Speaker 1: A lot of your interceptions have been really you know,
Speaker 1: plays down the field, way down the field that you're
Speaker 1: trying to hit something would have we learned from kind
Speaker 1: of watching those tape and you know, just the decision
Speaker 1: process of vacant most rowers. Yeah, you know, they're all
Speaker 1: kind of a different story. You know, sometimes their poor decisions,
Speaker 1: sometimes that just missed the throw. Um. But I think
Speaker 1: the big thing is you just got people. Besides, you know,
Speaker 1: small small misses in this league need to turnovers, and
Speaker 1: you know those things happen. The cleets that the guys
Speaker 1: are wearing today was that inspired by you? And uh?
Speaker 1: Is it for a specific charity? Um? Actually, Chris Marrigoes
Speaker 1: came up with the idea, you know, and then a
Speaker 1: bunch of us kind of talked about, um, the best
Speaker 1: way to kind of share that message, and UM came
Speaker 1: up with the verse that we thought really illustrated the
Speaker 1: gospel in a great way. UM, and then we're all
Speaker 1: gonna the plan is we haven't talked exactly about specifics
Speaker 1: what talking them off and give them give them money
Speaker 1: to charity afterwards, any specific one haven't thought that far.
Speaker 1: I know some of those guys probably have some already,
Speaker 1: But that's definitely the plan. I know, you want to
Speaker 1: stay aggressive, heady, kind of bounce, you know, wanting to
Speaker 1: get the ball down the field and not making those
Speaker 1: kind of mistakes. Yeah, you know, that's the nature of
Speaker 1: this game, nature of this league. You know, there's gonna
Speaker 1: be mistakes. Things are gonna happen. Sometimes it's you're forcing downfield.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you gotta make those throws. Um. But but that's
Speaker 1: part of our offense. You know. Our offense is to
Speaker 1: take what they give you. There's there's time to take
Speaker 1: those shots. And you know, I know those interceptions when
Speaker 1: when those things happen, Um, they're not gonna scare me away,
Speaker 1: you know, so to speak. You know, those things happen.
Speaker 1: You just got to be precise with the football. What
Speaker 1: it was like, you're ten or eleven yards behind the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage. Julius Peppers has a whole of your face. Mahad,
Speaker 1: there's another guy around your w tell me work me
Speaker 1: through all that. That was an amazing escape. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's just kind of sometimes it costs me,
Speaker 1: you know, at times. But I just kind of have
Speaker 1: this never say die attitude, and you know, I'm as
Speaker 1: as a competitor. Um, I'm always fighting always, you know,
Speaker 1: scrapping for whatever I can, and um, that's just kind
Speaker 1: of the way that that play unfolded. I still came
Speaker 1: up short of the first down, but we got to
Speaker 1: face man's call the other scramble. You actually juped out
Speaker 1: to Demerius Randall. I hadn't seen you do that before. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I kind of took me back to college a little bit.
Speaker 1: Been a while since I had a couple a couple
Speaker 1: runs down the field. Finally got in the end zone
Speaker 1: there on that one too, So UM, kind of felt good.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, you know, I'm still still
Speaker 1: want to be a passer first in this league, especially,
Speaker 1: but you know, um, it's always good to make plays
Speaker 1: and extend extend plays when when when it's there were
Speaker 1: eleven games into the season. How do you feel physically? Mentioned,
Speaker 1: you know, physically and mentally, I feel great. You know,
Speaker 1: I feel I'm at a good spot and very thankful
Speaker 1: to be healthy, um for sure. Um, and then mentally,
Speaker 1: I just I feel feel confident with where I'm at,
Speaker 1: you know as a team. Um, obviously you know the
Speaker 1: record and the performances individually, It's never perfect, um, but
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm getting better mentally, things are slowing down.
Speaker 1: I'm playing a lot more confidently, so um. You know,
Speaker 1: obviously as a record wise, you know, we'd like to
Speaker 1: be better, but um, I feel like we're on the
Speaker 1: right tracks. Just said in the locker room and he
Speaker 1: thought that he played tight and the last game was
Speaker 1: feeling some of the pressure and maybe some of the team.
Speaker 1: Did you need to get back to having fun playing
Speaker 1: loose and stuff? Did you feel that at all? And
Speaker 1: how do you get back to that set? You know,
Speaker 1: I didn't personally feel that. You know, I'm always I
Speaker 1: always treat every game like it's just a blessing and
Speaker 1: I'm out there having fun. You know, I'm kind of
Speaker 1: a little kid when it comes to that. It's just
Speaker 1: a game I've played since I was a kid. But
Speaker 1: you could maybe make the argument that some guys maybe
Speaker 1: we're playing tight. You know, I think every guy is
Speaker 1: different in that regard. But I think the biggest thing
Speaker 1: is just to keep emphasizing it. You know, have some fun,
Speaker 1: don't don't. Don't thought the pressure and the expectations around
Speaker 1: you impact how you're approaching the game. You know, I
Speaker 1: always just approach it with a happy attitude and you're
Speaker 1: enjoying it. Like I said, we're grown men playing this
Speaker 1: game that we played since of our kids. And how
Speaker 1: cool is that we've got a lot of rookies on
Speaker 1: offense especially really all we're running bad receivers. What's your
Speaker 1: role kind of keeping back food together and making sure
Speaker 1: that everybody kind of stays up track. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: we all have a role, all have a hand in it.
Speaker 1: You know. Obviously when when things are going poorly whatever, Um,
Speaker 1: you know, in the huddle, all eyes are on me.
Speaker 1: But you know, we have some really good leaders, you
Speaker 1: know from from Jason Kelsey, Brent sellick Um, Darren Spoils,
Speaker 1: Jason Peters. You know they've been around. You know they
Speaker 1: get it. Um, they do a great job. And you know,
Speaker 1: I try and follow lead a little bit, try and
Speaker 1: take the lead at times. And um, I think as
Speaker 1: a that's one thing we don't lack is leadership on
Speaker 1: both sides of the ball. I think you've made them
Speaker 1: many other questions quarterback Obviously, do you ever feel at
Speaker 1: times like you're really under a microshow? Do you ever
Speaker 1: feel that, um you're talking on the field or off
Speaker 1: the field. Off the field, it doesn't matter. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean you definitely feel that without a doubt. But at
Speaker 1: the same time, you don't let the circumstances. You don't
Speaker 1: let those expectations and the so called pressure, you know,
Speaker 1: for me anyway, I don't let it, you know, impact
Speaker 1: the way I approach the game and the fact that
Speaker 1: I just go out and enjoy it and you know,
Speaker 1: some days they're gonna go well, some days aren't. But um,
Speaker 1: that's the nature of this game. Why do you find
Speaker 1: your response like you can feel the micing the micros
Speaker 1: show falling to feel a little bit. I mean, it
Speaker 1: definitely happens. You know, we're always you know in this
Speaker 1: in this business. You know, you're definitely in the spotlight
Speaker 1: and things happen. So UM, that's just the nature of
Speaker 1: this business for sure. Where do you think you've taken
Speaker 1: the biggest strides this season? Carson? When you look at
Speaker 1: your your game, UM, I think it's just a lot
Speaker 1: of it's probably things you don't see, you know, just mentally, um,
Speaker 1: grasping you know, the concepts and progressions and different things
Speaker 1: like that. Protection wise, I feel very confident with Um,
Speaker 1: I think it's really just the mental side of things
Speaker 1: and just playing faster and faster each week. Cable is
Speaker 1: very content. I guess, yeah, that's something you feel. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that comes with I think that comes, like
Speaker 1: I said, with just understanding that the mental side of things.
Speaker 1: You know, understanding, um, how how defensive defenses play you, um,
Speaker 1: understanding where your guys are at as well. Some of
Speaker 1: it happens naturally with just progressions and stuff, but a
Speaker 1: lot of it is, um, just playing more confident within
Speaker 1: the offense. I know you're right up the world. Jared.
Speaker 1: We started playing, and yeah, I know he's playing. I
Speaker 1: don't know exactly how well he's done. I talked to
Speaker 1: him a couple of weeks ago, um, the week he
Speaker 1: was getting his first start, so I wished him, wished
Speaker 1: him well, and um, again I haven't paid too much
Speaker 1: attention for a second. Thank you. There's possibly where you
Speaker 1: could play this year is then there's possibility of something
Speaker 1: talking to maybe later in the year at this point
Speaker 1: you might have been playing at this point, Um, have
Speaker 1: you thought about the benefit? Oh you know it's not
Speaker 1: playing person now pay for sure? You know, I know
Speaker 1: for sure I wouldn't trade with what's happened for the world.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm very excited, um that I got that
Speaker 1: opportunity from from game one, and um, you know, I
Speaker 1: always believe there's a there's there's a plan in place,
Speaker 1: and obviously before the season we wouldn't know when when
Speaker 1: would be my time, but I knew it was just
Speaker 1: a matter of time, and um, looking back, I'm really
Speaker 1: excited and happy I got these opportunities and it's just
Speaker 1: gonna help me, um the rest of the season and
Speaker 1: definitely in the long run. Most how players, there are
Speaker 1: seasons ending in the round, this time in one double
Speaker 1: way obviously because the playoffs. How do you manage to
Speaker 1: find more of the season, how to set an advantage
Speaker 1: right now? Yeah, I think, I mean hard to speak
Speaker 1: for some of the other rookies, but I know what
Speaker 1: I've experienced for the last five years of college is
Speaker 1: long seasons. You know, playing into January. I think that'll
Speaker 1: benefit me here, um coming up. But you know, just
Speaker 1: handling it, um, you kind of just get used to it,
Speaker 1: you know, especially when we were fortunate enough to play
Speaker 1: in five championships. Um, it just kind of became the norm,
Speaker 1: so to speak. So, um, it's still football, you know,
Speaker 1: you just go about it the same way, approach every
Speaker 1: week the same and keep business business personal. Doug City
Speaker 1: felt like the team is moving in the right direction
Speaker 1: despite the recent struggles. Do you feel the same way
Speaker 1: and why? Um? Yeah, you know, I think one thing
Speaker 1: I can say about the guys in that locker room
Speaker 1: is is we don't lose confidence. We don't lose energy
Speaker 1: or effort. Mistakes happen, you know, physical mistakes happen. You know.
Speaker 1: Sometimes um, you get beat, you know, and those things happen,
Speaker 1: and it's unfortunate the way the way some of these
Speaker 1: things have unfolded. But overall, you know, I can tell that,
Speaker 1: you know, I think we are heading in the right direction.
Speaker 1: With the other night, there were so few possessions. But
Speaker 1: could you guys looking back, have done anything to put
Speaker 1: more points on the board against that defense without a doubt.
Speaker 1: You know, obviously we could have been better. We could
Speaker 1: have been sharper on third downs, could have Obviously the
Speaker 1: turnover in the second half on the first drive didn't
Speaker 1: help the cause. There's definitely things there that we could
Speaker 1: have taken advantage of. But like I said after the game,
Speaker 1: it was just kind of an interesting game with the
Speaker 1: flow of the game hard to getting a rhythm um
Speaker 1: but with without a doubt, we we could have been better.
Speaker 1: Thanks everybody,