Just do the best thing for him at the end
of the day. Um, he has nothing to
prove. Um And he is our leader and we'd
love to see him back. But if he doesn't
feel like he can, then he shouldn't have to
do. You admire the effort that he put into
trying to be with you guys these last few games
? Uh Yeah, because I know it, I
know what it feels like, you know, just
from, just from my rehab standpoint of me,
you know, trying to be back for the first
game. I know until the first game that I
was going to play. So, no, I
definitely appreciate it for that. Are you looking forward
to helping following him next year? Yeah, for
sure. Um He's my locker mate so we talk
about stuff all the time. So I won't,
I won't say too much, but I'm excited for
sure. Is it all about pride these last few
games? And does that play into everything here?
Um For me personally, no, I, I
play every snap with pride. You know, I
, I go out there thinking I'm the best player
out there every week. And hoping I get chances
to show that. And, um, you know
, for me, I'm just trying to finish the
season strong. I'm thankful to be able to say
I was thankful to be able to say I've been
playing every game this season. I hope to be
able to say I can play 17 games. Has
this been a disappointing year in your mind for what
the big expectations were? Um, I mean,
obviously the goal is always to win and we haven't
been doing that and, you know, it sucks
and everything like that, but we're still trying to
finish our season strong. So I want to say
it's a failure. It's just, it's just a
lesson along the journey that we have good group playing
really hard looks to be really well coached. Obviously
, the two D tackles are really good players.
So it's going to be a great challenge. Um
But yeah, well coached group, I'm gonna play
really hard. Let's talk about this uh opportunity to
potentially start once again. Yeah, I mean,
super grateful at this point in my career, especially
any chance I get to play is, is awesome
. So, um if it happens, I'll be
ready. If not, you know, Zach's coming
back, feels all right. How would you describe
your kind of chemistry with the rest of your teammates
at this point? Good, great. I've been
long enough to know these guys as teammates and his
players feel really good about that. So if you
do, how much will the experience of the fourth
quarter and obviously being out there in the is great
. I think the two times I've played, it's
kind of been like trying to throw it back into
the game a little bit. So it will be
nice if I do play to get a full run
at it, but it is what it is.
You know, it's a job, it's a life
and back of the quarterback, I'll be ready to
play if they need me and if not we'll go
from there.