LOCKER ROOM: Nick Kallerup

0:00Hey Nick, you got a mirror? Yeah. Nick, cal her up. Man, it's been a while since I've chance to talk to you. How was your off season? I was great. I got married. We got a dog. Life's been pretty good. Which was the bigger accomplishment of the off season? The dog or the marriage? Definitely the marriage. You guys, if I remember right, I think I said somewhere you've been together for a long time, yeah? Yeah, we've been together since high school. Wow. How did you guys out here? You living out here? Yeah, she moved out with me last year after I made the team. And how's she acclimating to Northwest life? We both really love it out here. We've been doing good. So obviously rookie year goes pretty well. I guess you were all ringed all that stuff. For you coming in your second season, people talk about big second year jumps. Where's some things you're looking to change about your game? Your one to your two? Just doubling down on my role and owning my role within the offense and then doing what I can to grow that role to whatever I can week to week to grow in it slowly.

1:05I've been noticing you catching a few more passes than you did last year. Is that one of the things you're experiencing in this offense? Yeah, there's definitely a few more opportunities. So, you know, someone who's trying to learn as much as possible past blocking, run blocking, obviously two different things. Do you go about getting better at those in different ways or the specific focus points you have for each one of them? Yeah, there's definitely things you focus on every day, just little things. And then you just keep you master those and you find something new. And then when you slip up on those things that you had mastered, you refocus. So it's just one thing focusing on every day and it changes up every day. Did you ever have any experience doing like H-Baks up or you line up in the backfield? And are blocking from there? Is that also been something that's different with this offense? Not maybe a couple one-off plays in college, but really it's pretty new for this offense. It's targeting in that situation and being able to hit your same targets that you're looking for when you're running at somebody is supposed to be attached to the line.

2:10What's that like? You just got to trust it and you got to not stop your feet. You can trouble when you chop your feet. So that's really, it's just a mental block, but it's the same targets, same landmarks. It's just you're running at them instead of stepping at them. Appreciate you Nick. Absolutely. Thank you.