Speaker 1: Thank you. Yeah, uh no, they just said happy birthday
Speaker 1: and was about it. Nope, sadly.
Speaker 2: But I mean obviously you're behind up offensive line right now,
Speaker 2: So how do you kind of brace for that or
Speaker 2: help support them to get through the growing paint?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you know, for me, it's just it's
Speaker 1: just about doing my job, you know, not doing anything
Speaker 1: uncharacteristic and and trying to do too much. It's go
Speaker 1: through my reads, get the ball out and help them out,
Speaker 1: you know, and help get them into a rhythm. Obviously
Speaker 1: in the run game and stuff, allow them to get
Speaker 1: into a rhythm, but when it comes to the past game,
Speaker 1: there's a you know, definitely I could do my part
Speaker 1: and getting the ball out and being on time and
Speaker 1: and you know, help them establish you know, their feet
Speaker 1: within the game and and you know, just continue to
Speaker 1: build them up. So yeah, it feels like.
Speaker 2: The Lions feel like they let you guys have one
Speaker 2: last year. Obviously gets a championship game and want to
Speaker 2: come in here and probably beat you by thirty points,
Speaker 2: and they're going to try to do how do you, guys,
Speaker 2: in the situation you're in, kind of try to match
Speaker 2: the intensity of a team that may have all those
Speaker 2: things going forward the many game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean obviously last year NFC Championship game, Like,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of emotions that go into that, especially
Speaker 1: you know when we were able to go to the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl from it, and you know, their season was ended,
Speaker 1: So we obviously know how that feels, you know for
Speaker 1: us the year before with Philadelphia and that kind of thing.
Speaker 1: So it's definitely a thing and we have to be
Speaker 1: ready for it. And more than anything, it's you know,
Speaker 1: how can we come in and ready to to battle
Speaker 1: these guys for four quarters and do what we can
Speaker 1: to obviously win and walk out and you know, create
Speaker 1: some momentum for us our organization moving forward and stuff.
Speaker 1: So and play for each other, man like, we we
Speaker 1: got nothing but real strong love in this locker room,
Speaker 1: and so to go out there and play for each
Speaker 1: other and and do it takes to win at Levi's
Speaker 1: at home, man like, that's that's everything for us. So
Speaker 1: that's our mindset going into it. We know that they're
Speaker 1: going to come in with with a you know, a
Speaker 1: heavy heart from last year and ready to go for
Speaker 1: this game. And but that's what makes us league exciting.
Speaker 1: So Monday Night Football man, and it will be fun.
Speaker 1: George also just said that you talked about how you
Speaker 1: grew up wanting to play Monday night football.
Speaker 2: Can you just take us through what that experience is
Speaker 2: like and what your first one was like, and how
Speaker 2: you get geared up for that this week?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you know, growing up, you just hear
Speaker 1: the chime and stuff. It's the school week has started,
Speaker 1: and and uh, you know you sit down and watch
Speaker 1: the primetime game Monday night. And so I was just
Speaker 1: telling all the guys like, man, like I mean, our season,
Speaker 1: it's it's been tough and just the way how it's gone.
Speaker 1: But man, we got two games left. We got a
Speaker 1: Monday night game in front of everybody to go out
Speaker 1: and live a childhood dream. And and we're all in
Speaker 1: our twenties and thirties, man, playing football like for our job.
Speaker 1: So let's go out there, man. And and you know,
Speaker 1: we've got such a great opportunity in front of us
Speaker 1: to go and enjoy this game and compete, and uh,
Speaker 1: this is what we do for our job, man, So
Speaker 1: let's enjoy it together. And so for me, the little
Speaker 1: kid and me is always pumped for these kind of
Speaker 1: games and stuff. So I'll never take it for granted.
Speaker 1: And more than anything, that's when Levi's get rolling and rocking,
Speaker 1: and and uh, I want to do my part in
Speaker 1: and helping it get to that point. And and so
Speaker 1: that's how I'm looking at this game. And and I
Speaker 1: know all my teammates are too, so we're excited for it.
Speaker 2: But if you're throwing arm one hundred percent healthy or.
Speaker 1: Is it healthy enough, it's one hundred percent healthy? Yep, yep.
Speaker 2: Your take on the the offensive line, I mean, three
Speaker 2: new guys on the fifty three. Man, we weren't even
Speaker 2: here a week ago. What did you do to kind
Speaker 2: of welcome those guys? And assuming you didn't get them
Speaker 2: the truck, but what's it been like to get up
Speaker 2: to speed with those guys and and kind of welcome.
Speaker 1: Them into the into the Yeah, I mean it's just always,
Speaker 1: you know, welcome in with open arms, and you know,
Speaker 1: this is who we are, this is what we do,
Speaker 1: and and uh, more than anything, man, we play together.
Speaker 1: And so they all know that they've come in and
Speaker 1: they felt it and and uh, no one here has
Speaker 1: you know, had their head down and sorry for themselves
Speaker 1: about anything. It's like, man, we got another game on
Speaker 1: the schedule and we're coming in ready to go. And
Speaker 1: so I think those those guys have felt that and
Speaker 1: they know what they have to do for us and
Speaker 1: in order to you know, be successful, and they're in
Speaker 1: doing their jobs so and more than anything, man, just
Speaker 1: communicating with them, telling them about cadence and timing of
Speaker 1: plays and and uh just helping them out in that
Speaker 1: regard and talking to them at lunch and stuff and
Speaker 1: getting to know them. You know, it's it's new, it's different.
Speaker 1: It's tough situation, but you know, this is the NFL,
Speaker 1: so we got to adapt and be ready to go.
Speaker 2: So different guys on the defensive front seven as opposed
Speaker 2: to the ant championship game. So I mean, was their
Speaker 2: film study on that game even and then does it
Speaker 2: give you something actually feel good? Vives kind of knowing
Speaker 2: that was one of the best wins you've had.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I've gone back in watch that just
Speaker 1: to you know, sort of see how you know, they
Speaker 1: played against us and what they did against our scheme.
Speaker 1: So we we've seen some stuff from last year. But
Speaker 1: at the same time, you know, the personnel is a
Speaker 1: little different, especially upfront and everything. But you know, more
Speaker 1: than anything. We're gonna go into it based off of
Speaker 1: the stuff that they've done this year with the guys
Speaker 1: that they have currently playing, and and go from there.
Speaker 1: But you know, we definitely respect them. They all play
Speaker 1: together really well, man, They've been in the system for
Speaker 1: a while and and more than anything that, I just
Speaker 1: feel like they play together as a team. They're aggressive
Speaker 1: and what they do both on offense and defense, and
Speaker 1: and you just feel like, you know, they they do
Speaker 1: what it takes to win games. They've done it time
Speaker 1: and time again every week. So for us on offense, man,
Speaker 1: it's it's gonna be a good challenge. Obviously, we've got
Speaker 1: some new guys on our side of the ball, so overall,
Speaker 1: it's just it's gonna be a good matchup.
Speaker 2: So and seek out the new offensive lineman at launch
Speaker 2: to you know, get to know them.
Speaker 1: As I said, yeah, I mean at all the meals
Speaker 1: and stuff, just you know, getting to know them and
Speaker 1: sitting down and talking. I mean, we all quarterbacks, tight
Speaker 1: ends lineman, we all sit together when we eat and stuff.
Speaker 1: Our schedules all pretty similar. So that in passing getting
Speaker 1: to know him in the locker room, like all the
Speaker 1: moments that we we get off just you know, obviously
Speaker 1: introducing it to introducing each other and and uh knowing
Speaker 1: that we got to step on the field and go
Speaker 1: to go to war together. So yeah, that's important. In particular,
Speaker 1: is familiar with the offense having played under Bobby Slowick
Speaker 1: last year. Can you kind of sense that being out
Speaker 1: there with him? Yeah, he definitely has the just the
Speaker 1: veteran nests to him where you know, he's he's been
Speaker 1: through you know, the league and understand what it takes,
Speaker 1: you know, getting in and out of huddles here and plays.
Speaker 1: He just he looks like a professional for sure. So
Speaker 1: excited to have him.
Speaker 2: Examples of this. George is like an extremely loyal TV
Speaker 2: from your experience, How has that kind of shown through relationship?
Speaker 1: I mean, dude, he's he's been great to me regardless
Speaker 1: of the circumstances of winning or losing. Like he's he
Speaker 1: sees something in me that's that's pretty good. And and
Speaker 1: you know, he's just been nothing but great encouragement to me.
Speaker 1: He's real to me about what I can do and
Speaker 1: and uh where I can get better. Like he's he's
Speaker 1: real and that's why I love him, and uh more
Speaker 1: than anything like he's he's a guy that's gonna do
Speaker 1: anything for you when you step on the field, off
Speaker 1: the field, he's got your back and for our team
Speaker 1: man like that. We've been in some tough situations this year,
Speaker 1: and that dude has been one of the dudes that
Speaker 1: comes to work every single day. All the guys have,
Speaker 1: but George especially, you know, every Sunday he shows up
Speaker 1: and he's doing the dirty work. He's blocking, he's making
Speaker 1: tough plays, he's catching the ball, breaking tackles. George has
Speaker 1: done it all and so we're all extremely blessed to
Speaker 1: have George as a teammate and look up to them
Speaker 1: a lot, and you know, to be able to going
Speaker 1: through this kind of stuff is tough. But when you
Speaker 1: have guys like George, Jews, fred Bosa, like guys that
Speaker 1: care for this organization, this team, their brothers, they make
Speaker 1: it worth coming to work for and so very thankful
Speaker 1: for all of them. Thanks guys,