Press Conference (Eli Lee) Elite Edition September 2

0:00I've seen products. Yeah, you kind of have to like get to a routine of yourselves, even like off the field, not just practice, like, like, prepare for things, how you just, in general, just the next step up, the next level is just way different, so that's pretty much how it goes. Do you feel like you're physically ready to put a total claim on your record in this level? Which is more of the better thing up there, or is there still some little growing need for you? I think both, honestly, I mean, physically and mentally, I can grow a lot more. It's just, with time, I'm just going to try to work as hard as I can. What's the Jake good on his career feeling? Like, I'm like, I'm playing here for a better bit in the high level. Yeah, it's definitely, it's been great, you know, in a coach's lower than I. Obviously, I can't really learn from anyone better. He's been through it all, then at the high level, been great. I mean, you just got to take in everything he says, and really just apply to your brain. What level is that? Definitely, definitely. That's what he's talking to you about, and he's done it the way he's done it that the level is done. Yeah, yeah, I mean, it's crazy to really think about it.

1:01As James learned, I just give you tips on how to put linebacker. It's just like, I'm definitely going to be paying attention to him locked in. Like, I got to do this kind of tells me to see, you know, it's not going to get done. I'm not sure how much of a relationship you could have had before with Ryan Lee and TJ. What has that been like with those basketball players? Yeah, it's been cool. We're all cool. It's not anything we're anything. We're all competing at the same time. Ryan Sharpen's iron, that's how the lineback room is. We're all brothers. We're all close for each other's best friends, but we're still competing now. James talked earlier today about the fact that we had to just learn from Toby. But we just know from Tommy, and you have to just learn from somebody. You know, what does that experience mean for you? The fairly different years kind of you two going for the right though? Yeah, so I've really just been, I talk to Sunny and I do everything about it. I just kind of like to watch and see how he does things and how the older guys do things to like kind of replicate that and how they prepare. And that's a part of being the young guy coming up. I just kind of like mentally see how do the guys that have been through it do good at it. Like I need to be like that.

2:01So that's really my mindset. What is the hope in to hire a state pipeline being to you? Yeah, I mean, that's just now getting started. I feel like hopefully we can get more and more of those guys. It's cool. I was the first one that committed from home and straight to here. I know Chip a few years ago came here and played some running back. But I mean, that would be definitely a cool thing to start going. How much do you lean on maybe some guys that are still there or are there some relationships you maybe still have that kind of work with some of my life? Yeah, kind of let them know what things are like and also maybe try to put it on their great pitch. Yeah, for sure. I'm definitely, all my friends are asking how it's going on here. I mean a lot of kids, a lot of state fans there. So I like to spread the word a little bit and tell them what's going on. It's pretty exciting. Yeah, at the same time, Sam and Iraq are like the two that the hostage pushing for us. So I'm always sliding things. Obviously, Sam just committed so that worked out. But next step is Iraq. You mentioned watching Sunday. In fact, it's like what have you picked up from them and what I guess the rest is here about this game?

3:01Yeah, I mean, he is just how he mentally like, I know he's been through it for a while. But he runs a whole defense. He's in every spot exactly where he needs to be. He leads. It's just how I want to replicate my game. It's a situation. Pretty much every game. You're going to kick it. That is defensive tackle. How's that going? It's pretty good. I'm not just saying the stone just yet, but we've been rotating. Time to see what best works. And we've been all-crime at the same time. You see, you saw it. Is that about the physical stuff? Is that something else that you were having? Mostly just giving it just to the position. That was the main thing. Just seeing everything. But Tally, you really have throughout the process, tell me you're better than going there. Go in after doing the massive terms you give them. What are some of those things you were talking about?

4:02What kind of lessons do you have to learn? Really, he told me. The main thing he would tell me was stop over thinking. Just go out there and play. And that really helped me because you know new position, trying to find my rareness stuff. So it was pretty good to give assistance on it. What do you think about the real thing? What do you like the situation that you would like about it? I mean, the strength wise, like I was saying, at speed, I guess those words, that really helps me a lot. What were the conversations like when this first came out, that you possibly think, who are you talking to? What was it like in your mind when they asked you about it? Well, I talked to Coach Jay. Coach Jay was the main one. He wasn't forcing me or nothing. He just said, if you were moving inside, you can't have not stood dead. And you can't do that as well. But I saw that I could help the team out. Get some death right there so I told the movement side.

5:25What is your strategy? Jack, then Jack, JT, Tileek, every time to a great leader, ordered on the field. They helped me with just simple stuff. If I didn't know where to go, get something down. They'll tell me, or they just like hanging out with a good approaching. Just a lot of different small things that got brought us closer to like last year. I already started going this year. I haven't started yet, but I want to give a chance. Yeah, I feel like, maybe we teach now that anybody can be a leader, no matter what you are, especially someone who's doing your thing or even if you're walking, everybody can be a leader. I think when did it hit you last year that this technique, this thing can work for me. You know what I mean? Did you have to grow into it? I grew into it a little bit. It's very new. It's been playing D in my own life.

6:25But I had Tileek help me, like I said, throughout the whole process. When did it really strike you that I could be a factor? What game or how do you feel comfortable on this? Or anything else? I would say closer to us to playoffs, meeting with Tileek a lot, I felt comfortable. I actually do this because he showed me some stress I have. I see him, so you can do this and that really helped me get a confidence in what I can. Yeah, but then you became a factor. You became a factor especially, you know, facing through the playoffs instead. What did mean to you to be a factor that early? All the word of God, first of all, to keep me healthy, to keep doing that. But it's been a lot that Coach James trusted me about to go on in the big games like that. And I'm new to now being able to produce. What about your skillset, do you think it's so fun? Definitely speed and strength. Those are my main two. And I was saying, will help me in the inside of those guards. I think that was really one thing inside.

7:25When you were in high school, you wanted to be a champion. So what's the changes in the moment? To be able to just realize that your body's taken you there anyway. What is the moment for you to be able to do what you're actually doing? Definitely, the main thing also, and so I thought the interview was about. Some of those interviews I said the main thing was being a team player. And moving the three-tags was going to help the team. So I was willing to move this hand through it. It's the comfort zone. Jason and Will and Timewan. Eighting, disowned, effort to tackle. Seven, seven, ten. It's very competitive. We all come in trying to see where we need to get better. Just to keep moving forward. It's a really good competition. And I love them. And Drake, you made the move during the bi-week last year, is that right? What was the toughest part about that whole crash course? Really, nothing. I really embraced it.

8:25I knew that I made the move inside in order to help out the team. And we had some really great years last year. That's more than JT Jack, Kevin Kerry, Kevin James. So it was pretty good, and then moving the three-tags, I also asked them down there. While still being able to showcase what I got there. Did you feel like you just needed to get done quickly? Like, did you feel that pressure to get it done quickly? Because you needed to be ready for that next game? No, they were all in on me just whenever I'm ready. Just let them know how I feel about moving in or setting myself. Did you just get asked about being a leader in the three-tags? Now it's the room with you. You played as a freshman. So it takes a place with a pressure. So you see some drum lanes in these guys. JT Jack, where is Tracy? All the guys that came in are they continue to work hard every day. Even if they don't get it the first time, they don't ask us what are they doing this situation to help me out. So the ability to keep trying to learn from people that's playing in their big stage.

9:26That's the way it really gonna keep them going. Were you surprised how quickly things did start to click for you inside? Just given you said they were gonna be patient with you. But by the time you get to the playoffs, you're playing like that. Is that a surprise? I'm quickly interested in trying to happen. Not really. I knew once I got it, Coach J was gonna trust me a lot more than two going out there each and every time. So I appreciate them. Like I said earlier, thank you Lord. Thank you guys. You know, I'm just a guy that's gonna try to make the most of the opportunity. Whenever it comes, whenever it shows. And you know, I take pride in that. Obviously, you know, the number of opportunities wherever you are, maybe limited. But that's why I say you got to make the most of them. And each and every day, man, I'm just trying to get better, better at my craft. Been a better teammate, been a better person. All the intangible things. And like I said, when I'm going to make the most of it. I'm going to sit down instead of the opposite. Is that a conscious decision? Or is that something that just kind of happens? I think a little bit of both.

10:27I think just the guy that I am, my competitive nature. Obviously, I love to compete with others in this game, in this sport. But I compete with myself a lot. And obviously, some of my downs have been things I hadn't been able to control. Obviously, talking about injuries and things of that nature. But some of the other things. On a day-to-day basis, I think, just being the competitive guy that I am. It's just something that's inside of me. I always want to be better than I was the previous day. Talk about the game. When you look at the speed in the room with you and also John Ross. What does he notice about that, especially? You know, if you went to that, Ross. Yeah. I mean, you can look out there on the field, man. And find around trying to make plays. And for me, and I'm sure John as well. Every time you're on the field, you just want to put that speed on tape. No matter if you're number one reading the play or the last reading play. You're always going to put that speed on tape.

11:27And obviously, the quarterback's to see that, the coaches to see that. And hopefully, my opportunities come from that, which is always going on. There's a lot around the NFL that they might want to shift the workouts to late June or which are live. I think about injuries and provision towards that. And some have talked about how offseason's coaching for players. What are your thoughts on that? What do you consider? To be honest, I haven't really quit much thought into it. I feel like now, like I'm year six in the week, I kind of got to not kind of, but I have a pretty good routine. You know how I schedule my offseason in terms of dates and report dates and all that stuff like that. But shoot, they're willing to push it back. I'm not going to be mad because that kind of just gives us more time. Obviously, with our families. And kind of doing the same things, just working out like the first two weeks of OTAs, just working out and training and stuff like that. Which, I mean, we're kind of doing already, you know what I mean? But then I see the side of it coming in when we do because we got a lot of new faces. Guys that you sign up for agency and then obviously the draft.

12:30So I mean, it's not a bad thing that we come in when we do because guys get to kind of be around each other and know each other. Create that bond early on. Can you send me an injury history for yourself? Do you think that schedule should help in terms of injury recovery and streamwind after the season? Yes and no. Speaking personally, I feel like a lot of my injuries have been things out of my control. I feel like I had a lot of freak injuries. And you know, can prevent, I don't know. But I mean, more time off, more recovery. If you're doing it the right way, it is definitely beneficial. Check around back in 19. The Eagles were very interested in you. What do you remember from that period, that process? It's actually funny because I took a top 30 visit here. And I remember my visit, vividly, coming in, just really loving the place. Loving the staff, loving the people, especially just having conversations with how we just kind of just being in the building. It felt right to me.

13:30And I remember going home after my top 30 visit, talking to my girlfriend, wife at now, but in my mom, I really liked the Eagles. And I was kind of one of my teams going into the draft. I thought that I might be here. And I know that there's been talks that it almost happened or whatever. But I mean, in hindsight, things always work out how it's supposed to be. Now I'm here. So I don't know if that, it was meant to be like that. Obviously it was, but now I'm here. You all have been being installed here. Do you feel that the level is the playing field for you with your competition at all? So I think obviously with Kelly being here, at the end of the day for me, like football, football. And obviously, like I said, like being with the familiar face in Nick. So working with him and kind of like knowing what he's done in the past. And then obviously, Kelly being a different dynamic. The good thing is like a lot of that stuff is similar to just different terms and different names. So for me, it's been very easy to kind of just be in here and get an offense and understand it. So yeah, I think that's a credit.

14:30So another reason why I came here is just knowing Nick has some type of hand in the offense with Kelly. So it definitely helps me. Did that get a break when the jail hurts so far? Keep saying it again. Did questions with jail hurts so far? Yeah, shoot. So I remember when I first agreed to terms would come here. The first person I got a text with was from Jalen. And he was basically just saying like excited to have you here. He said he kind of watched me from afar just knowing that I was a speedy guy, good player, whatever. But just, you know, that meant a lot to me for him to reach out during that time. And since I've been here, man, he's been knows down like this works hard. He's a great leader. Just kind of his presence is aura. It just speaks volumes of the player he is, the leader he is, the person he is, he is man. And he's just grinding to get better each and every day. You know, when you're in the building with a guy like that, you just want to play for them and want to get better with them. So. Do you notice that the way that they do things here is different than the other things you said?

15:32Yes, I would say they are very, very, very detailed. Like Fernando and his team, they're like super, super detailed. Like even today, like we got these little things where we kind of rate our soreness from the prior practice and things like that. And talking with the with Stefan and Chisholid just about plans and all that stuff, like they're very, very detailed. And I've been in places where it's been like that. But I think this is kind of a step up just how they're so intense with those things. And I think it's definitely been a fish to the players. And that's a couple of times as far as why you came here, even Kevin and Jason, but. Haven't he changed the botan in that room as a fellow receiver? How does that sort of get a lot of one on one? Yeah, man, to be honest with you, like looking at looking at the room, looking at the situation, it's like. Like I'm blessed to be with two of the best receivers in the game. And from the outside looking in, like the question is, oh, why would you go there? They already got these guys.

16:32And I'm like, man, I want to be around greatness. Like I want to be in there and be with these guys and work with these guys and learn from these guys. Obviously me and AJ came in together, Devonce came in a year after. And so I've known AJ prior because we trained together for the combine and all that stuff. But like to be in the room with those guys, like it's only room for opportunity to learn more. Like these are two of the best. And if you're in the room with that, like getting all the knowledge you can, like playing, competing with those guys, like. It's only going to make you better. So like I'm blessed to be in this opportunity, blessed to be in that room for sure. Thanks guys. Thanks guys. Thank you. Oh, too. Like it's like, it's pretty cool. Like it's maybe it's a sign or something, you know. But I'm supposed to be here and it's going to be a great year. When you came back here, was G-Roe one of the factors just working under his offense? Maybe because I know you visited a couple different places just in the end reunite with G-Roe and his offense and his scheme.

17:36Oh, yeah. I love Coach G-Roe. Like, you know what I'm saying? He's a great offensive mind. I truly believe that. But the main thing is the main thing. And it was prayer. Like the Lord led me here. Right? So maybe the Lord led me here to be with G-Roe. But the reason I am here is because I prayed only so hard. This is where I was led to. But G-Roe does. And he can, I do believe in him. And I do believe that he will put me in a reposition at all times. What do you think about Gus' personality like suits you or personality? What do you guys work together to work with? That's a tough question. I don't really know his personality like that well. Like that's a tough one like, how are... Oh no, I don't know how each other is personality is for each other. Do you guys like... What do you guys hang out like off the field?

18:36Like how well do you know him? How outside of football? I know I know him pretty well outside of football because I mean we're together in Baltimore for years. But... But I... I just put it this way. He's a good friend of mine, off the field. And he's a good friend of mine on the field. So that was a tough one. I like that one. And I like that one. You're pretty outgoing. Is he the same or is he...? What you think? What would you say about Gus? I would say it's difficult to be more outgoing. You think about going? Yeah, you come in smile. Is it bad thing? No, I'm not going to. That's kind of a seam opposite. You're a good personality. Like Gus seems very... Like you seem very bubbly and talkative or Gus seems very like... You know what I'm saying? I think I'm trying to kind of get it. Like what? Like how does this work? Oh, yeah.

19:38Opposite attract. Look, look. Hey, look. Um... Gus could be outgoing sometimes. But I mean, I just... I don't know. Maybe God just gave me a gift to be a light. Maybe. You know what I'm saying? Because even through hard times, I'm still smiling though. Because every day is a blessing. And especially to do the job that I do. It's a blessing. Especially after all the stuff that I've been through on the field. I got no reason but to smile, right? What do you think? I'm just... I'm just... But to smile, right? What do you think? Still here on the 53 man roster after the stuff that I've been through on the field. But I'll have to feel the same way. Hey, I hope it's not a bad thing. But look, let me tell you this though.

20:38When I'm losing, you will not see me smiling. There's only time... Like one of the only time you'll see that. On the 3rd, was it to see the offensive line blocking and seeing those holes up and up and kind of imagining how you could fit in with that scheme? You know, man, those guys are beast. You know what I'm saying? Like I said earlier in camp, like... I got a little bit of experience under me, so... Like, it's always chemistry. Like, when you first get into camp, when you first put a... a whole line together, and then you put the run-in-backs with it, it takes chemistry. It's always does. It's never going to be like... Sometimes it is. You know, rarely it is. Like everybody's on the same track every time. And the offense last year was nothing... I don't think it was anything like the offense we have this year, right? So you got these guys are trying to get their chemistry together and me with them. You know, I'm trying to get chemistry with them. And we're seeing it, make sure we're seeing it the same way.

21:40And now, like, what you're talking about, I think everybody's seeing it the same way. We have a chemistry, which is a beautiful thing to see, because it's going to keep getting better and better and better. And that's what you're going to be seeing, like, you're going to be like, DING! This is different, you know? So, I think that's what it is. And I love seeing it. I love seeing it, because all those guys are my guys. Even if the year she wore a healthy... Did you ever not play in a preseason before? Like this? Just gearin up, goin in the week one? Yes. What was it? My third and fourth year. My third and fourth year. The one time I did play in a preseason, because my rookie year, I didn't play in a preseason. We had COVID. Right. So the one year that I did play in a preseason, we all know what happened. Nightmare. Nightmare, man. That was a nightmare. But, maybe a better man, you know? So, I appreciate that moment, too. I can look back on it now and be smile about it,

22:41because I made it through that storm. You know, you always gotta make it through the storm. I ran into the storm, like, I think it was, I wanna say, it's bulls compared to cows. Like cows run away from the storm. Bulls run to the storm to get through it faster. You know what I'm saying? Have you ever heard of this story? So, yeah. My name is El Toro. You know what I'm saying? So, if it's me, like, they made it in Baltimore, and like, I'm running to that. I'm running to the storm. Let's get this over with, because I know I'm gonna get through it, you know what I'm saying? So, I mean, whenever, because I didn't know that, I really didn't know that one set of cows, I guess you could say, they run away from the storm and the bull runs to it. I didn't know that. That's pretty cool to know. And then my name, so, happened to be from Baltimore, El Toro. So, I don't know man, some things, I know I'll be stacking up. Oh, this guy named David Andre. He's a reporter, I think.

23:42Yeah, he's a reporter. He gave me that name, because I started speaking Spanish, so good. You know? Yeah. But yeah. You got to be Spanish? No, man. What? Look, look, look. I'm open-leg. Me and this nice looking young lady right here, we were talking about how we, like, just learning, I love to, you know, be, learn people's cultures, you know, learn about people. Like you, I would love to learn about you. What makes you you? Right? Oh, you got it. I bet you we can get it out in 15 seconds. Where are you from? Where are you from? Here. You from here? Mostly. Mostly, with that me. I was born in Milwaukee. Was there a perforated here? When we filled out here, we take a boy out of Philly, but you can't take the Philly out of the boys. Okay, so you look, look, look.

24:42I already learned, I already know. You, you a tough guy. You, you, you a tough guy, but you got a soft spot in you because you've been living out here. Can you be tough out here too? You've been on the 405, it's a 5-5 right? Yeah, but you got it. You got it, you got it, man. You got it. The nun, Ms. Eris, that's gonna get me on a field. I mean, you know, I do, I do what I'm supposed to do. That's, that's gonna get me on the field. How long does that, how do you manage those expectations for people to think that you should be playing week one when the season comes around? How do you manage people based on that? You know, I don't really let, let me get to my head because, you know, like I'm here, you know, I got dudes in the room that are, you know, like, IGB, you know, he's, it's gonna be a three-year start. I got your main, first in all, American, you know, he's gonna play this year too. So I can't let what people say on the net, you know, get to me because, you know, anybody can say, oh, he's gonna play this year, but you know, I actually got to prove it. So I actually got to come out here, you know, work, you know, in that spot. What's your most important thing you've learned so far in your three months here? Um, competing every day. That's the biggest thing.

25:42Having to compete, you know, these guys are a pair. They take winning and losing to heart. So, you know, my first, my first week up here when we did our competition, you know, I was winning, did I actually, I got that first loss on my belt and, you know, it kind of opened my eyes because like, these guys take it to heart. When they lose, they don't like it. So, you know, I kind of got that now where I don't like losing. You had the opportunity to be around the team for that CFP run. What did you learn from Justbost, you've been seeing this team make that run? You know, being real tight with your brothers. You know, they're real tight. You know, they push each other. You know, it's a real brotherhood. They don't let nobody down. They always got each other back. So, I mean, it's a new team now. So, you know, we got to build that kimchi with each other. You know, just get tight. And I feel like when I was there for that playoff running and I practiced when they were at the National Championship, you know, I just got to watch, you know, how guys are, you know, real locked in. They're close with each other. They're not letting nobody slack off. And, you know, I feel like we had the opportunity to do that with Justbost.

26:42How did you handle Luke? You handle that first loss. That first loss, you know, it kind of got to me. It was the IGB. You know, he, you know, he let me hear. So, after that loss, I was like, nah, I can't let this happen. It's because it's like, now it's not high school where you used 17, 16 years old. And if you lose, you lose. Up here, it's not. If you lose, the coach will see that. So, and they're going to see how you respond to it. So, I feel like I had to, you know, open my eyes, I had to go, going there and lock them like, yeah, I can't let this happen. So, I got to go up. And, you know, these guys are counting on me too. So, it's really important that I don't lose. If you hadn't described yourself as a competitor, how would you do that? I'm a great competitor. You know, I like winning. Who does one like winning? So, I mean, winning is, it's in my blood. You know, my parents taught me that, at a young age, you know, going after a competing for anything that you want. And I feel like if you can go after a compete for, you know, it's yours. And if you compete for it all the time, who don't take it from me? So, I mean, I'm a good competitor. I'm always going to go after that, try to take what's mine. If it's out there, then anybody can have it.

27:42And I'm going to be the winner. There's some role lockers in your room, obviously. Are you a talker? What would your natural preference be? Yeah, I mean, it could come out on me. But I don't really know my game through the talking for this part. But, you know, if it gets there, it gets to that point where yeah, I can bring it out. Because, you know, regardless, I'm not just going to let nobody just come out here and just, you know, catch balls on me. So, if I'm having a good day when I'm consistently getting TPUs, yeah, I'm going to talk. But, you know, being in that room, you kind of got to talk. You know, the Jamei, you got IGB, you know, those real talkers in that room. So, it kind of makes you want to bring it out. And, you know, when you bring that out, that just brings energy out of the whole defense. And, when you got the whole defense clicking, I mean, you can see, you can see. Is there anyone that's kind of a competition you have with St. Andrew? It was during the winter. We were doing, you know, just stuff on the field. We were just having the time of the field. Just a lot of competitions. So, I mean, he just kind of, it was a day where, you know, they had us going up against just a freshman. And then they kind of threw us in there and fired against the older guys.

28:42So, we had to, you know, we had to wake up and, you know, we all kind of lost. And then all kind of, like, we all kind of can't get that as a freshman group, like, what are we going to do about this? Because, you know, some of their kind of needs to step up in those roles. Yeah, come here, welcome to college. Yeah, definitely, definitely, definitely, my work on college moments. You know, you know, just, just showing that, you know, it's real now, a metal high-oh-state. I'm not in Houston, Texas, I'm more in my school. Far from my family, you know, I got to wake up, I got to grow, I got to mature fast. And, you know, I just got to get ready for the next level. You've mentioned high school a couple times. How did, you know, growing up very in Texas, playing at that level? How do you feel like that helped you prepare for a real high-stay? I feel like it prepared good, you know. I feel like I went to a powerhouse in Texas. We obviously ran the Houston area. You know, we've been running the Houston area for a long time now. And I feel like, you know, we're a real college program. We live just like these guys who do the same, this. You know, the level of ball I play, the highest level ball in the Texas 6A. You know, we're going against guys like Dunkin' Bill, North Crowley, those top schools, you know, receiving the Korean War against it.

29:43And I want to get you in three times in my career. So, I mean, those that really prepared me for this level, you know, coming in like, okay, this is not where it's a little school where, oh, they don't believe that I can come here and make an impact. I came from big schools, so they're counting on me to make an impact. Because, you know, I think, I mean, everybody would say Texas is one of the highest football players, bars in the country, you know, they go as floated in the probably Georgia. So, I mean, they're counting on me to be ready and that level of ball prepared me real well. How do you do against the Korean? You know, it was when lose, when lose. You know, I went something, he lost something. So, I mean, it's just getting better on Shabban Iron. Because, you know, he's the top receiver, obviously, in our class. You know, I feel like he's going to have a good impact at Oregon. So, I mean, it's just what's going to happen next. Looking for to see it in him again? Yeah, definitely, definitely. And you know, I plan on planning against him. We want to see him this year, hopefully we'll see him in the big team in Jammyship. So, you know, I want to rematch him. Devin, you committed super early in the process, six months after that.

30:46You shut things down when, quite frankly, someone of your caliber didn't have to do that. You could have seen kids play the game a little bit longer than that. But you chose to not do that. It's kind of a lot getting here. Why? You know, because this is where I felt this was home. You know, I didn't really feel like, you know, standing Texas was a good thing for me. I didn't feel like that was home for me. Up here, I just felt like it was home. You know, because of all, and because they, you know, they're making it, you know, making me feel important up here. And then, you know, like, you could ask, because how many times I came up here, throughout my high school career, I came for 13 times. So, it got to the point where I was knowing the guys on the team. I had the numbers just like that. When I come up here, you know, I don't got to always build the coaches. I can go chill with some of the guys on the team. So, it's just me, you know, knowing what I want to play my college ball at, you know, knowing where I felt like it was home and then, you know, it was also my parents too, you know. My mom being, you know, feeling safe that, you know, I'm up here, you know, I'm handling the business and not having to worry about me. And she goes to sleep.

31:47All right. Thanks. I don't have time to sit back and watch what was done because I'm so busy doing what I do. So, I don't have time for, you know, even though my arms could reach that back to the pet myself on the back, I ain't got time for it. You don't like it anyway. Every once in a while, I do it because I know y'all ain't going to do it. So, I don't have time for it, but I appreciate it. And I'm thankful of the calling that God has on my life. I really am. Now, we go to part two. Part two, with what you brought to the programs in the historic Black colleges and to Colorado, do you feel an obligation with whom you are to perform at a higher level or coach at higher level? Yeah. Like, I, yes. Yes. I'm, I'm judged on a different scale. I, my, my, my, my wins are totally different than your wins. Your wins, you just judge in football. That's why I have to start out and give you education and academics and so forth. I have to give you those things so you understand

32:48there's a greater scope. I can't win nine games and we, our GPA suffers. Our GPA can't be high, but we lose another eight games. We, we can't not go and grab high school players and you got a bunch of guys that are in the portal out of the portal that is getting incarcerated. My wins are different. We have to win in every area. That's the way we're judged. I'm cool with that. Because we, we, we come a little different. So the expectation is greater, but it's not just football. It's been like, did all my life. I've always had a greater expectation for myself. So the expectation you have for me would never outweigh the expectation I have for myself. Thank you. That was a wonderful question. All right. We'll go to the left side, third row in the middle. Hey, Dionne Collins-Willson with the action network over here. One question. What led you to the hiring of Robert Livingston come from this? Oh my God. They just the opportunity.

33:48I mean, we needed the defense coordinator and, and I'm a pro man. And that's nothing against the college coaches because we have some phenomenal college coaches, especially in this conference. But I'm a pro. So I like the relationships and the thought process of a pro. And coach, Livinson was, Livingston was recommended to me by a few pros that, that I'm well familiar with in our trust. My, Ximmer being one of them. And his interview process and his consistency and his thought process and his relatability just put place him well above the other applicants. I'm happy I made the decision. And when we look back on it, I'm, first of all, I pray to God that I can keep him because I feel like we're going to kick butt, we're going to win and he's going to be a head coach and college or pros and whatever he endeavors because he's that good. So I'm thankful and I'm happy for him, but he is awesome.

34:49When I tell you awesome, he is totally awesome. Okay, we'll go over here to the right side in the first row. We got another guy on the side of the ball named Pat Sharma that's pretty darn good as well. I mean, really good. And his compatibility and relationship with Shador is amazing. And what they plan on doing this season, I can't wait to see it myself. Coach Prime, my name is Arnie Bayesmore with Vegas Sports today. Yeah, I want to officially welcome you to our amazing City of Las Vegas. Thank you. Now, my question. I don't gamble though. So you ain't getting that out of me. Okay. Okay. With respect to legacy and impact, what legacy and or impact do you hope to have on the world of sports as a player and or as a coach? Both really, I don't care like how you see me, how you look at me. I'm more apt to understand how I see me and how I look at me and how God sees me and how he looks at me. So really, I don't care how you see me. It's never going to be enough.

35:50Nothing I do is ever going to be enough. So I'm cool with that. I've I've understand I understand that that is life and that's how life is going to be. But I plan on being a tremendous blessing to as many people that I can bless, especially those probably 120 young men that put on this CU helmet and go out there and to the play for our school in our program. So the sum and all up, man, I just want to be known as a great dad. I think I had three sons here today and I just want to be a great dad to them. That's it. Thank you, my man. I appreciate you. I will say in the right side, we'll go about halfway back on the aisle. Coach Domizzo WDY in Fargo, North Dakota. You're opening up with North Dakota State or known GF. Yes, killer. Tell me what you know about the bison. They're good. They're really darn good. And I'm mad at Rick right now if I put them on the schedule, open up with them. Like, can you give me a layup or something? Like those guys are wonderful. Their staff has always been amongst the best.

36:55Many people have been trickling from that staff to go to higher levels. Those kids play their butts off. They play tough. They don't make many mistakes. They're accustomed to winning. They don't give a darn about being at home on the road that does not face them whatsoever. We just can't wait to see it. I know it's a national television game. I believe it's a Thursday night game. Hopefully not too late. But we can't wait to see them. It's going to be a phenomenal game, phenomenal match up. But that program is second to none. All right, we'll go to the left side, sixth throw on the far left side. Stuart Mandel from the athletic going into your two. What are some of the things that gave you confidence that this season can end a lot better than for a day? When I see the offensive line and the way they train, the way they work, the way to go about their job. When I see the defensive line coaches and the way they're on their kids and the way they're demanding excellence and the way these young men are working in the athletes that they are and the bodies that they have and they've developed right now.

38:07I see the receiving core staying out the practice to work with the quarterback coming over quarterbacks, coming over there on off days to work with one another. When I see the running backs doing the same led by a former walk on Charlie Alford doll. When I see the special teams, Mark Vesett is here right now. I think he's a darn pro in modder that don't miss. And Jayce Philly and those guys that they can't wait to their time. They understand special teams mean that we're special. When I see those, the secondary shoot. They get out of bed and want to play man to man coverage. I love it. And shall OK wait to hit somebody. You know, Cam Silman. So many of the guys, the change made from safety to linebacker would Trevor. And I really think this young man is is going to be the next brand or like her. I think he's going to make that transition from safety to lineback and be dominated like I.

39:08I just see the won't in the fire and desire from our young men. And I can't wait to you get an opportunity to see it as well. So I'm very optimistic on what we have on our plate this year. All right, we'll go to the right side. Third row right in the middle. Philip Duke's of the five star flex on on three coach Sanders. I know. As the father of three Division one football players, what did you learn during their process as a parent that's helped you formulate your recruit a style as a head coach? Great question. First and foremost, I've set in all seats. The parent seat being recruited as the kid now being the coach that helps me tremendously when I'm recruiting when I'm understanding what the parent is thinking, what the kid is thinking now what the coach desires to want to know. It's been a tremendous asset for me to understand those facets of this new recruiting age that is impacted tremendously by NILs and collectives.

40:19So I love it. Sometimes I don't like it, but I love it. I love that these kids are being compensated somewhat for what they bring to the table. I don't want them to put the bag before the game because if you have the game, the bag is going to come. I want them to understand that. But I just don't want to take away from the purity, the purity of this wonderful game that we have college football is phenomenal man. This conference is phenomenal. Look at what we are. I've got to be kidding me. I'm a brother from Folk, my ice floater. And I'm sitting up here in the darn end zone in Las Vegas talking to the whole darn country about a childish game that I play when I was a shouting. Don't you understand how powerful how wonderful this is and I'm so darn thankful to be here. So I try to relate that to all our young men. This is a moment, man. You better maximize it. And let's go get it. Thank you. It's a wonderful question.

41:19We'll see in the right side. We'll go halfway back and I'm going to end of you after this. Right. I got you today. Right. Okay. All right. We'll go back halfway back on the right side on the center aisle. Coach Prime Alex Blackburn, college football dogs. With all the media attention surrounding your program, how do you stay focused on the main goal, which is winning games? How do you keep yourself and your team focused? Well, you keep the main thing, the main thing. The main thing never should transfer itself. Winning is what we're here for as far as the focus and attention. I think every since I stepped into Florida state in 85 has been like that for me. This ain't new to me. I'm not new to this. Like we say in the hood. I'm true to this. So this is new to some of you all and you want us to change. We're not going to change. We're going to try to do things being smart, tough, fast, disciplined with character. That's what we're relaying to all our young men. But the cameras and the lights. I think I haven't seen one kid here today to say he didn't like that. He may not like the process, but he likes to the

42:30package that you wrap him up in and you put him out there. All these kids are excited about the EA sports game, right? There's there's scores and levels. They want attention. They want affection. They won't love. They want adoration. Adulation. I'm sorry. Yeah. We give you that. But you got to work first. So you can understand the consistency there of is going to take you to where you want to go every time mom and dad. If that's what you please. I will stay over here on the right side. Third row right in the middle. Hi coach. How you doing? Good. How are you? You go, girl? I know you. Nikki Edwards, you sports report. We talked during spring and throughout last season. The importance on stopping the run. Yeah. A guy like BJ green and your defensive line. Yeah. How is he going to be a leader in achieving that goal? BJ green is already a leader. Do you know that BJ green played for me when he was five through seven years old with truth. And Dallas and well South Dallas. So we he's been a part of my life for a long time and they raised him right at Arizona State and for him to come over now. It's phenomenal. His work ethic the way he approaches and attacks the game.

43:42It's phenomenal. His want his desire. His will. I just got finished joining interview and they say well you have two young men that projected probably to be the top five picks. I said yeah, but we won't for in the first round. And always that's going to happen as we win and they're dominant. And I think BJ green could be one of those guys. And I think he will be one of those guys because he wants it that much. Shane round deal. Amari McNeil. I'm just the name of you and corn is to to Feeck Chodosi T.C. That's my dog from Arkansas. I mean we have some guys inside there that can flat out do it outside. We have some guys that can go get the quarterback as well. We just want to be in the position to allow them to be the best they can be. And that's one thing that coach Livingston is doing well. He's not coming in trying to remake everything and reinvent the will. He's like let's find out what these guys can do well and let them do what they do.

44:46And that's what we're going to do. That's the formula. I told you guys that's that's that's what we do. Okay. That's that's how we coming. We're going to find out a final question far left side about a question. I'm just having a good time. Now you got to go right out of time. We got a shot. Pluck joy. Did they give you a shot? Pluck. How are you doing coach? How are you doing? On me, I con TG sports here. I have a quick question regarding building a winning culture. Yeah. What does that mean? What does a winning coach remain? I want to know what that means because you got to be a winner to understand what that winning coach remain. Everybody want to know about the culture, the culture. What is culture? To me culture is day in day output in the work. Lifestyle. Lifestyle. Yeah. So progressing in that general area right there as far as the winning culture side. Last year you guys started off strong. You did kind of feels a little bit towards the end of the year. But I remember you still talking about continuing to build that winning culture day in day out.

45:47Do you feel the guys that you brought in this year are going to be able to help you fill those gaps? I don't talk about culture that much. So that wasn't me. But I do talk about the consistency there of the goal and being consistent in whatever you do. So if you you have a team that's that got to be a little more physically tough. You you got to develop that. If you got mentally tough strategically satisfying and from the coach and staff's point of view. You got to understand that but culture everybody's own this word this word and I don't understand this word one bit and somebody got to help me understand what that word culture means. An environment. Understanding of winning you want that I feel like I'm a winner. I know I'm a winner. So whatever I display, however I go about my job, my work, my business, my personal life. That's that's of a winner. That's all I know. I don't know anything else but that. So in due time and due process, we're going to reach that goal because we're going to get there because I know I'm going to get there.

46:54And I'm not going by myself. I'll do it coach. Thank you for your time. Wow. God bless you. What are you. And aggressive at times and coverage but now they pitch a lot of different looks at you as well. But it starts they eliminate explosive plays they play really sound football they have good overlap in their defense. They're able to change the picture up. They have really good deliming, good edges, and then they're able to cover outside. So they create a lot of challenges there. Right, Bill Chris. I know this isn't the first time you face Chip Kelly,

47:54but I'm curious if his success that he's had here, he had here in the past, if that still kind of resonates within the program at all. In what way, what do you mean? Just like the success that he had, 10, 15 years ago, if that's still kind of, people still talk about that, did you learn about that when you got here? Do you remember that era of Oregon football? Yeah, I remember the teams that he had here. You know, I think everybody respects him as a football coach and certainly the things that he was able to accomplish while he was here. Back, right? Correct. Coach Ohio State has obviously two star wide receivers in Smith and in a book, what do you see from them on film and what sort of challenges will those two kind of present to the Oregon secondary this weekend? Yes, stop, go. You know, they can catch the ball and they can turn into a big play right away. You know, it's not necessarily always averaged up to the targets way down the field. It's their ability to catch it in space and get vertical. They block really, really well in the perimeter. And those guys have big catch radiuses. So you see them win on balls that you would call 50-50 balls a lot of times they win on contested balls who do a really good job there. Alright, cool up, Matt. Thinking your career, you've coached

48:55in nine different top five matchups. Is there any common trader, you know, think you have to do in a game in those games to win that's more heightened in this type of atmosphere? I'd say winning football is winning football, but I think you always look when you're playing an opponent, you know, what's some commonalities in games that they haven't had success in and that you've had success in, right? Where are those places where you can find strengths? What are the pieces of the game that are going to matter the most? You know, obviously explosive plays and takeaways is always something that we focus on here. But, you know, rushing game, I think that matters. You know, ability to win on critical downs in critical situations, red area, I think are all really important. Back left there. You and your players have just talked after every single opponent just still about it being Oregon versus Oregon. How was that mindset? Do you feel like kind of prepared this team for this big moment this week? Yeah, I think just the constant growth, you know, the focus on what can we get better and if we attack the things that we need to improve on? And that's been our focus all year. And, you know, throughout the season, I think you've seen us play better and better ball in certain situations and attack things

49:56that we weren't as good at the week before. Alright. Does it have a knowledge of Ohio State that's running back coach, give you any sort of advantage this week? I think that probably plays both ways. You know, like last week we played against coaches that have been here before and when we played UCLA, we played against coaches that have been here before. It makes you change your terminology. Like you're going to change the names of calls, stuff before that might have been a run for us, maybe now it passed, something was going right, is now maybe going left. But that's pretty easy for our players to do, once you, you know, communicate that and change it. Certainly he knows some of the things that we like to do. On the same note, we certainly like to know some of the things that he likes to do. So, you know, Coach Lock did a great job for our program. He's doing a great job for theirs now. Second round left. There. After Friday's game, Dylan talked about emphasizing protecting the ball in the red zone, that being a key. What are some of the ways you do that in a week to try to get those situations kind of figured out? Yeah, you play red area football, right? You could put it down there, put the ball inside the 20 and you go, you know, communicate, what do we want that to look like? And if you expect to see it in the game, you got to see it in practice first.

50:56And, you know, he knows he wants those plays back. You know, that's, that doesn't take anybody's, you know, especially to recognize that. And he wants that back. But it's about how can we coach that better and make sure that those situations are avoided? I love games. How much more confident are you, Tosh, the defensive staff as a whole in the CB2 position this year compared to last year when obviously those Washington games where they were able to exploit some things there differently than perhaps this year, or at least you hope for this year. How much more confident you get that spot in the depth that you have there? I'm confident in our players. I like our team. I like the guys that we get the opportunity to go out there and play with. I think our guys play competitive ball. This will certainly be the best challenge for every single position on our team this week. I believe it's been back, back, back weeks now, if no sacks allowed, what do you think has been the biggest difference in the online in the last few weeks that's made you feel confident in their play heading to this? Yeah, I think a lot of pieces add up to that. You know, timing scheme is part of that. How we've adjusted some of the things that we do, I think is a big part of that. And then the communication between the offense and line of the quarterbacks

51:57has also been really important there. I glove, Matt. A lot of attention has been on Jeremiah Smith, but Ameka has been pretty darn good too. It's just been your impressions of him and challenging facing another receiver of that caliber when they have two of them. Yeah, they got more than just two great wide outs. They got several great wide outs in their program. Certainly those two are very, very special, but whether it's Tate, I mean, there's a bunch of them on their team that can go play winning football. So that's what makes this a challenge. You can't just say, OK, I'm going to focus on this one guy because there's other guys in the field that can beat you. All right, that. Now you guys talk about blocking out outside noise. Last week, there was a lot of ups. That's not a chaos in college football. Do you use that to your advantage to kind of hone in and to show your players why it's so important to have a single game focus? I think our players are really aware of that. Our messaging doesn't change necessarily week to week. You know, that's been something that's been consistent for us through Fall Camp. That it's about the guys in our room and what we're able to focus on, not what everybody else is talking about. Back left, Aaron. The last time that Chip Kelly came to Eugene, it was College Game Day. UCLA came in as an unbeaten opponent, Ranked High.

53:00I know for you. I think your profile picture, I think on social media, is still that one of you going to the College Game Day set. Just what do you remember about being there, being at College Game Day, and just your feeling of being on that set for the very first time? Yeah, I think more than anything that day, I remember our fans and how much of an impact I felt like they had on that game. How fun that environment was for our players to get to be a part of. You know, obviously you come to a place like we're going to play in big time games. And this is one of those opportunities, but to get to be a part of big time atmosphere as well. And certainly this is one of those. That's the room. Jordan's been so consistent in the run game, but it seems like it's been hard at times to find maybe a second runner. What's the key of getting Noah and Dylan more involved maybe this week? Yeah, just that consistency. You know, continuing to find opportunities to be able to block up runs properly for those guys and give them opportunities to win on the second level. I love James. What do you see from Mulhoward that's made him effective in raising his completion percentage compared to a year ago and what insight, if any, can Kobe Savage provide,

54:00given that he practiced against him for a couple of years? Similar to these other teams that we've played that have had guys that have crossed over. I think, again, they do a great job schematically, defining, you know, completions. If you've blown up hats in the in the run game, there's going to be some guys that are open outside. They've done a good job of throwing in to open windows and attacking that. That's right. Coach, this program seen a lot of big games in its history in Austin stadium. You've coached a few of them yourselves. Do you feel like this matchup against Ohio State top five top three matchup? Maybe the biggest of this program has ever seen in its history? I certainly can't speak to the entire history of Oregon. I think this is a really big game. I think it's a great opportunity for two great teams to get to play against each other. Again, I think that's why you come to a place like this. But I think this will be an awesome atmosphere for our fans and certainly our players. All right, Zach. Going back to Michigan, see, did you ever get an explanation for why that hit? I'm Dylan. It was not a late hit or a revenue pass. We sent it in. I haven't got a response yet on why it wasn't one. I was told that the guy watching said that it wasn't. So we sent it in. We'll see what it looks like.

55:01On the left here, a second row here. What's Jury undone to kind of get a bit of a roll? Looks like he got in there for the first time this last game. Kind of what's been going on behind the scenes that we may have missed? Yeah, just being part of it starts with him being healthy. You know, has been being up at times, but he's practicing really hard. He's working his tail off the beyond the field force, whether that's in special teams in a roll, a wide out. And it's created some opportunities for him. What makes their running back through a unique and what's kind of the biggest asset that each one of those guys has in terms of how they go about running. Could stylistically, I think they're a little bit different than each other. Yeah, maybe a little different, but I'm the same token there. Guys that have good size and speed and they don't go down on first contact. You know, they're really good at using their weapons as far as at the second level. They do a good job with stiff arms. But they rarely really go down on first contact and they have really good vision and they're patient until that opportunity window opens up. But when they see a hole, they hit it and they hit it with great speed. Last question, James? Will's done really well at putting safeties and conflict to create some of those big plays

56:04that you guys have hit offensively. You touched on it that OSU is just really basically given up nothing of 30 plus yards. How have they been able to avoid that when that's been a strength of yours in particular? How have they been able to avoid it so far in these five games? Yeah, I think that that's a piece. They have a they do a good job defensively of not, you know, creating conflict of avoiding conflict. And they're guys do a good job of farming the own land, not worrying about what somebody else is doing, but doing their job and being sound in their job. There's times where those safeties are high and they're responsible for the deep part of the field. And they let the, you know, the corners fit the run. There's times when they're guys that are responsible for the run fit and then those corners do a great job of covering down field. So they do a good job of changing that up and guys doing their job. Thank you coach. Appreciate it.

57:14Thank you for all those visiting coach today. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you. Once again, your visit to America is on the way to the top of the country. First time I met him, we just found it really well. What do you think he can bring to the top? So like the lockers, everything.

58:16What's been like for you to come out to California being on the front of that? It's a different being out of state for food here. There's a one you were just a couple of hours ago. It's definitely different. So fly here. New generation of recruits where I don't think anybody outside looking in a room with questions, the strength of your commitment, like you're locked in your last eight, you send it over and over. But making visits around the country, you see other schools. It's almost a totally different mindset. What's that coach doing in the last decade? How do you approach those other visits and how do you communicate with Ohio State about them? What's been the message to the top three? I've been a kid for a long time. I just left the kid. I'm always locked in and I'm still enjoying buses. This is only a one time. I'm still very interested in it. Enjoying the school as I said in life.

59:19It's going to be really hard trying to get the flip. So how does it feel to be in Ohio State? What does it mean to you want to take home to this? In the past rush, I mean, second guy eight times is obviously something that's pretty rare in the NFL. I mean, I feel like these last four weeks, I feel like we've just been rushing better together just being in tune and in show. I know we chase we can't just rely on numbers. But the 10 pressure is last week, the two sacks this week. Do you feel like you're playing some of the best football in your career right now? Yeah, for sure. Just trying to stay locked in. My motto, getting in the air, just keep rushing. That's all I continue to do. Pam was saying the other day that he had helped give you some advice or share some words for you.

1:00:21What did he tell you? What is he? He always tries to give me nuggets, just throughout this whole season. He just told me, taught me a lot, just about the game, off the field stuff. So we always talk. Chase, how would you summarize the impact of Brian Young? Oh, D.Y. You know, God who played position. God who just been around the game. So long. You know, we go to practice, we go back to the basics, hand placement steps, low pad level. So D.Y. he's definitely a great addition to, you know, just taking that role and, you know, doing this thing with him. As the past rush been simplified a little bit, Darren was kind of saying that like over the last four weeks.

1:01:26Some of it. How has it been? We've been scheming up a little differently, but, you know, for the most part, it's just now just be there one or one is in. You know, you just get an opportunity to do it. It looked like just going back and watching through that the commander has put some extra attention on Brian, Brzee, and on the interior every now and then. How does that impact you guys over on the edge? Yeah, it was every home, you know, she's a one guy, you know, at least one guy one on one. And I think yesterday we just going to be good. It just went on one on one. It's all across the board. And is that where sort of the fundamentals of what be wise been focused on is that where that has the greatest impact? We've just been folks and on everything has first run game just everything is all.

1:02:27Thanks, guys. Thanks, though. Thanks, Jason. Thank you. GT and Jack, land opposite sides are they as opposite off the field as they are on in terms of personality and just. They're offices, but they also are like one of the closest people I know they spend a lot of time together. They've come from different sides of the country, so they're different people for sure, but they're both really great people and really great men. I'm sorry, I respect both of them. Did you have the personality? How did you do that? I'm not going to do that. I'm sorry. I'm not going to do that. It's about to ask the war and podcast throughout the throughout the season we would always see you on Wednesday nights. You and Nathan would be some of the last people off the field. Are the things that you're working on after practice always the same?

1:03:30Is it a routine? What are the things that you're hoping to get out of those extra moments after practice? It's a routine, pretty much the keys that we need to go into the game with and then also changes week to week on based on what our jobs are going to put us into doing. So every week we go through the same things and then we add certain things that we do for what the team that we play is going to ask us to accomplish. Bill, we're going to win Columbus Dispatch. Yeah, I already got one here. What do you often call this Dispatch? When Texas uses play action and Nathan uses play action in a fair bit, what do they do well in those spots and what's the key for you guys in those moments with Quinn? They do a really good job with I Candy and it creates a lot of challenges for defense in order to see if it's runner pass and see because that's when they're going to take their shots too as well. So really just having great eye discipline seeing the line and seeing what is telling us.

1:04:31So that's what it does. Deep right, Nick Walker, Letterman, roll. Hey, look, you guys had a pretty good game plan for Tyler Warren when you guys played him. You guys have another Texas guy that's a good tight end and Gunnar Hound. What are you guys going to have to do to limit him and what do you think about his game? He's a really good player. He makes a lot of plays and he has a lot of receiving yards this year. So really just do the same thing we've done all year. Just be disciplined in our responsibilities and if you're on them, you got to make a play when it comes. Right, one of the mandra billets. Playman.com. When you think their receivers is kind of a whole, you know, they spread ball around. It seems like a lot of what stands out of the way that they can spread ball around those different guys. A lot of really good athletes. I played with Isaiah Bond last year who's a really great receiver. A lot of speed. And then all the receivers have made a lot of plays. So I mean, everybody has to be on their pees and queues if we're going to stop them and have a do a really good job.

1:05:31Front row here, 10 May, Letterman Rowe. Yeah, Kale, but you moved up here and I don't have to tell you when you moved. Basically a year ago. And stuff. It was a little bit of a leap of faith because you know how many athletes are on this team. Good athletes to stuff. But when did you really feel this defense come into its own? And then then pass that man watching in the Rose Bowl, you're recognition of what was coming seem to be on point. Did it feel like that? I mean, you personally. I think the defense has played really well throughout the season. I think we've had games where we played better and games where we haven't put it all together. But I think that's how all defenses are. So I can't say there's a certain moment where I think we put it together. But what's your second part of your question? You seem really on point against Oregon about recognizing what was coming. I mean, you were really active out there directing and things like that. Did it feel like that? I guess. I feel like as Luke said earlier, the preparation that we put in goes into that and just feeling comfortable

1:06:36and what we're doing, what we're seeing with the other teams. I feel like that allows us to play fast and to me and Latins to communicate to everybody else. Do I miss anyone for questions here? Steve, how long have you been playing in sports? Yeah, Caleb, but you came to Ohio State to play for National Championship. And there were a lot of ups and downs throughout the season. Just to be in this position, the last four teams still live. Just you feel validated by that. And did you always have faith that this is how it was going to turn out? I came to Ohio State to become a better player and to help the team be as good as it can be. Not to win a national championship. Not like that wasn't the only goal for me coming here. I really just wanted to be on the team and be with the brotherhood. But it's a great feeling being in the final four and being with the team and everything that comes with that. But it's a blessing to be here. And one final question, Bill, where Ben wants to play this back? Yeah, I did want to follow up. When I talked to you at the back of the game, you said when they scored their first and second touchdown,

1:07:38you were really hot on the sidelines. What was your message to the team? And that's a good offense. They're going to score against most teams. Why were you so hot? Really just because we didn't execute, which let them score. So we've done that a lot, which is something we can't do in these big games and these games where it's willing to go home. So we got to make the plays when they come and get our competitive excellence as Coach Dases. Make the play where your number's called. Caleb, thank you very much. The offense and be the, you know, the intricate details, throw them in positions, make a mistake. You'll never make that mistake again. So there's a good job of learning from others. I think he's, you know, the run's really well. He's very, very clean from mechanics and footwork standpoint. And probably some of the toughest hands, you know, on the team, catching the ball in traffic. So it doesn't matter really where you put Cornell, he's going to take care of his job. And be a competitive advantage. Well, it was Chris or Brandon Lashov, the guys who maybe don't get him in January and are rolling in the summertime.

1:08:41And it seems like he's going to be in a similar timeline. What do you see in those guys in terms of how quickly they were able to pick things up and what you saw that they were starting to really get it. That maybe can tell you about what to expect from mine. Yeah, yeah. My one came in as a, as a, as a, in the June. And, but man, he's really done a good job of learning the offense, learning when I walk, you know, what I'm doing. I would say that he's a lot of pride in his work. He does not like having M.A.'s. Almost to the point where he tries to justify himself on why he did things like violent. You know, he breathed, but I appreciate that edge. I really do. You know, he's jumping in and trying to take reps. He's really doing a good job, you know, and I think right now he's just chasing building a body of work to justify where he's at. That's the hardest part about coming to June. What body of work did you really, you know, develop their proven to your peers or your coaches to really justify what you want to accomplish? Right? You guys know that. So that's what he's chasing right now.

1:09:42He's trying to stack days and just show and, you know, develop his identity as a full player here at Highest. How do you do that when I'm putting too much because you're in here point? He's just behind because he wasn't here. He's just like a hard room to play catch up and just giving up competitive. How do you walk him through that coach and through that making sure he's running his own race and not worried about? Well, I'd say probably every snap you take is worth three, right? I mean, if you do something great, it's worth three. If you do something bad, it's worth three, you know, it's not one minus, it's three minuses. So I'm not saying that's perfect, but that's probably a decent way to look at it. And again, at the end of the day, guys, I mean, your peers know your teammates know. And frankly, I just asked them, you know, and so he's chasing their group. That's why he's here. That's why they're all here. It's to be in this kind of room and hold themselves to high expectations. But, you know, the expectation of receiving what I want, that can't be an expectation. And so, you know, it's every athlete's challenge.

1:10:43But the work being put in is good. We're just working on, working on stacking days right now. What do you see from brand end of tight ends? I mean, you're in a win sign as a tight end. It's working with your group now. So why do you see your what do you see from him? And what do you like about that? You know, I think that. With one, you know, it doesn't matter if it's him or anybody. I mean, we're all trying to learn football on a high level. You're competing with your peers to stand out that I learned things quicker. Or I, you know, I make more plays. Whenever those are, you're always competing with your peers initially. And then obviously the whole room. And then, nationally, you get the idea, right? So, you know, what's competing with all the other guys, the Marri, you know, Doryan and Mileylin. And, you know, so, JJ, you know, he's got a head start. You know, I think that. He's got strong hands. He's a bigger body guy. He's got to make sure he's not, you know, getting, you know, a tight end body, right? He's a skilled athlete. He's definitely, you know, got some skills.

1:11:44He's working on his footwork against mechanics. There's a lot of boxes he's working to check. And again, I think he's been doing that and attacking that with purpose each day, you know. But, you see your flash here and there? We're just looking for consistency, right? And that's just, listen to all these guys. And, you know, he kind of fixed that move. Brian, when you, this spring, I'm not branded in. You're still a lot this time. But what did you see from him? And that still stood out to make just think that he can be a, uh, a good jacquian tribute here for the same mission. Yeah, I mean, uh, we made the decision to get him healthy, uh, with his foot, uh, this past spring. So he missed a lot of spring. But I would say the way he carried himself and the way he was a leader. And then I would say, once he was back, uh, you know, Coach Mick does a lot of things to great guys and get feedback and hope guys can count on the soap. Um, he was a guy that, you know, impressed his teammates who the summer. He was a guy that was all gold. He was a guy that the leaders wanted to vote him on the leadership council.

1:12:44So he earned all that without even playing football. So how did he stand out? It was everything of the non talent issues, everything off the field. He stood out in and, uh, you know, he said I continue bringing that day in and day out. But that was probably what he did to the summer to, you know, get back on track and stay on. That's what they took Kelly rave about what you bring to the table in the meetings, etc. But work those meetings like right now. When you guys are unfathomable, this looks like a pretty nice collection of talent. Which way to go, etc. How would you get? Oh, I would say it's a combination of, um, getting skill, you know, getting scheme installed. All right. Not trying to scheme against your defense, but getting the install. The foundation built for the offense to build on top of right you want you to get to the season and things you want to do. You don't want to be the first time they heard it. And so it's a combination of scheme, you know, against your defense first, you know, so what I can be where I'm not a competition right on a call it periods.

1:13:47So you want to have plays that work versus defense, but you also want to build a great foundation on the install to where, you know, you can let it grow from there in a week one week, two, three. So it's a fine line. Now as athletes, we're trying to build their foundation skill wise, right? I mean, the skills they will need to execute the plays, whether it be leverage based, whether it be mechanic based, you know, there's always a fine line of dabling in both. That's what I want to say because you were player at the highest level. Is there only so much you can put in a player's hand? You understand what I'm saying? I think that you have to challenge that. I think you have to try to push that bar and make it really hard in camp season, spring season to elevate that uncomfortable level to make sure the capacity level continues to grow. But I think you're very mindful of that in the fall of making sure it all makes sense. And then we always say, you know, drop in the bucket seems insignificant.

1:14:50If you get enough drops, that bucket's going to overfill. So you don't want to take those for granted. But I would say this time of year, whether it be physically or mentally, you're always trying to raise the bar and push that uncomfortable level so they can grow. Thank you. I can get one more. What's the easiest thing for refreshment to pick up one week? It's your hardest thing to develop with a wide receiver. I think it's, I don't think it's just receiver. I think it's, you know, you know, I'm probably a receiver. I would say that it's the detail in which we operate and the amount of things that go into a simple line on the paper. You know, it was me that joke. You thought it was just running a call round, huh? Yeah, so like that's probably part of it. And then based on the program they've come from, how they were raised, all those things. Again, we're trying to bring in the right type of guys. But most of these guys think they're working hard at the high school level. They have no idea until they get here.

1:15:50So the amount of strain and recovery, I would say the lifestyle of being a neat athlete is just something that's really, really hard to learn. So then off the field, that, and then the amount of detail that goes into the simplest play on paper are both right or two or just next to turn. Thank you. Thanks Brian. Thanks Brian. Thank you. I'm just everything. Make sure I keep all the details, both security and security. Would it go so I tell you that you like to actually game? Is it right up to the tackles or speed? What does he like to do? I think they do like, I'm all right, I'm talking back to you again. What's kind of your main, I mean obviously as an instate kid committed to this class, what's your pitch now to other recruits? And be like, this is why you should join Ohio State 2020. It's a real family atmosphere. Yeah, everybody gets more and everybody talking to everybody. What would you say? What do you get any coaching? It's a lot going back or coaching.

1:16:50It's actually a lot going on. I've always looked out to BoJack and Washington's films. Do you, that's funny. Do you think that your playstyle can mirror his perspective just the way that he really is? No, I think that you want to go into it. The outfit I can't be speed and it's hard to hit. Who are the main guys that you're talking to right now to join this team? I'm really talking to everybody, the rest of the room and that audience. Any guys that you want to join the class, anybody at the top here? No, I'm sorry if you already got asked this, but coming out here as a recruit, as a committee, I'm hearing. What did you want to show today? What did you want to get out of this experience? I always ended up in the show, I just wanted to get this one working with you a lot. How did you feel like that went? Obviously he's still relatively new here, but he seems to bring a little bit of a different energy than some of the students. Do you sense that energy?

1:17:54I feel his intensity. He's different than other guys, right? How did you explain his coaching and some of the other running back coach you've made of working with him? He's just intense. Did you talk to Coach Alkman when he was at the organ? I did. When did he get... or can get him off camera? Like roughly. Around like a after season, like not so far just seeing. Is it kind of the same guy that he is now? Just in the new uniform basically? Yeah. You guys obviously added Isaiah to the class, there's no secret they would like to add another one. What are your thoughts on being in a class with three different run-and-backs like that? I have no problem being with the class. What do you like about Isaiah? I don't know Isaiah. You don't know Isaiah? I don't know. When you committed to who are some of the guys that we shot to, you guys were very familiar with particularly about the actual equipment. Not really a couple of linebackers, tapion, or explode.

1:19:00You might have to play like that every week. It's not a one-off. We're excited to be back home for a couple weeks and need to stack another one. I manage your own expectations when you have 14 pressures but you're not putting in the sack numbers that you'd like to get. I think just staying the course and continuing to get better, which I think I've done. And then hopefully that day comes where the stats come. But I think I affected the game. Good amount last week. So that's good for the team. Nick, I'm sure you was in a Super Bowl where plenty of players you'd think about. And Dan, are you done by the way? What happens when you get 15 line? The home is running over time. Is that one particularly, or is worth a one? It's a guarantee you're going to stop them. But is that one particularly? Is that the whole of the ball? Yeah, no, that's tough.

1:20:00Especially because we have calls that could negate that. And we just didn't really, like they ran in the zone read a few times. Let me just didn't find an answer to it. But yeah, I mean, I definitely thought he was going to hold it or keep it. But I got to do my job, especially in a big moment like that. You can't go out of your job. But we definitely have a plan for the zone read this time. So, hindsight's 2020. You're glad that that is your job, right? That was, yeah. But then you, like mid-player kind of like, did a shrug bring out a solid bit to the side. Yeah. And even the hint at what should have happened? I mean, there's a couple of variables. I think the tight end came across so that changes some things to the guys behind me. So, I honestly don't know who it is, but I just tried to make it decisive for the guys.

1:21:05Is the idea... Yeah, yeah. I mean, like any game that you played a team before you watched tape and learned from it? Does this often apply to mentors that get kind of less, I guess, less in trouble for holding, or is it just depending on the kind of rules? Last year, for sure. Last year they had two of the top penalized guys in the league. But it doesn't look too bad this year, but we'll see. Do they're more cruised, or they're referring cruised, and then let it go more than others? I mean, it seems different every week, so we'll see. Do you count your steps throughout the day? Is that why you use a scooter? Ah, that's kind of how it started. I don't count them, but I just take a little off the legs. Why not? It's a lot of walking from building to building. Hey, what is your team having worked with your saw back? Good morale boost. Yeah, it's good to have them.

1:22:07I'm excited to watch a play. We've seen history and some cheats even in the summer to have them again. What's it been like to go back and be looking at them on three out of there? I think. It's definitely a little emotional, but at this point it's just a game. So we're just looking at the tape, trying to learn from it. A lot of similarities from last year. Few new guys, but really good defense and offense that obviously has 15 back there. So I'm always dangerous. You said it's a little emotional. Do you try to tap into those emotions, or do you kind of want to just put the distractions to the side and treat it like another football game? Yeah, the latter. So I think us being able to step up as leaders and as vets to help bring along the team our units, and this program has been really important. What are you doing overall? Two more questions. Just a try. But then you and your office law, for sure, Luke said that Jake has been in the press so far.

1:23:10He didn't continue to talk about it. But he's playing on somebody who went through that. What have you been impressed by the Jake company? And you're having a bad habit of grabbing the wall? No, it could have been doing really well. I mean, I could go and he goes to work. He's extremely athletic, extremely flexible. He's a young kid. Obviously, he's a lot of development, a lot of, he's a little adversity at all of us do. And I think he's going through that right now, but he's been coming out on the better end of it so far. And excited to see what he can do because he's very impressive at this young stage. So what is your overall level of excitement just to be back with the rest of the sit-down to your office of mind? Yeah, extremely excited. I mean, trying to just build that culture back up again, you know, like what we had last year. I'm trying to do a little stuff here and there. And I know I think we're going to Ray Race, a barbecue, I think tomorrow. So shout out Ray Race. But yeah, I just trying to get that brotherhood back, get that, you know, that oblock spirit back.

1:24:13Sure, it's coming soon. Hopefully. But just to kind of get those, not those same faces, but those same kind of mindsets back. And our group is important right now. And it's been fun to meet new guys from different backgrounds and stuff like that. And try to figure out how to build that and mend that together. It's been pretty cool. Now, as you are one of the most experienced veterans on this team, how much do you feel like you have to be a leader for this team? Yeah, for sure. I mean, I think that comes. It's obviously, I don't feel like it's natural to anyone to immediately step up. And that's something I've been working on every day and talking to God about. But I obviously understand that. And that's something I want to continue to work on. I want to be able to be a guy that people can fall back on. And like Coach was saying before, like we're going to have highs and lows, but the great players, the ones we can set our clocks to. And I kind of want, that's my goal as to be one of those people that you can do that. And I think for especially a very new set of eyes in the Woody, not only coaches, but players.

1:25:19I think it's very important to kind of keep that steady mindset. And I think for me, learning how to be a leader has been important just to not be too hard on myself, but also not let myself kind of slack off in some departments to try to keep steady. And it's your story itself, though, is testament of what it means for perseverance and stuff, too. That's right. Carsel, I mean, you don't necessarily have to stand up from somebody to say that, right? I mean, just what do you think you've shown more than anything else in every guard? Yeah, I mean, I've been blessed. I've been blessed with a lot of adversity. I think that's definitely made me better on the back end. And Coach Day always talks about it. And you don't, you know, great leaders aren't, you know, they can show it. But you know, a lot of people can show it. A lot of people can just talk about it. But to be about it is important. And I think to me, now I've went through a lot of that adversity. I went through a lot of that stuff. And my testament has been written in an interesting way.

1:26:19But I think for me to take that next step is really important for not only for this team, but for myself personally. You want to have some questions to be with him? Yeah. He's been doing great. I mean, he came in big, freaking strong. He's fun to be in the weight room with. He's kind of quiet. That's kind of my first impression on him, but he's actually pretty funny, dude. He and his dad come over and they kind of joke around. So he's been doing a great job. I can't talk. He's been doing a great job for his size. He has like freaky athletic feet. Like I watched him do the ladders. And that's a lot of massive overrun on those things, you know, doing the little acheschuffle. But I mean, he was killing it. And so he's been doing a great job. I can't wait to see how he kind of continues to develop throughout this summer and throughout this fall camp. Of course, it is somebody that has won the Iron Bucket. What did Austin do to Iron Bucket? Yeah, Piggy has been doing great. I mean, he stepped up. Piggy, yeah. Yeah, everyone refers to him as Piggy. He was his username one time. Nice. Everyone is Piggy. But anyway, you know, Pig's been doing great.

1:27:19He's been able to step up and kind of bring around along those younger guys. You know, everyone's kind of trying to figure out their new roles. And I think he's been doing a great job, especially in the off season. And even right now, I'm just trying to bring along those guys and bring along himself and continuing to better himself. Because I mean, you know, it's never too late to get better. And I think he's kind of inspired me in that way a little bit too, just trying to like go against competitions with him. I don't know if you've seen his calves, but it's just an extension of his quads. Like, it's just him and Gabe just have just cylinder. So me competing against him and him competing against everyone else has been really good. Not only for him, but for me and for everyone he's been pushing. So it's been good. Oh, good. Thanks, man. I think he can help us along with James. I'm like, say, I'm excited about the young guys. I'm just excited about the competition. Coach, you had a heck of a tandem last year. You know, the old saying, and I have stayed as in, do you believe in the philosophy?

1:28:19You don't rebuild where you reload. Now, I believe in the philosophy of Coach Russell said, you need to inspire him. So I hope we get to him and to spare and another spare of the day. So we just reload this university been about having great running backs. And I think that's what we're going to have in the room. And it's on me to sit the tone of the kids and mindset in the room. So that's on me. So I think we're going to be good. What all of the conversations are going to turn out to be? I guess the conversation, what conversation you have with Sam? It comes back after going into the port on the coming back. This is a weird time to be a coach for football, right? A little bit of a coach. I mean, it is like a series on them. Sam and young guys, you know, we all been young. We all made quick decisions. But my thing is when I talk to these parents, I had a good son's come play for me. First of all, I love those big and football. You know, everybody always talk to the football expert.

1:29:19And that's not the part I talked with about Sam. Part of talking with about Sam is that we all going to be successful in something. I want him to be successful in school. You know, the thing about he's from here getting his degree from here, could mean a lot. So that's what I kind of spoke with him about that. Like I said, I'm a new guy coming in this spring, April the guy that coached him, the left, and he's a young man. So things are a little bit different for him. But you know, Coach Day speaks about this all the time. Chuck Loos. I get them boys in a tough look. I'm real, I'm honest with him. And it took some getting used to. I don't lie to him, I tell him the truth. So, you know, I think he's quite familiar with who I am now. But I love the kid. He works hard and like, he's a good kid. What you get like though in this modern age to form another term, have to keep improving guys. Meaning, you know, because tough love is one thing that you got to have to play or stay around here. It's almost like the recruiting ever stopped. I know what I got to say. I'm not a legal crew.

1:30:21It's much better running back because I'm not a legal crew. I have no desire to be a legal crew. What I am is a legal relationship with. I've been a relationship with the young man. I love knowing that even though they can go somewhere else. I'm still having a relationship with him. I'm leaving a relationship on him. If you get the young man to believe in that, you're pouring into them as young man. And not just recruiting like you selling cars. You know, they're beginning to open up to you and believe what you're saying. So, I am not a legal crew. But what I am is a legal relationship with. When I see about the truth, I know you haven't touched them in practice yet. But through to them, like, I vote Jackson. I say, you know, term bill will get you. Someone just stands out about that too. You look at vote Jackson. You got size. I think he's right now six foot, 220 speed. He got gifts on the guy I could give him. So, you see the potential what he could be. Now, he's going to have to work and compete.

1:31:22But I'm excited about him. But like I said, we'll see. Same thing with Isaiah West. You see his size. That's about right at five and never. He's about 215. Built the right way. But he has the right mindset. So, you get excited about him. Because his mindset is like, you know, he seems so much older than he is when you talk to him. His mind is in the right place. And like I said, Tobal Roger, somebody that I can build a relationship with. Since he's been in probably seven grade. And they give him here that have an opportunity to coach him. And the three freshmen we got coming in. I'm telling you, I'm excited about him just to see what their journey going to look like to come to work. I evaluate the year James had both. And put on field and sound, but also what he was doing behind the scenes. I think one thing, me and James have discussed about it. It's a marathon and not a sprint. I think so much.

1:32:23Like I said, we live in the microwave society. I'm going to insist to sit right now. I told him, let's just say, you going to learn from these two guys. And when your time comes, we're going to appreciate it. You're going to appreciate the client. And he said behind both of them, he learned. He's leading the room now. Because he had a great guy that watched the leader, which is Tracy. And then he saw Q and trade work at it. And he's working just as hard. But, you know, when these guys come out of high school. And this recruiting service gives them these five stars, they think they're supposed to come in, play from day one. And in the junior year, they don't work that way. Not in the room that I'm in. They don't work that way. Because you're going to know how to be a complete player. One of the high-chancellor James with this year, all the run backs. Now, he would say, they're close days. Running backs playing a special team. We're going to be on special teams. And I challenge every one of my guys with that in you. You're going to play special teams. And I ain't just talking about going on that press.

1:33:23I'm going to be on the one or two games on it. Because you told me you want to play the NFL. Well, you're going to know how to play special teams. I also teach you to be no longer. Just not a selfish player. But you want to go out there. I know you want to run the ball. Well, well, otherwise, can't help the team. So, last year, I think he got the chance to see all of that and is helping him now. I am a side of the C-Heezer growth. But I'm also a side of this year in compete. Because from town to level in that room, you talk to the bottom. It's pretty good. Well, let's make some standout. James? Yeah. Come back, Mama. He has good hands. Has really incredible short air reverse. Tough. Like I said, quickness. Everything that you want in the back, he has. It's not a small guy. He thinks he's six foot. He's like 20-20 every time. But probably five-ten, right about 210 pounds.

1:34:25And he wants to have great nods of the game. So, the things that stand out to me is, like I said, short air reverse. Now, I would, you know, I would call James, but I was at home. I first made changes with 10th grade. So, we already had prior relationship. But I see the growth in the now. He's like him. So, I am a side of the C-Heezer. And in a more demanding role, he gets the opportunity to showcase what he's been doing. What you did with Tread, with Sean, I feel, essentially equal terms of touches, like Givertick, obviously, how the game was going. Or is there room in this office for there to be one lead guy? I don't think that's smart of him. And I, you know, if you respect Tread's play, deep into the playoffs, you know. I got told before, you know, I said, my job here is to make sure Coach Davis is successful. And that's putting the best bass on the field. You know, if you want to run one guy that, run him into the ground, and that works for you, that's good for you.

1:35:27That's not what I'm doing. Now, he still can accomplish his goals by having another guy play with him. Or another guy, you know, because it's a long season. So, you know, when I think about running the bass in that aspect, and guys like, I don't want to do the only one to get the ball, your mind says not on team goals. Your mind says on individual goals. Like I told Tread and Q, you know, I had to be one with what I have a great success. I think those are the two best bass that they feel come by and just pass through the show, but they had great success. They weren't banged up, they weren't hurt, they never had to be in the right place. And they still accomplish everything they were on the other side of the championship. So, they put the side of their personal goals, and they put the team goals ahead. And when they did that, the performance still got you where they want to be. Now, I'm excited to see both of those guys named Carl here, Layna. You mentioned the competition in the room. What are you looking for out of the ready-backed this spring? First thing is, I want to see if I can get three or four guys to start on a specialty. That's the first competition I'm looking at.

1:36:29Then after that, I just want to see, just see how all on compete with, you know, more overall. I want to see how James, you know, how he takes on the leadership of the room. See how he competes with the other guys, whether it's Bob, whether it's CJ, whether it's Sam or Turbo, or like so. I said, what's the world that it is? Or T.C. Cat? I want to see how he competes. And like I said, big thing is his leadership, or that's the big stand-lifting room. Is everybody going to come to be one? No, not be selfish, point to one another. Okay. If I'm not playing on offense, what else can I do on the team? Can I go start on kickoff? Can I start on kickoff, return, plant pressure? Those are the things I'm looking for. Because, like I said, it's going to take that whole room to win. And it's going to take the whole room to win, not just playing offense, but playing specialty as well. So that's what I'm looking for. For one of ones, kind of how the game player was set up.

1:37:30You didn't go like a different cover, like a cloud to my side. And this is kind of how the game goes. What's the process of it? I don't know, sometimes we're in whatever reason. Just to see that. Yeah, definitely. Especially in college, a lot of the game fans defensively were taking your leg. You know, we had a lot of success at a high-speed. One of the boys had in different weapons. They kind of still get the victories. And I was, yeah, you continue to do better jobs when I hear. But in the last few years, the process has been like post-game, getting on the same page with Kyler. You guys exchange text, or you guys in the film? Yeah, film, I'm definitely kind of asking what did I see there, kind of go over and play. And I just kind of give him what I saw and kind of different feedback there. Exchange words. Mark, I get it. We're asking questions about the previous game. But are you the type of guy to let a game like that winger or how do you flush it? Yeah, you got to move on. Got to move on. It's a long season. Got like 16 more of them.

1:38:30Hopefully, no, I can stay healthy throughout the year and just continue to build and get better each week. You guys did so much work throughout the off season to get on the same page. How different is it when you get into that regular season? Yeah, it's totally different. It's totally different. You can do a lot of things, you know, in shirts and shorts. And then once you go out there, put practice and you get pads on. You do like the joint practice video with the colds. But there's nothing like actually going out there. And live action and really trying to get the same case. So I think that relationship will continue to develop and look at better. Is that it, just a matter of reps then as much as anything? Yeah, definitely. Definitely. Like I said, I was kind of my first live action together. So it can continue to be a good game. When you're early impression. So I turn around and feel together and I'm going to increase in the season with how? Yeah, but now obviously I have a death certificate respect. You know, JG's call or three seasons. I obviously be all feel really healthy. That's kind of the most important thing. I was like, that's the most important thing. I was like, that's a lot of healthy going forward. So that's it. I can say. My relationship with early impressions of the Rams.

1:39:30What do you think of the Rams? Yeah, I mean, they're a good team. They're good physical team. I got a new, a lot of new guys up front, I think. That's kind of where the strong suit is. Kind of a little different to Buffalo. Come over a little match coverage. So I'm excited to build this. Personally, when the belts take you one of them on, how do you feel today? It wasn't many of them. Wasn't it many of them? So, I thought you'd be good. I'm just what you think versus just playing. You know, not getting any preseason game actually. I think so. Definitely, definitely thinking a lot out there. And, you know, I think I'll come with reps. I think to think and less and just going out there and playing. Definitely come with reps. And it's something you're out and get better at. But, definitely say I was thinking a lot out there. Is there anything you can do to prove that? That's from the coverage. Anything you can do to the past? Because you're going to fix that a lot. Yeah, I mean, you just got to team you get open for yourself, making yourself available. And when the ball does, can you make it into play? This, just taking you away, that means other guys are having a chance to get open. So, that's how kind of high it is.

1:40:31You know, long versus 16 in the offense. That's the best thing for us. They're kind to be able to be with Tyler. Is this something that comes pretty quickly in a new game? Or is this something that might take months? Hopefully sooner or later, I think. I'll look into the team and see. I don't think we're in a bad place right now at all. Obviously, I don't really think that. But just a live rep, so we'll continue to grow and show. Just because part of my routine, I was part of my process. I get into my stand, so it's stuff like that that he taught me from day one. Obviously, in practice, it was fun just competing. And, you know, just to meet at the back of the pocket and to dab each other back every rep. That was competing, you know what I mean? So, that's my guy. And as much as you love him, I'm sure the left side, up there, sweet as it is. And certainly matter because it would happen to him. Yeah, that's the thing. That's not how I was definitely know how I thought about a transitional girl. You know, I thought it would be, you know, I'm some time in a car no soul career.

1:41:31You know, you know, I want to play or forever, you know, I mean, I was talking about his plans. So, you know, you wish transitions like one of those fairy tales, like, to your time now. But again, either way, you know, we talk about it, you know, that's the toe goes. You know, but obviously, you know, he's, he's happy. And one of the biggest players. Again, I think everybody leads. You know, not everybody's the, right, guys, come around. That's not everybody, right? Like I think for me, that's me specifically on game day with the O-I and after we do a little one. Like that's my like, well, I'm dead. Like that's my like, a cool time I feel like. I'm talking about this, you know, just recently. Talking about how what I want to do for the world is I want to bring that home energy.

1:42:32The he brought, right? So last year, of course, I'm sure he's been doing for years, but the year when I spent my own, he brought a lot of energy, excitement, happiness in the room, which is his natural energy, to where I only had to focus on me. You know, I didn't have to make sure other, other guys are, you know, feels the type of way when it came in here, because hump brought that. You know, the hump's not here, but I saw a way different room. I want to be that guy to make sure I want to amptical to practice everybody's, I want to take a big team on period, you know, it's a low day, or something, you know, it's a decision, but like, I want to make it feel like hump comes up. Like, you have a pair of the trip. I want to bring that, because that's what me and hump did to each other, we would have each other do something to do. It's probably going to be a walk, we're a flip. So I want to do that. I want to bring that energy, I want to make bring more guys. You know, to do that. I want to do that from day one, you know, I kind of, I want to do that from day one.

1:43:37I just talk into them, and obviously it's that time I spend the obviously of the four OTA started. Just being in my self-justing about what the room needs, you know, because I know I knew who will as one of the leaders, you know, on the law of funds, is that we need a guy like that, just going to make sure the OTA is picked up. We're ready to go every day, I want to help a little things, don't happen to practice, and people aren't saying anything, and how I may leave, maybe different than somebody else may leave, you know, like, at practice, at least I could be a positivity, you know, I mean so. The energy I would be on, just like, hyperb, so I kind of, I want to be going on, really my whole life, all of the NFL team captain, like specifically, and I felt I wasn't a captain in high school, wasn't a captain in college, but I want to make a joke, I was in high school,

1:44:37so I feel like I'm not going to be a captain until I get that I felt. But that would be awesome, you know, but, you know, that happens, I'd be great, but not either way, I want to assume a role as a captain from the perspective of guys on the big, big award, and get back in that way. Yeah, I mean I can't say that, I mean, I guess the biggest thing is that I felt like I was used to in the past, but it didn't take just the first LTAs, it took training and left and right, once this season ended because I didn't know what was going to be the champion. So, I just like a lot of, you know, grips, just to give back to feeling like myself, for the LTAs, and then now, over the first week, but now, like, today specifically, just changing some small things with my feet, that is it, talking about the long coach, about some things I can do with my feet to get to that, to sell my traditional angle that I love to sit on,

1:45:39I thought I felt great already, but I felt even better, so I need more excited tomorrow now, get on my feet back, and how I like the right side, and on the left side, so alongside me. I mean, obviously I feel like, in the league, whether I left the right, you're still going in, it's Premier Guy, so obviously, you have high expectations for your left and right tackle, but definitely, like, the level of energy, and like, the expectations definitely take the human side, because now, can I have the blind side? That's the, that's the tackle world, you know, so, so yeah, I would say in terms of communication as far as just even outside of the facility, and stuff like that, I think really creating that, but tackle quarterback, bond even more off the field, I think has been something that's even cool, I got the text one day, because I, hey, I think you put it left, I was like, you know, yeah, I've been training both, I've been training both, you know,

1:46:41I asked after the season, they're like, honestly, you know, we'll talk to you in some way in the season, and I just got the text one, I think what happens with the free agency, then, so I was like, you know, what, I had an O season right tackle, so, if I get the word, I'm going, I'm standing right tackle, I'll just do what I did before, I'm build on that, but I was like, I might as well as train a left tackle now, as if I'm going to be left tackle, and I'd rather do that, than train a right tackle, we're going to call it a, do a left tackle, I'm like, who, I don't wish my feet yet, you know what I mean, so I'm like, let me just prepare an advance, I was like, yeah, it's God, you know, I think occasionally, on third down, there'd be a lot of twists, I was just not like, it's automatic, it's common, and I think that was my mindset for like the first half of the season, like, I didn't have to go into a game with some pros, like, oh my gosh, they did that, I kind of figured, okay, like, this is the type of rush, I'm going to get it, this is how this guy usually rushes, if I get the vibe, this is how it begins, like the rush, you know,

1:47:42tackles that, you know, first year guys, you got the primary patch on, already, you know, what it was going to be, already, you know, will be every stud, and honestly, just knowing that's kind of an advantage to, so you're not, you're not, oh, the brother twists on my side again, it was never air gone, but it comes out the hot, like, three plays in a row, and two minutes, I do that, it's not going to happen, so a lot of, you know what I mean, I want you more, everybody else, and you rarely, you know, it goes out there, occasional third down, I was like, yeah, I was, you know, he's going to pick me, you know what I mean, so, that effect, it's kind of, it's also kind of an advantage in a way, but it's also exciting, like, okay, I'm going to get the hardest to look, you know, those are real, real reps, you know, the things, really out on our way to kind of process, and I was like, hey, when I tell me, let me know about, I'm just going to train it, I was training all left, so TAs, I guess if I didn't hear anything about TAs, I came in like, so, you know what I mean,

1:48:45because just like, I'm cool with training, I would have been cool with training, both continually, but I feel like anybody, any position, will feel like, okay, like, you want as soon as possible to get your feet kind of settled in, your hips settled in, your hands, so then, certain kind of, we've been hard of the age to work both, they're good to you, no, you know, but they're definitely, but in terms of the development, it was definitely a lot faster to stay on one side, but I think having that week that we had to transition with the seasons over, you know, you've been delightful, you know, it would, I'm trying to get up, put up my mind, and I think we, things at a time right now, but when it comes back, I'm going to show them the one house, so I've got a house that's not too far from, so I told them, I got that house, I could yell outside, I did it! You know what I mean, so, yeah.

1:49:47I was just trying to, it's just a different way of play, different terminology, different, it's a whole different scheme, so just learn how they want things done compared to how you used to do things, it's really the... What's it like being in that tight end room? Everybody's got different skills to see, everybody's different, but y'all do some of the same things. Right, yeah, no, it's a great room, a lot of really good guys have grown really close with a lot of those guys, so everybody helps each other, a really nice learner from Dalton, breadin' those guys, I mean Dalton's done it for a really long time, so he helps me a lot with things that really aren't coachable things, you know what I mean? I mentioned how the family at the game, but what about working out here at this high school? Still a little high, all that's gotta feel good, and I don't know if your high school is like this, man, it's a little bit different name, I should say. Yeah, I went to Lexington, how it's about, the eighth of the size of this place, yeah, this is not like my high school, but this is a healthy place, but super cool to be home and just be back and give you a little sense of comfort, I guess for me, especially being away for as long as I've been.

1:50:48So I was a man, kind of wore around the city, and you've been there, you've seen a bunch of f***ing fans that have wanted to get your autograph, take a picture, or you've been here? I don't get, I don't go out of the hole. I actually went home yesterday, I went back to the farm for a little bit, which was great for a couple of days. He did all my family and stuff, and see my grandparents and everything, so it was good, but I really haven't been out enough to know, so I try and keep her inside. It's good, that's good. Yeah. You need to talk a lot about your compass. What do you think of your play and I really show face to stuff them out? Oh, that's a good question, I don't think that's for, for me, I'm just trying to give, I mean, every stuff you can be, you can play this game for 50 years, and there's always going to be something you leave to feel with, like, God, I wish I would have been better in that area, I wish I would have been better in some other, you know what I mean? Like, it's never going to be, this is absolutely perfect, so like to me, that's, right now, the hardest part of this is just mental toughness of all. I mean, physical toughness, I mean, you either have it or you don't, in my opinion, so, I mean, I've always felt like I was kind of bred in that area of the things, and that's just kind of way happens naturally, so just play after play, that's kind of how we roll.

1:51:49I'll say, good afternoon. Thank you guys. We are now. We got to get you on the boat. Good both ways, but we do have to challenge our receivers. We can't let them run free. They're very talented over there, so we got to go out there, trust our skills, trust our technique, and see who happens. Front row here, Tim May, let him in a row. Yeah, Jordan, how much is Jelts' communication, you, you Caleb and Nathan, grown through, especially the last half of the season, you know, especially the way they've been using you, you know, in that almost-sat-safety row, how much is it grown that you could put your finger on? Yeah, I was growing immensely. I mean, Caleb, he makes a lot of checks. Nathan makes a lot of checks. I listen to them. Whatever they need, if I need to cover somebody, I'll go cover anybody. If they need me to do run support, I'll do run support. And it's really what Caleb does, what we do, and Nathan. It just goes back to Coach G's preparation, and everyone's preparation to give us more flexibility and it doesn't matter who's in those positions,

1:52:50and we can all play every position, whether it's covering somebody or running and tackling. Did you feel like that was the case before the Oregon game, your show I'm not saying, is it something that's been added? It just, you know, rely on a little bit more, go ahead. Yeah, it did. I've probably been a broska game, a meaghan and more safety reps, and we had a five week to prepare, so I really learned to play, but a lot more, even though I knew to play, but I learned a lot more, a lot more, like in-depth, you know, so really just after the Oregon game, it helped me a lot to go back to safety, go to NICU everywhere. Thanks, man. You Dan, both of you left the Oregon game. You guys had a lot of issues of giving up the big plays in the passing game of the first game against Oregon. What do you feel like you guys need to do better this time around, just to make sure that doesn't happen? Just the same mindset we got to challenge these receivers. You know, every dog has their day, maybe some people didn't have their day, that game, but we'll look out there and hopefully change the narrative,

1:53:50and we still play with the same confidence, same technique, and, yeah. Bill Rebellion, what's the most this match? And Denzel obviously had a tough game, and that one, what have you seen from him and how he's responded? Do you get a sense of, from him, how he's up to you for this rematch? Oh, yeah, he's super stoked for this rematch. His preparation has been very good. He's always been preparing, you know, it didn't go the way he wanted to go that game, but he just always had his confidence, and we're going to see a big game out of him this week. And, you know, I know you guys wanted to play them in anapolis, but the fact that you get to play them at the Rose Bowl, I mean, get a second chance, and people have said you don't get that very often. How determined are you guys to take advantage of it? We're super, super determined. We watched film. I mean, we've lost a lot of film. That's how we play them. Now, we've got another six games that they play up film to watch. And it's just, they've grown a lot as a team. Same as us. We've grown a lot.

1:54:50We're not the same team. We were when we played them week one, or weeks six or whatever, but now we're out there and going to play fast, physical, and everything like that. All right, Jordan, we're going to jump to the Zoom question here from Joey Kaufman, Columbus Dispatch. Oh, my bad. Not too Joey. Cameron T. Robinson, the athletic. Hey, Jordan, you've moved around a lot in the second day, and you're in your career, and now kind of getting some many more safety reps. What is it like at this point when Walt or Coach Mills comes to you and asks you to do some else, and just how much can you lean on the experiences you've had moving around when you're trying to learn something new in the middle of the season? It means a lot. We always talk about, and this is if it's being on selfish, whether that's making plays or not making plays, or doing your job so another person can make plays, that's kind of what we pride ourselves on. And it's just fun, me moving around, different positions. I'm always up for a new challenge, and a lot of people in the country can't do that.

1:55:51I just hold myself to that standard where I can play any position and excel at it. Okay, if anybody else needs a question, let me know, but otherwise we're going to go to Austin more of the podcast. Jordan, when you were talking about watching film Oregon, which one do you think is more valuable to you watching that against yourself seven games ago, even if you've changed, or the ensuing six games for Oregon? Which one do you put more stock in? Kind of both. For me, I kind of watched what I did, things I did well, things I didn't do too well against them. And their team, some players have been out those stretch of games. So I really watched the past game we played, and I know they're going to go back to some of the stuff that they liked, of course, and different games like Penn State, maybe Illinois, they run a lot of men, so just watching stuff like that, every game matters. So, yeah. Jordan, thank you very much.

1:56:51Thank you. I know it's this one, but have you felt a different year for the last two? I think you have a second to play with those, but it's not like on this team, have you seen it? Yeah, but I kind of like the saying, that's a privilege for everybody to have those expectations for us, because they're there for a reason. There's a ton of special guys on this team, and there's no real reward. I feel like there is no pressure, you know what I mean? You want to kind of have your back against the wall, and we have that big red target on our back. And that's something we didn't have last year. Something I'm kind of used to being from Ohio State, but I definitely do think that saying is kind of what this team is about. We love that pressure, we want that pressure, and we want to ask that bell every time we get a chance to. So, I definitely do think that's what we're going to live by, and we're really excited to have this type of team, because as you can see, we're very close, and we love each other. Did you like to look good in that, and not focus on the strategy of my goal?

1:57:53You said it right there, it's a trap. So, why fall? Why look at things that I can't control, why worry about things that I can't control? I can only control my play and my effort and my execution. So, I think today, even though we missed a lot of plays, and we didn't execute at the highest level, we executed at a high level, no, high level to win the game. Man, tungsten. But yes, you know, so. Hello, everybody. Welcome in here to the Truth Serum NFL Sunday week one. Joey, the Truth Wagner with you. And thank you for watching the Post Game Press Conference and here for the Houston Texans. One of the most entertaining games of the 1 p.m. window, the early window, a thriller against the cult's final score, Houston 29, Indianapolis 27, that CJ Stroud leading his Texans to a week one win on the road

1:58:56against a divisional foe. In week two. Everybody CJ Stroud was just CJ Stroud level good. 24 of 32 through the air, composed, efficient, two touchdowns, no picks. He is just so good. Everybody. He is just so good. And we said it last year, we'll keep on saying it this year. Houston Texans got the guy at quarterback and they also got the guy at head coach too. Houston is going to be a threat here for a very, very long time. Very, very long time. But a two-point win for Houston, like I said, Stroud had 234 yards. Also, who had a monster day for Houston in the run game?

1:59:56Joe Mixon. Talk about him. 30 carries 159 yards in a touchdown. Nico Collins was the leading receiver for the Texans. Six receptions for 117. Stefan Diggs caught six passes for Houston. But only. 33 yards receiving for Diggs. So we'll see how quickly it is when the. When he starts the Palt and Wine and Complain on the sideline. Anthony Richardson, you had the good and the bad for him. He had two passing touchdowns, also ran for another, but he was only nine of 19 for two hundred 12 yards. Added six carries for 56 yards on the ground. Couple of long touchdowns for the coach was the premise of their offense. A 60 yard strike to Alec Pierce, 54 yard strike to Ashton Duhlin.

2:01:01But overall a very, very good win for the Houston Texans on the road. Against whom I think is a sneaky, sneaky underrated team in the AFC South. The Indianapolis Colts. Final score in this one 29 27. And thank you for watching the Postgame Press conferences as well as our Postgame reaction. For the Colts and the Texans, you just strowed to Miko Ryan's and all the goods. Thank you.

2:02:16Thank you. Thank you for watching the Postgame Press conferences as well as our Postgame reaction.

2:03:16Thank you for watching the Postgame Press conferences as well as our Postgame reaction. I'm a little bit to the inside. I'm like, now I'm actually trying to catch technique. And often, cover is not always press at the line. So it's like, now I'm able to move my feet, move my hands, see what I got to do. Just in case I got to go back in corner, I plan on a very confident out there. Do you think that was an actual fifth of you or have you had to kind of convince yourself to transition to that? I mean, I feel like it's natural for me because I feel like me individually, I'm a fast learner, a fast learner, like coaches help us like learn fast.

2:04:18Like, because they're always honest about the techniques and stuff. So you like, you play down, like you pick up all the things and then like, when we get out here, they coach us to like the techniques. So we just go out there and play like fast spot. And it would be like, it would be like, reversatility, you're able to go out there and just compete. Is that where you kind of stuck this spring or do you get kind of Mountaineer? So I'm really stuck there this spring a little bit right? Whenever we get into like other things, I just bounce out there every once in a while, just like, have fun. See if I still got it every once in a while. So it's as good as going through to compete at most spots. You mentioned the technique. What technique, you know, tips and things that you had to pick up and learn from, what you're from, what you're taking the insight. I mean, this is always like, you're like, because what, coaches ask me hands, like, see it, you see it, move your feet, and then get your hands on the man. So it's like, when you get like, when you out there, you're able to like process like the way the receiver comes off the ball, looking at the hips and seeing like the way he moves. Are you able to pick up like the row concepts you can get out of that. Like, so it's being like under coach walls, I mean, like as a player and just like him breaking out football to you like one on one.

2:05:23It's like very beneficial. What was the hardest part of making that transition from outside inside? I really just say like, you've got to cover two, you've got to cover three, you've got to cover one, it's easy, but then you got nickel. There are so many responsibilities you've got to see like the row concepts, you've got to be able to process like, like, dying those rows faster than what you got to do out corner and just be able to like, everything's quid like your transition, you've got to like, you've got to move fast, you've got to learn to move fast. It's like game recognition, where you think maybe you've run the ball since you got it. How did you got to that? I would definitely say, I would definitely say yes, because how you get to like college just a little bit different from high school, we don't got to worry about things like that. When you get to like college in a school like this, you get to get to the recognition of plays and like, you'll know your jobs, the way like the coverage is supposed to be played, understand all your teammates or fuses you have when you feel like it's easy. What have you forgotten about Devin? He's very talented.

2:06:23He's a great dude, he's a humble guy, great teammate, very supportive. He's like a guy that you don't want to run because you can feed off your energy because you can see like, when you make a play, he's like, he like, he's like, IGB2.0, so he's like, when you get off there with guys like that, with good energy, it makes you play a little bit harder. And then when you make a play, he's out there, like, it's helping you, like, he's being out there with him, he's a good player. One of those guys, first question, can't fool kids. I would say obviously, over the last couple of years, you know, just pop me through your first now. What is it about one build that gets you to run a play at Ohio State? That's a big question, I know. Just a question. A lot of people are just a couple of years old, because we have so many kids, come out of Globue and just play at leagues, elite schools. And they like, like, track's a big part of it, because I mean, it's actually in a Globue, everybody got to run a track, like it's minutes right. You don't really get a choice. You're able to just like get out here and like, know how to compete. And then like, you're like, getting builds that mental toughness into you.

2:07:23So like, have you like, have you got to be mentally tough? I'm not like, I'm not gonna go alive. You're not gonna be easy, so it's like being out here, being able to compete. And when you down, just pick yourself back up. I mean, that's what being is down to me, that's what being is down to me. I pick this big body, I have a big frame. And it's like, sometimes I can just use my body to like, create separation. And it's like playing big. Obviously, you're learning a new position, but in what ways do you think that experience playing quarterback helps you now that you're playing receiver? Oh, yeah. So it's definitely helps with like the plays. And like, it's like the quarterback out of the account for like everybody. I think I've done the routes, the count, like the O.S. online doing. And I think it's made it easier for me since I've only learned like the receiver. And just one thing, I think I think I've been playing with a lot better. I know Brandon was a quarterback in high school too. Have you been able to talk to him about that at all? Learned from him at all? Oh, yeah. He's definitely learned that. That for the offense, I've done a great job of helping me, especially Cardinal T.

2:08:24And they really just give me like little pointers and stuff that. So I can have elevated my game, right? Coach Hartline mentioned yesterday that Cardinal has really stepped up as a leader. How have you seen that so far this spring? Yeah, just like during like, whenever I need like, having trouble like remembering something, I just go up to him and he knows like every play, every little detail, he just, he's helping with that. And if I ever like need help, like with full works, I think it'll come out, help me. And just like, get out right knee, he's there. When you are making that transition to a new position, do you have to kind of be patient and realize it's going to be a process that takes time? Oh, yeah, definitely. Coach Hart told me that at the beginning, like he played a quarterback in high school too. And he had it made a transition to receiver at here at the state. And this, he's helped me. It's going to be rough at first, but he has to push me to get me to where I need to be. When you think back and just like you're upbringing, you know, coming from, you know, Africa being over here, just what do you how did all you feel, call of that kind of help to mold you into who you are now?

2:09:25Yeah, definitely, definitely maybe like tough and like, not afraid of like new change. And he's like willing to just adapt to my environment. What was it like for you coming in here as a freshman and getting to see this team go win an after the championship for those first few weeks here? It definitely was a high motivated, you know, being a freshman. It wasn't really my team though, so like I didn't really get it. So that makes like push me like that once, when it's my turn. I got put in the word, I wanted the same position, but with a ring on my finger. What did you learn from those guys just about what you need to do to have a chance to go accomplish what they did? So you've got to, don't let the past like affect you like, and just, yeah, I remember, you got me remember, you got put in the work. It's not easy at all by any means, and it's going to be hard, but you have to play everything into it. What do you view as like the best attributes of your game that you're going to bring to this team? I would just say my size, my speed, I could take the top off the defense, and I could play tough and physical.

2:10:30It's about that. When it's the last year, then like when you think back to the whole record last year, you have the potential to accomplish what's going on. What has the last kind of year been like for you? I've gone from the player that was kind of going through the process to the next time I'm saying this is what they can transition into the scene. How has this last year come to a level 12? I was definitely changing the line because I was always on my sophomore year, I was hurt, and my junior year, I got hurt during track. So I was able to, like, I was a highly inferior athlete, and this time last year was like when my recruitment really picked up. And it's just like, it's been crazy, like, must have another, like, he was just leaving me in my corner, my coach is everything. I just give it the motivation to go. What is your relationship with like the table you guys? What do you think of it as the team and the other teams? The tree work that they're doing for you? Oh yeah, that's a big good. Before I even got a house they offered, and before I even knew who he was, exactly.

2:11:30I actually grew up through with them a couple of times in both. Bella Fond, she was talking, yeah, I was working with, I knew as head coach, and he invited me to come and run routes, and I actually ran routes for a table in the fight. If we was exactly headed like, we first came to New York. We had a lot more, we got together, I was the freshman class in the show, he's working on everything. He's definitely got nice on. This cornerback, you know, is your great talent, how is that kind of thing? The cornerback? The cornerback. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And they're definitely talented, and you say, as I always say, I'm so happy to be on it. And they make it hard for you. And when you play this high level competition practice, you go on a game, like, twice as easy as you do the practice, and he's really skills on stuff. Is there a moment of more than a question? I think it's kind of like a moment of worth.

2:12:36Oh, wow, these guys are really good at this. Yeah, just like, I just first, like, high school, I just take some reps and I've seen we just go, yeah, I just had speed, and we catch the abilities, like face separation. And I come to college and explore everybody's fast, everybody's big. So you have fun, new ways to get open. It's really good for yourself to hire your IQ. Is that something that, I mean, you feel like you have to, you know, work on it or is that something that you're like, yeah, that's the kind of back I am. I'm just going to be next to mine, in a lot of ways. I think that's the kind of back I am, but you go all the way. Yeah, what are kind of a few of those things that you're like, yeah, I need to work on. Like, open the portions for the next few months or so. I'm just going to make sure I keep all the details, what's the career? What the coach's like to tell you that he likes to actually gain is that you are in between the tackles, you speed, what does he like to do? He said you like, my heart's about to go down. I'm like, what's kind of your main, I mean, obviously as an in-state kid committed to this class, what's your pitch now to other recruits?

2:13:41And be like, this is why you should join Ohio State 20s major. It's a real family atmosphere. Yeah, everybody get them all, everybody talk to everybody. What would you say? What do you get any coaching next to? I get it. It's a lot of training back or a question. What do you think about it? I mean, bring it to it. Well, I've always looked up to BoJack and Washington's films. You, that's funny. Do you think that your voice down can mirror his perspective just the way that he really is close to all of the law? No, I think not. I think I can. I think speed and power to, yeah, I think I can. You know what I mean? We're the main guys that you're talking to right now to join the film. I'm really talking to everybody, the rest of the room and that auto-commission. Any guys that you want to join the class, anybody at the top here? No, I'm sorry if you already got asked this, but coming out here as a recruit, as a committee, I'm hearing.

2:14:41What, what did you want to show today? What did you want to get out of this experience? I wasn't up in the show. Nothing to prove. I just wanted to get this on working with BoJack a lot. How did you feel like that went? Obviously, he's still relatively new here, but he seems to bring a little bit of a different energy than some of these camps in the past. I feel like it went good. Do you sense that energy? I mean, when you're out with him, it's... Yeah, I feel his intensity. He's different than other guys though, right? I mean, kind of, how do you explain his coaching than some of the other running back coach you may have worked with in the past? It does intense. It does. Go, go, go. Did you talk to a sophomore when you either go with him? I did. So when didn't he get... or can get him off the ground? I grew up like... Around like the after season, like not so far, just... Okay, so I mean, was he kind of the same guy that he is now? So just in the new uniform, basically? Yeah. Then you guys obviously added Isaiah to the class, and there's no secret they would like to add another one. What are your thoughts on being in a class with three different run-and-max like that?

2:15:42I have no problem being in a class with three different run-and-max. What do you like about Isaiah? I don't know Isaiah. You don't know Isaiah? You never met him? You just damned on the first time. When you committed, you were some of the guys that you sent to you. You were very familiar with particularly about after the pandemic. Not really a couple of long backers, taking on these college. So I'm excited to see them compete with anything. Can you give your kind of impression of the people, the people, the guys from which you're the first big joy of this league all year? Did they get the development? It's just his two official impressions with us? Yeah, yeah. So, you know, start with Lincoln. You know, a guy that's going in his third year here. And I think really, like, when you've been in an offense for two years already, you're going in that third year. You've got a really good feel of the scheme. You've got a better feel of college defenses and, you know, where our schemes are susceptible and where the issues lie and what we're trying to attack.

2:16:42And so I think, you know, that's something that over time I can feel Lincoln getting a better and better feel for it. You know, Lincoln has definitely stepped up from a leadership perspective. And you can see the way that, you know, he attacks workouts and all that. And the winner is so big for all three of them just really just set the standard and to understand the intangibles that playing quarterback is all about. Because there's so much more than just picking up a football and throwing it when it comes to this. So I've seen that growth from Lincoln and that's really exciting. As for Julian, you know, last year going into the year, he was competing for a job and, you know, end up not winning the job. You know, he could have turned it down and been bummed out and, you know, not attacked it the way way. But I saw him continue to go throughout the year. So I'm going from well and to get to a point this year where we're now he can step up and be more of a vocal leader. And that's something I've seen growth at him as well. You know, he's put on some weight and he looks good and he's definitely attacked his time in the, you know, the winner.

2:17:44And so that's been awesome. And then Tavine comes in and you know, Tavine, Tavine's, you know, really should still be in high school. Instead, he's, you know, in my office all the time, learning the offense. And when he's not with me, he's with Coach make, when he's not with Coach make, he's over there doing academics and sassos. So his days are pretty jam packed and it's definitely new for him. But his commitment to wanting to be great and wanting to be to the level where he can go out and compete in the spring has been really impressive. So I'm excited for all three of them. Does it feel like what August 30th is it just around the corner years? I don't know what I'm saying. You got to have a way to go. I'm against Texans. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't think so. I don't think so quite yet. You know, I think we have a unique situation where we've got three really talented kids. You know, they're all young. They all have a lot of room to grow. And I think they all understand that and are eager to attack that growth. But most college football teams or a lot of college football teams going through a year and they end up having a guy get hurt or something happens.

2:18:47So as far as having one guy, that's not the way that we want to develop the room. We want all three of them to continue to get better, to continue to develop and be guys that we can count on throughout the season. So you guys went up board? Scholarship guy? That's still in conversation. We'll kind of see how it goes. Obviously three is a little bit less than we typically have. But you know, the three that we're really constantly doing right now. Actually, you got to go right in the working with the board of acts to work with the board of acts. You work with the board of acts, right? Perfect. The food's filling out your room. I mean, you have someone that you've had in mind to come in to meet the assistant for you. Or how do you see that? Yeah, right now Colin Kienos in helping me. So Colin was working with me at Akron. He was a student assistant and he was really, really impressive there. So he's going to come in and he's going to help out with some of the day-to-day stuff. And then you know, Coach Day and I have built a pretty good relationship where, you know, between my time here is the GA where, you know, I learned the game of football the way he sees it. And that was such a pivotal time in my career.

2:19:48You know, I was so blessed in college and then in my first couple, you know, my first job there that I got to work with Joe Morehead. And, you know, I learned so much football from that man. I credit so much of my career to him to put me in the position. But then having the opportunity to, okay, hey, I'm going to see you through a little bit of a different lens and to learn how Coach Day sees it. It was so big for me in my development. So that couple of years as a GA was awesome for me. And then last year to be able to sit in with him and really kind of see the game, you know, in a similar fashion. And I'm always going to continue to learn from him because he's just such a special coach. To be able to see it, you know, in a similar way and continue to bounce thoughts on him to make sure that him and I are communicating in the same way. You know, Coach Day will always be directly involved with the quarterbacks. And now Coach Hartline will as well, you know, as the offensive coordinator, I think as the guy in that chair, you have to have a relationship with the guys in the hotel. I think that's really important. So, you know, him and I have already begun conversations just about how that's going to work out and how, you know, he's going to continue to see the game the same way that the quarterback does and how he's going to communicate to them.

2:20:49And those conversations are already beginning. So it'll be, it'll definitely be a combination of, you know, us three. Bill, you've been being there for the championship, right? How about that help with the development? Well, it's pretty cool. Just about every one of those games where he was at a playoff game and at the national championship. You know, our guys were warming up and I grabbed him. I said, hey, look around. You got to take a couple minutes and take this in, right? This is what it looks like. This is what, this is what we work for. So, you know, when you get to a really hard day in the winter, or you just remember not a homework and to get to that point. So for him to have that experience and to be able to see that and, you know, hopefully one day when he's in that spot, he's like, oh, I've seen this before. I know it looks like. I think it's pretty cool, I think, just to have that bank in his memory. You know, I think he comes off, so I've spoken, but he's without question, you know, come out of the show. And I would even say he's also spoken last year. You know, I think that he kind of understood that, you know, will was in charge of the offense.

2:21:50And he knew that he was young and was still earning respect. You know, a big part about leadership is you can't just walk into a room and start leading. You have to earn the respect you're curious and truly understood that. And, you know, I think he earned that respect about the year. And so this year, you're definitely seeing him step up. Him and Lincoln both, you know, are in that phase where they've earned that respect. And so they're doing a really good job leading right now and in Tavians doing a good job earned respect. So we're kind of in the middle right there between those two phases. And I think, I think, still less than two years, you know, just specializing. It's just, we're definitely actually kind of really into the end of the special year. I guess where do you think he is harnessing all of that all on athletic ability to being a really good coach? Yeah, I mean, there's no question how Lincoln is special, I think. And, you know, guys that have that background that have been successful in multiple different sports. You know, one way or another is going to translate to the game of football.

2:22:50So I think that we're continuing to see that from Lincoln. You know, I think as the more that he, you know, is in position to understand and learn the game in which we saw last year, you continue to grow. And so to take that into spring, you know, and combine that with his athletic ability, I'm excited to see, you know, I think it'll be really good competition. Can I go and pull back truly lead until he is the quarterback? Oh, absolutely. I mean, you took one to quarterback. Oh, I think so. I think so. I mean, leadership comes in all different phases, you know, in all different ways. There's, you know, there's without question, I've been part of different teams and I've seen it where maybe the guy that was in the starting quarterback was, you know, the strongest leader on the team. So I definitely think that that's part of it. You know, I think once you earn the respect of your teammates and once you show that, you know, you're going to lead by example and they respect you for that. You're in position now that you can be vocal. So, you know, I definitely don't think that you need to be a starter named a quarterback to be a leader at all.

2:23:55Believe it or not, some incredible offensive minds in college already. What are your, what are the traits you look for specifically as a quarterback being a quarterback yourself? Yeah. You know, I think it comes in a couple different ways, you know, from a tangible perspective. I think that you've got to be extremely accurate. I think you have to be able to make great decisions with the football and get the ball out of time. And I think that you have to be able to do it. And we saw the problem with the feet. So, you know, it's rare in college football that every protection's blocked up perfectly or everything goes exactly that we drew it up on the whiteboard. So, when things break down, you know, you're only able to fix it with our legs. And then, you know, as far as intensible score, I look at, I look at, you know, guy like Will who had those intangibles about as well as I've ever seen. And that's just a complete command and understanding of both the offense and the huddle to know exactly what we're trying to do on every single play. No one we're trying to attack, understand where the issues are and where they lie and how you're going to combat those issues.

2:24:58To be able to understand, you know, when it's time to move on for the ballway and move on to the next play. And then also be mentally tough enough that when things don't go our way, to be able to react the right way and move on to the next one. What last question? You go fight a quest. You have no audition at all over you just focus on last. Oh, no, no, I didn't do it as an audition at all. When you're coaching and you build a relationship with these guys, you want nothing more than for them to go out and have success on the field. And I think that's so important. Like I sit in that room and you know, it's about them. It's about them going out and reaching their potential and maximizing their talents and going out and execute on the field. And so, you know, last year I was just trying to find a way that I could help them do that. So, you know, to be able to work with those guys last year and to help out and you know, have them see some success. It was special for me, but it was special for me because I know how bad they wanted it. And so that was pretty neat. But this week I think we're playing a better, honestly a better team that's, they're playing better football.

2:26:06It looks like and they run the wall well and we're going to have to be better in our techniques. We kind of got away with some things last week. So, so yeah, we have to hone in and not pat ourselves on the back. We're neat because I'm just going to stand on and present now that you're facing the new series. I haven't watched too much on him. He's stout and he could run a little bit. I mean, since he's been here, I know how his arm strength is and how he's a good processor of information and can get the ball out. So, it'll be the same formula. Try and make him one dimensional. It's super great there. It's what makes him such a tough one. I think he's got a low center gravity. He's athletic. So, it's tough to power him and then he's he's athletic enough to run nearby. And if he gets his hands, he kind of has the ability to replace him. Run you by somebody like Leonard. He's got such a good high motor.

2:27:10Does that you see that kind of carry over to the rest of the room when you're playing next to the guy that's given that kind of effort? Yeah, I think our effort was pretty darn good against the Jets even from first play on. Sometimes it takes a little time early in the season because game speed is different and that game wind is different. But I think we're flying around and Floyd's no exception. Here in Elton Ball, the least amount, at any quarterback in the league, last week, 2.33 seconds per... As a past pressure, who wants to get those sacks? I didn't do that. I mean, there's obviously a positive that comes with that from the overall defense. But how do you feel about that? Yeah, I mean, it's tough. We kind of expected it though. And then they pulled them late, which was kind of surprising. But I think we were causing some pressure. We weren't on the field much.

2:28:10And then you're going three and out and he's getting the ball out. So it gets a little tough to keep your mind in it. But there was some ups at the end there. And we're just going to... I mean, games... It's good football. It's nine or football. That's the type of games we have when we don't have a lot of ups, but we have to go get them at the end. So we have to keep our mind in it. We're not saying the other night that he came to miss in all the camp. He said, I can't believe how laser focused everybody was. Nobody was joking around. Everybody was serious. He was really impressed. Have you had that feeling all along through camp? And did you feel that going into the camp? Yeah, it's funny because when I came in last year, I was talking to Trent about how it's like high fives and hugs. Right when you walk in. And then everybody's like, all right, we've been here. We're working. And then I got it's work, it's football. And that's just how it is here. That's why we were able to have a good team year in and year out. Nick, what kind of pride do you've taken the fact that you were beating the Jets so bad they took out Aaron Rogers?

2:29:16Like I said, we're not patting ourselves in the back. It's one game. And we don't know how good we are yet. We don't know how good other teams are. So we just have to keep getting better. You ever had a backward ball rush like you have last game? That was a failed move. But I'll take it. I get a little pressure on them. Actually, what were you doing Patrick Willis kind of talking about it? Yeah, he was just asking me about some of my pastures plan. And that was just elaborating. And we were kind of going back and forth. As far as road and Brian's Minnesota's got a pretty unique band. Do you enjoy playing there in Minnesota, like stadiums, depends on that? It's a long flight and it's field turf, but it is one of the cooler environments I can't lie about that. I went to the Zell, IGB and in germane. First thing they said is like, no, where he just got there and played with confidence. You know the tools, the usual tools. He just got there and made a play.

2:30:17And where about a play coming to you? Where is your time and your job? You just do it. And then like, the same goes for what he gives me. He puts me in a position like the drills we put in, the work you put in, the one on one tongue. And then he just goes out there and just perform with the highest level. How much better are you right now than maybe last month, the four sprint record? I mean, I got to lay better just because I've transitioned a little bit to the inside. Nick was about to say, like, now I'm actually trying to catch technique. And often, Prevers not always press at the line. So it's like, now I'm able to like move my feet, move my hands, like see, like what I got to do just in case I got to go back in corner. I can, I'm playing off now. I'm very confident out there. I'm very confident that it was an actual fifth of you or have you had the kind of convince yourself to transition around? I mean, I feel like it's natural for me because I feel like me individually on the fast learner, like coaches help us like learn fast. Like, because they're always honest about the techniques and stuff. So you like, you write down, like you pick up all the things and then like when we get out here,

2:31:17they coach us to like the techniques. So we used to go out there and play like fast spot. And it would be like, reverse utility, you're able to go out there and just compete. Is that where you kind of stuff is spring or do you pick out of mountain? So I've really been stuck there. This spring a little bit, right? Whenever you get it, it's like other things. I just bounce out there every once in a while. Just like have fun. See if I still got it every once in a while. So it's as good as going to compete at most spots. You mentioned the technique. What technique, you know, tips and things that you had to pick up and learn from, from taking the insight? I mean, this is always like, you know, because what preaches the eyes, feet, hands, like see it. You see it. Move your feet and then hit your hand with your hands on the mat. So it's like, when you get like, when you out there, you're able to like process like the way the receiver comes off the ball, looking at the hips and seeing like the way he movement. Are you able to pick up like the row concepts you can get out of that? So it's being like, under coach water, me as a player and just like him breaking out football to you like one on one. It's like very beneficial.

2:32:17What was the hardest part of making that transition from outside inside? I really say like the corner you got to cover two, you cover three, you get to cover one. It's easy, but then you got nickel. There are so many responsibilities you got to see like the row concepts, you got to be able to process like, dying those rows faster than what you got to do out corner and just be able to like everything's quid like your transition. You got to like, you got to move fast. You got to just learn to move fast. Game recognition, where you think maybe you've grown the most since you got to, how did you got to go? I would definitely say, I would definitely say yes because when you get to like college, it's a little bit different. Like high school, we don't got to worry about things like that. When you get to college in a school like this, like your recognition of plays and like your loyal jobs the way like the coverage is supposed to be played. I understand all your teammates are supposed to have a feel. It's like it gets easy. What have you been up to? It's very talented. He's a great dude. He's a humble guy.

2:33:17Great teammate. He's very supportive. He's like a guy that you don't want to wrong because you can feed off your energy because you can see like we make a play. He's like, he's like IDB. He's like IDB 2.0. So he's like, when you get out there with guys like that with good energy, it makes you play a little bit harder. And then when you make a play, he's out there and it's helping you. He's being out there with him. He's a good player. One of those guys. Five questions. 10 full kids. Obviously, I'm a glass of beer. So, it's helping you. What is it about one bill that gets you to play at a high school? It's a big question. It's a big question. I know. We just got some papers because we have so many kids come out of Glebil and just play at Leeds. I'll lead school and they like, like, track's a big part of it because I mean, it's actually in a good, everybody got to run a track. It's mandatory. You don't really get a choice. You're able to just get out here and know how to compete. And then like, Gleb, you're building mental toughness into you. So, like, have you, like, if you're now, you got to be mentally tough because

2:34:18life's not going to be easy. So it's like being out here, being able to compete. When you down, just pick yourself back up. I mean, that's what he is down to me. That's what he is down to. I already feel like your game is now good. A year ago. It's a big kind of impact in practice. Yeah, I feel like my game has definitely enhanced a lot. I became a lot smarter, I think, playing, I'm playing faster. I lost weight, so I'm definitely playing more, I would say, I'm definitely playing a lot faster. Everything's slowing down. I know every position. So if I know, like, the defense is, the coach pretends to do a good job trying to mess us up. I'd be, I'd still be, I'd still be numb, but they become, what is the way? What is your weight? What is your weight? You said you've lost weight. Oh, yeah, right now I'm two at one. Yeah. Where else is the number change? Number change? The number change. Yeah, I feel like my own self again. Yeah. I mean, if you're filthy, I'm going to feel like you are just going to be able to beat yourself this year.

2:35:21But it's the injuries, the number change, body change, whatever it is. Yeah, definitely. I mean, I can say that maybe a little bit of number change. But when you feel like, now's your time, your mentality also changes. And if they end last year, sitting still being on like the backup, quote unquote, now the opportunity to be a starter, now you're in your mentality totally changes. And I feel like the number change will, my body changes, so I feel like it's all coming together. So yeah. Well, I'm looking for change. You're losing your ability to be a starter. I was always talking about you as a leader last year, even in a smaller world. I kind of learned that growing your voice have a voice, even if you're not having a single role in some other guys on the team. Yeah. A mecha used to tell me I was the energy source in the world. So for him to tell me that I knew the team would also look at me as the energy source. So whatever I needed to do, whether it was vocally or during a block,

2:36:22it's making a big plug in and celebrating with my teammates and doing everything I can, often feel on the sidelines during games or whatever it needs to be done, just to be the best leader I can and just do whatever it takes for my team to win. Was it ever difficult to kind of keep that energy when you're meeting or trying to get on the field more? Nah, my energy is always high. I would say my energy is always high. One day it's kind of like a you can't. It's like you feel a little off, but then you have your teammates to bring you up and they have other guys like Carnaul and all these guys and all these big personalities in the room that also bring you up. So I feel like us as a whole, we're a great center for them. When you had your shot to make plays like she were baiting, right? I mean, how does that boo-ee-yoo lift you going into this season where you expect to be a constant that regards. Yeah, we call it a competitive excellence, making the play with your numbers called. And I feel like every time I get the opportunity to get into the game, they see that I'm putting good stuff on film or bad things and I don't want to put bad days on film.

2:37:24So that was my mindset every place to put a great thing on film. So you have to gear yourself mentally to the fact that you're going to probably play more, you're telling me this year compared to the last year, is that the grind so to speak up for them? Yeah, I definitely know like what's ahead. I'm just learning from Omega. I know what he left, I know the footsteps I'm following and I definitely know I'm going to be playing a lot more, a huge, way bigger role and I'm just doing everything my power to hold that standard. What are the justice works? To get the taste of what it's going to take to the national team and to your power. But not enough to feel what's inside with it. And that would like how do you balance that mental? I still need to do to get where I want to be, but you've already reached the national team. We always chase something. I don't think you're ever satisfied. I mean, as a team at the end of the year, we were satisfied with the outcome, but personally, you can always find it ins better.

2:38:24We always say find that ins and you work in stores one goal every day. And I feel like daily you come in here with a mindset of what's one thing I can focus on getting better today. And that's just one mindset. It goes days to talk about spring ball, enhancing our skill set. And every day I've thought about in the morning was one thing I can just something like this I thought about. So what's one thing every day that I can come out here and enhance on the field? And I focus on one thing every single day. And I feel like that's helped me the most so far. How do you feel that makes you perfect fit in a slot? I can do everything. I can run every route. I'm quick. I got great hands on physical. I create separation very easily. And I feel like I got that mentality played a slot. I could take hits over the middle. I could do the dirty work. I could insert and block my backers. I do things like that. I feel like that's what you need. Brandon, this is a ball fits transferring out. That's their journey. That's a good one for that. You stay.

2:39:26How has that benefited you? How has that kind of built your journey? Yeah, I always trusted the process. I would say that them hard times definitely. I didn't really question entering the transfer portal honestly. I've always thought like this is the place you're in. That's the type of back I am, but you call it. Yeah, yeah. What are kind of a few of those things that you're like, yeah, I need to work on. I'm like, go to the portions. I'm actually a few months away. I'm just everything. Make sure I keep all the details, lost the career. What it could start to tell you that you like to back your game. Is it part of the sort of tackles or speed? He said you like Mariah Falker back to your game. And he like that. I'm not a few. What's kind of your main, obviously, as an in-state kid committed to this class? What's your pitch now to other recruits? And be like, this is why you should join Ohio State 2020. It's a real family atmosphere. Yeah, everybody get the money. Everybody talk to everybody. What did you say? What did you get any coaching? I got a lot going on.

2:40:28I've always looked up to BoJack and Washington's films. Do you think that your voice down can mirror his perspective just the way that he really is. I think I can't. I think speed and hard. We're the main guys that you're talking to right now to join us. I'm really talking to everybody. It's the list of room and that. Any guys that you want to join the class? Anybody at the top here? No, I'm sorry if you already asked this, but coming out here as a recruit. As a committee, I'm seeing what what did you want to show today? What did you want to get out of this experience? I wasn't up in the show. I just wanted to get some work in with this guy. How did you feel like that went? Obviously, he's still relatively new here, but he seems to bring a little bit of a different energy than some of these camps in the past. I feel like it went good.

2:41:29Do you sense that energy? When you're out with him, he's different than other guys though. How did you explain his coaching than some of the other running back coach you've made up working with in the past? It just intense. Did you talk to Coach Lachman when you were in the middle of the season? I did. When did he get in the middle of the season? I grew up around after the season, not so far. Was he kind of the same guy that he is now? Just in the new uniform. You guys obviously added Isaiah to the class and there's no secret they would like to add another one. What are your thoughts on being in a class with three different running backs like that? I have no problem being in a class with three different running backs. What do you like about Isaiah? I don't know Isaiah. You don't know Isaiah, you never met him. You just damn none of the first time. When you committed to doing some of the guys that we shared to you, you heard from anybody that you particularly about after they came to them.

2:42:30Not really a couple of long backers, taking on these guys. You might have heard of that from him. He prepared when he prepared here in Tension Wolf. That's definitely something I try to do like him better. Like you said, I'm leading. But when it comes to preparing and being in Tension Wolf's study and how I prepared for practice, I'm definitely taking that to him. Anything from the leadership of Skinship Week? No, Coach Lee, Coach, you're a different type of person. Big sheets of field. When you don't know something about it, I don't know something about it. Where's that come from? Just being honest, like, you can't be more than those guys when they ask you what happened to you and try to lie. You get your film rolling, it's obviously lying here. So it's a deal. How much of a bunch of people is it that you don't know something about? I can't believe the last time that happened. So that's a good thing.

2:43:30Those big sheets of field with Cody Delph, leadership standpoint, what is he taking out the door with it? You know, maybe he's got a feeling that's slumped. I think he's definitely some big sheet of field. Coach Lee was a great player, a great leader. He's like with the quarterback and defense. He's definitely some big sheet of field. And like Coach Lauren, I said though, you got to be who you are or not. Yeah, you got to be who you are. You can't just have to be him, but definitely that's what you're seeing. When did you feel like you lost him last year or they could truly count on you and stuff? I mean, you remember how you came along? I think it started in like Fall camp just flashing there. I got to like the first day I was wearing a wrong side on this hallline. I don't know what it was like with the concentration. I'm just being great. I like it personally. I like them all feeling that's a poor. Yeah, and the life backwards. What is it going to be? The difference is responsibility is always in this system. Or is it going to be in the same heart as it kind of seems?

2:44:31Oh, we just learn it right now. We just work it out. We just work it right now. We just learn it. What do you think about CJ Higgs and what he can do in this defense? I think CJ Higgs said what he could do in his defense? Or just what he can do in this season. We can do this season. I think CJ will pop up this season for sure. I think this definitely going to be one of his years for sure. Got to. What do you think is the biggest difference between French and North Georgia? And the difference between North Georgia and North Georgia? To me, it's no difference. They both coach you and they both like they hard on you, but they want you to be great. So I don't think there's no difference. What are you talking about? You're looking at what you guys can do and fitting your fingers. Do you think Judith you want? So you're trying to plug into that? You guys can do it. So yeah. No, I don't think so. What's the exact same approach that you know about the sun?

2:45:32Either on or off. Or the fire or something? I think Sunni is a great leader. The fires before anything. Sunni is a great leader. I feel like he's like the voice. I think he'd be thinking something Sunni just can't worry about for the whole team to understand. So Sunni definitely a great leader before anything. I'm not sure if Sunni is a great leader, not just for white bad person. Because I think he's a great leader. That's right. How does that show itself? Obviously local. Yeah. And the performance. That's right. What is something that you need to about that? On to my whole field or what is leadership? Like I said, he's just a great leader. Like he a vocal guy. Like you said, it shows up on the field too. And he's hard to follow up to a guy who says something don't own. And they're not on their stuff. So Sunni one of those guys who he's on his stuff. So when he leaves everybody listen. Because obviously it's been a long string of linebacker success of a higher state. You've been a long string of linebacker success at Ohio State.

2:46:33And I mean, look at Sunni taking that next step this year. How motivated are you going to be part of that linear to be one of the great linebackers? It's a greater higher state. Oh, I'm ready for it. I mean, that's what I'm here for. Really that next level step of competitiveness that I need it. And that edge that I need it. That Murphy 2474. You guys came into the Tennessee game with a lot of outside motivation with Michigan boss and kind of three weeks of talk. I know obviously there's still that motivation to go on and win a national championship. But how do you keep that kind of edge to lack of a better term mentally after some of that stuff has kind of gone away. I would say kind of if you lose your edge, I wouldn't really call you a true competitor. I think that, you know, the way with the college football playoffs is structured. The intensity cranks every single week. So if you're not more intense than you were the last week, then something's wrong with you. I think that, you know, Tennessee was a great win, great for our momentum. But we have our full focus on Oregon, not worrying about anything in the past, nothing in the future, our full focus is towards this game.

2:47:39And then, you know, we win this one. We go on to the next one. Our full focus is going to be on that one. So it's just you keep moving down a ladder like this. Step on Christy, please. I'm not talking about it. Mecha, there's been a lot of change in college football in the playoffs. I think of that nature. But you know, the way in some of you and some of your teammates and coaches talk about the Rose Bowl seems like that's one game. You know, maintain a lot of that tradition. You play the net. You know, what it's about. Could you explain it to, you know, also, you would never have a chance to play the Rose Bowl. Does maintain, you know, that level of respect from the players and coaches. Yeah, I think, I don't know. There's just something about it. Something in the air down there in the past of Dana. It's just a beautiful venue, especially that time of the year. Like you said, the tradition is held year in and year out. And it's kind of the game you dream of playing. And when you're a little kid, you know, playing backyard football with your friends, the role of the role is always one that tends to come. So just having a chance to play in it is definitely very surreal. And this is going to be my second time. So I'm going to do my best to take it all in while also being fully focused on organ. Dan, let me worry. Matthew Will said he still has 90 minutes about that first game in Oregon.

2:48:41And just what kind of drive you seem to him this week wanting to get back at this one? Yeah, Will is a, he's a laser focused person. He goes about his business. I mean, he's very loose and he's very calm and he's able to rally the team. But you can see it in his eyes that this game means everything to him. So every single practice, every single huddle, making sure we're sharp, making sure we have a better practice than we had last. Then yesterday, a better practice than organs having. So his full focus is on being this team. And obviously it's hard not to think about the stuff of the past, but I know he's laser focused on what we got coming up. Tony German, Bucket Hill. Matthew, when you're a kid playing back here, I do it with a game what team are you playing for? Honestly, I wasn't, I was never really a. A buck I fan until, you know, I really committed here and I saw what it was all about. I was actually an organ fan growing up, especially on the Pacific Northwest. You know, my grandpa went to UW and stuff like that. So I like the Huskies too, but there was a legendary football player named Foto Liatto from my high school.

2:49:46And he went to organ and a couple of y'all probably know that story. So I'm a couple of years back, but he tragically died in the car accident. And, you know, he was, he was someone I looked up to in high school. You know, I was relatively close with him even though he was a bit older than me in age. But I'm just seeing what he did at my high school and then going on to play big time football organ. That was a school that I really dreamed of going to. He built a bit like a football. I think actually another Jeremiah question. Is there one moment, one play, one something that made you go, oh man, I've never seen it before. That's just incredible. Yeah, I'll say it's happened multiple times. There's not really one. I can pinpoint, but the more he does it, the more I tend to react less. So I would say probably my earliest memories of it were in spring ball. Kind of getting the first glimpse of him when he's making all these ridiculous catches. And he still does it time and time again, even now, but it's just more common now for me. The land that one that came to the north.

2:50:47But you had, I think, was 12 touches in the first game against Oregon Thunder. So just two carries. Is there something about this matchup that favors you? And now that you have, where that productive, the first time he played this team, what kind of attention or I guess maybe different defenses are you expecting to see? Yeah, I mean, we're not entirely sure what their gameplay is going to be. But we're paired for everything. You know, I'm not going to get too much into scheme and stuff like that. But we know that if the ball comes our way, we've got to make those plays. So whether I have 10 receptions again coming up this game where I have zero or one, we're just looking to get this win on the road because it's really a road game for us, you know, flying across two times on. So I think that, you know, it's going to be a great matchup. Whether they tend to focus on me more or not, it doesn't really matter to me. Because I know our team has a great playing regardless. That time for a couple more questions, Spencer, over a letterman role. You guys ever surprised when the game and you and the strategy current also lead us in the order to get this? You can kind of feel it throughout the game, I would say.

2:51:47You know, he's a true competitor. He wants to get involved, but at the same time he's super selfless. He's really humble. So he's going to do whatever it takes for the team to get a win. But it's the competitor nature and then that wants to, you know, contribute as much as he can. So, you know, I try to be in his ear to tell him to be level heading and stuff like that. I think that's not that I need to. He's a very level headed and selfless guy like I'm saying. But, you know, sometimes that's just how the game goes. You know, I had a game this year where I only had one catch. But, you know, we ended up winning by lot. So I think that, you know, it's hard or it's easy to be focused on the personal attributes that you could have game in and game out. But no one's really going to remember those if we're holding up the trophy at the end of the year. He could be a number one. I think 95% of the ball off the ground. He's like number three. You see his work as a goal of those things that he doesn't dare to make play. You guys ever been hiking like, yeah, this guy can absolutely be a number one on the low scouts of the ball off the ground. I would disagree with you. I think that he is a number one. I think that we don't have a number three receiver.

2:52:47I think we have three number one receivers out there. So whatever the defense, you know, if they want to put their attention on one guy or a couple of us, they're not really doing their selves any favor because we're going to have a favor. We'll match up on the other side of the ball. So that's never how we view ourselves. We know we're alpha dogs out there every single one of us knows we have the capabilities to be a number one receiver and we are number one receivers. And final question. Steve, how long has 24.5 sports? Yeah, and McAdda, at the end of that game, you made one of the clutch plays that passed down the sideline. At any time when you make that play, you think, did you ever, your mind, we're going to win this game after we're now close to field goal range. I mean, did that play in your mind, say, my goodness, we've got a chance to get out of here with the win. Yeah, I definitely knew where I caught the ball and I knew we were, you know, closer being a field goal range. So, you know, there was a sense of, you know, I knew I knew I knew was a big play that I made. But in those moments, you have to finish out the game no matter what you can't get a big head, you can't get complacent. You have to finish the game until the clock hit zero.

2:53:47So that's something we've been working on. You know, we work on two minutes every single Wednesday. Every single Wednesday practice. So today we'll work on our two minute and we don't even call it two minutes. We call it clutch because in those times, in those games, in those big moments, someone has to make a clutch play. So we're focusing on that every single game, knowing that we're going to have to make one of those plays coming down the stretch here. What it mean if you're able to finish this one off and get to the final four of this playoff? Just what in your mind, just would this be, you know, just the ultimate, I suppose, to be a team that's already beaten earlier this year? No, I think the ultimate would be winning the national championship. So, you know, we're focused on this. This just happens to be the next team in the way. We're not focused on where we played them earlier this year, whether they got the win over us. They're just a nameless, faceless opponent. So we're going out there fully prepared, not worried about what's happening in the past. You know, we played them before. We felt them out. So it's all about who got better from that point in time until now. I'm happy to thank you for it. Thank you. Be patient and realize it's going to be a process that takes time.

2:54:49Oh, yeah, definitely. Coach Hart told me that at the beginning, like he played quarterback in ice and two. And he had to make a transition to receiver here in the state. And he's helped me. It's going to be rough at first, but he has to push me to get me to where I need to be. When you think back and just like you're upbringing, you know, coming from, you know, Africa being over here. Just what do you how did all you feel? Call of that kind of helped mold you into who you are now? Yeah, definitely. Definitely maybe like tough and like not afraid of like new change. And he's like willing to just adapt to my environment. What was it like for you coming in here as a freshman and getting to see this team go win an national championship for those first few weeks here? Definitely was a high motivated, you know. Being a freshman. It wasn't really my team though. So like I really get it. So that makes like push me like that once when it's my turn. I got put in the word. I want to be the same position, but with a ring on my finger. What did you learn from those guys just about what you need to do to have a chance to go accomplish what they did?

2:55:51So you just got to don't let the past like affect you like and just yeah, I remember. You got to be relentless. You got put in the work. It's not easy at all by any means. It's got to be hard, but you have to put everything into it. What do you view as like the best attributes of your game that you're going to bring to this team? I would just say my size, my speed. I can take the top off the defense and I can play tough and physical. It's about that. What's the last year? And like when you think back to the whole reward last year. What has the last kind of year been like for you? Was it like a lot from the player? It was kind of cool. I think it's also a two. It ain't just my answer. It's what making me transition into a team. So how has this last year been the 12th? I was definitely changing like because I was always on my sophomore year. I was hurt and my junior, I got hurt during track. So I wasn't able to, I was a high schooler, and this time last year was where my career really picked up.

2:56:54It's been crazy. I must have had another team. It's leaving me in my corner, my coach is everything. They should just give me the motivation to go. What is your relationship with Leipzig and the players? What do you think of it? I'm sure you're working with it. That's a big good. Before I even got a hosting offer, and before I even knew who he was, I actually threw it with them a couple of times in the belt. Bella Files, she was trying to say, yeah, I was working with, I knew his head coach. And he invited me to come in and run routes. And I actually ran routes for a table in the fight. If we was exactly at it like two, we first came to the end. We had a lot more, we got got together, and the freshman class and the school, he's working on everything. He's definitely got nice on. This cornerback in the years, I think it was pretty talented. How has that kind of helped you with all of your freshman? The quarterback?

2:57:54The quarterback. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And they're definitely talented at it. And they always say, I just love being on it. And they make it hard for you. And when you play this high level competition practice, you go on a game, and practice easier than the practice, and he's playing this belt on. Is there any more questions? I think it's kind of like a moment of death. Oh wow, this is so different. This is something that I guess I can walk from. I guess there's been kind of like a moment of birth. I realized. Oh wow, these guys are really good at this. Yeah, just like, I just first, like on high school, I just take some like reps and have a seat with this guy. Yeah, I just had past speed and catching abilities like face separation. And I come to college and explore everybody's fast, everybody's big. So you have fun new ways to get open. It's really good for yourself to hire your IQ. People in the toilet.

2:58:54Now I was, but I just got more, more older minded than I was. How do you say that to play out over your campus? I say, just coming in trying to be the first guy to come in, like trying to come in before the older guy you get in here. That's hard because they don't make her really. So really just sticking with them and going on the ride with them, and trying to be them at the thing they're doing earlier to me. Where do you feel like you've grown the most from year one to year two? I would say learning a game more, like learning concepts, and just know what the offense is going to do before they do it. Because it feels different being out there with spring than it was when it was coming earlier. Yeah, definitely. Everything was slower. Everything was slower in my fresh air. Like my high school defense, all we were able to do is man. So like, all this was new to me, especially with Cognitive defense. And this year is like everything's low now. How are some different things to do with your defense? I'll say I just simplify more.

2:59:55It's more simplified. And coach is trying to get a lot more guys. Just see where it's pretty new still. We still learning and working through it. But he's just trying to get the basics and figure out what guys are good at. What's guys like Jeremiah and Rack? It's a sort of stuff on with the field of real games. You know, is there any other practice you can get into that a little bit? Yeah, it's all the guys. Jeremiah, Carnaval, Brandon, Autumn, I feel like in the game it's definitely, I definitely do feel like it's easier. I feel like we got the best with here in the country. That's a competitive issue. I take you, I think it's a lot of it. I mean, I don't know what to talk a lot. What's the like in the room? It's very competitive. We all have to go out and we go out and we go out and we go out and we tell each other, I'm so glad you're being there. I'm gonna come and take y'all a spot. Might come and take y'all a seat. And they blame me not letting that go. Let me do that in a certain way. So I love it. You're talking about that? Yeah, so... Devin Sanchez is kind of the same role that you were last, because it was a big time five-star recruit. What do you see in a dead and so forth? You're very competitive. You're very competitive.

3:00:55You got how about an energy? They be talking to, like, I fly out of a whole room kind of like, there's time together, we all got the same energy. So, but he definitely been on the energy. And, yeah, that's it. Really had to just approach the game. Take a time, watch him work for him. Really, they helped me slow things down. They helped me break things down and know what they're spending on children. When you did play the actual, how do you think it did? I feel like I did a good, pretty good game, everyone. And I feel like, what could you do about that? So, I feel like there was like one play on the thing with the game. You see, it was like, you played like a, uh, it was made, it was made in an area more built that just... Listen, it's 6.8 and it looked taller. Yeah, I'm high, like, 6 more. I don't know, 6 more, I'll say 6 more. You're talking to Jerry about that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You talked about watching the film. How different is that now for you in a quiet, high school and even coming to your last year? Now it's like you got a lot of more resources.

3:01:55So, you got coached actors just coming in and helping. And like, my main thing is I'm trying to come in early and I'm getting with every coach I can. And, uh, really, just, high school, you know, you watch the film, but Tyler, it's like you got to stay watch film every day. I'm watching the practice three times, two, three times a day. And flight, that's it for real. It's getting close to home, working out well for you. You just kind of stand in your bubble and what is that like? Uh, yeah, stay at home, it's cool. But I don't really be going back home, ain't that bad for me. But my family come and come kick it with me here in here. I pay for shooting. Yeah, yeah, for sure. You have a mom, she loves down plus, you know, with us. You're a master of players, you're a master of building. Just a bit of a master of business. Yeah. What do you say I can talk? It makes me grow up. Yeah. It's common for players. You can play with players when you say that about me. Aw, I'm your girl. Yeah, I would, it's typical for us. Uh-huh. You can feel like, feel that way too? Uh, not for real. I honestly, but they said that I would just take that. It was a take-in.

3:02:55It was just a typical. Mm-hmm. Doesn't know what it doesn't know. Yeah, I feel like I knew a lot. I feel like I knew, I knew I didn't know too much, but I feel like I'd help my home. But I definitely could have learned more. I didn't know too much coming out of high school. Because just basically how my, or program high school wasn't there. I made, I had other skills and other things. Thank you. You are a helmet. I know that you've got a sort of a different helmet. Help you when you're... Yeah, maybe. When it hits the top like that, it's not as good, but... I feel like these guys 11 months ago kind of crushed their dreams. Do you get the sense they're kind of a different team or, and also that they, this was a very important game for them to win? I don't think they're that different. I think they've had a ton of injuries on defense, which hurts them. But the mentality of the head coach, you could see it throughout everybody. It's really a cool team. I could just see from afar that it's probably a fun team to play for. And they come out and they play to win every game, and I respect that.

3:03:59But I've put so much emphasis on the ball, all meetings and takeaways. And I think you've got two since the by-week. Is there any accounting for that? I mean, there's so many different things that go into a turnover. Take away how do you wrap your brand around? It goes into every level of the defense. When you have your opportunity, I know we had two against Stafford. That could have made... I mean, maybe if we get those, it sparks a bunch of other ones. So you just have to make your plays when they're there. And then just be in the right spots. And I don't think we've done a great job of that this year. The last time I was in tonight, the soul is all pro. Did you want that matchup? Would you think about that matchup? It's good. He's a really good player. Yeah, I wanted to see where I'm at against him. Have you ever seen anything like the Jameson Williams touchdown or his pop act to him?

3:05:03And you've seen something like that? I was in the tent, so I had no idea that happened. It was a play in this game when we saw a kind of a misdirection sprinted all the way across the field to make the play. Did you see the play? I think it was the one Gibbs cut back. Yeah, I had like a 10-yard cushion and he ran by me like I didn't exist. And I tried to sprint and I just was like, I don't have this. And thankfully, Mustafa is a heat seeking missile and he made the play. Did you have mindset tonight, boys? What was your mindset against Man? I mean, I didn't have the game. It took us a little bit. I mean, I think we came in with the right mindset as a team. Just myself. It felt a little like dead energy wise. But yeah, it was a learning, a moment for me to learn and make sure that I come in with the right mindset every single week.

3:06:13There's a lot of plays where you guys get to the final pass breakups and it will be like a couple plays in the row. And then there's an excellent civil allowed. What can you leave in your own about the ecosystem? Yeah, I mean, we did get them to the second, third and longs. And then yeah, they would make a big play. You definitely want to capitalize when you back them up like that. We didn't do that tonight and that's why they scored 40 points. I'm sure, yeah, I'm sure. Like that first downplay, all of a sudden your eyes go way up. If you can do that, you give yourself a chance. But you know, not how we wanted to finish it. That's the drive before that for you guys for the two. Did you want to go forward? And you feel like you wanted to use some more of that clock. Get the first down and use the momentum and the crowd. Everything that will come along getting the first down. Oh, yeah, just as a competitor, you always want to be like put it on us, put it on my plate. So that's some mindset.

3:07:13You know, leave us out there. But at the end, they are trust our coaches and our analytics people to make the right decisions. So, yeah, and try to to end us. We bought out today. Let us see if he'd great dude and just the same go out there and make that 57 and 58 yarder. That was awesome. There. Those aren't easy situations at the end of the game. But it feels like you guys are going into situations a lot. Like 45-ish seconds ago. And no time out. How does it feel like the Asia Beauty a little bit? You guys keep ending up in that spot. We just need a few block in at the end of the game. Now that I look back on it, we have been in it in a while. It's tough, man. You know, it's obviously not how you, the situation you want to be in. I feel like we haven't done a great job of, you know, making it happen in that scenario. And at the end of the day, it's a culmination of the whole game. We got to take advantage of the opportunities that come up early. We got to start the game faster. We got to play good in the first half and all of a sudden you might not be in that scenario.

3:08:14So, I'm sorry. Do you want a few more? You were asked this already, but it seems like you're in the back of complimentary for that. Where the defense is rolling and the offense can't score. And the offense gets rolling and the defense ends up pointing. Why is it, it hasn't clicked this year for both of you guys. Yeah, I don't know. We just got to make sure that we're holding on. And the barring and both sides, we got to approach it that way. And all of a sudden, you'll play better, complement each for a ball naturally. You're holding up your side of it, doing your job. Just put your mindset three and eight after the buy-and-week six games. Just kind of what's your mindset for the rest of the season? You know, finish strong. Just finish strong. See what that put us. How much of a total does this take on your character? We know how much you care about the game. How much do these games need to you? How much does this weigh on you? You know, it's been tough, man. I ain't gonna fake it's been tough. And at the end of the day, man, I just got to keep going out there

3:09:17and make sure I'm winning my rep at the end of the day. So I got to do a better job in that. And see where that puts us. Yeah, you know, the end of the day. You know, offensive guard on the score and put it away. And defense has to get a stop. So, you know, with things on both sides, both feel like you could have done more. Very frustrating because we definitely should have had a win tonight. So, yeah. What about it? It seems like it's always been a theme for us. Starting slow for you guys. I mean, you have one first down and waiting the first half. Obviously, you have to touch down and that's right. But frustrating is to get off to such a slow start again. I mean, regardless of us, you know, starting slow, you know, still put up a decent amount of points. I take the first drive, you know, we are a third and one and I mix to play up and kind of run into the right guard. So, you know, that was our, that was kind of a drive killer right there. The third and one, third and two, whatever. But, you know, offense came alive. Tried to give defense some more help, but they got out to a decent lead.

3:10:18And we kind of tried to help recover. And, you know, the end of the day, you know, offense has to do our part in the first half. So, you know, we don't even have, give them a chance to, you know, come back in a second half. What, what opened the basket? Like you said, you had no first ounce. We've talked to him in the morning and all of a sudden, you're scoring, you're going to flip the right foot there. Play, was there something you thought opened it was your first evening? No, like when we were shooting ourselves in the foot, we just, you know, kind of said, all right, let's go. Come on, like we already dug ourselves a hole. Was dug ourselves out of it. You guys have been in that situation at the end of the game. No timeouts, but like 45 seconds. We need to get up here with like three or four or five times. Part of the shift is if you feel like deja vu almost like you just keep ending up in the situation, leave them in the to go and we got to get it done. It doesn't happen. Not really deja vu, it was just just a frustrating, you can't get the job done. You know, if we, the losses went the other way, you know, we would have, obviously we have probably four or five more wins, but, you know,

3:11:20I don't really know what to tell you. You know, there's no more time for making excuses. You've got to win football games at the end of the day. I know what the result you wanted, but did you feel differently about today and the connections you were making with your? Not really. You know me and Aaron have a great relationship, great chemistry on the field. So not really impressed or surprised or anything like that. It's just a frustrating because you make, make the big plays, but you don't win, so it don't matter. We'll take a few minutes. Respect it for you guys during the buy. You know, you have six weeks left, six games left after that. How do you guys get prepared for that stretch run? Talk, take restructed criticism, practice, get some rest and revamp and try to get this thing going. The fans, obviously, we're not happy with the start. Can you sympathize with them and kind of the emotions they were showing? It is what it is. They're going to feel how they're going to feel. Like I said, at the end of the day, there's no point in making excuses. You've got to win football games. I'm going to have a few more questions.

3:12:21At the end of the day. Thank you. Well, I have three documents to change to everything. Has it been long? It's been long. Thank you. Oh, it's definitely changed, obviously. We're at a really good college. So it's definitely been as hard as I thought it'd be. I would say that. And then for you to have a new coach, six months after being here. How was that? I think coach going is a really good match. That's a really good coach, really good person. And then obviously we've got coach Dickie, coach Johnson, coach Fields. We're all good at this. You know, it's kind of four coaches. How does that change? A practice. I mean, we're a lot more split up because we've got more coaches to do. More drills and stuff. So it's a lot. It's more efficient stuff. Are you strictly aware? You do. Right garden left garden. Right garden. You just got a little bit more up versus it's already. You just turn off the box. So we're still waiting for you. I will still be sitting next to the stand. Oh, being obviously need to be versatile because last year people went down.

3:13:25And like you got to be ready with your number of scald. Obviously, because we had Seth go down, get Jimmy go down. And like you always, you got to be ready 100% of the time. Otherwise, you just got to be ready. You guys being here for a different month and a quarter. Yeah. Well, seeing that throughout all the guys on the list. I would say like half goal line is doing that. Okay. Maybe come from Michigan. Like that's not too common for a higher state player to come from there. What does that experience like? I would say it's not. I wouldn't say it's that crazy because I grew up in Michigan State fan. But obviously I committed North Western. I just never got. I never got really like looked at by the Michigan State coaching staff. And then obviously they didn't have like a great obviously. That's how you got fired. So obviously, and then I know how to say call me. So I'm like, you can't pass it up. So I just leave now. What is your goal for this season in terms of your development and where do you want to be by time? Fall camp ends and the season starts.

3:14:25My goal is just to get better every day. And just see what I need to be esteemed to go in games. We've been primarily working this spring. What position? Right guard left guard. Right guard. I want to answer this. I haven't changed physically. Last year like, wait, are you up to decide if you changed physically? I got here because I came, I was in summer and roly. So I came in at like 295. And now I just like consistently through 15. No, I imagine I try to be away through 15. Yeah, yeah. You play both guard spots, I think you're saying, right? That seems like everybody would talk and just play multiple spots. As you were saying, you need to be, you guys learn last year, you have to be versatile in the old line. Yeah. It's good to be more about that if you would. Obviously, because it's not good when you're all American center goes down last year. But obviously Carson was a really good asset. So he started the year before, so he's really good. It's not like we had a big drop off. So we always got to be ready to do everything. If you, obviously, the losing coach probably means the guy you've got a little relationship with. If you had a year, come on campus, but then someone coached, but one comes in and they obviously they coached down.

3:15:26And then you might know you knew from Purdue a little bit at least. Well, always a like to hear that he's coming in and they're like, oh, at least a familiar name. I kind of already know. It's good seeing familiar faces. And yeah, obviously, I like both of them. So it's, I mean, it's not really drop off. It's right. So it's good. Especially a very decent amount. Sorry, I called. I just walked out. It's like Mike's busy over there. Jerry's gone. I'm just gonna say any other question. Yeah, if it's at the end. Being around the coach up handed, eh? What's kind of the things that you notice around him, just whether it's how he is or just how he, what? Your thoughts of him being around the emotion. He's an incredibly detailed guy. And I got that for sure from a slightly watching film when he broke down. Just like some game film with me. And he also accomplished some of the guys that he's coaching the past that are similar to me. And you know, that was a, he really just showed how good a coach is. Getting to know Coach more about during this experience. What has that been like? It was good.

3:16:26He's a very passionate guy. And I mean, I love that. Like the head coach should have that. And you can tell how much he cares about what the guys about the program. And about just like being dedicated, being driven to win to succeed. What did they tell you about the opportunity here as far as meeting a player of your sort at a position? Along the offensive line. Well, I mean, they gave me a lift at the time. I'll be a good fit, you know, coming in. But I was, I was a coach, no ball, stressed. You know, lots of other great, all kinds of linemen in the portal that have lots of great skills. You'll say that fill wise. I mean, I'll be good fit when it comes to, such as what you guys do. But if you see does, it's like the people here. What's kind of the ultimate feeling now about that? Actually, I think it's a lot of the big experiences. And what's kind of the feeling about them? Yeah, it's a, it's definitely good feeling. It's great. I'm glad that I was actually able to come down here because I mean, Zoom calls and phone calls are nice, but you know, in person is a lot different.

3:17:26And this is again to know the staff, you're getting to know coach Herb, and to know coach Novel, it was a great experience overall. Who else have you checked out during this process? What are their schools? I've talked to some others, so I've talked to a house, say, in Iowa and A&M. And really just, yeah, that's what we've been at. I've tried to keep it short, try to keep it sweet. I really need to be torn up up to schools. I mean, that's not the main priority. Are you entering decision mode now, or do you intend to take some trips in early January? Yeah, I'm done with this incident. When do you want to decide? Sometimes with the Christmas. But all good. For those of us who only see maybe highlights of you, what are kind of your strengths and areas that you're looking to improve on? So, shrink wise, I would say, probably just movement. I mean, I've been told my coach heard, you know, I'm very well-ferred during our 45 pound guy. I fight evident off-done. It's like me to get out of my stance as a big thing for me, so big, and just be able to move people.

3:18:30But at the same time, I'm also just being consistent and can't place a punch forward in general to technique. So, I mean, if you're a big, strong guy, and you can only do so much when you don't have right technique. So, that's a big reason why I want to have a good, a good, a good, a good work of just to refine that technique to be precise in and everything. And that's kind of like what I'm looking for to improve. I appreciate my understanding. Pre-workout foods, I try to eat some predsuits, you know, there has a little bit of carbs on there. So, it gets my body started, I know, everybody's different, but for sure works out for me. And then after, I just don't just do a shake. I took cardio to full before lunch, so I definitely just do a shake, you know, after practice or after live, you know, just to make sure, you know, getting a protein and just getting everything back that I want to swallow working out. All right, it's time for some rapid fire questions. Do I care about my macros? I try to, you know, you're supposed to eat brown, for me, it's like 2,500 to 3,000 calories, so I definitely try to make sure I'm accumulating them every day until, you know, how much I need this day and that day.

3:19:37You know, sometimes, you know, my appetite's kind of different depending on how I'm on my days. My favorite carbs, for sure, I have to eat one, my favorite foods is french fries, and so, you know, it kind of definitely plays a hurt in my diet. For sure, breakfast, you know, it's my favorite meal, so it knows the easiest thing to make. If I did my piece of crust to anything, it had to be cheese or, you know, I thought you can't go wrong with either one. I eat bread, yeah, I do. You know, I'm a big guy, you know, I'm not a friend of a human, I'm back from where I'm at. I'm all talking about it, but, you know, you do the whole thing. My dream taco, I think, is just normal bread tacos, you know, it's pretty good. I wanted to say, this guy is the protein in my pan, you know, sometimes it gets just a little gritty, and, you know, once she makes it that well, I think it really helps out the shake a lot. I just want to say, just work hard to stay dedicated to whatever you're doing, everything's not going to be all right sometimes, but, you know, it's going to be all right after time, but, you know, it's going to work out, then.

3:20:45There's seniority impact the offense in a positive way. You personally, where have you seen Jeremiah Smith grow in this camp? I mean, obviously he's had all these accolades, et cetera, and people gushing about him for, you know, even started camping stuff, but where do you see him actually makes the growth? Probably just his mental, just his ability to, you know, taking the good with the bad and, you know, kind of consume the playbook and, you know, growing his knowledge of the game, because as a freshman, when you come in, that's something that, you know, you may lack a little more than your physical ability, especially. For someone like Jeremiah, he has all the physical tools you might need. So it's kind of catching up that mental game and it can be hard as a freshman, because there's so much stuff flying over your head, especially with all the praise he's receiving, but he's, he's taking it, you know, the best way he can and he's doing great. Yeah, and you have, Marvin seemed to embrace even the competitive nature of these practices, right? If you see him do that, I mean, you know, he's not going against high school corners anymore, he's going to get his dizzled, germane and, and, you know, those guys.

3:21:47Yeah, absolutely. We kind of, we try to recruit guys with that dog mentality, you know, it's not really something you're going to want to teach them. It's going to be something that you, you hope they already have and he definitely has that. He has that competitive spirit, that competitive nature. So it definitely shows when, you know, going against, you know, bigger talent. You guys don't care like a picture how you guys will point to get to this. This often seems like there's been a concentration slash focus on the one game. Maybe this is going to be a run first offense. That has, do you guys have any room to take? I mean, we don't, you know, we got to see what, however, things stacks up when you put on the field, but I mean, a run first offense opens, opens up big lanes for the passes. You got to take the safety's low. You got to do all that type of stuff. So it's less about, it's less about who gets the touches and more about, you know, how we can capitalize on opportunities that we're giving. So, do you agree that people are right for taking the offense 50 that way?

3:22:49I mean, you can, I mean, you can tell you in any way you want. We have the best running back, backfield in the entire nation, and we have the best receiver unit in the nation. We kind of, we're kind of jack of all trades. You've been moved around the offense in the past of different things, emotions, different trade and ways to get open, but has that increased any knowledge of Kelly's here or is it kind of the same as the benefit of you guys? Probably stay away from talking about scheme stuff. What, what was it that Jeremiah did that you think enabled you to be in? I am not going to do it. I was coming in every single day and competing. That's really what we're challenged to do as as bug guys when we walk into the way we were going to coach make your supposed to be there and show out and show out every single day. And you're not allowed to have a step back and not allowed to happen off day. He took, he took care of all his, you know, the non negotiables of this program. He was never late. He made his way every single day. He gave his 100% effort. Not the end of the day. He was just winning a lot of competitions and just grinding. Yeah. I'm going to do a lot less with you.

3:23:49That's great. A lot about, brand new. Yeah. Brandon didn't get a chance to do a lot this spring. What stood out to you, even when he wasn't on the field this spring, that, that basically things like he could be a legit impact player for you. Well, yeah, first and foremost, he got, he got voted on by his peers to the leadership committee on our team, which is a group of about, you know, 16 to 20 of our, of our guys who the team looks to as leaders. So obviously you can see how people think of him on this team. They think highly of him. And he comes in every day as a very fiery competitive nature. And, you know, he puts in really hard work and days in and days out. So even though he hasn't seen the field too much yet, we have no, we have no concern that when he does stuff onto the field, he's going to make a great impact. He's only been here here. Yeah. I don't know about him. Like, he's gone as a spectrified, he can be on a leadership, maybe I have to prepare for 165 days. Yeah, just his ability to be able to, you know, talk a good game, but also back it up. Not in a sense of playing football, but more in a sense of we're going to be the hardest working team on the field.

3:24:52We're going to go in day in day out. I'm going to, I'm going to beat you even when I don't feel healthy, even when I don't feel good, all that type of stuff. It's all an mentality. From far away, it looks like violence, not just the fight, it kind of looks a little bit like young bear. Right. When you see that in him, I'm not trying to compare it to the number 10 role. Can you see that a little bit in the way that he can shift around? Yeah, he definitely is very fluid about the way he moves and we see it in his, you know, his routes and his releases. You know, when all the White receivers are knowing the film room and, you know, he's getting crapped, he's doing all this body movement stuff. It's like, okay, we could see he got a little sun to him. So it's just about bringing him along, you know, he wasn't, you know, he just got here. First here here, kind of built on a long, there's steps you got to take, but he's definitely training in the right direction. Back in a lot of teams get talent for whatever reason you guys seem to develop the receivers better than anyone. What goes on out there that somehow helps Ohio State keep placing guys in Canada? We played Denzel, Davidson, Ibnelson, Germain Matthews, Jordan Hancock, Lathan Ransom, Caleb Downs, that's really what it is.

3:25:59It's a BIA getting us better every single day. So tremendous credit to the defense and the ability to be able to develop corners like that. It's just good on good every single day. That's that's the way you get better. How much do you want the coaches to get open like? I mean, we definitely have a strong second there, I would say this year. But, you know, it's just, it's just, it's not just their talent that makes them special. It's their, it's their ability to go hard every single day. They show up every single day with a competitive nature. And, you know, we're going back and forth on the field every single day. They'll be bigger and spin at each other a little bit, but it's all love at the end of the day. We appreciate them for getting us better. Let's question a method. You do a lot of things this all that have to help wear. We're in and seeing like a guy who do so much. Whether it will move around, whether it's just to be to anything. You see kind of that same worst outfield and Brandon is kind of something they do. Yeah, absolutely. Brandon, you know, he came up, played running back for a lot of his life, played a little quarterback here in there. You know, now he's received very, he can do a lot of different things.

3:27:00So we just try to put him in a position where he can be the most successful in the position that makes him the most successful. Or just the ball on his hand. So we try to do that for him. And a bunch of other guys in the program who thrive with that. All right. And my question right now, Sam, as speed gets those words, that's really helping a lot. What were the conversations like when this first came out, did I get possibly? I think who are you talking to? What was it like in your mind when they asked you about? Well, I talked to Coach Jay. Coach Jay was the main one. He wasn't forcing me or nothing. He just said, for moving inside, you can't have not stood dead. And you can do that as well. But I saw that I could help the team out. Yes, I'm definitely there. So I chose to move inside.

3:28:09Jack, then my Jack, JT, Tileek, every time to a great leaders, ordered on to field. They're helping me with just simple stuff. If I didn't know where to go, get something down. They'll tell me or they just like hanging out with a good approach. Just a lot of different small things that got brought us closer to like last year. They already started doing this year. I haven't started yet. But I want to give a turn. Yeah, I feel like maybe we teach and I'll read it that anybody can be a leader no matter what year, first, so I'm going to join your team or even if we're walking, everybody can be a leader. Yeah. But when did it hit you last year that this technique, this thing can work for me. You know me? You have to grow into it. I had to grow into it a little bit. It's very new. It's been playing D in my own life. But I had Tileek help me, like I said, throughout the whole process.

3:29:11When did it really strike you that I could be a factor? You know what game or how do you feel comfortable on this? I would say closer to us to playoffs, meet up with Tileek a lot. I felt comfortable. I actually do this because he showed me some stress I have. See him like so you can do this and that really helped me get a confidence in what I can. Yeah, then you became a factor. You became a factor especially, you know, especially through the playoffs and stuff. What did mean to you to be a factor that early? All the word of God first of all to keep me healthy, to keep doing that. It's been a lot that Coach James trusted me about to go on and begin like that. And I'm new to now be able to produce. What about your skillset, do you think? I definitely speed and strength. Those are my made to. I was saying to help me inside of those guards. I really want to be inside. I want to be a champion right to it.

3:30:11What's the changes in the moment? Just realizing your body's taken you there anyway. What is the moment for you to be like? Definitely. My main thing also, and so I thought interviewing some of those. Interviews I said the main thing was being a team player and moving the three teams was going to help the teams. I was willing to move this hand. It's the comfort zone. Jason and Will and Timewar. Eighting. Disvolved. That's a factor. It's very competitive. We all come in trying to see where we need to get better. Just to keep moving forward. It's a good competition. You made the move during the bi-week last year, right? What was the toughest part about that whole crash course? Really nothing. I really embraced it. I made the move inside in order to help out the team.

3:31:11I really great years last year. JT Jack, Kenny Kerry, Kenny Jay. It was a good move. I was able to do a three-take. I also asked them down there while still being able to showcase what I got there. Did you feel like you just needed to get done quickly? Did you feel that pressure to get it done quickly because you needed to be ready for that next game? No. They were all in on me just whenever I'm ready. Just let them know how I feel about moving in or something. Can you just ask about the three-threatening out of the room with you? You played as a freshman. So, you see John Williams and these guys actually make the difference. John Williams, Tracy, all the guys that came in, they continue to work hard every day. Even if they don't get it the first time, they don't ask us, what are they doing in this situation to help me out? So, the ability to keep trying to learn from people that's playing in the big stage, that's the way it really goes. Are you surprised how quickly things did start to click?

3:32:13For you guys to start to click. Given you said they were going to be patient with you, but by the time you get to the playoffs, you're playing quite a bit. Is that a surprise? I'm quickly just trying to happen. Not really. I knew what I got it. Coach James was going to trust me a lot more than to keep going out there each and every time. So, I appreciate them. Like I said earlier, thank you, Lord. Thank you guys. We're just focused on playing as fast as possible. Our coach has put us in a right position to do so. So, it's our job to execute it in terms of what happened, you know, was it two years ago? Yeah, two years ago. I can't really speak on it now because I'm worried what was happening now. But, you know, it's just playing with the brothers next to you, playing for the man next to you, and not trying to let him down, rather than your own selfish success, is what we're all aiming for. Right in front of him, Stefan Krasnick, Cleveland.com. Seth is a guy who's, you know, had the playup experience. He's also probably stepping this Tennessee team in years past, maybe more so than anyone.

3:33:13How much, kind of as a coach now, has he been able to help out these, you know, last few weeks, whether it be Michigan, we've been out leading up to Tennessee? Yeah, you know, he helps out as much as he can. He's always here, you know, maybe not in the outdoor practice. He hasn't really gone to those, but, um, the indoor one's obviously in meeting rooms. He's a really insavable person. He's always helping out Carson, always helping out the guards, because, yeah, you're right. You know, he's played against the team many times, being at his former institution, but, um, he's just given us, uh, insight on, uh, what we need to do, um, to compete at the highest level against this, uh, D-line, because obviously they're a great group, and then, uh, just helping us improve as best he can. So, you know, he's still just as involved as he was, um, before the incident happened. He's just trying to, uh, give back as much as he can. Second, we're right. Bill Landis. What games in the North? We've seen, we saw a Loot play center, a Southern camp, and always played some tackles, and played some jumbo tight-end. What in your mind would make him a good guard for you guys?

3:34:15Uh, I mean, all of that is just versatility. You know, I feel like, uh, Luke is, uh, versatile enough to play, uh, plug and play anywhere we need him to be, and, uh, he's, uh, had some great success at guard in the past couple of practices, but, um, he, uh, he's shown, uh, a great ability to anchor, and, uh, being able to, he's been playing stronger in my opinion, so he's developing the right, uh, direction. But, um, we, like I said, like, we just need to write a step up at this point, because, um, even, even the younger guys, like, we need them to have the mindset of, like, they could play at any time, because it's unfortunate what's happening, but, like, we need to be able to be able to go. Uh, Frank Roe, Bill Rebenowitz, Columbus Dispatch. I don't know, you started the year playing your normal position behind, or next to, uh, a petrol first round pick at Josh, and, and the guys who are not to be the Remington trophy winner, um, both of those guys who fall on your playing a new position, tell me what it's been like on the offensive line for you, um, especially having played the Michigan game, and that didn't go well, and now we have a chance to,

3:35:15to do everything you wanted to do. I mean, what's the mindset of the offensive line right now? Yeah, I mean, it has been easy. You know, you lose, um, the best center in the country, you know, it's, everyone knows he's the best center of the country, he's a brain of the operation, he, um, puts, positions to succeed, and obviously you lose, uh, Josh Simmons, who is the lockdown tackle, like, you didn't have to think about who is going against you, like, no, Josh got it. Like, we can worry about what we gotta do everywhere else, because Josh's gonna handle this stuff, so now we gotta, um, take a step back and be like, okay, like, where can we attack to put our guys in the right position? Because, um, what we did before is not what we can do now, and so, um, we got new guys stepping up playing, and they're playing at, uh, at a competitive level, but we gotta put guys in the right position to succeed for, uh, games coming forward, and we, uh, we didn't execute, um, nearly as well as we wanted to last game, obviously, but, um, we, uh, it's a beautiful thing about football, beautiful thing about the playoffs, that we have another opportunity to go out there and play.

3:36:15Uh, Austin Warren, podcast. You think- Back to, you know, we mentioned in camp, maybe Austin would have to fill in for you in the short term, like, what advice do you have, and Zen goes into the line at, then Carson comes back in. You have this now with Luke. Is your conversation, advice, communication, the same with all four? Have you had to tweak the message? I'm sure you're tired of having to keep going through this process, really. Are they, are all cases the same? You tell them the exact same message, no matter who it is, you're different depending on each of those four guys. Yeah, I've gotten really good at giving motivational speeches, um, this year, but, um, uh, yeah, it's, it's always different. You know, with, with Zen coming in, um, uh, what, we'll start at the beginning with Austin going in. Um, it was like, hey, man, you're fine. Like, this is the same game you've been playing just in front of a lot more people. You know, you've been doing it all, uh, for a long time. Just keep doing what you're doing. Then when, when Zen came in, I was like, look, man, I'm here next to you the entire time. Like, you're not doing this alone. Just communicate and we'll be eye. And, um, it's, the message changes varying per position.

3:37:16Everyone takes messages different ways, but, um, uh, the end goal is all the same as just to play absolutely hardest and worry about the result later. And final question, Tim May. Yeah, I was wondering, is there a common theme when you're going against a talented defensive front, like, you know, the previous game. And in this one, we tend to say that, uh, they may not, they may not be as tricky because they're, they're really good players. You understand what I'm saying? I mean, it, it can sometimes win one on one battles and stuff. Just, what does, gotta be the mindset against going against a, uh, a defensive front like this one? Yeah, I mean, uh, um, the defense front, we're going as Tennessee is very talented. You know, they rotate a lot of guys and all those guys can go. Like, they're relentless. I don't give you a time to breathe because once one guy goes in, another guy goes in. And he's just as good as the one that just came out. So, uh, the main message is just, it's just to, uh, uh, strain, strain your butt off, man. Get out, you got one on one. Like you said, like, um, they're gonna, they're gonna play you,

3:38:18they're gonna play their defense. And it's our job to execute our offense. So, uh, a lot of respect to their front. I feel like, um, obviously that very talented guys on that front, across the board from interior to the edges. But, um, we just got to execute what's called to the best of our abilities. Donna, been, thank you very much. Thanks, man. The friend of my own, if you do it so. That one's, that was a tough one. I like that one. I like that one. You're pretty outgoing. Is he the same or is he the same? What you think? What would you say about guys? I would say it's difficult to be more outgoing. You think about going? Yeah, you come in, you smile. Is it a bad thing? No, not at all. You just kind of seem opposite. You're a good personality. Like, Gus seems very, like, you seem very, uh, bubbly and talkative. Or Gus seems very like, you know what I'm saying? So, I think I said we're trying to kind of get it. Like, what? Like, how does this, how does this work?

3:39:19Are you? Opposite a track. Look, look. Look. Gus could be outgoing sometimes. He could be outgoing sometimes. But I mean, I mean, I just, I don't know. Maybe, God just gave me a gift of, you know, be a light, you know? Maybe, you know what I'm saying? Because even through like hard times, I'm still smiling though, you know? Because every day is a blessing, you know? And especially to do the job that I do, it's a blessing. Especially after all the stuff that I've been through on the field. I got no reason but to smile, right? What do you think? Still here on the 53 man roster after, um, the stuff that I've been through on the field. But I have to feel the same way. Hey, I hope, I hope it's not a bad thing.

3:40:20But look, let me tell you this though. When I'm losing, you will not see me smiling. There's only time, like, one of the only times you'll see that. On the 3rd, was it to see the offensive line blocking and seeing those holes up and up and kind of imagining how you could fit in with that scheme? You know, man, those guys are beast. You know what I'm saying? Like I said earlier, camp, like, I got a little bit of experience under me. So, like, it's always chemistry. Like, when you first get into camp, when you first put a, uh, a, uh, a line together, and then you put the runner backs with it, it takes chemistry. Always does. It's never going to be like, sometimes it is. You know, really it is. Like, you just, like, everybody's on the same, same track every, every time. You know, and, and the offense last year was nothing. I don't think it was anything like the offense we have this year, right? So you got these guys are trying to get their chemistry together and me with them. You know, um, I'm trying to get chemistry with them.

3:41:22And we're seeing it, make sure we send it the same way. And I, now, like, what you're talking about, I think everybody's seeing it the same way. We have a chemistry, which is a beautiful thing to see because it's going to keep getting better and better and better. And that's what you're going to be seeing, like, you're going to be like, dang. This is different, you know, so, I think that's, that's what it is. And I love seeing it. I love seeing it because all those guys are my guys. Even the years you were healthy, did you ever not play in a preseason before, like this, just gear and up going in the week one? Yes. What was it, my third and fourth year, my third and fourth year. I did the one time I did play in a preseason because my rookie year, I didn't play in a preseason. We had COVID. So the one year that I did play in a preseason, we all know what happened. Nightmare. Nightmare, man, that was a nightmare of, but maybe a better man, you know, so I appreciate that moment too.

3:42:22I can look back on it now and be in smile about it because I made it through that storm. You know, you always got to make it through the storm. I ran into the storm, like, I think it was, I want to say, it's, bowls compared to cows. Like cows run away from the storm. Bowls ran to the storm to get through it faster. You know what I'm saying? Have you ever heard of this story? So yeah, my name is El Toro. You know what I'm saying? So if it's me, like, they made it in Baltimore and like, I'm running to that. I'm running to the storm. Let's get this over with because I know I'm going to get through it, you know what I'm saying? So I mean, whenever, because I didn't know that, I really didn't know that one set of cows, I guess you could say, they run away from the storm and the bowl runs to it. I didn't know that. Like, that's pretty cool to know. And then my name, so it happened to be from Baltimore, El Toro. So, I don't know man, some things, I know, I'll be stacking up. Oh, this guy named David Andre.

3:43:25He's a reporter, I think. Yeah, he's a reporter. He gave me that name because I started speaking Spanish so good. You know? But yeah. You have to be Spanish? No, man. What? Look, look, look, look, I'm open look. Me and this nice looking young lady right here, we were talking about how we, like, just learning, I love to, you know, be, learn people's cultures, you know, learn about people. Like you, I would love to learn about you. What makes you you, right? We could, I bet you we can get it out in 15 seconds. Where are you from? Where are you from? Here. You from here? Mostly. Mostly, what's that mean? I was born in Milwaukee. Was there a birthday here? We filled out here. Take the boy out of Philly, but you can't take the silly out of the boys.

3:44:25Okay, so you look, look, look, I already learned. I already know, you, you a tough guy. You, you, you a tough guy, but you got a soft spot in you because you've been living out here. Give me tough guy. Here it is. You've been on the four of us. It's a party, right? Yeah, but you got it. You got it, man. You got it. Just what he did last year is a, it's a true freshman. You know, him being able to play an impact team like that. Obviously, I want that for myself. So, you know, I'm going to push myself to that limit. You know, try to be on the field here when that's my plan. That's the biggest reason I came here because I have an opportunity to play here when. So, me having that opportunity is good and, you know, I'm going to, I'm always going to come out here and compete. Like I said, I'm putting myself at the bottom. So, I'm working, I'm going to work every day like I'm at the bottom and I got to get to the top. How, what, what do you feel like it's going to take for you to get from the bottom to the top? You know, just, just discipline. They're big on discipline here and, you know, competitive and excellent. So, it's just staying consistent every day, just doing the rights, having little to none mental errors.

3:45:25That's going to give me on the field. And, you know, I do, I do what I'm supposed to do. That's, that's going to give me on the field. How do you manage those expectations for people to think that you should be playing week one on the season program? How do you manage people based on that? You know, I don't really let, let me get to my head because, you know, like I'm here, you know, I got dudes in the room that are, you know, like IGB, you know, he's been a great player. I started, I got your main personal American, you know, he's going to play this year too. So, I can't let what people say on the net, you know, get to me because, you know, anybody can say, oh, he's going to play this year. But, you know, I actually got to prove it. So, I actually got to come out here, you know, work, you know, and in that spot. What's the most important thing you've learned so far in your three months here? Competing everyday. That's, that's the biggest thing. Having to compete, you know, these guys are a pair. They take winning and losing to heart. So, you know, my first, my first week up here when we did our competition, you know, I was winning, did I actually, I got that first loss on my belt and, you know, it kind of opened my eyes. Like, these guys take it to heart when they lose, they don't like it.

3:46:25So, you know, I kind of got that now where I don't like losing. You had the opportunity to be around the team for that, you know, CFP Ron. What did you learn from Just Go's few weeks seeing this team make that run? You know, being real tight with your brothers, you know, they're real tight. You know, they push each other, you know, it's a real brotherhood. They don't let nobody down, they always got each other back. So, I mean, it's a new team now. So, you know, we got to build that chemistry with each other, you know, just, just get tight. And I feel like when I was there for that playoff running and I practiced, when they were at the National Championship, you know, I just got to watch, you know, how guys are, you know, real locked in. They're close with each other. They're not letting nobody slack off. And, you know, I feel like we had the opportunity to do that with this team now. How did you handle Luke? You handle that first loss? That first loss, you know, it kind of got to me. It was the IGB. He, you know, he let me hear. So, after that loss, I was like, nah, I can't let this happen anymore. It's because it's like, now it's not high school where you used 17, 16 years old and if you lose, you lose.

3:47:26Up here, it's not. If you lose, the coach will see that. So, and they're going to see how you respond to it. So, I feel like I had to, you know, open my eyes, I had to go, go in there and lock them, like, yeah, I can't let this happen anymore, you know. So, I got to go up and, you know, these guys are counting on me too. So, it's really important that I don't lose. You hadn't described yourself as a competitor. How would you do that? I'm a great competitor, you know. I like winning. Who does win like winning? So, I mean, winning is, it's in my blood. You know, my parents taught me that at a young age, you know, going out there competing for anything that you want. And I feel like if you can go out there to compete for, you know, as yours. And if you can compete for it all the time, who's going to take it from me? So, I mean, I'm a good competitor. I'm always going to go out there and try to take what's mine. If it's out there, then anybody that can have it, and I'm going to be the winner of the meeting. So, you were all the authors in your room, obviously. You were a talker? What would your natural resources be? Yeah, I mean, it could come out on me, you know. But I don't really, I really know my game through the talking for this part. But, you know, if it gets there, it gets to that point where, yeah, I can bring it out. Because, you know, regardless, I'm not just going to let nobody just come out here and just, you know, catch balls on me.

3:48:28So, if I'm having a good day when I'm consistently getting T.B.U.s, yeah, I'm a talker. But, you know, being in that room, you kind of got to talk. You know, the Jermaine, you got IGB, you know, those real talkers in that room. So, it kind of makes you want to bring it out. And, you know, when you bring that out, they just bring it to energy out of the whole defense. And when you got the whole defense clicking, I mean, you can see what happened. Is there anyone that's kind of, what's your competition in that? It was during the winter. We were doing, you know, just stuff on the field. We was just having the time of the field. Just a lot of competitions. So, I mean, he just kind of, it was a day where, you know, they had us going up against just a freshman. And then they kind of threw us in there in the fire against the older guys. So, we had to, you know, we had to wake up and, you know, we all kind of lost. And then we all kind of, like, we all kind of came to get that professional group, like, what are we going to do about this? Because, you know, they're kind of nice to step up in those roads. Yeah, come here, welcome to college. Yeah, definitely, definitely, definitely, my work on college moments. You know, you know, just showing that, you know, it's real now, a metal high-oh-state.

3:49:29I'm not in Houston, Texas, I'm more in my school. Far from my family, you know, I got to wake up, I got to grow. I got to mature fast. And, you know, I just got to get ready for the next level. You've mentioned high school a couple times. How did, you know, grow it up very in Texas, playing at that level? How do you feel like that helped you prepare for a real high-state? I feel like you prepared good, you know. I feel like I went to a powerhouse in Texas. We obviously ran the Houston area. You know, we've been running the Houston area for a long time now. And I feel like, you know, we're a real college program. We live just like these guys who do the same lifts. You know, the level of ball I play, the highest level ball in the Texas 6A. You know, we're going against guys like Dunkin' Bill, North Crowley, those top schools, you know, receiving the coin where I go against them. I want to get some three times in my career. So, I mean, those that really prepared me for this level, you know, coming in like, okay, this is not where it's a little school where they don't believe that I can come here and make an impact. I came from big schools, so they're counting on me to make an impact. Because, you know, I think, I mean, everybody would say Texas is one of the highest-played balls in the country.

3:50:31You know, they go as floated in the Polly Georgia. So, I mean, they're counting on me to be ready and that level of ball prepared me real, real well. How'd you do against DeCory? You know, it was when lose, when lose. You know, I went some, he lost some. So, I mean, it's just getting better on Shob and Iron. Because, you know, he's the top receiver, obviously, in our class. You know, I feel like he's going to have a good impact at working. So, I mean, it's just what's going to happen next. Looking forward to seeing him again? Yeah, definitely, definitely. And you know, I plan on planning against him. We want to see him this year, hopefully we'll see him in the big team championships. So, you know, I want that rematch, man. DeVa, you committed super early in the process, six months after that. You shut things down when, quite frankly, someone of your caliber didn't have to do that. You could have seen kids play the game a little bit longer than that. But you chose to not do that. It's kind of a lot getting here. Why? This is where I felt this was home. You know, I didn't really feel like standing in Texas was a good thing for me.

3:51:32I didn't feel like that was home for me. Up here, I just felt like it was home. You know, because of all the day, you know, they're making it, you know, making me feel important up here. And then, you know, like, you could ask, because how many times I came up here throughout my high school career? I came up here 13 times. So, it got to the point where I was knowing the guys on the team. I had the numbers just like that. When I come up here, you know, I don't got to always build the coaches. I can go chill with some of the guys on the team. So, it's just me, you know, knowing what I want to play in my college ball at, you know, knowing where I felt like it was home and then, you know, it was also my parents too. You know, my mom being, you know, feeling safe that, you know, I'm up here, you know, I'm handling the business and not having to worry about me. And she goes to sleep. The National Championship under your belt, that's got to feel nice. What are your expectations for your second? Just develop, you know, develop, you know, physically and mentally to the game and that's something that, you know, the game slows down for you a lot. You know, it slowed down for me, you know, now just shared its right, you know, being a young guy, to let a bit more experience, you know, learning the plays, executing that high level. Coach Bullen seems like a good guy.

3:52:33We got a chance. What stands out about him is no line coach. Absolutely. Absolutely. Love Coach Bullen. You know, not even just his personality, but, you know, the way he teaches the game before the tournament. I think it really, you know, translates and the information he's saying in these meetings. It really sticks in, you know, our players minds, especially in meeting, you know, just the way he teaches the ball. I guess that's some good depth in that room, really good depth. How much do you describe it? Yeah, I mean, we got the guys. We got the guys in the room, you know, and you know, enough to have put it right in the middle of it all the way across. And we got the guys, and they got the 12-bodies, you know, to execute it all the way. What was breakfast like today? You know, we heard a couple of musicals. Yeah. Yeah, you know, guys are just going after it. You know, the practices are physical. It's at a high level. And at the end of the day, it's, you know, best first best. So they can get a little chipy sometimes. But that's what you guys were hit? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We were getting after it. You're talking about Coach Bullen. What have been your thoughts on Coach Dickey and Coach Johnson?

3:53:34And that helped in the room. I loved it. So, the fact that we got these coaches, you know, we got a lot more hands on coaching. You get one of one reps, you know, just getting it, you know, the information that you need to execute. So it's really on us to go ask them questions after practice. You know, if we work after, you know, practice on this drill, it's really up to you to put the 12-bodies in because we have all the resources we need. And what were your thoughts on the additions of Ethan and Philip? And how do you think they could accostate it will? Really good guys. I mean, I love them. You know, they're good guys to have them wrong. And, you know, we push each other in that room too. So it's great. What decisions do you represent specifically right now? Right now, I move from left to right, so really just tackle. You know, tackle? Yeah, yes, sir. Josh Reyer was somebody that was a leader in that room for a couple of years. What is it like now working without him in the room and then what kind of presence did he leave behind? Yeah, so those older guys kind of laid down a foundation for us. You know, they taught us things in outs and they left us with an apolata knowledge,

3:54:37you know, for when after they left. And then they taught us a lot of good lessons. So, you know, I still talk to Josh. You know, pops up in here every now and then and he's a good guy to have, you know, my freshman year. So, thanks a lot. Thank you. Probably our non-catcher folks on here. That's what, is that kind of, is it keep that in the back of your head and we want to get Jeremiah and Carnell and Brandon and Rebecca? Yes, that's what my mind said like in practice the whole day. I want those boys to get me and everything that they have. So, like, up and inside of this, it's going to be easy for me and I'll be prepared. What have you seen with Grocery, the young people on the corners? Obviously, we saw it, but it's not a Jeremiah last year. They're your main sorry, but Calvin and some of the Aaron, some of the young guys. How have you seen them come along? Um, and Scott has gotten completely better from his brain. He's got a completely better. Is that just time in the program? I'm just getting used to the speed of college Shippah, I would say. What about Calvin? He was obviously here last year. He was? Calvin has gotten a lot better.

3:55:38Like, I would say that he's gotten a lot smarter. And he also write GB. I think he's got a lot of Calvin's intelligence, you know, where he's grown. Where specifically is it? The film room, is it kind of picking up, you know, the playbook? Where have you seen that? The brain up a grab? I would say Calvin has gotten smarter just like his game knowledge, like expecting like a different kind of routes and stuff like that. What did everything start to click for him? The last year was it in the sauce? When did you feel just comfortable? I would say it in the spring, I started to get a lot more comfortable in our defense. We said you break up the cast yesterday with the Jeremiah name. I'm sorry if you're asked, but it's earlier. But what is like going up against him? Do you? It seems like you enjoy it. Yeah, I love it. He's tough. I like going against him a lot. He's really good. What have you improved in your game just from that, for example? Those one-on-one matchups, this preseason or whatever. You know how ball-a-hoo this game is. So Jeremiah, he forces me to play the ball because if you don't play the ball against him, he'll go get it.

3:56:41Yeah, yeah. And you, Dave, send it. How would you describe this defense now compared to this time a year ago from the standpoint of a confidence factor? You don't mean that you guys feel on the field? How would you describe it? It's different about it, I guess. I feel like everybody's a lot more smart than this area. Everybody's like, I would just say that we're going just smarter. Yeah, but when you look up and layton ran some decided to come back and Caleb down, transferred in. What did you feel about that? Did it just grow stronger in that one week span, two weeks span? You're still on up saying? I feel it. Those guys have played the day. So level those guys have played that? Yeah, I would say that. Like, a down's coming in and what may say he was coming back, Zell says he was coming back, it's just still like a group of people going to Nettie. Yeah, it's still? Thanks, man. Of course. Just like the success that he had, you know, 10-15 years ago, just that's still kind of people still talk about that.

3:57:45Did you learn about that when you got here? Do you remember that era of Oregon football? Yeah, I remember the teams that he had here. You know, I think everybody respects him as a football coach and certainly the things that he was able to accomplish while I was here. Back, right? Correct. Coach Ohio State has obviously two star wide receivers in Smith and in a book, what do you see from them on film and what sort of challenges will those two kind of present to the Oregon secondary this weekend? Yeah, stop, go. You know, they can catch the ball and they can turn into a big play right away. You know, it's not necessarily always averaged up a target. It's way down the field. It's their ability to catch it in space and get vertical. They block really, really well in the perimeter. And those guys have big catch radiuses. So you see them win on balls that you would call 50-50 balls a lot of times. They win on contested balls to do a really good job there. Alright, cool. Matt. I think in your career, you've coached in nine different top five matchups. Is there any common trader, you know, thing you have to do in a game in those games that to win that's more heightened in this type of atmosphere? I'd say winning football is winning football, but I think you always look when you're playing an opponent, you know, what's some commonalities in games that they haven't had success in and that you've had success in.

3:58:50Where are those places where you can find strengths? What are the pieces of the game that are going to matter the most? You know, obviously explosive plays and takeaways is always something that we focus on here. But, you know, rushing game, I think that matters. You know, ability to win on critical downs in critical situations. Red area, I think are all really important. Back what there. You and your players have just talked after every single opponent just still about it being Oregon versus Oregon. How was that mindset? Do you feel like kind of prepared this team for this big moment this week? Yeah, I think just the constant growth, you know, the focus on what can we get better if we attack the things that we need to improve on. That's been our focus all year and, you know, throughout the season, I think you've seen us play better and better ball in certain situations and attack things that we weren't as good at the week before. All right. Does it have any knowledge of Ohio State is running back coach give you any sort of advantage this week? I think that probably plays both ways. You know, like last week we played against coaches that have been here before and when we played UCLA, we played against coaches that have been here before. It makes you change your terminology.

3:59:50Like you're going to change the names of calls, stuff before that might have been a run for us is maybe now a pass. Something that was going right is now maybe going left. But that's pretty easy for our players to do. You know, communicate that and change it. Certainly he knows some of the things that we like to do on the same note. We certainly like know some of the things that he likes to do. So, you know, coach locked it a great job for our program. He's doing a great job for theirs now. Second round left. There. After Friday's game, Dylan talked about emphasizing protecting the ball in the red zone that being a key. What are some of the ways you do that in a week to try to get those situations going to figure it out? Yeah, you play red area football, right? You could put it down there, put the ball inside the 20 and you go, you know, communicate, what do we want that to look like? And if you expect to see it in the game, you got to see it in practice first. And, you know, he knows he wants those plays back. You know, that's, that doesn't take anybody's, you know, special to recognize that. And he wants that back. But it's about how can we coach that better and make sure that those situations are avoided. All right, love James. How much more confident are you touched the defensive staff as a whole in the CB2 position this year compared to last year when obviously those Washington games were going to be.

4:00:54They were able to exploit some things there differently than perhaps this year or at least you hope for this year. I'm much more confident in that that spot and the depth that you have there. I'm confident in our players. I like our team. I like the guys that we get the opportunity to go out there and play with. I think our guys play competitive ball. This will certainly be the best challenge for every single position on our team this week. I believe it's been back to back weeks now. If no, sacks allowed, what do you think's been the biggest difference in the online in the last few weeks? That's made you feel confident in their play heading to this. I think a lot of pieces add up to that. Timing scheme as part of that. How we've adjusted some of the things that we do. I think it's a big part of that. And then the communication between the offensive line and the quarterbacks also been really important there. I love Matt. A lot of potential has been on Jeremiah Smith. But Mecca has been pretty darn good too. It's just been your impressions of him and challenging facing another receiver of that caliber when they have two of them. Yeah, they got more than just two great white outs. They got several great white outs in their program. Certainly those two are very, very special, but you know, whether it's Tate.

4:01:54I mean, there's a bunch of them on their team that can go play winning football. So that's what makes this a challenge. You can't just say, okay, I'm going to focus on this one guy because there's other guys on the field that can beat you. Right there. Now you guys talk about blocking out outside noise. Last week, there's a lot of ups. That's not a chaos in college football. Do you use that to your advantage to kind of hone in and show your players why it's so important to have a single game focus? I think our players are really aware of that. Our messaging doesn't change necessarily week to week. You know, that's been something that's been consistent for us through fall camp that it's about the guys in our room and what we're able to focus on. Not what everybody else is talking about. And I pulled out there. The last time that Chip Kelly came to Eugene, it was college game day. UCLA came in as an unbeaten opponent, ranked high. I know for you. I think your profile picture I think on social media is still that one of you going to the college game day set. Just what do you remember about being there being at college game day and just you're feeling of being on that set for the very first time? Yeah, I think more than anything that day, I remember our fans and how much of an impact I felt like they had on that game.

4:02:57How fun that environment was for our players to get to be a part of. You know, obviously you come to a place like we're going to play in big time games. And this is one of those opportunities, but to get to be a part of big time atmosphere as well. And certainly this is this is one of those. That's the world here. Jordan's been so consistent in the run game, but it seems like it's been hard at times to find maybe a second runner. What's the key of getting Noah and Dan one more involved maybe this week? Yeah, just that consistency, you know, continuing to find, you know, opportunities to be able to block up runs properly for those guys and give them opportunities to win, you know, on the second level. I left James. What do you see from Mulhoward that's made him effective in raising his completion percentage compared to a year ago and what insight if any can covey savage provide given that he practiced against. For a couple of years. You know, similar to these other teams that we've played that have had guys that have crossed over, you know, I think. Again, they do a great job schematically finding, you know, completions. If you've loading up hats in the in the run game, there's going to be some guys that are open outside. They've done a good job of throwing in to open windows and attacking that.

4:03:57That great. Coach, this program seen a lot of big games in its history and often stadium. You've coached a few of them yourselves. Do you feel like this matchup against Ohio State top five top three matchup, maybe the biggest of this program has ever seen in its history. I certainly can't speak to the entire history of Oregon. I think this is a really big game. I think it's a great opportunity for two great teams to get to play against each other. Again, I think that's why you come to a place like this. But I think this will be an awesome atmosphere for our fans and certainly our players. All right, Zach. Going back to Michigan State, did you ever get an explanation for why that hit? I'm Dylan. I was not a late hit or a revenue passer. We sent it in. I haven't got a response yet on why it wasn't one. I was told that the guy watching it said that it wasn't. So we sent it in. We'll see what it looks like. On the left here, a second row. Eric, what's Jury undone to kind of get a bit of a roll? Looks like he got in there for the first time this last game. What's been going on behind the scenes that we may have missed? Yeah, just being part of it starts with him being healthy. You know, has been being dinged up at times, but he's practicing really hard. He's working his tail off the beyond the field for us.

4:04:57Whether that's in special teams in a roll, it wide out. And it's created some opportunities for him. From the left, James. What makes their running back do a unique and what's kind of the biggest asset that each one of those guys has in terms of how they go about running. Because stylistically, I think they're a little bit different than each other. Yeah, maybe a little different, but I'm the same token there. Guys that have good size and speed and they don't go down on first contact. You know, they're really good at using their weapons. As far as at the second level, they do a good job with stiff arms. But they rarely really go down on first contact and they have really good vision and they're patient until that opportunity window opens up. But when they see a hole, they hit it and they hit it with great speed. Last question, James. Will's done really well at putting safety's and conflict to create some of those big plays that you guys have hit offensively. You touched on it. The OSU is just really basically giving up nothing of 30 plus yards. How have they been able to avoid that when that's been a strength of yours in particular? How have they been able to avoid it so far in these five games? Yeah, I think that's a piece. They have a good job defensively of not creating conflict, of avoiding conflict.

4:05:59And they're guys do a good job of farming their own land, not worrying about what somebody else is doing, but doing their job and being sound in their job. There's times where those safeties are high and they're responsible for the deep part of the field. And they let the corners fit the run. There's times when they're guys that are responsible for the run fit. And then those corners do a great job of covering down field. So they do a good job of changing that up and guys doing their job. Thank you, coach. Appreciate it. That's time when you think back to that first meeting and then having two weeks to look at, you know, dissect what happened, try and correct it. How different does the way you guys rush the pass or feel now compared to whether that's scheme, whether that's mentality, what other, you know, working with four. How many changes were made? Did it feel significant to you all in the moment as you were trying to get it fixed? Yeah, I think knows that a good job just helping us allow this, the way it's time to go is time to go. I mean, he allows the deepest advantage of being able to go out to the quarterback when he have a chance in certain plays. We get to do that and then allowing certain guys in certain places to really mess up the, what the quarterback is thinking. So it allows us to have more pressure and be able to allow us to do more moves at the time because it makes it offensive.

4:07:03Confused what we're doing so about putting blitzes in there really mixes up the patch for us. So allow us to get set. Ten to many, under mid roll. Yeah, with that said, like for example, S-39 against, against, E.M. Oliyava. Yeah, I said it right. I think. But he was quite elusive and stuff. Was that a good, I don't know, prep for this week? I mean, because Dylan gave us a little bit different scrambler, but he still gets the job done. Oh, yeah, that was definitely a good to have because like I said, I mean, all the quarterbacks are very mobile and being able to have more experience versus mobile quarterbacks helps us obviously. You know, just helping us home and learn from our, where we had, and how to go through the hole and how to scrambles, and we can learn from those scrambles. And we go from that game and the past game we played against Oregon, just learning the quarterbacks tendencies. And when they like to run, where they like to run, and everybody helps us out, really closing the cage and placing the pocket ball. Is there a fine line between being aggressive, but also being wary, this guy can slip away. You know, slip away, you're saying what I'm saying, Tommy? Yeah. You can't just go right at him. I mean, go ahead, I'm sorry.

4:08:03Yeah, he's definitely a quarterback and then gets out of the pocket. So I mean, he's definitely a threat. He's a main guy in all offensive runs the show. I mean, being able to stop him and contain him really slows the offense down. So being able to cage the pocket and be able to slow him down and make him make more decisions on the run and moving around, maybe helps us. Go ahead, do you want to ask about their center? I impress with you with him last time you guys played. He seems to have a pretty good game, you know, and he's kind of a tough guy to move out of there and stuff he looks like. I mean, what's your impression of him? He's definitely one of the better centers in the conference. I mean, he's a really good guy. I mean, being able to be in there and be in the size and be able to move the way he can is really hard to get around him at times. But he's definitely having a game plan and working against him, working to tend to see that he hasn't been able to work against that. It really helps me. Yeah. You hit the real middle, Steven Leonard, college football, foul. Yeah, kind of piggybacking on that. How much of it was there offensive line being a strike that our team versus Dylan Gabriel

4:09:05being able to escape and the lack of pressures that we had on our defense? Oh, yeah. I mean, when you got a good offensive line, it makes it even better for a quarterback, you know, being able to roll out to know that your line was going to help you protect you when you're in the pocket. So, I mean, it makes it easier for throws and it makes it harder for us, honestly, if we're going to have a good offensive line. So, I mean, like I said before, just being able to attack that offensive line, attack that weaknesses and be able to go out to make it harder for the quarterback, means it's harder for them or rural. Or for a right, Andrew Gill, like, believe in dog problem. What's the challenge similar to Tim's question? And, you know, when you play a team like this that runs the level of RPOs that they do that and how do you stay true and be aggressive and force the issue where, you know, Dylan Gabriel is really good at making those grades. Oh, yeah. Like I said, just putting pressure on them, I mean, do you be able to get back there? I mean, we got a lot of different plays that can help us get back there faster in playing and playing to their tendencies, you know. A lot of times they have the RPO, the RPO helps them out. It means you get the ball out fast. I mean, things like Jackson and JTB only get their hands up, knock the ball down, crazy stream them out of pressure for the quarterback when you got hands in your face all times.

4:10:08And final questions, Bill Rebeno and Columbus Dispatch? We've asked about Dylan Gabriel and the receivers. They're not one dimensional. They're a good one back in Jordan James. What makes him special and what's the challenge for you guys? I think he's definitely one of the better running backs on the conference as well. I mean, just how hard he runs is it's hard to bring him down at times. So, I mean, as a front pro, we probably stop in the run. And that's the first thing we're gonna do as we go on the game. I mean, past Russia is good and all, but we can't stop the run. They're gonna run the ball there and throw all the time. So, all the time we have to figure out how we're gonna stop him. We're gonna run the ball and then we're gonna take him down. So, I mean, it's our job as a front pro to go on there and stop the run. We're gonna make him one-dimensional as we go out there. We get up there every time everybody says we go out there with means we're gonna get him. We're not gonna allow him to get any yards, let him to get going. We're gonna stop him, we're gonna make him throw the ball. What I, uh, JT, was up your ass table about how to compare to trust him and Jack, his personalities. What's your take on that? How different are they as just personalities? Um, I definitely think Jack is more outgoing. I mean, the guy he needs, like the light that shines around me, and everybody goes around him,

4:11:14and everybody loves him. He's an outgoing guy. They're gonna come to you, shake your hand any time of day, and then JT is more of the glue guy. I mean, a lot of guys gravitate to him. I mean, he just has a bright smile on him all the time. He's just a great guy that people like to be around. I mean, they're two good people, so it's hard to tell. And Ty, I do that one more question for you. Tony Irvin, by God help. You guys obviously have faced tough, but you did it last week. What's the key for you as a defensive one in facing tempo? Uh, yeah. I mean, we've been going through all week in the past two weeks, it's just getting set. I mean, that's the first thing you do. If you're not set, it makes it harder to do your job. So let's be honest, get on the ball, get set before they're lined up, and set the ball. It's one of more important things. So when we're set, we're able to do our jobs that are efficient, so before they can do theirs. How difficult is that? Uh, it can be difficult at times. You know, you gotta look to the signline first. You gotta get the call. I mean, the call has to be set down first. So it can't be difficult at times, but that's definitely what we've been working on the past three weeks to just get the call, get the call early, get set, so we can go and be play faster. You never find where you're like, you've chased a plane to one side of the field.

4:12:15And now it looks lined up. They're gonna be heading to the other side. So like, you've got to just run the signline side line just to get the money. Uh, yeah. I mean, I haven't a lot of last game, you know. It's hard. It's definitely tough. I mean, that's what we work on and practice. Just moving as fast as we can, we're simulating these things so we can get into the game. It's a lot easier. So we moving around side to side, running around, doing extra conditioning just for moments like this. Hi, thank you very much. All right. Thank you. Thanks, Tom. You heard that? I heard it. Yeah. I mean, you know, I, this is sometimes I just try to keep going and not take it to my little biggest. I don't know how those governments say they go good, but I just don't know where I keep going. I can't know how to say for having a lot of this place. I wanted that to be a point of my career that I stayed for so many years.

4:13:22He always do like, uh, he had never heard that one. Yeah. I mean, I, I think I'm definitely the new agent of God for all of you know, it's more money instead of, you know, the term royalty I guess, but I love everything about Ohio State. I love my way. You know, that's one thing about our team. We all ride for him. No matter what people make in the game, I want to be stable. And I feel so many good, like long, lasting friends. I've been to these teams. So I was treated. Where did we end? Yeah. I mean, I always treated you as if I was. I prepared like I was. I was also interested in God. I knew that my time would come and I'd be ready to take my take what's happening to come.

4:14:23So I'm going to chop you up. I would do that and still try to put better. We're in the conference. We're working to see if I'm free. Okay. We're, we're in the flagger level right now. And I mean, we're a good team. I think our conference comes with our preparation. You know, we practice hard. I want to make sure we get everything we can. We're going to have a little detail we can. I think Coach knows a really good job. We need to continue to do that. Everything that happened last week doesn't matter if you don't do this week. And our goal is to do better than we did last week. And to a totally game we want to give our big thanks. You've got to sing the really good song. You can hear it. Everyone's trying to be a nice guy. I think it's the biggest thing football is not to get on sport.

4:15:25We went through it out there and made plays and have fun. You really need brothers with each other. So, you know, the only time you really make plays when you're having fun. You know, having fun, you know, making plays. You really have those hands in hand. We're just out there trying to have fun. You know, he's a special, a special player. You don't really get that so many players like him. He's got a little quick, so fast, at least speed. And I ain't got a run route too. So, I'm excited to see what he does in the future. But I feel like that's the least they can do for him this year. How do you think you would get in the combo if you wanted another run? It's just speed, man. Speed, you can't teach speed at all. Just having us on opposite sides, even playing both sides. It's just speed down the field. He could run 15, 20 yards in breakers out breakers. Like I said, you're going to have to play two safes most of the time. Or you can run the ball, you can get underneath the house. It's going to be a great compliment to the offense, so I'm excited. Chris, you said you hope this new offense will put in playmakers in the position of a place. What about you specifically?

4:16:26What's an area where you think you'll have more opportunity than this year game? It's a lot of areas that you can see to look at, to improve my game. But yards have the chances of what I'm looking for, for just more opportunities with that. More space. Just to showcase my speed and my ability with the ball. So I'm excited to do that this year. I'm not really showcased the first two years, so I'm excited to be with it. It's something that I like to play. It's a quick game element of it, just getting the ball in your hands. Yeah, a quick game, play action. More over the middle routes. It's a lot of different things that you can say that it's going to help that, but I got said I'm excited. How would you describe the chemistry between you and Gary? We're getting way better, man. I mean, it was our first year last year, so it was kind of up and down, but that's what it comes with the game of football. We worked a lot this season, OTA's was really good, and we got off to a good start these first two days of camp getting extra working.

4:17:32But that's going to come with time, so I'm not worried about that at all. We both competitors, we both want to be the best, so we got to do something to be good. Where do you kind of notice that difference? It's just like feeling around. What do you kind of notice now that it's year two that gets more natural? What do you mean? It's like, Derek, are you when you're just getting that natural? Where do you kind of notice? It's just like, it's more than that, man. It's in a fail, everybody's good, so we just got to know each other, thinking, prec and that, post, that, coverage is where the ball's going to go. Just rees, what read I am and then progression, everything goes along with that, so. Just being on the same page, being, like I said, chemistry is built with time, so just little stuff like that that turns into big things is going to be huge. You're calling from Spencer Rattler to the A2, what do you heard early impressions from him? He's real talented, that's the first thing I've seen from him. His arm talent is out the charts, he's a real natural feel out there.

4:18:32He's going to be real good, I want to see him in action, but from my first impression, he's going to be a real good player. Going back to the sheet, you talked about all the different stuff you should do, you think there's still a lot more there for him? Oh yeah, he hasn't really, I think this is the first year of being receiver two or really receiver. In my opinion, we're both receiver one, so I just be able to move around, run real routes, feel like it's going to be a huge advantage for his saying. It's a special player and I can't wait to see him ball, I can't wait to see him get more opportunities and see what he can do. By run real routes, he's just like an opportunity to run. He hasn't really played too many plays in the first few years, he's kind of just throwing in there when he's getting the ball or he's a decoy or something like that. He's actually being involved in the offense, always being in, even on run plays, I feel like he's going to be a huge advantage for him to get a feel for the game and be more natural out there.

4:19:37How far does it for a receiver like that to shed kind of a think of him as a deep threat level and then so people just think of him as a deep threat, but how hard is it to shed that level or that perception? I mean, that's what life everybody is trying to label somebody as one thing or two things, but I feel like you can showcase, that's not really who you are, you know what I'm saying. As it gets more opportunities as you can see, you can see you can do more and more, that's what anybody on the team. So I'm excited, like I said, and for his huge opportunities, I'm going to get this year, and this guy's going to be a big one for the Saints. Does this scheme ask for more blocking from the receivers as ever more responsibility? Yeah, for sure. I mean, that's what I told you too, we both have to block, and I know we're not the biggest guys or the strongest, but like I said, we want to be on the field, we got to be on the field for the play action plays, all those things. We both got to call block B-line, and block linebackers, but that's what's coming football, so we both got to take that next step in our game.

4:20:41Is that somewhere there's a payoff, or do you guys know you play from play action next time? Yeah, it's going to be a huge payoff. Like I said, most of our office is based on play action, all the in-breakers, all the yards at the catch of a play, so we got to go in there and block, and like I said, take that next step and be able to be great for our team. Like you in here? Oh yeah, so, after I filled the weather out here, and that's what I'm used to, not using the war, and it's out there trying to catch my breath, but it's a great opportunity for us. Are you going to chance to see family and friends, and also, this is their book from there? Not yet, but they don't come out every time. Appreciate you, John.

4:21:45Thank you for all those visiting jokes today. Thank you very much. Thank you. Let's get your receipt. I'm really talking about myself. I tell you, about that, that I'm going to use the whole thing to talk about it. I got a car. I got a car. I'm going to go to the next car. First time I met up with you, you just found it really good. What do you think you can bring to the problem? You know, we've got to do that. So, like, we've got a lot to do. What is the lock-in and stuff? What's been like for you to come out to California, being out of contact with that? This is a little obviously. I really like how they're doing. I like how they're doing.

4:22:45I hope they just want to come in. Yeah, to this school, there's things. Different being out of state recruit here, there's a one you were just a couple of. That is definitely different. So, fly over here. A new generation of recruits where I don't think anybody outside looking at a new question is the strength of your commitment. Like, you're locked in the last eight, you send it over and over. But you're making visits around the country. You're seeing other schools. It's almost a totally different mindset. What's that code to be able to ask? How do you approach those other visits? And how do you communicate with Ohio State about that? What's been the message of the country? I've never been to a field of commerce. I'm always locked in. I'm still enjoying buses. I've been through this for only a month or so. I've been through this for a few minutes. Enjoying this school with a set of lights. Yeah, it's going to be really hard to try and give it a flip. So, Ohio State.

4:23:45I would be. What has it been to made you want to take close with this? 20th, so there was a little bit more time in between. But, you know, since we started back up with our prep from Tennessee, you know, that last game is behind us now. And we're going to move forward. Awesome. Or, on that. You guys were so productive in those two-minute drills and pushing the football down the field throughout the course of the year. And we're again against Michigan. That was the bright spot in Ohio. Why is it that you can't just do that all the time? That's a great question. Now, it's just football. I mean, it doesn't always happen the way you think it is. You think it's going to happen. And it doesn't happen the way that it gets laid out. You know, you have to be able to adjust. Because they adjust, you know, if they do the same things that they did at the end of the first half, at the end of the second half, you know. And then you're anticipating that also. You're trying to figure out what they're going to do and what you're going to do. And that's the beauty of the game. You still have to play it out during the game. So, you know, you wish it always worked out that way.

4:24:45You know, we've had some really, really good successful two-minute drives during the season. But in the situation where we really needed it, we didn't. You know, and that's so, you know, we had to go back. What do we call? What was our protection situation? What routes combinations did we run? Where were we? What did they deploy? You know, what was their blitz operation like? What was their pass rush like? What kind of coverage is that they play in? And then, you know, if we get to that situation again against another team in that same situation, you can, you know, go back to that experience and that we've been through this before. This is kind of how they played us. And I think we start to see that again. So, we're going to make the proper adjustments. Far left, big problem. You have to. Yeah, Chip. How would you compare the pressure that the head coach in Ohio State faces to anything you've seen in football, and especially after a loss to Michigan? How's Ryan handling that? Like you said, with the playoff and a chance to win the national championship ahead? Yeah, you know, he's been obviously at Hurt. He understands the weight of what this position is being the head coach in Ohio State. It's different than probably some other places as you noted.

4:25:46But I think Ryan's done a great job with it. You know, I think he has to always look to your leader, you know, and how does the leader handle it? And I think our players kind of thrive off of him and kind of what his mindset is. And, you know, what the magnitude of that game is, but then our ability to move on because there are other games. And like we said, we have an opportunity to play for more if we do what we're supposed to do. So, I think he's done a really good job of it. It is a difficult situation, but I think he's a man. And he's done a great job of it. Right behind him, Steve Bellaghan, 24-7-4. It coached after Michigan King a lot, was made that you guys netted something like 20 yards on 18 running plays between the guard gaps, whatever it was. Can a play collar get into a rut sometimes? Or was there something that you saw on film that you thought that was going to be a vulnerable part of their offense to attack? I guess, been that forward for Tennessee, it seems like they're very similar. Yeah, a play collar can get into a rut. That's a very valid point. You know, I think sometimes you kind of go in with the mindset you have to establish a run to win a football game.

4:26:49You know, maybe that's not the case sometimes. You get to kind of go away from some of the norms and say, hey, maybe if we throw it a little bit more in hindsight, I have to go through it. And say, maybe we got to done this a little bit differently because you're always going to go back through it. There's not a time when we play the game and you go back through it and say, you know, we've never played the perfect game. You've never played the perfect game. You've never called it the perfect game. So, you're always looking at how do we improve. And how do we make this better? I think Tennessee is, I mean. They're fifth nationally, defensively, both scoring and total defense. And at number one, third down defense in the country. And at number one, red zone defense in the country. So we're playing a really formidable defensive group coming in here that's really well coached. And they've got good players at all three levels. So, that's going to be a challenge for us again this week and our players are excited about that opportunity. Howard, did you have the same confidence in him because there were a couple third dance, third and long after that we were in the ball coming out and also going in in the red zone and you didn't seem like the same player after that big hit. Yeah, we always have confidence in Will. I think he's the leader of our team on the offensive

4:27:52side of the ball and is that a tremendous season. And I think sometimes those third and extra long situations, whether it be coming out, you're trying to protect the ball. You don't want to turn it over in that situation. Give your punter a little bit more opportunity to play the field position game and get the ball past midfield and knowing that we have a really good defense and we're confident when we put them back on the field. And then sometimes like the one in the it was a draw play on a third and long which is sometimes as a normal call against a pass-rash team and then you know we were just short on it. Yeah, the traditional red zones is that 0-20 or is that a different yard for you? Yeah, 0-20. You know, when we were coming out more than we've been in most games and then we also had a few opportunities inside the red zone and we got to capitalize there. We talked to our, we know all the time that no STP, no sax, no turnovers, no penalties down there. We got to come away with points and we didn't come away with enough points,

4:28:52obviously. How much of game plan is dictated by that sort of field position? It's all based upon really the data of how many reps a game over the course of a long time. So, you know, over the course of a 12 game season, how many red zone plays are you're going to have? You're averaging about 60 A plays a game, you know, in college football right now. So out of those 60 A plays, they all fall into different situations. You know, there's 1.5, third and longs in a game, but then sometimes you're going to get in a game where you have five third and longs. But you're also going to get into a game where you don't have any third and longs. You know, so over the course of the season, it averages out to this amount of snaps per game based on 68 because that's what the average is in the NCAA. We know what the average is in the NCAA. We know what the average is in the NFL when you kind of go through it, but then there are going to be games where you have the ball a lot more in the red zone than normally. Then there's other times where you're going to have the ball a lot more coming out than normally because your defense has done a great job and kind of, you know, held up down there and got some really big stops in

4:29:53a red area. Well, then we got to go back on the field offensively and now we're going to go the long distance. So it's over the course of the season, the wire in itself out in terms of the reps, but in that game, just specifically, we were a lot more coming out to know what more red zones and we were in regular first and second down and that's not normal in a normal game. You're a cop in the field. Chip looking at the way we'll play. He's been efficient throughout this year. High complage of percentage low turnovers and full Michigan. What was, what do you think went from him in some of those moments in Michigan and sort of had you look back on? Well, I was looking back at it from my perspective. So I think I'm going to do a better job of putting a little position to make place and that's how I always look at it. So, and I didn't do that on against him. How would you have done that or what would, what, what, what, what, what those situations were challenging for? Excuse me, so I want to get what about you, so you put him in position and make place better. What, what, what is that about those, you know, I think the one time when we, we threw the, the one pick on the 16 yard line, we were in seven man protections. So we had three guys in in protection, only three guys out in the route.

4:30:56So maybe we could have gone to, um, to a five man release, get more guys out into the coverage so that we could spread the defense out a little bit more. So there's one example. Thank you, Jerry. Coach, I think a lot of us expected to see, I did expect to see a little bit more two man running back, you know, your two, three and a quenching in the game. A lot more than I've seen them this year. I mean, I'm not sick and guessing that stuff, but if you all looked at that aspect of running game two of showing a little more variety, I know there's more stew in the pot. You know, I would think even at this point, but I know that sounds like a basic question, but I'm just wondering what your thinking is there. No, it's not a basic question, but they both basically play the same position. So neither one of those guys is a fullback. So we're not, you know, you're not going to line up, tray at fullback and cue at tailback or vice versa. You know, so that's not, you know, sometimes when people talk about two back offenses, you know, one guy is a fullback and one guy is a tailback where both of those guys are basically tailback.

4:31:57So they both kind of play the same position and then we're really a one back offense three white receivers one tight end as our base personnel 11 personnel in the game. So we change it up a little bit. We get into some 12, we get into some 13. We'll get into a little bit of 20. They've been in a few times together, but not as much. But the other thing is that when both of those guys are in the game at the same time when they need a blow, then who are you sending into the game also. So, you know, depth sometimes is a factor when you're making those determinations of, you know, what personnel are we going to deploy in against the teams that we're playing. What is the evidence that when you put 21 in the game against this team, you're going to listen to this type of defense. You know, how are they going to play it and what are they going to do. So I'm making personal decisions at the beginning of a week in terms of putting stuff into a game plan really is based upon what is this defense done versus 21 personnel or 20 personnel leading up into this game. And what can we anticipate that they will play if we put these two guys in at the same time. But you're going to get to town like you said, very talented defense. It looks like definitely on video.

4:32:58How important is it and this is another basic question to show stuff you haven't shown before in a basic sense. Yeah, I don't know. I do understand what you're saying, but I don't think you go into it. So we need to show things we haven't shown before. We need to show things that are productive. You know, so I could line up some really wacky formations and et cetera. And I put if they don't gain a yard, it doesn't matter what it looks like. You know, what's the most important thing is the productivity. And are we gaining positive yards? Are we are we efficient on first down so that we can get into workable third down situations and then continue to get drives going. I think with this group, if we can get usually when we get that first first down, then we can start moving the football and start playing at our pace in our tempo and kind of what we want to do to dictate the course of the game. But you know, changing personnel is part of that. And that's there's opportunities to do some of that stuff. Do you have one question, Bill? Thanks. Now, I'm just running it inside and not super efficiently against Michigan. How much of that was they have really good defensive tackles. Maybe it's a bad match. Do you need to rethink at all how you guys run the ball? Now that you're on version like four or five of your offensive lines?

4:34:09Yeah, I think you always have to play to the strengths of what your players can do. But it also is is part of who you're playing also, you know, they they too, they did have to really talented inside players. Also to really talented defensive events that I don't think yet enough credit. And if you look at the statistics of both of those guys on the field, the ability to set edges is part of the decision there. So you're always trying to put your players in position to make plays and that's what we're going to continue to do. If you have to, I don't want to speak for you, if you have to somewhat significantly change the way that you run the ball, sort of like what you hang your hat on based on your offensive line. How difficult is that to do it on the fly in the middle of the season or even now when you have what to have weeks prepared is it still difficult to change that kind of thing on the fly when you have 12 games on the body of work. That's just how it works. You know, when you lose players, you got to see who you're adding when you lose a South and you lose a Jimmy, you know, and then what are their strengths?

4:35:09And then how do we play to those strengths and be able to take advantage of them, but you can't ask them to do things that maybe Jimmy and Seth did because they're not Jimmy and Seth, but that doesn't mean you're not going to come up with a game plan. You know, you're always going to figure it out and we're going to get a chance to, you know, to the longer they get to play together, the more continuity that they have, you know, where Donny feels really comfortable, you know, out of tackle. He's done a great job of transition that he's made going from guard to tackle is even though it's one spot over. It's an entirely new position. So, you know, what Carson has done stepping in and doing really good job at signer, you know, stepped in on the Penn State Game, quit guard, then had to jump in and go play center. But, you know, I think everybody that's involved in this playoff right now understands it, you know, for for us to win it all, we're going to play four more games. You know, and so to think that no one else is going to get injured in those next four games is, you know, you're very ahead in the sand. So we got to be prepared for it and we got to be ready to go. And I think the team that can handle the attrition part of this, the best may end up being the team that wins the whole thing. So, you know, we've been aware of that since the start and we know it's either going to be a 16 or 17 game schedule, you know, to win the whole thing.

4:36:14So, you got to go with what you got and we'll continue to look for things that we can do to help us players out and it's on us to put those guys in position like this because these guys have practiced their tails off and are excited about this up to go play intensity. Go for it. Thank you very much. All right, thanks, guys. He's extremely athletic, extremely flexible. You know, he's a young kid. Obviously he's a lot of development, a lot of, he's a little adversity at all of us do. And I think he's going through that right now, but he's been coming out on the better end of it so far and excited to see what he can do because he's very impressive at this young stage. So, what is your overall level of excitement just to be back with the rest of the zips you're off into blind group with you guys having so much experience back there? Yeah, extremely excited. I mean, trying to just build that culture back up again, you know, like what we had last year. I'm trying to do a little stuff here and there and I can know I think we're going to Rayrays, barbecue, I think tomorrow. So shout out Rayrays. But yeah, I just trying to get that brotherhood back, get that, you know, that oblock spirit back. Sure, it's coming soon.

4:37:21Hopefully. But just to kind of get those, not those same faces, but those same kind of mindsets back and our group is important right now. And it's been fun to meet new guys from different backgrounds and stuff like that and try to figure out how to build that and mend that together. It's been pretty cool. Now, as you are one of the most experienced veterans on this team, how much do you feel like you have to be a leader for this team this year? Yeah, for sure. I mean, I think that comes. It's obviously, I don't feel like it's natural to anyone to immediately step up and that's something I've been working on every day and talking to God about. But I obviously understand that and that's something I want to continue to work on. I want to be able to be a guy that people can fall back on and like coach was saying before like we're going to have highs and lows, but the great players, the ones we can set our clocks to and I kind of want that's my goal is to be one of those people that you can do that. And I think for especially a very new set of eyes in the Woody, not only coaches, but players.

4:38:24I think it's very important to kind of keep that steady mindset. And I think for me, learning how to be a leader has been important just to not be too hard on myself, but also not let myself kind of slack off in some departments trying to keep steady. Yes, your story itself, though, is testament of what it means to like for perseverance and stuff to the right car. I mean, you don't necessarily have to stand up from somebody to say that, right? I mean, just what do you think you've shown more than anything else in every guard? Yeah, I mean, I've been blessed. I've been blessed with a lot of adversity. I think that's definitely maybe better on the back end. Coach, Coach, they always talk about it and you don't, great leaders aren't, they can show it, but a lot of people can show it. A lot of people can just talk about it. But to be about it is important. And I think to me, now I've went through a lot of that adversity. I went through a lot of that stuff and my testament has been written in an interesting way.

4:39:25But I think for me to take that next step is really important for not only for this team, but for myself personally. What's your question for this team? Yeah, he's been doing great. I mean, he came in big, freaking strong. He's fun to be in the weight room with. He's kind of quiet. Like that's kind of my first impression on him, but he's actually pretty funny, dude. He and his dad come over and they kind of joke around. So he's been doing a great job. He's been doing a great job for his size. He has like freaky athletic feet. I watch him do the ladders and that's a lot of massive overrun on those things, you know, doing the little icky shuffle, but I mean, he was killing it. So he's been doing a great job. I can't wait to see how he kind of continues to develop throughout this summer and throughout this fall camp. Of course, it has somebody else going on. What did Austin do? Yeah, Piggy has been doing great. I mean, he stepped up. Piggy, yeah, yeah, everyone refers to him as Piggy. He's his username one time. Nice. Everyone's Piggy. But anyway, you know, Pig's been doing great. He's been able to step up and kind of bring around along those younger guys.

4:40:31Everyone's kind of trying to figure out their new roles. And I think he's been doing a great job, especially in the off season. And even right now, I'm just trying to bring along those guys and bring along himself and continuing to better himself because I mean, you know, it's never too late to get better. And I think he's kind of inspired me in that way a little bit too, just trying to like go against competitions with him. I don't know if you've seen his calves, but it's just an extension of his quads. Like it's just him and Gabe just have just just cylinders. So me competing against him and him competing against everyone else has been really good. Not only for him, but for me and for everyone he's been pushing. So it's been good. All good. Thanks, man. If you get the young man to believe in that, you're pouring into them as young man and not just recruiting like you selling cars, you know, they're beginning to open up to you and believe what you're saying. So I am not a league with who, but what I am is a league relationship. When I see about the two freshmen that you haven't talked to them in practice yet, but through to them, like, low jacks and I say, you know, turbo, you know, someone just what stands out about that.

4:41:37You look at both Jackson, you got size. I think it's right now six foot 220 speed. He got he got gifts on the guy. So you see the potential what he could be. Now, you go out to work and compete, but I'm excited about him, but like I said, we'll see. Same thing with him. I said, Wes, you see his size. And so much right and five and never. Two feet. Built the right way, but he has the right mindset. So you get excited about him because his mindset is like, you know, he seems so much older than he is when you talk to him. His mind is in the right place. They like to say, turbo. I've been building a relationship with since he's been in probably seven grade and they give him here that have opportunity to coach him. I'm excited, but the three freshmen we got coming in, I'm telling you I'm excited about just to see what their journey going to look like to console.

4:42:41I evaluate the year James had both and put on field and standards, but also what he was doing behind the scenes and practices. I think I think one thing me and James have discussed about this, America and I think so much. Like I said, we live in the microwave society. I'm going to insist. Right now. And I told him, Les, I said, you going to learn from these two guys and when your time comes, you're going to appreciate you going to appreciate the client. And he said behind both of them, he learned he's leading the room now because he had a great guy that watched the leader, which is true. And then he saw Q and trade working and he's working just as hard. But when these guys come out of high school, this recruiting service gives me five stars, four stars. They think they're supposed to come in, play from day one and in the junior year, they don't work that way. Not in the room that I'm in. They don't work that way. Because you're going to know how to be a complete player.

4:43:42One of the other challenges James with this year, all the run backs. He said the coach, Davis, running backs playing special teams. We're going to be on special teams. And I challenge every one of my guys with that in you. You're going to play special teams. And I ain't just talking about going to the press. You're going to be on the one or two that show. Because you told me you want to play in the field. Well, you're going to play special teams. I also teach you, teachers are being no longer just not a selfish player. But you want to go out there. I know you want to run the ball. What other ways can you help to see me? So last year, I think he got a chance to see all of that and is helping him now. I am excited to see his growth. But I'm also excited to see him compete because from town to never in that role. Talk to bottom. It's pretty good. Make some standout. James? Yeah. Come back, Mama. He has good hands. Has really incredible short air. Tough.

4:44:45Like to equipness. Everything that you want to back. He has. He's not a small guy. He thinks he's six foot. He's ten miles high. But probably five, ten, right about two hundred ten pounds. And he wants to have great knowledge of the game. So those are the things that stand out to me. Like I said, short air. I was a short air person. I would, you know, I would go to James. I was at home. I first made danger of Tim's race. So we already have a prior relationship. But just I see the growth in the now. He's like him. So I am excited to see him in a more. In a more demanding role where he gets the opportunity to showcase what you did with trade with John. I feel where essentially equal. I feel like I was trying to touch you. Give it to him. I see how the game was going. Or is there room in this office for there to be one lead guy? I don't think that smart. I don't think I have one lead. And I, not, not of you, if you're a spectacular player. Deep into the playoffs.

4:45:50I got told you before, you know, I said, my job here is to make sure Coach Davis is. And that's putting the best base on the field. You know, if you want to run one guy that, run him into the ground and that works for you. That's not what I'm doing. He still can accomplish his goals by having another guy play with him or another guy. You know, because it's a long season. So, you know, when I think about running the backs in that aspect, that's like, I don't want to do the only one that get the ball. Your mind says not on team goals. Your mind says on your own individual goals. Like I told Trey and Q, you know how to be one with a gracey sense. I think those are two best bags that they feel combined in the show, but they had great success. They won't banged up. They won't hurt. They never had to be enough. And they still accomplish everything they want. One that's an opportunity. So they put the side of the personal goals and they put the team goals ahead. When they did that, perform still got you where they want to be. I'm excited to see both of those guys named Carl here.

4:46:50You mentioned the competition in the room. What are you looking for out of the ready backs this spring? First thing is I want to see if I can get three or four guys to start on a special team. That's the first competition I'm looking at. Then after that, I just want to see just see how all on compete with you know more overall. I want to see how James know how he takes on the leadership of the room. See how he competes with the other guys whether it's Bob, whether CJ, whether it's Sam or Turbo or like so. I said, what's the world that is or TCK? I want to see how he competes. And like I said, big thing is his leadership. That's the big stand left in the room. Is everybody going to come to be one? No. Not be selfish. Point to one another. Okay. If I'm not playing on offense, what else can I do on the team? Can I go start on kickoff? Can I start on kickoff? Point pressure. Those are the things I'm looking for because like I said, it's going to take that whole room to win.

4:47:53And it's going to take the whole room to win. Not just playing offense but playing special teams as well. So that's what I'm looking for. Someone who's like a Josh Allen type and you know he's running with a you know full steam and you know you got to get him on the ground. He's more of a straight line runner than a guy who's sifty. But you know we got to make sure we get multiple guys to the ball and you know prevent those lanes where in the run through. And he's got a strong on too. So you know we got our hands full and we're looking forward to it. Yeah. My uh, it's funny. I came home and my wife was telling me that my son had called the interception before the game. And so on the ball we wrote Cal called it. So, but like that another one. So I'm going to talk to him before the game. Yeah. Yeah. I know you're not playing against rest. But the way that you get to know.

4:49:01You know any quarterback, you know if you feel like you've got them bottled up and then they make a magical throw like that. You got to reset yourself. But it's definitely tough when it defense when you're flipping the field. I think it's very special to do it after we are one. You know I think we're just letting everybody know it wasn't just because of an award. And you know we're affecting a lot of great people and having fun meeting some people and you know going to chose a hospital, you know opening up another Craig's closet. We had a teacher appreciation dinner last night. I seen all the programs we were able to fund for under donors choose. There's a lot of great things going on in our community. And it's just nice to draw attention to that. For me, I think it's time for them. You know they don't most of the time they don't even care that I play football. You know they're just the kids at children's hospital.

4:50:12I always try to just go there every day. You know you get to interact with the kids and they just they're just having someone taking the time to hang out with them. We did thing though. I won multiple times. But you know it's fun hearing them call him and you know we're telling jokes. And I just I enjoy that part rather than just you know making a big deal about how I want to award. I was in a group of three ideas that you'll hate to answer. Did that happen in the moment touched them. You might say that you guys are often the ones finding it's putting it's far as the skeens that you guys like to rumble all the guys. You might think you like them ever despite all the industry that they suffered. You get feedback back from your question. Yeah I mean I think that just it just shows you how debt. How like debt we are all line is and how good and how much of a how much of you know a team we got right now. For them guys to step up and the guys who got hurt you know guys to come in there and play. And you know and these guys probably never thinking that they had a chance maybe early on and you know the tables turn so fast and they're put in position where they got to help us help us win.

4:51:20I think that you know where these past two weeks showed you know how good our line is. And I mean I think it's credit to them for the success that we're having on the ground. So you know just you know we always say I was to my hat off to them coach Pat and everybody in the line room for you know helping us all out. So I think that's the mentality man. You know that we we take pride in winning a second half but you know we got to try to perform in the first half too. This is a four quarter game well you know four quarter fight 15 round fight that's how I say it. And you know we got to try to find a way to do that in the first half but you know make sure that we bare minimum that we win the second half. So you know that's just going back to how are we training camp and OTAs and all those other times that we had to you know dig down deep and find that you know dog mentality was and I think that the O-line is such a full line.

4:52:24You know I think that they're the one who's who's moving the who's the heart of the team to be the team and you know we're just following the way that they're providing for us. Now how would it impact your run game? You're able to get four Darryl back in this week. Like what does he add in? What is that two-time room? You get four Darryl back in the middle. What does it do for the run back room? Yeah. What's the difference? I mean it's just like that. I mean see if he just he's just a weapon and I mean so I mean he brings what he brings and he's got the Hall of Famer. So I mean we all know he's a playmaker in all areas not just the running back or the special teams but even our receiver. You know he's like a he's like he's a he's a put him anywhere so just to have another player out there on the field where they have the game plan for is is good. Now do you feel like the offense that's come together is clicking faster than it has taken longer to be able to point back to the scene where it's going to happen? What do you feel like are the ingredients of Dundab? Why do you think that's happened to that tradition? Practice. You just got to keep preaching it sometimes it might not work the first second or third week but you know if you just keep trying and keep and keep getting at it and keeping that mentality then you know eventually good things will happen.

4:53:33You know so it just shows you know that there that that that every day they go in detail when we go out there in the field there are detail there I was out there early there I was out there though last one's out there too and it's showing so when there's just practice like anything in life. You know you did anything just got to practice and it's not so much about how fast you get it how long it takes is just getting it and you know now we're getting it early so just just keep at it and just keep working. Hey brother how are you you want to say something you you come in interview you want no he has a sense come on tell him how terrible your music is come on come on come on come on come on come on come on come on come on. All right we're going to get anybody else. Thank you fat. Huh? Talk every Thursday actually that's my day to talk. Anybody else? What did you say?

4:54:34I've been talking a lot about this stuff you guys have on your focus. What did some of the important things that happened? Is this thing that's just what I think? I mean it's pretty much the same thing I've been saying all the time and he'd ask when he got it. It's just practice man you just practice you go out there and you practice and not so much. You know what you do is you go and film the next day you watch it you see what you need to prove on. You see the what what what what what was good what was bad you know college we call it the good bad ugly. You watch film you put it to rest and you work on the next team. I mean you know you guys back some same questions pretty much over and over again it's just practice. It's just practice man. When you talk about practice there's something that are interested in challenges you guys differently are there of elements that are different from the other. I mean he I mean too just keeping it just the energy you know I mean don't get laxidazzy you know I mean don't get too comfortable. And this especially in this sport you know you can't get too comfortable at all because no matter who you're playing the week after week. When I what the record is you know they're still good team and they're still a capable team.

4:55:37You know we got the Giants this week and they're a really good team too they got a good front and they got good players on offense too. So you know just having that mentality of where that you know we got a we got a dig down deep in and really just you know finishes finishes week out. It's the most important thing and it's having that mentality. You have music a second ago with the energy and everything. Have a music practice and it does that help with energy and then keeping things light and it feels good. I personally don't care I mean in college we didn't really do no music but obviously it's not college but I think you know some guys like it. I mean you don't matter all that I do is perform you know I mean music are no music the main thing is the perform and just don't lose focus on that. You have music do whatever but just keep the main thing the main thing and the main thing is winning. I have my own kind of leadership and be able to bring people into so I feel like I kind of have a lot of leaders on the D line and we have to be in position so we kind of all kind of just count off each other and others.

4:56:37There's not been a tough challenge for me to be able to open up to these guys playing with them all the way around and being on the field and just like that. I'm trying to put this guy in the industry. What is that transition? It's competitive and we love it. We all competitive people we all look at each other and I feel like the bringing the best side of all is. We all just kind of bouncing off each other and see what one person does and we kind of build it into our toolbox and we all kind of build one great thing. You remember last year when you got the shot at full back in the club and the Dave Croche you were that idea and you were close to him. How did that come about? Because you heard Jackson all your slots being. You get to touch that. I definitely did it in high school. I was full back and a little bit of Titan. I feel like it kind of saw what I could do there in Coach Wilson. He loved watching it too before he left and I feel like he planned that seed and Coach Day's head and Coach Day kind of just went for it and tried to do the best I could to do it. Is that continuing now?

4:57:37Anything in the spring? New playbook. I did not know you. We've got that far. How tough is that for you? I like to think myself as a football player. I can really play any position on the field you need me to just give me a weaker two to learn it and kind of perfect it and try to do my best for you. Can you do the same thing? Roughly, that's why. I was talking to Coach Johnson on Tuesday about some of the conversations and sort of sought you and you got it out to have some conversations after JT and Jack decided to come back. We got to win into those from your perspective and how did that help you maybe get the right mindset I guess when it is coming? I'm definitely kind of seeing it all the way through. I feel like people kind of just see what happened and they don't know everything that goes into it. How long the season is now, what you got to do to prepare for and what happened and all that time from here to then. I feel like we definitely just coached in me kind of connected and we kind of just talked man-to-man and he kind of just said straight to me and I feel like we kind of both are pretty honest.

4:58:40We're making it together better every day and we got the 4 best DNs, 5 best DNs honestly and you're a coach football and we're going to be one of the best DLines and coach football. How do you feel like a better player today at any more against the team? I feel like I've taken big steps in my rules of just being responsible and being more of a leader and kind of stepping up and taking a step to kind of get out there more on the team and kind of bring people in and I feel like I'm kind of helping out more. How do you record hand-round in the process of taking a TKFC? Does that sound good? I mean it sounds bizarre but I mean the season goes by so fast already so when you're kind of like week 10 and you're like wow it's already week 10 so now it's kind of give you more time to kind of enjoy it and kind of savor it because I'm already here for you. But you don't want to spend all your powder in the first month of the year right? Oh yeah. There is a mindset that I did that season. Yeah definitely definitely going to have the mental stability to handle all those weeks and all those practices.

4:59:42How much is Larry talk to you guys around like this? Last question right here, K-16, 2017, 4 NFL 2.5 dollars and so much. Does he talk to that guy? I mean he doesn't have to talk about it. We know about it. We've seen it every day. We watch the film. We see him all working together. We know what it could be. We know we could become. So we know we're right at the same, we're at the right place at the right time and God wanted us to be here and he knew we wanted us all to come together and kind of play together and be able to bounce off and just perfect our craft together. And I feel like we all are just great individuals and we come together at something special. Great, intensified in Paul Cam. Oh yeah, for sure. Yeah, I'd be probably up when I had it every day so far. What's your main way to try and get under his skin? Probably my main way to get under his skin is to say some things I can't say up right here. Yeah, that's pretty much it. You grew up in an area that's known for trash stuff. Does this even like exceed that? It seems that these corners are like mouthies corners.

5:00:43Oh, yes, sure. I did. That's what Coach Walt has told me also. He's told me, I mean, I haven't seen him. He hasn't seen a red color here in this mouth. He like you said. So I feel like that's a good thing to have. That competitive edge that they have is amazing. It helps us be great as well. Do you know there are opportunities for you to get involved in it? You can hand it to the football maybe. Feels like maybe I'm back to spring. It's not different opportunities for you. Yeah, there'll be a lot of great opportunities for us for everybody to get the ball and get touched in his handouts. Whatever we have to do, just to win games and win them all. You gave in here last summer. What advice are you getting in my life? You have to get out of the rotation. I just told him he has to playbooks the first day. Playbooks the hardest thing to stay in your playbook. He's doing very good right now. All the progress he's made since he first got here. He's increasing every day. His daily habits are getting better and better. What kind of stance is that? The changes for action.

5:01:44I would say his route running is very good for a young guy. I like his releases a lot. And yesterday he had a very good route. Actually, that was a pretty surprise. I was a year ago. I mean, you had been here a couple of months at this point. What was that transition like for you? Trying to keep that from online. It has not been a playbook but also knowing you have certain expectations. It was tough at first. Coming here in the summer. In the spring, I was around but I couldn't actually play. So I was still trying to get into a playbook and stuff like that. But it was tough just actually playing on the field. Everything, we were young. Everything moved so fast. So you try to slow it down, slow it down. You'll get it and that's what I felt as I got older. How different does it feel now? It feels amazing. Now it's like saying a hand. I know the plays in and out. I know every position. Whatever the coaches want to ask me to do. I wonder if it's running back out wide. And so I would never have to do it. You said last year you mean all the time. So what's a better year intensity?

5:02:46When you're a freshman and you're still trying to figure out your role. You must have to hold back on your opinion sometimes. And what's that like as you try to balance that? Yeah, there's definitely a balancing thing you have to work on there. Because you're young and then there's older guys that sometimes not really last year. But there's older guys on teams that are just like, oh, he's young. It's not less than a hit role. But as you have to do, you have to get your trust to your teammates first. And that's what I say. As a season went on, that's what I did. And started to say little things here and there. But that was as vocal. I think you feel like you've a pretty strong voice. Yes, you know. When you talk about the energy you can bring is that mostly talking between the players? How would you describe the energy to people? It's vocal but it's also actions because they have to see what you're doing to follow you. You have to make plays, you have to do things like that. You have to make big blocks. The big blocks they fire as a father team. It encourages them to talk as well. You didn't get a chance to do a lot of that. And it's a very special season to say how do you gain that trust and respect to people when you're not necessarily on the field?

5:03:50I mean, I think it's just in the weight room. They know how hard I work. We have this little effort grade score. I feel like I was always pretty high on there. I just say they see a day in and they out. What's it's Denzel work part? It's a quarterback. Where is he unique? I mean, how would you describe it? Denzel has probably the best technique I've recorded that. I've seen nine win against actually. He's very patient. I mean, his technique is crazy. His drive on the ball is probably the best in the world. When you're going against a guy like that, what do you have to keep in mind? You may have gotten a good break out, but he had a pick the other day. You just out ran the guy to the ball and you don't talk about that. When you're going against him, you have to think, all right, if you have something in a mediocre, medium range, or how you have to think, he's going to drive on it. So you have to be him back to the spot. He doesn't, he, I mean, I don't know.

5:04:50I don't know. He's going to break on the ball very fast. You have to be him back to the spot. And then, David, what sets him up? He seems very physical. Oh, physical. Yeah. Physical. I go out of him every single day. I think what sets him apart is mentality. And his mentality sets separate him from the rest of the DB's in Nation. Does he have better craft time than the Dremel or his career? Oh, yeah. I do. He's definitely a better person. What makes him better? I mean, I'm just saying the intensity of how he taught, how he trashed talks. I would say, I mean, coming from a guy from South Florida, we hear all the time, he could definitely be from South Florida. If he, if he didn't know where he was from. What have you seen from Aaron Scott? Aaron Scott, he's, he's a very young, he's a good quarterback for, he's very young, but I feel like every day, you see him getting better and better. He had a couple of good plays the other day, actually, I was surprised by. And I mean, he's very technically slab, sound, and I just feel like he'll be very good on it. What do you talk a lot of trash in high school? What is he doing that now, he's waiting for...

5:05:50He may be, he might be waiting a little bit, he sees ICB in, in Germain and does they'll talking? So he's all right when they, when he gets his time, then he'll probably come around with the trash. What did he see from Will called Ampersus like spring day? Coach, he was saying he looks more comfortable. Yeah, a few months ago. A thousand percent. I would definitely say that he looks way more comfortable. Well, I feel like, and he's taking great leadership of the Huddled and the offense. The guys that came to me and told me, how do I feel about him? And I've told them, I mean, I feel like he's the leader and everybody listens to him when he's in the Huddled. And he's the commander. And then a lot of the court bicep, you know, very good play he's been on a different level right now. Coach, does the show back for the Huddled as well? Oh, yeah, he may, I mean, he makes plays every single day that you're just surprised by. And he's just like, there's another play, and there it is again. And I know it pretty likes like new shiny toys, right? Yeah, Jeremiah's the guy I want to talk about. What is a macroefer that you as a receiver who's been going to injury all the stuff

5:06:51that just mental adjustments come to my speed here? What does it mean to a group as the leader of that? I feel like he's down to maybe giving it up. He's probably doing it. Yeah, mech definitely deserves a lot more credit for what he does. I mean, coming in here, he was like my mentor. So I was always following him whatever he did, and stuff like that, just trying to learn little bits of what he gave his knowledge. And even in this year, he had an injury. I have an injury, same lower body injury and we're just kind of, he's telling me, the good things to do and what not to do and stuff like that, how to get better and stuff like that. But I feel like he's helping me tremendously in my game. Bryson says, the net goes his mentor. He says he was working out to JJ. He says he's the leader. He's the alpha right now. He's the fourth year. So I feel like he's going to be very, very good this year. Brandon, what are the biggest ways just things feel different for you now that you have a year and year about, they did it this time of year ago? So the one of the biggest ways of things

5:07:51feel different for you now that they did one year ago when you first got here. I would say my confidence, I would say I'm much more confident out there. I feel like just because of, I know it plays a lot better now and I'm playing faster, a lot more smooth and now I'm breaking some stuff like that. And I just feel like my confidence is, so it's taking me to my different level right now. I know you've gotten a lot of reps at the Pantor Tour. What do you kind of ask that do you feel like you can be if you end up getting that role this year? I'm definitely a score touchdown. I got to, they was just saying it hasn't been a hard turn touchdown. They got, Met got caught in the back actually, but 2016 and 2018 is something like that. 2014, 2014, 2014, that wow, 10 year, I don't know if I'm getting this year. Thanks, Brandon. You mentioned the quarter throw, but what kind of challenges have you guys, you got different bodies? You got a long quarter and ITV, you got Gen Zell, you mentioned breaking on the ball. What kind of challenges have you guys, and what kind of challenges you think that's going to be for both offense is just having that diversification of talent. I mean, I mean, like you said,

5:08:51they're all different. And a guy that doesn't get enough credit to Jordan Hancock, I mean, he's probably the best nickel corner in the nation. I mean, he's very, very good at what he does. At what he does, I mean, I see him day in and day out. He, I mean, I'm in the slide. He's in the slide. We battle every day. He was on me today. I was on him, John back and forth, but he's always good. Are you mostly doing something to draw for you? Do you work for us? Do anything else? Yeah. Right, say anything else. Are you mostly granted by that? Are you mostly in slot reps, sir? Oh, yeah. I'm mostly against slot reps right now, with outside and a little bit in the back field. I'm all over the place right now. How is what's like being in the back of the stuff last year? Yeah, towards a world prep, I did a lot more back for the stuff. Do you, what's like laying up there? Just like, I mean, I played running back. That was actually my second position at my life side. It still comes natural, you know, just getting handoff and stuff like that, reading the holes. But yeah, it feels good to be back there. How would you feel if Ohio State came to you? It said, we need you to play running back for a game.

5:09:54I'll do it. Whatever it has to do to get the team to the W. I'll do it. I'll do it. Brandon, thank you very much. Well, I got to grow and just seeing how other guys handled their stuff, I'm glad I made me want to be like, be more mature to team. I like that one. Now I was, but I just got more, more older mindset. I like how these guys can fall out. I don't know where to put my samples in. I like that one. I'll say, just coming in, trying to be the first guy to come in, like, I'm trying to come in before the older guy you get in here. That's hard because they can be here early. So really just sticking with them and going on the ride with them and trying to be them at the thing they're doing earlier. To me, where do you feel like you've grown the most from year one to year two? I would say, learning a game more, like learning concepts and just knowing what the office is going to do before they do it. It's a feel different being out there of a spring than it was in this time of year ago. Yeah, definitely. Everything's more slower. Everything's more slower in my fresh air. Like, my high school defense all we wear was just man. So like, all this is new to me, especially with Cognitive Defense.

5:10:56And this year is like everything's low now. How are some different things to be doing? I'll say I just simplify more. It's more simplified. And Cognitive trying to get a lot more guys. Just see where it's pretty new still. We still learning and working through it. But he's just trying to get the basics in bigger out would. Guys are good at it. What's guys like Jeremiah and Rack? Is that sort of stuff on with the field of real games? You know, is there any other than Rack? Is it a good thing to have a little good? Yeah, it's all the guys. Jeremiah, Carton, A.O. Brandon, all of them. I feel like in the game, it's definitely, I definitely do feel like it's easier. I feel like we got the best with here in the country. That's a competitive issue. I take you, I think it's a lot of it. I mean, I don't know, like to talk a lot. What's the like in the room? It's very competitive. We all be going out of each other. We all be telling each other, I'm telling you, man, I'ma come try and come take y'all's. But my come take y'all's. See, make let me know, they're not going to let me do that. So it's all of it. You're talking about that?

5:11:56Yeah, so. Devin Sanchez is kind of the same role that you were last time. It was a big time five-star recruit. What do you see in a double-circuit? You're very competitive. Very competitive. He got how about an energy? They be talking to like, I fly out of my whole room, kind of like, just come together. We all got the same energy. So, but he definitely been on an energy. And yeah, that's it for now. What did you learn from the time it was last year? Really had to just approach the game. Take a time, watch him or feel him. It really, they helped me slow things down. They helped me break things down and know what they're expecting or something. When you did play the actual game. I feel like I did a good, pretty good game, everyone. And how do you like, what could you do about this? So, I like to do this like one play. I think it was a good city. It's like, you play like a, you know, it was made a bit in the area more, but it's just. Listen, it's 6.8 and it looked taller. Yeah, I'll try like 6 more. I don't know, 6 more. I'll say 6 more. Talk to Jerry about that. Yeah.

5:12:57You talked about watching the film. How different is that now for you? In your class, high school, and even coming here last year? Now it's like you got a lot of more resources. So you got coached actors just coming in and happy. And like my main thing is I'm trying to come in early and I'm getting with every coach I can. And really just high school, you know, you watch the film, but Tyler's like, you got to stay watch film every day. I'm watching the practice three times, two times a day, and flight. That's it for you. It's being close to home, working out well for your area. Which kind of stand in your bubble? And what is that like? Yeah, stay at home is cool, but I don't really be going back home, ain't that bad for me. But my family come and come kick it with me here and there. I pay for shooting. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, my mom, she loved that plus. She loved us. With your last two or four or five years, how do you feel going to be just this? I think it's not that bad. Yeah. What do you say? It needs to grow up. Yeah. You can put it to your side, mom. Players wouldn't say that about me. Oh, I didn't grow up. Yeah, I would. It's typical for us.

5:13:57So then would you back feel like you feel that way too? Not for a while, honestly. But they said I was just taking it. I mean, it's just typical for us. Yeah, it doesn't know what we doesn't know. Yeah, I feel like I knew a lot. I knew I didn't know too much, but I feel like I held my whole, but I definitely could have learned more. I didn't know too much coming out high school. Just basically how my program, high school, wasn't there. I made my high school. Thank you for that. Something that JJ was able to push me in was just, he was able to push me in my leadership. I needed to grow in that aspect. But he also was able to challenge me when it came to the weight room and on the field. Because we were always paired together when it came to summer and when our workouts were always lifting together. I get a couple wins. He get a couple wins. So it was really that next step of competitiveness that I needed and that edge that I needed. That Murphy 2474? You met the, you guys came into the Tennessee game

5:14:57with a lot of outside motivation with Michigan and Boston kind of had three weeks to talk. I know obviously there's still that motivation to go on and win a national championship. But how do you keep that kind of edge to let the better term mentally after some of that stuff has kind of gone away and followed the big win? I would say kind of if you lose your edge, I wouldn't really call you a true competitor. I think that the way with the college football playoffs is structured, the intensity cranks every single week. So if you're not more intense than you were the last week, then something's wrong with you. I think that Tennessee was a great win, great for our momentum. But we have our full focus on Oregon, not worrying about anything in the past, nothing in the future, our full focus is towards this game. And then we win this one, we go on to the next one, our full focus is going to be on that one. So it's just, you keep moving down a ladder like this. Step on Crackstake, please go to the dot com. Mecha, there's been a lot of change in college football in the playoffs. I think of that nature. But the way in some of you and some of your team in the coaches talk about the Rose Bowl, seems like that's one game that's really maintained

5:15:59a lot of that tradition. You play the net, you know what it's about. Could you explain it to, you know, also you would never have a chance to play the Rose Bowl. Does maintain, you know, that level of respect from the players in the coaches. Yeah, I think, I don't know, there's just something about it. Something in the air down there in the Pasadena. It's just a beautiful venue, especially that time of the year. Like you said, the tradition is held year in and year out. And it's kind of the game you dream of playing. And when you're a little kid, you know, playing back yard football with your friends, the role of the role is always one that tends to come up. So just having a chance to play in it, it's definitely very surreal. And this is gonna be my second time. So I'm gonna do my best to take it all in while also being fully focused on organ. Dan, let me worry. Matthew Will said he still has 90 minutes about that first game of the organ. Just what kind of drive you seem to him this week wanting to get back at this one? Yeah, Will is a, he's a laser focused person. He goes about his business. I mean, he's very loose and he's very calm and he's able to rally the team. But you can see it in his eyes that this game means everything to him. So every single practice, every single huddle,

5:17:02making sure we're sharp, making sure we have a better practice than we had last than yesterday, a better practice than organ's having. So his full focus is on being this team. And obviously it's hard not to think about the stuff of the past, but I know he's laser focused on what we got coming up. Tony Gervin, fuck I have. Matthew, when you're a kid playing back yard, you're doing what team we played for. Honestly, I wasn't, I was never really a, a buck I fan until, you know, I really committed here and I saw what it was all about. I was actually an organ fan growing up, especially on the Pacific Northwest. You know, my grandpa went to UW and stuff like that. So I like the Huskies too, but there was a legendary football player named Foto Liatto from my high school and he went to organ. And a couple of y'all probably know that story. So I'm a couple of years back, but he tragically died in the car accident. And, you know, he was, he was someone I looked up to in high school. You know, I was relatively close with him even though he was a bit older than me in age,

5:18:03but just seeing what he did at my high school and then going on to play big time football organ, that was a school that I really dreamed of going to. They build a bit like, on the back. I think that's another Jeremiah question. I asked it. Is there one moment, one play, one something that made you go, oh man, I've never seen it. I've come before, that's just incredible. Yeah, I'll say it's happened multiple times. There's not really one. I can pinpoint, but the more he does it, the more I tend to react less. So I would say probably my earliest memories of it were in spring ball. Kind of getting the first glimpse of him when he's making all these ridiculous catches. And he still does it time and time again even now, but it's just more common now for me. The land that one that's been taken to the north. But you had, I think it was 12 touches in the first game against Oregon Thunder Sanctions two carries. Is there something about this matchup that favors you? And now that you have, where that could up the first time he played this team, what kind of attention or I guess maybe different defenses

5:19:04are you expecting to see? Yeah, I mean, we're not entirely sure what their gameplay is going to be, but we're paired for everything. I'm not going to get too much into scheme and stuff like that. But we know that if the ball comes our way, we've got to make those plays. So whether I have 10 receptions again coming up this game, where I have zero or one, we're just looking to get this win on the road. Because it's really a road game for us, flying across two times zones. So I think that it's going to be a great matchup. Whether they tend to focus on me more or not, it doesn't really matter to me because I know our team has a great playing regardless. That time for a couple more questions, Spencer, Oberk, Letterman, and Roll. You guys ever surprised when the game ended? You looked at it, it's actually a car not only has been water to you guys. You can kind of feel it throughout the game, I would say. He's a true competitor. He wants to get involved, but at the same time, he's super selfless. He's really humble. So he's going to do whatever it takes for the team to get a win. But it's the competitive nature in him that wants to contribute as much as he can. So I try to be in his ear to tell him to be levelhead and stuff like that, not that I need to.

5:20:05He's a very level-headed and selfless guy, like I'm saying. But sometimes that's just how the game goes. I had a game this year where I only had one catch. But we ended up winning by lot. So I think that it's easy to be focused on the personal attributes that you could have game in and game out. But no one's really going to remember those if we're holding up the trophy at the end of the year. He could be a number one. I think 95% of the ball off the ground needs to be number three. When you see his work as all of those things, that he does, that makes a play. You guys ever have been hiking like, yeah, this guy can absolutely be a number one of those scottable ball off the ground. I would disagree with you. I think that he is a number one. I think that we don't have a number three receiver. I think we have three number one receivers out there. So whatever the defense, if they want to put their attention on one guy or a couple of us, they're not really doing themselves any favor because we're going to have a favor will match up on the other side of the ball. So that's never how we view ourselves. We know we're alpha dogs out there. Every single one of us knows we have the capabilities

5:21:07to be a number one receiver. And we are number one receivers. And final question. Steve Hellwanger 24-S at his works. Yeah, and McAtee to that game, he made one of the clutch plays that passed down the sideline. At any time, when you make that play, do you think, did you ever, your mind, we're going to win this game after we're now close to field goal range? I mean, did that play in your mind, say, my goodness, we've got a chance to get out of here with the win? Yeah, I definitely knew where I caught the ball. And I knew we were closer being in field goal range. So there was a sense of, I knew it was a big play that I made. But in those moments, you have to finish out the game. No matter what, you can't get a big head. You can't get complacent. You have to finish the game until the clock hits zero. So that's when we've been working on, you know, we work on two minute every single Wednesday practice. So today, we'll work on our two minute. And we don't even call it two minute. We call it clutch. Because in those times, in those games, in those big moments, someone has to make a clutch play. So we're focusing on that every single game, knowing that we're going to have to make one of those plays

5:22:08coming down the stretch here. What would it mean if you're able to finish this one off and get to the final four of this playoff? Just what in your mind, would this be, you know, just the ultimate, I suppose, to be a team that's already beaten earlier this year? No, I think the ultimate would be winning the National Championship. So, you know, we're focused on, this just happens to be the next team in the way. We're not focused on where we played them earlier this year, whether they got the win over us. They're just a nameless, faceless opponent. So we're going out there, fully prepared, not worried about what's happening in the past. You know, we played them before. We felt them out. So it's all about who got better from that point in time until now. A massive thank you. Thank you.