Speaker 1: The game in the night you were talking about how
Speaker 1: when you had some guys out that it was up
Speaker 1: to you to get people in the right place and
Speaker 1: sort of take charge of the situation. And Devo was
Speaker 1: out and you guys that were missing. Now that they've
Speaker 1: been out for practice all weekend, you've had these guys
Speaker 1: practicing in these spots. Is are you do you expect
Speaker 1: things to go smooth?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I think you know, I've on their part.
Speaker 2: You know, those guys will be ready, you know, just
Speaker 2: with the reps that they've gotten going in with the
Speaker 2: operational stuff and uh yeah, as simple as that, they'll
Speaker 2: they'll be ready. And even if you know, Debo and
Speaker 2: Christian are going and stuff, you know, great for us,
Speaker 2: it'll be awesome. But if they're not, all the other
Speaker 2: guys been preparing great, you know, JP, Ray, Ray, Ronnie Bell,
Speaker 2: those guys. They look great. So we'll be ready to
Speaker 2: roll for whatever comes in week three.
Speaker 1: With the Giants, you saw plenty of ports from that
Speaker 1: to this team.
Speaker 3: Even more so, what what's your kind of impressions of.
Speaker 1: Maybe some of the stuff that they run and the
Speaker 1: way that they.
Speaker 3: Can challenge you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, obviously they love to you know, bring
Speaker 2: the whole house and all the zero looks that they
Speaker 2: got and then being able to bluff out of that
Speaker 2: and stuff.
Speaker 3: So they do a really good job with it.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: You know on film it may look like, oh man,
Speaker 2: there's some space and stuff, but you know, they they
Speaker 2: do a good job with you know, bracketing stuff and
Speaker 2: and you sort of just anticipating what teams are going
Speaker 2: to try to do, and.
Speaker 3: So they're really well coached. They do it well.
Speaker 2: And then I think all the players are really smart
Speaker 2: and they know what they're what they're trying to do
Speaker 2: within the scheme. So for us, it's like, man, we
Speaker 2: gotta be ready for obviously having answers with zero and
Speaker 2: pressure and stuff, but you know, at the same time,
Speaker 2: like we just gotta be smart for myself.
Speaker 3: I gotta be smart with the ball.
Speaker 2: You know. That's what they're trying to do is pressure
Speaker 2: the quarterback, get the quarterback to make you know, some
Speaker 2: mistakes and stuff. So and they've done that within you know,
Speaker 2: the games that they've played, and they've done that to
Speaker 2: a lot of the quarterbacks, getting them to you know,
Speaker 2: some strip sacks and a lot kinds of stuff.
Speaker 3: So it's a good challenge for Miami. You talk from
Speaker 3: Miami last year, similar.
Speaker 2: Miami, Yeah, yeah, similar scheme for sure. It's slightly different,
Speaker 2: but you know comes from you know the floor as
Speaker 2: you know, thought process and stuff, and so we just
Speaker 2: last year going into that game, it's all right, gotta
Speaker 2: be ready for zero, but you know, they probably won't
Speaker 2: do it as much. And then once I got thrown in,
Speaker 2: they did it a lot. So I think it was
Speaker 2: a good experience for myself and then for all the
Speaker 2: other guys to be ready for those kinds of looks
Speaker 2: and looking for the ball quick and getting the ball
Speaker 2: out of my hands. But at the same time, you know,
Speaker 2: I could this is all a different game, you know,
Speaker 2: different players and stuff that we're going against. And like
Speaker 2: I said, these players like they they know the system
Speaker 2: and they'd look comfortable in it, and so they're smart
Speaker 2: and so not the same Miami wasn't Miami was, but
Speaker 2: it's a little different, just different players.
Speaker 1: Like for you, as far as how much that lost lingers,
Speaker 1: how much you just turn the page and move forward
Speaker 1: and and just your whatever excitement level as far as
Speaker 1: just getting.
Speaker 2: Back out there, yeah, I mean, yeah, it sucks initially
Speaker 2: for the first couple of days, especially when we had
Speaker 2: an extra day off, It's like, you feel the guys
Speaker 2: in the locker room wanted to go and practice and
Speaker 2: get ready to move on. And so our first day,
Speaker 2: first day of practice yesterday, guys were moving. It's like, man,
Speaker 2: it feels good. Let's go, let's move on, get ready
Speaker 2: for this next game. So it felt good in that regard.
Speaker 2: It's not like college, where you know you lose a game,
Speaker 2: and you know every game in college is so huge
Speaker 2: and crucial, and it is in the NFL, but like
Speaker 2: one game can determine, you know, your season in college.
Speaker 2: It feels like with this it's like, all right, we lost,
Speaker 2: but man, we have a lot to look forward to.
Speaker 3: We got to move on quickly. You know.
Speaker 2: We got a good team ahead of us. So spirit's
Speaker 2: been good and we just got to keep it going.
Speaker 3: Comes to you processing pretty and post staff.
Speaker 1: What's the different challenge between facing zone coverage.
Speaker 3: And man and man coverage.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd say, you know a man and man coverage.
Speaker 2: As a quarterback, I think it's a little nicer just
Speaker 2: because you know where your answers are supposed to be.
Speaker 2: Zone coverage, it could be a little bit, you know,
Speaker 2: more of a tricky you know, just area just because
Speaker 2: you got a progression, you know, you got to move
Speaker 2: on from guys, and guys could be dropping underneath guys. Man,
Speaker 2: it's like, all right, you know, one guy's covering this
Speaker 2: guy and I have a chance when he breaks and
Speaker 2: knowing that no one is gonna undercut it or whatever.
Speaker 2: So that's the biggest difference. But you know, like this
Speaker 2: team is is good because you know they'll show a
Speaker 2: whole everyone coming and then they bluff out and it's like, man,
Speaker 2: I gotta know what side of the field they have to
Speaker 2: be on and and be right. Whereas any other game
Speaker 2: it's almost like, you know, you go through a whole progression.
Speaker 2: This game, it's like you gotta be on the right side,
Speaker 2: you know. So that's where we're at with it.
Speaker 1: More do they play more zone than you would expect
Speaker 1: for a team that's as.
Speaker 4: Much as they do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like, you know, their base defense for sure,
Speaker 2: But man, do they love you know, playing in that
Speaker 2: realm of bringing pressure and then hoping, you know, we
Speaker 2: get the quarterback or get guys to mess up and
Speaker 2: then you know, uh, force the ball to be turned over.
Speaker 2: So I feel like that's more of what they like
Speaker 2: to do. But at the same time, it doesn't we
Speaker 2: can't just go into a game saying they're going to
Speaker 2: do this, this or that. You know, they've had a
Speaker 2: week to prepare and switch things up, so you never know.
Speaker 4: So I'm sure.
Speaker 1: You guys went to Kittle a lot and you had
Speaker 1: a lot of success going to Kittle. This year he
Speaker 1: hasn't gotten as much action. Is it more product of
Speaker 1: what defenses are doing or the array of weapons that
Speaker 1: you guys have to choose from. Is there a reason
Speaker 1: that George is not as involved in.
Speaker 2: Your mind, man, I think you know, just the scheme
Speaker 2: of things, you know, that's sort of just how we've
Speaker 2: drawn things up.
Speaker 3: That's how really the games have gone.
Speaker 2: Where you know, other guys have popped open and stuff,
Speaker 2: and George's had helped out, you know, with protection, and
Speaker 2: you know, he's done such a good job of doing
Speaker 2: that role, you know, being in protection and checking out
Speaker 2: on the flat and stuff like that. And then when
Speaker 2: his opportunities come we take advantage of it. But man,
Speaker 2: that's just sort of just how how it's gone so far.
Speaker 2: We still have a whole you know, basically, second half
Speaker 2: of the season coming up, where it's like, man, George
Speaker 2: can definitely get involved.
Speaker 3: He can get involved at any one in the game.
Speaker 2: So that's just sort of how it's gone. It's not
Speaker 2: like we go into the game going, Georgie, You're not
Speaker 2: gonna get the ball. It's gonna be this, this and
Speaker 2: this guy. It's just you know how it's gone.
Speaker 3: You know. But obviously he's a threat.
Speaker 2: Everyone does like to scheme him up and try to
Speaker 2: stop George as best as possible.
Speaker 3: But that's how it's been.
Speaker 1: Years since he traded for Christian McCaffrey.
Speaker 5: Today, in what ways has he changed the team dynamic?
Speaker 3: Made you feel even more confidence, especially for your quarterback.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been huge for us, you know, just having
Speaker 2: like a running back that can go out of the
Speaker 2: backfield and do all the things that a receiver can do.
Speaker 2: Run routes from the backfield, line up as a receiver
Speaker 2: and slot and do stuff on the outside. You know,
Speaker 2: he's he's a Swiss Army knife man. He does everything
Speaker 2: for us that we ask and he does it really
Speaker 2: well and he's smart. So obviously it's it's really nice
Speaker 2: to have him since we got him and stuff being
Speaker 2: able to you know, start to utilize the back out
Speaker 2: of the backfield and things like that. It's just another
Speaker 2: guy that the defense has to account for in the
Speaker 2: past game, so that's huge. And then obviously when he
Speaker 2: runs the ball and his toughness and everything, it's on
Speaker 2: another level.
Speaker 3: So very thankful to have him.
Speaker 5: When you went to Minnesota last year for the joint practices,
Speaker 5: proc come a long way since then, So what was
Speaker 5: your mindset going in there to prove to the coaches
Speaker 5: that you deserved a roster spot just to start with.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it was, you know, still more of a
Speaker 2: camp mindset. You know, yes, we're competing against the Vikings
Speaker 2: and all that, but man, I was just trying to
Speaker 2: do the little things right, make the right decisions, be consistent,
Speaker 2: you know, trying to earn the coaches and my and
Speaker 2: my teammates trusts.
Speaker 3: That's where I was at with that, you know.
Speaker 2: It was it was a good experience to go out
Speaker 2: there and play against some really good players on the Vikings.
Speaker 2: But you know, a year now later, it's like, all right,
Speaker 2: this is the regular season. This is a real football game,
Speaker 2: not just practices and whatnot. So you know that they
Speaker 2: got some good players I remember, you know, going against
Speaker 2: a couple of them in practice and whatnot. But this
Speaker 2: is different. So I think I'm at another point and
Speaker 2: obviously my career being a starter and all that not
Speaker 2: camp mode kind of mindset.
Speaker 3: So that's where we're at. We're trying to win.
Speaker 2: Straight.
Speaker 4: But when you before you became a Strugger last year,
Speaker 4: you would be in the offensive meetings and you would
Speaker 4: note like kind of the body language of guys who
Speaker 4: maybe didn't get much action in the previous game, and
Speaker 4: you've noted that no one was acting ticked off or
Speaker 4: that suggests like, hey, why did they get the ball?
Speaker 4: I mean, is it I guess hopefully we've got the
Speaker 4: story straight. But if so, was that just something you
Speaker 4: did naturally? Was it just something you were curious about
Speaker 4: or you talk about?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I was just curious, you know, as
Speaker 2: a rookie, you know, I got all this, all these
Speaker 2: guys in a room with you know, just uh some
Speaker 2: stardom really, you know, George Kittle, Deebo, Samuel Brandon Nyuk
Speaker 2: and just you know, you go into a game and
Speaker 2: it's almost like, all right, George got you know a
Speaker 2: lot of receptions and touchdowns this game you know, how's
Speaker 2: DEBO gonna act or how's b A gonna act. So
Speaker 2: I would just sort of be like, this is crazy,
Speaker 2: you know, it's fascinating to me. So I sort of
Speaker 2: just looked at looked at guys, saw their body language,
Speaker 2: how they come into meetings, how they leave, and and
Speaker 2: how they were acting at practice and all kind of stuff.
Speaker 2: But like I said before, this team's on a on
Speaker 2: a mission. Man, they don't you know, Ba gets so
Speaker 2: happy when Deba is a great game. Deeba's such a
Speaker 2: great energy and attitude and Die goes crazy, and same
Speaker 2: with George and all the other guys and Christians. So like, man,
Speaker 2: it's a special group. Obviously we're trying to do the
Speaker 2: whole thing and you know, not just try to you know,
Speaker 2: rack up fantasy points anything like that. Like guys are
Speaker 2: wanting the best for other guys and win, So that's
Speaker 2: what all we care about. So they