Raiders CB Eric Stokes Unlock NFL Confidence

Sun, Aug 23, 2026

Video Transcript

Well, I'm gonna try to help you out in any way possible because I've been through a lot from first round pick to not even been playing my last year in Green Bay to working my way back into everything I done did.

So trust me, man, I've seen both tails of it.

So I'm just trying to help you out to where any little thing that can go, uh, so I'm just trying to let you know like this is, this is how the game goes and this is what you wanna do and this is what you don't want.

But like even with the walkthroughs, don't even take that for granted.

Like go back there, steal a rep, be behind the person, just go ahead and do the smaller things and go ahead and show you that live video and I can go ahead and build confidence for any little thing.

So like the biggest thing for me is just the walkthroughs.

So that's the easiest way to build confidence with your technique, with your scheme, with anything.

So like you treat that like a game cause man, you may not get this rep anytime during practice, but you got to do a walkthrough.

But I treated this like the game rep.

So when I see it during the game, it's like, oh man, I already did this multiple times.

I already did this process.

I already did this step.

I did everything so many times.

So when the game comes, it's like, man, it is what it is.

I can go there and let go of everything and just play free.

I will always appreciate him for that so he just started teaching me the importance of a walkthrough to where like, man, nah, these are free reps.

These are free things just to steal that people just take away from and all that stuff.

So once he's changed my mindset about my third year in the league, it's just something that I take forever and I just want to pass it on cause I've seen how much that helped me, helped me.

Grow and all that stuff to it like by the time it came to game time, man, I did the same little foot in the same little break multiple different times during walkthroughs to it.

I know exactly how my feet are supposed to be.

I know everything.

So when it's not, I know exactly what and I know why it was that, why that would be like that.

Everything is on me cause pretty much that's what it is.