Speaker 1: How's uh, how's your health of those shoulder stingers and
Speaker 1: in residual.
Speaker 2: Effects and concerns, It's been good.
Speaker 3: It's got a lot of treatment done on it and
Speaker 3: everything sort of just work out the soreness within you know,
Speaker 3: the whole shoulder area, trap area. But it feels good,
Speaker 3: So I'll be good for this game.
Speaker 1: After you watched the film of the Ravens, do you
Speaker 1: feel like you have you guys have.
Speaker 4: The answers to some of the defensive wrinkles that they.
Speaker 2: Showed in that game. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean, I feel like our game plan was good
Speaker 3: just in terms of what we wanted to get done.
Speaker 3: It was just the execution part of it that I
Speaker 3: feel like, you know, I.
Speaker 2: Didn't do a good enough job.
Speaker 3: And and you know, I think our mindset and everything
Speaker 3: going into it was good, but it's I felt short
Speaker 3: in terms of making it happen. And so when we
Speaker 3: watched the film and stuff like there was our plays
Speaker 3: were there, there's plays to be made, and we felt good,
Speaker 3: you know, getting through the film and and going man,
Speaker 3: we were right there and we had everything I feel
Speaker 3: like dialed up pretty good. I just didn't execute well.
Speaker 3: So yeah, if we you know, see him again down
Speaker 3: the road. Obviously we'd be excited to play them and
Speaker 3: all that, but we're just taking it one day at
Speaker 3: a time and and uh, we'll see how it all goes.
Speaker 2: That was a bad decision, was the first one. What
Speaker 2: should you have done different? Yeah? I mean, I mean
Speaker 2: that that drive.
Speaker 3: You know, we have two really explosive plays, you know,
Speaker 3: the third down and then the next play after that
Speaker 3: to George again. So it's like the emotion, everything's built up,
Speaker 3: like we're feeling good, and you know, they we call
Speaker 3: this play with what wasn't the right coverage, And so
Speaker 3: for myself it's like, all right, I do progress and
Speaker 3: check it down. In the moment, for myself, I was,
Speaker 3: you know, aggressive, I was like, all right, I just
Speaker 3: had two big plays. I'm trying to fit this one
Speaker 3: in and which obviously, looking back on it was not
Speaker 3: the right decision.
Speaker 2: Wasn't the smart plays quarterback.
Speaker 3: That's something that I have to grow in, you know,
Speaker 3: in terms of you make some big plays and stuff.
Speaker 3: But every play has a life of its own. Now,
Speaker 3: whatever play is next, you got to play to play
Speaker 3: the right way, not just feed off the emotion and
Speaker 3: everything that you felt from the previous plays. So that's
Speaker 3: something that I had to learn the hard way.
Speaker 5: Well, you find the balance of still playing aggressively ripping
Speaker 5: it down the field, but then also making good decisions.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean the games that I've played in, you know,
Speaker 3: there's a fine line of obviously ripping something that's tight,
Speaker 3: tight window or tight contested, but at the same time
Speaker 3: being smart with the ball in the situation of wherever
Speaker 3: the game is at. And so for myself, like I've
Speaker 3: played in enough games where I think I understand when
Speaker 3: and where I can be aggressive and take a chance,
Speaker 3: take a shot, and when I should progress, check it down,
Speaker 3: throw it away.
Speaker 2: Those kinds of things.
Speaker 3: Like I said, it's sort of just it's a situational
Speaker 3: kind of thing, and football is a game of situations.
Speaker 3: And so that's where I have to grow and continue
Speaker 3: to bank on experiences that I've that I've gone through.
Speaker 3: But at the same time, being a quarterback in the NFL,
Speaker 3: you gotta be able to take some some chances and
Speaker 3: some some wrists and some windows at the right time.
Speaker 2: And that's what I'm learning right now.
Speaker 4: It relates to your stingers. You ain't had one prior
Speaker 4: to ever ever had one, consecutive weeks.
Speaker 5: Is that.
Speaker 4: I mean, even though you felt right and it has
Speaker 4: been explained to you that maybe they were still kind
Speaker 4: of lingering things that predisposed you to having one against
Speaker 4: the Ravens.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no one really said anything to me. I didn't
Speaker 3: really know the thing, and so I got it against
Speaker 3: the Ravens again and that sort of got explained, you know,
Speaker 3: Like I guess the the nerve or whatever can is
Speaker 3: a little bit more susceptible to sort of you know,
Speaker 3: stinging again. But you know, with treatment and some time
Speaker 3: and recovery and stuff, you can obviously get it to
Speaker 3: go down and be good to go.
Speaker 2: Everyone's different, is what I've heard.
Speaker 3: So for me, I was fine the whole game and
Speaker 3: then that one sack you just just got me right.
Speaker 3: I landed on it just right for it to go off,
Speaker 3: and but my feeling came back and everything. So it's
Speaker 3: just I guess part of part of the game, Soros.
Speaker 5: Is your approach or preparation a little different this week
Speaker 5: after a week, like you feel like.
Speaker 2: You didn't execute as so as I wanted to.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean my process, my routine and everything is
Speaker 3: is gonna be the same, Like I've done all year.
Speaker 3: It just comes down to the moment, you know, getting
Speaker 3: behind center, going through my reads in the moment, in
Speaker 3: the heat of battle, being smart with the ball, doing
Speaker 3: what we're trying to do on offense, and what the
Speaker 3: coaches are asking of me. And obviously it's just it's
Speaker 3: be smart and so but in terms of my process
Speaker 3: and everything, I'm gonna be the same guy that have
Speaker 3: been all year in terms of how get ready for
Speaker 3: a game. It's just gonna be you know, in the
Speaker 3: heat of battle, making the right decisions and and set
Speaker 3: up our offense and our team to have success in
Speaker 3: the right way.
Speaker 1: So it's going way early in your career. Was this
Speaker 1: Raven's game a learning experience in the sense of, like
Speaker 1: what it feels like when everything that could go wrong
Speaker 1: does go.
Speaker 5: Wrong and how to respond.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's huge for me, you know, the
Speaker 3: whole season right building up to, like what they're saying
Speaker 3: is a huge game on Christmas Monday night football and
Speaker 3: all that, and it was a big game, and so,
Speaker 3: you know, for me, it's a great learning experience just
Speaker 3: in terms of you know, not you know, buying into
Speaker 3: what's going on around and what's being said instead you know, executing,
Speaker 3: you know in the moment, making the right reads, being consistent,
Speaker 3: protecting the ball, all those things. Man, it's such a
Speaker 3: good learning experience. And it's not to say I'm gonna
Speaker 3: be perfect moving forward like there's it's football, man, you're
Speaker 3: not perfect. But for me, I think it was huge
Speaker 3: just in terms of, you know, being a quarterback in
Speaker 3: this league. When things are going well, people can say
Speaker 3: some great things and and it's easy to buy into
Speaker 3: it a little bit, but man, you gotta put your down,
Speaker 3: go to work, have that chip on your shoulder still
Speaker 3: and and still prove to yourself that you know, you
Speaker 3: got to continue to show your teammates that you're the
Speaker 3: guy week in and week out.
Speaker 2: So definitely something for me to learn from.
Speaker 4: To the commanders, what stands out when you watch the.
Speaker 3: Film on them, yeah, I think it starts with the
Speaker 3: two boys up front ninety three and ninety four.
Speaker 2: I feel like, you know, they're they're very disruptive. They've been.
Speaker 3: Disruptive really their whole careers and stuff, so for us
Speaker 3: we respect them a lot. And then just their coverages
Speaker 3: behind it and everything, the boys in the secondary, their
Speaker 3: sound and what they do and you know, for us,
Speaker 3: it's you know, being smart with the ball, being on
Speaker 3: the right side of the field when with our reads
Speaker 3: and going through my progressions and being efficient. I feel
Speaker 3: like they've done a good job of, you know, making
Speaker 3: making some quarterbacks you know, have to be efficient and
Speaker 3: and take the shots when the opportunity presents itself. But
Speaker 3: I think overall their their solid squad and and and
Speaker 3: sound and.
Speaker 2: What they do.
Speaker 3: So for us, we can't get greedy or anything. You
Speaker 3: have to you know, for me, I have to go
Speaker 3: through my reads and and uh, stay disciplined more than anything.
Speaker 1: So I was yesterday that you thought like the most
Speaker 1: valuable experience for you the other night was continuing to
Speaker 1: compete after the interceptions. When can you take us into
Speaker 1: those moments that once you were thinking of, like how
Speaker 1: you know, how you flush and how you kind of
Speaker 1: move on to continue to compete in those moments and
Speaker 1: maybe how it can help you going forward.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, the game and the situation sort of
Speaker 3: just happened really quick. You know, they went up quick
Speaker 3: and in the second half, you know, third quarter, you know,
Speaker 3: they're up multiple scores, and so then it sort of
Speaker 3: feels like, all right, we have to make a play
Speaker 3: and at the same time we got all these turnovers,
Speaker 3: so don't turn the ball over. So just mentally it
Speaker 3: was a It was a good experience to understand, like
Speaker 3: you have to play one play at a time. You know,
Speaker 3: even if we're down multiple scores, you still have a
Speaker 3: whole second half to play. You have to still think
Speaker 3: clearly in terms of what we're trying to do with
Speaker 3: each play, not just try to get back into the
Speaker 3: game with one or two plays.
Speaker 2: You know, with explosives. It's being smart.
Speaker 3: It's taking a five yard out route or check down
Speaker 3: and getting a first down and managing those situations and
Speaker 3: playing quarterbacks still to get your team back in the lead,
Speaker 3: you know, by being an efficient quarterback. So those are
Speaker 3: all things I had to learn, you know. Towards the end,
Speaker 3: I feel like I was searching for those big plays
Speaker 3: to get back in the game rather than playing playing
Speaker 3: the position, and so watching the film was tough, but
Speaker 3: it was good for me.
Speaker 2: I had to learn it, and I'm glad it happened. Now.
Speaker 4: So something of.
Speaker 5: Your teammates, especially Nick Bosas, go down and support of
Speaker 5: you after the game. What does that mean to you
Speaker 5: and how does that help you approach this week.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's huge, you know, to hear you know,
Speaker 3: guys you know have my back and all that, which
Speaker 3: is great, and we understand, I think the big picture
Speaker 3: of what we're trying to do where we're at, and
Speaker 3: so obviously to have a bad game like that, it
Speaker 3: sucks and you don't want that to ever happen. But
Speaker 3: I mean they're they're mature man, and they get it.
Speaker 3: And for me, I appreciate them for for understanding, you know,
Speaker 3: the quarterback position and how tough is it, how tough
Speaker 3: it can be. But also you know, the reality of
Speaker 3: where we're at. You know, we're still you know number one.
Speaker 3: See we've gotten here for a reason, not just by chance.
Speaker 3: And so to hear them, you know, say those cool things,
Speaker 3: it means a lot to me. But you know, we're
Speaker 3: trying to win this week and take it one day
Speaker 3: at a time, and we'll get to where we need
Speaker 3: to be by just being in the present.
Speaker 4: So that your first support reption ever ever in your life.
Speaker 4: I guess you're kind of alluded to. You don't want to.
Speaker 4: Your mindset is okay, let's not throw a fifth interception
Speaker 4: or whatever, but you're also searching, still searching for big plays.
Speaker 4: So I guess it was it fred to say that
Speaker 4: you aren't completely like, you know, I guess scared or
Speaker 4: I'm throwing yet another pick and oh gosh, it's gonna
Speaker 4: look really bad that you're still searching for big players
Speaker 4: after it seems like there was a push and pool there.
Speaker 3: I guess, yeah, I mean, it's just not being in
Speaker 3: the right state of mind, you know, as a quarterback,
Speaker 3: you know, having the aggressive trigger to you know, make
Speaker 3: the throw the big play. Also, shoot, you don't want
Speaker 3: to turn the ball over again. It's just a it's
Speaker 3: a sucky state of mind to be in. And so
Speaker 3: but that's like the learning experience of going back and
Speaker 3: just taking it and saying, every play has a life
Speaker 3: of its own. You have to take it one play
Speaker 3: at a time and not try to win the game by.
Speaker 2: A couple of big plays.
Speaker 3: And when I'm thinking like that, I just wasn't in
Speaker 3: the right state of mind, you know, towards the end
Speaker 3: when we're trying to get back into it. So that
Speaker 3: that's the learning experience. So ah, I did not just
Speaker 3: happened to be Yeah, No, I had a hat head.
Speaker 3: Hat head coming in here.
Speaker 2: So I put it on for it. Yeah, that's too.
Speaker 3: I did a little growing up, all right, thanks, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I appreciate it.