Speaker 1: Welcome to the Command Center Podcast. I'm Braham Weinstein. With
Speaker 1: OTA's officially wrapped, Julie Donaldson sat down with quarterback Carson
Speaker 1: Wentz to recap the past few weeks and talk expectations
Speaker 1: for the season. All right, Carson, OS, they're in the books.
Speaker 1: How does it compare? I guess for just kind of
Speaker 1: maybe more not so much to other places, but kind
Speaker 1: of just where you are in your career now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just different. I've been coming into year seven. Family
Speaker 1: life looks different, you know, a big adjustment for entire family,
Speaker 1: two kids now and learning the lay of the land,
Speaker 1: not just at work, but the area as well for them.
Speaker 1: So it's been fun. It's been fun being an older
Speaker 1: guy in the locker room a bit of an adjustment too,
Speaker 1: but the guys are great. Guys are great, and I've
Speaker 1: enjoyed getting to know him both on and off the
Speaker 1: field and being around him, and it's been a fun,
Speaker 1: fun transition so far. In what way is it different
Speaker 1: for you being that like older guy, as you say, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think the first time I walked in here it
Speaker 1: was just like this seems like a younger kind of
Speaker 1: nucleus of a team and a younger locker room. You know,
Speaker 1: for me approaching thirty, like just there's only a couple
Speaker 1: of guys that are even in their thirties in that
Speaker 1: locker room. So, um, it's just different. It's different from
Speaker 1: a leadership perspective. You know a lot of younger guys.
Speaker 1: You know. Shoot, our quarterback Sam was born in two thousands,
Speaker 1: so when I was asking a birthday, I'm like, dang,
Speaker 1: you just turned twenty one, making me feel old. But
Speaker 1: it's fun. It's fun to just kind of see guys
Speaker 1: coming in with different ages, different perspective, different outlooks on life,
Speaker 1: and hopefully as as a veteran and as a leader,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of help bring them along the right way.
Speaker 1: You've been in a few locker rooms over your career,
Speaker 1: probably starting from the early on days in Peewee, But
Speaker 1: what is your approach when you're getting in kind of
Speaker 1: having to learn a new team, knowing you're going to
Speaker 1: be the guy that has to lead them. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: just want to be around the guys and build relationships.
Speaker 1: You know, everybody's everyone's a different different story, different upbringing,
Speaker 1: different place in life, different hobbies, you know, different everything.
Speaker 1: And that's why I love this game, to be honest,
Speaker 1: because we all come together form one com and goal
Speaker 1: out in the field, but but also in the locker room.
Speaker 1: You know, whether it's off the field, going to dinner,
Speaker 1: going to lunch, is going golfing with guys, you know,
Speaker 1: just being around them, having fun, going to top golf.
Speaker 1: We did that team event a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1: Those things are fun to just kind of break down
Speaker 1: some barriers, build some relationship, build some chemistry and just
Speaker 1: really let guys know that that you see them and
Speaker 1: you care about them and you value that relationship. And
Speaker 1: hopefully that always translates on the field. But if not,
Speaker 1: you know, at the end of the day, building those
Speaker 1: relationships they last way longer than football. I want to
Speaker 1: ask you about, of course, on the field, what you
Speaker 1: expect and what you've seen from the guys. But who
Speaker 1: has the best golf game so far? Probably Truss, Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: probably Trust He's got a little time to go out
Speaker 1: when it does come to on the field. Um, how
Speaker 1: has it kind of just been adjusting to the new offense,
Speaker 1: the new players, new schemes and all of that. It's
Speaker 1: been fun. Um, you know, little little things different here
Speaker 1: and there from what I'm used to, um, you know,
Speaker 1: going into year seven, I feel like I've seen a
Speaker 1: lot of football, um you know, seeing different schemes and
Speaker 1: different ways attack defenses. And so it's nothing really there's
Speaker 1: no reinventing the wheel here per se, but just seeing
Speaker 1: Coach Turner's kind of philosophy, how he wants to stretch
Speaker 1: the ball down the field and stress defenses, and with
Speaker 1: the playmakers and the speed that we have on offense,
Speaker 1: it's been fun to kind of see just glimpses of
Speaker 1: how it's going to look. Obviously, it's ota so you're
Speaker 1: kind of throwing stuff out there, seeing what sticks and
Speaker 1: seeing what's going to work. But it's been fun to
Speaker 1: see the kind of creativity and the dynamic ability that
Speaker 1: I think we have and we'll be able to bring
Speaker 1: to the table this fall. Coach, one things that they
Speaker 1: love about you and that they really wanted to do
Speaker 1: with this team is be able to stretch the field.
Speaker 1: And everybody already is just raving about your arm. How
Speaker 1: is it kind of adjusting to some of the playmakers
Speaker 1: and being able to take advantage of that, because that's
Speaker 1: what we keep hearing, like Parson's on point, his arm
Speaker 1: is legit. Yeah, No, I mean that's that's something from
Speaker 1: really the moment the trade happened and talking to Coach
Speaker 1: Turner just knowing his philosophy, he wants to push it
Speaker 1: down the field, you know, take advantage of that, and
Speaker 1: then combine that with the talent and the speed that
Speaker 1: we already have here on the roster with the receivers
Speaker 1: and running backs, tight ends really everybody getting involved and um,
Speaker 1: something I've always loved doing. You know. I think we
Speaker 1: all love the big play. We all you know, want
Speaker 1: to want to score and score fast, um, and there's
Speaker 1: always good those moments, and so just finding ways out
Speaker 1: in the out in the field to kind of mesh
Speaker 1: up that timing. Um, you know we're gonna miss some again,
Speaker 1: it's OTAs. That's that's why why it's fun to be here. Um.
Speaker 1: We're really good turnout from the guys. So guys are
Speaker 1: out there working, um and we're building that chemistry and
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be a fun year for all
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