Speaker 1: It seems like it didn't take you long to settle
Speaker 1: in there. Huh uh, Well, it took me a little
Speaker 1: longer than I'd like. Um, just saying it's kind of
Speaker 1: like a old seventy nine Chevy. It takes a little
Speaker 1: while and you get it cranked up and then you
Speaker 1: get going. Um So I hate you know how we
Speaker 1: started and how I started, but uh, but you know,
Speaker 1: finally got some good things going. So that was good.
Speaker 1: What do you see how actually played as much as
Speaker 1: you did? Uh, you know what, I was glad just
Speaker 1: because especially after that start, you know, I wanted to
Speaker 1: kind of find a rhythm and and uh, I think
Speaker 1: we all kind of looked at it as an extended
Speaker 1: practice really, I mean for for for myself and just
Speaker 1: you know, just being here. That's how That's how I
Speaker 1: took it. It's just it's another chance for me to
Speaker 1: call these plays, these new plays, get a look at them,
Speaker 1: run them, get to line of screamers, to handle some
Speaker 1: things and and uh and so um so I need
Speaker 1: as much work as I can get to be called,
Speaker 1: you know, to speed. So that was good and I
Speaker 1: appreciate it, you know, the opportunity and and you know
Speaker 1: Doug and Mike grow were great with me this week
Speaker 1: as far as and then coming into today and a
Speaker 1: press Tater was awesome just getting me ready and uh,
Speaker 1: setting me down and saying, hey, these other things we're
Speaker 1: gonna call you know, only stuff that you're comfortable with
Speaker 1: and you feel good with. And uh and you know
Speaker 1: we were actually able to get into a real and
Speaker 1: there later. How close are you ready to be the backup? Uh?
Speaker 1: I'll just keep working, you know, and get myself going. Uh.
Speaker 1: That's the key, you know, more than anything I think
Speaker 1: with the first group there, you know, we kind of
Speaker 1: you sputtered a little bit and and uh, um, yeah,
Speaker 1: I gotta get on the same page to do a
Speaker 1: better job you know handling. Uh, you know that first
Speaker 1: group and and and there's a lot of things that
Speaker 1: that you know, I need to work on and like
Speaker 1: I said, hopefully can catch up now. And and you know,
Speaker 1: take a breath and and dive back into the playbook
Speaker 1: and some of the nuances of it and and uh
Speaker 1: and continue to get myself ready to go. What got
Speaker 1: you going? What got us going? You know? The thing
Speaker 1: is when you when you uh, when you start out
Speaker 1: over you know, whatever we were two, three, four. It's
Speaker 1: just get a completion. You know, that's what this game
Speaker 1: is about. You gotta stack some wins and get some
Speaker 1: completions to get some momentum and and uh and so
Speaker 1: we did that and uh and then you know, from
Speaker 1: there the guys make plays, you know, and and we
Speaker 1: just kind of had to settle in, you know, myself included,
Speaker 1: and uh and you know, get going and and so
Speaker 1: the completions did that finish, The one to the sidelines
Speaker 1: to Greg Ward, I think really helped me settle in.
Speaker 1: We had a protection thing where we we we were
Speaker 1: able to kind of get some things to go in there,
Speaker 1: uh at the line of scrimmage as far as you know,
Speaker 1: getting the protection right, and then to kind of drop
Speaker 1: back and and and get the completion. Greg made an
Speaker 1: unbelievable catch on that um and I think those things
Speaker 1: that that play there kind of for me was kind
Speaker 1: of like okay, you know, like settling now. So uh
Speaker 1: So that that that play and you know, uh in
Speaker 1: general was pretty good. Such a capistry so quickly with
Speaker 1: j J, Like you guys really have the same je um.
Speaker 1: I wish I could tell you it was some magic
Speaker 1: or something like that. But it's just you know, um
Speaker 1: it Uh, it's it's more really him and the coaching
Speaker 1: that he's getting and his his preparedness to play, I
Speaker 1: think is is huge. And uh, you know for a
Speaker 1: young player, you know, carries himself the right way, works
Speaker 1: really hard and and um and so uh to say
Speaker 1: that I have a report with any of these guys,
Speaker 1: you know after four days, you know, So I can't
Speaker 1: take any credit for that. It's it's it's their work ethic,
Speaker 1: it's there, it's their time spent. And uh, I just know,
Speaker 1: you know from my experience, to put the ball in
Speaker 1: spots and and so it's a credit to them for
Speaker 1: being in those spots. So it's really hats off to those. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The first one to JJ's man coverage, UM got got
Speaker 1: to look what we wanted. Doug did a great job
Speaker 1: of kind of adding that tag on the end of
Speaker 1: the call and uh, and you know, it was what
Speaker 1: we were looking for. And JJ did a good job
Speaker 1: winning and just put put it there on the back
Speaker 1: and end zone. He went and got it. Uh. The
Speaker 1: second one, UM, we looked looked at it on the
Speaker 1: on the pictures on the sidelines, some things that might
Speaker 1: might be available to us. They went all out pressure
Speaker 1: and just kind of faded back and and Alex did
Speaker 1: a good job of quicken enough his route and getting
Speaker 1: over across the middle. And then I'm not seeing the
Speaker 1: cash one, but obviously made a heck of a play
Speaker 1: and and uh and um got the touchdown. Uh definitely, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I uh, definitely good to score the first one. And um,
Speaker 1: you know, hopefully I can keep it going then just
Speaker 1: keep getting better every week, keep scoring touchdowns for this
Speaker 1: team and helping. The way I came to window, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, it was it was funny because I was
Speaker 1: just talking to my coaching heels, like, you know, just
Speaker 1: just go out there and just play like you know,
Speaker 1: got there, use your technique, but go out there, play
Speaker 1: fast and do whatever you did that stand for that help.
Speaker 1: And uh, you know I was thinking right before that
Speaker 1: route is like I'm gonna just gonna play fast on
Speaker 1: this one and see what happens. And then exactly what
Speaker 1: we've been you know, practicing training is what happened. And
Speaker 1: you know, got open and was able to score a touchdown.
Speaker 1: So I'm pretty pretty thankful for that. Super saying that
Speaker 1: a more pressed the catch than he thought it was
Speaker 1: the shoe stream. Yeah, I was. I caught it and
Speaker 1: I was waiting for them to blow it dead. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I guess, I guess, and then touch the ground, and
Speaker 1: I think the DV might have thought it touched the
Speaker 1: ground too, So as soon as no whistle was bond,
Speaker 1: it just took off running. Josh was ambling to touch
Speaker 1: a short amount of time. Just coach in high school
Speaker 1: this time last week. Not really. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: he's been in the league for so long for a reason. Um.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's a couple of calls he made out there.
Speaker 1: I was like, dude, what are you doing and then
Speaker 1: posting out you know, the defense changes and it he
Speaker 1: like guessed it completely right or he knew it was
Speaker 1: gonna happen. So um yeah, No, I mean I'm not surprising.
Speaker 1: He's been in the league so long. He knows he
Speaker 1: knows his stuff, so you know, whatever whatever he says,
Speaker 1: you know, I can pretty confidently believe it. He also
Speaker 1: had that catch from fourth and one where you got
Speaker 1: created to space on the pattern and made a pivot
Speaker 1: and getting like another twenty yards after the catch. Just
Speaker 1: talked about that in the fourth Fan you have to
Speaker 1: make him play there and yeah, now, but you know,
Speaker 1: when you get rolling, it's not it's not about you
Speaker 1: know what doubt it is or what the distance is.
Speaker 1: It's you know, just go out there, whatever the plays called.
Speaker 1: I got to do my job. The ball comes to me,
Speaker 1: I gotta catch it and go score, no matter if
Speaker 1: his first second or fourth down though, and you know
Speaker 1: he me then me and John started getting rolling for
Speaker 1: a second. So and I just felt like whatever ball
Speaker 1: he threw it to me, I was going to catch him.
Speaker 1: And I was confident to to know what we were
Speaker 1: gonna do something good. You know, your role might yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I mean I have no clue. Um, you know, hope
Speaker 1: hopefully it put me in a position to where I
Speaker 1: can help the team win games. But you know, I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna come out here. It just work hard, do
Speaker 1: whatever I can to help. And uh, whatever role they
Speaker 1: have for me is what I'm gonna try to do.
Speaker 1: Why do you think the Eagles took so many poles whatever?
Speaker 1: I don't know. Uh, now there's something for the for
Speaker 1: the coach to answer, But um, yeah, we can't be
Speaker 1: having that many penalties. So he just got to go
Speaker 1: back to the board, I think, so I think they
Speaker 1: called a pick um, I don't think it was. For
Speaker 1: first off, I established myself before the guy ran in
Speaker 1: to me. And second off, he's within a yard, so
Speaker 1: then a yard can go in and blow him up
Speaker 1: if I wanted to, but you know, obviously with the rules,
Speaker 1: he can't really do that. So, UM, I think we're
Speaker 1: gonna turn it in and you know, get some confirmation
Speaker 1: see how we can do it better. Um or if
Speaker 1: they messed it up, you're showing a lot of problems
Speaker 1: so far with the guys who are expecting to back
Speaker 1: up Carson. What do you think you can do when
Speaker 1: Carson gets some people plays a game. Oh, it doesn't.
Speaker 1: It's not gonna change because I mean, any quarterback we
Speaker 1: have back there, it's gonna do the job, and it's
Speaker 1: gonna do it at a high level. And uh, I'm
Speaker 1: with Dashawan, al Shaan, Nelly, all these guys um who
Speaker 1: play at a high level as well. So and I'm
Speaker 1: just in a mix of great guys and great players.
Speaker 1: So you know, whoever whoever slinging it back there and
Speaker 1: whoever's next to me side by side on the field,
Speaker 1: you know we're gonna get the job done. Catchers coming
Speaker 1: could you expect to have that workload? Was that kind
Speaker 1: of the game plan coming in to get the ball
Speaker 1: to a no? I mean, and the game plan, you know,
Speaker 1: it's just the same as it was the last two weeks,
Speaker 1: was let's just throw these guys out there. Um, let's
Speaker 1: call some place to let them go out there and
Speaker 1: shine and see what happens. You know, today it was
Speaker 1: just my turn to to to go out there and
Speaker 1: play play ball. I mean we had Mark and hit
Speaker 1: a deep one third game week game one, and uh
Speaker 1: ge ward to hit a big one on game on
Speaker 1: game two, So you know, it just happened to be
Speaker 1: meted today. Um. You know, you never know who's going
Speaker 1: to be next week, so you just gotta keep you
Speaker 1: being prepared. One September eighth, Getcher, what do you expect
Speaker 1: from the offensive front? Yeah, I expect us to play
Speaker 1: at a high level. I mean there's no we cannot
Speaker 1: have a slow start. We can't start games sol like
Speaker 1: kind of what plagued us early in the year last year. UM,
Speaker 1: so we got to have a fast start and that's
Speaker 1: what we're gonna focus on these next two weeks. Come
Speaker 1: up with a great game playing against the Redskins. Um,
Speaker 1: a lot of us will start focusing on the Redskins
Speaker 1: now because we never really played that fourth preseason game.
Speaker 1: So UM, I expect us to come out playing at
Speaker 1: a high level. I don't think where there's it's gonna
Speaker 1: be Russ. We've been together for so long, Um, We've
Speaker 1: ran so many routes. The two practices against the Ravens
Speaker 1: were really good for us. I thought the practice showings
Speaker 1: were probably a little better than the game showing today.
Speaker 1: But it's it's it's it's a adding that is finally here.
Speaker 1: You know, we've been busting our butt for six months
Speaker 1: since the season ended and really looking forward to this
Speaker 1: year that you know, Josh settles in the quarter star
Speaker 1: not just from him the relief. Yeah, the dude's a
Speaker 1: freaking gamer. I mean he played receiver in a game,
Speaker 1: had four catches and a half. So whatever the coach
Speaker 1: has asked for of him, he's gonna do. Um. He's
Speaker 1: just learning the the whole snap count, the whole cadence.
Speaker 1: Guys are are learning his cadence. UM. So it's been
Speaker 1: it was fun to see him go out there and
Speaker 1: do what he always does. Uh. He's a really, really
Speaker 1: good teammate. I'm excited to have him here. Um, he's
Speaker 1: gonna help us, for sure. I know it's a little vanilla,
Speaker 1: but only three days of practice. Have you ever seen
Speaker 1: a guy step in that little time of the room? Um?
Speaker 1: Probably not. I mean it's not often I've seen a
Speaker 1: guy coming in, Um, Like you said, three days ago
Speaker 1: and play period let alone go was He's seventeen of
Speaker 1: twenty four for almost one hundred yards and two touchdowns.
Speaker 1: Seemed like him and JJ had an automatic they were
Speaker 1: they found each other rhythm early on. UM. And so
Speaker 1: I think it just speaks volume to the type of
Speaker 1: professional he is. UM. And as everything you heard about
Speaker 1: him was true. You know, you heard that he was
Speaker 1: a really good player, a really good pro, UM, someone
Speaker 1: that everyone really respects. And that's the vibe I've gotten
Speaker 1: for further three days he's been here with a slow
Speaker 1: star like that. Or were you just it's a preseason Carson,
Speaker 1: so starting the game today? Yeah? Uh no, Um, obviously
Speaker 1: you want to score every time you go out there. UM.
Speaker 1: I think there were a number of factors obviously, UM,
Speaker 1: A couple of bad players, a couple of pre snap penalties.
Speaker 1: But we'll get those cleaned up. I'm not concerned. I'm
Speaker 1: just excited for September and Rodney how much howport is
Speaker 1: it the mental war for you to get over you know,
Speaker 1: not worrying about any injury and just start getting hit. Yeah, yeah, No,
Speaker 1: it's it's been a build up. It's been the challenge honestly,
Speaker 1: kind of been growing each week. Uh you know, UH
Speaker 1: got a little early hit unexpected, you know, early on
Speaker 1: the camp. Then this past week I actually had a
Speaker 1: lot more contact than I thought I would uh have,
Speaker 1: And then today obviously you know, tackling all the way
Speaker 1: to the ground, so this is the first time, you know,
Speaker 1: I've done that since last year. So it feels a
Speaker 1: little weird. But I mean once you make that first tackle,
Speaker 1: it's like, all right now we're right back at home,
Speaker 1: and um, just feels good to be back out there.
Speaker 1: As walking back, Uh, you know, felt like you know,
Speaker 1: rookie all over again. And in a sense, you know,
Speaker 1: just being out for so long and going through an
Speaker 1: injury like I did. You know, you always just question
Speaker 1: yourself and how it's gonna be and what it's gonna uh,
Speaker 1: you know, you're trying to envision a little bit and
Speaker 1: I think you know, I envisioned how how it played
Speaker 1: out today, me making tackles and me flying around. Um,
Speaker 1: like I never left when you initially played the first game.
Speaker 1: Time when you're thinking about thinking it wasn't just all
Speaker 1: natural instinct. I mean I think once I hit the field, Manum,
Speaker 1: you know, all throughout camp, I've kind of let the
Speaker 1: you know, the injury kind of go get behind me.
Speaker 1: But obviously still you know that thought in your head, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, and actually being able to tackle someone for
Speaker 1: the first time again and experience that today, so it
Speaker 1: felt good and you know, I feel right back at home.
Speaker 1: I felt like, you know, having missed a step and
Speaker 1: it just felt good, man, just to get that out,
Speaker 1: get that first time we're going and now I could
Speaker 1: just move on and focus on the rest of the year.
Speaker 1: You have six carriage. Did you accomplish everything you wanted
Speaker 1: to accomplishing it limited time that you got out there.
Speaker 1: I mean I wanted to keep going. To be honest,
Speaker 1: fellas that we were still clicking. Um, you know, some
Speaker 1: pinal just kept setting us back. As if I felt
Speaker 1: as that we were getting a good groove. You know,
Speaker 1: A linem did a great job of being on their
Speaker 1: side of the offense, I mean, the other side of
Speaker 1: the line of scriment. So I was hungry for more.
Speaker 1: So I'm still hungry for it. Did you feel it
Speaker 1: early on a passion down? You know, on the third
Speaker 1: and sex start say they want to you pretty early
Speaker 1: on a passing down. That had to make if you
Speaker 1: feel pretty good? Oh? Yeah, good? H You know, just
Speaker 1: like I said, getting into the mix again, No, getting
Speaker 1: things early, right out the gun, and we knew the
Speaker 1: game plan coming in and into this game. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be uh. I was gonna be starting the game off,
Speaker 1: and I was excited. You know, I couldn't really sleep.
Speaker 1: So now today was a good day to be back
Speaker 1: out there're playing football. Do you feel you had to
Speaker 1: come in and kind of prove to the coaches that
Speaker 1: you were all the way back? Yeah? For sure. I
Speaker 1: mean I'm sure they wanted to see it. That's why
Speaker 1: they put me out there. And I wasn't shying away
Speaker 1: from anything. If anything, you got to step up when
Speaker 1: the opportunity to presents itself. So definitely blessed, fortunate to
Speaker 1: be able to still play this game. You no coming
Speaker 1: back from a good uh no injury that put me
Speaker 1: out so happy to be back out here, and no
Speaker 1: showing what I can still do whatsoever. No I feel fun.
Speaker 1: I still could have went the whole rest of the game,
Speaker 1: but uh, like I said, everybody else has a rotation
Speaker 1: in preseason. Understand the culture of the game. Do you
Speaker 1: still do you feel one hundred percent back reserning um
Speaker 1: no soortness wrot nothing now Like I said, I can
Speaker 1: play tomorrow too. We had a game, so feel good.