Speaker 1: A training camp practices, they're pretty well scripted.
Speaker 2: So I'm wondering you don't go off script much, and
Speaker 2: how do you kind of work on your improvisational skills.
Speaker 2: I guess in camp or in the preseason.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean once you get in the season and
Speaker 3: like a regular season game, you know, things break down.
Speaker 3: That's that's part of football, you know, going off off
Speaker 3: schedule and finding guys in the scrambled drill and all
Speaker 3: that kind of stuff. So when you're in practice, you
Speaker 3: got your scripted plays and you want to be on time,
Speaker 3: you want to go through progressions. But the minute something
Speaker 3: breaks down, for me, I'm still trying to treat it
Speaker 3: like a live rep, you know, like and it really
Speaker 3: is for the receivers as well, like for us to
Speaker 3: find each other, find open space and work on those
Speaker 3: kinds of things. If you just sit there and take
Speaker 3: a sack, which it might be in a game, but
Speaker 3: for practice, it's like, hey, let's continue to try to
Speaker 3: find something to work on. So that's how I look
Speaker 3: at it.
Speaker 2: You throw an interception in practice and watch it on
Speaker 2: film afterwards, what's your process of tessing yourself on that play?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it depends on you know what kind
Speaker 3: of pick it is if I'm trying to fit in
Speaker 3: the window and trying to just be aggressive, or I
Speaker 3: just couldn't see a guy like Those are the questions
Speaker 3: you got to ask yourself, and that's what I do
Speaker 3: ask myself, and obviously I get I get pretty mad
Speaker 3: at myself in terms of, dude, he turned the ball
Speaker 3: over and you can't do that. So it's finding finding
Speaker 3: a way to to grow mentally for myself in terms
Speaker 3: of dude, you can't do that, or hey, I was
Speaker 3: being aggressive here and I'm just trying it out and
Speaker 3: I'm saying if I can't do it with this guy
Speaker 3: in that kind of window or that kind of look
Speaker 3: and so but at the end of the day, I'm
Speaker 3: not just out there trying to just throw the ball
Speaker 3: up and act like it's camp and I don't care
Speaker 3: because I do.
Speaker 4: So Mason was saying, I was talking to us yesterday
Speaker 4: and said that he sunk three grand into a judge
Speaker 4: machine and had his dad shoot him passes like tons
Speaker 4: during the off season to upgrade his receiving skills. Have
Speaker 4: you noticed an upgrade and his receiving skills?
Speaker 3: Yeah, JP looks great, man, He's he's on top of
Speaker 3: his stuff, and just in terms of the run game
Speaker 3: and the fits and his past protection, Like just seeing
Speaker 3: it as a running back, you could tell he's on it.
Speaker 3: And and then when he gets out and for checkdowns
Speaker 3: and he's where he's supposed to be. He's got great hands,
Speaker 3: and you know, he's the kind of guy that we're
Speaker 3: all we've trusted in the past, but even more so
Speaker 3: now he's shown it time and time again and he's
Speaker 3: building pretty good practices. So, uh, we're excited about it.
Speaker 3: And you know, obviously the more guys in the running
Speaker 3: back room the better. So proud of him.
Speaker 2: You talked a lot about the mental benefits of having
Speaker 2: that full off season from a leadership standpoint, you felt
Speaker 2: just being out there every day and getting all those
Speaker 2: reps in the spring, just making you feel more comfortable
Speaker 2: in terms of commanding the huddle or just feeling like
Speaker 2: you're in charge out there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know that when I first came in the NFL,
Speaker 3: like as a rookie, and even last year coming off
Speaker 3: like the surgery and stuff, there's a little timidus in
Speaker 3: terms of all right, like you go in, you got
Speaker 3: to say the play, you gotta say it correctly, you
Speaker 3: break the huddle, and what are my reads and this
Speaker 3: and that. But now it's like I feel good with
Speaker 3: the guys, with the with the language of the offense,
Speaker 3: and I can see it in my mind quicker when
Speaker 3: coach calls a play. So it's a lot more smooth
Speaker 3: for me, and I love that. But I still got
Speaker 3: to find that, like that edge every day of all right,
Speaker 3: I have to find ways to be uncomfortable and still
Speaker 3: walk in the huddle, command it, break it, and not
Speaker 3: just think that the game's easy because it's not. It's
Speaker 3: never going to be easy, and I got to continue
Speaker 3: to push myself in that way. But in terms of
Speaker 3: hearing the play, getting in the huddle, speaking to the guys,
Speaker 3: saying little things outside of the play, like hey, reminder
Speaker 3: this that I feel a lot a lot better with that.
Speaker 2: So how do you find ways to make yourself feel uncomfortable?
Speaker 3: Just like the play clock. You know, Greasey has the
Speaker 3: play clock going up, so I'm not back there thinking
Speaker 3: about the play all day. Walking in the huddle. It's
Speaker 3: like having that sense of urgency, like all right, I
Speaker 3: know the play, I know what I have to do
Speaker 3: on this, but it's getting in the huddle, getting some
Speaker 3: sense of urgency, getting up to the clock. We got
Speaker 3: three seconds left, and even in practice, like guys want
Speaker 3: to get set and then we motion. But my thing
Speaker 3: is like walk up and hey, let's go. We don't
Speaker 3: have time, and so like let's make it more game realistic.
Speaker 3: So that's the level out of I'm at now with it.
Speaker 1: You're upset obviously to throw a training Campaig interception. Much
Speaker 1: was made of the other day he threw four picks
Speaker 1: in your last five attempts. I mean, after something like that,
Speaker 1: are you like, you know, get out of the one.
Speaker 1: I'm super pissed, or like, is it just like okay,
Speaker 1: you know, I understand why these things happened, or I
Speaker 1: guess what's your what's your emotions? Because it became like
Speaker 1: a a national national story.
Speaker 3: Yeah. No, I take pride in in protecting the ball
Speaker 3: for our offense and our team, and so obviously I'm
Speaker 3: mad when when I'm not completing the ball to our
Speaker 3: guys and it's going to the defense. So and I'm
Speaker 3: hard on myself and and the coaches are too, Like
Speaker 3: we have a standard here, so it's not like, like
Speaker 3: I said, we're just going out and just because it's practice,
Speaker 3: it's okay to throw picks like now, there's still a
Speaker 3: standard here and so but with that is I know
Speaker 3: you guys have heard me say this all over the media,
Speaker 3: but it now is the time to be trying out
Speaker 3: some stuff in terms of throwing some windows and and
Speaker 3: some some tight coverages and whatnot. But you know, I
Speaker 3: still gotta grow, I still got to be better, and uh,
Speaker 3: I'm hard on myself with it, but you know, now's
Speaker 3: the time to do it. I remember last year coming
Speaker 3: off my u c L at practice, I was throwing
Speaker 3: some stuff and and I threw multiple days of picks
Speaker 3: and stuff. But you get into the season and you're
Speaker 3: ready for those moments and you're ready to execute and
Speaker 3: protect the ball. So that's where we're at in the
Speaker 3: time of year.
Speaker 2: Like they're on the you're on.
Speaker 5: The field after practice doing some extra reps with the
Speaker 5: guys at catching.
Speaker 1: What were you working on.
Speaker 3: Just some uh, just throwing on the run. You know,
Speaker 3: I feel like at practice I can continue to get
Speaker 3: better at throwing on the run and being in time
Speaker 3: I'm throwing on the run. So today after practice, I
Speaker 3: just wanted to hone in on you know, we have
Speaker 3: a we have a day off tomorrow, so I wanted
Speaker 3: to get after it in terms of staying on the move,
Speaker 3: being accurate with the throws, and uh, trying to get
Speaker 3: better like today with.
Speaker 5: No Debo, no McCaffrey, no I you guys, you would
Speaker 5: be throwing to a lot of games.
Speaker 2: How does it?
Speaker 4: How does a day like today benefit you?
Speaker 3: It's good. I mean obviously we have, like our our
Speaker 3: star players not getting a whole lot of reps, so
Speaker 3: we have other guys stepping up and and for me,
Speaker 3: it's all right, regardless of the mismatches and all that
Speaker 3: kind of stuff. I'm gonna drop back, go through my reads,
Speaker 3: and I got to be efficient regardless of you know,
Speaker 3: not having my guys out there. So stepping up, going
Speaker 3: through reads, hitting Chris Calmley over the middle, checking the
Speaker 3: ball down like being smart, it makes me, you know,
Speaker 3: play quarterback really efficiently. Not saying when they are on
Speaker 3: the field, I'm not, but uh, when they're on the field,
Speaker 3: I'm a little antennas up in terms of all right,
Speaker 3: if I do get this look, I'm more intentative to
Speaker 3: throwing IU or Debo. So a day like this was
Speaker 3: good for me to just go through reads, take completions,
Speaker 3: and be efficient.
Speaker 5: Our brocket.
Speaker 4: When if a new receiver walks in the room, how
Speaker 4: long does it typically take you rep wise before you
Speaker 4: feel real comfortable with that receiver.
Speaker 3: Probably, you know, Leo, maybe a couple of weeks to
Speaker 3: be honest, you know, we have to go over so
Speaker 3: much detail within our routes, our concepts are timing all
Speaker 3: of that. It's not a couple of days and then
Speaker 3: you feel good and you're ready to go play a game.
Speaker 3: Like it takes time, especially in this offense, Like everything
Speaker 3: is so detailed within our offense and our scheme that
Speaker 3: I have to have a guy come in and learn
Speaker 3: and and understand things and where to be and the
Speaker 3: timing of a concept, not doing too much in his
Speaker 3: route and stuff. All those things take time. And so
Speaker 3: I mean, I'd probably say a couple of weeks if
Speaker 3: that were the case. But yeah, a couple of weeks.
Speaker 2: With Ricky Pierson, what would it would have been your
Speaker 2: kind of impressions of him as he goes his first
Speaker 2: stand here?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think he's he's getting better and better,
Speaker 3: just more comfortable within our offense. But you know, I
Speaker 3: think we just we need more reps, you know, to
Speaker 3: to throw them the ball and need more opportunities and
Speaker 3: looks and that'll come. I'm confident in that. But uh,
Speaker 3: the last couple of days, like try to get in
Speaker 3: the ball and stuff, and whether he's trying to get
Speaker 3: held or trying to get in and out of cuts,
Speaker 3: Like it's sometimes tough at practice because you don't always
Speaker 3: get the cleanest looks, so you're trying to make it happen.
Speaker 3: But he's doing a good job. He's picking up the playbook,
Speaker 3: he's learning it real well, and you know from what
Speaker 3: we did in the OTAs and then he had a
Speaker 3: little setback with the sam string, so we just got
Speaker 3: to get back on track with that. But I'm confident that.
Speaker 5: We will brought rapport and timing with Conley back to
Speaker 5: the Packers game of the playoffs on that out. But
Speaker 5: it seems like this camp he's spend a much more
Speaker 5: feature target has that kind of apport. How has it
Speaker 5: grown with him playing more reps, you know, with the first.
Speaker 3: Team and all that with you Yeah, I mean, dude,
Speaker 3: Chris has that veteran mindset. He's smart and sort of
Speaker 3: like what I was talking about just in terms of
Speaker 3: you know, he understands the details of our offense, and
Speaker 3: he understands where he needs to be the timing and
Speaker 3: the like of the concepts and the plays and and so, uh,
Speaker 3: you know, Chris obviously he's just got that older veteran
Speaker 3: ness to him where you know, he's smart within plays
Speaker 3: and reads and knows where to be and where we
Speaker 3: need him to be. So you know, we've grown obviously
Speaker 3: from last year playoff games. There's been some some clutch
Speaker 3: plays between us, and he's been where he needs to be.
Speaker 3: And and so in camp man he's come in, you know,
Speaker 3: ready to roll, like he's got fresh legs, he's moving quick,
Speaker 3: and like I said, like we've been able to connect.
Speaker 3: And that's because he sees the defense really well and
Speaker 3: he's supposed to be where he needs to be. So
Speaker 3: he's done a great job.
Speaker 1: Been over your preseason game plans. You anticipate seeing the
Speaker 1: field next weekend.
Speaker 3: Uh, we haven't talked about that. So, uh, we're saying
Speaker 3: one day at a time, and I think, well, it
Speaker 3: just depends on how practices go and my reps and
Speaker 3: how I'm feeling stuff. But I'm sure we'll make a
Speaker 3: decision here as the game comes closer.
Speaker 5: So has earned a lot of praise in camp so far.
Speaker 4: What have seen going up against him every day?
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a man, he's a baller man. He's got
Speaker 3: just good ball instincts and he understands football well. He's
Speaker 3: gotten more and more reps obviously as his career has
Speaker 3: gone on. And you know, for us, like every time
Speaker 3: we walk up to the line and I see him,
Speaker 3: see him in man coverage, I'm like, all right, this
Speaker 3: is you know, it's gonna be a battle here. So
Speaker 3: he pushes our guys, he pushes me. You know, I
Speaker 3: gotta accurate the ball because he's going to be on
Speaker 3: the back hit pretty pretty tightly. And you know he's
Speaker 3: he's made some really good plays. So going up against
Speaker 3: him and a bunch of other dbs man, you know,
Speaker 3: Ike and obviously the linebackers in the middle and Tig
Speaker 3: in the back, like we've got we've got a great,
Speaker 3: great defense going up every rep. So they're all pushing us.
Speaker 3: But Demo is doing a great job.
Speaker 4: Getting really impressions of Mordecai the rookie.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know he's come in and he's just put
Speaker 3: his head down and he's gone to work. He studied
Speaker 3: his butt off and in meetings, you know, Grease, he's
Speaker 3: asking him a lot of the questions and stuff to
Speaker 3: push him and help him continue to develop. And and
Speaker 3: after practice he's staying and then you know when he's
Speaker 3: gotten his rep. So far, the last couple of days,
Speaker 3: he's done really well. He's taken with the defense has
Speaker 3: given him. He's been ready for his opportunity. And I'm
Speaker 3: continue I'm happy to to see his success and I
Speaker 3: know he's going to continue to grow so Tanner can
Speaker 3: rip it. So I'm excited for him.
Speaker 1: Serious question, but I mean relatively little in Sally and
Speaker 1: so you've done a lot of you know, commercials and stuff.
Speaker 1: Is that does that provide a nice supplemental income?
Speaker 3: Seriously? Next question.
Speaker 1: And like how is it? I assume you've got a
Speaker 1: lot of opportunities and you probably haven't taken the mall,
Speaker 1: but what is the process? Like is that your agent says, hey, Brod,
Speaker 1: what about this? Or you just like how does it?
Speaker 1: How is it presented to you? And how do you decide? Okay,
Speaker 1: that sounds good?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, uh, you know, for me, obviously I
Speaker 3: don't make a whole lot. I make a good amount
Speaker 3: playing football. But you know, just with the lifestyle and
Speaker 3: the privacy for my wife and I and the things
Speaker 3: that we're able to do with my family outside of football,
Speaker 3: you know, we got to make some kind of money somehow,
Speaker 3: you know, and so marketing is a great opportunity for us.
Speaker 3: And so yeah, a business or organization will hit up
Speaker 3: my agent and he'll be like, he'll bring it to
Speaker 3: me and he'll say, hey, this this aligns with who
Speaker 3: you are when you leave, or and this might not,
Speaker 3: so we can pass on it. So I mean, those
Speaker 3: are the decisions that go into it. But you know,
Speaker 3: for me, like I said, I'm trying to you know,
Speaker 3: provide for my wife and my family moving forward with
Speaker 3: our life because you never know, tomorrow is not promised.
Speaker 3: So we've tried to be smart about it. But there's
Speaker 3: been some good opportunities this offseason and that's why I've
Speaker 3: been able to do some.
Speaker 1: So privacy, I mean, is it to a point where
Speaker 1: it may be practical for you, given you've reached a
Speaker 1: level of fame to like be hanging out in some
Speaker 1: random apartment complex and how to joke ro as you leave,
Speaker 1: Like is that what you're getting.
Speaker 3: In yeah, I mean just that, or like, how do
Speaker 3: I describe it? Like, yeah, just security, you know with
Speaker 3: our house where we live and when we travel and
Speaker 3: stuff being able to you know, fly first class and
Speaker 3: do like those kinds of things and ubers like the
Speaker 3: more expensive ones where the more private. I don't know
Speaker 3: I describe it, but I'm just thinking long term for
Speaker 3: my wife and I like, yes, like the privacy aspect,
Speaker 3: Like with privacy comes expenses and and it's a little
Speaker 3: bit more expensive with that kind of lifestyle. So that's
Speaker 3: what I'm thinking of. But thanks guys,