Yahoo Sports’ Jason Fitz chats with Jets wide receiver Garrett Wilson about being under the microscope playing with Aaron Rodgers, dealing with last season’s disappointment, expectations for his alma mater, and who he is excited to face this season. Garrett joined Yahoo Sports on behalf of Dr Teal’s.
Video Transcript
Hanging out with Jets superstar Garrett Wilson joining us on behalf of Doctor Thiel’s a lot of questions.
There’s a, a new workout guy.
I got some Doctor Thiel’s questions for you, but we’ll get to that in a second.
Everything with the Jets is looked at through such a magnifying glass like you and Aaron can’t even have a heated discussion on the sidelines, which seems pretty normal without everybody overreacting to it.
How do you manage that?
Um, I mean, yeah, you know, how often is it that people get to come into your workplace and watch you prep for a season?
Right?
Or prep for the, the big day?
You know, I feel like, um, it comes with, with the game and, and when we do those training camp practices that are open to the public, you know, they’re, they’re, they’re there for it, right?
They’re gonna see every single part of it and, and that’s what it takes to get to where we wanna go.
So, for me to have a guy like Aaron, I can, I can have those conversations with and, and it’d be enlightening to me and, and always walk away from him learning something.
Um I mean, truly he, he’s a guy that um offers so much football knowledge.
So anytime I get the chance to pick his brain, no matter how it may look, um you know, on camera or something like that, they’re productive, productive conversations.
What you learn from last year when you thought you had Aaron Rodgers at the beginning of the year and then had to fight through a tough season.
Yeah, man, that, uh, you know, it’s a tough league, man.
It, it really spares nobody and, and um, you know, you gotta, you gotta deal with the cards you’re dealt.
You know, we, we didn’t go about it the, the right way.
We didn’t finish the way we wanted, um, last year and, and it was definitely tough him being here this year because of, we know what happened to him last year, right?
And, and it’s, and it’s, it’s really honestly motivating to see how he’s come, come back and how he’s gone about things since he’s been back and, and knowing what he’s coming back from, that’s a, a serious injury, right?
And, uh, I mean, he was damn near ready to go at the end of last season.
So he, he’s just a special, special guy and I feel like he motivated our group man.
Really?
That’s a little college ball for a second.
I mean, you come from Ohio State, Ohio, right?
Like what are your expectations for the Buckeyes this year.
Yeah, man, I watched them play last week against Akron, uh, a little slow start but they got rolling and, and I’m, uh, I’m excited, I’m really excited.
You know, I feel like the expectations are through the roof as they always are there and, um, now they just gotta go do it right.
I’m, I’ll be watching like a hawk.
Um, I love the Buckeyes, man and that’s my, that’s my squad.
That’s my heart.
Who’s the biggest Saturday trash talker in your locker room now with the Jets, uh, probably Jermaine and that’s done, came to a complete hush with their own two star and the way they’ve looked, they’re terrible this year.
So there won’t be much for, for him and for him to, you know, trash talk about unless he, unless he decides to hop on the Georgia bandwagon, which I don’t see him doing, you know, East Florida State all the way through.
But, uh, but yeah, I mean, I’ll say Jermaine when you look at the schedule, is there somebody this year that you’re really excited to go up against?
I mean, yeah, we started off with a, with a bang week one.
You know, I’m excited to travel to San Francisco and, and, um, start the season and we got Monday night football and Aaron’s gonna be back out there and, you know, what else can you ask for as a competitor to play against, you know, one of the best teams for the last five years.
So, um we’ll know where we’re at here early in the season and it just be great measuring stick for us.
And um I’m excited.
I mentioned at the beginning you’re joining us on behalf of doctor THS, which is interesting because it’s a big part of your recovery.
Tell me why.
Yeah, man.
It’s something that uh has been a ritual for me since I was a middle schooler.
Um And my mom was big on the doctor Teals.
We used to always have the lavender salt for the bass and I used to take one before every game.
You know, it’s a little harder now with it being um with us traveling and stuff like that and with staying in the hotel, I don’t trust the bass but I still do it too days ahead of the game now.
So um I can’t do it the night before but, but uh with it being powered by my magnesium, which is crucial for recovery.
Uh It’s something that I need, you know, it’s something that, that I value and, and um on Sundays, I feel good because of it.
G man, we appreciate your time.
Thanks for hanging out with us.
Best Select this season.
Thank you, man.
I appreciate it.
Thanks for having me on.
