Speaker 1: De Winners Ankle will not practice, Christian caf Achilles Limited,
Speaker 1: Isaac Grindo Growing Limited, Juwan Jennings Ankle Limited, Huff Knee Limited,
Speaker 1: Aaron Banks Finger Limited.
Speaker 2: Go ahead, you said, Christian mccaffe, Achilles calf slash Achilles
Speaker 2: a new injury, No.
Speaker 3: Said Ankle.
Speaker 4: Is the oplique?
Speaker 3: Find out the ankles move?
Speaker 5: Ah?
Speaker 6: Yes, Ricky Pierce all update, Kyle, just we saw him
Speaker 6: out here on Tuesday, and I guess he was here
Speaker 6: Monday as well. How is he kind of being involved
Speaker 6: with the team and just how is he doing over all?
Speaker 7: I mean, it's's kind of been amazing just watching him.
Speaker 7: I'm getting to see him Sunday Monday, for him to
Speaker 7: be able to walk around and stuff with that happening
Speaker 7: and talking to people at the er, you know, saying out.
Speaker 2: Of like one hundred people, two people survived that.
Speaker 7: And to be able to see him the next day
Speaker 7: and just that he's able to walk, He's coming to meetings,
Speaker 7: he's doing all that, but you know, he wants to
Speaker 7: go a number a little a while, you know, a
Speaker 7: week or so without trying to work up a sweat,
Speaker 7: and then after that, the starter's rehab and.
Speaker 2: Progress again back.
Speaker 5: What was that like for you on on Saturday?
Speaker 6: Kind of like when you found out and kind of
Speaker 6: the emotions that you go through.
Speaker 7: Throughout that was really tough. We didn't know exactly, you know,
Speaker 7: we just knew that he got.
Speaker 2: Shot and that was all we knew.
Speaker 7: And then it took us about an hour to figure
Speaker 7: out what the hospital was and things like that, because
Speaker 7: he just made a couple of calls to people, so
Speaker 7: we had it from them, but none of us knew
Speaker 7: where he was or anything. And this was you know,
Speaker 7: it's like at three thirty. By the time that we
Speaker 7: got to him. It was good because by the time
Speaker 7: we found out where he was, we got to him,
Speaker 7: it was real cool. He facetimed me. That was like
Speaker 7: the first time I knew he was all right. You know,
Speaker 7: I got a call like twenty minutes before that saying
Speaker 7: he was conscious, he was talking, that he was going
Speaker 7: to survive and all that. But then he facetimed me
Speaker 7: right after from his bed. It was real upbeat, like
Speaker 7: it was. It was really amazing because that hour, when
Speaker 7: you hear about a shooting, we didn't know where it was
Speaker 7: or anything, so you just assume the worst. Then to
Speaker 7: hear us in the chest, you don't think that usually
Speaker 7: goes that well, then he actually had talked to him
Speaker 7: like fifteen minutes after that, and just talk to a
Speaker 7: guy that seems like he's okay.
Speaker 2: Obviously he's got a bad.
Speaker 7: Horrible injury and there's a huge mental side that'll go
Speaker 7: to that that he's got to work through for a while.
Speaker 2: But it was a lot of emotions.
Speaker 5: You'm letting him be as involved as he wants to
Speaker 5: be at this point, and obviously he would be bestent medical.
Speaker 6: Staff and whatnot, But if he wants to be around the.
Speaker 2: Team even oh yeah, of course. You know.
Speaker 7: I think it's and I think when anyone goes through
Speaker 7: something like that and everyone cares about him so much,
Speaker 7: but you know it's I told the team, like, everyone
Speaker 7: wants to show him they care, and so what do
Speaker 7: you do when you go up to someone You ask
Speaker 7: him how it happened and stuff, And it's pretty traumatizing story.
Speaker 7: And I told the team, we don't want to make
Speaker 7: him relive that eighty times. So he knows how much
Speaker 7: everyone cares about him.
Speaker 2: He loves being around. It's all up to him with
Speaker 2: that stuff.
Speaker 7: But everyone's trying to give him space in that in
Speaker 7: that way and just let him work through this process,
Speaker 7: because I mean, the physical things one thing, but it's
Speaker 7: a pretty big mounted toll on.
Speaker 4: Someone too mentioned that when of the first things that
Speaker 4: Richie said to him was you know, the party should
Speaker 4: go on. What were you going through in your mind
Speaker 4: about whether that was appropriate or not?
Speaker 7: I mean, we always I mean, if anyone knows us,
Speaker 7: we've never do something inappropriate. So we care about our
Speaker 7: teammates more than anyone. You'd have to be on a
Speaker 7: team to understand that first of all. But yeah, we
Speaker 7: were definitely into that, like we thought we were gonna
Speaker 7: we're assume in the worst for a while. You know.
Speaker 7: It happened about two hours before it and so you know,
Speaker 7: John went down there. I'm waiting to get the call
Speaker 7: to see what the deal is. And then when Ricky
Speaker 7: called me and he was totally fine and the things
Speaker 7: he said and being on FaceTime, and then it felt
Speaker 7: really good to get everyone over. It was actually a
Speaker 7: really cool opportunity, got the whole team together, got a
Speaker 7: TV out there for everyone to see, and then you
Speaker 7: got a FaceTime with the whole team and just let
Speaker 7: everyone kind of know or let everyone feel kind of
Speaker 7: how he made me feel when I.
Speaker 2: Spoke with him. Feel the mood of the party change once, yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean once everyone walked in.
Speaker 7: I mean, no one knew the exact story, so I
Speaker 7: was able to reassure everybody as soon as they got
Speaker 7: there that he was totally fine.
Speaker 2: And it's a miracle. I mean, like where he.
Speaker 7: Got shot is like two inches below his tattoo with
Speaker 7: praying hands like it was. It's kind of the whole
Speaker 7: story is kind of amazing. But to tell everyone as
Speaker 7: soon as they get in. You can't call the whole team,
Speaker 7: but to tell everyone right when they got there made
Speaker 7: it was really cool. And then about two hours later,
Speaker 7: Ricky got on and talk to everybody to.
Speaker 3: Kind of shit say about a guy like Ricky Peter saw.
Speaker 3: You see him walking hisself to the ambulance. He's just
Speaker 3: gotten shot. You see him trying to say the party
Speaker 3: goes on. He's talking to you guys. And then, like
Speaker 3: you said, he was here the other day just to
Speaker 3: go through all of the treat believes he was saying
Speaker 3: he had never had a teammate be shot, but to
Speaker 3: be present, what does it say.
Speaker 7: About your you know person that we've been so impressed
Speaker 7: with Ricky with everything he's done prior to this, and
Speaker 7: for this to happen, and just kind of the here
Speaker 7: kind of what his girlfriend, what his parents went through,
Speaker 7: even talking to Ricky like when it happens, you know,
Speaker 7: you know, he doesn't knowtal he actually gets to the
Speaker 7: hospital and talks to doctors and stuff that he's.
Speaker 2: Gonna be all right. So for him to have to
Speaker 2: go through.
Speaker 7: That shock and the you know, the anxiety and the
Speaker 7: panic of not knowing whether you're gonna live or die,
Speaker 7: and then just you know, I saw the video that
Speaker 7: everyone saw him just walking through, but at that time,
Speaker 7: he has no idea he's going to be all right.
Speaker 7: You know. It's he's as tough as a person, I know,
Speaker 7: just going through a situation like that. We always felt
Speaker 7: this way watching him on the football field and things
Speaker 7: like that, but kind of to watch how he handled
Speaker 7: that situation and watch how he's been every day since
Speaker 7: it's been shows how special the guy he is.
Speaker 6: You mentioned the mental part is obviously in tremendous part
Speaker 6: of that, and how important is it for the team
Speaker 6: to make sure Ricky doesn't brush through that?
Speaker 7: And sometimes I think that's big I mean especially, I
Speaker 7: think each day the mental part becomes more a big deal.
Speaker 2: You know, the.
Speaker 7: Adrenaline and just surviving that, and you know, Ricky's saying stuff.
Speaker 7: You know, at first that doesn't matter, Like I still
Speaker 7: think I could play versus the Jets, like like those
Speaker 7: are the things he's talking about, and it's just like, dude,
Speaker 7: what are you talking about? Like there's other things, but
Speaker 7: the adrenaline of all that, And then I think each day,
Speaker 7: like just actually relive that, and you know what his
Speaker 7: family had to go through for a couple hours, I mean,
Speaker 7: just flying out out here not totally knowing on what
Speaker 7: the deal was going to be. I think that stuff
Speaker 7: for him or anybody, you know, it's when that adrenaline
Speaker 7: goes away that becomes a much bigger deal. And that's
Speaker 7: kind of what I mean by everyone kind of respecting that,
Speaker 7: because we'd all be the same and try not to
Speaker 7: make him relive it as much as possible. But it's
Speaker 7: a really an unbelievable story.
Speaker 6: Which you addressed this with the team to make sure
Speaker 6: they're in the right mental state moving forward.
Speaker 7: What's ahead the way I just said, I mean, it's
Speaker 7: more about the respect of Ricky and stuff I think
Speaker 7: our team was pretty good once we found out how
Speaker 7: Alrighty was. You know, everyone just like when people hear
Speaker 7: someone gets shot, you never think that's going to just
Speaker 7: be all right. You assume pretty dark things. But we
Speaker 7: had to go through a couple hours of that, but
Speaker 7: that ended pretty fast, and then it was more about
Speaker 7: just getting to see Ricky and making sure he's all right.
Speaker 7: And the guys have been great with that as always
Speaker 7: anytime you started.
Speaker 4: First time with Toddy says I you came back in
Speaker 4: andsonce Trend's situation. I know we got a little weird
Speaker 4: with brainon there, and he kind of admitted it was.
Speaker 2: He made a little tougher.
Speaker 4: How tough was that? Now that you can look back
Speaker 4: on it, for this team to go through that and
Speaker 4: is it go on no problem or there's still some no?
Speaker 3: How do that all?
Speaker 2: Thing resolve itself in your mind? The resolve is self perfect,
Speaker 2: just back to normal.
Speaker 7: So you know, you know, things get tough, you know,
Speaker 7: especially when it can go a number of directions. And
Speaker 7: that's I was saying you guys from the beginning, it
Speaker 7: could have gone a number of directions. There was times
Speaker 7: that they possibly could be traded there's times you could
Speaker 7: possibly be here.
Speaker 2: That was hard about the.
Speaker 7: Whole negotiation thing, and that is what made it different
Speaker 7: than usual. We'd never gone through it being so close
Speaker 7: both ways for it to end up working out here
Speaker 7: that you know, in the beginning, we wanted them here,
Speaker 7: Ba wanted to be here, and we all wanted to
Speaker 7: make that work out, and really in the end that
Speaker 7: was still the case. And you've got to go through
Speaker 7: that and make sure you're talking to people as humans,
Speaker 7: and both sides need to understand when you're talking that way,
Speaker 7: you're not negotiating.
Speaker 2: You're trying to tell each other how you truly feel.
Speaker 7: And when that is the same way as it was
Speaker 7: six months before that, those things are easy to get over.
Speaker 7: You just got to make sure that's truly how you feel,
Speaker 7: and you could feel that leading into it in the
Speaker 7: last few days. I think that's what made it easier
Speaker 7: to close it and get it done those last.
Speaker 2: Couple of days.
Speaker 7: And that's been awesome ever since, Like nothing ever happened.
Speaker 5: Anytime you started a new season. There's some things you're
Speaker 5: uncertain about. Last year was Brock's health. You've got some
Speaker 5: new faces and rookies in the laptop. If you had
Speaker 5: to pinpoint some things that you're not certain about, curious
Speaker 5: about how they're going to turn out on Monday, what
Speaker 5: would they be.
Speaker 7: I mean, we just I love going through a whole
Speaker 7: training camp and knowing exactly what you got right away
Speaker 7: and just preparing everyone for week one and then working
Speaker 7: off that. It is a little different when you know
Speaker 7: your left tackle hasn't been there, your guards, you're running back,
Speaker 7: and your starting receiver, and then you got also Green Lawn,
Speaker 7: you got Huff, but those guys, you know, Huff's got
Speaker 7: a possibility this week, Green Law we're gonna have to
Speaker 7: wait on. But the guys on offense, you know, there's
Speaker 7: a little question marks with the injuries and the guys
Speaker 7: not here, and then all of a sudden they are here.
Speaker 7: The guys are healthy, but we still got to work.
Speaker 7: It's awesome to have our guys back. I feel so
Speaker 7: good about our team, especially being able to finish these
Speaker 7: and get those two guys back contractually, get some of
Speaker 7: the health back that guys have been missing on offense,
Speaker 7: which feels great. But now I'm all about going to work,
Speaker 7: and that usually you start that pretty early in training camp.
Speaker 7: I got a lot of confidence in these guys that
Speaker 7: they're conditioned, they've done everything. But football is about playing
Speaker 7: as a team and having eleven guys move together, and that's.
Speaker 2: What we're trying to get done in these practices.
Speaker 7: The workload for.
Speaker 2: Those two guys, Williams, you expect Brandon to be able
Speaker 2: to play the.
Speaker 3: Ninety eight percent of the snaps that he normally can.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, I'd be surprised with that, but my expectations.
Speaker 7: I thought I'd be surprised with ninety eight percent. But
Speaker 7: I'll see as the week goes. We've had one practice
Speaker 7: with them. He threw with Brock over the weekend. We
Speaker 7: got one practice with Trent. Today will be their second.
Speaker 7: See how they are these three days, and then kind
Speaker 7: of evaluate it.
Speaker 3: Neither of those guys is limitedd or a big help act.
Speaker 2: No, they're not limited.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you would have wanted Trent Dunne earlier, I assume.
Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely as a trap.
Speaker 2: You know, it came like both the last year. It
Speaker 2: just gotten later.
Speaker 7: I mean it wasn't at first, because you know, I
Speaker 7: understood how it was going to be. I thought it
Speaker 7: would end up being faster, but it got more frustrated
Speaker 7: the last week because, like I said to the other questions, I.
Speaker 2: Want guys here.
Speaker 7: I want to prepare the guys for the season, and
Speaker 7: you only can do so much on your own. But
Speaker 7: the bottom lines are here, and we got a long
Speaker 7: season ahead of us, and we'll pumped out him for
Speaker 7: week one.
Speaker 2: The news.
Speaker 5: When you first got the news about Ricky and you
Speaker 5: were waiting to find out the severity, did part of
Speaker 5: you want to drop everything and rush to the hospital
Speaker 5: with John to be there with him.
Speaker 2: Uh? Yeah, obviously.
Speaker 7: But I'm in charge of our team too, and I
Speaker 7: don't do that stuff just so you won't say something
Speaker 7: negative about me. I try to make the right decision
Speaker 7: for the people I'm responsible for. And I had one
Speaker 7: hundred people about to show up to my house an
Speaker 7: hour and a half from there, and I.
Speaker 2: Try to do things for the right reason. People who
Speaker 2: know me never question that.
Speaker 7: But I would never do something just to avoid people
Speaker 7: saying bad things.
Speaker 2: Team captains, Yeah.
Speaker 1: We got eight of them this year, Bosa Warner, Juice Kittle, McCaffrey,
Speaker 1: Purty de b and Trent.
Speaker 7: Well. You're allowed nine. I always go with I try
Speaker 7: to do it right with the votes. I think we've
Speaker 7: always had six or seven. The seven and eight were
Speaker 7: like one vote off, and the ninth guy was like
Speaker 7: eight behind them, So it was really obvious who those
Speaker 7: eight were, and the ninth one was too far from
Speaker 7: it and I'd rather not have so many, but I'm
Speaker 7: not gonna pick when the team votes did that close.
Speaker 5: So you had to get back to work at any
Speaker 5: moment in the last few days where you just like
Speaker 5: take a breath and like, everybody's back together here, like
Speaker 5: what has it been like? Just kind of like kind
Speaker 5: of feeling feeling whole again.
Speaker 7: I guess that lasts as I walk out to the
Speaker 7: field and I see everyone and I'm real excited, and
Speaker 7: then I go right to the place and getting everyone
Speaker 7: to work right and everything else that comes with the
Speaker 7: NFL season. So it's awesome to get everyone here. Couldn't
Speaker 7: be more excited than that. But that ends is as
Speaker 7: soon as you enjoy that, and that usually lasts as
Speaker 7: soon as you start thinking about the game plan and
Speaker 7: what you're doing in practice, and then it becomes real football.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, I.
Speaker 7: Told Brandon Allen and Brandon will be the two.
Speaker 2: Josh will be the three. Right now,