WEBVTT - Press Pass: Jordan Matthews 0:00:09.240 --> 0:00:11.479 I think guys of him looked, well, everybody's still being 0:00:11.480 --> 0:00:15.120 extremely positive. When we got back into the locker room 0:00:15.120 --> 0:00:17.759 after the game, Jent caught everybody up and you know, 0:00:17.800 --> 0:00:19.239 he kind of told us that, you know, guys, we 0:00:19.280 --> 0:00:21.759 know who we are. And that's a powerful statement, you know, 0:00:22.000 --> 0:00:23.479 when you don't guy to do a whole bunch of 0:00:23.560 --> 0:00:25.840 raw raw and a whole bunch of just talking, when 0:00:25.840 --> 0:00:27.600 you can just go out there and say, hey, we 0:00:27.640 --> 0:00:30.120 know who we are. Let's just get back to work, 0:00:30.520 --> 0:00:32.760 we know the mission, and let's continue to you know, 0:00:32.800 --> 0:00:34.360 try and get to where we're trying to go. I 0:00:34.360 --> 0:00:36.440 think that's an extremely powerful statement. And then see how 0:00:36.440 --> 0:00:38.760 the guys will come out and responded. In practice, I 0:00:38.760 --> 0:00:42.880 think everybody's you know, been positive. There's no lack of morale. 0:00:43.000 --> 0:00:45.240 And I think we've had two good really two really 0:00:45.280 --> 0:00:52.199 good practice actually going to this game side as you've 0:00:52.159 --> 0:00:56.480 been moving around, I know when we moved around a 0:00:56.520 --> 0:00:58.600 little bit in the Giants game, they said that he 0:00:58.640 --> 0:01:00.160 was going to move around, and he actually do it. 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:02.560 And then whenever they do a little bit of corners 0:01:02.560 --> 0:01:04.440 over stuff, the teams are in sess where they have 0:01:04.480 --> 0:01:06.160 a tight end to one side and all receivers to 0:01:07.160 --> 0:01:09.960 to one side two. If there's a receiver that he 0:01:09.959 --> 0:01:12.240 wants to get massed up on, he'll just switch over 0:01:12.360 --> 0:01:13.920 and then he'll get a guy whether he's at the 0:01:13.959 --> 0:01:16.440 number two or the number three spot, so he'll move 0:01:16.440 --> 0:01:18.880 around a little bit. For the most part, he does 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:22.119 play that left corner, but you know, anything can happen. 0:01:22.200 --> 0:01:24.600 He's good from both sides, and he actually has a 0:01:24.600 --> 0:01:26.480 pretty good game inside too, so he's gotta be ready 0:01:26.520 --> 0:01:31.400 for him. It depends on how the game plan goes. 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:34.520 You know. Usually when I am in there and I'm 0:01:34.600 --> 0:01:36.800 on the outside, I play the X. So you know, 0:01:36.840 --> 0:01:39.039 there's a lot of times where I could be backside 0:01:39.080 --> 0:01:41.080 as far as the left. But if I do get 0:01:41.080 --> 0:01:43.280 massed up with him, I wouldn't be surprised if he 0:01:43.319 --> 0:01:45.360 comes inside. That would be a change up. We don't 0:01:45.360 --> 0:01:47.280 see him go inside that much. But like I said, 0:01:47.319 --> 0:01:51.320 you gotta be ready for whatever. Is it harder to 0:01:51.360 --> 0:01:53.320 bounce back from again? I mean, that was a game 0:01:53.360 --> 0:01:56.120 that everybody kind of in that stadium. The fault was over, 0:01:56.280 --> 0:01:58.120 you know, over a couple of minutes left. Is it 0:01:58.200 --> 0:02:00.040 is it tougher to bounce back when you kind I 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:02.160 feel like you're having tough in a grasp of that, 0:02:02.240 --> 0:02:04.880 it's kind of take it away. Well, I think for me, 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:07.080 I think it's harder to bounce back when somebody comes 0:02:07.080 --> 0:02:09.200 out and just completely dominates you. When you just get 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:11.679 beat and you just take a hard loss, it's kind 0:02:11.680 --> 0:02:13.480 of like, all right, we just got our bus kick, 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:16.280 and then you really got to start trying to get guys, 0:02:16.480 --> 0:02:19.320 you know, feeling good about themselves and get confidence back up. 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:22.040 I don't think anybody lost confidence after that game. So 0:02:22.120 --> 0:02:24.359 that's one good thing. And then you know, like I said, 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:26.359 if I can use another example, you know, we came 0:02:26.360 --> 0:02:29.160 out and we played the Steelers and we played a 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:31.600 really good game against them, gotta win. Well, the Steelers 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:33.960 came back the next week play lights out versus Chiefs, 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:36.680 and now our game against it was kind of putting 0:02:36.680 --> 0:02:39.000 a perspective. Now just its like, okay, that was just 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:40.959 a bad game. This is who the Steelers are, This 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:43.440 who Big Ben is. This is their team, and so 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:47.320 our biggest thing is coming out here getting to win Sunday. 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:50.040 So now that game can be putting a perspective. Okay, 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:52.240 that was a game that they let's slip away. But 0:02:52.680 --> 0:02:54.919 it all happens if you come out and you get 0:02:55.000 --> 0:02:57.120 to get the job done, you know, the next the 0:02:57.120 --> 0:02:59.400 next game. So that's what we're folksing on. Like I said, 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:01.720 I haven't seen the lack of confidence from anybody. Nobody 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:04.480 has their heads down. Guys are smiling, Guys are feeling good. 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:07.640 So that's a good thing to see. Deserved different mentality 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:09.239 to all that you have to have when you're playing 0:03:09.280 --> 0:03:12.440 against a guy who has a reputation talking along. No 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:14.639 not if you don't talk. To be honest, A lot 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:16.880 of that stuff is like television. I'd be really honest 0:03:16.919 --> 0:03:18.919 with you. I played Richard Sherman and I don't think 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:20.839 he told me said one word to me until after 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:23.880 the game. I played Josh Norman two years and he 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:26.040 said hi and by, and that's pretty I think that's 0:03:26.080 --> 0:03:28.440 the extent of it. So, you know, a lot of 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:31.200 that stuff like gets kind of boosts up, especially when 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:33.360 you have a guy that they do talk to her 0:03:33.400 --> 0:03:36.280 get into it with, and so that ends up being like, Okay, 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:38.440 this is the guy's attitude. You know. I watched the 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:41.800 whole game with him playing Antonio Brown, and Antonio Brown's 0:03:41.880 --> 0:03:43.480 one of the best in the game, if not considered 0:03:43.520 --> 0:03:45.960 the best in the game and they I don't think 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:47.720 I saw him talk to each other once, you know, 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:49.720 so I think a lot of that stuff is really 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:52.240 just television. Josh Norman's a competitor. That's one thing you 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:53.760 gotta know about him. So he is gonna go out 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:57.080 there compete. He's gonna be physical. But you know, if 0:03:57.080 --> 0:03:59.200 he even says anything, I'm just being a little gig 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:02.440 like I'm not yea noticeable last year when he played 0:04:02.440 --> 0:04:04.840 against dude, when I say he said nothing to me, 0:04:04.960 --> 0:04:06.480 Like I went out there and lined up to him, 0:04:06.600 --> 0:04:08.880 he did like two class I guess that means high 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:11.400 in some language, now, is it? And then that and 0:04:11.440 --> 0:04:13.120 then we didn't say anything else to arrest the game, 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:20.080 so that he was exciting to Bradford quarterback, M yeah, 0:04:20.200 --> 0:04:23.960 we'll go up, put up. But even though raps on 0:04:23.960 --> 0:04:28.480 the quarterback here, the same receiver, same just running back, 0:04:28.839 --> 0:04:32.040 is that reflectable the offensive grow not at all? You know? 0:04:32.440 --> 0:04:35.640 I think, um, maybe he was upset. I think a 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:38.800 lot of people were upset with the whole same thing 0:04:38.800 --> 0:04:40.880 a long time ago. But I think that's where that 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:42.600 kind of came from. I don't think you had anything 0:04:42.640 --> 0:04:44.640 to do with our offense as a whole. So even 0:04:44.720 --> 0:04:47.680 then I kind of was like, Okay, whatever, are you 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:50.240 seeing signs that, like, you know, the big players are gonna, 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:53.000 you know, happen more often, I guess with the wilde 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:55.520 receivers like dude down the field, I mean just from 0:04:55.520 --> 0:04:57.599 like last week's game, or are you seeing more of that? 0:04:57.960 --> 0:05:00.760 Do you think? Yeah? I think the only time you 0:05:00.760 --> 0:05:03.160 gotta worry about big plays, you know, really not having 0:05:03.160 --> 0:05:05.640 the potential to happen, is when the quarterback gets a gunshot. 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:07.200 And I don't think that's ever going to happen with 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:09.719 eleven back there, So we're not going to get in 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:12.279 a situation where you know, he's afraid to give us 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:14.120 opportunity to throw it up. Now, it's just on us 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:16.240 to go out there and go do it. So, you know, 0:05:16.240 --> 0:05:17.880 I tell the receivers all the time. You know this 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:20.200 is this is a results league and it's cutting dry. 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:23.560 So you know, we can have long dissertations, we can 0:05:23.640 --> 0:05:25.719 hold hands, do kumbayas, but at the end of the day, 0:05:25.760 --> 0:05:27.840 we got to go catch the ball. So it's not 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:30.560 really much to talk about as far as you know, 0:05:30.800 --> 0:05:32.680 oh we gotta drop up this player get guys in 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:36.120 these situations. Now, Carson's going to give guys opportunities. If 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:38.080 you're on the back, if you're the backside post of 0:05:38.120 --> 0:05:40.480 a naked he will throw that thing. So you got 0:05:40.560 --> 0:05:42.080 to be ready for it. And so when you got 0:05:42.080 --> 0:05:44.200 a guy back there, he's willing to do that. Everybody 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:45.520 just has to be on high learning ready to go 0:05:45.560 --> 0:05:47.000 make a play. Now, we just got to go do it. 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:51.360 It might make a guy gunshot would be an interception 0:05:51.360 --> 0:05:53.840 in the big spot. And he did have an interception 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:57.640 while taking a shot there. But you're saying he comes 0:05:57.640 --> 0:06:00.280 back this week and has that same confidence that, how 0:06:00.279 --> 0:06:02.520 do you see that already? Yeah, of course he's still 0:06:02.560 --> 0:06:04.839 gonna definitely have that same confidence. I've seen it already 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:09.200 in practice. He's still uh giving guys opportunities. Deep um, 0:06:09.240 --> 0:06:11.160 you know, and and Cars is not the type to 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:14.120 get rattled. He doesn't let those outside things affect him. 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:15.880 He's going to pull a guy to the side maybe 0:06:15.880 --> 0:06:17.520 and say, hey, I might use you to go for 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:19.360 that ball a little bit different, or hey what do 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:21.080 I need to do to give you a better opportunity 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:23.120 on that play. But he's not the type, like I said, 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:25.239 to end up saying Okay, I'm going to start playing 0:06:25.240 --> 0:06:28.240 conservative or not giving guys opportunities and I and then 0:06:28.240 --> 0:06:31.200 that just puts like I said, then the responsibilities on us, 0:06:31.400 --> 0:06:34.120 you know, for not the puny but the balls in 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:36.839 our court. Then so he's gonna go get it Saturday. 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:43.159 But we don't have to see that. If if I 0:06:43.200 --> 0:06:46.279 got guys that don't have a good attitude and don't 0:06:46.320 --> 0:06:48.720 have UM and don't have a good work ethic, then 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:50.800 I can't do anything with you. You know what I'm saying. 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:53.599 Attitude and effort, there's no price on that. So when 0:06:53.600 --> 0:06:55.360 I have when I see a group of guys that's 0:06:55.400 --> 0:06:57.920 willing to bring that, then I have a good feeling. 0:06:57.920 --> 0:07:00.679 But when guys are just out there, you know, being 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:04.360 selfish or not willing to actually take responsibility for the 0:07:04.360 --> 0:07:06.480 things that they've done, then I'm like, okay, we need 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:09.640 to possibly reevaluate what we're doing in this room. But 0:07:09.880 --> 0:07:12.160 I mean, you know, for some of the stuff that 0:07:12.280 --> 0:07:14.360 you know was maybe said about Nelson, he took it 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:15.920 like a champ. You know, he owned up to it, 0:07:15.920 --> 0:07:17.240 and he was like, hey, I'm just going out there 0:07:17.400 --> 0:07:19.800 and practice better, play better. He didn't make any excuses 0:07:19.960 --> 0:07:22.920 He didn't talk about a guy possibly interfering him or 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:25.160 holding him anything like that. And when you see that, 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:27.480 I think you gotta honors and say, okay, you know, 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:29.840 once the death settles, you'd much rather have a guy 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:31.680 like that in the locker room than some guy who's 0:07:31.680 --> 0:07:33.600 gonna go out there and make excuses, you know, because 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:35.920 then you got to keep compounding the excuses. I want 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:37.720 guys that are going to own up to it and 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:39.520 then go out there and try and have results. And 0:07:39.600 --> 0:07:41.120 that's what Nelson has been doing and that's what the 0:07:41.160 --> 0:07:43.400 rest of us have been doing. Have you worked against C. J. 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:48.560 Smoth much in practice? Yeah? You see him a great kid, 0:07:48.960 --> 0:07:53.240 a nice guy, extremely extremely quiet but um but just 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:55.560 a great kid man. You know, he does talk, you 0:07:55.640 --> 0:07:58.200 know obviously you can tell you the high football IQ. 0:07:59.040 --> 0:08:01.720 He just really to dude to people. Um, the time 0:08:01.720 --> 0:08:05.400 I got spin around has been really good. Most of practice. 0:08:05.680 --> 0:08:08.560 Uh has Bright Tricks done anything since she got here 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:12.480 to kind of open any eyes promise really fast, he's 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:17.160 like go, He's like extremely fast, Like I don't know 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:18.920 if we'd give him the run route in the five 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:21.280 yards like literally g louis just throwing him like run 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:23.160 a post go Like I think you don't think he's 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:25.320 rand to hitch since he's gotten here. So um, you know, 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:28.000 when ever he does get a chance to uh um 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:30.520 player get some playing time, I think it would be 0:08:30.600 --> 0:08:32.640 really good as far as you know, getting down the field, 0:08:32.679 --> 0:08:35.560 helping them stretch out people. But um, but great, great 0:08:35.600 --> 0:08:38.520 guy too, funny guy. Um he's always excited to come 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:41.200 in you know, literally and meetings when everybody's kind of tired, 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:43.640 he's still just always smiling, always happy. So just good 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:46.560 attitude to have round locker room too. So how important 0:08:46.679 --> 0:08:48.160 is if to have a guy like that who can 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:50.400 you know, take the top off the defense. And I 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:53.120 mean it's huge, it's huge because when you know that 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:56.720 your role, then it opens it opens up a lot 0:08:56.800 --> 0:08:58.839 of the playbook, you know, it opens up, you know, 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:00.719 the opportunity to do a lot things out there on 0:09:00.800 --> 0:09:03.439 the offense because it takes that one time for a 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:05.080 guy to say, Okay, they're not gonna throw a deep 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:07.319 and then the level will you know, give you a 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:11.280 deep one. So, like I said, whether it's him, you know, 0:09:11.720 --> 0:09:14.400 whether it's Nelson, anybody, just having that opportunity to go 0:09:14.440 --> 0:09:16.000 out there and do those things you know, we just 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:17.760 got to be able to capitalize on it and actually 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:19.439 make it a big part of the passing game. And 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:22.800 then lost both starting safeties in one of their corners 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:25.640 to injury and yet still seem to be playing pretty 0:09:25.640 --> 0:09:27.160 well on the back end. Why is that? What do 0:09:27.200 --> 0:09:29.640 you say? I think it's an attitude. I think when 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:32.880 you have an attitude, then the guys who come in 0:09:33.320 --> 0:09:35.800 after that are always, you know, able just to pick 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:38.800 up on it and then play well. So obviously you 0:09:38.920 --> 0:09:42.480 see that when Josh came, he brought an attitude to them, 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:45.160 and so that's always going to help them. Obviously the 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:47.960 team that he left a little bit of his attitude 0:09:48.080 --> 0:09:50.560 left two. It's just the reality of it, and people 0:09:50.600 --> 0:09:52.679 don't understand that. There's a swagger that comes to that, 0:09:53.080 --> 0:09:55.120 and so I feel like, you know, he's a testament 0:09:55.200 --> 0:09:57.520 to how they've been able to do, even with guys 0:09:57.600 --> 0:09:59.520 out because even the young guys have a got to 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:01.760 look too say Okay, I see how he's doing it. 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:03.520 I see it. Swaggy plays with let me go out 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:06.160 there and kind of imitate that too. So you know, 0:10:06.559 --> 0:10:08.880 it's they have played extremely well. So we definitely gotta 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:15.760 be on our p's and ques. Yes, that's shorty h.