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in Grand Park, he is entering his fourth year for the Indianapolis Colts, which is hard to believe, Alec Pierce, that this is year number four for you. But good to see you again. Let's begin right to it, actually, just in terms of getting that first practice under the belt. How to go today? went well you, you know, I think it was, you know, as expected first practice. I feel like a little rusty everybody, you know, just definitely have a lot to improve on, but, you know, that's what, that's what camps for. I'm going to look at the tape, you know, and just continue to get better on things, work timing, just, you know, small details stuff. You know, your position is an interesting one, because to me, when you look in the NFL in general, and certainly your position coach in Reggie Wayne is kind of the poster child of this. Receivers seems to be the position sometimes that we have to be the most patient with guys. And I think you've showed that because in your rookie year, you know, we're, admittedly, there were a lot of people that were like, man, what's going on with Alec Pierce?

Then we started to see what can happen when you can get behind defenses.

When you look back on year one into year two, how difficult was it? Yeah, you know, it's a lot different. And I think just in terms of coming from college, just like for me, everything was different in terms of like the way they called the plays, the way you lined up, just the amount of details that went into everything. I think it was at, you're asked a lot more in terms of, like, knowing what to do, which routes to run. Like, I think I didn't run a ton, like the biggest route training in college, so kind of having been being asked to do more so it takes takes a little while to kind of learn and add that stuff to your your game and kind of figure out like okay like on this route here like little pick up little things on how to get open and what to do and stuff like that so I think it just it definitely is like it truly an art and I think it takes a little bit of time to figure that out. What point, if you look back at the first three years, at what point did it finally start

to kind of slow down? You know, I always say when you start a new job, you can't wait for

the day when you don't know what day of the week it is because it's just your inner routine.

That happened for you when?

I would say somewhere between my, like somewhere maybe in my second year, sometime during the season or,

because I feel like my rookie year, it took probably the whole year to kind of master the offense and know exactly what was going on.

Like, you know, obviously I knew where to line up and knew what to do, but just like for it to be kind of like second nature, like a different language, you know, like I could, you could say the plan, I know kind of all the positions and stuff like that. It took me probably about the whole year to say I'd master it, and then we change coaches so that changes up some things and kind of same thing happened. Probably not as long of a process, but I bet, you know, it still took me a little while maybe into that second year to kind of get things that really slow down.

Did you ever feel like you were in the beginning, maybe even to this point, that it's been

difficult because you've had to change quarterbacks a lot as well?

I mean, that's definitely a challenge.

I try to be, for me, I just focus on myself and I try to be the

most consistent and just like detailed, you know, like they're going to tell us, okay, this route,

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