Speaker 1: Welcome to Games and Names.
Speaker 2: I'm Julian Edelman, and we've got a brand new compilation,
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Speaker 3: Cooper Cup talks about wide receiver techniques, receivers and art form.
Speaker 3: No one, doesn't you do it different than this? Goes
Speaker 3: back to the same conversation. It's like, you know, there's
Speaker 3: there's Picasso and brother Tis, Michael Donald Tello, Raphaels, there
Speaker 3: is there is so like, uh, there's all these different
Speaker 3: ways to do it. Yeah, right, And so I'm like,
Speaker 3: I don't want to get stuck just knowing one way.
Speaker 3: I want to have some other stuff I can do
Speaker 3: and force me to kind of go and learn from people.
Speaker 3: I remember before the twenty my second year, before the
Speaker 3: twenty eighteen season, It's it's Friday before we report on
Speaker 3: Tuesday for training camp, and I'm with Curse Conway.
Speaker 1: Yeah, who's that the receiver?
Speaker 2: Yeah, from with team Bears.
Speaker 1: Bears.
Speaker 4: So I I want what year?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I think at the point I'm with Conway and where
Speaker 3: we show up on I show up on Friday, like
Speaker 3: we're easing to take me through some girls. I want
Speaker 3: to get, you know, perspective. I want to see someone
Speaker 3: else take me to through stuff. A lot of the
Speaker 3: times I go with someone and I might spend a
Speaker 3: few days working out with someone and be like, I
Speaker 3: grabbed one thing that I want to like take with me, right.
Speaker 4: Sometimes there's nothing.
Speaker 3: Sometimes like man, there's just a treasure trove of stuff
Speaker 3: that I want to use here. Yeah, there with Curse
Speaker 3: Conway and we ran a curl route for an hour straight,
Speaker 3: an hour shift a curl route three days before training camp.
Speaker 3: My toes were I pulled my cleats off toes bloodied,
Speaker 3: gone gone every year yeah gone, you know, so you go, yeah,
Speaker 3: but I want to go here for someone want to
Speaker 3: hear something something different?
Speaker 1: And what was his technique? How was it different? You
Speaker 1: know he attacked the leverage guy or was he just
Speaker 1: goes straight up in the back.
Speaker 4: We did attack.
Speaker 3: We did more attack the leverage stuff in terms of
Speaker 3: like the stems and things like that. But I don't
Speaker 3: even remember if it was from him that I like
Speaker 3: pull this, But it was kind of the beginning of
Speaker 3: this idea of like, as a receiver, I never want
Speaker 3: to think of myself as as slowing down.
Speaker 4: I want to decelerate, right.
Speaker 3: I want to always be thinking I'm accelerating so even
Speaker 3: when I get to the top of a route, I
Speaker 3: want to accelerate down into the ground, right, Like, what's
Speaker 3: the what one of the best stoppers in the world javelin, right,
Speaker 3: Javelin comes down stops right. So I want to be
Speaker 3: like a javel where I'm running and I want that angle.
Speaker 3: I want to accelerate down at forty five and when
Speaker 3: I'm accelerating, put my foot down.
Speaker 1: You know what Newton says energy potential.
Speaker 3: Yes, he also says every force is an equal and
Speaker 3: opposite reaction, right, So if I accelerate down into the ground, right,
Speaker 3: the ground's gonna stop me, push back against me.
Speaker 1: Starting go somewhere.
Speaker 4: And now, as a dB you see me accelerating.
Speaker 3: I'm accelerating down towards the ground, and you're backing up right,
Speaker 3: but I'm stopping.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you have to have your technique and right
Speaker 1: in your body all that.
Speaker 3: Oh, there's so much I like they're running curls for
Speaker 3: an hour, get.
Speaker 4: My feet bloodied.
Speaker 3: Like yeah, I probably didn't grab a whole lot of
Speaker 3: stuff from it, but it was like the beginning of
Speaker 3: this thought, like, man, how do I want to stop now?
Speaker 5: Poking akua on developing alongside Cooper Cup You're.
Speaker 6: Running indie drills and like everybody's getting ready to line up,
Speaker 6: and I'm like, yo, I'm gonna make my way to
Speaker 6: the front right behind Coop. Yeah, I'm gonna make my
Speaker 6: way to the front to be number two, just so
Speaker 6: I can watch him.
Speaker 1: Go watch his whole rep.
Speaker 6: Watch how you like doing everything, whether it's routes on air,
Speaker 6: it was the cone drills, or he were going up
Speaker 6: in one on ones, like like yeah, and then when
Speaker 6: I got to go run the reps with him, I'm like,
Speaker 6: all right, Coop, like hey, we got this, or like
Speaker 6: we're lined up two by two and we're going to
Speaker 6: wear in a stack and it's me and Coop would
Speaker 6: be like, all right, what are you about to do
Speaker 6: right here? I'm like and he'd be like, all right,
Speaker 6: I think I'm about to get inside leverage and then
Speaker 6: I'm gonna work in I'm a cross face and then
Speaker 6: I'm a one two at the top and be like
Speaker 6: all right, and we're like we're as we're going out,
Speaker 6: like we're still kind of talking to me, like oh,
Speaker 6: and then you watch him say exactly do exactly what
Speaker 6: he said was gonna go to be like holy cow,
Speaker 6: Like this is how football should feel like. Man, there's
Speaker 6: a different type of feeling when you get to go
Speaker 6: and watch somebody because they're giving all these cues that man,
Speaker 6: you're like, oh, I just have my I have my
Speaker 6: corner route right here.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna go.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna find a way. And he's like, all right, No,
Speaker 6: it's gonna look like this. He's gonna roll down, he's
Speaker 6: gonna play outside leverage. I'm gonna get to his inside shower.
Speaker 6: I'm a one to him at the top and I'm
Speaker 6: gonna win. And then he would go one to him
Speaker 6: at the top and he would win and be like,
Speaker 6: damn cool.
Speaker 5: Next up, Antonio Gates breaks down his record setting touchdown.
Speaker 7: Catch you just in the moment, you know, I'm looking
Speaker 7: at the side of I'm reading my side of the field.
Speaker 7: I don't got time trying to read the whole scan
Speaker 7: the whole field. What's it was like a sticky pump,
Speaker 7: you know, And I'm looking at the back yardstick and
Speaker 7: go and go right, come around right. I knew it was.
Speaker 7: I felt like it was zone, you know. And I gotta, man,
Speaker 7: mind you, I gotta I gotta guess this. When after
Speaker 7: my first.
Speaker 2: Two steps is this, Uh, who's this on?
Speaker 1: Is this on a linebacker?
Speaker 4: Yeah? This is on line back.
Speaker 7: It felt like it felt like cover four if I
Speaker 7: can look at it. It felt like he was going
Speaker 7: to try to push. Yeah, but it was like two safeties.
Speaker 7: So it's hard to determine because we in the red zone, right,
Speaker 7: It's hard.
Speaker 1: It's hard.
Speaker 7: It's hard to determine. But me, I don't even That
Speaker 7: was the beauty of not playing either. I don't overthink nothing.
Speaker 7: I just go play, you know what I'm saying. Because
Speaker 7: when you got this football high iq, you come down,
Speaker 7: you can overthink it's still football, it's green grass, or
Speaker 7: it ain't.
Speaker 1: Just play, you know what I'm saying. That was my philosophy.
Speaker 7: Once I ran up on him, I realized he was
Speaker 7: He stayed inside, he didn't push right, so I'm thinking, like, well,
Speaker 7: the corner didn't look like he was squatting.
Speaker 4: So that's why I kind of trying to figure out what.
Speaker 1: Was cover six?
Speaker 7: It was four, it was two, you know what, Let
Speaker 7: me just get back around here. I felt like it's
Speaker 7: some type of zone, right, which I felt like it
Speaker 7: was cover four because he drove it safety drove it.
Speaker 1: So hard, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 7: So I ended up just trying to loop around and
Speaker 7: get around the linebacker with the idea of, if it's four,
Speaker 7: let me give him a little something because he's going
Speaker 7: to have to go.
Speaker 1: He's trying to get unerneath me. Yeah, it's going to
Speaker 1: have to go if it's four. Yeah, and if it's true.
Speaker 7: So basically my idea is that if it's two, I
Speaker 7: can still just come on and come around him flatter.
Speaker 7: I gotta come flatter. If it's four, I gotta still
Speaker 7: come flat. Now I'm the safeties guy. Once I get
Speaker 7: a straight lease, now I got to beat him.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 7: So the backer is not really the concern. It was
Speaker 7: more so the safety. I've always used that formula anyway.
Speaker 7: I ain't got time to worry about the first dude.
Speaker 7: Whereas his help, right, So where you're gonna go? Yeah,
Speaker 7: So I just kind of gave him listen. I felt
Speaker 7: like he wasn't really moving. I said, there's no point
Speaker 7: of me why and what? He ain't coming right? So
Speaker 7: I just came, let's yeah two three for two, three
Speaker 7: for two, that's what it might have been. So, and
Speaker 7: I've seen enough of those coverages to know. Yeah, I
Speaker 7: got there a lot with like Danny when Danny was
Speaker 7: on our team, So I got the like I was
Speaker 7: darren spros.
Speaker 1: We get him in the slot formation as.
Speaker 7: A backer, linebacker, safety, whatever, so we know it's three
Speaker 7: for to take. I go over here at the back
Speaker 7: of got me. I go vertical to the safety, got me.
Speaker 7: I always trying to figure out what the help was at.
Speaker 7: I never thought about the actual guy who's carvering me
Speaker 7: in my mind and to me, I was gonna beat
Speaker 7: him where it's his help that determines his levers, that's
Speaker 7: going to determine how he's shade, how he's moving. And
Speaker 7: I felt like he didn't really move with no point
Speaker 7: of me getting.
Speaker 2: Wide and you had to get open on him for
Speaker 2: you to get the ball. Yeah, because you know that's
Speaker 2: what the quarterback seeing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, now Danny A.
Speaker 5: Mondola breaks down the double pass is.
Speaker 2: Through the pass eat by beat.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 1: We got to start by the full season.
Speaker 8: Really, I think we never We practiced it a couple
Speaker 8: maybe three times, whether it be in a walkthrough.
Speaker 1: We put it in like week two, we put it
Speaker 1: in me too.
Speaker 8: We actually ran it against We had it called with
Speaker 8: an alert versus right, yeah, versus Kansas City on that
Speaker 8: Monday night game, and they gave us a man look,
Speaker 8: so we had to get a check out of it,
Speaker 8: run a slat backside with Jojo Lefello, who took it
Speaker 8: to the house actually, but because as they gave us
Speaker 8: a man look, we couldn't run it. So it got
Speaker 8: called off and then we didn't see it again until
Speaker 8: I think we ran in a walk through it and
Speaker 8: we missed it in the walk.
Speaker 1: Through, and the walkthrough missed it the night before the game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so the coaches are freaking out there, like scrap it.
Speaker 8: These slappies can't complete a pass. And then and then
Speaker 8: they called it in the game and we got the
Speaker 8: right look and then ended up working out.
Speaker 1: Man, remember this ball, let me see I remember, I
Speaker 1: remember the.
Speaker 4: Way it feels. Oh yeah, that's nice.
Speaker 8: It's a little wobbly though, was it a was it
Speaker 8: a complete spiral or no?
Speaker 1: It was a just wanted to get out there. I
Speaker 1: thought I overthrew them.
Speaker 2: Now like Doling, I get this, hey little jogger run
Speaker 2: he catches it, little high.
Speaker 8: Step in the end zone, tracked it down. That was
Speaker 8: That was the loudest I've ever heard Foxborough. Well, we
Speaker 8: were down fourteen points twice in that game. That was
Speaker 8: the second time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I tied it up at twenty eight. I tied
Speaker 1: it up at twenty eight.
Speaker 2: They went up fourteen zero, then we went to fourteen fourteen,
Speaker 2: then they went up twenty eight to fourteen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you remember the lead up to this, Josh, No,
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 2: Josh just came up to me in the drive before,
Speaker 2: he is I don't need to give you any lead
Speaker 2: time for for the dope pass, do I. I'm like, no,
Speaker 2: I'm good. Yeah, sitting there shitting my pants out there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, thinking about the walk through the night before. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what were you thinking when you let that ball fly?
Speaker 1: I thought I overthrew you.
Speaker 8: No, I was good. I was I was jogging too, Bud,
Speaker 8: I don't know right in the stride, didn't even have
Speaker 8: to turn the jets on.
Speaker 5: Steve Smith Senior is up next, talking about becoming the
Speaker 5: X receiver, and we.
Speaker 4: Had practiced the play is called X Clown.
Speaker 9: We practiced that play so many times and me and
Speaker 9: Jay could not get on the same page.
Speaker 4: I'll run it this way, he threw it that way,
Speaker 4: he threw it this way.
Speaker 9: I wouldn't run it that way, and it just just seemed.
Speaker 4: Like it was not gonna work. And then when they
Speaker 4: called it a game, it worked twice.
Speaker 1: You guys hit it twice.
Speaker 2: Now the X clown So what there's verbiage probably for
Speaker 2: the protection and there's something else or does that tell
Speaker 2: everyone what to do?
Speaker 4: So this is where ball is.
Speaker 9: This is the part where some people don't like that
Speaker 9: actually know ball. You know, they kind of think that
Speaker 9: I don't know ball. And people always talk about you know,
Speaker 9: especially with my stuff, they always talk about Steve just
Speaker 9: he just talks. And the offense we were running that
Speaker 9: year was Dan Henny yeah, w tree from that tree
Speaker 9: is from Charlie Weiss, which means we had maybe if
Speaker 9: these words sound familiar to you, Ola recircle, Max Delly.
Speaker 1: XQ yeah, olay is that out with the flag?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 2: Two man concept X clown's backside telling the X what
Speaker 2: to do, but there was probably something in front telling
Speaker 2: the other guys what to do.
Speaker 9: Yes, And then we had like toga they called it
Speaker 9: ten ten two ends, two ends.
Speaker 1: We had to topper topper.
Speaker 4: To two posts.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah, so that that was that was the offense, and
Speaker 9: you know, I had to learn how to play receiver
Speaker 9: in a way that I just really didn't know how
Speaker 9: to play receiver at that time, you know, going to Utah.
Speaker 4: I was.
Speaker 9: I was actually in college, junior college. I was a
Speaker 9: Z originally.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Well, my wide receivers coach in college switched me to
Speaker 9: AX because I'm right handed, but I'm left hand dominant.
Speaker 9: So I would be at Z with the ball in
Speaker 9: my left hand and I was stiff on my right right. Well,
Speaker 9: they come and just poke it out. So they moved
Speaker 9: me to ACTS. And that's how I became an.
Speaker 1: AXE because of how you handled the ball.
Speaker 4: Because I I handled the ball bro It.
Speaker 2: Was not only to carry the ball in my left arm,
Speaker 2: because I was a four back, everything left left. I
Speaker 2: was the same way because I was in Pop Warner.
Speaker 2: I was the four back and a wishbone offense, and
Speaker 2: I always ran left, and so you always kept it
Speaker 2: on the outside, and so I would always, even to
Speaker 2: this day that my most comfortable side was my left
Speaker 2: side holding the ball, which is very unorthodox for right
Speaker 2: handed guys.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 2: So you turned into an X in college because your
Speaker 2: right hand, you're better with the ball in your left,
Speaker 2: so you give the stiffy, and in this point of
Speaker 2: your career you were still kind of feeling your feeling
Speaker 2: on how to learn how to play receiver in this offense,
Speaker 2: that Charlie Weiss style offense.
Speaker 1: So is this clown route? Is it like a bow post?
Speaker 2: Yes, it's so because you inside released and then you
Speaker 2: stemmed up and then you hit them with the outside
Speaker 2: with the couple because.
Speaker 4: It was it was, it was. It was built off Q.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know you was just a bow.
Speaker 9: Yes, So it was built off the Q because I
Speaker 9: ran it so well, yeah, stem inside, get vertical, get vertical,
Speaker 9: go to the corner. Yeah, so I'll stem inside and
Speaker 9: I just went. But I ran the one and I leaned.
Speaker 1: But the reason I leaned to make him think it
Speaker 1: was going a shitty bow.
Speaker 9: Yes, but it was also the lean was to put
Speaker 9: my foot in the ground to go, yes, sir.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: People people don't realize you were primarily an X. Like
Speaker 2: people try to put you in like categories where you
Speaker 2: were No. Steve Smith was the most you're probably the
Speaker 2: most dominant X in my eyes of all time under
Speaker 2: six foot like you like and you, but you didn't
Speaker 2: play like you were. It was fucking amazing to me
Speaker 2: to watch you play. When you could run by people,
Speaker 2: you could run the routes that I ran and I
Speaker 2: specialized in, but you could win on a go route.
Speaker 2: You could stack a guy, run away from a guy,
Speaker 2: and you were so dynamic with the ball and strong
Speaker 2: bottom legs like you never got down like and you like,
Speaker 2: it's fucking crazy that it all stemmed back to the
Speaker 2: coach in college.
Speaker 1: I say, hey, you only hold it in your left
Speaker 1: I think we got to put you at X.
Speaker 4: It was it was a problem.
Speaker 1: That's fucking gat up.
Speaker 5: Next we've got Pooka Nakua. I'm becoming Matthew Stafford's go
Speaker 5: to receiver.
Speaker 2: Chemistry between you and Matthew Stafford, when did you feel
Speaker 2: that chemistry actually ignite? And like you knew you were
Speaker 2: gonna have this ten catch game going into the week
Speaker 2: two where you're gonna have the performance you have.
Speaker 6: So rookie mini camp, we come, we get drafted, we
Speaker 6: show up.
Speaker 1: And then there's like two weeks after that the rookies
Speaker 1: got to stay.
Speaker 6: After everybody else goes and everybody's leaving, but except me
Speaker 6: and my roommate Davis Allen. He was the I was
Speaker 6: one seventy seven. He was one seventy five, two picks
Speaker 6: in front of me. We're at the hotel together. We're
Speaker 6: both rookie, so we're staying and everybody's going We're like, oh,
Speaker 6: we're going to stay, and we get a text of
Speaker 6: like yo from one of our strength coaches like, yo,
Speaker 6: Matthew wants you to come out and catch for like
Speaker 6: Higgs is going to be there or other wide receiver
Speaker 6: Van Jefferson's going to be there, and they're like he
Speaker 6: wants you to come out and be like yo for real,
Speaker 6: like out of all the guys on the team, like
Speaker 6: he asked me and like my roommates to come out.
Speaker 6: And I was like, yo, I got to run the
Speaker 6: best routes of my life. If I cannot drop a ball,
Speaker 6: like it's got to be as good or it's got
Speaker 6: to be the best route run I've ever had in
Speaker 6: my life. And the first day and like you've thrown
Speaker 6: with him, like you see when like you're coming out
Speaker 6: of breaks and like the ball's in the perfect spot
Speaker 6: every time, and be like, yo, if I keep my
Speaker 6: feet and like as long as I can see the
Speaker 6: ball spin for a second, I'm like this is I'm
Speaker 6: like he is not missing. Like whether it's upfield, we're
Speaker 6: running an out route, puts on your front shoulder.
Speaker 1: You can turn, tap and turn to get out of the side.
Speaker 6: And you're running ont a crow break, it's on your
Speaker 6: inside path, so you can drop step and turn over
Speaker 6: your inside shoulder.
Speaker 1: And that was like, holy colch.
Speaker 2: Are you basically telling me that you guys had instant chemistry?
Speaker 1: I mean low kielt I felt like first, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: was like.
Speaker 2: Honestly, I'm not gonna I'm not even gonna second guess
Speaker 2: that because I went with him once to Golden West. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we threw together. I think we threw forty five balls.
Speaker 2: I think we went forty five for forty five We
Speaker 2: never even met each other. That's how elite his arm
Speaker 2: talent is. He like like Puka was saying, the ball
Speaker 2: come right out there, right out that break is right
Speaker 2: on your forehead, literally right up on your forehead, and
Speaker 2: he just over here slings it now.
Speaker 5: Steve Smith Senior on the greatness of Davonte Adams and
Speaker 5: his own mentality as a route runner.
Speaker 9: My favorite old guys too, Like so I still think
Speaker 9: Davonte Adams is still that guy. He's not gonna he's
Speaker 9: never been a four to three guy, but his releases
Speaker 9: are remarkable, just the way he does his hands, ball placement,
Speaker 9: catch radius, body control, tempo.
Speaker 1: Sudden burst really good sudden burst, and then his.
Speaker 9: Creativity to stack you even though he's not faster than you.
Speaker 9: So just him being able to use his leverage. So like,
Speaker 9: I look at that, But then there's other guys I
Speaker 9: think that that are promising, who have the ability.
Speaker 2: Who's someone that you think that kind of reminds you
Speaker 2: of you, if there's anyone, see, So people ask that
Speaker 2: and hard to do that. So the reason why I did.
Speaker 4: I'm not judging you.
Speaker 9: The reason why I have a hard time answering that
Speaker 9: question is because I also remember that I was supposed
Speaker 9: to be a fit front draft pick. I was also
Speaker 9: told I was just a returner. So now that I'm
Speaker 9: domb playing, everybody's like, oh, he minds me, you But
Speaker 9: when I was playing, people didn't like me, and so
Speaker 9: you didn't like me. And then there's you know, we
Speaker 9: read our stuff on there and they're like, oh, you know,
Speaker 9: people like, oh, Steve was just a slot receiver.
Speaker 4: And really it was I didn't know that.
Speaker 9: I think the game has changed, but I also think
Speaker 9: there are players out there who don't remind me of myself,
Speaker 9: because I think they are significantly better. I played the
Speaker 9: way I played because I was obviously I did like
Speaker 9: I didn't have quick feet like Chad like I can do.
Speaker 9: I couldn't do great cone drills. I round in my routes.
Speaker 9: I never ran the right I never ran the same
Speaker 9: route the same way. So they were things that I
Speaker 9: did that I used as my advantage. But I ran
Speaker 9: my routes kind of add like I was never consistent
Speaker 9: on doing things. I did it my way. Yeah, and
Speaker 9: but I was really just kind of like covering for
Speaker 9: the fact that, man, I was just playing on hope
Speaker 9: of the prayer yea. And so that's just kind of
Speaker 9: like I know I was playing with house money, right,
Speaker 9: I know that, So just roll the dice, say, man,
Speaker 9: put all the chips in. So when I go across
Speaker 9: the middle and I know I'm gonna get hit, you
Speaker 9: got a choice to get hit with the ball, oh
Speaker 9: without the ball. And so a few times like all right,
Speaker 9: I get hit with the ball. Now I get up
Speaker 9: and I'm like, man, you know a guy used to
Speaker 9: hit me. He'd be like, oh, what you want with that,
Speaker 9: and so I started getting up like if you think
Speaker 9: you crazy, I'm crazier.
Speaker 4: And so it was more like the feed into.
Speaker 9: Like to intimidate and show bron be.
Speaker 1: Here all day, your best didn't hurt me.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 5: Cooper Cup is up next, talking about the unconscious competence
Speaker 5: you need as a receiver.
Speaker 3: Man, there's just so much you can do better, so
Speaker 3: many things, so many details that you can press yourself on,
Speaker 3: and like, you know, what kind of tools can at
Speaker 3: your tool belt as counters to what worked?
Speaker 4: Like what worked? How are people going to stop it?
Speaker 4: How do I counter that? Yeah?
Speaker 2: And you're in the point of your career where you
Speaker 2: could watch film and you can go practice off a
Speaker 2: specific look of how it may not have went your way,
Speaker 2: and you could put that and play that game in
Speaker 2: your mind. And you're probably at the point where you're
Speaker 2: running routes. Oh yeah, you're running yeah exactly. I mean
Speaker 2: you get better playing football, playing football.
Speaker 4: Yep, exactly.
Speaker 3: I think there's there's a few different steps that just
Speaker 3: like the visualization side of things of where you're like,
Speaker 3: you know, I'm I know, my wife knows, I'm laying
Speaker 3: in bed and suddenly I'll just be like, wow, flinch out.
Speaker 3: I look like what were you doing there? What was happening? Yeah,
Speaker 3: I got to take I was running this route. It's
Speaker 3: safety was driving down you know, like it's like it's real.
Speaker 3: It's like you get to this point where you're visualizing
Speaker 3: things to the point where your body is like reacting
Speaker 3: to it and you're going and you take next step
Speaker 3: and now we're OK, we're running routes on air, and
Speaker 3: we don't run routes on air just to run routes
Speaker 3: on their Like there's an intent mind what you're doing.
Speaker 3: You're you're seeing, Hey, this is how this dB is
Speaker 3: playing us. Let's rest run this route. And I'm talking
Speaker 3: to Matthew, Hey is three carry? It's a tight carry
Speaker 3: out side, Like how we want to run this route
Speaker 3: on this one? What angles are we coming out at?
Speaker 3: So now you're running routes on air and you're visualizing
Speaker 3: these things. So now when it does come time that
Speaker 3: you're competing, you've seen that, you've seen it, you visualize that,
Speaker 3: you've felt all those steps that you're gonna take. You've
Speaker 3: seen how he's gonna play and react to each movie
Speaker 3: you're gonna do. At that point, once you're playing the game,
Speaker 3: it's like I've taken this rep over and over and
Speaker 3: over again.
Speaker 1: Already used to call that DejaVu.
Speaker 2: You practice so much once you're doing the game, it's
Speaker 2: like deja voo. That's a great feeling too, It is,
Speaker 2: you know what, People don't realize the amount of reps
Speaker 2: you put into a play for it to work, because
Speaker 2: there's like twenty different looks you can have. And when
Speaker 2: you practice it and you rep it over over and
Speaker 2: over with an intent, like Cooper said, and you use
Speaker 2: those reps once you get to game day, it's in
Speaker 2: your subconscious yep. So once you can react faster and
Speaker 2: you get to use your athleticism more because once you
Speaker 2: know what's coming, then that's when techniques and your superpowers
Speaker 2: get to come out.
Speaker 3: Exactly when when your mind's on, your body's off all
Speaker 3: of the time, Right when you can get to the
Speaker 3: point where your mind's seeing it so much that that's
Speaker 3: now subconscious. Sean McVay calls it unconscious competence. Right when
Speaker 3: you unconscious. I bet you he's got some sayings. What
Speaker 3: other sayns does he have he's got?
Speaker 4: Is you gotta let him come? Natch? I can't just
Speaker 4: start pulling him out of thing. Keep it in the back.
Speaker 2: So we had this rep right here, Keep that in
Speaker 2: your subconscious. If something comes along in this next part
Speaker 2: of the interview, just pop a flag it.
Speaker 1: Flag it.
Speaker 5: Did you say that you like would wake up like
Speaker 5: dreaming about reps.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, no, this isn't just this is like a
Speaker 3: full on like like I'm awake, laying in bed and
Speaker 3: I'm just visualized. It's it's playing so clearly in my head,
Speaker 3: what's happening that my body is reacting to what's happening
Speaker 3: in those moments, and it's it's it's it's become it's
Speaker 3: honestly become a problem to the point where it's like,
Speaker 3: ysh if if we're like my wife's like laying on me,
Speaker 3: it's and I'm daydreamers like that, like she can get
Speaker 3: like like boom, I move actually like her head's popping
Speaker 3: up off my shoulder.
Speaker 4: It's a it's a problem.
Speaker 3: So we've had to we've had to figure out how
Speaker 3: to like, you know, balance those things a little bit so.
Speaker 4: That we're not hurting each other.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna illgal hands. Thanks for listening.
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Speaker 9: Mm hmmmmmmm