the quarterback from Alabama. And Bryce,
the huge question that you're obviously getting everywhere
is about your size and I wonder when teams ask you about that
here at the combine. What do you say to them?
And what do you talk about
to get them hopefully for you not as concerned
about your size?
Yeah, you know, I've been this size my whole life. I had
definitely
tend to shrink any time recently. And,
you know, I'm, I'm comfortable with myself, you know, I'm
confident in my abilities, I know what I can do
and you know, again I there's
no their stuff that's out of my control
but, you know, at the same time again, I know myself,
I feel like I played it at a,
you know, in the highest conference in the college
level. And, you know, I think that's that's prepared me. So,
you know, I'm super excited for this next challenge. Obviously,
it's going
to take a lot of hard work,
but, you know, it's something. I'm ready for him.
I'm excited for her.
Is there anything about you that
would watch a guy like Drew Brees or Russell Wilson
and say,
I mean Drew Brees throw for more yards than anybody in
history. Other than Tom Brady, if he can do it, I can do it.
Yeah, 100 percent and there's a lot of people that have paid
the way
you know, for for smaller quarterbacks. A lot of people
have done it at a really high level and you know those guys
those are guys have definitely inspired me a lot growing up.
You know, guys I look up to
and you know, I have so much respect for guys like that.
At and, you know, I think that, you know, I don't think their
success necessarily entitles me to anything, but again, it's
a good source of inspiration for me
and you know, again, I know I have to to work is going to
take a lot of work. A lot of dedication but you know,
there's nothing. I'd rather be doing
what? What do you weigh right now? Yeah, I'm around the 200
range. Yeah
but I guess we're going to we're going to figure out
the official one pretty soon. Yeah. Yeah. Asking it to come so
soon. It's like tomorrow. Yeah. And
so the one thing about
Fields. Now, both in college and in pro football,
if if it were, if it were tight,
it would seem to me to be kind of a disadvantage for a shorter
quarterback, but when the fields are spread and you have
more lanes, that you can see, how much do you think that
helps your game? The fact that
Fields have now been spread out both in college and pro
football. Yeah, you know, I think that, you know, I from at
the quarterback position. I think that helps us a lot, you
know? I You said just just being able to process being
able to, you know, put more stress on the defense at times,
with with, with being things, a little more spread out. But,
you know, I think whether you're in those condensed,
formations your spread out, you know, at the end of the day,
you know,
you got to, you got to make sure you get through your reads
your process and your things seeing things clearly. And, you
know, again, that's something I pride myself in and I know it's
going to be an even bigger challenge of the next level.
So I'm going to do everything I can to prepare,
put myself in the best situation and learn,
you know, so that I can cut try to process efficiently.
What would you say is
the most interesting or the best trait
or thing that you take from playing from
Nick Saban? Yeah, I think you know for playing for Coach
Saban,
you know, it's just that that lack of complacency I'm making
sure that I'm pushing myself and and, and, you know, never
satisfied with what I'm doing. And again, a lot of that comes
from coach Saban obviously he's had so much heat, you know,
legendary has so much success. There have Coach, some of
the Great's won so many championships
but still every day you can see him pushing himself.
See him, you know,
The standard individually and then holding us all accountable
as a team. Then, you know, I think that's something that
really rubbed off on me, being me, being being able to see
that,
you know, so consistently,
you know, it makes me understand that, you know,
regardless of what goes on, whether it's a good game
bagging, whatever it is I have to make sure I keep keep
getting better.
Keep pushing myself and holding myself to that standard
playing for Bill O'Brien, who now goes to the New England
Patriots.
It's like I wonder what do you take from Bill O'Brien?
And how do you think he helped you become a better
quarterback? Yeah, Kobe's, he's helped me so much, you know,
came in from, you know, from the NFL level and then,
obviously, now he's back there. I'm so a lot of that, that
mentality. There's a lot of things schematically that we've
been able to talk about,
you know, but on top of that, the responsibility that, you
know, he gave me and and the freedom of the trust that he
gave me, you know, the running game in the pass game
protections, everything like that. You know,
he put a lot of responsibility on my shoulders and that's what
allowed me. I feel like to grow to play. I am
him trusting me to do so much him kind of giving me
the freedom you know? Once I iearned that freedom in that
trust from him I mean I'm super grateful for that and you know,
he always was supported me always had my back. There's
a lot of football conversations that we were able to have that,
definitely increase that knowledge
that I have now.
So I'm super grateful for OB and
I know he's gonna kill the next level.
What has been the experience here, talking to teams
talking to coaches? Maybe guys, you
have only seen on TV before.
Yeah. It, you know, it sir.
Real again, me being being here, I'm like you said talking
to teams talking to coaches
and just being able to soak that knowledge and, you know,
seeing how, how they coached me being able to learn a little
bit about their systems, but they're looking for their
philosophies, along with doing my best to communicate.
You know what, I, what I see what I believe in all that
stuff. It's been, you know, I'm super grateful for this
process. I feel like I'm walking out of here with so
much knowledge, so much wisdom. And again, like you said, a lot
of coaches, a lot of people that I've looked up to, and
been able to Admire from afar and now being able to meet them
and Ball. And to get that knowledge, I'm super grateful
for the opportunity. Do you feel competitive
with the other guys? Other quarterbacks at the top of
the draft? You do you watch CJ, Stroud? I mean you go way back
with CJ's. Yeah. Do you walk watch CJ, Stroud and say I'm
better than this guy or how do you
how do you look at it? Look at the competition
between you guys.
You know for me honestly I've always been someone who's been
self-motivated and, you know, I really just push myself to be
the best version of myself again. I,
you know, obviously how it was Other people do. I can't
control. So for me, what's important for me is to push
myself to be the best version of myself and especially in
this class. You know, I'm,
I'm like, you said, I'm super close to CJ. That's my brother.
And a lot of other people in this class, you know, I know
really well and, you know, we always, you know, I root for
all of them. We all root for each other all support each
other. You know, we kind of share that a lot of
similarities and
we noticed like, being in each other's shoes.
So, you know, watching those guys, I've watched a lot of
them on tape and, you know, I've never learn from them.
I'm, you know, I'm super happy for all the success
You've had and for me, you know, I just try to be the best
version of myself
last thing,
Dan, orlovsky of ESP, and put out a throw that you made
at Alabama last year. And what was so interesting about
the throw is that he said, basically, this is an NFL throw
because
if you watch, he still almost stares at the middle safety.
Okay? He knows he's throwing the ball
to the right. Okay.
But he almost stares down the middle safety so that That he
can't get over there in time and you knew that you were
going to throw the ball. I don't know. Maybe 25 yards
Corner route to the right?
How much
of an education about all levels of football? Have you
had?
And do you feel like because there will be pressure on you
to play very early in the NFL which is not very easy to do.
What about the preparedness of plays like that? To be ready?
Early. On. Yeah, I think I've gotten a tremendous amount of
guidance from
the coaches and people around me.
You know, I've been blessed to have the coach that I've had
that it was still,
you know, so much so much knowledge and to me and, you
know, I think you say yourself, like you said, that that
preparation. That's something I pride myself thing. And, you
know,
I obviously know that this next step is next challenge, going
to have to be more prepared than ever. And, you know,
I feel like the knowledge that I've
that I've learned in the past, on top of what I Look to gain and
from, from my, you know, my future coaches and all
the people around me. You know what? Going to it to trying to
be prepared. And, you know, that's a challenge. I'm
definitely looking forward to
brace young of Alabama. Good luck in your NFL career. Thank
you. I appreciate that.