Eric Stokes: 'I had a great little day'

I had a little great little day you know great little day I'll say that say that what goes into a day like that and how's it feel to have one of those the first week of Camp H it feel good it feel good uh you know a lot of little preparation a lot of little stuff that I had study a little night before and all little stuff so it was a great little day it was a great little day to start off what did you see on the interceptions um on the first one um we did a little slant um I supposed to be tighter than that but uh tip ball perfect uh play and on second one just I knew I had help inside or whatever all and then just reading the leverage just reading every little thing and perfect just s uh sat down he sat down and it was just perfect little trigger so it was a good little day after everything you've been through do days like this mean more to you than maybe someone else oh for sure uh it was a lot of little days where I remember just being out there I mean not even being out there just being on the sideline looking at everybody else ball do all little stuff so now it feel great for now it's time for me to do a little action have fun and all this stuff so it was a great little day for me seems like there were just picks at left and right today I mean just talk about just the tenacity on defense and how aggressive you guys have already been so early in Camp oh man yeah that's just the uh mindset that we got especially uh it start off with uh the coaches so coming uh starting off with half and then falling over to Da to Where Da always say from the start like you got to match my energy and all stuff so da da coming out with the energy every single day and you just got to match it either either you with it or you're not how good have you felt through these three days with your defense oh if feel great uh the dline doing exactly what they doing um we got to hold up on the back end like and like what they all say just give us 3 seconds and we go and we go get back there so we just holding them up doing and doing whatever cuz we know they up there eating so they going to make our job way way much easier you guys have had really good camps the last few years and expectations have been really high on defense what do you need to do to make sure that the early Camp success you have against your own teammates transitions into immediate success week one when it starts from you oh man just uh keep uh getting 1% better like that's what uh this whole defense about like uh for each and everybody for uh everybody out there to where we know for a fact like we got a goal at the end and this a Super Bowl to be a Super Bowl defense we want to be remembered as one of the best defenses out here to where like we don't want to be like oh we relying on the offense and all this stuff like n like we want to we want us to like when people think about the Packers they think about our defense not our offense for you what standard have you set for yourself going into this season man just be out there do not miss a game that's my biggest thing uh just being out there uh staying 100% healthy and all that stuff and just let everything else flow uh cuz I know I know what I can do when I'm out there and just just being out there is the most important thing for me being out there have you felt like I know you obviously went to Madison and did the test and everything do you feel like with everything recently do you feel like you have a better grasp just kind of on what you've been doing to try to prevent yourself from getting oh yeah like it was a whole lot a whole lot of stuff that went into this offseason a whole bunch of little training whole different little uh different little things that I had to adjust and learn but that's what all this thing about it's just learning curves so like it was a lot of little things I had to take away from it and just learn from it like pretty much um how to actually train this offseason like it was a lot of the things that I done in the past that wasn't good or wasn't up to part that it should be and then just being around just looking at how other people move and looking at how KC how key how Su like Su was one of the biggest Wars to where I just watched one I just watched him especially throughout my two years that uh I had with him like just watch him and just see how he move and how he prepared and all stuff and it just help my game grow even more did you tweak your workouts like at all in this offseason so things would be different yeah so pretty much I started going early in the morning um and then in afternoon I'm running like 2 three in the uh 2 three in the afternoon to it now it's hot it's like 90 something down there in Atlanta Georgia and I'm down there sweating going and going through it so it's just like a lot of little things I had to readjust just get my body back better uh back and back better is it a bigger just schedule change or changing the actual exercises and things you're doing uh it was exercise too to where like I knew for a fact I had to come in and ham screens calf all this stuff was one of my biggest Focus so came back here my leg are something the strongest in not ever been out of stuff so it was just a great little offseason that I had Eric um you obviously had a good day but on that that pass interference we we see DBS commit Pi on the underthrown deall all the time what's the key for you to stay clean on that man I got to turn my head back on that um I seen I I seen it I just didn't know how fast the ball was going to drop or whatever but the quickest thing when I got connected to him I was easy could have just turned and looked for the ball but like that's on me uh that's one of the easy thing like you just can't panic I try not to panic but you know it's just a learning curve that come that comes along learn with it you watch your own practice film after a day like this are you watching the interceptions more or you watching the DPI no I'm watching that DPI I'm watching that third down uh during our last period where the first play that Rome caught on me on that third and four I'm definitely looking at that I did not like uh he speed he speed released me and then he SED down I if I did not like how I did not come out that break so that's one of the main things I'm going be focused on for the next practice is at the top of the route come on we got to go ahead and get out of there so that's will be one of my main focus coming in to next practice hey Eric I know it's a small sample size with saor back there so far but what is that been like playing with him and just what he does you know in center field man what he takes a lot of pressure out to like you know for a fact that you got somebody in the Middlefield post that go roam and a going to be that there and he's going to talk to you before the play after the play during the play whatever he's going to be out there saying whatever so like he's going to make you feel even better as a corner just go ahead and let you know I bet that I'm here I'm here and you know that you can go ahead to play to your leverage or you going to have to be aggressive on this cuz you know you for sure got him on that so it's just great having him back there