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Giants quarterback Drew Lock huddles with Post columnist Steve Serby for some season-ending Q&A.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Q: You were picked by the Broncos 42nd-overall in the second round of the 2019 draft. Did you think the Giants were interested in you at any point?\u00a0<\/p>\n
A: We knew Kyler [Murray] was going 1 [to the Cardinals]. It was really up to the Giants at 6. They also had some picks later in that round [17 and 30] where they were talking about going defense first and then drafting a quarterback at the end. And, in that case, I was hoping they would draft either me right there, obviously, or a defense to make Denver have to pick a quarterback at 10. I was thinking it was either going to be the Giants or Denver.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Q: Denver traded back from 10 to 20.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A: When the Giants picked Daniel [Jones], and I knew that Dwayne [Haskins] was going to Washington [at 15], I was sitting there like, \u201cThere\u2019s no way Denver picks me now at that spot, they\u2019re going to trade out, get out of it.\u201d Now there\u2019s no pressure to grab me anymore.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Q: Denver drafted tight end Noah Fant with the 20th pick. You blew off the party you had planned that night in Nashville.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A: Yeah, we had people down there. Had a lot of family down there. We didn\u2019t get picked, that draft ended that night, left, got on the bus with my buddy Jack and my parents, and got back to the hotel, everybody\u2019s in their hats, everybody\u2019s getting picked, they\u2019re already starting to party a little bit. All the draft picks were staying in the same hotel. So I\u2019m walking in and seeing Cardinal hats, Saint hats, all these hats. Then I\u2019m walking through there and trying to dodge people giving me the, \u201cIt\u2019s all good, you\u2019re getting picked tomorrow.\u201d I just ran to the elevator as fast as I could, went upstairs and cried it out a little bit, and just had to deal with it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Q: You signed a one-year deal with the Giants as a free agent in March. How would you sum up life as a New York Giant?\u00a0<\/p>\n
A: Shoot, I would say I\u2019m very grateful for it. Roller coaster for sure this year. But this is a really, really cool place, really, really cool building. Didn\u2019t ever see myself living in the big city or even anywhere close to it, being a good old Missouri kid. But man, it\u2019s been a blast, I\u2019ve had fun. It\u2019s been ups and downs, it\u2019s been hard, it\u2019s been really hard. But the fruits of it last week and hopefully this week leading into the offseason will be all worth it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Q: Would you want to come back here?\u00a0<\/p>\n
A: I would come back here. I would without a doubt come back here. Like this place, I like living here a lot. Love the building, everybody in this building takes really good care of you. It\u2019s an historic program. Yeah I would totally come back.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Q: What are your thoughts on Brian Daboll?\u00a0<\/p>\n
A: I would love to stay in the same offense. That\u2019s the hard thing about doing one-year [deals], trying to go back to the same team, get in the same offense. That\u2019s a luxury at quarterback. Would love to have that luxury. I think Dabs does a fantastic job putting the game plan together, being very open and flexible with what I\u2019m feeling, and how I feel about certain plays, asking me what I like. Been around great ones, knows how to coach them, knows how to get them to play well. Just got to have the time with him, and the chance to learn through mistakes, kind of like what I\u2019ve been doing. \u2026 I would play for him.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Q: Describe your on-field mentality.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A: Definitely a whole never-scared feeling. I\u2019m going to take \u2014 I hate using gunslinger, but \u2014 let my athletic ability take over, letting my instincts take over, just high trust in myself in the ability that I\u2019ve been given to go out and make these plays. Nothing\u2019s too large for me. Go out and make the plays, because I feel like I can make every one of them.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Q: Where is your confidence now in Year 6 in the league?\u00a0<\/p>\n
A: It\u2019s interesting, I think early on as a 23-year old and even in college, meant a lot. I feel like after kind of transitioning out of being a full starter for a team into this backup role \u2026 whatever little chances I get, I got to be as confident as I can going into it, regardless of how the previous week went, or not playing for six or seven weeks. It kind of has to take a backseat. It\u2019s there, I\u2019m confident in myself, but it\u2019s not a rollercoaster ride of good play, bad play, bad play, good play, good game, bad game, \u2019cause in this position, you get so many limited opportunities that you gotta be confident going into it no matter what.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Q: Describe your leadership style.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A: I know I play the best this way, but trying to get guys extremely focused in the huddle, but relaxed at the same time. Not going to raise my voice too much. The way I call it in practice is going to be the same way I call it in the game. Go around and talk to guys, but it\u2019s never going to be a \u201cI\u2019m super-fired up, great f\u2014\u2013g job.\u201d It\u2019s going to be the same tone, whether it\u2019s a coaching point or it\u2019s a good job. It\u2019s going to be level the whole time.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Q: Do you believe you can be a starter?\u00a0<\/p>\n
A: I do. I think being a backup, it\u2019s tough sometimes because you don\u2019t get to make those mistakes, you don\u2019t get to show \u2019em that I can learn from those mistakes. When you go in there with those little starts, those are your mistakes and those are staying on film whether you get one, two, three or four games, right? There\u2019s not a ton of opportunities to show you can improve. But I feel like with this opportunity this year, them allowing me to play a little bit more, being able to show improvement over one to two to three to four to five \u2014 I know I can do it. Hope someone else can see it as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Q: Describe Malik Nabers.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A: Beast, total beast.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Q: How good can he be?\u00a0<\/p>\n
A: He can be really, really good. I don\u2019t know if I\u2019ve been around anyone as young as he is and natural as he is, and gifted. \u2026 Game-changer, playmaker, you can really apply all the words to him. It\u2019s hard not to find a word that doesn\u2019t describe him that\u2019s a really strong and, like, profound word.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Q: Tyrone Tracy Jr?\u00a0<\/p>\n
A: Diverse. Can do anything you need him to do. Being able to be what he is, a first-down and second-down back and be able to come in to third down and do protections and catch the ball on empty, you don\u2019t get that very often in a back. And not to mention the limited amount of time he\u2019s played running back, how he can see it, how he hits holes. I think it can only keep getting better for him.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Q: What is your best Tommy DeVito story?\u00a0<\/p>\n
A: I think the one that will kind of sum up Tommy the most \u2014 [he] loves Jersey, loves the city. Any chance he got to give me good advice on where to go, where to eat, get me the reservation for it \u2026 he was all about it. He wanted me to experience the city, and I appreciate him for it \u2014 Carbone was great, wouldn\u2019t have got in there without Tommy. Blu on the Hudson, another great spot, Tommy recommendation. Meduza, Tommy recommendation.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Q: How would you describe him?\u00a0<\/p>\n
A: Relaxed, laid back \u2026 funny. But also really smart, too. Like street smart, knows a lot.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Q: Do you still get advice from Peyton Manning?\u00a0<\/p>\n
A: (Smile) Here and there. Last time I talked to him I was in Seattle, and we were doing presentations, it was kind of like an OTA thing that we did both years that I was there, and I called him up and said, \u201cOne of our plays is called Omaha, and I\u2019ll send you a script, but please go off what you know about this play, don\u2019t necessarily (chuckle) go off my script, you know more about football than I do.\u201d He ended up sending a video of him like installing Omaha and giving a really good Omaha call at the end. It was cool.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Q: Pete Carroll was your coach in Seattle in 2023.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A: Leader. Leader of men, for sure.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Q: Do you think he\u2019ll be coaching again?\u00a0<\/p>\n
A: I do. If someone gives him the opportunity, no way he doesn\u2019t jump on it. Fiery guy. He loves football.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Q: Geno Smith.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A: Stud. Beast. Smart. Great guy. Knowledgeable. Teacher at the same time, taught me a lot of things.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Q: Favorite quarterbacks growing up?\u00a0<\/p>\n
A: Chase Daniel, Brett Favre, Matthew Stafford.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Q: How does your son Layton Andrew impact you when you go home?\u00a0<\/p>\n
A: Every time I come in and see him he smiles. That\u2019s kind of like your second world, right? Being able to leave this one and go to that world with him, it\u2019s been nice to be able to decompress. Even when he\u2019s been wild, even when he\u2019s being tough, it\u2019s nice to be able to have that avenue to go to and kind of take your mind off things.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Q: How old is he?\u00a0<\/p>\n
A: He is 11\u2009\u00b9\/\u2082 months. He turns a year Jan. 15.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Q: Is he walking yet?\u00a0<\/p>\n
A: Twelve steps has been the max. All he does all day now is try to walk and get going. It\u2019s becoming a handful (smile).\u00a0<\/p>\n
Q: Describe your lug nut incident in 2021.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A: That was wicked. Highway 70 going across Kansas, two lanes this way, two lanes that way, car on the other side going east, tire flies off the car, I see it fly off, kind of cautious of it, don\u2019t think too much of it. It bounces, bounces, turns, and I\u2019m like, \u201cThis is probably going to come over into our highway going the other way.\u201d Sure enough it turns, crosses the grass, jumps the road, bounce, bounce, and it\u2019s coming right at us. \u2026 Speed up, get it to go behind the car and then I slam on our brakes once it goes past us and kind of pull over. And I\u2019m just looking up in the rearview mirror, and it sounds like someone shot the car. Glass everywhere, flying under your face, hands are all cut up. I had shades on, which probably saved me little pieces of glass going into my eye. But didn\u2019t realize what happened, and then right as you get pulled over, I look up and there\u2019s a lug nut stuck in the window right squared up in front of my face. [He and wife Natalie] both start crying. Once I realized the magnitude of what could have just happened, I lost it crying. Eventually came to and went to go like grab the lug nut. And right as my thumb hit it, it fell out. I didn\u2019t even get to grab it. Like I barely touched the thing and it fell out. Had to call [father] Andy and he picked us up.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Q: What was the controversy your freshman year at Missouri?\u00a0<\/p>\n
A: We had a protest on campus. It was over leadership. It was basically over the way people were being treated on campus, and a group got together and decided that bigger actions needed to be taken \u2026 hunger strike on campus. A man was willing to die for the cause if the president and the chancellor weren\u2019t fired, and the football team got involved, basically said we were holding out from the game, and sure enough, got fired and we ended up playing in the game.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Q: Your Lee\u2019s Summit H.S. district basketball loss to Rockhurst.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A: That was the worst. \u2026 Go to senior year, got a lot of the team back, thinking this is definitely our year. We go to Rockhurst, two of the guys got food poisoning the night before, so they\u2019re banged up, and I go in there and shoot 2-for-10 from the 3-point line, probably. We should have beat those guys, they were not as good as us. And had to walk off the court kind of knowing that if I would have played better, we absolutely would have won that game. Last basketball game ever for me, I knew that, too. That was always the first love. That was one of my toughest losses, if not the toughest loss in football and basketball.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Q: Rapping \u201cPut On\u201d by Young Jeezy on the bench.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A: Rap\u2019s kind of always been a thing. Music\u2019s always been a thing. That one came on, last game of the year against the Raiders, been a good five-game stretch for me \u2026 just feelin\u2019 it, that was a great song. Didn\u2019t matter what song was on, if I knew it I was gonna be doin\u2019 it, and somehow they caught me that day.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Q:. Disney princess Jasmine.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A:. I don\u2019t know, something about the light blue and the gold, skin tone \u2014 she was my No. 1 from the beginning. I was very excited when I got to meet her in Disney World. That was like our family vacation every year. Andy, my dad, probably hated it, but he mustered through it and we went down there quite a bit.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Q: Andy was a Giants free agent offensive lineman out of Missouri who played in three preseason season games before getting cut on the last day. Does he live vicariously through you?\u00a0<\/p>\n
A: Maybe. He\u2019s definitely invested, he loves it, he loves everything about it \u2014 flying to all these games, coming up for the weekend. He\u2019s invested, he loves it, he might be.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Q: You must be proud of your Mizzou family tradition, right?\u00a0<\/p>\n
A: Of course. Being able to have three of us play there [himself, father and grandfather], maybe a fourth now, never know (smile). Being able to have all of us play there, it wasn\u2019t a dead-set thing for me, I was going to feel out the recruiting process and go places and see places and try to find the best fit. And sure enough, it just felt like that one closest to home was the best one.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Q: In what ways are you a foodie?\u00a0<\/p>\n
A: I don\u2019t spend money, I really don\u2019t. But when I do spend money, it\u2019s going to be on food. It\u2019s going to be on a nice dinner. I try to go places that have specific items or you know it\u2019s kind of a higher upscale place that might have things you\u2019ve never had before.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Q: Favorite meal?\u00a0<\/p>\n
A: I hate saying this, because I do classify myself as a foodie, but if I\u2019m like last thing I\u2019m eating, it\u2019s going to be a great steak and a loaded baked potato.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Q: Three dinner guests?\u00a0<\/p>\n
A: Jesus, Michael Jordan, Post Malone.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Q: Favorite movie?\u00a0<\/p>\n
A: \u201cTransformers.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Q: Favorite actor?\u00a0<\/p>\n
A: Shia LaBeouf.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Q: Favorite actress?\u00a0<\/p>\n
A: Sandra Bullock.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Q: Favorite entertainer?\u00a0<\/p>\n
A: Post Malone.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Q: Have you played at the Linc?\u00a0<\/p>\n
A: I have not.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Q: Are you going to enjoy being the villain?\u00a0<\/p>\n
A: I love that. Road games are the best games. Being able to, like, in college go to Athens [Ga.], Tuscaloosa [Ala.], Knoxville [Tenn.], go in there and play in those environments, it adds an extra cool factor to the whole thing.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Q: What drives you?\u00a0<\/p>\n
A: Family first, right? Kid coming into my life, I want him to think his dad\u2019s a badass, played football for a long time, played good football. He\u2019s going to be able to go back and watch cool clips of his dad playing football games. But really, when you start going on these one-year deals, it\u2019s about just like wanting to be a part of something special, want to be a part of this league, wanted to be in it, wanted to play, want to compete, want to be around the guys. \u2026 I\u2019m driven by wanting to play this game for a really long time, that\u2019s really the honest answer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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