Speaker 1: You just kind of take us through what your summer
Speaker 1: was like from the last time we talked to you,
Speaker 1: where you were working on and what you were up through.
Speaker 2: Uh, summer was pretty much the same from what I
Speaker 2: had told you. You know, still working, still taking it
Speaker 2: day by day, lifting, trying to work with my body.
Speaker 1: Same thing.
Speaker 3: Yes, urg City challenged you to be here every day
Speaker 3: and you beat him in here several times.
Speaker 2: What has that relationship been, Uh, it's been I would
Speaker 2: say it's been good. You know, me as a person,
Speaker 2: I like a challenge. So I feel like he knows that.
Speaker 2: I feel like I told you guys that before. But
Speaker 2: you know, he just keeps, you know, staying on me
Speaker 2: with that challenge, and I'm gonna keep on taking it.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep running with it.
Speaker 2: So each and every day he still challenged me to
Speaker 2: you know, get better at something, do something different. So
Speaker 2: I would say, you know, him challenging me is just
Speaker 2: you know, making me get better each and every day.
Speaker 3: How much different do you feel with how you put
Speaker 3: on weight during the off season going in this training camp.
Speaker 1: I feel well, I feel really well.
Speaker 2: Actually, just uh, you know, put on a little more muscle,
Speaker 2: you know, focus on you know, just the little muscles
Speaker 2: in my body as well being in the training room
Speaker 2: and things of that sort. Uh man I h, I
Speaker 2: just feel real good. I feel fluid, you know, I
Speaker 2: feel strong.
Speaker 1: Do you feel a difference in practice when where your
Speaker 1: reps in terms of wind or or anything like that
Speaker 1: or is it too early? Then for sure, I definitely
Speaker 1: feel the difference. I can.
Speaker 2: I felt the difference, you know, just you know, striding
Speaker 2: out doing regular things. So you know, I can't wait
Speaker 2: til we actually, you know, get in and start doing
Speaker 2: everything with the pageant stuff.
Speaker 1: You're an outsider.
Speaker 2: You to play on this line with bosauh hard Grave Armstead,
Speaker 2: You're gonna get a lot of one on one truly blessed.
Speaker 2: It's a it's a blessed line to play with, you know.
Speaker 2: I feel like God just put me in the right
Speaker 2: place at the right time, with the the right people.
Speaker 1: Both just depends a.
Speaker 3: Lot of time comparing notes with with Trent Williams and
Speaker 3: you talk about their their crafts.
Speaker 1: Have have you done that yet with Trent?
Speaker 3: And try to kind of uh learn through him what
Speaker 3: to what.
Speaker 2: To do on the path far every now and then
Speaker 2: every now and then again, Trent, will you know, just
Speaker 2: come over to me if we have a rep at
Speaker 2: practice or something. He'll let me know what I did,
Speaker 2: you know, try to help me fix it. But you know,
Speaker 2: just as like a friendly vet, you know, he's just
Speaker 2: always looking out for me.
Speaker 3: And look back at last off season compared to what
Speaker 3: you did this off season. Is there any way to
Speaker 3: really know is a rookie what you need to do
Speaker 3: to prepare for an NFL season?
Speaker 2: Probably would say just trying to follow the older guys
Speaker 2: since they already know what you know, they've seen, and uh,
Speaker 2: they've seen pretty much, you know, everything that the old
Speaker 2: line and NFL could give him. So I'll definitely say
Speaker 2: follow the the vets because they've seen already. You gotta
Speaker 2: play with You're twenty yards down the field running with
Speaker 2: Elijah Mitchell and you're talking about city Will's challenging.
Speaker 1: You get anticipate being in covers a lot or what
Speaker 1: do you think your role is gonna look like this year?
Speaker 2: Uh, we'll have set the regular roles that we have,
Speaker 2: you know that play, you know, it just so happened
Speaker 2: that I had to do what I had to do,
Speaker 2: and you know, it's just the places that we're giving
Speaker 2: you know, I don't really see uh us dropping like that,
Speaker 2: but you know, whatever we have to do, we're gonna
Speaker 2: do it.
Speaker 1: So part of the woking up this offseason.
Speaker 2: To play more knowing that you're more.
Speaker 1: Really it was just for me just working on myself.
Speaker 2: You know, I felt like I needed to get bigger
Speaker 2: and uh to sustain throughout the season, and like I said,
Speaker 2: from the first season, just kind of taking what I
Speaker 2: what I've known from the last season.
Speaker 1: I felt like I needed a little more weight.
Speaker 3: Between your athletic and but to run muscle mass.
Speaker 2: And then keep that for me, I feel like, uh,
Speaker 2: that never never left with any weight I was at.
Speaker 2: You know, it felt like the athleticness or I don't
Speaker 2: even know if that's worth my bad, but.
Speaker 1: Just I feel like that never left.
Speaker 2: It never changed when I gained weight, And you know,
Speaker 2: I've just been staying on my you know, staying on
Speaker 2: my body to be able to do that.
Speaker 1: So if somebody's asked about.
Speaker 3: You carried uh Elijah.
Speaker 1: On about fifteen twenty yards downfield today.
Speaker 2: Is that the play that you pride yourself on being
Speaker 2: able to maintain that speed even even if you're a
Speaker 2: little bigger. Now, I'm just happy I stayed with him.
Speaker 2: You know, I just want to make a play. It's
Speaker 2: not really something I pride myself on. I'm just trying
Speaker 2: to make a play, uh not let the offense get
Speaker 2: a play. So really, I just, you know, I just
Speaker 2: felt like I was just stopping the offense from you know,
Speaker 2: getting yards.
Speaker 3: A lot of guys take time off before camp.
Speaker 1: You didn't. You were here all the time.
Speaker 2: Why sacrifices, man, Sometimes you got sacrifice to for the better.
Speaker 2: So I know, I mean, I know I could have,
Speaker 2: you know, took a break, but I would rather stay here,
Speaker 2: work on myself, and you know, this season hopefully a show.
Speaker 1: All right, Thanks very nice, appreciate you guys. Mhm