00:00Would a special be a fair adjective to describe tonight for you?
00:05I'd say, yeah, it was a good time.
00:08I didn't know what all was going to happen because I didn't know what plays I was getting,
00:12so I was kind of like hoping that I was going to go pool and hit,
00:18but I actually didn't get a chance to today.
00:21Did you just play the first two series?
00:22You were in and out on the first two?
00:24Just the first one.
00:25You never got a good lick on anybody?
00:28No, I didn't.
00:29I mean, I got a couple good in-line blocking plays, which is actually good, though, but that's it.
00:35How much do you just need that game experience, like feeling getting in the uniform and going out there?
00:41It's just different when you don't have the cushion on the head, on the helmet,
00:47and then you can go until the whistle blows, and it's different than practice.
00:53Not only that, it's against somebody else.
00:55You ain't getting the same look.
00:57They don't know what you like to do when, you know, different techniques and stuff.
01:01Not that you'd be, like, nervous, but was there, like, any jitters a little bit,
01:07hopping back into a game for the first time before tonight,
01:09just knowing that you were going to get back into a game for the first time in a long time?
01:12I mean, any time, like, I wouldn't, it's like, it's hard to describe it.
01:18I mean, it's, you've been there a million times, and you, you know,
01:23but it was definitely a little different getting out there after, you know, sitting out for a while, so.
01:27Does it feel like checking a box for you?
01:29Like, is that what book writes out like for you?
01:30It was kind of like, you know, it's just, you worry about the unknown, you know,
01:35you worry about, you know, it's a chance that you get hurt, like, stuff like that, you know,
01:38it's, that's always, like, you know, like, something that you're aware of, but it was, it was cool.
01:46Do you feel how much the offense changes when you've been on the field over the years,
01:49like, when you've been in practice?
01:50Do you feel, does it feel that shift to you, like, when you're out there about how different you are?
01:54Like, not at all, to be honest, I mean, I didn't, I don't really know how they were before I
01:59got here, so.
02:02But, I like, I like, I like how they use me a lot, I love it, so.
02:06I don't think we're going to see a lot of the regulars play in Philly.
02:09Do you, do you want to get some more snaps in that last game?
02:11I would love to, you know, but we'll see, I don't, I don't really, I don't think I am, I
02:16don't know yet.
02:17What's the next step for you, like, what do you need to, to do to feel ready for the season?
02:23I would like to get a sift block on somebody else, I mean, I haven't, I haven't got a chance
02:27to do that,
02:27so I would like to do that, and that's really it, I mean, I haven't cut anybody up.
02:34I'd like to get one of those out of the way, but, if, we'll see, if I, if I get
02:38to get in in Philly,
02:39I'll be able to get in there, so.
02:41How do you feel physically, you know, with your progress, and, you know, tonight was another step, it seemed like,
02:47for you.
02:48I feel good, I, I rolled my ankle a little bit, but it was nothing.
02:52I feel, during the first half.
02:54Yeah, I feel fine.
02:56Is that why you came out, or was that the plan, to just play the one series?
02:59Yeah, it was just, I was really supposed to get, like, five plays, so.
03:02I was happy to be in there past five plays, I was like, five plays that I'm looking at coach,
03:06like.
03:07But, he let me get back in there, so.
03:09Did you, did you kind of, did you realize how much you missed it once you got back out there?
03:12What was that like?
03:13Oh, yeah.
03:14For sure.
03:14For, um, I forgot how fun it is when it's a game, when it's game versus practice, and practice is
03:20like, you're dog tired, but.
03:23In the game, it's, it's more fun, you're itching to get back out there.
03:26Was there ever a time where you thought you might not be back out there throughout the whole process?
03:30Well, I knew, I knew I wasn't gonna, you know, I knew I wasn't gonna be out there past the
03:34first drive, so I was just expecting it.
03:36But, no, in general, just after, after what happened in your career, was there ever a time where you're like,
03:39I don't know.
03:40I don't, I don't know, you always, there was never a doubt, I was, I never doubted at once, so.
03:45Is it, how, how gratifying does that feel for all the work you put in and kind of now get
03:48those first steps done, how, what's that like?
03:50You know, you would think, you know, you'd think you would, you'd be like, you'd feel it, but, another day
03:57in the office.
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