Press Conference (Will Howard) Elite Edition September 2

0:00This is Dave Roberts. If you're heading into summer without a medical emergency kit, you're taking a risk most people don't think about until it's too late. Summer colds linger and can turn into sinus infections at last for weeks. Getting sick right before vacation can derail everything and we are traveling, finding a doctor and pharmacy is stressful. That's why I ordered medical emergency kit. It's like having an emergency care and a pharmacy right at home. It includes essential prescriptions like a moxasillin and generic z-pack to treat a wide range of common and serious illnesses. So if you wake up sick at home or on the road, you already have what you need. No waiting for your doctor, no hours at urgent care, no pharmacy lines, no co-pays, just match your symptoms to the right prescription in your guidebook or call their telemedicine doctor standing by. Start on your med sooner and feel better faster. Every home needs at least one medical emergency kit. 40 years online in minutes and it's shipped to your door and say $45 with promo code blue at urgentcairedkit.com slash blue. That's promo code blue at urgentcairedkit.com slash blue. Hi, this is Dave

1:02Roberts. Heading into summer without a medical emergency kit, that's a risk. Summer colds can linger and getting sick on vacation can derail everything. That's why everyone needs a medical emergency kit. It includes doctor prescribed medications to treat common and serious illnesses. So if you wake up sick at home or on the road, you already have what you need. It's like having an urgent care and pharmacy at home. Say $45 with code blue at urgentcairedkit.com slash blue. urgentcairedkit.com slash blue. This is Dave Roberts. If you're heading into summer without a medical emergency kit, you're taking a risk most people don't think about until it's too late. Summer colds linger and can turn into sinus infections at last for weeks. Getting sick right before vacation can derail everything and we're traveling, finding a doctor and pharmacy is stressful. That's why I ordered medical emergency kit. It's like having an emergency care and a pharmacy right at home. It includes essential prescriptions like a moxasillin and generic Z-pack to treat a wide range of common and serious illnesses. So if you wake up sick at home or on the road, you already have what you need. No waiting for your

2:05doctor, no hours at urgent care, no pharmacy lines, no copays, just match your symptoms to the right prescription in your guidebook or call their telemedicine doctor standing by. Start on your med sooner and feel better faster. Every home needs at least one medical emergency kit. 40 years online in minutes and it's shipped to your door and say $45 with promo code blue at urgentcaredkit.com slash blue. That's promo code blue at urgentcaredkit.com slash blue. I got all the faith in the world and those guys man and no matter who it is, I don't care. You know, they're all here for a reason and you know they have to remember that. Like, you know, they're their buck eyes at the end of the day and man, like it

3:07doesn't matter who's out there, who's playing. Like we've all been through the fire together. We all did Matt drills together. We all, you know, I have all the faith in the world and those guys and no matter what, no matter who it is out there, you've got to make sure we're playing with confidence, playing fast, playing physical and just go and attack because this is all we have left man. Like this is this is it. We can't leave anything, can't leave anything out there. So I got, I got all the faith in those guys. They've been dealt a pretty tough hand this year, you know, with all the injuries and the shuffling around they've had to do. You know, I don't think Donnie would have expected that he was going to be playing tackle this year, you know, Carson's playing guard and center. A lot of different things have happened, but you know, just being able to weather the storm and try and you know, figure out, you know, what they need to, what we need to work on and do it and come out and prove, prove everyone wrong. I'm excited for those guys. I think they have a heck of an opportunity in front of them. You know, I'm excited for Luke. Whoever's out there, I got all the faith in the

4:09world and I'm not, I'm not worried about that at all. For the whole left, Dan Hope, let's worry about it. You mentioned this is all we have left. I mean, for those guys who have been here four or five years and this is the end of their careers. How much just do you feel driven to want to win this for men? Yeah, I mean, I could say the same thing about myself. Like I've been playing football for, playing college football for five years now and this is all I have left. Like I have, you know, four games max left in my college career. So I mean, there's no other option than to just empty the tank and leave it all out here because this is all we have left as college athletes. Ohio State or not, like this is it. And I mean, I'm just excited to finish it the right way because we have such a good group of guys, man. We have such an unbelievable team that we have here. It's a special group and, you know, we can't, we can't go out any other way than then win it at all. Like that's that's the way that I see it, man. I just, I, I want this for this team so bad. Right behind the pet Murphy 24-7 in court. So sort of on that note,

5:13you came here with the goal of winning a national championship. Obviously the the journey may not have gone exactly how you hope, but that opportunity is still there for you. How much you in particular is that motivation to still have this opportunity at the expanded point? Yeah, I mean, this is this is what we're playing for, man. This is a new season for playoffs and the fact of the matter is we don't beat Tennessee. None of it matters. So we're worried about Tennessee right now, man. And we'll, we'll, we'll look forward after this game. But this is the most important thing. It was beaten Tennessee because once you get the first win, you know, you're able to pick up some momentum. But, you know, without, without winning the first one, nothing, nothing matters. So we got to be Tennessee. I think you're going to go in here and fuck out. Well, I'm much better equipped with you guys right now to play the cold. Then you were in the last game. I don't know. I mean, it's it's cold out here. So I don't I'm not really, I don't think that that's a worry for us. We practice in the cold. I mean, I guess you could say we've we've had a little more practice in the cold just because it

6:15I think honestly this year, like, just didn't really get that cold until maybe the up north game. And I don't I don't think there's anything particular. But, you know, we we practice in it every single day. I've played in very cold conditions. So it's it's something we're used to. Right. And George, that one, right? He played with Doc. Donovan was talking a bit about set. The role he's had was not been playing. He's someone you got to play out of experience. He's played against Tennessee in years past. Just how much has he kind of been able to add these last few weeks, even though he's not, you know, out of the field? Yeah, obviously we miss Seth out on the field. But you can still feel him in the room. And he's he's a coach, man. He's he's transitioned into the, you know, kind of a player coach almost at this point. And he's just one of those guys that wants to contribute anyway. He can. And he's just I know he's hurting. He wants to be out there. So, you know, at the end of the day, he's he's doing everything he can with the position that, you know, the tough the toughs, you know, and he's been dealt. He's got to he's got to,

7:21you know, go out there and try and help us in any way he can. And that's what he's trying to do. He's trying to impact it from a different perspective, maybe more of a, you know, a guy who's has experience and a guy who can can give us advice and give us little tidbits here and there and still encourage the guys and be that force that he's been all year. And I think he's doing a great job of that. Hi, this is Dave Roberts. Heading into summer without a medical emergency kit, that's a risk. Summer colds can linger and getting sick on vacation can derail everything. That's why everyone needs a medical emergency kit. It includes doctor prescribed medications to treat common and serious illnesses. So if you wake up sick, at home or on the road, you already have what you need. It's like having an urgent care and pharmacy at home. Say $45 with code blue at urgentcare kit.com slash blue urgentcare kit.com slash blue. This is Dave Roberts. If you're heading into summer without a medical emergency kit, you're taking a risk most people don't think about until it's too late. Summer colds linger and

8:24can turn into sinus infections at last for weeks. Getting sick right before vacation can derail everything. And we are traveling, finding a doctor and pharmacy is stressful. That's why I ordered medical emergency kit. It's like having an emergency care and a pharmacy right at home. It includes essential prescriptions like a moxasillin and generic Z-pack to treat a wide range of common and serious illnesses. So if you wake up sick, at home or on the road, you already have what you need. No waiting for your doctor, no hours at urgent care, no pharmacy lines, no co-pays, just match your symptoms to the right prescription in your guidebook or call their telemedicine doctor standing by. Start on your med sooner and feel better faster. Every home needs at least one medical emergency kit. 40 years online in minutes and it's shipped to your door and say $45 with promo code blue at urgentcaredkit.com slash blue. That's promo code blue at urgentcaredkit.com slash blue. Hi, this is Dave Roberts. Heading into summer without a medical emergency kit, that's a risk. Summer colds can linger and getting sick on vacation can derail everything. That's why everyone needs

9:26a medical emergency kit. It includes doctor prescribed medications to treat common and serious illnesses. So if you wake up sick, at home or on the road, you already have what you need. It's like having an urgent care and pharmacy at home. Say $45 with code blue at urgentcaredkit.com slash blue urgentcaredkit.com slash blue. I think to help you in Carson specifically, because you have been in Carson last year, how much was said kind of just tendency things like that, able to help Carson and you become full-played together? Yeah, I mean, I don't think, you know, Carson and I had gotten a lot of reps together through the spring and through the ball camp. So there wasn't really, it wasn't necessarily a, you know, not familiar thing. It was more of just getting used to, you know, how the spalls come back or, you know, communicating a little differently. But Seth was still involved in all those conversations and all of our, you know, protection meetings and anything like that. He's still involved. And like I said, he's trying to be a player coach and help out in any way he can. And he's definitely

10:28trying to, you know, help Carson out anyway he can. But, you know, Carson's played a lot of ball and he understands it too. So I think the two of them being able to kind of collaborate has helped. For behind the camera key, Robert, but you have let him. You know, Ryan mentioned how important your leadership will be on Saturday. I'm curious to sense that also how you route, not only route yourself, but help route his probably looking at the best of these areas. I mean, it was hard, you know, I'm not going to lie, but yeah, my, my ability to push this team and to lead this team in this game is going to be crucial. And I know that. And, you know, I think that, you know, if we can, if we can maintain that, that edge that we had, I think, really in that Indiana game and just come out there and I need to be the one that, that sparks that, you know, and I need to make sure that I'm bringing that all game and that, yeah, that's going to be crucial. So I get that.

11:38I don't know if there's one answer to that question. It's really just an energy that you bring and that look in your eye, that's kind of how I try to lead is just, you know, by, by bringing everybody's energy up, you know, bringing the vibes up, you know, whatever it is during the week of practice, making sure everybody's flying around to practice and then during the game, just, just staying on everyone and making sure that, you know, I'm just positive reinforcement, whatever, whatever it is, you know, staying on those guys and making sure that they hear me all game, no matter what, no matter if it's good or bad, being positive all game. Who's been saying that? I just, I was just asking, I just hadn't heard that yet. You know, I, I, I'm not, I don't

12:40listen to anything, but I guess playing loose for me is really just kind of not thinking about things and letting it rip, you know, just, just having my feet underneath of me, making, making good decisions with the football and also kind of just letting the game come to me and not forcing things that happen, I think that's, that's really, you know, we're able to get the ball out on the perimeter and, and, you know, I'm able to get the ball in our playmaker's hands and have a high completion percentage, I think that's when, when we have a lot of success, so if I'm able to distribute the ball early and, you know, get the ball into our playmaker's hands, I think that, that for me is, I guess, playing loose. How much Michigan is still in? You know, it hurts, man, I'm not going to lie. We, we all still feel it, but we got, we moved on, we're, we're moved on now. I mean, how do you do this? What's ahead of you? You just sort of close that off?

13:43Yep. And how do you, I imagine a situation like after that game, the brother who gets tested in offense versus defense, how do you, whether that stuff that they come together, will sort of stay together and not square? You got to, you got to talk and we, you know, you got to work the, work the issues out. And, and I think we did, and, you know, we came in here and we talked and, you know, we, we hashed some things out and, and it brings you together, you know, you have to, you have to work the issues out. And I think we, you know, we, we discussed some things and, and we, we talked about it and, and how we're going to be able to finish this thing the right way. And, you know, I think keeping, keeping in our minds that everything is still in front of us is, has been the biggest thing that we're clean to, you know, and just saying, you know, listen, we can, we can still go out here and win a national championship and, and, and write, write the wrongs that, you know, happened in that game. Like, obviously, we don't get a chance to play them again, but, we can still go win the whole thing. And that's, that's what we're trying to clean to right now.

14:44I mean, no, yeah, yes, it was, you know, it was tough. It's up. This is Dave Roberts. If you're heading into summer without a medical emergency kit, you're taking a risk most people don't think about until it's too late. Summer coldslinger and can turn into sinus infections at last for weeks. Getting sick right before vacation can derail everything. And we're traveling, finding a doctor and pharmacy is stressful. That's why I ordered medical emergency kit. It's like having an emergency care and a pharmacy right at home. It includes essential prescriptions like a moxasillin and generic Z-pack to treat a wide range of common and serious illnesses. So if you wake up sick at home or on the road, you already have what you need. No waiting for your doctor, no hours at urgent care, no pharmacy lines, no co-pays, just match your symptoms to the right prescription in your guidebook or call their telemedicine doctor standing by. Start on your med sooner and feel better faster. Every home needs at least one medical emergency kit. 40 years online in minutes and it's shipped to your door and say $45 with promo code blue at urgencaredkit.com slash blue. That's promo code blue at urgencaredkit.com slash blue.

15:53Hi, this is Dave Roberts. Heading into summer without a medical emergency kit, that's a risk. Summer colds can linger and getting sick on vacation can derail everything. That's why everyone needs a medical emergency kit. It includes doctor prescribed medications to treat common and serious illnesses. So if you wake up sick at home or on the road, you already have what you need. It's like having an urgent care and pharmacy at home. Say $45 with code blue at urgencaredkit.com slash blue. Urgentcarekit.com slash blue. This is Dave Roberts. If you're heading into summer without a medical emergency kit, you're taking a risk most people don't think about until it's too late. Summer colds linger and can turn into sinus infections at last for weeks. Getting sick right before vacation can derail everything. And we're traveling, finding a doctor and pharmacy is stressful. That's why I ordered medical emergency kit. It's like having an emergency care and a pharmacy right at home. It includes essential prescriptions like a moxasillin and generic z-pack to treat a wide range of common and serious illnesses. So if you wake up sick at home or on the road, you already have what you need.

16:56No waiting for your doctor, no hours at urgencared, no pharmacy lines, no copays, just match your symptoms to the right prescription in your guidebook or call their telemedicine doctor standing by. Start on your med sooner and feel better faster. Every home needs at least one medical emergency kit. 40 years online in minutes and it's shipped to your door and say $45 with promo code blue at urgencaredkit.com slash blue. That's promo code blue at urgencaredkit.com slash blue. It always talks about execution, fueling, emotion. It seems like abuse sometimes it can be the other way around. How do you channel that? How have you learned to channel that emotion where you're frustrated here but when it's time to go execute just to raise the thing that which is yeah it's it's experience man just doing it and and you know I feel like you kind of have to do

17:56it the wrong way to learn how to do it the right way you know I don't know if that makes any sense but you know in my time is that case date early in my career you know I there would be times where you know I threw a pick and I immediately just down you know plummet and my play plummets and you know I think the really the only way to to learn that is to go through it and I've just gone through it so many times I've you know I felt the ups and downs the peaks and the valleys of college football and you know I've really said to myself like listen you know I've never I'm never going to make it I'm never going to be perfect there's always going to be something something that goes wrong in a game it's about how you come back from that and you can't let one thing one mistake one loss you can't let that mess everything else up because that's when the real problems start and that's when the real problems started for me early in my career was when I let those little mistakes that I made in practice or during games or whatever it may be when I let that affect me down the road that was when the problems really started so yeah you know man

19:00like going back like that game it was it sucked it was terrible for all of us you know terrible loss but man we can't let it be this twice we can't and that's that's how I've kind of just through my journey in college I've learned that you know it's better to use that as motivation and to come back from it and to try and challenge myself to be better and rely on my intrinsic confidence and not listen to what everyone else is saying and at the end of the day just going out there and continuing to have the routine every single day and when you have a routine you know it makes things a little bit easier but you know we you still feel it you still feel it but you got to move forward man yes what did you learn come I what did you take away just what have I learned can't run the ball over and we're moved on man I we're moved on

20:05yeah I was wondering as you look at a defense like Tennessee's select Michigan's and stuff explain to people who don't get to stand where you stand and see stuff you just see smaller windows both in a running game in a passing game here stand what I'm saying you have to be more not really no well meaning meaning they've got good defenders I mean yeah they do they're gonna be on top of my receivers the the creases that were there against Marshall aren't going to be there against Michigan in the run game a lot and stuff I mean so I guess how precise do you have to be in your decision making etc. I'm coming up Saturday night yeah I feel like can you just rephrase that one more time I'm sorry yeah how quickly do you have to be on you have to assimilate what you're seeing and make your decision yeah everything happens a little quicker yeah I give okay yeah like everything happens a little quicker in games like that and you

21:09know when you're playing against teams of this caliber you you can't let one thing you know mess up a play like little little details matter even more you know like you can't let a guy maybe come inside on a block or you know blow up a bubble play you know they're gonna be a little quicker and you know I think number three their corners are a really good player I think their defensive front is unbelievable I think they've got some really stout guys inside they're a little harder to move for the O-Limon you know so whether it's you know getting some double teams on those guys or getting some find some ways to move them or slow them down there's different things that go into it schematically but at the end of the day you're still playing ball and I don't really think about it that much you know I mean maybe the windows are a little tighter but at the end of the day football football and and you got to execute the plays that are in front of us so whether it's you know whoever it is or Tennessee you know I just know that in these playoffs

22:10you know everything's gonna be turned up a little bit and everyone always tells me you know in the NFL there's there's three seasons you know there's the preseason the middle of the season and then the playoffs and everything just gets faster and I by assume you know this is the first playoffs I'm playing in but you know I've played in the postseason before and it's different it's a different speed so hi this is Dave Roberts heading into summer without a medical emergency kit that's a risk summer colds can linger and getting sick on vacation can derail everything that's why everyone needs a medical emergency kit it includes doctor prescribed medications to treat common and serious illnesses so if you wake up sick at home or on the road you already have what you need it's like having an urgent care and pharmacy at home say 45 dollars with code blue at urgentcare kit dot com slash blue urgent care kit dot com slash blue this is Dave Roberts if you're heading into summer without a medical emergency kit you're taking a risk most people don't think about until it's too late summer colds linger and can turn in design and infections that last for weeks getting sick right before vacation can derail everything

23:12and we're traveling finding a doctor and pharmacy is stressful that's why I ordered medical emergency kit it's like having an emergency care and a pharmacy right at home it includes essential prescriptions like a moxasillin and generic z-pack to treat a wide range of common and serious illnesses so if you wake up sick at home or on the road you already have what you need no waiting for your doctor no hours at urgent care no pharmacy lines no copays just match your symptoms to the right prescription in your guidebook or call their telemedicine doctor standing by start on your med sooner and feel better faster every home needs at least one medical emergency kit 40 years online in minutes and it's shipped to your door and say 45 dollars with promo code blue at urgentcare kit dot com slash blue that's promo code blue at urgentcare kit dot com slash blue hi this is Dave Roberts heading into summer without a medical emergency kit that's a risk summer colds can linger and getting sick on vacation can derail everything that's why everyone needs a medical emergency kit it includes doctor prescribed medications to treat common and serious illnesses so if you wake up sick at

24:17home or on the road you already have what you need it's like having an urgent care and pharmacy at home say 45 dollars with code blue at urgentcare kit dot com slash blue urgent care kit dot com slash blue definitely gonna gonna need to be on our stuff a little more it's like a place to call that do you do you have it in your mind it ultimately you're the guy I mean who finally makes the play you're staying on up saying I mean Patrick my home is running around you know guys it can make plays all the plays and stuff you have to always keep that in your mind that it's finally up to you yeah I mean at the end of the day I have the chalk last and you know I'm the one out there that you know we talk about all the time I'm the Run Game Coordinator you know I can I can make some things you know right that maybe aren't perfect and you know the thing is is you know we may have a play draw it up for some coverage and they're gonna run a different coverage and you gotta take a check down and you gotta throw it away and it's just

25:17those little things managing the game and not making you know forcing things to happen or things that I used to do at case date you know I remember this one playing particular at case date when I was playing Oklahoma State called this play for cover two they go cover three I still throw it pick it's like I just tried to make something happen and I was like oh we're calling this play to throw this ball and I still threw it but here being able to recognize hey they went cover three just take a check down like just move on next play and that's that's really what the biggest thing is is like staying on schedule not making those mistakes that can put you behind the sticks or potentially turn the ball over that's the biggest thing for me and I know in these playoffs taking care of the football is gonna be paramount thank you guys go bucks really playing as much so I just wanted to get like more experience under my belt so I can know bring younger guys with me because I've been doing one of those younger guys we're seeing it on the first time I've scored all those last years what have you seen from well because I should have real forgot about it because he was

26:21hurt now he's running you know almost a second man behind you and tied what have you seen uh well as a workhorse he he gonna stay quiet he gonna work hard and that's what I love about the B focus is he don't really talk much he's going to get the job done do a job right rarely has any mistakes so what what would be a successful season a national championship I ring when all the games we don't want to lose anything we got a mindset that we can't be beat and we just gotta go show it oh it's definitely a difference everyone working harder um we noticed our last run like we most of us don't have any years after this so we got to go go bigger going home and we're not trying to go home finished big we know what you guys think of Michigan but when you look

27:23at what they did they won the national championship and you guys took them down to the final minute right you know what I mean I mean you you were right there something goes a little different you guys could have been one that came against them does that tell you anything about like that hey you guys want to win a national championship but you played to the 59th minute with the team that won the national championship last year like you're that close this home sand uh we just like work harder that's that's kind of coach makes uh saying you know nobody cares just work harder like those you know when we played Georgia it's the same thing uh last last play you know they went on the win in 90 so we just got to get over that hump at the end of the season I think would be fine how frustrating is that you're that close against the last two national title uh of course as you know it's frustrating but you can't change the outcome you can't really do well uh dwell on it you just got to you know come back and work harder do things better than you did last year and hopefully the outcome would change as that as you get older you kind of learn I thought I was working hard but then you always find out there's a little more you could have been

28:25doing yeah definitely I mean that's how that's what growing up is basically in college and I thought fresh me here I was working it's hard as I could but now I look back at it I really wasn't working hard at all compared to what I'm doing now so just to learn anything you need it to be to be your best uh 80 85 I mean I can it's it's all on me I just I think it's a little higher I was just trying to be funny but I mean it's all on me I just got to run harder get the shape I think I think I think we I definitely can last I was just you know we got to get the young guys to come along with us we can't play 50 snaps of game that's just too much on our bodies uh just everybody like online deline we got to get those younger guys to play you know get that

29:27pieces on the deline and the online and everywhere else so we can blast that long run speaking of uh yeah I did unless we were like winning by like a lot uh I thought like there are no moments you know I can go sit down or something but we're playing them big games like you know Notre Dame too or North those kind of games I of course I want to be because I know I can contribute and I won't want to put that on anyone else when I know I get the job done. What stands out about Taden McDonald is he got a team of you guys in a second here? Oh yeah definitely K-Mac is a K-Mac's animal y'all you haven't really seen it yet but in practice he shows all the time he's just he's just he's growing right now he has a work ethic he just has to get you know in the playbook and things like that you guys are about the exact same size listen you're both listening six three you're three twenty seven he's three twenty six yeah he's I kind of look at him like my my junior but you know K-Mac he's gonna be a great player he's got to develop more and getting to playbook so really a lot on you older guys there's that

30:31large group of young guys and then there's the seniors in the back is that part of your task for this year to bring those guys yeah definitely we got to be leaders um like I say we got to have them play this year we can't just play all the snaps they got to get in there and get some work and we got to get them right during the all season so they can play and not just play they want to like contribute like make plays tackle six yeah they're definitely some big dudes um and they all work hard I'm really seeing much it's only day two you know I'm not passing on but throughout the workouts they've been working hard you know they they're determined I just say that and it looks like they're ready to work with me I'm for this notes feels like there's a lot of great defense is that you have big athletic defensive tactics who can eat up space but also move you know right that is that

31:31is that an inquire that maybe for a great defense to have guys like you that have some balls but also a great team I think that is definitely I think if you look at the last uh a couple of nice and championship winners uh like team on North they you know they got two good uh detacled two athletic detacles look at Georgia two athletic detacles so I think that's definitely need if you want to go on that big run and beat those big teams really if you think about that they're almost defined by the defense attackers like what's Georgia's Jordan Davis and Daniel Carter let's miss again it's Chris Jenkins so I mean you understand it because you play it but I feel like some time I don't know are people realizing how important defense tackles are a little bit more than they used to I think so uh I think they're starting to develop to develop more and more of these like freakiest detacles yeah like in the combine just now you see in like those guys they're moving four to four seven eights and things like that so we'll see and when you think it when you think about those freakiest you know how do you think you fit into that

32:35mold of that kind of player you watch that and say yeah that's me yeah definitely I think I'm top-notch when it comes to detacles but I don't want to you know get a big head but you know watch it come on I watch it do the drills I have tape here you like you're looking like my film so I think I'm up there with all those the way you're going you have a goal I mean as many as I can have I think I have more than that but I think he said it I think they didn't count some of them and it's some of them where I like just missed it so but I think we work on drills matching the hand I think that's uh goes big and uh we do as a D line you know just affecting the quarter of that is anyway you can it's just great for the defense you know just that little thing covering his eye you know he might throw it a little bit to the left to our

33:36player so so it's something that you really really have to work on one of the things that you maybe worked on the most you could bring your time here because there are a few guys that I've seen like oh that passed me about it we don't have to ask it's kind of I think I just have like a like a eye for the ball kind of I kind of just look at the quarterback and just I see him like load up I just try to get in his ways and sometimes he's throws it to me I mean they get frustrated but you know we're a team you know we're just getting a lot of a lot of different backs man they just learn to grow for them I don't really have a top three but I'll give you I'll give you one I would say say Juan Gibbs and I like McCaffrey auto he was injured this year I like McCaffrey

34:41best back in this draft I lead out of the yard that's y'all that's y'all decision playing with Will Howard when I'm going to remember most We're a Howard man he's just such a great lead such a great leader man it's just like in moments where you know usually a lot of players they fold man he was just always calm and relaxed man he just the leader that he was man that's one thing I'm gonna remember about him yeah he's he's gonna be really good man he's um Coach Lock I think he got the transfer in as well from West Virginia just that one two punch with them both as well they're gonna be really good backs and so James people's man he's smart the way that he goes about his business man he's mature and so man he's growing you know just as a person in as a player and so man yeah definitely Ohio State you know that running back room is in gray hands

35:43yeah um coach coach heartline man he's full of energy man and he's creative as well you know I'm just learning from him as well you know I'm trying to run more outside the backfield was being able to learn from coach heartline and so he's definitely creative at what he's he does and he brings a lot of energy to the team as well and so I think that would do really good um just intensity man then since he did other playoffs um every game and it's like the intensity got you know higher and higher and so you know being able I know in the lead it's it's the same thing even if it's not the playoffs just every every game and then intensity it keeps getting higher and higher so yeah you just I know you got to bring it you know each and every day and come in and work just like Ohio State you know I definitely feel like Ohio State they definitely do a good job of preparing us for that you know I just remember even before going through this process I'll I'll talk to a lot of players um before then and they told me a lot of just about how much Ohio State prepared them you know for the NFL and so yeah yeah

36:50yeah yeah I know I took a couple days off after the um national championship and then shoot right after that I'm right in right in sample Florida and I'm right to it and so um yeah I think where I trained I trained at um your morph performance um I think it's called the House of Athlete or the compound now um they they did they did a good job man it just um bringing us in and the the way they went about training us man they were they did a really good job the bucket in the airs know I haven't Tampa Tampa nice this is nice it's a nice city man really nice uh the 40 to broad and avert train you've been uh raises an awesome locker it needs to be here with the quality of life when you've got a line back or so the gap bigger than you when you're in ready it's more of a yeah yeah no man uh it's really all about technique and then it's about mine said it's well and so um I say you know it's for the love of my brother it's for the love of will highway it's

37:50for the love of the receivers who I got on the perimeter just making sure you know um first of all my quarterback doesn't get sacked um and I I told will I think it was before the first game I was like I got your brother it's uh I said man I'm I'm not gonna let you get hit you know um and so um I don't know if I don't know if I gave up a sack I'm not sure that um but I know if I did I haven't given up too many and so man it's for the love of my brothers don't man making sure the ball get in their hands you know the guys on the outside and making sure they get fed in my game uh you can't really work on this you know in all season I feel like it's more so you know you got to put the pads on you got to go through some inside run you know maybe uh it's really just continuing run through tackles and so that's I feel like that's one of the areas in my game you know I want to continue to get better I feel like I did a good job of that my senior year and so I just want to continue to build on that yes I did yes I did

38:55uh I did meet with um new Orleans as well um I never got that comparison actually um I know I have a comrade shoot yeah man I have a comrade great great back man um just what he does and those 101 matchups he's dangerous man and he's so smooth he's so smooth as well I'm not going like he's smooth yeah um inside zone from stack being able to hit that thing downhill and um I'll say the next one is probably just an option route out of the backfield you know and man and man coverage you're getting on that linebacker and so yeah I say the man the biggest thing is the way that he carries himself man in the way that man um he approaches the game he comes in with the mindset you know he's going to work every single week you know every practice

39:57you know he's working hard you know um even shoot I don't know every good I think he had every game was a good game for him man and so but still man he always has the mentality to mindset that you know he's going to come in each and every day he's going to continue to work and get better man and so he's definitely man he's going to be a special player man he really is a standout man a lot of ups and downs man it's just how you respond to adversity and I feel like that's something that God has definitely helped me to do better is this um not have something to lean on now you know I remember before I met him you know going through those adversity I had nothing to run to you know you can run to people but they still can't it's not too much they can't truly help you you know I feel like you know I feel like the only person that can truly help you is your relationship with Jesus Christ and so being able to lean on him you know he gives you in those moments where it's tough you know where it's low and um when you're behind the scenes and

40:58you're going through things that people don't know about um he gives you he gives you that peace and comfort you know um even in those moments man where it's so hard that you can't you can't explain it's like man I'm going through this but like how am I still filled with this internal joy you know how do I have so much peace in this situation and so that's something that only Jesus Christ can give you and so man those guys have such a great mentality man I might just really love their mentality especially um Q as well you know I talked about will Howard his leadership but Quinchon mentality man um that boy just yeah that boy just gifted you know you see you know sometimes he put in a situation where he looked like you know he should have a negative five yards and then as soon as you know it you know he that running through somebody step on somebody and shoot it's a gain

41:58of 10 it's uh yeah man I think it's just like he's just gifted man to be honest he's just gifted you know he's he's a big back you know he's strong and so um you know he's he's able to do he's able to do those things and so um yeah man it's definitely you know I look at his game and I want to you know at the same time I want to learn from Quinchon you know I want to look at this game is like man where where can I get better at as well you know that's the type of player I am I'm always looking to get better man I'm always looking to grow as a player Julian San oh yeah he's gonna be a great but he's gonna be a great quarterback man he's so so accurate and so um he's definitely man I know Coach Dez definitely going to get him right just you know um container grow as a leader container grow as a player and so he's going he's going to be really good for high state uh he's that I know just the quarterback position um I feel like you know the quarterbacks in the past they've they've definitely been vocal and so I feel

42:59like that's something that they're definitely going to um ask Julian San as well it's to be that vocal leader and lead the um and lead the offense and lead the steam shoot man he has he has a build like JK Dobbins and um I kind of see them you know similar similarities in their game as well and I know JK Dobbins he was a great running back I feel like he's not talked about his none um a lot but man his career here you watch his highlights is is great I remember um before I recruit before I committee here I remember watching JK Dobbins highlights like every every um one of his years here like four or five times and so man he was such a great back and um I feel like you know um when I see JK Dobbins when I see um James people I see similarities to both of their games I feel like they play the same and so I appreciate you all

45:48so all I got coming in last year I knew the role so I just attacked every day really the same way it's taking advantage very well physically how different are you weight wise body wise on that from the year ago um I think I got a lot bigger I'm like 240 you know like 244 right now last year I played it like 236 to 37 so what does it feel like a 244 or a belly you feel like an almost a different machine out there yeah like what does it feel like to be running around out there like you are but with more more back I just feel like I'm like like like like more downhill like stronger like I'm taking all blocks better it's bigger yeah is it daunting uh maybe that's not the correct term but to think you're going to be playing much more than you did even last year and you played quite a bit last year instead what do you have to get straight in your head about being on the field that much more this is got to get ready to just play 30 more snaps so but are you are you how would you

46:53describe how much you're looking forward to it from an 8th and 4th now I'm looking forward to it I'm ready for it my I'm ready for it it's open it's a rematch so to speak but it's not really two different teams compared to the last time you all played and stuff but how does that enhance this camp for you and this team getting ready for the where an opener of that magnitude yeah with an opener like that we've been with the emphasizing in a lot and we know we got coming so we know we got to do we've been prepared for it I think Riley ready to play right now he he advanced freshmen like he ended he in the book he stood in like he advanced and his measurements crazy like he saw like the saw line too or like you said you're ready right you know you're ready what was that process like during last season could you feel yourself becoming more and more ready needed yeah because that's pretty much what my role was just whenever I was needed I had to step up so I feel like that's what built me into me being able to say I'm ready for this year when you

47:53say ready is it more a physical thing is it a mental thing when I say ready I think it's pretty much like everything physically mentally mostly I think I'm there a different is that you uh asked a whole more time how different is that response bill um I feel like it's uh it's a way bigger responsibility with me having to step up this year but I kind of go about it the same way like last year I was attention over to everything I did I feel like this year it's gonna be the same thing it's probably a little bit more okay it won't work I don't know where you're watching uh I say describe like now I say like when you think of me you're thinking like a like a bully like a

48:55silver bullet I don't really a bullet I'm always on the ball that's how I like to play a thing what you like what I want to body that no I ain't got to be my nickname but oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah it's like um think it fit me because I don't know I just like the defense I feel like we got like you say we got a lot of freedom and we moving around a lot a lot of the terms is like no I don't know I don't really not answer that that's okay does it you can go on your instincts a little bit more maybe and it's not so thinking of too much I don't even know if I say that because there's a lot of thinking going on but it's like I just like it's deep I like how it's pretty deep because I like what you got going on uh now I want to much sad I was kind of like happy for you yeah that's what you want no that's my dog I'm gonna say yeah kind of missing a little bit but yeah

50:03I'm happy for you though thank you go ahead one last but coach days talked a lot about the guys who played some last year but maybe weren't the starters and the hunger for that wasn't maybe your national championship you guys will win your own yeah how much do you feel that is a guy who certainly contributed last year but will be in this bigger role and along with some of your yeah I do feel like um yeah I do feel like I did win a nati last year but like you said my role wasn't same as how's gonna be this year so yeah I definitely want to want to go get another one experienced that like feeling maybe on the field a lot more place sorry oh Bill thank you very unique part about our offense is I don't think necessarily you play the X or the Z because the pit on the formation of the hash you can be the opposite you can be the X but then you're to the field now you're the Z so you got to really learn the entire concept and know where you're out in the field which I think makes everybody smarter players because you don't pigeonhole yourself I just play X you know I'm only know this position like you get in two minutes you're the Z now

51:06you got to know what to do you may have the clear out router you may have the backside dig like you got to know what you're doing so I think he doesn't just say like we're gonna do this offense he's really trying to create an offense that it's our personnel really well that field boundary thing yeah that's a thing in college but it seems like it's more unique to clip is that is that something you're used to seeing another offense has it been yeah definitely I mean I think if if I'm on the left hash like technically I'm on the X you know I'm in the boundary but if we're on the right hash I'm still on the left side I'm really the Z in the concept because I'm to the field I'm to the strength of the tie-down so I've been in offense is like is similar like that before and you know I just think he one thing I think that's really stood out as the compliments of our routes that we have so far I feel like we have a chance to really run similar stems but there's different routes off those stems and things like that which I think for receiver like myself who you get you know a really good look at DBs and they study your film they study your splits like

52:09having routes that look the same but break off at different different angles is extremely important because it feels like you have some versatility in your bag to go out with versus like you got this hitch again your backside like that's all you got you know what I mean so yeah he's just been a really good player's person to work with and he's been really communicative with the leaders and how we want this offense to look like and some of the ideas that we may have as well so it's it's been a really cool transition you talk about the transitions your third offense in three years probably or fourth in six years yeah how do you not kind of build up some barriers yeah man I got to do this again right um I think you know human nature is is always um hi this is Dave Roberts heading into summer without a medical emergency kit that's a risk summer colds can linger and getting sick on vacation can derail everything that's why everyone needs a medical emergency kit it includes doctor prescribed medications to treat common and serious illnesses so if you wake up sick at home

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54:15in minutes and it's shipped to your door and say forty five dollars with promo code blue at urgent care kit dot com slash blue that's promo code blue at urgent care kit dot com slash blue hi this is Dave Roberts heading into summer without a medical emergency kit that's a risk summer colds can linger and getting sick on vacation can derail everything that's why everyone needs a medical emergency kit it includes doctor prescribed medications to treat common and serious illnesses so if you wake up sick at home or on the road you already have what you need it's like having an urgent care and pharmacy at home say forty five dollars with code blue at urgent care kit dot com slash blue urgent care kit dot com slash blue a factor in whatever you doing life but i think i try to make a conscious choice of coming in with a new year mentality each and every year and i think it's easy because we've had so many changes in it's been great working with Marcus and jaden and Jeff and Sam all of everybody like it's it's been great with working

55:19with all the quarterbacks and i just have a mentality and not really being complacent like i try to really focus on the things that i i can come back better at this year and i've been working my my butt off to do that so i think the easy thing and when i was younger you're like dang like you just want that consistency you know i mean like you want that something you could depend on but like life isn't life isn't always like that so i've been reinvigorated because of just the energy that dq brings in to our building each and every day and and the coaches as well like it's fun competing you know what i mean and sometimes i could get lost in the grind but i think the reason why you make it here at this level is because you you fall in love with the competition of it and i think the competition breathes the success because um that is really where you the iron truly sharpens iron so you know other guys are going to make plays but you get excited to go in there and and know that um the next day we're going to go right back after the defense so

56:23for myself i'm just looking forward to continue to grow with the quarterbacks that we have i'm in year six now which is extreme blessing and um leader one of the leaders in our room and i just try to take the bull by the horns with that and so uh that's really been my focus and uh you know i'm excited for another year to us it's looked like you're being more vocal on the sideline to help young guys definitely something you decided this offseason or uh i think that's uh been a part of my maturation process as a leader um i've always seen myself as somebody that was a a leader by example um but from coaches and other teammates i've had over the years um guys like to hear what i have to say for whatever reason sometimes you know and i think the biggest thing where i've tried to figure out where i fit in with my vocal leadership is i never wanted to be like a dictator you know i mean i never wanted to tell guys what to do or or be a yellow or things like that like when i say something i wanted to have power i wanted to have meaning and i hope you know the guys would feel the same way if they were to ask them that question um because i want

57:26to see all these guys win man like it's it's hard to make it in this league and stay in a career and so anyway i could help the receivers the debees i'm talking to some alignment johnny who's who's rehabbing his foot you know what i mean like everybody has a role and everybody has a different story and path and so if i could share what i've been through my testimony to help them or uh do things that kind of slow down the process i'ma try to do that because um we need everybody from the rookies to the ten year vets to to make this thing work so um more so i i try to speak to what i what i know and and really those honest conversations that i try to have with guys what they know i'm coming from a good place and i think i'm not the type of guy where i'm just going to talk in at them like if they see something like i could take a coaching point from luke macafer i could take a coaching point from day on me from jahan from uh markis from anybody you know like i think that's what makes you a great player when you can really uh be

58:26coachable from anybody and and not take it from a personal standpoint hi i'm good um going back to what you were saying about cliff and how was he as a teacher in teaching all this yeah i mean i think he does a really great job of making things simple first and foremost he doesn't over coach and i think that's the trust that he has in our group and in his and his coaches our position coaches filling the details so we'll have an install meeting and um it'll be a good amount of time but then our position coaches will have time and we'll make it specific to that position and so um then we'll come in and have a walkthrough um and then after that we'll have another walkthrough and so i don't think there's been a time where i've come out here and i'm kind of worried about what i got you know i mean and when you get into certain offices there could be so many details where you could be overwhelmed and i think then it forces it kind of separates guys in a sense that like one guy may study more than another guy but when you have these these sessions that we have where we're having installs in the morning we're having two walkthroughs and then we're coming on the field and doing it

59:29i think you notice a lot of guys are playing a lot faster and more confident because he's keeping it simple but also he's very particular in in what he's expecting but it's not a lot so there's not a pressure of to get it right but at the same time um you know it's expected of you and and you know you're going to have the tools given to you to be successful out there on the field in this offseason just the totality of change from front office players coaches the turf field and what what does that been like for you just to see what's going on it's been fun um you know i think from uh mr. Harrison the entire ownership group down to uh Adam Peters down to DQ down to Jada who he drafted and bringing in Marcus and Jeff and all those guys and down to leaders we have on our team i think it was extremely specific on the way they tried to build this thing going into this year um first we're having the right people bringing in leaders bringing in guys who love to compete first thing that DQ said when he came here was and his first meeting like if you loved to compete this is going to be the place for you and i love it you know i mean i love bags

1:00:33and and going at it with the DBs every day like the little mundane stuff can seem a little boring but that's i think that was the the where you make the gains during the offseason where you're really focused on i'm hey like i'm a i'ma give all i got for this day and i'ma get better and then i'm i'ma learn from the film and come back tomorrow and ready to do it again and he also understands like the the benefits of having breaks like he's given us breaks we've had you know weeks off here and there the weekend compose ourselves but then come back and give it all we got you know what i mean and when you got a coach that understands the physicality of an entire season where you guys do need breaks by the same time we're going to get after it uh it makes it fun as a leader because you can take that to your room and be like yo we got these we got this week you know i mean that's extremely important but you know we have this little break coming up um where you're going to get your your mind and your body and your soul right so um coming into this season i'm i'm really optimistic of what we can be this year and i think it started with the foundation that the ownership group and the entire staff has built and now it's on myself as a leader to continue to

1:01:38hone that in into the locker room but i think it's great because we have so many great leaders from all across the league uh who have won and hey we got Bobby Wagner in there you know i mean i asked a hall of famer so like you know being able to have kind of guys like that that you can lean on that can sometimes take over that leadership role where it doesn't fall on one person i think it's uh uh extremely refreshing and knowing that everybody's on the same page and the message is the same um allows you to go out there with confidence and know what's expected of you. Terri you seem to spend many of your off seasons learning about things beyond football hobbies what happy did you do anything to this offseason so far to hobbies or increase your knowledge of this the world around you. Uh let's see the question um play a lot of golf uh that day just keeps my competitive juices flowing um uh planning the wedding um that's going well and uh man i've just been grinding like honestly you know i mean i've been hungry uh this offseason like uh i

1:02:42started working out you know pretty early and uh you start to see guys like coming back and it's just fun to like to be here and compete and feel like everybody's on the same page you know what i mean like and so for me i'm gonna grind every offseason but just this one just feels like it's the start of something you know new and special and the foundation of is extremely important to be a part of that to have a hand in that um you know it's it's an honor you know and i put a lot of expectation on myself to come out here and and be the guy that i know i'm capable of and also like take him the next step and uh being somebody that our quarterbacks that can trust and and believe in so um this offseason was pretty simple for me um it was really about you know working and and and grinding and getting better you talked about jaden before and everything so far i know we haven't seen everything but in terms of his his arm strength the throws he's making anything surprising so far about the types of his ability in that regard

1:03:42definitely uh i think after the second or third crosser that he threw i started telling our receivers like hey you gotta get your head around you know i mean because again each quarterback throws the ball differently and sees the field differently so sometimes on crossers a lot of quarterbacks may like to see you cross the ball and get into that open zone over there if it's a man flattened off they like to see you get open where him he has a really good anticipation over the middle of the field where he can make those throws and give you a chance to catch and run and uh he he's really accountable too like we had to play today where he felt like he missed me and you know it's not a big deal at all you know i mean him and i could talk to those things and there's been a play that i've talked to him about i could do a better job but again like that open that open form of communication from a rookie i think is is very rare and i think it speaks to the confidence he knows who he is but he's also not afraid to say when he's wrong and he knows he needs room to improve but his touch on the deep balls is amazing um you know i love getting extra reps with practice after practice with him we're just catching the topping of a deep ball as big

1:04:43for me you know i mean i get to track the ball over my shoulder and as big for him to be able to get used to dropping the ball in the bucket but he just naturally has an ability to throw the ball he sees the windows really well and now uh he's just you know continue to get adjusted to the speed in the past rush i think he's uh these reps that he's getting are unbelievable during 11 on 11 because he's getting to feel pain and allen and d a and Cleveland Farrow like we got some dogs up there who are going to come after him you know what i mean and we got some great guys up front who are going to protect them and so these reps i feel like are even better than just seven on seven seven on seven i think he could do in the sleep to be fair like he throws the ball really well but when you get this 11 on 11 two-minute drill you're putting them in game like situations and i'm looking at him in his eye i'm like we play a real ball now like we we we plan you know i mean and you just see no no uh anxiousness in his game and his demeanor which is extremely exciting and and then you know he's extremely lighthearted and he's always smiling so he's joking with lime and d line he's just cool with everybody and like i said like for a rookie quarterback to come

1:05:43in like that where guys are gravitating to him and he's not afraid to be who he is uh that's dope i think he has a bright future for himself the tough losses the tough seasons can weigh on a player sure you're entering the prime of your career jay kind of mentioned it last year all he cares about is winning he wants to win now is there a sense of urgency you obviously always want to win yeah knowing that you know you're you're getting to the prime your career like you want to win now yeah i think that's a fair question i think um you know you start to evaluate when you i'm in year six and you know it's how fast it goes and um i try not to put the cart before the horse were looking too far ahead by at the same time uh you do want to win you want to be a part of a winning culture and have a chance to win the super bowl and in the playoffs and all those things like that's why we we do this uh personally and uh i i'm just excited with being a part of a organization in an environment where now like everybody's on the same page in the

1:06:44in the in the message is uniform and it speaks from the top down and uh it reflects in the guys that they're bringing in you know all the guys that they brought in are guys who are hungry who are competitors who uh not only fighting for spots but we want to help us win games and when you're around an environment like that like that that that makes you excited makes you hopeful and um you know you don't know how it's going to turn out until we start playing games but um the foundation is extremely important and i think this offseason we've really done a great job of building that they have and then when a coach queen guy here building with this team so i feel like we're going to be going into this offseason really um knowing we we all got to do individually to become ready for camp but the the message is clear to come back to camp ready to compete and uh and and be ready to win thanks Derek appreciate you guys you

1:07:47you get there long you just keep your head down keep working keep grinding eventually you're going to get to that point coach make it close make it close make it's a great guy man now i haven't really had no strength close like coach making you know he really going to push you to your limit he's going to really challenge you and he knows this heart it's hard to be a bug guy out here but along with you just keep going keep fighting you know saying everything's going to work out so just don't get discouraged of things not going your way you know you just got to fight through it and just gotta keep your head down keep grinding with tightly caught to the end of the thought is 40 or 50 snaps available does that change your mindset in the offseason? i mean no because we've been practicing like that since the spring like we already knew we lost the great front four guys you know saying you know we had to pick up to where they left off you know with the national championship and all that so just understanding and learning from them and getting with our coaches and to actually be able to like okay we see how they did it maybe we can do it our way but just a way that benefits us as a unit. well you guys lost a lot of players pressure seems not just the defensive line that I mean obviously

1:08:48that's the position you play but it seems like all offseason it's been the pressure is under the defensive line this this team will go as far as you guys taking you want that pressure do you like that pressure or do you wish you could sort of fly on the road see it's a thing we got around here is like pressure is a privilege you know if you don't got pressure then you really want to say you know what we're doing so we're arguing it right now because after we lost the front four we just like okay we lost all these great guys to leave it's the next man's up that's our model so now we've just been working hard head down grinding and trying to get better at the little things that we've got to work on to be able to play in the big big stage. you're three years into football only with your athletic career of all how different do you feel when it comes to understanding the big picture of life as a defensive line. I know at the beginning it was hard you know transition from two sports to playing on one but actually understanding like okay I'm here now whether I gotta do how can I help my teammates out and how can I help this program out it's a definitely mental thing so you just gotta maintain keep your head down keep grinding and get with the coaches

1:09:48and watching film learning learning from the old guy that's how I figured I just started watching Tileek and Tire see how they handle certain situations and how they go about things and there's added on to that with my daily life. The average high school athlete like someone like yourself is good enough to play SEC baseball, picked out of the ball, SEC football. That adjust compared when things get difficult can be hard to overcome for people who have them through it. Is there anybody that you specifically leaned on around here to get you through those tougher times? Yeah I would say all the coaches that mostly coach men, coach K.P and coach J you know I'm saying but most importantly my family you know my family and my support in since I was a kid so just getting with them to tell them my problems and what things I have to do really helped me understanding like they was always telling me just gotta stay focused, gotta keep working, gotta keep grinding especially with the model here you know I'm saying with tough love, discipline and you know you just gotta keep fighting you know saying because like I said before everything's not gonna go your way when you first come here everything's not gonna be how

1:10:49you thought and how you adjust to the certain situations is how you gonna build in real life. So how are you different your your three since that transition then when you were getting through the high of your first year here? I would say I learned more about the game throughout watching other people play it and especially with the coaches you know getting with coach J, Todd Lee can tie when they was here seeing how they handled certain situations or how they handled like watching film or watching their opponents to try to figure out certain tips and keys that they can use in the game to be done in it. Who have you who have you looked look to and really taken away from how they handled things who have been some of some of your teammates that who have looked at in such situations. Are you talking about currently or? It can be current, it can be passed. Well I'm gonna start with the past. Pass was Todd Lee, Todd Williams, Todd Hamilton and JT you know just watching but mostly Todd Lee, just watching how far he came along from when he first got here

1:11:50until where he was at now just watching and I understand more about the game and how he handled certain situations like I said and currently I just watch you know Kiana Jackson you know when he first got here he really he didn't know too much about the game but as he got with JT and Jack and watching him grow it was just amazing experience so just learn from different guys it don't matter the age group it don't matter if you've been here three years if you've just got here because everybody bring their own unique thing so just taking bits and pieces from everybody that's been around him just putting in my life. What do you feel is your unique thing or that unique trait that you bring to the D-Live? Just uh um talking about something just uh I would say more of the mental aspect because like like I said when I first got here it wasn't anything that I thought it would be you know saying we had to fight, had to challenge just in my life that I had to overcome and learn so just watching how other people did it and what and put in my daily life and to understand that I just got to keep grinding, keep putting my head down just keep working and trusting to the process so everything will work out fine. Do you think that getting

1:12:54free to four at that to the game can help can help you as a D-Live and take advantage of the time that you're out there? I mean yeah you always want to um minimize the opportunities you have you know take a revenge or every little opportunity that you get you know I'm saying that each opportunity is a chance to get better in life so that's how I look at it so no matter you get on one of bad two abats long as you do everything you can and I won into a bad thing the progress you'll keep getting more that's how I look at it. Alright what excited about this year? I love it great answers great answer. What it what excites you most about this year? Just seeing how this team won't be you know everybody like you said we we had a great team last year you know this new year we got everybody coming back in young and first so just seeing how everybody was working and all see how everybody working in camp I'm just excited to see how we're going to be in the big stage. I'm increased because he's doing all the little things and he would say he's he's had a outstanding spring so far. And Davidson what what what what do you think what do you think he wants to get out of this year? You understand I mean he's back what have y'all talked about about what were he can

1:13:57make steps or what are you going to cut it for? I prove it top of the route, prove on the off-coverage uh some of the things that work on uh to make him um the player he want to be next year this time so he got to work on all this stuff now and he's done a better job in those things so it's always the little details of things that that you want to work on he's tall. Yeah I mean so we got to make sure he's seeking to see if it's at the top of the route, being able to transition out of the brakes because his body structure is a little different from something of the guys so we work on those things now so they become his foundation and it becomes part of his habits so when we get into the season they're already part of his of his makeup. We've got young guys that are talented but have not played yet. How do you talk to them about kind of competing with the next crop of young talented guys coming in? His musical chance no one cares that you're young they've thrown the ball over there in the game time so you got to grow up fast and in the competition is real so we we we we preach the competition we don't shy away from it and you got to pick it up and go um whether

1:15:03you're a third year guy or whether you're incoming. So we let those guys compete and go against each other they'll go and get someone on the freshman but you'll go get some of the vets because that's part of it because if you actually get in the game no one really cares that you're a freshman so we have to try to create that environment and practice which we do because we go against the best receiver group in the country that helps us grow and learn in that area so we get a chance to get a real good evaluation of the competition because the guys are going against. Now it was obviously it's your last year didn't play has Black Stripe off the other day what improvements has he made to? Since the urgency and he's doing well on the special teams I mean you got to start creating a role so he did well on special team he started an emphasis on urgency he's applying the game a little better so that creates an opportunity so continuing to do those little things and so the effort and urgency to create the openness of opportunities for you. Yeah the roster is going to be smaller than one of five or four priority players.

1:16:04We got a secondary to build a double bump response from a manager earlier. Oh no question so we each other to keep position flexed anyway so you know we always move guys around and you notice like you know even in I'm going in the past but you know guys like during the Hancock he played corner he played nipple he played safety in some situation I mean you got to have those guys that can move around a little bit and you got to have a few guys that can do that just so I'm not so cut down short but just to have the baby move the parts down to get your matchup that you won't suck it into the season. What's going to happen about Aaron Scott and what do you expect this role to be this year? I don't know what's role to be but he's been doing well this spring so he's been competing he's been applying the game as function of the intelligence has been up he has a passion for it plays with great effort and things that come along for any flammable confidence. So all those things build and then can we sustain it can we keep going and the roles take care of himself when we get closer to game time it's real early on that part now because we got a few weeks of spring ball and then we stay out trying to get

1:17:06different structures what's been your what's been your take on him he's doing a solid job but he's learning and he's growing and like I said I like to see stuff when he's going over long period of time but he's doing well he picking stuff up he's making some plays but he's still having stuff to learn because you know he is a lot of different stuff love moving parts man so but he's doing well we pleased with his progression so far but we just got to keep seeing it going with all these guys the CA how it is it go when we finish spring ball then we start moving in the camp there's all this stuff still applicable with all the situations and things that we don't know. I'm hearing what is the most difficult thing for a young guy to pick up one? To be able to the speed of the game with the different formations the situation the football and being able to apply it because it's faster it's a lot of moving. Hi this is Dave Roberts heading into summer without a medical emergency kit that's a risk. Summer colds can linger and getting sick on vacation can derail everything that's why everyone needs a medical emergency kit it includes doctor prescribed medications

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1:20:12and we look forward to the progression on it so we try to push them as hard as we can now in the room so when we get close to the training cabin season that they're in the better shape but put the hammer next time. What is he showing you? He's doing well in the same thing he said we play him outside so when inside Nick we kind of been moving around doing the again we're just trying to see any valve what guys can help them but again we we only can know that if we put them in the spot to see if they can do it doing so we just move guys around see what they can do it also helps your football like you the more positions you play and you're ready to learn it so that helps you mature overall football knowledge. So let's see is you put this thing together doing that houses coming together how much of you put in right now and I mean are you guys like kids in a candy store you look at some of the talent you're going to the pieces you're going to have.

1:21:12Yeah we got a lot of pieces and we're excited about it but we still taking it slow because we are young and we're still a young team so we just trying to slowly move guys around and see what they can handle see their football IQ but we do have a great group of guys they're very competitive they're growing they have talent so we just have to spear them in and see what guys can do so we'll know the best spots to put guys in. How are you guys? Nice to meet you too. Oh great I'm in the other four while. You know what I mean so I've been you know knowing that for a minute and you know the camaraderie the chemistry and all that works great and that's the thing about my staff on the side but we have great chemistry over there so to be able to blend in the back end stuff we're doing up front we try to make sure we get the right personnel groups on the field see what guys know and we've got a great group of kids so those guys doing all that stuff make it fun and it gives us a lot of flexibility and move guys around in different pieces.

1:22:12Yes it's too many. Too many. I feel like it's just playing ball you know just different plays just from routes you know the line back of the corner outside you know just different stuff you know just I feel like we all just learning from each other talking you know he asking us we asking and you know just we all just lean on each other and I feel like that's the us who you need you know as a team you know if you want to go the way you want to go. I feel like first man is this going on and doing what we've been doing you know play the game you're playing our whole life you know it's you know it's a lot of expectation first but I feel like first you know you got to block out the noise you know remember the mystery and about goal take one day at a time and you know it's to be ourselves you know I feel like you can't jump at the end of the season we know you know you got to see about tomorrow the after that after that so after like first man just keep stacking keep building the way it's falling apart do you feel like this is the thing that you got even better at since last year when you had your best season.

1:23:13Yeah I feel like for me man just continuing to work on my my explosiveness being flexible you know being fluid I'm a big body you know I'm six foot you know so it's tall you know I'm a big frame so I feel like for me man just being the band drop my weight you know just going up high point to fall so I feel like for me man is always working on my craft you never get comfortable you know you can't get the place in man after life that's where you lose the vision you know I just feel like for me man to continue to stack brick by brick man and reach my goal. You were pretty open for the last year about how different this season. Yeah yeah. You have to do it with the building in fact your body's reflect on the pump. Great then you got to last. How different kind of case that you've been from this season and it's a different yeah I feel like this is same same mindset same energy same goal man you know last year was good if it wasn't good enough you know we didn't reach with that goal we wanted to you know we made it first round playoffs going lost then that was it so I feel like this year came had that same

1:24:14feeling you know what is like the wind keep going so you feel like we're going to keep that feeling keep the energy going man I feel like for us is like I said it's one game at a time and have fun get us with each other enjoy the moment. from that man just seeing him thought on doubt then man you know just from his past and I even been dealing with a lot you know just seeing him you know come in every day you know working with him and his body you know things he's like an improvement on man and it's showing on the field you know it is his work he's been putting off season it's showing you know I feel like for him man just everybody just keep going ahead down you just like just continuing to improve we just want to send every day man but on him is impressive man just seeing his work at the man to see him just keep shining and progression the way he is man it's amazing you know so for him it's God's will. I feel like you can avoid that because I think bodyguide is super much much of a

1:25:16good man. Yeah. What are your feelings about going to see you? Yeah. Can't this fight now? Man Jadduh especially there's a reason why he's there you know it's a reason why we're going to see him being the Hall of Fame man to do is a legend you know so I watch a lot of big body receivers him, Julio, Larifiz, Jera, Mike Thomas you know there's a lot of guys like that I feel like that I got the same body as me you know I watch how they release watch how they you know they come like the breaks things like that it's been smooth when everything looks the same I feel like that's what Jadduh his career here man it's going up whatever ball in the air is coming his way it is so I feel like that's what I'm chasing you know trying to be like that so that's what he deserves for sure. Man I see you know I'm here for extension moving back in although you've been allowed into a perfect way to play so how much better does it be on the company as you can see you know that that's already been there and now you can just really go out and focus on the ball man it's a blessing man you know you know a lot of people don't get that second contract man but for them to believe in me and put their trust in me for the comp

1:26:17a year early you know it makes a lot you know it means they trust me and so I feel like I'm not in how do you got to put the work in you know they put all the chips in so I feel like you need I just got to put team in the show down you know team to prove myself and then continue to have fun I feel like just can't get comfortable you know it is it's there but I feel like it's much more to improve on always more improvement on my gang you know so like I'm not there yet you know I feel like I'm always you know it's gonna get better it's you know what I need for my body and just to make plays for the team you know so this year man I feel like it's gonna be fun for everybody you know everybody's trust process dial then be relentless man and beat us with each other kind of I stop there it's important motivation also you sign a deal and then next thing to note everybody else sign a deal and get more and more and more because that would also motivate you to get the next contract yeah yeah it was definitely man I feel like it's just a lot more on the table you know I feel like it was just it's just a start for me so I feel like you got to build on you know just continue to go you know team try to prove everybody right prove myself right you know and um

1:27:23just fall out man I feel like that is I'm sure that I got you know just keep them myself sure nah thank you that some of us talk to you. You were talking to Houston about storm preparation. You feel like you were prepared for the storms that we got and what you want to say to Houston about the storm. Yeah, I wasn't here. So I was back in Georgia. Thank God. And I came back in the tree for my back yard and my power was off. But I hope everybody was safe and next time we have one, everybody continue to

1:28:30prepare the right way. Yeah. Yeah, I'm like, I think last year I was like 248 and about telling me got to like the Ravens game. I was just like, I just can't last like, I think I was getting tossed around. So I kind of boked up a little. Just off scene trying to keep my speed, what I did keep my speed. So I'm like two, six or three now. My feel good. Some people still say, I don't even look big. So I appreciate you for that. I think this year and in terms of having more of a pass fresh plan, things that you have at your disposal, where do you feel like you're better specifically? Where do you feel like you're better specifically in terms of finishing and having a pass fresh plan just repertoire? Yeah, for me, I feel like that's the area I'm still working on right now. Me and coach Berk was actually just talking. I think that's one thing that I'm continue to keep getting better at. It's just working on my finish and working on my extension at the top of my rush and turning that corner. That's something this whole off season I've been working on and I'm excited to just keep seeing the progress and just keep building that 1% each day.

1:29:34What's different about your relationship? Yeah. What's different for you and how do you have it? Yeah, I feel like my focus. My focus is just less on what everybody has to say and more on God. I think my biggest thing is knowing that like I always tell you, my approval comes from him. You know what I'm saying? Ultimately, everything that I achieve in his lifetime, I'll put it him first for it because it's the reason why I'm here. I think that's the difference. This year, man, I'm like, God, whether it's a good game, bad game, anything. You're going to get the praise and glory for it. I'm going to let you use me. However you want to use me, each game, and I just want to be a servant, be a leader, and be a blessing to my teammates that helped them out in any type of way. That's my whole thing coming to this year, man. It's like God, everyone that used me, I just want to be a blessing to this team. Yeah, I think it's just a maturity, man, and just diving deeper into the word and spending this off-season, you know, more church and more in the Bible and learning myself more,

1:30:37and just seeing like how the outside world is and learning like, bro, like, and once you get to that spiritual level, I think it's like, bro, like, God is your ultimate goal. Like, he's the one that wakes you up anymore. So, personally, if somebody's baseman don't wake you up anymore, they don't, their pain doesn't matter. So, my thing is like, I want to put all my focus there and let God handle the rest. What are your husband's conscience that somebody wants to motivate you to tell you something that you can't do? And then you'll go out there and you'll get it done. They also told me that even during the spring break, some of my things would call them and say, well, what do you do? I gave you come work, do one on one, how do you keep that type of motivation going into your team? For me, I always feel like it's somebody trying to take my position and it's somebody always behind me and she's like trying to come get what I want. So, like, I always want to stay on edge, I always want to stay in front, I always want to stay up to date with like, whatever I got going on, man, and that was my whole mindset and that's my mindset now. It's like, how can I continue to get better? What am I doing to set myself apart from the rest of the competition?

1:31:39That's just been my mindset the whole time. I think I was talking a lot about confidence. Guys, I'm here under the self. Is that part of your game that you're more confident in than the issue that maybe you're doing? Yeah, I would just say within the system, man, like, I'm not reading, not thinking, and just going and just being free and just playing my free is, and I think this OTA ain't going into this training camp. I kind of feel that like, I'm more free. I know the system, I know what I can't do, I know what I can't do, but I know I can be my self-adventure system. Yeah, it was really important. And Georgia, like, it's not that many camps down in the South. It's always going north. I know it all with junk, or going to Georgia for 100, an hour away, $45 camp. And I was like, man, like, I want to go back to my community where it all started. Having free camp for those kids because they deserve it, man. It's a lot of talent down there. And I just want to show them that anything is possible. And the biggest goal is just always giving back to your community and helping the younger generation. Well, what are they learning from Demeo Hunter and what's the relationship like that you've

1:32:42already started? Yeah, man, I've been learning a lot from him. He's been great. I commend him a lot just by the way he works with his hands. He does a really good job, and that's everything that he tries to do for us. Like, we do a lot of hand work, a lot of his like karate a little bit, but like he's so good with his hands. And he's been teaching me that a lot. You're going to have to ask CJ that. My husband is good as is, man. Multiple takes. We were different from like 10 a.m. and 9 p.m. man. Now I'm just saying seven. Like co-brocarry. Yeah, like co-brocarry. Well, you meant I know in part of your family, you always talk about your sisters, you know, here I know you're a more sisters, really critical on your play in the early day. After you talked about how you ended the season, how you got tossed around. Did she reach you around that at the end of the year? Now they cut me some slack because they knew I was hurt towards the end. Yeah. They cut me a little bit slack, but believe they've been on me this off season.

1:33:42They've been on me. I had to wake up early every morning just to get away from them, man. They're like, when you're going to go workout? When you're going to go do this? And I said, can I just do my schedule? Can I have my schedule? But I love my family to death and that's why I appreciate them so much because not only do I push myself, but they push me as well. Yeah, I would just say the bonding and keep coming together, man. I think we are further ahead of that than we were last year. Like even with all the new additions, it just feels like we've been together for a while now. With everybody that's been here, like, or all the new guys, it just seemed like we've been playing together for about a year or two now. And this just shows like, just how the guys that we have in this building. Yeah, man, I think my biggest thing, I just want to get bigger, stronger, faster. And I think those are the areas that I really improved on and have more mobility, and flexibility to be able to get in some of the positions to be in a little better, to get our blocks a little better, and to use my hands a little better. So those are all the areas that I feel like I've been taking the necessary steps to,

1:34:45you know, continue to keep improving. And then you do our new arm that feels, well, what do you do off the field, another to have a better presence in the locker room? Yeah, man, a lot of self-evaluation and just building my confidence and not being scared to say stuff sometimes and being more calm and being able to talk and stuff like that and being able to, like, let my passion come out, but real back on my passion a little bit and just be more relaxed and calm about it. Yeah, coach, you're on the head yesterday, man, and I don't know just from the players, man, like the expectation that we're going to be expectation, like nobody on the outside is going to have a bigger expectation than the, on the inside of the building. And right now, our expectation is just building that building, building a tall building, man, but it starts with our foundation coming out here, getting 1% better, everybody keeping their head down and just working. And what's the progress you know you've made over the last week and have two weeks?

1:35:49Just, just, you know, getting, I feel like I'm starting to play a little faster. I'm starting to just understand just the defense more. I feel like it's been good. Where are you wrapping up primarily between No Star and Attack? Right now, primarily No Star. What fits you about 90s? I say I'm very, I'm better working vertical and I am more horizontal. I feel like I have a better get off and that's where I shine. I can, you know, knock the center back. Josh, but he has said you're slippery. What do you think he'd be? Just, I feel like kind of like what, what I just said, I can knock people back at the same time. Like, stunts called I can be able to try to slip through the line. That's a problem. That's a good thing. Yeah, it's definitely a compliment for Josh. Yeah, I appreciate that for him.

1:36:50You're a bad person. Yeah, he was very similar. If you watch video, much video, yeah, where do you see y'all? Like, what did you inherit, I guess. I would say just like what I was just saying, I think my get off is the biggest thing I've been hearing. Just being able to just get off the ball and just knock a dude back. I feel like that is where he shined and that's where I was shining. Yeah, he had a desire. He finished every flight. How are you then? You take that from him too? Just go to the whistle. Got to, yeah, I got to have a great mother, you know. Following this close match, you're so close to being able to fill up big rope in this team and get on the field trying to touch the fight there. Big C-1. Is that lost? I've been thinking about that a lot to have close. You are to be able to start to make your own legacy. Yeah, for sure. You know, I want to, I kind of want to, like what you said, I want to build my own legacy, but I don't want to discredit his own legacy. No, it's a smith name. Will the virtue of you that played at Double Cloth? This is the version of who you are right now.

1:37:50How different are those people? I'd say pretty different. I mean, I was playing Ending at Double Cloth, and now I'm snacking the middle of the line. So, it's like I've gotten a lot stronger, a lot bigger, and I'm a lot smarter in the future. But when you go back to you at a top, you know, when you think about my view of Huck-I, and you drop a bit of very grand vision of what that's going to look like, and if you're going to get there, there's so much work going on. Can you explain that process of how dedicated you really have to be to make that physical transition, to really be able to play good? Yeah, for sure. I feel like, I mean, it's like in high school, it's like a dreamy work towards it. And then when you actually get here, it's almost like a little smack in the face. Like, oh shit, we're here to work, you know, in a sense. You know, I got to give all my props to Coach Mick. Like, he was able to transform my body into who I am today and all the strength steps. So, I feel like I can't take all the credit as mostly just like them, and I'm just, I just follow what they tell me to do, and they're on it now.

1:38:52Training part is a part of it, but it's not a normal thing. They're getting bigger and stronger. Yeah, it's like the culture part of the part of the team. And it's how much of an effect there is that in a part of the team to put your change. That's, it's also, it's a lot. And I mean, it's, I feel like you can't be able to transform your body like I, like I have with like people here come and do that without having that mentality part with it. It's like we, we always talk about competitions here and our, our culture is fight, so we're always here to compete. And I feel like that is just, that's what gets you in this mindset. When you talk about that transformation, can you just give us a little sense maybe with numbers or body fat or like what do you do in the weight group, how big is that transformation that feel? I don't have really specific numbers, but I just like, it's more just like, I can just, I feel like feeling when I'm playing. Like I remember how it felt to play when I just got here and now I know how, how it feels to play like, like, like just today, like it feels physically different on my body.

1:39:58It's like, it's, it's, I'm getting used to it, that makes sense. You guys, I can't imagine feeling like that. Kadea also said about you that you are just a completely different guy from last year. We're here to work this year, so let's get it done, yeah. So you're here? Do you feel like you weren't at that place mentally? I think I was, but I think I had some, I would say like, kind of like confidence issues, like I was just, but you know, I mean, I work past it and I know, I know why I am, and I know I can be here soon. So if you have confidence issues, how do you get through it? Is it yourself, is it teammates, is there someone in your family that makes you believe that you can do it? I know I can do it. It's not like that's, those are all, it's on the past now. Did the past apply time and the very obvious opportunity? Guys had the step up to be able to be on the business.

1:40:58That helped you get over that confidence issue there because it's now an everance of your opportunity. So, kind of is just like, just, I mean, it's just, just being here, like I feel like being here every day, working with the guys every day, it's just like, you know, you become this person that you might not have like, you might not have felt like you were before that, but like coming here and working every day, stacking these days, like, like you know, I mean, I just feel like I realized who I am, I know what I can do now. I knew I could play here. I mean, it's just, it was like the, like, I just, I don't know how to explain it. I just, like, I've always known I could play here. It's just, I'm just, like, let's go.

1:42:04Like, I'm ready to, like, I'm ready to attack. What are guys in the room to help you to figure that out? Which is a point. For sure, I think KJ was a big influence. Ty Hamilton and Ty League, they all, they all helped me a bunch last year, kind of just pushing through, you know. All right, well, Yeah, we're super excited. I think that, you know, I played in the Rose Bowl my freshman year. It's an amazing venue. It's so beautiful. They do a great job. Helstere for the players and coaches and families. So it really doesn't get much better than this. I'm in having a chance to, you know, redeem ourselves from what I have in earlier in the season is something we don't take lightly. So we're very thankful. Hi, this is Dave Roberts. Heading into summer without a medical emergency kit, that's a risk. Summer colds can linger and getting sick on vacation can derail everything.

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1:44:24eurgincarekit.com slash blue urgent care kit.com slash blue. I don't know. We know what we got here on our side. We're not too worried about awards and stuff like that. I know JJ, the type of kid he is, that's only going to motivate him more. He's fueled with a fire, which I think is good for us heading into this week. What was the first moment that you saw him. setting into this week. What was the first moment that you saw him at the Pellas? This could be something. I would say probably just his mindset, not even obviously he's a freak when it comes to his body and stuff like that, just his physical nature, but I think just his mindset the way he approached the weight room didn't really seem like a way of freshman wood. He was our only freshman ever to receive Iron Buck I reward, which is something I was pushing towards my entire time being here. But it takes another level of duty to be able to receive that reward, especially as a

1:45:27freshman. So that's when I knew. Steve, it means green in Buck I. More on that. When you and Mara first got here, Garrett and Chris were adamant about the way that you guys even was frustrating, but pushing two guys who were about to be first round round picks. And then Mara said the same thing about Karnel and Brandon last year. How did JJ push you guys when he first got here as the young guy and now you guys are the older guys? Yeah, I would say it's very similar. It's kind of the same exact thing. And I don't know what it is about the culture and the mistakes, but we keep bringing in these type of people you're in and you're out of that. That's what makes our room so great. But I think 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 level step of competitiveness that I needed and that edge that I

1:46:28needed. That worked 24-7-4. You guys came into the Tennessee game with a lot of outside motivation with Michigan and the three weeks of talk. I don't obviously there's still that motivation to go on and win a national championship, but how do you keep that edge for a better term mentally after some of that stuff has gone away and followed the big one? I would say 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 you keep moving down a ladder like this. Step on Crankstake, please let me talk about it. Mecha, there's been a lot of change in college football in the playoffs and things of that

1:47:30nature, but the way in some of your teammates and coaches talk about the Rose Bowl seems like that's one game that's really maintained a lot of that tradition. You play the net, you know what it's about. Could you explain it to a student who would never have a chance to play the Rose Bowl? Does maintain a level of respect for the players and coaches? Yeah, I think, I don't know, there's just something about it, something in the air down there in 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 backyard football with your friends. The Rose Bowl is always one that tends to come up, 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 Oregon. Dan, hold on, let me worry. Matthew Will, said he still has 90 minutes about that first game in Oregon, just what kind of driving you see in this week wanting to get back at this one? Yeah, Will is a laser focused person. He goes about his business. He's very loose and he's very calm and he's able to rally the team, but you can see

1:48:33it 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 than yesterday, a better practice than Oregon'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 Gurgon, Bucket Hill, you're one of your kids playing back here at the game. What team are you playing for? Honestly, I was never really a Bucket I fan until I really committed here and I saw what it was all about. I was actually an Oregon fan growing up, especially on the Pacific Northwest. 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 Oregon. And a couple of you all probably know that story from a couple of years back, but he tragically died in the car accident. And he was someone I looked up to in high school.

1:49:36I was relatively close with him even though he was a bit older than me in age, but just seeing what he did at my high school and then going on to play big time football out Oregon, that was a school that I really dreamed of going to. The ocean delights us. Some marvel at the colorful world below the surface. The ocean feeds us. Others find nourishment in its bounty. The ocean teaches us how our everyday choices impact even the deepest places. The ocean moves us, whether we're riding a wave or soaking in its breathtaking beauty. The ocean connects us. Find your connection at monoraybeacquarium.org slash connects. Calhchee's own CEO says it himself. So what does it take to be in the other third? You have to do extensive amount of research to be good. There are people that spend the copious amount of money, time, resources, energy, their dedicated their lives to basically becoming good at it. All that and still. And yes, two thirds of people on Calhchee lose money.

1:50:41That's Calhchee in their own CEOs' words. Go to www.fairpredics.com to learn more. Hi, this is Dave Roberts. Heading into summer without a medical emergency kit, that's a risk. Summer colds can linger and getting sick on vacation can derail everything. That's why everyone needs a medical emergency kit. It includes doctor prescribed medications to treat common and serious illnesses. So if you wake up sick, at home or on the road, you already have what you need. It's like having an urgent care and pharmacy at home. Say $45 with code blue at urgentcarekit.com slash blue. Urgentcarekit.com slash blue. If they build a bit like on the surface. I need to ask you another Jeremiah question. Is there one moment, one play, one something that made you visco. Oh man, I've never seen that 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.

1:51:42So I would say probably my earliest memories of it were in spring bowl. 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 from the north. But you had, I think, 12 touches in the first game against Oregon Thunder. So I just do carry this. Is there something about this matchup that favors you? And now that you have, where that productive, the first time you played this team, what kind of the tension 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 schemas 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 zones. 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.

1:52:43Because 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 the strategy car繁lossing us with the order two games? You can kind of feel it throughout the game, I would say. You know, he's a true competitor. He wants to get involved, but at the same time he's super selfless. I mean, 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 in him 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 head and stuff like that. 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 Barons would be right now, but he's like number three.

1:53:43You see his work that they call those things that he doesn't dare to make play. You guys ever from the height of the, like, yeah, this guy can absolutely be a number one. Most of the Barons would be the same. 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, you know, 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 capability to be a number one receiver and we are number one receivers. And final question. Steve Hellwang, 24-0 sports. Yeah, and McAdina that game, he 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, close to being a field goal range.

1:54:43So, you know, there was a sense of, you know, I knew 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 the one we've been working on. You know, we work on two minute every single Wednesday. 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 coming down the stretch here. What do you 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.

1:55:48You know, we played them before. We felt them out. So it's all about who got better from that point in time until now. Thank you. You know, evaluate and grow a new group of guys. I think in spring, I think our opinion is, you know, by fall, everything the team, the team, the team, the team, it's what it's all about. But in order to add to a team, in order to add to a collective, you got to focus on the individual. The individual must improve so the collective can improve. And so building the base, I think, schematically and fundamentally, culturally, is what we're attacking as we head into spring. How much is Brandon looking forward to a different spring, a different opportunity? I know it wasn't fun for him having to take a little bit of a backseat to him. Where do you see him, the fire of the passion right now? Is he gets right for this one? Yeah, I think when you come out of a season, you get out of January and kind of take a breath. Then when you get back in the winter, it's the first opportunity to reestablish the new role that I want to have.

1:56:51I mean, across the board, there's not one guy that doesn't want to improve roles. So, I think they're all attacking it that way. I think Brandon's one of them, but he's one of 50. And I think that it's our job to provide opportunities to grow, to separate themselves, to see peer-to-peer evals, to allow these guys to check, you know, a chase a role, at least through winter they've gotten that started, to continue that through spring. And I think Brandon's, you know, fits in line with that. I think Brandon did a great job looking back, of finding his role last year and excelling at it. We know we talk a lot about, if you want to be a starter, you have to be a starter before you do the starter. And if you're not, they're never going to be the starter. So, I think he embodied that. You know, he gave himself an opportunity to get into spring, get into us. He's been into winter, continue who he is, continue to build, you know, his base, build his leadership. And then now he's got to take that in spring.

1:57:51So, all the great things you do prior, doesn't mean anything, you don't have to go out there and do it in spring. So, you know, that's the harsh reality of this sport. You know, what have you done lately? And I think all these guys are chewing at the bit to get back on the field. Everybody brings their own experience. Ryan was quarterback, you were a receiver. And then, to become a play-puller, I obviously have an understanding of the whole offense. But what was the process like for you, of protections and the run game and quarterback play, and just continuing to grow with your knowledge of that part of the game as you prepared for this position? Yeah, I mean, I think you're always growing, I think, that you still have a specialty here. You still have an expertise in one area, and as soon as you have an expertise in all of it, that's just not true. And in my opinion, I've seen multiple coordinators, and I know that as a fact. So, you know, for me, I think it's just, you have an opportunity to be with the best staff in America every single day with the best coach in America.

1:58:57So, just stay off your phone and pay attention and take notes and actually maximize your time. It's amazing the amount of people that don't do that. So, every time in a meeting, I just try to make sure I'm getting a nugget, or I'm getting information, or when things are said, do I truly understand it? And I really, the guys will say, I don't care, I'll ask the question. I think I'm, I look dumb, but I don't care because I want to know the information. So, I think that approach, I think a lot of guys have that approach. Allows you to just build, you know, over time. And then, that'll continue to build from now to game one and then build through the season. So, the opportunity to grow is literally daily. So, I just try to make sure I'm finding those opportunities. I'm aware of those opportunities when they're writing my face. Yeah, Coach Jordan's always been a huge part of their receiver room. I think that, yeah, it's just understanding that my pull away is real, that can happen.

1:59:59So, he's going to be on his toes and be ready to, you know, we're ready to not skip a beat, right? So, information-wise, communication-wise, he's got to be locked in on that. And just time to assume that, you know, Coach Hard's got it. He never really has. I expect him to continue to do that. And, you know, he's been a big part of everything we've done. Is that almost like taken from what Ryan did last year, and he shipped away from play-gallowing, and he ended up somebody else. And, you should think away from being a quarterback's coach, or like, get to have somebody you trust, and how long they're taking, maybe, to develop that trust, and that relationship with them, and to where, like, you know, that, hey, if I'm pulled away for a second, I'm like, Devon's got this, and I don't have to worry about, like, what my room is. I think it's more important that I do a great job being organized, so I'm never pulled away. I will be in that receiver room, and they will be coached at the very highest level. So, I think there's ways to eliminate being pulled away by being organized on top of things, having the right work and working, right help before that receiver meeting ever happens. Is that important for you?

2:00:59That's the question you've got to emphasize. Nothing is going to change in terms of your, I never... There's no, nothing's going to change in my involvement in receiver room. Ryan, for my land to be going through a full spring, a fall off scene for the first time, what do you look at everything? It's areas he can throw to push for playing times here. Yeah, I mean, my land is doing a great job. He's growing on an exponential rate, getting stronger, getting bigger, he's got weight added. I'll tell you, I always explain to him, like, you don't realize how much you've missed when you come in June versus the mid-year. It's massively different. Not saying you can't overcome it, some do. At the end of the season, some have, but I think that's probably reliant on the room. I know Chris had an opportunity to lay a lot of, you know, in the season to kind of make an impact, but it's very, very rare. And now, you know, he's going through the winner workout, his growth, his everything he's done. He's like, hey, Coach Hart, you know, I know what you're talking about now, and when you miss that section of winner workouts. So that being said, it makes you laugh, but he's doing a great job.

2:02:01I expect expectations for him through spring, and I don't see that changing. The opposite of staff, the opposite of staff this year is younger than it's been last year's. I think it's a makeup book. That you don't have somebody who's maybe used to it. What's the average? It's like the average, like, 30s. Is the average age? Is that include support staff? No, it's just the primary. What's it been in the past? A couple minutes, two more minutes. No kidding. We don't know yet. Kevin Wilson. I don't know. Damn, landing's the head coach in Oregon. I was his average. I'm asking. I don't, I'm 38. Can he Dylan Hamles? 30s and 50s. I don't know. I gave zero thought to that. I think that, you know, I think your ability to kept with players is important. I think you probably see a little bit of that happening in the NFL as well. I really have given zero thought to that. I don't want to just ramble on that. Yeah, I just didn't know if it was the solid as the main injury.

2:03:02No thought to it. You were in version with Bryson. What's the next step for him? Because we've heard him talk to him about like, he's in Mr. Consistency catching a lot of things. He's like, he seems to generate a little bit of buzz but has limited role. Like, now he's got an opportunity. What's the next step for him to get that out of here? Take the next step and be a, be everything he's capable of being, right? I mean, I think the guys that, you know, we're out there are, you know, very consistent in all job phases. And I'm like, again, I think he wants to be a full rounded receiver. And you know that. I think he loves playing in the slot. The great job there. I asked him to come out to the outside a little bit. Did a good job out there. I think it's natural positions and is in the slot doing a great job there. But it's just another opportunity to establish himself based on his peers, right? I mean, it's kind of like the drafts. I try to explain sometimes to these guys like, you come to Ohio State to compete with the best. It'd be alongside the best. It's always pure to peer evils. Like that's how it works. Like the draft embodies that. Like if it's easier to go play somewhere else, then that's fine.

2:04:03If that's what we're kind of looking for per se, I'm not saying that's pricing. I'm just saying it's a very competitive room. And you chose that because of this room. Now you got to beat your peer to play more and do more and all that stuff. So, you know, I think that you got to continue to build where he's at. And the guys that seem to be, you know, starters in our room, you know, really, I think over the last eight years have been NFL quality guys. So if you're in it, become a starter to Ohio State, it's a good chance. You're probably NFL caliber receiver. I mean, again, just go on to the numbers. So you're chasing that. Can't get discouraged. Or maybe not being, you know, not doing what you think you should have done. And that goes for everybody. It's not just Bryson, but all these guys are chasing that as I ramble about Bryson. But, you know, I think that it's not just him. It's at BI. It's car now with everybody wants, it's chasing a higher level of play. And this spring is another step forward to do that. What you're in for is you push. You push. You push under multiple play calls like how much in your estimation is that a gift?

2:05:04Do we have to do it? How much of it is learned? And where do you stand on that? Oh, never gave it a lot of thought to it. I've never, I've never called a play in a game. So for me to have an opinion, I think that'd be a little brash. I would say that like anything, it's probably a skill that you can improve on. And do better at it, do good, do worse at. I think being surrounded with guys and seeing how they do it has been a blessing. And it's very clear. Others more than one way to do things. So being aware of that, I've noticed that. What's your impression of the three freshmen and how they maybe transition to your family? Yeah, all four freshmen. I'm like very encouraged, impressed with. They carry themselves the right way like we have hoped. They worked their tails off. If all improved, I would say that they're the right mode, they're the right fit. They belong in the room. And now they have to just improve. Now they're competing both, you know, first individually between each other.

2:06:04And then, you know, as we get into spraying, they'll start competing against each other. What the rest of the guys want to mean by that. So, but as a group, the freshman group, very impressed and they're off to the right start. Coach Arland, thank you. I'll pick you back off each other. And it's like no one is hired in the room that goes a lot. So that kind of allows the room to stay balanced. Do you feel like you're more comfortable now than you were in the spring, since it's a being out? Definitely. In the spring, I was, I definitely would have them times where I was like, man, in the right spot or in my center, right thing. But now it's just like, okay, I know what I'm here for. And I know the player that I need to be to help this team have. And I'm going to say, James is over there talking about the two of us. Sonny and I'm like, yeah, I'm French like that. Man, you know, we just, we go run hard. We go, we go, definitely, um, B physical and we go run fast. That's just our motto. We go run hard, B fans and B physical. He said he's Sonic, do you agree to do that? Yeah, I've definitely nothing. I'm more, I'm more, I'm more of the, how should I say, I gotta do the dirty work. I'm cool, I'm cool, I'm cool. I'm definitely cool doing the dirty work.

2:07:04I like to see James, you know, uh, as Sonic, you know, the, he's the more of the personality guy. And I'm, the ocean delights us as playful otters restore coastal kill for us. The ocean teaches us how our choices impact even the deepest places. The ocean connects us. Visit monoraybayacquarium.org slash connects. CalShe's own CEO says it himself. And yes, two thirds of people on CalShe lose money. So what does it take to be in the other third? You have to do extensive amount of research to be good. There are people that spend copious amount of money, time, resources, energy, they've dedicated their lives to basically becoming good at it. All that and still. And yes, two thirds of people on CalShe lose money. lose money. lose money. That's CalShe in their own CEO's words. Go to www.fairpredics.com to learn more. Enjoy big savings with Red Hot Deals at Vons and Albertsons. This week at Vons and Albertsons, baby back pork ribs are 2.99 per pound with membership where applicable limit three racks.

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2:09:06How hungry do you feel like this group is despite being sort of a defender? Each and every day we always talk about like we read a book called chop wood care what how can we stick to the little things and just be persistent while we're face with adversity. You know not getting so big headed not getting so low just trying to stand at middle range of I know what I need to focus on and each day the runners do. Meaning like each and every day we have to go and put in some type of work to get what we want out of life. How much was that that during what's Virginia the highest day as far as the opportunity comes like for a second? When I transferred it was doing a rough time. It wasn't as how people seemed it wasn't it wasn't like that. I came here mostly because of the family hood and the type of coach I knew I was going to get the first thing coach lot told me was everything I'm going to get here I'm going to have to earn it. So that was like one of the main factors like he told me he was going to challenge me. He's going to bring a different personality and a different and what I mean what time I need that challenge is it important to be challenged. When did you do this read book chop foot care water?

2:10:08Each day during the summer coach make have us like read a chapter and we'll come in. We'll talk about it. It'll be it'll be all around the building everybody in the building to read it and then like we'll just consistently like pull phrases paragraphs even now and can we still talk about the book even though we are in the red books. So it's like something that we continually like just keep reiterating and keep repeating throughout the program coach coach make coach make was the one who is leading us. So somewhat somewhat like coach make coach day everybody was kind of leading it but like he would tell us okay this day we read in chapter one we'll just keep going along along throughout the book until we finish the book. What was your favorite part? My favorite part of the book. My favorite part of the book is when John the curator he told he told a curator told John that order to be a samurai is going to take you 10 years. But in John mind like but what if I work twice as hard each day I can skip it to five I skip it seven and each day he was saying like it's going to take you longer to continually become a samurai who think that way is each and every day you have to be consistent with the little things and in that 10 years span you become a samurai trying to skip around and create loops and gaps and stuff like that you won't be able to become a samurai the important part is being consistent each and every day with a chop foot care water throughout those first few years and then by your 10th year you're like man.

2:11:27I'm a samurai just like now like I finally got my black straight ball when I came in spring I was like man I can't wait to give my black straight ball but throughout that book it helped me realize like I'm thinking about the wrong way I just need to be consistent on working on the things that I'm not good at right now and continually work on that and eventually I get my black straight ball. That last question. June's learned on this other day that's a true today but it reminds you to get your mind through it. The fact that Texas games are going to be like everything surrounding all the high ball the cadets and all the things like that. How often do you get college to state what that's going to be like to be in that stadium in that match up in that situation? Everything you came here for? Each and every day you got to think like that each and every day we play in Texas like today we had to opportunity to play in Texas and then we win or then we lose. That's the important part. Do we get better or do we get worse and you know I definitely think we got better the day you know we always pushing each other deep as always pushing off and pushing deep in so I'm not going to be a part of the game. I'm just pushing deep in so it's important each and every day we treat it like the game is today. Not the game is whichever day I don't remember but the game is today in that sense. Thank you. Thank you. I know I did. But I only pay attention to no big name but comparing myself to those people I'm my own person.

2:12:34I'll respond my own way. Yes, we might have similarities but like I said I'm mine. I sure you said goal being the sex later issue you got a different opportunity to do that is that we don't blame goal for it. Yeah, 100% but whatever I say whatever push day and coach nutrition you can do us one more time. What was the first thing that you did to get ready to move up top? I had to go away. I was 235 last year and now I'm 242-45 you know. It's different from when you're blissing off ball and being on the edge and consistently hitting somebody with 300 plus pounds every single play. How do you do it? Coach Mick, wherever he had planned for me I was making struggles in his year coach KVK. I always ask questions, I always ask how much food do I need? Like what else do I need to paddle this plate? At what time do I need to eat things like that? Constantly ask questions to help me become the best me I can do. Okay, what sets coach Mick, what sets KLI the entire nutrition department at heart? I feel like they care. You know, they really, they'll send you down one on one.

2:13:35They'll be hard on you but you know I'm out of love. Coach they always talk about it. It's right here is tough love. As long as you put your part in, they'll definitely put their part in. We work all out. Putting on the wings, see what we're against the day 9, but you still want to stay away. You still want to stay away from the day 9. How do you feel? I'm a focus is my speed and my get off. I feel like with me working with Coach Jay, there's a lot of get off and a lot of making sure I'm still using my speed and things like that. So helping him, helping me making sure that's still the asset of mine. Not making sure I'm losing that. What do you think? It seems like so often after practice you're working with Coach Jay. What is it about him that allows you to kind of grow? And what do you like most about him? He's been around a lot of people. I work with a few guys that he's coaching the past. And I like the pickage brain and things that he sees and things that he can't help me on the edge.

2:14:38He cares as well. He wants to make sure that everybody's successful. Obviously, your only team I hope you're going to make it to the NFL. So he's like I said, he's been there. I'm just here. Have you kind of moved it? Just being a straight up. You're coming up here in the past. You're dropping coverage or doing kind of different things. Anyway, because the truth is it has me do. I'm going to line up and do it. What did you learn about yourself in the transition to a new position? A couple more questions. I mean, I love it. I feel like it's more fun, rushing the passion, but also in the same point in time. It's still a learning process. I know I don't have everything figured out. That's why I'm constantly asking questions to you. Can you add a curry, a coast day, a coast of Trisha? Because I want to be the best me. I can't be in the field. My potential is the best I can be. What are some of those areas that are looking currently still? So you can't do that.

2:15:38I can't do that stuff to myself. I really can't do that. What my learning process is, it's like not getting smuggled. It's just a patient that don't let that drive you. Can you explain something to yourself? Yeah, so like... No, no, no, no, no. You have something in your head. You didn't build that way. You're still in touch. Yeah. Um, really it's just from moving off, from being off the ball to on the ball now, it's more of... I looked me up the full picture and making sure I'm... was in front of me to Otaku, going back to Titan and with the quarter best looking at things like that. Yeah, who did that best last year on this team? Look at me. Saw that picture, like, like your top. I JTTC that one. A full picture in his head on Titan and stuff. Obviously, Caleb. But I mean, we just jumped out at you, like, I want to get to that level. Oh, that's a great question. Oh, Caleb, Caleb 100%. You know, I feel like just being on the field, Caleb, we caught the whole play before it happens. Even if you watch film and we're watching film now,

2:16:41because Caleb is pointing out where the ball's going before it gets even central ball. Like, he'll point out if it's a screen or anything like that. He's pointing to the position. Who's getting the ball? Does it drive the offense nice? 100%. And they try to flip it and then he'll know that he's flipped their flip. They're flipped it, yep. It's hard to wrap it up there. But you were, you want to be, position wise now. I mean, it's taken a while to end up there, you know, for a full time. How several of us that make you, how confident is that make you, that maybe you want to come up here? Yeah. I feel like it's all part of the process. Obviously, it's a different process now being at the end. And my goal now is to continue to keep my faith and trust in God. And to trust the process with Coach Jake, as a fact guy, I know what I can do on the edge. They know what I can do on the edge, but it's just to make sure I continue to fill my potential. I have a question from an unnamed source. It makes Jeric happy. Apparently, you and us, but if somebody connected to you, how do you feel the difference with them? Yeah, my speed, I definitely feel quicker and more explosive.

2:17:42Just, you know, getting out the ball and, you know, just continually working on my short area first, as flinkly as possible. So do you want your expectations? This room. Oh, you guys got that one. You know, what I thought about the room is that we don't always be a brotherhood and always be at one. And all the time. What's been your experience so far here and versus the expectation? Obviously coming in, there's an opportunity to play early. There are a lot of opportunities to play a lot. How have you seen this place change you and has been able to expect it? I've been off the charts. Like, just, you know, they developed me like from day one, like, since they are stepped on campus. We, you know, work out. We talked about my in habits. Where I need to get to my body weight. What I need to improve on till, you know, development to NFL running back and have an opportunity, you know, to get to that level. And just them invested into me as much as possible. Like, they invest a lot. Does it surprise you? I mean, West Virginia is a powerful school very, very different. Do you see the difference quickly when you're getting to the real place of Ohio State?

2:18:45Definitely, the resources around Ohio State, you know, is definitely, you know, have a. We have a larger frame of resources around here. So that's definitely one of the biggest things that I can say that's different than my favorite university. CJ, when you were, when it's back in December before you even started talking to Ohio State, what, what made you want to go into the portal in the BRICA? Very good. Is that primarily the reason? It was, it was a line to, you know, you have to think about your family, you and like, what do you want to get out of this? This is my last opportunity, you know, guarantee I'm going to have a chance to play football because the mix of up is not promised. You have to, as you say, earn that. So I just, you know, I just took a chance of myself, you know, you got better than a certain halter. I've seen a few previous relationships with Coach Long, not at all. What, what kind of sit out from your first question to find me? He said he's going to challenge me and help me develop into a great man and a player. He didn't talk too much about football, we talked more about personal life things. Did it, did it help to have seen you got like when Sean come in last year as a transfer?

2:19:46You know, I've succinct back right away like this. Is that something you would get at a loss? Definitely, you know, I watched a two game and, you know, to see what that Ole Miss went out and kind of jumped on a scene to the West of the East. I definitely like analyzed this game a lot. And you know, him just being with Coach Long, I can see it. I want to say a big difference, but you can see the little intangible that he added on to him to help his game, you know, develop. And that way to, you know, now I have an opportunity to be a high jackfick and then I say, I just lost this track at 230, I was up to, it was at 230, he says he likes you at 230. Why is that? 220, six actually. Yeah, I know. Why did you want to do something? Why did he want to do it? He wanted me to, you know, be more explosive and, you know, have a more short area burst. That's something that I like in my game and he continued to tell me to work on that game there. That's what Coach Long like, how is it now? That's amazing, you know, he's going to coach you hard, but he loves it and he does it because he loves you. That's, you know, he loves all of it. Like, you go coach you hard, you go push you and you go hold your account on the bat, he does that because he loves us.

2:20:46What are you even asked this overall and how have you been activating into the program? It's amazing, I got one of my great friends right here. You know, he kind of like, you know, that's big growth. He kind of like, you know, taking me on this ring, telling you the things to do with what you have to do, you know, to see what's transfer just like me too. So he tells me like, you don't do that. We don't do that here, do this, we do that here. So, you know, to show you know, the family, you know, that I got other guys on the team who I treated, played against like Jeremiah Smith, Brandon, and his Kiyada. So I kind of was like familiar with like a couple of things on the team and they kind of burned me along as I was transitioned to the program. He's called, what was the real thing? He did, he did to get the 220 sector. Did you realize that you were kind of like some of all the changes that you made to get? He lost that. He lost. The diet transition, she helped me schedule out a meal, Brandon. The times I need to eat, what I need to eat, what I need to stay away from. What time I need to go to bed and stay on the team. That allows me to, you know, to take me down to sleep quickly and as...

2:21:47As quickly as the right way possible, it's like to swim it down and make it, you know, still work for me as so I can be a effective runner-back. Changing your diet like a different place. Is there a moment when you're like, there was no hunger. A culture that was at the place, is there a moment when you got to work at the club? Yeah, James Feet was, you know, he's great competitor. When I first got here in the winter, he pushed me band and they out. I still remember this, we was doing sleds and we were kicking my butt day in and day out. But, you know, that has helped me, you know, improve my game and step up as a player. I need to be. CG, what's the first thing you're going to say to you? Maybe this morning, this afternoon, the football team. You know, just the style of the offense, you know, we are more balanced, you know, we are more like the NFL team, as you would say. We utilize our players effectively and use them to the best of their abilities. I was looking at Silver, first round, and then I got the 7-8-9 boxes in the pop. I don't know if you were following that.

2:22:48It was anything I don't know if you're caught by wanting to go to an offensive out of her balance. Maybe you don't have defense in the top of the 7-8-9. I didn't consider it. I didn't consider it. I didn't, I didn't, I was afraid. Thank you for telling me that. The execute on all levels, Lincoln, Lincoln's a dog, man, Julian's a dog, I love both of those boys. I think you're not the best chance to win. What's special about both of them? I think what Julian and Man is just an arm-tammer. I can make any throw on the field, it's very, very common diverse in the pocket. I think what Lincoln and Man is just, you know, just the feeling you get when you're in the 100th and the confidence you have in them and that, you know, just that feeling you just don't know things. How much does it take? I'm not sure how they end up. Well, it was very different in the way that you've led, really, even compared to the guys that were here at your point. As you get older, how much does hevership in the huddle, how much does hevership in the lockers start to weigh different than other stuff?

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2:26:01It's the best of things. People know what's hot to agree, guys. But he said deep work. Yeah. Yeah, I think like you said, it's a deep room. We help each other. We're deep in every position. I think that just goes to show like when you come here, you come and play at a elite level. Unless on off-fact, you're just in a run game, catching the ball. That's doing something for your teammate, understanding the concepts of the offense. It's just, we're not about to go ball out. No disrespect to Akron, but how much more urgency is there in camp to be ready for week one considering the opponent that you're playing Texas this year? Absolutely. Definitely. It's definitely how to man. You know, we got Texas week one. We had a battle with them last year in the CFP. They've pretty much got a good understanding of what they do. They probably got to get it in the stand and what we do. But at the end of the day, it's because you got to spot the ball. You got to play it. And I think that's what that's going to be true. That's the taste of that. You just spot the ball, execute them better than them and play harder than them being the hardest to catch in America. Can you, I expect that to develop more and more into a leadership role, which we already feel.

2:27:04And, you know, be a mainstay and bring along that O-Line group, which we're excited about. So, our offense is a big problem. Brian, I think it was around the summer last year, where people were talking about braving this thing of such a big leader behind the scenes. And I know he didn't play maybe Starter's match last year, but how important was he to just what you wanted that room, the chemistry of your beatwork and how much brother you see from that? Yeah, Brian's always been a big part of O-Line, or secret wise, culturally. He drives it, he helps run it. Carnell was taking a big role in that as well this year. Frankly, all those guys are stepping up. And, you know, J.J. David Adolf, these guys are all have made progression. But from a leadership standpoint, those guys are really trying to take over with B-I-B-H, and they're at the forefront of that. So, I expect that, and that's good. He holds himself to the highest standard, but I want him to start bringing even more and more guys at all. And that's the same fashion. Brian, what's the best thing that Jeremiah does when he plays the raps when he doesn't have a lot of sense?

2:28:08You know, I think that best thing Jeremiah does is just, he just always wants to learn. So, you know, as a coach, you can't, you know, baby him. You can't like put him on a pedestal. He does not want that. So, he being held accountable, you know, there have been opportunities that he finished more, without the ball on your hands, turned off the old eye, identifying it, he looked twice. So, I'm not going to say there's one individual thing in the ball's time, his hands. I think just overall for him, he's always trying to learn. He's always trying to contribute, whether he's that, you know, he knows there's a decoyish mentality or a block of mentality, because he's a big guy or whatever that role is, he just loves learning the why, and then applying it in that role in that play. Brian, we've been running for the last week, which they talked about, for now, maybe taking the biggest strides, not about anyone in terms of leadership this all season. Did you guys have the push now? Was that all kind of him naturally kind of stepping into that role?

2:29:08No, it's more him for sure. There's probably a conversation that I'm going to have, obviously. You know, we know you're capable of this. Why not be this guy? Whatever those conversations are between myself, coach make and coach day, but ultimately, you know, players apply, players choose to do things. We can recommend and suggest all we want, but ultimately, players are responsible for making plays and making changes. So, yeah, I would agree with coach. He strides, and I love him for it. He's the right kind of guy for it. He's the right kind of role. We don't know BS kind of guy. A lot of guys have a lot of respect for him. So doing a great job, after we love it, then there's conversations that had where we're seen, and a lot of sees really taking the reins of it and ran with it. All right. Go ahead. Talk to the board about what it takes and what kind of a second group to get us feel in terms of replacing those guys. Are you seeing that maybe more of an opportunity to have some rotation this year,

2:30:11given what you've gotten in terms of experience and what not behind the first three years? Yeah, there's always a chance. I mean, there's so many reps being had in practice. And you're either, you know, playing at the level of the guys that are starting or you're not. Ultimately, that's what it comes down to, right? So if you can match the execution level and or a bet or whatever, ultimately the film tells you who should be on the field on Saturdays, and at what point in the game, you know, whether it be situational or not, and guys maximizing those rep opportunities ultimately dictates how that works. Right. So we've got lots of reps early in spring, and we got two fields going. We got tons of reps happening. And more times than that, it kind of shows itself. But yeah, I do that frankly every year. It's the same opportunity, but those guys just have to do it. And, you know, you love defining roles, the guys define roles.

2:31:16And they earn ways. And if you keep it that way, ultimately the respect in your room and in the position room on your team, should should stay true. And so a lot of competition right now, a lot of good stuff happening. We're just going to try to see who does it more consistently over time. Every time that we talk about, it seems like it's been a work of the adventure. How do you roll really? Like, it's like a fast slap with fan, and where have you seen it shape the biggest step? It's since the spring to the last song. Yeah, I think him going through his first spring really helped him first winner, really helped him. Being grounded for his first, for a summer, you know, instead of like showing up and having acclimations for a month before you actually get into it. And all of those things, you know, almost makes you feel like you're in your third year. Like, for Jeremiah, or these young guys that came in this year, to come in January. But at the time you get to your second year, you almost feel like it's your third year because you've worked with Coach Mac.

2:32:17You've had a spring, you've had a summer, you've had a fall, you've had a fall season, and you're like, gosh, it's only a second year. I always say when you come in June, it's still all new until you get back to June. And so, that's what, you know, my own experience, my own now, I mean, he fully understands, like, you know, there you don't understand it. I'm good, I'm good, I'm good, you don't realize it. So, yes, and it gets your question long windedly and say that, my own is in a really good spot. And he's put himself in a position to compete for getting on the field, whether it be offensively or special teams. I expect him to earn roles in special teams, even before you even get on offense. That's how we're built here, right, defensively and offensively. You can't get on special teams. I don't know how you expect to put it off of the defense. So, you know, the guys on special teams are the best football players, period. So, those guys, I like to see mountain in that light, but obviously, you had a great spring. He's growing and I want to see him keep building on what he's doing.

2:33:20You know, when someone has stepped back, I know he's not going to understand the progression he's on is really good. What kind of asset has Tyler been playing last couple of since? Yeah, I love really enjoyed giving the no-tiler. I think really how they have his football IQ and his personality and how he commands with his room and his guys and how he both relationships. The overall having Tyler in the building is a great honor, a great situation. What is going on in the building? Well, I mean, I can't say that anything. It's only day two. So, like, we're going to see about the body of work. These guys have been a pretty good job of making the plays they're supposed to make. And then we'll go from there. This day one day, two install. We're looking at the body of work for guys to separate themselves, not just today or day. With the quarterbacks, they'll just kind of in general, like in a trillion. What are you looking to see first day, second day, third day?

2:34:22Consistency. What you do most often is exactly who you are. So, when you consistently make the play, because this is the communicator, because this is the loud, because this is the energy, consistently the parallel, whatever that is, the consistency level of anybody, ultimately dictates your identity. We're chasing that too early right now to speak past that, but like, where did he build? I talked yesterday about how important the cadence is with the quarterbacks, what he's looking for there. Have you seen both those guys deliver what's the looking for? Yeah, it's under the job they're going with it, and they understand the weapon. David, eight off on the call line. You're working out there and logging, you have a time, you have to think of that, and you can have that time to log together. Yeah, I think anytime you can work together, guys are getting a feel for each other, not only just, oh, he throws the ball like this. It's more about the camaraderie. He has my back.

2:35:24More than anything, you can't challenge your way of shit, you don't have a relationship. So, you can't challenge a guy, you can't be out of guy, you can't get, push a guy, unless the relationship is built first. So, the faster you get the relationship built, the quicker you can get to uncomfortable conversations, ultimately you grow. So, building the foundation is still number one, and those guys doing that on their own is a good sign. From your space, you're able to kind of get away. Obviously, you work here the most, you're able to get away, kind of keep being together, and kind of push each other in that sense. How much does that help you with other things? I don't know how much you're pushing each other on your own. When they're on their own, they're going to do it on their own time. So, it feels a little more ownership, I think, at times when you do stuff like that. Again, ultimately it's just the bond growing. What's up?

2:36:26What's new? It wasn't there in January, but it's August now. Oh yeah, it's all personal. Oh my god, that's it. You talk a little bit about the cool basketball. That seems like a business school offseason. What can you learn about it? It was awesome. We were playing full basketball, and we're literally trying to drown each other in. I mean, there was no fouls. We just wanted to know who could execute, might the plays, coaches included, and I was like, I don't know what I was saying. Nothing was offseason, nothing else. One, the guys kind of who show up, the guys that compete, the guys, oh that's it. I mean, on poor son, he gets evaluated on everything he does. Every coach is probably that way. Anytime you're around, people manage this to just human nature if you're worried about that.

2:37:29It was a lot of fun. Who's the best player? The whole basketball? Athleticism, drive, evaluate. I know, I like it. I think of our group. There was a three sum that was pretty good. It went all along there. But then me, JJ, who else beat him? No, I did not. We lost the first time. But it was Carnell, it was BI, and it was Lincoln. Those three, they went for a run. Good seven or eight, a row. We got some bad turnovers in our first game. We were identifying as though it's all this competition. God, I chance to plan again, but there was like the eighth game, and we dominated. We've heard a lot about Lincoln's athleticism. How much does it show up in everything? It seems like the scene does involve baseball, full basketball.

2:38:29Do you see it everywhere? This is a competitive. I think that's the biggest thing that comes off on length. It's enjoyable with the sports with him, at least on your side. I learned a lot. A lot of little things matter. All the techniques, we just try to take it all this time. What you expected when you signed on here, obviously, was pretty intense guys. This is kind of what you've learned. Are you sure you're coming in and everybody is intense, high interviews? Have you ever had a go chess in tennis? It's a good block. Are you at my high school coach? High school coaches are pretty intense too. You have to describe yourself as a professional backman. I'm pretty very versatile. I'm a professional backman. What was the reason we didn't have the backman?

2:39:32They try to put us all in the evening class too right now. We are just working the entire day as a camp. Is James helping you a lot? Of course, of course all of the guys, everybody, all the captains, everybody trying to just get out of your guys straight. We do watch the last day playing like two backs of the line. When John and Trabia have looked at you about the last bill that's going into this season, you and you just get up six feet. I mean, it doesn't take you having to really say. I'm just going to get put in right now. I love your sit there. Does it seem like it's a big, big club? I mean, how would you describe it? I mean, I guess you just got to learn everything slowly. Of course, there's a lot to learn. But I got a lot of hope. You guys had a very unique experience all the early and early leagues. You got a chance to go to semi-final. Some of you went to the Rose Bowl, got some of the Cotton Bowl national championship game. What was that like? How much did you think that helped you?

2:40:32That was incredible. Did you see how other leaders led in that position and just seeing what they did and how they prepared? That's not helping out with everybody. What was the highlight of that time? Other than winning the national championship, was there something that stands out to you? Just being able to travel and get to meet up, everybody, meet all the players. Everybody I won an addy and meet all the early and early leagues that led. It's been most difficult part of making the transition from Liza to the Blue Bowl. What has been the hardest part? I was really just living on my own. I got to be independent. That's pretty much it, though. Do you feel uncomfortable on that or are you still trying to get on the South of his college? Of course, there's adjustment, but I'm getting the justice period. I have to count for the season three. I have to count for the season three. I have to count for the season three. I have to count for the season three. The Ocean delights us as playful otters restore coastal kill for us. The Ocean teaches us how our choices impact even the deepest places.

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2:42:39That's a degree better. I was a baby, my dad, my mom's a grownup. Like once I was born. Like once I was born forever. Why did they pick that? My dad looked up to me and I'm a junior so I'm going to play for a good game. I think you should be your first name in the heart, right? Yeah. Okay, so you could wear eight, too. You know I'm not sure I'm third in the heart. Yeah, you got two choices. The way you train, the way you, you know, the edge to you, it's all that.

2:43:42And so he's the first one I've ever earned that and, you know, the kind of thing with that. Car round practice. Another guy that's really stood out called Camping Practice is being watched. How do you see his skill set factoring in on the outside? What do you see as improvised? Yeah, I mean, I could play, we can play car now anywhere. I think his ability to learn an offense and be the, you know, the intricate details, throw him in positions, make a mistake. He'll never make that mistake again. So there's a good job of learning from others. I think he's, you know, runs really well. 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, with Chris or Brandon Lashiff and guys who maybe don't get him in January and rolling in the summertime violence, 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,

2:44:43then they were starting to really get it. That maybe can tell you about what to expect from life. Yeah, yeah. And then he came in as a, as a, as a, the Jew. And, uh, but man, he's really done a good job of learning the offense, learning what I want, you know, what we want. I would say that he's a lot of pride in his work. He does not like having MAs almost to a 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, right? That's the hardest part about coming to June. What body of work did you really, you know, develop their proven to your peers, your coaches to really justify what you want to accomplish, right? You guys know that. So that's what he's chasing right now. He's trying to stack days and just show and, uh, you know, develop his identity as a full player here at the high school.

2:45:43How do you do that when I'm putting too much to your tier point? He's just behind because he wasn't here, but also this is like a hard room to play catch up and just giving up competitive. It is how you walk him through that coach him through that making sure he's running his own race and not worried about. Well, I'd say probably every, 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 is 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, and so he's chasing the group. That's why he's here. That's why they're all here. It 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 athletes challenge. But the work being put in is good. We're just working on working on stacking days right now.

2:46:43What do you see from brand end of tight ends? Tell you one time. Mayor Wooden signed as a tight end. It's working with your group now. It's a wide receiver. What do you see from him? What do you like about him? 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 at a high level. You're competing with your peers to stand out that I learn things quicker. Or I, you know, I make more plays. Whether those are your trying, 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 mayor, you know, Dorian and Miley and, you know, so, a J.J. Everything that he's got to have start. You know, I think that. He's got strong hands. He's a bigger body guy. You 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. He's working on his footwork and his mechanics. There's a lot of boxes he's working to check.

2:47:43And again, I think he's been doing that and attacking that with purpose each day. You know, so. But you see a flash here and there. We're just looking for consistency, right? And that's just this with all these guys. And he kind of fixed that board. Brian, when you, this spring, I'm not branded. He's going to do a lot of this. What did you see from him that still stood out to make just think that he can be a legit contributor for the same as you. Yeah, I mean, we made the decision to get him healthy with his foot 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, you know, Coach Mink does a lot of things to great guys. And give feedback and hope guys can kind of. So he was a guy that, you know, impressed his teammates to the summer. He was a guy that was all gold. He was a guy that the leaders wanted to vote him on the leadership counselor. So he earned all that without even playing football. So how do you stand out?

2:48:43It was everything of the non talent issues, everything off the field. He stood out in. And 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 track. Right. The day I took Kelly Raven about what you bring to the table in the meetings, etc. What was beating like right now when you guys are not having with this. Looks like a pretty nice collection of talent. Yeah. Which way to go, etc. How did you get it flowing out? I would say it's a combination of. Getting skill, you know, getting scheme installed. 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 to get to the season and things you want to do. You don't want it 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 could be where I'm not a competition, not a call it periods. So you want to have plays that work, versus defense.

2:49:45But you also want to build a great foundation on the install. So where you can let it grow from there in a week one week two, three, 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 dabbing in both. That's what I want to say because you are a 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 mean, I think that I think that you have to challenge that. I think you have to try to push that bar and make it really hard and in camp season and spring season. To elevate that uncomfortable level to make sure that 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. But you get enough drops that bucket's been over fill.

2:50:46So 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 a freshman to pick up one when it gets here with some largest things to develop with a wide receiver? I think it's. I don't think it's just receiver. I think it's. No, you don't probably receive it. I would say that it's the detail in which we operate and the amount of things that go into a simple line on a paper. You know, it always make that joke. You thought it was just running a curl around, 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. So 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.

2:51:54So they off the field that and then the amount of detail that goes into the simplest play on paper are both pilots who are just. Thank you. Thanks for. Jeremiah. Is he like, does he like all you guys in the room? I mean, I'm not sure if it's probably something you got to ask him, but you know, Jeremiah has played with a lot of great guys throughout his career. He's seen a lot of all the talent you can see in the world. But I don't know if he's ever in all, but I mean. Oh, and Maya. Oh, yeah. I mean, I'm not surprised at anything he does now. Like, I've seen him. We were nine years old. So anything he does, any one hand catch, I've seen. I'm not surprised at anything he does. When he was nine, did you know this is not a, this is something special we've met. Maybe that nine? Oh, yeah. I mean, coaches were coming up to us complaining that we were nine years old.

2:52:54Like, can we get their IDs and stuff like that? So I mean, I mean, there's definitely some footage. I mean, we've got to go find, but the place we used to make when we were younger and just to see where he is now is amazing. And it seems very unaffected by all of the starter. Yeah. How does that happen? I think how he was raised. He's very levelheaded. He knows his goals and what he wants to get done in life. And this is just one step of the way for him. Can I throw a back to Texas for a couple of questions on Zoom, Scotty? Yes, sir. We're going to start with Defond from Cleveland.com. Go ahead. Brandon, I want to go back to what you were talking about with Coach Day earlier. You know, whenever he talks about this team's success, he says all the credit goes through players. It seems like the players think that he deserves some of the credit. How big, how influential has he been during the turnaround you guys have had these last few weeks? He's been huge, man. He's been coming here after that team of North Wallace.

2:53:56He knows heart breaking, of course. But we came in here. We had a leadership meeting. And he was in here. I mean, and then we had a team meeting after that. Hearing the stuff he had to say. And we had to say going back and forth, we just, we knew. We would have his back no matter what. I mean, there's a lot of stuff set about him and his family and stuff like that. But hey, here we're a brotherhood and we're a family. And we just, we don't stand by him no matter what. Our next question is going to come from Dan. Hope Dan go ahead. Brandon, I mean, I'm sure you came in here to Ohio State thinking you'd probably be starting here in your second year. But it seems like you really embraced the growth process. Just what's kind of that process been like for you of kind of embracing your role this season and continuing to develop? Yeah. In life, things doesn't go the way you exactly planted too. And that just happened. And you know, things have been to Mecca last year that allowed him to come back and that allowed me to learn more. And that's just how I see it.

2:54:56It makes me a better football player for the future. So yeah, I mean, yeah, that's it. Three more on Zoom. Next one's going to come from Stefan Means. Go ahead. I'm not going to stop, Stephen, but that's not right. Yeah, you're good. Brandon, there are a lot of clips of you this year where you're super, super excited after a block. And kind of showing your emotion there. What about blocking do you love so much as a receiver? Just being able to hit another guy with all my power. It's hard as I can without any, any consequences. Except if you, except if you hold, of course, but yeah, just bringing that power. I heard some of the defensive guys telling me yesterday they were like, bro, I hate to go against you. So knowing that from the defensive guys. So I know what the other defensive guys are thinking like, just keep bringing it to them.

2:55:57They're not going to like it for four quarters. That's my mindset. Next question's going to come from Danny Davis. Danny, go ahead. Brandon, what are your impressions of these Texas defensive backs? And this kind of we've seen from them on film. Tell them so far. Yeah, the last couple of days we watched them. They're a fast team. They don't give up many big plays down field. They're aggressive, but I actually know some of the DBs they have at corner there. I play with them. Well, I played with Malik Muhammad at SFE. So I might know him a little bit. And we have been watching them. They're a fast team. They're physical. They're disciplined. But we just got to get the job done. Give any Malik stories or any. What do you say? Give any Malik stories or anything you remember about playing with them? Yeah, but I'm not going to say them here. Yeah, what's this keep that?

2:57:00Our final question's going to come from Kurt Bulls. Kurt, go ahead. Hey, Brandon. One of the issues Texas has had the second half of the year is finishing. And what if you can speak to, and they had a trouble obviously in the pitch bowl, you know, blew a 16-point lead. Can you talk about finishing and having a killer instinct? And you guys obviously seem to have that now. Yeah, I think that started in offseason training at Fall Camp. We always say go plus two. If you're doing a 10-yard pro-shutdown, you have to go plus two throughout the line. And that's just finishing up as well. Fall Camp, we had these long two-and-a-half hour practices or whatnot. And then we came out and we had to do these finishers. We called them Asperg Games, late in the year like this. And I think Coach Day has a great job preparing all of us for these moments. And yeah, we're ready to go. We have time for just a couple more questions and clumpets so we can wrap up with our other two guys.

2:58:02Bill Landis, Kings of the North. Randy Trabian, second touchdown round. It seemed like you took two players out of the play first with your release. And then with the guy you actually blocked. Is that how it's designed? Or was it just lucky that the guy decided to take off his side of the release? It's actually designed for me to block the safety and lead the corner 101 with the running back. But I was surprised that the corner actually came in so far in my lease. I think he thought it was a pass. The ocean moves us, surfing a wave or savoring the view. The ocean delights us as playful otters restore coastal calp forest. The ocean connects us. Visit monoraybayacquarium.org slash connects. CalSheezone CEO says it himself. And he has two thirds of people on CalSheez lose money. So what does it take to be in the other third? You have to do extensive amount of research to be good. There are people that spend the copious amount of money, time, resources, energy,

2:59:03they've dedicated their lives to basically becoming good at it. All that and still. And yes, two thirds of people on CalSheez lose money. That's CalSheez in their own CEOs' words. Go to www.fairpredics.com to learn more. You can't predict the future, but you can prepare for it. Arizona State University is building degrees for what's ahead. Programs designed around emerging fields taught by faculty whose research is shaping our future. Not just teaching about it. It's why we've been ranked number one in innovation for more than a decade. Your future is worth preparing for. And you don't have to prepare alone. Become future ready. Explore more than 400 programs at ASUOnline.asu.edu. That's a degree better. I think he was the edge of the defense if you go watch that play. But I don't really know why he came in so far, but it helped out for us. And I made my block interior score. Is there any lesson there for like a young receiver watching that? Even if you know him a play, you're not getting the ball.

3:00:03You're intended to block, but you release has to be at all point as if you're going to catch pass. Yeah, definitely. Every little detail matters and then type of plays. We were in a red zone there. So we say every yard matters. It's two yards. So the block I made, it's just a testament to the state. It's a testament to Cal. Coach Hardline print me throughout the week to make that block. And final question. Joy Confident, Columbus Dispatch. Brandon Will and then this has been throwing the ball to equal lately. And some of the special way you guys have opened games. What do you think is this clip for you guys and for him and watching those plays? A lot more confidence. I say throughout the year. We were always there as offense. We didn't quite know our identity. And now slowly but surely, I think we found that and we're going to keep on rolling. And he's made some great throws. And yeah. I'm sorry, Brandon. I do have one more. Steve, how long do you do the 24-7 sport? Brandon, there have been opportunities for you to play a huge role on offense.

3:01:07And the number of plays you play in game can differ from one week to the next. But the opportunity is coming sooner rather than later for you to be in every down player. What are the things you need to do in your game to take it from where it is now to be in every down guy? I think there's a lot of things I could work on in my game. I would say continuing to be football smart, my IQ. Just knowing what the defense is going to do before they do it. My routes always can get better. My hands always can get better. Sting on the jug machine. Work ethic. Keep on top of it. Don't get satisfied with anything I do. Don't get too big. Don't get too low. Don't get too high. Don't get too low is what they say. You feel like a guy that the people follow, it seems like. In your mind, even the second year guy that you're kind of working toward being kind of a leadership type guy. I got a book. To have guys that will take that role. It's a great feeling, of course.

3:02:07No guys are watching what you do and listening to what you do. But I just feel like we do that with a lot of players here and not just myself. But the leadership we have on those teams is like no other. And that's why we got so far, I think. Brandon, thank you very much. Being over here, just what do you how did all of you feel, the call of that kind of helped mold you into who you are now? Yeah, definitely, maybe like tough and not afraid of new change. And he's willing to just adapt to my environment. What is it like for you coming in here as a freshman and getting the CVS team go win an national championship for those first few weeks here? Definitely was a high motivated, you know. It wasn't really my team though. So 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 just got to, don't let the past affect you.

3:03:08And just, yeah, I remember, you got to be relentless, you got to put it in the word. It's not easy at all by any means. It's got to be hard, but you have to do everything you do. 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. He's about that. I was the last year, and like, when you think back to the whole thing, I've been working with him for the last year. I don't know what happened, but I was still in the office. What has the last kind of year been like for you? I was in the back, I was in the back, I was in the back. I was in the back, I was in the back. I was definitely changing my mind. I was always on my sophomore year. I was hurt, and in my junior year, I got hurt during track. I was a high schooler, and this time last year, when my school really picked up, it's been crazy,

3:04:10I must have another, but it's leading me up in my corner, in my coach's everything. They just give me the motivation to go. What is your relationship with like the team? I think I'm in the other team. That's a big good. Before I even got a house they offered, and before I even knew it was exactly, I actually threw it with them a couple of times in the house. Bella Fatt, she was talking, yeah, I was working with, I knew it was at head coach, and he invited me to come in and run routes, and I actually ran routes for a table in the right. If we was exactly at a night, we first came to New York. We had a lot more, we got together, and I was the freshman class in the school, he was working on everything. He's definitely got nice on it. This cornerback is a great talent to come in that kind of, and I don't do it all in the first place. The cornerback? Yeah, yeah, yeah. They definitely challenged it,

3:05:11and 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, and you go on a game, it's twice as easy into the practice, and he's pretty good at playing on it. Is there been a moment in question? I think it's kind of like a moment first. I realize, oh wow, these guys are really good at this. Yeah, just like, I just first, like, high schooler, I would just take some reps and have a seat with just guns. Yeah, I just had speed, and I had catchability, like face separation, and I come to college and draw everybody's fast, everybody's big. So you have fun new ways to get open, it's really good for yourself to hire high-cut team. You think getting the ball back coming out, but we was excited because we knew the job wasn't doing it.

3:06:11Bill Rebellion, call up this fist back. You were a five-star guy, and that coming out, all these guys in the room almost were five-star guys. And then there's Jeremiah. Is he like, does he like all you guys in the room? I mean, I'm not sure it's probably something you got to ask him, but Jeremiah has played with a lot of great guys throughout his career. He's seen all the talent you can see in the world, but I don't know if he's ever in all, but I mean... Oh, and I, oh yeah, I mean, I'm not surprised that he anything he does now. Like, I've seen him since we were nine years old, so anything he does, anyone hand-kid, I've seen, I'm not surprised that anything he does. When he was nine, did you know this is something special we've met? Any of the nine? Oh, yeah, I mean, coaches were coming up to us complaining that we were nine years old. Like, can we get their IDs and stuff like that?

3:07:11So, I mean, there's definitely some footage that we got to go find, but the place we used to make when we were younger and just to see where he is now is amazing. And it seems very unaffected by all of the starter. Yeah. How did that happen? I think how he was raised. He's very level-headed. He knows his goals and what he wants to get done in life. And this is just one step of the way for him. Can I throw a back to Texas for a couple of questions on Zoom? Scotty? Yes, sir. We're going to start with Defond from Cleveland.com. Go ahead. Brandon, I want to go back to what you were talking about with Coach Day earlier. You know, whenever he talks about this team's success, he says all the credit goes through players. It seems like the players think that he deserves some of the credit. How big, how influential has he been during the turnaround you guys have had these last few weeks? He's been huge, man. Coming here after that team of North Wallace, you know, his heart breaking, of course.

3:08:11But we came in here. We had a leadership meeting. He was in here, I mean. And then we had a team meeting after that. Hearing the stuff he had to say. And we had to say, going back and forth, we just, we knew, we would have his back no matter what. I mean, there's a lot of stuff set about him and his family and stuff like that. But hey, here we're a brotherhood and we're a family. And we're going to stand by him no matter what. Our next question is going to come from Dan. Hope Dan go ahead. Brandon, I mean, I'm sure you came in here to Ohio State thinking you'd probably be starting here in your second year. But it seems like you really embraced the growth process. Just what's kind of that process that like for you of kind of embracing your role this season and continuing to develop? Yeah. In life, things doesn't go the way you exactly planted too. And that just had been, you know, things have been to Mecca last year. That allowed him to come back and that allowed me to learn more. And that's just how I see it. It makes me a better football player for the future.

3:09:13So yeah, I mean, yeah, this is it. Three more on Zoom. Next one's going to come from Stefan Means. Go ahead. Steven, but. That's dark. Yeah, you're good. You're good. But Brandon, there are a lot of clips of you this year where you're super, super excited after a block. And kind of showing your emotion there. What about blocking do you love so much as a receiver? Just being able to hit another guy with all my power. It's hard as I can without any consequences. Except if you accept the few hold, of course. But yeah, just bringing that power. I mean, I heard some of the defensive guys telling me yesterday they were like, bro, I hate to go against you. So knowing that from the defensive guys. So I know what the other defensive guys are thinking like, just keep bringing it to them. They're not going to like it for four quarters. That's my mindset.

3:10:15Next question's going to come from Danny Davis. Danny, go ahead. Brandon, what are your impressions of these Texas defensive backs? And this kind of we've seen from them on film so far? Yeah, the last couple of days we watched them. They're a fast team. They don't give up many big plays down field. They're aggressive. But I actually know some of the DBs they have at corner there. I play with them. Well, I played with Malik Muhammad at SFE. So I might know him a little bit. And we have a watching them. They're a fast team. They're physical. They're disciplined. They're a good job. Give any Malik stories or any. Give any Malik stories or anything you remember about playing with them. Yeah, but I'm not going to say them here. Yeah, it was just keep that. Our final question is going to come from Kurt Bulls.

3:11:16Kurt, go ahead. Hey, Brandon. One of the issues Texas has had the second half of the year is it's finished. And what if you can speak to, and they had a trouble obviously in the peach bowl, you know, blew a 16-point leak. And you talk about finishing and having a killer instinct. And you guys obviously seem to have that now. Yeah, I think that started in offseason training at Fall Camp. We always say go plus two. If you're doing a 10-yard pro shuttle, you have to go plus two throughout the line. And that's just finishing as well. And then Fall Camp, we had these long two-and-a-half-hour practices or whatnot. And then we came out and we had to do these finishers. We called them Asfer Games, waiting a year like this. And I think Coach Day did a great job preparing all of us for these moments. And yeah, we're just ready to go. We have time for just a couple more questions in Columbus so we can wrap up with our other two guys.

3:12:16Bill Landis, Kings of the North. And Tramion's second touchdown run. It seemed like you took two players out of the play, first with your release, and then with the guy you actually blocked. Is that how it's designed? Or was it just lucky that the guy decided to take off inside of the release? It's actually designed for me to block the safety and lead the corner 101 with the running back. But I was surprised that the corner actually came in so far in my lease. I think he thought it was a pass. But I think he was the edge of the defense. If you go watch that play, but I don't know why he came in so far. But it helped out for us. And I made my block and Tramion scored. Is there any lesson there for even a young receiver watching that? Even if you know in the play, you're not getting the ball. You're intended to block. But your release has to be at all point as if you're going to go pitch pass. Yeah, definitely. Every little detail matters and then type of plays. We were in a red zone there. So we say every yard matters. It's two yards.

3:13:16So the block I made is just a testament to Kyle. Coach Hartline's prep me throughout the week to make that block. And final question. Joy Conference, Columbus Dispatch. And it will. And there's been some of the ball to eat well lately. And some of the special way you guys have opened games. What do you think is this quick for you guys and for him and watching those plays? A lot more confidence. I say throughout the year, we were always there as offense. We had we didn't know we didn't quite know our identity. And now slowly but surely I think we found that and we're going to keep on rolling. And he's made some great throws and yeah. I'm sorry Brandon. I do have one more steep. That way you do 24-7 sport. You have been in different opportunities for you to play a huge role on offense. And you know the number plays you play in game can differ from one week to the next. But the opportunity is coming sooner rather than later for you to be in every down player. Just what are the things you need to do in your game to take it from where it is now to be in every down guy?

3:14:22I think there's a lot of things I could work on in my game. I would say continuing to be football smart by IQ. Just knowing what the defense is going to do before they do it. My routes always can get better. My hands always can get better staying in the jugging machine. Work ethic, keep on top of it. Don't get satisfied with anything I do. And don't get too big, don't get too low. Don't get too high. Don't get too low. That's what they say. You feel like a guy that the people follow it seems like. Just in your mind, even the second year guy that you're kind of working toward being kind of a leadership type guy. I got to have guys that will take that role. It's a great feeling, of course. No guys are watching what you do and listening to what you do. But we do that with a lot of players here and not just myself. But the leadership we have on this team is like no other. That's why we got so far, I think. Brandon, thank you very much.

3:15:22Another thing on the toughest guys on the team when they get in touch. We talk about it all the time. So if we want to show where the toughest guys on the team, you know, we can do that by showing where the hardest working guys on the team. We can show that we're the mentally toughest guys on the team. We can make sure that we don't ever get too high or too low. The ocean delights us. Some marvel at the colorful world below the surface. The ocean feeds us. Others find nourishment in its bounty. The ocean teaches us. How are everyday choices impact even the deepest places? The ocean moves us. Whether we're riding a wave or soaking in its breathtaking beauty. The ocean connects us. Find your connection at monoraybeacquarium.org slash connects. Calci's own CEO says it himself. And he has two thirds of people on Calci lose money. So what does it take to be in the other third? You have to do extensive amount of research to be good. But there are people that spend the copious amount of money,

3:16:23time, resources, energy, they've dedicated their lives to basically becoming good at it. All that and still. And yes, two thirds of people on Calci lose money. That's Calci in their own CEOs' words. Go to www.fairpredicts.com to learn more. Ranked number one in innovation, 11 consecutive years. Arizona State University isn't just ahead of the curve. It's creating new paths to success. Learn from notable clinical and research faculty online. That's a degree better. Explore programs at ASUOnline.asu.edu. You know, play with passion and emotion. Without letting that emotion and passion play with us and affect us. And we talk a lot in the quarterback room about moving on to the next most important thing. So if I have a play where maybe I made the wrong read or screwed something up, I've got about half a second to kind of be bummed out about it. But I've got to learn from it. I've got to move on to the next most important thing. Because so many guys let that first play affect the next play.

3:17:25So we're really working to continue to grow from that. But as far as showing that we're tough, I even sell our guys that, hey, if I'm, I don't know, lost in Sarabot and I'm watching film. And I see in the back of that film that Julian is up or Tavian is up, but Lincoln and the opposite of Julian and Tavian are standing in the back doing a mental rep. Like that gives me confidence if I'm Austin that those guys one understand what they're doing and two are committed to get better. And are going to be in position to be tough when we need them to be tough. So like little things like that are something that we're constantly working on to show that we're being in that position. What have you seen from Lincoln in your first year working with him? Tell me how he's been able to. Yeah, you know, I've definitely seen a lot of growth from getting in here in June last year. And to what we're seeing about now, you know, it's just a full year of understanding the offense, a full year of getting a feel for what we're trying to do and what we're trying to accomplish. And, you know, just the, this whole new detail is about where my eyes need to be,

3:18:26how I can tie my feet in with my eyes, how I can make sure that, you know, I'm not just throwing the ball to the right receiver because that's what my red dictated. But I'm also throwing it at the right time. And I'm, you know, I have accuracy within that accuracy that I just displayed by putting it on the right shoulder, right, or the right, you know, to offset our receiver and throw them away from the defender or whatever that may look like. So that's what I'm excited because you're starting to see more and more of that from Lincoln as we've getting into, you know, two practices. And we've only had two practices, but, you know, just that growth that I don't think is a growth that happened over two practices, growth that happened from the time we got here and I got here in June through right now. And that's a success. He said, now, three quarterback coaches in three years, three, like, all their three years, can that be like an advantage for him, like, understanding different concepts and different reads, having to see things through different lenses because he's had so many different voices than I said, or how do you kind of give that? Yeah, I mean, he's had, he's had different quarterback coaches, but the reality is it's been the same

3:19:30past game. It's been the same system. So it's not like we changed the way we read a play based on who the quarterback coach was before. We made mistakes like tweaks, right, or adjustments, or, you know, had a new concept in or two, but I think what Lincoln can get from having those three different quarterback coaches is maybe just three different slightly different perspectives where the message is still the same. So maybe it's just a slightly different delivery of the same message. And I think that can definitely be a advantage because he still knows, you know, on this concept this is where my read is, but maybe he heard it in a different way over the last three years. And I guess could be an advantage. You know, if you are, he's quarterbacks and they're supposed to be the toughest guy, first guy to go in the last guy to lead, but they're all trying to do that. How do you then separate yourself as one of those guys given they're all trying to strive to do the same things? Yeah, you know, I think the ultimately right is can I sustain it?

3:20:33Can I be the guy that does it the most consistently? I think every single one of them, I know every single one of them, so I'm going to quote by Coach Day, which you know, it's pretty awesome. It's so real. It's who we have to be. We've got to be the toughest guys in the building. We've got to be the hardest working guys in the building. So it's easy to go ahead and you know, do that and be that guy. You know, the next day after seeing that quote, can I continue to be that guy when we're in practice 11 of Spring Ball or we're in summer and we're going through workouts with Coach Mick. And it's June 17th, you know, can I be that guy with that consistency all the way up through fall camp? It ended to moving on into next year. And I think that, you know, anyone can do something just once. But can I be the guy that can do it with consistency? And if you look at anyone that's so great, it's been because of their consistency. What do you think being able to train? Where does can't we be the quarterback that Ohio State fit in? The kind of magnitude of that?

3:21:34Is he able to handle that position? Where does that fit into your evaluation? Yeah, I think, you know, all these guys were, a lot of that was done in the recruitment process. I'm confident that all three of them can be the guy that I want to say. I think that, you know, those guys already kind of check that box. So, you know, now it's just a matter of who goes out and ends the job. And again, we are so far away from that point. But, you know, when we're recruiting a guy, we try to figure all that stuff out. We're gathering as much data as we possibly can to learn about the person and to understand their mental makeup and to make sure that they're fit. It's pretty cool up in the quarterback room. We've got pictures of all the, you know, great Ohio State quarterbacks up on the wall. You know, you go through and take a look at those guys. And, you know, it's just pretty neat. But above all, you can talk about some of the different guys' mental makeup and what made them different. And so, how do we find those guys that bring them in and recruiting? And so, we get to the point like we are now where you feel really confident about all three of those guys that they are, you know, mentally tough enough and can be at that point that they can't be that guy. What do you think they learned the most from Will and the job he did last year overall?

3:22:38You know, close to that? Yeah, I mean, where do I start? You know, Will, when it came to intangibles was, you know, I haven't been, I can't say I've been doing this for 35 years or anything crazy like that, but was by far the best I've ever seen to it. And just as far as what he did the best, you know, I think it just having is such a complete understanding of the offense. You know, from the run game to the pass game to the protections, just understanding, you know, the ins and outs and the little details and everybody's job and where, you know, certain concepts or protections or play styles were weak and how to adjust them if we were going to see something that made us weak there. You know, and having that total command because I think, you know, a big part of trust is showing that, you know, I'm confident. And I understand. And so, Will built that trust in his teammates by showing that, you know, he was extremely competent.

3:23:42You know, he understood everything and all the ins and outs and he could tell everybody on the field what to do. And from there, then he built it, you know, grabbed on and grabbed the trust of all of his teammates and then he could start to lead. So, you know, the biggest thing, it's tough to say, but I think that everything that he did was kind of built off this total understanding of what we were trying to do offensively. Billy, thank you very much. Thanks guys. Appreciate it. Thank you. I'm just having a day make sure I keep audit details, lost career. Yeah. What the coach likes, how you like to watch a game is a part of the team. The tackles, the speed, the world, what does he like to do? I think that you like Mara's other battlefield game. Maybe like that, I'm not. What's kind of your main, I mean, obviously as an insta kid committed to this class, what's your pitch now to other recruits? Maybe like this is why you should join Ohio State 20th Major. It's a real family atmosphere. Yeah, everybody gets along, everybody talking to everybody. What did you say? What did you get? You killed two next to your coach.

3:24:42He's a lot going back or a bit to the fact that he's bringing up to you. I've always looked up to Bulldoch and Washington's films. You, that's funny. Do you think that your voice down can hear his from this record? This record isn't just the way that he really is. I think I can. I think I can. The speed and the card. Yeah, I think I can. You agree with the main guy that you're talking to right now to join this team? I'm really talking to everybody. The listening room and that audit. 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 up here as a recruit, as a commitment here. What, what did you want to show today? What did you want to get out of this experience? It wasn't up in the show. I just wanted to get this work out. 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.

3:25:44I feel like it went good. Do you sense that energy? I mean, when you're out with him, it's... Yeah, I feel his intention. He's different than other guys though, right? I mean, how would you explain his coaching and some of the other running back coach you may have worked with him past? It's just intense. It's intense. Go, go, go. Did you talk to him when you were there going in? I did. Okay. So when did he get a market manager? Like roughly. Around half of the season, like not so far, just like... Is it kind of the same guy that he is now? Just in the new uniform, basically? Yeah. And 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-backs like that? I have no problem getting in the class with him. What do you like about Isaiah? I don't know. You don't know Isaiah? You never met him? Did you just damm on the first one? No, no. When you committed to doing some of the guys that you sent to him, you were very familiar with the particular guy.

3:26:44Not really a couple of linebackers, taking on these guys. You might have to learn in just a... What does Peyton bring to the defense? Peyton is a great downhill like thumping type of linebacker. Peyton, go talk with somebody. He's like a secure top player. That's what type of principle Peyton is. What's the point about that third linebacker role that you had last year and what to expect yet? I haven't really talked to him about it. We just...we all plan. We all think I haven't really talked to him about that. How different is this fall camp knowing the spot that you're going to be in as opposed to a year ago when you had COVID insiders in the summer open? What I say is too much different. I know the role I got coming in last year. I knew the role, so I just attacked Eric Dave really the same way. Physically... Physically, how different are you weight wise, body wise on that from the year ago?

3:27:44I think I got a lot bigger. I'm like 240. I'm like 240-44 right now. Last year I played it like 236-37. What does it feel like at 244 or a belt? You feel like an almost different machine out there. Yeah, like a... What does it feel like to be running around out there like you are with more back? I just feel like I'm like... Like... Like more downhill, like stronger, like I'm taking all the bloods better. It's a big... Yeah. Is it daunting? Maybe that's not the correct term, but to think you're going to be playing much more than you did even last year and you played quite a bit last year instead of... What do you have to get straight in your head about being on the field that much more? I just got to get ready to just play 30 more snaps. But... How would you describe how much you're looking forward to it from an 8-thing point? I'm looking forward to it. I'm ready for it. My play. I'm ready for it. The text is opener. It's a rematch. But it's not really two different teams compared to the last time you all played and stuff.

3:28:44How has that enhanced this camp for you and this team getting ready for an opener of that magnitude? Yeah, with an opener like that, we've been emphasizing it a lot. We know we got coming, so we know we got to do it. I think Riley ready to play right now. He advanced freshmen, like he ended up here in the book. He stood in like he advanced and his measurements was crazy. Like he saw it on the sideline too. I feel like you said you're ready. You know you're ready. What was that process like during last season? Could you feel yourself becoming more and more ready? The team needed for you? Yeah, because that's pretty much what my role was. Just whenever I was needed, I had to step up. So I feel like that's what built me into me being able to say I'm ready for this year. When you say ready, is it more a physical thing? Is it a mental thing? When I say ready, I think it's pretty much like everything physically, mentally, mostly. I think I'm there. A different is that feeling this year's an last year because of the loss of the impact.

3:29:48Asked I one more time? How different is that response bill? Is that just a emotional callback? If it was last year, you knew you were a home player. I feel like it's a way bigger responsibility with me having to step up this year. But I kind of go about it the same way. Like last year, I was intentional with everything I did. I feel like this year is going to be the same thing. It's probably a little bit more. Some reason. And what work? How's everybody working? I say, describe like, when you think of me, you think of like a bullet, like a silver bullet. I don't really know bullet. I'm always on the ball. That's how I like to play a thing. No, I ain't got to be my nickname. But I'm saying that the deep, that's what I'm saying. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's it.

3:30:49I've got a more questions for Patricia's style and how it's free. How does that fit you? And what are you going to show me about the whole aim in that kind of style? I think it fit me because I don't know. I just like the defense. I feel like we got, like you said, we got a lot of freedom and we moving around a lot. A lot of the times is like, no, I don't know. I don't really not answer that. That's okay. You can go on your instincts a little bit more, maybe. And it's not so thinking of too much. I don't even know if I say that because there's a lot of thinking going on. But it's like, I just like it's deep. I like her Patricia's deep because I like what he got going on. What was it, sad when CJ left the room? No, I wanted to much sad. I was kind of like happy for him. No, that's what you want. No. No. No, that's my dog. I'm trying to miss him a little bit, but I'm happy for him. Well, don't think, go ahead one last question. Coach Daze talked a lot about the guys who played some last year,

3:31:49but maybe weren't the starters and the hunger for, you know, that wasn't maybe your national championship you guys were going to win your own. How much do you feel that as a guy who certainly contributed last year, but will be in this bigger role and along the summer year, your classmate? Yeah, I do feel like, um, yeah, I do feel like I did win a national championship, but like you said, my role wasn't same as how it's going to be this year. So yeah, I definitely want to go get another one experienced that, like feeling maybe on the field, a lot more place. Great. Oh, Bill, thank you very much. Thanks a lot. Thanks a lot. Thanks for going on with Sean and the rest of them. How much pressure is on the Steve Pence to perform to the high level of respect and the last three? Right, I would say that last year was, you know, we excelled in certain things, but we're also trying to get back to where we were in the past. So we got some great additions and we're excited for that. Ultimately, it's to use some of these guys to be the number one defense in the league. The ocean moves us, surfing a wave or savoring the view.

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3:33:53And you don't have to prepare alone. Become future ready. Explore more than 400 programs at ASUOnline.asu.edu. That's a degree better. And that's always going to be the goal. So whatever we can do to utilize all the different talent that we have on this team to be the best and play as a team and to build the best chemistry that we got. That's what we're going to do. What's the answer about this offense? Just early in the game. What's the answer about this game? Yeah, we're not used to going against the normal offense I have been the past three years. So it's been a lot more moving pieces. Definitely have to use your eyes pretty well because if not, then somebody's going to be open. But I like what they're doing. I'm very excited for it. I just know it's making our defense a little bit better because we're having to do different things. Not just the normal offense we've been used to. I was going to say just because every other team has some variation as everyone in this team

3:34:53does that kind of do you think that'll kind of benefit you because you've seen that more than the rest of it? I would say so. I mean, as the league has changed over time, I think they revert to certain offenses that do well in certain systems. I would say we're taking maybe a little bit pieces from other offense that we see to do well. So I like what we're doing. I mean, I don't know as much as some of these quarterbacks that we have on the team, some of the offensive players, but I just know it's tough to go against. Hello, Zach, number last year, but still one of the top two in the school in the defense. What do you guys really need to do to finish getting after the quarterback? Yeah, I would just say place heavy emphasis in practice. It's always going to start in practice with getting after the quarterback, not touching him in practice, but making some good moves. And I would just say rush more. I mean, there's so much that goes into it, goes with the coverage. Everybody works together. I would say that we had great numbers, but we are trying to get that number up.

3:35:58But the ultimate goal is always going to be the ball. Getting the ball taken away, getting off the field, or putting our offense out there on the field, and more staying off that means that we're doing a good job. And you're already asked about it from a competition standpoint. But from a collective standpoint, having you wins a margin, we're going to go in the field. What kind of a trio can that do for a defense? This guy's a limit with this group. I do believe we have one of the most talented linebacker core groups in the league. So just excited what we're going to be able to do out there on the field. I think we all compliment each other super well. Bigger guys that are explosive. So I'm excited for it. I'm OGs recently, but yeah, it's very excited. But if you see him from sunny, this off season, moving into a different goal. He's really stepped up as our later of the defense. I mean, he's being in his room. I really get to see how he operates every day. He doesn't take a single rep off.

3:36:58He's not just the most vocal leader, but he's also, he leaves by example. He is one of the biggest, fastest, strongest dudes we have, but he's also the hardest working dude we have. He's never skipping out on recovery, watching film. Literally everything he represents what a buck-eye football player should be. And just learning from him every day, it's helped me at the time. With the presses you're not in my middle. Just every day, I mean, he's pretty athletic. He knows what he's doing to. He's a savvy football player. And so it's good having him and the locker right next to me. And us just talking ball every day, you know, how he could have done this better and I could have done this better. It's just making each other better. We're having fun out there and flying around. You guys talk about what you're right about. You have a single, that is also kind of built as a lot. It's clear and how good, how does that help you? It has a lot of experience.

3:37:58I mean, it's awesome having him because he really does understand it. I would say he understands it more than most guys. He was a captain in all American here. You know, like the stuff he's doing today, like every day he'll show some sort of, you know, every single week we're going through camp every day. He's going, he's posting a picture of every all American linebacker we've had. And we got to learn about him. Like not just the brotherhood we have here, but the past brotherhood. So we learn new, new all American linebacker every week. And we got to learn what he did for the bug guys and what he didn't believe and stuff like that. And so I think it's helped a lot. And then, you know, he's having the young guys learn the fight song and pop quiz and stuff. So it's great. We're having a lot of fun. How does that help you? Like you go actually to your question and you have to say, how does that help you get acclimated to the standard of the opposite? It helps a time because heat. I mean, like when you walk in the linebacker room, you just, like when I walked in, I was like, man, this brotherhood is real.

3:39:01And I have older guys helping me when I got here because we had a, we had a pretty old team last year. And they brought me in and I came in on a food. Oh, no. And, you know, I didn't know how I was going to go. And they were, they were all cheering me on even though like I was hurting the weight room. And then I got to get cheered on and competitions and stuff like that. And guys like they know your name, you know, really, it's, it's helped a lot. And so I think like this, this past year has really helped me, you know, bringing the young guys and, you know, help with them and stuff like that. We're super tight as a linebacker unit. So it's been great. Who's this week's All-American? This week's All-American. We had, today was a type of Johnson. So number 98, he's a baller. So we've had one every day. We've had different guys. So we had Spielman yesterday. So it's just someone new every day and it's, it's fun. Did you get here? You know, Lauren isa lot of stories about them, which is some fun stories to you. He has it, he hasn't posted his yet.

3:40:02No, eventually I think he will. So, we'll see. Yeah. Yeah. I think, I mean, I think all of them, they're just, they're so, like, there's so many that have come through here. And I think it helps, like, there's a standard, like, you need a linebacker here. Like, the goal should be the best linebacker unit in the country across the board and have the best linebackers. And so I think that's really set a standard for us. Wait, does it matter to you and go? Oh, we got our guard. You're getting instruction from a guy. Been there, done that. I mean, at the highest level. How much does it enhance what he's telling? Yeah, 100%. I mean, it validates a lot of stuff he says. Yeah. I think that's one of the main reasons I like them so much is that he's not only our personal relationship is great, but like, he knows everything about the game. And I'm learning so much every single day. And like, you can't, you can't find a coach who doesn't know more about linebacker than he does. And he's been through every situation. He knows, you know, when the offense does this play, what's, you know, what's, what's hard for the linebacker on that play?

3:41:06And he understands it, you know, finds ways to help us, you know, get through those plays and stuff like that. It's going to be a lot of fun. And then a lot, I was, I feel like it was one of my biggest accomplishments in my life at the now. Obviously, I think the goal one day is to be a captain here, but I feel like, you know, being an iron buck, I have it a big big off season or getting bigger and stronger. I think you just meant a lot because our teammates vote on it too. And so just knowing that like every day when we do those one on one competitions and leading guys, people are noticing that I was given everything I had. So it had been a lot of the tough coach make and all been choose made and iron buck. When the class of this off season that you started, you kind of visualized some goals that you had and was that one of them? Yeah, I mean, I think right right off the bat, right when the last season ended, you know, my goal was to be a starter and iron buck guy. I mean, I just taking steps every day and we read a book, chopped up with care water and it's a lot about living in the present.

3:42:06And so I think that's helped, helped all of us a ton is like, what can we do today? We're very best. And so I think that's, that's what's helped me a lot. I mean, I still got a lot really good. So I mean, we still got a lot of good times. Are you just being you the last question you did that? I mean, you're the main group. Were you getting your work? You wanted to just be in you, except your work ethic anyway? Yeah, I mean, my, my parents have been still to, you know, strong work ethic at me. And, you know, not backing down for many situations and stuff like that. And so I think just going in, you know, leading and giving everything I got every day is just, you know, how happened the rules. Great. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. And I mean, we're just all excited to go out there and get kicked. Okay, well, anyway, the fact that the way that this defense has additions on every level, you know, talk about chasing the people to the line and the draft being there, you guys have willing to second to air. And the second level and the third level, who they, to go on with Sean and the rest of them. How much pressure is on the state defense to perform to the higher level of respect and should be passed on me?

3:43:08Right. I would say that last year was, you know, we excelled in certain things, but we were also trying to get back to where we were in the past. So we got some great additions and we're excited for that. Ultimately, it's to use some of these guys to be the number one defense in the league. And that's always going to be the goal. So whatever we can do to utilize all the different talent that we have on this team to be the best and play as a team and to build the best chemistry that we got, that's what we're going to do. What's the end of the fight just offends? Just early, just early in the game. What's the end of the fight? Yeah, we're not used to going against the normal offense I have been the past three years. So it's been a lot more moving pieces. Definitely have to use your eyes pretty well because if not, then somebody's going to be open. But I like what they're doing. I'm very excited for it. I just know it's making our defense a little bit better because we're having to do different things, not just the normal offense we've been used to.

3:44:13I was going to say just because every other team has some variations that they're going to miss. Is that kind of, do you think that'll kind of benefit you because you've seen that more impressive way? I would say so. I mean, as the league has changed over time, I think they revert to certain offenses that do well in certain systems. I would say we're taking maybe a little bit pieces from other offense that we see to do well. So I like what we're doing. I mean, I don't know as much as some of these quarterbacks that we have on the team, some of the offensive players, but I just know it's tough to go against. Hello, sack number last year, but still one of the top teams scoring the defense. What do you guys really need to finish after the quarterback? Yeah, I would just say place heavy emphasis in practice. It's always going to start in practice with getting after the quarterback, not touching him in practice, but making some good moves. And I would just say rush, rush more. I mean, there's so much that goes into it. It goes with the coverage. Everybody works together.

3:45:17I would say that we had, we had great numbers, but we do, we are trying to get that number up, but the ultimate goal is always going to be the ball. Getting the ball taken away, getting off the field. We're putting our offense out there on the field and we're staying off. That means that we're doing a good job. And you already asked about it from a competition standpoint, but from a collective standpoint, having new wins and we're going to feel kind of a trio can do for a defense. In this guy's limit with this group, I do believe we have one of the most talented linebacker core groups in the league. So just excited what we're going to be able to do out there on the field. I think we all compliment each other super well, bigger guys that are explosive. So I'm excited for it. It's really just our family versus their family. And we just got a person here and we got to win the games and give back to the net. What's our line? What's our line was saying that Park Allen brand and have really been leaders in the wrong. So what if how have they both been leaders for you?

3:46:17Every young see they've been leaders just in multiple ways, whether our column. We're in their in the film room together on the jugs. I'm asking them about this route, how I could run it better. I'm asking them how I run this route on this play just many different things. I feel like those guys, they're like big brothers and all that Dennis. How valuable is that to have guys that are playing football but also been in college for a while. So we're really good ask them various things about college life. Is real valuable for sure because they're first round pit guys. So I feel like just being in a room with those guys and if you're able to thrive with those guys, you know, some's going good for you. What are your impressions of that? That is specifically Tavian. What if you kind of know about him and learn about him? I had always had a good relationship with Tavian. He recruited me hard to come here. So I feel like we always talked and he came here and he's been doing this thing. They've all been doing their thing and Julian saying he's another Cali cancel. I had a little relationship with him too. So good to see Julian Lincoln and Tavian all doing real good.

3:47:22What is that next step for you to play in terms of evolution? What do you want to get better at? I just really just everything. I feel like you can never be too perfect and I feel like you just got to keep doing your job. So I say maybe just just showing up more and just doing my job to the tee. Going against these corners of these TVs. How is that kind of a better? High school in high school. I had a five star corner DJ DJ DJ Lee. He's at Alabama. So I always had good work with corners. So I feel like it's just a lot. I'm going against a lot of good guys now. Instead of just being one on one that practice with DJ. So it's real good for sure. Does it take more turns to play the slot? What do you mean by that? Because there's more stuff. I think there's bigger hitters inside. You have to have a big guy. You've got to be aware of it. But it doesn't take more courage to do that. I guess you can say that I feel like I just always play slot enough. I feel like that's what I've been better at. So I feel like I feel like it's just what I have to do to be on the salt.

3:48:29No matter who's in front of me how big he is, how strong he is after like if I got into Simon, I got to do it. I'm looking around. I remember my first day. I'm looking around. I'm looking at July. Crazy. Then I see Jeremiah crazy. I'm just looking around everybody. KJ. Can't crank it off the bar. I'm okay. Like this is the real deal. How do you take that only fat moment and then go from? I really just take that and I just I just think of the challenge. Okay. Like we got all these attributes. He got all these things. Can they get past me? Can they beat me? So every day just working on that. Just getting better and better. Have you been using all the strong legs, jumping, falling transfers? Yeah, that's my dog. We came in together and just like talking to each other about the process, especially when my coach Friday left.

3:49:29And I was like, you know, we're going to do you and me and then we just suck through it and then me and him now. I just talked to him every day. That's my bully and working on different things because he's at the left. I'm at the right scene. Things with different point of view. So it's great. How's the transition going for you? I was going to be amazing. I feel every day get better and better. Going to get the best every day. So you have to be on your A game and going to just do like CJ. That's my way. Just getting better and better and transition just not an hour half away from home. So this has been pretty good. You started for games last period. So what do you have to make a difference in the number of those games? I think like for my role, I think I did just enough. Like as a person I am now, if I was a person, I feel like I would have done lay better, but just going into that role, helping that's helping Minnesota. Do we got to do and feel like I did just enough, but there's always back always do.

3:50:30Where do you see the first game? Pass, pro and my first steps. Working on those things. I had to lift out the power. I just, I was all over the place. And just every, I feel like every game I was understanding how to game work and how to attack, how to be passive, how to work together as an online unit. Not just be by myself. What's the first step? What about that first step? Really just make sure I feel powerful out of my stance. That was the one big thing I had to work on. Especially at my last school, working on my stance. Make sure I can push off and like gain ground. And I felt like sometimes I wasn't doing that. Even when he had to lose 30 pounds, I think I did. Do you have to change from your body at all? Definitely. I was 320 coming in and I played at 320. I feel great. And then they told me they wanted me to go down to 315. And I was like, nah, I want to do that. I got 315. I started running. I started, they started putting me on the meal plan.

3:51:33They started doing all this. I'm like, oh, hold on. I see the vision. Yeah, I definitely changed the form of my body. My arm is steadily getting bigger. Weight room. It's going to amazing. I'm growing every day. It's hard every day. But I love it though. Like I'm getting work. I have to practice after the weight room. I'm cooked, but I can see the results and see the games. What is it like you leave a place? You know you're probably breaking some people's hearts back there. Describe what it's like to make a move like this. You know what I mean? And basically missed on a college career. What were you seeking or anything else? It was definitely a big move. What was I seeking? I was just a development with knowing I can, I wanted to go and give some of the best dudes every day. And coming here, I'll be able to do that. Just a training program in the culture here. It's summer. Minnesota. So it was definitely like a easy merge.

3:52:37You had said you were lucky. We hadn't really thought about Ohio State being an option. When the hotel houses quickly did sort of emerge. What do you remember about just? I remember coach fried comedy when I hit the portal. He was one of the couple first people to hit me up. I was going to I was going to go home anyways because I was going to go to my mom house because I fasted. When I hit the portal, make sure I make my right decision. And I was going to go home with my family and just talk about it. And my cousin and I never like you're already an hour and a half away. So you might as well just see what's up up there. They want to show an interest and I was like, you know, I'm not sure. You mentioned the transition from fried to Tyler Bowen just wasn't like playing for both of them so far. I don't really know too much about coach fry, you know, just a little bit. But what I was in here, I definitely saw like dudes definitely develop like I can see it on tape. Not necessarily like really see that practice. But with coach Bowen. On every day. Just improving and he's just always tell me things that little things.

3:53:38I don't even notice that I need to work on especially with coach Johnson and coach Dickey. Having no story in the room is probably the best thing ever for you. Got some great additions and we're excited for that. Ultimately it's to use some of these guys to be the number one defense in the league. And that's always going to be the goal. So whatever we can do to utilize all the different talent that we have on this team to be the best and play as a team and to build the best chemistry that we got. That's what we're going to do. What's the end of it? About just offense. Just early in the game. What's the end of it? Yeah, we're not used to going against the normal offense I have been the past three years. So it's been a lot more moving pieces. Definitely have to use your eyes pretty well because if not then somebody's going to be open. But I like what they're doing. I'm very excited for it. I just know it's making our defense a little bit better because we're having to do different things not just the normal offense we've been used to.

3:54:41That was going to say just because every other team has some variations of that one and this is that kind of do you think that'll kind of benefit you because you're seeing that more than the rest of the week? I would say so. I mean as the the league has changed over time I think they revert to certain offenses that do well in certain systems. So we're taking maybe a little bit pieces from other offense that we we see to do well. So I like what we're doing. I mean I don't know as much as some of these quarterbacks that we have on the team and some of the offensive players but I just know it's tough to go against. Hello, I'm a lowest at number last year but still one of the top teams going to defense. What do you guys really need to do to finish getting the after the quarterback? Yeah, I would just say place you know heavy emphasis in practice. It's always going to start in practice with getting after the quarterback not touching him in practice but you know making some good moves and I would just say rush rush more. I mean there's so much that goes into it goes with the coverage everybody works together.

3:55:45I would say that we had we had great numbers but we do we are trying to get that number up but the ultimate goal is always going to be the ball. Getting the ball taken away getting off the field. We're putting our offense out there on the field and we're staying off that means that we're doing a good job. And you already asked about it from a competition standpoint before my collective standpoint having you wins a margin and we're going to go in the field. What kind of a tree open to do for a defense? When the sky is a limit with this group I do believe we have one of the most talented linebacker core groups in the league. So just excited what we're going to be able to do out there on the field. I think we all compliment each other super well. Bigger guys that are explosive so I'm excited for it. Bard is was going to be up in the air. So I think for me just starting out I took it something that was kind of important to me that whoever was everyone competing for that spot I wanted to create a bond with them. Because I feel like a tackle guard bond is important in terms of communication understanding because again a left tackle is always goes as guard is and vice versa.

3:56:53You know what I mean. So I feel like I've done a good enough job so far of starting to develop that relationship with each potential guy. So that way as we as spot as the spot is getting you know as people started compete for that spot. Again I feel like I should be able to I should be able to pop in with whoever and we should continue keeping a standard of standard if that makes sense. So I'm not really seeing how that how we're going to fit together but I want to fit with as many people at left cars possible that way when the city has been made. I've got to start over my process with this guy. It's kind of already been flown, that makes sense. That's what tackles a position that draws a lot of focus.

3:57:54Arguably, it faces more pressure than the behavior of a position on the line. In Europe, what is the problem mindset to succeed at that position? I think that the mindset for me has always has been that when I win my, one-on-one, the ball goes down the field. What I mean, so, and I think that's what I'm most excited about, just being a left tackle is that, especially with the protections that are a little bit, a longer plays where the left tackle tends to be, one-on-one, or the plays I tend to love the most, because kind of halfway through the play, you're locking them up and just know that he can't go anywhere. Start to smile a little bigger, oh dude, ball's gone. You know what I mean? Ball's gone and it's going to be a touchdown. It's going to be a huge gain. So I think for me, that's kind of the mindset you kind of have to have to have the left tackle spot as soon as I win, like, my rep, we're going down the field. So that's just the mindset I have in terms of how well I have to prepare.

3:58:56How do you own the mindset as a real people able to get there? Honestly, I'll say that mindset kind of came from college. Again, obviously I played with a lot of great guys in college. You know, I'm glad we have all of those guys here. You know what I mean? To throw the ball to as well, just because against one of those things, like with CJ, you just, again, a left tackle, my mindset was just, well, that's CJ just do his thing, and that's my thing. I want Kyle to be able to do his thing. So I'm worried about whoever's over here, just do your thing. That's why you're here and just throw at the Marvin. And, you know, it will be good. You know what I mean? So that's something excited about. And I think all that starts because of what we do on the line. So, and I think just not just myself, but the entire room takes pride in. Hey, like when we do our job upfront, that's where everything else goes. So let these guys we have with the ball in their hands do all that magic. We just got to do our job, just take it when you're one on one, you know. You're doing well in a, just playing that fast-spot means something special.

3:59:58Just because of the history of that position and, you know, just of all the greats that have played left tackle. I mean, do you ever think about just the past and the, you know, the people, the players before you who were in that spot and did great things? Yeah, I mean, again, I feel like just from, just as a young guy in a game, I, of course, try to, I like to watch the, the greats of the game. I like to watch guys like, a weight worth, of course, you know. A willy Anderson, you know, he played on the right side, but again, I think continuing to watch the greats that played the game, just continuing to dominate for those guys from being able to talk to them again, to be able to learn from their story and their journey and how they developed. Of course, I understand I want to create a, I want my game to be able to be like, there's no way to where it's talked about in a way of like, that's a guy you need to watch just to watch with, you know, the fight that you played with, the finish that you played with, you know, you're in the technique you played with, because those guys played almost 20 years,

4:01:00you know what I mean? So, and again, I think that's something when you watch the guys, though, the legendary guys come before, yeah, you know, they're strong and they're tough guys, but, you know, I don't know, but when you're like 36, 37 years old, you're probably not that strong. Not as strong as you used to, but that technique and just the skill set, that's something that I admire. You mentioned earlier about the guys going out to UCLA and kind of getting out of the game. I'm curious, when you're working out here, do you do anything outside or do you avoid it altogether right now? I don't know, I'm always outside. I'm always outside. I don't mind the heat. I love the heat. And honestly, for me, it helps, I'm off like 30, 20, so I kind of warm up quickly. So, it's kind of nice when I warm up, I don't have to be doing like 30 minute warm up. You know, you kind of just be outside long enough, collect this, and your joints are on go. So, I actually, I like it a lot. Going back to the players that have been in the league for a while, Calvin Beachham is one of those guys that's been in the league for a decade plus.

4:02:02What have you been able to learn from him? I think, again, just learning how to be a pro in terms of certain things, like, for example, I'm a guy that, when I like to train by myself, I'll just take a thousand reps of a set, a thousand reps of a reach block. I'm a rep, rep, rep, rep, rep, and type, I've done a hundred times and I wrote perfect. And some of that beach is like talking about in terms of being a pro. And I thought to me, that's me being a pro is a young guy. I pick up a lot of, I reps my body, so I'm going to take a lot of reps and preparation. But beach is a guy where it's like, it's not about necessarily the quantity in terms of its really through the quality. But even more so, you know, you're off season, you don't got to be doing something like this every single day. But when you do it, like, from your first rep, even your first rep, it's not like you're taking this rep, oh, it wasn't good. It's going to be better on the second one, like, each rep, even when you're by yourself, is just kind of, I guess a mindset, I just give yourself 15 reps instead of doing 60 reps. And I sounds like a huge difference,

4:03:05but to me, I don't mind taking 60 reps from by myself and there's nobody that's waiting around on me. And I'm by myself, I can take my time and I'll do that, but just being like, I'm going to do 15 perfect reps. And I'm just going to slow down and take all my time, stuff like that. That way your body, that way you're not doing too much before camp. Many of the guys that left guard in the mix were here last year, except for Evan. How does that relationship develop throughout other real overseas? Yeah, I mean, so honestly, I like that. That's my guy. We like to compete. We've been competing in the weight room since day one in terms of just like what we consider like athletic competitions. So like, even in the weight room, I'm at the very end of the week when we're done lifting. And I'll talk to Evan and I'll be at a standard. We'll just do some sort of competition, whether it's grip or whether it's jump or where it's pull ups or something. And I don't let him wave until I beat him in all these two things.

4:04:05Like so if we do, if we do a jump thing and like I always thought was the best kind of the most height when I jumped out of O.I. I could dominate anybody and that, but he beat me in that surprising size. I know what happened on the bike. And then we did this bike thing. I beat him on a bike. And now we're on pull ups. I'm talking to beat him on a personal kid. Now we can leave. But we just have that. We're just always just competing. And then again, obviously, he wasn't on the team with us last year. But I think what he brings to the table with being of that is that he's like a plug and play guy. You know, he knows he's been in those scenarios before. He's played with guys like Pene when he was with Detroit. So obviously, he's being able to talk to him and how this is how it was when I was setting with Pene. This is how it was. I was saying to see all these are the different things that I can do that mirrors some things like in your game, how you set. And I'll talk to him about what I like to do in certain scenarios and how his set can sort of match that. Does that make sense? So I think he adds a lot.

4:05:08What's the longest you've stayed after until you beat him? To the point where a strength coach is like, you guys got to go. You guys should go. We're not trying to break any rules around here. But it's just me and him just going, and he loves it. And even us starting to do that, we started to get other guys in the O line that tried to hop in on our competition for fun. But only matters what be Evan. I'm just beating you. So that was fun.

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4:07:16I did. I was really just watching it because I mean we played the very last one this past year on the New York State University. I was watching games more of a span. But yeah, I mean the things that Coach Day does in the office. I feel like really fit my type of build and I'm not a player. I'm excited to be here to work with more of a, you know, I can be that pocket batter and also use my legs when I need to.

4:08:16But you know, I feel like my strength is doing my own. But I also feel like I can do really good things. Obviously being a quarterback you need to make those plays. How much do you work in it? Oh, it had a huge impact on it. You know, I love my guys at K-State and I have nothing bad to say about them. I mean the talent here is something. Just being around the guys and the thing that impressed me the most about especially the receiver room is how driven. Much they want to work. I don't have to go out there and beg these guys to go catch. And they're already out here catching on the jugs when I come out the truck. They're incredibly hard working just all across the room. We got to use like carnell and brand in on us.

4:09:18Obviously, and all those guys like, I mean, that's just the, that's just the tip of the ice. Like there's so much talent in that room and being able to throw the guys like that makes my job a lot easier. The pressure is your boss. Dude, he's a dude man. I haven't gotten to talk to him that much yet. You know, just because we've been in different groups lifting and stuff. But man, he's a specimen. I mean, that dude is a freak show. I mean, he's a physical. I'm excited to see him on the field. And by the way, we'll be fine. I feel like the resounding thing that I heard from, from these NFL guys and from people around the league was need to play more. And we need to see more high level flying. I played a lot of football in my time at K-State. But I only had one year where I was really the true starter.

4:10:19And where I played the whole year. The most part I was a backup filling in. And I felt like there's a bunch of statistics and things they look at. I was on the very lowest end of the amount of yards that you're supposed to throw for. You know, you look at the success stories versus the failure stories. And there was just so many signs of the point in becoming back. And really in my heart, and that was at the end of the day. I mean, it was up to me, it was my gut. And I felt like I just wasn't ready to leave college yet. I was a little more. I wanted to go to a competition for the reason. I made a lot of things. I was often saying 16, so I thought I was going to be on the first. Absolutely. And I mean, the biggest thing was I felt like I could come compete here to win an national team. And that above anything else was one of the most important things. I felt like I just had more I wanted to accomplish my college and I wasn't done yet.

4:11:19And that was I think what really drew me here. Obviously, you know, getting to the next level and you know, playing in an offense like this, I think it's really going to prepare me for that next level and give me the best shot. And that's all I just really sugar on the cake for me. Well, you're longer than I am. You're longer than I am. You're longer than I am. I'm longer than I am. I'm longer than I am. I'm longer than I am. I'm longer than I am. I'm longer than I am. Yeah, I mean, we definitely talk about it. You know, we're all here to compete and we're all here to, you know, help the fuck out of me. That's all we're here for. You know, that was made evident when I came on my visit. And, you know, the thing that I'm the most fired up about is how good the dudes in the room are and how good they've been to me. You know, I they could have no believe me. I've been in a situation where we brought in an older trans to get and you know, they could have been, you know, mad and not taught me and helped me out.

4:12:22But I mean, Devon and Lincoln, the guys that have been around, they've really helped us a lot. Especially us, us three new guys. And, you know, I know I'm older and I've done things but still just learning a new system learning, you know, how we do things and how we, you know, go about our business. Just everything's a little different. So I'm so thankful for those guys that they've just, I mean, they've helped me so much just getting, getting accustomed to, you know, being in this building. What do you get offered by those parents? They're really good dudes, really good kids and really talented too. I mean, they can both spin the ball really well. You know, they're young and they, you know, they know they got a lot to learn and so do I. You know, I'm right there, you know, I think we're all trying to learn this together, even, you know, focus over on a little bit and we're hitting the ground running. You know, it's exciting. Those two guys are especially special. Especially in the care of the one extra. Have you ever had the right kids? Did he, he was the type of person who would go to the hospital with the other kids?

4:13:26It's hard to say. I would probably say the draft would have been mine. You know, I was, I was talking to some other schools, you know, Miami and USC were in there in the mix. But it was really, I would say here in the draft at the end of it. You know, there was a lot of different things going into it and it was a long hard process. But yeah, I would say, I mean, that was probably the most like it. When you first thought you talked to about the way you were reacting to the conflict, you know, I was just going to do it for a moment. How did the conversation with all of you and you and all of you think about it? I mean, nothing, nothing crazy. I mean, I don't know, it was just, oh, thank you. Appreciate it. I'm not a fighter fan. Do really, yeah, do. I don't get that. Yeah, I appreciate it. Yeah, there you go, a little sidetrack. But, uh, no, I, what was the question again? I'm sorry.

4:14:27Spider controversy. What the... Yeah. Yeah, no, it was, I mean, it wasn't really anything crazy, I would say. You know, I just, you know, nothing really changed. It was really kind of, you know, they were kind of holding me off a little bit. Still after that game, just in fairness. You know, I was, I was patient and waited my time and, you know, it all worked out. Did Coach Day live on? No, he was going to make the budget. It's hard to tell. I don't really know. It was a whirlwind of a process. You know, I started hearing initially they might be interested, but I hadn't really heard anything directly and then, you know, really getting in, like, I really started to feel that interest. Did Coach Day let you know there's a change coming in court later? You know, in the back, right?

4:15:28Yeah, a little bit. Yeah, I kind of figured that. I didn't know for sure, but he kind of hinted at it. And, you know, his point was, you know, it's, it's in the best interest to him and the team. I was all in. You know, I completely understood, you know, the decision and why he did it. What was this experience about your team during other tournaments? Yeah, I mean, there were a lot of things that were said, you know, a lot of things that, you know, were attractive to me about this offense and about what he kind of thought about my game and how he thought he did, you know, elevate me to where I wanted to be. And, you know, I feel like one of the biggest things was how Crow style the offense is. And, you know, a lot of these other schools that I was looking at, you know, maybe these air-rate type schools. I mean, they got great offenses and you know, I can put up a lot of numbers, but I don't know how much that was developed.

4:16:28And, you know, playing in a system that coached Ryan, which is a music video, I know much. How much better can you prepare for the NFL than with somebody who's coached at a head coach level and an important head level at the NFL? You know, it's, there's just all the things pointed to it. You know, when it comes to state enforcement, I can say, I'm not going to talk about this in any of your questions. I'm not talking about the current state or the whole point of the state. I kind of wanted to look back at the regulations. I just did the raise awareness. And, you know, obviously, you first saw the season coming. How did you say, ready and prepared? You know, you just got to get in the tree, don't you? I just say ready and prepared. Those moments of hockey and the NBA, they go into that adversity and the fact that it's just that it's already in the line again, prepare it and make all the count. Yeah, I know I took a couple of days off after the national championship and then shoot right

4:17:30after that, I'm writing sample Florida and I'm right to it. And so, yeah, I think while I trained, I trained at your birth performance. I think it's called the House of Athlete or the Compound now. They did a good job, man. They're just bringing us in and the way they went about training us, man. They did a really good job. Have you ever seen the Bucking Nears? The Bucking Nears. No, I haven't. Do you think it's a city champion? It's a nice city, man. Really nice. The 40 to broad and the vert. Yeah, man. It's really all about technique and then it's about mindset as well. And so, I say, you know, it's for the love of my brother. It's for the love of Will Howard. It's for the love of the receivers who I got on the perimeter. Just making sure, you know, first of all, my quarterback doesn't get sacked. And I tell Will, I think it was before the first game.

4:18:32I was like, I got your brother. It's the, I said, man, I'm not going to let you get hit. You know, and so, I don't know if I gave up a sack. I'm not sure that, but I know if I did, I haven't given up too many. And so, man, it's for the love of my brother's, though, man. Making sure the ball get in their hands, you know, the guys on the outside and making sure they get fed. You had to hit the practice field later today. What is something you've been working on right now when you need time? In my game. You can't really work on this, you know, in all season, I feel like it's more so. You know, you got to put the pads on. You got to go through some inside run, you know, maybe. It's really just continuing to run through tackles. And so, that's, I feel like that's one of the areas in my game. You know, I want to continue to get better at it. I feel like I did a good job of that in my senior year. And so, I just want to continue to build on that. So, you get to play. Yes, I did. Yes, I did. So, people, you look like now. I'll let you borrow out there. You get back in person. You said you met with the other one. I did meet with New Orleans as well. I never got that comparison.

4:19:33Actually, I know I have a Camera. Sure, yeah, man. I have a Camera. Great, great back, man. Just what he does and those 101 matchups, he's dangerous, man. And he's so smooth. He's so smooth as well. I'm not going to lie. He's smooth. So, I mentioned playing with my player. You don't have to see someone. You don't have to see him play with him. Yeah. Inside zone from stack. Being able to hit that thing downhill. And I'll say the next one is probably just an option out of the backfield. You know, a man and man coverage. You're getting on that line backer. And so. Yeah. I say the man the biggest thing is the way that he carries himself, man. And the way that man, he approaches the game. He comes in with the mindset, you know, he's going to work every single week. You know, every practice, you know, he's working hard. You know, even shoot. I don't know.

4:20:33Every good. I think he had a every game was a good game for him, man. And so, but still, man, he always has the mentality to mindset that, you know, he's going to come in each and every day. He's going to continue to work and get better, man. And so he's definitely man. He's going to be a special player, man. He really is. Man, a lot of ups and downs, man. It's just how you respond to adversity. And I feel like that's something that God has definitely helped me to do better. It's just, I'm not having something to lean on now. You know, I remember before I met him, you know, going through those adversity, I had nothing to run to. You know, you can run to people, but they still can't. It's not too much. They can't truly help you. You know, I feel like, you know, I feel like the only person that can truly help you is your relationship with Jesus Christ. And so, being able to lean on him, you know, he gives you, you know, his moments where it's tough, you know, where it's low. And when you're behind the scenes and you're going through things that people don't know about, he gives you that peace and comfort, you know, even in those moments, man, where it's so hard that you can't explain.

4:21:40It's like, man, I'm going through this, but like, how am I still filled with this internal joy? You know, how do I have so much peace in this situation? And so, that's something that only Jesus Christ can give you. And so... Um... Man, those guys have such a great mentality, man. I just really love their mentality, especially Q as well. You know, I talked about Will Howard, his leadership, but Quinshaw mentality, man. That boy just, yeah, that boy just gifted, you know. You see, you know, sometimes he put in a situation where he looked like, you know, he should have a negative five yards. And as soon as you know it, you know, he, he, he running through somebody, still farming somebody, and she, this is getting a 10. It's a... It's like, do some of the things that he does, he just realizes that he's different than God. Yeah. Um... Shoot, I think...

4:22:40Yeah, man, I think it's just like... He's just gifted, man, too, beyond it. He's just gifted. You know, he's a big back. You know, he's strong, and so, um... You know, he's able to do those things. And so... Yeah, man, it's definitely... You know, I look at his game, and I want to, you know, at the same time, I want to learn from Quinshaw. You know, I want to look at his game, and it's like, man, where can I get better at as well? That's the type of player I am. I'm always looking to get better, man. I'm always looking to grow as a player. What's your last one to treat? Julian Sand. Oh, yeah, he's going to be a great, but... He's going to be a great quarterback, man. He's so, so accurate, and so, um... He's definitely, man, I know Coach Dez is definitely going to get him right. Just, you know, um... Continuing to grow as a leader, continuing to grow as a player. And so he's going to be really good for our state. Uh... He's... I know just the quarterback position. Um... I feel like, you know, the quarterbacks in the past, they've... they've definitely been vocal. And so I feel like that's something that they're definitely going to, um, ask Julian Sand as well. It's to be that vocal leader, and lead the, um... and lead the offense and lead the team.

4:23:43Shoot, man. He has... he has a build, like, JK Dobbins. And, um... I kind of see them, you know, similar... similarities in their game as well. And I know JK Dobbins, he was a great running back. Um... I feel like he's not talked about his none. Um... a lot, but man, his career here, you watch his highlights, is great. I remember, um... before I recruit... before I committed here, I remember watching JK Dobbins highlights, like every... Every, um... one of his years here, like, four or five times. And so, man, he was such a great back. And, um... I feel like, you know, um... when I see JK Dobbins, when I see, um... James people, I see similarities to both of their games. I feel like they play the same. And so... Appreciate you all, y'all. You know, this...

4:25:21Yeah, yeah.

4:26:21You know, so being able to go out there and just present my best self here, and, man, makes me a better person. I have talked to the Chiefs. Yes. Uh, it was a great conversation. So, I mean, these guys, I mean, they have a lot of good, de-line talent there. So, having guys there, I mean, they feel like I could fit in very well. I mean, people have guys who... Uh, pull me in, but it really helped me out, and allow the injured, really getting their fist system and fit in there. And be a good player there. You talked about the ones who watched Cam Hayward, and what they found fit on me. Oh, yeah, of course Jones, I mean, that. That guy's amazing. Be able to... to explode the way he did in the past few years, man. He's a great man. That guy is practically unblockable. So, we're watching him a little bit. I mean, the way he uses his hands, I mean, he doesn't allow people to touch him. Right. So, I always hear a favorite game or remembering a moment in his past season. Uh, definitely win the National Championship. I mean, there's no better feeling than that to be able to go out there. When a whole bunch of guys you grew up with for the past five years, I mean, see us really pull through after hitting a couple of bumps in the road and be able to really exert ourselves

4:27:23and really make it all the way to the National Championship one at all, man. It's a great feeling. Do you like the sun in there? What's it feeling? Oh, yeah, since being off the team now, definitely sunken now that we really won the National Championship. It's gonna sink any more we'd be able to see the rings that we got. We can get here and fight in the next month, so... Yeah. What's the LXC-JT in draft? If so close, let them have it and see them here. Are you going to wait again? What does that mean? I mean, it's nice. I mean, especially, I mean, to have the entire defense line here at the combo. I mean, it's amazing. I mean, it's not too many times you get not too many teams in the view to have that. I mean, it just shows the elite level that we have and that they have been at Ohio State. And it just shows how great we are and how great we can be. It's not like a whirlwind going from the play to championship game, but I'm feeling like tonight you're here. Yeah, I mean, it feels like I'm still playing for Ohio State, but I'm not playing anymore. So it's kind of weird trying to get to Justin Point down, stepping into a new chapter of my life. So just being relaxed, calm, and just walking there, and being myself. Are you planning to work out tomorrow?

4:28:23Yeah, I'll be doing the drills. That's about it. How much time have you had on? How much time have you taken off yourself? We had a week. A week after the game, and then after that, I flew straight to California when I had to train her. You mentioned it. You know, it's like you feel you're still playing for Ohio State. When you've been there for five years, like how hard is it to like pull away from that and not be apart? Yeah, it was definitely hard the first couple of weeks. I mean, trying to, it was definitely a slower pace. I mean, being in Ohio State, everything was up temple, up beat. Everything was hard work. I mean, you're doing group activities all the time. It's hard to be able to adjust to be more of a calm setting. I mean, you're doing a lot of things on your own when you get in a NFL. It's not, you're not guided anywhere. So you got to be able to adjust to that. And that's probably the biggest thing. How well do you feel like that here? You feel a nice level on top of temple. I'd like to say that Ohio State is the best of preparing. I mean, you can see player after player going to the NFL. I mean, it just means one of the best players because it's the way Ohio State and the system that they had. I mean, they did things in an excellent way to prepare you before the league. And this is, it's why I'm grateful to be able to go to that school.

4:29:24I think it's not about going to line up next time. I'm going to go to the next team. I'm going to be part of the year. Yeah, it's kind of sad. Obviously, I wish we could have even just one of them build on team with me and make it even a better experience being there. I mean, a lot of questions they like to ask is like, who would you bring with you? I mean, of course, is here anyone in my deal I'm in, bringing those guys with me. So it's definitely going to be different. But I mean, there's a lot of great talent on these teams, a lot of great deal I'm in there. So I love to learn from other people, learn from them and be able to grow from them. Do you and Jack tell, uh, Sorrento and Sonny, they have the carrier of Pickering to your tour time? Oh, yeah. Of course. I mean, I like to say all the time, man. Columbus, bring to a high school state man is the best player. So being there, I mean, still representing Pickering to the mean. You got a lot of good guys still in Pickering to that. Still in high school. We get to get there. So them representing. It's great. What do you was talking about the sunny being of potential to walk on that champion of the dance of Captain protein? Where have you seen Sonny kind of grow as a leader and what do you think about the new role that we've been getting in the legacy?

4:30:26Oh, yeah. I think that just the leadership off the field made it so much better. I mean, from a guy who started off at safety, moving the linebacker. I mean, it was a natural adjustment for him. You mean, he made no complaints to none of that. I mean, he just came in and worked and it kind of like me. Like, we just worked as hard as he could every single day. Just learn to play book. You can see the leadership on the field when he's out there calling the plays with confidence and being out there. It's important to team, man. His team rallied behind him. I mean, you see him for a bunch of goals for him. It's interesting. I mean, I have no comments on it. I want nothing but the best for him, but the being. The ocean moves us, surfing a wave or savoring the view. The ocean delights us as playful otters restore coastal kelp forest. The ocean connects us. Visit monoraybeacquarium.org slash connects. CalShe's own CEO says it himself. And he has two thirds of people on CalShe lose money. So what does it take to be in the other third? You have to do extensive amount of research to be good. There are people that spend clopiest amount of money, time, resources, energy.

4:31:26They've dedicated their lives to basically becoming good at it. All that and still. And he has two thirds of people on CalShe lose money. lose money. lose money. That's CalShe in their own CEO's words. Go to www.fairpredics.com to learn more. At Arizona State University, we're bringing world-class education from our globally acclaimed faculty to you. Earn your degree from the nation's most innovative university. Online, that's a degree better. Learn more at ASUOnline.asu.edu. I'm at Penn State, so I mean, it's not for the best form. What do you see emerging as a leader on that pink accent lines on my statement? I think it's even a bit. I'm Keal Jackson. I feel like this role in me, I've talked to him. He definitely wants to step up. You stepping up this year. I mean, he's played a good amount of time last year. I feel like him being able to go out there and really step up and be a leader for the team. That's something you can do, especially with the talent that he has. What are you up to, Sheryl? What do you got pads on, stuff like that, being a special interior guy?

4:32:26You really don't get to see me run. So being able to go out there and really run and be able to see my movement, be able to see my men and my ability to move around. Definitely surprising a couple coaches. Who was the most pivotal moment of the season for you guys? As hard as it is to say being a loser to him, North. That was kind of like the pivotal role that really hit the whole team in the face. And allowed us to really kick the fire in the neaf and some people to play with our best abilities. That we knew we had since the beginning of the season. And much of it hurts to lose. I mean, it kind of set the tone for the rest of the team and you see how we dominated teams in the playoffs. So people talked about that being. Did your opinion of Friday change or how did it change after that being knowing that he's the coach sitting there taking the run? The feedback. Yeah, I mean, I didn't change at all. That's how it should be. I mean, being a coach there, I mean, he's up front and he's going to tell you everything. He takes criticism and that's something that being a man to be able to drop your ego and take criticism. I mean, that makes him even better coach. And I mean, not a lot of coaches can do that.

4:33:26So it makes him even better that he's here for his team. He's not just trying to be the head coach. He wants to be for his team. So I appreciate him for that. Of course, I mean, yeah, I mean, the whole goal going to a high state, he wouldn't be the team of North. Especially with my brother, he's never lost to him. So it's kind of like a brag of rights to the dinner table. But I mean, every day you want a national championship. So I'm not getting to carry on for rest of my life. You mentioned being able to surprise and be able to feel like you're a little bit overlooked just because of how much talent you had around you last day. We had a lot of good guys. I mean, that's what comes to being a high state. You got talent everywhere. So I mean, just being able to just be myself and just be able to show people who I am. And that's why I'm here for something. So I'm just going to do everything I possible to be able to prove the people that support me. Right? Where do you see or something? Are you going to stick it? No, he's going to be like, you want to be a free tech? Like, what do you think you put to fit best?

4:34:27I want to be versatile. I want to be like, I can play a little bit of a three-take plate nose guard anywhere on the inside. I feel like I can play maybe even a little outside. I feel like I can play a little bit of a three-take plate nose. So just being a big versatile, I feel like playing on a high state. We were allowed to move around a little bit and allowed me to show my talent. So being a big versatile and playing anywhere allows me to be a better player in the league. You're not just kidding, you're out there. What are people going to see for this year? They're going to see it more developed player. I mean, I feel like this year is kind of the setting stone of him being able to take over the role of being a defense end out of a high state. So I feel like he has all the talents, all the skillset to be able to go out there and be one of the best of the ends to come out of a high state. It's up to him to be a just honing on a leadership and be able to be the best player you can and lead others to be just like him. What do you feel like you're the best match for you? You're going to run some other time? Obviously just being able to shut down the run. I mean, I feel like I pride myself in my run game and not being blocked by a single person. So I'll just be able to go in there and be able to be a lead run stopper. But also be able to go on on third down as well and be able to show my past rush. I mean, go out there and do the best I can. So I'm not even really getting to do what I always say.

4:35:28How much do you feel like you've ruined the past rusher at a high state? Where do you feel like you've used the wrong way? Yeah, I mean, I feel like power is always my go to a past rusher. And I feel like it worked. We didn't really get the rusher as much at a high state. But at times I did get the rusher to show the power and my skill set allowing the move guys out the way and makes action in some good. I mean, I feel like obviously you always need something to work on a past rusher. Just different moves that come off of it like finesse moves, any type of chops and stuff like that. Just to work on those and finishing to access something like a work on. Are you thinking of the biggest lessons you'll take from Larry Johnson with you to me? Honestly, just focus on little things. I mean, technique is critical when it comes to defeating a block or getting blocked. So I mean, just honing on those small techniques to always make sure that I'm critiquing myself in the best way possible and not getting complacent. I never think we got who the other two of your guys are expecting so much. We got guys like Andrew getting there, Jason Moore, Ty Worm alone. I mean, the younger freshmen in there, I feel like everybody could step up. I mean, those are guys that have played a little bit last year.

4:36:30I feel like having every position vacant, I mean, allows for competition. So being able to those guys to step up and really prove themselves so they can play at a elite level. It's going to be something I'm looking forward to see. I want to point this out for you to leave that room in a way that they are prepared to start off. It's super important. I mean, I feel like that was our whole goal as leaders to be able to just elevate the younger guys and allow them. So when we leave that, they can carry the torch. That's what we're like to say. So everybody moves up from back seats to the front seats. So I feel like we're giving the possibility to be able to move up to the front seats and be ready for every challenge that's throwing at them. I think JT said there would be another 15 buck guys here next year. Yeah. You have a prediction on a number? I have no idea. I mean, there would be a lot of guys. I mean, we like a lot of good talent, a lot of young guys. I mean, who knows? What do you think it would mean for these good guys that's here to retire, break the record of one sport you didn't draft it in a draft? Records 15, I think. Yeah. It would mean a lot, honestly.

4:37:31These guys work hard. I mean, being in a hall stage, you got a lot of great guys there. I mean, guys we showed and our film shows, man. I mean, this is probably one of the more complete teams that we had in college football. So I feel like the Scouts understand me and coach's understanding how good are guys we have. Not only do we have good on the field, man. A great character, guys, man. So yeah. How good is something to talk about? Oh, he was great, man. I mean, being able to come from BAMMA and build a jump on a hall stage, we mean, he felt like you played on for him the whole time. I mean, this guy was a great guy. Not only off the field, but on the field as well. He was very technical-sounding, man. He had a great technique. He was hard to get around him in practice. So I mean, definitely showed in games. So he's a great guy. I appreciate him. So you've got to rest guys here with the longer season, potentially? Yeah, we play it by ear. You know what I mean? We see how it goes by the time we get in the camp. But obviously, he's earning his stripes. So when you earn your stripes, you know, a lot of jobs to create opportunities for you. You know what I mean?

4:38:31We have to see how it goes with all that other stuff. You know, once we get closer to the season, and we're getting the game plan stuff. But he's doing a great job and he's taking a great step forward. Tim, when you're the way that you build the room, or the way you kind of establish your room now, it seems like it's been like son of pieces, kind of relationships, and kind of building bonds. But I'm curious, is that something that you came in with the, like, a couple years ago, with the intention of doing it, or is that something that you're like, that's kind of been cultivated over the course of your Thomas position? Like, you guys who? No, it's been there for a while. I've been doing that for a long time. It's all about relationship. If you develop real relationship and you're authentic in your communication, and you have honest feedback, and you have direct teaching, the guys that have a value and character, and they appreciate that stuff, they'll embrace that. So, but they have to know you care, and you have to know that it's real, and they have to know that you're really concerned about where it is a young man. And when you get close to him, it's been a lot of time with him off the field. You could coach him hard. And you can say truthful things to him, and then they'll embrace it, and you have real conversation, because you know, the only goal is to help them get better as a young man.

4:39:35And as you see, computers go, and then those have told us that the receiver was so far ahead and the border was getting kind of skewed at evaluations sometimes. How's that dynamic change in these two years as the Scrooge got older, and you've been better even more talented? Yeah, it's done balanced up a little bit now. That goes with great competition. We go against the best receivers in college football. So, that helps escalate your growth process, because if you don't figure it out real fast, you're getting embarrassed. So, that competition, but what happened with that, I guys started competing, I guys started growing, I guys got better, and now it's even up a little bit. So, where you get really good work at practice today, you know what I mean? So, as competitive, it's fun. Those guys both on both sides of all care about each other. So, it's great competition, and they all are real close. So, you know what I mean? It's that stuff that gets us better, that will prepare for Saturday. I asked Denzel, kind of like this, that same idea. And the first day of practice, actually, the receivers kind of got them. Is that any kind of a good way to call me for this? No, it's just competitive, man.

4:40:36They got the best group in the country that you're going against every day. So, you have to bring it every day, you know what I mean? So, we got a great quarterback room, we got a great receiver room. The running backs are really good, so when you out there going against them, it's deep. So, you have to be ready for it. And obviously, man, we're seeing a lot of good stuff with Coach Day and Coach Kelly doing over there, and so it prepares you a lot, and it helps us grow. So, why is the room kind of an exhaustive for green, future green? Is that? It's the one that you're recruiting, or a wide receiver room kind of, like a part of your green, which is like, these are the guys you get to play against. Yeah, all of that, because you know, that's where you get better. Iron shop is iron. So, you know, you get to see that every day of practice that helps you grow. It's no better thing to go against every day than to see that on a daily basis. I'm also near room besides Jordan, looking at to play that next spot. We just move a lot of guys around. We watch our practice, we have a lot of guys in there right now. You know, we pop out, there are four different guys in there, obviously the ring's old, and their germane is in there, Caleb.

4:41:36Miles, we have about four or five guys moving around. Right now, we just try things out in spring ball. See what it fit, you know, see what things work together. So, there's no probably some more guys in there. You know, we move it around and try to just get the right fit throughout the N and C. How it goes by the time we get ready to start the season. What's your name? You can run any strong, you know what I mean? He's fast, very serious about his business. He's big, he's 200 pounds, he can run, he's strong, he's conscientious. You know what I mean? He's starting to grow and he's starting to get better with it. You know what I mean? So, we look for big things for him in spring. Tim, what do you want to see from here in spring? Keep competing, you know what I mean? Now, he's made the transition competing today. You know what I mean? He's started going in that transition, it's all just like I'm in germane last year. You throw him in the fire, you let him go, you compete, you go by the time we get out of the end of training camp. You have to be able to figure it out. Yeah, I want to. But now you just throw it all at him. Come compete, continue to grow, continue to learn. He has the skill set, he has the length. Now you just got to put it all together and it takes time to do that. And hopefully you see that by the time we get into training camp.

4:42:38It seems like a midway through spring, you kind of click for your main last year and you start to see and perform a little better in practice. Is that like a benchmark for where you want your parents to be? By the middle of spring, does he have to be at a certain point where you want it to start clicking? Yeah, by the time you start getting about two weeks from now, that last week, you know, because it takes time. There's a lot of stuff going on. By the time you get into that last week of spring ball, you'll just start seeing the things that you look for show up. And then you get another evaluation again when we get into training camp. See if this stuff carried on to make sure we go for starting in September. What's your assessment of growth that we've just made down to these kind of got a speed under one defense? What do you like about him and that next one? He's very conscientious, he's smart, he can run, he's tough, he's made the adjustment because he's out of Europe on his belt. So now you can see he's not making a lot of mistakes, he competes, he's real conscientious and he has a physical presence. So the growth has been really good and we can look to continue that throughout spring. Coach, thanks very much. I can ask one more, all the guys that came back like Denzel, a great example.

4:43:40Could that surprise you as you reflect on all these guys that came back late in the rain? So they could have turned pro. No, the culture here is real. Coach, they does a great job of building the culture. Our room is close knit. The guys on defense are real close. Those guys want to come back, they have an agenda. You know, we want to come back, they want to come back and walk away with something. So it didn't shock me, but it's a good environment for them too. You know what I mean? That's when you see those guys come back. That's the testimony to the culture that's set here, the brotherhood, the environment. And of course, they run the program for those dudes to want to come back. Because we go at it, it's hard, it's not easy. It's not easy, but what we do. So in fact, they come back and do that as a testament to how he runs the program. Coach, thank you very much. Yeah, what's the conversations like that led to you making that transition to go to the mic making that transition? I mean, there was already a little talk about playing some linebacker. Like, this is where season 8 band is. Like, I was already like, kind of like, wasn't really learning it. Like, no one was teaching me, but I was getting the low linebacker a little bit just because I knew I probably wouldn't play linebacker at some point.

4:44:44So they're like, obviously, when downs came here, it's like, all right, so where can I help the defense the most? You know what I'm saying? And we're trying to get our best level on the field, we're going to help the defense the most. So that's what kind of conversation was. And yeah, I just want to do whatever I can, whatever the defense need me, wherever I can impact most, that's kind of the conversation. What's been the most difficult thing about making that transition to me? It's less time and space. So less wasting movement. When you find that save you, you can kind of a little more waste movement with your feet. You can be take longer strides, you know, linebacks a little, everything short, choppy, keep staying power, keep in your base. So I mean, that's just something like every linebacker has to work on honestly with you. That's kind of been a big thing, but there's a lot of things to work on obviously. Why is it that you and staff decided that my bad guys wouldn't have a base of that? I think my capability, what I'm capable of, and then like the personnel we have, like I said, I'm going to try and get the best level on the field, wherever that may be.

4:45:44So you're still trying to figure that out. Just like that, the conversation was about, maybe a hard being to keep your weight down to stay in some of these. You look bigger? How much have you changed physically? Are you allowed to just like finally eat now? I mean last year I was eating regular like, I was like 2.30 to 2.35 the whole year last year. I don't know if people thought I was 2.25, but I was like 2.35 sometimes last year. So it's not really like anything changed, you know. Obviously I'm gradually getting some more weight, you know, listening heavier weight. It was different training to be a DB than training to be a linebacker. So you couldn't gradually get a little bigger. Are you embracing that different kind of training? Yeah, I love it. I love to be with the linebackers. I think with the DBs, like sometimes in the way room, like I was expecting the win. So like when I won, I was like, oh, it's only one. But that was the linebacker now, it's like it's more of a composition. You know what I'm saying? Not any hits with the DBs. I'm 2.30 going against someone who's 2.05, right?

4:46:45I'm expecting the win. So I love the composition aspect of it. Yeah, Cody said you came in and said, well, it's already bigger than most of the linebackers. Are you playing Will and Sam? How was the position? I've been working on both, yes. Is there any, like, fundamental difference between the two in terms of boxing and the same? Um, I mean, obviously the Sam, more outside the box, outside my backer overhang. You can be walked up on the edge on the tight end, wheels more inside the box. I think the biggest difference from Sam and Will, Sam, you just got to be more outside sometimes during the slot with two. You know, but I think it's similar concept because you can do the same thing in the boundary. It's almost more like the San Francisco feeling of the Wilson boundary. So I think it's pretty similar, honestly. The only difference is that Sam last year I never really was an interior run fitter, like in the A gap, you know, going A to B or whatever that might be. So that's a little different. But I mean, I think I got some of that experience at safety just from a few yards back.

4:47:45So like I said, the only difference really is now just suggesting the less time. Yeah, yeah, Coach, how you coming from where you coming from? You have a better perspective of what's going on. Chris, you played safe. Yeah, yeah. I feel like I have a great understanding of the defense. Um, I think that safety I kind of already knew what the linebacks are doing. So now what I'm really starting to learn is like exactly like every little detail with the these lines doing. That's not really what I didn't know every little aspect of it. I think I'm starting to learn that now because obviously linebacker got to be knowing that more. So I think when it's all said, I think I have a really, really, really good understanding of defense and knowing exactly what everyone's doing. Do you feel like you're warm enough to remember in the mix of the defense too? It's like back here. So I think you can drop it one minute past rusted that you're me. Oh, yeah, actually, I think you can say it would be an alignback here in the play. You're almost in every play. Yeah. Obviously the play can run away from you, but you know, safety sometimes you're just back there. Played never against you. You take two back pedals and it's a tackle. So I think yeah, a linebacker, you're in the play more.

4:48:45More chance more opportunities to make tackles. Do you feel comfortable there? I mean, what does that, you know, obviously you're staying out like that? Yeah, I feel super comfortable with it. Like I said, I think it's just going to be adjustment. You know, obviously it's different playing from a five than it was from playing from like 10 last year. So I think it's an adjustment, but I'm super comfortable with it. So any of you top tier dead and giving you any advice on the new position? Oh, yeah, we watch table all the time, watch practice. You know, he was a high level linebacker. And I'm just getting started with this. He gets a little shit with little footwork and stuff like that, but it's good. I get good teaching him, you know, obviously coach Florida night is great player, great teacher for him, coach knows. You know, he's a super smart football mind. So I'm getting great teaching all around. You're a live backer. Everything happens quicker for you. How much did the experience play some of that sandwich? That's your health. Um, I think it helped a little bit. It's been like in terms of physical like being in the box now down on the line. But I do think the the run fit as a will in a sand can be a little different.

4:49:48Like in terms of like I said, like being an interior fitter, like your 30 backer, when a you get pools, how you going to go spill it, so things like that. I think I'm adjusting well. I think I'm picking up on stuff pretty fast. You know, this is still going to be a lot of stuff for work on the. Do you feel more pressure talking to the media with your brother sitting right there? Not at all. What do you think has been the biggest change from line backer? Safety. Um, I think the biggest change would probably be that that 10 to 5. Because it's a big adjustment because everything's happening faster and you got to react faster. And like I said, the waist and movements, I think footwork is huge. I think when you see the great line backers, as soon as the play happens they're going. They're not taking any waist steps or not fall stepping, things like that. So I think waist and waist movement and being able to see what's happening react to fast. It's been a big spend fitter between being on the same team with your brother. Um, I mean, you know you got someone out there that's a it's more than a team.

4:50:48You know, we call each other brothers, but you know, bloods, bloods a little thicker. So that's always pretty cool. You know, it's always it's never one on one. But when he tells you something, he doesn't observe about you. You know, it's coming from. Yeah, I think when you're blood like that, I think he's not scared of telling me the truth. You know, saying, you know, obviously guys here, we have tough love. But I think it's always going to be a little different when it's your brother. Because he going to keep it 100% blood exactly what you need to hear. What's your advice on playing dick? Oh, for him. I mean, he just so out of leather, he got to keep trusting his instincts. I think he's going to be great. I think what's huge for him is like I said, the athletic ability speed. You know, he bliss off the edge. He's he's been blessing super fast. And he's just great in coverage too. So I think something really good. I think we'll do a lot of different things. Kind of like you see a hand caught. Obviously, a little different body than a hand caught, but I think he's going to be really good. I want to settle in that field.

4:51:49He needs his time. A temporary injury here that you know, we're hopefully getting him back here soon. Yeah, I know progress being made and you know, the biggest thing you try to figure out is when guys make mistakes. Do they learn from the mistake and move on from it? He's done that. He's I saw him flash today in special teams. So that's good. That's positive. But yeah, I think the more guys are thrown into the fire. You kind of find out how they respond. And you know, a lot of the installs kind of in now. I think we'll still continue to install some things and look at some different schemes on both sides of the ball. But the next two weeks, it really an opportunity for guys to go compete. And he's going to be one of them because we're trying to build three deep in each position based on, you know, the way next year is going to be with the playoffs and everything like that. We know we're going to we used to say a pair of spare. And now we need three at each position. So need to build depth at all positions. And so he'll he'll be somebody that'll be in the mix. Camerd G. Robins. Yeah.

4:52:49Yeah, they were in the back field of bunch, especially like you said in the coming out period. You know, first time doing coming out, a little, you know, too loose on offense. You know, we got to tighten that up. But you can see the quickness with some of those interior guys and you know, you see Caden and you see some of the movement that's going on in there. I think Jason Moore, I think Larry talked about that he's flashed and showing that he can do it. So, you know, and then also, you know, on the edge, you see Mitchell Melt and getting the back field as a rush. You got a couple of sacks, I think today. So, you know, same thing. We're looking for, for, you know, three, three guys at each position because all those guys are going to play. And we're going to roll this year because we know it's going to be a long season. You know, we're going to let this. You know, especially when you're in that square, you can have that every day. Yes. Yeah.

4:53:50I think any time you have somebody who is as talented as both of those guys are, you know, you get excited about them, certainly in the recruiting process. But then when you have guys who have discipline and then skill like they do, that's when you have a chance to have a great player. I think both of them have discipline in their life. I think both of them have built up a skill package. Kaila already has a year of college footballer is belt at a high level. So, you know, he's further along that way. But Jeremiah has really stepped in. You know, he got his black, black stripe off real quick. He's got a great approach. And, you know, I'm going to be careful what I say. But he's been certainly a pleasure to watch. And we're all very excited about his future. If he continues on the path that he's on, he'd have a, he's going to play a lot of football and certainly would have a chance to start as well.

4:54:50Any others? No, okay. Good. Go ahead. Yeah. I think you're seeing CJ play fast. You know, he really likes blitzing. You can tell he's quick in there. He's doing a nice job timing up the blitzes and another year under his belt of experience. Being in a room with Tommy Aikenberg, Seal Chambers, watching how they did it. Now he's doing it. But I think you're seeing the speed and the athleticism and the length between Cody, you know, Arvel, Sonny, CJ. You know, those guys are athletic, you know, gave powers. You know, all these guys are guys who they can blitz, they can cover, they can, you know, check defenses. They think they're doing a good job with that. James and Jim have both done a really good job of training them that way. So excited about that group, you know, in their versatility. They're not where they need to be yet. You know, I'm glad we're not playing.

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4:58:03I think the team need him to play for this year. Same conversation. I think the team needs to be very quick in short areas. I think he does a nice job in the slot. I think he's in this match with a lot of guys in there because of his equipment. He's a very good runner for the quarterback. He's that excellent body language. Understands. States really operate in short areas. So it counts for him. He's a stronger player on contacts. So if you could do that, the most important thing is to be serious. Yes. Well, I think all the runners-up run hard just to be serious. Just being a little bit of a different team. So I think that's a good thing. I think that's a great job.

4:59:05It's a job coming down 8. It's a great to see both games and say and coming in fresh. I think that's a good thing. I think it's a good thing. I'd like to think it's the best way to get the current count in the country. I think that's a good thing. I think that's a good thing. He's got a very good job. He's very disappointed with the approach. He's a guy that can really bring value for it. I think you can see it in the world that's more common in the pocket I thought. You have to be a good pro.

5:00:05You did this in the world as well. I think that's a good job in the pocket. I felt like the seat gets round and it's great to see it in the pocket. I think the seat is a pocket. I think he's got a good way of having 40 back there. So he has different needs. He has different eyes. He's got a good seat. He's got a good seat. I think the seat is a broad grass. But I really like to see the picture next step.

5:01:05Yeah, I want to make sure we have that we have to do the good candidate. That's a really good conversation. I think we have to do this and definitely taking conversation. You know, it feedback from a lot of people in the program to make sure we have the right guy. Because you're right. Right now there isn't. You know, like have to get done right now because of recruiting. I feel like we should have somebody in place here by next week. Well, he's finally healthy and he's actually, you know, putting stack and practices together. So I think that's probably the biggest thing. Because I don't think. You know, he's been able to really show what he can do because he's had some, you know, injuries here and there. And, you know, he put on a lot of strength and a lot of weight early on and then had a few issues. But now he's healthy.

5:02:05So at least we're seeing, see him out there learning and growing and making some plays. So, you know, I think we're kind of halfway through and figure out how we grade it out today. But at least we're making progress because he's getting on the field and he's getting those reps under his belt. All right, guys, thanks. Yeah. Friends us. And having a plan, right? What if it's not the work that I thought it was going to be now what? Where do my eyes need to be and how does that affect my decision? But constantly playing those games both on the field. But also I think it's just as important to play that in your head. You know, we talk to those guys all the time that we're laying around at bed and maybe watching some film and, you know, looking at a clip and, okay, what would I do here on this play? What would I do here on this play and constantly challenging your mind to play with an imagination even when we're not out there on the field doing it? Is an opportunity to grow up as an opportunity to get better and maybe somehow mentally I can put myself in that position. So if I do get a look that hadn't shown up on tape all year long, but they give us a different look on defense than maybe they've shown I'm ready for that moment.

5:03:10What's that? Well, number one, you know, he's an ironbucker. So which is pretty incredible. Obviously, we know that's a big deal around here and his work in the weight room was tremendous. So as an athlete, we've definitely seen that. And then, you know, on top of that, we've seen him grow as a leader. He's more vocal. His presence has felt, I think he's playing with with a little bit of an edge to him, which is good to see. I think you have to play that position with a little bit of an edge without, you know, ever getting too higher to well. And that's contagious. So we're seeing that right now from Lincoln and then, you know, as far as mechanically it goes, you know, we're definitely seeing Lincoln get the ball out quick. I think he's accurate. You know, I think that his base has improved. There's been, you know, a couple of things that in the spring, he was working on with his footwork. And we've seen some drastic improvements that way. You know that he's at the Black Jersey on a lot of things that Lundsen probably did.

5:04:10Take it away by going play day and things like that. How do you see him as an athlete in that regard while also not being able to see it as much on the practice field since he's not live? I mean, you know, you definitely can't see it to the full extent as though you go live. But we still see it, you know, we still see it. You know, there's times when he's extending plays or stepping up through the pocket and taking off and going. And, you know, there's no question. Lincoln's a great athlete. And that's got to be something that he plays through his strengths. You know, that's got to be something that his game has in it, which he's shown to do a great job of. You know, he's been a couple of places throughout spring where he's extended the play and kept his eyes on field and made some great throws. So, you know, that's although we can't see that quite as well because we're not going live, there's still definitely a feeling for that. You can't really worry about that when it says in regard and kind of the sure thing that Duelism does really well. How do you make sure that those guys are trying to win the competition on what they do well, but also make it and get out of their comfort zone. So they're being thrust into positions that maybe they're not super comfortable with to show you guys what they can do.

5:05:10Yeah, I mean, you know, as we as we script practice and we go through it, we try to be extremely detailed. And the different reps that everyone's getting in, it's not like, you know, we would ever script a certain play on purpose because it fits someone's strengths better. You know, we want them to run the offense. You know, the offense is always going to adjust to the skill set of the players that are in the entire offense, but at the end of the day, you know, the offense is going to be the offense. So from a decision making perspective, from a throw perspective, those guys are going out there and getting those reps and competing in it. So I assume this one training camp here, not really taking it in terms of who's ahead. At what point do you need to start thinking that way? Are you just right now? Yeah, right now we're just we're just taking a day by day and really period by period on the field meeting by meeting off the field. And you know, the one thing that's pretty cool is those guys are very competitive and they push each other hard and they're, you know, they're ultimately really good for each other because they both make each other uncomfortable because, you know, they're both very good players.

5:06:18You know, and and Tavians right there with them included in that mix and and above all that, they're still friends. You know, I think it's pretty cool right now is just, you know, you walk into that quarterback room and you've got a bunch of really, really good guys that all get along well. And you know, we're willing to help each other out and give each other pointers and tips that they see something and, you know, it's it's an enjoyable environment to be around every day, but, but ultimately those guys are competing, you know, they're going out there and they're trying to win the job and I think they realize that every moment is important and every period is important and they're going out there trying to get done. When you talk about a quarterbacks getting the ball out quicker, how much of that is efficiency of mechanics and how much of that is mental, like how quickly they see something to take the ball out. Definitely a combination of both, you know, I think when you look at a concept, you know, how quick can I process the information I'm getting from the defense and the way that I can process that information quickly is where my eyes are, my eyes are in the right spot.

5:07:21If I'm looking at the right thing and I can anticipate what that defender is going to do and make a decision and get the ball out, right, that's that's a major major factor in it. And then there's also a piece of it, right, that comes down to the mechanics as well. But I think more than anything, you know, it's about making sure my eyes are in the right spot, making sure that I'm trusting what my read is and making sure that I'm getting the ball out and making a great decision with the football. Coach, I sort of thank you very much. Thanks guys. Not too hard for me to put it behind me. Stuff happening in life, stuff happening in the game that may not go our way, but just by responding and coming out here and having fun. Coach, when you see older players, you know, for previous generations in the game that have had concussions and some of the struggles they're having in their older life. What are these specialists telling you to alleviate any concerns that you may have about the potential of having to deal with those same problems, those problems that are currently giving them?

5:08:24Yeah, that's a great question. A lot of the information and a lot of things before, like during the time of those older players are a lot different than the knowledge and information that we have now. And I mean, we're able to treat concussions and also back then is like if you got a concussion, they were sending you right back into the game. So now it's a lot different. We got a protocol and it gives your brain time to heal and everything. So I think things are setting plays now where it's a lot better than before and that time where we're making problems later on. So that's why I'm not really too concerned about it. Did you have any recommended to you? Say it again. Did you have a new helmet recommended by the trainer or the medical staff? No, I just wanted to get into a new helmet. I mean, people have a refer to it. They also, during our team meeting has said how there's a number of helmets that are better than other helmets right now. So I just wanted to check those out and see what they are. Is this how concussion any more severe than the others you had? No, that's one of the other things. I'm not going to give a whole seminar on concussions over here. But no, it's not necessarily more severe.

5:09:25Each concussion, just what I learned, each concussion is its own specific concussion. And you gotta give that time to heal and then once that's healed and ready to go once you get back out here, you're good. So it's not like concussions are building on top of each other. Like if you give it time to heal, but I think before what guys were getting trouble with the long time ago, it was like they get a concussion, not fully healed and they go right back out there and playing. Then's a little captain see a side or maybe part of it. Can you just reflect on how you've grown since showing up here at Fairly 21? Is it a player of personal or anything? Yeah, I've been here for a little while now. I've been enjoying every second of it. I always came in trying to be a captain and trying to lead these guys as best as I can. And I definitely feel that I've grown vocally and just trying to help build the team up and build myself up. So I'm just trying to do anything I can to help this team. How about in a concussion situation like this? You're so close to reminding your brother that you have to sort of involve the family's decision on how to get back out? Yeah, definitely. They came down with me. So when I was I had like when the team was here doing meetings,

5:10:27I was driving up to a Pittsburgh meeting with the concussion specialist and everything. And they were with me and just easing their mind. That's the biggest thing. easing their mind. They're all they're worried and everything, but they'll be okay. We saw the play with a large amount of energy growing. Say it again. We saw the play practice. Yeah. Did you think it could be up for two weeks after that? I mean, I was good. It was that day that I was kind of had a headache and everything. But I was pretty much good after that. But it was just about going through the protocol. And I mean, there was no rush back. We weren't playing regular season games. So I mean, I was just really good in the time of the year. It wasn't any rush. It was where I already had and still had a helmet to helmet. From your perspective, it has to be an expert. But are those doing what they're intended to do? You know, you gotta take care of it when he got to. You know, I'm saying like guys are still getting concussions and getting the wearing. Yeah, it's definitely still a physical sport.

5:11:28So I mean, concussion happened regardless. I know if you were in a guardian cap or not. I think it could be looked at too. I know and just talked about it on the guardian cap. I don't think in the back that is as much padding as I would like. But I feel it could be looked at. But I think you get a concussion whether you're wearing a guardian cap or not. So I mean, stuff happens. This is a physical game. Sorry. Just to clarify this, you said you're going to get any helmet. Also, wear the guardian cap during the game? No. I'm not going to. You feel that about this game helmet that you've been wearing. Yeah. What's your name and the brand of helmet? Like any details you have? Oh, I'm not sure the brand of name yet. I have to get it from those guys inside. But you guys will definitely be seeing this soon though. And how do you feel about not playing in a preseason game? You have to say you're a career winner. It's not a big deal. I want to say it's not a big deal, but I don't feel any pressure any like, oh, I just needed to play in a preseason game. I feel that's a great opportunity for the younger guys to get out there and showcase what they're able to do.

5:12:28Well, I still been practicing and playing and working out and getting ready for the season. So, I mean, I know the game. I'm looking forward to that first game. And I'm not really concerned about not being able to get a snap of the preseason game. What do you think about MJ did filming in P, particularly during the joint practice against Jefferson? Yeah, MJ is the number one corner. I mean, you guys see it. He's going to be big for us this year. And I think that's what's special about this team. We got three number one corners myself. MJ and Greg, I feel we all are number ones. And we able to do different things out there on the field. And one guy is out. Another guy can step in and not lose track or not lose pace on what we got going on. How do you think MJ has a growth as a leader in the early of the year three? And he's trying to figure out this world as a guy that's bringing energy and also trying to bring it along. Yeah, definitely. Like you said, bring it in. That's exactly bringing energy, bringing guys along. MJ is real vocal out there. And he competes as he's in competitor out there and just working hard. And trying to be the best. He got the mindset of wanting to be the best. And he is.

5:13:28So we just go out there and compete with one another. We're happy to see CD Lam get his contract signed and be ready to go out there. I play this game so you can face the belt. No, I'm definitely happy for him. That's life changing. Contracting everything for him and his family. So definitely happy for him and looking forward to going to having that match up in the game. Always love going against the number one guys and best guys on that team. So I'll be looking forward to it. It tends to look up more to history and concussions that we're talking about. I think when you suffer the latest one, people who cover the team and then fans are wondering how loud the discussion could you contemplate and retire? Every go through your mind or do you immediately know that you're going to come back? Yeah, like I said, this is a game I love, man. I love playing this game. I've been with the guys out here. I really don't see myself doing too much other stuff. Unless I'm just really physically unable to play this game. I don't see myself stepping away from football no time soon.

5:14:29Like I said before, I can't take it easy on these receivers out here. So me being out here, I got to give them a good look and just go out there and play. But I answer your question now. I haven't seen myself walking away though. Are you actually at a protocol now? Yes. Hey, did you know, Greg Culld Miles hardened the steal drafts? What have you seen? Say it again. Sorry, Greg Culld Miles hardened the steal drafts. What have you seen from him over the camp and what kind of excise you by? Yeah, Miles, he's been balling. He's been showing out, making plays against the Vikings and just making plays out here. So it was big for him to make the team. I was happy for him. We all congratulate him and he's going to be a big piece on our team. Like coming going forward. And so often, another rookie you mentioned making the receivers better. How have you seen how you meet? Jamari talked about how you've helped him as a rookie. What have you seen out of him in his development? Yeah, he's been looking good since he came in. I think he's been getting better and better. He's night and day from once he came in. So where he's at now, I believe. I think that's just his competitive nature and what he's been doing out there in practice.

5:15:30And that's going against one another out there. So he's been good and he's going to be a big piece as well. That's our offense. So what do you get for receivers? How can you help a receiver? Yeah, I mean, it's a constant communication. If I were to win on a red, they may come and ask me what it is that you've seen on that play that you're able to get in position. And I'll tell them that. I may ask them a question. So it's just that constant communication on how we can get each other better. Thank you guys. Thank you. Thank you. Glad to see you back. Glad to see you back. I just... The ocean moves us. Whether that's surfing a wave or taking in an inspiring view. The ocean feeds us. Sustainable seafood practices bring the ocean's bounty to our plates. The ocean teaches us. How our everyday choices, big and small make an impact. The ocean delights us as playful otters restore coastal kelp forests.

5:16:31The ocean connects us. Find your connection at monoraybeacquarium.org slash connects. CalSheezone CEO says it himself. And yes, two-thirds of people on CalShe lose money. So what does it take to be in the other third? You have to do extensive amount of research to be good. There are people that spend copious amount of money, time, resources, energy. They've dedicated their lives to basically becoming good at it. All that and still. And yes, two-thirds of people on CalShe lose money. Those money, those money, those money. That's CalSheez, in their own CEOs' words. Go to www.fairpredicts.com to learn more. You can't predict the future, but you can prepare for it. Arizona State University is building degrees for what's ahead. Programs designed around emerging fields taught by faculty whose research is shaping our future. Not just teaching about it. It's why we've been ranked number one in innovation for more than a decade. Your future is worth preparing for, and you don't have to prepare alone. Become future-ready.

5:17:32Explore more than 400 programs at ASUOnline.asu.edu. That's a degree better. Like, does that count the mindset that you take in everyday practice? Like, you just say you're not happy during my catch-up with all people. Like, I was like, 98 out of 100 receivers. That is probably our not catch-up votes on you. That's what? Is it kept out of the back of your head when we want to get Jeremiah and Carnell and Brandon and Emma? Yes, that's my mindset. In practice everyday, I want those boys to get me everything that they have. So, like, in the Saturdays, it's going to be easy for me and I'll be prepared. What have you seen the growth of these young foreigners? Obviously, we saw that they're not at Jeremiah last year. They're your mates, aren't they? But Calvin and some of the Aaron's and the young guys. How have you seen them come along? And Scott has gotten completely better from his brain. Glad, completely better. Is that just time being the problem? I'm just getting used to the speed of college football, I would say.

5:18:35What about Calvin? He was obviously here last year. He was? Calvin has gotten a lot better. Like, I would say that he's gotten a lot smarter. And then he also write GB. Look, he's got about Calvin's intelligence, you know, where he's grown. Where specifically is it? The film room? Is it, and I pick it up, you know, the playbook? Where have you seen that? The rain 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 you in the last year? Was it in the soft seat? When did you feel this comfortable? I would say it in the spring, I started to get a lot more comfortable in our decent. We said you break up the past yesterday with the German, I'm sorry if you were asked about this earlier, but what is like going up against him to 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 has improved in your game just from that, for example, those one-on-one matchups, this preseason or whatever.

5:19:37You know how a ballie who disgave it. So German, he forces me to pay the back of the, if you don't pay the ball against him, he'll go get it. Yeah. And you, Dave's in there. How would you describe this defense now compared to this time a year ago from this 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 is a lot more smart than they are. Everybody's like, I would just say, we're just smarter. Yeah, when you look up and lay them around, some decided to come back and calibdance, transfer it in. What did you feel about that? Did it just grow stronger in that one week span, two weeks span? You're telling them same? I feel like those guys have played at that level. Those guys have played at that level. Yeah, I would say that. The down's coming in. The way he say he was coming back, zero sales, coming back, it's just so light.

5:20:37Yeah, that would be absolutely amazing. Thanks, man. Variance versus mobile quarterbacks helps us obviously be in the juice of his home and learn from our, where we had him going through the hole and how to scrap us, where we can learn from those crampals. 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, 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're saying what I'm saying, Tommy? Yeah. You can't just go right at him and go ahead. Yeah, 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 the offense he runs the show. So I mean, be able to stop him and contain him, really slows the offense down. So be able to cage the pocket and be able to slow him down and make him make more decisions on the run and moving around. It really helps us. Go ahead. Do you have one more? Him, I'm sorry. Well, no, I didn't want to ask about their center. Their center, what I impressed with you with him was, I mean, you guys played.

5:21:38He seemed 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. 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 a beer in there, being a beer. The size and being able to move the way he can is really hard to get around him at times. He's definitely having a game plan and working against and working to tend to see that he has a good work against that. It really helps me. Yeah. Fifth or a middle, Steven Leonard, college football foul. Yeah, kind of piggybacking on that. How much of it was there offensive line being a strike that are team versus Dylan Gabriel being 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, you 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, for having a good offensive line. So, I mean, like I said before, just being able to attack the offensive line, attack their weaknesses and be able to go after them, make it harder for the quarterback.

5:22:38And he's harder for them or rural. Or for a right, Andrew Gillick, 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 was in the last two days. So, how do you stay true and be aggressive and force the issue where, you know, Bill Gates was really going to make it a great team? Oh, yeah. Like I said, just putting pressure on them, I mean, do you be able to get it 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, you know, 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. And final questions, Bill Rebeno and Columbus Dispatch? We've asked about Dylan Gabriel and receivers. They're not one dimensional. They throw a good run 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 in 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 stopped in the run.

5:23:39That's the first thing we're going to do as we go on the game. I mean, past rushing is good and all, but we can't stop the run. They're going to run the ball there and throw all the time. So, all the time we have to figure out how we're going to stop them. We're going to run the ball and then we're going to take them down. So, I mean, it's our job as a front pro to go on there and stop the run. We're going to make them one dimensional as we go out there. So, I mean, if you get out there every time every mile a set, we go out there and we're going to get them. We're not going to allow them to get in the yards, allow them to get going. We're going to stop them. We're going to make them throw the ball. When JTB was up, you asked him about how to compare contrast to him and Jack. It's personalities. What's your take on that? How different are they as just personalities? 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 and everybody loves him. He's an outgoing guy. They come to you, shake your hand any time of day, and then JTB 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.

5:24:39And Ty, I do that one more question for you. Tony Irvin, like that. You guys obviously have faced TAPO. You did it last week. What's the key for you as a defensive one facing TAPO? Oh, 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 able to get on the ball, get set before they're lined up and set the ball. It's one and more important thing. So when we're set, we're able to do our jobs at efficiency before they can do theirs. How does it feel to them? It could be difficult times. You gotta look to the signline first. You gotta get the call. The call has to be set down first. It can't be difficult 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've changed the play to one side of the field. And now it looks lined up. They're going to be handed to the other side. So you've got to run the signline side, like just to get the play. Oh, yeah. I mean, that happened a lot last game. It's hard. It's definitely tough. I mean, that's what we work on and practice. It's moving as fast as we can. We're simulating these things so we can get into the game.

5:25:39It's a lot easier. So we moving around side to side, running around, doing extra conditioning just for moments like this. Time. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you, John. I think you know you're not going to get hit, but more preseason and first couple games, I'm excited to see see what that looks like. I think of the sheets, uh, extension. I'm excited, man. Like I said, from the jump, uh, he's a special, a special player. You don't really get that so many players like him that's so quick, so fast, uh, at least speed and I ain't going to run routes 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 he would get me out of the way for another? It's just speed, man. Speed. You can't teach speed at all. Just having us on opposite sides, even to play on both sides. Uh, just speed down a field. You can run 15, 20 yard end breakers out breakers. And, uh, 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.

5:26:39Uh, it's going to be a great compliment to the offense. I'm excited. Chris, you said you hope this new offensive, but the playmakers in the position to make plays. What about you specifically? What's an area where you think you'll have more opportunity than facing them? Um, like it's a lot of areas that you can see to, to look at, to improve my game, but yards out the cases are one I'm looking forward to. Just more opportunities with that. More space. Just to showcase my speed and, uh, my, my ability with the ball. So I'm excited to do that this year. Uh, something that I really showcase the first two years. So I'm excited to be with. Is it something that you could gain a little bit? Just getting the ball on your hands. Like, yeah, quick game play action. Uh, more over the, over the middle routes. Uh, it's a lot of different things that, uh, you could say that this guy's going to help that, but like I said, I'm excited. How would you describe the chemistry between you and Gary and I going? Well, again, way better, man. I mean, it was our first year last year.

5:27:40So it was, it was kind of up and down, but, uh, that's what it comes with the game of football. So, uh, we worked a lot this off season, OTAs, which was really good. And we got off to a good start these first two days of camp getting extra working. But that's won't come with time. So I'm not worried about that at all. We both competitors, we both want to be the best. So, uh, we got it. We got to do something to be good. Where do you kind of notice that difference? It's just like, feel on the routes. What do you kind of notice now that it's year two, but it's more natural. What do you mean? Oh, I dare, for you when you're just going to start. Uh, where do you kind of notice? It's just like, it's more than that, man. It's in a fail. You know, everybody's good. So we just got to know what each other's thinking, pre-snap, post-snap, cover-gaze, where the ball's going to go. Just reads what read I am and the progression, everything goes along with that. So, uh, just being on the same page, being, like I said, chemistry is built with time. So, uh, just little stuff like that that turns into big things is going to be huge.

5:28:41You caught one from us, that's a route-loaded AT-2. What do you early impressions from? It's real talented. That's the first thing I've seen from him. It's arm-tail, it's all the charts. It's a real natural feel out there. He'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. It's going back to the machine that we talked about all the different stuff he should do. You think there's still a lot more there for that? Oh, yeah. He hasn't really, I think this is the first year of being receiver two, or really receiver. In my opinion, we both are receiver one, so I just be able to move around, run real routes. I feel like it's going to be a huge advantage for the same. So, it's a special player, and I can't wait to see him ball. And I can't wait to see him get more opportunities. And you can see what he can do. By run real routes, he's just like an opportunity to run. Yeah, just getting more, you know, he hadn't really played too many plays in his first few years.

5:29:42He kind of just gets thrown in there when he's getting the ball, or when he's a decoy, or something like that. But 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. I'm part of the receiver like that, but the shed kind of, you know, think of him as the deep threat level, and then, so, people just think of him as the deep threat. But, you can do more. How hard is it to kind of shed that label or that perception, like, 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, I mean, that's not really who you are, you know what I'm saying. As he gets more opportunities, as you can see, you can see he 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 it's going to be a big one for the Saints. Does this scheme ask for more blocking from the receivers, is there more responsibility?

5:30:42Oh, yeah, for sure. I mean, that's what I tell you too, we both don't have to block. And I know we're not the biggest guys, or the strongest, but, like I said, we're going to be on the field, we've got to be on the field for the play action plays, all those things. So, we both got to go block D-Line, and block Lyon backers, but that's what's coming football, so we both got to take that next step in our game. Is that somewhere there's like a payoff? Like, you guys know you play from play action next time, but then there's people all around. 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 grateful for our team. Like, being here? Oh, yeah, so, after I filled the weather out here, and that's what I'm used to, not using the war, but I'm just out there trying to catch my breath, but it's a great opportunity for us. You're going to chance to see family and friends, and also this is their fourth friend here. Not yet, but they're going to come out here soon.

5:31:43Appreciate you, John. Thank you very much. We're going to see the whole field of all these in the pocket, or two big things in terms of his accuracy. The ocean moves us, surfing a wave or savoring the view. The ocean delights us as playful otters restore coastal kelp forest. The ocean connects us. Visit monoraybeacquarium.org slash connects. CalSheezone CEO says it himself. And yes, two-thirds of people on CalShe lose money. So what does it take to be in the other third? You have to do extensive amount of research to be good. There are people that spend copious amount of money, time, resources, energy. They've dedicated their lives to basically becoming good at it. All that, and still. And yes, two-thirds of people on CalShe lose money. Those money, those money, those money, those money. That's CalSheez, in their own CEOs' words. Go to www.fairpredics.com to learn more. You can't predict the future, but you can prepare for it. Arizona State University is building degrees for what's ahead.

5:32:44Programs designed around emerging fields taught by faculty whose research is shaping our future. Not just teaching about it. It's why we've been ranked number one in innovation for more than a decade. Your future is worth preparing for, and you don't have to prepare alone. Become future-ready. Explore more than 400 programs at ASUOnline.ASU.edu. That's a degree better. All right, I'm Barry W. This is kind of uncharted waters with the new playoffs system and everything from an offensive standpoint. How much of the offense is in? And are you holding things back because there's some pooch? I mean, how do you manage all that? Yeah, I don't think we hold anything back. I think our offense is always game plan specific in terms of who we're playing and how do we attack what they do. Each defense you face is somewhat unique. You can say, hey, this team's a little bit like this team, but not totally like that team. So I think it's not, hey, this is a really good play.

5:33:45Let's not run it because we're going to need it down the road. You have to win every game. And I don't think you can take that approach of let's save this for another game because you don't know how games are going to express themselves during the course of the game itself. So everything we do is just game plan specific, especially now that we've gotten into a conference play. Pretty much in. Yeah, I mean, we could add stuff that I think we may have done in the spring, but we haven't used yet just because we haven't faced that defense yet. Thanks for the whole work. Chip, in 2022, your UCLA offensive line was a semi-finals for the Joe War award. Today, it's offensive lines. Maybe semi-finals for that. Do you see similarities for the way that that unit was playing and the way that Justin has your guys playing right now? Got you making me think back. I think they're different. I don't really upset it before. I'm not into comparing one group to another group. I didn't know that that's pretty cool for those guys. That's a prestigious award. You know, those guys usually go unnoticed.

5:34:45That's the nature of the position. If you're an offensive lineman, they, you know, they're either close or too valuable hardware. They don't really get a lot of attention. They're not the guys that are out in the limelight, let some of these other guys. But they work their tails off. I think that's the gist of anything that's going to be a really good football team. It has to be strong on both lines and the fact that they've been recognized for that. That's something that's pretty cool. But now we got to live up to that standard every day. You guys don't know how to start those award test coaches, but to see the way that those guys have responded since losing Josh. That's the play car and the leader in the office. How do you, how do you think of the even way that's playing without Josh? I've been really impressed. And I think really Donnie and Seth have really stepped up in that leadership port. You know, and I think the two of those guys have really kind of led from the front to tough, hard-knosed physical players. Obviously Donnie being selfish and moving from left card to left tackle was a really big deal for us. And he continues to work at his craft every day because I think everybody just thinks they're all lying.

5:35:48But all five of those positions are really different. And it's not easy to go from one position to another position. And the fact that Donnie's done that has been great. And I think Seth really, because he calls all of our identifications and directs what our blocking schemes will be, and I think that's really kind of fell into that leadership role force. And I think our guys are rallying behind those two. All right, Dave Holmes. You, that's why I talked a little bit about his upbringing at Fenway Park in historic baseball. And you want to get your thoughts on playing a game in Wrigley? Yeah, I think it's cool. You know, I've not seen, I've seen just highlights of a football game in there. And I've been a game at Wrigley when I was out recruiting once. But the fact that you can play in settings like that is pretty cool. It makes it unique. Obviously, they're refurbishing their stadiums. So they got to be on the either build, the one that they did on campus or go to Wrigley. So the fact that we get to be the one team that plays in Wrigley, I think it would be pretty cool. And I think our players won't enjoy that. Awesome. One of the podcasts, Chip, I know every game plan every week is different.

5:36:48Contention on the opponent. But it's felt like the last couple of game plans have leaned a little bit more on Will's over Russian threat. What's motivating that decision? The defense is that the people deploy. You know, sometimes they always have an extra guy in the box. And if you run the quarterback, then that evens numbers back out. It's as simple as that. You know, some teams don't do that. And other teams do do that. So, you know, it's just sometimes when you get, especially when you get in a conference play, I think there's a lot of people in this league that know how to stop the run. So, you know, you got to be able to have a mobile quarterback and it helps the Will has that mobility. Bill Landis, team to the north. Chip, do you ever integrate off the play or change something up just for the sake of doing it, to break a tendency or put something different on film, or is it always opponent specific? No, it's always opponent specific, but you still self-scout yourself. And what are we doing out of this formation and what is our run pass ratio? And even within that, within out of this formation, all runs are this. You know, and then that's always the fine line.

5:37:50Well, we should do something different. We're doing, we're working. Why would we do something different? You know, so you kind of play that game and go back and forth with it. But we're constantly working on self-scout of ourselves and tendencies that we're trying to just understand. But sometimes these are good tendencies. You know, you could be, hey, you're 90% run out of this formation. You're also 90% success out of this formation. So, you know, do you not call that ever again because you think that they think that you think this. You know, you can get into that real dilemma of just, you know, it's still about executing and still about lighting up and playing. But we do spend a lot of time on that. That's part of what our weekly game plan meetings are about. The ocean delights us. Some marvel at the colorful world below the surface. The ocean feeds us. Others find nourishment in its bounty. The ocean teaches us how our everyday choices impact even the deepest places. The ocean moves us. Whether we're riding a wave or soaking in its breathtaking beauty. The ocean connects us.

5:38:51Find your connection at monoraybeacquarium.org slash connects. CalShi's own CEO says it himself. And yes, two thirds of people on CalShi lose money. So what does it take to be in the other third? You have to do extensive amount of research to be good. There are people that spend the copious amount of money, time, resources, energy. They've dedicated their lives to basically becoming good at it. All that and still. And yes, two thirds of people on CalShi lose money. lose money. That's CalShi in their own CEO's words. Go to www.fairpredicts.com to learn more. Hi, this is Dave Roberts. Heading into summer without a medical emergency kit, that's a risk. Summer colds can linger and getting sick on vacation can derail everything. That's why everyone needs a medical emergency kit. It includes doctor prescribed medications to treat common and serious illnesses. So if you wake up sick, at home or on the road, you already have what you need. It's like having an urgent care and pharmacy at home. Say $45 with code blue at urgentcarekit.com slash blue.

5:39:53Urgentcarekit.com slash blue. Any more emphasis on that in a college football season that can now be 17-18 games where you want to make sure you're sprinkling in different things so that if you get the game 17 and a team has a pretty expansive football on you guys, you know, why is that they can't, you know, key in on something you've done all year. You want to make sure you have those changes. Yeah, there has to be some of those. But again, I think you can drive yourself crazy. When we put this on tape and they think that we can do this because they know that we can do that. They can't do that. And we do that. I didn't make any sense what I just said. And that's what's going on in your head when you're starting to think about all that stuff too. So it's that process. You know, I still think you have to part of being really good at it. What are we good at? And how do we continue to be good at it so that everybody in the stadium doesn't know hey, they're running the ball over the right side on this play because that's what they always do. You know, I think you're still trying to mass some of those things but you still have to play to your strengths.

5:40:55Can you give your team a round of applause? You can kind of offer a question about what's running. I think you're in class, they get a couple of skills. You mentioned you don't have to do anything. You're not just talking about it to be power all the time. How do you see Will's progression in understanding or reading what he does at want? And to do what it comes to handing off to Hugh or Dre, pulling or is that more from you guys? You want to pull this or something more? No, no, it's a good question. We don't tell him we want you to do this or want you to do that. It's totally a lot of that stuff is if it's a read play, it's he has to read it out and how he sees it. Just like we don't tell him where to throw. You know, it's the place called to the Curl or the flat, but it depends. It depends on the defender, defend the Curl or defend the flat. Like you can't tell him before the play. Throw the Curl because I know the guy's going to chase the flat. Well, then he sits in the Curl and you throw a pick and it's coach told me to go there. You know, we know we told you to read this player. So it's the same thing with some of the read plays that we run. And I think he does a really good job. You know, he was really well trained. I think Chris climate does a great job and calling climate a great job at case date.

5:41:57And you know, so Will's got a really, really good understanding of our running game. You know, it was more of just learning the terminology here as opposed to what it was like there. But I think he does a really, really good job of that. And when we put something in new, it may be new to this unit, but it's not new to Will. It's just, oh, yeah, we run this. And then we'll go back and actually look at case date with him and kind of pick his brain. How do you read it and how is it presented to you and what's the best way for us to present it so that we can execute. You're like, I'm just going to just put it. What do you see as the advantage from, from huddling more and just sort of playing the slower pace of playing offense versus past W. 18, remember, we're more place permitted than you are now. Paces will slow. What is the advantage of that? Yeah, I think you can communicate better. You know, so obviously the thing that's changed this season. And I think a lot of people have slowed down. Is the ability for the quarterback to communicate with everybody before the play. You know, before it was just everything was driven by signals and everybody was looking to the sideline and then getting everybody on the same page.

5:43:02So there's, there's some teams. And sometimes when that's to your advantage, you know, I think more people do it to us because they don't want to mow in our hands so that I think the game has. We don't get as many possessions right now as we have in the past. Just because I think all sides are doing it a little bit more. But I think the communication thing that you're allowed to talk to the quarterback up to 15 seconds on the on the play clock is one of the advantages of huddling. You're looking at two of you guys have also done it. Do you think more of this is keeping you in mind to do the other team to see if it gives us an advantage again from being able to communicate. So what will can talk to the offensive line about, you know, remain like normally you'd send a play. And give them like, hey, these guys are 85% twist and boundary corner on this place. So make sure that we're really high alert for that. You know, so there's, there's a lot more that goes on. It's not a two way conversation because he can't talk back to you. But, you know, we have a style of speaking in that situation so that we can communicate some different things before it was.

5:44:03You just called the play and broke now you can give them a lot more information. You know what I mean? There may be a player got injured the play before. We do left corner in the number 50. We talked about him. We saw him on film. This is what he's susceptible to. Let's make sure we're attacking him when you know he's in. Instead of you waited till you get to the sideline between series and go, hey, there's a new corner and I didn't know he was in. But you can communicate that stuff now. Give me a minute. Thanks, Jerry. Pulled up on that a little bit or just on offensive plays. Do you ever have times in games where you have to say to yourself, I gotta be disloaned here. I gotta call some run plays. I know it sounds kind of stupid but I mean to have the balance when you look at this lineup with Jeremiah and Mecca and Carnail and you know, you could throw them all 50 times a game and nobody would question that either. You're saying, does it take discipline to also stay with the run game? I think it takes discipline to know what the defense is trying to take away from you. So, you know, for you to try to continue to throw it if they're going to play.

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5:46:05It's just kind of, what are they like? Because you take, say you're playing Northwestern, you have nine game breakdown in Northwestern. This is what they've done for their last nine games. What, as you go into the really first, second, third series of a game, is what we saw in the last nine games actually happening in this game. And if it is, then we're pretty solid in terms of our game plan. If not, then you may have to morph a little bit towards Ronda or a little bit towards Pass based upon how they decided they were going to come out this week. Because they may have come out in the previous nine weeks and done this, but in your game, they're doing it a little bit differently. So it's the ability to make those adjustments and kind of lean one way or the other. You know, I think it's the discipline part you're talking about. Not just saying, well, we're just going to chuck it. But if they're playing really deep and you're still trying to throw it deep, then that's not smart either. I don't mean to throw it deep every time. You just want us to throw it every time? Yeah, yeah. That's fine. My loss of winning dad aired out. But follow up. You're not a Woody Hayes guy then, huh?

5:47:05Yeah, and that one. Well, come on. You can't go both ways. I've heard of it now that we have a Texas. Okay, so you're not a Bear Brank guy. Yeah, yeah. We've got about that later. When you walk into a place like Wrigley Field, you seem to have a feel for history and stuff. Gail Sayers ran there, you know, Dick Buckis played there. Yeah. Most people don't take their all-played and soldier field and stuff. Do you think about that kind of where you are? I will Friday because we're actually going to get to the stadium and get a chance to kind of look around and see what it looks like. But is that end to the... Yeah, do it too. And I always does. I mean, I love whenever we were wherever I've been when you get a chance to go play with the stadiums and players that you saw when you were growing up and play here, that's always a really cool part about what we get to do. But yeah, that'll be fun. I think everybody's excited about playing the Scandar Wrigley. Great. Go, thank you very much. All right, thanks, guys. You know, just more so let's get off the ball. What kind of impact did you working with Brian Young, this past week have, the defense line as whole?

5:48:06I met a big impact. B-Y, you know, obviously, an old bit. You know, we went back to the basics just on technique, footwork, just the fundamentals. And I think that definitely helped prepare this for the game. Did Reels rotations on the defensive line different this week? Just getting maybe more plays to sequence together, set a counter-route in a while. Yeah, it was more so, you know, six plays. The guy gets tired, just rotate out, but a cool rotation. And definitely helped us stay fresh. Even that last drive during the fourth, guys, we were just a lot fresher, able to rest the passer. So I feel like it benefited us. Is there also just a, like, I don't know, just like getting into the game flow when you're not, where you're kind of subbing in and out is like? Yeah, sure. You know, you can get more into it rhythm. Yeah, definitely.

5:49:08Camo came up with that second and fourth quarter that I don't know if it pushed him out of throw or ready, but I was in Mr. Fogel right after that. Like, Cam's obviously a leader on this team. When he makes a big play like that, like how much maybe does that give a boost of adrenaline to the defense? A big boost, because, you know, that's, you know, that's OG Cam. You know, that's been his Cam right there. You know, all you look at and just smile. But it was a big boost. You know, definitely makes you get on your horse a little more. And just keep your head down and keep grinding throughout the game. That's key and prestige the way that he's kind of accepted his role this year. You know, he's not playing as much as he used to, but obviously in him kind of just embraced that and does a do anything for you. Yeah, I mean, I've been learning a lot from Cam, especially technique wise. You know, I would ask him about just, you know, how I would look at his old film, I asked him about, you know, what was he saying? And, you know, during this particular play. But I think he's an awesome leader.

5:50:10He welcome me and my open arms come here. And, you know, that's my guy. Hey, when, like some real time stands up front of the team, so I'm playing up to my own expectations. Like, I will be better for the, like, what does it mean when somebody hits me? And, like, people grew up watching him. Yeah, I mean, T5, he had to do, man. I mean, you know, every game it can be your best game. That's the lead. You know, but he came up clutch with a pick. I mean, you know, regardless of it all, he always finds a way to get interceptions. I don't know how he keeps doing it. But he definitely, I smile at that too. It's like, you know, I watched him high school, really just his whole career. So it's an honor to be playing with him. Rizzy talked about kind of changing some things every now and then to make people body uncomfortable. What's the value of that from a player perspective?

5:51:12I think just in terms of, you know, staying uncomfortable, things that mental aspect, you know, going through a game, things may not go your way. Just being in that uncomfortable state and always having the will to push him, fight through. How have you seen the changes with the benefits rather of those changes that you all make? It's unique, I mean, like, from practice that's scheduled to your position, work in the locker room. Yeah, I mean, I think we can see it, you know, during the game. We just watched film. I even know myself during the run. I was just in my hand placement. It was a lot better. You know, because we were just refined a lot of the smaller details that BYU felt like we needed to fix. So I think it's paying off. And you also talked about confidence of a minute ago. From you all side of the ball, obviously, up here, bigger, rising on the past week. How much was the confidence boost from what you get from this win? Oh, a lot.

5:52:13I'm a lot, I feel like we, the whole week, you know, we was talking about finishing. And I felt like we did that. You know, we kept our heads down. We went back to the basics. The fundamentals technique, hand placement. You know, that lean that you have to have. And, you know, just refining the small things and it all paid off. So it's definitely a confidence boost. I want you to describe Peyton Turner from your time with him, watching him through training camp, and then having a bigger impact this past weekend. Peyton, great player, great teammate. You know, that's a, that's a, I think, a guy that's a team I grew closer with. But a great, I mean, he's a great player, a hell of a guy. Your ship not only from me, but from a few other guys in the online group. It will be really special to us next 18 days. What's up? What is that about Austin Derby?

5:53:14What's that? What is the doubt about Austin Derby? Yeah, no, I mean, you know, Peyton, he's been doing, you know, everything right. I mean, he's been, you know, bouncing around. He's been, you know, fizzed a lot of adversity as well. But I mean, he's, he's, he's prevailed and he's been doing a great job leading and stuff like that. Being a younger guy, I'm self-reliant to step up and take their roles. Been huge and only for me, but for our entire team and our, for our unit. And so for him to continue to take those steps is, you know, it's going to be really important to this offseason, or throughout this season, through this offseason, because we have a really long season coming up. Like we know, you know, it's going to take everybody. And last year really showed that. So I think that leadership not only coming from, you know, like a couple of guys, but from the entire group. I think it's going to be so important because we're at least that we're going to need everybody. We're playing for a while. They've become starting left guard. They've moved back to center and you've come to starting zone in the national team. Yeah. Just kind of you already mentioned a little bit with plays question, but what a whirlwind last year. Came out on top. Yeah. As you reflect on that, what does it point? Yeah, I mean, just how blessed I was.

5:54:15Just, you know, continuing to come up blessings. I mean, I never thought, you know, that would be the case. You know, I know going into Penn State, but Coach, where I was like, I never played, but you want to give her shot and I was like, shoot, why not? And through that, you know, I couldn't be more blessed. And then from taking over after Steph got, her Steph got injured and being there still coaching me. Not just like taking a back seat and working on his NFL journey, but he really set back and home me out. It was a blessing as well. Being able to play with guys like with two first-round picks and three all Americans. And Josh Farrish would have been all Americans to really four all Americans. It was really, you know, such an honor to be able to play with those guys. I just been blessed to play with a lot of really great people. Coach, it was talked about Austin's development and how quickly kind of he flipped the switch after title game. And I was like, what's the motivation for you to play with him? What's the motivation for you to play with him? What's the motivation for you to play with him? When did you kind of see him flip that switch?

5:55:15You talked to him at all, like the motivation he had to get better and play a big role this season? Yeah, you know, I mean, pigs always a really intense guy. I mean, especially when, you know, we're doing any off season training or something like that. Like he's definitely a guy that gets people going. He's a little below the surface. The ocean feeds us. Others find nourishment in its bounty. The ocean teaches us how our everyday choices impact even the deepest places. The ocean moves us. Whether we're riding a wave or soaking in its breathtaking beauty. The ocean connects us. Find your connection at monoraybeacquarium.org slash connects. Calhchee's own CEO says it himself. And he has two thirds of people on Calhchee lose money. So what does it take to be in the other third? You have to do extensive amount of research to be good. There are people that spend the copious amount of money, time, resources, energy. They've dedicated their lives to basically becoming good at it. All that and still. And he has two thirds of people on Calhchee lose money.

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