And here Jalen Milro is on the Insiders. I'm
Judy Battista, that's Steve Weis. Jaylen, first
of all, congratulations. Thanks for taking a few
seconds to be with us. I am sure this
week has been a whirlwind. It's only been one
week since you were drafted. What stands out into
your mind of what's happened in the last week?
So initially, we gotta start off with being selected
by Sean Alexander. Like that was a beautiful moment
for me and my family to hear, hear me
being announced by Sean Alexander, a legend here for
the Seahawks, uh, also alumni of Alabama.
So it was awesome to hear my name selected by
Sean Alexander. Secondly, uh, Matt Hasselback,
a legend here as a Seahawk to send that,
you know, quick video, um, expressing his
love. Um, and his support out my way
is definitely appreciative from my end, but now it's
just funny like just not getting acclimated here with the
Seahawks, um, meeting my new teammates, meeting
my new coaching staff, getting acclimated, so it's
been a unique journey for sure after the draft.
OK, you talk about Sean Alexander, he wore
that sweet throwback uni you're wearing. It wasn't a
throwback, but he was wearing it, but#6
, man, you wore number 4 in Alabama,
sometimes#2. What about you rocking the next odd
number or even number on the chain there,#6
. I know, I know. I got,
I got used to it myself. We see number
6. I went to my locker. I'm think
I'm getting number 4. I'm looking, looking for
number 40, I'm, I'm number 6. I
got used to it, so, uh, definitely
adjustment for sure, but I'm glad I got a
single digit. I'm gonna just go rock with it
. Your punter's got 4, right? That's a
, that's my punter. Hey, respect to the
punter. I gotta, I gotta earn respect to
the veterans. Here we go. Jalen, I
see the call sheet right on your wrist already.
They've been clear in Seattle they are going to develop
you as a quarterback, but I read something that
when you were meeting with teams, you were the
one pointing out things that you thought you needed to
improve on. So what do you think you need
to work on to be the starting quarterback of the
Seattle Seahawks eventually? See, one thing about it
, I'm a student of the game and I gotta
earn the trust and respect every, everybody in the
locker room. So with that, being extra with
the coaching stuff, getting getting around um the guys
in the room, learning, growing, um,
cause no matter what, no matter what I have
, what would be the best. Quarterback, I
can be, you know, and it's been great
, you know, to have a rookie mini camp
here, um, getting acclimated with the guy who
had a really good day on offense. So,
um, I just know that each day that I
come into the organization, come into the building,
I'm gonna give, give it everything I got and
be a sponge for all information. Jalen, look
, when you, when the whole team gets there
, you know, you're, you're gonna be there
with Sam Darnold. You're gonna be there with Drew
Lock, two young players who've had opportunities to start
a lot of football games in the NFL. What
do you think you need to do to ingratiate yourself
to those veterans but also let it be known you're
here for business. Yeah, for sure. So
number one, you gotta pay respects to the guys
in the room, you know, these guys have
made, had a unique journey to where they got
them to the NFL and you're a unique individual being
in the room. So I gotta pay respect number
one. But also be willing to learn. These
guys have had reps in the NFL, multiple reps
um uh compete at a high level, so.
As a young guy, all I wanna do is
pay respects to the veterans, um, be willing
to learn, be willing to listen, um,
and just do everything that's needed to so that we
can have a great quarterback room because that's the best
thing in the world. Its each room collectively,
um, having shared success and also working towards a
common goal was to be successful, um, as
a group and as a team. Uh, you're
obviously a tremendous dual threat style quarterback because of your
head coach's background, Lamar Jackson's name gets talked about
an awful lot when we talk about you, but
I wonder what quarterbacks do you study? who do
you try to model your game after? Yeah,
so this past uh offseason, um, after the
23 season, I did, I did a lot
of studying on Brock Purdy, um, Joe Burrow
, Geno Smith, I mean Lamar Jackson, and
one thing that is for certain at the core position
in NFL you gotta play on time, you gotta
know where your hearts are at, um, you
gotta have pocket integrity, and you gotta be willing
to learn and grow. And so, um,
it comes from the preparation and also understanding your assignment
on each and every We play and so at the
core position when you do all those things, the
game slows down and so um that's something I'm just
gonna factor as much as possible as I learn and
and grow as being a quarterback in NFL. It's
a tricky you say that you study Brock Purdy because
your OC Clint Kubiak comes from that tree that coached
the same system. Was that part of have you
gone back to revisit some of that tape or at
least some of that scheme that Purdy runs that coming
from that Shanahan McVeigh type of tree? Absolutely.
So it's funny like when we watch clips of concepts
, you're watching these quarterbacks in that tree of family
uh playing in that, you know, playing in
that system. So you're seeing those, you know
, those, those traits that I just mentioned and
so that's definitely the quarterback um that I've, that
I've watched and he does at a really high level
. Alright, when you were still in college,
you founded something called Lank. Let all naysayers know
it kind of blew up. You have merchandise,
you have a country song. What happens now that
you're in the pros? What becomes of blank?
Careful now. and don't do that. Look,
so, you know, it's definitely a model,
no matter um where you're at in life, whether
it's sports, whether it's um in a corporate job
, no matter where it's at, um, the
model is the same and, and, and overcoming
any um outside noise, external factors, and just
looking internally within the group, the organization and just
knowing that the foundation is all about working hard,
trusting within each other and acknowledging that we have a
bigger purpose greater than anybody's opinion. Yeah, you
know, you talk about getting to know your teammates
. I, I've gotta go back to last season
when you guys played South Carolina and you guys had
that crazy finish. You have two touchdowns. You
threw from 1 and ran for 1 to come back
and beat them by 2. When Nick Eman Yuri
, the safety that you guys drafted, was on
that team, had a heck of a game,
9 tackles. What was the conversation like when you
guys got together this week? First thing I say
, good game, brother. Good game. You
take your tail off. I'm glad we teammates.
I pay respect, number one, you gotta pay
respect, you know, he, he, he
competed, man, and definitely we look at it
, look at the sky report, you know,
you factor in our who's their dude, and he
was their dude on defense and it was, it
was definitely something that we saw for going against him
. So, um, the best thing now,
we share the same logo, the same organization,
so it's really good. um embrace the brotherhood now
. Don't have to worry about him anymore. Jaylyn
Milro, thanks so much for joining us on The
Insiders. Congratulations, lots of luck in your first
rookie mini camp.