Press Pass: Jordan Matthews

both teams you know, are undefeated. So that raised a little bit, you know, of the hype when it comes to it. But I'll still say, like we always say, you gotta just go out there and do your job. You start worrying about that stuff, you get out of whack. You'll stop focusing on details, and then you know, then the game ends up getting away from you. So we just want to go out there, do what we gotta do, and come out with a win. I saw something from Trader.

I've always seen He's been so consistent and just who he used as a football player. You know, you could put Trey you know, anywhere and he could go out there and play. I mean quarterback. He could do it running back obviously, tight end you can split him out lemd Ross and Rod receiver. He's amazing on special teams to doing one of our key special teams players since

he's gotten here. And then I was just talking to him today about when he played back in high school, when they used to play against Aaron Murray back he was a plant and they were having trouble with orson Charles. Yall remember him played to Georgia and his coach told him to gold cover orson Charles. So he can even play corner. I guess. So. The dudes versatile, and it's not surprised me when he goes out there and plays

well because all of camp he was doing it. I mean every single day he was in there making plays. And for me, it gets me extremely excited. Where about he gets Zack back because we haven't been able to have that set that everybody's been talking about where you have Brent Selik, zach Ertz, and Trey Burton all in that same that's a dangerous combination. I feel like we

can really take advantage of. So, like I said, I've been really this for some every being excited that a bye week was this early, so we can go ahead and get Zach back, and I think with those three guys we can really make make some hands turn. Nelson was saying that he thinks Carson's demeanor, his work ethic is contagious as a young receiver in yourself that has a strong work ethic, do you believe it has been contagious for the other players on offense so far? Yeah, definitely.

I think he definitely brings an exuberance to the huddle and it's something um that he that he has naturally. Like I said, you know, I joke with him all time. He says like, I don't know if I take that as a compliment, But I didn't expect him to have as much swagger as he does, you know what I'm saying, Like he wears a arm sleeping, Like where'd you find that? Like you don't do that? And so he but he's got swagger to him. Man, He's got to bounce to

him when he comes to the huddle. Is not just okay, let's let's clock it in. Every time we come into that huddle for whatever drill, it is like, all right, guys' goals, we gotta have a go in today or we gotta have a good pier right now, and so he's always doing that. He has a he has a swagger to him, He has a has a natural feel for the game. And then that does rub off on other guys because if he's doing it, you don't want to be the

guy who who who's lagging behind. You also want to bring that same any type of energy you know, to the team, to the huddle. And because you know he's always gonna bring it to swaggering, because perhaps that explains why he's willing to and so hard a little to take shots that you know, if Frank breg says are unnecessary, it's a guy that's been around for a little bit. To talk to him about that, you say, well, people we need you want to deal. I think I talked

about that a little bit the other day. I don't think that per se he wants to take some of those shots all the time. If you really like, go back and study some films. Some of those shots came on the sideline, and the sideline is a crazy place because you sometimes don't expect somebody to hit, you expect people to pull up, you know. So it's kind of one of those things where you just gotta kind of

just hurry, ip me get out. But Carson's a smart guy, you know, because he'll sit back there in that pocket and take a shot and convert a four down and won't nobody say anything. You know, that's just the toughness he has. So you'd rather have that and then work on, Okay, the little things that hey, when near the sideline, just go ahead and sprint out. Don't think that they might slow down or you know what, don't worry about the extra yard. Go ahead and get down a little bit quicker.

We'll be able to get it on third down or something like that. But the tenacity a plays with you don't want to take that away from I mean, he will stay in that pocket and deliver strikes. I don't think the play counted, but he threw a strike to sell it on a deep over route that was dirty. You know he's still in the pocket and you know, had to take a hit. But that's what you want

to see and that gets everybody else going. You think the officive line doesn't like that when they know their quarterback is wanting to sit in there and do that and make those throws. Like I said, just because everybody going the position. What do you appreciate about Antonio brown Man? You know, I study a lot of Antonio's OTA's and mini camping. You know, the thing about him that's just it.

It's the consistency with his tenasty like a lot of guys that they're really skilled, but it's the drive he plays with. Like I mean, he plays angry some games, it's never like he's up and down. When you play with that same level of drive, I mean, you're never gonna see him come out and just have a bad game. You know, if the targets on there, then maybe they just aren't there. But literally, the games where Ben was out last year, those were really the only down games

that he had. And if you go back and watch those films, he was still getting open. He was still beating man courage the bards won't get into him. Then when being came back, you know, like you said, business was booming again. So it's just you appreciate what he does out there on the film, on the field, I think he's obviously one of the best in the game. So but I know our defense looking forward to that challenge. We got great guys out there, and I know they're

excited to go out there and go against him. How important is your christians face and reinforcing that with your teammates, the bole stuffy each support. Okay, that's I think it's extremely important and to be honest, for me, it's the most important thing. Like I said, Uh, it was funny. I was I speak at the Rookie Symposium a couple like two years ago, and so I sat there and asked the guy that said, does anybody here no Chuck No? And they're all like millennial, So none of knew Chuck

No was, which was embarrassing. And Chuck Noles has five super Bowls. Now obviously that's the highest pinnacle in sports as the Super Bowl, but none of those guys knew who he was. Okay, the reason why I knew Chuck No was because he was a mentor to one of the guys who's my heroes, Tony Dungee. And the reason why Chuck No was the hero Tony Dungie was because of his faith and because the values that he instilled in him. So without Chuck No's beliefs in his faith,

I wouldn't even know about him. But that's that's the impact that he's had on me, even in death. So I say that because in the eternal ends, like past life, how big is football? You know what I'm saying. But when you understand and you have that faith, it makes it so much easier. You can appreciate them more. The bad days they're never really that bad, you know. I would say for me personally, you know, coming and playing

in Philadelphia was twenty times different from Vanderbilt. I mean, you could just go play and people always were like, oh, it's all good. But in Philadelphia the expectation roles and it was something that I had to get used to. And the thing for me was that helped me stay steady. Whether it was a good game or bad game or whatever. Was always my faith, and it was always the other guys on the team, us coming together and then always being able to relate on those subjects. And it just

makes football that much easier. It takes a load off, It takes the pressure off because you understand that, hey, you know, they say you retired twice when you stopped playing the game, when they stopped talking about you, So at some point's going to end, so you might as

well have your faith in something real. It's gonna last forever the something deal with the drop casts teams, because I guess like the best way to do it just like we walk to the next play, right, Yeah, I would definitely say, Um, you know, when it comes to you know, something like that, obviously you want to move on. You don't want to sit there and do a lot it because you know, being like having a negative attitude about it. It It is only gonna you know, go over

to the next play. Um. It's something that we definitely know we need to clean up. Me in particular, I will say though, the biggest difference obviously from this year to last year is the only stat that matters is the win column. You know, at this time we're only two. Last year we're two and oh. So like if we're going to talk about anything, let's continue to talk about winning. When you lose games and then there's reasons that you're losing, then it's like, oh, okay, well what do we need

to fix. Obviously when you're winning, you have those same things that you want to get better at, but it's not anything that you want to just dwell on and just be this dead horse. Because at the end of the day, the best thing to happen. That you can do when it comes to something like that is always and still confidence, always speak it. Always go out there and practice and know that, hey, I'm here for a reason.

I made those same plays. I think every single ball that I have mailed bringing I know I've caught before. It's not something that I can't do. And it's not like I'm about to you know, come next Sunday, be a totally different person. It's the same Jordan. I just got to go out there and be more consistent, be more detailed, and like I said, sometimes the best thing to happen is you do have your slip ups in games that you know you can win or that you're gonna win. So then you go back, go back to

the drawing board, get detailed. Because the big games are coming. You need to be ready for them. You know, just like Sunday, what do they do best? I think the thing that they do best they try and keep everything in front of them, you know, live zone. So they're gonna they're gonna force you to beat them with long drives. And you know NFL people love taking shots. You can

take shots that demoralize the defense. You know, I went through the first two games and went through explosive passes and it wasn't that many clips, you know, and that's like sixteen plus, you know. So teams aren't gashing them, you know, for long games, and that's exactly what the defense wants. So it's on us to be consistent and send us to be able to say, okay, let's go down. We get like five yard hitches, slants, you're getting tackled, don't worry about it. That's what we need. We just

gotta keep having drives like that. I think at first drive that Carson had, I guess I go is real telling. I think that's the kind of picture that you know, we wanted y'ard supposed to plays. But sometimes those might be the drives that we're gonna have to have when we go get points from from twelve catches in week one to week two to two against them last week? What did you see up against a j Green from

the steal? Oh? I would say this though, too. Um. The weather is still obviously a factor if you if you're the Bengals and you've got Giovanni Bernard and you got Jeremy Hill, you're gonna run the ball too. It's just just natural, So obviously the weather is going to have an effect. Um but at the same time too, it was just what I talked about. It's that zone, you know, when you go back and watch that game with that the Jets who they play the Bengals, well,

obviously they're extremely confident in Daryl Reevers. So what they're gonna do, They're gonna put in one on one coverage. Well, what's what do all coaches say their job is to do. Our job is to put you in one on one situations, and what's the player's job to do. It's to win. That's the name of the game in football. Mixed matches put you in one on one coverage and you got to beat the man. So that's was able to do. When teams goes on it's a little bit different now

it's all about spacing, timing. Everybody's got to be on the same you know, everybody's got to be on like the same picture. So how much harder is that too when you take the weather and you know into context too, So you know, obviously it was something that when I watched the film was kind of I lean more to watching the Redskins game when they play them as far as like looking at their defense and how they cover receivers, because like like do you have like a hundred