WEBVTT - A Conversation with Jets RB Breece Hall About His Comeback Season (12/12) 0:00:03.800 --> 0:00:06.520 Official Jets podcast is presented by Went Bad Betting. It's 0:00:06.559 --> 0:00:08.920 the team sport but together it went back. Eric Allen 0:00:08.960 --> 0:00:12.280 here at One Jets Drive, joined by Jets running back 0:00:12.800 --> 0:00:16.720 Briest Hall. How are you doing on this Tuesday. 0:00:17.120 --> 0:00:18.440 That's a good victory Tuesday. 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:21.360 I'll get the day off and we just just come 0:00:21.400 --> 0:00:24.360 and do some treatment, chill out, go home and probably 0:00:24.360 --> 0:00:25.759 play some video games and lay in the bed. 0:00:25.880 --> 0:00:27.480 So you know, it's always a good day. 0:00:27.600 --> 0:00:29.200 So what video games are you playing? 0:00:30.000 --> 0:00:30.400 Madden? 0:00:30.640 --> 0:00:34.560 And then I get on Fortnite and Call of Duty 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:37.120 with my friends, but I suck, so they I just 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:39.600 get on there, so you know, let them have some 0:00:39.720 --> 0:00:42.360 entertainment when they watched me like die and stuff like that, 0:00:42.560 --> 0:00:44.800 so you know. But I've always been a sports game guy, 0:00:44.880 --> 0:00:45.600 so that's my thing. 0:00:46.159 --> 0:00:48.440 Who is your team when you're playing with madd Is 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:49.440 it the Jets that you're making? 0:00:49.640 --> 0:00:54.200 Yes, I play with the Jets, okay, or otherwise I 0:00:54.280 --> 0:00:56.360 just do kind of like a random team thing. So 0:00:56.480 --> 0:00:57.480 play with who I can play with. 0:00:57.480 --> 0:01:01.120 Whoever ball distributions far or is pre saw when you're 0:01:01.160 --> 0:01:02.800 running the show is offensive coordinator? 0:01:02.800 --> 0:01:03.280 What are you doing? 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:06.119 I'm going to run the ball till you stop it. Yeah. Yeah, 0:01:06.120 --> 0:01:07.400 I want to run it till you stop it. And 0:01:07.440 --> 0:01:10.520 then I'm a pretty good oc myself, so I can 0:01:10.760 --> 0:01:12.200 can get some good routes going. 0:01:12.280 --> 0:01:14.319 Are you taking yourself out of the game or no? 0:01:14.600 --> 0:01:16.360 I mean, how many touches of pre sall. 0:01:16.080 --> 0:01:18.880 Get twenty at least twenty at the least yeah. 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:21.679 How do you divide it up as far as runs 0:01:22.040 --> 0:01:23.280 too receptions? 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:25.000 It just depends if I'm open. 0:01:25.040 --> 0:01:27.000 I'm giving myself the ball every time, but I like 0:01:27.080 --> 0:01:29.040 to if I pass, I like it to pass it deep, 0:01:29.120 --> 0:01:29.839 So you know. 0:01:30.000 --> 0:01:33.520 So what is your offensive philosophy? Though? 0:01:34.360 --> 0:01:36.679 Okay, so this is how much I play. I have 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:39.760 my own custom playbook. Yeah yeah, and so I run 0:01:39.880 --> 0:01:42.880 probably three or four formations, and I make all my 0:01:42.920 --> 0:01:46.520 adjustments out of each formation, so it looks like I'm 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:48.720 running the same stuff every play, but it's always. 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:50.480 Different personnel packages. 0:01:50.640 --> 0:01:53.960 What do you like to do? Eleven twelve? That's it? Yeah? 0:01:54.240 --> 0:01:56.680 Really no, thirteen. 0:01:57.240 --> 0:02:01.320 Nah, sometimes sometimes twenty one, but that's it. Eleven twelve, 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:02.000 twenty one. 0:02:01.960 --> 0:02:02.280 That's it. 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:04.960 What about defensive philosophy? 0:02:05.680 --> 0:02:12.240 Big nickel? Okay, dime in three four three four? Huh? 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:14.760 What do you like about that stops the run. It's 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:15.680 easy to stop the run. 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:19.840 And so in the other two games you talked about 0:02:19.840 --> 0:02:22.840 before with Fortnite and what else call of Duty. Okay, 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:27.880 so when I was growing up, I was the sport game. Yeah, 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:32.120 so Madden's up my alley, but Fortnite called Duty. Tell 0:02:32.160 --> 0:02:34.120 me about the challenges and what you like about those. 0:02:34.000 --> 0:02:37.680 Games, Like a combat game, you know, kind of like 0:02:37.680 --> 0:02:40.720 a cat mouse type of thing, and basically trying not 0:02:40.880 --> 0:02:43.680 to get killed. You're trying not to get got basically, 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:46.480 and unfortunately for me, I'm not good at not getting 0:02:46.480 --> 0:02:49.080 got in that game, so it usually does it end 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:49.760 up well for me. 0:02:50.160 --> 0:02:52.320 Okay, So what the. 0:02:52.360 --> 0:02:55.519 Heck happened in the second half Sunday at thirty point 0:02:55.760 --> 0:02:56.840 offensive Barrage. 0:02:57.440 --> 0:02:59.680 Uh, we kind of just, you know, it felt like 0:02:59.680 --> 0:03:01.799 we were shooting ourselves in the foot. In the first half, 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:03.839 we were moving the ball, you know, up and down. 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:06.240 We just shot ourselves in the foot with penalties and 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:09.040 dumb mistakes. In the second half, we just kind of 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:11.160 locked in a little bit more defense got us the 0:03:11.200 --> 0:03:12.160 ball back into our thing. 0:03:12.560 --> 0:03:14.239 Did you think it was only a matter of time? 0:03:14.960 --> 0:03:20.160 Yeah? I did, just knowing the potential we have you know, 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:22.480 I think that we do have the potential to be 0:03:22.480 --> 0:03:24.160 a very good offense, and we already have a very 0:03:24.160 --> 0:03:26.799 good defense. So if we helped them out just that much, 0:03:26.840 --> 0:03:28.839 then you know, we could go anywhere we want. 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:31.119 Did you kind of feel like the dam broke there? 0:03:31.160 --> 0:03:33.760 When Kyby gets into the end zone, It's like, okay, 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:35.200 we can relax a little bit now. 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:37.800 Uh nah, It was kind of a surprise. It was 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:40.320 kind of funny because like he was like the last person, 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:42.520 like it was the most simple route. So I was like, 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:44.960 there's no way they just let him open on like 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:49.800 a little shallow drag route and believe it, it was 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:51.440 wide open and he walks in. I was like, Wow, 0:03:51.480 --> 0:03:52.160 that's crazy. 0:03:52.480 --> 0:03:56.800 It's crazy season high for you in terms of receiving yards. 0:03:57.600 --> 0:03:59.960 How much do you enjoy getting the rock out of 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:00.760 the backfield. 0:04:01.960 --> 0:04:03.600 I'm the type of person I just want the ball 0:04:03.760 --> 0:04:05.840 just as long as no matter where. It's just get 0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:07.240 me to get me the ball in some space and 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:10.720 I'm fine. So it was good. You know, they were 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:13.400 dropping off and linebackers were packing the back a lot, 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:16.320 and you know, Zach was throwing me the balls, making 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:18.000 the first one miss and just getting good yards. 0:04:18.000 --> 0:04:19.479 So it was a good, good game play for sure. 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:22.279 How much your team's playing you differently now, because I 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:24.800 think it's like six of the last eight games where 0:04:24.839 --> 0:04:26.680 you've had at least five receptions. 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:28.200 Yeah, it's a lot different. 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:32.200 You know, when we're in twelve and twenty one, you know, 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:35.120 the box iss not a lot of space in there, 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:37.240 and it's been hard. You know, we've had a lot 0:04:37.279 --> 0:04:39.239 of injuries up front and everything like that, just dealing 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:41.880 with that, and we've had to like plug and play guys, 0:04:41.920 --> 0:04:44.880 mismatch guys and stuff like that, so it's been hard 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:46.520 for them to get it like a real good rhythm 0:04:46.520 --> 0:04:50.479 and you know, build that with each other. So I'm 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:52.200 just trying my best to just to work with what 0:04:52.240 --> 0:04:53.839 I have and when I do have my chances to 0:04:53.839 --> 0:04:56.000 get the rock, just trying to make the right plays. 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:59.360 You guys got out of eleven a little bit more, 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:01.680 I'd say, yeah on Sundays, don't you think Yeah? 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:03.840 I think so, just because the past game started to 0:05:03.880 --> 0:05:06.480 open up a little more, and then you know, they 0:05:06.800 --> 0:05:08.240 they kind of were getting worried about me out of 0:05:08.240 --> 0:05:10.320 the backfields, and then they opened up Garrett and Conkering 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:12.280 a lot of those guys a lot, So it was 0:05:12.320 --> 0:05:14.080 good just to see how everybody could contribute. 0:05:14.520 --> 0:05:18.120 Man, you are a bruiser out there in the open field. 0:05:18.720 --> 0:05:23.799 It feels like every week there is an opposing dB, 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:27.039 whether it be a cornerback or safety coming trying to 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:29.640 make a tackle. In a lot of times, these guys 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:34.400 are staying down on the ground. Yeah, so what's the 0:05:34.440 --> 0:05:38.359 thought process when, hey, you get the rock and no 0:05:38.480 --> 0:05:41.160 linebackers by you, and you know, a d one on 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:42.800 one or one on two with a couple of dB. 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:43.200 Yeah. 0:05:43.200 --> 0:05:46.479 I've never been like a like a super always power guy. 0:05:46.560 --> 0:05:48.720 Like you know, my game's real finess and I real 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:50.880 good at making guys miss. But when I have to, 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:52.440 you know, throw it in there, then I will. So, 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:55.120 you know, it just just depends on what the situation is. 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:56.320 You know, if I'm one on one, I'm gonna make 0:05:56.360 --> 0:05:58.559 you miss every time. But if we're in a small space, 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:00.440 I need to go, you know, get those and I'm 0:06:00.440 --> 0:06:02.520 going to put my shoulder down and you know, if 0:06:02.560 --> 0:06:04.640 they want to tackle me, they do, and you know 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:06.800 they might have to deal with the consequences. 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:09.080 Yeah, you recently actually got fined. 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:11.320 I know a lot of people came to your defense 0:06:11.360 --> 0:06:12.839 and said, hey, listen, he's. 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:14.880 Just playing football. Yeah, so I. 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:17.839 Don't want you to get fined again for what happened, 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:21.440 but can you speak to the fact that, hey, listen, 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:24.000 I'm just trying to make some yards stap. 0:06:23.680 --> 0:06:25.200 In here, Yeah exactly. You know. 0:06:25.240 --> 0:06:29.480 It was just a simple check down and I was running. 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:32.440 And what's crazy. What was crazy to me is that 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:35.640 the dB he ducked his head before I even got there. 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:38.640 And I'm like, okay, like if he's putting his shoulder 0:06:38.640 --> 0:06:40.080 down and I'm going to have to, I'm going to 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:41.760 have to or he's just gonna, you know, hit me 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:45.160 in my legs or something. So it's crazy because like 0:06:45.520 --> 0:06:49.000 I saw the whole thing trending on Twitter before my 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:52.280 agent even texted me about it, so I was like, uh, 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:54.440 they got to be playing. And then right as I 0:06:54.520 --> 0:06:56.520 saw it on Twitter, she texted me and I was like, wow, 0:06:56.600 --> 0:07:00.120 this is this is like that's terrible. But you know, 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:02.520 I got faith in like the NFLPA and my agent 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:04.000 and everybody that we're gonna get it handled. 0:07:04.240 --> 0:07:04.600 Okay. 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:10.440 The postgame locker room, the reaction after a five game 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:13.200 losing streak and you guys finally get one what was 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:14.000 it feeling. 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:18.800 Like NFL good? You know, still not satisfied. I still 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:21.240 think we probably left about you know, ten to fourteen 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:24.440 points out there, and we still got to get our 0:07:24.520 --> 0:07:26.080 run game going. You know, at the end of the season, 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:27.880 you know, you're only going to go as far as 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:29.800 your run game goes, and you have to have a 0:07:29.800 --> 0:07:32.240 good run game to to you know, to get get 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:34.840 far in these playoffs and everything and get far into 0:07:35.280 --> 0:07:37.440 at the end of the season. So I'm just waiting for, 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:39.679 you know, us to get better up front. I'm waiting 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:41.840 for the backs. We got to get better every weekend. 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:43.320 Hope. We got to get this run game going. 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:47.080 Man, how hard is it for you? You don't make excuses, 0:07:47.160 --> 0:07:48.520 but rhythm. 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:53.840 You're talking about nine offensive line combinations in the last games. Yeah, 0:07:54.080 --> 0:07:57.679 that's an hurdle, you know, so for you as a back, 0:07:57.760 --> 0:08:01.880 And can you speak to the importance of flow and 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:04.080 rhythm and blocking styles up front? 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:07.160 Yeah, it's it's very important, especially you know when you 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:08.760 when you got new guys and all the time you 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:10.400 don't really know what you're gonna get. You don't know 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:13.200 like what you're gonna have to react to. And for 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:16.240 those guys, I feel bad for them because it's like, Okay, 0:08:16.280 --> 0:08:18.600 this guy's hurt, this guy's hurt, Okay, we gotta try 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:20.840 this guy out in this spot, put this guy over here. 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:23.400 And you know, there guys are getting put in positions 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:26.760 I never really played before. They didn't play all training camp, 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:29.320 and they're not really comfortable that. So they got to know, 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:32.079 go against guys who were making one hundred million dollars 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:34.880 a year and you know, are been playing that position 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:37.840 their whole life. So I definitely feel for them too. 0:08:37.880 --> 0:08:40.240 But you know, we all we try not to make 0:08:40.280 --> 0:08:41.840 excuses and we just try to do our one eleventh 0:08:41.840 --> 0:08:42.280 every play. 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:44.160 But it's hard. It's difficult, for sure. 0:08:44.960 --> 0:08:46.400 You're such a hard nose runner. 0:08:46.559 --> 0:08:51.880 Yeah, if you don't know what's actually happening up front 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:56.400 net split second. Can you talk about being patient but 0:08:56.440 --> 0:08:58.679 at the same time wanting to hit the hole. 0:08:58.920 --> 0:08:59.959 Yeah, exactly. You want. 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:01.920 You want to be as a patient as possible to 0:09:01.920 --> 0:09:04.640 set up your blocks. But it's just it's just different. 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:04.840 You know. 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:07.040 The most I can tell guys like turn on the 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:09.400 tape and then you'll you kind of see what I'm 0:09:09.440 --> 0:09:11.600 going through, because you know, people can make all these 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:14.800 assumptions or Oh he's not good. Oh he's coming off 0:09:14.800 --> 0:09:17.079 his A c L. He's not that he's lost a step, 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:18.600 and this, that and the third. But it's just like, 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:21.160 you know, you can't really, you know, pay attention to 0:09:21.200 --> 0:09:23.520 what other people gotta say. Just got to, you know, 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:25.240 play your game and you know, stay true to what 0:09:25.280 --> 0:09:26.880 you do the little things right, and you know your 0:09:26.960 --> 0:09:29.160 natural talent will take over naturally. 0:09:29.200 --> 0:09:31.400 How frustrating? Has it better for you? 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:35.240 It's been really frustrating because I do wholeheartedly. I know 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:37.400 I'm the top three running back in this league, and 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:42.000 I haven't always gotten a show with uh this season, 0:09:42.040 --> 0:09:44.839 and you know, I show flashes of it every now 0:09:44.840 --> 0:09:46.640 and then, but I feel like I can do it 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:49.800 on this on a seventeen game basis, and you know, 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:52.480 it's it's been real. It's been tough this season, but 0:09:53.360 --> 0:09:55.080 everybody knows that when I get the ball, I can 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:56.720 make plays whenever I touch it. So you know, as 0:09:56.760 --> 0:09:59.560 long as they know that everybody respects my game is fine. 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:03.160 How is your body right now physically at this point 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:05.959 of the year because you dealt with some ankle stuff, yeah, 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:08.199 last week and kind of limited practice. 0:10:08.320 --> 0:10:10.240 Yeah, when I perform, it feels good. 0:10:10.600 --> 0:10:13.120 You know, just taking some time off of practice and 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:14.520 stuff that kind of helped me out a lot, just 0:10:14.800 --> 0:10:17.160 to have me focus on like just focus even more 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:19.679 on our game plan, locking on that and sit back 0:10:19.720 --> 0:10:22.040 and watch guys, and then it just helped me be 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:24.319 prepared for Sunday. You know, if you're not practicing, you 0:10:24.400 --> 0:10:26.440 got to you get chances to pay that much more 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:28.600 attention to what the game plan is and everything like that. 0:10:28.720 --> 0:10:32.199 So it's been good. But you know, coming off my 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:34.800 knee and everything like that, I've actually been surprised with 0:10:35.320 --> 0:10:37.840 how much like I've been able to, you know, just 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:40.920 stay stay consistent, stay healthy, and being the lineup every 0:10:40.920 --> 0:10:43.400 week has been good. I'm still getting stronger every week, 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:46.760 still get more confidence with it, and you know, I 0:10:46.760 --> 0:10:49.560 feel like i'm pretty much I'm probably about ninety five 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:52.559 percent right now, and you know, it's just getting better 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:52.880 every week. 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:53.600 So I'm happy with that. 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:56.640 That's interesting. So you you are getting stronger each week, 0:10:56.679 --> 0:10:57.640 you feel that. 0:10:57.679 --> 0:10:59.800 Huh can you speak to it? 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:03.520 Yeah, you know, just from game one. You know, it's 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:05.839 just with the whole rehab process. It's different because you're 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:08.960 not so much preparing for football. I'm just prepared I'm 0:11:09.000 --> 0:11:11.080 just really getting my knees stronger. You know, I'm trying 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:12.880 to get it stronger enough for me to play and 0:11:12.920 --> 0:11:14.560 for me to be able to cut and do everything. 0:11:14.600 --> 0:11:18.920 But you know, I'm not like I'm not specifically just 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:21.920 conditioning and you know, always doing all the football stuff. 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:23.959 You know, I only had about like two or three 0:11:23.960 --> 0:11:26.280 weeks of training camp, so I had to play in 0:11:26.320 --> 0:11:28.520 the first game. So it's like, Okay, I gotta hurry 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:30.040 up and try to get in shape for this. And 0:11:30.080 --> 0:11:32.720 then come game one, you know, I look good, but 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:34.840 it still wasn't like up to my standard and everything 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:37.679 like that. And then the coaches are doing right by 0:11:37.679 --> 0:11:40.120 me by you know, not letting me get twenty carries 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:42.120 a game at the beginning of the season and let 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:45.199 me work my way into everything and to where now 0:11:45.240 --> 0:11:47.800 you know, I feel like, you know, whatever it takes 0:11:48.120 --> 0:11:50.800 for me to help the team win the game, I 0:11:50.800 --> 0:11:51.319 could do that. 0:11:51.440 --> 0:11:54.600 What was the reaction like, as far as the document 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:57.920 theory is concerned, maybe downstairs inside the locker room and 0:11:57.960 --> 0:11:58.920 also from the fans. 0:11:59.320 --> 0:12:01.840 It was good for the guys to see, you know, 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:04.600 how hard I worked and you know, not only my 0:12:04.679 --> 0:12:06.920 dedication to the game, and to myself, but my dedication 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:08.560 to try to get back to help the team and 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:11.400 everything like that. You know, everybody knows I was here 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:13.640 the whole off season pretty much, you know, by myself. 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:16.760 It was just me, Abt and Makai pretty much, and 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:18.240 you know, we were in the training room every day 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:22.080 just trying to get better. But it was It's just 0:12:22.120 --> 0:12:23.720 been a blessing so far, because not a lot of 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:26.319 guys can say they come back and have a pretty 0:12:26.320 --> 0:12:28.400 good season and still you can say they look they 0:12:28.440 --> 0:12:31.080 look the same after having a knee injury like I did. 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:34.160 So you know, I just leave it all the God. 0:12:34.200 --> 0:12:34.920 You know, I'm blessed. 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:40.240 You don't played everything throughout throughout it though, but that's 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:41.040 a major injury. 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:41.600 Yeah. 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:44.960 And then I remember Salad talking about in training camp 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:48.480 that he's back to twenty miles for hour on the tread. 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:51.040 And then that first play I think in camp, I 0:12:51.080 --> 0:12:53.480 think Aaron threw it to you over the middle and 0:12:53.720 --> 0:12:56.080 then you're dancing in the nzone a couple of seconds later. 0:12:56.440 --> 0:12:58.480 Yeah, and the little things like that, you know, you 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:01.280 take for granted. But at that point, you know, I 0:13:01.320 --> 0:13:04.400 still wasn't even fully comfortable, you know, playing football. Yet 0:13:04.400 --> 0:13:06.800 you know, I was just getting back and still trying 0:13:06.800 --> 0:13:09.160 to get comfortable cutting off my knee and everything like that, 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:12.559 and still was a little hesitant. But it's just it's 0:13:12.600 --> 0:13:14.600 this little stuff like that. Those reps, you know, help 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:17.760 you build your confidence. And with me coming back to practice, 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:19.520 I had to go through a whole mental barrier of 0:13:20.120 --> 0:13:24.040 consistently you know, cutting and doing football stuff every day 0:13:24.240 --> 0:13:26.520 and dealing with Okay, this is how my need, this 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:28.360 is how sore my knee is gonna be after practice 0:13:28.400 --> 0:13:30.120 every day, and this is how I'm gonna have to 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:31.920 take care of it, and you know, do all this 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:34.800 little stuff because it takes about like three hours two 0:13:34.840 --> 0:13:37.120 three hours before practice for me to you know, get 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:39.679 everything ready to get myself warmed up when I was 0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:42.000 first coming back. Now I can just more so just 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:43.760 take my little hour hour and a half and get 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:46.400 ready and be fine. But it was definitely a long 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:47.200 process for sure. 0:13:47.240 --> 0:13:49.160 How do you get to the point where you do 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:54.360 trust it? It is there their point where you said, 0:13:54.520 --> 0:13:56.680 you know what, I'm good right now. 0:13:56.760 --> 0:14:00.840 Yeah, honestly it was not till the first game because 0:14:00.840 --> 0:14:02.839 I didn't get hit really all of training can they 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:05.080 didn't let anybody do you know hit me too much? So, 0:14:05.559 --> 0:14:07.360 you know, it was like, okay, a few times in 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:09.000 training can By fall on the ground. 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:10.280 And everybody'd be like, oh, is he good? And I 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:11.120 was like, yeah, I'm good. 0:14:11.480 --> 0:14:15.040 And then the first game, you know, I was, you know, 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:16.720 just like I said, I haven't I hadn't been hitting 0:14:16.720 --> 0:14:19.120 in the first carry. I get a big, big game 0:14:19.160 --> 0:14:20.880 and I'm like, Okay, I'm good. I'm back. 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:21.560 You know, I'm good. 0:14:21.600 --> 0:14:24.240 And so then I get hit and the hits aren't 0:14:24.440 --> 0:14:27.640 hurting me or anything like that, and after the game, 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:29.680 I'm like, Okay, my knee is not terribly sore, so 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:32.880 I know I'm good. And but at the beginning of 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:34.920 the season, I was wearing like a like a little 0:14:34.920 --> 0:14:37.440 like patella strap for my knee. And then after about 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:38.920 like five games, I was like, Okay, I don't need 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:41.560 this anymore. And then the Raiders game, I jump try 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:43.520 to jump over somebody off my knee. So it's like 0:14:43.880 --> 0:14:46.200 all those little barriers help help you on your mind. 0:14:46.240 --> 0:14:48.040 You're like, okay, I'm good. 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He was like, Okay, you might be. 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:03.320 So we always joke about that, but you know, after 0:16:03.360 --> 0:16:06.040 a big game like that coming off my knee, I'm like, okay, 0:16:06.080 --> 0:16:09.920 I'm still that dude. Like and now I was just 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:12.240 ready to, you know, just start the season with him 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:13.720 and see how much I can learn from him and 0:16:13.720 --> 0:16:15.960 grow with him just with little parts of the game, 0:16:16.280 --> 0:16:17.960 especially within the past game, to see how I can 0:16:18.000 --> 0:16:20.800 help him out a lot more. Unfortunately, he got injured 0:16:20.800 --> 0:16:22.840 and everything, but it's gonna be good to see him 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:24.680 come back, and it's been good to see his recovery 0:16:24.720 --> 0:16:25.320 process too. 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:27.640 What's it like, Kevin then back in the building And 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:30.440 what do you tell people when they say, Hey, what's 0:16:30.480 --> 0:16:31.520 this dude all about? 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:35.400 Yeah, he's uh, he's a real good person. We're pretty 0:16:35.440 --> 0:16:37.440 much lockermates. So me and him have had a lot of, 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:40.840 you know, deep conversations and we talk a lot, and 0:16:41.040 --> 0:16:42.880 it's just been really good to get to know him, 0:16:43.000 --> 0:16:45.760 know how he thinks, and talk to him about football 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:47.360 and just pick his mind about like the type of 0:16:47.360 --> 0:16:48.640