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It is 0:00:45.680 --> 0:00:48.440 our number three, our final hour of the drive today, 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:51.920 our final hour of nine straight hours that we'll be 0:00:51.960 --> 0:00:55.480 doing here on campus every single day that the Steelers, 0:00:55.600 --> 0:00:57.720 quite the line up have practice. It is it's a 0:00:57.880 --> 0:00:59.760 it's a it's a big lift. And there's obviously a 0:00:59.760 --> 0:01:03.440 lot of people that play into into these crazy couple 0:01:03.520 --> 0:01:06.679 of weeks and we're thankful for all the efforts that 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:10.000 it takes to get this done. Matt, real quick before 0:01:10.000 --> 0:01:12.640 we go to the tweets here to start our number three, 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:15.480 like we will continue to do over the next couple 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:18.560 of weeks. It's just mere to you can tell that. 0:01:18.600 --> 0:01:21.200 I'm in the process of remodeling the basement and the 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:24.800 master bathroom. I just noticed this. They put down new 0:01:24.800 --> 0:01:26.360 flooring in here this year, I think so. 0:01:26.520 --> 0:01:28.600 I think I noticed it when I used the restroom, 0:01:28.680 --> 0:01:30.319 like it has a different feeling here, and I think 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:32.760 it's the flooring. Yeah, it's those. All kinds of changes 0:01:32.760 --> 0:01:34.000 at viny. 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:36.600 There really are there. There's usually one or two every year, 0:01:36.600 --> 0:01:38.760 but it feels like about five or six this year, 0:01:38.800 --> 0:01:42.120 and so far, so good. Let's get to us some 0:01:42.160 --> 0:01:44.240 of the tweets here. You always know you can get 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:46.920 it Matt and I about any Steelers topics, football topics, 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:49.160 food topics, whatever. Listen if you want to know our 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:51.440 favorite type of vinyl lamin at flooring here. If you're 0:01:51.480 --> 0:01:53.720 remodeling a house, we might have some thoughts on that too. 0:01:54.200 --> 0:01:57.240 This is a good one from Pittsburgh Conversation Matt. He says, 0:01:57.280 --> 0:01:59.320 what's more important to figure out by the end of 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:03.200 training who fits where in the secondary, how all those 0:02:03.200 --> 0:02:06.840 pieces work together, or who is the wide receiver three? 0:02:07.040 --> 0:02:10.200 Ooh, wide receiver three. I'm pretty confident that they know 0:02:10.440 --> 0:02:15.400 what the secondary is. I think that every snap, you know, 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:18.560 barring injury, of course, Porter and Dean are gonna be 0:02:18.560 --> 0:02:21.720 outside the numbers, and they're gonna play a lot more press, 0:02:21.760 --> 0:02:24.200 and they're gonna be big and do that stuff and 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:27.040 not move much. They'll probably be left right. I don't 0:02:27.080 --> 0:02:29.880 know that for sure. Maybe Porter, Falo Higgins or Chage 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:36.520 whatever whatever, and Ramsey's gonna be your big nickel slot star, 0:02:37.280 --> 0:02:42.160 dime linebacker, all those things, and they're gonna basically live 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:47.680 in nickel with two strong safety types in Brisker and 0:02:47.800 --> 0:02:51.880 Elliott that are semi interchangeable. I don't think it'll be 0:02:51.960 --> 0:02:54.919 a free strong situation where one's always in the deep 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:56.680 middle or anything of that nature. I think they can 0:02:56.760 --> 0:02:59.840 kind of do both things, although neither one's really a 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:02.800 free safety, So I think that's what you're gonna see 0:03:03.720 --> 0:03:06.360 a high percentage of the time. I think they're going 0:03:06.400 --> 0:03:10.560 to try to avoid base with four defensive backs. But 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:13.760 I bet when they are, Brisker comes off the field 0:03:13.960 --> 0:03:16.840 and they become a little more free strong with Ramsey 0:03:16.880 --> 0:03:20.440 as the free and go from there. I don't know 0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:24.960 how much dime they'll play, Probably not much. The league's 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:27.760 starting to drift away from dime. But I also think 0:03:27.800 --> 0:03:32.200 Echos would be your backup slot. I think Samuel probably 0:03:32.240 --> 0:03:38.160 backs up both outside guys. I would think you want 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:41.280 a red shirt Everett break Glass in case you have to. 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:44.560 But one wild card is I wonder what Savage. Savage 0:03:44.600 --> 0:03:46.120 is another guy I really want to watch here, Like, 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:48.480 I don't think he'll be in the starting mix, but 0:03:48.560 --> 0:03:50.600 I wonder if he can do some of the Ramsey 0:03:50.760 --> 0:03:54.000 star position stuff, you know, where the third receiver to 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:56.320 me is basically a starter and we don't know who 0:03:56.320 --> 0:03:58.920 he is. Yeah, you know, I think it's an easy answer. 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:01.960 I think here. I think you're spot on there. And yeah, man, 0:04:02.040 --> 0:04:05.240 I totally forgot about Savage Factory and the equation too. 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:07.040 See two until about an hour ago, and I or 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:09.040 when we were watching practice and like, what number is he? 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:09.320 Again? 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:11.480 I wonder what they're gonna do with them? 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:13.080 Jeff, that's funny. We got a lot a lot of 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:16.160 questions about the secondary today on the tweets. Jeff says, 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:18.520 was there anything to be learned from practice today on 0:04:18.600 --> 0:04:21.360 how they will align the safeties and the secondary in general? 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:25.240 Not really, Jeff, because especially because no JP if if 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:28.280 you potentially missed it earlier, anything for any of our 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:31.320 listeners Joey Porter Junior and Jalen Ramsey both on the 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:34.440 pup List, and so we're not active in practice today. 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:37.200 So without those two key pieces, yeah, it's gonna it's 0:04:37.200 --> 0:04:38.080 gonna take a little time. 0:04:38.160 --> 0:04:41.160 Again, I didn't study it, but my very my educated 0:04:41.200 --> 0:04:43.640 opinion that I feel pretty strong about is with those 0:04:44.120 --> 0:04:46.680 three corners on pop not that camp would be in 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:50.200 the top two. I would think the starters today would 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:56.600 be Dean and Asante, Samuel on the outside, Eccles as 0:04:56.600 --> 0:05:00.680 your slot, and with these guys being out, it's probably 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:03.280 more reps for Everett too, you know what I mean. Like, 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:05.479 I'm sure this is one thing we didn't talk about 0:05:05.480 --> 0:05:08.040 in the first hour, about McCarthy's priorities and how things 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:10.480 will be different. Not that Tomlin didn't give a lot 0:05:10.520 --> 0:05:13.560 of reps to the young guys, but I'm expecting Aler 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:19.000 Howard Everett's dunker, you know, those type of dudes to 0:05:19.560 --> 0:05:21.920 really get a good look in these practices. 0:05:23.040 --> 0:05:26.520 And Nate kind of tweets us along the same lines. 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:28.760 With Joey Porter Junior and Ramsey on the pup list, 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:30.640 how do you see this benefiting guys like a Sante 0:05:30.640 --> 0:05:34.240 Samuel Junior and rookie Dalon Everett Everet in particular. There's 0:05:34.240 --> 0:05:36.920 always so many reps to go around, and he's he's 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:38.719 getting a larger portion of that right now. 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:42.279 Yeah, and I think that they doubled down on again. 0:05:42.279 --> 0:05:44.240 No one's ever told me this, but my hunch is 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:47.720 just reading the tea leaves and watching their cornerback moves. 0:05:47.920 --> 0:05:51.320 Since Omar has been the GM that he's been frustrated 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:55.240 with the other corners, you know, the not Joey Porter corner. 0:05:55.720 --> 0:05:58.480 And I think he just finally said, all right, we're 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:00.960 gonna pay Dean and we're in a draft Everett to 0:06:01.040 --> 0:06:03.680 be the next team you know, then pay Porter hopefully, 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:07.920 which and we're gonna have three outside corners. Samuel is 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:10.359 also kind of a placeholder, but he's different than the 0:06:10.360 --> 0:06:12.080 other three, Like if all four of those walked in 0:06:12.080 --> 0:06:13.919 the room, you would think Samuel is not quite the 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:16.240 same as he has, you know what I mean. So 0:06:17.000 --> 0:06:19.880 I think Everett's a guy that there hopefully doesn't play 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:21.680 a snap this year because the other guys are so good. 0:06:23.360 --> 0:06:26.080 I also wonder, because I didn't know this until we 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:29.080 spoke to him after he was drafted. He did play 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:32.679 a lot of nickel in practice, okay, and he played 0:06:32.680 --> 0:06:36.080 a lot of special teams early on at Georgia. So 0:06:36.600 --> 0:06:41.280 maybe he's more than I'm not saying he's more than Porter. 0:06:41.360 --> 0:06:43.640 That makes Porter sound like he's less than somebody. But 0:06:44.120 --> 0:06:48.880 maybe Everett has more position versatility than I think. But 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:51.599 I think you're gonna make your bones as an outside corner. 0:06:53.320 --> 0:06:56.039 Angry bike Line tweets us and says, any under the 0:06:56.160 --> 0:06:58.400 radar players you guys plan on keeping an eye on, 0:06:58.920 --> 0:06:59.799 I've got two, Matt. 0:07:00.520 --> 0:07:03.560 How about the lineman Jones? You brought him up befo him, 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:04.520 so I knew I was steeling your. 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:07.039 Guys, Stephen Jones. Matt and I liked a lot of 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:08.760 what we saw from him in camp last year. Now, 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:10.880 I'll say this, I think the door was much more 0:07:10.880 --> 0:07:12.760 a jar for him to make the team at that 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:15.480 position group pretty last year than it was now, where 0:07:15.480 --> 0:07:17.720 it seems like there might not be many seats at 0:07:17.760 --> 0:07:19.920 the table that are still up for grabs there. And 0:07:19.960 --> 0:07:22.800 then Max Hrlman, another guy who oh yeah, yeah, who. 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:24.760 I really liked what we saw from him in camp 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:27.360 in preseason last year. You and I said at the 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:30.360 time of you know, the initial fifty three man roster. 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:32.520 We hope both of those guys are back here again. 0:07:32.800 --> 0:07:35.200 You know, in the summer of twenty twenty six. They 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:36.560 are going to keep an eye on him. 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:38.320 Yeah, you nailed him. I mean they they kind of 0:07:38.360 --> 0:07:41.040 always have that list every year of he's not gonna 0:07:41.040 --> 0:07:42.800 make the team. But I hope he's back next year. 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:46.880 And they may never turn into anything. They may turn 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:48.960 into a guy that sticks, you know. But I think 0:07:48.960 --> 0:07:53.720 those are two great examples. I bet Hurlman didn't love 0:07:53.800 --> 0:07:55.000 the Hide and Right pick. 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:58.800 Though I bet they are similar. They're cut from this 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:01.800 similar yeah. Yeah, but hey, two dogs, one bone. 0:08:01.640 --> 0:08:03.720 Right, yep, go out there, and I'm pretty excited to 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:05.760 see if Hide and Rake does some wide receiver stuff. 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:08.080 I know he's listened as a running back, he's wearing 0:08:08.120 --> 0:08:10.560 a running back number, but I still think he's more 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:12.040 of a slot than he is a running back. 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:15.640 I agreed. Ian says, how much of a wildcard is 0:08:15.680 --> 0:08:19.480 a healthy Broderick Jones to the Steelers offensive line Predictions 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:21.960 and Projections, talked a little bit about that at the 0:08:22.000 --> 0:08:22.520 start of the show. 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:24.240 Talk a lot about it. I would say rewind two 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:26.360 hours because I think we used. 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:28.560 The words he's a wildcard because you know he could 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:31.560 play both tackle positions. We know Mike McCarthy likes to 0:08:31.640 --> 0:08:34.280 use traditional tackles at guard as well. I mean, there's 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:38.520 listen again. We know his ability. That door at the 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:40.880 offensive line room is not as a jar as it 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:43.560 was this time last year. But he might be the 0:08:43.600 --> 0:08:45.000 one who could really shake it up. 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:47.360 I mean, he may show so much the teams are 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:49.280 calling you and offering you a good pick for him. 0:08:49.360 --> 0:08:51.760 He may have a good year as you're starting right 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:56.720 tackle or right guard, hits free agency and gets way 0:08:56.760 --> 0:08:59.800 more than Dan Moore did and gets your third round 0:08:59.800 --> 0:09:04.680 pick in return. You know, like maybe they play more 0:09:04.800 --> 0:09:07.640 six to offensive lineman than I thought because they just 0:09:07.679 --> 0:09:10.800 can't keep him off the field. But Max and faltonu 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:11.520 are too good, you. 0:09:11.440 --> 0:09:11.800 Know what I mean? 0:09:11.840 --> 0:09:14.520 Like, or maybe he's there. I mean, he's definitely a 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:17.360 wild card, but there's a lot there. Let's not forget 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:19.320 he was a mid first round pick just a couple 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:19.800 of years ago. 0:09:20.000 --> 0:09:23.080 Yeah, let's see, probably the last one we have time 0:09:23.120 --> 0:09:28.120 for today. One of our regulars, Michael Adsso, says, Matt, 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:29.960 are you in the best shape of your life at 0:09:30.280 --> 0:09:31.520 training camp? 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:32.520 Not at all? 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:36.160 Am I crazy? Or is Aaron Rodgers talking about needing 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:38.760 more play action on early downs and McCarthy saying they 0:09:38.800 --> 0:09:41.400 need to move DK Metcalf around more the biggest news 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:43.400 of the day. I love to hear this kind of talk. 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:46.480 Oh I wish I didn't hear either one of those 0:09:47.040 --> 0:09:50.079 straight from their mouth, but I hope that's very true. 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:53.360 And it's two things we've talked about throughout the off season. 0:09:53.640 --> 0:09:55.240 Like I don't think Metcalf's going to do a lot 0:09:55.240 --> 0:09:57.800 of slot stuff, but I'd like to see more preseat motion, 0:09:58.160 --> 0:10:02.680 more snap motion. That's another term people don't hear enough. 0:10:02.679 --> 0:10:05.040 That's becoming more and more that he's the guy on 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:07.960 the move when the ball is snapped. It's harder to 0:10:08.000 --> 0:10:09.880 press him. We talked about our corners are getting up 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:11.760 in his grill more than any receiver in the league. 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:14.320 It's harder to do that. Plus a big body like 0:10:14.400 --> 0:10:16.840 him in motion when the ball snapped, as opposed from 0:10:16.840 --> 0:10:20.200 a standstill position, it's kind of frightening. And I'm all 0:10:20.240 --> 0:10:25.480 for the play action stuff. Weirdest stat I have ever heard, 0:10:25.679 --> 0:10:29.080 or one of this is from football siders and I 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:30.720 think we talked about it two weeks ago or so 0:10:30.760 --> 0:10:35.640 when their guide came out from FTN. For ten years 0:10:35.679 --> 0:10:39.480 in a row, the Steelers have been worse when they 0:10:39.600 --> 0:10:41.400 use play action than not. 0:10:42.120 --> 0:10:44.920 Over where, multiple multiple, multiple. 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:50.040 Quarterbacks and coordinators. And they even wrote that we thought 0:10:50.040 --> 0:10:52.400 it was a Bend thing, but then it was everybody 0:10:52.480 --> 0:10:57.400 else since I but the league, the more play action 0:10:57.480 --> 0:10:59.720 the better. Yeah, I mean, that's what's so weird about it, 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:02.920 because nine out of ten teams every year are better 0:11:02.960 --> 0:11:06.160 when they use play action than not. The Steelers can't 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:08.559 be a coincidence. Ten years in a row, we're one 0:11:08.559 --> 0:11:10.880 of those ten percent or whatever. Yes, that's really weird. 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:13.920 It's the same quarterback over those tens the whole. 0:11:13.800 --> 0:11:16.680 Time for the next five I'd buy it, you know, 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:18.880 but those are old dogs that don't want to learn 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:19.360 new tricks. 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:21.240 But you know, been a lot of different dogs. 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:25.120 And yeah, and that Coils and Trubisky and Picket and 0:11:25.360 --> 0:11:28.079 young guys all right, right, right, yeah, good athletes and 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:29.640 bad athletes and you know, right. 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:32.959 Let's hear a little bit of what Aaron Rodgers had 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:35.320 to say along those lines when we returned. 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And of course a big part of 0:12:46.480 --> 0:12:49.160 this whole thing we know is Mike McCarthy, the Steelers 0:12:49.160 --> 0:12:53.840 head coach but Matt the reunion storyline with his former quarterback. 0:12:53.880 --> 0:12:55.040 They wont a Super Bowl together. 0:12:55.320 --> 0:12:57.280 They did some good things together, Aaron Rodgers. 0:12:57.320 --> 0:12:59.720 Unfortunately they did those good things against the Pittsburgh Steelers. 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:02.000 But if they win some games this year, we'll let 0:13:02.040 --> 0:13:05.480 it slide. Matt. Year number twenty two for Aaron Rodgers, 0:13:05.559 --> 0:13:08.120 isn't that nuts? Like, Wow, you have two children that 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:10.120 are in college and they're not twenty two years old. 0:13:10.320 --> 0:13:10.920 Oh exactly. 0:13:11.280 --> 0:13:14.040 He's been in the league long enough that his tenure 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:15.920 can go to the bar and go to Sharky's and 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:18.120 Dinos and buy a cold one here in Latrobe. 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:19.800 Again, that was the year I was with the Browns. 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:21.920 That was that year. That long, it's crazy, doesn't seem 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:22.680 like twenty two years. 0:13:22.559 --> 0:13:24.240 Ag and you and I say this a lot. There 0:13:24.240 --> 0:13:25.280 are some people, and. 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:27.760 I've been in media for twenty two years, twenty one years. 0:13:27.600 --> 0:13:30.240 That's exactly right. There are some people that and we 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:33.240 don't mean this with with disrespect, but there's some coaches, 0:13:33.240 --> 0:13:36.640 there's some players, there's some athletes that just aren't the 0:13:36.679 --> 0:13:39.160 most interesting sound bites. You know, you don't, you don't really, 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:41.720 you don't really get much. It's kind of cookie cutter. 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:45.840 It's all trained in pr centric and they're never really 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:48.160 gonna say much. Aaron Rodgers is not one of those guys. 0:13:48.200 --> 0:13:50.400 We enjoy listening to this dude's peak. 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:53.280 I'm like enlightened every time I hear him talk or 0:13:53.360 --> 0:13:56.040 even off the record, just watching them do things. I mean, 0:13:56.040 --> 0:13:59.240 he's very, very perceptive, deliberate and intelligent. 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:03.160 Twenty two years old, twenty two years in the National 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:07.800 Football League, Aaron Rodgers speaking heading into his final training camp. 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:10.160 If I can start by asking something that we probably 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:13.120 should ask. Last time we talked, you mentioned that this 0:14:13.360 --> 0:14:15.000 was this was it. I guess what led you to 0:14:15.040 --> 0:14:18.040 that decision on why did you feel? Why did you 0:14:18.080 --> 0:14:19.680 want to share it before the season started. 0:14:20.800 --> 0:14:24.120 H I don't know. Somebody asked me about it. I 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:27.480 don't remember what the context was, but yeah, this is it. 0:14:29.080 --> 0:14:31.760 I guess why what is it? 0:14:31.800 --> 0:14:33.320 Why is why is decision? 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:38.480 I thought last year might be it, and then Mike 0:14:38.520 --> 0:14:41.560 got hired, and I talked to the wife and she said, 0:14:42.480 --> 0:14:46.720 you can do one more year, so well see if 0:14:46.760 --> 0:14:48.960 it works out. And then it kind of all came together. 0:14:49.720 --> 0:14:54.040 When you talked to da earlier in USA, well, you know, 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:56.480 saying it to the last year. Might just be something 0:14:56.480 --> 0:14:58.080 that I did this year. 0:14:58.120 --> 0:14:59.680 You want to be back another year. 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:01.680 You you have any kind. 0:15:01.480 --> 0:15:07.280 Of debate or no, zero debate, it's zero. 0:15:07.800 --> 0:15:10.520 What's the biggest thing that excites you about? How in 0:15:10.520 --> 0:15:11.520 the courtory coach you get? 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:15.600 Well, just the history we got thirteen years together, got 0:15:15.760 --> 0:15:19.280 long uh you know, long track record of success and 0:15:20.080 --> 0:15:24.840 playoff run, super Bowl championship, and then just the full 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:28.520 circles seeing each other. Now we're out in life. I 0:15:28.520 --> 0:15:31.360 think I'm the the same age that he was when 0:15:31.360 --> 0:15:32.480 he got hired in Green Bay. 0:15:32.600 --> 0:15:35.720 So that's nice. Uh, full circle moment for both of us. 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:39.240 Is there some philosophically or stramatics do you guys particularly 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:41.200 clip with do you do you see the game the 0:15:41.240 --> 0:15:43.000 same way? Do you attack it the same way? 0:15:43.400 --> 0:15:43.600 Yeah? 0:15:43.600 --> 0:15:46.680 The West Coast offense, which is basically gone in the 0:15:46.760 --> 0:15:48.440 NFL other than what Mike's doing. 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:51.120 Aaron, how do you do How do you view the 0:15:51.160 --> 0:15:53.640 significance of that trip you guys took out West and 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:55.920 Dking was talking about the camaraderie. 0:15:56.520 --> 0:15:59.680 What do you think comes out of that? How do 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:00.880 you impacts you guys? 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:05.080 There's a crew I think a lot A lot is 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:08.440 made about those trips. I think probably overblown at times. 0:16:08.480 --> 0:16:12.240 The most important chemistry is as the season gets going, 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:15.080 for sure. But you know, the thing I will say 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:18.760 is that you spend six months with guys every single day, 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:21.560 then you go on a trip for four days, and 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:23.880 you after the trip you felt like, man, I didn't 0:16:23.880 --> 0:16:26.320 even know these guys before these these four days. So 0:16:26.760 --> 0:16:29.760 it was good bonding around the campfire, good you know, 0:16:29.800 --> 0:16:32.600 activities out we were at and got out on the 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:34.840 on the river and fished and did some things and 0:16:34.960 --> 0:16:37.120 rode some horses and had a good time. 0:16:38.080 --> 0:16:38.400 Already. 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:41.480 To say is that a golpius is to increase his 0:16:41.600 --> 0:16:44.120 communication with me during the course of the week and 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:47.200 your connectivity. So what you talked about during the week 0:16:47.440 --> 0:16:51.280 manifests on Sunday once the ball was snapped. What more 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:53.440 do you think you can get out of DK this year? 0:16:53.480 --> 0:16:55.760 And how can that relationships grow? 0:16:55.840 --> 0:16:57.720 What's the game against? Oh? 0:16:57.760 --> 0:16:58.120 I don't know. 0:16:58.120 --> 0:17:00.520 I mean this this is what this training campus four. 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:03.280 I think we had a nice, nice start in the 0:17:03.320 --> 0:17:05.240 OTAs I thought he was super productive. 0:17:06.480 --> 0:17:07.080 He's uh. 0:17:08.000 --> 0:17:10.240 He actually a greeted me last night at the dorms. 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:13.239 He's my roommate again, which I was excited about. He 0:17:13.240 --> 0:17:16.560 helped me unload my stuff. I'd say we're in a 0:17:16.600 --> 0:17:20.520 real good place as far as our friendship. He looks incredible, 0:17:20.560 --> 0:17:24.040 he said. He's about his normal weight, but he's lower 0:17:24.080 --> 0:17:27.560 body fat percentage. You know, DK is a rare specimen. 0:17:28.600 --> 0:17:31.080 I think he likes the offense, likes the opportunities that 0:17:31.119 --> 0:17:34.840 he saw in the OTAs, and just about finding a 0:17:34.840 --> 0:17:37.679 way to get on the same page and in this 0:17:37.760 --> 0:17:40.080 second year together in training camp as we were going 0:17:40.160 --> 0:17:43.280 and you know, not put any crazy expectations on what 0:17:43.440 --> 0:17:45.639 asked to look like at certain times. The most important thing, 0:17:45.680 --> 0:17:47.360 like you said, is the communication. And I think it's 0:17:47.359 --> 0:17:47.920 been really good. 0:17:48.040 --> 0:17:48.440 Last year. 0:17:48.440 --> 0:17:51.000 You didn't really take many city practices off. 0:17:51.200 --> 0:17:53.719 A lot of bettering quarterbacks come through that necessarily did 0:17:53.760 --> 0:17:55.520 that important to you, and you expected this year to 0:17:55.520 --> 0:17:57.760 be any different. You start to pay more and be 0:17:57.800 --> 0:17:58.160 out there. 0:17:58.440 --> 0:18:00.840 I'd like a couple of days off, already told I 0:18:00.840 --> 0:18:06.639 already told the boss that, But you know, some of 0:18:06.680 --> 0:18:08.520 the things working against me, as he was with me 0:18:08.600 --> 0:18:10.640 forever and he knows how much I love the practice, 0:18:11.400 --> 0:18:15.280 which I do, so I think it's a little push 0:18:15.320 --> 0:18:15.640 and pool. 0:18:15.680 --> 0:18:17.479 I'm not sure what the final decision was. 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:20.119 Actually, Mike t had some days slotted for me to 0:18:20.160 --> 0:18:22.879 be off, and then we had some rain out practices, 0:18:22.960 --> 0:18:26.159 so he kunt of those gym you know walkthroughs is 0:18:26.200 --> 0:18:29.880 my days off, So I would like a couple, that'd 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:30.320 be nice. 0:18:30.800 --> 0:18:32.720 Mike McCarthy's talked to us a couple of times about 0:18:33.280 --> 0:18:33.960 QB school. 0:18:34.920 --> 0:18:37.359 Just what do you remember as a young quarterback about 0:18:37.400 --> 0:18:38.160 going through. 0:18:37.960 --> 0:18:39.640 That and what some of the benefits kind of muld 0:18:39.680 --> 0:18:42.280 have done. Yeah, there's a lot of benefits. 0:18:42.280 --> 0:18:42.439 You know. 0:18:42.480 --> 0:18:44.520 I did it with Tom Arth my first time. Now 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:46.960 he's my coach. Tom. 0:18:47.000 --> 0:18:50.440 I've said this before, the prettiest heel toe drop I've 0:18:50.440 --> 0:18:53.600 ever seen. I still like to remind him of that. 0:18:53.680 --> 0:18:56.320 How he used to just make me look look bad 0:18:56.359 --> 0:18:58.399 every single day. And you know, it was a crazy 0:18:58.400 --> 0:19:00.040 workout back then, just the two of us do and 0:19:00.160 --> 0:19:05.040 forty five minutes NonStop. So one it got us in shape. Two, 0:19:05.240 --> 0:19:07.320