Speaker 1: Appreciate that. How anty are you getting ummy spiting whatever?
Speaker 1: Five six months? Now, how answer you getting you see
Speaker 1: everybody practicing? Now, yeah, I'm always anty this time of year, honestly,
Speaker 1: just to finally get back with all the guys today,
Speaker 1: finally seeing the guys practice against each other. Um, it's
Speaker 1: always an exciting time. You can really kind of start
Speaker 1: to turn up the competition a little bit, have some fun,
Speaker 1: and so I think everyone everyone's excited for it. Ly,
Speaker 1: do you have to be careful not to postration because
Speaker 1: everybody's out there You're not figured yet for sure. I mean,
Speaker 1: anytime you're rehabbing from any sort of injury, you gotta
Speaker 1: be careful. You know, there's days you feel great and
Speaker 1: you want to push them more, and there's days um
Speaker 1: it's a little source, a little tired whatever. Um. But yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just part of the process of coming back from
Speaker 1: an injury. You know, you just gotta trust what the
Speaker 1: trainers are saying, what the doctors are saying, um, and
Speaker 1: again just keeping smart with it. When you were in college,
Speaker 1: you were hurt as the established start knowing that when
Speaker 1: you yeah, whenever you got he wanted to come back.
Speaker 1: Has this been different at all. Is there anything different
Speaker 1: about what you're going through now versus which right here before. Um,
Speaker 1: I mean it's it's a little different than the fact
Speaker 1: that I came back the same year, Um, in college
Speaker 1: when I was heard as a senior, I came back,
Speaker 1: played in the national championship game. UM, so a little different.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, you know, I've I've learned,
Speaker 1: you know, how to how to go through these times,
Speaker 1: how to handle it. Um, it's never fun. I've never
Speaker 1: obviously had an injury of this magnitude, this type of
Speaker 1: timetable for return and everything. But um, you learn a
Speaker 1: lot in just those little injury moments as well. So
Speaker 1: again I just feel I feel confident with it and
Speaker 1: and everything. I mean, personally, you learn a lot, you know,
Speaker 1: you learn a lot about um. You know, I learned
Speaker 1: a lot about my faith, learn a lot about just
Speaker 1: how God's working through these things. And UM, it's not
Speaker 1: always easy, you know, I know I've talked a lot
Speaker 1: about it. But UM, I think on a personal level,
Speaker 1: you know, when you're injured is really when you find
Speaker 1: you know the type of man, the type of character
Speaker 1: that you're made of. You won't be involved obviously in
Speaker 1: practice in terms of throwing, etc. But will you be
Speaker 1: in uh the offense as as as things are going
Speaker 1: on with Nick Dare where you could watch and I
Speaker 1: mean run you guys will be out there today, so
Speaker 1: you'll see. I mean, I'll be involved in a handful
Speaker 1: of things. Um, there'll be things I'm not I'm not
Speaker 1: fully cleared to do everything yet, but I'll be involved
Speaker 1: when when I can and and things that I can be.
Speaker 1: But again, you'll you'll kind of get to see that
Speaker 1: today as we go. You had romans of a big progress.
Speaker 1: Are there are there days where you're like, I really
Speaker 1: had a big breakthrough? Is it kind of really incremental? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's there's there's some of those things and
Speaker 1: in the big picture they might be small, but they're
Speaker 1: again kind of more of those in incremental type of
Speaker 1: things with the progress and everything, and um, you just
Speaker 1: kind of get it, get a little bit, get'll do
Speaker 1: a little bit more each day, and um, you know
Speaker 1: it's not always like this. There's days where you're sore,
Speaker 1: you're tired. Um, it's all part of it, though you'll
Speaker 1: stop by his offers kind of fibor two days or whatever,
Speaker 1: how much time have you spend thinking of kind of beings,
Speaker 1: all the offense and what have. Those conversations then they're
Speaker 1: always great. You know, those conversations are always great. You know,
Speaker 1: coach Coaches does a tremendous job of just being open
Speaker 1: to ideas, open to new things, and you know, and
Speaker 1: he comes to me with things too sometimes. So um,
Speaker 1: you know, I think that was kind of documented last year,
Speaker 1: just our open lines of communication, our relationship that we have,
Speaker 1: and his door is always open for for anybody, and um, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll jump in there every now and then. I've been
Speaker 1: talking about how the motivate. You know, sometimes there's a
Speaker 1: lull after supervivent. But with this team, there are so
Speaker 1: many guys that didn't get to play in that final
Speaker 1: game that you guys are gonna fuel on everyone else.
Speaker 1: Can you speak to that, you know as Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean obviously with injured guys, guys that didn't get a
Speaker 1: chance to play in that game. Um, there's an extra
Speaker 1: sense of motivation, you know, an extra sense of not
Speaker 1: letting everybody be complacent. On the flip side of that,
Speaker 1: I know the leaders that we have, you know, I
Speaker 1: know the guys in that locker room, the character of
Speaker 1: that locker room where I don't expect it to be
Speaker 1: an issue regardless. You know, I think, um, anytime we
Speaker 1: have the veteran leadership that we have, that's not really
Speaker 1: a concern of mine or really the rest of the guys,
Speaker 1: because nobody's gonna ever settle for anything around here. But again,
Speaker 1: I don't think it hurts that we have those other
Speaker 1: guys like myself that are coming back with a little
Speaker 1: chip on their shoulder, you know, a little extra motivation
Speaker 1: to get back there. Imment you guys made last year,
Speaker 1: Carson in your red zone and on a third down,
Speaker 1: I mean there's a lot of reasons for that. Obviously
Speaker 1: you look at it when you look at the film
Speaker 1: and what are the most important reasons for the improvement?
Speaker 1: You know, I think there's a lot of things that
Speaker 1: go into that, that improvement in third down, red zone,
Speaker 1: all of that. Ay, we emphasize it a lot, even
Speaker 1: going back to OTA's last year. You know, we worked
Speaker 1: on in a ton, We spent extra time in the
Speaker 1: film room, you know, just analyzing what we did, and
Speaker 1: then we really emphasized this last year putting the right
Speaker 1: guys in the right spots, you know, bringing a guy
Speaker 1: like Al Sean, getting zach Ertz more involved in the
Speaker 1: right positions, getting Nelson Agiler in the slot where you know,
Speaker 1: he made a huge difference in there, and just the
Speaker 1: rest of the piece is just getting guys in the
Speaker 1: right spots I think was a huge part of our success,
Speaker 1: especially in the red zone. Several weeks ago, the Zacs
Speaker 1: almost impossible to cover in the red zone. Um why,
Speaker 1: I mean, what makes him so difficult? I think with him,
Speaker 1: you know, especially where we're at in our relationship, you know,
Speaker 1: on the field, just our chemistry, our timing and everything
Speaker 1: is just is really dialed in. Um So, I think
Speaker 1: anytime that's that's dialed in, that's hard enough to defend.
Speaker 1: But a guy the size that he has, his ability
Speaker 1: to go up and get a ball, and just the
Speaker 1: way he plays with leverage and runs, you know, I
Speaker 1: think as good routes as anybody in the league. I
Speaker 1: just think that makes for a tough matchup over the
Speaker 1: last few months. I mean, as they're good to training camp.
Speaker 1: You won't be involved in many ways as the starting quarterback,
Speaker 1: but are there little things that you're doing to in
Speaker 1: terms of leadership and also letting the rest of the
Speaker 1: guys know that you're you're still the guy. UM. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean anytime you're Andrew, you know, and I'm not
Speaker 1: the only one doing this. I mean Hicks is doing Americas.
Speaker 1: You know, guys that are j Jason Peters, Everyone still involved.
Speaker 1: And I think that's. Um. Sometimes a fear is that
Speaker 1: guys might just isolate them elves and just handle their rehab,
Speaker 1: their recovery. UM, And I don't think that's really the
Speaker 1: case with most of us, you know, I think we're
Speaker 1: all we want to be involved. You know, we're all
Speaker 1: chomping at the bit to get out there. We might
Speaker 1: be limited to some respect, but um, you know, leadership stuff,
Speaker 1: all of those kind of aspects of it. Uh, we're
Speaker 1: involved as much as we can do. You feel like
Speaker 1: you have to do that because of the importance of
Speaker 1: that position. I mean, I just think that's kind of
Speaker 1: who I am, That's kind of how I'm made up,
Speaker 1: and so, uh, none of it's really forced. It just
Speaker 1: kind of naturally happens as we go nidering. I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously I'm mentionested in him as just an offensive weapon.
Speaker 1: Anytime we bring in a guy like that, UM, an
Speaker 1: early pick as he was. UM, I got to see
Speaker 1: him in college unfortunately, beat up on the bus and
Speaker 1: a couple of times. So I know he's a heck
Speaker 1: of a player, heck of a talent um obviously, like
Speaker 1: you said, sharing the same agent. I know a little
Speaker 1: bit about him as well. But it'll be fun to
Speaker 1: see him out here in Ota, see how he picks
Speaker 1: up everything that the speed of the game and everything,
Speaker 1: and then see where we can mix him in within
Speaker 1: our packages and everything. A lot is made about the
Speaker 1: physical part of your your rehab, but were a mental aspect,
Speaker 1: what kind of progress have made as far as you know,
Speaker 1: the movement that you can do with the brace on it,
Speaker 1: just kind of understanding your limitations. Yeah, mental aspect is
Speaker 1: probably just as important as the physical. I think when
Speaker 1: you're coming back from these injuries, I'm just learning how
Speaker 1: to trust it, you know, learning how to trust your need,
Speaker 1: trust your movement, all of those things, and that comes.
Speaker 1: That comes over time. I mean every day is it
Speaker 1: just gets a little better and a little more trust,
Speaker 1: a little more faith in it than um. At the
Speaker 1: same time, you gotta be smart. You gotta be smart
Speaker 1: with what the doctors are saying. But I feel that
Speaker 1: I've made made really good strides both mentally and physically,
Speaker 1: and I like where I'm at need on anybody Carson
Speaker 1: that's gone through something like this before, and not really
Speaker 1: you know, not really, Um, just the guys around me,
Speaker 1: you know. And the other thing is just the guys
Speaker 1: that are in the locker, are in the rehab room
Speaker 1: this whole offseason. We've had to be around here, Hicks, Marigoes,
Speaker 1: Jason Peters, Sprowls been around, um. You know, we're kind
Speaker 1: of all just rehabbing together. So it's kind of a
Speaker 1: good little group that we have going in there. So
Speaker 1: I think we've all kind of leaned on each other.
Speaker 1: Have you compared yourself at all to the other quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: but Ryan Cannibal first get back in dollars now practicing
Speaker 1: you got heard similar to four months reporting that you
Speaker 1: you can even look at that seem like lining up
Speaker 1: timelines and things like that. It's not really not really.
Speaker 1: I don't really. I don't really like to play the
Speaker 1: comparison game and be I think we're all just kind
Speaker 1: of Every injury is a little different, everybody's recoveries a
Speaker 1: little different. Um, And I just really focus on what
Speaker 1: the doctors are telling me in my recovery, find yourself
Speaker 1: just looking at the calendar at four months, three months
Speaker 1: and kind of cheating that way. I mean you do sometimes,
Speaker 1: but at the end of the day, Um, you can't
Speaker 1: get caught up in that, even when you are healthy.
Speaker 1: You know, it's it's too easy to look ahead and Okay,
Speaker 1: week one, you got that circle or whatever. But um,
Speaker 1: I think it's it's always just a one day at
Speaker 1: the time mentality and approach, and especially now I got
Speaker 1: to avoid getting ahead of myself at that stuff. How
Speaker 1: smooth is the transition now with Frank Will we want
Speaker 1: to like getting with the coaches, all fielding, a lot
Speaker 1: of guys who just truck position to everything. It's been great,
Speaker 1: you know, it's been great. Obviously losing Frank coachd Filippo
Speaker 1: big losses, you know, especially personally, very close with both
Speaker 1: those guys. But coach grow has been rock solid. Um
Speaker 1: last year he was he was awesome. So far he
Speaker 1: seems awesome. I think everyone's excited to see um kind
Speaker 1: of him take that more of that leadership role and
Speaker 1: then press Taylor uh now as our quarterback coach. I
Speaker 1: think you know us four quarterbacks. Hey, we love working
Speaker 1: with him He's a great guy, very smart football mind
Speaker 1: as well. So it's been a very smooth process I
Speaker 1: think so far, will you go to the White House? Um?
Speaker 1: So obviously it's been kind of leaked out there that
Speaker 1: we will be UM going. Um the details aren't fully
Speaker 1: available yet, so we're not sure. I know for me personally,
Speaker 1: if the team decides that as a whole most guys
Speaker 1: want to go or be a part of it, I
Speaker 1: will be attending with them. You know. I think it's
Speaker 1: just a cool way to um just receive the honor
Speaker 1: um kind of nationally uh and be recognized. I don't
Speaker 1: personally view it. I don't lot some people do. Everyone
Speaker 1: has their own opinion on it. I don't view it
Speaker 1: as a political thing whatsoever. I don't really mess with
Speaker 1: politics very often. But UM, yeah, I think I will
Speaker 1: be involved in going in that. UM. Again, the rest
Speaker 1: of the details are becoming out soon. Yeah. So I
Speaker 1: mean I've looked into a little bit UM so far
Speaker 1: it seems fine. UM. Again, I'm still limited to some
Speaker 1: respect as far as what I can do. So the
Speaker 1: brace is something that UM. I never want to use
Speaker 1: it as a crutch UM by any means, but UM
Speaker 1: just to to feel a little more protected, to make
Speaker 1: sure the doctors feel little safer within everything. But it's
Speaker 1: something I'm just now really getting used to, so we'll
Speaker 1: kind of just stay posted on that one. I guess
Speaker 1: we'll see again. It's a fluid thing, just like everything else.
Speaker 1: Thanks person.