1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:02,880 Speaker 1: A week ago, you know, you really getting out there 2 00:00:02,920 --> 00:00:05,600 Speaker 1: for the first time, just kind of moving around a 3 00:00:05,640 --> 00:00:09,240 Speaker 1: week later, would you in your mind, are you further 4 00:00:09,280 --> 00:00:11,200 Speaker 1: along than maybe what you thought? Are you right where 5 00:00:11,240 --> 00:00:12,160 Speaker 1: you would hope to be. 6 00:00:12,280 --> 00:00:13,880 Speaker 2: I'm right where I hope to be. Like then, he 7 00:00:13,960 --> 00:00:15,640 Speaker 2: feels great. And obviously I did a full pad of 8 00:00:15,640 --> 00:00:18,200 Speaker 2: practice today for the first time in the year. So 9 00:00:18,280 --> 00:00:20,360 Speaker 2: it's see how I wake up tomorrow, see how it feels. 10 00:00:20,720 --> 00:00:22,480 Speaker 2: Keep progressing. I mean, we got a we got a 11 00:00:22,520 --> 00:00:25,000 Speaker 2: great room, we got great trainers, great staff. So just 12 00:00:25,440 --> 00:00:26,880 Speaker 2: being being smart about. 13 00:00:26,680 --> 00:00:29,640 Speaker 1: It, did you do teamwork today. 14 00:00:29,440 --> 00:00:32,839 Speaker 2: Or yeah, not not with the not with not with 15 00:00:32,880 --> 00:00:35,840 Speaker 2: the ones, but working with the with the scout team. 16 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:38,040 Speaker 2: What's kind of like next on on your check you 17 00:00:38,120 --> 00:00:39,440 Speaker 2: got to pad a practice on your belt, like what 18 00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:42,519 Speaker 2: would give you the comfort of your way to play. 19 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:44,680 Speaker 2: It's it's seeing how I feel tomorrow is going to 20 00:00:44,760 --> 00:00:47,440 Speaker 2: be a huge indicator. But again it's it's continue to 21 00:00:47,440 --> 00:00:49,360 Speaker 2: get into the playbook, continue to get with the coaches, 22 00:00:49,400 --> 00:00:51,120 Speaker 2: continue to be with the guys, and just continue to 23 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:53,000 Speaker 2: learn gel and so much that goes into it other 24 00:00:53,040 --> 00:00:55,200 Speaker 2: than just like stepping out there and playing football like 25 00:00:55,480 --> 00:00:57,440 Speaker 2: your five guys working as one and that's the one 26 00:00:57,440 --> 00:00:59,040 Speaker 2: thing that I don't want to step in there and 27 00:00:59,040 --> 00:01:01,160 Speaker 2: mess up to camaraderie, so anything like that. So it's 28 00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:02,760 Speaker 2: it's working back in that way as well. I just 29 00:01:02,760 --> 00:01:04,440 Speaker 2: met all these guys for the first time last week, 30 00:01:04,520 --> 00:01:06,520 Speaker 2: So we got we got a lot of work to 31 00:01:06,560 --> 00:01:07,560 Speaker 2: do and we're and we're doing it. 32 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:10,080 Speaker 1: You kind of talked about last week the idea of 33 00:01:10,120 --> 00:01:12,480 Speaker 1: parachuting into a locker room and kind of getting good 34 00:01:12,520 --> 00:01:16,720 Speaker 1: sense for a team, you know a week later, Yeah, Yeah, 35 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:18,680 Speaker 1: you don't know what's going on, or at we don't 36 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:19,360 Speaker 1: know what's going. 37 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:19,959 Speaker 2: On a quarterback. 38 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:21,080 Speaker 1: The offensive line has. 39 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:22,000 Speaker 2: Really been under sieved. 40 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:26,319 Speaker 1: You've been here at the toughest times that you know 41 00:01:26,440 --> 00:01:27,160 Speaker 1: throughout your career. 42 00:01:27,319 --> 00:01:29,080 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I started my career I ZH and six. 43 00:01:29,319 --> 00:01:31,080 Speaker 2: It was it was probably the toughest time to be here. 44 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:33,959 Speaker 2: I know, Coach Coffin was under fire. I was a rookie. 45 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:35,480 Speaker 2: I thought like, what the hell is going on? I 46 00:01:35,520 --> 00:01:37,240 Speaker 2: didn't know what to do. And that's I told her 47 00:01:37,240 --> 00:01:39,360 Speaker 2: guys to stay the course, keep working, keep doing your job. 48 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:41,320 Speaker 2: And the thing that I love about this group is 49 00:01:41,319 --> 00:01:43,360 Speaker 2: they come to work every day. I mean, the shelves 50 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:45,919 Speaker 2: and the things that are in their face and probably 51 00:01:45,920 --> 00:01:48,040 Speaker 2: on there. So social media wasn't as big when I 52 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:50,520 Speaker 2: first got here as it is now, and I appalled 53 00:01:50,520 --> 00:01:52,360 Speaker 2: those guys to keep fighting through it. We're gonna get 54 00:01:52,360 --> 00:01:55,000 Speaker 2: those things corrected, continue to build, continue to get better. 55 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:57,520 Speaker 2: The average age is twenty three in our offensive line 56 00:01:57,560 --> 00:02:00,600 Speaker 2: number twenty five something. Crazy. I'm thirty three. I don't 57 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:02,680 Speaker 2: even think that, Like I got the grades going now, 58 00:02:02,800 --> 00:02:04,200 Speaker 2: Like a lot of these guys were looking at me. 59 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:05,680 Speaker 2: I don't even know if they knew I played football 60 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:07,200 Speaker 2: because I looked a little lighter. I didn't play an 61 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:10,239 Speaker 2: offensive lineman at first. So it's been good to get 62 00:02:10,240 --> 00:02:12,280 Speaker 2: back and then be a part of that. I've been 63 00:02:12,280 --> 00:02:13,880 Speaker 2: through the ups and downs. I've been through the playoffs 64 00:02:13,919 --> 00:02:16,400 Speaker 2: here like they were last year. So just continue to 65 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:18,280 Speaker 2: stay the course. All you can continue to do is 66 00:02:18,320 --> 00:02:20,840 Speaker 2: the little things every single day and we'll get where 67 00:02:20,880 --> 00:02:24,240 Speaker 2: we want to be. You the nature of your position, 68 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:25,919 Speaker 2: you know what I mean. It's not a receipt or 69 00:02:25,919 --> 00:02:27,560 Speaker 2: it's not a you know, a defensive back they can 70 00:02:27,560 --> 00:02:29,600 Speaker 2: throw in for a few snaps. I mean, do you 71 00:02:29,639 --> 00:02:32,119 Speaker 2: feel that if you're activated, you need to be able 72 00:02:32,120 --> 00:02:34,400 Speaker 2: to play if they need you to play, like a 73 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:36,320 Speaker 2: lot of snaps, use a number on me, and I'm 74 00:02:36,320 --> 00:02:38,560 Speaker 2: gonna be part of the active you know, forty six 75 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:39,639 Speaker 2: on game that I need to be able to go 76 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:41,919 Speaker 2: if if something had to someone had to go tie 77 00:02:41,919 --> 00:02:43,440 Speaker 2: their shoe and had to come out for a few plays, 78 00:02:43,440 --> 00:02:44,960 Speaker 2: I have to go in until they can come back in. 79 00:02:45,440 --> 00:02:47,399 Speaker 2: I don't want to put the team in a bad 80 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:49,120 Speaker 2: situation if I can't go in there and give you 81 00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:52,239 Speaker 2: sixty seventy plays. That's talking with coaches. I don't I 82 00:02:52,280 --> 00:02:53,880 Speaker 2: don't know how that's going to go. It's it's it's 83 00:02:53,880 --> 00:02:56,480 Speaker 2: above my pay grade, that decision. So I'm just gonna 84 00:02:56,480 --> 00:02:57,760 Speaker 2: go out there and do my job and do whatever 85 00:02:57,800 --> 00:02:58,520 Speaker 2: they asked me to do. 86 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:03,800 Speaker 1: To condense essentially a training camp and a few regular 87 00:03:03,880 --> 00:03:06,680 Speaker 1: season games into a week, like you're trying to do, 88 00:03:06,960 --> 00:03:07,600 Speaker 1: how do you do that? 89 00:03:08,040 --> 00:03:10,720 Speaker 2: It's just translating into my own language sometimes in my head. 90 00:03:10,720 --> 00:03:13,080 Speaker 2: So however you can remember, like some things, it's it's 91 00:03:13,120 --> 00:03:15,280 Speaker 2: it's what I'm doing right now. So if we call 92 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:17,480 Speaker 2: play whatever it is, I'll translate it to what I've 93 00:03:17,520 --> 00:03:19,760 Speaker 2: run in the past. A lot of teams run very 94 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:23,240 Speaker 2: similar concepts. It's just different names and different terminology. So 95 00:03:23,240 --> 00:03:25,120 Speaker 2: I'm trying to learn to speak their language and how 96 00:03:25,160 --> 00:03:28,200 Speaker 2: they like the like the native tongue I guess you 97 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:31,600 Speaker 2: could call it. And that's what I'm working through right now. 98 00:03:31,720 --> 00:03:33,840 Speaker 1: And ask me, what did you weigh today? 99 00:03:34,440 --> 00:03:36,000 Speaker 2: I weigh two hundred ninety two pounds. 100 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:40,040 Speaker 3: Justin you talked about you know, you're thirty three and 101 00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:43,080 Speaker 3: these guys are so young and you're still trying to 102 00:03:43,080 --> 00:03:44,880 Speaker 3: figure out a playbook and all of that. But how 103 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:47,920 Speaker 3: can you help these guys with your with your experience. 104 00:03:48,360 --> 00:03:50,760 Speaker 2: This thing's too stressful not to go have fun. Like obviously, 105 00:03:50,840 --> 00:03:52,000 Speaker 2: I know our job is to go out there, and 106 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:53,880 Speaker 2: when you go out there and hang your head and 107 00:03:53,880 --> 00:03:55,400 Speaker 2: what was me, You're going to continue to lose. And 108 00:03:55,640 --> 00:03:57,400 Speaker 2: so I come in. I'm just trying to raise morale, 109 00:03:57,440 --> 00:03:59,200 Speaker 2: be there for the guys, be a sounding board. I've 110 00:03:59,200 --> 00:04:02,080 Speaker 2: been through it before. Or that's really what my goal is. 111 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:03,640 Speaker 2: The first two weeks. Get them to know me, know 112 00:04:03,680 --> 00:04:06,040 Speaker 2: what a man I am, And that's where I think 113 00:04:06,040 --> 00:04:08,240 Speaker 2: we'll pay dividends down the road. When you're there and 114 00:04:08,240 --> 00:04:09,800 Speaker 2: you're in the trenches fighting for a guy that you 115 00:04:09,960 --> 00:04:12,920 Speaker 2: respect and know you make you fight a little bit 116 00:04:12,960 --> 00:04:14,640 Speaker 2: harder for that person. It's just it's just kind of 117 00:04:14,640 --> 00:04:17,039 Speaker 2: a bias that you would give. So working through that 118 00:04:17,160 --> 00:04:18,680 Speaker 2: right now and just showing them what type of man 119 00:04:18,720 --> 00:04:20,040 Speaker 2: I am the is the goal.