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Speaker 3: It's supposed to be really, really, really cold in Kansas City.
Speaker 3: We talked about a little bit yesterday in regards to
Speaker 3: the weather and how it's just gonna get colder as
Speaker 3: the day goes on. It's the playoffs. A lot of
Speaker 3: these teams that you're going to be playing outdoor stadiums,
Speaker 3: it's going to be cold. So Demiko talked about the
Speaker 3: mindset going in to a cold weather atmosphere.
Speaker 4: The weather can be a challenge if you allow it
Speaker 4: to be a challenge. For me and for our guys.
Speaker 4: It's something we can't control. You don't control the weather.
Speaker 4: All right, wherever we have to play, we're ready to
Speaker 4: go play. We understand we'll be on the road, is
Speaker 4: gonna be cold. That's that's what we have to deal with.
Speaker 4: And it's not a it's not a challenge for us.
Speaker 4: It's just something the other team has to deal with
Speaker 4: as well. So we're ready to go there's no excuses
Speaker 4: about weather. We gotta go suit up and we gotta
Speaker 4: go play ball.
Speaker 5: Gotta go play ball. You can't control the weather man.
Speaker 5: The reality of it, though, is it's a funny thing.
Speaker 5: I don't know if you've ever felt this. It doesn't
Speaker 5: matter what level of sports you played. That feeling of
Speaker 5: you know, the game's coming, it's a big game. You
Speaker 5: know it's gonna be cold or rainy, all those things
Speaker 5: that go and like on a Monday, you're like, yeah,
Speaker 5: we got to plan a game, but there's a party
Speaker 5: that thinks it's never showing up right, Oh the weather,
Speaker 5: we will. And then when you wake up on game
Speaker 5: day and it's game day, yeah, and the world's watching
Speaker 5: when I say the world, the football world, and you're
Speaker 5: one of eight left, and it's getting more pressure and
Speaker 5: the more you and you know how this goes. Have
Speaker 5: you ever had that point when you're feeling pressure, not
Speaker 5: feeling right and or ill prepared for something, and then
Speaker 5: it's cold.
Speaker 2: You're colder, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's that feeling of you're even more like nerves
Speaker 5: bring out make you even feel colder. It's weird. I
Speaker 5: don't I don't even know how to explain. I don't
Speaker 5: know if I'm explaining it right, but that feeling of
Speaker 5: the playoffs Sean, you're starting in your first playoff game,
Speaker 5: Oh cool, I got five days, and you think it's
Speaker 5: never coming. And then you but you prepare, you think,
Speaker 5: oh it's okay. It's a long and you blink in
Speaker 5: his pregame warm up and you're like, I gotta beat Denvers. Yeah,
Speaker 5: or I got to beat whoever I'm playing right and
Speaker 5: with them, the Kansas City Chiefs and all the challenges
Speaker 5: are there, but I'm with Demiko Ryan's on one thing
Speaker 5: and it helped me in my career. Listen, and I
Speaker 5: don't mean this arrogant, but if I could have played
Speaker 5: in bad weather as a California guy, yeah, it's really weird.
Speaker 5: A lot of my best player play ever was in
Speaker 5: either rain, snow, cold, inclement, where I almost felt like
Speaker 5: it was my advantage of whether it's mental toughness or
Speaker 5: size too you could grip the ball, but whatever it was,
Speaker 5: I tried to spin it to my it's my advantage
Speaker 5: because that guy suffering, But I don't know, I'm not
Speaker 5: suffering over this.
Speaker 3: Do you think it was because you thought more about
Speaker 3: the the conditions rather than the game plan, or rather
Speaker 3: than I got to complete this pass. So I I'm
Speaker 3: trying to relate it to the best game I ever
Speaker 3: played in college. I was hungover as all get out. Well,
Speaker 3: it took away game. You'd have a built in excuse
Speaker 3: for your I wasn't thinking about I wasn't thinking about
Speaker 3: pitch sequencing. I wasn't thinking about is he going to
Speaker 3: try to pitch me backwards? It was literally I went
Speaker 3: back to the most simple thing, seaball hit ball, and
Speaker 3: I was like I went off on a weekend because
Speaker 3: I was completely hungover.
Speaker 5: I'm convinced that some of the best games I remember
Speaker 5: a high school game I played. I was sick, like
Speaker 5: I mean sick.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: It was a high school football game, and I was
Speaker 5: I had like a lower abdomen like strain, which was
Speaker 5: that's brutal painful at quarterbacks. Oh god, dude, I were
Speaker 5: playing against our arrival. I wouldn't have missed it for you.
Speaker 5: You to have to kill me before I miss that game. Yeah,
Speaker 5: Sampa squall Golden Eagles, And I take that back. It
Speaker 5: was a Sampa squad we got to It was Escandido
Speaker 5: High School same. There's three of us. They were our
Speaker 5: other rival, and we're at their facility, and I thinking
Speaker 5: being pregame, t how am I get through this? And
Speaker 5: then and then the abdomen You're like, I don't know
Speaker 5: how it's going to did. I could have closed my eyes,
Speaker 5: thrown yanked out of my eye and it would have
Speaker 5: gone right to the guy I was stilling it to.
Speaker 2: It's just you know why, It's that it's the building.
Speaker 5: You don't you take all the pressure off yourself because
Speaker 5: you almost build in the excuse. Well, if I don't play,
Speaker 5: not for out outward, if I don't play well today,
Speaker 5: I got a built in excuse.
Speaker 3: And what it does It actually frees up your mis
Speaker 3: It makes you freeze. It's like you play back in
Speaker 3: your backyard recess fuel.
Speaker 5: That's exactly right. So it also with the mental part. Listen,
Speaker 5: there are times when hey, we can't control the weather,
Speaker 5: can't let it bothers now in a driving rainstorm where
Speaker 5: it's a deluge of rain and the ball you literally
Speaker 5: you see him hold a towel or one of those
Speaker 5: type of rainstorms. Listen, it's hard to throw any It
Speaker 5: doesn't matter, It doesn't matter if you got King Kong
Speaker 5: hands right, the you can wear a size seventeen extra large,
Speaker 5: it's still miserable because the guy catching it it's tough
Speaker 5: on him too, and you can't see and people are slipping.
Speaker 5: Now in a snowstorm, that's just regular snow. And I've
Speaker 5: always if it's raining or inclement weather, offense always has
Speaker 5: an advantage. You know where you're going, you know where
Speaker 5: your cuts are. Defense is a major disadvantage. So but
Speaker 5: the cold and a little snow, Listen, you hope it
Speaker 5: snows because if it's too cold to snow, that's miserable.
Speaker 5: And then if it's not quite cold enough to snow
Speaker 5: and it's rain and that's miserable. You want that one
Speaker 5: where it's snow, hopefully not windy, because when's the worst
Speaker 5: of them all, because it affects you going into it
Speaker 5: and with it, and you want that. That's the feeling
Speaker 5: you want the snow. But for me, I never wore
Speaker 5: a glove on my throwing hand in any weather. I
Speaker 5: wore one on my other hand, just to you know,
Speaker 5: try and get some sense of warmth. And then you
Speaker 5: have handwarmers in that little pouch that we wear. But
Speaker 5: I never I always wanted to have my hands on
Speaker 5: the foot of the grip of it, right, but it
Speaker 5: was it was mental and it was tough.
Speaker 2: But I don't know how you get to it.
Speaker 5: But you've got to get You've got to convince yourself
Speaker 5: throughout the week because the game is coming. Saturday will
Speaker 5: be here, and it's coming here quicker than you think
Speaker 5: is you go through the same preparation. And the truth
Speaker 5: is you just can't overly grind yourself on it. It's
Speaker 5: gonna be cold, it's gonna come.
Speaker 2: You can't.
Speaker 5: It's not like you can start like when you hydrate,
Speaker 5: start drinking water and Tuesday from when you're going to
Speaker 5: play Denver and you're hydrated, or it's one hundred and
Speaker 5: ten degrees out, you're not going to stand outside with
Speaker 5: you with your hands on your knizz zuts, you know,
Speaker 5: at midnight at night for the next three nights, thinking
Speaker 5: you're gonna get used to it.
Speaker 2: You're not.
Speaker 5: It's the mental side. And once you get rolling, it's good.
Speaker 5: You play well, you'll get hot quickly, you're miserables, get
Speaker 5: your ass kicked. It'll feel a lot colder. So yeah,
Speaker 5: but to me, and I think to me, because right
Speaker 5: it is simply why was Far so good in inclement weather?
Speaker 5: His mental toughness with it. He used it to his advantage.
Speaker 5: A lot of them do. It's the one who comes
Speaker 5: into the game and it's like, yeah, you know, if
Speaker 5: you start convincing yourself.
Speaker 2: You're going to be miserable the whole time.
Speaker 5: Good lucky, fulfilling prophecy, and it could be missing and
Speaker 5: it's gonna be cold as balls. But you're either gonna
Speaker 5: come out of this game you want regrets or you
Speaker 5: mean you're gonna come out of this game saying, man.
Speaker 2: It was cold.
Speaker 5: We got our ass kicked and now we got to
Speaker 5: explain it. Or do you want to come out of
Speaker 5: this thing? I was freezing, but we want and they'll
Speaker 5: let them explain why the cold was bad? Right, So
Speaker 5: it is and you know it's like threshold of pain,
Speaker 5: same thing here. Yeah you either And like I said,
Speaker 5: it'll affect everybody if it's a delusion. You can't see
Speaker 5: the ball, you can't see receiver because rain and sideways
Speaker 5: and windy, nobody can operate. And you hand the ball
Speaker 5: off and hope you win the game, survive. But if
Speaker 5: it's cold, and I'm talking about fifteen degrees eight togree. Well,
Speaker 5: and if you can't handle it mentally, then you then
Speaker 5: you probably better have an off season where you change
Speaker 5: your shift to paradigm or find a way to deal
Speaker 5: with it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's just the way it works. Uh.
Speaker 3: Demico Ryans talked about the swarm mentality and what it
Speaker 3: does for his defense.
Speaker 2: Let's talk about it next