Speaker 1: How was this I guess this campaign for you, Chris.
Speaker 1: You're obviously you've done a lot on special teams and
Speaker 1: at split ends.
Speaker 2: So how have you approached it? I mean we approach
Speaker 2: uh really every day the same, you know, attacking it
Speaker 2: and uh being available and and doing whatever is asked.
Speaker 2: You know, the last couple of years of my career
Speaker 2: have been a lot of things. You know, played a
Speaker 2: lot of roles, and uh, I've prided myself and being
Speaker 2: able to play each of those roles well. And uh,
Speaker 2: you know, I've been asked to do some of those
Speaker 2: things here, whether it's on teams and and on offense
Speaker 2: and uh having that trust uh from coaches and your teammates. Uh,
Speaker 2: it's a good thing. And so we're attacking it the
Speaker 2: same way and trying to be dependable.
Speaker 3: If you're sometimes I asked to do roles that much
Speaker 3: younger players are asked to do special teams, goals and
Speaker 3: stuff like that. How how do you feel about, you know,
Speaker 3: being asked to be a gunner or or who other
Speaker 3: things like that, you know throughout the season.
Speaker 2: Oh, you know, I actually take pride in it now.
Speaker 2: I think that you know, there's a misconception that certain
Speaker 2: things on the football field are more valuable than others.
Speaker 2: And I think that with time and experience, you realize
Speaker 2: that each of those roles are equally important and they
Speaker 2: contribute to your success on Sunday or Monday or Thursday,
Speaker 2: and you know, ultimately getting where your team wants to go.
Speaker 2: And so if I can be one of those roles
Speaker 2: that helps the team, you know, secure a victory, I'm
Speaker 2: content being that I'd rather be in one of those
Speaker 2: spots helping the team win than being helpless on the
Speaker 2: sideliner at home and just watching.
Speaker 1: So you came out of Georgia with all the measurables,
Speaker 1: try forty six inch vert and four to three speed.
Speaker 1: How are you a better player though today than you
Speaker 1: were when you came.
Speaker 4: Into the league.
Speaker 2: I think multiple things. You know, there are so many
Speaker 2: instances in my career where things went incredibly well and
Speaker 2: times where things went incredibly wrong, and so many lessons
Speaker 2: that were learned along the way on good teams, on
Speaker 2: terrible teams, and locker rooms where guys were locked in
Speaker 2: and they wanted to see everyone succeed, in locker rooms
Speaker 2: where people could care less. So I think that that
Speaker 2: wealth of knowledge has made me a better teammate. I
Speaker 2: think that those experiences on the field have made me
Speaker 2: a better player. They made me more decisive. I play
Speaker 2: a lot faster now than when I did when I
Speaker 2: was younger. You know, the body is obviously aged, but
Speaker 2: the mind is much sharper.
Speaker 4: You've seen George Odom's step up in CAPA guy's kind
Speaker 4: of a core special team throughout his career and get
Speaker 4: a shot at strong safety or at safety and with
Speaker 4: the ones and really whole eposite of the bargain it says,
Speaker 4: and you're willing to do whatever it takes, but it's
Speaker 4: still a part of you that says, you put me
Speaker 4: on a wide receiver for X amount of snacks a game,
Speaker 4: you're going to get production from me.
Speaker 2: Of course, I think that any any opportunity that you
Speaker 2: step into, you want to go out there and you
Speaker 2: want to take and you know you make no there's
Speaker 2: no mistake about what the offense is capable of here
Speaker 2: and being a part of that, being asked to be
Speaker 2: a part of that is an honor and it is
Speaker 2: something that you don't take lightly. At least I don't,
Speaker 2: you know, knowing how short and how hard to come by.
Speaker 2: Opportunity is in this league. But yeah, and you know,
Speaker 2: I have all the confidence in the world that whatever
Speaker 2: it is that you asked me to do out there,
Speaker 2: that we can get it done. And then also just
Speaker 2: part of the DNA of what it is being a
Speaker 2: forty nine er, you know, a lot of that has
Speaker 2: resonated with the way that I've approached the game my
Speaker 2: whole career.
Speaker 3: You're one of three or four receivers on this team
Speaker 3: who haven't been injured this summer, a lot of pan
Speaker 3: string strains things like that. Does that surprise you? Is
Speaker 3: that Do you think that that's a result of just
Speaker 3: how hard you guys or how fast you guys go
Speaker 3: in these practices.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that there's a little bit of a
Speaker 2: learning curve for getting your body in the place that
Speaker 2: it can approach practice with the same intensity every single day.
Speaker 2: And that's part of, you know, learning how to be
Speaker 2: a pro as a rookie. There's just a different tempo,
Speaker 2: there's a different speed, the volume is different, the intensity
Speaker 2: is different. So even if you were to pull back
Speaker 2: the reps, you're still going to be getting more here
Speaker 2: than any practice you've ever had in your life. Because
Speaker 2: the competition is just better. It's more intense, there's more
Speaker 2: at stake, there's more eyes, and so all of that
Speaker 2: stress is cumulative on the body. And so some of
Speaker 2: those guys have to learn that what that means and
Speaker 2: learn how to get warm and stay loose and be ready.
Speaker 2: But obviously, you know, you see some of the veteran
Speaker 2: guys who have been through that, they understand what it
Speaker 2: takes and they get ready early. You talk about what
Speaker 2: it means to be a forty nine or what's different
Speaker 2: about the culture here compared to maybe some of your
Speaker 2: other stops.
Speaker 4: In the NFL.
Speaker 2: It's about ball. It's about ball, and it's about it's
Speaker 2: about doing what's necessary to win. You know, the details
Speaker 2: are important here, and I've always been someone who's loved
Speaker 2: when people harp on detail. And Kyle is one of
Speaker 2: the most detailed coaches I've been around. You know, I
Speaker 2: can't I can't really think of many others who are
Speaker 2: that detailed, and that attention to detail, that attention to
Speaker 2: intensity intent is integral to putting that helmet on. And
Speaker 2: he makes no mistake about letting people know, like, hey,
Speaker 2: you have.
Speaker 3: To earn it.
Speaker 2: You earn everything here, and everything is about doing things
Speaker 2: the right way and attacking it. And you know, that's
Speaker 2: something that I believe into.
Speaker 4: Look at the as we did the practice with twenty
Speaker 4: three guys out canceled the Saints' scrimmages and so Okay,
Speaker 4: from the outside, maybe it looks a little dire, but
Speaker 4: the way football is practiced now as opposed to way
Speaker 4: it was maybe you know seven eight years ago, are
Speaker 4: things not nearly as bad as they love for you guys.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think that you obviously want guys to
Speaker 2: be healthy, and uh, you know, there's a lot of
Speaker 2: guys who are working through through plenty of things, some
Speaker 2: that we know about something that we don't. And I
Speaker 2: think that Kyle was being cautious and uh and looking
Speaker 2: out for guys and then also just making an opportunity
Speaker 2: for people to continue to get work. You know, things
Speaker 2: are modified this week, but that doesn't mean that we're
Speaker 2: we're not going out there to get better. The intent
Speaker 2: is still there, uh, and sometimes you just have to
Speaker 2: shift the physicality and really hone in a little bit
Speaker 2: more mentally, and uh, that's what we're that's what we're doing.
Speaker 2: So to us, I don't think that people are panicking,
Speaker 2: you know, if anything, it's it's a time to focus
Speaker 2: in and make things right, because when things don't feel right,
Speaker 2: that's when it's got to be right.
Speaker 1: Appreciated monster hitting the super Bowl and it was you know,
Speaker 1: you take a pride in that part of your game now,
Speaker 1: kickoff coverage and being super physical.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, I think that physicality is something that I've
Speaker 2: always tried to add and have a part of my game.
Speaker 2: But just really being being effective and being someone who
Speaker 2: can be counted on and in open space running down
Speaker 2: the field. Obviously the kickoff and kickoff return is much
Speaker 2: different this year. We're still figuring out how that looks
Speaker 2: and how that we can you know, how we can
Speaker 2: be most effective. But whatever game plan we come up,
Speaker 2: I'm you know, one of the people with my first
Speaker 2: people with my hands up saying hey, I want in there,
Speaker 2: and I want to be at the point of attack,
Speaker 2: you know, because I think that it's something that can
Speaker 2: affect and change games and I want to be a
Speaker 2: part of that.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 3: Thanks us.
Speaker 2: The problem