LOCKER ROOM: Dante Fowler Jr.

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3:05Never. Never. In my 12 years, I could say I'd never been a part of just a group full of guys that from the top, from every position group on the team, honestly from the top to the bottom of high-tech treat-day sales, high-dego, about their sales as pros, high-tech treat-the-rookies. Yeah, especially. Well, Leonard's talking about the fact that he thought about retiring in New York and there's other guys talking about they come to a new place and they fall back in love with the sport. Can you feel that at all coming here? Yeah, I was pretty depressed last year with how things went with the defense that I was on last year. But it had me questioning some things and stuff like that. But when I came out here, just to be around the coaching staff like Hans, CP, AD, and Mike and the training staff, I was a strength and conditioning coach. All those things played a whole factor of just me feeling like myself again.

4:07I feel good. I feel like how I felt going into the year when I was with the commandeers, just super confident knowing that I put the work in and just let all the chips lay on Sunday. Well, my pal here, Rob, came all the way from the UK to watch you guys play. Rob, you got any questions for Dante? Yes, so obviously I am from England. You have an English defensive coordinator. I just asked a question in mind, with Donald the Bound, your English defensive coordinator. And he didn't understand the words that I was saying. So I want to ask you, is there anything that I don't do? Do you ever says to you that you have to get him to repeat and how he's not working with someone from England? Do the first time I met AD. So this was in Atlanta in 2020. And it's my first time ever meeting him. And we sat down one on one, we was going to recover just like what kind of drops and all of that. And I never made him before. And I just remember I never knew he was going to talk like that. So when he first started talking and he had a thick British accent, it's way better now because he'd been in the States.

5:07But when he first like bro, it was so thick. I was like, he's teaching me these coverage and stuff. And I'm just like he's talking, but I'm like, what the fuck? I never I never experienced that in all my life. I played football since I was four years old. I never had a coach from, you know, the UK. So he was talking. I was just like, what the fuck? And then right after he was talking, I would now repeat everything. I just told you. And I couldn't really repeat everything. He told me because I wasn't listening. I was just listening to the accent because I was so messed up about that. And I was like, do we really have a British coach and just learn his background and all that type of stuff? I'm getting a lot of respect from him. But the certain terminologies and the sounds quite funny. In English I can't say what it is. So technical and I don't know if I'm wrong. Like I kind of like it is. I think weird. So I kind of like think like he's like a drill sergeant of some shit like that. You know, it's like the shit you hear off of a call of duty when you plan like the story modes. But other than that, that's my boy. Smart coach.

6:07That's why I love it about him. He's not from here, but he knows the game like in and out with the defense and all that stuff like that. I just, I take my hat off to him. And just find out when you get this close, this dance of the season, how are you going to get on with it now and get into that first game? Well, just preparing throughout the week. Whether it's taking care of your body or diving into playbook more of a Washington studying or opponents and stuff like that. So around his time, you could just take care of your body and get everything right for a game day. So you ready to just flow. And good luck. It's going to be great when you hear that stadium roar. It's going to be a very different feeling. Thanks, Don. Yes, sir. Appreciate you. Appreciate you. Thanks, man. There you go. Cheers. Cheers. Cheers. Anybody can make jeans, but you can't duped true religions. That famous fit pockets you recognize instantly stand out stitching. They try to get the full package, but only we have the legacy. Shop the iconography capsule now at True Religion.