Speaker 1: Does it feel to be getting your recognition?
Speaker 2: Uh uh, what an honor. Very thankful obviously to everyone
Speaker 2: who voted and all the support across the country. It's
Speaker 2: so cool actually, and for all my teammates too, for
Speaker 2: them to be recognized. It's sweet. We got a special team,
Speaker 2: special unit of guys, and but to be listed up
Speaker 2: there with them and what an honor. So yeah, very
Speaker 2: thankful for it. Yeah, yeah, I heard about that. It's crazy,
Speaker 2: you know, I don't know really what to say of that.
Speaker 2: It's just it's cool, sort of just you know this
Speaker 2: last year, how crazy it's been, and then you know,
Speaker 2: just sort of see that and the support from everybody watching,
Speaker 2: you know, just all of it, the whole story. And
Speaker 2: in the last year, it's been a it's been a blessing.
Speaker 1: Season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I just feel like you get everybody's
Speaker 2: best ball, you know, every buddies in tune to you know,
Speaker 2: what they need to do at a high level, and
Speaker 2: every drive, every play I mean really matters. Obviously that's
Speaker 2: that should be the case for the regular season, but
Speaker 2: postseason last year, I feel like I felt that, you know,
Speaker 2: I feel like, you know, even you know, our first
Speaker 2: game against the Seahawks, It's like, man, we're getting their
Speaker 2: best shot. It's a close game all the way up
Speaker 2: in the first half, and and then the Dallas games close.
Speaker 2: Every possession matters, not turning the ball over, like all
Speaker 2: the little things matter, and so I just feel like
Speaker 2: the intensity is just cranked up a little bit more.
Speaker 2: Regular season, that should be the case, but sometimes, you know,
Speaker 2: things happen and you can lose a couple of games
Speaker 2: and still make it to where you need to be.
Speaker 2: But postseason there's very little room for air. So obviously
Speaker 2: you're gonna.
Speaker 3: Do whatever whatever the coach says and go along with
Speaker 3: the program. Is there a small part of you to
Speaker 3: take it there's a football game going on this sunny
Speaker 3: and I'm not playing at it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a little bit. Just the initial conversation that we had,
Speaker 2: it was like sort of, you know, for me, I
Speaker 2: was like, man, I you know, this is all I
Speaker 2: know is to prepare for the next game and get ready.
Speaker 2: And especially when we went out to practice and I
Speaker 2: saw my teammates doing that, you know, and every everyone
Speaker 2: dressed out ready to go and and preparing for the rams.
Speaker 2: And then I'm practicing but obviously not getting to go
Speaker 2: for the game. So a little weird in that sense,
Speaker 2: but it's part of it. And obviously we're doing what's
Speaker 2: best for the for the team and the organization, so
Speaker 2: I always got to remember that and have that in mind.
Speaker 2: But yeah, just the competitor in me. Obviously I want
Speaker 2: to play and you know, compete all the time. So
Speaker 2: but that that's the case in the situation that we're in.
Speaker 3: So will you be on Sunday like what you know,
Speaker 3: you have the headphone on, you know, the game of Sam?
Speaker 2: Like what what we will be kind of your or
Speaker 2: what are you planning to do? Yeah, I mean just
Speaker 2: be in tuned with the play calls and everything. You know.
Speaker 2: This week I've still gone about my process and stuff
Speaker 2: with the install with the plays and everything, and I'm
Speaker 2: gonna do my part to help out Sam and what
Speaker 2: I'm seeing on the sideline, just like what he's done
Speaker 2: all year for me. And so yeah, I'll have the
Speaker 2: headset on and listening to all the plays and stuff
Speaker 2: and uh, still going through my process in terms of
Speaker 2: you know, I fellas out there, what would I be
Speaker 2: doing and and how I'm seeing the game and stuff
Speaker 2: and try to help out Sam as best as I can,
Speaker 2: So that's what I'll be doing.
Speaker 3: What are some of the things that he learned from
Speaker 3: Sam this year, whether it's during the game or meetings
Speaker 3: or practices and stand.
Speaker 2: Out, Yeah, I mean a lot. Obviously he's been a
Speaker 2: guy who you know, has has been here in this
Speaker 2: league for I think it's a sixth year now, and
Speaker 2: and just the process, the routine, how to study what
Speaker 2: he's seeing with concepts and how he's ran things before.
Speaker 2: He's been able to pour into me and help me
Speaker 2: out with that, and in meetings sort of just remind
Speaker 2: me of little things within the plays, and especially before
Speaker 2: we get up before the game starts the night before
Speaker 2: we go through all the plays he Brandon and I
Speaker 2: and he just does a great job with just the
Speaker 2: little things within the plays of hey, a reminder on
Speaker 2: the play, this is where we're going with this or that,
Speaker 2: and he brings up these little things that are huge
Speaker 2: for me as a quarterback and so and then obviously
Speaker 2: on the sideline and stuff, he's bringing up just good things,
Speaker 2: tendencies that he's seen on film that they could possibly
Speaker 2: do during the game and to not forget about. So
Speaker 2: he's done a tremendous job and he's a very selfless guy.
Speaker 2: He puts the team first and and he's he's for
Speaker 2: the room, you know, not just about himself or anything
Speaker 2: like that. D It is for the room and for
Speaker 2: this organization. So very thankful to have him between drives.
Speaker 1: Did you have a set routine? I see you talking
Speaker 1: sometimes of Sam sometimes the.
Speaker 3: Greasy is that kind of just something that you try
Speaker 3: to do in between each drive to check in and recalibrate.
Speaker 2: One hundred percent. Yeah, usually it's, you know, to start off,
Speaker 2: it's greasy with what he's seeing and what we're trying
Speaker 2: to do. And then obviously the quarterbacks were all sitting
Speaker 2: next to each other, and after grease he's sort of
Speaker 2: done talking. Sam and Brandon will chime in with what
Speaker 2: they're seeing just with everything and sort of the mindset
Speaker 2: and stuff, and and they're real about what's going on
Speaker 2: with the situation is and where I should be and
Speaker 2: they sort of just again they remind me of things
Speaker 2: with what I can do because they've played the position,
Speaker 2: they've been in those moments. So it's been sweet having
Speaker 2: them with me and continue to go with them.
Speaker 1: Sore losses.
Speaker 3: You've thrown nine picks and we talked about it before
Speaker 3: about being aggressive mindset being.
Speaker 1: Smart with the football.
Speaker 3: How do you lock yourself into that mindset of stay
Speaker 3: aggressive or take care of the ball.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's I'm just doing what what I'm coached. Our
Speaker 2: system is really good, we got really good players, and
Speaker 2: so for me, I don't have to be superhero and
Speaker 2: or Superman and and go out there and say I
Speaker 2: need to get it done right here and throw in
Speaker 2: this tight window. I have to go throughout my process
Speaker 2: and what I'm coached and and we'll be successful. That's
Speaker 2: been the case. And the times where I haven't, I've
Speaker 2: been too aggressive with things and stuff we've gotten in trouble,
Speaker 2: turn the ball over, and then obviously those games we've
Speaker 2: we've come down to to lose in some of them.
Speaker 2: So that's something that I have to obviously always have
Speaker 2: in my mind. But at the same time, when I
Speaker 2: see something and I'm confident about, I'm gonna let it rip.
Speaker 2: So I think that's sort of the fine line of it.
Speaker 2: But playing within the system and how I'm coached is
Speaker 2: always good enough here.
Speaker 1: So is there any concern you know about not playing
Speaker 1: a meaningful snap for you know, three weeks and you
Speaker 1: know if so how do you kind of, you know,
Speaker 1: try to stay as much in with them as possible.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's something that I brought up to Kyle,
Speaker 2: and you know, then he brought us some really good
Speaker 2: points just in terms of, like, you know, the preseason,
Speaker 2: not getting a whole lot of reps and snaps, and
Speaker 2: then going into Pittsburgh and playing, you know, well enough
Speaker 2: to win, and saying with the bye week, coming back
Speaker 2: and having a good, good performance against Jacksonville. So I
Speaker 2: think I've done it, you know, this year in terms
Speaker 2: of having some rest and then coming in and playing.
Speaker 2: And so that's something that's feels good to go back
Speaker 2: and remind myself about. And not only that, like I'm
Speaker 2: going to be practicing against really good defense obviously our
Speaker 2: guys for the next couple of weeks too, So and
Speaker 2: it's not like I'm gonna be sitting on the couch
Speaker 2: for the next couple of weeks doing absolutely nothing. You know,
Speaker 2: We're gonna be out here still getting good reps against
Speaker 2: our defense, working on the little things I need to
Speaker 2: work on my footwork, my reads at practice, and you know,
Speaker 2: whoever we end up playing in our first round, we'll
Speaker 2: be ready for it.
Speaker 1: So you at least mildly lobby to play a little.
Speaker 2: It was a comp It was just part of our conversation,
Speaker 2: you know, just being real with all the situations and
Speaker 2: scenarios with this week and playing and stuff. So that's
Speaker 2: something that that we brought up and made the decision
Speaker 2: after that. So thanks guys,