 What's up the mindset of a veteran is y'all get ready to open up the exhibition season this week against Detroit. Yeah, just get ready to get ready for the season and go out there and compete and make sure everything tuned up, fired up, ready to go by time week one come. So I'm excited to be able to just get back playing some football. Are you welcoming the fact that coach said, hey, everybody's healthy, we're going to play as opposed to the other players? Absolutely, absolutely. Without a doubt, I'm super excited about that. And, you know, I mean, that's what we signed up to do, play football, you know, and so that's that's a super exciting part. Get out there, get some competition in and see where you at and get yourself your body tuned, ready to go. Great evening. Looking back to last year, what was the biggest obstacle in terms of the group trying to get a consistent pass rush in that beginning? You know, I think maybe I mean, looking back on it, you know, there was some opportunities there where we had as a group, we let them off the hook a couple times, we had a couple free hitters on some blisters a couple times and then just getting everybody on the same page. But you know, the most important thing right now is looking forward to this whole new group of guys and making the best thing we got with this unit and we're excited for this year. We don't have an obvious 15-20 sack guy on the roster. What's the best way to try to go out and create pressure? You know, just with this group we got now, we're excited about, you know, what's to come in the past rush and for the whole defense and I think it's going to be some good football out there and, you know, we're tuning up, ready to go, motivated to get to the quarterback. Anybody stand out to you? I think everybody working well together as a group. I think the games will tell a lot for a lot of guys and you know, getting their first NFL action and some that they first action with the Falcons and, you know, undercoast peas and stuff like that. So, and every year is a new year. So I'm excited. What do you say to this group? You got a bunch of young dudes on this defense as you get ready for escape against Detroit. Say anything to these guys about the far you're trying to set? Yeah, without a doubt. Without a doubt. You definitely want to go out there and represent anytime you have the opportunity to play a game in the field because you're not only playing for the team you plan for or the team you're going against, you plan against for all 32 teams in the field, you know. There's only a couple, I mean, a limited amount of roster spots for everybody on the roster, but I mean, you go out there, you know, show you a baller. I mean, you make a name for yourself. You know, everybody individual contractor at this league. You know what I'm saying? So go out there. If you're worried about being tired, being this and that, you're minding the wrong place. You know, you got to worry about, you know, playing the game that you love, making big plays when they're there. And just go out there and have fun. You know, it could be, I remember my first preseason game and it is a little, you know, like a little, I don't want to say overwhelming, but it's kind of like, you know, your heartbeat. I mean, I'm on an NFL field playing, but once that go, you know, you play the game that you're always been playing and that's kind of my message to them. Just go out there and have fun. And, you know, I go out there to my part and, you know, set the example for them how to do it and maybe they follow up. Do you help the young guys out here during practice, between stamps and stuff? Yeah, without a doubt. I always have, I always will. And that's my role, you know, leading by example day in and day out and be able to help and serve whoever need help. Yeah, Cardi, hey, what did you learn from Coach Young when he was here in 17, 19 songs going to the hall over the weekend? Yeah. What did he bring to your game that you still have? Yeah, without a doubt. So, man, you know, first of all, man, congrats, man. I definitely was honored to be able to be coached by Coach Young and I'm super happy for him being in the Hall of Fame, well-deserved. And he was somebody that I'm super happy that I got to spend some time with, a lot of time with. And we grew a relationship, you know, that was much deeper than football. And so he definitely motivates me with him being obviously a Hall of Fame player but then just telling me some tips and things to think about as a player, you know, just being aggressive and just my routine throughout the week. And he was just helping me talk through how do I handle the week as well too because during the time where he was coaching me, I was in like a, you know, like third year, you know, third, fourth year. And it was important for me to, you know, take that next step. And he was somebody who helped me get there, you know. And so, you know, calling the OG 97, man. So, you know, he always mess with me. Oh, 9-7, 9-7. So he always told me he was proud of how I represent the number and stuff like that. So that made me feel good. And I'm super, super excited for him and his family and had a wonderful speech and just motivated. And, you know, just somebody who's just a good dude, man, dog, competitor, man, and just somebody who really showed, you know, no excuses, you know. Whatever life may throw at you, you got to keep going, you know, keep motivating, keep working, you know, through injuries and losses. I mean, he's just somebody that you can just learn from in so many different ways. I mean, however I need to go, you know, whatever coach see fit for me. And, you know, I'm going out there ready to prepare up to the point that they take me out. I'm preparing like it's a regular game, you know. At the end of the day, whenever you get to step on that field, it's a blessing. You know, and I'm going to treat it with that respect and go out there and have fun and do my thing. And I'm excited to be able to get going early this year and just get feeling back that live action. You know what I'm saying? So I'm super, super excited, man, and looking forward to having a really good preseason. Training can be fun. Like, it's hard for me to explain it to you because it's just like, what they doing here and bringing so many like new receivers in and on the competition level. It's making me better. And it's also helped me like get to know a lot of different guys that come from different situations and also get the chance to like pick their brains because some of these guys came from different teams, you know, been through what I've been through, you know. And it's really been helpful for me. So every day I just always be looking forward to come out here and improve. And that white receiver room is really different. We have a lot of unique hit weather to veterans, a lot of rookies, young guys. What have you learned from them so far? What's that experience been like? The experience has been fun. You know, it's been fun. You know, me and OZ, the ones that actually really just came back together. So me and his connection is like tight. But everybody else, man, I just felt like like the love they brought in. It was never no, like, it was never no negative energy coming from like none of them. Like, you go out there, do a wrap. I do a wrap. And we all happy for each other. And when we go out there and make a play, you know, especially that's what we was trying to build on OTAs too, just that love in the group. You know, wanting to support each other because that's how you're going to be good or do better, you know. And it's just been great, you know, so far and everything. Sometimes you just wish the room to stay like that. But you know, it's like, it's a job. You got to just keep competing each and every day. And another thing too for me, it's just me just taking the little things they be doing out there, putting it in my bag. How he ran his release that way. How he did his route that way. You know, it's just all the little things like I was saying before is just like, they helping me grow. Helping me grow into an NFL player I know I want to be. Anything in particular that stood out so far that you learned from getting so born? It's great to hear. You know, me and OZ always talk and one day he always just tell me, just keep going. Keep going. When you break free on some of your releases and start thinking about it as routes on air, don't think too much, you know. And then another thing too, because it was like at the time and at the time when we first started, I had to let one pass go. And he was just like, friend, you got to just relax and breathe, breathe. Like when you got your break free, just breathe. So since I've been doing that, I've been making some plays. It's like, that's also like, oh, is it? I thank you so much for telling me that because I'm always up tight getting on my break waiting for the ball to come. He said, just relax, breathe. Like you've been doing it for so long. So that's one thing I really like. That's a takeaway for me this past like OTA's and going into camp. Going off of kind of growing to this leader in this group. Because I mean, Elvren looks so different than he did at this time last year. You know, OZ just, you know, he know what his situation, you know, everything he come and ready to work. And just me being just looking at him and knowing that he coming here, taking his body, coming out here, running route, being overlaid. That's why I call him overlaid because everybody loves him, especially like the head coach. Everybody just love OZ because he know everybody's responsibility. You know, he know everything in the playbook. You can put him anywhere and he going to go out there and do it at a high level. So and I remember I came in, I was just telling my position coach, like, I want to be an OZ right now. I want to be an OZ, like wherever I need me to do it, wherever, like assignment, any job I want me to do, I want to do it for y'all at a high level. And just him just watching him grow from like last year to this year, it's like, oh, he know he trying to, he trying to go and get something. So I'm just like, oh, let me just fall behind, let him do what he do and just keep picking up as he going, you know. And that's a good thing for me right now. And we like, we close and I just, I'm happy to be able to play with him and looking forward to the season and go out there and do it with him. That's awesome. And it's really cool, I think, to this position group, y'all's position group is so, like what I was saying, different than what it looked like last year in terms of like even body styles. Y'all have a bunch of different guys that you can utilize in a bunch of different ways. How much are y'all talking about like, hey, you know, sometimes the situation is going to need these three guys versus these three guys. How much are y'all constantly talking about the versatility and feeling you have in for it? No, we just really control what we control. When our number called, let's go, you know. And if your number not called, we going to sit back and knock them out. Let's go, let's go out there and make a play. Let's do this right now. That's just how I am. And I want everybody around me to go out there and do good, you know. We done been do so much to get to this level so I like start powering and doing everything. Like, basically why stop powering and getting down on yourself now, you know. So whatever I can do to push somebody to keep going, especially in my receiver room, like go out there and make a play. Work on your craft today, you know. Because I just know that's what I'm doing. And I don't want to do that too, you know. But, you know, it's just over because sometimes I feel like sometimes people forget that, you know. They'll forget it, you know. You want to go out here, go through the motions, everything. So that's why I seem always happy with energy and everything. So like, I just know the room. Frank going, we all got go. And that's just how it is. That's how it been since, like since training camp started. Everybody just been going. You see me over here, trying to get us pumped, get us going, everybody dancing. And then that's when they locked in. I try to not say too much to them. You know, because I already know everybody goes through their own phases. But yeah, though. But if they want to be in the red zone, we need big buzz out there. Let's go and do it. We all about winning here. And that's what we want to do. So whatever coach or I need the personnel to be out there, let's do it. And we're going to support him from the sideline because I just know he going to give everybody a chance. Love it. So, you know, y'all, this, y'all's draft class, I think is a very interesting group. And something that I feel like I've noticed with y'all out here, just talking about your draft class in particular is that there is a specific junk that you as a player can make from year one to year two. It very much feels like this draft class is making that junk. You just heard him? That's what I'm about to say. I didn't even go a lot. He walked up. I was like, do y'all see D-hole? That's what I want. Like, you know, like, I see the way D-hole been boiling and every day I'll be like, yo, I need that one-on-one rap. Right. Like, I don't know where you went and where you've been working at, where you've been training, but you done gotten so much better than last year. And with me too, I'll be telling them like, especially when, you know, I know I'm being part of teams and everything, I'll be telling them like, I ain't scared no more. Like, I felt last year I was nervous, didn't know what to expect. You know, really, just really going through the motions, trying to figure out everything. Just know I was going to play or not. You know how it is being a rookie. Like, a lot of things be up and down. So when now my name was called, I was more nervous. And then being like, ah, let's go. So right now I feel like, ah, let's go. You know, like, let's go. Now I'm about to show y'all what's up now. You know, because I know what I'm about to go out there and expect now. You know, I done got my weight up. I done got my brain ready. You know, I'm knowing everything I got to do. Going up there, trying to do the extra work. You know, just basically what Coach Art always told me to do last year was be a better pro. And I always started acting around, especially with Brady, you know, when Casey came in and everything like, how y'all be pros? And then Marlowe, you know, he been in the lead for so long, you know, undrafted and then like speaking to him too. So like I was saying before, like I picked from everybody that come in here and I'm just like, I got to be a better pro. And that's been really good for me lately. Like, I'm like, oh, why he stay out there if he ain't hurt, he get something done. So I'm like, let me just go in here and get something done. Now I'm like, I got to go in here and try to do something. Like, you know what? Can you just stretch me, I guess? Like, I like to do something. They can always say, do something, go sit in the tub, go through this. You know, if you got extra times, go study the playbook, read, write them all over. You know, you get tired of it. That'd be the thing. Like you get tired of it, but you can't get tired of it. You know, because when you get in a situation where you got to think, you don't want to be, oh snap, like I had a brain for it and it's fourth quarter, you know, five seconds whenever you got to run around and get somebody else open. Like, you know, so that's been the main thing about me, just trying to be ready and be prepared because I just know my name is going to be cool, especially the Detroit game. Like I'm going to edge right now and I can't wait to go out there and play. Like, it's a different field. It's been a long time since I've been in the field at the receiver's spot too. So I'm going to get that chance to go out there and try to do something. I just want to score, so bad.