Speaker 1: Be back out there with the guys. Often seems like
Speaker 1: they're they're rolling defense too. I think we're just we're
Speaker 1: on track.
Speaker 2: It's the stage in your career. What what does training
Speaker 2: camp mean to you? What are these early days? What
Speaker 2: do you trying to accomplish?
Speaker 1: Really, it's it's it's about getting back into football shape,
Speaker 1: getting back with the guys, and making sure that everyone's
Speaker 1: on the same page, working together. And you also kind
Speaker 1: of build a little bit of a callous just against
Speaker 1: you know, like the little hits, the little you know,
Speaker 1: dings and bumps and bruises that football brings.
Speaker 3: With.
Speaker 2: However, things I'm fullded with Spencer or Feliciano. There's a
Speaker 2: chance that you might have a rookie right guard next
Speaker 2: to you like you did two years ago when Spencer
Speaker 2: came in.
Speaker 3: What have you seen out of Pune and how you playing?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I think everyone in the room can play,
Speaker 1: and that's that's why they're here, you know. You know,
Speaker 1: I think that you know, the coaching staff wants the
Speaker 1: best player to be out there and we and we
Speaker 1: as players do too. And we're definitely seeing a few
Speaker 1: different bodies their right guard just right now. D to
Speaker 1: injuries and that sort of thing. But you know, one
Speaker 1: thing's for sure, first is going to have the best
Speaker 1: the best guy out there for.
Speaker 2: Us take there's a lot of good depth. As you
Speaker 2: said in the room, you're a veteran. Is it a
Speaker 2: competitive situation or do you feel like you are the
Speaker 2: knowledgeable guy who can impart some wisdom to some of
Speaker 2: the young guys.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's there's always competition. That's just the nature
Speaker 1: of the league. I feel like as soon as you
Speaker 1: get comfortable and complacent, that's when you lose your position
Speaker 1: and you lose your spot. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to be one of those vets that
Speaker 1: is not an open book. It is not going to
Speaker 1: help the young guys because as a group, we need
Speaker 1: to succeed and as a group, we need to be
Speaker 1: as best as we can be, and being kind of
Speaker 1: selfish and just worrying about myself wouldn't be the best
Speaker 1: move to get to our end goal.
Speaker 3: Rock Party talked about how he's finally getting the benefit
Speaker 3: of a full offseason. How much can you him both
Speaker 3: benefit from that all those reps together.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's I mean it's great, right, Like anytime you
Speaker 1: bank a rep. That's that's that's one less you have
Speaker 1: to do in a game setting in practice, right, so
Speaker 1: every single snap we take is full speed, you know,
Speaker 1: and and it's it's just one one more thing that
Speaker 1: he can add to his resume and his repertoire. And
Speaker 1: you know, I just feel like he's he's still young.
Speaker 1: Even though he's playing at such a high level, he's
Speaker 1: still a young player. So having the ability to have reps,
Speaker 1: uh this early in his career and not getting hit
Speaker 1: in games all the time, getting those reps is really
Speaker 1: perfect for him.
Speaker 2: Seem should ask you the question, does he seem like
Speaker 2: a young player? Oh?
Speaker 1: No, No, for sure. No. I mean I've I've said
Speaker 1: this countless times now. The guy, even when he first
Speaker 1: came in in the first game that he was playing
Speaker 1: for us, he just demands attention, demands your best and
Speaker 1: he's just a natural leader. You know, you don't really
Speaker 1: see that from young guys like he doesn't. He doesn't
Speaker 1: have like a young player.
Speaker 3: You see some of those benefits of getting those extra reps?
Speaker 3: Do you see those on the field already?
Speaker 1: Oh for sure, for sure. You know, there's there's there's
Speaker 1: a lot of tricky things that quarterbacks have to do that.
Speaker 1: It's it's not just uh, second nature. It really needs
Speaker 1: to be drilled. It needs to be repped in order
Speaker 1: for you to get the timing down and like the
Speaker 1: spacing down and being able to see the route tree
Speaker 1: in your head before the ball snaps. All that stuff
Speaker 1: is not just natural. Yeah, you definitely have to work
Speaker 1: to make sure you're good at that.
Speaker 3: So that it means last year without any reps, were
Speaker 3: you pretty surprised at how well he operated in week
Speaker 3: one with no reps up.
Speaker 1: Until that point, I mean, he was, he was. He
Speaker 1: was definitely taking reps when he could. And luckily, our
Speaker 1: you know, ours, our scout offense runs a lot of
Speaker 1: the same route trees that our normal offense does in practice,
Speaker 1: so he was getting reps. They just weren't with the
Speaker 1: same players. But yeah, I mean, I wouldn't say surprised,
Speaker 1: because even the first day he showed up, I definitely
Speaker 1: knew he was a special kid. But I was just
Speaker 1: really just impressed by it.
Speaker 2: Jake, how would you describe your relationship with Fred Warner?
Speaker 1: Well, at least the first couple of weeks of camp.
Speaker 1: You know, it's it's a lot of just me and
Speaker 1: him hitting each other, which is fun, you know. You know,
Speaker 1: eventually we move on from the Mike declared runs to
Speaker 1: more will and more Sam declared runs, so it becomes
Speaker 1: more balanced of who I'm hitting. But a lot of
Speaker 1: it's just me and Fred right now, which is fun,
Speaker 1: you know, and he knows it and I know it
Speaker 1: right So anytime he hears fifty four come out of
Speaker 1: my mouth, that's usually a collision between us two.
Speaker 2: Is it more the physical competition or is there a
Speaker 2: mental game too between you and him.
Speaker 1: There's a little bit of a mental game, but that's
Speaker 1: that's more between me and the defensive lineman. You know,
Speaker 1: it's not He's just luckily defensive end or defenses have
Speaker 1: changed the past like they were, like with the Luke
Speaker 1: Keigley defenses, like the mic could completely change the defense
Speaker 1: depending on what he saw. I think now it's more
Speaker 1: of a schematic thing. So I'm more just messing with
Speaker 1: the guys close closer to me than the Mike linebacker.
Speaker 2: He's a very vocal guy on the on the field.
Speaker 2: How do you compact that?
Speaker 1: You know, you have to be vocal back when it's
Speaker 1: when it's the proper time, you know, Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I feel like anytime there's a first down and make
Speaker 1: sure he knows it. But other than that, you know,
Speaker 1: just little things, little jabs here and there.
Speaker 2: He's you know, at it has been an all pro level, Yeah,
Speaker 2: for three year on pros. Do you does it help you?
Speaker 2: You know, to challenge him and vice versa where you know,
Speaker 2: you feel like you've got to give him your best
Speaker 2: to make him better and going back the other way
Speaker 2: from him to you.
Speaker 1: Oh, for sure, for sure. I mean iron sharpens iron.
Speaker 1: That's that's that's something that I've believed in since I
Speaker 1: was I was first in the league. You know, going
Speaker 1: going half speed, getting half speed reps against you know,
Speaker 1: players that aren't going to be the players that you
Speaker 1: see on Sundays. That's just not going to be as
Speaker 1: ben as beneficial as playing against guys that you know
Speaker 1: are the best of the best. You know. The fact
Speaker 1: that I'm battling arguably the best Mike linebacker in the
Speaker 1: league every every single practice, that's that's that's just I
Speaker 1: mean that that that just makes me better, which is great.
Speaker 2: The guys are going against on the D line have
Speaker 2: have largely changed over this year.
Speaker 3: You have any any thoughts about the composition of the
Speaker 3: defensive tackles. I mean, there seemed to be a lot of.
Speaker 1: Big, sort of shorter stature guys suddenly on this team.
Speaker 2: Where maybe last year than one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I don't I don't think the size
Speaker 1: is really you know, the main factor. I think a
Speaker 1: lot of it has to do with just their athleticism
Speaker 1: and ability to do what coach Casurreic wants them to do.
Speaker 1: I feel like they all have great get off. They
Speaker 1: all have great strength and explosiveness, and that's really all
Speaker 1: you need, you know, besides just relentless effort in this defense.
Speaker 1: So you know, I feel like they're all they're all
Speaker 1: really good players, you know, I think, Uh, I mean
Speaker 1: I was. I was. I was with Collins in Dallas
Speaker 1: my rookie year, so it's kind of cool being reunited
Speaker 1: with that guy. But you know, I think, I honestly
Speaker 1: just what I've seen so far where we haven't really
Speaker 1: lost a step at that position yet. I mean, he's
Speaker 1: he's he's great. The fact that he's that big, but
Speaker 1: he can move so quickly in such fast twitch I mean,
Speaker 1: I feel like he's he's gonna be a great compliment
Speaker 1: to what uh heart, what what hard Graave can do?
Speaker 3: So you go against gross mottos at all when he
Speaker 3: lines up inside?
Speaker 1: Not not too much of yet. Yeah, so I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know too too much about him.
Speaker 2: Yet for uh first time pather on on Monday, whether
Speaker 2: you're clear to do that or not. But what's that
Speaker 2: like for alignment to finally get him on after six
Speaker 2: months off?
Speaker 1: Honestly you would you would You would think that like
Speaker 1: a football player would want, you know, less pads and
Speaker 1: less impacts. But pads to us as offensive linemen, it
Speaker 1: it gives us a steering wheel. It gives them so
Speaker 1: uh stuff to hang on to makes our jobs easier,
Speaker 1: you know. And and I'm not I'm not saying we
Speaker 1: hold on every on every single play, but stuff is
Speaker 1: definitely happening. So uh, you know, just being able to
Speaker 1: uh you know, go full s full speed and get
Speaker 1: actual full speed reps will be good. What did what advice?
Speaker 3: If you give them Trent on his contract hold off?
Speaker 1: I don't know if he should be taking it from me,
Speaker 1: but you know, I think he's a great player. We
Speaker 1: obviously want him here, and you know, I just hope
Speaker 1: they can work something out.
Speaker 2: Oh good, guys, thank you,