WEBVTT - Highlight Reels: Wide Receiver Techniques 0:00:01.200 --> 0:00:02.520 Welcome to Games and Names. 0:00:02.600 --> 0:00:05.640 I'm Julian Edelman, and we've got a brand new compilation, 0:00:05.880 --> 0:00:10.040 Highlight Reel starting now now. 0:00:10.200 --> 0:00:14.360 Cooper Cup talks about wide receiver techniques, receivers and art form. 0:00:14.800 --> 0:00:16.680 No one, doesn't you do it different than this? Goes 0:00:16.720 --> 0:00:19.200 back to the same conversation. It's like, you know, there's 0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:32.760 there's Picasso and brother Tis, Michael Donald Tello, Raphaels, there 0:00:32.840 --> 0:00:36.040 is there is so like, uh, there's all these different 0:00:36.080 --> 0:00:37.560 ways to do it. Yeah, right, And so I'm like, 0:00:37.560 --> 0:00:39.839 I don't want to get stuck just knowing one way. 0:00:39.880 --> 0:00:41.360 I want to have some other stuff I can do 0:00:41.720 --> 0:00:44.840 and force me to kind of go and learn from people. 0:00:44.840 --> 0:00:47.600 I remember before the twenty my second year, before the 0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:51.680 twenty eighteen season, It's it's Friday before we report on 0:00:51.720 --> 0:00:54.120 Tuesday for training camp, and I'm with Curse Conway. 0:00:54.680 --> 0:00:57.400 Yeah, who's that the receiver? 0:00:57.560 --> 0:01:01.400 Yeah, from with team Bears. 0:01:01.480 --> 0:01:01.840 Bears. 0:01:02.320 --> 0:01:04.040 So I I want what year? 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:05.120 Yeah? 0:01:05.240 --> 0:01:08.200 I think at the point I'm with Conway and where 0:01:08.640 --> 0:01:10.240 we show up on I show up on Friday, like 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:12.200 we're easing to take me through some girls. I want 0:01:12.240 --> 0:01:13.960 to get, you know, perspective. I want to see someone 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:15.760 else take me to through stuff. A lot of the 0:01:15.760 --> 0:01:18.959 times I go with someone and I might spend a 0:01:18.959 --> 0:01:20.600 few days working out with someone and be like, I 0:01:20.640 --> 0:01:23.080 grabbed one thing that I want to like take with me, right. 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:24.199 Sometimes there's nothing. 0:01:24.240 --> 0:01:27.119 Sometimes like man, there's just a treasure trove of stuff 0:01:27.120 --> 0:01:30.120 that I want to use here. Yeah, there with Curse 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:33.440 Conway and we ran a curl route for an hour straight, 0:01:34.600 --> 0:01:37.920 an hour shift a curl route three days before training camp. 0:01:38.280 --> 0:01:42.080 My toes were I pulled my cleats off toes bloodied, 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:46.760 gone gone every year yeah gone, you know, so you go, yeah, 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:48.920 but I want to go here for someone want to 0:01:48.960 --> 0:01:50.080 hear something something different? 0:01:50.080 --> 0:01:52.840 And what was his technique? How was it different? You 0:01:52.880 --> 0:01:54.880 know he attacked the leverage guy or was he just 0:01:54.880 --> 0:01:55.800 goes straight up in the back. 0:01:55.840 --> 0:01:56.520 We did attack. 0:01:56.600 --> 0:01:58.840 We did more attack the leverage stuff in terms of 0:01:58.880 --> 0:02:01.520 like the stems and things like that. But I don't 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:04.520 even remember if it was from him that I like 0:02:04.960 --> 0:02:07.040 pull this, But it was kind of the beginning of 0:02:07.080 --> 0:02:10.799 this idea of like, as a receiver, I never want 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:13.400 to think of myself as as slowing down. 0:02:13.680 --> 0:02:15.079 I want to decelerate, right. 0:02:15.480 --> 0:02:17.480 I want to always be thinking I'm accelerating so even 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:18.880 when I get to the top of a route, I 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:23.160 want to accelerate down into the ground, right, Like, what's 0:02:23.160 --> 0:02:27.600 the what one of the best stoppers in the world javelin, right, 0:02:28.000 --> 0:02:31.400 Javelin comes down stops right. So I want to be 0:02:31.440 --> 0:02:33.480 like a javel where I'm running and I want that angle. 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:36.840 I want to accelerate down at forty five and when 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:38.359 I'm accelerating, put my foot down. 0:02:39.600 --> 0:02:41.880 You know what Newton says energy potential. 0:02:42.280 --> 0:02:44.919 Yes, he also says every force is an equal and 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:48.799 opposite reaction, right, So if I accelerate down into the ground, right, 0:02:48.840 --> 0:02:51.160 the ground's gonna stop me, push back against me. 0:02:51.240 --> 0:02:52.160 Starting go somewhere. 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:54.800 And now, as a dB you see me accelerating. 0:02:55.240 --> 0:02:59.079 I'm accelerating down towards the ground, and you're backing up right, 0:02:59.120 --> 0:02:59.880 but I'm stopping. 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:02.600 Yeah, but you have to have your technique and right 0:03:02.680 --> 0:03:03.880 in your body all that. 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:07.400 Oh, there's so much I like they're running curls for 0:03:07.480 --> 0:03:08.400 an hour, get. 0:03:08.240 --> 0:03:09.079 My feet bloodied. 0:03:09.840 --> 0:03:11.959 Like yeah, I probably didn't grab a whole lot of 0:03:12.000 --> 0:03:13.440 stuff from it, but it was like the beginning of 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:15.880 this thought, like, man, how do I want to stop now? 0:03:16.280 --> 0:03:19.480 Poking akua on developing alongside Cooper Cup You're. 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:21.880 Running indie drills and like everybody's getting ready to line up, 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:23.760 and I'm like, yo, I'm gonna make my way to 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:26.600 the front right behind Coop. Yeah, I'm gonna make my 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:28.560 way to the front to be number two, just so 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:29.280 I can watch him. 0:03:29.320 --> 0:03:30.239 Go watch his whole rep. 0:03:30.280 --> 0:03:33.440 Watch how you like doing everything, whether it's routes on air, 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:35.920 it was the cone drills, or he were going up 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:38.560 in one on ones, like like yeah, and then when 0:03:38.600 --> 0:03:40.080 I got to go run the reps with him, I'm like, 0:03:40.080 --> 0:03:42.120 all right, Coop, like hey, we got this, or like 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:43.920 we're lined up two by two and we're going to 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:45.320 wear in a stack and it's me and Coop would 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:46.800 be like, all right, what are you about to do 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:48.400 right here? I'm like and he'd be like, all right, 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:50.120 I think I'm about to get inside leverage and then 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:52.160 I'm gonna work in I'm a cross face and then 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:53.400 I'm a one two at the top and be like 0:03:53.400 --> 0:03:55.320 all right, and we're like we're as we're going out, 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:56.960 like we're still kind of talking to me, like oh, 0:03:57.160 --> 0:03:59.280 and then you watch him say exactly do exactly what 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:00.920 he said was gonna go to be like holy cow, 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:03.600 Like this is how football should feel like. Man, there's 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:05.080 a different type of feeling when you get to go 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:07.720 and watch somebody because they're giving all these cues that man, 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:09.240 you're like, oh, I just have my I have my 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:10.040 corner route right here. 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:10.480 I'm gonna go. 0:04:10.880 --> 0:04:12.440 I'm gonna find a way. And he's like, all right, No, 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:14.360 it's gonna look like this. He's gonna roll down, he's 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:16.760 gonna play outside leverage. I'm gonna get to his inside shower. 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:18.200 I'm a one to him at the top and I'm 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:20.040 gonna win. And then he would go one to him 0:04:20.040 --> 0:04:21.320 at the top and he would win and be like, 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:22.240 damn cool. 0:04:23.760 --> 0:04:27.240 Next up, Antonio Gates breaks down his record setting touchdown. 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:30.559 Catch you just in the moment, you know, I'm looking 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:32.920 at the side of I'm reading my side of the field. 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:34.760 I don't got time trying to read the whole scan 0:04:34.839 --> 0:04:37.799 the whole field. What's it was like a sticky pump, 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:42.960 you know, And I'm looking at the back yardstick and 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:46.520 go and go right, come around right. I knew it was. 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:49.400 I felt like it was zone, you know. And I gotta, man, 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:52.520 mind you, I gotta I gotta guess this. When after 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:53.120 my first. 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:56.400 Two steps is this, Uh, who's this on? 0:04:56.640 --> 0:04:57.520 Is this on a linebacker? 0:04:57.680 --> 0:04:58.560 Yeah? This is on line back. 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:01.760 It felt like it felt like cover four if I 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:03.240 can look at it. It felt like he was going 0:05:03.320 --> 0:05:06.240 to try to push. Yeah, but it was like two safeties. 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:08.800 So it's hard to determine because we in the red zone, right, 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:09.359 It's hard. 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:10.560 It's hard. 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:13.200 It's hard to determine. But me, I don't even That 0:05:13.279 --> 0:05:15.840 was the beauty of not playing either. I don't overthink nothing. 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:18.000 I just go play, you know what I'm saying. Because 0:05:18.000 --> 0:05:20.120 when you got this football high iq, you come down, 0:05:20.200 --> 0:05:23.880 you can overthink it's still football, it's green grass, or 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:24.480 it ain't. 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:26.800 Just play, you know what I'm saying. That was my philosophy. 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:29.120 Once I ran up on him, I realized he was 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:33.440 He stayed inside, he didn't push right, so I'm thinking, like, well, 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:36.080 the corner didn't look like he was squatting. 0:05:36.320 --> 0:05:38.240 So that's why I kind of trying to figure out what. 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:38.839 Was cover six? 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:41.520 It was four, it was two, you know what, Let 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:44.240 me just get back around here. I felt like it's 0:05:44.279 --> 0:05:47.200 some type of zone, right, which I felt like it 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:49.440 was cover four because he drove it safety drove it. 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:50.880 So hard, you know what I'm saying. 0:05:50.880 --> 0:05:52.919 So I ended up just trying to loop around and 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:56.360 get around the linebacker with the idea of, if it's four, 0:05:56.600 --> 0:05:58.400 let me give him a little something because he's going 0:05:58.480 --> 0:05:58.800 to have to go. 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:01.000 He's trying to get unerneath me. Yeah, it's going to 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:04.280 have to go if it's four. Yeah, and if it's true. 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:06.919 So basically my idea is that if it's two, I 0:06:06.920 --> 0:06:09.679 can still just come on and come around him flatter. 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:12.080 I gotta come flatter. If it's four, I gotta still 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:14.560 come flat. Now I'm the safeties guy. Once I get 0:06:14.560 --> 0:06:16.520 a straight lease, now I got to beat him. 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:17.000 Right. 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:20.279 So the backer is not really the concern. It was 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:22.960 more so the safety. I've always used that formula anyway. 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:24.800 I ain't got time to worry about the first dude. 0:06:24.960 --> 0:06:28.360 Whereas his help, right, So where you're gonna go? Yeah, 0:06:28.400 --> 0:06:30.599 So I just kind of gave him listen. I felt 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:32.880 like he wasn't really moving. I said, there's no point 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:35.680 of me why and what? He ain't coming right? So 0:06:35.800 --> 0:06:40.720 I just came, let's yeah two three for two, three 0:06:40.800 --> 0:06:43.520 for two, that's what it might have been. So, and 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:47.599 I've seen enough of those coverages to know. Yeah, I 0:06:47.680 --> 0:06:49.680 got there a lot with like Danny when Danny was 0:06:49.720 --> 0:06:51.080 on our team, So I got the like I was 0:06:51.480 --> 0:06:52.200 darren spros. 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:54.600 We get him in the slot formation as. 0:06:54.520 --> 0:06:57.600 A backer, linebacker, safety, whatever, so we know it's three 0:06:57.640 --> 0:07:00.400 for to take. I go over here at the back 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:02.560 of got me. I go vertical to the safety, got me. 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:05.400 I always trying to figure out what the help was at. 0:07:05.640 --> 0:07:08.159 I never thought about the actual guy who's carvering me 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:10.560 in my mind and to me, I was gonna beat 0:07:10.640 --> 0:07:13.600 him where it's his help that determines his levers, that's 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:16.400 going to determine how he's shade, how he's moving. And 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:18.720 I felt like he didn't really move with no point 0:07:18.720 --> 0:07:19.400 of me getting. 0:07:19.240 --> 0:07:21.080 Wide and you had to get open on him for 0:07:21.080 --> 0:07:23.240 you to get the ball. Yeah, because you know that's 0:07:23.240 --> 0:07:24.239 what the quarterback seeing. 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:25.800 Yeah, now Danny A. 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:28.240 Mondola breaks down the double pass is. 0:07:28.280 --> 0:07:32.280 Through the pass eat by beat. 0:07:32.440 --> 0:07:32.640 Well. 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:34.520 We got to start by the full season. 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:37.440 Really, I think we never We practiced it a couple 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:40.320 maybe three times, whether it be in a walkthrough. 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:42.240 We put it in like week two, we put it 0:07:42.240 --> 0:07:42.720 in me too. 0:07:42.720 --> 0:07:46.080 We actually ran it against We had it called with 0:07:46.200 --> 0:07:50.880 an alert versus right, yeah, versus Kansas City on that 0:07:50.880 --> 0:07:52.960 Monday night game, and they gave us a man look, 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:55.040 so we had to get a check out of it, 0:07:55.720 --> 0:07:58.360 run a slat backside with Jojo Lefello, who took it 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:00.600 to the house actually, but because as they gave us 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:02.120 a man look, we couldn't run it. So it got 0:08:02.120 --> 0:08:04.000 called off and then we didn't see it again until 0:08:04.080 --> 0:08:05.840 I think we ran in a walk through it and 0:08:05.880 --> 0:08:07.280 we missed it in the walk. 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:10.000 Through, and the walkthrough missed it the night before the game. Yeah, 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:13.480 so the coaches are freaking out there, like scrap it. 0:08:14.000 --> 0:08:18.920 These slappies can't complete a pass. And then and then 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:20.560 they called it in the game and we got the 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:24.160 right look and then ended up working out. 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:28.240 Man, remember this ball, let me see I remember, I 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:28.640 remember the. 0:08:28.600 --> 0:08:31.320 Way it feels. Oh yeah, that's nice. 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:34.320 It's a little wobbly though, was it a was it 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:35.880 a complete spiral or no? 0:08:35.960 --> 0:08:38.640 It was a just wanted to get out there. I 0:08:38.679 --> 0:08:39.680 thought I overthrew them. 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:44.800 Now like Doling, I get this, hey little jogger run 0:08:44.880 --> 0:08:46.320 he catches it, little high. 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:48.800 Step in the end zone, tracked it down. That was 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:52.560 That was the loudest I've ever heard Foxborough. Well, we 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:55.480 were down fourteen points twice in that game. That was 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:56.199 the second time. 0:08:56.280 --> 0:08:58.160 Yeah, I tied it up at twenty eight. I tied 0:08:58.200 --> 0:08:58.880 it up at twenty eight. 0:08:58.920 --> 0:09:01.480 They went up fourteen zero, then we went to fourteen fourteen, 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:03.520 then they went up twenty eight to fourteen. 0:09:03.720 --> 0:09:07.599 Yeah, you remember the lead up to this, Josh, No, 0:09:07.720 --> 0:09:08.080 I don't. 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:10.240 Josh just came up to me in the drive before, 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:11.880 he is I don't need to give you any lead 0:09:11.880 --> 0:09:15.599 time for for the dope pass, do I. I'm like, no, 0:09:16.240 --> 0:09:20.000 I'm good. Yeah, sitting there shitting my pants out there. 0:09:20.240 --> 0:09:22.960 Yeah, thinking about the walk through the night before. Yeah, 0:09:23.920 --> 0:09:25.600 what were you thinking when you let that ball fly? 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:27.000 I thought I overthrew you. 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:30.559 No, I was good. I was I was jogging too, Bud, 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:34.800 I don't know right in the stride, didn't even have 0:09:34.840 --> 0:09:35.640 to turn the jets on. 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:38.800 Steve Smith Senior is up next, talking about becoming the 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:40.320 X receiver, and we. 0:09:40.240 --> 0:09:43.200 Had practiced the play is called X Clown. 0:09:43.320 --> 0:09:46.280 We practiced that play so many times and me and 0:09:46.360 --> 0:09:48.120 Jay could not get on the same page. 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:50.880 I'll run it this way, he threw it that way, 0:09:50.960 --> 0:09:52.040 he threw it this way. 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:58.520 I wouldn't run it that way, and it just just seemed. 0:09:58.960 --> 0:10:01.560 Like it was not gonna work. And then when they 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:04.960 called it a game, it worked twice. 0:10:05.160 --> 0:10:06.200 You guys hit it twice. 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:10.480 Now the X clown So what there's verbiage probably for 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:12.839 the protection and there's something else or does that tell 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:13.640 everyone what to do? 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:16.840 So this is where ball is. 0:10:17.000 --> 0:10:19.760 This is the part where some people don't like that 0:10:20.000 --> 0:10:22.440 actually know ball. You know, they kind of think that 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:26.840 I don't know ball. And people always talk about you know, 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:29.320 especially with my stuff, they always talk about Steve just 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:35.520 he just talks. And the offense we were running that 0:10:35.640 --> 0:10:43.600 year was Dan Henny yeah, w tree from that tree 0:10:44.000 --> 0:10:50.600 is from Charlie Weiss, which means we had maybe if 0:10:50.640 --> 0:10:54.760 these words sound familiar to you, Ola recircle, Max Delly. 0:10:54.679 --> 0:10:58.080 XQ yeah, olay is that out with the flag? 0:10:58.240 --> 0:10:58.440 Yes? 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:02.000 Two man concept X clown's backside telling the X what 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:03.680 to do, but there was probably something in front telling 0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:04.480 the other guys what to do. 0:11:04.760 --> 0:11:08.360 Yes, And then we had like toga they called it 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:10.480 ten ten two ends, two ends. 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:12.280 We had to topper topper. 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:12.960 To two posts. 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:13.960 Yeah. 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:17.360 Yeah, so that that was that was the offense, and 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:20.960 you know, I had to learn how to play receiver 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:23.040 in a way that I just really didn't know how 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:27.440 to play receiver at that time, you know, going to Utah. 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:26.840 I was. 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:29.800 I was actually in college, junior college. I was a 0:11:30.040 --> 0:11:31.480 Z originally. 0:11:31.760 --> 0:11:32.080 Yeah. 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:37.520 Well, my wide receivers coach in college switched me to 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:43.440 AX because I'm right handed, but I'm left hand dominant. 0:11:44.800 --> 0:11:49.000 So I would be at Z with the ball in 0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:52.839 my left hand and I was stiff on my right right. Well, 0:11:52.840 --> 0:11:55.720 they come and just poke it out. So they moved 0:11:55.720 --> 0:11:57.640 me to ACTS. And that's how I became an. 0:11:57.559 --> 0:11:59.520 AXE because of how you handled the ball. 0:11:59.559 --> 0:12:02.439 Because I I handled the ball bro It. 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:04.199 Was not only to carry the ball in my left arm, 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:08.680 because I was a four back, everything left left. I 0:12:08.800 --> 0:12:11.280 was the same way because I was in Pop Warner. 0:12:11.760 --> 0:12:13.719 I was the four back and a wishbone offense, and 0:12:13.760 --> 0:12:16.719 I always ran left, and so you always kept it 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:20.120 on the outside, and so I would always, even to 0:12:20.160 --> 0:12:22.840 this day that my most comfortable side was my left 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:25.760 side holding the ball, which is very unorthodox for right 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:26.440 handed guys. 0:12:26.679 --> 0:12:28.240 Yeah, that's crazy. 0:12:28.320 --> 0:12:31.800 So you turned into an X in college because your 0:12:31.880 --> 0:12:34.160 right hand, you're better with the ball in your left, 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:36.920 so you give the stiffy, and in this point of 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:40.120 your career you were still kind of feeling your feeling 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:42.720 on how to learn how to play receiver in this offense, 0:12:42.800 --> 0:12:44.960 that Charlie Weiss style offense. 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:49.400 So is this clown route? Is it like a bow post? 0:12:50.320 --> 0:12:54.400 Yes, it's so because you inside released and then you 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:56.640 stemmed up and then you hit them with the outside 0:12:56.679 --> 0:12:57.880 with the couple because. 0:12:57.640 --> 0:13:01.000 It was it was, it was. It was built off Q. 0:13:01.480 --> 0:13:03.200 Yeah, you know you was just a bow. 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:06.440 Yes, So it was built off the Q because I 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:10.640 ran it so well, yeah, stem inside, get vertical, get vertical, 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:15.880 go to the corner. Yeah, so I'll stem inside and 0:13:16.000 --> 0:13:20.200 I just went. But I ran the one and I leaned. 0:13:20.520 --> 0:13:22.400 But the reason I leaned to make him think it 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:23.680 was going a shitty bow. 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:27.120 Yes, but it was also the lean was to put 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:30.360 my foot in the ground to go, yes, sir. 0:13:31.080 --> 0:13:31.320 Yeah. 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:36.120 People people don't realize you were primarily an X. Like 0:13:36.280 --> 0:13:39.080 people try to put you in like categories where you 0:13:39.080 --> 0:13:42.320 were No. Steve Smith was the most you're probably the 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:48.120 most dominant X in my eyes of all time under 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:52.160 six foot like you like and you, but you didn't 0:13:52.160 --> 0:13:54.280 play like you were. It was fucking amazing to me 0:13:54.400 --> 0:13:57.640 to watch you play. When you could run by people, 0:13:58.160 --> 0:13:59.960 you could run the routes that I ran and I 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:02.360 specialized in, but you could win on a go route. 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:04.240 You could stack a guy, run away from a guy, 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:07.400 and you were so dynamic with the ball and strong 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:10.560 bottom legs like you never got down like and you like, 0:14:11.280 --> 0:14:15.120 it's fucking crazy that it all stemmed back to the 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:16.960 coach in college. 0:14:17.040 --> 0:14:19.640 I say, hey, you only hold it in your left 0:14:19.680 --> 0:14:21.200 I think we got to put you at X. 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:22.840 It was it was a problem. 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:24.960 That's fucking gat up. 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:27.840 Next we've got Pooka Nakua. I'm becoming Matthew Stafford's go 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:28.520 to receiver. 0:14:28.760 --> 0:14:32.320 Chemistry between you and Matthew Stafford, when did you feel 0:14:32.360 --> 0:14:36.000 that chemistry actually ignite? And like you knew you were 0:14:36.000 --> 0:14:38.240 gonna have this ten catch game going into the week 0:14:38.280 --> 0:14:40.200 two where you're gonna have the performance you have. 0:14:40.960 --> 0:14:44.400 So rookie mini camp, we come, we get drafted, we 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:44.920 show up. 0:14:44.880 --> 0:14:48.760 And then there's like two weeks after that the rookies 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:49.120 got to stay. 0:14:49.160 --> 0:14:53.360 After everybody else goes and everybody's leaving, but except me 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:55.920 and my roommate Davis Allen. He was the I was 0:14:55.960 --> 0:14:58.160 one seventy seven. He was one seventy five, two picks 0:14:58.160 --> 0:15:00.200 in front of me. We're at the hotel together. We're 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:02.720 both rookie, so we're staying and everybody's going We're like, oh, 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:05.000 we're going to stay, and we get a text of 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:07.080 like yo from one of our strength coaches like, yo, 0:15:07.360 --> 0:15:09.680 Matthew wants you to come out and catch for like 0:15:09.840 --> 0:15:12.280 Higgs is going to be there or other wide receiver 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:15.080 Van Jefferson's going to be there, and they're like he 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:17.680 wants you to come out and be like yo for real, 0:15:17.840 --> 0:15:20.040 like out of all the guys on the team, like 0:15:20.080 --> 0:15:21.960 he asked me and like my roommates to come out. 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:23.400 And I was like, yo, I got to run the 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:25.560 best routes of my life. If I cannot drop a ball, 0:15:25.560 --> 0:15:28.480 like it's got to be as good or it's got 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:29.840 to be the best route run I've ever had in 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:32.120 my life. And the first day and like you've thrown 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:35.040 with him, like you see when like you're coming out 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:38.160 of breaks and like the ball's in the perfect spot 0:15:38.200 --> 0:15:40.080 every time, and be like, yo, if I keep my 0:15:40.120 --> 0:15:41.720 feet and like as long as I can see the 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:44.080 ball spin for a second, I'm like this is I'm 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:46.760 like he is not missing. Like whether it's upfield, we're 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:48.720 running an out route, puts on your front shoulder. 0:15:48.720 --> 0:15:50.080 You can turn, tap and turn to get out of the side. 0:15:50.080 --> 0:15:51.880 And you're running ont a crow break, it's on your 0:15:51.880 --> 0:15:53.760 inside path, so you can drop step and turn over 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:54.640 your inside shoulder. 0:15:55.120 --> 0:15:56.800 And that was like, holy colch. 0:15:56.560 --> 0:15:59.400 Are you basically telling me that you guys had instant chemistry? 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:02.240 I mean low kielt I felt like first, Yeah, I 0:16:02.280 --> 0:16:02.560 was like. 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:06.160 Honestly, I'm not gonna I'm not even gonna second guess 0:16:06.160 --> 0:16:10.880 that because I went with him once to Golden West. Yeah, 0:16:11.560 --> 0:16:14.960 we threw together. I think we threw forty five balls. 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:16.800 I think we went forty five for forty five We 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:20.280 never even met each other. That's how elite his arm 0:16:20.360 --> 0:16:23.680 talent is. He like like Puka was saying, the ball 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:25.720 come right out there, right out that break is right 0:16:25.800 --> 0:16:28.480 on your forehead, literally right up on your forehead, and 0:16:28.520 --> 0:16:30.600 he just over here slings it now. 0:16:30.760 --> 0:16:33.720 Steve Smith Senior on the greatness of Davonte Adams and 0:16:33.760 --> 0:16:35.960 his own mentality as a route runner. 0:16:35.840 --> 0:16:38.440 My favorite old guys too, Like so I still think 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:42.160 Davonte Adams is still that guy. He's not gonna he's 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:45.440 never been a four to three guy, but his releases 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:48.600 are remarkable, just the way he does his hands, ball placement, 0:16:48.760 --> 0:16:52.640 catch radius, body control, tempo. 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:55.360 Sudden burst really good sudden burst, and then his. 0:16:56.160 --> 0:17:00.000 Creativity to stack you even though he's not faster than you. 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:04.840 So just him being able to use his leverage. So like, 0:17:05.720 --> 0:17:07.560 I look at that, But then there's other guys I 0:17:07.600 --> 0:17:10.040 think that that are promising, who have the ability. 0:17:10.680 --> 0:17:14.280 Who's someone that you think that kind of reminds you 0:17:14.359 --> 0:17:17.199 of you, if there's anyone, see, So people ask that 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:21.560