Speaker 1: Any certain way going back to Philadelphia place where you
Speaker 1: got injured last year, Is there anything in your mind
Speaker 1: about just going back to that location.
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, I got hurt there and everything. But
Speaker 2: you know, for me, it's it's week thirteen. You know,
Speaker 2: we're going on the road in the hostile environment. We're
Speaker 2: late in the season, so every every game is obviously
Speaker 2: big for us, and so that's where I'm at with
Speaker 2: my mindset. Am I going to go back and feel
Speaker 2: a certain way?
Speaker 3: None of that?
Speaker 2: You know, It's it's it's a new year to new teams,
Speaker 2: you know, slightly different in ways.
Speaker 3: So that's that's how I'm looking at it.
Speaker 1: And you take us back to that to going there
Speaker 1: that game and just kind of how you felt about
Speaker 1: the game plan and yeah, your plan of attack going
Speaker 1: up against that defense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, yeah, we felt good about our game
Speaker 2: plan and stuff. I mean, things obviously just didn't go
Speaker 2: away in terms of keeping the quarterback healthy. So it's
Speaker 2: hard to say exactly what we were going to do
Speaker 2: and all that kind of stuff. But you know, once
Speaker 2: Josh went down, things sort of changed and I had
Speaker 2: to get thrown back in there. But in terms of
Speaker 2: our plan of attack, it's like, yeah, you go into
Speaker 2: a game feeling like what you're gonna do is gonna
Speaker 2: be good, and so we never really got to that.
Speaker 2: I feel like, so that's just yeah, that's I'll just
Speaker 2: leave it at that.
Speaker 4: So look for forty Irish players who have gone through
Speaker 4: significant injuries like Jimmy Garoppolo and Kansas City, one of
Speaker 4: our aboveen in Seattle went to the stadium gave themselves
Speaker 4: a moment to just kind of take it in about
Speaker 4: the past in that stadium.
Speaker 5: Will you give yourself a moment or will.
Speaker 4: You just as usual?
Speaker 2: I mean usually every single game, I just whenever I
Speaker 2: go in the stadium, yeah, I take a little moment
Speaker 2: just to be thankful for where I'm at in the
Speaker 2: game that I'm about to play in.
Speaker 3: So none of that changes.
Speaker 2: Am I going to go in there and get all
Speaker 2: you know, sentimental about man, I've come a long way since.
Speaker 3: It's not really like that. You know.
Speaker 2: We have a goal in mind and I'm trying to
Speaker 2: be the best version of myself every week. So am
Speaker 2: I going to go into the game saying I want
Speaker 2: revenge and all this kind of stuff.
Speaker 3: It's not like that, you know.
Speaker 2: So I'm just gonna try to go do my job
Speaker 2: and be the best rock that I can be for
Speaker 2: this team.
Speaker 3: So yeah, how much.
Speaker 1: Better of a quarterback do you think you are now
Speaker 1: than the guy who started that game?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I think I've grown just mentally with this playbook, with
Speaker 2: the system, with just the guys that I'm playing with
Speaker 2: in terms of you know, them knowing what they're gonna
Speaker 2: get from me. And I feel like at the time,
Speaker 2: you know, still trying to find my find my way
Speaker 2: in the NFL and and play consistent and prove to
Speaker 2: the guys that I can play. So now it's all about,
Speaker 2: you know, how can I be consistent, you know, every
Speaker 2: single drive, every game and sort of being able to
Speaker 2: handle all the factors that come with playing quarterback, you know,
Speaker 2: the the noises, the you know, keeping guys in a calm, cool,
Speaker 2: collected like that kind of stuff. So I feel like
Speaker 2: in that game or at that time, I don't know
Speaker 2: if I was that guy yet.
Speaker 3: So I feel like that's the difference.
Speaker 2: Already.
Speaker 5: But this has been circled for eleven months.
Speaker 4: Does it feel like a bigger stage, more top like bigger.
Speaker 5: Than some of the other games you played it?
Speaker 2: I mean, I guess people can make it like make
Speaker 2: it like that. Really for us, it's like I said,
Speaker 2: it's we're late later in the year, so every single
Speaker 2: game is huge in terms of going into the playoffs
Speaker 2: and setting yourself up for where you're gonna be at
Speaker 2: in the playoffs.
Speaker 3: So for us, that's how we're it's how we're looking
Speaker 3: at it.
Speaker 2: How I'm looking at it is, Yeah, it's a it's
Speaker 2: gonna be a tough place to play.
Speaker 3: They're they're a really good team.
Speaker 2: They've found ways to win this year and they're and
Speaker 2: they're really good, and so for us, it's a it's
Speaker 2: another great challenge. But to say, have I had this
Speaker 2: game circle for the last year, it has. Honestly, it
Speaker 2: hasn't been like that.
Speaker 3: For me.
Speaker 2: It's been how can I be the best from the
Speaker 2: beginning of the season to where we are now. I've
Speaker 2: taken one day, one week at a time, and this
Speaker 2: is our next challenge.
Speaker 3: Week thirteen in Philadelphia, there's a chance for some rain
Speaker 3: on Sunday. You know, you had a little bit of
Speaker 3: that in Cleveland.
Speaker 5: Was there anything from that experience that you that you
Speaker 5: took away that maybe you are adding to your preparation
Speaker 5: this week or things that you might want to do
Speaker 5: different if it does rain on Sunday.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think, you know, sort of just going into it,
Speaker 2: like just being ready for you know, obviously the rain,
Speaker 2: you know in Cleveland, it sort of came out of
Speaker 2: out of nowhere in a sense, like mid drive it
Speaker 2: started raining. So it was a little tough to deal
Speaker 2: with that one drive. But to maybe have a plan
Speaker 2: of if I need a glove, if I don't, if
Speaker 2: it's downpouring, if it's.
Speaker 3: A slight rain, That'll just probably.
Speaker 2: Be one of those decisions once we get there and
Speaker 2: you know, you see the weather and how it is
Speaker 2: right before the game starts. But those are things that
Speaker 2: I'll definitely be thinking about.
Speaker 4: Yeah, my Cosmic Leads and your causes child Advocates of
Speaker 4: Silicon Valley, how did you get involved with them? And
Speaker 4: what made that speak to you?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was, you know, just talking to my agent
Speaker 2: and and sort of what I wanted to do and
Speaker 2: what avenues I wanted to you know.
Speaker 3: Help out.
Speaker 2: And I feel like I've had a heart for you know,
Speaker 2: orphans and orphanages, and so you know, we looked at
Speaker 2: someone around the area and since I'm here in the
Speaker 2: Bay Area playing I was like, let's do one here
Speaker 2: in the Silicon Valley. So shows them and want to
Speaker 2: help them out with what I can, you know, so
Speaker 2: after the game, do what I can to help raise
Speaker 2: awareness for for their organization. It's a great nonprofit. So
Speaker 2: very thankful to be parent for partnering up with them.
Speaker 5: Sorock media people have talked to this week describing the
Speaker 5: dialogue around this game say that the Philly people feel like,
Speaker 5: specifically you are the weak link. Just I know, you
Speaker 5: say you play with a cheap, you know, chip on
Speaker 5: your shoulder. How does that does that motivation in any
Speaker 5: way that that the perception is that is that you're
Speaker 5: the weak link.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the first time I've heard that.
Speaker 2: So I don't really know exactly how I feel about
Speaker 2: that big thing that that's fine. Yeah, I don't really know.
Speaker 2: I'm playing quarterback for the forty nine ers and we
Speaker 2: have a good team. I'm just kind of trying to
Speaker 2: do my job to help them win.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I have to do whatever.
Speaker 5: The glove thing, But just what are the kind of benefits?
Speaker 3: What what you know? What do you like about it?
Speaker 3: What do you not like about Yeah?
Speaker 2: I think I mean, if it's a downpour and rain.
Speaker 2: You know, putting on a glove I think for me
Speaker 2: at least, you know, sort of just helps obviously a
Speaker 2: little bit more tack on the ball and whatnot if
Speaker 2: it's a if it's a light rain, I don't know
Speaker 2: if that's necessarily a necessity. You know, I feel like
Speaker 2: I can grip the ball just as it's fine with
Speaker 2: or without a glove with a light rain. So if
Speaker 2: it's downpouring, I feel like having something to help the
Speaker 2: hand sort of grip the ball.
Speaker 3: That's really the only difference.
Speaker 4: So the talk, but a couple of your teammates do
Speaker 4: get involved with the back and forth with the Philadelphia Hills.
Speaker 4: Do you kind of just take a seatback and kind
Speaker 4: of watch it go on or do you enjoy kind
Speaker 4: of the spice that your teammates have with that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I hear stuff around the facility just
Speaker 2: in terms of like you know, Diebo said this or
Speaker 2: whoever said this, and I'd get a laugh out of
Speaker 2: it and stuff.
Speaker 3: It's funny.
Speaker 2: But for myself it's like like I said, it's another
Speaker 2: game for me. I have to be prepared to play football,
Speaker 2: make the right decisions, consistently, handled the operation of the offense,
Speaker 2: So that's where my mind has to be, not all
Speaker 2: the other stuff. So I don't I obviously don't get
Speaker 2: caught up in it. But I think, you know, for
Speaker 2: debo or you know, guys that have played played the
Speaker 2: game for a while to have fun with it, like
Speaker 2: they can do them and I laugh about it when
Speaker 2: I hear it. So but I have a job that
Speaker 2: I have to do and that's just how I handle it.
Speaker 5: Questions of their defensive line rock and did you hear
Speaker 5: it all from Hassan Redick after your injury by chance?
Speaker 2: No, I didn't hear from. I mean, it's just the game,
Speaker 2: how it goes. You get hurt, and that's that's about it.
Speaker 2: But in terms of the d line this year, I mean,
Speaker 2: they're they're still very good. Obviously, we respect the heck
Speaker 2: out of them and what they do. I feel like
Speaker 2: it's their heart and sold their defense. You know, it
Speaker 2: starts with them, and I feel like they can control,
Speaker 2: you know, the the outcome you know of the past game,
Speaker 2: the run game. They do it all and they're very explosive.
Speaker 2: They get off the ball really well. So it's gonna
Speaker 2: be a great challenge for us. I think probably the
Speaker 2: biggest challenge of the year.
Speaker 4: So de like, what's deevoping like in practice this week?
Speaker 1: What's the energy level been like from him in particular?
Speaker 3: I mean Deebo has been debo.
Speaker 2: He's uh, I mean I practice running routes, being explosive,
Speaker 2: Like he goes hard to practice, and it's not like
Speaker 2: he picks picks and chooses games that he goes hard
Speaker 2: at practice. He's been himself and so he's not you know,
Speaker 2: trying to turn on a switch and act like someone
Speaker 2: that he's not like he's depot. He's gone hard and
Speaker 2: and so that's really been about it.
Speaker 3: Jalen Hurt doing the push.
Speaker 5: Do you like say I would really enjoy the opportunity
Speaker 5: to do that often? Or do you like say that
Speaker 5: looks horrendous.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't care if it looks horrendous. If
Speaker 2: you're that good at it, I mean why not. But
Speaker 2: you know, they they've done it. They I don't know
Speaker 2: they have that chemistry. You know with the O line
Speaker 2: obviously Jalen how strong he is as a quarterback to
Speaker 2: be able to get one or two yards they're consistent
Speaker 2: with it. Feel like it's something that they have down
Speaker 2: as a team, so they do it really well. But
Speaker 2: for us, like, we have our ways with short yardage
Speaker 2: and we're slightly different than that, so but we know
Speaker 2: that and we are who we are, so we're sticking
Speaker 2: to that.
Speaker 3: Thanks guys,