Speaker 1: Got to be pretty close last season, and I'm sure
Speaker 1: season top to see this happened as quickly.
Speaker 2: What do you hear emotions?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, obviously I love Trey everything that he's
Speaker 3: done for this organization and obviously for myself. You know,
Speaker 3: I know I've told you guys a bunch of times before,
Speaker 3: but you know, going in last year and then him
Speaker 3: just being by my side from the get go, sideline meetings,
Speaker 3: in the locker room, wherever we're at. Man, he's been
Speaker 3: a real one and helped me, uh come into the
Speaker 3: league and welcome me with open arms and showed me
Speaker 3: the ropes to this whole thing. So I can't I
Speaker 3: can't tell you how much how grateful I am for
Speaker 3: him and to have in my life and and to
Speaker 3: be here with him so forever. Grateful for Trey obviously
Speaker 3: in terms of the situation, like happy for him that
Speaker 3: he's able to go into a good situation and and
Speaker 3: I mean we all feel like it's a good fit.
Speaker 3: But at the end of the day, man, I can't
Speaker 3: say how much how thankful I am to have played
Speaker 3: and been a teammate with Trey.
Speaker 4: So did you see trade today?
Speaker 5: What kind of conversations.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I saw him, uh, you know, out by the
Speaker 3: lot or the weight room before the game and stuff.
Speaker 3: He was out there talking to some guys, and I
Speaker 3: was able to go over and just tell him, you
Speaker 3: know that I love him, and like I said, how
Speaker 3: appreciative that I am of him everything that he's done
Speaker 3: for obviously myself and and the team. So told him
Speaker 3: that I'm really happy for him, and and uh excited
Speaker 3: to see what he does man, with his opportunity and
Speaker 3: his career in the NFL. So excited for him.
Speaker 5: How did he see?
Speaker 3: His spirits were good, you know, he was uh, you know, obviously,
Speaker 3: I feel like, you know, there was some just talking
Speaker 3: to guys in the in the relationships that he had
Speaker 3: with guys like he was you could tell like, man,
Speaker 3: like you know this, I'm moving on kind of thing.
Speaker 3: And so a bunch of guys. Man, everyone in this
Speaker 3: locker room has his back, and so everyone was, you know,
Speaker 3: tapping him up, hugging him, loving on him and everything.
Speaker 3: But uh, to sort of see that, you know, obviously,
Speaker 3: it's tough seeing one of your your buddies, you know, leave,
Speaker 3: But at the same time, we're all excited that man,
Speaker 3: he's got a good opportunity ahead of him, and he
Speaker 3: was in great spirits. So he was going on when
Speaker 3: he wasn't.
Speaker 5: At practice the other day.
Speaker 1: Did you understand, you know, was it the news getting
Speaker 1: like way Kyle was repped that kind of was of
Speaker 1: hazard maybe the.
Speaker 3: Way things go happen. Yeah, I mean, no one, we
Speaker 3: honestly had no idea. You know, he wasn't at practice,
Speaker 3: and we're like, okay, you know, where's he at kind
Speaker 3: of thing, and and uh grease, he said, you know,
Speaker 3: he was just taking some time to think things over
Speaker 3: and whatnot after he had heard the decision that Sam
Speaker 3: was going to be the second string quarterback. And you know,
Speaker 3: so all of us were like, okay, you know, we
Speaker 3: gotta practice, we gotta continue to do what we're doing.
Speaker 3: Everything will happen how it needs to happen. After and
Speaker 3: then you know, Tray was back in meetings, ready to roll,
Speaker 3: expected to play in the game, and then the news
Speaker 3: broke literally when we were all in the locker room
Speaker 3: getting ready for the game. So like, no one, like
Speaker 3: none of us had an idea of what was going on.
Speaker 5: So were you aware of just how divided it seems
Speaker 5: like the cool quarterback conversation has been this offseason, and
Speaker 5: did you and Tray or you and Sam or you
Speaker 5: and Brandon ever have any dialogue about that the outside world.
Speaker 3: Honestly, No, you know, I had my surgery and then
Speaker 3: you know, we brought in Sam, brought in Brandon, and
Speaker 3: really like we were all sort of going through our
Speaker 3: own thing. Like Trey was obviously continuing to get healthy
Speaker 3: with his foot. Obviously I'm coming off surgery with my arm,
Speaker 3: so I'm just focusing on my arm. No one really
Speaker 3: knew like what camp was gonna look like or going
Speaker 3: into the season anything like that. It was all really
Speaker 3: up in the air. We all wanted to get healthy
Speaker 3: first of all and then just compete from there. And
Speaker 3: I feel like that was all of our mindsets. There
Speaker 3: was no you know, talk about, hey, they're saying this
Speaker 3: or that in the media. We don't talk about any
Speaker 3: of that. It's strictly ball for us, and we all
Speaker 3: pull for each other and push each other every single day.
Speaker 3: So that's sort of just how it went. Well.
Speaker 2: We were drafted, it was Trey one, Suidfeld two U three,
Speaker 2: Jimmy throwing on a side field that it was Trey
Speaker 2: and Jimmy and you, and then it was me and
Speaker 2: it hitting you just how volatile this all has been
Speaker 2: in the last year or so.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's pretty that's a lot of stuff in
Speaker 1: about a year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's just sort of goes to show you, man,
Speaker 3: like you're in the NFL. You know, the positions and
Speaker 3: how everything looks, the depth chart like it. It all
Speaker 3: can change overnight, you know, just obviously depending on what
Speaker 3: happens and situations and stuff. But you know, for me,
Speaker 3: it's like, how can I be present? How can I
Speaker 3: be where I'm at not trying to get wrapped up
Speaker 3: and oh he's first, second, third, whatever. You know, the
Speaker 3: more you think about that kind of stuff, the more
Speaker 3: can consume you and affect how you play. And so
Speaker 3: for me this past year, man, it's been do what
Speaker 3: I'm told from the coaches and then you know, everything
Speaker 3: else happens, how it ends up happening, and uh, that's
Speaker 3: just sort of how I look at it. But yeah,
Speaker 3: it is wild, sort of like welcome to the NFL
Speaker 3: kind of thing when we ask you a version of.
Speaker 4: This every time you're up there.
Speaker 1: But now that you're through preseason, how would you just
Speaker 1: describe where you're at right now as we head toward.
Speaker 4: The regular season.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel good, obviously excited to get rolling for
Speaker 3: Pittsburgh and to have everyone you know, be able to
Speaker 3: play on the field at the same time, you know,
Speaker 3: with Christian, George dbo Ba, like everyone have trend out
Speaker 3: there as well. So it's uh something that we're all
Speaker 3: looking forward to, really excited about. It felt like camp
Speaker 3: has been you know, pretty solid last couple of weeks,
Speaker 3: and you know, we're like I said, man, we're ready,
Speaker 3: ready to get this thing rolling. Yeah, I do say anything.
Speaker 5: Like in terms of wishing the team.
Speaker 4: Well and how you guys would do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he said, he's obviously gonna be pulling for us
Speaker 3: and watching every step of the way. But you know,
Speaker 3: it was more like us being appreciative of everything that
Speaker 3: he's done for us. So yeah, that's the conversations that
Speaker 3: we had.
Speaker 4: Do you feel any survivor remorse this time last year
Speaker 4: it was Trey's job. Has heard that you end up
Speaker 4: taking over, have a great run, and then you get
Speaker 4: hurt the playoffs and come back you're the man. Do
Speaker 4: you feel any remorse that a year ago he was
Speaker 4: the man in Mountain's gone.
Speaker 3: I mean, at the end of the day, I try
Speaker 3: to just do my job, do what I'm told. You know,
Speaker 3: as a quarterback, it's not like I come in here
Speaker 3: and go, all right, I'm gonna try to beat this
Speaker 3: guy out. This guy It's has nothing to do with that.
Speaker 3: It has everything to do with you know. This is
Speaker 3: what I've been called to do in life as a quarterback.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna come in and do my job. And you know,
Speaker 3: some situations happened. It sucks how you know, Jimmy got hurt,
Speaker 3: Trey got hurt, and things happened like that, But at
Speaker 3: the same time, like it's it's how the NFL is,
Speaker 3: and so no hard feelings. I love Trey and I
Speaker 3: want nothing but the best for them.