Speaker 1: I'm great.
Speaker 2: How are you guys doing so, how would you sum up
Speaker 2: kind of the first three days of practice? It's good,
Speaker 2: A lot of fun. Would you love to do Yeah, yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 2: it's been a lot of fun. I'm just just trying
Speaker 2: to take advantage of of all the reps I get
Speaker 2: working with all the guys, and uh, it's been a
Speaker 2: ton of fun just to be able to be back
Speaker 2: out there and have our full room back.
Speaker 1: Man, it's spent a ton of fun. There's not a
Speaker 1: lot of reps to go around. I mean, how do
Speaker 1: you do you do anything on the on the side field.
Speaker 1: Do you anything to sort of augment what you're getting
Speaker 1: in the in the actual practice? Yeah, I mean live reps.
Speaker 2: I mean we got we got four guys, so it's
Speaker 2: just kind of is what it is, and uh, just
Speaker 2: try to do it as best as I can take
Speaker 2: advantage of every rep I get.
Speaker 1: How did you link up with Jeff Christians in the
Speaker 1: off season? Did someone recommend it to you?
Speaker 2: I had a friend, Uh, his name is zeb Nolan
Speaker 2: that I played with in college and he had worked
Speaker 2: with Jeff and we talked about all the time, so
Speaker 2: he kind of we had talked about it and I
Speaker 2: had talked to Jeff and then yeah, we started started
Speaker 2: working together and that was it starting with Jeff. Uh
Speaker 2: I wanna get into all the details, but I feel
Speaker 2: really good about but what we've accomplished, and uh gonna
Speaker 2: continue to work and continue to get better.
Speaker 3: Along those lines, what did you gain from just being
Speaker 3: around Patrick Mahomes and maybe picking his brain anything that he.
Speaker 1: Kind of glombed onto.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, uh, I think I talked about it
Speaker 2: in during OTA's but uh, it's just awesome to be
Speaker 2: around a guy like that. Obviously he's he's probably doing
Speaker 2: at the highest level. Uh there is maybe I don't
Speaker 2: wanna say ever, I don't wanna get in the controversy,
Speaker 2: but uh, he's he's playing.
Speaker 1: At a very obviously very high level. Uh.
Speaker 2: Multiple super bowl Its, multiple big games. So uh, just
Speaker 2: being able to pick his brain about everything in season,
Speaker 2: off season, his schedule, how he sees the game, everything
Speaker 2: like that?
Speaker 1: Was it just I? Y, did you do it in
Speaker 1: these last forty days as well? With no, no, we
Speaker 1: didn't throw together.
Speaker 3: Sure after after Brock got cleared the other day, what
Speaker 3: was the message from from Coacheana and to you? And
Speaker 3: then how did you kind of digest you know how
Speaker 3: this might play out over the next Uh.
Speaker 2: No, we haven't had any conversations. So it's just learn,
Speaker 2: uh find out, you know, right before practice or whatever,
Speaker 2: what the rep count is gonna be. And like I said,
Speaker 2: just just take advantage of ever rep. But super excited
Speaker 2: obviously for Brock. Uh that he's able to come back
Speaker 2: and practice.
Speaker 1: It's good to have a whole room.
Speaker 3: Really well, Brandon and Deebo look much proved.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what do you notice about their improvements? Where do
Speaker 1: you see them different from a year ago? And Ba's
Speaker 1: catching everything.
Speaker 2: Uh, he's running great routes, he's getting to his landmarks,
Speaker 2: he's making plays, and he looks like, you know, the
Speaker 2: Ba that we all knew he could be these last
Speaker 2: few years and that he kind of turned into I
Speaker 2: think towards the end of the season last year. And
Speaker 2: Deebo looks great, man, I mean he he really took
Speaker 2: care of his body. I know you guys have all
Speaker 2: talked about it and heard about it, but he took
Speaker 2: care of himself this offseason, locked in and and he looks,
Speaker 2: I mean really one of the best I've ever seen.
Speaker 4: And when you have limited reps like you have in
Speaker 4: the last couple of days. If you make a bad throat,
Speaker 4: does it stick with you more and do you kick
Speaker 4: yourself more?
Speaker 2: Uh? Not really, I mean especially on the field. Maybe
Speaker 2: after practice going back and watching it, uh, but uh,
Speaker 2: on the field, I'm I'm very much trying to turn
Speaker 2: the page. Yeah, I gotta go on to the next play,
Speaker 2: cause once it starts to snowball and you know, let
Speaker 2: the linger or anything like that, especially with like you said,
Speaker 2: but just see and take advantage one rep at a time.
Speaker 4: Tuesday, Kyle told us that any type of rockets out
Speaker 4: there in the field, it'll be the ones.
Speaker 3: How do you kind of read that? How do you
Speaker 3: kind of feel about where you are positioned?
Speaker 1: Honestly, don't. Uh no, I don't. I'm not thinking about it.
Speaker 2: I'm taking it one day at a time, one rep
Speaker 2: at a time, and like I said, just just taking
Speaker 2: advantage of every rep and just continue to compete.
Speaker 1: What's the vibe like in the quarterback room?
Speaker 3: It seems like I'm a few Do you guys have
Speaker 3: a real strong camaraderie.
Speaker 1: With each other. Yeah, we're all real good friends.
Speaker 2: I Mean, we're all similar in age, pretty close, So
Speaker 2: it's just been really fun just to be able to
Speaker 2: work with those guys, bringing Brandon and Sam new this year. Uh,
Speaker 2: but it's just a fun group of guys, you know,
Speaker 2: it's off the field outside of football. I mean, we're
Speaker 2: all pretty good friends, so it's fun to hang around
Speaker 2: with those guys.
Speaker 4: Right this time last year, you were declared you're the
Speaker 4: starter with your box position. Right now, play what less
Speaker 4: than five quarters your season ended? Obviously, I think the
Speaker 4: control will rocket out of here.
Speaker 1: Control, But I don't. How do you just kind of
Speaker 1: reconcile everything? Like, I'm not sure you do.
Speaker 4: You've been wrong where you've gone from starter and declared
Speaker 4: starter to.
Speaker 1: Complete lead the number three?
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, I just like I said, just take
Speaker 2: it one day at a time. I'm very present, mind
Speaker 2: focused every rep, one rep at a time, one day
Speaker 2: at a time, one meeting at a time, whatever it is.
Speaker 2: I mean, I I truly everything works out exactly how
Speaker 2: it's supposed to do. So as long as I controlled,
Speaker 2: I can control. Uh, that's all I can worry about.
Speaker 1: You're very more comfortable.
Speaker 2: Do you think you're a better player.
Speaker 1: Since you've been here? Yeah? Night and day? Yeah. Uh.
Speaker 2: All the ways the game slowed down a lot. Just
Speaker 2: continue to get better though you.
Speaker 1: Really on this work or at anything like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, a lot of a lot of breathing, a
Speaker 2: lot of meditation, a lot of just just present mind
Speaker 2: focus and and journal and things like that, just to
Speaker 2: to keep myself, you know, keeping it one day at
Speaker 2: a time. And if I do that, it's not too
Speaker 2: hard to stay positive. I'm pretty pretty blessed to be
Speaker 2: in this position, to to have this opportunit.
Speaker 3: You talk a lot of the spring about the finger
Speaker 3: and how it things mechanically and all that. How have
Speaker 3: you reached the point of where you, you know, kind
Speaker 3: of just able to repeat the mechanics that you want
Speaker 3: and you know, getting rid of the whatever you had to.
Speaker 1: Do to kind of get by. Yeah, just just reps.
Speaker 2: I think this this off season is probably the most
Speaker 2: I've ever thrown, maybe in my life, with no arm pain,
Speaker 2: no anything like that. So, uh, definitely just just reps
Speaker 2: as many reps as I could possibly get this off season,
Speaker 2: throwing as many days as I could. That's what I
Speaker 2: tried to do, and just try to get better, you know,
Speaker 2: one percent every day.
Speaker 3: Do you find it that if you've reached the point
Speaker 3: of just muscle memory like, would you go back and watch,
Speaker 3: you know, tape of yourself throwing?
Speaker 2: It's more my feet honestly than anything from the last
Speaker 2: couple of years. But uh, yeah, no, I don't. I
Speaker 2: don't find myself liking to watch the mechanics side of
Speaker 2: of the last couple of years reps. I feel like
Speaker 2: I'm in a much much better place now.
Speaker 1: For sure.
Speaker 3: You said no arm pain.
Speaker 2: Do you think that that is mechanics related?
Speaker 1: That your mechanics are are good now that you're not
Speaker 1: having this?
Speaker 2: I think yeah, With with the volume I've been able
Speaker 2: to throw, I think it's it's more mechanic thing than
Speaker 2: than anything.
Speaker 1: Like I said, But the.
Speaker 2: The past was the past of just probably throwing too much.
Speaker 2: What you win to old el Sam Darnold before he
Speaker 2: became teammates and what have you learned about it since?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 2: We had met actually when I was coming out pre draft,
Speaker 2: uh before the draft, cause he does is something with
Speaker 2: a uh agency tie. So uh we had met and
Speaker 2: been to dinner and hung out. And I know he's
Speaker 2: good friends with Josh uh and Kyle on as well.
Speaker 2: So we had met down to Orange County and hung out,
Speaker 2: so I knew he was a great dude.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: We had been around him, or I had been around
Speaker 2: him a few times, so it didn't know a whole lot.
Speaker 2: Obviously seen him play and knew where he was drafted
Speaker 2: and everything like that, and knew he you know, had
Speaker 2: been put in tough situations, you know, his career, so uh,
Speaker 2: but knew he was a great person. So I was
Speaker 2: super excited when when Kyle told me he was coming.
Speaker 4: Was there We're going? Uh talked about you're having more
Speaker 4: touches that sometimes your fastballs were well SPoD at at times.
Speaker 4: But is that like would you agree with that?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I guess what was the evolution of Okay, this requires
Speaker 4: more touch?
Speaker 1: How Er? How do you applying some Uh?
Speaker 2: I think just reps trust everything I did that this
Speaker 2: off season, just being more comfortable changing.
Speaker 1: My ballpath a little bit. Uh.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I think come in a lot better spot
Speaker 2: as far as just just throwing in and playing football
Speaker 2: and playing quarterback.
Speaker 4: Whe when you're running tray like you you you've scrambled
Speaker 4: out on one play to day, is there any extra sense.
Speaker 1: Of appreciation for being able to do it considering the
Speaker 1: injury you had to come off and rehab.
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, I d I didn't think I'd be lying
Speaker 2: if I said I thought I'd feel as good as
Speaker 2: I I do going back to those tas and especially now,
Speaker 2: I thought i'd have, you know, at least a setback. Uh,
Speaker 2: But thankfully, you know, knock on what heaven had anything,
Speaker 2: So uh yeah, definitely, very very thankful for that, right.
Speaker 1: Appreciate you guys,