Drew Lock: "This Building Is So Special"

Drew Lock (0:01)

Here we are. Let's do it.

SPEAKER_2 (0:03)

Well, Drew, how are you feeling?

SPEAKER_3 (0:05)

Mike told us you suffered an oblique injury as well during the game.

SPEAKER_4 (0:08)

Yeah.

Drew Lock (0:09)

I don't know, we'll get it looked at tonight. I was able to finish with it, but we'll get it looked at and go from there, but not too bad.

SPEAKER_5 (0:19)

Was it all that incompletion to JSS in the third quarter?

Drew Lock (0:22)

Yeah. It was a scramble, or not a scramble, it was a movement, it was a keeper.

I think it was third-ish quarter, maybe.

SPEAKER_5 (0:31)

How did it affect you?

Drew Lock (0:33)

I wouldn't say it did.

Went into the tent, had it looked at, came back out, just let me see how it feels throwing the ball. I was like, wait, I've already thrown the ball. You're all right. Went through it. I mean, you feel it, but it's nothing that was going to keep me on the sideline.

SPEAKER_5 (0:51)

What about the elbow injury? How was it playing through that?

Drew Lock (0:54)

Oh, good. You know, I mentioned it out on the field, I believe, but the staff here, the training staff, the strength staff, Coach Mike, everybody handled it so great this week. Jalen Milrow, I think it was really well done.

Just hats off to this building, to this team for being able to stick with me throughout this week and get us here to Sunday as healthy and as ready as we could be.

SPEAKER_7 (1:28)

You kind of downplayed the amount of limited you were when we talked to you on Thursday, but your teammates have said, yeah, you only had so many throws and all that. How hard was getting ready, or what was kind of the key to being prepared for this game when you weren't able to get full reps?

Drew Lock (1:41)

Yeah, you know, I would say the walkthroughs are obviously huge.

Everybody understanding that I wasn't going to throw during those. With us playing on a Monday night, being able to do a walkthrough practice Wednesday, you know, not throw there. I think it all, like I said, the building, coaching staff, strength staff, training staff, all, you know, having a piece in on this was fantastic. It really worked well. And to go back to probably something I've said before, but I feel like I've found my way as a guy that doesn't get reps as a backup, to be ready for a game. And so when we got to this week, it was, you know, it's not something that I wasn't used to, to say the least. Just mentally being as prepared as I can, with tape, walkthrough reps, rewatching practices and being ready to come out here and spinning around.

SPEAKER_2 (2:38)

So does it take away the practices over reading?

Drew Lock (2:42)

No, but you can kind of click into the, well, we don't ever really fully practice on Thursday nights. And we go out and play on Thursday night games and kind of talk to yourself that way.

SPEAKER_5 (2:51)

So how much did you throw this week compared to what you would in a normal week when you would be starting?

Drew Lock (2:57)

Yeah, the only balls I threw were on Thursday. And we did a little bit of a split there, but I took the majority of the reps Thursday and that was it.

SPEAKER_3 (3:11)

It looked like you didn't throw much pregame, like you kind of just came up.

Drew Lock (3:14)

Yeah, no. They had, again, a great plan. Discussed basically all day Saturday on how we wanted to handle this.

And yeah, it was executed perfect. Hats off to everybody. And yeah, waited to throw until finally got the shoulder pads and helmets on.

SPEAKER_8 (3:30)

Was it kind of similar to what you saw Sam kind of deal with in the playoffs last year? Like how the lead up in management kind of went with that?

Drew Lock (3:36)

It was basically the same template.

Like a three-minute tweak in the middle of it, but that was it. Yeah, they'd been through it before the previous. And again, going back to your question, seeing Sam do it in a previous year and not practice, I was practicing for him. Then him being able to come out on a Sunday and play really, really good football throughout the playoffs was something I could hang hat on and say I could model myself this week on what he did.

SPEAKER_8 (4:04)

Did you feel pretty dialed right from the jumper, did it take a little bit of time to get up and see what happened?