to speak to our next guest. But especially
the day after he goes, 12 catches 148 yards,
three touchdowns,
he is him, he is Stephane digs. We say stuff on
you go big guy, how you doing? That's always nice chatting
with you. So it's always great to see you and hear you. You
were singing something. Before we got started, what were you
singing? I was a genuine, some
pony if you want to check it out as part of my arm, be
playlist. Make sure you get it. Get involved. Well, I will
because whatever it does for you I need it to do the same
thing for me every single day. When did you know last night
was going to be such a big night for you.
I woke up in the morning and think about football, all week,
I was excited to play. I've been wanting to play, you know,
you've been their last game. So
definitely something that I get excited for
prom timing, making my quarterback little bit and
making me look good. Did you like having that extra day even
after the mini by you play Thursday, then you play The
following Monday, 11 days later. Was that a good?
I apparently was a good thing based on the resolve but did it
feel
weird to you? Yeah, little baby it's because it's so long to be
playing a game and I'm used to playing like you know, by
Sunday Sunday, you get ready. Your schedule is a little
different when those weeks are a little off, you kind of got
a switch, a routine
up a little bit, but I ended up
making out pretty good, took care of my body and
got ready for his. Next one, we got a short week this weekend
coming up, so I'm on top of it right now first player since
Steve Smith in 2007 to have
Add 250 or more receiving yards and four touchdowns
the first two games. Great start to the season.
What has gotten better about your game this year? It was
a decent start.
Steve Smith is one of my favorite. See if not my
favorite receiver, by the way, shout out of Steve's. Many,
it's no, it's no difference. It's just going in with
the right mindset. I feel like this year, I was in a different
little different role of as far as like, my leadership role
needed to step up and do more and be more of the example
and just, you know, more and more show.
Lester, I just wanted to show my guys, what I can, they
respect and respect to my coaches is what if they can
trust me? And when I'm out there,
I'm going to take place on. So it's not too much of
a difference. Just as far as I've spent in my Approach and going
in with the right monster,
Chris Simms was up there. Visiting the team during
training camp. We talked about this earlier today. He said,
you put on some weight good way. Muscle way.
How much have you gained? And how is that making a difference
for your game? I've been like 12 pounds, like 10 12 pounds,
I used to be around like 190. 2193. I'm like 205 or something
like that. 2006
and I lose a little bit of are going to need 200 201, but it
feels real good. As far as like
a smaller bit receiver, I'm putting on a little bit of
pound just so I can you don't handle handle more handle,
those tackles and, you know, dealing with those big corners
and stuff like that, you got to get some strength. So I just
been working on my game
telling it and I'm trying to just get better.
Hey, Sterling, you're not just handling it, you're delivering
it. I noticed it several times last night. You are sticking
your your nose in there and you're hitting them before they
can hit you. You have moved as new for me. I use the step out
of bounds
and you know, try to get down real quick but it's a couple of
time that if I'm 101 I'm gonna try to get all the yards,
I can, you know, move them chains where we at with the chemistry
between you and Josh, how and how much
of it is unspoken at this point, like, on the first
touchdown last night, he goes off to the left. You go across
the formation. How much of that was planned and how much it was
just improvised in a moment. Of course, we got like a route
and we got a plan but at the same Same time, when the guys
roll it to the left and he's not even looking at you and he
looks right and throws a dart to you. It's somewhat, you
gotta test it to chemistry and Trust as far as I being with
your quarterback and
him know where you were, you going to be at?
I just feel like I got a lot of confidence and just how much
Allah gives you that Bob that you always got a chance to win
and not only when you're winning and when you're playing
he gives you a chance to feel like you can dominate. He gives
me
confidence. So in the beginning of the game or whether it's
telling the game, I want to make as many place for him
because he's one of those guys that get
Like throughout the game as he makes plays as it gets
comfortable, he gets better. You saw him throw past
that Isaiah little dirty across the middle and it seems like
that ball supposed to be, you know, uncatchable he throws
a dart in there. So guys, I just playing with a lot of
confidence.
He gives everybody compliments
last night. No Gabe. Davis, did you expect the Titans to try to
shut you down and take you away? And did they try? And
just they weren't able to do it. I mean I went in with
the mindset. I might get done a little bit of double double
or a little bit of double and a little bit of
You know, private some Zone coverage would have our the top, but
I guess they had a little bit of different plans, you know,
as far as I would they what we're doing? You know, we're
running the ball efficiently, this year, motor, Singletary,
and Zack Morris. Those guys can
gasps you for 10 to 12 yards and
that'll give me some time to have a safety creep up or, you
know, saying them being back and run support like safety.
Play, give me some one-on-one matchups and things like that.
We also had like some one-on-one Jake camera caught
a gold other side of the I want him to school. I told him about
itself but
just get a lot of guys making plays and a lot of guys getting
active. His offense.
We talked about how you're sticking your nose in there.
Now, this year, Josh Allen has always been one to do that
running the football. The stiff arm diving to the goal line, do
you hold your breath a little bit when he decides to take off
and
run the ball now, he's the biggest guy on the field.
I know, I know worst-case scenario, he'll get down,
but when you're coming in at 246, I don't know what it is,
64. 65. It's not too much concerned. I'm more concerned
for other guys even though they try to a child, a child,
a punch on him, every once in a while.
But that's a, that's a big man to tackle. Really consistently.
You guys seem to be on a mission this year and
one of the things that I'm
I'm reading into the approach so far.
Let's not have it come down to 13 seconds at the end of
the game. Let's not have it come down to a coin toss in
overtime. We're going to have your ass kicked by the time we
get to that point. So it's not even an issue.
Is that a fair interpretation of what the mindset is?
You know, you want to go into every game thinking like
we need to convincingly win,
you know? But as far as I being on the offensive side of
the road, he's got us.
Points until they tell us to slow down. So for us
we're going in with that mindset of
we gotta we gotta win every individual. We got to give that
extra effort. We got a strain and whatever that translates to
is. He's going to put you in the right position to win
the game. Our defense
I can't speak for the defense because the defense is crazy.
You know, we deal with them in the offseason. We deal with
them to training camp. We deal with them a little bit during
the season, so
I don't know what it's like going against him. I know that
if they're damn good defense
and they're fun to watch manner. So the I give all,
I give all the credit to that defense in the office. You
know, office just The bells and whistles and the gifts but
the defense wins games, they're doing a great job,
is it fair to say that you guys as an offense put so much
pressure on the other offense that they almost are
they feel like they got to do too much. They got a match, you
score for score or it's all going to fall apart and maybe
that puts too much urgency and it makes it easier for your
defense with guys like Von Miller
to go after them and disrupt what they're trying to do
making a trying to make a team one-dimensional. You know
they do a great job of running the ball over there. Tennessee
did a great job of running the ball over there. So I guess
I go in and I'm not in a different room, but I know we
want to make a team one-dimensional, make them
throw the ball, you know, stop them or early down to make him,
throw the ball, put them in uncomfortable situations and
that's when
we got our, we got past prices and we got guys, I can get you,
the water, try to make things, a lot of blood, a really
uncomfortable for their team, but you know, that's always
the goal to try to make up n***. team, one-dimensional
even on the offensive side. Like, if we're running the ball
efficiently, you know, play action to be open. And if we're
not, we need to we need to find ways to do other things. To
create place for people.
Miami has been impressive this year on offenses,
Specially this past Sunday.
How much will you be watching? Tyree kill and Jalen wall and
Tatanka by lower? When you're on the sideline on Sunday, it
is hard to miss. I mean, those guys are running River Road
fast out of there. Use it's hard to miss him.
I'll be watching. 100% always watch the game. I usually sit
down on the bench and watch it on the big screen. So
unless our defense to got to give me real excited to give me
works out, I'll jump up sometime but I believe in
Tradition and a little bit of a good luck kind of thing. I sit
down, I watch the team's
and I watched and I watched our defense work so
they got, they got some explosive Gaza.
He was paying her to his plan. Extremely well,
the guys out there, making plays for him, you know,
they're they're, they're really good team is gonna be a test
for us, and we look forward to it. Tyree got traded,
obviously, this year from the Chiefs to the Dolphins Davante.
Adams from the Packers, the Raiders AJ Brown from Titans of
the Eagles. How much do you think you helped
blazed the trail for? Hey, you know what I mean? It's just
business. It's business for the team, it's business for me.
I want to move on
and the team accommodates in the past, like with Terrell
Owens in 2005. Five eagles were like, no, we're not, you're
stuck here.
I feel like you helped lay the foundation for what we've seen
this year. Do you feel like that what you did? Has helped
get guys in a position where they can move around if they
want to?
Yeah, I mean, oh my
gosh, playing for the same team for their whole career and it's
a it's a it's a,
it's a great story,
you know. Everybody wants to know, everybody wants to Kobe
story. Everybody wants to start it to play with the same team
you live there. You got are tired of s*** like
as far as like not not literally, but So, you retired
are and that kind of thing. So
for me, I don't want to say I did, I would think I was
the first guy but I hope I did give guys confidence to go. You
know, if you see more for yourself and you believe in
yourself,
you can't be scared
and you can't, you can't look at it as personal. Don't take,
don't take things so personal because when it comes down to
business, you see, guys get traded all the time. Every so
you guys could cut all the time, and that's just business.
And we hang our hat him and be in business. So as
a professional, keep it business because this is your life, you
can say you're the CEO of your life and when you're a part of
her team, Team and you feel like you are
you you can contribute to this team or you want to do
something you know you shouldn't you shouldn't feel
bad for wanting that for you. So you know especially
considering that this is a hard job to do
and I people don't really people already understand.
Hardest job is mentally and I just want guys to be happy, be
happy in your situation, go to work smile and like who you're
around all the time?
Well said, very well said. Now I know that the
official response is, we take it one game at a time,
only watch the
next.
Do you have November 13 circled on the calendar? But
yeah,
I do, I have stock in certain games and I say
probably naturally in the back of your mind, but in the front
of my mind, I try to keep it business. That next opponent
does mean a lot to me, just because I try not to get out
and get ahead of myself. My grandma told me,
you know, I got eggs in my basket, take care of those
eggs, you know, that it will come. But right now, take care
of the ones, your baskets on focus on the one that's next.
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Hey rookie. Mistakes. Good segue. Because
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Yeah, had the fumble on the first Carry last week. What do
you say to a young player? Who when he finally gets his
opportunity?
Something like that happens? What do you say to him to
turn the page and move on? And feel good about things going
forward. I'm time chin up and Tess out at all the times, you
know
body language is everything
and I won't let my gosh, I won't let him get down on
themselves because you know, things happen out there. I've
made plenty of mistakes. I'll give you
an assassin as you know, iPhone with the ball,
but it's living in that space of the next play because
adversities going to hit each and every game, you know, not
even if it's not him, it could have been me. You could have
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So things are going to happen in these NFL games. You know
this it's a lot of gifted and talented guys out there. So
nationally plays are going to happen. So
chin up chest out. It was saying, you can get another
opportunity and when you do just take advantage, he has
some plays. Last night, I've made fun of me, he was a little
bit, he's a little slow,
he's hosting our run the corner, but
just that type of stuff, positive affirmations, and read
the confidence in your teammates.
By the way, 2014 fifth round pick out of Maryland. I don't
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