Press Pass: Jordan Matthews

know who we are. Let's just get back to work, we know the mission, and let's continue to you know, try and get to where we're trying to go. I think that's an extremely powerful statement. And then see how the guys will come out and responded. In practice, I think everybody's you know, been positive. There's no lack of morale.

And I think we've had two good really two really good practice actually going to this game side as you've been moving around, I know when we moved around a little bit in the Giants game, they said that he was going to move around, and he actually do it. And then whenever they do a little bit of corners over stuff, the teams are in sess where they have a tight end to one side and all receivers to

to one side two. If there's a receiver that he wants to get massed up on, he'll just switch over and then he'll get a guy whether he's at the number two or the number three spot, so he'll move around a little bit. For the most part, he does play that left corner, but you know, anything can happen. He's good from both sides, and he actually has a pretty good game inside too, so he's gotta be ready for him. It depends on how the game plan goes.

You know. Usually when I am in there and I'm on the outside, I play the X. So you know, there's a lot of times where I could be backside as far as the left. But if I do get massed up with him, I wouldn't be surprised if he comes inside. That would be a change up. We don't see him go inside that much. But like I said, you gotta be ready for whatever. Is it harder to bounce back from again? I mean, that was a game that everybody kind of in that stadium. The fault was over,

you know, over a couple of minutes left. Is it is it tougher to bounce back when you kind I feel like you're having tough in a grasp of that, it's kind of take it away. Well, I think for me, I think it's harder to bounce back when somebody comes

out and just completely dominates you. When you just get beat and you just take a hard loss, it's kind of like, all right, we just got our bus kick, and then you really got to start trying to get guys, you know, feeling good about themselves and get confidence back up. I don't think anybody lost confidence after that game. So that's one good thing. And then you know, like I said, if I can use another example, you know, we came out and we played the Steelers and we played a

really good game against them, gotta win. Well, the Steelers came back the next week play lights out versus Chiefs, and now our game against it was kind of putting a perspective. Now just its like, okay, that was just a bad game. This is who the Steelers are, This who Big Ben is. This is their team, and so our biggest thing is coming out here getting to win Sunday. So now that game can be putting a perspective. Okay,

that was a game that they let's slip away. But it all happens if you come out and you get to get the job done, you know, the next the next game. So that's what we're folksing on. Like I said, I haven't seen the lack of confidence from anybody. Nobody has their heads down. Guys are smiling, Guys are feeling good. So that's a good thing to see. Deserved different mentality to all that you have to have when you're playing against a guy who has a reputation talking along. No

not if you don't talk. To be honest, A lot of that stuff is like television. I'd be really honest with you. I played Richard Sherman and I don't think he told me said one word to me until after the game. I played Josh Norman two years and he said hi and by, and that's pretty I think that's the extent of it. So, you know, a lot of that stuff like gets kind of boosts up, especially when you have a guy that they do talk to her get into it with, and so that ends up being like, Okay,

this is the guy's attitude. You know. I watched the whole game with him playing Antonio Brown, and Antonio Brown's one of the best in the game, if not considered the best in the game and they I don't think I saw him talk to each other once, you know, so I think a lot of that stuff is really just television. Josh Norman's a competitor. That's one thing you gotta know about him. So he is gonna go out

there compete. He's gonna be physical. But you know, if he even says anything, I'm just being a little gig like I'm not yea noticeable last year when he played against dude, when I say he said nothing to me, Like I went out there and lined up to him, he did like two class I guess that means high in some language, now, is it? And then that and then we didn't say anything else to arrest the game, so that he was exciting to Bradford quarterback, M yeah,

we'll go up, put up. But even though raps on the quarterback here, the same receiver, same just running back, is that reflectable the offensive grow not at all? You know? I think, um, maybe he was upset. I think a lot of people were upset with the whole same thing a long time ago. But I think that's where that kind of came from. I don't think you had anything

to do with our offense as a whole. So even then I kind of was like, Okay, whatever, are you seeing signs that, like, you know, the big players are gonna, you know, happen more often, I guess with the wilde receivers like dude down the field, I mean just from like last week's game, or are you seeing more of that? Do you think? Yeah? I think the only time you gotta worry about big plays, you know, really not having the potential to happen, is when the quarterback gets a gunshot.

And I don't think that's ever going to happen with eleven back there, So we're not going to get in a situation where you know, he's afraid to give us opportunity to throw it up. Now, it's just on us to go out there and go do it. So, you know, I tell the receivers all the time. You know this is this is a results league and it's cutting dry. So you know, we can have long dissertations, we can hold hands, do kumbayas, but at the end of the day,

we got to go catch the ball. So it's not really much to talk about as far as you know, oh we gotta drop up this player get guys in these situations. Now, Carson's going to give guys opportunities. If you're on the back, if you're the backside post of a naked he will throw that thing. So you got to be ready for it. And so when you got a guy back there, he's willing to do that. Everybody just has to be on high learning ready to go make a play. Now, we just got to go do it.

It might make a guy gunshot would be an interception in the big spot. And he did have an interception while taking a shot there. But you're saying he comes back this week and has that same confidence that, how do you see that already? Yeah, of course he's still gonna definitely have that same confidence. I've seen it already in practice. He's still uh giving guys opportunities. Deep um, you know, and and Cars is not the type to get rattled. He doesn't let those outside things affect him.

He's going to pull a guy to the side maybe and say, hey, I might use you to go for that ball a little bit different, or hey what do I need to do to give you a better opportunity on that play. But he's not the type, like I said, to end up saying Okay, I'm going to start playing conservative or not giving guys opportunities and I and then that just puts like I said, then the responsibilities on us, you know, for not the puny but the balls in our court. Then so he's gonna go get it Saturday.

But we don't have to see that. If if I got guys that don't have a good attitude and don't have UM and don't have a good work ethic, then I can't do anything with you. You know what I'm saying. Attitude and effort, there's no price on that. So when I have when I see a group of guys that's willing to bring that, then I have a good feeling.

But when guys are just out there, you know, being selfish or not willing to actually take responsibility for the things that they've done, then I'm like, okay, we need to possibly reevaluate what we're doing in this room. But I mean, you know, for some of the stuff that you know was maybe said about Nelson, he took it like a champ. You know, he owned up to it, and he was like, hey, I'm just going out there

and practice better, play better. He didn't make any excuses He didn't talk about a guy possibly interfering him or holding him anything like that. And when you see that, I think you gotta honors and say, okay, you know, once the death settles, you'd much rather have a guy like that in the locker room than some guy who's gonna go out there and make excuses, you know, because then you got to keep compounding the excuses. I want guys that are going to own up to it and

then go out there and try and have results. And that's what Nelson has been doing and that's what the rest of us have been doing. Have you worked against C. J. Smoth much in practice? Yeah? You see him a great kid, a nice guy, extremely extremely quiet but um but just a great kid man. You know, he does talk, you know obviously you can tell you the high football IQ. He just really to dude to people. Um, the time I got spin around has been really good. Most of practice.

Uh has Bright Tricks done anything since she got here to kind of open any eyes promise really fast, he's like go, He's like extremely fast, Like I don't know if we'd give him the run route in the five yards like literally g louis just throwing him like run a post go Like I think you don't think he's

rand to hitch since he's gotten here. So um, you know, when ever he does get a chance to uh um player get some playing time, I think it would be really good as far as you know, getting down the field, helping them stretch out people. But um, but great, great guy too, funny guy. Um he's always excited to come in you know, literally and meetings when everybody's kind of tired, he's still just always smiling, always happy. So just good

attitude to have round locker room too. So how important is if to have a guy like that who can you know, take the top off the defense. And I mean it's huge, it's huge because when you know that your role, then it opens it opens up a lot of the playbook, you know, it opens up, you know, the opportunity to do a lot things out there on the offense because it takes that one time for a guy to say, Okay, they're not gonna throw a deep and then the level will you know, give you a

deep one. So, like I said, whether it's him, you know, whether it's Nelson, anybody, just having that opportunity to go out there and do those things you know, we just got to be able to capitalize on it and actually make it a big part of the passing game. And then lost both starting safeties in one of their corners to injury and yet still seem to be playing pretty well on the back end. Why is that? What do

you say? I think it's an attitude. I think when you have an attitude, then the guys who come in after that are always, you know, able just to pick up on it and then play well. So obviously you see that when Josh came, he brought an attitude to them, and so that's always going to help them. Obviously the team that he left a little bit of his attitude left two. It's just the reality of it, and people

don't understand that. There's a swagger that comes to that, and so I feel like, you know, he's a testament to how they've been able to do, even with guys out because even the young guys have a got to look too say Okay, I see how he's doing it. I see it. Swaggy plays with let me go out there and kind of imitate that too. So you know, it's they have played extremely well. So we definitely gotta be on our p's and ques. Yes, that's shorty h.