Tyler Linderbaum, Quay Walker, Kwity Paye and Jalen Nailor Introductory Pressers

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Tyler, I know you had you know expecting to have a big market for you one of the top Raiders on the market when you

Started to go to this process. What were you looking for and what did you want out of this? Yeah, I think going through the process

Just trying to find a team that's suitable to my skill sets

You know coach kubiak. I'm excited. You know what he's going to build here

Something that I think will fit my play and obviously just the whole organization in itself

I think it's head in the right direction and something that I want to be a part of and

You know build this program into a championship level team

For Tyler building chemistry with a new offense and a new quarterback. How do you build that back?

Yeah, it's it's gonna take work

You know obviously

Day one, it's gonna you know take everybody being on the same page communication

You know laying the foundation of what needs to be done

You know the direction that we want ahead and ultimately it takes the guys in the locker room to

Decide how good we want to be

For gentlemen, kubiak is very nice radio about 20. What is this opportunity for you being able to come back to Vegas?

It means the most to me man, just to be able to come back to a familiar place

Got tons of connections here. I see my guy marking the back

Just people that I know growing up and it's just a blessing to be here

I mean it didn't really hit me until a few weeks ago just just talking about it and

With my agent and just felt like this was the right fit for me and the best fit for me to show what I can do in the field

Wait, what do you do thoughts on partnering with Nicole B Dean at the linebacker position and playing in a 3-4 like coach

Kulbiak said a few months or so ago

I'm really excited to do that because I don't play with him before as we all know

So it just another opportunity for us to go out there

And the showcase our talent and just to bring the type of energy intensity to the defense just add to it

Just bring a whole lot of grit that other guys can feed up on and hopefully they can match our energy

Which I know they would I know Rob going to use us in the right way and set us up for success

Feel perfectly how to talk with him last night at dinner

I'm going to everything but I know he's gonna use me the right way line him up in different positions

And just moving me all around so other teams can really recognize what I'm going to do

I just think you really gonna break out my skill set because I think he quite understands me

Although he haven't really saw me on the field yet, but I know he've watched for him and did a lot of things like that. So

I think I'm gonna be used right away. I think he's gonna do it right away

Leave average range on calm you blocked for a lot of really good running backs at Iowa and obviously Gary

Kennery would vote more with your experience of blocking for those guys. How do you think that that'll been a bit ash and

Genting how you kind of gain relationship with him? Yeah, you know super excited. I think you know as all offense alignment

You know, that's this guy beer bread and butter is to be able to run the football it helps things

Set up for different things for success and you know the o-line play. It's it's a mindset

It's having the right attitude of you know determination of what we're trying to do to the defense

Takes all five guys being on the same page

So super excited to get with the with the guys in the building

And kind of work towards you know our goals

What would excite you most about potentially

Langing up opposite from Max Crosby man

It's gonna it's gonna be crazy man

You know just seeing him pursue and you know just this relentless pursue throughout the down

You know just being to play with him and get after you know

Play with Jonah and Indy for a little bit and you know just playing with him just playing with some ballers. It'll be great

For seasons with the Baltimore Rares how difficult was it kind of like, you know

This that's where you started your career to kind of like move on from that organization

Yeah, no, obviously very thankful for the four years. I had with them

You know develop me developing me as a player

But you know excited for the new challenge on what's ahead?

I think all the guys up here and all the guys coming in, you know, we're gonna take on a new role leadership role of you know trying to get the team

In the best position possible moving forward. So excited for the next challenge and I know all of us are ready to get to work

Tyler you're raising the bar for all centers across the week now. What does it mean that the Raiders have that trust you?

Yeah, it means a lot

No, don't take that lightly

Appreciate the opportunity, but at the end of the day, you know, I got to prove it on the field

I got to prove it every day and how I come in the building

earning my coaches trust players trust and

You know just thankful for the opportunity, but you know just excited get to work and get to meet the guys

Quitting a way to give us an idea about how he's gonna be used how he sees his skill set

In this defense. What about you? What different ways is this gonna highlight your strength? And what do you think this defense gonna look like all together?

Man, you know, I'm a

Anywhere on the line. So anywhere these guys need me, you know, I'm gonna go out there and play you know playing opposite of Max gonna be great and you know

Yeah, just anywhere to need me

Jayland Thompson, you know potentially and probably playing with Fernando Mendoza

quarterback

I mean, it'll be it'll be great to have him come in

Show what he can do. He he's shown in college level. He just has to come here and do do that

Consistently at a high level and I think it'll be great for

The team and a receiver room to have that kind of guy throwing us the ball and that'll be very exciting for me

Some of the things you learn playing alongside Justin Jefferson and Minnesota a ton man, you know, just the his work ethic day in and day out, you know, he's

Never too high or too low. He's literally the same person every single day, you know

No matter what's going on in his life. He's always going to have a smile

The joy laughter

Throughout the whole building and just what he does on the field, man, you know, he's very confident

The way he runs his routes things like that that I've

tried to implement into my game. I'm just kind of

Trying to do that even better, you know, just to elevate my game

Going back into that obviously being on the team with Justin Jefferson and Jordan Addison now with this new opportunity

Do you feel like this is going to give you a better opportunity to really showcase the receiver that you truly believe that you are in candy

Oh for sure

Just just having that ability to play multiple positions in the offense move around motions things like that

I feel like with coach kubiak's offense

He doesn't very well with with the guys trying to get them the ball and move them around

I feel like that's going to play play right right into my skill set

You

Towards the end of the season, man, I'm at talks that it was a possibility that he wasn't going to go back to Philly

And it probably was the same when me going back to Green Bay. I knew I was in talks with them

But

Honestly at the end of the season we just talked about the possibility of me and him playing together and we'll

How we would love to do that and

Honestly, man, the day of I was testing him the whole day actually talking to him the whole day and

I kind of told him my situation where I was headed five minutes later. He said the same thing and

We ended up here. So big things just spy for that for sure

Yeah, definitely I reached out to him. I talked to him pretty much like throughout the whole process

probably like two weeks before

The news the news came up. I talked to him and pretty much just

Got a lot of feedback from him with Vegas and everything and

The what we can bring here what what I can bring here and stuff like that and

It was a whole lot of that I talked to but of course I taught him one-on-one and he gave me a lot of feedback on everything. So

Well, is there a time or a story you can think about going back to Georgia rock-bowers, you know true freshness season where you saw me

You were like, okay, this came might be like that

That was pretty much the first week he stepped in there. We already knew what he was about

Soon as we think we don't like seven or seven of course

We don't have to pass on but you could just tell

Sun guys who stands out right away especially we're being there with the level competition

We have and the guys that we bring in at UGA but

Man right away. I just knew especially like

Not only during that seven or seven period, but it was uh

Think around springtime as well. That's when he kind of separated itself

And I knew why not just me, but I think everybody in the building knew about him. So that was that

Like what's kept you in the Kobe so close

At the overall these years despite obviously going to different spots in the drop man

Kobe was close during all times there at UGA and I only that I spent a lot of time with him

So you know like in the league it's kind of different kind of have your own hotel room, but man him actually

Share rooms together. So

It was just a whole lot that man him dead the bond that we have

whether

Whether that was spread out the practice

Gone into the room and watching film whatever the case may be but um the bond that we have it never really faded any type of way

Our relationship just continued to build and continued to stay strong throughout the years

Four years have been in the league and

Every offseason. I got with him and including this offseason. I'll be with him again. So our relationship never really changed honestly

Tyler for you and everyone up there is just being asked to kind of help turn this culture around and turn this organization to winning culture

What does that take what is it going to take to turn that around? Yeah, just be ourselves

No be ourselves and you know

Like I said earlier earn the respect for our teammates

coaches and you know be as consistent as we can be each and every day and that's that's gonna be enough

Kind of thoughts on you know partnering on the interior of the offense align with Jackson Powers Johnson

Yeah, what have you thought of it?

Excited work with Jackson. I just got to meet him

Now really just excited to get around the unit

uh

You know excited to work with the guys. You know think you know, we can build something special here and

You know, it's gonna it's gonna take everyone involved in just excited for the opportunity to get to work with them

Could you do you know there's like a level of your hate

Still to be a mock thing you think maybe like a fresh start a new place will help do that

Definitely, yeah, you know um being able to come here fresh start, you know, I already spoke with you know coach Smith

And you know just being able to go out there and play free and you know just be myself

You know playing with Andy was great, but there was definitely a part of me that felt like I can do more and you know

Have the opportunity to do so here, so

sir

Why would you know to you most about the direction of where the readers aren't hiding that mean you want to be a part of them?

Uh, I'm just I just think they got the right people here to express you with the staff and I just

truly believe in what spy is um trying to accomplish here

Um, I just think and I got like myself and alongside these guys and the Kobe and more people

I'm assuming that spy may bring in whatever the case may be

I just think we can actually get this thing turned around and

It's one thing to come up here and to say that

Um, but it's another thing to do it. So um time until only thing y'all can say

Tyler throughout this process a lot of there's a lot of fans that you know had you circled as the guy everybody wanted

Around here. Do you kind of feel that from

fans social media wise? Anybody reaching anything like that of how much you were wanted by the fans here?

Yeah, um, I'm not a huge social media guy as you can tell um

Yeah, people can have their opinions and you know

You know, it's

It's cool to put put myself in that position uh to be wanted

Um, we got the end of the day, you know, I had to do my research on where I think it was the best fit for me and just

excited to be here

Tyler, I know you haven't been in the building obviously for all that long

But this this is the first time I've seen

This many faculty members like all crampage of the press conference room together

I mean, what is it? What's the feeling that you've gotten from all these guys

And y'all is pretty organization so far. Yeah, it's been awesome

You know already feels like home, uh, you know, everyone's been welcome in you know

State-of-the-art facility unbelievable

Uh, the people here. This is the right people to kind of turn this thing around

Jayland you kind of have a unique perspective is what when you were here and high school and grown up here

So wasn't really the Las Vegas wasn't really the sports professional sports mecca is now what do you make of all this and how excited are you to be a part of it?

Just decided to see the city growing as

As much as it's grown since I've been here

It I think it's taking the right direction

Especially with this organization with this coach or staff. Um, I think we're

Send send the bar. We're going to set the bar high with uh, how we want professional sports here in in Las Vegas to be

Tyler obviously didn't involve you but there's been a lot of news between your former team and your new team the last couple of days

What is this situation kind of been like for you to process?

Yeah

Obviously, I don't I can't speak on you know the situation on don't know the details and what what all went on but

No, obviously

You know would love you know max to be here and play with him and

Uh, I've gone against him. He's not fun to go against um, you know

How we have to scout him and his disability to lead a lead a team is it's pretty special. So

Excited to be honest on his team

Quay for you just what excites you about that possibly of you know teaming up what backs cross me

I and what you guys and can bring us defense with him along as well

It's a lot to do knowing that uh having him and quiddy uh the bar probably gonna come out fast um, so

It kind of helps us on the back end. I'll say uh

First of the round as well. Those are two guys. They can do a lot especially with him

His athleticism is so much that he can do and the intensity that he play with

Um, honestly, I just love his play style and I can't wait to uh play alongside him and honestly just to match his energy day in and day out

That's all I gotta say I think max cries with his name and his play speak for itself

I learned he shot me a text and uh, I don't talk to him a few times since I don't been here. So

Yeah

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