Full Transcript for Bucs Media Press Conferences | Preseason Week 2 2026 | August 20th

00:02:08 Speaker 6: Ruling that came out yesterday. I mean, I guess he's got a na another year of eligibility. But he had two seconds for you in the first preseason games. 00:02:14 Speaker 9: I saw the ruling. 00:02:15 Speaker 3: I have not heard anything from him. 00:02:17 Speaker 10: Odd, you had a few players back out there. He had Zion mccallumy who had a really good pass break up like a tetau, the Cameron Johnson and uh Benjamin Morris, and how those guys look now getting in there and participated a bit more and you availability for this upcoming game on Saurday. 00:02:32 Speaker 3: Uh, it's something we gotta talk about. They've had two good days of practice. Obviously they took yesterday was mostly off. But it's something we wanna look at and see if we can get 'em some snaps in the game depending on how they came out today. 00:02:44 Speaker 5: Cause what has been the most. 00:02:45 Speaker 4: Impressing thing about the entire thing you come up to. 00:02:47 Speaker 3: This point, Uh, just a mental toughness. You know, the guy's been in full paths every day making each other better. I I think it's been good give and take on both sides of the ball. And that's kind of what you want cause it Morrison. 00:03:00 Speaker 8: Yeah, that that can get a lot of players down, and that's part for three years. How was he handle that and for the spen to get you know back in the next year. 00:03:11 Speaker 3: Well, he's been in great spirits obviously mentally he's an upbeat guy by nature. But it's a nagging thing. But he's been running around a couple of good days this week, so hopefully he gets over the hump that way, and you know, we just look forward to seeing him healthy. 00:03:24 Speaker 1: We're gonna talk to. 00:03:25 Speaker 8: Camp Johnson that what what does he bring to the table just as a a as a. 00:03:29 Speaker 10: Def guy here, Uh, that's watch again. 00:03:32 Speaker 3: Well, obviously he's a very good return man and punt and kickoff return and he runs great jet sweeps and everything where he's gotta know and understand it's getting better at all the receiver positions. And he's done a very good job coming along last year and that uh, he's doing a decent job come along this year. And that and that's where he's gotta continue to excel. 00:03:51 Speaker 1: Inury. 00:03:51 Speaker 10: How when does that reha or help? 00:03:54 Speaker 3: He should be good to go next week? 00:03:57 Speaker 1: Anything else? 00:03:58 Speaker 5: Thank you? 00:03:59 Speaker 8: The study? 00:03:59 Speaker 3: Good bank? 00:04:00 Speaker 1: Right up? How is your bad Huh? How would you back my back? Uh? It's a little tight, but it's feeling good right now. You know how difficult was it to go through this process? 00:04:16 Speaker 8: I know you you know with some agent, I wanted to trade it in y. 00:04:20 Speaker 1: Ultimately different things here. 00:04:21 Speaker 8: I'm guessing that was your preferences to remain. 00:04:24 Speaker 4: In the box like Uh, I always wanted to be a buck and I wanted to be a book for life. That's why I'm glad that we were d we were able to get this done. There's something that happens every year. Just how so happened to be meet us year. But there's just stuff that we both had to figure out on both sides, and we got it all squared away. So I'm happy we could put that all behind us and move forward from here on out. 00:04:50 Speaker 11: It was reported they ask where a train was that important? 00:04:53 Speaker 12: Accurately? 00:04:55 Speaker 1: Uh, I don't know. It's all behind us now, just charged part of the business. 00:05:03 Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just all part of the business. I never just I got drafted here. This is I made my home. I made tap of my home. I love it here. The guys on the team are like brothers to me. We look at each other's family. So I didn't I didn't wanna be able. I didn't want to leave that and leave that behind and switch teams and get traded. So that was never the end goal for me. I always wanted to be here. 00:05:32 Speaker 1: A couple of. 00:05:32 Speaker 7: Weeks ago that you know, he didn't have any plans to trade you, did you were you always confident that this was gonna work out. 00:05:38 Speaker 4: Yeah, that was one of them. I'm uh the type of person I am. I'm always like, uh, I'm a big optimistic type of guy, so I always err on the side of optimism, and uh, I had a good feeling that we get something done. 00:05:52 Speaker 11: You've been out there watching them, especially all these new guys in pain and everybody. 00:05:56 Speaker 1: How excited you to be part of that. I'm really excited. 00:06:00 Speaker 4: I think we have another a few new pieces in our in our room, in the d line, and then obviously in. 00:06:07 Speaker 1: The outside back room. 00:06:09 Speaker 4: Just seeing those guys and just being able to get close with them and pick everybody's brain. Uh, it feels good to just feel the camaraderie of everybody and definitely what I've seen so far, it's definitely exciting to be a part of this. I think there's we have something special here, especially in our in our room. So you definitely feel that when you're out there in practice watching these guys and hearing or feeling the energy that they bringing every day to practice. So it definitely feels good on my side to be able to be a part of that and be able to contribute. 00:06:46 Speaker 8: Sorry, there appears a really good shape in this football shape, So what's the process going forward? 00:06:52 Speaker 1: How do you feel physically? And just what I guess they're going with Cincinnati right, Uh, yeah, that's the end goal. But I feel great. 00:07:00 Speaker 4: You know, I've been doing this for nine years now, so he kind of you kind of understand what to do. So I feel like the callous of the of of hitting people who are still there. I feel like it never really leaves. It's it's it's in you. But I've been in good shape, I have a good team and trying it around me, so I feel like I'm

ready to go, good to go, So we'll see how it goes. I don't know the plan yet. Uh, we'll still be able to discuss that over the next few days and figure out from there. 00:07:32 Speaker 1: Side. 00:07:33 Speaker 10: And you know, watching this defensive line room, what have you seen from Colligah Cancy And it seems like Boles has talked about him stepping as a leader. You lost Levonte David on that side. Do you see that coming out with Cancy? 00:07:44 Speaker 4: Classa has always been that guy since day one, since he's since he's been here, He's always been That's what's always surprised me about him. He's always been as good as he is as a player. He's always been that vocal guy in the room, which you don't really get from a bunch of young guys, but he's always been He's always been the voice in our room and making sure to communicate. And uh, I think he picked up a lot of things over the few years that that's helped him out in today's in his in his game today. So it's it's it's definitely exciting to see what he has in store for him in the future. I think he has the roof of dis guise, the ceiling for him. So I'm just excited to see him ball out this year. 00:08:29 Speaker 5: He gave you a high five when you came out onto the field. 00:08:31 Speaker 10: This morning, a couple of coaches were dapping you up. Just talk about what they were saying to you, how happy they are to have. 00:08:37 Speaker 4: You back and forth. Yeah, I got a bunch of congratulations this morning, that's all it was. It feels good to you know, to feel the love from everybody. You know, sometimes you want to feel wanted, So to feel that love, just feel good. 00:08:56 Speaker 8: Defensive tackles have got new contracts and the money for that position enough obviously that's why you're standing here today. How good is it to see that position, recognize that way throughout the league, the stuff that you've been able to. 00:09:07 Speaker 4: Do as well, it's just it's it feels really good to get that recognition, especially hat talk to those guys. You know, they're hell of the players are, but you know, it's just. 00:09:25 Speaker 1: There's just. 00:09:27 Speaker 4: In today's game, it is just you know, usually I feel like, uh, a lot of the work we do, we do a lot of dirty work. So yeah, it's it. It feels good to get recognized for it. 00:09:38 Speaker 12: Yeah, how important was it for you to be out there during this entire process with the guys? How important was it for you to be out there during this entire process with the guys as they're doing drills, talking up some of the young players as a leader for this team. What was that like to you for to continue not being on the sideline, not being you know, sitting out, you were sitting in, you were here? How important was that for you? Where was that priority for you? 00:10:00 Speaker 4: That was really important for me because obviously, one, I know the defense. I've been in this defense but eight years now, so I think it was it

was good for me to be able to get some more recall on it, but also be able to help the new guys on the on the on the front and be able to teach him the nuances and stuff that they don't really know about the defense. So there's little details and stuff that that go a long way that I've learned over the years and was able to figure out in this defense that to be able to share that knowledge with them and be here, I felt like it was important to me to be there for them and to be able to help them out that way and also learn from them from what they're seeing out there and what they're doing just watching them. I feel like we're always a student of the game. So you can never be you can never you can never be. I feel like you always got to be humble and be able to willing to learn, no matter how how long you play in this league. 00:11:01 Speaker 6: Like for you, because you love playing football and you also love your teammates, you're always pouring yourself into helping them, but to not physically participate because of the business side of things. 00:11:14 Speaker 4: Uh, then this then this whole process, there's definitely hides and lows, but some days are harder than others. Uh, but you know that's what you have. Your teammates here for it. They're here, they have my back the whole time. So it's good to good to be here for them, and I had it was good for me to have them, uh knowing they had my back. 00:11:33 Speaker 9: Did you Ed Morrison? 00:11:34 Speaker 10: We talked with him earlier. 00:11:35 Speaker 6: He said that you really helped him during you know, his his journey. 00:11:39 Speaker 2: What advice did you give him? And how have you guys kind of become close. 00:11:46 Speaker 4: You know, Uh, be Mo, he's he's d He's dealt with a lot in the past year or so. And as as a as a older guy in this league, you look at this game, it's like no one knows's gonna leave this game on scave, So everybody deals with injuries. So it's just you understand the process of everything. So being able to see and understand what he's going through and just I think just being there for something like that and just trying to help him out through this process and just I feel like speak volume. So I think I'm just trying to be there for my teammates and be able to give him a path to help him be the best they could be. 00:12:31 Speaker 6: You have probably a better idea of what Baker is going through right now than anybody, because he's trying to get a new contract too. And he stood up here and with singing your praise, is it advocating for you to get a new deal? 00:12:42 Speaker 8: Uh? 00:12:42 Speaker 6: What can you say about Baker and what he means to this team and and you know hid potentially getting in the deal. 00:12:48 Speaker 1: Uh. 00:12:48 Speaker 4: You know, Baker's the hardest soul of this team. You know you see the energy he brings on game day, so you know we feed off of that too, not only the offense. So you know, I hope things get figured out with him. I know we all love to have him. Everybody loves Baker and just that's something that you wish to have on your side on game day on what. 00:13:11 Speaker 11: Went wrong last season and will be the biggest positive difference this year. 00:13:16 Speaker 4: There's a bunch of stuff. I feel like I kind of want to set the record straight. I feel like there's a lot of a lot of stuff going about on balls. I feel like none of if it is Bull's fault, and I feel like we all love balls, you actually every player in the locker room. So that's one thing I want to set the record straight as we all love both. It's not it's not what he's doing. You know, he's telling us what to do. He's giving us all the answers to the test, and it's it's on us players to be able to go out there and execute what he's telling us to do. So he's always putting us in the best position to play. So that's one of the main things, just being able to take coaching and in that light. So if any thing is on, blame us players for not executing those puts us in the best position to win games. I even told Bulls the day he retires, the day I retire. 00:14:11 Speaker 2: Baker said, regarding his own negotiations that the length of contract was really important to him. When it comes to the negotiations that you had with the team, obviously, there are a lot of different things that go into that. What was your biggest priority you only got one extra year on the extension? Was length a little less important to you so much as being recognized in terms of the ap Y as one of the five best defensive tackles in the NFL. 00:14:36 Speaker 4: You know, you love to get this is one of those things you love to get compensated and feel that your work is appreciated. Obviously, in this league, the market goes up, and that's what happened. So he just had we just had to work some things out and we ended up getting the resolved. 00:14:57 Speaker 8: What have you seen from Reuben Baine and what do you think you can bring to this defense? 00:15:02 Speaker 13: Uh? 00:15:03 Speaker 4: Shoot, Ruben's a complete bro. You just see a day in and day out. I think there's videos of him. You see him out there by himself, but he does a lot more behind the scenes when nobody's around, and just seeing how he carries himself, you don't really see that. And a bunch of young guys, so just seeing the hunger and determination in his eyes, it's just it's good to have on your side. 00:15:26 Speaker 1: And just. 00:15:29 Speaker 4: He knows so he already knows so much of the game, So just talking to him about about football, that's the least of my words about him. So I feel like he has so much upside and we're glad to have him. And I feel like everybody who passed up on him on the draft made a mistake. 00:15:47 Speaker 5: What do you know? 00:15:47 Speaker 10: It's from Dlight coach Marcus West and what he's brought to. 00:15:50 Speaker 1: The teams since been here. Uh, we all love Marcus Man. 00:15:53 Speaker 4: Marcus brought

brings a lot of energy to us in our room. You know, he's very relatable to as you played back in the day. So it's always good to have a coach that you know has been through what we've been through, so been able to see and able to relate to him. So I feel like it's that's that's a good thing for us, uh in our d line room and be able to learn from him as well. 00:16:21 Speaker 2: Go ahead, he said, you wanted to retire a buccaneer. 00:16:23 Speaker 12: What is it about this organization. 00:16:25 Speaker 1: That makes it home for you? 00:16:27 Speaker 4: It's just one of those things. You know, they took a chance on me on the draft and I've been here ever since. And Uh's just I fell in love with Tampa. I fell in love with my teammates. You know, I love the organization everybody who works here. 00:16:39 Speaker 1: Uh. 00:16:40 Speaker 4: You know, I walk around every day with my SMI with a smile on my face, and I I feel like it just speaks volume to everybody who works here and and and my teammates. 00:16:50 Speaker 1: So I just. 00:16:53 Speaker 4: They say, uh, home is where the heart is. I feel like my heart is in Tampa. 00:16:57 Speaker 6: You talk about coach Bowlers and saying his praises, and then you also talked about the people in this organization that every day they they were coming up to you and talking to. 00:17:06 Speaker 10: You and making you feel wanted. 00:17:07 Speaker 6: I noticed Coach Bowles was doing that every day. I understand you guys were talking every single day. Just what did it mean to you the fact that your head coach was continuing to check in on you and make sure you're okay throughout this process and making sure you didn't feel wanted. 00:17:22 Speaker 4: Yeah, me and both bose Are we we had a level of understanding. Every day we talked. It mainly be about football. Sometimes sometimes that you're not practicing, you see a lot more of everything that's going on. So it's basically just being able to pick his brain and see what he's thinking on certain plays and able to help me out in the long run with when we get things rolling here in the season. So it was just it was it was cool to be able to stand next to him and practice and stuff and be able to learn even more from him from a a defensive coordinator standpoint. 00:17:59 Speaker 1: So yeah, inside. 00:18:03 Speaker 2: In a three four offense can attack you a lot of different ways in terms of their blocking structures. Demante k part being a rookie, how have you what kind of conversations have you had with him in terms of being able to pick those up, recognize how they're trying to attack, and being able to react to that. 00:18:20 Speaker 4: Uh, you know, you when you when you speak to rookies, there's a lot a lot of stuff that they're they're they're dealing with, but Demonte is not one of them. He he He's picking up stuff pretty fast. So it's be able to to help him see the whole game and see everything. Is just one of the biggest things that you try to teach the younger guys. That's when you when you really break down everything, it's like a football is like a chess like a like a chess game, and it's like we're out there, we're playing chess. So it's like you're not just looking at the whole lineman. You're looking at there's tendencies, there's formations, there's you gotta look at your play call, what our coverage is and everything. There's so much stuff that goes on in one play. So be able to help break that down for him and able to explain it to him, it's one of the biggest things. 00:19:12 Speaker 1: Uh, trying to pass it down then the. 00:19:15 Speaker 10: Biggest adjustment for you and not having Levonte David out there and seems like, you know, alex Anzelonia is gonna have that green dot. What's what have you seen from Angelonia leading and taking charge of communicating? 00:19:26 Speaker 1: Is that's a big role. 00:19:27 Speaker 4: Uh, it was tough. It was tough, but it was a bittersweet moment. Obviously he wanted to end on his own terms. I feel like he had an amazing career. I feel like he could have I feel like he had more in him. But you know, I think the time was right for him to retire. It's always hard. I played with him my whole career. Here, so that was definitely tough for me, but I'm you're always happy for him. He had an amazing career. I feel like, uh, I wish he got more praise than he did. I feel like a lot of people slept on them, but we knew his worth over here. Uh So that was hard seeing him go, but picking up a linebacker like uh azelone as it was big for us as well. I actually have a good relationship with Alex being that he he's he's a local guy, and you know, he's always here in the off season. I see him, we train together sometimes, so, uh, we already have that real relationship, So it just it picked up pretty well when he got here. 00:20:28 Speaker 1: Okay, thank you. 00:20:29 Speaker 5: Very glad for being that. 00:20:30 Speaker 1: I appreciate. 00:20:33 Speaker 9: How y'all doing today? Good? 00:20:38 Speaker 11: Hen how's UH camp going for you? And know to battle to the's a lot of competitions do there how. 00:20:43 Speaker 1: You feel you're doing it? 00:20:44 Speaker 13: I mean, every enough t L a NFL organization have competition. I mean, everybody's in the NFL for a reason, so it's gonna be a competition every position. 00:20:50 Speaker 9: But it's been going real good. I mean, just by far been the hottest week though Jesus Christ. But it's been really good. 00:20:56 Speaker 13: It's been good to see everybody make players out there. Everybody's like taking it serious, taking advantished opportunities cause they know what's at stake. 00:21:03 Speaker 9: So we trying to you know. 00:21:04 Speaker 13: Everybody's coming together in one team, one sound, So it's gonna spawning pretty good. 00:21:09 Speaker 11: Out You've gotten a lot of opportunity. 00:21:12 Speaker 9: Feeling excited. I mean, that's all the game of football is. 00:21:15 Speaker 13: Though it's it's

always next smand up, you know, I mean the game we play, you know, it's a it's the greatest game ever, but also physically tacks on us. 00:21:22 Speaker 9: So you just gotta take advantage opporunity. That's getting to you. 00:21:24 Speaker 1: What do you think that Danny Smith and Special. 00:21:27 Speaker 9: Team Danny is a lunatic? But nah, Danny is like really good though. I mean he's he has away with things. 00:21:34 Speaker 13: You know, he's really dialed in what you know, he's really dialed in and like improving the Special Teams UNI from last year cause you know, we really struggling in the area. So I'm excited to work with Danny, excited to see what he does for this organization. 00:21:45 Speaker 11: Can't It's a mentality as a returner. I mean it's like a a comic kazeh for you. Every single mentality contact and. 00:21:55 Speaker 13: You see it got have you gotta be fearless back there, you know, you gotta be ever just a uh. 00:22:00 Speaker 9: As soon as you get the ball, see to see where you're going immediately. 00:22:02 Speaker 13: You just gotta trust it. You know, you gotta trust the guys that's blocking for you. You gotta trust that the scheme's gonna work. 00:22:07 Speaker 9: You know, you just. 00:22:07 Speaker 13: Gotta trust your building in the day, it's God giving, So just use what God has given you. 00:22:11 Speaker 2: You know, what's your first key? Like, once you received that, you're trying to read off. 00:22:18 Speaker 9: Yeah. 00:22:19 Speaker 8: Uh. 00:22:19 Speaker 13: Usually I always start off with the alma of the kick and see if he's offset or if he's white behind the center, cause that's usually tell where the ball's gonna go. Then I look at the release of the gunners. You know, those are the first first. 00:22:28 Speaker 9: People down there. 00:22:29 Speaker 13: So as long as we hold them up, I got a chance, so they go anywhere. I know where the ball's going. I just need them to hold her, That's all I said. I said, as long as you hold them two people up, I'm fine. That'saw all I needed. Someone just to get it started. So that's really just the keys I look at. 00:22:41 Speaker 11: And how do you hit your eye on the ball watching the gunners? 00:22:45 Speaker 5: Like how does that work? 00:22:46 Speaker 13: As soon as I hear the ball kick, I'm looking straight at the ball. I I already got my keys from like if they held 'em up or not, cause you see it right out the line of scrimmage. So if they didn't holding up, you kind of got tail on it. But you know, I got people saying the sideline, you good, You're good, But sometimes I don't hear it on Oh, you just really got a pariff. 00:23:01 Speaker 9: But I'm really. 00:23:02 Speaker 13: Focused on the ball at the end of the day, so cause that's that's the money maker. 00:23:05 Speaker 1: You know, Hey, can this as part of your game? Though? 00:23:07 Speaker 10: You feel like you wanna get better from last. 00:23:09 Speaker 5: Season fo to this season? 00:23:10 Speaker 10: Uh? 00:23:11 Speaker 9: Yeah, just turning them long and turns into touchdowns. 00:23:15 Speaker 5: You got to work with, uh Jial and Daniels like cub As what else coming bays? 00:23:19 Speaker 1: Like how are those two playing? And how are you getting along with? 00:23:21 Speaker 5: What? 00:23:22 Speaker 3: Again? 00:23:22 Speaker 13: Both of 'em a great. They're fun to be around. You know, they really take the game seriously. 00:23:26 Speaker 9: They take it. They both are different. They take different approach to the game. 00:23:29 Speaker 13: You know, Jalen is kind of more goofy, but he's a he's ah he brings the energy, you know, and they'sack more like silent killer, you know what I'm saying. But both though both played tremendous ball, both boll were really uh catch football. 00:23:41 Speaker 9: So it's it's good to work with both of 'em's exciting and. 00:23:44 Speaker 1: Port profil coming out of twenty twenty five. 00:23:46 Speaker 2: What coach you work on the most of the sauce? 00:23:49 Speaker 13: Uh, you know, blocking honestly, cause that's what be My role on the offensive side is to be that blocker. So that's really was it. So that's why I'll put on a little bit more more muscle. 00:24:00 Speaker 8: How much are you looking forward to Saturn? 00:24:01 Speaker 5: It's just another preseason game. 00:24:02 Speaker 1: That's right. 00:24:03 Speaker 13: Any chance you get a opportunity to play the game, especially at this levels, it's a blessing. So I'm really just out there just to I'm grateful, especially where I come from. 00:24:11 Speaker 9: I mean, it's a blessing just to be here, just to be. 00:24:13 Speaker 13: Able to practice, be able to send in play in that stadium, it's a blessed. 00:24:16 Speaker 9: So I'm just really excited for it. 00:24:17 Speaker 10: Okay, we you had a really good route today, like a little far away from especially Yeah, for your thoughts on gardeners, He's get more opportunities and. 00:24:27 Speaker 9: You go against somebody, he's good. I mean, he's a really good cover corner. 00:24:30 Speaker 13: You know, you could tell he's really He's a smart corner too, so he knows the situation. 00:24:34 Speaker 9: He knows what to do, he knows what to expect. That's why you make that big play against the Jets. 00:24:37 Speaker 13: Cause usually third and a long, they's usually offense is trying to get to the sticks, and he knew that. So he's a very good situation through smart corner. So he's gonna be exciting to watch. Who's the fastest re shooter fastest It's gotta be between me and Tales, right, I don't know, Yeah, Ted, teds can Tas can roll, but Ted can Ted can roll too, though, So you what about Houston, Dennis, that's my. 00:25:01 Speaker 9: Guy, Houston. He he only. 00:25:03 Speaker 13: Has one speed and that's just full throttle, like pedal to the metal. Like Dennis works his tail off every day. Everybody in the building loves Dennis like he's amazed. So then it's got some wheels too. So

I mean, we all had a con like race, I got money on me. 00:25:19 Speaker 3: I'm gonna Senior, Do you have any personal goals this season? 00:25:22 Speaker 9: Yes? Uh? 00:25:23 Speaker 13: As a team obviously to get back from the playoffs, make a deep run, hopefully win the super Bowl. But also you know, as a person, as personal, I'm trying to you know, be top ten returner or top five returner. Try to get at least five plus touchdowns in the return game this year, and you know, do the best I can, especially and on Gunner trying to get like least five tackles. 00:25:43 Speaker 9: It's hard, hardest crap tackle returns in this league. So that's my personal goals. 00:25:48 Speaker 10: Kevin, you got a game on here now, and you get a lot from the Steers. 00:25:54 Speaker 13: Yeah, you know every time we do some kit returns, always back there talking about what you seeing, what you reading about there, cause you know he was with Danny last year, so obviously Denny's a I mean, y'all know all about Kenny. He's a tremendous talent. So it'll be a really good asset into a certain game. 00:26:08 Speaker 8: You saw you used a lot of different grades last year in your offensive Zach Robinson, Uh, move over that too. 00:26:13 Speaker 1: With the jet sweets and different things. 00:26:14 Speaker 9: That you can do with their Yeah. Uh, z Rob has done an a major job so far. You know his offense. I talked to the defense last year. 00:26:20 Speaker 13: It was like they hate playing against the Atlanta Falcons cause you know, they used so many different formations, you know, So z Rob knows what he's doing. So I think z Rob is using my skill set differently that has been that I've been used. I'm really looking forward to work with Zob. Obviously the jet sweeps and you know, you know, stretching the defense lovel I'm very excited about. 00:26:38 Speaker 1: With Zerob anything else. 00:26:40 Speaker 5: Alright, Thank you guys. 00:26:41 Speaker 9: Appreciate y'all. Thank y'all. 00:26:42 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you do it. 00:26:44 Speaker 5: To do it? 00:26:46 Speaker 11: Then, how you feeling that's has been frustrated? I've being able to be out of here as much as you want. 00:26:50 Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean this is the game. I love game. I grew up playing since I was like six years old. Uh, when I miss every sing one, when I miss those snaps and those times out here, you just a p you shaven more when you come back. But yeah, I mean it's it's frustrating. It's it's it's just you. You want to you want to do what you love, and when it's taken from you on a consistent basis, it sucks, but it's just builds character. 00:27:14 Speaker 5: Uh. I mean we're we're just ramping up right now. 00:27:17 Speaker 7: The team has a great plan for me, So I mean the biggest thing is trusting them, and that's what Bobby has been relaying in my ears is trust the process. So since day one of camp, they've had a very like methodical plan laid out for me. Some days you want to you want to do a little more, but I mean you got trust the process and it got me where I'm at right now, out there feeling great, So just taking taking it all in, appreciate even more. 00:27:42 Speaker 5: So, Yeah, you're out here. 00:27:43 Speaker 10: Today and team drills. How that feel for you? And then you can availability for stay night? 00:27:49 Speaker 7: Yeah I felt great. That's still tv D talking with them. What's the best plan, as we said, I mean, we're taking day by day. I mean, this is the best I felt in a while, and they've They've done a great job with my boy. I'm in a great head space, mental space. I'm just excited for what is to come and just taking God through it all about falling. 00:28:09 Speaker 5: Behind with everyone else, no, not concerned. 00:28:11 Speaker 7: I mean, just the competitor in you obviously wants to be out there, and like, like like everyone knows, like there is a difference from being out there those game reps, those flying bullets. You gotta make decisions and you kind of see what you're made of. So I mean, obviously I'm not gonna be at my best at day one, but that's the beauty about the process. And I think that's just what I've been holding in on is just like i may not be there day one, but eventually I'm gonna get there, and I'm gonna I'm gonna stay when I. 00:28:38 Speaker 1: Get there throughout kind of all. 00:28:41 Speaker 7: The Yeah, my faith has been huge for me because I mean, like you guys know, it's frustrating. I don't plan on getting injured, you know, I don't plan on when to get hurt. But that's just the way the chips have fallen. But I think the person I've had to become, the man I had to become, the husband, had to come through all this. I mean, it's just changed my perspective and it made me appreciate this even more. 00:29:02 Speaker 5: But I think another guy's vita. I've been able to lean on him a lot. 00:29:06 Speaker 7: He's been someone who I've who's really taking the time to ask questions. 00:29:09 Speaker 5: I can lean on him and asking things. And then my parents. 00:29:12 Speaker 7: I mean at the end of the day, Uh, that's that's that's what matters most of your close circle. And they helped me a lot. What do you mean, no, no, I said, I was talking about day one of camp. I'm not gonna be where everyone else is at because he asked me. But I forget you asked me about falling behind. Yeah, falling behind, and I was talking about day one of camp. So yeah, I was stoked. I mean, he's it's well deserved. I mean, he's a staple of this team. Is this dude has put his blood, sweat and tears into this organization. And I'm just happy that it got done and we got we got a great player back. 00:29:54 Speaker 1: In what ways do that? 00:29:57 Speaker 5: I mean, just just a year to talk to. 00:29:59 Speaker 7: I think in a lot of in in the world we live in, it could be like a lot of like in one year out the other. But to really have someone really cares about you, I mean, that's why he's a captain. And I mean

I I dream to be in a position that he's in so, I mean, I just respect him so much as a man, as a person, So just understanding that, like he always has tough times on last and I've just held onto that. 00:30:18 Speaker 5: I believe it. 00:30:19 Speaker 7: I mean, this is just a small time in my in my in my long life, and I'm gonna take every opportunity that comes my way and run with it. 00:30:28 Speaker 5: Similar injuries last year, Yeah, yeah, what. 00:30:33 Speaker 1: Did you learn from the experience? 00:30:36 Speaker 5: I think the importance of mental reps. 00:30:37 Speaker 7: I think last year I was young, I was naive, and coming out of college, it's more physical, you know, it's more physical. It's men, Like I line up across from a dude and I'm physically better than you know what I'm saying. 00:30:51 Speaker 5: And now it's like everyone in the league is good. 00:30:53 Speaker 7: So it's like, how can I even though I'm not on the field, but how can I still gain these reps off the field? And that's why I feel the biggest jump for me was this year coming to camp. Like I said, still getting to where I want to be, but I feel like I've been able to keep up just off of the mental side of the game, and now my mind is there and not getting the body back. 00:31:15 Speaker 8: Challenge. 00:31:15 Speaker 9: The challenge of actually trying to. 00:31:16 Speaker 2: Get better as a player. 00:31:18 Speaker 7: Cit the challenge is trying to get better as a player. 00:31:21 Speaker 13: From last season to this season and trying to get health. 00:31:25 Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean it's challenging, but I mean, like I said, like you gotta embrace it, Like this is my story. I can I can dwell, I can be I can sulk, I can be frustrated, or I can make the most of it. Like at the end of the day, I still have opportunity. I have a great opportunity in front of me, playing for a great organization. So I can't dwell on what if or what could happen or being mad about my situation of the day, Like this is what the hand I was dealt with, So I have to deal with that. And it's just like I said, it grows a greater appreciation and just that that hungriness to get back, like the desire me like late nights just staring at the walls, just like like waiting for my time to come, and it's it's it's in me, Like it's I know what's in me. I know what's to come. But you gotta believe in yourself before others see it. So that that's my mentality is just leaning on my my my supported ones. 00:32:16 Speaker 11: You got, you got, beat it back, you got, you're at it things. A lot of guys that can rush the pass or get pressure with four How does that help you guys in the. 00:32:24 Speaker 7: Back shoot more balls for us? I mean, that's that's lovely. I'd like to see you lot and get back there tips and over those. 00:32:30 Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying. I love it. So, I mean we I'm excited about this year. 00:32:34 Speaker 7: We got great guys all around, the all around, the whole team, so we got a special group. 00:32:41 Speaker 3: Is the goal for you to play the preseason or you're just focused on gettin. 00:32:45 Speaker 7: That it's day by day Like I said, it's it's a busting I've made it through today, you know what I'm saying, Like, that's that's your mentality, Like in everything you do in life. I mean, if we look a year from now, I mean, who knows what could happen. I mean the world can and I could die, you know what I'm saying stuff like that. This is the reality of it. So the more and more you look on just causes more stress and anxiety that you just don't need to need to have That's that's what these injuries taught me the most, Like just control, we can control. I can't control if I play this week, next week, Week one. My goal is to be the best version of myself. Get back out there and play the bad No, I could play. 00:33:16 Speaker 2: Beyond the health aspect have been up and down your fore the Eagles game was fantastic. Later seem like you had some struggles there. 00:33:25 Speaker 11: What we were some of the aspects. 00:33:26 Speaker 2: Of your game that you were trying to improve over the offseason beyond just trying to get help. 00:33:30 Speaker 7: Yeah, I think watching the guys who does it well. I think we have great guys on our team who who I was able to watch. And then even Jammel Dean, I think, uh, he's like an exceptional corner. He's an amazing corner and I was able to pick his brain, ask him questions, see how he plays. 00:33:45 Speaker 5: He just makes the game so easy. 00:33:47 Speaker 7: And then I have guys like Jacob and Zion who are stellar corners as well that my dad always says, like watch them, like you know what I'm saying, Like, like watch them, like see what they do well, Like mimic them, you know what I'm saying, Like, And then add your flavor to it. And that's what I'm mentally like, I'm not pressing to uh be great day one, you know what I'm saying, Like your your your your goal is to get better every single day. I and my goal is to reach greatness one day, but probably you never will reach I feel like you always keep striving for it. So that's some of my mentality, just like watching the people who do it right on a consistent basis, watching the great Corners and the NFL do it right, watching it just tire tireless amount of film. 00:34:23 Speaker 5: So yeah, was there. 00:34:24 Speaker 2: Something specific that Jabelle gave you that you're trying. 00:34:26 Speaker 11: To implement this year? 00:34:27 Speaker 12: Yeah? 00:34:28 Speaker 7: I think for me, just put myself in a in a winning position from the start. You know what I'm saying. I think you can eliminate yourself off of uh a leverage or position. And and last year, like I like, we know, like bullets are fine, you know what I'm saying, Like rookie year, uh miss some miss some time. So I just wanted to make every play, you know what I'm saying. I I felt like I could make every play, but that's not the league. The league is just laying your players come to you being the right position, and then when you're when your time comes, will come. 00:34:52 Speaker 4: Tim Uh. 00:34:56 Speaker 5: I think I just keep that within. You know what I'm saying. I know what I wanna achieve. 00:35:00 Speaker 7: I know what I'm working for, So IBus do that for you as the wonder and for me to to know Benjamin you're on. 00:35:06 Speaker 10: The other side and coming out there to face him. But the early thoughts on ted Hurst and what kind of player is he? 00:35:13 Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean he's first he was a great person. 00:35:15 Speaker 7: I think that's what's people don't know a lot just cause you're not in the locker room and stuff. But the the dude's a great guy, like funny dude just is stand up guy. And I mean his his play speaks for himself. I mean he's long, he's rangey, ken Ron can catch catch raises a uh insane. 00:35:30 Speaker 5: So I was kind of excited during OCA. 00:35:32 Speaker 7: To start match up against him, and then the camp he's been able to take off and take his game to that next level. He's gonna be a great NFL receiver. I'm excited for the battles for the years to come. 00:35:41 Speaker 11: You've got some new coaching this year. I can take me through we here more aggressive? What does that mean in terms of a corner? Is that being jumping more routes? Are they allowing you to take more chances? 00:35:52 Speaker 1: What's what's the. 00:35:53 Speaker 7: Mental I think it's just thinking the game within the game. I think that's the biggest thing. Is just like you know where you have to be on the field, but like being able to put yourself, like we said, in that position to make a dominant play, you know what I'm saying. So like aggressive this comes from the pre snap and like really understanding what is this often trying to do to us, how they're. 00:36:10 Speaker 5: Trying to attack us. That that's been huge for us. All right, thank you, thank you,