How do you do, fellow kids?Matthew Stafford is an aging Garrett Bradbury Jersey quarterback. That's not to say he's old, by any means, but he's also not the spry ironman pa ser he was when he broke into the league.Supposedly, Stafford knows that he may not be hip to the new lingo, styles and trends that the younger players on the team are into. That is, at least according to Stafford's wife, Kelly.MORE: Stafford has been teammates with hundreds of offensive players over the year, but Year 15 may be his most challenging year yet, largely thanks to the generation gap. Speaking on her , Kelly offered some insight to her husband's seeming disconnect with some of his offensive teammates:Its kind of crazy. So Matthews been in the league a long time. Hes like 'The difference in the locker room has changed so significantly.' They have a lot of rookies on their team, theyre very young. But hes like 'I feel like I cant connect. In the old days youd come out of practice, youd shower, and people would be playing cards, interacting. Who knows what Jim Marshall Jersey theyre doing but theyre doing something together. Playing ping pong, they have a tournament going on. They'd at least be talking.But now they get out of practice, and meetings during training camp, and they go straight to their phones. No one looks up from their phones. Matthews like 'I dont know. Am I the dad? Janarius Robinson Jersey Do I take their phones? What do I do here?' Hes like, 'I want them to see me not as a coach.'They say Sir to him and s. Hes like 'No, were on the same level here, were both playing in the league. Let me get to know you.' He said its so different and so hard to get to know these guys. He had a book printed out. He had the equipment guy get a book printed of all their faces, and all their names, cause hes like 'I need to know their names. We need to talk, so Im gonna find their names and Im gonna say Hey so and so how was your weekend? So they know I know them and maybe we should get to know each other so theres chemistry on the field.MORE: While NFL rosters have a tendency of adding plenty of new players year over year, the quarterback said the disconnect is not as serious as what his wife made it out to sound."No, I think those guys understand where Im coming from," Stafford said in September. "They see me come in this building every Rashod Hill Jersey single day and know how I go to work, know how I interact with everybody and we didnt really think too much about it to be honest with you."Im not too worried about it. Nobody in that locker room is too worried about it, I can promise you that. We've completely moved on not that we ever really stopped to think about it, to be honest with Nick Vigil Jersey you. But yeah, Im not too worried about it."To Stafford's credit, move on, they did. With the added and unfortunate wrinkle of losing Cooper Kupp to start the 2023 season, Stafford has quickly developed some chemistry with wideout Puka Nacua, the team's leading receiver in Kupp's absence.If that's unfamiliarity with your teammates, then the Rams should hope that Stafford forgets his teammates' names this season.
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