Full fall camp wrap up press conference with Mizzou quarterback Brady Cook

all right we C we'll open up your questions does it feel like a flip kind of switches a little bit when you start focusing in zero on yeah definitely um you know I think it's always a fun transition moving from Fall Camp obviously and and uh you know you get that off day and then you know now we're kind of into that game preparation you know everybody's kind of working out their game we schedules and we start to get some show team looks so it's exciting and you know we need to take day by day what do you feel like was your biggest area of growth you know throughout this game I think just explosive plays with my arm uh limiting bad decisions accuracy um and just finding ways to uh get our Playmakers the ball more um I think we did a pretty good job of that I did a pretty good job of that last year but um with the guys we have in that receiver room running back room tight end room you know just Distributing the ball to them as much as I can finding ways to you know let them make plays it's noty feel behind there yeah I think they're in a groove right now um I think they're meshing really well I can tell their chemistry is increasing and um like you said hard to replace Javon and X um but uh I think we did a really good job for you personally this point in time last year coming into the season a lot different than now in the offseason you had really becoming almost a little bit of a local celebrity would you say it all yeah yeah you know I think it's it's much different um you know obviously I think uh you know the fact of the matter is you know I have a lot more uh you know whether you want to call it respect or uh love towards my name you know whether it's missou fans or uh fans from St Louis and uh that's great you know it's great uh it's it's a part of it it's a part of coming off a great season and uh but just as quickly you know that could turn so I think it comes with a position good or bad and uh you know take it day by day and enjoy it when I can with Joshua man Dani blood what have you thought about the camps they've had their growth and then your connection with them at this point they've had great camps uh Josh has gone up and made a ton of plays um you know 50-50 balls for Josh right now feel like more like 820 um you know Daniel blood's route running has been amazing you know he's been on a lot of option routes for us um and you know whenever I get reps to uh you know rep with those guys which isn't all the time you know I really enjoy it because you know it's going to show up they're going to be out there on Saturday at some point you know this year and they're going to be having a chance to make plays so that chemistry is important you know to build that as much as I can when I get the opportunity uh but they've had great camps you know just from last year to this year you know Josh and Daniel have you know it's it's way different last season you would know better than anyone was such a Bel out in the back field how are you feeling right now about having so many different weapons from which to draw in the back Fielding this season yeah I think it's different you know Cody uh I mean Cody Took a ton of reps you know he would hardly come out of the game uh you know he's fullo every single play so you know I always knew Cody was there in the backfield so it it's a little different there's going to be uh obviously there's just there's more there's more faces in that room there's going to be more guys getting touches um but I mean that that room's explosive you know they had a great Camp um there's a lot of ball players so you know whoever's out there with me you know I know they're going to be prepared they're going to be ready they'll be ready to make plays you know you know it's hard to say you know I think I think we'll find out pretty quickly um I think by week four we'll kind of know exactly what kind of players they are but I know I know Nate's super fast you know he's speedy um Marcus has a a bigger body and um he's he's physical um but you know Marcus is also fast and he's Shifty and Nate has also played up to um you know pass blocking and making his body bigger than it looks so I mean those guys are talented man um but I'm sure we'll find out pretty quickly looking back before the cotton ball kind of the couple days beforeand what do you remember about that Wilderness Brotherhood message that emerged from the both the team Chapel session and then what coach was saying you guys just in the locker room before you took the people yeah you know that that was that was a special moment um obviously we got spoken to about it uh right before the game and I think it resonated with our team um just because our team's been in you know the Wilderness we've been through adversity uh we've been at the bottom together and then we kind of experienced some success together so um you know I think the message is the message it resonated with our team you know that uh the bonds we formed at the bottom the we formed when we went six and six six and seven um and and had some tough times you know that that paid off last year that paid off in the cotton bow and and when drink gave that speech and and mentioned that pregame and at halftime I mean it it fired us up how much different experi had a lot of success how that help you it's helped me a ton um you know having someone in that room that has like you said played at high levels played a lot of college football I mean it's just it's another voice it's another person to help you prepare uh push you watch their reps and practice see what they saw um it's really just another high level quarterback repping the same exact plays you're repping so you get to watch double now um and learn from them and uh you know as we move into the season I mean he's I mean he's he's going to be a huge help you know we just watched we just watched an intro to Murray State together and just went through all the clips um you know he gave me his thoughts you know I gave him my thoughts and you know just that collaboration is going to be huge this year to lot of the Brotherhood guys the mention that you know felt this St Louis toou kind of connection grow stronger and stronger over years you know recrui being more popular choice yeah 100% I think I mean it just kind of feels like uh just kind of feels like it is what it is like there's just always going to be St Louis guys now you know it feels like it's just an extension of our family extension of our home and um obviously coach drink has has recruited the crap out of St Louis um you know he's always taking trips to St Louis and and uh you know leaving our leaving our print there and um I think that's huge I mean obviously I'm from St Louis um there's a lot of guys on this team from St Louis and uh I think it builds the hype it builds the you know just the fan base from St Louis it gets everybody excited you know whenever we go home or you know I go home you know fans are just excited um because they have people to root for people they've seen before High School um and you know people are following stories so I think it's important I think it's important for missou just how do you embrace the responsibility of being the quarterback at a top 11 top 12 team coming into a season how much do you love kind of that responsibility I mean I love it you know that's that's why I play quarterback you know I I've played quarterback since I mean really since I started playing football maybe first grade and I've never changed positions you know just to uh obviously be the leader of the team you know you touch the ball every play you control the game you control the speed of the game um you control where the ball goes um and you know that that's kind of what I love about football that's what I love about quarterback so now being in this position you know all of that has just been Amplified you know my responsibility um has been Amplified and you know I love it I'm leaning into it um you know the leadership aspects been really cool I can see how you know the new class of freshmen and uh you know the younger sophomores you know they really look up to me um and you know I remember that same feeling so uh it's really cool I'm leaning into it obviously the responsibility um is a lot more but you know that that's why I do it that's why I play quarterback reflecting on Cody's tenure just a little bit more even though he's obviously moving forward how much of his imprint still resonates in these rooms which of the leadership traits do you still see connected with this program yeah I mean you know obviously Cody doesn't play on our team but uh he he still impacts us I mean you know whether we're watching cups of him running the same plays last year and learning from him you know whether we pull up videos of him at the 49ers camp um and just his leadership the you know what he brought to our team last year you know he instilled his value um the way he led the way he fought you know Cody wasn't Cody wasn't taking no for an answer I think we all learned that um he would play through anything for his team and he just he he would always find a way to win so you know I think that's carrying on I think a lot of guys including me learned from him last year um and we're just trying to keep that same energy going all right you thank you guys