It's hard to shop for a guy who has everything.
As a young player here in New England, there's a lot of ups and downs.
Special teams is one-third of the game.
You don't grow up saying you wanna play in the CFL.
There's nothing like a nice May day in Foxborough.
I put at the top of my paper every day, 'Never comfortable.' It's just how I feel always.
I always preach you have to have a short memory, whether it is good or bad.
I started to get addicted to the Jerry Rice mentality. I can get up before anyone else does. I can outwork anyone.
I've always felt like if I had a bad practice, I could potentially get cut the next day.
Any time you have one-on-one time with any quarterback, it's very valuable.
I don't say I'm necessarily a professional football player. I'm a competitor. That's what was instilled in me as a young boy.
I don't even enjoy football, at least professional football, anymore because I'm breaking the game down constantly. You're sitting there watching the plays, and you're talking mental reps on what would I have done here against this coverage or this leverage, this, that. It is what it is.
It's cool to get to play with guys that you have friendships with.
It's always a great thing getting to play in the last game of the year.
I'm from the Bay Area.
When you become a pa, you have different priorities now, and you're not living for yourself; you're living for someone else now.
So I've been fortunate to have a bunch of teammates - pretty much all the teammates I've had have been pretty good guys.
You've got these young kids out here that have to learn, but you learn from the guys above you. I learned from the Kevin Faulks.
Anytime you get to go out and see the fellas and play with them and talk with them and be in the huddle and look at guys and participate in drills - I mean, that's what you play the game for, ultimately.
I think any time you can go out and put pads on and practice before the season, I think it's a good sign. It's a good sign.
