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00:00 How do you feel?
00:01 I feel good.
00:02 I feel much better.
00:04 I appreciate the time that they gave me
00:05 to get to the point I need to be at right now.
00:08 And I'm just excited for what next week holds
00:10 and getting this thing started off.
00:12 Do you feel back to normal?
00:14 Oh yeah, I feel good.
00:15 Yeah, I feel back to normal.
00:17 Feels good getting my feet back under me
00:19 and be out here with the guys.
00:21 Really starting to get this thing tuned up.
00:23 Castranges, so, you know, they can linger in a sense.
00:26 Were you happy in a sense of the rehab
00:29 and where you at and do you have to baby it still?
00:31 Is there like limitations?
00:32 No, no, no.
00:33 I mean, after yesterday,
00:34 I don't think there's any limitations.
00:35 There was a, especially with only a few,
00:37 a whole lot of few guys that we had,
00:40 we did the reps I did, I feel good.
00:42 No residual effects, so, we'll do it.
00:44 You're an impeditor,
00:45 you always want to be out there with the guys.
00:46 In that sense, how frustrating was it
00:47 just to miss that time?
00:49 Yeah, it was annoying.
00:51 I felt like I let my tight end group down
00:53 more than anything because,
00:55 you know, those guys were up there battling every day.
00:57 You know, 120, 130 reps a day,
01:00 20 of the five of those guys.
01:01 So, you know, that's where I really felt like
01:04 I let them down.
01:04 And obviously, secondly,
01:07 let the offense not be in out there,
01:09 but I guess the season doesn't start in the preseason,
01:12 it's getting started September 10th.
01:14 I'm just happy to be a part of it
01:16 and I'm ready to go then.
01:17 If it was regular season,
01:18 would it have gone differently the last few weeks?
01:21 Yeah, absolutely.
01:21 Absolutely, and I think Ron's worked on that
01:23 a couple of times too, so,
01:25 you know, I would have been,
01:26 oh, I've been on a different plane
01:28 for some reason before,
01:29 but moving forward,
01:30 I bet it would have been a whole lot quicker.
01:31 Any concerns about missing the time with Sam?
01:34 Oh, yeah, that's one of those things
01:35 that I wish I would have had is,
01:37 you know, I got two weeks with him,
01:38 I wish I would have had three or four.
01:41 But we can play catch up,
01:42 we can work out forwards,
01:43 work forward,
01:43 we can get all that done.
01:45 Watching the last two preseason games,
01:47 it seems like the O-line kind of was starting to
01:49 figure each other out.
01:50 Is that something you noticed from watching?
01:52 Yeah, it's continuity, man.
01:53 Those guys are out there every day
01:54 for 70 plays together,
01:56 so they ain't got no choice
01:57 but to get it cool for each other,
01:58 and they did a daggone good job
01:59 those last two games.
02:01 Super proud of them,
02:02 excited with how they played,
02:04 and they did a really good job.
02:05 Every year in this locker room,
02:07 new guys come in,
02:07 some guys obviously are gone.
02:09 How do you deal with the locker room chemistry?
02:12 What do you like?
02:12 What do you consider to be the most important part
02:13 of that work that's out here?
02:15 I like it, man.
02:16 It's, they always do a good job
02:18 of weeding out the people that need to get weeded out,
02:21 and bringing in the people they need to bring in,
02:23 and I think the couple of people that we added,
02:26 probably were that Nassif, that Tomaski,
02:27 and Nick.
02:29 We needed that guy in that offensive line,
02:31 and it really does a big deal for them,
02:33 but also for the rest of our offensive unit.
02:35 It's kind of that grit,
02:36 that dirtiness that we need to have.
02:38 Somewhat disrespective Sam on the field.
02:40 What about you in this room specifically?
02:41 Like, what does it mean for that guy?
02:43 What do you say?
02:45 Oh yeah, we don't have any worries about Sam, man.
02:46 He's a competitor.
02:47 He's an athlete.
02:48 Like, y'all see the quiet version of him.
02:50 We get to see a little bit more of that spark.
02:53 All he wants to do is win.
02:54 He wants to be great for us,
02:56 and put W's on the board,
02:58 and he'll do that.
03:00 So we're super excited about who he is,
03:02 and how he can be in this environment.