logo down there. You see that? Yeah, that's sharp. Let's show
the swag. Yeah, but I got it under there. That's good.
Alright, do you subscribe to top button, swag? I don't know.
I'm all alone. I'm all in now. You're all in. Okay,
good. Hey, that's a good answer because my but there that's
very much. All right. First thing I want to talk about.
Other than that. You are awesome at football. Okay,
we're going to hit that but
like watching your highlights and I saw you during the season
on the field.
You catch a ball, you run down. On you. Usually smash somebody
into the ground break, a tackle or two.
And then you talk s.... Almost after every play. If you talk,
sure that berry pie.
I love it. I'm all for it.
Are you talking or are you kind of just give them the flex? The
staredown? How's that going? Yeah, it kind of just depends
on on what happened. But usually, you know, just kind of
letting them know,
you know, I'm the man and then and they're not so kind of
things like that. So, you know something I love to do, you
know,
so I really enjoyed that stuff, but most of all you just got to
keep playing. Yeah, now, it's cool. It shows your energy and
passion for the game. Be careful in the NFL. No,
absolutely. Because they'll throw a flag on it. You looked
at them the wrong way.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Alright. So, you know, your
game, your explosive, you're big,
you know, just talk about, you know, aspect for you that you
look like. Okay, it's NFL now. I gotta get a little better
here. Like hit the first area of improvement for you. Yeah,
I think, you know, I'm a pretty complete tight end, a guy who
can
kind of do it all, but most of all, just really trying to
fine-tune and sharpen my my
tools that I have and trying to be better at every little
thing, you know, at this next. There's not a ton of room for
error. So trying to be
as perfect as you possibly can in every aspect of the game. So
really just fine-tuning everything, whether that's your
hand placement or or top of the routes, things like that, but
really just trying to be a little bit better than what
I was. Yeah. Got you,
are you like aware of? I mean, you're widely regarded as a top
tight end of the drap, you pay attention. These other titles
are, like, I'm talking about, like, why to Meyer from from?
Am you aware of his game. Did
you watch him throughout his career? Kind of know what
you're going against here? Oh, yeah. Absolutely, you know,
watch all these Titans. Isaiah likely, you know, Jeremy
Rucker, all these Guys that I've been around my whole life,
watch them and things like that. So really cool to see,
you know, kind of watch
their games, see what they do,
good what they do, bad and try to take things from them to
try to use in my own game. So she who's your tight end
growing up your 64 264 everybody out there. All right.
So who was your guy growing up? But truthfully, you know being
from the small town. I was Joel driessen. He's from my
hometown. So
a guy who I really looked up to and really admired my whole
life. So a guy I wanted to be just like, you know, he went to
Colorado State. I went to, Colorado. Rado say he, he
wasn't tied in the NFL and
things like that. So, really a guy, I looked up to my whole
life and things like that. So, that's cool. So, it's
a personal personal guy. Absolutely. It kind of showed
you. You could go like, oh s..., I can do it. Absolutely.
And I could do it. Absolutely. And you've already passed them.
Sorry 99,
you're gonna get drafted higher than he did.
All right, your your combine your specimen. I mean, you way
into 60 right now. No, I'm like 247 247. Yeah, cut some weight.
Get good 40 times vertical.
Yeah. I don't know what was going on with the six.
26 years, ever since
I was for like, maybe a second, but
you know, I've always kind of, been around 2:45 things like
that. So they, you know, always
makes it look better. Yeah,
it's a bigger number than your go away. I want to be faster
and cut up and that way. Alright. So combine the like as
far as that go and you doing the full workout. Well, yeah,
I'm gonna run my 40 at my pro day that I'm gonna the 48, your
produce. Okay. All right, and there you'll do everything
else, 5, 10,
5, all that.
Like, but what numbers we A expectantly, you think you can
like and I don't want you don't do your highest but like
estimation vertical 5 10 5, where you think you'll be
there? Yeah, it should be, you know,
pretty much pretty pretty good and all those I should, you
know, jump 34 something like that. I'm should put up 23 24
reps on the bench, things like that. So
something I'm really excited for in that aspect is just to
go out and compete and show, you know, the country what I'm
able to do. Yeah.
40 like you just want to fine-tune it a little bit.
I just kind of I don't my protease is not for another
month.
My whole nother month to to continue to train and try to be
as perfect as I can on that. Ask. Do you feel like, like
the coaches or people you've talked to Scouts
here already? Like, I know you probably only been here for
a day, but you probably had a meetings already right there,
where they disappointed when you they heard you weren't
gonna run the 40, did, you know? No, I, you know, they
just want to see a number whether you run it at
the combine, whether you run at the pro day, so
they really just want to see a number. So
that's something that,
you know, I got, I'm going to get out for them. Just just not
yet. All right, so you're a freak show more than
I realized.
Like, you know, like my buddy back here. Matt Casey. He does,
like all the background checks on you. Yeah, I didn't realize
you were like, Johnny basketball, Johnny, home, run,
hitter. Yeah. No, I made it all times point. All-time points
leader at your high school.
Yeah, all-time career points
for basketball there. And then
baseball, I'm like all time and home runs batting average
RBIs things like that. So
I really enjoyed doing that stuff. I love playing all three
Sports and was fortunate to excel in all three. Wow. I mean
the home runs, probably.
Asterisk, Texas, Colorado it's tener. Yeah, we got to
re-evaluate. It's not fair to the other high school kids.
Yeah, for sure, for sure
who's ever thought of like pursuing, either any of those
Sports the sports. Other than football, you know, I had
the opportunity to play division one probably for all three of
them.
The other two were probably more FCS schools, but
no truthfully, you know, my passions always been football.
I've always loved it. Always been a little bit better and
you know, I kind of like the gritty and nastiness of
the game. I can tell ya the compared to baseball where you
just hitting the dang ball. So I was more of a guy who wanted
To get in the
trenches and get down and dirty. Were you in the post and
the Hoops? Yeah, for yeah. No, I was a fine young Serbian
coming from a small school. I was
the biggest guys. So I had to,
I had to do that but
really kind of did it all there on the basketball court. Just
tried to make plays pretty good jump shot. Yeah. Okay.
All right, football team growing up, who's your squad,
you know, growing up, being from Colorado. I've always been
a Denver Broncos fan, loved watch them. Then Joel played
for the Broncos, which made me love him even more and then
know when Peyton came there. That was awesome. And then
It's kind of been,
you know, things like that, but it was a it was a great
opportunity to watch those guys and love going up. Watching
them. Yeah,
you know quarterbacks like in the NFL like who'd be the guy
I got, I know you respect them off but like your dream like oh
god. Oh crap. I'm catching balls from this guy right now.
Yeah, you know II still have a feeling that Tom Brady's coming
back. So,
you know, I think it catching balls from him, you know,
the guy that you really grow up one of the greatest ever do it is
like that so, you know, I
still think there's a chance he comes back so
So you're catching balls from him, would be tremendous
opportunity right now, like you get excited. I mean NFL game,
right? It's they're just more in the playbook for the tight
ends.
Like you. Do you realize that are you excited to go to
the NFL? Because you realize like a tie-down has a little bit more
of a role consistently. Yes, ours, catching the ball,
the play-action passes.
Yeah. And everything, spread and all that. Yeah. No, it's
something that, you know, you grow up and you got to learn
everything. You got to learn the Run game of the offensive.
Why man, you got to learn the pass game as a wide receiver.
So really a
Position to learn. But so, am I really love? Because you kind
of get a little, do a little bit of everything, you're kind
of an offensive line. You kind of a receiver. So you're able
to do everything and things like that. So
something I'm really looking forward to is,
you know, learning those new plays and getting going. Are
you like watching what you eat right now? Are you at the point
where you can just eat whatever you want? Just turns into
muscle. No. No, I wish no definitely, you know, have
a pretty strict diet, you know, out there training and things
like that. Really
trying to get it, you know, body
as good as it possibly can going into
this next phase. Yeah, right.
Right. Well, you the man. All right. Yeah, I appreciate it.
Kick some ass in the NFL. What number we going to wear and we
get there, like what we gonna do, you know, I was 85 in
college. So if I kill me,
if I can keep 85 that would be tremendous. But just so, you
know, your Rivals at the tight end position y to Meyer, he's
gonna wear any 52. He likes it. He wants to catch balls from
Tom Brady. All right, you got George kid'll who's wearing 85,
right? That's pretty good.
Pretty cool. Yes. It's a good number and then something that
I've worn my whole career there. So you've reminded me of
kiddo when I first saw you but you're big
In him. Yeah, he's a he's a great player. Yeah, it's
a great flier. All right. Good luck, man. Yeah. Thank you
guys.
Yeah. Thanks.