Speaker 1: If you feel physically after Sunday. I resacked a bunch
Speaker 1: of times, feel any different than any other Sunday. No,
Speaker 1: you know, I came out feeling pretty good. You know,
Speaker 1: It's one of those things ever since college. I was
Speaker 1: used to kind of getting hit almost more in college. So, um,
Speaker 1: as the season progresses, you kind of get your body
Speaker 1: starts to get used to getting hitting those sorts of things.
Speaker 1: So feel feel pretty good. How much is Sam And
Speaker 1: that was a short period of time, But did you
Speaker 1: and were able to learn from him? Yeah? You know,
Speaker 1: when I first got here, it was good to have
Speaker 1: Sam and Chase and obviously the coaches, which we've talked
Speaker 1: a lot about, um, but you know, I really talked
Speaker 1: with Sam quite a bit and Chase and just really
Speaker 1: wanted to dive deeper in this offense. And Sam had
Speaker 1: some good insight on on our offense and then also
Speaker 1: just you know, he was in the number of systems
Speaker 1: as well. So it was really good conversation, really built
Speaker 1: a good relationship with him, and I'm looking forward to
Speaker 1: play sense the trade. Yeah spoke, Yes, we haven't this week.
Speaker 1: It's been a long week already, and I'm sure we'll
Speaker 1: we'll talk before the game, it'll be cool to go
Speaker 1: out there and see them again. Or a question but
Speaker 1: this one but al heird? Is it a face just
Speaker 1: a few short time after having traded seeing traded in
Speaker 1: minnsoda number one, and be be trying to put the
Speaker 1: two lucks into this because of them, sit'll get sum
Speaker 1: up that old feod. This is a maybe a stand
Speaker 1: versus of course the kind of thing or I guess
Speaker 1: standswer the first part, you know, that's just the nature
Speaker 1: of this business. You know, that's the NFL. Things happened, guys,
Speaker 1: Guys get traded. That's kind of just how it works,
Speaker 1: you know. And the next one on our schedule. So
Speaker 1: we're excited to face them. You know, they're they're a
Speaker 1: good defense, good team. Um, so it'll be a good
Speaker 1: matchup and we're glad we're getting them at home. Um.
Speaker 1: The second part of that question, you know, I don't
Speaker 1: I don't get caught up in that. You know, I
Speaker 1: don't get caught up in that at all. It's um,
Speaker 1: it's it's the Vikings versus the Eagles, you know. And
Speaker 1: then they're coming in here and it'll be a good one.
Speaker 1: But of course in the West, a couple of games,
Speaker 1: you know, the last possessions of the kind of you know,
Speaker 1: Harry little tough and uh, it's it tougher to make
Speaker 1: decisions those spots. Um, you know, not really, you know,
Speaker 1: that's just it comes down to just executing. And um,
Speaker 1: those are a couple of things. The last two games
Speaker 1: we just didn't We didn't execute at the end, you know.
Speaker 1: And to have chances to win latent games and to
Speaker 1: come up short as an offense, you know, that's frustrating.
Speaker 1: You know, I take it a lot of myself. Um,
Speaker 1: and those are things we go back and look at
Speaker 1: it and where where could we have made better decisions
Speaker 1: and things like that. Um, But it's it's frustrating, but
Speaker 1: I don't think it, um clouds your judgment by any
Speaker 1: means in those situations. Come back now for two games
Speaker 1: and hasn't been a real big part of the passing offense.
Speaker 1: How much of that falls on you to kind of
Speaker 1: get him involved earlier. Yeah, it's part of what's being called.
Speaker 1: It's part of me finding him. It's kind of just,
Speaker 1: you know, the last couple of games, the flow of
Speaker 1: the game has been kind of weird, and I think
Speaker 1: we only threw a twenty two times. Last game we
Speaker 1: only had eleven completions. So um, really, nobody's getting real
Speaker 1: involved in a game like that, so um, you know
Speaker 1: it's something that we definitely noticed, but um, it's it's
Speaker 1: part of just you know, how the plays are, how
Speaker 1: the plays are executed. Like an obvious type of question,
Speaker 1: but like because of the trade, I mean, do you
Speaker 1: feel like you're much further ahead in your development than
Speaker 1: if Salmon's still been here and starting every game and
Speaker 1: everything that he's sitting and watching. I mean, yeah, without
Speaker 1: a doubt, out there getting the reps. You know, you're
Speaker 1: out there playing games, You're getting that experience. That's it's invaluable.
Speaker 1: You know, those are huge, huge reps and huge opportunities
Speaker 1: to grow it from a young, young point on. And
Speaker 1: I feel like definitely it has helped me for sure.
Speaker 1: If you think about the trade the development and already
Speaker 1: think me, that's hard to say, that's the that's the
Speaker 1: what if game, you know, And I'm very fortunate with
Speaker 1: where I'm at right now, and you know, going forward
Speaker 1: to UM, it's been exciting first five games and we're
Speaker 1: looking forward to hopefully a successful season. At yourself Big Bank.
Speaker 1: You first half, What do you say to him this
Speaker 1: week and how do you talk to him about Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I talked to him before the game and
Speaker 1: just said, hey, it's just football. You know, it's just foot.
Speaker 1: You've been playing this since you're a kid. Same thing
Speaker 1: I kept telling myself, you know when my first start,
Speaker 1: and um, you know, we thought he settled in nicely.
Speaker 1: You know, the second half. I thought he went out
Speaker 1: and did some good things. Obviously the first half, you know,
Speaker 1: he was just kind of getting some jitters out. He
Speaker 1: would probably say the same thing, but I thought he
Speaker 1: did some really good things in the second half, and um,
Speaker 1: you know, as an offense, as a team, we have
Speaker 1: a lot of confidence in him going forward. Defensively, for
Speaker 1: the Vikings are already good board defensively when you see
Speaker 1: the stands out stuff. They're fast, you know, they fly around,
Speaker 1: they play with a lot of confidence. You can tell
Speaker 1: they're they're coached really well. You know, they have some
Speaker 1: some really good schemes. They don't they don't don't do
Speaker 1: a ton um. You know, they like to mix it
Speaker 1: up on third downs, but um, you know, they just
Speaker 1: do what they do and they do it well down
Speaker 1: But those people, Yeah, I think there's a lot of
Speaker 1: people back home, mostly Vikings fans, So I think there's
Speaker 1: a lot of people that will be torn torn watching
Speaker 1: the game on Sunday back home. Defense is fast is
Speaker 1: that as a quarterback you kind of have to slow
Speaker 1: things down and not put down speed things up to
Speaker 1: keep up with that. Not really, you know, you don't
Speaker 1: you don't stress about it by any man, but you
Speaker 1: can just tell that they play fast, you know, and
Speaker 1: that's something, Um, we got to just be sharpened, be
Speaker 1: on point, I think from Sam as far as leadership
Speaker 1: is concerned than the way it kind of ran, you know,
Speaker 1: ran the hoddle and everything. Yeah, you know, we talked about,
Speaker 1: um obviously a lot about the playbook and those sorts
Speaker 1: of things, but um, you pick up on all sorts
Speaker 1: of things. You know. Everyone kind of has their own identity,
Speaker 1: has their own approach to to being a leader, to
Speaker 1: being a quarterback. So, um, I definitely soaked up some
Speaker 1: things from him as well. He said today that he
Speaker 1: doesn't want to put too much pressure on you when
Speaker 1: you're coming off two losses and maybe facing maybe some
Speaker 1: of the biggest adversity you have faced in your young career,
Speaker 1: how do you avoid personally putting not putting too much
Speaker 1: pressure on yourself, you know, forcing a win or trying
Speaker 1: to force a plight to get it to get a
Speaker 1: win and back of the car. Yeah, I mean, you don't.
Speaker 1: You don't get caught up in that, to be honest.
Speaker 1: You know, it's the vikings of the next next game
Speaker 1: on the schedule, you know, and we're excited for it. Obviously,
Speaker 1: we had two tough losses. We didn't execute the way
Speaker 1: the way we wanted to, and um, we don't put
Speaker 1: pressure on ourselves, but at the same time, we play
Speaker 1: with a sense of urgency that we gotta be better.
Speaker 1: You know, we gotta be more disciplined, and I think
Speaker 1: we're setting records with penalties and stuff like that. That's
Speaker 1: that's never good. You know, we gotta be more dish.
Speaker 1: We got to execute better, um, and we know that
Speaker 1: and we will. We will be there team with Sam
Speaker 1: on the other side, who obviously knows the offense and
Speaker 1: can kind of give some tidbits to to his defense.
Speaker 1: Have you guys changed some verbiage or were cadence things
Speaker 1: this week? Um a little bit? You know, obviously we've
Speaker 1: even just when ever since I took over We've had
Speaker 1: some different things in different intricacies with the offense. Um,
Speaker 1: but at the end of the day, in the NFL,
Speaker 1: there's there's no real secrets with offense. You know, it's
Speaker 1: just about play calling, it's just about executing. So um,
Speaker 1: I don't think we'll we'll get too caught up in that.
Speaker 1: What was maybe one or two of those things you
Speaker 1: learned from Sam about you picked up from him about
Speaker 1: leadership to you, H yeah, I don't know anything real specific,
Speaker 1: but um, yeah, it's one of those things. Again. We
Speaker 1: all have our own style, you know. I come in,
Speaker 1: I kind of have my own style how I was
Speaker 1: a leader in college and those sorts of things. So um, again,
Speaker 1: we just all offend to have our own individual personality
Speaker 1: there talking about what the team needs to do better,
Speaker 1: what needs to be better. From the politicisisions. I just
Speaker 1: got to make better decisions, you know. I got to
Speaker 1: make better aions, Gotta be more accurate, Um, you know,
Speaker 1: got to get the guys going a little bit better too,
Speaker 1: you know. Um, some of the discipline things, some of
Speaker 1: the penalties. You know, I gotta make sure everyone's focus,
Speaker 1: you know, I gotta come in that huddle and make
Speaker 1: sure everyone's locked in and um, those are things that
Speaker 1: we're just we're always trying to get better at and
Speaker 1: and I'm my biggest critic of myself, so um, you know,
Speaker 1: we just got all play better, and it starts with me.
Speaker 1: There's learning points, Carson, from when the pocket isn't as
Speaker 1: as clean as you would like it to be, as
Speaker 1: just the case on occasion against Washington. You know, any
Speaker 1: any learn any learning points from that you take away
Speaker 1: from Washington from when the pocket breaks down on it?
Speaker 1: Nothing really, you know, it's some of those things. It's
Speaker 1: can you could you have gotten the ball off? Could
Speaker 1: you have stepped up? Um? But at the same time,
Speaker 1: a lot of those things it's just instinct, you know.
Speaker 1: It's it's from repetition, it's from drill work. Um, so
Speaker 1: that those points in the game, you know, your instincts
Speaker 1: kind of just take over. But um, there's definitely some
Speaker 1: things you can clean up with footwork and mechanics in
Speaker 1: the pocket, but a lot of those just come with time. Carson,
Speaker 1: Zimmer's kind of known for that level that again, look
Speaker 1: on defense, what typic Culti says that posed Yeah, obviously,
Speaker 1: you know they're well known for their double a pressures
Speaker 1: and they like to do different things with it. UM.
Speaker 1: That obviously poses problems for offenses, but you just got
Speaker 1: to go in with a plan, you know. And I
Speaker 1: think we're UM creating a really good plan and we'll
Speaker 1: be ready for it. Thank you. H