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Speaker 1 (00:04):
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
Daniel Jones. It's great to see him, man, good to
see you. I'm very excited to.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Talk to you because I think, like so many people,
I've followed you very closely for years, and I've seen
you in a lot of big spots.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
I feel like I don't know a lot about you.
Why do you think that is?
Speaker 4 (00:22):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (00:23):
Probably part of my personality. I feel like I've never
tried to try on social media whatever it is. I
don't I don't share too much. But yeah, I don't know.
I mean, I think try to play football and hang
out with my family and friends.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Pretty simple.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
So I'm down here, we're setting up all these licen
cameras and these chairs and everything.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
One of your teammates comes by. Great guy. I'm not
gonna say who he is. He shake hands and everything.
I say, I'm gonna talk to Daniel that.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Try to learn some stuff about him, and he laughs
and goes, ah, good luck with that.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Why would he say that? What's he talking about? Uh?
Speaker 4 (00:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
I'd like to know who it is.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
But you guys, I don't know, would remain nameless. Very
good guy, very good pro. Probably an denefensive side of
the ball.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, Like I said, I don't,
I don't do a ton.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
I mean I pretty much played football and uh and
hang out. But yeah, I really enjoyed being here and
being with these guys in the locker room. And we've
got a lot of good dudes and it's been fun
spending time with them.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
It's a lot of good football too. You say, like
to playball and hang out. The thing is, though, you
are an NFL star, and I have with me, I
have what I call the NFL Star Survival Kit. These
are the things you're allegedly supposed.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
To have if you're an NFL star. So I'm just
gonna read some off and just tell me if you
have them or not. Okay, Daniel Jones. Do you have
a personal stylist? I don't. Do you have a pop
star girlfriend?
Speaker 4 (01:49):
No?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
No, movie star girlfriend. Do you have national commercials for
chips and soda?
Speaker 4 (01:55):
No?
Speaker 3 (01:56):
No? All right, this is the last one. Is the
last one I got. This is the most important one.
Where can I subscribe to your podcast?
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Don't have a podcast? You don't have.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Apparently this is what I was told you're supposed to
have and you have none. Are there any of those
things that you want to have?
Speaker 5 (02:13):
I don't know about want to have, but in the
right situation. I mean, I think if there's an advertisement opportunity,
you know, take.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Advantage of it. But I don't.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
I mean, I think, yeah, just like I've always felt
like I'd rather keep it simple in a lot of
ways and play football.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Focus on what.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
I'd like to do, be a football player first. And
you know, I enjoy playing in the NFL. And there's
a lot that comes with the NFL that a lot
of opportunities and a lot of uh, you can meet
a lot of cool people and you have access to things.
But at the end of the day, I've always felt like,
you know, football is.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
What I enjoy most. Football is the most important part
of it.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
And you know, as true as I can stay to that,
I feel like the better, the better things are.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
You're all about ball and all those things and podcasts
and famous girlfriends and all that. You're not really about
those things. What are you about as a guy and
as an athlete?
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Like, what do you stand for? What do you w into.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
I mean, I feel like being a good teammate, working hard,
you know, showing up and being accountable to that. I think, yeah,
working hard, kind of keeping my head down and keeping
it keeping it simple for the most part, you know,
I think building relationships with teammates, building relationships in the
locker room, and and kind of being consistent with that.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
You know, I don't know. I mean maybe maybe they'd be.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
A better question for for someone else, but I try
to just keep it temple.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
When you go home and it's it's a bye week
or it's off season, how do you spend your free time.
It can't be just watching film and playing ball and
relating to your teams.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
What do you like to get into when you have
free time? For some Daniel time, play golf?
Speaker 4 (03:48):
I mean, I play some golf.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
I knew it.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
I still haven't become a good golfer yet, but I'm
working on that train. I mean, I think, yeah, go
to dinner and hang out with friends. I mean, pretty
pretty simple stuff, you know. Spent a lot of time
and New York where I've got three siblings who live now,
so hanging out with them and friends, whatever it may be.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
It's perfect and it works for you. I personally, as
a guy who's pretty down to earth. I love how
you arrive on Sundays to games in this era of
arrival fits and high fashion in the locker room.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
How much thought do you put into your game day drip?
Speaker 5 (04:29):
Not a ton, to be honest, pretty much what I
would wear to dinner or something like that.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
But what about your aura?
Speaker 2 (04:33):
That's important? You put thought that?
Speaker 5 (04:35):
No, No, I did catch a lot of flak. I
remember my early years in New York. I'd wear like
a button down and some khakis, which I thought was like,
you know, wear something kind of nice, but it doesn't
have to be crazy, and.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
I got I got dragged for that.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
So I was like, I'll, you know, just dress normally
how I would to dinner or something. But yeah, I
don't put a put a ton of time into it.
I think i'd look pretty pretty dumb if I tried
something else.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Do you like the outfits that you wear to show
up to the games? Do you like picked them out
the night before? Is it five minutes before you leave?
It's just spontaneous to put any thought into it, because
I think it's cool.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
Uh, well, we were stay in the hotel the night before,
so yeah, I'll just pick something out and before I
go to the hotel and where.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
But it's it's authentic and it's who you are, and
I think that inspires other people around you. The Colts
put out a social video, not some knucklehead online.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
The Colts put out a social video and it was
you miked up during the game, and.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
They said, he said what he said and it's literally
just clips if you say nothing.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
What did you think of that? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (05:39):
I was kind of like, come on, guys, every want
everyone already thinks something like, don't say anything. But it
was I mean, it was fine, man. There was a
there was a clip of me talking a little bit more.
But I've always been a little resistant of the miked
up thing, just because you know, it's like a game
and is the last thing you want to be thinking
about is having a microphone on you.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
But yeah, you gotta go along with it a little bit.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
I look at some of your peers in the AFC,
Josh Allen, Patrick, Aaron Rodgers, loud screamers, explicit f bombs
all over the place.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
That's how they lead.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
How do you be a field general out there with
ten other guys in the huddle with you when maybe
you're not necessarily wired for volume and screaming.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
How do you go about it?
Speaker 5 (06:21):
Well, I think there's a time to communicate, and however
the situation, you know, deems it necessary communicate how you
need to.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
But I don't know.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
I mean, I think, yeah, just naturally doing that and
a situation that, uh where guys would you know, they
expect a certain level of communication based on what you've
what you've done in the past, So to change that up,
I think, you.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Know, it can be can be a mistake.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
But you know, I've heard I think you heard heard
as far back as college or the draft. And there's
the personality, there's the expectation of what a quarterback needs
to sound like and do all the time. And you know,
you can learn and grow in ways. But at the
end of the day, I think a lot of it's about,
you know, being being authentic, and that's what guys respond to,
you know, is communication that they've grown to expect from you.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
So try not to change that up too.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Much as you get older.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
There's nothing cooler than someone who's just themselves. And if
you were to show up one day and start screaming
that's not you. It's what the kids called cringe, like
they could see right through that. You know who wants
you to talk more though, And I mean this the fans.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
The cults, fans.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
You haven't tweeted in a long time on Instagram, it's
just a couple of nice, wholesome team pictures. But meanwhile,
I mean this, Daniel, you are the number one story
in the NFL. I work in NFL media, the number
one story and the number one positive story right now.
Do you have any urge to stick a little victory lap,
beat your chest a little bit because you've earned it?
Speaker 2 (07:41):
I feel like not.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
I mean, I do appreciate the fans, appreciate the support
and the energy and being here in NDI has been
a blast, and you really feel the sense of just
the passion that they have for the team and them
supporting us.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
It does mean a ton and I've really really enjoyed,
enjoyed that.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
Maybe back to a little bit what we were saying earlier,
I just never felt like like it was necessarily my
job to share all the time, or to to talk
and to to do that. But but you know that
doesn't come from a place of you know, I do
have a lot of respect and appreciation for the fans
and understand that, you know, kind of in the day
and age we're in now, that there's an opportunity to
(08:21):
do that, and that's probably something I could do, you know,
a better job of, you know, honestly. But yeah, I
got a great appreciation and the fans here have been
a lot of fun.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
So you did give him a little peace though, because
you guys beat the Chargers. You do a postgame interview
with Evan Washington from CBS and he says, you know,
people on the outside were maybe surprised at how well
you guys are doing, and you just looked at him
and says, sounds like y'all didn't know much, and it.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Was like, yeah, talk here, Daniel Jones.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
Yeah, maybe a little bit, a little bit out of character,
but yeah, I mean I think there'll be a time
maybe too to reflect a little bit more on the season.
I think, not necessarily what we're when we're where we
are now, you know, and kind of how it's going.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
But you know, you hear it.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
I've heard it for a long time, you know, I
think in New York I've heard it, you know, personally,
I guess in New York and then getting here and
then the team. You know, we've we heard it all
off season about you know, kind of what people thought
about our team. So you know that being said, there's
a lot to do, there's a lot to prove still.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
And you know, it's a week to week league in
the NFL.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
You know, everyone knows that here, but we're confident and
excited about where we're going.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
A big piece of the reason why you're the best
story in the NFL this year is the origin story.
November twenty twenty four, a year ago, the New York Giants,
the team that drafted you with, the team that you
wanted the playoffs with, you asked for your release.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
Why, well, that was a little bit of a different situation.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
You know, obviously, great respect and appreciation for the Giants organization,
the Mari and Tish families, and the opportunity to play
for the Giants was incredible.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
I really really enjoyed that.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
I think at that point any of the season, they
had made a decision to, you know, for someone else
to play, and I had an injury piece of my
contract that didn't let me you know, I wasn't gonna
be able to practice I wasn't gona.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Be able to work out. I was kind of just
just there. And at that.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
Point it was, you know, if I can't do anything,
you know, maybe I'll go somewhere else and see if
I can learn something. And you know, I still, you know,
great appreciation and teammates, coaches, everybody there. That hurt, you know, leaving,
but I felt like it was the better situation for
me and for them at that point.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Even as someone who's really locked in emotionally and professionally.
Had to be an emotional thing. I was there that
night in Nashville. It was a special night. It's a
special draft pick. You gave everything you possibly could to
that organization. What did it feel like driving away from
the facility for the last time.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Yeah, that was tough. I'm not clae for sure.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
I don't think you know, I'm not a very emotional person,
but that was a little bit emotional then. But yeah,
like I said, great, great appreciation for that organization, opportunity
there and really enjoyed the time.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
A lot of special people, a lot of special people there.
But you know, I've been lucky. I was lucky leaving there.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
The opportunity to go to Minnesota for the rest of
the season and learn kind of about what they were
doing there, and then the opportunity to sign here in
the offseason was was awesome.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
So been fortunate and been really fortunate.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
The departure was the best thing that could have happened
to you, and you're going incredibly well.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Now, what was the goodbye like with Brian Dable?
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Yeah, I think it was good.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
You know, we uh a lot of a lot of
time spent together and and and went through a lot,
you know, ups and downs, and I think appreciation both sides.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
We mentioned the drive home. I think about how your
drives home must be.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Now.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
I pulled in here. It's a beautiful November in Indiana.
The leaves are all changing. You guys have this great record.
You're sitting atop the AFC. What is it like for
you to leave practice now, to leave the facilities? Not
where are you mentally right now? When you're in your
car and the drive home leaving as an Indianapolis Colts, Well.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
I mean, I think when you know things have gone
well for us, it's you know, obviously, I think every
aspect of your life, you know, you try not to
make everything depend on football.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
But in a lot of ways, it's what we do all.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
Day, and you know, how the game goes that week
or how the season's going, you know, has a lot
to do with with how you're feeling on a day
to day basis.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
So it's been uh, it's been good.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
You win the job in August, Keys to the Castle.
You're gonna be the starting quarterback Innnapolis Colts. If someone
had come to you and said, dimes comarre, you guys
are going to start seven and two, seven and two,
what's your response?
Speaker 5 (12:47):
Obviously you'd be excited about it. I think, would you
call it BS?
Speaker 4 (12:51):
I don't think so, I've said.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
I mean, I think as soon as I got here
in the spring, you're like, wow, he's there's a lot
of good players here. We got you know, really good
up front. We got a lot of good receivers. We
got a really good running back. Coaches are really smart defense.
You know, they've got a lot going on. It's like,
I don't know why we why we aren't going to
be a really good football team. But you never, I
mean you never really know until you start playing and
(13:14):
you see it on the field, and then the first
couple of.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Weeks I was like, Wow, this is we got a
we got a good team here.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
So you know, I guess if you had told me
that in training camp, I would have yeah, been excited
about it, for sure, But I don't think I would
have been surprised. I think looking around, you know, as
soon as I I guess I said, as soon as
I got here, I was like, wow, we have a
chance to be a good team.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
What jumped out to me was that right off the
bat this year, Week one, week two, you just look
so confident your body language, everything about yourself. You had
been through so much, you had been beaten down, taking
so much heat.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
How did you stay so confident like that?
Speaker 5 (13:48):
I think, Uh, you know, fortunate to have a lot
of people in my corner, a lot of support from
from from family, from friends, from coaches, teammates, people I
had played with a cross pass with in the past,
and and you know, leaned on them heavily throughout it.
And then I think just the confidence we built as
a group through through the off season, through training camp,
(14:10):
working with Shane, working with with his staff, and and
kind of understanding. Yeah, I mean a lot of work
went into it, and and good quality work that I
felt like, Wow, we are prepared. We've got a good team.
I know what to do, I know what what he
expects of me. And you know, at that point it
was it was just about executing it. So just yeah,
trying to get away from maybe the emotional piece of
(14:30):
of that, of of maybe some of the outside pressure
and just get to kind of plainly what do I
what do I need to do?
Speaker 3 (14:38):
And that's why you stay off Twitter too.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Yeah, smart to see the field.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
So best story in the NFL, I'll say it again,
you the cult, the number one story.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
How do you want the store to end? Uh?
Speaker 5 (14:50):
We got a long way to go. I think we
all we all know that, and and coaches remind us
of that often. But we're a mature team. And like
I said, the NFL is week to week. We got
to play well week after week and and right now
we're we're focused on going over to Germany, playing playing
a good game in Germany and going on from there.
But I think, uh, we're confident, we're excited about where
(15:12):
we can go, and we got to win a lot
more football games.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
We're at the end of our time.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
How do you feel about the fact that I did
not ask you about the Indiana Jones nickname because I thought,
how do you feel?
Speaker 4 (15:24):
I don't care one way or the other. If I
won't say much about it.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
I'm not totally comfortable with it. Are you warming enough
to it?
Speaker 4 (15:29):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
It's to live up to.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
Yeah, I don't mind it. I used to watch the
movies back in the day. I feel like I've had
several nicknames over the years, and I've never really had
a strong opinion about a nickname here or there.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
But what's your relationship with Dimes? Like Danny Diamonds.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
I don't mind it. I'm not I'm not going to
lean into it at all.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
But you're not gonna start signing autographs Danny Dimes Indiana Jones.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Yeah, but uh yeah, I'm clearly not offended. Like I
don't care.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Well, you keep playing the way you played.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
You guys, keep doing defense, special teams.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Everything you're doing here.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
You're going to have a fortune and glory, kid, Fortune
and glory.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
That's a mine from the movie. Okay, I didn't never changed,
Daniel Jo appreciate it. Great to see you, man, Great
to see you.
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
Daniel Jones. It's great to see him, man, good to
see you. I'm very excited to.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Talk to you because I think, like so many people,
I've followed you very closely for years, and I've seen
you in a lot of big spots.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
I feel like I don't know a lot about you.
Why do you think that is?
Speaker 4 (00:22):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (00:23):
Probably part of my personality. I feel like I've never
tried to try on social media whatever it is. I
don't I don't share too much. But yeah, I don't know.
I mean, I think try to play football and hang
out with my family and friends.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Pretty simple.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
So I'm down here, we're setting up all these licen
cameras and these chairs and everything.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
One of your teammates comes by. Great guy. I'm not
gonna say who he is. He shake hands and everything.
I say, I'm gonna talk to Daniel that.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Try to learn some stuff about him, and he laughs
and goes, ah, good luck with that.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Why would he say that? What's he talking about? Uh?
Speaker 4 (00:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
I'd like to know who it is.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
But you guys, I don't know, would remain nameless. Very
good guy, very good pro. Probably an denefensive side of
the ball.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, Like I said, I don't,
I don't do a ton.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
I mean I pretty much played football and uh and
hang out. But yeah, I really enjoyed being here and
being with these guys in the locker room. And we've
got a lot of good dudes and it's been fun
spending time with them.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
It's a lot of good football too. You say, like
to playball and hang out. The thing is, though, you
are an NFL star, and I have with me, I
have what I call the NFL Star Survival Kit. These
are the things you're allegedly supposed.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
To have if you're an NFL star. So I'm just
gonna read some off and just tell me if you
have them or not. Okay, Daniel Jones. Do you have
a personal stylist? I don't. Do you have a pop
star girlfriend?
Speaker 4 (01:49):
No?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
No, movie star girlfriend. Do you have national commercials for
chips and soda?
Speaker 4 (01:55):
No?
Speaker 3 (01:56):
No? All right, this is the last one. Is the
last one I got. This is the most important one.
Where can I subscribe to your podcast?
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Don't have a podcast? You don't have.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Apparently this is what I was told you're supposed to
have and you have none. Are there any of those
things that you want to have?
Speaker 5 (02:13):
I don't know about want to have, but in the
right situation. I mean, I think if there's an advertisement opportunity,
you know, take.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Advantage of it. But I don't.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
I mean, I think, yeah, just like I've always felt
like I'd rather keep it simple in a lot of
ways and play football.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Focus on what.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
I'd like to do, be a football player first. And
you know, I enjoy playing in the NFL. And there's
a lot that comes with the NFL that a lot
of opportunities and a lot of uh, you can meet
a lot of cool people and you have access to things.
But at the end of the day, I've always felt like,
you know, football is.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
What I enjoy most. Football is the most important part
of it.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
And you know, as true as I can stay to that,
I feel like the better, the better things are.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
You're all about ball and all those things and podcasts
and famous girlfriends and all that. You're not really about
those things. What are you about as a guy and
as an athlete?
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Like, what do you stand for? What do you w into.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
I mean, I feel like being a good teammate, working hard,
you know, showing up and being accountable to that. I think, yeah,
working hard, kind of keeping my head down and keeping
it keeping it simple for the most part, you know,
I think building relationships with teammates, building relationships in the
locker room, and and kind of being consistent with that.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
You know, I don't know. I mean maybe maybe they'd be.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
A better question for for someone else, but I try
to just keep it temple.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
When you go home and it's it's a bye week
or it's off season, how do you spend your free time.
It can't be just watching film and playing ball and
relating to your teams.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
What do you like to get into when you have
free time? For some Daniel time, play golf?
Speaker 4 (03:48):
I mean, I play some golf.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
I knew it.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
I still haven't become a good golfer yet, but I'm
working on that train. I mean, I think, yeah, go
to dinner and hang out with friends. I mean, pretty
pretty simple stuff, you know. Spent a lot of time
and New York where I've got three siblings who live now,
so hanging out with them and friends, whatever it may be.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
It's perfect and it works for you. I personally, as
a guy who's pretty down to earth. I love how
you arrive on Sundays to games in this era of
arrival fits and high fashion in the locker room.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
How much thought do you put into your game day drip?
Speaker 5 (04:29):
Not a ton, to be honest, pretty much what I
would wear to dinner or something like that.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
But what about your aura?
Speaker 2 (04:33):
That's important? You put thought that?
Speaker 5 (04:35):
No, No, I did catch a lot of flak. I
remember my early years in New York. I'd wear like
a button down and some khakis, which I thought was like,
you know, wear something kind of nice, but it doesn't
have to be crazy, and.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
I got I got dragged for that.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
So I was like, I'll, you know, just dress normally
how I would to dinner or something. But yeah, I
don't put a put a ton of time into it.
I think i'd look pretty pretty dumb if I tried
something else.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Do you like the outfits that you wear to show
up to the games? Do you like picked them out
the night before? Is it five minutes before you leave?
It's just spontaneous to put any thought into it, because
I think it's cool.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
Uh, well, we were stay in the hotel the night before,
so yeah, I'll just pick something out and before I
go to the hotel and where.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
But it's it's authentic and it's who you are, and
I think that inspires other people around you. The Colts
put out a social video, not some knucklehead online.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
The Colts put out a social video and it was
you miked up during the game, and.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
They said, he said what he said and it's literally
just clips if you say nothing.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
What did you think of that? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (05:39):
I was kind of like, come on, guys, every want
everyone already thinks something like, don't say anything. But it
was I mean, it was fine, man. There was a
there was a clip of me talking a little bit more.
But I've always been a little resistant of the miked
up thing, just because you know, it's like a game
and is the last thing you want to be thinking
about is having a microphone on you.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
But yeah, you gotta go along with it a little bit.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
I look at some of your peers in the AFC,
Josh Allen, Patrick, Aaron Rodgers, loud screamers, explicit f bombs
all over the place.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
That's how they lead.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
How do you be a field general out there with
ten other guys in the huddle with you when maybe
you're not necessarily wired for volume and screaming.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
How do you go about it?
Speaker 5 (06:21):
Well, I think there's a time to communicate, and however
the situation, you know, deems it necessary communicate how you
need to.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
But I don't know.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
I mean, I think, yeah, just naturally doing that and
a situation that, uh where guys would you know, they
expect a certain level of communication based on what you've
what you've done in the past, So to change that up,
I think, you.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Know, it can be can be a mistake.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
But you know, I've heard I think you heard heard
as far back as college or the draft. And there's
the personality, there's the expectation of what a quarterback needs
to sound like and do all the time. And you know,
you can learn and grow in ways. But at the
end of the day, I think a lot of it's about,
you know, being being authentic, and that's what guys respond to,
you know, is communication that they've grown to expect from you.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
So try not to change that up too.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Much as you get older.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
There's nothing cooler than someone who's just themselves. And if
you were to show up one day and start screaming
that's not you. It's what the kids called cringe, like
they could see right through that. You know who wants
you to talk more though, And I mean this the fans.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
The cults, fans.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
You haven't tweeted in a long time on Instagram, it's
just a couple of nice, wholesome team pictures. But meanwhile,
I mean this, Daniel, you are the number one story
in the NFL. I work in NFL media, the number
one story and the number one positive story right now.
Do you have any urge to stick a little victory lap,
beat your chest a little bit because you've earned it?
Speaker 2 (07:41):
I feel like not.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
I mean, I do appreciate the fans, appreciate the support
and the energy and being here in NDI has been
a blast, and you really feel the sense of just
the passion that they have for the team and them
supporting us.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
It does mean a ton and I've really really enjoyed,
enjoyed that.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
Maybe back to a little bit what we were saying earlier,
I just never felt like like it was necessarily my
job to share all the time, or to to talk
and to to do that. But but you know that
doesn't come from a place of you know, I do
have a lot of respect and appreciation for the fans
and understand that, you know, kind of in the day
and age we're in now, that there's an opportunity to
(08:21):
do that, and that's probably something I could do, you know,
a better job of, you know, honestly. But yeah, I
got a great appreciation and the fans here have been
a lot of fun.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
So you did give him a little peace though, because
you guys beat the Chargers. You do a postgame interview
with Evan Washington from CBS and he says, you know,
people on the outside were maybe surprised at how well
you guys are doing, and you just looked at him
and says, sounds like y'all didn't know much, and it.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Was like, yeah, talk here, Daniel Jones.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
Yeah, maybe a little bit, a little bit out of character,
but yeah, I mean I think there'll be a time
maybe too to reflect a little bit more on the season.
I think, not necessarily what we're when we're where we
are now, you know, and kind of how it's going.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
But you know, you hear it.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
I've heard it for a long time, you know, I
think in New York I've heard it, you know, personally,
I guess in New York and then getting here and
then the team. You know, we've we heard it all
off season about you know, kind of what people thought
about our team. So you know that being said, there's
a lot to do, there's a lot to prove still.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
And you know, it's a week to week league in
the NFL.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
You know, everyone knows that here, but we're confident and
excited about where we're going.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
A big piece of the reason why you're the best
story in the NFL this year is the origin story.
November twenty twenty four, a year ago, the New York Giants,
the team that drafted you with, the team that you
wanted the playoffs with, you asked for your release.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
Why, well, that was a little bit of a different situation.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
You know, obviously, great respect and appreciation for the Giants organization,
the Mari and Tish families, and the opportunity to play
for the Giants was incredible.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
I really really enjoyed that.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
I think at that point any of the season, they
had made a decision to, you know, for someone else
to play, and I had an injury piece of my
contract that didn't let me you know, I wasn't gonna
be able to practice I wasn't gona.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Be able to work out. I was kind of just
just there. And at that.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
Point it was, you know, if I can't do anything,
you know, maybe I'll go somewhere else and see if
I can learn something. And you know, I still, you know,
great appreciation and teammates, coaches, everybody there. That hurt, you know, leaving,
but I felt like it was the better situation for
me and for them at that point.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Even as someone who's really locked in emotionally and professionally.
Had to be an emotional thing. I was there that
night in Nashville. It was a special night. It's a
special draft pick. You gave everything you possibly could to
that organization. What did it feel like driving away from
the facility for the last time.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Yeah, that was tough. I'm not clae for sure.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
I don't think you know, I'm not a very emotional person,
but that was a little bit emotional then. But yeah,
like I said, great, great appreciation for that organization, opportunity
there and really enjoyed the time.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
A lot of special people, a lot of special people there.
But you know, I've been lucky. I was lucky leaving there.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
The opportunity to go to Minnesota for the rest of
the season and learn kind of about what they were
doing there, and then the opportunity to sign here in
the offseason was was awesome.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
So been fortunate and been really fortunate.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
The departure was the best thing that could have happened
to you, and you're going incredibly well.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Now, what was the goodbye like with Brian Dable?
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Yeah, I think it was good.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
You know, we uh a lot of a lot of
time spent together and and and went through a lot,
you know, ups and downs, and I think appreciation both sides.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
We mentioned the drive home. I think about how your
drives home must be.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Now.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
I pulled in here. It's a beautiful November in Indiana.
The leaves are all changing. You guys have this great record.
You're sitting atop the AFC. What is it like for
you to leave practice now, to leave the facilities? Not
where are you mentally right now? When you're in your
car and the drive home leaving as an Indianapolis Colts, Well.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
I mean, I think when you know things have gone
well for us, it's you know, obviously, I think every
aspect of your life, you know, you try not to
make everything depend on football.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
But in a lot of ways, it's what we do all.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
Day, and you know, how the game goes that week
or how the season's going, you know, has a lot
to do with with how you're feeling on a day
to day basis.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
So it's been uh, it's been good.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
You win the job in August, Keys to the Castle.
You're gonna be the starting quarterback Innnapolis Colts. If someone
had come to you and said, dimes comarre, you guys
are going to start seven and two, seven and two,
what's your response?
Speaker 5 (12:47):
Obviously you'd be excited about it. I think, would you
call it BS?
Speaker 4 (12:51):
I don't think so, I've said.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
I mean, I think as soon as I got here
in the spring, you're like, wow, he's there's a lot
of good players here. We got you know, really good
up front. We got a lot of good receivers. We
got a really good running back. Coaches are really smart defense.
You know, they've got a lot going on. It's like,
I don't know why we why we aren't going to
be a really good football team. But you never, I
mean you never really know until you start playing and
(13:14):
you see it on the field, and then the first
couple of.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Weeks I was like, Wow, this is we got a
we got a good team here.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
So you know, I guess if you had told me
that in training camp, I would have yeah, been excited
about it, for sure, But I don't think I would
have been surprised. I think looking around, you know, as
soon as I I guess I said, as soon as
I got here, I was like, wow, we have a
chance to be a good team.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
What jumped out to me was that right off the
bat this year, Week one, week two, you just look
so confident your body language, everything about yourself. You had
been through so much, you had been beaten down, taking
so much heat.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
How did you stay so confident like that?
Speaker 5 (13:48):
I think, Uh, you know, fortunate to have a lot
of people in my corner, a lot of support from
from from family, from friends, from coaches, teammates, people I
had played with a cross pass with in the past,
and and you know, leaned on them heavily throughout it.
And then I think just the confidence we built as
a group through through the off season, through training camp,
(14:10):
working with Shane, working with with his staff, and and
kind of understanding. Yeah, I mean a lot of work
went into it, and and good quality work that I
felt like, Wow, we are prepared. We've got a good team.
I know what to do, I know what what he
expects of me. And you know, at that point it
was it was just about executing it. So just yeah,
trying to get away from maybe the emotional piece of
(14:30):
of that, of of maybe some of the outside pressure
and just get to kind of plainly what do I
what do I need to do?
Speaker 3 (14:38):
And that's why you stay off Twitter too.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Yeah, smart to see the field.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
So best story in the NFL, I'll say it again,
you the cult, the number one story.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
How do you want the store to end? Uh?
Speaker 5 (14:50):
We got a long way to go. I think we
all we all know that, and and coaches remind us
of that often. But we're a mature team. And like
I said, the NFL is week to week. We got
to play well week after week and and right now
we're we're focused on going over to Germany, playing playing
a good game in Germany and going on from there.
But I think, uh, we're confident, we're excited about where
(15:12):
we can go, and we got to win a lot
more football games.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
We're at the end of our time.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
How do you feel about the fact that I did
not ask you about the Indiana Jones nickname because I thought,
how do you feel?
Speaker 4 (15:24):
I don't care one way or the other. If I
won't say much about it.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
I'm not totally comfortable with it. Are you warming enough
to it?
Speaker 4 (15:29):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
It's to live up to.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
Yeah, I don't mind it. I used to watch the
movies back in the day. I feel like I've had
several nicknames over the years, and I've never really had
a strong opinion about a nickname here or there.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
But what's your relationship with Dimes? Like Danny Diamonds.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
I don't mind it. I'm not I'm not going to
lean into it at all.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
But you're not gonna start signing autographs Danny Dimes Indiana Jones.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Yeah, but uh yeah, I'm clearly not offended. Like I
don't care.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Well, you keep playing the way you played.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
You guys, keep doing defense, special teams.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Everything you're doing here.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
You're going to have a fortune and glory, kid, Fortune
and glory.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
That's a mine from the movie. Okay, I didn't never changed,
Daniel Jo appreciate it. Great to see you, man, Great
to see you.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
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