Speaker 1: I mean no emotion. It's football, you know. Obviously we
Speaker 1: all happy to see him back, happy to know that
Speaker 1: the surgery was successful. He's a hundred percent you know,
Speaker 1: more so than a teammate. He's he's a family member
Speaker 1: of us, so his health is always first. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll answer you a question. Everybody's excited when whenever we
Speaker 1: can get anybody back from injury. You know, I don't
Speaker 1: know how much you knew about that surgery he had,
Speaker 1: but were you surprised at all that he was ready
Speaker 1: to go at the opening camp? Uh? Now, I wasn't surprised.
Speaker 1: You know. I talked to him a little bit over
Speaker 1: the break, so I kind of kind of knew everything
Speaker 1: was looking looking pretty good. So what those states seemed
Speaker 1: like throughout the whole process, he seems like Brock. You know,
Speaker 1: Brock is got a rock solid mental you know, he's
Speaker 1: doesn't get flushed very easy. So he took the whole
Speaker 1: process like a champ. Nobody could tell if he if
Speaker 1: he was going through anything. We couldn't tell. I couldn't
Speaker 1: tell personally at the other day that even a BRONC
Speaker 1: women that he's still gonna get a lot more reps
Speaker 1: during during this camp than he did did last year,
Speaker 1: or you would treat to see you know, how much
Speaker 1: better he could be with with getting those reps. What
Speaker 1: kind of do you expect from I mean, obviously he
Speaker 1: would think experience one year experience would play would play
Speaker 1: a major role in in his development. So he got
Speaker 1: some I mean priceless experience, especially in some in some
Speaker 1: very key games, some big games. All season he played
Speaker 1: f fantastic. So uh, I think, yeah, we should expect
Speaker 1: better obviously, ef from every player in the year two
Speaker 1: that played a lot of football in the year one,
Speaker 1: you would expect them to take a jump because of
Speaker 1: the experience. How did you spend your your forty break?
Speaker 1: Could you work with any of the year ago? Yeah?
Speaker 1: For sure. Yeah. Me and Leroy uh we, you know
Speaker 1: we locked in. You know, he come to me for
Speaker 1: a lot, you know, we it definitely wanted those uh
Speaker 1: little brothers. You know he kind of got the same
Speaker 1: you know, physical makeup. He's the athletic guy, you know,
Speaker 1: form a tight end, has a quick feet, so you know,
Speaker 1: I do spend a lot of time talking to him
Speaker 1: about a lot of things. Him Jalen uh obviously Colton Spencer,
Speaker 1: uh We spent a lot of time over the off
Speaker 1: season like working out shoulder and shoulder, so you know,
Speaker 1: I expect him to to make a huge leap this
Speaker 1: year as well. So yeah, but you know, it's always
Speaker 1: a fun time for me to work with the younger
Speaker 1: guys and kind of keeps me engaged, especially during my
Speaker 1: off time. You know, it challenges me to be a
Speaker 1: better player, cause I obviously got to practice what I preach,
Speaker 1: you know, and so I like it. I enjoyed it.
Speaker 1: Since obviously making that transition, or or has made that
Speaker 1: transition from tight end to to tackle, what do you
Speaker 1: see from him in that regard? And you see the
Speaker 1: potential to be a a player in his sleep, Yeah,
Speaker 1: of course, he his his ceiling is extremely high. Like
Speaker 1: you said, he he made the switch not but about
Speaker 1: a year ago, so he he's he's still new to
Speaker 1: the position, but he's an intelligent player. Like I said,
Speaker 1: he has all the attributes. He actually, you know, put
Speaker 1: a put a little weight on this summer, so you know,
Speaker 1: he be a little bit more sturdy. You know, kind
Speaker 1: of had a slight frame last year obviously coming over
Speaker 1: from tight end. But you know, I think he's he
Speaker 1: he's He's used all this time to his advantage. He's worked,
Speaker 1: you know, and I'm excited to watch him, watch him
Speaker 1: go out there and play Cleveland. Drake Jackson's what strikes me.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, Cleveland obviously, you know, he's a vet,
Speaker 1: played a lot of played a lot of football. Both
Speaker 1: of those guys are, you know, a very athletic, very
Speaker 1: slippery guys. I think, you know, they should do big
Speaker 1: things for us this year, especially, you know, obviously we
Speaker 1: know what to expect out of Cleveland, but Drake, just
Speaker 1: seeing his transformation, seeing you know, the muscle he put
Speaker 1: on over the all over the all season, seeing his
Speaker 1: attention to detail, you know, you know, I think we're
Speaker 1: all kind of excited to see him going full speed,
Speaker 1: especially with ninety seven getting a lot of the a
Speaker 1: lot of the attention pretty much every play specifically is
Speaker 1: Spencer this year versus when you're working with his rookie season,
Speaker 1: just mentally knowing what to do. Like I said, when
Speaker 1: you in this offense is very intricate, a lot of details,
Speaker 1: you know, this scheme is it's very very it's very
Speaker 1: hard to grasp for new players, and it takes the time.
Speaker 1: It took me three to four years my from my
Speaker 1: rookie year. You know, I didn't catch on til about
Speaker 1: my third or fourth year, and I thought I knew it.
Speaker 1: Come here I had to catch on again. So to me,
Speaker 1: obviously his physical traits he's gonna get bigger, stronger every year,
Speaker 1: but the mental part him knowing what to do so
Speaker 1: then you can worry about what's in front of you.
Speaker 1: You know, when you're a young player, you're worrying about
Speaker 1: what you have to do. Then you know you can't
Speaker 1: even assess what's in front of you cause you don't
Speaker 1: even know. You know. It's kind of cause a lot
Speaker 1: of words, a lot of the player. It's really tough,
Speaker 1: you know, and it's to be able to come in
Speaker 1: and start as a rookie and play meaningful downs like
Speaker 1: he did. I think it's a hat off to him.
Speaker 1: But now you ask me the difference, I think it's
Speaker 1: the experience and and the know he know what he's
Speaker 1: doing so he can be more assertives. What do you
Speaker 1: learn from them on the mental side? Things the hunger,
Speaker 1: you know, just seeing how hungry they are to learn,
Speaker 1: seeing how hunger they are to get better. You know,
Speaker 1: it rubs off on me as all I said, I
Speaker 1: like to I like it because it allows me to
Speaker 1: stay locked in and and it holds me to a
Speaker 1: higher standard. You've been complimentary role, that's your altual what
Speaker 1: you like about and what he needs to do to
Speaker 1: UH have success this shore. I think he needs to
Speaker 1: do everything he's been doing. I think that's the reason
Speaker 1: he's in this position is because he's earned that trust
Speaker 1: from the staff. You know, over the last few years.
Speaker 1: He deserves it. He deserves it. He's put in the
Speaker 1: work every year he's been presented with a challenge coming
Speaker 1: into camp. You know, whether it was fighting to make
Speaker 1: the roster, fighting to make the practice squad at first
Speaker 1: make the roster last year and then have to do
Speaker 1: two numbers, had to go in the practice squad for
Speaker 1: a few weeks, bring him back up, you know, start
Speaker 1: a few games, like he he he's been through it all.
Speaker 1: He's been through it pretty much every situation you can
Speaker 1: you can beat, you go through and except with starting,
Speaker 1: you know, being a day one starter, and he now
Speaker 1: that's his position. He's earned it. You know, we're proud
Speaker 1: of him. He's a he's a phenomenal player. You know,
Speaker 1: the confidence that he plays with. In my opinion allows
Speaker 1: him to play at a high of them. You talk
Speaker 1: about what you can learn from those guys, I think
Speaker 1: learning from him. What I learned from him is his
Speaker 1: confidence is unwaivering, the confidence in him, his ability to
Speaker 1: block whoever. You know, and when you play online, you know,
Speaker 1: your confidence can it's like a roller coaster sometimes because
Speaker 1: it's only one play, can define how people look at you,
Speaker 1: you know, for the entire season. So it's it's a
Speaker 1: very you know, it's a very peculiar position to be
Speaker 1: in when you kind of skate on thin ice every
Speaker 1: play right. So to me, his confidence and his physical stature,
Speaker 1: his attributes, his ability, his lower body string, upper body string.
Speaker 1: I think it all plays a part to why he's
Speaker 1: in the position he's in right now, playing at a
Speaker 1: level maybe as good as you ever have the last
Speaker 1: couple of years. I don't know if you'd agree with
Speaker 1: that or not, but when you look at your birthday,
Speaker 1: it almost be cause it seems like that you how
Speaker 1: and gotten better at an advanced advanced football, just never
Speaker 1: settling right. You know, you make ten straight probos. You
Speaker 1: know a lot of people would say, you know, I
Speaker 1: put together a good resume, but you know, for me,
Speaker 1: I never really look at never look at it past
Speaker 1: one year. You know, I look at last year, and
Speaker 1: then my whole goal is to be a better player
Speaker 1: than I was last year, and next year I'm go'a
Speaker 1: look at this year and wanna be better. And to me,
Speaker 1: that's the only way you can continue to as sind
Speaker 1: or continue to play consistent. You know, it's so easy
Speaker 1: to feel like you know it all, to feel like
Speaker 1: you got it all, and that's when you get humbled
Speaker 1: in this game. So for me, it's always been to
Speaker 1: keep going forward, not worry about the review, not worry
Speaker 1: about what I've done in the past, all about what
Speaker 1: I'm trying to do in the future. And to me,
Speaker 1: I think that's a simple blueprint to kind of keep
Speaker 1: yourself motivated and staying staying in the now. You know yesterday,
Speaker 1: you guys are here for one or well aware of
Speaker 1: you know, the window may not last forever. Right to
Speaker 1: to get over the open and win that superwater? How
Speaker 1: wutch you do you guys talk about that? How how
Speaker 1: does that kind of consume you? Uh? As your book
Speaker 1: a frenus, Well, how long the window last? Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: just to get I don't worry about it. I mean,
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl is at the top of everybody priority
Speaker 1: list right now. Worrying about when the window closed really
Speaker 1: does nothing for us right now. You know, it's like
Speaker 1: worrying about when you're gonna die, right, you know it.
Speaker 1: You know it's gonna close eventually, But what's the point
Speaker 1: of looking forward to it? Right I'm coming every day.
Speaker 1: It just work how I do, how it work, how
Speaker 1: I did yesterday, And just look forward to getting one
Speaker 1: percent better every every day, and eventually you wanna hold
Speaker 1: up their trophy. And if it doesn't happen, you reset, recalibrate,
Speaker 1: approach it the next year with the same same mindset. Yeah.
Speaker 1: See