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Speaker 1: Briest Hall. How are you doing on this Tuesday.
Speaker 2: That's a good victory Tuesday.
Speaker 3: I'll get the day off and we just just come
Speaker 3: and do some treatment, chill out, go home and probably
Speaker 3: play some video games and lay in the bed.
Speaker 2: So you know, it's always a good day.
Speaker 4: So what video games are you playing?
Speaker 2: Madden?
Speaker 3: And then I get on Fortnite and Call of Duty
Speaker 3: with my friends, but I suck, so they I just
Speaker 3: get on there, so you know, let them have some
Speaker 3: entertainment when they watched me like die and stuff like that,
Speaker 3: so you know. But I've always been a sports game guy,
Speaker 3: so that's my thing.
Speaker 1: Who is your team when you're playing with madd Is
Speaker 1: it the Jets that you're making?
Speaker 3: Yes, I play with the Jets, okay, or otherwise I
Speaker 3: just do kind of like a random team thing. So
Speaker 3: play with who I can play with.
Speaker 1: Whoever ball distributions far or is pre saw when you're
Speaker 1: running the show is offensive coordinator?
Speaker 4: What are you doing?
Speaker 3: I'm going to run the ball till you stop it. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I want to run it till you stop it. And
Speaker 3: then I'm a pretty good oc myself, so I can
Speaker 3: can get some good routes going.
Speaker 1: Are you taking yourself out of the game or no?
Speaker 1: I mean, how many touches of pre sall.
Speaker 2: Get twenty at least twenty at the least yeah.
Speaker 1: How do you divide it up as far as runs
Speaker 1: too receptions?
Speaker 2: It just depends if I'm open.
Speaker 3: I'm giving myself the ball every time, but I like
Speaker 3: to if I pass, I like it to pass it deep,
Speaker 3: So you know.
Speaker 4: So what is your offensive philosophy? Though?
Speaker 3: Okay, so this is how much I play. I have
Speaker 3: my own custom playbook. Yeah yeah, and so I run
Speaker 3: probably three or four formations, and I make all my
Speaker 3: adjustments out of each formation, so it looks like I'm
Speaker 3: running the same stuff every play, but it's always.
Speaker 4: Different personnel packages.
Speaker 2: What do you like to do? Eleven twelve? That's it? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Really no, thirteen.
Speaker 3: Nah, sometimes sometimes twenty one, but that's it. Eleven twelve,
Speaker 3: twenty one.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 4: What about defensive philosophy?
Speaker 2: Big nickel? Okay, dime in three four three four? Huh?
Speaker 2: What do you like about that stops the run. It's
Speaker 2: easy to stop the run.
Speaker 1: And so in the other two games you talked about
Speaker 1: before with Fortnite and what else call of Duty. Okay,
Speaker 1: so when I was growing up, I was the sport game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so Madden's up my alley, but Fortnite called Duty. Tell
Speaker 1: me about the challenges and what you like about those.
Speaker 3: Games, Like a combat game, you know, kind of like
Speaker 3: a cat mouse type of thing, and basically trying not
Speaker 3: to get killed. You're trying not to get got basically,
Speaker 3: and unfortunately for me, I'm not good at not getting
Speaker 3: got in that game, so it usually does it end
Speaker 3: up well for me.
Speaker 4: Okay, So what the.
Speaker 1: Heck happened in the second half Sunday at thirty point
Speaker 1: offensive Barrage.
Speaker 3: Uh, we kind of just, you know, it felt like
Speaker 3: we were shooting ourselves in the foot. In the first half,
Speaker 3: we were moving the ball, you know, up and down.
Speaker 3: We just shot ourselves in the foot with penalties and
Speaker 3: dumb mistakes. In the second half, we just kind of
Speaker 3: locked in a little bit more defense got us the
Speaker 3: ball back into our thing.
Speaker 4: Did you think it was only a matter of time?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I did, just knowing the potential we have you know,
Speaker 3: I think that we do have the potential to be
Speaker 3: a very good offense, and we already have a very
Speaker 3: good defense. So if we helped them out just that much,
Speaker 3: then you know, we could go anywhere we want.
Speaker 4: Did you kind of feel like the dam broke there?
Speaker 1: When Kyby gets into the end zone, It's like, okay,
Speaker 1: we can relax a little bit now.
Speaker 3: Uh nah, It was kind of a surprise. It was
Speaker 3: kind of funny because like he was like the last person,
Speaker 3: like it was the most simple route. So I was like,
Speaker 3: there's no way they just let him open on like
Speaker 3: a little shallow drag route and believe it, it was
Speaker 3: wide open and he walks in. I was like, Wow,
Speaker 3: that's crazy.
Speaker 1: It's crazy season high for you in terms of receiving yards.
Speaker 1: How much do you enjoy getting the rock out of
Speaker 1: the backfield.
Speaker 3: I'm the type of person I just want the ball
Speaker 3: just as long as no matter where. It's just get
Speaker 3: me to get me the ball in some space and
Speaker 3: I'm fine. So it was good. You know, they were
Speaker 3: dropping off and linebackers were packing the back a lot,
Speaker 3: and you know, Zach was throwing me the balls, making
Speaker 3: the first one miss and just getting good yards.
Speaker 2: So it was a good, good game play for sure.
Speaker 1: How much your team's playing you differently now, because I
Speaker 1: think it's like six of the last eight games where
Speaker 1: you've had at least five receptions.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a lot different.
Speaker 3: You know, when we're in twelve and twenty one, you know,
Speaker 3: the box iss not a lot of space in there,
Speaker 3: and it's been hard. You know, we've had a lot
Speaker 3: of injuries up front and everything like that, just dealing
Speaker 3: with that, and we've had to like plug and play guys,
Speaker 3: mismatch guys and stuff like that, so it's been hard
Speaker 3: for them to get it like a real good rhythm
Speaker 3: and you know, build that with each other. So I'm
Speaker 3: just trying my best to just to work with what
Speaker 3: I have and when I do have my chances to
Speaker 3: get the rock, just trying to make the right plays.
Speaker 1: You guys got out of eleven a little bit more,
Speaker 1: I'd say, yeah on Sundays, don't you think Yeah?
Speaker 3: I think so, just because the past game started to
Speaker 3: open up a little more, and then you know, they
Speaker 3: they kind of were getting worried about me out of
Speaker 3: the backfields, and then they opened up Garrett and Conkering
Speaker 3: a lot of those guys a lot, So it was
Speaker 3: good just to see how everybody could contribute.
Speaker 1: Man, you are a bruiser out there in the open field.
Speaker 1: It feels like every week there is an opposing dB,
Speaker 1: whether it be a cornerback or safety coming trying to
Speaker 1: make a tackle. In a lot of times, these guys
Speaker 1: are staying down on the ground. Yeah, so what's the
Speaker 1: thought process when, hey, you get the rock and no
Speaker 1: linebackers by you, and you know, a d one on
Speaker 1: one or one on two with a couple of dB.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I've never been like a like a super always power guy.
Speaker 3: Like you know, my game's real finess and I real
Speaker 3: good at making guys miss. But when I have to,
Speaker 3: you know, throw it in there, then I will. So,
Speaker 3: you know, it just just depends on what the situation is.
Speaker 3: You know, if I'm one on one, I'm gonna make
Speaker 3: you miss every time. But if we're in a small space,
Speaker 3: I need to go, you know, get those and I'm
Speaker 3: going to put my shoulder down and you know, if
Speaker 3: they want to tackle me, they do, and you know
Speaker 3: they might have to deal with the consequences.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you recently actually got fined.
Speaker 1: I know a lot of people came to your defense
Speaker 1: and said, hey, listen, he's.
Speaker 4: Just playing football. Yeah, so I.
Speaker 1: Don't want you to get fined again for what happened,
Speaker 1: but can you speak to the fact that, hey, listen,
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to make some yards stap.
Speaker 2: In here, Yeah exactly. You know.
Speaker 3: It was just a simple check down and I was running.
Speaker 3: And what's crazy. What was crazy to me is that
Speaker 3: the dB he ducked his head before I even got there.
Speaker 3: And I'm like, okay, like if he's putting his shoulder
Speaker 3: down and I'm going to have to, I'm going to
Speaker 3: have to or he's just gonna, you know, hit me
Speaker 3: in my legs or something. So it's crazy because like
Speaker 3: I saw the whole thing trending on Twitter before my
Speaker 3: agent even texted me about it, so I was like, uh,
Speaker 3: they got to be playing. And then right as I
Speaker 3: saw it on Twitter, she texted me and I was like, wow,
Speaker 3: this is this is like that's terrible. But you know,
Speaker 3: I got faith in like the NFLPA and my agent
Speaker 3: and everybody that we're gonna get it handled.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: The postgame locker room, the reaction after a five game
Speaker 1: losing streak and you guys finally get one what was
Speaker 1: it feeling.
Speaker 3: Like NFL good? You know, still not satisfied. I still
Speaker 3: think we probably left about you know, ten to fourteen
Speaker 3: points out there, and we still got to get our
Speaker 3: run game going. You know, at the end of the season,
Speaker 3: you know, you're only going to go as far as
Speaker 3: your run game goes, and you have to have a
Speaker 3: good run game to to you know, to get get
Speaker 3: far in these playoffs and everything and get far into
Speaker 3: at the end of the season. So I'm just waiting for,
Speaker 3: you know, us to get better up front. I'm waiting
Speaker 3: for the backs. We got to get better every weekend.
Speaker 2: Hope. We got to get this run game going.
Speaker 4: Man, how hard is it for you? You don't make excuses,
Speaker 4: but rhythm.
Speaker 1: You're talking about nine offensive line combinations in the last games. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's an hurdle, you know, so for you as a back,
Speaker 1: And can you speak to the importance of flow and
Speaker 1: rhythm and blocking styles up front?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's very important, especially you know when you
Speaker 3: when you got new guys and all the time you
Speaker 3: don't really know what you're gonna get. You don't know
Speaker 3: like what you're gonna have to react to. And for
Speaker 3: those guys, I feel bad for them because it's like, Okay,
Speaker 3: this guy's hurt, this guy's hurt, Okay, we gotta try
Speaker 3: this guy out in this spot, put this guy over here.
Speaker 3: And you know, there guys are getting put in positions
Speaker 3: I never really played before. They didn't play all training camp,
Speaker 3: and they're not really comfortable that. So they got to know,
Speaker 3: go against guys who were making one hundred million dollars
Speaker 3: a year and you know, are been playing that position
Speaker 3: their whole life. So I definitely feel for them too.
Speaker 3: But you know, we all we try not to make
Speaker 3: excuses and we just try to do our one eleventh
Speaker 3: every play.
Speaker 2: But it's hard. It's difficult, for sure.
Speaker 4: You're such a hard nose runner.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you don't know what's actually happening up front
Speaker 1: net split second. Can you talk about being patient but
Speaker 1: at the same time wanting to hit the hole.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. You want.
Speaker 3: You want to be as a patient as possible to
Speaker 3: set up your blocks. But it's just it's just different.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: The most I can tell guys like turn on the
Speaker 3: tape and then you'll you kind of see what I'm
Speaker 3: going through, because you know, people can make all these
Speaker 3: assumptions or Oh he's not good. Oh he's coming off
Speaker 3: his A c L. He's not that he's lost a step,
Speaker 3: and this, that and the third. But it's just like,
Speaker 3: you know, you can't really, you know, pay attention to
Speaker 3: what other people gotta say. Just got to, you know,
Speaker 3: play your game and you know, stay true to what
Speaker 3: you do the little things right, and you know your
Speaker 3: natural talent will take over naturally.
Speaker 4: How frustrating? Has it better for you?
Speaker 3: It's been really frustrating because I do wholeheartedly. I know
Speaker 3: I'm the top three running back in this league, and
Speaker 3: I haven't always gotten a show with uh this season,
Speaker 3: and you know, I show flashes of it every now
Speaker 3: and then, but I feel like I can do it
Speaker 3: on this on a seventeen game basis, and you know,
Speaker 3: it's it's been real. It's been tough this season, but
Speaker 3: everybody knows that when I get the ball, I can
Speaker 3: make plays whenever I touch it. So you know, as
Speaker 3: long as they know that everybody respects my game is fine.
Speaker 1: How is your body right now physically at this point
Speaker 1: of the year because you dealt with some ankle stuff, yeah,
Speaker 1: last week and kind of limited practice.
Speaker 4: Yeah, when I perform, it feels good.
Speaker 3: You know, just taking some time off of practice and
Speaker 3: stuff that kind of helped me out a lot, just
Speaker 3: to have me focus on like just focus even more
Speaker 3: on our game plan, locking on that and sit back
Speaker 3: and watch guys, and then it just helped me be
Speaker 3: prepared for Sunday. You know, if you're not practicing, you
Speaker 3: got to you get chances to pay that much more
Speaker 3: attention to what the game plan is and everything like that.
Speaker 3: So it's been good. But you know, coming off my
Speaker 3: knee and everything like that, I've actually been surprised with
Speaker 3: how much like I've been able to, you know, just
Speaker 3: stay stay consistent, stay healthy, and being the lineup every
Speaker 3: week has been good. I'm still getting stronger every week,
Speaker 3: still get more confidence with it, and you know, I
Speaker 3: feel like i'm pretty much I'm probably about ninety five
Speaker 3: percent right now, and you know, it's just getting better
Speaker 3: every week.
Speaker 2: So I'm happy with that.
Speaker 4: That's interesting. So you you are getting stronger each week,
Speaker 4: you feel that.
Speaker 2: Huh can you speak to it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, just from game one. You know, it's
Speaker 3: just with the whole rehab process. It's different because you're
Speaker 3: not so much preparing for football. I'm just prepared I'm
Speaker 3: just really getting my knees stronger. You know, I'm trying
Speaker 3: to get it stronger enough for me to play and
Speaker 3: for me to be able to cut and do everything.
Speaker 3: But you know, I'm not like I'm not specifically just
Speaker 3: conditioning and you know, always doing all the football stuff.
Speaker 3: You know, I only had about like two or three
Speaker 3: weeks of training camp, so I had to play in
Speaker 3: the first game. So it's like, Okay, I gotta hurry
Speaker 3: up and try to get in shape for this. And
Speaker 3: then come game one, you know, I look good, but
Speaker 3: it still wasn't like up to my standard and everything
Speaker 3: like that. And then the coaches are doing right by
Speaker 3: me by you know, not letting me get twenty carries
Speaker 3: a game at the beginning of the season and let
Speaker 3: me work my way into everything and to where now
Speaker 3: you know, I feel like, you know, whatever it takes
Speaker 3: for me to help the team win the game, I
Speaker 3: could do that.
Speaker 1: What was the reaction like, as far as the document
Speaker 1: theory is concerned, maybe downstairs inside the locker room and
Speaker 1: also from the fans.
Speaker 3: It was good for the guys to see, you know,
Speaker 3: how hard I worked and you know, not only my
Speaker 3: dedication to the game, and to myself, but my dedication
Speaker 3: to try to get back to help the team and
Speaker 3: everything like that. You know, everybody knows I was here
Speaker 3: the whole off season pretty much, you know, by myself.
Speaker 3: It was just me, Abt and Makai pretty much, and
Speaker 3: you know, we were in the training room every day
Speaker 3: just trying to get better. But it was It's just
Speaker 3: been a blessing so far, because not a lot of
Speaker 3: guys can say they come back and have a pretty
Speaker 3: good season and still you can say they look they
Speaker 3: look the same after having a knee injury like I did.
Speaker 3: So you know, I just leave it all the God.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm blessed.
Speaker 1: You don't played everything throughout throughout it though, but that's
Speaker 1: a major injury.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then I remember Salad talking about in training camp
Speaker 1: that he's back to twenty miles for hour on the tread.
Speaker 1: And then that first play I think in camp, I
Speaker 1: think Aaron threw it to you over the middle and
Speaker 1: then you're dancing in the nzone a couple of seconds later.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and the little things like that, you know, you
Speaker 3: take for granted. But at that point, you know, I
Speaker 3: still wasn't even fully comfortable, you know, playing football. Yet
Speaker 3: you know, I was just getting back and still trying
Speaker 3: to get comfortable cutting off my knee and everything like that,
Speaker 3: and still was a little hesitant. But it's just it's
Speaker 3: this little stuff like that. Those reps, you know, help
Speaker 3: you build your confidence. And with me coming back to practice,
Speaker 3: I had to go through a whole mental barrier of
Speaker 3: consistently you know, cutting and doing football stuff every day
Speaker 3: and dealing with Okay, this is how my need, this
Speaker 3: is how sore my knee is gonna be after practice
Speaker 3: every day, and this is how I'm gonna have to
Speaker 3: take care of it, and you know, do all this
Speaker 3: little stuff because it takes about like three hours two
Speaker 3: three hours before practice for me to you know, get
Speaker 3: everything ready to get myself warmed up when I was
Speaker 3: first coming back. Now I can just more so just
Speaker 3: take my little hour hour and a half and get
Speaker 3: ready and be fine. But it was definitely a long
Speaker 3: process for sure.
Speaker 1: How do you get to the point where you do
Speaker 1: trust it? It is there their point where you said,
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm good right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, honestly it was not till the first game because
Speaker 3: I didn't get hit really all of training can they
Speaker 3: didn't let anybody do you know hit me too much? So,
Speaker 3: you know, it was like, okay, a few times in
Speaker 3: training can By fall on the ground.
Speaker 2: And everybody'd be like, oh, is he good? And I
Speaker 2: was like, yeah, I'm good.
Speaker 3: And then the first game, you know, I was, you know,
Speaker 3: just like I said, I haven't I hadn't been hitting
Speaker 3: in the first carry. I get a big, big game
Speaker 3: and I'm like, Okay, I'm good. I'm back.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm good.
Speaker 3: And so then I get hit and the hits aren't
Speaker 3: hurting me or anything like that, and after the game,
Speaker 3: I'm like, Okay, my knee is not terribly sore, so
Speaker 3: I know I'm good. And but at the beginning of
Speaker 3: the season, I was wearing like a like a little
Speaker 3: like patella strap for my knee. And then after about
Speaker 3: like five games, I was like, Okay, I don't need
Speaker 3: this anymore. And then the Raiders game, I jump try
Speaker 3: to jump over somebody off my knee. So it's like
Speaker 3: all those little barriers help help you on your mind.
Speaker 3: You're like, okay, I'm good. Like, guess I don't have
Speaker 3: to worry about this anymore.
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Speaker 1: What's going through your mind on that first carry where
Speaker 1: you get a chunk play and you're taking a hand
Speaker 1: off from Aaron Rodgers. Do you have time in the
Speaker 1: couple seconds after that snap, after you go out of
Speaker 1: bounce where you're like, hey man, we're gonna be something
Speaker 1: special this year.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I was actually just making fun of them, uh,
Speaker 3: because I always try to think I'm the best player
Speaker 3: on the field, And I told him, I was like,
Speaker 3: if it's dry outside, you might be the best player,
Speaker 3: but if it's wet and rainy. I'm probably the best
Speaker 3: player out here. He was like, Okay, you might be.
Speaker 3: So we always joke about that, but you know, after
Speaker 3: a big game like that coming off my knee, I'm like, okay,
Speaker 3: I'm still that dude. Like and now I was just
Speaker 3: ready to, you know, just start the season with him
Speaker 3: and see how much I can learn from him and
Speaker 3: grow with him just with little parts of the game,
Speaker 3: especially within the past game, to see how I can
Speaker 3: help him out a lot more. Unfortunately, he got injured
Speaker 3: and everything, but it's gonna be good to see him
Speaker 3: come back, and it's been good to see his recovery
Speaker 3: process too.
Speaker 1: What's it like, Kevin then back in the building And
Speaker 1: what do you tell people when they say, Hey, what's
Speaker 1: this dude all about?
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's uh, he's a real good person. We're pretty
Speaker 3: much lockermates. So me and him have had a lot of,
Speaker 3: you know, deep conversations and we talk a lot, and
Speaker 3: it's just been really good to get to know him,
Speaker 3: know how he thinks, and talk to him about football
Speaker 3: and just pick his mind about like the type of
Speaker 3: stuff he wants, what he likes to do.
Speaker 2: When he sees certain looks and stuff.
Speaker 3: Like that, and then get to know him on a
Speaker 3: personal level to where I can actually say he's a friend.
Speaker 3: It's been it's definitely been good, and it's just to
Speaker 3: be around a person like him, it makes you realize
Speaker 3: as like how unique somebody could be in this world.
Speaker 2: Because he's definitely a unique person.
Speaker 1: What's the biggest misconception about Rogers And you said he's unique?
Speaker 4: What makes him unique?
Speaker 3: Uh, just the way he thinks and the way he like,
Speaker 3: like the way he goes about stuff, the way he
Speaker 3: sees life in certain aspects, and the way like when
Speaker 3: you talk to him and he explains you why he
Speaker 3: is the way he is with some stuff is just
Speaker 3: it's like, Okay, this dude's different, Like he's a real
Speaker 3: he's a real cool dude for sure.
Speaker 1: You and Garrett, he talked about this after the game,
Speaker 1: right then you and Garrett go back and forth and
Speaker 1: who's the best player on offense? Right?
Speaker 4: What are those conversations?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 3: Nah, really, we just kind of just got each other
Speaker 3: up during the game, Like if he makes he makes
Speaker 3: a play, like we'll always just be joking and stuff
Speaker 3: in the huddle, you know, cause for us we're kind
Speaker 3: of like the biggest jokesters on offense. You know, you
Speaker 3: can never take the game too serious because then it
Speaker 3: becomes a job and not a game. So me and
Speaker 3: him just just try to have fun to keep everybody,
Speaker 3: you know, just level and like not taking it too serious.
Speaker 3: So whenever he makes it play, I hype him up.
Speaker 3: Whenever I make it play, he hypes me up. And
Speaker 3: then if we need to make a play, we both
Speaker 3: look at each other and like, all right, come on,
Speaker 3: let's go. So it's it's one of those things. And
Speaker 3: that's why I feel like with me and him, like
Speaker 3: as long as we have the support around us that
Speaker 3: me and him could you know, win us a game,
Speaker 3: and me and him, could you know, really do great
Speaker 3: things in this league because helps me out just as
Speaker 3: much as.
Speaker 2: I help him out.
Speaker 4: Who typically starts the talking back and forth.
Speaker 3: It just depends. It depends on who's making it, who
Speaker 3: makes the first play. And then before the game I
Speaker 3: always tap him up and give him a hug and
Speaker 3: everything like that, so I know that he's going battle
Speaker 3: for me and I'm goinging battle for him every week.
Speaker 1: What's that running back room like with you and Dalvin?
Speaker 1: And is he joining the ranks this year.
Speaker 3: It's honestly kind of crazy because we're all so like
Speaker 3: laid back in nonchalant, so it like brings it makes
Speaker 3: us like even closer. You know, Dolvin's real easy going,
Speaker 3: I'm really laid back. He's he's easy going as well.
Speaker 3: And then our coach, coach Embury, he's he's from Cali.
Speaker 3: He has that whole Cali like too cool for school vibe.
Speaker 3: And then coach Leon Washington, who was real laid back
Speaker 3: and easy going as well, and then him and Dalvin
Speaker 3: already had ties together because of Florida State and everything
Speaker 3: like that. And so it's it's just been cool to
Speaker 3: be with those guys and talk to Dolvin and Izzy
Speaker 3: and see how Izzy's gotten better, and for me to
Speaker 3: talk to Dovin about the knee and then talk to
Speaker 3: him about certain looks and blitzes and you know how
Speaker 3: stuff's been for him in his career and everything.
Speaker 2: So it's been good. For sure, I've getting a real
Speaker 2: good relationship with them.
Speaker 1: I think it's been very cool because there's a good
Speaker 1: professional respect there because I don't know if a lot
Speaker 1: of guys in their second years would be like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, hey, come on in and whatever and things
Speaker 1: like that, but that was never your attitude exactly.
Speaker 3: And it's been good for me because we have that
Speaker 3: like friendly competition with each other to where we push
Speaker 3: each other to be better and do better. But it's
Speaker 3: also a mutual respect thing with all of us to
Speaker 3: where like we know that we're all good and we
Speaker 3: know that we all can make plays. So it's like,
Speaker 3: whoever has a hot hand, just go. Like we're so
Speaker 3: confident in each other that whoever's whoever's getting the ball,
Speaker 3: we're not worried about it, just like, let's just ball
Speaker 3: and let's do our thing.
Speaker 4: Is his future look like you think.
Speaker 3: Uh, he's gonna be really good. You know, he's really fast.
Speaker 3: Uh and he's it's weird because he's not as big
Speaker 3: as me, but he's kind of built like me in
Speaker 3: a way. So watching the way he moves, the way
Speaker 3: he does certain stuff, everybody always says like he kind
Speaker 3: of looks like me. He kind of looks like me
Speaker 3: doing stuff. And it's been cool just to be around
Speaker 3: him and uh, just pick his brain and see how
Speaker 3: he is, see what his mentality is like and everything
Speaker 3: like that. And he has that you know, whole New
Speaker 3: York vibe to him with the whole slang and accent
Speaker 3: and everything. So it's been cool to be around him too.
Speaker 4: Is he in your ear or are you more going
Speaker 4: to him?
Speaker 3: We're actually pretty close. We talk a lot. We we both,
Speaker 3: you know, engage in conversation with each other. With both
Speaker 3: we're not scared to start conversations conversation with each other.
Speaker 3: So you know, we talk every day. You know, we're
Speaker 3: in running back meetings and stuff every day. And then
Speaker 3: when we're on the field, we're always joking around, playing
Speaker 3: catch and during the game, he's always giving me feedback
Speaker 3: on what he sees, and I'm talking to him about
Speaker 3: certain stuff, and you know, he's been starting to play
Speaker 3: a little more, so I've definitely been in his ear
Speaker 3: a lot.
Speaker 4: Were you happy with Zach?
Speaker 1: Just the way he responded after everything that took place.
Speaker 1: He's an emergency third quarterback for a pair of weeks.
Speaker 4: He's name starter.
Speaker 1: There's a report out there that he's reluctant to go
Speaker 1: back in the lineup. I think he had messages for
Speaker 1: you guys before that. But just as a guy who's
Speaker 1: been his teammate, who's lining up between those white lines
Speaker 1: with him the way he responded out there against you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I probably have the most respect for him, just
Speaker 3: as much respect for him as anyone on the team.
Speaker 3: You know, just to see the way he's handled himself
Speaker 3: and handled things, just because of all the adversity he's
Speaker 3: gone through, and just to see how things have gone
Speaker 3: for him. You know, he's he's had the most ups
Speaker 3: and the most downs, and he always says stays level.
Speaker 3: So to just to see how he is, and to
Speaker 3: see his true love of the game for football, and
Speaker 3: his dedication to us, because he's he's playing playing the
Speaker 3: games for us, and and to see how competitive he is.
Speaker 3: It's just that's a that's a real good dude there.
Speaker 3: Me and him have gotten close over the last year,
Speaker 3: and you know now in team meetings I'm sitting next
Speaker 3: to him joking around with them and stuff like that,
Speaker 3: and being next to him in the huddle every play
Speaker 3: and in the backfield every play. We've definitely getted a
Speaker 3: good relationship.
Speaker 4: Did you sense.
Speaker 1: It early on in that game? Or is a point
Speaker 1: in the third quarter where it was like, yo.
Speaker 4: He is playing free here, he is letting it rip.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I sensed it early on, you know, just seeing
Speaker 3: how well the old line was playing early on, and
Speaker 3: seeing how much time he had, you know, and just seeing,
Speaker 3: you know, how confident he was with everything. And I
Speaker 3: can tell when when Zach's on, you know, he's making
Speaker 3: those pocket passes, he's making those he's taking those whiskey
Speaker 3: throws and making them and with the most confidence. And
Speaker 3: when he's on, he's on. So it's been cool to
Speaker 3: see that.
Speaker 2: For sure, you.
Speaker 1: Played with a really good quarterback in college. So people
Speaker 1: are asking me, why did I always state ever loose
Speaker 1: pre saw in the backfield probably forty a quarterback.
Speaker 3: It's you know, not a lot of kids want to
Speaker 3: go go to Iowa and play football, so it's it's
Speaker 3: definitely hard to get some of the higher recruits and
Speaker 3: stuff there. But you know, playing with a guy like
Speaker 3: Brock and you know, be in his roommate for a
Speaker 3: few years, he's definitely a great dude. And you know,
Speaker 3: it's like being around guys like him made me a
Speaker 3: better person just seeing the way he carries himself and
Speaker 3: the way he goes about his faith with God and
Speaker 3: everything like that, and see how could have a person
Speaker 3: he is, how wholehearted he is and wholesome and how
Speaker 3: he lives for other people, and he's willing to just give, give, give, give,
Speaker 3: and not need to receive anything. You know, being around
Speaker 3: guys like that have definitely rubbed off on me. And
Speaker 3: just him being a year older than me and everything
Speaker 3: like that, he was kind of like my mentor. He
Speaker 3: kind of, you know, just took me and helped me
Speaker 3: grow throughout my freshman year of college.
Speaker 2: And everything like that. Was it was definitely cool to
Speaker 2: know him.
Speaker 1: Did you know, like at that point, you know what,
Speaker 1: he's gonna be a pro quarterback. I know, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be able to play in the National Football League, I'm
Speaker 1: going to excel on a professional level, or or at
Speaker 1: that point you're just having fun and you're attacking the
Speaker 1: days and you're being cyclones.
Speaker 3: I knew Broc was like that when he got thrown
Speaker 3: in a game his freshman year and like he became
Speaker 3: like Brock Purty then like then, seeing you know how
Speaker 3: he dealt with ups and downs, and he still remained
Speaker 3: to be the same person. You know, he takes his
Speaker 3: wins the same way as he takes his losses. I Mean,
Speaker 3: he's real humble, and that's why I always knew that
Speaker 3: he'd be he'd be a solid quarterback. And not saying
Speaker 3: that I knew he'd be like going this crazy now,
Speaker 3: but I knew that he'd be in the league and
Speaker 3: he'd stick around for a long time, just because of
Speaker 3: the way he is, his competitive spirit and everything like that.
Speaker 3: And you know, he's always been one of those dudes
Speaker 3: that I know if he had the right pieces around him,
Speaker 3: then he's gonna do everything he needs to do.
Speaker 2: Like there's no question about that.
Speaker 4: When you guys were played Madden, what teams were you
Speaker 4: picking back then? And who was winning those games?
Speaker 2: Who would I pick?
Speaker 3: Honestly, I just played with anybody, And yeah, we both
Speaker 3: play with anybody. We were both so competitive, Like if
Speaker 3: I won, I'd like to mess with him and try
Speaker 3: to give him a hug or like dap him up,
Speaker 3: and he'd like be ready to like wrestle. He'd be
Speaker 3: like trying to kick me out his stuff. Yeah, we
Speaker 3: were like so competitive with everything when we when we
Speaker 3: were in college, and that's what made our friendship so tight.
Speaker 3: And that's why I knew, like every Saturday that he
Speaker 3: was going to battle for me and I was gonna
Speaker 3: battle for him.
Speaker 2: So that's why we're so close today.
Speaker 1: How much do you keep up with with State because
Speaker 1: I'm doing the pre and postgame show each week with
Speaker 1: Anthony Back on Rocket Back. Yeah, Big twelve Freshman of
Speaker 1: the Year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's funny because we always make fun fun of
Speaker 3: Brock because Roco and Brock a kind of like built
Speaker 3: the same and everything, and uh, you know, they're almost
Speaker 3: like a spending image of each other as far as
Speaker 3: body type. But you know, I definitely see some similarities
Speaker 3: in them too, and I pay a lot of attention.
Speaker 3: I would stay football and basketball. They're just men, just
Speaker 3: be I would buy like thirty So that was that
Speaker 3: was great. But you know, being at a school like
Speaker 3: that is different from other schools because we built a
Speaker 3: real brotherhood and it's it's deeper than football. So I
Speaker 3: definitely will always have ties back there.
Speaker 1: Miami. This week return matchup. What do you take out
Speaker 1: of what happened a few weeks ago? And also do
Speaker 1: you like the chess match that goes to chess match
Speaker 1: that goes into Okay, we just lined up against them
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, Let's see how things are
Speaker 1: gonna be different.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I do, because I feel like we put our
Speaker 3: worst product of football out and I feel like they
Speaker 3: gave us everything they got. So I'm definitely confident with
Speaker 3: what the chess match would be like this game, and
Speaker 3: you know, we might be down some players, but they're
Speaker 3: also down some players, so it's going to be like
Speaker 3: just who's who's more battle tests and everything like that,
Speaker 3: so it's definitely gonna be a dogfight.
Speaker 4: Did you watch the game last night?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: What were your thoughts?
Speaker 2: It was crazy? That was crazy.
Speaker 1: Well, there was two games on, but I've referred to
Speaker 1: the Miami to see game where the Titans said the
Speaker 1: man come back.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's how you know, the games that rover
Speaker 3: into the clock strikes zero, that's the definition of it.
Speaker 3: So you know, you always try to play four quarters
Speaker 3: of a football game and you never, like I said,
Speaker 3: the Nick game's never over in to the clock strikes zero.
Speaker 1: Right now, I think playoff possibilities. People say, well, maybe
Speaker 1: percentages wise, you guys are less than one percent. But
Speaker 1: inside the locker room where you kind of like make
Speaker 1: this thing interesting, let's just we're on a one game
Speaker 1: win streak right now.
Speaker 4: Let's make it too and let's keep on extending this.
Speaker 3: Though we haven't really been talking that much about the playoffs.
Speaker 3: I know, when you look around the league, you know,
Speaker 3: our record is just as good, if not better than
Speaker 3: a lot of teams, and we might be one game
Speaker 3: under a lot of teams as well. So all it
Speaker 3: takes is a few wins, a few losses and stuff
Speaker 3: like that. So we're not so much worried about that.
Speaker 3: We're just worried about getting better every week right now,
Speaker 3: and whatever happens happens.
Speaker 1: Is someone who's so dynamic with the ball in his hands,
Speaker 1: what do you think about the season, Tyreek? It is
Speaker 1: having on pace for two thousand yards receiving.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 3: He's definitely probably going to get that two thousand. He's
Speaker 3: a great player. Hopefully he doesn't get it versus us,
Speaker 3: but no, you know, it's been cool to watch him.
Speaker 3: I've been watching him since I was in high school,
Speaker 3: so to see, you know, what he does when he
Speaker 3: gets the ball on any part of the field, it's
Speaker 3: just like, Okay, hopefully he doesn't score anything, and.
Speaker 2: You know, he's just a real great player.
Speaker 1: I think you guys are best equipped to match up
Speaker 1: with him more than anybody in the National Footall League.
Speaker 1: When you're throwing out those cornerbacks with saw us in
Speaker 1: DJ and Michael Carter the second right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I like those.
Speaker 3: I like our whole uh you know, back back guys
Speaker 3: versus versus anybody. I think, you know, if we got
Speaker 3: to play a game full of man and man, I
Speaker 3: feel like rdb's are gonna win nine times out of ten.
Speaker 1: So, Holiday season, what do you got planned? Because you
Speaker 1: guys got your heads down. You got a game on
Speaker 1: Christmas Eve? But what is gonna what is it gonna
Speaker 1: look like for you next weekend? Because he got the
Speaker 1: game against Washington Christmas Eve. But as far as families concerned,
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: To be honest, you know, I usually spoil you know,
Speaker 3: everybody for Christmas and everything like that. So I'm looking
Speaker 3: forward to having a lot of my family up here
Speaker 3: and be at the game and stuff and just enjoying
Speaker 3: them a little before and after the game.
Speaker 2: So it's gonna be good.
Speaker 1: But you don't know what you're gonna do just yet.
Speaker 1: But you can't break it right here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have no idea, but you always do something. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we always do something.
Speaker 4: Okay, what about your teammates? How does that work?
Speaker 3: We got a secret Santa for all our position rooms,
Speaker 3: So it's gonna be fun.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be fun spending limit. I can't tell you that.
Speaker 4: Okay, that's fair.
Speaker 3: It's a hefty price, but I can't tell you.
Speaker 1: And anybody who knows you around the facility knows that, Hey,
Speaker 1: you're a binge watcher of certain shows, maybe programs, things
Speaker 1: like that. What's on tap for you? Or what do
Speaker 1: you win right now?
Speaker 3: I wish I could say Outer Banks, because that's my
Speaker 3: favorite show, but that doesn't come out to like March
Speaker 3: or April ish Okay, But right now I'm watching Power.
Speaker 3: It's a very good show and it's based pretty much
Speaker 3: in New York. And they got a few spin off
Speaker 3: shows that I've been watching, but that's that's been for
Speaker 3: the most part, that's been my main show I'm watching
Speaker 3: right now.
Speaker 4: What do you think?
Speaker 3: I think the spinoffs are better than the main show
Speaker 3: right now, and I'm really enjoying them. Every character is great,
Speaker 3: I like for me and shows and stuff. I look
Speaker 3: at the little things. I look at the way they
Speaker 3: addressed the characters. I like to, you know, dissect these
Speaker 3: characters like I want to know, like why they are
Speaker 3: the way they are, Like what made them like that?
Speaker 3: And everything like that. So that's that's what makes that
Speaker 3: show really unique to me.
Speaker 1: Have you ever had any interaction with former Jets running
Speaker 1: back Thomas Jones because he's doing acting himself.
Speaker 4: He's a director and he's a producer as well.
Speaker 2: I have not, but since he said, we got to
Speaker 2: hook you up because.
Speaker 1: The thing that I was thinking about when you were
Speaker 1: talking about Outer Banks, would Breecee Hall ever be interested
Speaker 1: in making a cameo on one of these shows?
Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely, yes I would. It's my favorite show out easily,
Speaker 3: that Power whatever, easily.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, we're gonna link you up with Thomas Jones.
Speaker 1: But then because he's not involved with Outer Banks, but
Speaker 1: there's a number of productions that he's involved in.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I had to know.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, for sure.
Speaker 3: I'm looking forward to that.
Speaker 4: But Bries, appreciate your time all this.
Speaker 2: Thank you appreciation. M