Pressure tends to effect young players going into a Super Bowl, but 49ers rookie safety Ji'Ayir Brown is not one of them.
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00:00 Jerry, you're in the Super Bowl and it happens in a snap that you become the starter,
00:07 forcing the tunnel, fumbling the turn, going to ACL.
00:10 You're stepping into the moment and now you're coming this far.
00:13 How does that feel, like, just the journey already coming from starting to being here in the Super Bowl?
00:18 It's amazing, man. It's everything God has written for me.
00:21 I'm a strong believer in everything happens for a reason.
00:25 God wanted me to see this, man, and I'm grateful for it.
00:29 Is that a huge journey now, especially in less than a year from being drafted,
00:32 which obviously is a great memory, a great accomplishment in your life,
00:35 to now it's like, to then starter and now starting for a Super Bowl team?
00:39 God does some amazing things in your life, bro.
00:46 As you said, man, just last year I was in a combine, you know, praying for somebody to pick me up.
00:53 Now I'm in the Super Bowl, playing in front of the world, man.
00:57 And I get to do this in my first year.
00:59 Some guys go decades without seeing this, you know, 12, 15 years without seeing this.
01:06 I get to see it in my first year with a blessing.
01:09 You obviously weren't there four years ago when a lot of your teammates played against the Chiefs.
01:14 Have you gotten a sense of how much it means to them?
01:17 Not just, of course, the Super Bowls, but it's like this one probably means something special
01:20 because this is still the same team that, you know, handed them that sour defeat.
01:24 One thing about these guys, man, it always means something to them.
01:28 It's always special. Every game they go out there, you know, they're playing their hardest, man.
01:33 And it doesn't change, you know. It doesn't change no matter who the opponent is.
01:37 No matter if it's KC, no matter if it was Baltimore, it doesn't change, you know.
01:41 These guys love the game of football, man. That's the most important thing.
01:45 So we're going to be where we're going to be come Sunday.
01:48 Now one thing about a lot of young players on the 49ers, at least the last five years since I've been covering,
01:53 is there's always at least one or several other veteran players who kind of take the youngsters under the wing.
02:00 You know, like George could always talk about Richard Sherman. I know it's a different position.
02:03 But is there anyone that was like that to you, especially when you get that start?
02:07 Because there's a lot of pressure on your hand, right, to really step into a real good defense at all?
02:11 No pressure. As far as somebody that's--man, everybody in the building has been good to me.
02:21 It's been amazing just to be a part of it, you know.
02:24 As far as the coaches, the players, the captains on the team, Fred, everybody's been good to me from utmost respect
02:31 and trying to, you know, take me under the wing.
02:37 As far as pressure, no, no pressure. No pressure. I believe in everything I am.
02:43 All of the lessons in life that God put me through to get here, all the hard work I've put in since a child,
02:50 it got me to where I'm supposed to be at.
02:52 And I'm supposed to be right here on this stage and nothing's gonna change. So no pressure.
02:55 That was actually going to be one of the last questions, too.
02:57 Like, do you feel like when you get to that stage, maybe a little jitters get in?
03:00 Or is that something you're going to really welcome and really hype yourself up and get me reluctant?
03:03 I'm not a big jitter guy, bro. I'm one of them guys. If it's going to happen, it's going to happen.
03:08 I believe everything's been written already. It's just up to me to go out there and live it.
03:13 So I'm not a big jitter guy. I'm going to be pumped. I'm going to be excited and ready to go.
03:17 But no jitters over here.