,960 --> 00:01:56,600 Speaker 4: you kind of stayed away from that, you know? 48 00:01:57,240 --> 00:01:59,320 Speaker 2: Yeah, No, I've kind of I've kind of stayed away 49 00:01:59,640 --> 00:02:01,920 Speaker 2: a little bit. I mean certain things I'll go around, 50 00:02:01,960 --> 00:02:04,800 Speaker 2: but you know, nothing too crazy Tommy. 51 00:02:04,840 --> 00:02:07,960 Speaker 5: What a teammates said to you about either your performance 52 00:02:08,080 --> 00:02:09,880 Speaker 5: or encouragement or anything like that. 53 00:02:10,240 --> 00:02:13,120 Speaker 2: Yeah, just keep being that ball energy and just keep 54 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:18,640 Speaker 2: just having you know, that competitive confidence. It's about myself 55 00:02:18,720 --> 00:02:21,520 Speaker 2: just to help keep the offense going, especially when we're 56 00:02:21,800 --> 00:02:23,160 Speaker 2: if you want to call some kind of drought or 57 00:02:23,160 --> 00:02:25,040 Speaker 2: whatever you want to call it, just not playing up 58 00:02:25,040 --> 00:02:27,040 Speaker 2: to the stand that we want to at all times 59 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:29,079 Speaker 2: throughout the game and just keep trying to just keep 60 00:02:29,080 --> 00:02:29,880 Speaker 2: everybody up beat. 61 00:02:29,880 --> 00:02:31,079 Speaker 1: And that's for myself too. 62 00:02:31,400 --> 00:02:34,760 Speaker 5: What's that relationship like with the receivers in particular, receivers 63 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:36,280 Speaker 5: obviously want to get the football. 64 00:02:36,600 --> 00:02:38,120 Speaker 2: Oh, I want to throw it to them, so but 65 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:40,680 Speaker 2: we got to just do our job right or one eleventh, 66 00:02:40,720 --> 00:02:42,880 Speaker 2: whatever play is called, we got to execute it. If 67 00:02:42,880 --> 00:02:44,320 Speaker 2: there is a pass play call, we need to execute 68 00:02:44,320 --> 00:02:46,720 Speaker 2: it to the fullest. And that's that's the lineman blocking 69 00:02:46,760 --> 00:02:48,120 Speaker 2: for me and for me to get the ball out. 70 00:02:48,160 --> 00:02:50,080 Speaker 2: And then it's the run game. It's the receivers blocking 71 00:02:50,120 --> 00:02:51,840 Speaker 2: for the running backs. Everybody just has to do their job. 72 00:02:51,880 --> 00:02:54,480 Speaker 2: But I understand it. Everybody's competitors. Everybody wants the ball. 73 00:02:54,520 --> 00:02:56,920 Speaker 2: I'm kind of a little bistacks. I touch it every play, 74 00:02:56,960 --> 00:03:01,080 Speaker 2: but I understand to make of. 75 00:03:00,720 --> 00:03:03,160 Speaker 4: Getting the opportunity to get more starts, you know, to 76 00:03:03,160 --> 00:03:05,120 Speaker 4: get another start here, presumably more than that. 77 00:03:05,520 --> 00:03:07,359 Speaker 2: Yeah, just try to go out and make the most 78 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:09,840 Speaker 2: of the replay every opportunity I get, and just try 79 00:03:09,880 --> 00:03:11,000 Speaker 2: to showcase the record of what. 80 00:03:11,360 --> 00:03:15,400 Speaker 6: Did the last drive last week? The way your team 81 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:18,440 Speaker 6: played it, you know, calling a timeouts, you know the 82 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:19,280 Speaker 6: game was decided. 83 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:20,120 Speaker 1: What did that mean to you? 84 00:03:20,240 --> 00:03:23,399 Speaker 6: The way it was all, you know, the way it 85 00:03:23,440 --> 00:03:25,600 Speaker 6: worked out, the way they were trying to get you 86 00:03:25,639 --> 00:03:26,440 Speaker 6: guys in the end zone. 87 00:03:26,639 --> 00:03:28,639 Speaker 2: Yeah, it was about pride and just having some kind 88 00:03:28,680 --> 00:03:31,000 Speaker 2: of you know, good I don't want to say good 89 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:33,360 Speaker 2: feeling at the end, but really just showing like a 90 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:36,000 Speaker 2: positive throughout the game because you know, they're were positives 91 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:38,280 Speaker 2: throughout the game. There wasn't so many you know, the 92 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:40,480 Speaker 2: negatives going to overbear the positive. But just to go 93 00:03:40,520 --> 00:03:41,960 Speaker 2: out with that and just have that kind of feeling 94 00:03:41,960 --> 00:03:44,280 Speaker 2: that like we're right there with some of these drives. 95 00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:46,840 Speaker 2: You put one play here, one play there, one detail here, 96 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:49,120 Speaker 2: one's detailer that drive can turn into multiple drives to 97 00:03:49,200 --> 00:03:51,440 Speaker 2: end like that. And I think that that kind of 98 00:03:51,480 --> 00:03:53,640 Speaker 2: just hit that feeling and everybody going out that like 99 00:03:54,440 --> 00:03:55,600 Speaker 2: we need to start off that way. 100 00:03:56,480 --> 00:03:58,800 Speaker 4: How you feeling like your shoulder? 101 00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:01,840 Speaker 1: God, yeah, I'm all good. You recall play? It was? 102 00:04:02,560 --> 00:04:04,600 Speaker 6: What play you banged up your shoulder? 103 00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:06,560 Speaker 2: I was in the fourth quarter, but I'm not I 104 00:04:06,600 --> 00:04:07,960 Speaker 2: don't really remember what the exact play. 105 00:04:07,960 --> 00:04:10,960 Speaker 3: It was a typically leaning on you know, you don't 106 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:13,760 Speaker 3: have Daniel out there, you don't have Tyrod there or 107 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:15,440 Speaker 3: maybe they're on the sideline. But who do you lean 108 00:04:15,480 --> 00:04:18,080 Speaker 3: on in the huddle for, you know, to keep calm 109 00:04:18,120 --> 00:04:19,480 Speaker 3: and keep focused and whatnot? 110 00:04:19,560 --> 00:04:22,360 Speaker 2: The offensive line for sure, whether it be Pugh or 111 00:04:22,839 --> 00:04:25,800 Speaker 2: then those two guys that have been here for a while. 112 00:04:26,200 --> 00:04:27,520 Speaker 2: I just kind of lean on those guys in all 113 00:04:27,560 --> 00:04:28,520 Speaker 2: my skill positions. 114 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:30,400 Speaker 3: Around them and what if they told you out there. 115 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:33,360 Speaker 1: Just be yourself, that's it, stay calm. Here we go. 116 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:38,440 Speaker 2: And Peugh is a big break the break the huddle guy, 117 00:04:38,480 --> 00:04:39,840 Speaker 2: So all you have to do is break the huddle. 118 00:04:39,839 --> 00:04:41,719 Speaker 2: We're gonna be give from there. So he brings that 119 00:04:41,760 --> 00:04:44,400 Speaker 2: positive spirit and energy towards this. I appreciate him for that. 120 00:04:44,640 --> 00:04:45,599 Speaker 1: A big part about being. 121 00:04:45,560 --> 00:04:48,600 Speaker 4: Starting quarterback, I was also being the leader. Curious, how 122 00:04:48,640 --> 00:04:50,359 Speaker 4: has that been for you? What part of that is 123 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:52,480 Speaker 4: and you allow yourself to be more vocal, You're allowing 124 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:55,080 Speaker 4: yourself to be the guy to leave this offense as well. 125 00:04:55,200 --> 00:04:56,920 Speaker 2: Yeah, he's doing the same thing I've done since I 126 00:04:56,960 --> 00:05:00,160 Speaker 2: was five six years old, in the same huddle at 127 00:05:00,279 --> 00:05:02,919 Speaker 2: the same as I was, just you know, having that 128 00:05:02,920 --> 00:05:03,880 Speaker 2: competitive edge about me. 129 00:05:04,360 --> 00:05:07,839 Speaker 5: Daniel just walked by as you were talking. Have you 130 00:05:07,880 --> 00:05:09,480 Speaker 5: had much communication with him? 131 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:09,960 Speaker 1: Yeah? 132 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:12,440 Speaker 2: Yeah, He's in all the meetings, he's had to walk through, 133 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:15,000 Speaker 2: as we watch film together, all that, so he's very involved. 134 00:05:15,400 --> 00:05:19,479 Speaker 4: What has Dave said to you about in general being 135 00:05:19,480 --> 00:05:22,520 Speaker 4: the starter taking advantage of this opportunity, like kind of 136 00:05:22,560 --> 00:05:24,240 Speaker 4: what he expects from you moving forward here? 137 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:25,880 Speaker 2: Just to be myself and do what I've been doing 138 00:05:25,880 --> 00:05:28,120 Speaker 2: since I got here. Just get better every day. Continue 139 00:05:28,160 --> 00:05:31,039 Speaker 2: just to go out and do what I've done to 140 00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:33,839 Speaker 2: get to this point and just be better all around. 141 00:05:34,640 --> 00:05:36,800 Speaker 4: What does it mean to you that he's been very 142 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:37,480 Speaker 4: supportive of you? 143 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:39,240 Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I appreciate it. 144 00:05:40,320 --> 00:05:43,440 Speaker 2: I try to earn that throughout Otia's camp and at 145 00:05:43,440 --> 00:05:45,080 Speaker 2: the preseason I'm going to continue to try to do 146 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:47,120 Speaker 2: that and try to you know, live up to that 147 00:05:47,200 --> 00:05:48,479 Speaker 2: standard and exceed that standard. 148 00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:50,640 Speaker 3: Do you feel like the game is starting to slow 149 00:05:50,720 --> 00:05:51,280 Speaker 3: down for you? 150 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:55,320 Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure. I think that's did it happen in 151 00:05:55,360 --> 00:05:56,920 Speaker 2: the Raiders game. The second half of the Raiders game 152 00:05:56,920 --> 00:05:59,599 Speaker 2: is when it really slowed down. But you know, like 153 00:05:59,640 --> 00:06:03,120 Speaker 2: I said, I feel good. But every week, every snap, 154 00:06:03,160 --> 00:06:05,320 Speaker 2: everything that gets under my bell is just all positives. 155 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:08,800 Speaker 5: None of us really know you well. Do you beat 156 00:06:08,800 --> 00:06:11,880 Speaker 5: yourself up after a certain play or when you watch 157 00:06:11,960 --> 00:06:15,480 Speaker 5: back a certain play, Like how do you internalize your performance? 158 00:06:16,040 --> 00:06:16,640 Speaker 1: Not in the moment. 159 00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:18,279 Speaker 2: In the moment, I'm very like, you know, onto the 160 00:06:18,320 --> 00:06:20,800 Speaker 2: next you know, I'm pretty quick with it. But after 161 00:06:20,839 --> 00:06:23,040 Speaker 2: I'm home, I'm always my topics critic, like I will 162 00:06:23,760 --> 00:06:25,800 Speaker 2: I'll beat myself up over a play for a while 163 00:06:25,839 --> 00:06:27,800 Speaker 2: after that, but then I'm like, I flush it after that. 164 00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:30,200 Speaker 2: But I'll sit there and I'll like tell me, what 165 00:06:30,480 --> 00:06:32,279 Speaker 2: are you doing? Or like you need to do this, 166 00:06:32,360 --> 00:06:34,279 Speaker 2: you need to do that. But I'm always the hardest 167 00:06:34,279 --> 00:06:35,440 Speaker 2: on myself. So I when I come in here and 168 00:06:35,480 --> 00:06:38,840 Speaker 2: get the coaching, like I'm able to have a even 169 00:06:38,920 --> 00:06:43,480 Speaker 2: keel mind and just listen to it and accept it. 170 00:06:42,320 --> 00:06:43,840 Speaker 3: On the pick where you're sitting there going I was 171 00:06:43,880 --> 00:06:45,760 Speaker 3: too aggressive or I didn't see. 172 00:06:45,520 --> 00:06:46,920 Speaker 1: This, or what a little bit of both. 173 00:06:47,440 --> 00:06:50,919 Speaker 2: Yeah, it was actually it was exactly that, being aggressive 174 00:06:51,120 --> 00:06:54,880 Speaker 2: and as well as not seeing him as well as 175 00:06:54,920 --> 00:06:57,720 Speaker 2: I should have seen him. That's just a mistake that 176 00:06:57,720 --> 00:06:59,520 Speaker 2: I'm gonna get cleaned up. I'll be able to see. 177 00:06:59,320 --> 00:07:02,599 Speaker 4: That the younger version of you vision this day or 178 00:07:02,640 --> 00:07:04,440 Speaker 4: did you did you think someday we start for an 179 00:07:04,520 --> 00:07:06,240 Speaker 4: NFL team? And when when you were younger? 180 00:07:06,279 --> 00:07:08,440 Speaker 1: And how did that have that unfold your head when? 181 00:07:08,480 --> 00:07:10,360 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you always play scenario when you're a 182 00:07:10,360 --> 00:07:12,040 Speaker 2: little kid. When I was probably five years old, I 183 00:07:12,040 --> 00:07:14,280 Speaker 2: was probably doing that, acting like when I'm playing with 184 00:07:14,280 --> 00:07:16,040 Speaker 2: my friends in the backyard like that was playing in 185 00:07:16,080 --> 00:07:18,480 Speaker 2: the NFL. So I wouldn't say it changed too much. 186 00:07:18,760 --> 00:07:20,440 Speaker 2: You understand like there's a business out of it and 187 00:07:20,480 --> 00:07:22,960 Speaker 2: it's not so much fun and all that as you 188 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:25,000 Speaker 2: were when you were five years old, even though I 189 00:07:25,040 --> 00:07:26,760 Speaker 2: think that is something that I try to bring a 190 00:07:26,760 --> 00:07:28,360 Speaker 2: part of this offense on this team, and just like 191 00:07:28,360 --> 00:07:29,960 Speaker 2: you know, you need to have fun with it. Don't 192 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:31,880 Speaker 2: let anybody else take your joy, Like there's a lot 193 00:07:31,920 --> 00:07:34,440 Speaker 2: of negatives going on the outside, like maybe not you 194 00:07:34,480 --> 00:07:37,040 Speaker 2: guys specific but specifically, but media in general. It's a 195 00:07:37,080 --> 00:07:39,040 Speaker 2: lot of negativity going on right with how our season 196 00:07:39,080 --> 00:07:41,160 Speaker 2: has been going. But just enjoy it, like you're in 197 00:07:41,200 --> 00:07:44,680 Speaker 2: the NFL, you're whatever it is, below one percent, Just 198 00:07:44,840 --> 00:07:48,040 Speaker 2: enjoy the moment, be here, enjoy playing football for your job, 199 00:07:48,240 --> 00:07:49,400 Speaker 2: and just go out and give it all you have. 200 00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:51,760 Speaker 4: Was it this team, this team in this stadium that 201 00:07:51,800 --> 00:07:52,840 Speaker 4: you when you thought of. 202 00:07:52,760 --> 00:07:54,720 Speaker 1: That, No, it wasn't. I was a Steelers fan growing. 203 00:07:57,080 --> 00:08:01,040 Speaker 6: Come on, negativity. 204 00:08:01,040 --> 00:08:02,560 Speaker 7: You were playing for pride at the end of the game. 205 00:08:02,960 --> 00:08:05,560 Speaker 7: But just the way the game started, did you guys 206 00:08:05,560 --> 00:08:07,200 Speaker 7: carry that into this start this week just with a 207 00:08:07,200 --> 00:08:09,480 Speaker 7: lot of anger or increase level of focus, just really 208 00:08:09,480 --> 00:08:11,680 Speaker 7: feeling like we, you know, these last time games, we 209 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:14,560 Speaker 7: cannot let this season go the way that you know 210 00:08:14,600 --> 00:08:15,360 Speaker 7: the last game went. 211 00:08:15,800 --> 00:08:18,440 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, we want to start off faster, you know, 212 00:08:18,600 --> 00:08:20,400 Speaker 2: I think that's pretty clear that we need to put 213 00:08:20,440 --> 00:08:24,240 Speaker 2: up points on offense, especially in the first quarter, first half, 214 00:08:24,320 --> 00:08:26,200 Speaker 2: whatever it was, and just not just don't let it 215 00:08:26,240 --> 00:08:27,840 Speaker 2: get too late in the game how it did last week. 216 00:08:28,280 --> 00:08:30,040 Speaker 3: We just start off the first series going. 217 00:08:30,080 --> 00:08:31,800 Speaker 6: Thanks a lot of guys the one you are there. 218 00:08:32,960 --> 00:08:35,839 Speaker 2: Hey, I always remember that start, remember how it started out. 219 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:36,960 Speaker 1: But that's it.