1-on-1: Russell Wilson - August 8, 2024

Missi Matthews sits down with Russell Wilson to discuss training camp, the preseason and more

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
The new quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers Ladies and Gentlemen,
number three, Russell Wilson.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Russ, it's been a few months since you joined the team.
When family and friends ask, what are you talking about
the Steelers experience, Oh.

Speaker 3 (00:15):
Man, just the organization. The culture here is amazing.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
I think the best part is the fan base and
how much they love football, how much they love, you know, winning,
how much they love the process of just all the
teams coming together. You know, I be able to go
to Pirates schemes and everybody's wearing black and yellow room
for the Pirates, but also rooting for the Steelers and
vice versa. It's just obviously hockey two. It's just for
some all time greats and legends in this city, from

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the city and that played here.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
And I'm just grateful just to be a part of it.

Speaker 4 (00:46):
You know, starts aren't always ideal, but that's like life.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
Man.

Speaker 4 (00:51):
Russ woke up today. Man, his calf was tight. It
was my decision to sit him down today. Really, I
looked at it as a good thing for collective of
talents for the office, a challenge and an opportunity to
get to know Russ a little bit man create a
little short term misery for him, opportunities for others. And
so that's the story there.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
When you have to deal with starting training camp off
a little slow, finally getting back on the practice field.
What positives can you take away from that experience?

Speaker 1 (01:17):
I think the best part was, you know, for me,
is to be able to really spend time with the guys.
You know, I was, you know, having to do rehab
early in the mornings and also you.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
Know, at the afternoons and at night.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
And the best part is Saint Vincent, you know, just
being around here, being around the this this college, and
just to be able to take it in and sit
out on the back porch and have snack with the
fellows and talk and laugh and play with no games,
but also talk ball and watch film late at night.
You know, all those things create the bond and the camaraderie.
And being able to come out here since you know

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all the history here and all the great teams that
have won Super Bowls on that same practice field, that
means a lot, you know, and I think you're able
to really understand the tradition of what the Pittsburgh Steelers
means to us.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
Getting a chance to work with Arthur Smith. How would
you describe his offense and what it's going to look
like this See, we're gonna.

Speaker 3 (02:09):
Start with our physicality.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
I think that it's just Arthur is a tremendous teacher,
his ability to communicate and everything else, and one of
the things that he really wants to have us, you know,
come out right out of the gates with is our
physicality and just our approach tru mentality of how we
how we want to go about our games and how
we want to play.

Speaker 3 (02:26):
Our practices have been an all time high, you know, just.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
Every day is going hard and coach Tomlin really helps
set that tone, but all Arthur does as well when
we're doing a good job of that.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
What is something that you've learned from him?

Speaker 1 (02:37):
I think one of the best things I've learned from
Arthur is just his understanding of the game and how
he sees it, you know, and I think, you know,
our ability to come together and see that see the
same way, see the same play. Maybe there's something I've
seen differently and he sees it a certain way, and
then we you know, we we say, Okay, that's that's
the best way to do this play.

Speaker 3 (02:55):
I think that's been really cool.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
And you know, I think he has a tremendous ability to.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
To express his personality and meetings. He does a great
job of that.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
You know, he's just he's a funny dude and I
just love love being around him.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
Now, whether or not you play during one of the
preseason games, what do you personally want to accomplish?

Speaker 1 (03:14):
I think the most important thing about the preseason games
for anything else, is being able to put on the
pathsage with your teammates, be in the locker room, create
a habit. You know, just give me my thirteenth year
and I remember going back to my rookie year, and
I need to have great habits going to the stadium.

Speaker 3 (03:29):
What is that going to look like? What is what
is the day?

Speaker 1 (03:32):
What is the night going to look like? What's my
what's my order of process of getting ready? What's the
when does the quarterbacks go out there? And how much
time do I need to have to warm up? So
taking that seeing how we do it here, and then
really you know, thinking through that whole process and doing
that with your teammates and building that out and thinking
through that, I think that's the fun part. I think
the other fun part is seeing guys be successful. You know,

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you always want your teammates to be successful. Those are
the moments that get cherished.

Speaker 3 (03:56):
You cherish guys, first touchdowns, those are the things.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
And and then I think, finally, you really want to
get in the ins all a lot, you know, that's
that's the other thing.

Speaker 3 (04:04):
You want to win the games. You want to get
in the insole a lot.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
That's that's what we're that's our mission as an offense
is to be able to score a lot of touchdowns
and be explosive and every way.

Speaker 3 (04:12):
All right, thanks as appreciate it. Thank you so much.