Drew Lock On Preparing To Start Week 9 vs. Cardinals

SPEAKER_1 (0:01)

Parade, right?

Drew Lock (0:01)

Yeah.

SPEAKER_3 (0:04)

All right, let's do it.

SPEAKER_4 (0:05)

Drew, how are you feeling? How's your elbow doing?

Drew Lock (0:07)

It's doing a lot better.

It's doing good, it's doing good. I'm excited to be back out there. It was great to get under center and grip some balls yesterday, so it feels good.

SPEAKER_4 (0:19)

What's the rest of this week gonna look like in terms of how much you're able to throw?

Drew Lock (0:23)

Yeah, I'm going at it. Like a normal week, if the training staff want to pull it back a little bit, then let them make that decision, but I'm expecting to go take every rep.

SPEAKER_1 (0:35)

What can you tell us about what happened and when it happened?

Drew Lock (0:39)

You know, it's been going on a couple weeks. You know, just a little arm injury for a couple weeks.

SPEAKER_1 (0:50)

If this had happened a couple weeks ago where Sam was not gonna be able to play, would you have been able to play a couple weeks ago?

Drew Lock (0:58)

Like the last time we played the Cardinals? Oh, you mean like...

SPEAKER_1 (1:01)

When you first got injured?

Drew Lock (1:02)

Yeah, yeah, I would have been fine. I feel like the obvious was when, I think we came out and said I was the three. Yeah, those weeks, no. But the previous ones, yes.

SPEAKER_5 (1:16)

Did you know that Sam had cracked his rib? Did he tell you that during the game?

Drew Lock (1:21)

No.

I didn't know the extent of it, but after going through a whole season and having a hawkeye on him, for most of all those games, I could tell pretty early that it was bothering him. He was an absolute soldier out there playing through that, and my hat goes off to him, and it just shows how much he cares about this football team, how much he loves football, and what he's willing to do for us. It's a special thing from a starting quarterback.

SPEAKER_6 (1:54)

How could you tell?

Drew Lock (1:56)

How could I tell?

SPEAKER_1 (1:56)

Yeah.

Drew Lock (1:59)

Are you married? I'm not, no.

Did you have a girlfriend for a really long time?

SPEAKER_1 (2:04)

I've had a girlfriend before, yeah. Okay.

Drew Lock (2:06)

You know when she was upset? She didn't have to say anything to you?

SPEAKER_1 (2:09)

Yeah.

Drew Lock (2:10)

I spent a lot of time with Sam.

Practice watching every rep, games watching every single rep. I just, I can tell. I don't know.

SPEAKER_1 (2:21)

How does coming in, substituting this time feel compared to when you came in the first couple of weeks? Where the team is, with where you are?

Drew Lock (2:30)

Yeah, I personally, I don't feel like any difference, because I'm focusing on doing my job the best I can for this team. Whatever vibe or feeling or trying to get projected into here, it's not in my head space. It's not in our players' head space. We're attacking each day and we're focusing on this Thursday and moving forward and trying to go get a win.

SPEAKER_3 (2:56)

You started a lot of games, so this is nothing new to you, but to have had this success this season in this offense with this team, what kind of confidence does that give you going into the stretch here?

Drew Lock (3:06)

Yeah, the other 10 guys that I play with give me great confidence to go out there and toss the ball around and knowing that they're going to do their job, their best of their ability, and that ability is pretty good for the guys on our team. And same with the defensive side of the ball and special teams. This is a well-rounded football team, and if we go out and all do our job, all do our responsibilities, all three teams, we're hard to beat, we just got to go do that.

SPEAKER_6 (3:30)

Is there anything about the preparation that becomes more efficient because of the couple of weeks that you had earlier in the season?

Drew Lock (3:37)

Yeah, definitely going into this week, kind of probably some of the things I talked about the last time we were doing this, just learning what it's like to come in here, talk to you all. I was prepared for this today, I was ready.

I knew what I needed to do beforehand this morning to go upstairs and be really ready for practice with the limited time now after this. So like, no, I feel like I'm got a better process now from the first time to this time, and it's just about going and executing at this point.