Speaker 1: You know, I think, um, kind of early in the week,
Speaker 1: you know, as far as team and scheme and everything,
Speaker 1: and I'm just getting back out there for a lot
Speaker 1: of those guys. But overall, I thought the guys looked good.
Speaker 1: I felt good, and he was feeling good. So it
Speaker 1: was a good day and you're probably pretty excited to
Speaker 1: get back in the team drills. What was it like
Speaker 1: during that period where they did hold you back? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean not being out there I was obviously frustrating.
Speaker 1: You know, I think we talked a little bit about
Speaker 1: it last week, but um, I want to be out
Speaker 1: there every day. You know, I want to be a
Speaker 1: full participant in every single thing. But um, that wasn't
Speaker 1: totally my call, and you know, you just got to
Speaker 1: be smart in those situations. So um, it was tough.
Speaker 1: But yeah, getting back out there yesterday and the full
Speaker 1: live team drills will not live, but in the full
Speaker 1: team drills, UM was definitely I enjoyed it. What's your call?
Speaker 1: Would you play this whole entire training camp? I mean,
Speaker 1: it was up to the doctor, So you know, I
Speaker 1: was just I mean I would have loved to play
Speaker 1: in Super Bowl too, but you know, I wasn't physically capable, so, um,
Speaker 1: how much you can do? Yeah, I mean I felt good.
Speaker 1: I mean I think you guys saw all camp, you know,
Speaker 1: me moving around and everything. I think again, it just
Speaker 1: kind of boiled down to a controlled environment. That's what
Speaker 1: we wanted to maintain for a while there. So, um,
Speaker 1: that's what That's what it was. What do you think
Speaker 1: you are going into game one? Do you think you're
Speaker 1: on track for that? Yeah? Like I said, really kind
Speaker 1: of same same as last week. You know, still, um,
Speaker 1: what's gonna be close. It's gonna be close, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, nothing's really changed from last week other than
Speaker 1: just the eleven on eleven practice, but the final hurdle,
Speaker 1: which will not be my my decision will be being
Speaker 1: cleared for contact. Just when that decision will be made,
Speaker 1: Like do you know when you'll have your final test
Speaker 1: to be made for contact? I'm not fully sure yet.
Speaker 1: No decision that they have to go a lot about
Speaker 1: your so I mean, yeah, they go off of you know,
Speaker 1: how you feel, and they do some different tests and
Speaker 1: different things. And again, like I think I mentioned last week,
Speaker 1: we'd have to ask them I get them up here
Speaker 1: and maybe pick their brain. But um, yeah, it's it's
Speaker 1: again it's it's their final call. Um. They're the ones
Speaker 1: that are the experts on in the medical field. So
Speaker 1: the reevaluation coming into when they do that, do they
Speaker 1: give you any new information that they say, how what's going?
Speaker 1: Or yeah, I mean a little bit, and you know everything,
Speaker 1: you know, everything's been going well. You know, I think
Speaker 1: all throughout rehab just been in constant progression and I feel,
Speaker 1: I feel really good where I'm at right now. There
Speaker 1: have been only three quarterbacks that have torn the raco
Speaker 1: later than you have come back and played in week one. Um,
Speaker 1: But there doesn't seem to be any concern you're pushing
Speaker 1: the envelope at all if you're talking with the doctors now,
Speaker 1: and again, I think that's the doctor's decision. Um, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna trust what they say. And you know, it's more
Speaker 1: than just one docum in there. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: there's a lot of medical brains in there kind of
Speaker 1: trying to make the decisions. So I know where I feel,
Speaker 1: I know how I feel and where I'm at with it,
Speaker 1: and um, it'll ultimately be uh their decision that dot
Speaker 1: and the coach of decisions they need to see from
Speaker 1: yourself well, these next kind of two and a half weeks.
Speaker 1: I'm not in particular. I just want to keep getting
Speaker 1: out there, you know, keep getting the reps. And I
Speaker 1: think more so from just um getting out there with
Speaker 1: the guys. You know, some of these new faces and
Speaker 1: stuff around here. Um, seven on seven can present some things,
Speaker 1: but it's a it's a different animal and you got
Speaker 1: all eleven in there, So, um, just keep getting the
Speaker 1: continuity with these guys come down to period of full contact.
Speaker 1: We'd have to ask them in terms of working with
Speaker 1: the guys you're going to throw two in the regular season,
Speaker 1: guys who haven't thrown too before. We sort of overrate
Speaker 1: how important practice reps are or can you sort of Um,
Speaker 1: I mean, practice reps are important without a doubt. I think, Um,
Speaker 1: you know, I've I've kind of seen it all. You know.
Speaker 1: My rookie year obviously didn't didn't get many reps and
Speaker 1: or really much chances with the ones at all until um,
Speaker 1: you know, really late there. But um then last year,
Speaker 1: going through a whole off season, I think just the
Speaker 1: more the reps the better and the more you can
Speaker 1: be on the same page. And um, the nice thing is,
Speaker 1: you know throughout training camp and everything. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of behind the scenes things from just watching film with
Speaker 1: film with guys and and talking through routes and concepts
Speaker 1: and just trying to get them to see what you see,
Speaker 1: and so a lot of it is just off the
Speaker 1: field too. But there's nothing quite like the live reps
Speaker 1: I imagine begins next week. How deep in the game
Speaker 1: planning can you and next split reps before you need
Speaker 1: to know who's starting. Yeah, I mean, I think that'll
Speaker 1: be really coaches call, and I'm not I'm already not
Speaker 1: looking forward to next week. Already right now we're game
Speaker 1: planning for the Browns, and although I won't be playing,
Speaker 1: I'm fully invested in just preparing it like it like
Speaker 1: as if I were playing. And we'll reevaluate next week.
Speaker 1: Discussions with all the medical are you in present for
Speaker 1: all of them? Some of them? Some of them, I
Speaker 1: mean obviously most of them were kind of all in communication,
Speaker 1: And then there's other ones that I'm obviously not there,
Speaker 1: just kind of just sitting there listening to them, and
Speaker 1: or do they do they kind of say, hey, how
Speaker 1: are you? It's open communication? Yep, the doctor's final call.
Speaker 1: You said that all along, But just in terms of
Speaker 1: feel right now, do you feel as if you were
Speaker 1: ready to play? I feel good. I feel good. I mean,
Speaker 1: like I said, I think you guys kind of see
Speaker 1: me out there. I mean I have really no hesitation,
Speaker 1: you know, in the pocket, when guys are around me
Speaker 1: those things, I feel really good. Um, but it's gonna
Speaker 1: come down to if they feel confident in contact and
Speaker 1: when that is I can't say yet in those discussions,
Speaker 1: the difference if you get nine months to healing ACL
Speaker 1: versus not having nine months, and that you're kind of
Speaker 1: right on the verge of that, yeah, a little bit,
Speaker 1: a little bit. And then you know, there's there's always
Speaker 1: textbooks and science and different things that that I don't
Speaker 1: know all about yet that doctors do. So I mean
Speaker 1: that stuff definitely plays into their decisions for sure. Pause
Speaker 1: and look back to where you were on your first
Speaker 1: rehab day walking around with Cane and how far you've come. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: I mean it's been a it's been a grueling process.
Speaker 1: You know, we'reling offseason. I think you know I've talked
Speaker 1: a lot about that, but just from a rehab standpoint,
Speaker 1: I mean, when you're in the building almost every day
Speaker 1: during the week, um all offseason you really don't get
Speaker 1: any break or um. And then just the physical limitations
Speaker 1: early on and just overcoming that, you know, kind of
Speaker 1: step by step. It's been a it's been a grueling process.
Speaker 1: But you know, I'm thankful for where I'm at in
Speaker 1: the progression that I have made. When when you do that,
Speaker 1: do you do that to help yourself mentally? Maybe through
Speaker 1: a moment just to look at the progress that you
Speaker 1: have made and what the word is it? Oh? For sure?
Speaker 1: I mean it's always good to look back and kind
Speaker 1: of just see where you've come from, and um, you know,
Speaker 1: just counter blessings every day. You know, although I might
Speaker 1: have been frustrated during camp to maybe not be out
Speaker 1: there fully with the team reps, um, to just realize
Speaker 1: where I was, you know where I was, and I'm
Speaker 1: just take it, um, not take it for granted, I
Speaker 1: should say, and um, just be thankful each day with it.
Speaker 1: For sure. Obviously you have to get cleared in order
Speaker 1: to play. But after that, is there going to be
Speaker 1: some sort of mental hurdle to get over just to
Speaker 1: fully trust the need? Yeah? I don't think so, you know,
Speaker 1: I feel good out there. I mean, obviously I haven't
Speaker 1: been been hit yet, but um, just just out there,
Speaker 1: um and the team drills, you know, guys kind of
Speaker 1: flying all around all those things. Uh, I don't feel
Speaker 1: like I have any mental hesitation, and um, I'm not.
Speaker 1: I'm personally not worried about that about it. Like when
Speaker 1: you were out there yesterday, it was the need something
Speaker 1: that was on your mind where you just focus on point,
Speaker 1: just focus on playing the week one goal and you said,
Speaker 1: I think the first time you said that to us
Speaker 1: was the super Bowl by the week. Was that a
Speaker 1: goal you said independently or did doctors told you that
Speaker 1: was realistic? Yeah? I mean that was more so independently,
Speaker 1: and I think you know, multiple different doctors and obviously
Speaker 1: we've had a shuffle around in our own training room
Speaker 1: with doctors and everything too. So UM, it was definitely
Speaker 1: to a doctor's input and mainly my surgeon at the time. Um,
Speaker 1: it was a realistic expectation, but you know, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of factors involved, and like I said, with the
Speaker 1: crossover now in different training staff and everything that we
Speaker 1: have going on. Um, that was more so just a
Speaker 1: personal goal. And I hope that you had all the
Speaker 1: training staff you met those days I don't think so, No,
Speaker 1: I mean I think it's been it's been really good. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's been a pretty fluid process that
Speaker 1: the transition, and I think everyone's pretty excited about them
Speaker 1: most um to help you in terms of the mental
Speaker 1: approach of getting through this reason, I mean, just leaning
Speaker 1: on the Lord, I mean is number one really with
Speaker 1: everything I do. But uh my my now wife, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean she's been there for me ever since surgery,
Speaker 1: taking care of me, driving me to the facility, doing everything. Um,
Speaker 1: so she's been amazing, um, supporting me, encouraging me, and
Speaker 1: uh yeah, I owe her a lot for sure. Controlled
Speaker 1: environment has been a big fan. Yesterday with the weather,
Speaker 1: was there any hesitancy maybe pushing it back a day
Speaker 1: or we passed? Now we were past that. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: just went out there, didn't you know, a little little
Speaker 1: moisture never hurt anybody. So we were good. We were
Speaker 1: full speed with that. Thanks yas.