Speaker 1: Like this kind of mess with your preparation to get fully.
Speaker 2: Ready for the next upon it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean you sort of just got a you
Speaker 3: know jam pack you know, installs and and your days
Speaker 3: all like together. You got two days really, you know
Speaker 3: for us really today you do you know your base
Speaker 3: first and second down and third down, put it all together,
Speaker 3: go through you know a couple of walkthroughs and meetings
Speaker 3: and and yeah you're just trying to pack everything in
Speaker 3: within a couple of days and then being able to
Speaker 3: get your body right to play on Thursday. So it's different.
Speaker 3: The preparation is just it's it's more intense, you know,
Speaker 3: for both teams. You don't get you know, four or
Speaker 3: five days of preparation to you know, lengthen everything out.
Speaker 3: You have two days put it all together and roll.
Speaker 4: So this time for you going through without having to deal.
Speaker 3: With broken rims, yeah a lot better, i'd say, you know,
Speaker 3: just you know not obviously, yes, treat treating my body
Speaker 3: and everything, making sure I feel fresh for Thursday. But yeah,
Speaker 3: last year the main focus was you know, will I
Speaker 3: be able to throw, you know come Thursday. Obviously I
Speaker 3: didn't throw a ball for you know, four days or
Speaker 3: three days whatever it was up until the game game day.
Speaker 3: So now it's like, all right, now I can hone
Speaker 3: into the plays, the details of the operations of the offense,
Speaker 3: all that stuff, not worrying about the broken rib.
Speaker 1: Is there a point in that game where you ever
Speaker 1: didn't feel pain or felt comfortable or just.
Speaker 3: I would say, yeah, I was definitely like not comfortable,
Speaker 3: you know, the whole the whole game for four quarters.
Speaker 3: I felt it for sure, But yeah, we were able
Speaker 3: to pull it out.
Speaker 1: So the lines of preparation, Kyle said last year, he
Speaker 1: didn't have any time to treat you with kid gloves
Speaker 1: or kind of ease you into things. Now that you've
Speaker 1: had an offseason, I'll be at one mark by injury
Speaker 1: and having to deal with reapping stuff. How much more
Speaker 1: is he putting on your plate from compared to where
Speaker 1: you started.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like, you know, last year we were
Speaker 3: rolling as a team. You know, Jimmy was doing great,
Speaker 3: and you know he was doing what he did with
Speaker 3: Jimmy and what he's always done with Jimmy, just in
Speaker 3: terms of in terms of like the install how our
Speaker 3: offense looked, what plays we're gonna run, and so once
Speaker 3: you know I got in, it was really the same.
Speaker 3: It was like, we're gonna continue to roll and see,
Speaker 3: you know how I do with that. And so moving
Speaker 3: into this year, honestly, it's been i'd say fairly similar.
Speaker 3: Like he knows I can, you know, handle what he's
Speaker 3: had with Jimmy the last couple of years and what
Speaker 3: we did last year. Nothing really changed, and so that's
Speaker 3: really how it's been this year. You know, there hasn't
Speaker 3: been a drastic change of how we're gonna add more
Speaker 3: to his plate since he's playing more or anything like that.
Speaker 3: It's it's been about the same. That's how this offense
Speaker 3: has rolled, and that's how we've done it.
Speaker 1: So how were you able to just roll into it
Speaker 1: last year? What about your background? What about yourself personally
Speaker 1: allows you to handle that kind of responsibility from the
Speaker 1: gig game?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like I'm I mean the four years obviously,
Speaker 3: I always say of playing the you know, the the
Speaker 3: day to day, week to week basis of studying and
Speaker 3: how to prepare and all that kind of stuff, and
Speaker 3: then obviously last year being the backup, knowing that I
Speaker 3: probably only get you know, one opportunity at this thing.
Speaker 3: If I do get an opportunity, just with the circumstances
Speaker 3: of being drafted last and and all that kind of things.
Speaker 3: So for me, it was always like, you know, be
Speaker 3: ready for it. And you know, I studied and prepared
Speaker 3: every single week as if I was starting, and when
Speaker 3: I ended up going in, I was I was ready
Speaker 3: for the opportunity. So nothing has changed since that touchdown drive.
Speaker 4: Just before halftime you had that twenty yard complition to
Speaker 4: Juan over the middle. It was back to you when
Speaker 4: you let it go and get a guy coming on.
Speaker 4: Let is that you type of timing and trust in
Speaker 4: this offense. I assume you would have made you made
Speaker 4: similar type throws last year. But is that more comfortable
Speaker 4: now for you or just more instinctual.
Speaker 3: And naturally probably you know, a combination of both. You know,
Speaker 3: obviously the landmarks, the routes, the concepts. I feel like
Speaker 3: I have a better grasp of, you know, where the
Speaker 3: guys are supposed to be. Obviously a year under our
Speaker 3: belt of you know, experience together, you know, with Ba Deebo,
Speaker 3: Juwan George, you know, sort of knowing and understanding their
Speaker 3: cuts stuff like that. It matters. But also you know,
Speaker 3: in the heat of the moment there's a guy coming
Speaker 3: through the B gap untouched and I have to drift
Speaker 3: a little bit, and I know and trust Juwan is
Speaker 3: going to be you know, twelve to fourteen yards breaking
Speaker 3: in at this angle. Like it's all I feel like,
Speaker 3: just it's both. It's a combination of both. To answer
Speaker 3: your question, so.
Speaker 4: It sounds easy like just trust it, But I mean
Speaker 4: as a quarterback, sometimes it's like, oh crap, you know
Speaker 4: he's not looking at me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, Yeah, that's real. Yeah, the anticipation, the trust,
Speaker 3: you know, it's real. It's part of this position. It's
Speaker 3: part of football. You know, you can't always throw when
Speaker 3: a guy breaks and he's wide open. That's just not
Speaker 3: how the league works. You know, windows close fast, and uh,
Speaker 3: you have to be on point. You have to anticipate,
Speaker 3: you know, guys and where they're supposed to be, per coverage,
Speaker 3: per concept. So that's something that you know, we work
Speaker 3: on and we we take very seriously here. You know,
Speaker 3: it's part of our offense, being able to throw before
Speaker 3: guys break and whatnot.
Speaker 2: So was a coaching point made didn't win the clock
Speaker 2: down to one second, that maybe you should have thrown
Speaker 2: the ball lower or faster into the ground rather than
Speaker 2: just lofted.
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, Kyle had told me, you know before,
Speaker 3: like hey, it's it's touchdown or throw it away, you know,
Speaker 3: you know, we want to have some time on the
Speaker 3: clock to but at least think about going forward on
Speaker 3: the one again or kick a field, go and get
Speaker 3: some points. That was what was said to me in
Speaker 3: the moments. You know, I was going to the flat,
Speaker 3: wasn't there, and I was like, maybe she should run.
Speaker 3: But in my head, I was like, now I got
Speaker 3: to get this ball out. So could I have done
Speaker 3: it quicker? For sure? But I understood, you know how
Speaker 3: much time we had on the clock and we were
Speaker 3: good enough to have one more playing us.
Speaker 4: Can you describe the energy and juice you get even
Speaker 4: if your body maybe is it physically there that you
Speaker 4: can use to your advantage on a Thursday night and
Speaker 4: or a short week.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, obviously, I feel like as a quarterback,
Speaker 3: whether you're heard or not, like you just got to
Speaker 3: go in do your job. You gotta do your part
Speaker 3: for the offense. You know, you get the ball every snap.
Speaker 3: You know, you got to either make sure you're in
Speaker 3: the right play, hit the guys that are open. But
Speaker 3: at the end of the day, it's like, man, how
Speaker 3: can you create momentum and juice for your team to
Speaker 3: to get first down so to get points up on
Speaker 3: the board, and to create momentum for your whole team
Speaker 3: as a whole defense to get some stops. You know,
Speaker 3: let's go get some points on the board and then win.
Speaker 3: You know. So, whether you're heard or not, I feel
Speaker 3: like there's always a way to create some momentum and
Speaker 3: juice for your team. And last year, I feel like
Speaker 3: when we played Seattle, you know, I was I was
Speaker 3: able to learn that that lesson pretty quick, you know,
Speaker 3: just in terms of you know, I wasn't feeling great,
Speaker 3: but how to do it? It takes to win, especially
Speaker 3: late in the season, and every game is crucial for us.
Speaker 5: So as far as some of those you know, deep
Speaker 5: throws you missed that you obviously won't pack, how do
Speaker 5: you sort of you know, assess and self correct without
Speaker 5: being you know, hypercritical of yourself and keeping your confidence.
Speaker 3: Yeah, obviously, the as a quarterback you want to play
Speaker 3: perfect is that you know, you know, a real thing
Speaker 3: like can you play perfect? I don't know, you know,
Speaker 3: you're gonna mess up obviously, but for myself, it's like, man,
Speaker 3: I hold myself to a standard. This whole offense, this
Speaker 3: team holds ourselves to a certain standard, and so for me,
Speaker 3: it's like, man, I gotta watch that the film, learn
Speaker 3: from it, get out of practice and rep it, you know,
Speaker 3: rep it, rep it to you know, build that confidence
Speaker 3: again that hey, we can hit those those shots and
Speaker 3: those opportunities we've done in the past, and it's something
Speaker 3: that you know, you learn from but not dwell on,
Speaker 3: and I'll let it affect your game moving forward. So
Speaker 3: that's where I'm at with that, and I'm excited to
Speaker 3: get going for Thursday. THANKSSS.