Speaker 1: What's good command this family and wilcom into a special
Speaker 1: edition of Next Man Up because we got our QB
Speaker 1: one here for the first time.
Speaker 2: This off season.
Speaker 1: We got the boy that called him Jedi five Jad
Speaker 1: and Daniels. It was good, bad man, I'm good, bro.
Speaker 1: It's really good to see you.
Speaker 2: Man. First things first, bruh, he's getting the start of
Speaker 2: year two.
Speaker 1: What was this first NFL off season, like a first
Speaker 1: official off season like for you?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 3: It was different.
Speaker 4: I mean because you have so much time after going
Speaker 4: through the season, you're going to draft, press and everything,
Speaker 4: so it was it was It's different.
Speaker 3: It was difficult to navigate.
Speaker 2: Did you really feel like you had time? Man?
Speaker 1: I feel like when you do what you do in
Speaker 1: the year that you had, that rookie year you had,
Speaker 1: everybody wants a piece, everybody wants you to talk, everyone
Speaker 1: wants you to sit down and do an interview. Did
Speaker 1: you really get time to enjoy the fruits of your labor?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I did.
Speaker 4: I think I had a team, and you know, my
Speaker 4: family did a good job.
Speaker 3: Like nah, you don't do nothing. You just take some
Speaker 3: time for yourself and recharge.
Speaker 2: When you look back, if you've gotten a chance to
Speaker 2: look back. Have you gotten a chance to.
Speaker 1: Reflect on really what that rookie year was or has
Speaker 1: it just been just going straight forwar? Because I know
Speaker 1: you're a guy that's really locked in it.
Speaker 2: Don't look backwards too much.
Speaker 3: Just to know.
Speaker 4: I mean, I kind of got caught up in well
Speaker 4: I did last years, last year, and I'm like onto
Speaker 4: year two because I got to go out there and
Speaker 4: prove myself again. So a little bit I did, you know,
Speaker 4: I was able to look back a little bit, but
Speaker 4: I was still moving forward the whole time.
Speaker 1: What to me is special about you is now you're
Speaker 1: the bar for what a rookie quarterback needs to do.
Speaker 1: Cam wardsh the door saying, it's all these quarterbacks that
Speaker 1: come in one day.
Speaker 2: We haven't even been drafted yet.
Speaker 1: Are looking at Jaden Daniels and I know you had
Speaker 1: that thing on your wall.
Speaker 2: I want to be an NFL player. But a lot
Speaker 2: of times with that, with all the fame and all the.
Speaker 1: Good stuff, comes a lot of negativity, a lot of
Speaker 1: eyes on you, a lot of speculation. Man. You can't
Speaker 1: even go to a basketball game piece right, But it's
Speaker 1: been so great to see you navigate that so professionally. Man,
Speaker 1: give advice to these future quarterbacks because all of them
Speaker 1: are going to have to deal with that.
Speaker 2: Right. The eyes are going to be on them, the
Speaker 2: scope is going to be on them. How did you
Speaker 2: maneuver that? Bro?
Speaker 3: It was tough.
Speaker 4: It was tough because everywhere you go, you know, as
Speaker 4: you know, you get more fame and more recognition. You know,
Speaker 4: people want a piece of you, like, oh, they want
Speaker 4: you to do this or do that. So I mean
Speaker 4: it's like, you know, no, know yourself and you know,
Speaker 4: have a good team around you that's gonna able to
Speaker 4: say no more.
Speaker 2: You Uh.
Speaker 4: That's probably the biggest thing is all seasons people say
Speaker 4: no for me because it's tough for me to say no.
Speaker 3: It's tough for me to tough people to know.
Speaker 4: So you have the right people around you that's gonna
Speaker 4: say no, or you know, have a conversation like this
Speaker 4: is what I want to accomplish is off season. I
Speaker 4: think this is good for my brand, This is good
Speaker 4: for what I wanted to get accomplished, and you know,
Speaker 4: and go from there.
Speaker 1: But that's something a lot of rookies don't really grasp yet.
Speaker 1: What keeps Jade and Daniels so grounded.
Speaker 3: Just my foundational God.
Speaker 4: That that's the main thing, just you know, leaning on
Speaker 4: him because you know, at any point, you know, you
Speaker 4: get too high, you get too low, like you can
Speaker 4: take anything, like if you start think you're above everything
Speaker 4: and you know, stuff like that, with a have a finger,
Speaker 4: you ca'll be gone and now you back a rock bottom.
Speaker 3: So no, just staying ground.
Speaker 4: And I always remember where you came from, because none
Speaker 4: of this would happened if you didn't come from diversity
Speaker 4: that you went through.
Speaker 2: And it's very obvious how confident you are, but you
Speaker 2: also are very very humble. But I know you're harder yourself.
Speaker 1: I know you look last season and say Jad and
Speaker 1: Daniels could have done more. Talk about how you feeling,
Speaker 1: what you want to improve after you've reflected on this
Speaker 1: past season.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just want to get better off fastest.
Speaker 4: That's you know, mentally, physically, you know, mostly I just
Speaker 4: want to continue to grow, you know, on and off
Speaker 4: the field, because I think off the field, I'm able
Speaker 4: to grow.
Speaker 3: I mean I'm able to grow on the field.
Speaker 4: You know, take care of the people around me first,
Speaker 4: you know, just you know, continue growing up, growing up,
Speaker 4: continue being man.
Speaker 2: Talk about the word growth. So I got to mention it. Man.
Speaker 1: This picture behind me right here made some buzz because
Speaker 1: your arms was popular little bit.
Speaker 2: People were saying, this guy's gotten bigger, a stronger.
Speaker 1: But Cliff Kingsbury also said in this Pressure Today that
Speaker 1: you got bigger and got stronger.
Speaker 2: Why was that a point of emphasis for you? Yeah?
Speaker 3: I think just for me, it's like, okay, what can
Speaker 3: I do better?
Speaker 4: Can I ask more armor on, you know, to what
Speaker 4: we're staying another you know, seventeen games hopefully more? And
Speaker 4: you know, it was a long season last year, so
Speaker 4: it's like I didn't know I was getting myself into.
Speaker 4: Now I have a kind of idea this is what
Speaker 4: I'm getting myself into going into year two. Now, it's like, okay,
Speaker 4: put the team around me as ask questions, asked, bets ask.
Speaker 4: You know, people reach out to other individuals like how
Speaker 4: did you navigate your first off season?
Speaker 3: How did you not navigate this?
Speaker 4: And you know kind of take pitts and beat bits
Speaker 4: and pizzas from it. But honestly, I really got that
Speaker 4: advice from Bobby Wagner. So he gave me that advice.
Speaker 4: We were having conversation and he's like, man, this is
Speaker 4: what he did is first all was and hit up
Speaker 4: a whole bunch of people. You know, they give advice like,
Speaker 4: I think this works, it worked for me, this worked
Speaker 4: for him.
Speaker 3: Uh, we'll see. I'm gonna try it.
Speaker 1: So and when you navigate that, you're getting your advice,
Speaker 1: but you got to live it yourself, right, you got
Speaker 1: to go through it yourself. What surprised you the most?
Speaker 1: Did you mentioned it that seventeen game season? What surprised
Speaker 1: you the most about that?
Speaker 3: It's a long season? Yeah, a long season.
Speaker 4: But they said, man, your rookie years your longest year
Speaker 4: because you're going so much. You're basically going for a year,
Speaker 4: You go to playoffs, you make a deep brand, so
Speaker 4: you're basically going for a whole year as far as football.
Speaker 3: So, uh, just.
Speaker 4: Knowing how to be able to unplug and make sure
Speaker 4: you're still pouring back into yourself and you know, the
Speaker 4: right energy and recharging.
Speaker 1: And after this rookie year, everybody was looking at the
Speaker 1: commanders of saying what are they going to do in
Speaker 1: free agency?
Speaker 2: What are they going to do in the draft.
Speaker 1: Well, a big emphasis of that was adding some offensive lineman,
Speaker 1: but also adding you some new toys as well, some
Speaker 1: new weapons.
Speaker 2: When you see a front office and coaching staff make.
Speaker 1: That a priority, does that give you a little like
Speaker 1: a little more confidence knowing that, hey, we're bought into
Speaker 1: Jaden Daniels. We're gonna do whatever we can to make
Speaker 1: him even more successful.
Speaker 4: I think so, I think obviously, you know you you
Speaker 4: wanted to have that feeling. And you know, I try
Speaker 4: to Adam and his squad, you know, to go out
Speaker 4: there and do it's right for the team. So I
Speaker 4: got to, you know, handle my side. You know, he
Speaker 4: has to handle the side. DQ has to handle this side.
Speaker 4: And you know it's all collective.
Speaker 1: And as you said, man before we let you go,
Speaker 1: everybody wants a piece of Jaden Daniels and all this stuff.
Speaker 2: You're a very busy guy. But the people that notice.
Speaker 1: First was this fan base, was this Burgundy and gold
Speaker 1: fan base. Man, give a message to the fans, and
Speaker 1: which is what they mention you as you are a
Speaker 1: young man navigating your rookie year.
Speaker 3: Men's a lot.
Speaker 4: I mean, they welcome me with open arms, you know,
Speaker 4: to take care of my family, you know, whenever they
Speaker 4: see them at their game or you know, in the city,
Speaker 4: stuff like that. So they show so much love and support,
Speaker 4: you know, just everything I've been through in my life,
Speaker 4: everything always there, whether that's wishing me well, you know,
Speaker 4: wish them you know, my mom happy, Mother's there at
Speaker 4: the birthday, you know, wishing the people, my loved ones,
Speaker 4: you know well, wishes and prayers and stuff like that.
Speaker 4: So I genuinely appreciate them for how much love they showed.
Speaker 2: Me, man, And it's all genuine love. Bro. We appreciate
Speaker 2: you when you earned that love as well.
Speaker 1: Last thing for you, Man, Fans have expectations, Coaches of expectations,
Speaker 1: media has expectations.
Speaker 2: What are Jad and Daniel's expectations for you two?
Speaker 4: Just take take, take the next step, be able to
Speaker 4: continue to grow. I think the biggest thing for me is,
Speaker 4: you know, being a bezz bord of myself day in
Speaker 4: and day out.
Speaker 3: No matter if I'm.
Speaker 4: Tired and energized, you know, I still gotta go in
Speaker 4: there and look myself in the mirror every day.
Speaker 3: It is like, how can I get better?
Speaker 2: And jay and dance. We've got no doubt you will
Speaker 2: get better. Man. We appreciate the time. Brother. Congratulations your
Speaker 2: Success're so busy.
Speaker 1: I've got to take congratulations, man, Thank you for taking
Speaker 1: the time, but we cannot wait to see what you're
Speaker 1: doing yet to Let's do it, and Sir commanded family,
Speaker 1: our next man up, very very special.
Speaker 2: Next man up j D five Jaden dance. Thank you brother,
Speaker 2: Let's do it.