The Herd with Colin Cowherd - Richard Sherman Podcast - 49ers' Upton Stout on AWESOME rookie season, Fred Warner's impact, WR matchups

Episode Date: November 20, 2025

Richard Sherman sits down with San Francisco 49ers defensive back Upton Stout for a deep dive into technique, mindset, and the real grind of playing corner in the league. He shares the challenges of p...laying nickelback and the toughest receiver he’s faced in the NFL. Sherman gets him talking about footwork, leverage, eye discipline, and the defensive communication that drives the Niners’ secondary. Stout also gives an inside look at training camp vibes, embracing the 49ers culture, and the impact of mentors like Deommodore Lenoir and Fred Warner. A must-watch for fans of DB play and elite defensive football. All lines provided by Hard Rock Bet. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:02:23 There's a fire coming to this country, and it's going to burn out everything. Listen to Saigon on the IHeart Radio app, podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back to the Richard Sherman podcast, and today we got an incredible guest joining us, San Francisco 49ers cornerback, Upton Stout. Appreciate you joining me, brother. I appreciate you for having me, man.
Starting point is 00:02:50 It's a blessing to be on here. One of the ghosts, man, one of the ghosts. I appreciate that. How are you feeling? It's your first year in the league. You're playing a lot more than I'm sure you was expected coming in, but you had an incredible training camp, and you've been having a really good season.
Starting point is 00:03:07 Talk about how you feeling? I'm feeling blessed. It's a blessing being in this position. Going into week 12, I'm feeling the strain on the season, but it ain't bad because I know every week brings a new opportunity, but it's like you can definitely feel the difference from like last year being around this time.
Starting point is 00:03:27 I'll be getting ready thinking about where I'm from the train at this year. I'm thinking about how I'm from to end off these last seven to six games. But it's like I'm feeling good. I know every week gets a new opportunity. to have any new opportunity to put something different on film from this past week. So it's like just being able to learn and grow each day every week and try to get better. You said every week I feel like that's really my main focus. It's been feeling good, though.
Starting point is 00:03:46 Is it what you were, is the league what you expected? Like coming in the training camp, you had an incredible training camp. You were to talk a training camp if I remember. And I remember coming up there and seeing you and you playing fast, playing confident, aggressive, physical. What went into your mindset going into there? Because not many rookies come in playing like, were playing? I mean, I feel like first figuring knowing that I'm coming to the 49ers, knowing
Starting point is 00:04:12 that was already indebted here. So it's like me knowing that I'm going to come into a room that had grace ended and the grace they're sending now as far as D, Mo, Fred, or Bose. So I'm already feeling like I got to come in and step up my guess because like that's the 49 away. So it's like, it's either that or you're going to be watching the game. So it's like really just having that mindset, just trying to grow each and every day and trying to keep leaning on all the vets and stuff.
Starting point is 00:04:34 So I was just for like, me just having that, man, let's do it in mindset, like, let's put it all on the table and shoot, however it goes. That's how it really goes. It's all in God's hand. What vet do you think had the biggest influence on how you start approaching the game and your routine? Because I feel like when I was coming up, it was Marcus Schofan,
Starting point is 00:04:54 just watching how he carried himself, watching how he did things in the locker room, watching how he did things off the football field, really had an impact on how I started to do things. Who was that for you? I probably say it's kind of like a little like a 50-50 with Demo and Fred just seeing the way like Demo approaches every game how he approaches like all his reps and like the way he goes through practice Monday through Saturday to get ready for the game and then as far as like with Fred I just
Starting point is 00:05:20 feel like when it comes like the body maintenance like just the extra hours in the building and things like that just getting your mind ready more than having your mention right before the physical part of it so it's like I just feel like just seeing how them to operate throughout the week really, I can just pick up bits and pieces from how they both maneuver through the week. Talk about Sala and how different he is and how much energy Sala comes with every single day. We all know it, man. Sala. I feel like he's the, I feel like he's the, what's the, I wouldn't say the energizer buddy, but just like whenever he's around, like, you know, you got to be on point. You got to be happy because like he's going to come around, shoes.
Starting point is 00:06:04 smile, bringing the energy, like the third down groove, man. Right. The third down guru. I love it. I love it. Nickel, people don't understand. Nickel might be one of the hardest positions to play in the National Football League and to come in and play it as a rookie and to make the impact that you have a great
Starting point is 00:06:24 forced fumble last week on, was it Higgins? At the goal line against Arizona. Yeah, y'all couldn't tell you. I just remember the play. But that was a huge play in the game. That was a huge play. You got your first turnover of your career. That had to feel good.
Starting point is 00:06:46 Yeah, it felt good for sure. You know, during a moment, like, you don't ever, like, you don't ever focus on it just because, like, the heaven flows on the game, like early in the game, getting bombed deep. So it's, like, really just, like, it's always next mentality, the next play mentality,
Starting point is 00:06:59 no matter if it's a bad play, good play. So, like, having said play was always, it's a blessing during it. Like, during, like, you realize, after, just like during this, like, man, what's the next part I have to make for the defense? What's the next thing? I'm just trying to be on my preaching Q.
Starting point is 00:07:11 Just so, like, the first play don't happen again. But we just leave it with the win. I know you, I know you're looking for your first book. I know you're looking for your first pick. I'm kidding for angle. I need my first book, man. Jack took my first one away with. I ain't tripping.
Starting point is 00:07:27 There's a little temperate. I know it's coming, though. I know it's coming. We got seven, eight, nine more opportunities. So I know it's coming in the world works. Yeah, yeah, look, great DB coach always told me, if you keep doing your job right, the ball will hit you in the face. You just got to make the play.
Starting point is 00:07:42 It got to find it. It's always somehow. The ball got to find you. You play DB. Yeah, that ain't going to be on point, right? The bar got to find it. It's going to find you. It's going to find you.
Starting point is 00:07:51 It's cool. Y'all, you're such a young secondary, and it's been so many injuries, so many moving pieces. Jair is in one week. Malik Mustafa comes back. Pinnock's in there. and it's just been so much move. How do you guys try to keep the continuity? It doesn't seem like there's any division
Starting point is 00:08:10 or anything like that, but it's hard to find a rhythm and communication. We played with the same group for a very long time. So it was like, knew him like the back of the arm. My hand didn't even have to look at them. Like, all right, I know what you're thinking. Don't even look over here. But it's tough to build that with so much movement.
Starting point is 00:08:26 How have you guys been working on that? Really just realized, like, we can't make this script. we could only make how we could, like, how we approach every day. Like, we all know, like, what we bring to the back in and we all got our own role. And it's like, we all, we just got an own roll. Like, the one row's big nickel, regular nickel, Dom. Like, we all got to figure out our role.
Starting point is 00:08:48 It's just on up until our role. It's like, there's no egos in the D.D. room. It's like, whatever job is, that's your job. And let's figure out how we can do it to the best ability. And if it ain't, like, if it's any type of great era, let's just all figure it out. And at the end of the day, on Sunday, we all got to go out there together. Like, let's just come up, come together and just figure out how we can all get done as a backing.
Starting point is 00:09:04 What's been the toughest adjustment, you know, between college and the NFL? A lot of guys come in saying, oh, it's just so much faster. I can't honestly say I felt that way a little bit early on, but I honestly felt like the league was a lot simpler for me than college because it's so much you got to prepare for in college. It's like 85 different offenses.
Starting point is 00:09:23 And the league is like three or four. You know, you got either this system, this system or this system. But playing nickel is different because you got to, you got to be looking inside. Watch guard pool, next available, all that. I didn't have to deal with all that. I feel like as far as like, kind of like the biggest change as far as like,
Starting point is 00:09:43 gang wise were like early on. In college when I was at Nickelham, all we did. Like any type of motion or anything, we'll just bump it all. Like once you get on one side, like you're on that side. Here it's like, hey, you better tell me if it's bump, bump, are you moving?
Starting point is 00:09:57 Because the whole deepest could change either if you stay or if you go. So it's like really just being on those motions trying to them just decide. life for what's the choo-choo, what's the jad, what's the regular motion. So really just doing that is just trying to be on point with just the ebb and flows of the game, really just the motion and part. That was really the thing that was really getting me and training camp the most,
Starting point is 00:10:15 especially you know how Shannon offense is, the amount of motion going into my place. So you're running overhead and me trying to run over here and run over here. It just wasn't like, I was really just trying to end decipher and get all the areas where it's like, okay, I go bump this, I can follow this, I can carry this and things like that. That's like the biggest difference. K. K.1 Williams. One of the best Nichols I think I've ever played with. One of the best to do it.
Starting point is 00:10:40 People don't give him enough credit. That year in 2019, that boy is as smooth as they come, knowing it, playing it, playing fast, being where he's supposed to be. They said they got you in contact with him. What were those conversations on? Really, I was just trying to pick his brain. Like, really just trying to figure out, like, how he ate in the defense, how he maneuvered through everything.
Starting point is 00:11:00 Like, different route conversations, how he would play this. how he would play his man on this, uh, down the distance, how he would play this blend technique, how he would fit the gas. So really just, whatever I would get here with him, I want to know how he would, how he defended it.
Starting point is 00:11:13 And then I just wanted to see some clips of him, like how he played it and like, just how his man reps and just, really just seeing anything that I can get from the time he was here and just really just pick his brain. I want to make this more conversation. I don't want to just keep shooting questions at you and you don't got nothing for me.
Starting point is 00:11:29 If you got any questions, you, you say what you need to say. Let me see. I got a lot of questions, but it's... We got time. We got time. You go ahead. I want to know, like, how was it?
Starting point is 00:11:41 Like, how was the DVD group who was, like, when you was here? Like, how, when you was the leader of the back in, like, how was the, how was the vibe? Like, how would y'all approach the week? How would you all approach every day and things like that going into, like, a game week? That's interesting because DB was there. DB, my guy. But it's just a nice focus. We were a fun group.
Starting point is 00:12:05 I thought we had a good group. We had young guys. We had a mix of young guys and veterans. I think you guys don't have as many vets, so it's a little different. But Jaquisky tart and we had Jimmy Ward and KK, we had guys who understood, guys who hadn't necessarily dealt with a lot of winning,
Starting point is 00:12:24 but they understood how to play the game at a high level. And it was accountability. We came into the week. Everybody knew. You know, you go your first and second down, your third down on Thursdays, your red zone, etc, etc. But we treated walkthroughs really seriously. You know, there's a lot of, there's not silence out there. You know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:12:40 You ain't going to be silent out there with me. I said, we're going to talk this through. It's going to be very noisy in these walkthroughs, very noisy on the field because you want to build that kind of confidence. Everybody knows. You got quiet. It feels like nobody knows what's going on. Nobody, you're quiet because you don't know what's going on. So speak up.
Starting point is 00:12:58 We could all be saying the same thing. alert spot, alert spot, alert spot. I'm good with that. Like everybody's saying, but as long as everybody talking. Same thing. We all wrong, we all right. We can live like that. But if we're silent out there, it doesn't work.
Starting point is 00:13:11 So our preparation was really good. It was really detailed. We talk everything through. Again, like you said, no egos was the main thing. It's all about winning. No matter what it takes, no matter who makes the play, who gets the intercession, et cetera, et cetera, it's about winning. So if we need to talk to the backers and Fred and Greenlaw or,
Starting point is 00:13:29 or whoever it is, we need to have those conversations or Kwan, whoever it is, we're having those conversations. Hey, when we get this route, I'm going to play here. You're going to drive that? All right, so that digs is going to be open.
Starting point is 00:13:41 How are you going to play it? I'm going to drive this or I'm going to play off and you're going to, like, we need to understand how we're going to play each and every route so that when we're out there, we're playing fast. And how we play it in a walkthrough is how we play it in practice, how we're playing it in the game?
Starting point is 00:13:53 Yeah, yeah. How long do you feel like it took for you all to get that communication down where it was like, okay, if it's this and that, And do you feel like, right when you step footing is like, this got to change. Or you know what I mean? No, it took at least, I got there in 18 and I had Achilles and, you know, it was just not a great culture. Jimmy G. got injured and we were beat up.
Starting point is 00:14:14 We only won like four games, which is how we ended up with Bosa the next year. But throughout that year, I felt like we were building the habits. Like, somebody got to be consistent in holding the standard. Like, regardless of how things going, like this is the standard we're trying to play to, And we can't just accept, hey, it ain't going well, so we just cool with this. Nah, that ain't never it. We got to be detailed. We got to be on our jobs to give us a chance.
Starting point is 00:14:38 So if we plan shit wrong and guys making mistakes, then there's accountability. There's no disrespectful accountability, but there's accountability. Like, the coaches do it, but we got to hold each other accountable. Like, it's unacceptable. Not like, hey, what you doing, man? You ain't doing your job. Like none of that. These grown men, that shit ain't never going to work like that.
Starting point is 00:14:54 So it got to be like, hey, brother, hey, I love you to death. I know you're doing your best. We got to be better than this today. We got to be better than this. Let's be better than this. We all have to be better than this. Starting with me, always the finger has got to start with you. It never can start at nobody else because that ain't never how it's going to work.
Starting point is 00:15:11 So always work to get yourself better and be the example. And then you can talk to other people. But if you ain't perfect, probably need to work on you first. Yeah, but I'll venture off other places. Right. So it's trusting each other and understanding like nobody's out there alone. You never should feel like you out there by yourself.
Starting point is 00:15:36 Like you out there with 10 of your brothers and we ain't leaving you by yourself. Even you in the nickel with man to man coverage, no, we got your back. We got your back. We're not about to let you look. If he catches over, we're all swarming too. We all swarming and we're trying to get there to help you. And I think that helps build confidence and camaraderie. But in those walkthroughs, make sure you talk.
Starting point is 00:15:57 Make sure you're taking them serious. We ain't giving up no passes and walked through. I hate it that shit. I hate letting people score in red zone drills. I hate when they catch it at the five and you let them like walk in after it. It'll mess up my whole day. I'm like, man, nah.
Starting point is 00:16:14 Nah. And Kyle used to get mad because he'd be like, oh, y'all, y'all, you got to let us catch it the offensive. I don't give it to take us off the field then, Kyle. We ain't doing all that. off the field and you can go put the scout team on and you can catch a little passing. But that ain't how we're going to work today. That's probably what I would.
Starting point is 00:16:34 I probably had changed the rules. I probably made them. Sadger rules galore. It's like, now it was like the first thing off he's going to get some scouts now. It's not going to be like the world on one that. Y'all made them change. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:16:45 It ain't no one of the ones on one. We're not given none of that. But that's the standard. Like how you do anything is how you do everything. And so once you live by that and you push that, it starts to be. become your mentality. You, you ain't walk through, and throw the ball,
Starting point is 00:17:01 back down, pick. Like, I don't, I don't care. I don't care. I might start wearing cleats to walk through if y'all start getting really, really jazzy. DB don't let us even come out of that and shows.
Starting point is 00:17:10 He always says, hey, if you're going to be in a walkthrough, you got to put your cleats on. Too much, anybody slipped. Hey, why you slip? You ain't got your cleats on. A standard. DB, you know what it takes.
Starting point is 00:17:20 Yeah, not for sure, for sure. What? How long do you think it took for you to have, like, that mindset, like, when you first got How long did you think it took for it to like, I already bet? Like, I can do this. I honestly, it was quick for me because our group, you know, we had me, Cam, Earl.
Starting point is 00:17:39 By my second year, we were rolling. And it was because we challenged each other every day. We challenge each other to be great. It wasn't like, man, like, like, like y'all got Demo. Dimo's the guy right now. It wasn't like, oh, Dimo's the guy. Like, man, you know, look how good. It's like, Dimo, the guy.
Starting point is 00:17:56 I'm about to prepare as good or better than DMO. I'm about to know. D.B, I promise you got you as all as prepared as y'all going to be. Like, I know. You ain't got to tell me. I know. The indicating tape is deep. Whatever clip you try to see, the indicator tape is loaded.
Starting point is 00:18:14 But you got to translate it. And the way you translate it is making, taking those, like, there almost should be no completions in practice. Not that we were perfect like that, but we played so damn fast. If we picked it and walked through, we picked it in practice and we picked it in the game. Or they didn't throw it in the game. But it wasn't like, hey, we saw it in practice.
Starting point is 00:18:36 They gave us the indicator in the game, and we didn't take advantage. You didn't lost your goddamn I'm not against us. That's just high IQ football. And you've got to train yourself that way. Like when you're playing fast and you're competitive and you're tired, you got to recognize those indicators and you got to play just as fast. You see it right here. Hey, remember in practice?
Starting point is 00:18:53 Hey, is Max for Tech? Double D, alert the post. Hey, drive the dig. I got you over the top. Bang, let's go play. You know, so I think by my second year, we were pretty dialed in, and then after that, we were just building on it.
Starting point is 00:19:06 Just rolling. Yeah. It was like, you can see that on there. You can see that on the tape on the film. He was like, y'all just out there having fun out there calling out the play before it even scarred it. Because it's not that hard. There's only so much they can do.
Starting point is 00:19:20 It's not like people going to come out there and reinvent a playbook. Man, I feel like that's probably like, What I'm really, like, trying to learn right now because when I first got here, I'm like, man, what if I get this route, this route, this route, this crowd? It's like, young boy, you ain't going to get all of them routes. Like, it's only so much they can do with this one, man.
Starting point is 00:19:36 You don't have to think about all those routes. Once he gives you his release and show you with Spim, you can go early and cancel out three of those routes. Now you only get in two from here now. Right. Like, the game is so simple. Everybody runs the same stuff. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:19:50 So if you win the slot and y'all in the red zone or y'all at the 15 or something, And they main receiver is that too? It's probably a seven cut. Yeah. It's probably a seven cut. If you got to guess, if you got to guess something and you ain't got no indicators and you worry, guess seven. I would assume that's what's going to happen.
Starting point is 00:20:09 They're not really running digs. They could motion. If they do some kind of motion and bring somebody out, it's probably double post. Like 90% of the time, I'm telling you, like, you play in a league long enough. After your third, fourth year, you're going to be like, bro, are they ever going to change? stuff like are y'all ever going you're going to really motion and run double post every time when y'all do this like I can't wait for like you to that point where it's like oh yeah y'all yeah y'all really going to do this but but that's what I'm saying start paying attention to the
Starting point is 00:20:39 indicator start paying attention to the patterns you're going to start the teams that that they repeat stuff if y'all got beat by something whatever you got beat on that 80 yard that long pass yeah next five teams you're getting it sure yeah yeah trust me yeah Like, that's what's going to happen. And the more you realize, it's not, oh, man, what if they do this? Hey, what things have they done? And what can they do all for that? Oh, they've been running smash seven.
Starting point is 00:21:08 Okay, they could run smash seven and pump. They could run double seams, third and 12 plus. They've run this. They've run. All right, those are the things they can run. Not 500 different things. It's like four. And then when I was like, when I first guy,
Starting point is 00:21:25 it would be, boom, two-on-two, run in America away. Like, some of the things you could expect lying. But I'd be like, what if I kind of get a point of coast, I mean, a post-corner, what if he does a center? But it's like, if I get it all over the place, and I'm trying to guard every route. It was like, you can't guard every route, man.
Starting point is 00:21:48 You can't, you don't have to. Yeah. You guard and stuff, they couldn't even, they ain't even got any playbook. Yeah. I think I got one post corner in my entire career. Larry Fitzgerald did it. And I got PI on the player. I ain't going to lie to you.
Starting point is 00:22:03 I got PI because I was not expected it. I was like, post corner like, damn. I was all over the post. Emma turned around and run the corner. I said, ah, Larry, I got it. We got to, we got to grab you. I got to grab you, baby. We're going, we'll go ahead and get to the next one.
Starting point is 00:22:20 But yeah, man, the more you realize that, the more it's going to allow you to play fast. I'm telling you, that's why I got 41 picks on the career. It starts making sense. I'm chasing it. I'm chasing it. I'm chasing it. Don't chase it. Don't chase it.
Starting point is 00:22:37 Look, chase the play. Understand the plays in concept, the ball starts hitting you in the face. You'll be like, all right, this is the concept. Oh, I recognize that. All right. I'm going to play this like this. Quarterback, going to be like up. And you'll be like, yeah.
Starting point is 00:22:51 Yeah, that's it. Easy, buddy. Throughout the week, was you big on film stuff? Was you more of like, I got to go through it in order for me to really, like, pick up on it? Both, both. And don't be, don't be frustrated if you ain't either way. Like, if you're a field guy, then go get your field reps. Then walk through it on the field.
Starting point is 00:23:13 Y'all got plenty of free time. Go out there. And if you need to walk your way through it, again, take your walk-through rep seriously. Like, you to got, if you to start. and you say, hey, the two, I need a couple extra reps. I might need to, like, DB, I might need to take both set of reps this time. Like, I need to see it. That happens sometimes, you know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:23:32 If you're a film guy, watch the take. You know what I mean? Understand it, do all that. But either way, whichever guy you are, I could do it both ways. Just master that. Don't feel like, hey, man, I'm watching 10, 15 hours of film and it's not sticking. Like, it doesn't work for everybody. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:23:50 That's okay Some guys are straight field guys Like they can watch install all day And not get a play They can go on the field And walk through it two times And they got it Yeah, yeah
Starting point is 00:24:00 You know So don't feel like you gotta be A big time field guy For me that worked out For some guys it doesn't Uh huh Uh huh I get you to the same
Starting point is 00:24:08 I get what you sound Mm-hmm So who's been the toughest receiver So far you've dealt with The toughest receiver Uh I'd probably say on our flag, I get a good bump every week just because, like, you know, talk it.
Starting point is 00:24:29 Talk your stuff there. But it's, I'd probably say, probably my first game with Cooper Cup, just because, like, the amount of position they was putting in, like, you know, I had missed the preseason for injury. So this was really, like, my first time in real, like, game matching. And then, like, sometimes I would be calling man. It was different because, like, boom, you line up in a slot. Okay, like, that's regular. But now as you start going at the zoo alarm
Starting point is 00:24:59 and that running back and all the other time and stuff. Like, now that's kind of changed the way I got to play my technique. Like, I can't play peer step or I can't play the scoge. Now I got to figure out like, now I got to try to play for Mark with you coming out of the backfield. Now I got to hold the angle, the out, the out, the fade route. So it really finally that and just like how savvy he was, trying to run his routes and things like that. So I feel like that was a good, a good first game.
Starting point is 00:25:23 Yeah, that's tough first game. He was vetting you up. He's hitting you all the vet stuff. You were? All the shit that you used to see on you until he had you were the same shit. You're like, it looked different in person. This shit comes at a different speed now.
Starting point is 00:25:40 No question. I feel like Buku was, he gave me some good routes too, though. Like, we gave me like some good releases and things like that. So I feel like those two was like a, all right, let's do it. It's going to be one of these. Like, come on. Yeah, it's, it, you're going to, you're going to go against everybody at some point or another, some dudes you're going to think, man, I heard this dude was nice and you ain't going feel like he as nice as you didn't heard. And then some dudes you're going to be like,
Starting point is 00:26:09 you know the mind of the DB. A lot of the times when you get beat, you don't even feel like this the receiver. Like, you feel like, man, I should have fixed this on my technique and this is an easy place. So that's why I feel like that, that question is really, it's really hard to ask because a lot of times you feel like, It's on you. Like, they ain't really do nothing crazy. Like, you just did this or this wrong. And I already being, like, let them do it again.
Starting point is 00:26:30 Watch what you're happening. Right, right. My biggest advice to you would be trust your eyes. Trust don't overthink. Don't put thoughts in your head and routes in your head that aren't there. It's hard enough to play DB with the stuff you got in front of you. See your indicators. Trust your eyes.
Starting point is 00:26:49 Trust your preparation. Play fast. Like, you're going to have a hard. time getting books if you you're trying to guess all nine routes they could be running like they're not running those routes all right if two going in if two running a slant and one running a slant how am i going playing yeah like that's when you start getting picks it's like understanding what's about to come what coverage we in and where the ball should go like hey they're giving us curl flat all right we in cover three so the i'm the buzzer i got to go with the flat i could hold off a little bit in the
Starting point is 00:27:21 curl window, but then I can go to the flat. That'll force the ball to the flat. The corner should be driving the dig. I mean, the curl, there's a sit right over the ball that should pull the other hook so the ball should go to the girl. So now it's like, I'm going to go to the flat a little bit. And when I see quarterback set up, do I try to pick the curl? Or do I let tell the quarter, hey, alert, alert the curl, alert the curl.
Starting point is 00:27:42 So he can drive it. That's when you're really starting to play. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's coming. Or hang on that type of. That time of communication that back in this coming.
Starting point is 00:27:54 Because even off that last game, I feel like last game was one of the most games of the woods is out to communicate, like, oh, people I want to alert the stickers or alert the Darius specials. They didn't need it. Two players in the road. Come on, let's find, make them play for us.
Starting point is 00:28:07 I feel like, I mean, pay for us. I feel like last day, like we was really on the communication. Like you could tell through the Tuesday, the Wednesday practice, the walkthroughs and things like that. Like, everybody's all right bet. Like, let's own in. Let's own the indicators. If you see something, just say something.
Starting point is 00:28:20 If you, at the corner from the right side, I see somebody to the corner on the left side. I see someone. So, like, everybody was really just in tune in the already bad. Like, let's figure how we can go out here on Sunday. Really, like, let's not just go out there and play this, just go out there and dominate our assignment. Yes. Yes, y'all getting there.
Starting point is 00:28:34 It's clicking. I love to hear that. I love to hear that. Well, this, this, you got Monday night football coming up. This is your first one. You feeling good? Yeah. Yeah, I'm feeling good.
Starting point is 00:28:44 You know, I'm ready. I'm ready. I'm ready. I'm prepared. I'm ready to see what Monday night has to come for. Yeah. I can't wait. Good opportunity.
Starting point is 00:28:53 It's going to be a great opportunity. Just go out there and, again, take walk-through series, keep that communication, keep building that trust in one another. It's going to all work out. No, for sure. I appreciate you. I appreciate you. Yes, sir.
Starting point is 00:29:06 Appreciate you. All love. I know it's your off day, so I don't want to take too much more of your time. We can go on for a long time. I need a jersey, though. I need a jersey in the wall. I need it. It's a buddy.
Starting point is 00:29:17 Okay. Okay. Let me get a Jay Bird on, which one you want. Come on. I know you like the old Jay. I know Jayberg is getting here in the next two to three days. No question, no question. That's what I'm saying.
Starting point is 00:29:28 Which one you want, though? Yeah, you want the Niners one or the Zilaw? You went to San Francisco? Come on. Come on. Okay, okay. I need the Niners one. I'll have Jayberg send me one off and get it back to you.
Starting point is 00:29:41 I appreciate that, but that's real. It's real. Yes, sir. All love. No, for sure. That's love for sure. Oh, oh, speaking of that, I got to get, You want a jersey.
Starting point is 00:29:52 I got to get some of your clothes there. You got to send me some of your clothing brand. You know what I'm? I got a clothing, man. I got a couple pieces. I can get you right. You know, I be saying you'd be throwing on the fence on the Sunday night. So I got to throw you a little.
Starting point is 00:30:05 Right. Get your boy right. People look like how you wanted to look. Because, you know, you normally go button down. It ain't no buttering down. It's really like a little street wearing shirt. Maybe you can get wearing a shirt. Well, look, look.
Starting point is 00:30:17 I can wear it when I'm on the street there. Yeah, yeah. You can look. You can wear it when you're doing something. like what's doing it right now like you can wear it when you're on the pie kicking it right right right yeah give me some of that lazy ways now i got you i got a couple of boxes in the back that i got to ship off anyway okay okay give me right well i appreciate you brother and you enjoy your off day and we'll have you on later on when you're headed to the playoffs and you ball and you get your second and third
Starting point is 00:30:43 pick come on come on maybe hey over the conversation next time we talk about the conversation the stats sheet look a whole lot of different. There's a whole lot of more blessings on it. I know it will be. It will be for sure. No, for sure. I appreciate you for everything, man. I appreciate you, man. Anytime. Anytime. I look forward to the next time. Yeah, appreciate you.
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