Reese. What's it like for you
going into this season? I mean, we know last year, you had the
snap count and everything like that. I mean, huge, huge things
are expected from you this season. What's it like for you going in
fully healthy? Knowing, you can do everything and, you know,
nothing could stop you. Yeah, you know, obviously, the team we
had big expectations for our souls and always have a big expectation
for myself. But for me personally, just like I said, I
want to be just be out there and be healthy
again and I know that if I can be healthy and you know
play ba3 down back then and everything on. One, I'm
gonna be able to do this season. So, you know, we're worrying about
the team goes first and then they have individual stuff will
come with that. How do you feel about the
potential as offense? Priest? Now you've seen all training
camp, you saw three joint practices, you guys have kind of got some
time to work together. Yes, it's been cool to see it.
See how we've grown, and how we've gotten better with
communication and anticipation and just you know, knowing where
each other are going to be. And being like I said, on our
attention to detail, so we can get from point A to point
B, in play as fast as possible. You know, we've got some some
really good big boys up front, very good, guys on the
perimeter. And then you got me Braylon Isaiah, is he in the
backfield? Holding it down. So it's been cool to see how we've
all challenge each other, but how we've all gotten better as a
collective? Breeze. When you look at at what
you went through, after during the first season
and during that offseason, when you look at back at that,
now are you surprised at all by what you've
been able to do since then and and how you're viewed? As one of
the elite running backs already in the league? Yeah, I look back at it now and
just feel like there's nothing I can't do, you know, I had a lot of long days, a lot
of long nights, a lot of wondering, if Was gonna
be the same again and just little stuff like that and
God willing, you know, I was able to, you know, work hard enough and it just took some time and you know I feel like I'm better
than ever right now and really to me I haven't
really done anything in this league yet. So you know the hype
and all that stuff is there. But for me is just having
to stand up for myself to, you know, every time I step out on the field, I want to
be the best player out there. Want every team to know who
number 20 is, so just for me like every week, I got to
go out there with something to prove with a chip on my
shoulder. Please, how do you view this
opportunity going up against the 49ers on a national stage?
You know, a team that was in the Super Bowl last year, for you guys, to kind of see
where you're at, as an offense. Yeah, it's going to be a huge challenge, but it's also
going to be very fun, you know, just to start off the season with a bang
with the big game, you know, everybody's going to
be watching, everybody's going to be tuned in. So, you know,
Big Time Players make big time plays and Big Time game. So, you
know, just going to be a great challenge for us to see
who's really going. Look to the play when when they when it's time. So I'm
excited. Reese, what's the communication
been like with party lately? You know, me and Brock is
obviously is game week, so we're not really focused on
like, communicating with each other. But, you know, me and him are always
been, like, uber competitive with each other. So it's going
to be fun out there, for sure. Grace for you, obviously, your
cousin played for them. Were you a fan of the
Niners or actually growing up? I was more
of a college guys. So I like Nebraska Ohio State. Obviously,
I was State and so I wasn't I didn't really have
a quality my more so just like
Players growing up, what, what what have your conversations
been like, with him leading up to this game? He's not, he's actually just
like really respectful of just like my time and everything. So
who always takes me like good luck or a joke or something like
that. But we won't go into too much debt
because you know I have a lot of stuff to do out the lock in
for the game and everything. So we'll definitely takes a little bit like joke
around about and everything but for the most part, you know, my
family is real respectful of my time and knowing that I had to
lock in and get in the right mindset for a football game.
What do you think teams missed on purpose? Eddie, you know that that made him go.
So late in the draft, I'm just I said just like an
ultimate leader, you know, a guy that always does things
the right way and, you know,
just a great leader of people. Just
by the way, he does things, by the way, he lives his everyday
life, so just being around him for two years, two and a
half years, it made me a better person. Like I said, just seeing
how he lives his life, seeing how his faith is. And
like I said, how he's the same guy every day, just it rubs off
on you and makes you want to be a better person, a better
player. Obviously, he's a husband now,
so it's just makes you want to To be a better and all those
aspects when she has talked about, like, you're
helping him get ready for, McCaffrey I doing some stuff after
practice stuff like that during Camp. What was that like, what's
you know, what's that look like? Yeah, it's been fun to just be
matching up with Quincy and some of our nickels and
safeties, just running routes and getting work with them
because it's getting me better, but it's also getting them
better. So every play that, you know, I have a I
have a option router, I'm not lined up in a slot. Is the most of the time.
Quincy's Garden me. So you know, we're matching up and
we're, you know, we're talking smack to each other every time
one of us win, so it's definitely preparing. I say, he said the prepared him
from a caffeine is preparing me for the great defense. In the
great linebacking Corps. They have over there. So definitely
put us both in our a game is and it's been cool to see us have our days of when, we're
looking one in matchups and learning from our losses McCaffrey someone you studied
recently. Yeah, I've always watched him
since I was in Middle School. You know, everybody knows about
the the game he had versus Iowa and forget what ballgame it was, but
you know, just him taking a option route to the crib.
First play him doing the return game just
little stuff like that. But for me more so watching him, I like
to watch him just to see how he has no wasted movement. And when
he's running the ball, or when he's running his routes reading between us beings, own
it, man. You know, he always makes the right reading, seems
like he pretty much does everything, right? So just
seeing how he plays with minimal mistakes and great
attention to detail. And like I said, He has no wasted
movement. It's always been cool for me to have to sit there and watch that
because it makes me want to implement that part into my game
and just have a minimal mistakes and
no wasted movement. So I could get from point A to
point B, as fast as possible.