Speaker 1: You didn't think that this was the right spot for
Speaker 1: you to.
Speaker 2: Sign as a free agent.
Speaker 3: So I've had a lot of respect obviously for Kyle
Speaker 3: and the organization, and then obviously playing against playing for
Speaker 3: the Cardinals last year and playing against UH San Francisco,
Speaker 3: and I think brought out like a perfect game, I
Speaker 3: think at one incompletion. So when the opportunity presented itself
Speaker 3: to be a part of obviously what's been going on here,
Speaker 3: what's been built here over the last several seasons, but
Speaker 3: also being an offense and a scheme that and learned
Speaker 3: from the guy that really created it within the NFL,
Speaker 3: I jumped at that opportunity last.
Speaker 2: Year, like for you in the world, and there it
Speaker 2: was going to the team. How was that? How does
Speaker 2: that go? Yeah? It was crazy.
Speaker 3: It was I think craziest the simplest term to define it.
Speaker 3: It seemed like every uh, every time you know, you
Speaker 3: kind of got settled. It was like, okay, like let's
Speaker 3: go learn a new offense, learn new teammates, learn a
Speaker 3: new city, and try to get reacclimated to go out
Speaker 3: and play good football. So it was definitely was a
Speaker 3: crazy experience, but I enjoyed every aspect of it, Like
Speaker 3: I enjoyed the opportunity to go out compete for much
Speaker 3: best foot forward every single week and get that opportunity
Speaker 3: to lead from the front, and so I enjoyed the experience,
Speaker 3: but ideally don't want to go through another crazy season
Speaker 3: such as that. But you know, I take it one
Speaker 3: day at a time and embrace each opportunity that I'm
Speaker 3: given and go out and make the most of them.
Speaker 2: You know, the Cleveland system in the Minnesota, Arizona and
Speaker 2: Minnesota and the forty nine ers. Yes, similarities, definitely.
Speaker 3: I mean there's always similarities, right Like it is football
Speaker 3: at the end of the day, and a lot of teams,
Speaker 3: especially those teams are running a similar esque system to
Speaker 3: what's going on here is I would say, like maybe
Speaker 3: a derivative of this, But they're all also different. They
Speaker 3: all obviously have different personnel and different ways to attack
Speaker 3: the field. So to your initial question to making better,
Speaker 3: one hundred percent, because first off, you've got a chance
Speaker 3: to go out and you know, start and play with
Speaker 3: the ones. That's something I've been looking forward to throughout
Speaker 3: my entire career, getting those real life game reps. Man,
Speaker 3: They're invaluable and then second, from a perspective standpoint, Yes,
Speaker 3: being able to be around different coaches that obviously have
Speaker 3: had a lot of success as head coaches and as
Speaker 3: OC's in the NFL was really cool and very unique
Speaker 3: to get the perspective of the offense to continue to
Speaker 3: add different tools to my tool bet as I go
Speaker 3: out there and try to compete whenever I get my
Speaker 3: opportunity on the field, watching the Super Bowl and sing
Speaker 3: Jennings and yeah, those plays that bring back some emies,
Speaker 3: it did. I was so excited for him, man, I was,
Speaker 3: I think I will literally tweeted. I was like, Juan's
Speaker 3: about to be Super Bowl MVP when everyone thought, obviously
Speaker 3: the Niners here were gonna win last year's team. So
Speaker 3: I was so excited for him. I know a couple
Speaker 3: of plays you know right there, right and it's just
Speaker 3: the difference between wins and losses in the NFL, especially
Speaker 3: on the Super Bowl in that stage. But I was
Speaker 3: so excited to see him go out and really, you know,
Speaker 3: Bijuwan Jennings on the biggest stage of football.
Speaker 2: I remember when I was at Tennessee. He came in
Speaker 2: and he was a quarterback.
Speaker 3: He was like my little brother, like we were doing
Speaker 3: squats together and everything. And so to see his maturation
Speaker 3: from coming as a quarterback to playing as a as
Speaker 3: a freshman in college at receiver to going five years
Speaker 3: at Tennessee man and coming here and earning every opportunity
Speaker 3: he's gotten and going out excelling to get on the
Speaker 3: biggest stage and do what he does. Man, it's been
Speaker 3: great to see his growth throughout his football career. I
Speaker 3: know he's just scratching the surface of the player.
Speaker 2: He can be. For having him a Gilbert am I responsible.
Speaker 3: So I was a I was going I was going
Speaker 3: to my junior year. He was a freshman, so I
Speaker 3: mean he had he had some time if he was
Speaker 3: going to play quarterback either way. But it was a
Speaker 3: great opportunity for him to get on the field to
Speaker 3: make an impact. And he jumped at that opportunity as
Speaker 3: he jumps at any opportunity, as you guys know.
Speaker 2: So I want to say I was responsible.
Speaker 3: I think it might've been something that was going to
Speaker 3: happen either way when he got to Tennessee.
Speaker 2: But he's made the most of it for sure.
Speaker 3: Where he threw a touchdown to you when you're watching
Speaker 3: the Super Bowl and it was obviously I think very reminiscent.
Speaker 2: Obviously that went to running back. But you were the
Speaker 2: of course you'd be.
Speaker 1: But how many similarities did you see?
Speaker 3: I saw him everywhere obviously Tennessee media jumped at every
Speaker 3: single replay that they could make. And then I actually
Speaker 3: texted him, I think a couple of weeks after the game,
Speaker 3: because he was in Dallas and we were about to
Speaker 3: work out together. I was like, so, did they like
Speaker 3: ask you about your play from Florida? Like when when
Speaker 3: you threw the touchdown to me? So he said they
Speaker 3: didn't ask him about it, but I'm sure they got
Speaker 3: it from somewhere knowing he could make that throw across
Speaker 3: the field. But it was cool to see, you know,
Speaker 3: he threw for him to you know, throw a touchdown
Speaker 3: the Super Bowl, you know, not mean you guys can
Speaker 3: say that, let alone not playing quarterback.
Speaker 2: So pretty cool.
Speaker 1: Memory from against Arizona last year talking about Brock on
Speaker 1: the other side that was actually on the anniversary of
Speaker 1: the Hail Mary to Jawan.
Speaker 3: It was yes, I remember after the game. I don't
Speaker 3: think I think Jawan was out that game, but we
Speaker 3: got a picture because we had to get a picture
Speaker 3: to signify the anniversary. So yeah, I remember that for sure.
Speaker 1: Allen's just in here talking about how everything is tied
Speaker 1: to the quarterback's feet in this system. Is that emphasized
Speaker 1: here more than the other stops that you've you've you've
Speaker 1: played played at.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would say it definitely is the biggest point
Speaker 3: of emphasis in our QB room, and it is emphasized
Speaker 3: a little bit more than other places. And it shows
Speaker 3: just with the efficiency, how efficient the offense has been
Speaker 3: over the last several years. Right Like when you have
Speaker 3: a quarterback in there that's very good with his footwork,
Speaker 3: it's reads, his decision making, it's decisive and gets the
Speaker 3: balls to get the ball to the best weapons in
Speaker 3: the in the league. It shows how successful this offense
Speaker 3: can be and continues to be. So it is it
Speaker 3: is a big point of emphasis, and so us as
Speaker 3: a room collectively. I know, I just got here and
Speaker 3: Broxman here for going to a third year now, Brandon
Speaker 3: was here last year, but Tanner he's he's learning it
Speaker 3: with me too. You know, we're all in there trying
Speaker 3: to refine our footwork, play with efficient feet, get clicked
Speaker 3: through our reads as efficiently as possible because we know
Speaker 3: we get the ball out of our hands, we got
Speaker 3: the ball in our playmaker's hands, then this offense can't
Speaker 3: be stopped. You remember, gotten more comfortable throughout one thousand percent,
Speaker 3: You get more comfortable with reps. It's just the nature
Speaker 3: of anything in life, right, especially in football when you're
Speaker 3: learning a new offense and you know you have four
Speaker 3: offenses in your head at one time that you've learned
Speaker 3: the last ye in your sixty five days, So it's
Speaker 3: always a process. That's why I love training camp. You
Speaker 3: get a chance to come out, compete, put your best
Speaker 3: foot forward every day, but also get those reps that
Speaker 3: are invaluable to be able to grow and improve each
Speaker 3: and every day. And so the goal is, you know,
Speaker 3: it's July thirty first right now, which is crazy to
Speaker 3: put things in perspectives, not even August yet, but the
Speaker 3: goal is, you know, when you get out there first
Speaker 3: preseason game, your leaps and bounds from how you feel
Speaker 3: right now just seven days in the camp, and as
Speaker 3: you get to the second preseason game, third preson preseason game,
Speaker 3: the confidence, the comfort level, the efficiency with your full
Speaker 3: work only grows so that by September first first week,
Speaker 3: you're hit the ground running. You're ready to go play
Speaker 3: the best ball you can. So each day is an
Speaker 3: opportunity to grow and get better. Each day also is
Speaker 3: filled with new installs, so you're trying to process a
Speaker 3: new install and also not make the same as mistake
Speaker 3: twice from yesterday as well. But each day you get
Speaker 3: a ch opportunity to go out there, you improve, you grow,
Speaker 3: you get more comfortable, and then you go out and
Speaker 3: you play the best football you came in the fall.
Speaker 1: You got hot last year games, the comeback game against Atlanta.
Speaker 1: I think I remember you want to say something like
Speaker 1: astronaut jobs did how often do you talk to him
Speaker 1: or did he contact you during that run? He got
Speaker 1: really hot with Minnesota and kind of just talk about
Speaker 1: the other side of you with the you know, space
Speaker 1: engineering and all that and how.
Speaker 3: That helps you. Yeah, for sure, it it was a
Speaker 3: It was great to get the support from my former teammates.
Speaker 3: I got a lot of texts from a lot of
Speaker 3: guys that played with around the league, both during my
Speaker 3: time at Tennessee and some of my former teammates in
Speaker 3: the NFL. So yeah, it was really cool getting that
Speaker 3: support from former teammates. Man cause in general, especially as quarterback,
Speaker 3: right you put your best for a FOURD. You never
Speaker 3: know when you're gonna get your opportunity. That goes for
Speaker 3: a ton of guys and their stories across the league.
Speaker 3: But the goal is whenever the opportunity comes, you're ready
Speaker 3: to take advantage of it. So it's good to be
Speaker 3: able to do that, and it feels good to get
Speaker 3: the support from the guys, and so obviously you want
Speaker 3: to harness that momentum and continue to improve. Then to
Speaker 3: your second question in regards to aerospace engineering, obviously is
Speaker 3: a passion of mine. Is a very publicized passion of mine,
Speaker 3: and I think everyone knows about the story, which I
Speaker 3: love because it's what I love to do outside of football,
Speaker 3: and I've always had a passion and infinity for aviation
Speaker 3: aerospace engineering, and I try to use my platform to
Speaker 3: show that. You know, you can be anfl football player,
Speaker 3: but also if you're gonna be really good at something
Speaker 3: else and you have the time and work ethic, you
Speaker 3: can also do that as well. So yeah, it's important
Speaker 3: to me. But you know why I'm here at camp Man,
Speaker 3: I'm focused on ball, and I'm in season. I focused
Speaker 3: on ball, and that's been the best quarterback it can
Speaker 3: be for our room and embracing whatever role that my
Speaker 3: spot entels, and then I get my opportunity to go
Speaker 3: out there and play the best ball I can this
Speaker 3: offseason in regards to that passion of yours.
Speaker 2: So I was nine Cape Canaveral.
Speaker 3: I went up to Cleveland for the eclipse, which was
Speaker 3: very unique. My current goal in that world isn't working
Speaker 3: on my pilot's license. So I started that actually during
Speaker 3: my time out here during OTAs, which was a lot
Speaker 3: of fun because it's beautiful. Fly out to the coast,
Speaker 3: fly out to the valley. There's a lot of airplanes
Speaker 3: in the air out here, that's for sure. I didn't
Speaker 3: I didn't notice that until I started training, But it's
Speaker 3: a great place to learn to fly, So started that.
Speaker 3: But that'll be all in the back learning obviously for
Speaker 3: the season. But yeah, that's why I worked on this
Speaker 3: off season. So I'll continue to pick out different things
Speaker 3: throughout my off time in order to continue to grow
Speaker 3: and in that world. But while I'm here when it's
Speaker 3: football season in my time and attentions all in ball, oh,
Speaker 3: we're in my hours. Think I have thirty five of
Speaker 3: the forty you need to get your private pilot license
Speaker 3: and then you work to your instrument rating.
Speaker 2: You keep growing from there.
Speaker 3: So because I haven't taken my check ride yet, so
Speaker 3: it's probably just something I'll hold off for after the season,
Speaker 3: but maybe get some practice in, you know, go check
Speaker 3: out the mountains and stuff out here. But yeah, it's
Speaker 3: just uh, it's it's very cool. It's very pretty, very peaceful.
Speaker 3: A lot going on a little bit, but there's actually
Speaker 3: a lot of crossover. You get talk to f a A.
Speaker 3: You know, they repeat, they say a call, you got
Speaker 3: to repeat it back to him very specifically.
Speaker 2: Got a lot of stuff going on.
Speaker 3: It's just like you're saying in the pocket, you gotta
Speaker 3: call out one of coach coach coach Shanahan's plays. They
Speaker 3: get real wordy in there. So it's been good crossover
Speaker 3: between the two.
Speaker 2: Like space ultimately, I like, I like flying planes.
Speaker 3: You know, I think spacecraft, you know, they don't make
Speaker 3: them with wings anymore, so I don't. I think there's
Speaker 3: there's a lot of automation nowadays, you know, technology taken
Speaker 3: over different from the sixties and stuff. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 3: i'd be like it was like hand flying getting up there,
Speaker 3: so no flips or anything.
Speaker 2: We don't do anything too crazy though. Yeah. Awesome, appreciate y'all.