Raiders CB Eric Stokes Presser Proving It to Myself & Team Growth

Sun, Aug 23, 2026

Video Transcript

It was just more so last year it was just more so proving everything to myself to where I know for a fact I can go out there and do it.

Um, it felt, it felt good, especially like when you see the young guys going out there and they're executing everything that's like pretty much what we done did or like some of the things that we done switched over.

They go out there and execute it just like that.

So it just shows the growth.

It shows everything to where people are listening, people are buying in.

That's the biggest thing.

Are you willing to buy in to everything that we got going on?

So, so the coaches goes from the coaching to the players to the people upstairs so that everybody buying in and that's something that we love.

How would you assessment with regard to this?

Man, I still want to see the ball.

Like, that's the biggest thing that we gotta do.

Like, um, especially on defense.

You take the ball away.

You give, uh, you give Kurk, you give everybody more opportunities to go score.

Uh, so, so the biggest thing for us has just been taking the ball away.

Let's go ahead and take the ball away.

Let's go ahead and get off the field.

And 3rd down, that's another big thing that we gotta hold on.

So like when the 3rd down day and all that stuff, so we got to be able to get off the field like those extended drives, all that stuff, they, they just hurt the team even more.

So we don't even got to be out there.

We could be done with 3 plays or we can go to 8 plays.

I'd rather be done with 3 plays.

You talked a lot about helping the younger guys, you know, build that confidence.

Is, is that something you need to rebuild in yourself, because obviously you know what you can do.

You know what you're capable of, but you mentioned those couple of years in Green Bay, but it wasn't able to happen for.

Like, did you need to rebuild your At some point, how big was last year you doing that?

00 yeah, for sure.

It was just more so last year was just more so proving everything to myself to where I know for a fact I can go out there and do it.

It's the point where I got to go do it now.

So last year just building that confidence and then now just able to grow from it to where I bet that this routine helped me out and all that stuff, just really just finding a routine, and I found last year's a routine that was perfect for me, kind of stuff and just trying to stick to it, just trying to continue to grow from it to where it's just, I'm just confident.