Speaker 1: How would you describe this offseason? Obviously at a huge
Speaker 1: life event he came off of in Super Bowl, let
Speaker 1: your contract, got rework, got married. I mean, how how
Speaker 1: do you put all it the perspective?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, there's definitely a lot happened. One of
Speaker 2: the busier off seasons I had, just you know, still
Speaker 2: got to keep the main thing the main thing and
Speaker 2: stay focused on you know, even though there's a lot
Speaker 2: of good things, you know, stay training, getting ready to go, and.
Speaker 3: You know, well, it might look like a lot happened,
Speaker 3: and it did.
Speaker 2: I tried to keep it as consistent as possible as
Speaker 2: to the last off seasons that I've had.
Speaker 1: I know you'd expressed interest in playing with Luke, and
Speaker 1: I know it didn't happen. But how cool was Draft
Speaker 1: Day for you and your family to see.
Speaker 3: Him go through that? It was awesome? Man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we were so fired up for him. You know,
Speaker 2: he's He's inspired me in a lot of ways. So
Speaker 2: to see that kind of dream of his come true
Speaker 2: in person was awesome.
Speaker 1: He said, you're gonna Kyle said, you're gonna be see
Speaker 1: when some other veterans will be on a schedule, and
Speaker 1: you weren't in the team stuff yesterday, but you were
Speaker 1: up there a bloody today. Did you feel like he
Speaker 1: hit the ground running today?
Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely. It was good to be back. You know.
Speaker 2: I think it's probably smart just to ease into things
Speaker 2: a little bit these first few days and then next
Speaker 2: week kind of get going. But it's important to get
Speaker 2: you know, get my eyes right, get the timing right,
Speaker 2: just get more comfortable.
Speaker 3: You know, you have to you have to get these reps.
Speaker 3: So it's important.
Speaker 1: I know it's just, you know, just the first your
Speaker 1: first day out there, but did you feel the offense
Speaker 1: looked pretty sharp?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I haven't seen the full tape yet, you know, we
Speaker 2: just obviously there's good and bad every single day during
Speaker 2: training camp, and I think the most important thing is
Speaker 2: just capitalize on the good things and fix the bad things.
Speaker 4: I think it was an Ota Kyle was talking about
Speaker 4: just how many touches you had last year and particularly
Speaker 4: you know, run between the tackles, things like that. Maybe
Speaker 4: they could do a better job of limiting that. I mean,
Speaker 4: what's your perspective on that, potentially having a fewer touches
Speaker 4: in those areas.
Speaker 2: For me, it's you know, put my body, mind and
Speaker 2: soul in the best position to play every snap and
Speaker 2: then you know, coaches got to be coaches whatever they
Speaker 2: think is best. But I know, for me, I prepare
Speaker 2: to play every snap so that I'm ready to go.
Speaker 5: You got an extension during the off season. How important
Speaker 5: was it for you to get that worked out before
Speaker 5: coming into training camp?
Speaker 3: Really important? You know.
Speaker 2: I think anytime you can get that done before camp,
Speaker 2: it's great. But that's the business side of things, you know,
Speaker 2: it's the bittersweet part of this league. And so for me,
Speaker 2: you know, like I said, just taking it one day
Speaker 2: at a time, making sure that you know, you continue
Speaker 2: to train, continue to put your body in the best
Speaker 2: shape possible so that when all that stuff is out
Speaker 2: of the way, you can hit the ground running.
Speaker 5: Jack also went through kind of a renegotiate of his
Speaker 5: but he wanted to make sure that he was the
Speaker 5: top paid fullback. How does it make you feel to
Speaker 5: be the top paid running back in the league.
Speaker 2: It means a lot. Yeah, No, it definitely means a lot.
Speaker 2: I think, you know, the running back position has obviously
Speaker 2: been talked about a lot in the last few years
Speaker 2: about you know, kind of guys being unfairly paid, and
Speaker 2: I think, you know, just to continue to up the
Speaker 2: number I think is important. And you know it's a huge.
Speaker 5: Honor John and Kyle didn't care of Trent Wires.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, look, I you know, the business side
Speaker 2: of things. As I said before, is it's the tough
Speaker 2: part about playing in the NFL. For me, I stay
Speaker 2: out of everything really, just kind of stay in my lane,
Speaker 2: focus on me and doing whatever I can to get back.
Speaker 2: But obviously no one's a bigger fan of strength than me.
Speaker 1: How self critically are you after a season when you
Speaker 1: evaluate what you've done? I mean, obviously Offensive Player of
Speaker 1: the Year had a real strong season. But when you
Speaker 1: look at it, what do you see that you want
Speaker 1: to get better at? Or how do you evaluate it?
Speaker 2: Man, there's and there's there's a lot to get better
Speaker 2: at every year. I think there's a you know, really
Speaker 2: it's it's not even a year or week thing. It's
Speaker 2: just a day by day thing. And you know, I
Speaker 2: think getting getting reps is so important because that's when
Speaker 2: you can really try to perfect your game. When you're
Speaker 2: out of it for a long time, you can miss
Speaker 2: those and and like I said, I think just training
Speaker 2: your eyes, getting the timing right, sequencing down is something
Speaker 2: that you got to do every day, so it's it's
Speaker 2: it's more just every day approaching it is a constant evaluation.
Speaker 2: Obviously you're gonna correct the mistakes from the year, but
Speaker 2: you know, when you're training, you're correcting little things always
Speaker 2: here and there.
Speaker 1: Jordan Mason has looked pretty decent out there in terms
Speaker 1: of catching the ball and stuff. We haven't seen him
Speaker 1: do a lot of that stuffs that jumped out to
Speaker 1: you at all.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, he's improved so much in the first time I've
Speaker 2: met him. Just the way he is in the meetings,
Speaker 2: the way he is out of practice is I think
Speaker 2: our whole running back room has such a good, uh.
Speaker 3: Good energy to it right now.
Speaker 2: You know, we're all pushing each other, making each other better,
Speaker 2: but also being there for each other. And it's a
Speaker 2: really fun room to be a part of because you know,
Speaker 2: you want to talk about guys forcing you to be
Speaker 2: at your best. Every single one of those guys right
Speaker 2: now is are doing just that and makes it makes
Speaker 2: it fun to be a part of. Mariano Rivera has
Speaker 2: he becoming more complete running back now?
Speaker 3: Marian Oh, that's right, that's right. Yeah, I was like Daan,
Speaker 3: When did I say that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, man, I think he he looks way more complete
Speaker 2: than than he has been. He's always been able to
Speaker 2: do it. It's just being consistent with it. And I
Speaker 2: think you see now he's making things happen in the
Speaker 2: past game and the run game that are just consistent
Speaker 2: with it.
Speaker 3: So I think he can pitch every inning now.
Speaker 4: Some things, you know, pump motion and stuff like that.
Speaker 4: Especially you, how much do you look at that stuff
Speaker 4: and maybe talk to Kyle about things you see over
Speaker 4: the off season and how to improve on that or
Speaker 4: how to expand it.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: For me, it's just being able to do it, you know,
Speaker 2: and I think continuing to rep it no matter what
Speaker 2: position he's putting you in. He has reasons for every
Speaker 2: play he calls, and he's much better at it than
Speaker 2: I am. So I kind of just let him do
Speaker 2: that and wherever he puts me, I just got to
Speaker 2: be able to run every route.
Speaker 5: How much more benefit can you get from finally having
Speaker 5: a first full offseason with Rock Party back there?
Speaker 2: Huge benefit, huge benefit, I think, you know, I think
Speaker 2: obviously the reps are important. I think it's been so
Speaker 2: impressive to see what he can do without those reps.
Speaker 2: But he looks great, he feels great, he's talking great.
Speaker 2: Just happy he's our quarterback. Appreciate you guys,