I think that's focus of ours is if we do get out to me is keeping that did you did you see the clip? You had a blog where you ended up on somebody's back. Yeah, I think I think everybody saw the clip. I definitely did whatever. I came around to sip and I thought I needed to hit Trent's guy. Last second he tugged him out of the way and I just unfortunately I got caught his shoulder him. What do you say that? Uh? He didn't say anything
in the moment. It was after the game. Uh, he was pretty hard on me, said we weren't cool anymore. But we plugged, We plugged it out, and uh, we still have each other. The biggest guy you've ever knocked over? I think. So. Yeah, what sleep's been this year, It's been great, man, It's been true. Home field advantage has been loud. Um, It's energized us on offense. It's made it hard to communicate for other offenses. Uh. And I think this last week was, um, the loudest has been
all season. And it's a testament to the fans because I know it wasn't great weather. I'm sure, um not everybody want to be sitting out in the rain, but they definitely brought the heat. So Sunday was that Saturday was that environment. What do you expect the Sunday with no rain and the Cowboy? Yeah, I think I think it's going to be even louder. How much is the history of this rivalry a point about psist for you guys are just like an extra layer of something you're
thinking about. I was just talking about this not honestly. I mean, maybe it's part of it, but like none of us are around for that. So the rivalry is really what we've done recently, and you know, we played him last year in the playoffs, So UM, I think that is more of our fuel as opposed to the previous decades. How much do you guys talk about yards after the catch? I mean, that's a big part of your offense a ton. We talked about it the time.
We talked about it every single day, probably every offensive meeting. UM, that's really kind of our identity is yards after catching. UM taking pride in turning those what may look like a four yard game into a nine yard game or that's six yeard game in eleven yard game. You know, we don't want to be in second and one. We want to be in first and ten. And that's something that we just really stressed. Why why do you think you guys are so good at it? The obvious speed
and elusiveness and all that. I mean, what about this team? I mean we talked about, um were talking about drop steps all the time, catching the ball, getting in your shadow, turning up field. Um, we talked about finding too split into never taking the defender head on. You're trying to find edges on people. UM. So that's that's really that's ingrained in us from day one, and I think that's just it becomes natural after what if that was your identity?
Then getting McCaffrey enhanced that, I mean exactly. I mean you take a guy who I think already led the league and miss tackles and yards after contact, and you throw them into this environment and he's just gonna thrives down feel feeding to back you guys say again, the blocking down fields, It's it's incredible because, um, you know when you when the play is extended, when you when guys are making people miss, when they're breaking tackles, and
you have blockers that are extending the play. Um, if you can get past that first guy. Usually there's just one guy left. Well, if he's blocked, that's just gonna get to your speaking of the block, you know you as a whole, it makes himself a good block or not the biggest guy in the world. It seems pretty physical out there and clear some molds. Really it's it's his attitude and his commitment to it. He enjoys doing
it like he loves being physical. Um, he's just such a complete guy and you know he uh, I feel like he takes just as much pride and the route stid he runs that are incredibly crisp as he does. Um, you know, blocking a big defensive ends and linebackers at times, do you feel like receivers when they come in here a little bit surprised by how harshly I guess Kyle challenges Definitely, I definitely, because I don't think anybody is challenged that way is or receive anywhere else, especially not
in college. So I think it's a little bit of a surprise early on, but I think they all buy into it and they see what a difference that can make for the team, and um, generally speaking, the guys that make it here are they they end up being some of our best blockers. And I think you've seen that with Debo, with Jawan, with Brandon Um, all those
guys are not scared to mix it up. In the very ring game, when you said that, Kyle, go after some deep one team meetings or whatever, what's one of the funniest encounters you've had, or at least the most recently. You couldn't you putting me on the spot. I don't think about see on it that that mindset that you're talking about. It doesn't just apply to other receivers that plays offense for line or two and that's something they're
coached to do, but not every team does. What is it about this kind of culture here that makes guys willing to do that little extra I think it's because we emphasize and we celebrate it. Um. When Jake Brendall gets down the field on a reverse and makes a block thirty yards down field, like that doesn't just go unnoticed. We don't just like pass that by like we're loving him about that. We're heaping him with praise, like because
that's what we're looking for. And uh so, I think that just encourages people to do it than Yeah,