Speaker 1: Chemistry developing with pier Song. Do you think he could
Speaker 1: help you guys in.
Speaker 2: The red zone.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's done a really good job obviously being back
Speaker 3: and just bringing the juice, going really fast in and
Speaker 3: out of his cuts and creating some really good separation.
Speaker 3: And so obviously we drafted him in the first round,
Speaker 3: and he's got a lot of potential, man, and so yeah,
Speaker 3: for him to get in and and actually be a
Speaker 3: part of our offense, not just a young guy that's
Speaker 3: trying to learn his way, but actually trying to make
Speaker 3: an impact pretty like early on man for uh, for me,
Speaker 3: I love it, and it's it's another great option and
Speaker 3: another part of our offense. And so I think obviously,
Speaker 3: you know, tomorrow we'll go through our red zone plan
Speaker 3: and stuff. But to answer your question, like, when you
Speaker 3: have a guy like Ricky that can win, you know,
Speaker 3: man and man matchups and then also open up some
Speaker 3: other guys too, that's always a good thing.
Speaker 4: So I'm excited to see what he does.
Speaker 2: A game against Philadelphia that from the outside was being
Speaker 2: perceived as this big revenge game because of the obvious
Speaker 2: what happened in the championship game, but within the building, it
Speaker 2: seemed like you guys were pretty much focused on your
Speaker 2: business and not getting into all that what happened the
Speaker 2: year before. Is this a similar situation to that with
Speaker 2: the Chiefs.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would say so, only because you know, a
Speaker 3: couple of years ago played the Eagles. It was a
Speaker 3: playoff game, NFC Championship, and then whatever happened happened, and
Speaker 3: then boom, you got a whole you got a whole
Speaker 3: new situation. You got to focus on the twenty twenty
Speaker 3: three season. And it's similar deals last year with the
Speaker 3: Super Bowl. That was the Super Bowl. Obviously we wanted
Speaker 3: to win it and everything didn't go our way. But
Speaker 3: now it's twenty twenty four. Man, it's a regular season game.
Speaker 3: It's it's it's the next opponent for us. We have
Speaker 3: some some new guys on our team, some guys that
Speaker 3: have left. I've said this before, but like you know,
Speaker 3: this is the twenty twenty four to forty nine Ers
Speaker 3: going against the twenty twenty four Chiefs, and so for us,
Speaker 3: we're focusing on the next team up. Are we trying
Speaker 3: to go out and get our revenge and get all
Speaker 3: this stuff. That's not our mindset. If it was, I
Speaker 3: think we wouldn't be able to play at our best
Speaker 3: and play at our standard. Our standard is to be
Speaker 3: our best no matter who we're playing right now in
Speaker 3: the present, not looking back in the past, not looking
Speaker 3: too far ahead in the future, but where we're at
Speaker 3: right now.
Speaker 4: So that's our mindset the chief defense.
Speaker 5: But when you look at Patrick Mahomes, do you look
Speaker 5: at him as like an all time great so when
Speaker 5: you're trying to reach or do you look at him
Speaker 5: as a peer and equal?
Speaker 4: I mean, I think you know he is who he is.
Speaker 4: I am who I am.
Speaker 3: All the quarterbacks in the NFL, I guess would say
Speaker 3: the same thing. And so obviously for what he's done
Speaker 3: and obviously the Super Bowls that he's won, and and
Speaker 3: just what he's done in in the NFL with his
Speaker 3: plays and his style of play, it's really fun. It's
Speaker 3: fun to watch, and you know, but do I compare
Speaker 3: myself to him or anything like that?
Speaker 6: Now?
Speaker 3: I don't compare myself to any other quarterbacks in the NFL.
Speaker 3: I am who I am, and I'm trying to win
Speaker 3: for the forty nine ers and play my style of ball.
Speaker 3: But obviously I tip my cap to him, and he's
Speaker 3: he's done a tremendous job. Man, He's he's definitely on
Speaker 3: the way up to being uh, one of the greats
Speaker 3: in the NFL as a quarterback, and that's no secret.
Speaker 3: And so whenever you get a chance to go up
Speaker 3: against a guy like that on the other sideline, it's
Speaker 3: always fun.
Speaker 4: So you're good.
Speaker 2: City Chiefs.
Speaker 1: They're more than like they're going to try to get
Speaker 1: after you, appressure you in this one. How are you
Speaker 1: trying to prepare for that? If you then you can't
Speaker 1: get the details. But the best way to explain your
Speaker 1: plan of a tech knowing that that's coming this time around,
Speaker 1: how's that the preparation for you?
Speaker 2: Is?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, uh, obviously in the Super Bowl last year,
Speaker 3: they made some adjustments of going to more man coverage
Speaker 3: and making us win in those kind of matchups, and so, uh,
Speaker 3: you know, for us, it's like, all right, obviously we've
Speaker 3: got to be ready for that kind of stuff. But
Speaker 3: it's a whole new year, it's a new season, and
Speaker 3: and they're gonna be making their tweaks and adjustments as well.
Speaker 3: So it's not like we're gonna get just that. You know,
Speaker 3: they're gonna come in with their scheme and and try
Speaker 3: to dial some things up against us, and and so
Speaker 3: are we and so for us, it's it's going in.
Speaker 3: It's uh being dialed in every play with with whatever
Speaker 3: the situation is, and playing our standard in our way
Speaker 3: of football. If we could just do our job really well,
Speaker 3: I think everything will fall into place out needs to
Speaker 3: and and we're we're a really good team if we
Speaker 3: can do that. So that's how I'm looking at it.
Speaker 3: I know all the guys in the locker room are
Speaker 3: doing the same thing, and you know, we just gotta
Speaker 3: be ready for all the situations and uh be on
Speaker 3: top of our plays and and our answers within the game.
Speaker 4: You mentioned a.
Speaker 5: Theme of the season as far as you see more
Speaker 5: man coverage, and you just mentioned the Chief doing it
Speaker 5: more in the Super Bowl last year. You get the
Speaker 5: sense of all that maybe teams are kind of trying
Speaker 5: to follow.
Speaker 1: Some sort of I don't even get it much against
Speaker 1: Minnesota and Seattle, but you get the sense that the
Speaker 1: teams are maybe following them or is it maybe just
Speaker 1: more coincident all in the first six games.
Speaker 3: I mean, I think it, you know, depends on the
Speaker 3: team and their scheme and their personnel and if they
Speaker 3: think they can match up against you know, our guys
Speaker 3: and man coverage and stuff or not. And every team
Speaker 3: is different, and so it just comes down to the
Speaker 3: moments how they're coming in and what they're playing of
Speaker 3: attack is from the from the jump and then making adjustments.
Speaker 3: So like that's that's every game and it and that'll
Speaker 3: be the case moving forward with every team that we play.
Speaker 3: So but with that being said, I feel like we
Speaker 3: have seen some more man coverage and stuff, and honestly,
Speaker 3: I think we've done a pretty good job still of
Speaker 3: finding ways to move the ball. Even though we do
Speaker 3: see more man It's not like man coverages are kryptonite
Speaker 3: or anything like that. I still think we got really
Speaker 3: good ballplayers that can create separation and and we find
Speaker 3: ways to win. And so every team is different. I
Speaker 3: can't promise a team is going to run this because
Speaker 3: of what the Chiefs did in the Super Bowl. So
Speaker 3: every game is different.
Speaker 4: You made your.
Speaker 5: Debut against Kansas City Pays a couple of years ago.
Speaker 5: What do you remember about that And do you ever
Speaker 5: when your home relax and just allow your mind to
Speaker 5: go back to.
Speaker 4: That that moment when.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, we sort of joke about it actually,
Speaker 3: just because when I did get thrown into that game,
Speaker 3: you know, it my first real regular season action, and uh,
Speaker 3: I just remember it was pretty fast. The game is
Speaker 3: fast for me. My feet we were moving really fast,
Speaker 3: and you know, I just remember seeing like Frank Clark
Speaker 3: and some of the guys. I'm like, man, these guys
Speaker 3: are still in the game. Like I'm in at the
Speaker 3: end of the game and they're still in and and uh,
Speaker 3: like just my mind was was.
Speaker 4: Going pretty fast.
Speaker 3: So just to see like how I was feeling and
Speaker 3: everything in that moment, from from that like moment a
Speaker 3: couple of years ago all the way till now.
Speaker 4: Uh, it's pretty funny.
Speaker 3: But also like for me, I take pride in like
Speaker 3: learning and the growth and the process of this whole
Speaker 3: thing of playing in the NFL week to week and
Speaker 3: getting better with my fundamentals and being able to actually
Speaker 3: thrive in those kind of situations and and in the
Speaker 3: moments you know, those are that's progress, man, that's that's
Speaker 3: getting better. And so look back on it and and
Speaker 3: uh sort of chuckle about some stuff, but yeah.
Speaker 6: Is pretty distinct in what the Vikings are doing. But
Speaker 6: how much do you think if at all, that sort
Speaker 6: of game where there's a ton thrown at you, it's
Speaker 6: pretty unpredictable. How much do you think that helps in
Speaker 6: terms of preparing for.
Speaker 3: Someone like, yeah, I think I mean, man, it's those
Speaker 3: are two different schemes, that's for sure, but uh, you know,
Speaker 3: just I think it goes back to just like the
Speaker 3: simple mindset of just being on top of your play
Speaker 3: every play, you like in the details and where's my
Speaker 3: answer per coverage and what's going on? You know, the
Speaker 3: Minnesota game is that's such a great experience of going
Speaker 3: through every single play something different can happen, and I
Speaker 3: have to get to this this guy or that guy.
Speaker 3: And so when it comes to the Chiefs and how
Speaker 3: Spags is going to call the game, like, uh, it's
Speaker 3: the same thing for me at quarterback, Like I have
Speaker 3: to get to my answers. I have to go through
Speaker 3: my progressions when I can and and you know, obviously
Speaker 3: just take what the defense is given me and and
Speaker 3: not trying to force it and do too much. And
Speaker 3: so two different schemes, but similar mindset in terms of
Speaker 3: I have to find my answer within every play and
Speaker 3: every coverage heard game did not.
Speaker 1: Reveal anything to you or anybody about the importance he
Speaker 1: has in this offense for what he's done through six games.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean just knowing that, you know, he's he's
Speaker 3: a physical runner, and obviously when the gaps in the
Speaker 3: in the c's part, like, that's great for any running back,
Speaker 3: but with Jordan, it's when the gap isn't there, he's
Speaker 3: still gonna push for another five six yards or break
Speaker 3: a couple of tackles like that's the mark of.
Speaker 4: A great running back in the NFL. Man, that's not easy.
Speaker 3: And so when he went down, it's like, man, you know,
Speaker 3: obviously we love that part of him, but we have
Speaker 3: some young guys behind him that you know, need to
Speaker 3: step up and do their part. And I think, uh,
Speaker 3: Garndo did that, Patrick did that. You know, they came in,
Speaker 3: they played physical and and uh but obviously you just
Speaker 3: love JP's mentality because he does it every play and
Speaker 3: every running back is a little different, but that's what
Speaker 3: he's really good at. And so you know, when he
Speaker 3: went down, it's like, dang, you know, uh, that is
Speaker 3: pretty valuable, valuable for us in the run game. And
Speaker 3: but you know, we always have the next guy up
Speaker 3: and we're ready to to give the next guy a shot,
Speaker 3: and we always got each other's back.
Speaker 4: So it was what it was.
Speaker 3: And then in the Thursday night game, but we're excited
Speaker 3: that he's healed up and got some rest and ready
Speaker 3: for this.
Speaker 5: One has always been extremely complimentary of your play, and
Speaker 5: this week he said that you have no weaknesses.
Speaker 4: Would you agree with his assessment of your I would disagree.
Speaker 3: I think I definitely got stuff to work on and
Speaker 3: get better at. I appreciate the comments, but there's always something,
Speaker 3: like in the NFL, there's always something, yeah, to get
Speaker 3: better at, and and you know as a quarterback too, man,
Speaker 3: that you can never be perfect. You know, there's always something,
Speaker 3: So I appreciate it, but yeah, I gotta get better too.
Speaker 1: Number show that this Chiefs defense sometimes gives up points
Speaker 1: early and then gets better and better as the game
Speaker 1: goes on. Does the film show that? Is there anything
Speaker 1: on the film that they do differently as the game
Speaker 1: progresses that helps them?
Speaker 4: Man?
Speaker 3: I think you know, they're just they have a lot
Speaker 3: of experience within playing playing within the scheme. A lot
Speaker 3: of the guys that have been there, they understand, you know,
Speaker 3: how their coordinators call the plays and and where they
Speaker 3: need to be. It's a very you know, sounded discipline defense.
Speaker 3: And you know, I think for them maybe I don't
Speaker 3: know for sure, I'm not you know, in their meetings
Speaker 3: or anything, but it might be the bend but don't
Speaker 3: break kind of defense. And and uh, when when the
Speaker 3: game matters and it's on the line, you know they're
Speaker 3: they're the the side of the ball that needs to
Speaker 3: get it done. And their defense has shown that in
Speaker 3: the last couple of games in the in this season,
Speaker 3: so definitely do see it. They haven't given up many points.
Speaker 3: And like I said, they all have a lot of
Speaker 3: experience together and they play and they tie together really
Speaker 3: well just across the board. So, uh, one of the
Speaker 3: best defenses that will see this year for sure.
Speaker 4: Thanks Gott.