Speaker 1: Welcome to another edition of the Dave Pasch Podcast. I'm
Speaker 1: your host, Dave Pash ESPN and Arizona Cardinals play by
Speaker 1: play announcer. Our guest this week is a guy that
Speaker 1: has evolved into one of the top tight ends in
Speaker 1: the NFL. If you look at Trey McBride's numbers this season,
Speaker 1: and in particular the last five to eight games, and
Speaker 1: watch the games and watch what he's doing on the field,
Speaker 1: it's easy to see the Trey McBride is becoming a
Speaker 1: star before our very eyes. He's already set the single
Speaker 1: season franchise record for catches by a tight end. He
Speaker 1: is one of two tight ends in Cardinal history with
Speaker 1: seven hundred plus yards in a season, Jackie Smith the
Speaker 1: legend being the other. And he's already got two one
Speaker 1: hundred yard games. No player of the last thirty four
Speaker 1: years had had won one hundred yard games as a
Speaker 1: tight end in a single game. So what Trey McBride
Speaker 1: is doing this season is something to be aware of,
Speaker 1: because I think it's only going to get better. Looking
Speaker 1: forward to this conversation with Trey, we're going to talk
Speaker 1: a lot of football, a lot about what makes him
Speaker 1: so special as a player, some of the areas he
Speaker 1: thinks he needs to grow, and also his relationship with
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray.
Speaker 2: Kyler's starting to build that relationship with me, that trust
Speaker 2: that if he throws the ball to me more often
Speaker 2: than that, I'm coming down with it. I'm going to
Speaker 2: catch the ball and I'm going to make a play
Speaker 2: for him. So you know, that's kind of the trust
Speaker 2: I'm trying to get with him, trying to build with him,
Speaker 2: and hopefully he continues to give me opportunities.
Speaker 1: So we'll get into that with Trey, along with a
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Speaker 1: time now for our conversation with Cardinals tight end Trey McBride. So, Trey,
Speaker 1: you're playing about as well as anybody at your position
Speaker 1: in the NFL over the last eight games. You look
Speaker 1: at your last five games, thirty eight catches over four
Speaker 1: hundred yards. Your first five games you had only eight
Speaker 1: last year twenty nine. But we kind of saw towards
Speaker 1: the end of the season you really getting comfortable. When
Speaker 1: do you think it clicked for you? Did it click
Speaker 1: last season? This season? When did it kind of all
Speaker 1: get to a point where you were really comfortable with
Speaker 1: what you were doing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think just kind of, you know, as the
Speaker 2: reps come, as you play a little bit more, you
Speaker 2: kind of just feel more comfortable. You kind of start
Speaker 2: getting into groove, and you kind of just start start
Speaker 2: becoming the player that you that you know you can.
Speaker 2: So I think last year, you know, towards the end
Speaker 2: of the year, when I started playing, I was playing
Speaker 2: significant you know, eighty ninety percent of the snaps. I
Speaker 2: got comfortable. I felt like I was getting a lot
Speaker 2: of confidence. And then going into this season, I had
Speaker 2: a lot of confidence. I you know, felt like I
Speaker 2: could I you know, could do a lot of the
Speaker 2: things and then when I got my opportunity this year,
Speaker 2: I just kind of took it and ran with it.
Speaker 1: So are you a guy that, you know, do you
Speaker 1: do any like visualizations where you think about stuff? Are
Speaker 1: you a guy that it's all about the work in
Speaker 1: the weight room?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 1: What are some of the things you did in between
Speaker 1: last year and this year to prepare you knowing that
Speaker 1: you had gone through it now you'd seen what the
Speaker 1: NFL was like playing in at week to week because
Speaker 1: it's obviously a much longer season than college.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it was just being consistent, you know,
Speaker 2: having a good off season program, making sure I was strong, healthy,
Speaker 2: things like that, but most of all, just being consistent
Speaker 2: with what I do. You know, I take care of
Speaker 2: my body. I try to stay healthy, you know, like
Speaker 2: you said, it's a long season. You're trying to you know,
Speaker 2: get through the whole season healthy. And that's a huge
Speaker 2: part of it, you know, staying healthy, staying prepared, and
Speaker 2: just whenever you get that opportunity, making sure you maximize it.
Speaker 2: And you know, I just came in every week, you know,
Speaker 2: preparing like I was going to be the starter, Preparing
Speaker 2: like I was going to play every snap, knowing if
Speaker 2: I got the chance, I knew exactly what I was
Speaker 2: going to be able to do. You know, the coaches
Speaker 2: didn't have to worry if you know, I knew what
Speaker 2: I was doing. So just always being prepared every single
Speaker 2: week and just you know, when that opportunity comes, making
Speaker 2: sure you take advantage of it.
Speaker 1: What would you say is your best attribute? Because there
Speaker 1: was a play you made yesterday? I said this on
Speaker 1: the air doing the game with Wolf. That was an
Speaker 1: elite play where your momentum was carrying you towards the sideline,
Speaker 1: the ball was thrown up field, you stop, you adjusted
Speaker 1: mid air, you make the catch, then you make a
Speaker 1: guy miss to get the first down. Like you obviously
Speaker 1: have made some incredible catches, but you're also very good
Speaker 1: after the run. What would you say is your best attribute?
Speaker 2: I think just you know, I try to be a
Speaker 2: sure handed guy, you know, I try to be a
Speaker 2: guy that when you throw the ball to me, you
Speaker 2: know the ball's gonna get caught, the ball's gonna come down,
Speaker 2: and I just try to be consistent with that. You know.
Speaker 2: I think Kyler's starting to build that relationship with me,
Speaker 2: that trust that if he throws the ball to me,
Speaker 2: more often than that, I'm coming down with it. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna catch the ball and I'm gonna make a play
Speaker 2: for him. So you know, that's kind of the trust
Speaker 2: I'm trying to get with him, trying to build with him,
Speaker 2: and hopefully he continues to give me opportunities and I
Speaker 2: continue to show him that he can trust me. But
Speaker 2: I think that's the biggest thing, just just having that
Speaker 2: trust with him and making sure he, you know, has
Speaker 2: that with me.
Speaker 1: How's that connection evolved because obviously last year when you
Speaker 1: were kind of coming on, you know, he had the injury,
Speaker 1: so you guys didn't get a chance to play a
Speaker 1: ton together, right last year?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I think last year it wasn't uh
Speaker 2: definitely not as close as we are now. You know,
Speaker 2: he's a great guy, great guy. Uh texted me when
Speaker 2: I got drafted. We kind of had a good relationship,
Speaker 2: you know, last year, but then when you know, when
Speaker 2: he got hurt, he wasn't around rehabbing for his acl
Speaker 2: things like that. I was kind of wasn't playing as
Speaker 2: much as I am now. So you know, last year
Speaker 2: we didn't have the greatest relationship. But now that I've
Speaker 2: been you know, stepped into that role, really gotten a
Speaker 2: full year with him. He's an awesome he's he loves
Speaker 2: to have fun, he loves to you know, he's a
Speaker 2: great dude. So I think that relationship is just continuing
Speaker 2: to grow each and every week. We're getting closer and closer,
Speaker 2: and you know, you know, he's starting to get that
Speaker 2: trust and confidence of me.
Speaker 1: Along those lines, I'm going to play a sound bite
Speaker 1: from him in a recent press conference with which you
Speaker 1: probably heard. But before we play it, just I've noticed
Speaker 1: with you your which I love. You're emotional, like you
Speaker 1: wear your emotions out there after you make a big play.
Speaker 1: Is that just who you are?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's uh, that's just who I am. I've been
Speaker 2: like that since I was since I was young. I
Speaker 2: just I love to have fun. I love to go
Speaker 2: out there and just be animated. I like to bring
Speaker 2: you a lot of juice, a lot of excitement, and uh,
Speaker 2: I think it brings you know, my teammates along with me.
Speaker 2: With some of my teammates, you know, they love it.
Speaker 2: They love the juice and things like that. But that
Speaker 2: that's I love doing that stuff. I just have a
Speaker 2: lot of emotion and get after it for sure.
Speaker 1: Well, here's Kyler talking because one thing that he's noticed
Speaker 1: your emotion, but he also doesn't think that your celebrations
Speaker 1: are very good. So let's listen to this.
Speaker 3: Here, his celebrations are at awkward just just like it's like,
Speaker 3: I think, you know, his swag will get better as
Speaker 3: he you know, as he's keeps having success. But yeah, no,
Speaker 3: you know tight ends, you really don't, you know, you know,
Speaker 3: you never know what you're getting with them.
Speaker 1: First of all, what is that you never know what
Speaker 1: you're getting with a tight end?
Speaker 2: Why?
Speaker 1: Why do you think he said that?
Speaker 2: I just think, you know, we're a unique position group.
Speaker 2: You know, you never, like you said, you never know
Speaker 2: what you're gonna get there. Crazy, they're all over the place.
Speaker 2: Like you said, I'm an emotional guy. I'm crazy. I
Speaker 2: do all kinds of crazy things. But you know, I
Speaker 2: definitely think you know, he doesn't think my swags there
Speaker 2: that's kind of funny. But hopefully you know that that'll come.
Speaker 2: I can show him, you know, throughout the weeks that
Speaker 2: I got a little swag to me.
Speaker 1: How does this offense suit you? And I'm not asking
Speaker 1: you to, you know, be negative or critical of the
Speaker 1: previous regime. In the offense. But what do you think
Speaker 1: about this particular offense fits your game?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I think we just do a really
Speaker 2: good job of marrying up the run game in the
Speaker 2: past game. You know, we do so much stuff with
Speaker 2: James and we run the ball. We do so many
Speaker 2: different things in the run game, and and and Drew
Speaker 2: does a good job of marrying that up in the
Speaker 2: past game where we're running a route, but it looks
Speaker 2: like we're blocking the same way that we would block
Speaker 2: on that run and then we're slipping in the back
Speaker 2: or things like that. So so he's he does a
Speaker 2: great job of marrying up those two things, and we
Speaker 2: do a good job of running the ball, and then
Speaker 2: that opens up the play action stuff for the tight ends,
Speaker 2: and that's where I you know, get a lot of action.
Speaker 1: He talked about being unique and that, you know, being
Speaker 1: a tight end is you know, sometimes personality is different.
Speaker 1: There's a guy starting that has different personality. George Kittle.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you just kind.
Speaker 1: Of watch and listen to him. Seems like a great dude,
Speaker 1: but obviously eccentric. I saw him talking to you on
Speaker 1: the field after the game yesterday. What did he say, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was just cool.
Speaker 2: You know. I told him, this is our fourth time
Speaker 2: playing against each other, and it's just awesome to play
Speaker 2: against a guy of his caliber what he's done, and
Speaker 2: and I just told him, you know, I love watching
Speaker 2: him play. He kind of said the same thing back
Speaker 2: to me. It was really cool just to kind of
Speaker 2: chop it up with him a little bit after the game.
Speaker 2: He's a great dude, and I look forward to the
Speaker 2: matchup with him every time.
Speaker 1: So did you grow up wanting to be a tight end?
Speaker 1: Did you have tight ends that you admired, or was
Speaker 1: there another position you thought you'd play.
Speaker 2: You know, I always knew I was gonna be a
Speaker 2: tight end. I played outside linebacker and I just didn't
Speaker 2: really love defense like that. I wanted to score touchdowns.
Speaker 2: I wanted to catch the ball. I always thought it
Speaker 2: was a little bit better at that, and that's what
Speaker 2: I wanted to do. I chose tight end. I loved
Speaker 2: watching Gronk. Gronk was awesome growing up watching Rob and
Speaker 2: he's an amazing tight end. The chemistry him and Tom
Speaker 2: Brady had, all the stuff he did. He was awesome
Speaker 2: to watch. So when I was a young kid, he
Speaker 2: was the ut highlights I would pull up. For sure.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, it's so funny now when I
Speaker 1: was about to say, you know, was it you know,
Speaker 1: Tony Gonzalez or Shannon Sharp? And I forget how young
Speaker 1: you are, man, Like you're like growing up, Rob Gronkowski,
Speaker 1: Like think I just retired like two years ago.
Speaker 3: Wi.
Speaker 1: You're right, he's probably ten or twelve years older than you. Right,
Speaker 1: So was there because your brother was a defensive player, right, Toby?
Speaker 1: He was a defensive player pass yep, and so he
Speaker 1: was he a tight end as well, and decided to
Speaker 1: play defense and you decided to play offense.
Speaker 2: He was actually like a fullback kind of a guy
Speaker 2: in high school. So we actually did some wildcat stuff
Speaker 2: where I was the quarterback and he was kind of
Speaker 2: a fullback and we did some stuff like that. But no,
Speaker 2: he never had the hand eye coordination to catch the football,
Speaker 2: so we always just handed it off to him and
Speaker 2: uh and let him go and hit people. But he
Speaker 2: was a much better defensive player than he was offensive.
Speaker 1: And you guys are I assume still really tight because
Speaker 1: you guys are really tight growing up.
Speaker 3: Bro.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, he actually lives with me here in Arizona.
Speaker 2: So yeah, we were very tight.
Speaker 1: Still, So what do you guys do when you're not
Speaker 1: when you're not studying film or playing a game or
Speaker 1: practicing What is it that do you guys do stuff
Speaker 1: together all the time?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so we we love to cook, So you know,
Speaker 2: every night we're making dinner together. We you know, we rotate,
Speaker 2: We kind of do all kinds sorts of different things,
Speaker 2: but we're always making food. We love to play video games.
Speaker 2: We have a I have a huge office and we
Speaker 2: have both of our computers set up in there, and
Speaker 2: you know, all sorts of cool stuff in there. So
Speaker 2: we play video games together almost every day. But we
Speaker 2: always spend a lot of time. You know, we'll go
Speaker 2: out and swim, We'll you know, play catch whatever it is.
Speaker 2: But yeah, we're always doing something together.
Speaker 1: I want to go back to the cooking thing. So
Speaker 1: when you say you guys are cooking, is it like
Speaker 1: foo foo food? Like is it like really gourmet or
Speaker 1: is it hey, we're making pasta and meatballs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's more of like, hey, we're making pasta and
Speaker 2: meatballs things like that, but not so much of that.
Speaker 2: You know, we're rotating, We're doing different things. We're on
Speaker 2: Pinterest trying to find uh, you know, recipes and stuff
Speaker 2: that look good, something that catches our eye, and we're
Speaker 2: always trying different things, and then we'll you know, rate
Speaker 2: it afterwards. We'll be like, is that a keeper? Is
Speaker 2: that a should?
Speaker 3: We?
Speaker 2: Should? We not ever make that one again? And only
Speaker 2: a few times we haven't ever wanted to make it again.
Speaker 2: So it usually turns out.
Speaker 1: And you have another brother who's a twin, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm a twin.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so me and him are twin brothers. Yeah, Dylan
Speaker 2: Dylan my twin.
Speaker 1: Yet, Okay, and so Toby is living with you?
Speaker 2: Correct? And where's Dylan? Dylan lives back in Colorado. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he's a fireman. Uh, works for a fire department there
Speaker 2: in Colorado. But he's he was actually out here this
Speaker 2: weekend visiting, so he was. He's been out here for
Speaker 2: the last couple days. So it's been fun.
Speaker 1: Now your twins, if so, if he comes to practice it,
Speaker 1: puts on a uniform and number eighty five, would we
Speaker 1: be able to tell?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I'm I'm much better looking than him. So
Speaker 2: so that's kind of where we uh we we we
Speaker 2: look a little different now we're actually fraternal twins, so
Speaker 2: we don't really look super similar. He's a big dude, strong.
Speaker 2: He's a little bit bigger than me actually, so definitely
Speaker 2: the size wise, you wouldn't be able to tell, but
Speaker 2: we do look a little bit different.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: I know you were a great athlete in high school, basketball, baseball, football.
Speaker 1: Did you always think football was going to be your sport?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I think so. You know, I love baseball as well.
Speaker 2: Baseball was probably my second sport, but you know, I
Speaker 2: think that my opportunity came, and my best opportunity was
Speaker 2: to go play football. That's what I loved. I thought
Speaker 2: I was probably the best at it, and and I
Speaker 2: wanted to play tight end, and that's what I did.
Speaker 2: I went to college and did that and didn't look back.
Speaker 1: So you went to Colorado State, And if I remember,
Speaker 1: you were not incredibly highly recruited right coming out of
Speaker 1: high school, right, was it, Dazzi? No, Dazio was not
Speaker 1: the head coach that recruited you.
Speaker 2: Right, Mike Bobo? Yeah, okay, yep, yep. So Mike Bobo
Speaker 2: recruited me there to Colorado State, and he just kind
Speaker 2: of felt like home there. You know. My older brother Toby,
Speaker 2: like you said, he was already there at Colorado State.
Speaker 2: They had offered him, they offered me shortly after that.
Speaker 2: So then when when my brother committed there, I committed
Speaker 2: shortly after. I wanted to play with him. It was
Speaker 2: about an hour and a half from my hometown, so
Speaker 2: it worked out perfectly. Parents were at every game I
Speaker 2: got to play, you know, four years of college with
Speaker 2: my older brother. It was it was perfect, awesome.
Speaker 1: So I'm not sure how familiar with what I do.
Speaker 1: But outside of the Cardinals I do. I work for ESPN,
Speaker 1: so do college football every week. And I just remember
Speaker 1: I didn't have any of your games in college, but
Speaker 1: I remember all the time because you obviously won the
Speaker 1: Macki Award, that your highlights were playing all the time,
Speaker 1: and when the Cardinals drafted you, familiar with you as
Speaker 1: a player. It's interesting because nowadays, somebody of your talent
Speaker 1: at a school at Colorado State, after things start going well,
Speaker 1: they look to transfer. I don't know how much college
Speaker 1: football you still watch or pay attention to, but do
Speaker 1: you think things are out of control in that regard?
Speaker 1: It feels like now it's if it doesn't work out
Speaker 1: at one school, or even if you think, you know,
Speaker 1: I might have a better nil chance or a better
Speaker 1: chance to make the NFL elsewhere. I'm getting out of here.
Speaker 1: But you stayed. You stayed and won the Makie at
Speaker 1: Colorado State, not a powerfied school.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Like you said, I think the whole transferring stuff
Speaker 2: is getting a little crazy, especially with the NIL people
Speaker 2: are kind of just blowing it up with the money,
Speaker 2: trying to transfer just for the money and not really
Speaker 2: there for the opportunity that they have. I had a
Speaker 2: great opportunity at CSU. I loved it, and I stayed
Speaker 2: loyal to the program and they were loyal to me
Speaker 2: and they gave me the opportunity. I had a great
Speaker 2: season and ended up winning the Makie. So that's definitely
Speaker 2: something that I'm very grateful for. I'm so glad I
Speaker 2: didn't transfer. You know, I definitely thought about it, you know,
Speaker 2: things like that, but I didn't, you know, never wanted to,
Speaker 2: wanted to stay there at Coloro State and ended up
Speaker 2: winning maki So it was very special.
Speaker 1: So all right, going back to your childhood you're talking about,
Speaker 1: you know, playing sports. Did you think you would make
Speaker 1: it to the NFL? Is that a dream? You mentioned
Speaker 1: your brother being a firefighter, Is that something you were
Speaker 1: interested in me, and did you see yourself ending up
Speaker 1: where you are right now?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I think I always I think, you know,
Speaker 2: every little kid dreams of being a professional football player,
Speaker 2: professional athlete, or something of some sort. So I think
Speaker 2: that's exactly what I wanted to do. I think I
Speaker 2: always dreamed of it. I never really knew what I
Speaker 2: wanted to do when I got older. I always wanted
Speaker 2: to play football. I never really thought about another option.
Speaker 2: And uh, and when I got to college, you know,
Speaker 2: I actually majored in accounting. I couldn't tell you anything
Speaker 2: about taxes or anything about that, but that's that's my
Speaker 2: what I'm doing. But so I'm glad it football worked out.
Speaker 2: I love playing football. I hope I can do it
Speaker 2: for a long time.
Speaker 1: So my one of my daughters is now an accountant.
Speaker 1: I can't say that I envisioned that that's what she
Speaker 1: would do, but she she loves it. You have to,
Speaker 1: I guess really love numbers, Yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 2: Yeah I was good at math, and yeah I took
Speaker 2: an a counting class in college. I did really well,
Speaker 2: and I was like, maybe this isn't so bad. And
Speaker 2: then about two or three years later, I was like
Speaker 2: wanting to turn around, but I was so deep into
Speaker 2: the major I couldn't do that.
Speaker 1: Are you a big sports fan outside of just NFL?
Speaker 1: It seems like a lot of guys you mentioned playing
Speaker 1: video games, but a lot of guys that I talk
Speaker 1: to that are young guys. They don't watch as many games.
Speaker 1: They're not sitting around every night watching NBA players aren't
Speaker 1: watching a ton of NBA the younger guys the older
Speaker 1: guys do. Where do you fall in line? Are you
Speaker 1: watching college football on a Saturday or are you doing
Speaker 1: something else?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I usually pull up a college football game or
Speaker 2: you know, if we're not playing on Sundays, I'm usually
Speaker 2: watching games Thursdays, Mondays, things like that. I always kind
Speaker 2: of have a game pulled up. But I love watching football.
Speaker 2: It's a lot of fun. I kind of watch the
Speaker 2: game a little bit different now you know that I
Speaker 2: know football a little bit more, so I kind of
Speaker 2: watch it more technique things like that. But I love
Speaker 2: watching football. It's a blast to see what other guys
Speaker 2: are doing.
Speaker 1: So let me just kind of ask you to expound
Speaker 1: on that a little bit. So you was that part
Speaker 1: of the learning curve for you as kind of learning
Speaker 1: more about, you know, how you attack a defense and
Speaker 1: matchups and just kind of the the the intricacies of
Speaker 1: the game that go beyond just running arout and catching
Speaker 1: a pack.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think so, it's just, uh, you you can
Speaker 2: never stop learning. You're always trying to see what other
Speaker 2: guys doing, what's successful. You watch other guys. Oh that's
Speaker 2: what he did, that's how that worked, things like that.
Speaker 2: So you're always trying to, uh to to improve your game,
Speaker 2: and as you watch other players and what they do,
Speaker 2: how they're finding success, you kind of start taking things
Speaker 2: from them and doing the same thing in your own games.
Speaker 2: So I'm always trying to watch other people, see how
Speaker 2: they're getting open, see how they're catching the ball, things
Speaker 2: like that. So then I can, you know, hopefully do
Speaker 2: the same.
Speaker 1: So there was a moment during the bye week where
Speaker 1: you weren't watching sports. From what I understand, you went
Speaker 1: to Disneyland. Now is this by choice or was this
Speaker 1: because somebody dragged you to Disneyland?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I like to I'd like to say
Speaker 2: it was by choice, but I think I got dragged in.
Speaker 2: There was a few few days of of going to
Speaker 2: Disney It was a good time. We wrote a ton
Speaker 2: of rides, a ton of people, but it was a
Speaker 2: it was a good little getaway.
Speaker 1: So who dragged you there?
Speaker 3: That?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I went with my girlfriend. It was it was awesome.
Speaker 2: It was it was a good time. But like I said,
Speaker 2: it was just a lot of people and I wasn't
Speaker 2: really uh you know, ready to see that many people.
Speaker 1: Did you get the fast pass?
Speaker 2: Oh? Absolutely? Yeah. You have to get the fast pass
Speaker 2: if you're gonna if you're gonna do anything, Uh, they're
Speaker 2: at Disney, you have to get the fast pass because
Speaker 2: those lines can get ridiculous.
Speaker 1: So what was there a particular ride that stood out
Speaker 1: to you? Is like, hey, man, if I because you
Speaker 1: had not been to Disneyland, correct, yeah, yeah, I want
Speaker 1: to like, hey, I gotta do this again. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think the the Guardians of the Galaxy. It's like
Speaker 2: the Old Tower or tear the one that you know
Speaker 2: you're up in the sky, you drop down from the
Speaker 2: top level all the way down to the bottom. That
Speaker 2: that ride was awesome. Uh. You know, I probably wrote
Speaker 2: it three, four or five times. It was a it
Speaker 2: was a blast. Every time I wrote it, it got, you know,
Speaker 2: is more and more fun.
Speaker 1: So you're an adrenaline junkie, is what you're trying to say.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no doubt. I was trying to find the fastest,
Speaker 2: you know, the fastest ride, the ones that did all
Speaker 2: the most twirls, things like that, trying to trying to
Speaker 2: do it all while I was there as a blast. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I can't even do the tea cups. Maybe it's just
Speaker 1: getting older with equilibriums off.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I do the tea cups and it's like I make
Speaker 1: I'm like telling the kids, the little kids, please stop
Speaker 1: spinning it. I'm getting Yeah, how's your shoulder? First of all,
Speaker 1: you got banged up in the game.
Speaker 2: Yeah it's soon. Okay, it's you know, like you said,
Speaker 2: a little banged up. You know, hopefully I'll just have
Speaker 2: a couple of days and hopefully they'll be good to
Speaker 2: go by the weekend.
Speaker 1: So obviously there's been a big culture change with a
Speaker 1: new GM, new head coach, new staff, a lot of
Speaker 1: new players. What stands out to you about the culture
Speaker 1: and the shift.
Speaker 2: I think guys, you know, guys really want to be here.
Speaker 2: Guys play hard, We're not there's no quitting us. I think,
Speaker 2: you know, with that culture, that guys are just playing
Speaker 2: really hard. Like you said, that's a really good football team.
Speaker 2: The forty nine ers are good team, and we're right
Speaker 2: there in it. You know, we're a couple of plays
Speaker 2: away here and there, and and we're right there in
Speaker 2: that football game. So they've done a great job of
Speaker 2: setting a standard and not really lowering below that standard.
Speaker 2: And it's it's been fun to be a part.
Speaker 1: Of a there's you know, particular couple guys on the
Speaker 1: team that you know are really guys you look up
Speaker 1: to as as leaders that you kind of watch how
Speaker 1: they handle themselves and handle their business either with the
Speaker 1: media or with Because you're you're obviously getting a lot
Speaker 1: more request to do things like this. So yeah, people
Speaker 1: are talking about you nationally.
Speaker 2: Now, Yeah, I think you know, James Connor comes to mind.
Speaker 2: He's a He's a great dude, a guy who who
Speaker 2: does it the right way, a true professional who's had
Speaker 2: a ton of success but still carries himself the right way.
Speaker 2: I really love the way he does things. Buddha is
Speaker 2: another great guy I think, who who carries himself the
Speaker 2: right way and and is a great leader, a guy
Speaker 2: that you know that you want to be around. A
Speaker 2: guy you want to play with, a guy that you
Speaker 2: want on the team. So those are two guys that
Speaker 2: come to my mind on the team. But great, there's
Speaker 2: a ton of guys that carry themselves. So's it's cool
Speaker 2: to have guys like that to look up to, to
Speaker 2: to kind of go to if I if I need anything.
Speaker 1: And are you start like, how do you feel like
Speaker 1: you're handling all this stuff now that's starting to come
Speaker 1: your way?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 1: Are you? Are you trying to stay away from you know? You?
Speaker 1: Obviously there's three things. You set the school record, the
Speaker 1: single season franchise record for catches by a tight end.
Speaker 1: You're the first tight end in thirty four years with
Speaker 1: a one hundred yard game. You've done it twice. You
Speaker 1: and Jackie Smith the only tight ends in franchise history
Speaker 1: with seven hundred yards in a season. And obviously you're
Speaker 1: getting national recognition. How do you think you've handled all that?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I think it's just kind of a you know,
Speaker 2: it's kind of like what I what I've a you know,
Speaker 2: known I can do. So it's not really a surprise
Speaker 2: to me. It's not really anything that I was not expecting.
Speaker 2: So I'm just going out there and playing football and
Speaker 2: kind of what comes with it comes with it. I
Speaker 2: just want to be a part of this team. I
Speaker 2: love playing with these guys. I just want to go
Speaker 2: out there and compete, and you know, whatever comes with that,
Speaker 2: you know, comes with it. It's been a blast though the
Speaker 2: last few weeks.
Speaker 1: So you see George Kittle does some stuff, you know,
Speaker 1: outside of this, and obviously Travis Kelsey is getting a
Speaker 1: lot of attention. He started thinking about, you know, I
Speaker 1: might want to develop my brand in this way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I have thought about stuff like that,
Speaker 2: but you know, right now, I'm just kind of taking
Speaker 2: it day by day. You know, maybe maybe this offseason
Speaker 2: I'll kind of figure something out and and kind of
Speaker 2: start start going with something. But but no, it's uh,
Speaker 2: just kind of taking the day by day, just trying
Speaker 2: to go out there and compete against every team.
Speaker 1: Can you give us a hint, like is there a
Speaker 1: certain direction maybe like hey, I might want to do
Speaker 1: my own podcast with my brother.
Speaker 2: Or yeah, yeah, I think I need like a like
Speaker 2: a you know, like a celebratory something, maybe like I
Speaker 2: do like a cartwheel, or maybe I do like a
Speaker 2: I don't know, something crazy where where it's just unique
Speaker 2: that this guy does that and it's you know, something
Speaker 2: something crazy but me podcast, you know, something like that
Speaker 2: would be you know, like you said, the Kelsey Brothers
Speaker 2: do something like that. There's there's so many ways to
Speaker 2: do it. I love playing golf. Maybe I can, you know,
Speaker 2: wrap my my hands around playing golf in football.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think if there is a celebratory golf swing, yes,
Speaker 1: you know, or do the Tiger Woods the fifth after
Speaker 1: you make a long putt, right, you know, when you
Speaker 1: score a touchdown, because obviously Kyler has put you on
Speaker 1: blast now about your celebration.
Speaker 2: Yeah, now, I gotta now, I gotta figure it out.
Speaker 2: I gotta be better for him, so so he can
Speaker 2: he can tell the media I've changed and I got
Speaker 2: a little swag to me.
Speaker 1: So so outside of golf, I know you're very involved
Speaker 1: back back home in Colorado with youth and you're going
Speaker 1: to be doing a youth camp again in the off
Speaker 1: season the summer.
Speaker 2: Can you can you tell us a little bout Yeah?
Speaker 2: I think my mom has always been involved in the community.
Speaker 2: She's done a great job doing that and she's kind
Speaker 2: of instilled into me like to give back, to help
Speaker 2: out when you can and to be on this platform.
Speaker 2: I just want to give back and to give back
Speaker 2: to a community like my hometown that's done so much
Speaker 2: for me. That's been a huge part of my success,
Speaker 2: and I just want to give back. So last year
Speaker 2: I did a kid's camp. This year, I want to
Speaker 2: do another one. You know, it was awesome. I had
Speaker 2: a ton of people come out. I'm from a small
Speaker 2: little town, but it was crazy how many people came
Speaker 2: out from all over the state. So it was awesome.
Speaker 2: I want to do that again and continue to do
Speaker 2: that to give back to a community that has done
Speaker 2: so much for me.
Speaker 1: How about here locally, is there anything you've got your
Speaker 1: you know, your eye on in terms of something you
Speaker 1: want to do here?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I'm actually tomorrow I'm doing a Christmas
Speaker 2: drive where a bunch of kids are coming out two
Speaker 2: Shields and I think there's fifteen kids and each kid,
Speaker 2: you know, will have like a thousand dollars to spend,
Speaker 2: which will be awesome underprivileged kids that have had a
Speaker 2: hard time, you know, things like that. So I'm super
Speaker 2: excited for that event. You know, I also thought about
Speaker 2: doing another kid's camp out here, you know, maybe doing
Speaker 2: one and out here in Arizona, one in Colorado, just
Speaker 2: so I can kind of, you know, spread that out,
Speaker 2: you know, throughout the different states. So I think that
Speaker 2: would be really cool as well. So trying to do
Speaker 2: everything I can to give back, and then I want
Speaker 2: to be a part of that.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. A couple more football questions and then we'll
Speaker 1: get you out of here.
Speaker 2: Awesome.
Speaker 1: I'm just curious, what do you think is the next
Speaker 1: step for you? As you kind of look at how
Speaker 1: you've evolved and now your skills are in full display,
Speaker 1: everybody seeing what you're doing, and defenses are saying what
Speaker 1: you're doing too, So obviously you're becoming more of a target.
Speaker 1: They're gonna, you know, game plan a lot of times
Speaker 1: for you. So what's what's the next step for you?
Speaker 2: I think just becoming a complete tight end, you know,
Speaker 2: making sure I can I can be a guy who
Speaker 2: can can be an asset in the run game, a
Speaker 2: guy who can can make plays in the past game.
Speaker 2: But I want to be able to do both. I
Speaker 2: want to be able to help in both. I want
Speaker 2: to be able to be a great, great run blocker
Speaker 2: where they don't have to take me off the field.
Speaker 2: For run plays things like that. So I want to
Speaker 2: be able to be a complete tight end. So so
Speaker 2: defenses are always on their toes and not sure what
Speaker 2: they're gonna get from me.
Speaker 1: Because Wolf all the time we'll talk about how he
Speaker 1: wants to see you become more of a blocker. I'm
Speaker 1: sure you've heard him say that absolutely. So is that
Speaker 1: Is that just a mindset? Is that a comfort level?
Speaker 1: Is that understanding what you're doing in the run game?
Speaker 1: All the above? None of the above.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think a lot of it's a mindset and
Speaker 2: just kind of comfort. Like you said, you know, when
Speaker 2: you're playing that much, you kind of have the want
Speaker 2: to and the will to go and you know, smack
Speaker 2: your face on someone and things like that. So it's
Speaker 2: definitely a mindset and things like that. But I want
Speaker 2: to I want to be better. I want to be
Speaker 2: better in that. I want to be better, you know,
Speaker 2: full full, you know, complete tight end and help his
Speaker 2: team and everywhere.
Speaker 1: Well, listen, man, it's been great talk, idiot, it's been
Speaker 1: fun watching you as well. So appreciate you. Final Yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for having that was great, thanks man. Well,
Speaker 1: as you can tell from that conversation, Tray's very thoughtful,
Speaker 1: he's very humble, and he wants to help the team win.
Speaker 1: He's here to win. He's here for the right reasons.
Speaker 1: He's about the right things, and I think Cardinal fan
Speaker 1: should be excited about that. And he's got some personality.
Speaker 1: I'm really interested to see what he comes up with
Speaker 1: for his touchdown celebration going forward. But I think he's
Speaker 1: a guy that if you're a Cardinal fan, you connect
Speaker 1: with and you catch on too. And I'll be really
Speaker 1: curious to see what he does next year, because in
Speaker 1: year two, Trey McBride has become one of the best
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