Speaker 1: Don't all jump at once. It's crazy when you heard.
Speaker 2: Brock had been cleared. You guys had some incredible chemistry
Speaker 2: last season and this year.
Speaker 1: Yes, continue just happy for him.
Speaker 3: You know, getting hurt sucks, uh, spinning like an entire offseason,
Speaker 3: just grinding every single day, showing up and doing like
Speaker 3: all the little like and just like focus on rehabbing
Speaker 3: and not like being able to improve your game. It's frustrating.
Speaker 3: But you know, he did a great job. Our training
Speaker 3: staff did a great job. And the fact that he's
Speaker 3: cleared now and available to us, and I think he
Speaker 3: gets to practice tomorrow. Hey, that's awesome for the Niners.
Speaker 3: You know, I thought our quarterbacks played well to day,
Speaker 3: so you throw another good quarterback in the mix, and hey,
Speaker 3: now we had a plethora of quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: Can't wait.
Speaker 2: Look like he's improved from the offs from last year
Speaker 2: to this year. What have you noticed specifically about his
Speaker 2: improvement or where.
Speaker 1: Is he improved?
Speaker 4: In your mind?
Speaker 3: Just today in this one practice. I know I'm dumb
Speaker 3: teasing what I've seen since you know, last season throughout
Speaker 3: Otias today. I mean, you can just he has a
Speaker 3: confidence to him, like he doesn't look at second guessing himself.
Speaker 3: He doesn't look like he's you know, thinking about the
Speaker 3: plays at all. Plays call. He knows what it is.
Speaker 3: He steps in the hall with confidence. And if you
Speaker 3: can just do those things just gives you, you know,
Speaker 3: an opportunity to go be great because you're not thinking
Speaker 3: about anything else.
Speaker 1: So he steps up there. He has some good balls today,
Speaker 1: threw them a well.
Speaker 3: I loved on a third down pocket broke down, Escapes
Speaker 3: gets the first down with his legs, Like, that's what
Speaker 3: we wanted to do. We wanted to, you know, use
Speaker 3: his athleticism to make plays. And you know, it's just
Speaker 3: what he's doing. And I said, having fun. Confidence makes
Speaker 3: me happy.
Speaker 1: You enjoy talking about quarterbacks. Answer your questions analyzing quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: That's great, Grant. Hey twenty twenty three, we're back, baby.
Speaker 3: Uh you know, I just had a quarterback controversy since
Speaker 3: I think my whole career. So yeah, no, I'm great
Speaker 3: at it. Talk about him as much you guys want to.
Speaker 3: I'll say nice things about everybody.
Speaker 1: That's just what I do. Just keep him coming. You're
Speaker 1: gonna get the same damn answers.
Speaker 2: I was talking about.
Speaker 1: It was funny. I'm sorry that was funny.
Speaker 2: Practice, and he doesn't want people to be too eager
Speaker 2: protect against injury, that kind of thing. How does that
Speaker 2: sick with you know, players like yourself, livers that want
Speaker 2: to just get out and get after it.
Speaker 3: Well, for me, I've realized that it's hard to play
Speaker 3: football though shoulder pads on. So these first four days
Speaker 3: it's I'm pretty held back. I mean, like I'll go
Speaker 3: run routes and stuff like that, but like I can't
Speaker 3: really you know, run block the way that I want
Speaker 3: to run block. Like you can get you know, you
Speaker 3: do the fundamentals. You can step well, you can get
Speaker 3: a good hand placement, but you can't throw your shoulders
Speaker 3: into people and stuff like that. So songs we're practicing well,
Speaker 3: but you know, once your shoulder pads get on, I
Speaker 3: think that's kind of more so when you got to
Speaker 3: like really be reminding yourself that it's not a live game,
Speaker 3: because you're gonna be so eager and so excited because
Speaker 3: you know, we had a great football team last year
Speaker 3: that played at a high level, we practiced at a
Speaker 3: high level, and which we want to get back to
Speaker 3: that as quick as we can, so we you know,
Speaker 3: don't start off slow. This season, and so everyone's you know,
Speaker 3: eager to play football. But I think we're doing a
Speaker 3: good job so far without the pads on. You know,
Speaker 3: we'll see the next coming days. But you know, once
Speaker 3: those pads come on, it'll probably be a bit more violent,
Speaker 3: which is what I'm really looking forward to.
Speaker 4: What was Kyle's I guess overriding message and the first
Speaker 4: team meeting of camp, what he wanted to convey to
Speaker 4: you guys about what you need to get done.
Speaker 1: We have a fantastic roster. You know.
Speaker 3: Everybody tells us that we're a really good football team
Speaker 3: doesn't really matter right now, you know. So we got
Speaker 3: to go out there and work really really hard every
Speaker 3: single day, and you know, hopefully we can take a
Speaker 3: really good roster and make it a really great roster
Speaker 3: by our work ethic.
Speaker 1: Our intent every single day.
Speaker 3: And as long as we get out of this thing
Speaker 3: healthy with a lot of hard work, we have the
Speaker 3: ability to take that good, great roster and do some
Speaker 3: really special things with it. So just get after it
Speaker 3: every single day and just attack one day at a time.
Speaker 4: One thing he didn't say the word sy did a
Speaker 4: couple other guys.
Speaker 1: Is that a word? That phrase that doesn't want to
Speaker 1: be mentioned. You know, I'm gonna focus one day to
Speaker 1: just win one game at a time, but you know,
Speaker 1: win to day.
Speaker 3: We just got to walk through left and I'll focus
Speaker 3: on tomorrow and to markets. Here we are like two
Speaker 3: hundred one days away. But you know, no one's counting
Speaker 3: the new.
Speaker 1: Ways of this roster. You guys have been so close
Speaker 1: and happen. He'll be how much.
Speaker 4: Do you openly think about, like, hey, we need to
Speaker 4: get this done with with this group because you don't.
Speaker 1: Know how much how many more opportunities you can't get.
Speaker 3: You know, I think that's something that our team is
Speaker 3: very aware of. You know, we have a guy like, uh,
Speaker 3: you know, we have a lot of highly paid players
Speaker 3: on this team who have earned that money and you
Speaker 3: can only pay so many guys, and we know that,
Speaker 3: you know, some of those guys are kind of at
Speaker 3: the end of their contracts, the end of the guarantees,
Speaker 3: and that's when kind of you know, things start to move.
Speaker 1: So yes, we're very aware of that.
Speaker 3: I don't think it's something that you know, Hey, we
Speaker 3: have a team meeting where we're like.
Speaker 1: Hey, like this is it. But like our vet guys.
Speaker 3: We understand that, you know, something we kind of talked
Speaker 3: about no tas it will be mentioned throughout training camp.
Speaker 1: We're aware of that. We know that, you know, we
Speaker 1: have a fantastic team. We need to win games.
Speaker 3: It's on us, you know, it's on our amazing coach staff,
Speaker 3: it's on our amazing players. Like we have to go
Speaker 3: out there and win. So, uh, we're you know, we're
Speaker 3: focused on that. But really we know that we just
Speaker 3: work really hard, great effort. Uh, we can really you know,
Speaker 3: take this roster the next level and that's all we
Speaker 3: really focused on we get out of this. You know,
Speaker 3: we feel like if we're healthy and working hard that
Speaker 3: you know, we can go toe to toe with.
Speaker 1: Anybody about it. Hey, what's up? How you doing.
Speaker 2: Something?
Speaker 1: You talked about you among players.
Speaker 3: Like, it's just it's yes, we're we're aware that there
Speaker 3: have certain guys that are maybe whether it's at the
Speaker 3: end of their contracts and like the team might be
Speaker 3: you know that happen until was a nine team. We
Speaker 3: lost some key players, you know, they they had to
Speaker 3: go to different teams and stuff like that. We're where like, yeah,
Speaker 3: the business side of it, we understand that we have
Speaker 3: a fantastic football team. We have a great core guys
Speaker 3: and really important positions. We understand that some you know,
Speaker 3: the whatever, the window whatever that is, could be closing.
Speaker 3: You know, we're gonna try our best to keep that
Speaker 3: window open as long as we possibly can. But we're
Speaker 3: gonna try to sneak out some uh, you know, while
Speaker 3: that window is still open according to everybody else, Like
Speaker 3: we're aware of that now. I'm not going to say
Speaker 3: like we didn't have a leadership council meeting. You know,
Speaker 3: we're all just saying, hey, focus in. I think we're
Speaker 3: pretty focused last year. I think we're pretty focus in
Speaker 3: twenty twenty one. I think we're pretty focused this year.
Speaker 3: And you know, hopefully our work and our intent are
Speaker 3: reflected this year. And Deevil talked about the naturation process
Speaker 3: of Brandon and I you and just how much he's progressed.
Speaker 1: It's a good that's a good phrase, maturation process.
Speaker 2: I learned a few.
Speaker 3: Sorry, what have you seen personally from him that's really impressed.
Speaker 3: You know, our offense is really big on it's built
Speaker 3: around like all of our routes and our concepts are
Speaker 3: built on steps, the quarterback drop, and it's all timing
Speaker 3: stuff and if.
Speaker 1: You're a wide receiver.
Speaker 3: You see other wide receivers are out the league, like
Speaker 3: they have a lot of freedom to a bunch of
Speaker 3: crazy stuff in their route. Stuff that's not really our offense.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 3: Hey, quarterback is a five step, he's a five step
Speaker 3: with a hitch. Your route is seven steps. You need
Speaker 3: to hit seven steps on this landmark instantly. And and
Speaker 3: so then when the quarterback throws a ball, like he
Speaker 3: can look this way and when he turns, he doesn't
Speaker 3: have to see you. He can just throw it and
Speaker 3: he knows that you're gonna be right there. And younger
Speaker 3: receivers in our offense, it takes him a while to
Speaker 3: figure that out because they're like, oh, you know, I'm
Speaker 3: just going out there to play catch, and it's like, no,
Speaker 3: that's not our offense. Our offense is precise, Like that's
Speaker 3: what you have to do. And it takes guys a
Speaker 3: while to realize like the work ethic and the practice
Speaker 3: and the attention to detail that goes into that. And
Speaker 3: you can figure that out like going into you like
Speaker 3: year three and then when he figured that and like
Speaker 3: he's a great football player before that, but he figured
Speaker 3: out like all the details that go into this offense
Speaker 3: and then what he's done great at is he's figured
Speaker 3: all that out, he's learned all that and now he
Speaker 3: gets to add his own sauce on top of all
Speaker 3: that stuff. And so now you see those cool plays,
Speaker 3: a cool catches where he's ripping it away from people
Speaker 3: and you just taking another step. And it's because he
Speaker 3: has his foundation that this understanding, this awesome offense that
Speaker 3: gives him the opportunity to go out there and just
Speaker 3: wrap people up and look like a superstar, which is
Speaker 3: what he is.
Speaker 2: George Cameron lost you and Gradon Willison along.
Speaker 1: I think they're doing a great job talk about the
Speaker 1: maturation process. Thank you. You know, I think they're both.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: They took ot as they came back a week early,
Speaker 3: spent some time with my Titans coach. You know, I
Speaker 3: think Flury's done a great job with them. Eagerly harps
Speaker 3: on them all the time. But you know the details
Speaker 3: of the offense, understand it exactly what you have to do,
Speaker 3: so you don't have to think about you know what,
Speaker 3: you don't have to think about it once you get
Speaker 3: out there. And I think they both had a good
Speaker 3: day today. They had some good OTAs practices. They started
Speaker 3: stacking days. You know, it's easy right now, we don't
Speaker 3: shoulder pads on It's day one. We had sixteen reps
Speaker 3: a day. I think most guys had like six to
Speaker 3: eight reps, you know. So hopefully they just keep stacking.
Speaker 3: They have good days, they stay in their playbook, and
Speaker 3: they keep going.
Speaker 1: They're both good football players.
Speaker 3: They're both run good routes, they're both strong, they both
Speaker 3: have they have great effort. So that's what you wanted
Speaker 3: a football player. I think that's there.
Speaker 1: So let's just see if they can be consistent with it.
Speaker 2: They remind you about your first time when you went
Speaker 2: through your first training camp and you were talking to
Speaker 2: you guys about that and where you were, like you're
Speaker 2: asking the elements.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was actually in the middle of the ocean,
Speaker 1: hold on to a life raft. That's about where I was.
Speaker 3: No, I will say, I think the way that we
Speaker 3: install now is a little bit easier. I think we
Speaker 3: figured that part out. I think Kyle has done a
Speaker 3: really good job with that part of the offense, like
Speaker 3: the how fitting everything together, and like we do a
Speaker 3: really good job now, like, hey, these are our favorite
Speaker 3: plays that we ran last year, and so we're gonna
Speaker 3: focus on them and build out our playbook through them.
Speaker 3: And so the way we install I think is yeah, No,
Speaker 3: if it's Kyle, I think it's more efficient now than
Speaker 3: it was seven years ago.
Speaker 1: But like I said, I think Flurry.
Speaker 3: I mean, he's really good at instilling the details, installing
Speaker 3: those details, and so I think they have this great
Speaker 3: foundation to go off of it. So I think, you know,
Speaker 3: my two rookie tight ends, they're definitely probably farther along
Speaker 3: than I was on day one. And but like I said,
Speaker 3: it's day one is easy. Day two is kind of easy.
Speaker 3: Day three is pretty easy. Get an off day, you
Speaker 3: come back. Day four is not that hard. Day five,
Speaker 3: first day pads. Everyone's excited. You get into day six, seven, eight,
Speaker 3: that's when you figure out, you know, who wants to
Speaker 3: play the game. And so, hey, I love all my teammates.
Speaker 3: I hopefully hopefully everybody does a great job. You ask
Speaker 3: me again in a week.
Speaker 1: To keep the window the window. Yeah, we'll go back
Speaker 1: to back. What's up you guys?
Speaker 4: Keeping the window open as as possible leadership something you've
Speaker 4: always kind of taken pride in, But is it tocourage you?
Speaker 4: They're like, hey, you know, helping younger guys can help
Speaker 4: us achieve that, you know, getting guys up to that
Speaker 4: level to make sure that windows.
Speaker 3: How many guys on the team, like after the fifth cuts,
Speaker 3: like sixty sixty nine, right, I need all those guys,
Speaker 3: Like I mean, I don't care if you're on practice squad.
Speaker 3: I don't care if you're a rookie. I don't care
Speaker 3: if you're the R five on kickoff. Like I need
Speaker 3: every single person. I'm very aware of that. We encourage
Speaker 3: I mean, me and Fred stand here in front of
Speaker 3: the rookies right before you go to the forty days
Speaker 3: away at the OTAs, and and we're very straight with them, like, look,
Speaker 3: some of you are going to be here, some of
Speaker 3: you aren't. The guys that are gonna be here are
Speaker 3: going to participate. They're gonna help us win. Like I
Speaker 3: can't win without you, guys. We can't win with thirty
Speaker 3: good guys and twenty bad players, Like I need sixty
Speaker 3: nine really good football players that want to win. They
Speaker 3: want to bring it every single day, intent effort, like
Speaker 3: that's all I really give a shit about. And so
Speaker 3: if they want to bring it, they have the goals.
Speaker 3: The high standards. That's what we want. And it's really
Speaker 3: fun because I think we have a great roster. Like
Speaker 3: I said, we have a lot of guys who want
Speaker 3: to be on this team, and so the battles route
Speaker 3: camp are gonna be really fun to watch. And hopefully
Speaker 3: by the time we get to the fifty three plus
Speaker 3: the fifteen sixteen practice squad guys, we have a very
Speaker 3: great roster that has an ability to win and go
Speaker 3: out and get things done.
Speaker 1: You talked about the evolution of this team. How has
Speaker 1: it tightened you all? Ooh thank you? Yeah A sorry
Speaker 1: one more time. You got me excited of tightening you
Speaker 1: throughout the years.
Speaker 3: And what did you get from it this season to
Speaker 3: get your ready from twenty three?
Speaker 1: Let's see the evolution of it.
Speaker 3: You know what kind of started out is this like
Speaker 3: we wanted to get a couple of guys in town,
Speaker 3: you know, train and then holy shit, forty five guys
Speaker 3: showed up that first one. Forty nine guys did at
Speaker 3: a high school, did some drills, round some routes, came
Speaker 3: back to next year, moved to Vanderbilt, had eighty five
Speaker 3: guys and really, you know, the way the steps that's
Speaker 3: taken is is we kind of like at the end
Speaker 3: of every one we send out, like you know, hey,
Speaker 3: what can we do better? And guys were really big
Speaker 3: on they want to know, like, hey, what's your mindset
Speaker 3: going into a football game? What's your mindset going into
Speaker 3: a week of practice? Or hey, we want to see Travis,
Speaker 3: will you talk about running the same route versus four
Speaker 3: different coverages? And so like that's the you've just sorry,
Speaker 3: we've grown into like listen to the players of what
Speaker 3: they want to see and know. One of my favorite
Speaker 3: things was we got to see It was awesome, like
Speaker 3: vocal speakers. You know, Travis talked about a couple of things.
Speaker 3: Gronk showed up, he got to talk about his mindset
Speaker 3: and what it takes to win every single day, you know,
Speaker 3: good decisions, bad decisions. And one of my favorites was
Speaker 3: Jordan Reid showed up and he spent like twenty minutes
Speaker 3: talking about releases, which is one of the coolest things.
Speaker 3: And on his he had all these old videos that
Speaker 3: he had recorded on his phone on his iPad from
Speaker 3: when he was at Washington and it's just crushing people
Speaker 3: and it's making people look so stupid. On his releases
Speaker 3: and He broke them down too, into like three different
Speaker 3: drills that you can do to use his releases. No
Speaker 3: matter how athletic you are, and no matter how tall
Speaker 3: you are, short, you are strong, you are fast, you
Speaker 3: are and he broke it down for all these tight
Speaker 3: ends to look and read.
Speaker 1: And then he sent all those.
Speaker 3: Clips out back to them so they can take that
Speaker 3: home with them and you know, study them. It's pretty
Speaker 3: cool stuff. And like, those are releases. I spent the
Speaker 3: rest of the off season trying. So hey, if you
Speaker 3: see a Jordan's Greed type release from me, make sure
Speaker 3: you give him a shout out.
Speaker 1: But that you know, I gotta watch.
Speaker 3: Travis Kelce talked about he runs a lot of these
Speaker 3: high crosses, like fifteen to twenty yard crossing routes, but
Speaker 3: it's paired to the sale route, which is same thing,
Speaker 3: so you fake in break out and he just showed
Speaker 3: how he runs it versus different coverages. You know, it's
Speaker 3: the exact same sin Like the first ten to twelve yards,
Speaker 3: dB has no idea what he's running and then depending
Speaker 3: on the coverage is what the top of the route
Speaker 3: looks like. And just seeing him explain that and be like, oh,
Speaker 3: that makes a lot of sense now, so when I'm
Speaker 3: watching it on tape, it's not like, Huh, why did
Speaker 3: he do that? I now know why he's doing those things,
Speaker 3: and so hey, when I get that opportunity to do
Speaker 3: that with one of my routes, Hey, this is a
Speaker 3: guy who a thousand yards seven straight seasons, probably knows
Speaker 3: what he's talking about when he'salking about running routes. I
Speaker 3: can use that next time I run one of these routes.
Speaker 3: And it's just cool to be able to learn from
Speaker 3: guys that are really good at their position and then
Speaker 3: take that home with you and try to.
Speaker 1: Use it yourself. Thanks guys, twenty bucks