Chez Mellusi

Work for yourself work for yourself you know what do you make of that and how do you you know stay sharp and continue to try to prepare while you're not getting the snaps yeah just mental reps and stuff like that you know coaches trying to take care of me a little bit just working back through some stuff and yeah just the biggest thing for me is just mental reps you know I've play a lot of football and you know just staying you know activated stay making sure my mind's still sharp stuff like that your career you sort of kind of appreciate uh coach you know kind of pulling back a little bit and saying hey I know what you got yeah most definitely I mean you know it's just like kind of you know them kind of understanding you know where I'm at physically and stuff like that but most definitely I do appr you mention you mentioned in the spring maybe you're like 85% back or are you 100% or like is it something that you just got D up early or yeah yeah I'm I'm I'm 100% you know I just working through just some like cramping and stuff like that I don't want to like for in and make anything like last 30 season so we're trying to be smart and stuff like that but I'm feeling good feeling really good is it frustrating at all Russia Is it frustrating yeah I mean obviously obviously I want to be out there in the dog days at camp but you know it's it's not it's not even just that you know coaches are trying to be smart on me and like you know take it back on me cuz like if it was up to me I'd obviously be out there and like at this point in my career it's not it's not anything that we need to force so this has been our first opportunity to see Daren and what are your impressions of them and what each of those guys they're going to be really really good you know they're obviously super talented but our Playbook is tough so you know they got to get in get their noses in there and just start learning but they're going to be super good they're super talented they're young but I'm super excited to lead them and you know get them going different uh I mean darion's Super fluid you know he can do a bunch he can almost play receiver almost you know what I mean but obviously he's a back but you know he's super fluid super smooth and dyl man he's super decisive one cut Runner he's explosive so I mean obviously they comp each other compliment each other really well but I think they're both really really good backs you got to see about you know that's why he brought him here man I'm excited I'm glad he's here you know what I mean like obviously he brought him here for a reason he's producing super well how would you describe the dep and Running back competition competition in this running back room right now yeah I mean it's the competition is alive obviously you know I think the staff did a really good job of bringing people here to make the room super deep you know that's what around the country that's when rning rooms are they're deep and you know somebody goes down next person's up you know you have to have that can't really have that drop off you know you know I think in years past you know some guys kind of went down and you know we didn't really have the bodies to replace them so I think they did a super good job of you know making sure we had the bodies guys we've seen a lot of that two back set from a lot of different formations what do you guys like about having multiple running backs on the field and kind of challengeing defenses in that way yeah I mean it's super tough you know defenses have to make a choice you know you have different body types on the field you have different assignments you know you have different kind of guys with the guard you know you the guard a guy on the route you to make sure you to stop the run so you know Hoppers offers a bunch of different you know opportunities for us see the ball how have you seen Jackson take that next step I mean he he he can do it all you know Jackson can literally play I think like four different positions at once so I'm super excited BR he's came a long way since he first got here from just playing a playing fullback so I know he kind of plays running back H pack tight end he does it all so I'm super sux what's your goal for this camp like do do you hope you'll be we'll go two weeks out so get the Reps prepared and I and I will be uh my plan is just you know make stay sharp you know obviously we know I know how to run the football but my thing is making you know pass you know making sure the fundamentals are all sound and stuff like that but yeah I mean I'm definitely going beate