Speaker 1: And so you guys are out there at every practice.
Speaker 1: You guys watch us all the time. But there's a
Speaker 1: special teams perier where I catch the footballs and I
Speaker 1: I could observe you guys, and you guys really need
Speaker 1: to up your sneaker game.
Speaker 2: It's absolutely atrocious.
Speaker 1: I got some Viomaro's. Those are fire and Grant wears
Speaker 1: vans every single day. New balances. They look like vans. Yeah,
Speaker 1: those are vans. It's okay, but you wears every day,
Speaker 1: so I need to switch those up. But I observe
Speaker 1: all you guys's shoes, and I am disappointed in you
Speaker 1: guys as a community. So we could up those police.
Speaker 1: It's year eight, guys, let's figure this out together. Okay,
Speaker 1: Now it's all you guys.
Speaker 3: You gave a people got a good glimpse of the
Speaker 3: setup you had in Nashville with your front players back
Speaker 3: and stuff was on social media. In the field, in
Speaker 3: the weight room, I'd me asking, how much do you
Speaker 3: think you spent over the years on making yourself a
Speaker 3: better football player?
Speaker 1: That's a great question. I mean, I think I learned
Speaker 1: a lesson early on in my career. My agent told me,
Speaker 1: he was like, you know, what you're a fit thround
Speaker 1: draft pick. You know, you don't have like nothing's guaranteed,
Speaker 1: you don't know how long you're gonna play. But when
Speaker 1: it comes to your body, that's your business. So spend
Speaker 1: money on your body. As long as that you're not
Speaker 1: doing stupid stuff like you don't need to go buy
Speaker 1: three cars, you don't need to buy everything that you want,
Speaker 1: watches and stuff like that. But when it comes to
Speaker 1: your body, ask the vet's what they do, and then
Speaker 1: spend money on your body. And I've done that, you know,
Speaker 1: every single year to try to get back to one
Speaker 1: hundred percenters, you know, make myself better every single year
Speaker 1: in the best way possible. You know, my facility itself
Speaker 1: probably cost me like a million dollars. I had something
Speaker 1: that you know, I had a dream about, and you know,
Speaker 1: if you build it, they will come field a dreams
Speaker 1: reference there, little Iowa stuff, And that was my goal
Speaker 1: is just I want a football field. I want to
Speaker 1: train facility. I like to train with other guys, So
Speaker 1: I wanted to have enough space. I have anywhere from
Speaker 1: twelve to sixteen guys almost every single day of the
Speaker 1: entire offseason.
Speaker 2: It's a fantastic time.
Speaker 1: I like to put myself around really talented football players
Speaker 1: to one compete against them to see how they're doing,
Speaker 1: but also to bring them along with me because I
Speaker 1: feel like I trained at a really high level of
Speaker 1: the time and so also being able to trade like
Speaker 1: six offensive linemen every single day. So I have guys
Speaker 1: that do pass pro with I have guys who do
Speaker 1: run game stuff with old pads who know how to
Speaker 1: do stuff, and then train out there with tight ends.
Speaker 2: It's always great.
Speaker 1: And then I love training with Trent Taylor all year
Speaker 1: round because he's one of the best released guys I
Speaker 1: think I've ever seen, you know, just his lateral quickness
Speaker 1: and how to get off the line of scrimmage versus guys.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if I can do all the
Speaker 1: things that he does, but I try to copy some
Speaker 1: of the things that he does.
Speaker 2: I take that in, you know, my tool belt.
Speaker 1: Other than that, you know, I do a lot of
Speaker 1: you know, I've been a very big advocate for stem
Speaker 1: cells and stuff like that. I try to advocate that
Speaker 1: to all players across the leagues. I think it's very beneficial,
Speaker 1: it's totally legal, and it's very good for you. But
Speaker 1: uh yeah, I mean, I spend a lot of money
Speaker 1: in my body because but you know, at the end
Speaker 1: of the day too, it's if whatever, you if you
Speaker 1: spend fifty thousand dollars on your body one off season,
Speaker 1: it gets you one more year in the NFL.
Speaker 2: Like what vet minimum's over a million dollars. So I
Speaker 2: think that's a pretty good investment.
Speaker 3: When you got when you have the guys that you
Speaker 3: place in Nashville, how did that plan come about?
Speaker 2: And how long was it? Just to have everyone there?
Speaker 2: That was my wife's ideal. It was all Claire. She's like, hey, yeah,
Speaker 2: what you guys are here?
Speaker 1: You know, this group of you guys that aren't playing,
Speaker 1: you might as well, like you're going to go to
Speaker 1: you know, Vanderbilt a local high school, or you can
Speaker 1: go to your place. And I'm twenty five minutes from
Speaker 1: the hotel we were staying at. So uh got in
Speaker 1: contact with you know, our head string coat Dush and
Speaker 1: Perry Michael Slap and brought it up to Kyle. He's like, yeah, George,
Speaker 1: you really want to do that. I'm like, have the
Speaker 1: Niners in my house? Of course I want to do that.
Speaker 1: So just being able to have the guys out there,
Speaker 1: and I think a lot of guys too, you know,
Speaker 1: they've never been around, you know, seventy five acres in
Speaker 1: the country, you know, with a gym and the field
Speaker 1: on it too, So it just kind of gives them
Speaker 1: a different perspective on, you know, how their guys live
Speaker 1: and how their guys trained. So if I can inspire
Speaker 1: them to, you know, put a little bit more effort
Speaker 1: in their off seasons, maybe I'll take that.
Speaker 2: Any day of the.
Speaker 3: Week, plans start to come in motion.
Speaker 1: If I have my phone, I'd asked my wife, but
Speaker 1: I think she went over my head. I think she
Speaker 1: called Michael slap directly. I was like, yeah, you're good, sweet.
Speaker 1: Do you have his number?
Speaker 2: You do? You? What was it?
Speaker 1: This brief exchange you had with you a few of
Speaker 1: you guys while he was watching practice today? You saw
Speaker 1: that I shouldn't he be watching practice? Sure we're in
Speaker 1: Red for the first time too.
Speaker 2: It's crazy.
Speaker 1: No, there wasn't. Has he Warner Pirates had out there?
Speaker 1: That's hilarious. I mean, I love Ayuk. I've played with him,
Speaker 1: uh for four years. I love his mindset. Every single day.
Speaker 1: You guys asked Mooey, like, you know, do you guys
Speaker 1: miss him, and I think Moody answered it perfect. It's like,
Speaker 1: you know, we haven't played a game without him yet,
Speaker 1: so as an offense, we don't know how much like
Speaker 1: his pieces are, like you interchange pieces all the time,
Speaker 1: and like, you know, we've had Trent Williams hurt in
Speaker 1: a game and we've still won. So it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you miss him, but you can make do with it.
Speaker 1: So we don't know right at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: but I do know that a Yuke is a fantastic
Speaker 1: football player and the energy that he brings every single day,
Speaker 1: this elevates us. So just being able to have a
Speaker 1: conversation with him, because you know, I don't see him
Speaker 1: all the time. I'm in camp mode, and just being
Speaker 1: able to have a conversation with him is fantastic, just
Speaker 1: to you know, how he's doing and if everything's going
Speaker 1: away the way that he wanted to go.
Speaker 2: And it was actually fine.
Speaker 1: We went to dinner on one of our off nights
Speaker 1: and we're pulling out of the out of the out
Speaker 1: of Valet and he parks into Valet and so just
Speaker 1: seeing him, I was like, hey, I haven't seen a
Speaker 1: couple of days. Man, how are you doing so so
Speaker 1: just a chance to see him is always fantastic. Love
Speaker 1: a smile on his face.
Speaker 4: George, what has it been like to have Trent Taylor
Speaker 4: back here?
Speaker 2: Phenomenal? What else? Yes, you know, it's fun.
Speaker 1: They put us across the hall in the hotel together,
Speaker 1: so we get to hang out a little bit there.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: Trince, like I said, I work out with him every
Speaker 1: off season. He's a guy who he just grinds every
Speaker 1: single day. He does it the right way. He knows
Speaker 1: what's expected of him every single day. I think you
Speaker 1: guys have watched in training camp too, Like he has
Speaker 1: probably the most catches besides Debo, Like, he catches everything
Speaker 1: you throw to him. He gets open on the routes
Speaker 1: that you wouldn't expect him to open on, like some
Speaker 1: long routes. He's does everything where that you wanted to
Speaker 1: do it. I mean, you guys saw he's blocking his
Speaker 1: tail off in the preseason game. He probably played fifty
Speaker 1: snaps in the preseason game, and he's like complaining about it.
Speaker 1: He's just out there playing football. So like he's everything
Speaker 1: that you want in a teammate and as a.
Speaker 2: Forty nine er.
Speaker 1: So I'm just glad that we had the opportunity to
Speaker 1: bring him back there. And I'm also having like a
Speaker 1: lot of stability at punt returner makes me really happy.
Speaker 1: It's not I might have to ever have to worry
Speaker 1: about because I think Trent, you know, his whole career
Speaker 1: has been like top five, top ten most of his career,
Speaker 1: two and partner turning, So that always makes me really
Speaker 1: happy when I don't worry about special teams.
Speaker 4: I thought you, I think, where say a Hall of
Speaker 4: Fame trajectory in your career and maybe if you retired now,
Speaker 4: But do you ever think about that or like if
Speaker 4: you were just staging your career, Like, you know, I've
Speaker 4: accomplished a lot, I'd like to kind of submit my legacy.
Speaker 2: I think if you think like that, it's pretty dangerous.
Speaker 1: And I've just tried to have the same mindset since I,
Speaker 1: you know, got in here as a rookie is just
Speaker 1: a practice my ass off every single day, and.
Speaker 2: Like, if you show up here every single day and
Speaker 2: you played.
Speaker 1: At incredibly high level, then you're gonna continually find yourself
Speaker 1: on the field and continually find yourself and having opportunities
Speaker 1: to make amazing plays and continue to further your legacy
Speaker 1: or whatever that is.
Speaker 2: And yeah, I know I'm been going into year eight.
Speaker 1: I've played good football, but I mean I got plenty
Speaker 1: of great football off in front of me, so I
Speaker 1: all I'm going to focus on is one day at
Speaker 1: a time, and whenever that time comes, it'll happen. And
Speaker 1: you know, whenever the whenever the wheels fall off, that happens.
Speaker 1: And I don't really expect that to happen anytime soon,
Speaker 1: but I try not to think about it like that.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of great players on this football team
Speaker 1: that allowed me to better myself every single day. Holy cow, guys,
Speaker 1: you both get one.
Speaker 2: I was gonna go to him first.
Speaker 3: A couple of tight ends that are impressive, so had
Speaker 3: that pancake.
Speaker 2: In the game fantastic and then the young kid.
Speaker 3: Playing looks good.
Speaker 2: What do you think of those two guys so far?
Speaker 2: You know, it's fun.
Speaker 1: Eric Sobert just same draft class and knowing him a
Speaker 1: little bit throughout our career.
Speaker 2: I always love talking to him. He's a great dude.
Speaker 2: He Uh. What I really like about him is he
Speaker 2: has a fantastic mindset.
Speaker 1: He was like, you know, I'm gonna come out there
Speaker 1: I'm gonna hit people, and I'm gonna try to get
Speaker 1: better run blocking. I'm gonna try to figure out the
Speaker 1: way you guys run the football. And just to see
Speaker 1: his how he's gotten better in our scheme from.
Speaker 2: OTAs to now, it's awesome.
Speaker 1: And just to see him every single day go out
Speaker 1: go at it with that work ethic. And I means
Speaker 1: like I have a sense of humor once in a while,
Speaker 1: so having he also has a sense of humor. So
Speaker 1: having that bantern in our tidend room is fantastic because
Speaker 1: camp meetings get pretty long and occasionally boring, so yet
Speaker 1: they're always you know, refresh yourself to try to stay
Speaker 1: focused on the little things, and so having him in
Speaker 1: there is fantastic. But he understands and he he gets
Speaker 1: like the standard of the level of play that tidens
Speaker 1: in this room when a play up. And that was
Speaker 1: something that we talked about when I had John Imber
Speaker 1: here's my Titenans coach, and he kind of established that
Speaker 1: he was, you know, we're gonna play at this standard.
Speaker 1: If you're not playing at this standard, you're not gonna
Speaker 1: be in this room. And so he had Inbo for
Speaker 1: training camp last year in Miami, and so he kind
Speaker 1: of understands that. So he came right in this room
Speaker 1: and fit right in because he knows how we want
Speaker 1: to play football, and like he's seen how you know,
Speaker 1: Charlie Warner and ROSTWELLI played and like just the level
Speaker 1: of that they played at. And so for him just
Speaker 1: to come in and accept that and just grind. I've
Speaker 1: really appreciate that my guy Mason playing. Uh, he's everything
Speaker 1: you want in a rookie. You know, he makes some
Speaker 1: dumb mistakes once in a while, but I I made
Speaker 1: a ton of dumb mistakes when I was a rookie,
Speaker 1: and he's doing a good job of not making the
Speaker 1: same mistake twice. He's learning from his mistakes. But he
Speaker 1: gives fantastic effort every single time he's out there. He's
Speaker 1: you know, he leaves every practice practice exhausted, which you
Speaker 1: should do as a rookie because most roogies don't get
Speaker 1: a lot of reps. But he's just flying around everywhere,
Speaker 1: so he's exhausted, and I really appreciate that from him.
Speaker 1: And he does all the extra meetings with our titand coaches,
Speaker 1: and he's always just very eager. He's always asking questions
Speaker 1: and I really appreciate that. And he's just a really
Speaker 1: good rookie who understands that you know, you're not getting
Speaker 1: a lot of reps, but whenever they come to you, you
Speaker 1: have to take advantage of the opportunity. I said him first,
Speaker 1: she said one last time, and you still got an
Speaker 1: excellent at the end.
Speaker 2: Anyways, so we're gonna go there, and then there.
Speaker 3: Maybe the complete opposite or a Hall of Fame question.
Speaker 1: In Monday's practice, the ball was thrown to you an
Speaker 1: awful lot and a practice like that, I mean, is
Speaker 1: it is it designed that way or does it just
Speaker 1: kind of happen? And also coming off of a game
Speaker 1: and other ones were getting the only ones that got reps,
Speaker 1: But like, is there something about setting a tone that
Speaker 1: type of a practice.
Speaker 2: Setting a tone?
Speaker 1: Yes, because it's like, uh, like the star as we
Speaker 1: had an off day, travel day, game, off day, and
Speaker 1: then you have that practice, so like you haven't practiced
Speaker 1: a while, so you need to go out there, you
Speaker 1: need to run, you need to do stuff. So you
Speaker 1: want to go out there, and it's not like a
Speaker 1: job through practice. You want to go out there and
Speaker 1: you're like, well, you're it's not gonna be the hardest
Speaker 1: practice of your career and you're not in pads, like
Speaker 1: you still got to go out there and work on stuff.
Speaker 1: So definitely setting the tone you want to go out
Speaker 1: there and take advantage of those reps. I cannot tell
Speaker 1: you why the ball found me multiple times, you know,
Speaker 1: that's just kind of like, you know, every game I play,
Speaker 1: it's like I have one target, I have twelve targets.
Speaker 1: It just is what it is, and I'm happy to
Speaker 1: catch the ball and it's thrown to me. Yes, Jennifer Williams, Yes,
Speaker 1: it did.
Speaker 3: Same thing with being out there.
Speaker 1: Is it like you don't miss him because it hasn't
Speaker 1: been week one yet. Yeah, Trip Williams is Trip Williams.
Speaker 1: You know, it's like the greatest football player to ever
Speaker 1: played the game. It's like him and Aaron Donald, I
Speaker 1: mean that I've played against, and you know, for all
Speaker 1: the people who are gonna, you know, list off like
Speaker 1: you know, nineties and eighties players. I'm sorry, but like
Speaker 1: the best I've ever played with. And so yes, he
Speaker 1: and he's also like a massive human being. He's a
Speaker 1: silver back, like he just has a presence to him
Speaker 1: and so yeah, not hav him in the locker room
Speaker 1: at all and stuff like that. It's weird, but you know,
Speaker 1: no one like we all love Trent and he's doing
Speaker 1: what he thinks is best for him, so it's okay.
Speaker 1: And I think Jayalen Moore is inn a good job
Speaker 1: of playing left tackle for us. And I also like,
Speaker 1: I appreciate getting extra reps because the one thing about
Speaker 1: Trent Williams is is I don't need to practice Trent
Speaker 1: that often because he's so good that it's more of me, like, hey, George,
Speaker 1: get out of the way so I can block this
Speaker 1: guy by myself. And I'm like, hey man, you make
Speaker 1: my job easier. So getting the extra reps with Jalen,
Speaker 1: I think is really beneficial because he's gotten a lot
Speaker 1: of snaps for us in the last couple of years,
Speaker 1: and so if I can get really good at working
Speaker 1: with him, Trent will just fit in seamlessly, not worried
Speaker 1: about it.
Speaker 2: Thank you, guys. Work on those sneakers please,