Trent Williams on Ricky Pearsall, Jordan Mason & how his HOLDOUT affected him in 49ers WIN vs. Jets

it was uncharted waters for me you know I never been in a situation where I didn't have the luxury of being able to um knock the rust off in Camp you know I've never came off a what six Monon layoff seven Monon layoff and uh right in the game week you know what I'm saying so that was new for me I really didn't know what to expect I mean guys are holding out or you have almost a near legit tragedy over the last weekend and you guys always seem to be able was that you know Zoom right back in we got great leaders in this locker room um and we got people who follow the leaders and you know we got um leaders that Echo what the coaches are are preaching and um so I think that's the that's the reason I our locker room is able to stay focused you've been able to see Jordan kind of grow up here over the last three years in what ways has he grown up and what was it like seeing him do what he did I mean you seen it I honestly every time he touched the ball in my recollection he look like that that he look like uh tonight um but you know obviously becoming him more of a pro but he I mean I'm sure he's grown up over the that last couple years but it's not like I can see a glaring oh he matur like he came in pretty mature you know and uh he was always ready for his opportunity even being third fourth back he was always ready and uh he came and closed a lot of games for us and ran tough and he he earned everybody's respect he said he during the off season season he got a JS machine went home his dad was practicing with him he really took the offseason seriously so do he seem more focused when he came in this year I didn't see him when he came in cuz I wasn't here you know I don't know if you heard or not but no I mean yeah when I came in I mean obviously just talking to him um before before the game you know we knew he was going to be rb1 to day you know when we found out we found out he was going to be rb1 you know I went up to him and just you know gave him a little little pep talk see where he was and he was you know laser focused ready to go and I knew from that point on I a't have to worry but I knew he was going to have a a a great game I knew it so I'm glad he proved me right how did you feel game one versus other game ones I mean was it a market difference for you yeah it was uncharted waters for me you know I never been in a situation where I didn't have the luxury of being able to um knocked the rust off in Camp you know I've never came off a what six Monon layoff seven Monon layoff and uh right in the game week you know what I'm saying so that was new for me I really didn't know what to expect I mean obviously I played a lot of football so I knew it would come back to me I just didn't know how long it'll take um obviously there's rust involved um you know got to get in football shape I hadn't played football it's you know you can't you can't really replicate you know the the exhaustion that you that you kind of put yourself through during a football game especially o Leman you know it's like pushing a truck every play you know so I I honestly I didn't know what to expect tonight um I have a lot of confidence in myself to to go and play at a high level but like I said it's Uncharted water so I didn't know how much that would affect me mean for week two just getting short week um you had to have an IP this week I mean are you worried about Minnesota at all no nowhere are you worried about what it'll feel like when you wake up tomorrow no we got a little cold tub in there if it hurt that bad I'm gonna go jump in told you guys a couple days ago that he thought the practice was tremendous he could tell you already could you tell like walking right in that everything was good oh yeah I felt I walked in I'm like damn everybody is like laser focus everybody flying around it's like not a lot of joking going on it's like got a lot of new players in the locker room that's already playing at San Francisco you know at what we expect around here so you know looked at all the young guys and the draft and just like damn I I you know obviously we had a good roster last year I didn't really see I didn't know that they can improve it but I mean in my opinion we we improveed um you know and those guys are playing their bus off Dominic puny who's a rookie starting got his first start today yeah I'm I'm thrilled to go back and watch the game just kind of see how he did obviously he played well we we all as a group ran the ball pretty well we protected pretty well I think I'm not sure what the sack numbers look like but you know I can't remember anything just you know blatant but obviously his head has to be spinning week one you know you got a Jets defensive line that's kind of been you know talked about throughout the last couple years has been you know the defense in all you know not even just the the line front seven the cornerbacks you know we we've heard a lot about him so I'm sure his head was spinning you know going out there getting his first start but you know obviously I think he played well I haven't seen it yet but just going off the results I think he played well he felt like they were doing stunts just for him but he seem to handle it pretty well yeah of course I mean you got a rookie you know and you got those type of guys across across from him you're going to try to test them you know um so I'm pretty sure he did well I hope so touchdown drive you had 11 runs out of 12 um that just Kyle just getting into it and said let's go what would you feel about that yeah um you know obviously we wanted to to keep them keep that dline moving we didn't want them to just be able to pin their ears back and pass rush it's what they do best so you know we want to get them running side to side get get uh JP going down he like he did and uh I think the game plan worked out perfectly do you tell your quarterback like yo might be a little tired this time no no I'm definitely not gon to scream like that nah all right thanks all righty y'all take care