WEBVTT - A Conversation with RB Michael Carter During Jets OTAs (5/31) 0:00:04.800 --> 0:00:07.480 We're presented by win Batt. Betty is a team sport 0:00:07.560 --> 0:00:11.400 beat together at win Bat. Eric Allen here inside the studio, 0:00:11.640 --> 0:00:15.360 joined by Jets running back Michael Carter. How does it 0:00:15.400 --> 0:00:18.480 feel to be a veteran now? Man? You let them 0:00:18.480 --> 0:00:20.960 tell it him, not yet, but I feel like, you know, 0:00:21.200 --> 0:00:23.720 I feel good about it. Yeah, it's been cool too 0:00:24.200 --> 0:00:27.840 not have to go to rookie meetings? Yeah. What was 0:00:27.960 --> 0:00:33.320 the difference in terms of preparing for last year's spring 0:00:33.440 --> 0:00:35.960 as opposed to this year's I think, I think, to 0:00:36.000 --> 0:00:39.120 be honest, I have more time to prepare, which is 0:00:39.159 --> 0:00:41.680 great because then it's allowed me to take my game 0:00:41.720 --> 0:00:44.040 to the next level. Um, that's what we're all trying 0:00:44.080 --> 0:00:48.520 to do, right, So, um, no, disrespected the rookie program. 0:00:48.560 --> 0:00:50.440 But man, you get home, you don't want to do 0:00:50.479 --> 0:00:54.000 anything of it, but you have to. So that's just 0:00:54.040 --> 0:00:55.960 what it is. And so now I get to be 0:00:56.000 --> 0:00:58.840 able to I planned my day at the way I 0:00:58.880 --> 0:01:01.920 wanted to, and so, um, I feel like that's only 0:01:01.960 --> 0:01:04.440 gonna make my game better. What did you learn about 0:01:04.440 --> 0:01:08.560 being professional last year? Yeah? Do one thing. One thing 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:13.240 I learned about last year's is is it's a consistency 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:16.280 league and you can't just have one good game. You 0:01:16.360 --> 0:01:20.240 gotta do it every weekend and every day, not even 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:21.800 just on the weekends, Like you gotta do it every 0:01:21.840 --> 0:01:23.880 single day. Like I look up to a guy on 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:26.319 his team and I probably don't tell Endop, but but C. J. 0:01:26.440 --> 0:01:29.280 Mosey and and I look at him, and I look 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:33.400 at George pant As as too real like o gs, 0:01:33.440 --> 0:01:35.160 Like those are guys who have played in this league 0:01:35.160 --> 0:01:39.720 and and they just they do every single thing the 0:01:39.800 --> 0:01:43.240 right way, and so like I really appreciate them and 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:46.119 the way that their professionalism and you know it runs 0:01:46.200 --> 0:01:47.800 up on me and you ask people around the building. 0:01:47.800 --> 0:01:51.760 You know I'm professional and what I did too. But um, um, 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:55.480 I think my parents for the way they raised me. Um, 0:01:55.600 --> 0:01:57.360 I think the high school I went to. You know, 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:01.560 those experiences in high school or nothing short of important, 0:02:01.840 --> 0:02:05.320 and um you don't see as well just molding me 0:02:05.360 --> 0:02:08.840 to a grown man and then here just having someone 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:11.280 to show me the ropes of dis league. So that's 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:13.600 been it's been really cool. Along with Temco. I can't 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:17.160 believe I left him out. Hey, you got him in there. 0:02:19.120 --> 0:02:23.480 It's interesting you chose an offensive linement and inside linebacker. Yeah, yeah, 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:27.120 you're saying, and you know it doesn't a lot of 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:28.600 I guess, like a lot of teams that you see, 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:31.760 like you know, guys stare underside of the ball, but 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:35.560 not this team. Man. I really feel like last year 0:02:35.840 --> 0:02:38.720 it was we were all friends and we was all 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:41.480 locked in and stuff. But just being back here has 0:02:41.520 --> 0:02:44.320 just been the best thing. I feel like for me. 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:46.800 You're not even from a training standpoint, because you know, 0:02:47.320 --> 0:02:49.680 training it is what it is, Training is gonna be training, 0:02:49.720 --> 0:02:53.680 but being around guys that you really love and one 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:57.240 to fight for it's been super cool. Getting back to 0:02:57.280 --> 0:02:59.880 your family. Do you think it takes a village to 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:03.240 raise someone You just talked about your parents. We know 0:03:03.400 --> 0:03:07.240 your brothers played as well, right, I do feel like that, 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:09.679 And I'm still thinking from my village that I had 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:12.200 and just growing up and being able to give him 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:14.560 nothing without them, And I tell them as as many 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:17.799 as much as I can. My problem is communication. Well, 0:03:17.840 --> 0:03:19.400 I don't really like picking my phone up like that. 0:03:20.000 --> 0:03:23.720 I don't really call them texting, so I send voice memos. 0:03:24.680 --> 0:03:26.000 I can just say what I want to say and 0:03:26.000 --> 0:03:29.280 then that's it. That's interesting. I'll text. I'm not like 0:03:29.320 --> 0:03:32.400 an old man but right, you know, but you're not 0:03:32.480 --> 0:03:35.360 much of a phone call guy. No, I mean it 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:37.720 would be like more like a FaceTime like hey, all right, 0:03:37.760 --> 0:03:40.320 what's the playing? All right? Bye? Right, But if I 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:41.680 haven't talked to you in a while, I'll be like, 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:45.200 you know, send a voicemail, send a voice mail, yo, 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:47.440 what's up? Man? Like to think about you, love you, 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:50.440 praying for you, stuff like that, just so they can 0:03:50.480 --> 0:03:53.240 hear it. They get hear my voice too, that's cool. Yeah, 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:57.120 what do you take from your parents so much? And 0:03:57.920 --> 0:03:59.480 I know I'm never gonna be able to pay back, 0:03:59.560 --> 0:04:02.880 even if I get a one billion dollar contract, I 0:04:03.160 --> 0:04:06.000 can never pay it back, just because the all the 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:10.520 all the foundation that they said for me and just 0:04:10.600 --> 0:04:13.680 being able to have a found there wasn't super strict 0:04:13.760 --> 0:04:16.520 on and they allowed me to make decisions on my own. 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:20.120 They had they had rules, like some rules like but 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:22.200 it was all about respect. That was all about respect. 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:25.640 So they put that, you know, they didn't stood that 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:26.919 in there me and then the rest was up to 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:29.719 me because you know, when you leave front college, they're 0:04:29.720 --> 0:04:32.160 out there. But that shouldn't be your first time you're 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:34.640 making decisions like y'all. And they allowed me to like 0:04:34.839 --> 0:04:38.400 really just floction be myself. Where were you in the 0:04:38.640 --> 0:04:41.599 ranking orders for as old as youngest, I'm in the middle, 0:04:41.839 --> 0:04:47.280 so I'm I'm one of three and then um, I've 0:04:47.279 --> 0:04:52.240 assisted that's like well young missus like elevel. But my 0:04:52.240 --> 0:04:55.800 older brother is twenty because I just turned twenty three 0:04:56.160 --> 0:04:58.920 and my younger brothers twenty two this year, so I'm 0:04:58.920 --> 0:05:03.919 in the middle. I don't. Yeah, now, your parents, what 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:06.160 did they do? Did somebody stay home or they both 0:05:06.320 --> 0:05:08.480 were so so it was it was in the military. 0:05:09.520 --> 0:05:13.560 So actually my dad and my mom separated. I don't 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:15.800 know what year, but I was probably like six or seven, 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:21.080 but I remember that they still live close to each other, 0:05:21.160 --> 0:05:22.920 so it was like almost like nothing to really happen, 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:25.200 but they just didn't want to stay in the same 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:29.840 room or something. But uh, they did, like they literally 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:32.479 did so much for me, and like they taught me 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:37.039 so much about respect and just like discipline and but 0:05:37.120 --> 0:05:39.560 also like enjoying life and being yourself and having fun, 0:05:39.800 --> 0:05:43.320 laughing family. And it's amazing because you know, you hear 0:05:43.400 --> 0:05:46.120 like military and you're thinking, like, oh my gosh, she 0:05:46.160 --> 0:05:49.159 grew up like gee I Joe and I grew up 0:05:49.200 --> 0:05:52.040 a completely opposite of that that my parents, like especially 0:05:52.080 --> 0:05:54.920 my dad. My dad was like, look, yeah, I go 0:05:55.000 --> 0:05:58.520 into the military, y'all. You know, military can be an 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:01.240 option for you. But you know you guys love football, 0:06:01.720 --> 0:06:04.160 so why don't you just do what you love? And 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:08.880 so now I'm in the NFL with your downtime. Are 0:06:08.920 --> 0:06:11.240 you kind of a guy who you just mentioned that 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:15.520 you don't pick up the phone to call. It's more, hey, 0:06:15.640 --> 0:06:18.320 what's going on? What are we gonna do? Are you 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:20.920 kind of person who's always got to be on the move, 0:06:21.200 --> 0:06:24.159 because I know, for me, I gotta have a schedule 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:26.120 the next day. I gotta know what I'm gonna do. 0:06:26.160 --> 0:06:29.600 You know what's funny is like most days them all 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:33.440 by myself, and I like it that way. But also 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:35.719 I am social, Like I am social, so like I 0:06:35.760 --> 0:06:39.880 need that, but I find myself sometimes like feeling drained 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:45.479 if I'm around people for so long. Um, yeah, I 0:06:45.560 --> 0:06:48.200 just I gotta have my my alone time. It's like 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:52.080 super important for me, like I gotta have so um 0:06:52.160 --> 0:06:54.400 but also like I just love being around good people, 0:06:54.520 --> 0:06:57.920 good energy, and it just charges me back up too. 0:06:57.960 --> 0:07:01.200 So it's complex, some weird, but it's all right. You 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:04.600 ain't weird. You might be complex, Yeah, no doubt, and 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:08.360 I think people are complex there. Um I'm also I'm 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:12.440 not that I'm not that complex. I'm just just be chilling. Yeah. Well, 0:07:12.720 --> 0:07:16.360 speaking of the chilling, what have you been doing this offseason? 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:20.120 Because you told me before we started taping Hair on 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:23.600 the Pod that you plan on the move quite a bit. Yeah, no, definitely. 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:27.120 Um So, you know, trained down at Bumbarritos in in Miami, 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:31.360 and that's where I was probably to like, what's I 0:07:31.360 --> 0:07:34.120 got up here? And it's so hard because everybody's you know, 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:36.200 this is what you should do for all seasons, should 0:07:36.200 --> 0:07:40.040 take this amount of time off. Um. So I went 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:44.000 to l A for a Penninia event right after the season, 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:49.120 like the Rookie Premier closing pretty much, and then two 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:50.840 weeks later I went right back for the Super Bowl 0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:54.960 weekend and um, I did like some media there, and 0:07:55.000 --> 0:07:57.000 then I just got back to training, like I was 0:07:57.040 --> 0:08:00.680 already trained before I left for l A. But I 0:08:00.680 --> 0:08:02.080 got to see it. I got to see the country 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:05.000 a little bit. Bay Area. I went out to. Um, 0:08:05.040 --> 0:08:07.960 it's so funny, So I went out to I got 0:08:08.320 --> 0:08:13.560 tattoo shout out to Dave yeah, I was in I 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:15.800 was in rich and kind of a lot of people. 0:08:15.800 --> 0:08:17.960 I don't know if people noticed, but like Elijah very 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:21.920 Turks from is from Oakland, so of course I locked 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:25.520 in with him. When I was out there, it was me, Dave, Elijah, 0:08:25.560 --> 0:08:28.960 and then met Comita Eisler, who used to play with us. Uh. 0:08:30.280 --> 0:08:34.160 We just walked around, walked around San Francisco, try to 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:39.400 end and out. What do you think? Okay, it's all right, 0:08:39.440 --> 0:08:41.240 I mean it's all right. Are you a burger guy? Ye? 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:45.240 But I don't eat him a lot anymore. Um, but 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:50.160 burger guy. Yeah, I'm about to go to five guys 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:52.880 after this. It was my day off. I get the 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:55.160 I get the m thursdays, I get the trick off 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:58.520 a little bit. So what I gotta know about barbecue 0:08:58.520 --> 0:09:01.400 in North Carolina? Oh, they got in my opinion, it's 0:09:01.440 --> 0:09:03.680 just my opinion. They got the base barbecues off. Yeah, 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:07.360 because they got like it's like vinegar basin. So but 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:10.199 I got that from my dad because I'm I grew 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:14.240 up in Florida, but my dad's from South Carolina, so 0:09:14.280 --> 0:09:16.640 he put me on at an early age. So I'm 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:18.720 just I'm blessed to be able to have that experience 0:09:18.760 --> 0:09:21.120 my whole life. What do you order? And if you're 0:09:22.040 --> 0:09:25.800 in one of the Carolinas and you're getting barbecue, I 0:09:26.240 --> 0:09:31.960 uh man, um, I'm I'm not gonna I don't really 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:35.800 like pork. Okay, I think he's kind of nasty actually, um. 0:09:35.840 --> 0:09:39.760 But and I don't really eat me no more, I guess, 0:09:39.840 --> 0:09:44.319 but I really do enjoy brisket like I love brisket. Yeah, yeah, 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:46.840 I don't know, but yeah, I like briscot, so probably 0:09:46.840 --> 0:09:54.439 some brisht ye. Hey, so at the combine, Joe Douglas, 0:09:54.520 --> 0:09:58.000 your GM dropped that young MC reference. Do you like 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:05.560 that nickname? Oh? Hey, I don't know. Yeah, I like it. 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:07.720 I didn't work right. I think I like it because 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:13.480 because of how he said it in the context at said, um, 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:17.600 I appreciate Joe and and you know the way he 0:10:17.640 --> 0:10:21.360 does stuff. But also without being said, I do think 0:10:21.400 --> 0:10:24.480 the nickname needs work. Oh really a little bit alright. 0:10:24.760 --> 0:10:29.959 I'd rather go by the voice. The voice the voice 0:10:30.040 --> 0:10:34.520 you can tell us why, because I feel like I 0:10:34.520 --> 0:10:38.960 know what to say. But like that I can I 0:10:38.960 --> 0:10:42.320 can be the voice for people who are thinking something 0:10:42.920 --> 0:10:45.200 but maybe they don't feel the courage to say it. 0:10:45.840 --> 0:10:48.439 Because one thing about me, I'm gonna beat myself every time. 0:10:49.240 --> 0:10:51.480 So I'm moren't happy to, you know say, with my mind, 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:55.360 there's no doubt about that. I I like the voice. 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:57.760 I do like young MC, but we gotta go with 0:10:57.960 --> 0:11:00.600 what you think. And but also I feel like, also 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:04.000 nicknames can't be just like I can't give myself. I 0:11:04.040 --> 0:11:07.440 have to be given that. But I kind of think 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:10.400 from afar, just to watch in the way you operate, 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:14.160 the respect that you have earned from both your teammates 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:17.800 and also people inside the building, including Joe Douglas, is 0:11:17.840 --> 0:11:21.480 that we gotta listen to the voice. No and I 0:11:21.640 --> 0:11:25.840 and I appreciate that. I feel humble by that. Zack 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:30.920 Wilson comes back here this spring had two one pounds. 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:34.240 He ended last season in two eight pounds. Before I 0:11:34.240 --> 0:11:38.360 ask you about Zach, how did you approach the offseason physically? 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:42.560 Because you go through seventeen games. I know you don't 0:11:42.559 --> 0:11:46.720 playing each of them, but you played for in most 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:49.640 of those games over the course of your rookie Scenson, 0:11:49.840 --> 0:11:51.520 what what do you have to do as far as 0:11:51.600 --> 0:11:54.200 your body is concerned, Man, I feel like it's so 0:11:54.559 --> 0:11:56.200 I feel like there's a lot different of a of 0:11:56.240 --> 0:12:02.520 a game than college with colleges. Colleges, but physical, so physical, 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:05.280 because you got guys that are really never ever gonna 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:08.840 play again. And that's just what it is. And I 0:12:08.840 --> 0:12:13.800 feel like in the NFL, and I talked to my 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:17.000 friend Javanta Williams about this something, I just feel like 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:20.280 some guys are like, you know, it's a different league. 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:22.120 I don't say I don't want to single anybody else, 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:24.840 but it's just a different league in terms of um, 0:12:24.880 --> 0:12:28.160 it's a very technical technique basically, well like if your 0:12:28.160 --> 0:12:30.240 techniques on a point, then it's a game of interest 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:33.240 even more than ever before. So your technique has to 0:12:33.240 --> 0:12:36.240 be on point as opposed, you can't just run full 0:12:36.280 --> 0:12:38.320 speed and try to take somebody's head off as a 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:42.959 as a linebacker because guys like me running backs and 0:12:43.960 --> 0:12:47.719 receivers and tight end, you know, we're training to make 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:50.680 everybody missing, you know, get skinny, not just trying to 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:54.480 boom like brute force running everybody over. We don't get 0:12:54.480 --> 0:12:56.480 paid to run people over. We get paid the score touchdown. 0:12:57.200 --> 0:12:59.880 So it's a game of it's a game of technique 0:12:59.880 --> 0:13:03.679 and on jevy in hell, so um, obviously you know 0:13:03.760 --> 0:13:05.920 all of us play hard, but I think it is 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:08.680 different from that perspective and it creates a different a 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:11.360 different field. 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I 0:14:13.800 --> 0:14:17.560 always felt like I'm just better than everybody else. But 0:14:18.679 --> 0:14:22.120 that's my mindset, not necessarily that it's always true, but 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:24.520 that's my mindset going into it. Like I'm confident who 0:14:24.560 --> 0:14:28.880 I am a company as a player. And we used 0:14:28.920 --> 0:14:30.640 had this joke when I was in cars, like I 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:33.760 had a disease cause you gotta show me, you gotta 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:36.440 show me disorder. But just because it was a joke, 0:14:36.480 --> 0:14:39.120 but like I really feel like that's how, you know, 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:41.680 show me my opponent. And and a lot of guys 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:43.080 in our locker room I like that, like we don't 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:45.600 care who we're playing. I don't even I'm not gonna lie. 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:47.640 Last year I didn't really have to. Probably like week 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:49.480 six or seven, I had to stop looked at the 0:14:49.480 --> 0:14:55.000 schedule because it doesn't matter. All these teams are good. Yeah, 0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:58.960 so show me the person, Noel, and then we'll go 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:01.520 from there. We'll go when the person now you know, 0:15:01.680 --> 0:15:03.560 like you know, tendencies and it will go for there 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:06.240 just because at the end of the day, no aboutter 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:09.040 who you play, I gotta do my job. So I 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:13.280 think that's that's a that's another thing I learned last 0:15:13.360 --> 0:15:18.080 year body wise, So yeah, body, um gotta take care 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:20.760 of Like I'm talking like immediately, But what did you 0:15:20.800 --> 0:15:23.760 do this off season that might have been different? Oh yeah, 0:15:24.120 --> 0:15:27.480 I think it's like Zach came back to one. I 0:15:27.520 --> 0:15:31.360 think for me, it's, um, it's one thing to gain 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:34.360 weight because I can. I can. It's kind of hard 0:15:34.360 --> 0:15:36.600 for me to gain weight a little bit, but I 0:15:37.000 --> 0:15:39.760 can do it. It's very doable. It's just something I 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:42.440 had to let put my mind to doing. When I 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:44.320 got here last year, I think I was like two 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:49.320 o two two one, and then I would drop in 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:52.680 like my weight fluctuation so easy. And so I think 0:15:52.720 --> 0:15:54.240 also like a part of that as one getting older, 0:15:54.320 --> 0:15:56.880 like I'm able to put some more good weight on. 0:15:57.920 --> 0:16:02.560 So I'm probably like I'm probably around two or three 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:05.720 right now, but like a sturdy two or three were 0:16:05.760 --> 0:16:07.600 like I'm not. My weight is not dropping every day 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:11.120 like some days like my weight would be like to 0:16:11.880 --> 0:16:15.000 oh two to a one and one day, I'll be 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:17.800 like one on like a Wednesday, and then I had 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:20.640 to get back up by Sunday. And I could do 0:16:20.680 --> 0:16:22.080 it and it's no problem. But I was so used 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:24.120 to doing it, but now it's like my I don't 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:26.120 even I step on a scot, I know it, I'm 0:16:26.120 --> 0:16:29.840 going away. It's arranged from like probably two or two 0:16:30.080 --> 0:16:32.400 or two and one or two or three. I wanna 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:33.920 I'm gonna try to get it like two or five. 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:36.560 But to be honest, it's a speed league, so I 0:16:36.600 --> 0:16:38.560 feel like the best way to stay healthy is not wait, 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:43.680 it's pad level, yeah, and mobility. So I know some 0:16:43.720 --> 0:16:45.360 guys in the league, like and I'm friends with a 0:16:45.400 --> 0:16:48.360 couple or you know, top running backs in their game. 0:16:49.240 --> 0:16:51.040 You know they don't play at what you see on 0:16:51.080 --> 0:16:56.520 the end ofnet, not even close a lot less. Now 0:16:57.400 --> 0:17:02.760 would you say pad level because people hear that at 0:17:02.760 --> 0:17:08.480 home sometimes and I don't necessarily think we pay as 0:17:08.600 --> 0:17:12.159 much importance to that as we probably should. Is it 0:17:12.200 --> 0:17:15.560 always been natural to you because everybody talks about your 0:17:15.560 --> 0:17:18.240 pad level? Is that something you had going back to 0:17:18.280 --> 0:17:20.439 pee Wee high school? Yeah? If I'm being honest, I 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:22.560 think it was more like my contact balance than anything 0:17:23.080 --> 0:17:25.800 that that I've I've been good at. But I'm also 0:17:25.920 --> 0:17:32.720 like probably like I have a little sen of gravity 0:17:32.880 --> 0:17:37.120 I'll put over um. But last year I'm not. I'm 0:17:37.119 --> 0:17:39.440 watching the table. I kinda I was kind of running 0:17:39.480 --> 0:17:42.960 too high to be honest. Yeah, like I feel like 0:17:43.080 --> 0:17:46.080 just assessing my game and how and how much better 0:17:46.240 --> 0:17:49.600 I can get. UM. Yeah, I think I ran a 0:17:49.640 --> 0:17:52.320 little bit too high, But I have such good contact 0:17:52.320 --> 0:17:56.120 balance that it builds me out a lot. I get 0:17:56.119 --> 0:17:58.040 here or that I'll get grabbed by the by the 0:17:58.160 --> 0:18:00.879 jersey and I get just like and kept and not 0:18:00.960 --> 0:18:05.080 even missing step. But I just want to be able 0:18:05.080 --> 0:18:09.600 to put that along with lower pad level and and 0:18:09.600 --> 0:18:11.760 and just see where how it goes. I see where 0:18:11.800 --> 0:18:15.640 I go. You talk about contact bounce. Do you get 0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:18.879 mad when the first guy takes you down because it 0:18:18.920 --> 0:18:22.080 doesn't happen very often? Yeah, I guess super pist like 0:18:25.640 --> 0:18:28.280 words you don't want to be around in the film 0:18:28.400 --> 0:18:30.280 room when you see that happen. I guess so mad, 0:18:30.359 --> 0:18:33.159 And it's like it's a it's super embarrassing for me. 0:18:33.359 --> 0:18:37.880 I guess super embarrassed. But it's because I've always I've 0:18:37.920 --> 0:18:41.040 always been taught that from when I was a kid, 0:18:41.080 --> 0:18:44.480 like really small. My dad's like, all right, like before again, 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:48.199 he'll be like, ladisan have a good game. Don't let 0:18:48.240 --> 0:18:51.040 the first man attack every Saturday. He used to say that, 0:18:51.840 --> 0:18:54.359 but all right, probably and that was just the case. 0:18:54.640 --> 0:18:58.399 It was never that. So when somebody so I actually order, like, 0:18:58.480 --> 0:19:00.960 you know, you play a game, the game how but 0:19:01.000 --> 0:19:04.200 when it does happen, I'm like, man, you go back 0:19:04.200 --> 0:19:06.320 and watch like any clip. I had a clip. I 0:19:06.320 --> 0:19:09.240 could probably think of like three right now. When we 0:19:09.400 --> 0:19:13.159 was playing the Titans on second play again, we had 0:19:13.160 --> 0:19:16.520 like a pitch to the left and I get crushed. 0:19:16.960 --> 0:19:21.120 I think, um, Jayon Brown, Okay, what's the last name, 0:19:21.200 --> 0:19:24.960 John Jayn Smith something like that. Here's a good player, 0:19:24.960 --> 0:19:27.160 though I get crushed by him, and I don't go down. 0:19:27.200 --> 0:19:30.120 I don't go down. I stay up by my feet. 0:19:30.160 --> 0:19:31.760 That's like the contract I was we were talking about. 0:19:32.040 --> 0:19:34.720 I break the tackle completely. I'm about to bounce out 0:19:34.720 --> 0:19:36.560 and take you down the sidline for a first down. 0:19:37.200 --> 0:19:42.760 And he likes swashing in the ankle and right and 0:19:42.800 --> 0:19:47.159 then uh so the bucks. I wish I could had 0:19:47.160 --> 0:19:50.639 that one back, but my ankle was killing me. That 0:19:50.640 --> 0:19:54.600 a game to be honest, but he's slipped me Antoine Winfield, 0:19:54.600 --> 0:19:57.200 I try have an antoine in Florida. He slashed me 0:19:57.240 --> 0:19:58.800 in the ankle. Then I go down with the ten 0:19:58.880 --> 0:20:00.919 yard line you know. Of course I'm such a nice guy. 0:20:00.920 --> 0:20:06.439 I get a touchdown to Braxton. But um, yeah, it's 0:20:06.440 --> 0:20:08.240 a couple of man I just really think about like 0:20:09.400 --> 0:20:13.119 that keeps me up at night, does it really? Yeah? 0:20:13.400 --> 0:20:16.760 Stuff like that, which just because I love it and 0:20:16.800 --> 0:20:20.560 I want to win. Yeah, your love for the game 0:20:20.640 --> 0:20:24.480 is real. Yeah, seriously, I was in like even like 0:20:24.520 --> 0:20:27.520 today I was. I didn't really tone of probably like 0:20:27.840 --> 0:20:31.360 wasn't the best mood is more. I woke, come ahead ache, 0:20:31.800 --> 0:20:36.359 but I touched that green grass. Oh my god, allay 0:20:37.040 --> 0:20:39.359 a ready to play. And it's like football brings me 0:20:39.440 --> 0:20:41.560 so much happens. And I also like the people like 0:20:41.880 --> 0:20:43.359 I'm in the locker room with they bring me like 0:20:43.359 --> 0:20:47.119 so much joy too. Just somebody that grass man ashould have. 0:20:48.000 --> 0:20:50.760 How much did you guys collectively grow as a group 0:20:52.359 --> 0:20:57.040 like over the all season? Well, why you experience last 0:20:57.080 --> 0:20:59.840 year together and how that could help you now that 0:20:59.840 --> 0:21:04.040 you seen all these off season additions added to the mix. Yeah, yeah, 0:21:04.520 --> 0:21:06.320 I feel like last season you know, we're kind of 0:21:06.359 --> 0:21:10.200 trauma bonded. Trauma bonded. I like that because nobody likes 0:21:10.200 --> 0:21:13.520 to lose. But I feel like we played so hard 0:21:13.560 --> 0:21:16.440 for each other that I know. I know, because you 0:21:16.440 --> 0:21:18.200 don't know. You're a rookie, you don't really know a lot. 0:21:18.680 --> 0:21:21.000 But I know now that is due to go to 0:21:21.040 --> 0:21:23.320 war for me and I go to war for them, 0:21:23.320 --> 0:21:26.600 and they know that about me. So um, that's that's 0:21:26.640 --> 0:21:30.159 not a question. And we broughtly. I know it's the 0:21:30.240 --> 0:21:32.200 NFL and you can't really bring every single player back, 0:21:32.240 --> 0:21:34.600 but we're brought a good you know, good amount of 0:21:34.720 --> 0:21:37.200 his back. And so you look at a team like 0:21:37.280 --> 0:21:39.760 since that's how they that's how they got to the ball. 0:21:40.320 --> 0:21:42.399 You know, they they brought guys back and let them 0:21:42.400 --> 0:21:46.159 develop and let them you know, flourishing, and what the 0:21:46.359 --> 0:21:47.639