Speaker 1: I think guys of him looked, well, everybody's still being
Speaker 1: extremely positive. When we got back into the locker room
Speaker 1: after the game, Jent caught everybody up and you know,
Speaker 1: he kind of told us that, you know, guys, we
Speaker 1: know who we are. And that's a powerful statement, you know,
Speaker 1: when you don't guy to do a whole bunch of
Speaker 1: raw raw and a whole bunch of just talking, when
Speaker 1: you can just go out there and say, hey, we
Speaker 1: know who we are. Let's just get back to work,
Speaker 1: we know the mission, and let's continue to you know,
Speaker 1: try and get to where we're trying to go. I
Speaker 1: think that's an extremely powerful statement. And then see how
Speaker 1: the guys will come out and responded. In practice, I
Speaker 1: think everybody's you know, been positive. There's no lack of morale.
Speaker 1: And I think we've had two good really two really
Speaker 1: good practice actually going to this game side as you've
Speaker 1: been moving around, I know when we moved around a
Speaker 1: little bit in the Giants game, they said that he
Speaker 1: was going to move around, and he actually do it.
Speaker 1: And then whenever they do a little bit of corners
Speaker 1: over stuff, the teams are in sess where they have
Speaker 1: a tight end to one side and all receivers to
Speaker 1: to one side two. If there's a receiver that he
Speaker 1: wants to get massed up on, he'll just switch over
Speaker 1: and then he'll get a guy whether he's at the
Speaker 1: number two or the number three spot, so he'll move
Speaker 1: around a little bit. For the most part, he does
Speaker 1: play that left corner, but you know, anything can happen.
Speaker 1: He's good from both sides, and he actually has a
Speaker 1: pretty good game inside too, so he's gotta be ready
Speaker 1: for him. It depends on how the game plan goes.
Speaker 1: You know. Usually when I am in there and I'm
Speaker 1: on the outside, I play the X. So you know,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of times where I could be backside
Speaker 1: as far as the left. But if I do get
Speaker 1: massed up with him, I wouldn't be surprised if he
Speaker 1: comes inside. That would be a change up. We don't
Speaker 1: see him go inside that much. But like I said,
Speaker 1: you gotta be ready for whatever. Is it harder to
Speaker 1: bounce back from again? I mean, that was a game
Speaker 1: that everybody kind of in that stadium. The fault was over,
Speaker 1: you know, over a couple of minutes left. Is it
Speaker 1: is it tougher to bounce back when you kind I
Speaker 1: feel like you're having tough in a grasp of that,
Speaker 1: it's kind of take it away. Well, I think for me,
Speaker 1: I think it's harder to bounce back when somebody comes
Speaker 1: out and just completely dominates you. When you just get
Speaker 1: beat and you just take a hard loss, it's kind
Speaker 1: of like, all right, we just got our bus kick,
Speaker 1: and then you really got to start trying to get guys,
Speaker 1: you know, feeling good about themselves and get confidence back up.
Speaker 1: I don't think anybody lost confidence after that game. So
Speaker 1: that's one good thing. And then you know, like I said,
Speaker 1: if I can use another example, you know, we came
Speaker 1: out and we played the Steelers and we played a
Speaker 1: really good game against them, gotta win. Well, the Steelers
Speaker 1: came back the next week play lights out versus Chiefs,
Speaker 1: and now our game against it was kind of putting
Speaker 1: a perspective. Now just its like, okay, that was just
Speaker 1: a bad game. This is who the Steelers are, This
Speaker 1: who Big Ben is. This is their team, and so
Speaker 1: our biggest thing is coming out here getting to win Sunday.
Speaker 1: So now that game can be putting a perspective. Okay,
Speaker 1: that was a game that they let's slip away. But
Speaker 1: it all happens if you come out and you get
Speaker 1: to get the job done, you know, the next the
Speaker 1: next game. So that's what we're folksing on. Like I said,
Speaker 1: I haven't seen the lack of confidence from anybody. Nobody
Speaker 1: has their heads down. Guys are smiling, Guys are feeling good.
Speaker 1: So that's a good thing to see. Deserved different mentality
Speaker 1: to all that you have to have when you're playing
Speaker 1: against a guy who has a reputation talking along. No
Speaker 1: not if you don't talk. To be honest, A lot
Speaker 1: of that stuff is like television. I'd be really honest
Speaker 1: with you. I played Richard Sherman and I don't think
Speaker 1: he told me said one word to me until after
Speaker 1: the game. I played Josh Norman two years and he
Speaker 1: said hi and by, and that's pretty I think that's
Speaker 1: the extent of it. So, you know, a lot of
Speaker 1: that stuff like gets kind of boosts up, especially when
Speaker 1: you have a guy that they do talk to her
Speaker 1: get into it with, and so that ends up being like, Okay,
Speaker 1: this is the guy's attitude. You know. I watched the
Speaker 1: whole game with him playing Antonio Brown, and Antonio Brown's
Speaker 1: one of the best in the game, if not considered
Speaker 1: the best in the game and they I don't think
Speaker 1: I saw him talk to each other once, you know,
Speaker 1: so I think a lot of that stuff is really
Speaker 1: just television. Josh Norman's a competitor. That's one thing you
Speaker 1: gotta know about him. So he is gonna go out
Speaker 1: there compete. He's gonna be physical. But you know, if
Speaker 1: he even says anything, I'm just being a little gig
Speaker 1: like I'm not yea noticeable last year when he played
Speaker 1: against dude, when I say he said nothing to me,
Speaker 1: Like I went out there and lined up to him,
Speaker 1: he did like two class I guess that means high
Speaker 1: in some language, now, is it? And then that and
Speaker 1: then we didn't say anything else to arrest the game,
Speaker 1: so that he was exciting to Bradford quarterback, M yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll go up, put up. But even though raps on
Speaker 1: the quarterback here, the same receiver, same just running back,
Speaker 1: is that reflectable the offensive grow not at all? You know?
Speaker 1: I think, um, maybe he was upset. I think a
Speaker 1: lot of people were upset with the whole same thing
Speaker 1: a long time ago. But I think that's where that
Speaker 1: kind of came from. I don't think you had anything
Speaker 1: to do with our offense as a whole. So even
Speaker 1: then I kind of was like, Okay, whatever, are you
Speaker 1: seeing signs that, like, you know, the big players are gonna,
Speaker 1: you know, happen more often, I guess with the wilde
Speaker 1: receivers like dude down the field, I mean just from
Speaker 1: like last week's game, or are you seeing more of that?
Speaker 1: Do you think? Yeah? I think the only time you
Speaker 1: gotta worry about big plays, you know, really not having
Speaker 1: the potential to happen, is when the quarterback gets a gunshot.
Speaker 1: And I don't think that's ever going to happen with
Speaker 1: eleven back there, So we're not going to get in
Speaker 1: a situation where you know, he's afraid to give us
Speaker 1: opportunity to throw it up. Now, it's just on us
Speaker 1: to go out there and go do it. So, you know,
Speaker 1: I tell the receivers all the time. You know this
Speaker 1: is this is a results league and it's cutting dry.
Speaker 1: So you know, we can have long dissertations, we can
Speaker 1: hold hands, do kumbayas, but at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: we got to go catch the ball. So it's not
Speaker 1: really much to talk about as far as you know,
Speaker 1: oh we gotta drop up this player get guys in
Speaker 1: these situations. Now, Carson's going to give guys opportunities. If
Speaker 1: you're on the back, if you're the backside post of
Speaker 1: a naked he will throw that thing. So you got
Speaker 1: to be ready for it. And so when you got
Speaker 1: a guy back there, he's willing to do that. Everybody
Speaker 1: just has to be on high learning ready to go
Speaker 1: make a play. Now, we just got to go do it.
Speaker 1: It might make a guy gunshot would be an interception
Speaker 1: in the big spot. And he did have an interception
Speaker 1: while taking a shot there. But you're saying he comes
Speaker 1: back this week and has that same confidence that, how
Speaker 1: do you see that already? Yeah, of course he's still
Speaker 1: gonna definitely have that same confidence. I've seen it already
Speaker 1: in practice. He's still uh giving guys opportunities. Deep um,
Speaker 1: you know, and and Cars is not the type to
Speaker 1: get rattled. He doesn't let those outside things affect him.
Speaker 1: He's going to pull a guy to the side maybe
Speaker 1: and say, hey, I might use you to go for
Speaker 1: that ball a little bit different, or hey what do
Speaker 1: I need to do to give you a better opportunity
Speaker 1: on that play. But he's not the type, like I said,
Speaker 1: to end up saying Okay, I'm going to start playing
Speaker 1: conservative or not giving guys opportunities and I and then
Speaker 1: that just puts like I said, then the responsibilities on us,
Speaker 1: you know, for not the puny but the balls in
Speaker 1: our court. Then so he's gonna go get it Saturday.
Speaker 1: But we don't have to see that. If if I
Speaker 1: got guys that don't have a good attitude and don't
Speaker 1: have UM and don't have a good work ethic, then
Speaker 1: I can't do anything with you. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Attitude and effort, there's no price on that. So when
Speaker 1: I have when I see a group of guys that's
Speaker 1: willing to bring that, then I have a good feeling.
Speaker 1: But when guys are just out there, you know, being
Speaker 1: selfish or not willing to actually take responsibility for the
Speaker 1: things that they've done, then I'm like, okay, we need
Speaker 1: to possibly reevaluate what we're doing in this room. But
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, for some of the stuff that
Speaker 1: you know was maybe said about Nelson, he took it
Speaker 1: like a champ. You know, he owned up to it,
Speaker 1: and he was like, hey, I'm just going out there
Speaker 1: and practice better, play better. He didn't make any excuses
Speaker 1: He didn't talk about a guy possibly interfering him or
Speaker 1: holding him anything like that. And when you see that,
Speaker 1: I think you gotta honors and say, okay, you know,
Speaker 1: once the death settles, you'd much rather have a guy
Speaker 1: like that in the locker room than some guy who's
Speaker 1: gonna go out there and make excuses, you know, because
Speaker 1: then you got to keep compounding the excuses. I want
Speaker 1: guys that are going to own up to it and
Speaker 1: then go out there and try and have results. And
Speaker 1: that's what Nelson has been doing and that's what the
Speaker 1: rest of us have been doing. Have you worked against C. J.
Speaker 1: Smoth much in practice? Yeah? You see him a great kid,
Speaker 1: a nice guy, extremely extremely quiet but um but just
Speaker 1: a great kid man. You know, he does talk, you
Speaker 1: know obviously you can tell you the high football IQ.
Speaker 1: He just really to dude to people. Um, the time
Speaker 1: I got spin around has been really good. Most of practice.
Speaker 1: Uh has Bright Tricks done anything since she got here
Speaker 1: to kind of open any eyes promise really fast, he's
Speaker 1: like go, He's like extremely fast, Like I don't know
Speaker 1: if we'd give him the run route in the five
Speaker 1: yards like literally g louis just throwing him like run
Speaker 1: a post go Like I think you don't think he's
Speaker 1: rand to hitch since he's gotten here. So um, you know,
Speaker 1: when ever he does get a chance to uh um
Speaker 1: player get some playing time, I think it would be
Speaker 1: really good as far as you know, getting down the field,
Speaker 1: helping them stretch out people. But um, but great, great
Speaker 1: guy too, funny guy. Um he's always excited to come
Speaker 1: in you know, literally and meetings when everybody's kind of tired,
Speaker 1: he's still just always smiling, always happy. So just good
Speaker 1: attitude to have round locker room too. So how important
Speaker 1: is if to have a guy like that who can
Speaker 1: you know, take the top off the defense. And I
Speaker 1: mean it's huge, it's huge because when you know that
Speaker 1: your role, then it opens it opens up a lot
Speaker 1: of the playbook, you know, it opens up, you know,
Speaker 1: the opportunity to do a lot things out there on
Speaker 1: the offense because it takes that one time for a
Speaker 1: guy to say, Okay, they're not gonna throw a deep
Speaker 1: and then the level will you know, give you a
Speaker 1: deep one. So, like I said, whether it's him, you know,
Speaker 1: whether it's Nelson, anybody, just having that opportunity to go
Speaker 1: out there and do those things you know, we just
Speaker 1: got to be able to capitalize on it and actually
Speaker 1: make it a big part of the passing game. And
Speaker 1: then lost both starting safeties in one of their corners
Speaker 1: to injury and yet still seem to be playing pretty
Speaker 1: well on the back end. Why is that? What do
Speaker 1: you say? I think it's an attitude. I think when
Speaker 1: you have an attitude, then the guys who come in
Speaker 1: after that are always, you know, able just to pick
Speaker 1: up on it and then play well. So obviously you
Speaker 1: see that when Josh came, he brought an attitude to them,
Speaker 1: and so that's always going to help them. Obviously the
Speaker 1: team that he left a little bit of his attitude
Speaker 1: left two. It's just the reality of it, and people
Speaker 1: don't understand that. There's a swagger that comes to that,
Speaker 1: and so I feel like, you know, he's a testament
Speaker 1: to how they've been able to do, even with guys
Speaker 1: out because even the young guys have a got to
Speaker 1: look too say Okay, I see how he's doing it.
Speaker 1: I see it. Swaggy plays with let me go out
Speaker 1: there and kind of imitate that too. So you know,
Speaker 1: it's they have played extremely well. So we definitely gotta
Speaker 1: be on our p's and ques. Yes, that's shorty h.