Speaker 1: Yeah, Yes, talked a lot today about what went wrong
Speaker 1: with the run defense Sunday. He said the Vikings were
Speaker 1: probably watching that tape thinking they're gonna run it sixty
Speaker 1: five times this week. Uh, you know, what do you
Speaker 1: what do you think about that? What happened and what
Speaker 1: you need to fix? Well, a lot happened, um, But
Speaker 1: to put it plainly, we uh missed a lot of
Speaker 1: our our gaps and got um. Really, you know, we
Speaker 1: have bad fundamentals going into it. And really it's it
Speaker 1: was all on us. You know. If this is this
Speaker 1: type of defense, if one person is out of their gap,
Speaker 1: gets split, you know, and and it and it gets
Speaker 1: split in a hurry. Um. There were times when we
Speaker 1: had multiple people out of our gaps. And that's, if
Speaker 1: you can imagine, you know, not a good situation of
Speaker 1: being so um. You know, it's it's dialing back to
Speaker 1: the basics. And I think we've done a good job.
Speaker 1: The Temple A practice has been really good. Um. And
Speaker 1: you know we've taken you know, first, you know, first
Speaker 1: and foremost you have to stop the running this league, um,
Speaker 1: And we understand that and we've taken those those run um,
Speaker 1: those rundowns and practice and those run periods and practice seriously,
Speaker 1: you know, and and um gotten back to what we do,
Speaker 1: and you know that's that's uh, you know how we're preparing.
Speaker 1: It's it's been a good week at this point of
Speaker 1: the season. How to correct those things because they don't
Speaker 1: think you probably a lot of time during practice actually
Speaker 1: practice tath. I think a lot of its angles UM
Speaker 1: efforts there. Man, it's you know, you see guys running
Speaker 1: to the ball, but you know, we've we've got to
Speaker 1: have angles, We've got to have gang tackling UM. And
Speaker 1: you know, when you shoot your gun, you gotta you gotta,
Speaker 1: you gotta hit, you know, and you can't you can't
Speaker 1: miss um. You know. It's we're at this point in
Speaker 1: the season where you know you're you're going up against
Speaker 1: these guys and your body might feel a certain way
Speaker 1: or whatever, but that's you have no excuses at this point,
Speaker 1: you know. And and we understand that we've we've worked
Speaker 1: a lot on tackling UM. We have really this whole time.
Speaker 1: So you know, it's it's uh, obviously a point of
Speaker 1: emphasis from the past two games, UM, and something we
Speaker 1: definitely are correcting. That's really trail defense different you need play,
Speaker 1: you know, I think it's it's a matter of it's
Speaker 1: a matter of stopping the run. You look at these
Speaker 1: past two games. If you don't stop the run, you
Speaker 1: see the type of momentium offense has. It keeps them
Speaker 1: off the field. They convert third downs, you know, they
Speaker 1: get in good situations if we stop the run our defense,
Speaker 1: that's that's what our defense is meant to do. Our
Speaker 1: defense is meant to pass rush, you know, stop the running.
Speaker 1: Then let your d line eat. I say that all
Speaker 1: the time, but that's the way it is, you know.
Speaker 1: And when when you're d line, when you give them
Speaker 1: the ability to just go and do what they get
Speaker 1: paid to do. Um, you know, it takes the pressure
Speaker 1: off of everybody in our defense is it's running the
Speaker 1: way it does and the way it's supposed to. So,
Speaker 1: you know, first things first, stopped to run and everything follows.
Speaker 1: Were obviously one of the biggest advocates for saying when
Speaker 1: he was here, excited about how well he's playing, excited
Speaker 1: about to saying him again, Yeah, I'm really exciting, you know. Um.
Speaker 1: The main thing that as a friend, you know, when
Speaker 1: I knew that the trade was going down, I wanted
Speaker 1: to know what situation he was going to, you know,
Speaker 1: because beyond football, you know, he's obviously my friend first,
Speaker 1: so UM, I wanted to make sure, you know, I
Speaker 1: want to know if he was going to a good
Speaker 1: situation where he could go and compete. And then not
Speaker 1: only did he get to go to a team in Minnesota,
Speaker 1: but um, I know coach Sherman's there and him and
Speaker 1: Kach Sherman had a great relationship. He was even actually
Speaker 1: a Sam's wedding, so you know, so him being able
Speaker 1: to go there and have somebody he knows and then
Speaker 1: go to a team that I feel like fits him,
Speaker 1: fits his demeanor. You know, I don't know if there's
Speaker 1: a lot of media guys in Minnesota, so I think
Speaker 1: that's right up, say Zalley. So, um, you know, I
Speaker 1: guess I was happy to see him go that situation,
Speaker 1: and of course I'm excited to see him when he
Speaker 1: comes back. You know, you guys had such a great chemistry,
Speaker 1: and I know you're a big fan of of of Carson,
Speaker 1: but you would seem like you and Sam by maybe
Speaker 1: week nine last year week or not, it really has
Speaker 1: something special going. Um looking back at that is that
Speaker 1: was that unique. I know you've had different quarterbacks really
Speaker 1: every year in your life. Um, did you guys have
Speaker 1: something special that you haven't had with with anyone else? Um?
Speaker 1: You know, I don't want to do that line too
Speaker 1: long because obviously, like you said, you know, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm playing with Carson now, so that's where you know,
Speaker 1: my main focus is. I'm trying to build, you know,
Speaker 1: continue to build our chemistry. But you know, I said,
Speaker 1: I think the biggest thing with Sam is it's undeniable
Speaker 1: that his accuracy is at the type of the league.
Speaker 1: You know, people can say whatever they want thinking right,
Speaker 1: whatever article they want about his play back. At the
Speaker 1: end of the day, when he's on the field, he
Speaker 1: puts the ball where it has to be. And you know,
Speaker 1: if you would have told somebody that he was going
Speaker 1: to Mansota Vikings and as it was gonna be their
Speaker 1: best player, you know you would have thought maybe ap
Speaker 1: probably may mine thought, digs, my thoughts, all these other people,
Speaker 1: Harrison Smith. But the guy who is a focal point
Speaker 1: of that team right now, Sam and Sam's the reason
Speaker 1: why they're going where they're going right now. So you know,
Speaker 1: he has the ability to make a lot of receivers
Speaker 1: look good. And so my biggest thing was, you know,
Speaker 1: us building us, building a relationship to where I was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: where do you want me to be? What's the timing?
Speaker 1: Things like that, And then I had enough time really
Speaker 1: to actually go through that with him. So once we
Speaker 1: were able to build that, it was really easy because
Speaker 1: he could put the ball with that to be I mean,
Speaker 1: when you look at your career, you had eight games
Speaker 1: with Nick, I think, ten games with Sanchez, fourteen games
Speaker 1: with Sam and I five games with Carson. Do you
Speaker 1: think I've told you about that? You really haven't had
Speaker 1: a guy for more than fourteen games? Is you know
Speaker 1: it's in your career, don't. I don't like to say
Speaker 1: the word held me back, and I played with great guys.
Speaker 1: You know, it'd be one thing. One of those quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: you know, it wasn't a quarterback who could in the
Speaker 1: NFL or was extremely competitive, you know. So I've been
Speaker 1: fortunate to have you know, a lot of good quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: You know. Obviously there is you know a process of
Speaker 1: always changing that you have to kind of work through.
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day too, you know,
Speaker 1: still as a receiver's job, I just got to go
Speaker 1: out there and make play. So you know, I'm fortunate,
Speaker 1: you know, to be with all those guys. I think
Speaker 1: it's made me, you know, the receiver that I am now,
Speaker 1: and obviously having Carson here, who I know, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be here for a long time. I think just going
Speaker 1: through that for so long helped me to this point,
Speaker 1: and I think it's helped me continuing to go on
Speaker 1: him same practice against you. Is there any advantage or
Speaker 1: either side of the balls are really canceled out? You
Speaker 1: watched some film, Um, obviously you have a good feel
Speaker 1: for you know what Sam does good does well at
Speaker 1: and some things that hopefully we could try to take
Speaker 1: advantage of. Um, you know, I don't. I think he
Speaker 1: knows what we do. We know kind of how he is.
Speaker 1: I think at the end of the day, it kind
Speaker 1: of bounces out, you know that this game does. Carson
Speaker 1: first saying, how do you think the way on both this?
Speaker 1: I know both of their demeanors. I'm I think Carson
Speaker 1: doesn't care, and I think Sam cares even less so,
Speaker 1: to be honest, I don't think it's anything that they're
Speaker 1: really worried about. You just gotta I've been around both
Speaker 1: of them like to be honest, like they would want
Speaker 1: to answer at least questions about each other as possible.
Speaker 1: Y'all can probably tell about their answers, So they just
Speaker 1: want to go out and play. Even when Carson came,
Speaker 1: you know, that was the ultimate, you know, and Okay,
Speaker 1: let's try and see if something happens with this friction,
Speaker 1: And there was still no friction in the building when
Speaker 1: Sam and Carson here. That's just the type of guys
Speaker 1: they are. So both of them get to be the
Speaker 1: captains of their ships on two teams that are really
Speaker 1: like competing in this league. I think the last thing
Speaker 1: they're worried about is each other or any of the
Speaker 1: outside stuff. They're worried about each other's offense and going
Speaker 1: in competing. Like I said, I'm here with eleven every day,
Speaker 1: and I know he's getting ready. He's excited to be
Speaker 1: able to come back and play in the link after
Speaker 1: a couple of role games. So we're decided to go
Speaker 1: out there and try and get to win Chlos Are
Speaker 1: you to reaching that level with Carson? Now? Do you
Speaker 1: feel like that that you're right was saying about the
Speaker 1: end of the last year. Um, you know, it's It's
Speaker 1: hard to say because obviously more games, you know, we're
Speaker 1: still you know, early on and m But at the
Speaker 1: same time, like said, Carson is a beast. You know,
Speaker 1: I could talk all day about you know, his talent
Speaker 1: and things that he's able to do and things that
Speaker 1: he's able to bring. But I mean, you guys watch
Speaker 1: the games. I mean there's plays that that he's making
Speaker 1: with his arm that it's just like like the balls
Speaker 1: fallen in our laps. I mean, the balls where it
Speaker 1: has to be. And then not only can he make
Speaker 1: plays you know obviously from the pocket, but his ability
Speaker 1: to move around too and make plays for us on
Speaker 1: the run. It's gonna be huge moving forward to especially
Speaker 1: being a guy who sometimes when I go into the slide,
Speaker 1: I'm like the third fourth option. When a quarterback can
Speaker 1: move around, that helps a lot because he can buy
Speaker 1: time and find his you know, the second third option.
Speaker 1: So I think it's going to continue to build. I'm
Speaker 1: really excited where me and Carson want to go, as
Speaker 1: as as well as all the other receivers in tight ends. Jordan, Uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Uh, this is hard. Jim talked today about
Speaker 1: the linebackers in particular, shouldering too many blocks last week? Yeah,
Speaker 1: how does that? How is that bad? And how do
Speaker 1: you not do that? Well? The offensive linemen, um ultimately
Speaker 1: want you know, as much surface as they can possibly
Speaker 1: grab onto. That's their goal. They want to go one
Speaker 1: for one, put a hat on a hat and roll
Speaker 1: from there. But you know it's on us to not
Speaker 1: get in that situation. We worked using your hat and hands, um,
Speaker 1: ripping off of blocks. When you give a shoulder, you
Speaker 1: know they're just gonna lean into you and just absorb you,
Speaker 1: you know, at the end of the day and hold
Speaker 1: you technically, um. And you know you don't get holding calls.
Speaker 1: So it's it's the way it is. And it's linebackers,
Speaker 1: linebackers joys. We get paid to do. Get off a block,
Speaker 1: go make attack. UM. DGB has been getting increasingly more snaps.
Speaker 1: What does it do for an offense, for you guys
Speaker 1: when he's out on the field more and maybe even
Speaker 1: for you specifically having come out there. I think it helps.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think you know, all the guys have
Speaker 1: been uh, you know, progressing and playing better. I think, um,
Speaker 1: you know, Nelson did some really good things for us
Speaker 1: in the last game. I think you know, the more
Speaker 1: we can get everybody out there and doing different things,
Speaker 1: the more ability our third down percentage can go. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's one area that we've been stressing, like we gotta
Speaker 1: do better on third now. And we got some more
Speaker 1: touchdowns in the red zone, you know, and so having
Speaker 1: DGB in there, you know, give us that element on
Speaker 1: third down. He can help us out with that and
Speaker 1: especially in the red zone. So I'm excited to see,
Speaker 1: you know, his compact, his package continue to grow, him
Speaker 1: be able to get more plays. Thank you, Thanks guys,