Press Conference (Terry McLaurin) Elite Edition September 2

0:00Ron's a unique offense compared to the NFL, especially with the way he uses receivers. How do you anticipate your role in changing it? How do you view the offense from a receiver perspective specifically? Yeah. I mean, I think he likes to really push the ball down the field. He likes to be balanced. He likes to give different looks to a difference. We're going to not try to get too much into it, but we're going to use emotion, move some guys around and things of that nature. I think for myself, I feel comfortable playing any of the positions that is asked whether it's the slot, the outside positions, and unique part about our offenses. 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 of the field, which I think makes everybody smarter players because you don't pigeonhole yourself, I just play X. So you get into this position, you get in two minutes, you're the Z. Now you got to know what to do. You may have the clear outrout or you may have the backside dig, you got to know what you're

1:05doing. So I think he doesn't just say like we're going to do this offense. He's really trying to create an offense that fits 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 something you're used to seeing in other offenses? You've been in the... Yeah, definitely. I think if I'm on the left hash, like technically I'm 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 tight end. So I've been in offenses like it's similar like that before and I just think he... One thing I think that's really stood out is 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 a really good look at DBs and they study your film, they study your splits, like having routes that look the same, but break off at different angles is extremely important

2:07because it feels like you have some versatility in your bag to go out with versus like you got this hitch again, your backside, that's all you got, you know what I mean? Yeah, he's just been a really good player, a person to work with and he's been really communicative with the leaders and how we want this offense to look like in some of the ideas that we may have as well. So it's been a really cool transition. You talk about the transitions, your third offense in three years, probably your fourth in six years. How do you not kind of build up some barriers? Yeah, man, I got to do this again. I think human nature is always a factor in whatever you do in 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 and it's been great working with Marcus and Jaden and Jeff and Sam, all of everybody. It's been great working with all the quarterbacks and I just have a mentality and not really

3:13being complacent. I try to really focus on the things that I can come back better at this year and I've been working my butt off to do that. So I think the easy thing, and when I was younger, you're like, dang, you just want that consistency. You know what I mean? You want that something you could depend on, but 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 the coaches as well. 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 fall in love with the competition of it. And I think the competition breathes the success because that is really where the iron truly sharpens the iron. So you know other guys are going to make plays, but you get excited to go in there and know that the next day we're going to go right back after the defense. So for myself, I'm just looking forward to continue to grow with the quarterbacks that

4:15we have. I mean, year six now, which is extreme blessing and one of the leaders in our room, and I just try to take the bull by the horns with that. And so that's really been my focus and I'm excited for another year. To us, it's looked like you're being more vocal on the sidelines to help young guys exactly. Something you decided this offseason or? I think that's been a part of my maturation process as a leader. I've always seen myself as somebody that was a leader by example, but from coaches and other teammates I've had over the years, 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 what I mean? I never wanted to tell guys what to do 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 because I want to see all these guys win, man.

5:16Like it's hard to make it in this league and stay in a career. And so anyway, I could help the receivers, the DBs. I'm talking to some alignment. Johnny, 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 do things that kind of slow down the process, I'm going to try to do that because we need everybody from the rookies to the 10 year vets to make this thing work. So, more so, I try to speak to what I know 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 to them. Like if they see something, like I could take a coaching point from Luke McCaffrey. I could take a coaching point from Deonney, from Jahan, from Marcus, from anybody. You know, like I think that's what makes you a great player when you can really be coachable from anybody and not take it from a personal standpoint.

6:18Hi. How are you doing? Good. I'm going back to what you were saying about Cliff and his offense. How is he as a teacher in teaching all of us? Yeah. I mean, I think he does a really great job of making things simple, first and foremost. He doesn't overcoach. And I think that's the trust that he has in our group and his coaches, our position coaches to fill in the details. So we'll have an install meeting and 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 then we'll come in and have a walkthrough. 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 what 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 an installs in the morning, we're having two walkthroughs and then we're coming on the field and doing it. Like I think you notice a lot of guys are playing a lot faster and more confident because

7:22he's keeping it simple, but also he's very particular 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, you know it's expected of you and you know you're going to have the tools given to you to be successful out there on the field. And this is off season, just the totality of change from front office players, coaches, the turf field. I mean, what does that been like for you just to see what's going on? It's been fun. You know, I think from Mr. Harris and the entire ownership group down to Adam Peters, down to DQ, down to Jada, who we 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. First, having the right people, bringing in leaders, bringing in guys who love to compete. First thing that DQ said when he came here was in his first meeting, like if you love to compete, this is going to be the place for you. I love it. I mean, I love bags and going at it with the DBs every day.

8:25The little mundane stuff can seem a little boring, but I think that was where you make the gains during the off season, where you're really focused on, hey, I'm going to give all I got for this day and I'm going to get better and then I'm going to learn from the film and come back tomorrow and ready to do it again. And he also understands the benefits of having breaks. He's given us breaks. We've had weeks off here and there that we can 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, 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 what I mean? That's extremely important, but you know, we have this little break coming up where you're going to get your money, your body, your soul right. So coming into this season, I'm really optimistic of what we can be this year and I think it's 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 hone that in into the locker room, but I think

9:29it's great because we have so many great leaders from all across the league who have won and we got Bobby Wagner in there. You know what I mean? I asked a hall of fame or 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 extremely refreshing and knowing that everybody's on the same page and the message is the same allows you to go out there with confidence and always expect to let you. Terri, you seem to spend many of your off seasons learning about things beyond football, hobbies, what have you? Did you do any of this off season so far? And so hobbies are increasing your knowledge of this the world around you. That's a good question. Play a lot of golf. That day just keeps my competitive juices flowing, planning the wedding. That's going well. And I mean, I've just been grinding like honestly, you know what I mean? I've been hungry this all season. Like, I started working out, you know, pretty early and you start to see guys like coming

10:36back and it's just fun to like to be here and compete and feeling like everybody's on the same page, you know what I mean? And so for me, I'm a grind every off season, but just this one just feels like it's the start of something new and special and the foundation of is extremely important and to be a part of that, to have a hand in that, you know, it's an honor, you know. And I put a lot of expectation on myself to come out here and be the guy that I know I'm capable of and also like take him the next step and being somebody that our quarter bass that can trust and believe in. So this all season was pretty simple for me. It was just really about, you know, working and grinding and getting better. He talked about Jayden before. And if anything so far, I know we haven't seen everything. But in terms of his arm strength, the throws, he's making anything surprising so far about the types of his ability in that regard. Definitely. I think after the second or third crosser that he threw, I started telling receivers like, hey, you got to get your head around, you know what I mean?

11:38Because 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. Or if it's man flattened off, they like to see you get open with 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 he's really accountable too. We had to play today where he felt like he missed me and it's not a big deal at all. You know what 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, that open former communication from Aruki, I think 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 D-Balls is amazing. I love getting extra reps after practice with him. We're just catching the top end of a D-Ball. As big for me, 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.

12:38But he just naturally has an ability to throw the ball. He sees the windows really well. And now he's just continuing to get adjusted to the speed in the past rush. I think these reps that he's getting are unbelievable during 11-11 because he's getting to feel pain and all in and DA and Cleveland Farrow. We got some dogs up there who are going to come after him. 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 7-0-7. 7-0-7 I think he could do in the sleep to be fair. He throws the ball really well. But when you get this 11-11, two-minute drill, you're putting them in game like situations. And I'm looking them in his eye. I'm like, we play a real ball now. We plan. You know what I mean? You just see no anxiousness in his game and his demeanor, which is extremely exciting. And then he's extremely light-hearted and he's always smiling. So he's joking with Lyme and D-Lyne. He's just cool with everybody. And like I said, for a rookie quarterback to come in like that where guys are gravitating to him and he's not afraid to be who he is, that's dope.

13:38I 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. J-A 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. Knowing that, you're getting to the prime of your career, you want to win now. Yeah, I think that's a fair question. I think you start to evaluate when you're six and you know how fast it goes. And I try not to put the cart before the horse. We're looking too far ahead. By the same time, 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 the playoffs and all those things. That's why we do this personally. And I'm just excited with being a part of an organization in the environment where now everybody's on the same page and the message is uniform and it speaks from the top down. And it reflects the guys that they're bringing in.

14:40All the guys that they brought in are guys who are hungry, who are competitors, who not only fighting for spots but are going to help us win games. And when you're around an environment like that, that makes you excited. Makes you hopeful. And you know, you don't know how it's going to turn out until we start playing games. But the foundation is extremely important. And I think this off season, we've really done a great job of building that. They have. And then when a coach Quinn guy here building with this team. So I feel like we're going to be going into this off season really knowing what we all got to do individually to become ready for camp. But the message is clear to come back to camp ready to compete and be ready to win. Thanks, Derek. Appreciate you guys. Yeah, we should. Appreciate you guys. One of the funniest guys on the team right now. I really plan as much. So I just wanted to get like more experience under my belt.

15:40So I can bring younger guys with me because I've been going around. One of those younger guys we're seeing out here. It's the first time I've heard all of these last years. What have you seen from Lowe? We all forgot about him because he was hurt. Now he's running almost a second man up behind you and Ty. What have you seen in the next two weeks? Well, as a workhorse, he goes, stay quiet. He's going to work hard. And that's what I love about him. He focuses. He don't really talk much. He's going to get a job done. Do a job right. Rarely has any mistakes. What would be a successful season? The National Championship. I'm wearing, when, all the games we don't want to lose anything. We got a mindset that we can't be beat. And we just got to go show it. That mindset different. It seems like you guys expect the National Championship every year. This year even more so. You guys have all come back for this. You guys have all decided like an opposite. Does that feel the difference? Or is there not really any difference? It's just the same work. It's definitely a difference. Everyone working harder.

16:41We noticed our last run. Most of us don't have any years after this. So we got to go bigger, go home. We're not trying to go home. Finish big. We know what you guys think of Michigan. But when you look at what they did, they won the National Championship. And you guys took them down to the final minute. Right? You know what I mean? You were right there. Something goes a little different. You guys could have won that game 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. That's how I'm saying. We just like work harder. That's kind of coach makes a saying. You know, nobody cares. Just work harder. Like those, you know, we'll play Georgia. The same thing. 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 we'll be fine. How frustrating is that? You're that close against the last two national title. Of course, it's frustrating. But you can't change the outcome. You can't really dwell on it.

17:42You just got to come back and work harder. Do things better than you did last year. And hopefully the outcome will change. Is that as you get older, you kind of learn. I thought I was working hard. And then you always find out there's a little more. You could have been doing it. Yeah, definitely. I mean, that's what growing up is basically in college. I thought freshman year I was working. It's hard as I could, but not look back at it. I really wasn't working hard at all, compared to what I'm doing now. So just to learn anything. If the stamina is a 16, then the answer to like, what do you need it to be to be your best? Uh, it is a 75. 80, 85. I mean, I can, 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 in shape. You have to have it. It's been a fact. Yeah. The idea of a potential is 16, and it's everything. Yeah. I mean, I'm sad about that idea. There's a make you nervous about, can you last that long? You're really nervous.

18:42I was just, I think I'll kill that out of it. 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 again. That's just too much on our bodies. Uh, just everybody is like, online, D-line. We got to get those younger guys to play. You know, get that pieces on the D-line and O-line, and everywhere else, so we can last that long run. Speaking of that, let's get my dog. If you like playing that many snaps again last year, because I don't know if any of us were really expected to play that next time. Uh, yeah, I did, unless we were like winning by like a lot. Uh, I thought like, there are no small muesin, 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. 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 can get the job done. Well, it stands out about Kaden McDonald, because he got it, 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 growing right now.

19:42He has to work, I think. He just has to get, you know, in the playbook, things like that. You guys are about the exact same size. Listen, you're both listening to 6-3, you're 3-27, he's 3-26. Yeah, he's very often. I kind of look at him like my junior, but, you know, K-Mac, he's going to be a great player. He's just got to develop more and get into playbook. It's really a lot on you, older guy. There's that large 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 along as well? Yeah, definitely. We've got to be leaders. Like I said, we've got to have them play this year. We can't just play all the snaps. They've got to get in there and get some work. And we've got to get them right, earn all season, so they can play. And not just play, they want to, like, contribute, like, make plays, tackle, and sex. It's a stage I don't know about this, but I think it's a great thing. It seems like these guys get bigger. Each one of the freshmen class is looking bigger and bigger. And those guys kind of, it does kind of why you want to solve the first. Yeah, they're definitely some big dudes. And they all work hard. I'm really seeing much of some of the day too when I'm passing on.

20:42But throughout the workouts, they've been working hard, you know, they're determined. I would say that. And it looks like they're ready to work at me. How important is this? It feels like there's a lot of great defenses that you have big, athletic defensive tactics that you can eat up space, but also move, you know, right? That is that. Is that an environment 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 couple of national championship winners, like Team up North, they didn't know they got two good, two good, uh, detaco, two athletic detacres. Look at Georgia, two athletic detacres. So I think that's definitely neat if you want to go on that big run and beat those big teams. If you think about this, they're going to find why the defense was actress like, what's Georgia, Jordan Davis and Jim Carter? Let's miss you again. It's Chris Jenkins. Couple more questions for you guys. I mean, you understand it because you play it,

21:43but 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. I think they're starting to develop to develop more and more of these like freakiest detacres. 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 about those freakish out there, how do you think you fit into that old 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 detacres, but I don't want to get a big head, but you know, watch it come on. I watch it do the drills. I have tape here. You're like, you're looking like my film. So I think I'm up there with all those guys. Do you become like an artist who comes to the band down passes the figure wags? When you're going to spring practice, you're not doing as much a weapon on a weapon. That's gross. How do you work on that? Do you have like a goal one, Martin? I don't remember how many you had last year, but you have a goal one last 35.

22:43How many people did you want to have? I mean, as many as I can have, I think I have more than that, but I think they've counted. He said it on the line. I think they've counted some of them. And it's some of them where I just missed it. But I think we work on drills matching the hand. I think that goes big. And what we do is a D line, you know, just affecting the quarterbanks. Any way you can is 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 player. So it's something that you really, really have to work on. You can do that. What you've been doing in the past. It's really, that's one of the things that you've maybe worked on the most. You can bring your time here because there are a few guys that I've seen. Like, oh, that past few guys, that's what you've been doing. We don't have to ask for this style. We're kind of kind of expected for the second. I think I just have like an 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 way. And sometimes he just throws it to me. I don't know how your opponent is going to be. I have to be a high state quarterback. I'm going to get back down fastest. I mean, they get frustrated by, you know, we're a team, you know, we're just getting better.

23:46I should lot of, a lot of different backs, man. They just learn to grow for them. You got to pick your top three backs. You got to go right now. One, two, three. 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. Who's the best back in this drive? Best back in this drive. I lead out of the yard. That's y'all decision. Playing well with Howard. What 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. And he just the leader that he was, man. That's one thing I'm going to remember about him. Yeah, he's shoot. He's going to be really good, man. He's on Coach Lock.

24:47I think he got the transfer in as well from West Virginia. Just that one, two punch with them both as well. They're going to 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 and as a player. And so man, yeah, definitely Ohio State, you know, that running back room is in great hands. Yeah, Coach, Coach Hartlum, man. He's full of energy, man. And he's creative as well. You know, I'm just learning from him as well. Trying to run more outside the backfield was being able to learn from Coach Hartlum. And so he's definitely creative at what he does. And he brings a lot of energy to the team as well. And so I think they'll do really good. Straight away, and he's going to play off cards. That's what we want to say to them. Just the intensity, man. And the intensity of the playoffs, every game, man, is like the intensity got, you know, higher and higher. And so, you know, being able, I know in the lead, it's the same thing.

25:49Even if it's not the playoffs, just every game and the intensity keeps getting higher and higher. And so, yeah, you just, I know you got to bring it, you know, each and every day and come in and work. And 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 talk to a lot of players 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. Yeah, I know I took a couple of days off after the national championship. And then, shoot, right after that, I'm writing sample Florida and I'm writing 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. The Bucking Nears, you know what I have?

26:50Temple of Tampa. Temple of Tampa, nice. It's a nice city, man. Really nice. The 40, the broad and the vert. Yeah. Yeah. 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 told Will, I think it was before the first game. I was like, I got your brother. 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.

27:50You had to hit the practice field later today. What is something you've been working on right now? 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, right? 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 what I'm saying? Yes, I did. Yes, I did. So, people, try to look like, I'll let it moral here. Get back and be ready to say something better. I did meet with New Orleans as well. I never got that comparison. Actually, I know I have a Camera. Sure, yeah, man, I have a Camera. Great, great back, man. Just what he does and knows, 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. Yeah. Inside zone from stack, being able to hit that thing downhill.

28:55And 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 linebacker. 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, every gig. I think 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. I think I'm going to be looking like to learn what your last game is. Yeah, I think we're on Start Kid. You know, some entries. I think it's an aftertaste. When he looked back on it, what do you want to stand down like?

29:56Man, 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 slow. 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. 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, The back of the firm, the power of judgment, the spirit of that person, which aspect can lead to those other individuals that you want to follow and from being around power to heaven?

31:01Um, man, those guys have such a great mentality, man. Am I just really loved their mentality, especially Q as well. You know, I talked about Will Howard, his leadership, but Quenchon 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 as soon as you know it, you know, he, he's running through somebody, still forming somebody and shoot, it's a game of 10. And so, Do some of the things he does, he just realizes two different guys. Yeah. Um, shoot, I think. Yeah, man, I think it 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 Quenchon. You know, I want to look at this game and it's 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.

32:02What's your last two tweets? Julian San. 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, container grow as a leader, container grow as a player. And so, he's going to be really good for how I stay. Thanks for having me, guys. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. 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 San as well. It's to be that vocal leader and lead, um, and lead to offense and lead to steam. I'm really, I feel like that's right. 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, not a lot, but man, his career here, you watch his highlights is, 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 years.

33:06And so, man, he was such a great back. And, um, I feel like, you know, 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. Yeah, I'll be going. Yeah, you can go ahead. This. Yeah.

34:20Yeah.

35:20Well, I got coming in last year, I knew the road. So I just tacked Eric Dave really the same way. It's taking advantage of very rough physically. How different are you? Weight wise body wise on that from the year ago. Oh, 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. What does it feel like at 244 or bail? It's like 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, more downhill, like stronger, like I'm taking all the bloods 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 and stuff. 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.

36:21But are you, are you, how would you describe how much you're looking forward to it from an eighth standpoint? Yeah, I'm looking forward to it. I'm ready for it. My, I'm ready for it. The text is 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. How has that enhanced 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, um, we've been emphasizing it a lot. We know we got coming. So we know we got to do what we're prepared for it. Already this is probably what today. I think Riley ready to play right now. He advanced freshman like he ended here in the book. He studied in like he advanced and his measurements is crazy. Like he saw like the saw line to him. Or like you said, you're ready. I know you're ready. What was that process like during last season? Could you feel yourself becoming more and more ready? So whatever the team needed for me? 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.

37:24When 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 than last season? I asked that one more time. How different is that response bill? That's what you call that? If it was last year, you knew you were a whole way. 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. It won't work. I was by word you're watching. I say, describe my game. I say, like when you think of me, you would think of like a like a bully, like a silver bullet.

38:27I don't really a bully. I'm always on the ball. That's how I like to play and think. You know what I want to body back? No, I ain't. I'm not saying that the big thing to be that so. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's it. I was just. I got the first question for Patricia's style and how it's free. I mean, how does that fit you? And what are you and Joy are going about? The whole thing 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 terms is like, you know, I don't know. I don't really not answer that. That's okay. It's okay. You could go on your instincts a little bit more, maybe. And it's not so thinking 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 pretty deep. I like what you got going on. That was a sad one. CJ left me. Uh, now I wanted to my sad. I was kind of like happy for me. Yeah, that's what you want.

39:28No, no. All right. No, that's my dog. I don't see it kind of missing a little bit. But yeah, I'm happy for him. Well, don't think 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, you know, 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 the summer year. You're positive. Yeah, I do feel like, um, yeah, I do feel like I did win in that last year, but like you said, my role wasn't same as how's going to be this year. So yeah, I definitely want to want to go get another one experienced that like feeling with me be on the field, a lot more place. I said, Oh, Bill, thank you very much. I'm so happy. So I feel like I kind of have a lot of leaders on the D line at the D in position. So we kind of all kind of just kind of talk about. It's been a tough time. We've been through the game. We've been up to these guys playing with them all. We've been up to the field. We've been up to the top. We've been up to the top. We've been up to the top. We've been up to the top.

40:28We've been up to the top. We've been up to the top. How's that transition going to be? It's going to be competitive. We love it. We all competitive people. We all love to fish each other. And I feel like the springing the best side of all is. I feel like we all just kind of bouncing off each other and see what one person does. And we kind of build it into our actual box. And we all kind of just kind of build one great big one. Hey, do you remember when last year when you got the shot at full-back in the boat? And did they approach you with that idea or two coached them? I mean, how did that come about? Because you heard Jackson, I heard Slobby. You could have touched that. So I definitely did it in high school. I was full-back and a little bit of Titan. So I feel like it kind of saw what I could do there in Coach Wilson. Honestly, he left Washington too, before he left. And I feel like he planned that seed in Coach Day's head. And Coach Day kind of just went for it. And I tried to do the best I could to do it. Is that continuing now? I mean, really? Do anything in the spring? New playbook. I did not know yet. I've gotten that far. So yeah, good day. How tough is that? You're looking for it.

41:29I like to think myself as a football player. I can really play any position on the field you need me to. Just give me a weaker two to learn it and kind of perfect it. And I'll try to do my best for you. Kit Jack, you're the same thing. Oh, yeah. Don't like what you're talking about. Graphically, that's why. I was talking to Coach Johnson on Tuesday about some of the conversations. And sort of saw you and got out to have some conversations after JT and Jack decided to come back. Just got a win into those from your perspective. And how did that help you maybe get the right mindset? Definitely kind of seeing it all the way through. I feel like people kind of just see what happened. And they don't know everything that goes into it. How long the season is now. What you got to do to prepare for and what happened in all that time. From here to then. So I feel like we definitely just coached in me kind of connected. And then we kind of just talks. Man oh man. And he kind of just said straight to me. And I feel like we kind of both are going on. Right, let's make it into the yard. Making each other better every day. We got the four best D.N.s. Five best D.N.s, honestly. And then college football. And we're going to be one of the best D.L.s. and college football.

42:31How do you feel like a better player today at any more of you in the season? I feel like I've taken big steps in my roles. Just being responsible and being more of a leader. And kind of stepping up and taking a step to kind of get out there more on the team. And kind of bring people in and feel like kind of helping out more. How do you record your head around the past 17th? Is that sound? I mean, it sounds bizarre, but I mean the season goes by so fast already. So when you're kind of like week 10 and you're like wow it's already week 10. So now it's kind of, it gives you more time to kind of enjoy it. And kind of savor it because you've come already here for a new feeling. Freshness, freshness, freshness. But you don't want to spend all your powder in the first month of the year, right? I mean, there is a, that pace yourself. I mean, there is a mindset. Yeah, definitely. Definitely, definitely going to have to have the mental stability to handle all those weeks and all those practices. How much has Larry talked to you guys around the game? Last question right here. It's 2016, 2017, 4 NFL D-Fetchers, where is all the sanitization?

43:32How much does he talk to that guy? I mean, he doesn't have to talk about it. We know about it. We've seen it every day. We watch the film. We see them all working together. We know what it could be. We know we could become. So we know we're right at the same, we're at the right place at the right time. And God wanted us to be here. He knew we wanted us all to come together and kind of play together and be able to bounce off and just perfect our craft together. And I feel like we all are just great individuals and we come together at some special. We plan 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 a lot of good. One of those younger guys, we're seeing it out here. It's the first time I've scored all year last year. What have you seen from Will? I don't know, I actually don't really know what I've got about it because he was hurt. Now he's running almost a second man out of the hand. You're tied. What have you seen from those young people? Will is a workhorse. He goes, stay quiet, you're going to work hard. And that's what I love about him. He focuses, he don't really talk much. He's going to get the job done, do a job right. He rarely has any mistakes.

44:34What would be a successful season? A national championship? A 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 got to go show it. That mindset different. It seems like you guys expect a national championship every year. This year even more so. You guys have all come back for this. You guys have all decided like enough as a lot of people. Does that just keep feeling different? Or is there not really any difference? It's just the same work. It's definitely a difference. Everyone working harder. We noticed our last run. Most of us don't have any years after this. We got to go bigger, go home, and we're not trying to go home. Finish big. We know what you guys think of Michigan. But when you look at what they did, they won the national championship. And you guys took them down to the final minute. You know what I mean? You were right there. Something goes a little different. You guys could have won that game 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.

45:37Like you're that close. So I'm saying we just like work harder. That's kind of coach makes a saying. You know, nobody cares. Just work harder. Like those, you know, when we played Georgia, it's the same thing. Yeah. Last, last play. You know, they went on the win in the 90s. So we just got to get over that hump at the end of the season. I think we'll be fine. How frustrating is that? You're that close against the last two national titles. Of course, you know, it's frustrating. But you can't change the outcome. You can't really 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 will change. Is 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 than you could have been doing. Yeah, definitely. I mean, that's how that's what growing up is basically in college. I thought, Frank, from here I was working as 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. But the stamina is a 16. And the answer to what do you need it to be to be your best?

46:37Uh, it is at 75. 80, 85. I mean, I can, 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 in shape. It's been a thing. The idea of a contingency to 16 is everything you have to do. How do you decide about that idea? There's a making nervous about, can you last that long? You're worried, you're just, you're just gonna write that. 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 again. That's just too much on our bodies. Just everybody's like, online, D line. We got to get those younger guys to play, you know, get that pieces on the D line and the online. And everywhere else. So we can last that long. Speaking of the light playing, if you like playing that means after that, not a year of development. I don't know if any of us were really expected to play that next time. Yeah, I did, unless we were like winning by like a lot.

47:38I 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. 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 can get the job done. What stands out about Taden McDonald? You got it, you got some little stuff. 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 growing right now. He has to work, I think. He just has to get, you know, in the playbook, things like that. You guys are about the exact same size. Listen, you're both listening to 6-3, you're 3-27, he's 3-26. Yeah, he's a very old guy. I kind of look at him like my junior, but, you know, K-Mac, he's going to be a great player. He's just got to develop more and get into playbook. There's really a lot on you older guys. There's that large 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 along as well? Yeah, definitely. We got to be leaders. Like I said, 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.

48:39And 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 a sex. It seems like these guys get bigger. Each one of the freshmen class is a bigger, bigger. The most guys kind of, it doesn't kind of allow you to solve the first. Yeah, they definitely need some big dudes. And they all work hard. I haven't really seen much of some of the day too when I'm passing on. But throughout the workouts, they've been working hard, you know, they're determined. I just say that. And it looks like they're ready to work at me. How important is the notes? It feels like there's a lot of great defenses that you have big, athletic defensive tactics that you can eat up space, but also move, you know, right? That is that. Is that an inquire maybe for a great defense? To have guys like you that have some faults, but also a great feature? I think that is definitely. I think if you look at the last couple of national championship winners, like, see my North, they got two good detacled, two athletic detacles.

49:42Look at Georgia, two athletic detacles. I think that's definitely neat if you want to go on that big run and beat those big teams. If you think about this, they're going to be defined by the defense attack. What's Georgia? Jordan Davis and Jaylen Carter. Let's miss again. It's Chris Jenkins. Couple more questions. You might be wondering how, I mean, you understand this 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. I think they're starting 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 about the freakish attack, how do you think you fit into that bowl 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 a tape to you like looking like my film.

50:43So I think I'm up there with all those times. Tyler, can you become like an artist who comes to the bad guy's classes? The figure wags can't be finished. I mean, when you're going to spring practice, you're not doing it much or less than 11 or 11. That's strong. How do you work on that? Do you have like an old one? I don't remember how many I've last year, but you have a gold one. Five, how many do you want to have? I mean, as many as I can have, I think I have more than that, but I think they've counted. I think they've counted some of them. And it's some of them where I like just missed it. But I think we work on drills matching the hand. I think that's goes big. And what we do is a D line, you know, just affecting the quarter bag 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 player. So it's something that you really, really have to work on. You can do that with what you do in the past. It's a theory that's one of the things that you've maybe worked on the most. You can bring your time here because there are a few guys that I've seen. Like, oh, that passed me two times.

51:43We don't have that. We don't have that. We're kind of kind of expected. I think I just have like an 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 just throws it to me. I don't know. I'm your opponent. If you want to be a high state quarterback, skip. You can get back down passes. I mean, they get frustrated by, you know, we're a team, you know, we're just good. Yeah. I should lot of, a lot of different backs, man. They just learn to grow for them. You got to pick your top three backs. You got to go right now. One, two, three. 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. Although he was injured this year, I like McCaffrey. Best back in this drive. I lead out of the yard. That's y'all decision. Playing with Will Howard. What I'm going to remember most.

52:47We're a Howard man. He's just such a great leader. 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. And he just the leader that he was, man. That's one thing I'm going to remember about him. What do you think of James P. What do you think of James P. Yeah. He's, he's going to be really good, man. He's on 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 going to be really good backs. And so James P. And so James P. 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 and as a player. And so man, yeah, definitely Ohio State. You know, that running back room is in great hands. I was right there. Like I'm looking at Leo C. But I'm just having a nice personality. And I'm just trying to help keep that open. It's all going the same way. Yeah. Coach, Coach Hartlin, 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.

53:47It was being able to learn from Coach Hartlin. And so he's definitely creative at what he does. And he brings a lot of energy to the team as well. And so I think they'll do really good. Straight line is off the way to play off run. That's what we want to do. What strength did you just know? Just the intensity, man. And since he got the playoffs, every game, man, is like the intensity got, you know, higher and higher. And so, you know, being able, I know in the lead, it's the same thing. Even if it's not the playoffs, just every game and intensity, it keeps getting higher and higher. And so, yeah, you just, I know you got to bring it, you know, each and every day and come in and work. And 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 talk to a lot of players before that. And they told me a lot of just about how much Ohio State prepared them, you know, for the NFL. And so, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I know I took a couple of days off after the National Championship. And then, shoot, right after that, I'm writing sample Florida and I'm right to it.

54:48And so, yeah, I think while I trained, I trained at Yo-Murth 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. The way they went about training us, man, they did a really good job. The Bucking Nears, no, I haven't. Temple, a temple, nice. It's a nice city, man. Really nice. The 40 to broad and the vert. You've been on the races and awesome walker. Do these feet here, mentality, of like when you've got a linebacker, so you can get a gap. You can get a gap. You can get a gap. You can get a gap. You can get a gap. You can get a gap. You can get a gap. You can get a gap. You can get a gap. You can get a gap. The bigger the view, you're getting ready to square up. Yeah. Yeah, no, man. It's really all about technique and then it's about mindset as well. So, my 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 receiver, so I got on the perimeter. Just making sure, you know, first of all, my quarterback doesn't get sacked.

55:51And I told Will I think it was before the first game. I was like, I got your brother. And I said, man, I'm not going to let you get hit, you know, and so I don't know if 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? You need to try it. 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. I feel like I did a good job of that my senior year. And so I just want to continue to build on that. So you get to play against the team? Yes, I did. Yes, I did. So people say you look like, I'll let you bar out there. Get back to your seat. I think that would be more fun. I did meet with New Orleans as well.

56:52I never got that comparison. Actually, 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 heard you play Vermont. You can tell me how much you feel when you're in it. 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 linebacker. And so. What he made to be here, make a couple of years. Jeremiah. You have the perfect. Of course, it was. It's how. It's. It's. Yeah, I say the man the biggest thing is the way that he carries himself, man. In 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 him.

57:53I don't know every 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 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 slow. 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.

58:56You know, even in those moments, man, where it's so hard that 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... The back of the firm, Peterson Power and Judgment, is pretty well effectiveness. Which aspect, the future, those other individuals that shoot right into the bottom of the game from being around power to hands? Um... Man, those guys have such a great mentality, man. Am I just really loved their mentality? Especially Q as well. You know, I talked about Will Howard, his leadership, but Quincham 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 5 yards. And then as soon as you know it, you know, he, that running through somebody, still farming somebody, and shoot. That's a game of 10. So... You some of the things that he does, he just realizes two different things actually.

59:57Yeah. Shoot, I think... Yeah, man. I think it's just like, he's just gifted, man, to be honest. He's just gifted, you know, he's a big back, you know, he's strong, and so, you know, he's able to do those things. 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 Quincham. You know, I want to look at his game, and it's like, man, 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. What's your last defeat in San? Jule San. Oh, yeah, he's going to be a great, but he's going to be a great quarterback, man. He's so accurate. And so, he's definitely, man, I know Coach Dez is definitely going to get him right. Just, you know, container grow as a leader, container grow as a player. And so, he's going to be really good for a high state. Thanks, guys. Thanks for the high, guys. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. He's... I know just the quarterback position. I feel like, you know, the quarterbacks in the past, they've definitely been vocal. And so, I feel like that's something that they're definitely going to ask them Jule San as well. It's to be that vocal leader, and lead the offense, and lead the team.

1:00:59Thanks, guys. Thanks, guys. Thanks, guys. I'll be back soon. Sure, man. He has a build like JK Dobbins. And I kind of see them, you know, 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. A lot, but man, his career here, you watch his highlights is great. I remember before I recruit, before I committed here, I remember watching JK Dobbins highlights. Like every one of his years here, like four or five times. And so, man, he was such a great back. And I feel like, you know, when I see JK Dobbins, when I see James people, I see similarities to both of their games. I feel like they play the same. And so, I appreciate you all, yeah. Have a good one. You can go back. This...

1:02:56Yeah. Yeah. Well, I got coming in last year. I knew the road. So I just attacked every day, really the same way. He's taking advantage of every rep. Yeah. So, I think we're physically about different.

1:03:56Are you weight-wise, body-wise, on that from the year ago? I think I got a lot bigger. I'm like 240. You know, I'm like 244 right now. Last year, I played at like 236, 237. What does it feel like at 244, or bailing? It's like a almost different machine out there. Yeah, like a... What does it feel like being run around out there, like you are, but with more, more ban. I just feel like I'm like, like more downhill, like stronger, like I'm taking all the bloods better. 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. Are you? How would you describe how you how much you're looking forward to it from an eight stand point? Yeah, I'm looking forward to it. I'm ready for it. My I'm ready for it. The Texas opener. It's a rematch. So to say, but it's not really two

1:04:56different teams compared to the one time you all played and stuff. How's that enhanced 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 um, we've been emphasizing it a lot. We know we got coming so we know we got to do what we're preparing for it. Already just probably with today. I think Riley ready to play right now. He he advanced freshman like he ended here in the book. He studied in like he advanced and his measurements is crazy like he saw like the saw line too. Orbel, 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? Whatever the team 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 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.

1:05:57A different is that you want to get here a bad last year? That's the most possible thing to have. Oh, asked the one more time. How different is that response to what you need to do that you just need to see a motion call that? If it was last year, you knew you were a whole way. Oh, I feel like it's a 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 everything I did. I feel like this year it's going to be the same thing. It's probably a little bit more. Somebody you some reason it won't work. How's everybody worked you watch? Yeah. Uh, I say scrawling. Now I say like when you think of me, you would think of like a like a bully like a silver bullet. I don't really a bully. I'm always on the ball. That's how I like to play a thing. What do you really want to embody that? No, I ain't got to be my nickname, but

1:06:57I'm not saying that the nickname be that's what I'm saying. Oh, yeah, yeah. You want to embody that? Yeah, that's like. I've got a couple more questions for Patricia's style and how it's free. I mean, how does that fit you? And what are you enjoying about bullying in that kind of style? Um, 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're moving around a lot a lot of the terms is like, you know, I don't know. I don't really not answer that. That's okay. Does it? You could go on your instincts a little bit more, maybe? That'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 deep because I like what you got going on. What was it sad when she did after? Uh, now I want to to say that I was kind of like happy for me. Yeah, that's what you want. No, no. All right. No, that's my dog. I'm going to say yeah, kind of missing a little bit, but yeah, I'm happy for you.

1:07:58Well, don't thank you. Go ahead one last question. Coach Daze talked a lot about the guys who played some last year, but maybe weren't the starters and the hunger for, you know, 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 the summer year, your classmates? Yeah, I do feel like, um, yeah, I do feel like I did win a national but like you said, my role wasn't same as how's going to be this year. So yeah, I definitely want to want to go get another one experienced that like feeling we need to be on the field. A lot more place. That's it. Great. Oh, Bill, thank you very much. I'm so happy to be here. Championship in Nican, you know, before and everything like that and also need to get your teeth knocked in, you know, first game and you know, can't have that happening because then you, you know, really doesn't mean anything. And so just the concept mindset to continually get better has been on the forefront of my mind and forefront of anyone here, you can ask. Yeah. Yeah, I know we look at the class stats

1:09:00every now and then and be like, oh man, they're gone. They're gone. No, it's been, um, it's been good. I mean, the guys here are still here. I'm as have definitely kind of bonded together. They're pretty good. So. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. 21 class obviously. Today's the same way. Yeah. You guys said this is the way the day. Yeah, I mean, uh, you know, Mark came in the other days like in that class, 21 best class ever. And I'm like, yeah, sure. Okay. You know, I can't really, I can't really even, you know, just sitting to that, you know, not much left. But, um, uh, yeah, I mean, to do what we can and do what we can for this team has been really important for all of us. And I think, um, us now realizing we're the veterans, you know, like we're the old guys now in the group has been, um, kind of strange, at least to begin with, you know, because you go from, um, all those guys, you like Donnie and Josh and those guys and old sudden, it's Sunday. We have a team meeting after the, um, like the celebration and the shoe and all of a sudden, the next day, there's gone. And, you know, it's, it's just very different.

1:10:01So I think us being able to step up as, you know, leaders and as, um, as vets to help bring out, you know, along the team, our units and, um, this program has been really important. What are you doing overall? Two more questions. Just a five. Um, yeah. Yeah. I'm somebody who went through that. What have you been impressed by the Jake? No, it could spend doing really well. I mean, I could go and he goes to work. Um, he's extremely athletic, extremely flexible. Um, you know, he's a young kid. Obviously he's a lot of, um, a lot of development, a lot of he's a little adversity at all of us do. Um, but I think he's going through that right now, but he's been, um, coming out on the better end of it so far and, um, excited to see what he can do because he's very impressive at this young stage. So, what is your overall level of excitement just to be back with the rest of this interior office of Lyon, with you guys having something just here.

1:11:02It's back. Yeah, extremely excited. I mean, um, trying to just build that culture back up again, you know, like what we had last year. Uh, I, we're trying to do a little stuff here and there. And I can know I think we're going to Ray Race, a barbecue. I think tomorrow. Uh, so shout out Ray Race, but, um, but yeah, just trying to get that brotherhood back, get that, you know, that oblock spirit back. Sure it's coming soon. Soon. Um, hopefully. Um, but, uh, just to kind of get those, uh, not those same faces, but those same kind of mindsets back and, uh, our group is important right now. And it's been fun to meet new guys from different backgrounds and stuff like that. Um, and try to figure out how to, you know, build that and mend that together. It's been pretty cool. Now, but you are one of the most experienced veterans on this team. How much do you feel like you have to be a leader for the students here? Yeah, for sure. I mean, I think that comes, um, I don't, it's, it's obviously, I don't feel like it's natural to anyone to, you need to at least step up and that's something I've been working on every day and talking to God about.

1:12:02Um, but I obviously understand that. And that's something I want to continue to work on. I want to be able to, um, be a guy that people can fall back on and like coach was saying before like, we're going to have highs and lows, but the great players, the ones being set our clocks to and I kind of want, that's my goal as to be one of those people that you can do that. Um, and I think for, especially a very new set of eyes, um, in the woody, um, not only coaches, but players. Um, I think it's very important to kind of keep that steady, um, mindset. And I think for me, uh, learning how to be a leader has been important just to not be too hard on myself, but also not let myself kind of slack off in some departments to try to keep, um, steady. Just your story itself though is testament of what it means to like for perseverance and stuff too, though, right? Carsel, I mean, you know, that's, uh, that's gonna have to stand up from somebody to say that, right? I mean, just, yeah, what do you, what do you think you've shown more than anything else in every guard? Yeah, I mean, I've been blessed, you know, I've, you know, I've, I've been blessed with a lot of adversity.

1:13:03I think that's definitely made me better on the back end and, um, you know, Coach, Coach, Coach, they always talks about it and you don't, you know, great leaders aren't, you know, they can show it, but you know, a lot of people can show it. A lot of people can just talk about it. Yeah. Um, but to be about it is important. And I think, um, to be enough, went through a lot of that adversity. I went through a lot of that stuff and, um, my testament, you know, has been, um, written in an interesting way. But I think for me to take that next step is really important for not only for this team, but for myself personally. Yeah, he's been doing great. I mean, he came in, um, big, freaking strong. Uh, he's fun to be in the weight room with. Uh, he's, uh, he's kind of quiet. Like, that's kind of my first impression on him, but he's actually pretty funny, dude. He, he and his dad come over and they kind of joke around. And so he's, he's been doing a great job. All right, he's been doing a great job, um, for his size. He has like freaky athletic feet. Like, I watch him do the ladders and that's a lot of math. He has to move around on those things, you know, doing a little, like, shuffle, but, I mean, he, he, he was killing it.

1:14:06And so he's been doing a great job. I can't wait to see, um, how he kind of continues to develop, um, throughout this summer and, uh, throughout this fall camp. Of course, it is. That's why I'm not that, what it is. It's why. Yeah, Piggy's been doing great. I mean, he, um, he stepped up. Piggy, yeah, yeah, everyone refers to him as Piggy. It was his username one time. Nice everyone's Piggy. But anyway, um, you know, pig's been doing great. He, uh, he's been able to step up and kind of bring around along those younger guys. Um, you know, everyone's kind of trying to figure out their, their new roles. And I think he's been, uh, who may be a lot of things. Big body guy that you catch to buy. You can run between the tacos. His feet are quicker than what you think for a big guy. Yeah, really good feet. We get balanced so that's what makes him good. That's what I saw. Is that a comment for a bigger back like? Like, is it a personality? Right. I think it's probably a good way to bring back some tight end back. Uh, well, tight end back ground. No, I don't know many with that type of background. But when he's high school, we see that they try to play as an H great, well, really good.

1:15:11When you look in the portal for running action, we want to try to recruit running backs. Does it matter to you if you have two different styles of running backs? Maybe one guy can do certain things better. One guy can do certain things. Other is it? You'll just say the best running back. You can find it. Do you want to have different styles? Yeah, I want different styles. I'm going to try to take the same thing. I'm going to take the same thing. I'm going to take guys with different skills. Whether they're big guys, small guys, tallers, cancers, in-between the type of runners. I don't know. I don't want to take the same thing. They're all different, different backs. You guys have built a wheel and clinch on them a lot of them. They're slower and red zone scoring for you guys. I'm sure they're doing a part of it. Is it important to find the back that has the size? Is it the same thing that you had as the other guy? They're also something like that. I have my own opinion on the size they've been coming to risk. I had Jordan James out of work. He's my red zone running show yards. He's a freshman. He probably waited 2-10 or 12-5, which is not very big.

1:16:11But they ain't got the new again. Some guys got most of sticking about his own. And he played with a lot of aggression down here running. And that could be CJ. That could be James. Or it could be the freshman, Go Jackson. It's just who has a nose for getting his own. That's where I'm going over here. You don't have to be 6-2 or 2-4. Nah, just because you're being there, I'll make you pop. We knew we could obviously, you know, freshman running back coming in, but what is there here? But what do you need to see from a freshman to feel comfortable with that playing? So the first thing we were there on the ball, whether they do their little small detail, take care of the ball. The second thing will be how good they pass for them. Because it's the hardest thing for high school best. Because they're not really during high school. You have to understand the pass, but by all their falls on who? Me. So like they say, I'm in touch with my husband. So that's why I need to see first, for everything, James.

1:17:11I will understand the weaknesses of the football. If you feel comfortable with Go and I say, where they're at, or at least, you know, where their time lies. Yeah, I think they're gonna be fine. Like I said, I tell all the young guys, it's a marathon that was playing. The first thing you've been to, I earned a spot on specialty. You know, you earn a spot on specialty. You earn the right to be a book out. I'll be so they get that down the field. So, I think they're training the right way. It's your first practice. Not it wasn't merit. So the build off was. I couldn't stop the work on it. Yeah. Yeah. I've just seen some of the younger guys in your room develop. I think about like, Etrick Houston is coming in this year. I've seen him working with you guys. Joshua MacKinn, how's he coming along? I feel like they're definitely picking up quick. I mean, I was in their shoes one time and I had Zach Harrison, Javonte and Tyler Freidel in front of me.

1:18:13So I feel like I'm just trying to be kind of one of those peers that they work for me and kind of just give them the steps to get there. And I feel like they're definitely picking up quick and they're definitely going to be one of the great rushmen. Does it seem like the only coach that's just talking about it? JT and Jack probably don't need a ton of their experience. Maybe that's the most opportunities for me of doing a lot of, is there a difference in the work that you've been getting through the epic champ with the Alaska Bull? Um, I feel like all the camps, I've definitely gotten a big course learned and I love that. So I asked Coach J4, I love getting more reps because I just like, protecting my craft. So, I mean, some people may not need it, some other people need it, but I mean, I just like to give you as many reps as I can. What do you think is the speed on that course learning? So what can I make? I mean, for me, it's always just kind of getting my little details perfectly, like my steps, my footing, kind of just perfecting my toolbox is what we call it, my craft, and just trying to be a, it's like a whenever every place we try to do. What are the two kinds of big issues that are welcome?

1:19:13Yeah, I think we're going to try to get a bit of a bit of a Yeah, definitely just getting stronger faster, everything all the above, but one of my big things is being a leader and kind of just not trying to look, still look up to Jack and JT and kind of have my own kind of leadership and be able to bring people into it. So I feel like, kind of have a lot of leaders on the D-line and at the D-In position. So we kind of all kind of just count off the children. So you need to just ask, how does that transition into? I'm competitive, and we love it. We all competitive people, we all love to fish each other, and I feel like the springing the best side of all of us. We all just kind of bounce it off each other and see what one person does, and we kind of split it into our toolbox, and we all kind of just kind of build one great thing. Hey, do you ever go on last year and you got to get the shot of, pull it back in, pull it, and get there for you with that idea

1:20:15and two coach, Bill, my other kid come up out here, because you're just, Jackson, all yourers lobbying. All right. You're good to touch that. Uh, so I definitely did it in high school. I was pulled back and a little bit of tidying, so I feel like, it kind of saw what I could do there in Coach Wilson, honestly, he loved watching it too, before he left, and I feel like he planned that seed in Coach Day's head, and Coach Day kind of just went for it, and tried to do the best I could to do it. Is that continuing now? I mean, I'm really just thinking, do you think anything in the screen? New playbook, I did not know you, I haven't got that far. Yeah, good day. People have tough, I think. Yeah, look at Jackson. Um, I like to think myself as a football player, I can really play any position on the field, you need me to just give me a week or two to learn it, and kind of perfect it, and try to do my best for you. Kid Jack, you're the same thing. Oh, yeah. Don't laugh. We're athletes, that's why. Hey, he's just talking to Coach Johnson on Tuesday about some of the conversations, and he sort of saw you, and he's about how to have some conversations, after JT and Jack decided to come back, just go to win into those, and we're respected, and how did that help you maybe get

1:21:16the right mindset, I guess, from the middle of the screen? Um, definitely kind of seeing it all the way through. I feel like people kind of just see what happened, and they don't know everything that goes into it, how long the season is now, what you got to do to prepare for, and what's happening all that time, from here to then. So, I feel like we definitely just coached in, we kind of connected, and maybe kind of just talks, man-to-man, and he kind of just said it straight to me, and I feel like we kind of both are pretty honest, and we know we're making it. Making each other better every day, and we got the 4 best Dn, 5 best Dn, honestly, and then college football, and we're going to be one of the best D-Lines in college football. How do you feel like a better player today at any more games in the season? Um, I feel like I've taken big steps in my roles, of just being responsible, and being more of a leader, and kind of stepping up, and taking a step to kind of get out there more on the team, and kind of bring people in, and I feel like we're kind of helping out more. How do you recommend a pass for the team at TKFC? Is it sound? I mean, it sounds bizarre,

1:22:17but I mean, the season goes by so fast already, so when you're kind of like week 10, and you're like, wow, it's already week 10, so now it's kind of, gives you more time to kind of enjoy it, and kind of savor it, because you've come already here for a really good refreshment, for a slice creation. But you don't want to spend all your powder for the first month of a year, right? I mean, there is a, not pace yourself that, but I mean, there is a mindset, yeah, definitely, definitely going to have to have the mental stability to handle all those weeks, all those practices. How much is Larry talking to you guys around like that? Last question right here, from 2016, 2017, four NFL D-French Awards, all in the same rotation. How much does he talk to about that? I mean, he doesn't have to talk about it. We know about it. You've seen it every day, we watch the film, we see them all working together, we know what it could be, we know we could become, so we know we're right at the same, we're at the right place at the right time, and God wanted us to be here, and he knew we wanted us all to come together, and kind of play together, and be able to bounce off, and just perfect our craft together. And I feel like we all are just great individuals, and we come together at something special.

1:23:18Great. How did your expectations, I guess, meet up with, how do you feel you've played up to this point of guess? I feel like I've made the plays that came to me, and that's where the awkward control had more opportunities as years progressed, and been in spots to be here on the ball. But the expectation was to come here, and contribute to the team, and try to help find a way to push the team to win games at eye level, and to be better than they were in Lachere, and for me to play better than I was Lachere. So really just coming to try to grow with myself and with the team. So that was my big goal, and I feel like I've done a good job, and the team has done a good job progressing through the year and getting better. So yeah, that's all I'm excited about that. I'm here to the right, to the main, let it grow. Yeah, I can't stand here right now. Does it feel like a different season? What does it feel like when you go in to play-offs? You know, you don't get to go,

1:24:18you want to necessarily do a regular season, but here you are. What is that sense that you have right now? That's different, maybe, about the regular season. I mean, everybody wants to say it's a new season in terms of, because if everybody's 0-0 right now, when you keep going, if you lose, you're done. So, I mean, but generally, that's how you play every game. You know, that play every game, like it's your last game. So, for me, I don't think it's really any difference. You know, they go play at a high level every game. That can't be based upon isn't a play-off game, or anything else. You gotta go play every game, like it's the same thing. So, I would say in terms of that, no, you just have to play the game. Play the game is there. What feels different about this defense right now, going into this, so you'll feel even more the time you work. You know, the fight I mean, close together. What was that? I mean, what was your sense of the furtherhoods so to speak of the defense? I feel like we progressed throughout the season.

1:25:18We had to make a change after game six, because we lost and we didn't play well at the game. And I feel like we'd grow from that and add to a better place. Over these past two weeks, off just realizing, okay, these are the things that we messed up throughout the year. These are what we need to face. What this team is trying to exploit on us. So just really going back through everything, seeing what can do better for this kind of game and for the next couple of years. Last couple of questions. Deep, Tony, you hurt me, what got help? Caleb, how does the Tennessee's wire splits with your receivers? In fact, you, as a hundred. I feel like it makes the game more, more, more, more, more game. I mentioned receivers on our DBs at the play at seven games and the guys up front. And it makes it, truthfully, like those guys have to do their job. And these guys have to do your job. You got to be able to stop the run with the people that you have in the run fit. And you have to be able to stop their path with the people that you have out there. So that's what they do and they do it at a really low. So it's going to be tough to go with.

1:26:20And finally, what's the joy-cuff and clumsiness that you've got? Caleb, who knows what we're talking about? The speed at which there you guys are in the call and the lines. This is go for Tensville, because it's a tough fast. Is it the play call end? Is it the play kind of end? Is it the gift to you just to speed it up? Just call it. All right. It allows you to get your cleats in it. And I said earlier, just a ability to see the formation, see what keys that you have before the play and have knowledge of your job and not really thinking. Being able to play and not think during the game is a really big thing. So whenever you can get the call out faster and play at a high level and play without thought, that's a really good thing for you team. Caleb, thank you very much. Appreciate you all. Did you come up out here? Because you're a good coach. All yourers lobby. Oh yeah. You're good to touch back. So I definitely didn't in high school. I was pulled back and a little bit of tidied in. So I feel like it kind of saw what I could do there in Coach Wilson, honestly. He left watching it too before he left. And I feel like he planned that seat and Coach Day's head

1:27:21and Coach Day kind of just went for it and tried to do the best I could to do it. Is that continuing now? I mean, do you have anything to experience? New playbook. I did not know yet. Yeah, I've gotten that far. Yeah, I've gotten that far. People say, I'm tough to say. I'm a good coach. But yeah, look at that. Um, I like to think myself as a football player. I can really play any position on the field. You need me to just give me a weaker two to learn it and kind of perfect it and try to do my best for you. Kid Jack, do the same thing. Oh yeah. Don't like what coach. Graphically, that's why. Kids is talking to Coach Johnson on Tuesday about some of the conversations and sort of side you and you've got to out to have some conversations after the JT and Jack decided to come back. Just kind of went into those perspective and out of that help you maybe get the right mindset I guess we need to explain. Um, definitely kind of seeing it all the way through. I feel like people kind of just see what happened and they don't know everything that goes into it. How long the season is now. What you got to do to prepare for and what to happen in all that time from here to to then. So I feel like we definitely just coached in

1:28:21me kind of connected. And we kind of just talked man-to-man and he kind of just said straight to me and I feel like we kind of both are going on. Rest blessed. We're making it. Yada. Making each other better every day. We got the four best DNs. Five best DNs, honestly. And then Coach football. And we're going to be one of the best DLines and Coach football. I think you feel like a better player today than you were in the season. Well, I feel like I've taken big steps in my rules of just being responsible and being more of a leader and kind of stepping up and taking a step to kind of get out there more on the team and kind of bring people in. And I feel like I'm kind of helping out more and I think record head around the process of the T-P-H season. Is that sound? I mean, it sounds bizarre, but I mean, the season goes by so fast already. So when you're kind of like week 10 and you're like, wow, it's already week 10. So now it's kind of getting more time to kind of enjoy it and kind of savor it because I'm already here for a feeling of refreshments for this crazy. But you don't want to spend all your powder in the first month of the year, right?

1:29:22Oh yeah. There is that pace yourself, man. But I mean, there is a mindset that I did Yeah, definitely, definitely going to have to have the mental stability to handle all those weeks and all those practices. How much is Larry talk to you guys around like that? Last question right here. 2016, 2017, 4, and a 5, 2, 5, 2, 1, so much. Does he talk to that? I mean, he doesn't have to talk about it. We know about it. We've seen it every day. We watch the film. We see them all working together. We know what it could be. We know we could become. So we know we're right at the same, we're at the right place at the right time and God wanted us to be here. And he knew we wanted us all to come together and kind of play together and be able to bounce off and just perfect our craft together. And I feel like we all are just great individuals and we come together with something special. You get like good coaches who believe in you and like they give you the tools to go out there and just play with confidence. You know, not their doubting those stuff. Like you got your teammates, you got your back. Like my first play when I got up there to the seat, like when to sail, IGB and I remain. Like personally, they say it's like, no, where you just go out there and play with confidence. You know, you know the tools, there's usual tools.

1:30:23You just go out there and make a play. And we're about to play coming to you. You know, we're just so time to show job. We just do it. And then like, the same goes for you. Like he gives me, he puts me in a position like, like the drills we put in, the work we put in, the one on one, so I just go out there and just perform at the highest level. How much better are you right now than maybe last month at Fort Springs right now? I mean, I got way better just because I've transitioned a little bit to the inside. Nicholas Fossile, like now I actually feel like catch, catch technique and his, they're often covers, not as not always, press at the line. So it's like not maybe to like move my feet, move my hands, like see, like what I gotta do just like, just in case I gotta go back in corner, I can, I plan, oh, I'm very confident out there. Do you think that was a natural fit for you or have you had to kind of convince yourself to transition around? I mean, I feel like it's natural for me because I feel like me individually, I'm a fast learner. Fast learner, like coaches help us like learn fast and like, because they're always honest about the techniques and stuff. So you like, you write down, like you pick up all the things

1:31:23and then like when we get out here, they coach us to like the techniques. So we just go out there and play like fast spot and then you know, I would have like, reverse utility, you're able to go out there and just compete. Is that where you kind of stuff, just spring or do you pick out of mountain? Um, so I'm really been stuck there this spring a little bit right whenever you get into like other things. I just bounce out there every once in a while, just like have fun. See if I still got it every once in a while. So it's as good as go out there to compete at most spots. You mentioned the technique, what technique, you know, tips and things that you had to pick up and learn from what you're from. I mean, this is why it's like, you know, because what reaches the highest feet hands like see it. You see it move your feet and then hit your hand with the little hands on the man. So it's like, when you get like, when you out there, you're able to like process like the way the receiver comes off the ball looking at the hips and seeing like the way he moving. Are you able to pick up like the row concerts? You can get out of that like so it's being like under coach walls or mean. Like as a player and just like him breaking out football to you like one on one. It's like very beneficial.

1:32:24What was the hardest part of making that transition from outside that sense? I really say like the corner you got to cover two you cover three to cover one. It's easy, but you got nickel. There are so many responsibilities you got to see like the row concepts you got to be able to process like dying those rows faster than what you got to do at corner and just be able to like everything. Quit like a transition you got to like, you got to go fast. You got to just learn to move fast. It's like game recognition where you think maybe from the most since you got it. And how did you guys run? I would definitely say I would definitely say it hasn't because how you get to like college it's a little bit different. High school we don't got to worry about things like that. When you get to college in a school like this like your recognition of plays and like your loyal jobs the way like the coverage is supposed to be played. I understand all your teammates are supposed to get when you feel like it gets easy. What have you been up to? It's very talented. He's a great dude. He's a humble guy.

1:33:25Great teammate. He's very supportive. He's like a guy that you don't want to run because you can feed off your energy because you can see like we make a play. He's like he like IDB. It's like IGB 2. So he's like, when you get out there with guys like that with good energy, it makes you play a little bit harder. And then like when you make a play and he's out there and like it's helping you like it's being out there with him. He's a good player. One of those hard questions. Careful kids. I would say obviously I'm a glass of beer. So just call me so you're in first. Now what is it about one bill that gets you to play at a high school? It's a big question. I know. Especially. I'm just trying to prepare for it because we have so many kids come out of the blue and just play at games. I leave like the league schools and they like like chats a big part of it because I mean actually in the blue everybody that I run a chat like it's made it to our you know you don't really get the choice. Do you ever just like get out here and like know how to compete and then like G like getting bills that mental toughness into you so like have you like if you're down you got to be mentally

1:34:26tough because I mean life is not going to be easy so it's like being out here being able to pee and when you down just pick yourself back up. I mean that's what he has done for me and that's what he has done for me. All right. Do you see how would you describe the mentality of the defense right now being this opportunity for a rebound to the world? Yeah. Hungry. Thank you. I mean we know how the last last time when you know we uh we had a chip on our shoulder. I mean we were riding high before that game and we took that loss and we came back had to make a couple changes but I think we understand what you know everything's that stick right now um you know uh just fighting to where another house stage is for next game that's what's on stake and just to be able to represent this this uh this state and this uh this team. I mean we understand what's uh what's on the line and you know we're just hungry and blessed that we get this opportunity playing the Rose Bowl. Right behind you Adam King WBNS What do you remember most about walking off the field in your game? What was kind of all your minds in that moment? I mean there was a I don't think anybody imagined it

1:35:27imagined us losing um you know I didn't uh that's for sure and I think after that it was uh kind of head deep but I understand it that man we still there's still a lot of ball left to be played I mean you can let it sting for a little bit but you know if you let it carry over too long you know there there goes there goes your whole um season by I think we did a great job of just understanding coming together in this room right here um not being afraid to display um or hold accountability for one another and you know as as that happened we came back we grouped and you know we're just you're going right now um and and I'm just blessed for those specific moments you know losing I mean no one wants to lose but the testimonies and the things are taught within those little situations speaks of all of them so after all we're all right Jay what did he see from King Yada the last couple of weeks then was there like a push from him and then there were conversations with him and he can seem like he's playing since the festival

1:36:28and he's in the same scene yeah I mean that's that's my boy he's in the r2x club too but um you know uh kiyada I mean every time there's his numbers called he goes out there and makes the most of it no matter uh where where we at in the game when he goes out there he's just hungry he wants to go make plays and and you know we see it in practice so it's not surprising to us Bill Rebino, it's a bonus this back Dylan gave us obviously very elusive and our talent and he's not very tall um how important it could be to just kind of stay in your past rush lanes and neglect a lot of balls and kind of make a difference that way yeah I think it just uh comes on being disciplined uh no one who you're playing against like you said then he's uh he sure but he's very elusive I mean he can he is making throws I mean he get out the parking to everything um so I think for us we just have to discipline and just continue to just uh meet with coach Jay me with uh coach knows and understand how we can uh just eliminate that you and Jeff I mean your personality

1:37:29seems to be a little different you're more on the quiet side he's yeah how you've played together four years both five four guys kind of describe your relationship with him uh friendship with him and just kind of how you cop with each other man that's uh that's my brother like he said um we're different but very alike um think outside on like you said he's louder I'm quiet but you know once we're on that field we're like the same person um we'll do anything for this team you know we'll die for our players and we'll give everything we got room together for four years correct yeah fall camps every room yeah sometimes go over there so over there so yeah uh we have our share of days when we when I'm neat he's neat or you know we might both be messy but we do we do a good job yeah uh I'd probably say I would better kick the jack though Tony Gertman like I held uh when you're playing a team for the second time and that was almost a season to go by now yeah how much of are you at square one with with this

1:38:31scouting preparation or how much do you take in that game how much do you avoid taking so that you don't have any preconceived notions of what you're going up against offense on the offensive line I say it's it's pretty 50-50 I mean uh that game like you said it was a while ago but at the same time they elevated as a team so did we so we understand that they they had they made some changes for sure um you know there's there's a certain density we can take back from that game but we also understand that um they went on a little run after that and we can see that they elevated as an offense so we just got to continue to watch those games dissect the other games and just continue to see um what stands out and what they change from the for the past game we got a couple calls on on zoom that will wrap up with uh first we have uh Nick Hamilton from night cast media Nick uh this one to ask you basically about the synergy of this defense and how you guys were able to uh not only celebrate the triumphs but get through the adversity be able to be this top

1:39:31notch defense that you are in college football today here you need to question one more time yeah no problem um one to ask you about the synergy you are we're able to develop over course of the season obviously celebrating the triumphs but also getting through the adversities to where you go all are the top notch defense that you all are today yeah uh I mean like you said that we went through a lot of trials to trials um but there's also there's a lot things we can take away from all the wins and losses um and from those those wins we understood that hey we can be the best uh defensive country and from those losses we understand that there's still um things that need to be fixed and I think when you take all that in at once um they comes out to the the comical or the common talk which is you can there's always learning points everywhere and depending how we dissect those games or how we just continue to come as one uh elevate um you know we we continue to just um collect all those those learning points and just continue to grow from them man one final question Joey Kaufman Columbus dispatch Joey

1:40:36JT uh what what have you guys done better and the especially in the Tennessee game and just lateness season you think about turning some of the pressures that you've got on the quarterbacks and the sacks and getting at home in some of those situations yeah I think it was more just uh understanding the defense as a whole understanding everybody's job uh thing as the season went on we get to understand that you know we have to know what's going on in the back can we have to know what's going on the linebacker crew to understand uh what plays we have uh room of freedom and and I think once we understood that and got a better understanding of the of everybody's job I mean it it showed this play because you know everybody knows we each other's doing it's not like uh the lineback is know what they're doing uh the corners and be eye they know only their job I think we all know each other's job and we continue ask each other questions um on you know if they're listening how they can get to the quarterback and you know if i'm dropping and playing quarterbacks i can ask Cody on how to open field tackling so you know we just we just kind of lean on each other's understanding because uh you know um like i said like

1:41:37Dezo knows how to play corner-bedded then i know how to play corner so you know he has more more wisdom at that position than i do JT thank you very much thank you thanks man first visit in moments like that when the ball time comes definitely a little bit of both um obviously i just wanted the team to win i think we got a chance to win you know deathly towards it and then to stretch that last drive um i was a couple plays here a couple calls that he maybe should have gotten but um i think the frustration more so it just comes from you know wanting to win more anything what you said he was a little surprised how much attention you got right away from your defense how about you yeah deathly though we maybe gill the more one-on-ones kind of how uh the game plan was set up um getting out you know different coverage by the cloud to my side and this is kind of how the game goes what's the process been like sometimes where whatever reason just just just see that yeah definitely um especially in college a lot of the game things defensively were to take me away um you know we had a lot of success at

1:42:39a high-speed with one of the ball having different um the weapons they're kind of still get the victories and um i was yeah you continue to do better jobs when i hear my heart's in the rotation the process been like post game getting on the same page with Kyler you guys exchange text or you guys know yeah film definitely um kind of ask me what did i see there kind of go over and play and um i just how i get him what i saw and kind of different feedback there exchange words mark i get it we're asking questions about the previous game bar you the type of guy to let a game like that winger or how do you flush it you got to move on got to move on some long season got like 16 more of them hopefully no i can stay healthy throughout the year and uh just continue building to get you did so much work throughout the off season to get on the same page how different is it when you get into that bring it to season 10? yeah it's totally different it's totally different um you can do a lot of things you know in shirts and shorts and then once you go out there put practice and you got pads on you do like the point

1:43:39practice you get with the colds but there's nothing like actually going out there um not in live action and really trying to be on the same case so i think that relationship will continue to develop and we'll get better. Is that it just a matter of reps them this much is the biggest? definitely definitely um like i said i was kind of my first live action together um so it can continue to be when you're early impressions of it you're on the field together and when the increases with this has uh yeah but now obviously i have a death certificate with JG's call or preseason and obviously be also really healthy that's kind of the most important thing that i was thinking of all healthy even going forward so um that's it actually so. Marvin what are your early impressions of the Rams? what do you think of the Rams? i mean they're a good team they're good physical team i got a new lot of new guys up front i think that's kind of where the strong suit is um kind of a little different to Buffalo come more of a little match coverage so i'm excited to build this. personally when the bells did give you one of them uh two minutes how do you feel today? wasn't many of them um

1:44:40wasn't many of them so uh i thought i needed to. i'm just what you think game versus just playing you know not getting a preseason game actually. thanks to the post-reason. it's definitely definitely thinking a lot out there and um yeah i think i'll come with reps think to think and less and just going out there and playing definitely come with reps and it's something you are on your better at but uh they definitely i was thinking a lot of that. is there anything you can do to prove that that's from coverage and that you didn't do the past because you're you're going to face that a lot obviously. yeah i mean you just got to see you get open for yourself make it yourself available uh and then when the ball does get away making the play um this he's just taking you away that means other guys are having chance to get open so that's how kind of how i look at it. it's no longer since you know offense. that's the best thing of course. they're constantly with Tyler. is this a thing that comes pretty quickly in a new game or something like that? lunch. uh hopefully sooner or later i think um i'll continue to see we'll see. i don't think we're in a bad place right now at all. obviously i don't really think that but uh just a live reps will continue to grow and show.

1:45:41i think how i'd be able to maybe different than somebody else maybe know like the practice at least like it would be positive you know i mean so but he the energy yeah would be on just though i'd put the beyond so i'd feel so i'd kind of how i want to be school month um literally my whole life i want to get i felt team captain like specifically and i felt i wasn't captain at high school wasn't a captain at college but i want to make a joke because i was in high school so i feel like i'm not going to get a captain like he's that i felt you know um but that would be awesome you know but you know if it happens i'd be great but not either way i want to assume the world as a captain from to perspective the guys onto the visual world and get back to that point. yeah i mean i can't say that um i mean i guess the biggest thing is that i felt like how

1:46:43you used to in the past but it didn't take just the first LTAs it took training and left and right once this season ended because i know what was going to be the champion so i took a lot of you know grips um just to give back to feeling like myself for day one LTAs and then that whole first week but now like today specifically just changing some small things with my feet that is it talking about the long coach some things i'm going to do with my feet to get to that to sound that traditional angle that i love to sit on felt even i thought i felt i thought i felt great already but i'm okay i felt even better okay so i need more excites tomorrow now get on my feedback and how i like the right side and on the left side so i'm excited. i mean obviously i feel like um in the league whether i left the right or still going against premier guys obviously the high expectations for the left hand tackle but um there's definitely uh like the the level of energy and like the

1:47:44expectations definitely take the human side because now connect the blind side that's the as the tackle world you know so um so yeah i would say in terms of communication as far as this even outside of the facility you just stuff like that like really creating that but tackle quarterback body even more often feel i think has been something that's even good cool i got a text one day as i say thank you for that i was like you know yeah i've been training both i've been training both you know i i asked after the season they're like honestly you know we'll talk to you so for this season and i just got a text on having what happens with the free agency then so i was like you know what i had a whole season right tackle so if i get the word i'm going i'm standing right tackle i'll just do what i did before i'm built on that but i was like i might as well as train the left tackle now as if we're going to be left tackle and i'd rather do that than train on right time with the co-a

1:48:46do left tackle i'm like who i'm not switching my feet yet you know what i mean so i'm like let me just prepare an advance i was like yeah it was god you know i think occasionally on third down there'd be a lot of twists that i was just not like it's automatic and i think that was my mindset for like the first half of the season like i didn't have to go once again with surprise i like oh my gosh they did that i kind of figured like okay like this is this is the type of rush man again this is how this guy usually rushes if i get the vibe this is how the ends like the rush you know tackles that first year guys you got the premier patch on already know what it was going to be already know what the every stud and honestly just knowing that's kind of an advantage to so you're not you're not you're not oh they brought the twist on my side it was never air job but well they come out the hot like three plays in a row in two minutes i do that it was going to be so a lot of you know what i mean so i'm watching more everybody else and he rarely even goes out there occasionally third down i was like yeah i was very close

1:49:46he's gonna pick me you know what i mean so effect it's kind of it's also kind of anage in a way but it's also exciting okay i'm gonna get the hardest look you know so it's like real real reps you know the things um really out on our way to kind of process that i was like had when i told me but let me know about i'm just gonna train it i was training all left till t.a.s i guess if i didn't hear anything about t.a.s i came in like so you know what i mean um because just like i'm cool with training both continue i would've been cool training both continually but um i feel like anybody any position will feel like okay like you want to as soon as possible give your feet kind of settle there your hips settle there um your hands so then uh certain kind of that we would have been harder than to work both very good to you no no no but um they're definitely but in terms of the development um

1:50:48it was definitely a lot faster to stay on all one side but i think having that the weeks that we had to transition with seasons over you know we're trying to get up put up and we think things that are down right now but when it comes back i'm gonna show him that he on the house i've got a house not too far from so i told him i got that house like i got a yellow outside like DJ you know what i mean so um yeah that's that's not having any stock or anything doesn't mean anything so um we're we have to play on friday and that's really all that matters we're gonna take two more from zoom before turn it back our first one's gonna come from steven from pleveland.com go ahead well it's the fun i'm sorry hey Caleb we've seen you were talking about the Ohio State Office the success that they've had um obviously Jeremiah has been a big

1:51:49part of that what's it been like this year going against him in practice and you know after doing that this is a surprise at all to see him having the success he's had as a freshman no it doesn't bring surprises um it was pretty pretty easy to see the talent that he has and the blessings that god has put on his plate um but it's always a it's always a challenge going against Jeremiah and the other receivers and mecca and car nanopractus and even guys like Brandon and his impression Rogers they they do a great job bringing looks for the defense and uh create a lot of obstacles a final question from zoom is going to come from dan hoop go ahead dan Caleb you Quinn had a lot of success against you guys when you played him at alabama last year just what do you remember from going up against him last year and what can you learn from that game really smart quarterback knows how to operate their offense um push the ball in the right places and then course arkison does a great job putting him in positions to win all right back to you

1:52:50thank you rob all our Columbus dispatch Caleb uh jt and jack plan opposite sides and they is opposite off the field as they are on in terms of personality and just the people they are uh they're offices but they uh they're also like one of the closest people i know they spend a lot of time together um they've come from different sides of the country so they're different people for sure but they're both really great people are really great men sorry spec both of them how did you do that um i'm not going to do that i'm sorry i'm not going to do that go to ask the war and podcast throughout the throughout the season we would always see you on like Wednesday nights you and latin would be some of the last people off the field uh for the things that you're working on after a practice always the same is it a routine what are the things that you're hoping to get out of those extra moments after practice uh it's a routine pretty much

1:53:52the the keys that we need to go into the game with and then also changes week to week on based on what our jobs are going to put us into doing um so every week we go through the same things and then we add certain things that we do for the we for the what the team that we play is going to ask us to accomplish Bill we've been on Columbus dispatch yeah i already got one here oh okay uh june goffin Columbus dispatch killin when takes us uses play action they use play action for a bit what's what do they do well in those spots and what's the key for you guys in those moments with Quinn they uh they do a really good job with i candy um and it creates a lot of challenges for defense in order to see if it's runner pass and see um because that's when they're going to take their shots too as well so really just having great i discipline seeing the line is seeing what is telling us um so that's just what it does uh deep right uh Nick Walker Letterman roll hey look you guys had a pretty good game plan for Tyler Warren when you guys

1:54:52play him you guys have another Texas has a good tight end and gunner home what do you guys gonna have to do to limit him and how do you think about his game uh he's a really good player he makes a lot of plays and he's has a lot of receiving yards this year um so really just do the same thing we've done all year just be be disciplined in our responsibilities and if you're on them you gotta make the play when it comes right one of the mandor buildings uh playman doc when you think their receivers is kind of a whole you know they spread ball around seems like a lot of what stands out about you know the way they can spread ball around those different guys a lot of really good athletes um i play with Isaiah Bond last year who's a really great receiver a lot of speed um and then all their receivers have made a lot of plays so i mean everybody has to be on their pees and cues if we're gonna stop them and um have a do a really good job uh front row here ten May and Letterman grow yeah kill but you move up here and i'll have to get to you when you move it basically a year ago

1:55:53and stuff it was a little bit of a leap of faith because you know you know how many athletes are on this team get athletes to stuff but why didn't you really feel this defense come into its own and then then pass that man watching in Rose Bowl you're recognition of what was coming seem to be on point did it feel like that i mean you personally um i think the defense is played really well throughout the season uh i think we've had games where we played better and games where we haven't put it all together but i think that's how all defenses are um so i can't say there's a certain moment where i think we put it together um but was it second party question you heard you seem really on point uh against Oregon about recognizing what was what was coming i mean you were really active out there directing and things like that did it feel like that i guess i feel like as Luke said earlier the preparation that we put in goes into that and just feeling comfortable what we're doing comfortable what we're seeing with the other teams i feel like that's a

1:56:54that allows us to play fast and can uh me and lake them to communicate everybody else did i miss anyone for questions here steve how wangin twenty-four seven sports yeah Caleb but you came to high state to play for national championship and there were a lot of ups and downs throughout the season just to be in this position the last four teams still live just you feel validated by that and did you always have faith that this is how it was going to turn out i came to a high state to become a better player and to help the team be as good as it can be not to win a national championship not like that wasn't the only goal for me coming here uh really just wanted to be in the team and be my be with the brotherhood but it's a it's a great feeling being in the final four and being with the team and everything that comes with that but it's a blessing to be here and one final question boomer been once plus this time i did a lot of fall up when i talked just at that of the game you said when they scored their first and second touchdown you were really hot on the sidelines what was what was your message to the team and

1:57:57you know that's a good offense they're going to score against most people why were you so hot really just because we didn't execute which let them score so we've done that a lot which is something we can't do in these big games and these games where it's winter go home so we got to make the plays when they come and get our competitive excellence as coach Dases make the play where your numbers call gillip thank you very much i feel like they're definitely picking up quick i mean i was in their shoes one time and i had Zach Harrison and Javonte and Tyler Friedell and trying to meet stuff like i'm just trying to be kind of one of those peers that they work for me and kind of just give them the steps to get there and i feel like they're definitely picking up quick and they're definitely going to be one of the great rushmen so we coach Joshua Salkizad JT and Jack are going to meet a ton of good experience saving us from the opportunities for you to get a lot of is there a difference in the work going because you've been getting through half of camp pretty much the last couple i feel like all the camps i've definitely gotten a big coursework and i'd

1:58:59love that so i ask coach j4 i love getting more reps because i just like protecting my craft so i mean some people may not need it some people need it but i mean it's like he has me reps like he has me i mean for me it's always just kind of getting my little details perfectly like my steps my footing kind of just perfecting my toolbox is what we call it my craft and trying to be a second whenever every player is what kind of you yeah um definitely just getting stronger faster everything all the above but uh one of my big things with being a leader and kind of just not trying to look still look up to jack and jt and kind of have my own kind of leadership and be able to bring people into so i feel like kind of have a lot of leaders on the b-line and then at the b-imposition so we kind of all kind of just kind of talk to each other and host

1:59:59playing with them all the time um it's really competitive and we love it we all competitive people we all look at each other and i feel like we're bringing the best out of all of this we feel like we're all just kind of bouncing off each other and see what one person does and we kind of build it into our toolbox and we all kind of just kind of build one great thing one hey do you know we're gonna last year and you got the shot of put a full bag in the club and uh get the approach you with that idea and two coach them i mean how did that come about because you're a good jack saw your slot in okay get the touch deck um so i definitely did it in high school i was full back and a little bit tied in so i feel like it kind of saw what i could do there and coach Wilson honestly you left watching it too before you left and uh i feel like you playing that seed and coach day's head and uh coach day kind of just went for it and uh try to do the best i could to do it is that continuing now i mean uh do you do anything in the screen new playbook i did not know

2:00:59yeah i've gotten that far but yeah i'm gonna be able to help talk with that dude yeah look at that um i like to think myself as a football player i can really play any position on the field you need me to just give me a weaker two to learn it and kind of perfect it and uh try to do my best for you kid jack you the same thing oh yeah oh yeah i don't like what you're talking to coach johnson on Tuesday about some of the conversations and sort of sought you and got out to have some conversations after the jt and jack decided to come back just got to win into those perspective and and out of that help you maybe get the light mindset i guess when it needs to play um definitely kind of seeing it all the way through i feel like uh people kind of just see what happened and they don't know everything that goes into it how long the season is now what you got to do to prepare for and what to happen in all that time from here to to that so uh i feel like we definitely just coached in me kind of connected maybe kind of just talks man oh man and uh he kind of just sent it straight to me and i feel like i'm kind of both in person and we know we're making it yada making each other better every day and we got the

2:02:02four best deans five best deans honestly in the college football and we're gonna be one of the best deans in college football how do you feel like a better player today at any more again this season? um i feel like i'm taking big steps in my roles of just being responsible and being more of a leader and uh kind of stepping up and taking a step to kind of get out there more on the team and kind of bring people in and uh i feel like i'm kind of helping out more sounds bizarre but i mean the season goes by so fast already so when you're kind of like week 10 and you're like wow it's already week 10 so now it's kind of gives you more time to kind of enjoy it and kind of save for it because you know you're all five and you feel like refreshments for each crazy it's here we're spinning on your powder for the first month of a year right oh yeah there is that that pace or something i mean there's a mindset that i did that season yeah definitely definitely gonna have to have the mental stability to handle all those weeks and all those practices how much is Larry talking guys about like that last question right here

2:03:052016 2017 four and a five two five two nine dollars so much does he talk about that i mean he doesn't have to talk about it we know about it we've seen it every day we watch the film we see him all working together we know what it could be we know we could become so we know we we're right at the same place at the right time and god wanted us to be here and he knew we wanted us all to come together and kind of play together and be able to bounce off and uh just perfect our craft together and i feel like we all are just great individuals and to come together something special doing it what what were the deliberations i'm surprised to see the conversation like she always be live let's tell you tell you tell you play football so obviously there's a proximity to the season which is it's a little reckless i understand that but in spring when you're competing for jobs i mean if i'm a quarterback i'm asking to be live so i can show him how i'm different than you know anyone that can't be live you know what i mean you're always trying to find an edge and if you're never fully alive i don't think you fully give guys opportunity to to be who

2:04:07they want to be or who they can be so that being said you know i will cast my vote but that will not be my final decision on that but i will cast my vote the guys have handled well it was good for all parties involved and uh more we can do that the better but ensure that is coming to a close here very quickly so right uh Jeremiah off the field we saw after practice on the side of day the mob that came to get autographs and things when when you're working with him on all these things you're talking about but also dealing with the life of being one of the biggest names in college football how do you help mentor him in that aspect yeah i mean it's a it's a blessing to be able to be in a position where you know can provide insight or i wouldn't say recommendations but just you know give perspective um what how he chooses to receive the first perspective or not one or not i mean he always does but which is fine uh but to be in that position is really humbling

2:05:12uh that being said um he does a really good job on his own he doesn't need to check down too much uh he's really done a great job again the way he was raised in his morals and humble would always sign and taking pictures i'm always trying to be the bad guy for him because he's not going to be and uh just says again more about his character uh but he's not the only he's not the only guy any guy would kind of do that we have a group full of awesome young guys uh but Jeremiah has done a great job with it handling it and uh it's definitely growing at an exponential rate to say the least uh but um i think he's built for it and he's been handled at a high level uh but uh those around them we're trying to help him out a little bit yeah what made uh Quincy the first freshman to do this is Black striker's year uh yeah i mean uh that's a good question i think that uh you know frankly you know it i don't i know i'm not really fully involved with that so i can be but i

2:06:15wasn't you know i think that people on the outside whether it be defense or even coach day or anybody brought it to my attention you know we're kind of just going about practice and that's our expectation and make plays not make mistakes um and he was starting to make a lot of a lot of plays consistently and i think the consistent level uh that he's been as a person uh being on being on time and and doing what his job description on each play and the ball is coming your way and making some big plays and uh you know it starts it starts being seen by your peers and your peers start asking for it they start barking getting a stripe off all those kind of things that's the ultimate sign of respect i think uh with your peers um you know go to your bat and he's not going for his bat no one uh people are bringing it to your position coach i think it uh speaks volumes of the uh the general respect that you're earning uh through the process so i think something like that happened and uh you know as well deserve based on his peers and the other coaches. Ryan Day was talking about how impressed he's been this spring with Austin

2:07:16Saravold all that he's been able to do and Tyler Bohn was talking last week about the importance of the cross-training and all that that goes into that just how much have you seen Austin benefit from this spring and everywhere that he's been and how big of a piece do you think he's going to be regardless of where he fits on this offensive line. Yeah i think Austin's been awesome i mean he literally and you know what i'm saying say he played every spade every position which is the moon around you know and uh he handles it and you know he's one of those guys i feel like you watch film over and over again day after day and his name never really gets brought up you know in a good way like you know the old line your name gets brought up when uh usually not going as well you know i mean they're literally at the point of the tack on every single play so there's nowhere to hide and so uh but Austin when his name gets brought up it's like man that was a good job right good job pass off that combo whatever it's it's always positive and uh they're really impressed with him he started in the winter to a great job through the winter um again continue to build their respect for his peers and then he's going to good job really good job just being uh very consistent to spring.

2:08:17Are left Jeff Gilbert press pros? Brian since you've been working more with the whole offense that when it comes to quarterback play what has grown in your I don't know appreciation of that position and what those guys have to do and go through what do you think more about those guys versus maybe what you thought before it's just a wide receiver guy. Yeah i mean i mean there's no just a wide receiver guy. If you are just wide receiver guy you won't be a very later on it's all about it's all about quarterback play you know so i think in that same world though to the point is that you know in order to be a great receiver or you know receiver guy whatever you want to call it uh there's only one page just the quarterbacks page so everything is based off them there whether they're progression they're timing the the stresses they have is what we're trying to minimize so if you don't fully understand the quarterback play it's hard to you know maximize receiver play I think you know that being said um yeah i mean i'm still always learning you know

2:09:18I think that uh i can't say anything's jumped out massively right now but i would say that uh you know i guess i would say that the preparation level i mean the what is required to execute and play at a high level it's just not capable in the allotted time right i mean there's only so much time where i'll be with players if you're not willing to spend you know your own time getting prepared for practice to be uh to maximize one's ability uh there's a good chance you're not going to maximize your ability so you know in other positions i mean align same thing i mean receiver play sometimes can can you know get away from it we do a great job studying and being in the room extra for sure but the requirement of a quarterback to know uh the fixed protections uh the BR run game coordinator based on the calls you know to get us in different checks i mean there's so much to need to know and uh and frankly uh the you know the old line's only as good as the quarterback the receiver's only as good as the quarterback the offense is only as good as the quarterback and

2:10:19and it's our responsibility to put guys in position to maximize what they're capable of maximizing but their inability uh to notice that they can just spend extra time outside the allotted time i think is critical and the amount that it takes i guess that was maybe a little naive too but uh the guys are doing a great job doing it. Got time for just a couple more coaches got a meeting uh Rob all our Columbus dispatch yeah Brian you know you guys reached the mount top you got to ban around their national champs i think you keep these guys grounded being in the moment looking ahead not back do you are you tougher on because no i think that i mean i think we have a lot of guys you know what i think it's understanding that we were trying to build the map to get to where you wanted to get to but now that we have the map doesn't mean we've traveled the path so like we know what it looks like the guys that are here know what it's supposed to look like the guys that for us said unbelievable example how to get to where you want to get to um so the focus is on trying

2:11:22to you know replicate what they just did and how they operated can't say we've done that right now so it's very easy to stay motivating because they already know it's not good enough frankly and so the last thing they want to do is put in a ton of effort and then not reach their goals so motivation i don't think is needed i think there is a catching up of those and maybe aren't quite sure what it takes you know and but overall motivation is not what we've needed clarity of message is definitely what we've been focused on and i think the message is being received so not concerned about you know motivation and and the uh looking back if you will i think everyone's pretty pretty focused on being forward and knowing we haven't accomplished anything so Steve and me, Steven Doctor, who would you say is the leader of your wire receiver right now i would say carnaltate, brinon andis, probably done the most most outspoken you know in the room

2:12:23yeah i would say they're doing a good job those were probably the two guys that would jump out of my room yep i mean brinon he's been in trouble obviously carnaltating on that role more and being more vocal he's a good football player obviously and he's the underliver that process for him and becoming a more vocal leader took to pretty to say that i don't know what was the question carnaltate, what do you see like the growth of the carnaltate part of it uh yeah i mean he's i think he's pulled guys aside you know it had one of one conversations with him uh he's locked in uh you know just i think he saw the impact that a mecha made in the role he played and to think that you're gonna lose that and then be a better group part doesn't mathematically make sense to him so someone's got to set up in that role and one and one respects him too he knows he's capable of it and uh it's just the desire and the appreciation i think to be at the order at table now at the overhead and uh and appreciate the way i'm that could probably win about his his business and so um he probably valued that appreciated that uh and he's just being assured we still have that

2:13:28could you assess the running back room uh i think it's pretty much assumed both those running back to cj and and uh a james think that tandem system is probably the way you're going to go again how do you think it's working and you see third and maybe fourth guys up in the mirror i think that you know in college football uh we're in a football any football really you got to have depth in the running back room i think that uh very apparent in the NFL it's usually a two back system you know very very rarely is it one guy uh but in college i think we saw the benefit of that last year uh the ability to compliment each other is really important and the ability for us to identify what they do great and put them in good positions to be what they are uh what their best that i should say uh it's really important as a coaching staff it's been very impressed with uh even the younger guys sam and and and uh bow and the way they've come along um the consistency so what you're chasing right you're always able to that's why you're here but how often you do it ultimately dictates how much you play so but uh overall i think locksmen on them they'd

2:14:31understand the standard and in past pro and uh not being a guy we got to sell out because you can't pass protect so we were blessed what especially with tre last year and and quen shan so um but no these guys have done a good job they're competing uh they've been very coachable uh you know it's it's it's shown a plot on film um but uh yeah i mean it's always hard on backs i mean every opportunity you get to go live and and break tackles really gives you the most feedback on what these guys are capable of if you're just playing tag out there you never get any art at least you shouldn't uh but the running backs um you know on contact days it's done a good job James has done a really good job growing really excited about him everyone's really excited about him and cj uh so you know i think ultimately now group the uh hug will all go with the group b it was probably based on you know the top the bottom rising right i mean you're gonna have some guys at the top but you know where's the floor and so i think uh uh bow and sam has done a really good job and maybe

2:15:33some more guys to get healthy and more more guys on campus but uh very encouraged and you saw him improve and then um mcclean i think is a is a great plus i mean he is a guy that has football intelligence he's picked it up you know he's kind of of those incoming freshmen who still should be in high school he's a guy i think you're gonna point to and you can see right now he's gonna be a player over to the right Austin Ward the podcast uh healthy Mitchell melton how does he fit in for your defense what does he bring to it yeah he's you know Mitch is that combination player you know in um in our four down um you know he's a guy that can do a lot of things uh drop fold in there and make plays you you see some of that all the time really athletic um you know we're kind of loaded at that end position so he's gonna play there but you know like i said last

2:16:35year we we haven't needed it but he's a guy you would point to along with cj hex you know for the for the long season um people get injured you get a little light inside it's always hard on the defensive tackles but if you're gonna play with uh three ends you know that's Mitch is a guy who definitely can do all that he has that over to the left Joey Kaufman Columbus dispatch Jim you've talked about this before but i think in past years where you're going up against uh a really talented receiver group offense to encourage your players uh it's not okay if they give up to the play and to go nearly almost the first half today where you the offense didn't get them the end zone till the late in the second half just and you guys have guys down the second area just what what did you think of of that sort of trend and how it's evolved in the way you guys almost shut them out the first time yeah i think it's become um you know an expectation now um you know our db's you know our bia best in america we led the country in past defense right i think

2:17:40it was 96 what i uh what i got here and it was number one last year so they've they've taken that spirit so it's a competitive spirit it's an expectation now it doesn't matter who we're going against it's they they view it as a standard so that was good to see in the first first half uh over to the right Spencer Holbrooke let him in roll Jim we've talked about safety changing the way that you play defense in the Leo and the linebackers but how much does having the depth that you guys have a defensive tackle change the way that you can do things defensively yeah i mean you're going to play to your strengths you know and uh that's that's my job this is to what do we have and what do we do best and when you have defensive tackles um but i've said it before it it helped our defense so much last year when you have defensive tackles that actually make tackles which is what we have right now it changes the way you call a game you know it certainly helps you be um

2:18:44in better shape on explosive plays on the back end you don't have to do a whole lot to help those guys out because they're making tackles so you got to go you got to go with that you know you got to you got to let those guys play and and and they're good so um you can't get too far away from the scheme of having those defensive tackles make place because they're doing it and it works uh over to the left Tony Gurdman Buckeye Huddle Jim Ryan talked about the quarterback run being more of a thing with the offense here during the season how much of when you're facing a team like that how much does that impact your day-to-day throughout the week preparing for that yeah it's a ton you know it i think it changes everything you do on defense um you see it everywhere from the NFL on down if you have a quarterback who can make plays with his feet your scheme better be designed that you know to to take that away into account for it so it changes the way you look at everything when you're game planning thank you Donovan over here to the right uh Tim May the Tim May podcast

2:19:46yeah Jim you might be the interviewer when i asked uh Ryan about just for example Calvin Simpson Hunt but the uh corner scene did you play in almost with the chip owner shoulder to a certain xtanami Davis and Nick Benoson took the day personally it looked like you know to make is uh some of the height going into the game but uh what what do you see from that group in particular that abouis you going into this off-season yeah when you can when you have corners that you can count on again it's just like having defensive tackles in the run game when you have corners you can count on that are going to compete all the time no matter what the situation is and we've developed that again it changes the way you call the entire game i mean you you're you're able to leave those guys on an island um you're able to switch out coverages and they know what they're doing and they take great pride in it so um having those guys out there in the development it's a big deal it really is yeah i mean he's he did come in late and you know um he compete he's one of those

2:20:54guys that just competes every day doesn't say much you know he's trying to live up to the standard or the other guys and you you see him coming along you know you see him step by step coming along and and you know put him in a you know competitive atmosphere see him step up that's a great sign and final question for coach Knowles dan hope eleven warriors you mentioned cjhix a few minutes ago have you seen him take the strides you need to see the spring to trust him as a guy who could be a potential starter on his defense yes i mean uh i think cj has shown that uh he has talent and i think it's my job to put him in the best situations for him because he can be a force um you know he's much better when he's bloodsing or he's directed because he's able to use his athletic ability but he has certainly shown that he's going to be able to help this defense coach thank you very much for your time all right and uh we will bring uh offensive coordinator and

2:21:59quarterback's coach chip kelly to the podium now we'll open up the questions over to the left bill rabbinowitz Columbus dispatch at chip um what are your just general impressions of the offense coming out of spring especially at quarterback we'll look at all 15 so i think you know uh this day is is a big part of it you know because it was the first time they were going to play some of those guys that were going to play in front of a crowd and it was an amazing crowd and you need to 80 thousand for spring game now you could see some of the young guys kind of looking around like wow this is different than the indoor um but that's what they have to get ready to play it so um we got better from practice one practice 15 you know it's still an evaluation through the whole process but um it's not something in in the players bill two that we we're not making a decision walking off the field today saying hey this is the direction that we're going in we'll will be very authentic and and look through everything and make sure that we get a really good feel for what it all looks like and then who will best move this offense that's that's what our decision is going to be based on I do I think we got a lot of guys there um that part's tough

2:23:02I think because you got you there's guys that deserve reps you know and they're all competing for it so you know sometimes you'd like to be sometimes when you had a guy who was an initial startup well he's going to get the bulk of the reps he got him better but um they capitalized on we really rolled him you know if you were at some of our screen practices you're watching all those guys rotate in rotate out um and as we talk about all the time you know the old adj is don't count your reps make your reps count you know and we'll put it all together and really come up with you know which guy do we really feel is going to make gonna help us move this offensively over to the far right bill landis the podcast kings of the north hey chip um you said when we first talked you that the the basis of a lot of your success running the football just kind of figuring out what your guys do best and then leading into that over 15 practices now how good of a field do you think you have for that and then what did the next few months look like as you try to piece that all together really good question um it's it's interesting because the one thing that I think sometimes makes tough and an evaluation is what a good front we want to get um you know so for 15 practices those guys on the other side of the ball were pain you know

2:24:08Jack and JT and tylie can those guys but I know come fall there's not going to be anybody more happy that we have those guys on the defense side of the ball because of what they can do so um I still think we'll have to really evaluate that what we're good at what we're not what we got to get better at what we got to work on but I think the work we got against such a quality defense was was really key for us uh over to the far left Nathan baird cleveland dot com so year ago at this time um it came out of the spring with still a lot of question marks about the offensive line and even I guess that last season came out with question marks. How have you seen that progress in the time that you've been here and and what's your confidence level that that offensive line is going to allow this offense to do everything it wants to do this fall? Yeah I mean I've been here short amount of time so I didn't know I really don't have anything to compare to so I kind of tabula rasa come in with a blank slate and just observe it and I think we're really athletic I think donny and and and Seth and those guys inside are really smart and really intelligent they allow you to to be able to make adjustments in game um just tucking football with some of those

2:25:10guys it's like well these these guys are wired the right way and a lot of those guys have played a lot of football so um they can bank on their experience there you know I think we we've got about four guys that have played significant amount of snaps and we got to make sure we can find out who the fifth guy is um but that's similar to where the quarterback spot is I think and I also think of the offensive line you you're not going to play a 16-17 game season and just play with five guys you know you really have to develop your depth there um there's gonna be a number two center that's gonna play a lot of football it's gonna be a number two guard whether it's on either side of the ball there's gonna be a third tackle I think you you're gonna get tested especially with this new in this new playoff format you really have to think that way so you know you're not looking for five starters you're really looking for ten starters because you're gonna have to you're gonna have to probably play ten guys to get when you get through a 16-17 game season over to the right Austin Ward the podcast chip I think it was the first play of the game the T-Formation and then the reverse I don't know spin move with Will Howard under what's the inspiration for that package and that sort of uh rinco with the quarterback mr. Hayes there's a looming figure around this whole program

2:26:14you know we get to go to work every day and then Woody Hayes athletic center so um it was good enough for Woody we're gonna stay with him we're gonna do it we ran some last year I think we took 21 snaps at UCLA and T in a short yardage formation for us and we've done some different things with it but um also I think our players had a lot of fun you know practicing that and doing some different things so um it's a small part of our offense you know we will not be in the T 21 times in one game but you know we may get it in some short yardage situations and I think it's come back there's a lot of schools right now that um are starting to do that you know it's really just you're trying to you know you got a half a yard to get you know you're trying to get your big guys in the game and I think we use three tight ends and two running backs in our formation today with Packard being the the full back in that situation so um there's a lot of different things you can do in short yardage but um a little bit of a tribute to coach coach Hayes and and what he means to this program Joey Kaufman Columbus dispatch over to the left chip as you look back now even your two months 15 spring practices there's something you feel best about what you've been able to accomplish

2:27:18with this offense well I haven't accomplished anything because I didn't take a snap but um I think the most impressive thing since I've been here is how close close this football team is you know some programs talk about a brotherhood there this is really a brotherhood um our practices as we talked about how good our defense is it's they're highly competitive but they're not combative and and those guys really work very very well together both the old line and the D line the secondary and the receivers um the competition is the but it's got to be the best there is in the country you know and and that makes you better but I think sometimes competition you know guys can lash out and it gets really combative and then all of a sudden the fight breaks out the fight breaks out and and we're trying to accomplish and get footballed on but I think the way these guys cooperating work together as a group uh as a special bond and I think you're you're going to need the the the closest team and the most connected teams on the ones that win uh over to the right here Andy Baxter on Letterman role chip obviously there's been a lot of talk about Jeremiah but Ameca is the big return in this group he kind of reminded everyone what he can do today what's it been like working with him and what kind of weapon can he be for you guys?

2:28:19Good point and Ameca has reminded me and the other 14 practice sessions of what he can do special player you know and and and JJ's a really talented player also but you know I think I think all of the the whole group on Cornell tape did some really good things watching him this spring and for all of them you know I mentioned it with the offensive line I I came in with the blank slate and I had no opinions formed not that really just wide eyed and just observe them but you know that I think that wide receiver is really special and I think there's a bunch of guys in there and again when you have to play multiple multiple games after the regular season is over you're going to make sure you're going to need depth like that and the fact that it's you feel a little bit comfortable right now that we got some guys there that can make some plays on the perimeter and that really dictates how people are going to defend you know so you got a couple really good running back you know so are they going to load the box are you really going to load the box and leave those guys in one on one coverage well then it's the quarterback's responsibility to to decipher that and get the ball of those guys so or do they at least a double coverage they

2:29:20list a double coverage and now it's a little bit lighter box and you can run the ball so having too many weapons is a is a good problem to have second row left pat Murphy 24-7 sports chip we've talked a lot about kind of the quarterbacks maybe fine for the the starting spot but some of the younger guys what have you seen from them we got an opportunity to see more of them today than we probably have what's your assessment of of them as they kind of get in this I always am so impressed with young guys that enroll early in watching how they get acclimated and what they do you know when you look at Julian and Aaron and J.J. you know they should be in the hot lunch line of their high school and they're out here playing in front of 80,000 people and they've really progressed when you watch them in meetings and listen to them and they interpret you know so basically the whole concept here is we throw them in the deep end and see if they can swim you know this we didn't baby anything we don't put the install in with hey you guys are in style we're an install this with the older players and then you guys you know go sit at the kitty table and we're

2:30:23just going to do the really simple things with you you know they get it all and the more they can digest the more when you're in a room when you're checking for understanding and asking questions and they can spit back to you the more confidence you have when they get in there with the plays that you can call for them so those guys have been impressive they're still learning you know they were the the guys today that were kind of looking around and saying wow there's like 80,000 people here along with the offensive coordinator and the quarterback coach because I was kind of looking around because I had actually never been in the stadium until yesterday when we had our 14th practice in there so I played Ohio State once when I was at Oregon but that was in the Rose Bulls I had never been actually in the stadium until yesterday so I caught myself and I went into the stadium today looking around saying 80,000 for spring game that's impressive. Got time for just a few more folks over here to the right Dylan Davis Delaware Gazette. Given what you just said about throwing them into the deep end what stood out the most about Julian's progression through 15 practices and where he is as you guys head out of spring.

2:31:24Julian is a very fast processor you know he he really thanks very very quickly on his feet like he makes really quick decisions he doesn't stick on and read he can progress and any sees things really well for for a young player you know and not having been exposed to a lot of college defenses and especially what Jim does you know Jim Jim can make Jim can make a young freshman quarterback cry with some of the stuff he does but you know I never saw that with Jules and I that's been in press of his his ability to retain and you know him and JJ the compliment I would say to him is if you got here and you didn't know what class they were and you wouldn't say that those guys were freshmen in terms of how they've picked things up and you know sometimes freshmen act like freshmen but the guys who are special they don't act like freshmen you know they act like their football players and those are two guys that are examples of that. Far left Cameron T. Robinson the athletic chip you on the topic of freshmen James people's exam got on the second half you talk about how deep

2:32:28you need to be in this era of college football but as you search for RB3 what did you see from them today and what is what is their growth been like in this spring. Yeah James really flashed early for for me not knowing again kind of let's just take don't worry about what the background is where they're from who they are the this guy of this stars this guy of that stars it's they're all buccasms just how they do it I think James has got really good feel and vision he can hit things I thought sanded some really good things today T.C. is another guy who really came along during the spring and in work constantly talking in our staff meetings about depth we're very cognizant of the fact that the playoff situation has changed so you have to develop that depth you know used to be maybe have a pair and a spare was what everybody says but I think you may have to have more than you're talking about 16 17 games you're you're really going to be tested that way so I was really happy with with how those young guys have come along here in the 15 training sessions that we've had. Oh here to the right Tim May the Tim May podcast thank you Jerry you have your own podcast

2:33:32yeah like these guys all had like a name next to their name. That's pretty cool. He must have some juice if you got your name in your podcast definitely. Okay by the way I like it it's not just the lunch last hot lunch last while it's hot lunch. Yeah just two quickies number one do you feel compelled to let these quarterbacks know where they stand here you know it's coming up to you see you know what I mean there yeah you know where does that go I mean in your mind. Yeah we're all sit down as a staff and visit me don't mind maybe he does an unbelievable job of I think all our players understand where they fit and what what the picture is and we'll give him our assessment this isn't you know we're not going to come back but we do it after every day they know where they stood after practice one after two after three after four we grade everything they're getting constant feedback in terms of where we are and then after 15 which we had today but but we we can't do it unless you watch the film and can can really look at the things because you may see something but you're on the sideline you know why did he make that decision well I couldn't really see the

2:34:35field safety from where he was okay now I understand why he made that decision so you know what what the well meetings with all our players and that's that's always been the method so this week during you know between one day through Friday we're all scheduled no one's going on the road recruiting until after that but we're all a player meeting said every position you know offensive line defensive line linebacker safety is everybody everybody's going to sit down with their position coaches and know where they fit and we see them but do you feel a pressure with with the transfer portal looming I mean you've been a head coach for a long time I mean is that on your mind at TSD yeah I think you know what you got to wear of it that I'm 100 percent and I don't think it's pressure but I think you just open lines of communication and everybody knows you know which what your evaluation was through the training sessions that we have guys we got to have we got real quick at last two questions Dan Hope and then Rob Aller feel like you need to have a starting quarterback named by and whatever biggest things you're going to be looking for between now and then and determining who that guy's going to be well between now and and whatever then

2:35:37is we're not allowed as coaches to go back out and practice with him you know in college football you get 15 training sessions in the in the off season and then they'll go back to work and with Mick in the in the weight room and getting bigger getting faster getting stronger they'll have organized activities themselves and they they do a really good job of that but once there's a football out like we're not allowed to be there to evaluate and even assess so they're really from a football standpoint on their own until August so you always want to do it earlier but I also believe every time I've I've been involved in this is that it kind of happens organically and authentically you know because the players know and if you say hey we decided we're going to be with Joe and they all think it's Tim you know they know they're in the locker room with them every day players players understand you know who they'd feel is the guy and most of the time it it the decision is very obvious you know when you just say hey this is where we are with it you know

2:36:39but there's that timetable thing I don't I can't give you an exact timetable on that so Rob chip you talk about Julian but typically in your experience you've done again like Tim said a long time how long does it take for the game to slow down for a prey on QB I think it depends on the individual you know I've had some kids where early you know you're like wow Marcus Murray Odo was like that remember vividly second practice and he got to the fifth reading the progression and threw it out here in this big game and I asked him why I do it all I like I asked why because I just want to understand it and I said why did you do that and he goes I don't know what we call that defense but there was like a lot of guys over there and they didn't seem like there was anybody over there but for him to process at that time he was right and he came back the other day whether that was cover 60 other day coach like I learned what you guys call the coverages but it all happens differently I've got guys that for two years seem like they're just you know they're really

2:37:40struggling and then the light bulb goes off and you know whoa like they got it so everybody has different learning styles you know our job and the evaluation process is to identify those learning styles so you know they're cognitive learning they're an auditory learner you know do they do they learn by field is it is it more a field guy you know a more film guy you know it's all different and I think we have to keep poking and prodding and and and for us as coaches that's the challenge too is what is their best learning style and how can we convey it because education basically is just a transportation knowledge but it really doesn't matter what I know or what Ryan and I was a matter is what they know so that's that's always kind of what we're working on and study it and thinking about and kind of where we are and how much can they handle and then how much is too much you know because this may be a great play I agree 100% but if he don't feel it's a good play then then why is it in you know I mean and that's that's this whole feeling up process that we're all they're learning awesome we're learning them so I have identity so do coaches really running

2:38:43quarterbacks is that something you've always sort of lean toward or is it year by year case by case what advantages do you like about because all your guys can run a little bit. Yeah I think a running quarterback causes problems for defense so when when plays break down the unscheduled plays you know if you just go back to the recent Super Bowl on that last drive the two big plays where my home's run but petrol my home's not a runner and he's not calling design quarterback runs for Pat but when the defense matches up and plays two men and turns their back to the quarterback well maybe the best decision is to take off you know the second one he took out I'm like he may score you know a lot of guys go and they want a hook side you know and and and there's times where you have to understand if you do have a running quarterback we talk about the best of the best ability is availability you know you're not lowering your shoulder and taking people on but we are always looking for quarterbacks that have the ability to run we're not looking for running backs that can throw you know so you're not going to see us 20 times a game

2:39:45we're running the quarterback and there are people that run offensive styles and are really successful with it but with this group we have right now that's not now they can hurt you with the feet we'll did it when he was at case eight you know obviously Devon took off a couple times today air took off a couple times today Lincoln's a really really good athlete Julian can run but you know we're not calling design quarterback runs you know you're not going to see you know I tremendous respect for co-chaise in the legacy that he left here the straight T is about as far as we go we are not going single wing so we are not going to snap and run quarterback ice on quarterback power so but it is a it's another weapon you know and if it also keeps defense is honest you know if your defense event is going to continue to bend from the quarterback pulls and he's on the edge and he's gaining first downs within the defensive and has to stay outside and contain the quarterback well then we can run the ball up and and hand the ball off sometimes in our running game our quarterback really is a blocker he's responsible for a defender if the defender was cheating and fitting in on the run well then his responsibility is to make make the defense be honest and

2:40:46and that's really air did that a couple times today and we had a block that safety was sticking his face in there so we're took off around the edge what happens in next play the defense is wider then what do we get to do we get a chance to hand the ball off to the running back great coach thank you so much for your time and thank you for being a buck I was definitely addressed here you know this pretty easy I think Austin Saratel stepped up in a big way you know with with Donnie being out and and then you know you know Carson can can play both guard and center which is good and you know we've actually you know Sen has done a nice job as well but it was good to see Austin you know he moved from guard to tackle a couple times and even with the ones he was in their battling his tail off so I think we have built some depth there but again you know we've got to go play some games and see what Rob all right you know again whether it's whatever happened last year is last year but I know that the message to our to our offensive line is we want to play I want to be the hardest playing offense line in the country now we got to play with technique

2:41:49but at the end of the play like knock the line of scrimmage back and play with your hair on fire hard as you possibly can there's a lot to go with the playing in the offensive line it's all the communication there's a lot of things that have to get into place I think Seth has done a nice job of communicating understands the offense better now he takes control up front and brings everybody together which is great but but to me like that's it now we could list a bunch of other things but to me we've got to move the line of scrimmage we've got to be just playing with our hair on fire and knocking people back and playing physical and that's the start the game that's the end this is a destination spot for why we see what we can do with that to a B maybe not for a line you see that definitely and how do you get over that no no I don't see it that way at all I think you know we'll see what we got this year but I feel like you know we've got some really good young players in the system I think that you know we should have the best offensive line in the country that's that's the standard here has been for a long time and you know and so you know we'll keep pushing towards that this year and you know I think you know everybody in that room it's

2:42:52the same thing yeah so sunny has really stepped up and played well he's made this transition from safety to linebacker very well I think he did a nice job in the spring but you could definitely see as he went into the the summer it's just you know bigger stronger being more comfortable closer to line of scrimmage it's different when you're closer to line of scrimmage I was doing a better job getting his you know hands on on you know on offense alignment and getting off of blocks using a better job doing a better job with his hands or he understands the communication the linebackers always have to be involved with the front they can be involved and fit into the back end he's doing that you know I think he's he's you know looking forward to play playing in the game and you know getting an idea of what it all looks like but I can tell you in practice he's playing fast he's playing violent and I think he's you know he does a nice job of taking the meeting to

2:43:53the field being very intentional about his work but playing really hard yeah I haven't talked to Jim because you know we'll make that final decision here over the weekend but he's certainly the leader in the club boss can you tell Ryan I mean Seth McLaughlin can tell he's been there done that is he as he projected that to the offensive line you're still when I'm saying from a leadership standpoint a grown man yes how does that just come up how does that show a bunch of ways it just poise it's not getting rattled when you know coach parks at you it's you know okay I got this let me get it under control it's seeing something in practice and being able to adjust on the move it's being prepared when you walk on the field it's recognizing how hard you have to play at the position it's you know kind of all of those things in the one but he's got great communication up front he talks to the guys he's moving quickly in there and when you have experience like he has

2:44:54the game seems to slow down at times yet you know he seems to be playing it off at a fast lover there was a point where you got to black stripe off and I feel like you took a step in the right direction when you come in in the summer it is very difficult to get on the field especially early in the season whether he does or not I will see but if he continues to practice the way that he's been practicing then he'll give himself a chance to be in the rotation midway through the season or later in the season which is similar to some of the goi to see everything back before either you've seen some of those guys get some reps really in the season but then make an impact later in the season I think that's probably more his path right now you know he shows up and starts doing great and you know we'll you know we'll give him the reps he deserves or like

2:45:56Jeremiah is in a different situation because he came in here in January and it was a little bit ahead anybody who comes in and January to me I don't look at them as a freshman anymore they've been here there in the program and we expect them to contribute in still in there right there talking and communicating but in the stream as we've had it's you know it's been offense very defense so I've mostly been on the offensive side still kind of going through all those types of things and there's a lot to work through this year just with you know the playcloth and then it's going to mean by that is you know the close play of communication inside of 15 goes off just there's a lot of things that go on there and we don't really get notification on that so I I'm trying to you know just help chip with that and some communication that way personnel

2:47:01but I'm going to be very much involved with special teams I think with the two minute warning there's some strategic things that are going to go on in the half end of game that you know I never really be involved with but to your point just overall just looking guys in the eye and making sure that you know they got to right looking their eye to you know that you know they they understand you know with the situation what's going on in the game you know I think that happens sometimes with young players you know they're just like playing the next play you know and that's not just how that's not how it works we'll get to win the situations and so you know all those things will come into play and in making in game adjustments you know be involved with all three phases you know watching you know the game of the table to try to identify what happened in the last series I think all all those things will be happening right now Nick is going to be the starter and you know that competition going to next week but right now as we head into the weekend he is the starter and the plan is ready to go first on to go up and go on Saturday and soccer. He's got a strong leg

2:48:06he's he's made it a good transition into the country but also just playing you know football and not Australian rules football which is very very different and the you know snap to kick is really improved you know that was one thing as he's a taller guy so the ball has to get out of his you know get off his foot faster I think he's done that his hang time has been good and he's been more consistent you'll see you know he'll kick a few that'll just go right out of the stadium and they just got a strong strong leg so we're looking for that consistency he's he's shown that here most recently so he's got the upper hand right now. And last question to you. Ryan I don't know if it's because Will maybe took a little bit longer to make a decision in December of them some of the other top of the line quarterback you know what he was doing or because maybe there was a thought he wasn't going to be the starter or can't stay this year but it seems like people have viewed him kind of as a game manager type of quarterback after eight months with him where do you see his ceiling or

2:49:09what what what is Will's special plate to you and where do you see him taking a selfie. I see you know a bunch of trades there I think the first trade is size there's big he can stand in the pocket and he's strong so I mean that's the first thing to notice about him again whether it's standing in the pocket with poise I think that's another trade that he has that's excellent he he feels the rush but he stands right in there I think the next trade is just you know his his top end speed and he can run 22 miles an hour at that size which there's not a lot of guys who can do that so I think that's an extraordinary trade and I would I would say his overall leadership command and the huddle is is another you know something that he's he's really you know grown into in the last few months when he's been here and then his accuracy he's been very accurate since he's been here and when he knows what's going on and he can't just spell what's happening I mean it looks right just feel and and he can hurt you you know a bunch of different ways so yeah his ceiling

2:50:14that that's that's going to be kind of you know up to how he plays this season but you know I see a player who has a lot of great skills that you know translates well to the next level so we'll see but I know his first focus is on winning games around here and out of the Jackson plays meaning I'm nerves naturally the answer first come play that was good I was rolling also has a weird name for a striker player I was also the first star yeah um you yeah it's like I prepared well um and camp and practice all week and I was I was ready um yeah I have two multi-year starters I did a lot I mean I could ask them hey what we got here but you know I was prepared well I mean I was telling Jimmy and says like a way our blocks were

2:51:21probably emotional excited it wasn't just that's a guy from Ohio what does it mean to start it um it was always my dream to come here and play and start and having that like me I just gotta keep going keep building those days and go games and keep building what a much younger Austin don't you know I don't think even I told like me I asked my younger self even committee I wouldn't believe that now having a couple of starts yeah awesome has this happened faster than you I guess you're technically a sophomore no I knew that year two I was gonna see you some playing time now starting week one year two I didn't see that but like I was ready in spring ball like I knew I was gonna I was gonna play some something but so what does it mean to you to it's not only get the opportunity to play but like you play well enough now and coaching staff trust you

2:52:30I guess it shows like my preparation my hard work and just everything I put into this and I just finally show it up on field there are moments the top season in the end of this spring and you could play at this high level with the ones you know if you know you can yeah uh the definitely was in training camp I mean blocking highly can tie every day like it feels feels a lot of confidence and doing it well and not like getting balled or anything so there's defensive tag wasn't that easy for me uh hero and uh Jason Moore and Taiwan all those guys me pretty much anyone on the deepened line gets your face all the time so okay mag is low so yeah he's got a lot of knowledge I would work like the power of the ability and the greatest in the line how much can he help you he helped me a quite a lot and I'm proud that he's our starting center not someone else is but um I mean he's like the captain of the line he's another voice on the line with guys like Josh

2:53:35Fryer and Josh Simmons dining Tiger that means another voice and another captain not there look ways of having the men are with this much experience help me a lot he can tell you like before the play was going on like how to block someone like what you need to do and like helps a lot you're talking about how calm he is how much does that benefit of you have a guy who's kind of been there and it makes us more calm like especially me and Tay does the first start so like we were up here with with Seth like he brought us down and we were like fine like our emotions weren't high we were settling is that like something he tells you is that something you pick up on by how he's acting how do you kind of mean sense what he's trying to say about how he's acting and what mean him when we're on the side of him both Josh Donnie like he was telling us like hey we're cool like we got it but it's pretty much like everyone oh cool group

2:54:36I said how much do that as a first time starter how much did you end that though mean a lot that was my first time ever using high pads we didn't use the high pads in high school but I mean you can say like try to remember the defense you can just come on a silent bring up we'll play and get help up really not I probably the first or second but after that I thought we say oh in the settler awesome thank you very much thanks blind player we're here that's you can the part of me settle the end of the go that's um I would I want to say maybe I don't know but I mean when I when I'm pretty sure you got the job I was really excited because I'm one of those guys the tempo I can run with the tempo you know I mean I'm I've been playing basketball all life in seven football and I feel like just the fast pace often so we're running really fits the guys we have right now I'm really excited for that I know you can throw a football like 65 guys but can you kick a football 75 yards and wake up just probably Lincoln what was your question how is your your room amp computer he's a blessing man I

2:55:43can't you're playing he's a great guy what's his name's Lincoln keen hoes oh he's cleaner I think we're both really clean that's why we kind of picked each other's roommates because we're very clean and we don't like our rooms really messy well it's true though it's true the rope pretty clean so Luke are you still a cross-training attack or some or if you just been all guard this spring oh so far I've been all guard um I really don't know like I said I'm taking it practice I practice I could end up being back attacked like that and not but no I'm just really focused in on this past practice is an excellent oh that mean a lot um you know you put a lot of work in to play here it's been a dream just from being in Ohio kid and I'm from a high-o'kits perspective it's I mean that's the biggest wish possible I would have I would say that's that'd be pretty cool what was it like just last year first game getting on the field for the first time it didn't like this

2:56:43can be a weird answer but it feel like I was playing a game yet that makes sense like I was pretty locked in I felt like just no anxiousness no stress no nothing really I just went in that first game was like shoot I'm here now it's time to roll you know it didn't really hit me I was like it didn't hit me after but my mom was like what'd you feel there and if like get out there at the end I was just like honestly I don't know I felt less nervous I didn't high school and I was like that makes no sense what is it what is it what is it that makes no sense um a lot I mean I'm learning from Josh Ann Austin I think fire is one of my biggest role models here is my bigger big brother when I first came home I'm a pedi and I'm a pedi okay yeah no yeah so yeah pedi and Austin those are my guys man I mean even miles two I mean all three of them that's those are my roommates and they're progressing every day as well and I'm I'm excited to see where they where they can get to I'm excited to plan and feel with them oh yeah you know it's been a really helpful you know just keep in my mind just settled and straightforward on the next

2:57:45play it's a great question um like I said I mean I just need to take consistent in my work I think um that's the biggest thing for me is just ain't consistent and worry about the next play you know absolutely I mean when you see defensive and you see defensive start arguing with each other and things like that I mean that makes it a lot easier you know have those 10-11 all the plays around something what does that like so I just want to start feeling like you guys were feeling like I'm the first game I'm good like good mom all day and they've got good second words good I mean it feels good to rip off these runs because I mean we put them so much work and practice and you know seeing uh you know seeing a brother you know that hard work so you're sensitive uh there's outfits of line wise is y'all prepared this week with the Donaldson back in there that's all pulled for the first time really this season um you know it's

2:58:50not taking the Austin it's just more of Donald Jackson pretty season all American etc. I'm enjoying the group you know done of injections a very good football player when he's on the field he makes his presence up uh man we want to train it on my own if there's no tomorrow just move and you know okay be the same we know it can be yeah there's a seat to be there's a sense of watching you guys last week here you know we're even more of a force it felt like watching the guys they may be maybe even any help you did it feel like that yeah I mean we put in the work during practice we practice really hard coach day really challenge us to practice hard positions coaches really uh challenge us to practice hard so that's just a result of it but when it's rolling like that what does it feel like being in the midst of that being along uh it's us it's uh when you work hard for something and you're able to see like what comes out of it like that's there's no better feeling in there

2:59:56no I mean I was really funny to see take a what what has Seth been off from you guys for the first two games what's it been like play next year for the last two he's you know he's really calm and storm what you never see real panic and having a guy like that mechsee when you know you're having really played as many meaningful snaps I mean there's no one outside rather absent my left and some are right you know for and Seth you know those guys they do so much for this offensive line people talk about his intelligence really kind of showing up in the film room and on the field where have you noticed that intelligence and how has that helped you oh yeah like I said and crunch time you know when when things aren't exactly looking like how we practice it you know having a guy like that I will do this this this and then we execute having a guy like that like this

3:01:00there's none better than that you wrote what you got you know I'm there from this from all what's my favorite cake brother uh-huh and now I almost came back with a couple of sun to go some more take a look at it Marshall they got a couple guys with deep bits of blood that have good 10 bodies absolutely what do you see when you look at their tape and see 15 seven a couple of those guys are pretty pretty pretty big this inside yeah and those those guys there they're real players they're real players you can tell their coach well you can tell um they go hard you know they're real players over that we've been practicing to the best of our abilities you know and expect a prepare for that you see they mean your gene technology last year

3:02:03they're doing they take the yeah they play they play they play a good ball over there and you know their defense plays hard they they challenge teams you know sometimes they might be overlooked and they still challenge teams you can tell they come out there with the mentality like no matter who's in front of us I mean the actions right there right in front of you right now which is kind of a good thing and kind of a bat then uh-huh which should uh-shit off the rest you know I'm hitting back in it inside yeah I mean I um I hear from Chris every once in a while trying to not sub by there too much but uh it's it's always it's always good to hear from guy like that guys like the one even Matt Jones would turn him back

3:03:08for this year uh just uh be able to contend to that job um I think it's a lot in my way my just my height this more regard height um but I'm fast my feet and I just didn't use that technique right now some still sometimes like basketball or want to be on that just like defend but you know I got to stay in stitch way in some box yeah that's a great question I mean I don't they I feel like these two can enter that for the beer right now I think KK and Hero can answer that uh well I don't know I don't know what to say about that what do you guys say I go to the next day you know this man is strong ready I'm talking about like you get the basketball here like you know he's not like you can just see what he said he was coming really fast like just the over on the shirt that he had and he got the grip right now he doesn't give up on the

3:04:10playing like he said he's gonna go in and watch the film he's doing it every day with the better man just see it 100 feet on that one he sounded like a coach man he's not like a coach chip Kelly's in full exchange your mind about maybe like the idea of tackle versus guard because obviously his offensive predilection is for like yeah the offensive line play one game has you been a part of you settling in the guard that's um I would I want to say maybe I don't know but I mean when I when I'm pretty sure you got the job I was really excited because I'm one of those guys who's the tempo I can run with the tempo you know I mean I'm I'm playing basketball all life instead of football and I feel like just the fast pace off and so we're running uh really fits the guys we have right now I'm really excited for that I know you can throw for ball 65 yards but can you kick it football 75 yards and click it I probably like it what was your question how is your uh your roommate he's a blessing man I can't

3:05:15complain he's a great guy his name's linking keen hoes oh he's cleaner I think we're both really clean that's why we kind of picked each other's roommates because we're very clean and we don't like our rooms really messy it's true though it's true the rope pretty clean so Luke are you still a cross-training attack or some or if you just been all guard this break uh so far I've been all guard um I really don't know like I said I'm taking it practice by practice I could end up being back attack like that not but no I'm just really focused in on this past practice is the next one so yeah oh that mean a lot um you know you put a lot of work in to play here and spend a dream just for being in a high-ok and from a high-ok perspective it's I mean that's the biggest wish possible I would if I would say that's it'd be pretty cool what was it like last year first game getting on the field for the first time it didn't like this could be a weird answer but it could feel like I was playing a game if that makes sense

3:06:19I hit I was pretty locked in I felt like just no anxiousness no stress no nothing really I just went in that first game was like shoot out here now it's time to roll you know it didn't really hit me I was like it didn't even hit me after but no mom was like what'd you feel doing if like getting out there at the end of it just like honestly I don't know I felt less nervous that then high school and that makes no sense um a lot I mean I'm learning from Josh Ann Austin I think Friars there's one of my biggest role models here is my bigger big brother when I first came over come up with the idea I don't want to do okay yeah no yeah yeah so yeah for Dean Austin those are my guys man I'm even miles to I mean all three of them that's those are my roommates and they're progressing every day as well and I'm excited to see where they where they can get to I'm excited to play the field with them oh yeah you know it's been really helpful you know just keep in my mind just settled and straightforward on the next play it's a great question um like I said I mean

3:07:26the I just need to take consistent in my word I think that's the biggest thing for me is just taking consistent and worry about the next one to my game and I was I was like whoa I never had that happen like no other school like just Ohio State field can't make it and I was like wow that's crazy do you like I mean I'm required but also do you like that do you want everything I do but at the same time I don't just like to be a normal person but I don't really like like your own for me yeah I mean yeah I want to feel I'm I'm a little bit more chip you a little bit but sometimes I still require them to do what's the competitive part of you what did that when did you know the set about your sounds about oh I've been had that emissary I was like eight nine years old um you happen you mean just high-end house rate just to be competitive that's the reason why I chose to come to Ohio State just to compete each and every day against the girl gets the best DB group in the country oh yeah for sure I'm just going to get them two guys the best two

3:08:31devis in the country I mean that's the reason I can't hear just going to get God just go maybe better each and every day. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I said, I said, I said, well, he said, when he defed little boy, he said, I'm here. I said, OK, I'm going to be back. And that's going to be bad. Then when I'm going to play, I just walk off. When you talk about, I say, I told him, I'm coming back, right? What's it like getting back to the car now, say, you know, the brand-ass, the other S.S. It's getting back to the car. It feels great just us three to be on the field together. We're going to make a lot of plays this year. What did you learn from that? I learned a lot, especially from Cardinal, because we both play outside. So me just learning from him and the things he learned, he just teaching me. And he knows my heart, my heart, and stuff like that. So he just teaching me the game for sure. What specifically, did you got better at that? And compared to what you first got.

3:09:32I said my footwork, that's the biggest game. Mirko Chalala was looking at that's one thing I need to get better on. So I mean, I just worked on that in all seasons and just got better over time. What, what can still be your work ethic in here? Still my work at the end. I mean, just, I really don't know. I can't really answer that. But it just, it's just in me like, I just want to work. That's one thing. I think I say, I get it from my dad. My dad really do reason why I worked so hard. Because since I was like eight years old, he just wanted to be the best at what I do. So I mean, I really, I said, get from my dad. What I see in the clip of my day, you know, like on Johnny Day, when I told him, I got a bubble of shit. Yeah, see. And how close did you come to the situation? I wasn't, I wasn't sleeping at all. I don't know why. Because we made it seem like it was that I was a butt car and that's it. How did you get accepted? He said a big example on me. Me just, I ain't go say it was only just my dad.

3:10:33It was me. I have a cousin's name. You know, it's really pretty for the Seattle Seahawks. So I was, I looked at the him as well. I mean, seeing what he was doing at West Virginia, would take on Austin and Steadman Bayley. So I mean, he was a motivation for me. And just all the guys that grew up before me in a Miami-Guarded area, a brow area for sure. I mean, just looking at those guys. Guys like, I say Brandon, and it's for sure he was class ahead of me. So I see the things he was doing in the eighth grade. And I was just like, whoa, I mean, that's something I want to do. What do you think about the expectations for you? I mean, Chris Carter on my podcast at Team Riggs, he's actually the big, he thinks you'll be a factor from the first play, first day, first game, et cetera. Those are big expectations. Look, do you have Brainstows? I really don't. I mean, I know his big expectations for me because, you know, no one playing the country coming in and all the hype around me. I mean, I just try to block out all that stuff and just focus on the main thing, just the team and I receive a room and the locker room. And, you know, just first game come if I don't, you know, see the expectations that you have for me.

3:11:35I mean, I don't really care. I just want to go out there and win a game. How much of a confidence do you throw at for you when people like Chris Carter, Marvin Harrison Jr. are saying, this guy can maybe next grade for Seaverville House. I mean, it's something great. I mean, I just got to go out there on the field and just show you guys that I could beat it, and that's probably the great Ohio State receiver that come through here. So, I mean, it's a blessing and know how that, but I mean, that's got to go out there and play and show you guys. What does it mean to know about that? It means a lot for me to be, was it the first freshman? Yeah, I mean, just, that's a blessing for me for sure, just shows all the hard work that I put in and off the main on the way to the room and stuff. What does it mean to know how to make sure that I'm comfortable with that? My dad really, I mean, the maturity, no, just be older than, don't add my age, add older to my age. I mean, a lot of people tell me that I don't add my age, I'm way, way beyond my years.

3:12:35I mean, just, you just got to be mature and, you know, add, don't add like a kid. I have a couple more questions for Jeremiah. What does it mean about 50-50 ball? 70-30. 70-50. It's just, no, when I see a 50-50 ball, I mean, just, I just think it's, I gotta make the play. And it's on me, you know, matter how the ball is, if it's a bad ball, I just feel like I gotta make that play. No matter what the certain sense of this, you know, matter if it's a bad ball, I feel like the ball is mine. It's no matter who I'm fronting me or no, no matter. Where did that go to? Getting between the ball and the fender come from, though. I mean, that kind of sets you apart in my opinions a lot of ways. Do you always have that nice? Oh, yeah, I did. I always had that next. I was like, since I started to parents see it right like eight years, nine years old, I just found a way to, you know, make sure that ball is mine when it's in the air. And I just got always found a way, you know, find a way to make my quarterback look good. Can you explain why I was looking more like, you know, Jeremiah Sanjo Howard's looking more, you know, more confident.

3:13:35Oh, yeah, for sure. He definitely made a big jump from industry. I like his confidence. He's starting to talk more, talk a lot of mess on the field. And I like that about my quarter, but I love quarterbacks. We like to talk and, you know, just get around his prayers and make the feel good about it. So he talked on the field, you know, just, you just said a lot of stuff. I can't say, but he'll talk for sure. Jeremiah, thank you very much. Thank you guys. I'm sorry. I was on me. My split was two. He wanted me to come to my split. So that I was that I was on me. That wasn't a good. The result of that play is science clear that will the offense. If you're single about one one, press man, they're willing to take that shot to you every time. Were you expecting to have this bigger role in the offense? Not at all. I was just coming in. No, this is a Ohio State. And just all the receivers that been here and I was here before I got here.

3:14:37So I did not have no expectation. There was having the role that I had right now. So I mean, I just get all the things to go and then just be able to be in this position right now. Is that so real to you then to to be putting up kind of numbers you already have? Oh, yes, for sure. I mean, but no job. Not still got to be me. Finish the hand. What does this say about the trust? He tells me a lot each and every day that you're single, single covers one or one going to you. No matter who or you don't matter, just throwing it up. I just got to make a play. I realize that. Was there a moment of spring or this drink camp or? I say, I say fall camp. That's really when he was just trusting me, just throwing it out. And I'm just going to go get it. On the play saturday with the day you said your split was two. Yeah, two. Yeah. I should have cut my split. Now I think I was, you know, like bottom of the numbers, I should have been like numbers plus numbers plus two.

3:15:37I believe, yeah, something like that. So that's the reason why he just played over top. That's which is the intersection. When you look at your numbers, you gave history as a partial amount of high school. This is the whole coach. I mean, you're an exceptional freshman for the University of New York. Yeah. I mean, I love it. I still feel like I'm just a regular freshman, but you know, a lot of people say I'm not, but, um, I mean, just the role that I have just coming in. It's just, it's been a blessing. I just can't think, uh, can't say it's on me, it's on God. And just the coaches were trusting me to have a put a freshman out there and just to go out there and make plays and just do what I do. Hearing from your teammates, you've been involved in confidence in you, but you said you didn't expect to have playing time. So what did you actually expect? How much do you think you would have gotten? Uh, not that much, because you know, you got a car, you got mecha, Google, I came back, you got bringing in that big, you're all Jayden Ballet, all on God.

3:16:43I mean, just watching them, they played better than the last three teams in place. I'm just going to be there better team than I have in the last couple years that, um, we played, uh, higher state played them as we could they said. So, man, it's going to be a good game. You got to go to, uh, be a higher state as always. I'd be, uh, so thank you. Thank you. Thank you, man. Oh, yeah, for sure. We hungry right now. I can see in the air, everybody, uh, everybody in office, obviously a lot of quarterback, well, however, receiving one, we definitely hungry for sure. We had to go out there and have a dinner and just put on the show. Austin Moore, the podcast, should you, I have a better political, but I know you more, uh, being interfered with not getting the call or not being able to catch anyone. I say be able not to make the catch anyway.

3:17:44Uh, I feel like everybody's throwing me. I have to catch it no matter how, the different on me or not. I just feel like I have to make a play no matter what. Um, I mean, I played Saturday. I feel like I could have caught it, but, you know, it was a pass in the front, but it touched my hands. I should have caught it. Uh, Dan, hold, let me worry. Jeremiah, there's a lot of discourse from fans this week about you not winning the Sean Alexander freshman year of or just what's your thoughts on that? Uh, I mean, me calling is a great player as well. I mean, I can't really not kill. Um, no, Sean is a great guy. I talked to him two weeks ago. Um, it's a great guy. Uh, learned a lot of, uh, things from him outside of football as well. So I mean, I really can't focus on that. I'm just worried about beating Oregon and, you know, just going out there to pass a deal and just put on the show. Anybody else in question? Tom Moore, fuck, I huddled. You mentioned getting bragged is by mission. Is that frustrating? Who you see that from the father teams? Yeah. Is that frustrating? Is that, you know, you know, you know, you always think you're open or you still open when you're bragged? Oh, yeah, for sure. I'm still open, no matter what, bragged or not.

3:18:45Um, I mean, they just came out with a good game plan to break it me and a mecha, you know, uh, me just, you know, things didn't go as planned as we thought it would, but we just got to keep moving on and just move forward. Steven, how are you doing? 24, 7, 4. Did you mind that the two touchdown plays that you had with Wil Howard? How many times do you think you guys rep that to get, you know, those were perfect throws, perfect patterns. And you beat your guy off the line of scrimmage. Just how many times do you think, and what does it take to perfect that? I think we rep the least. I don't know how many times and practice over the weeks that we had off. Um, I mean, just came down to, you know, they pressed me. We, we taking a shot. That's what they told me, uh, the weeks we was off. And he told me her before the game in the locker room, I just got to give you a shot. And that's what he did. And I just made a play. The first game to get historic and just how tough was that challenge against their secondary? I know you have to get the end of the game, but you guys made plays all day long against them. Just what, what's your thought about the challenge?

3:19:47Those guys gave you the challenge. I say the challenge is going to be, you know, a good challenge. They have some great global guys there. Jabbar Muhammad number seven, a Niko ri, a, a, a, a corner, I'm an eye and over there. They, a great global guys. Um, I mean, probably the best we go see all year for sure. Um, we just got a good, you know, be Ohio State. That's all Tony. You're not open. Uh huh. You know, probably when the whole team on me, I should say, uh, uh, I mean, I'm always open for, to me, for sure. Um, me just, no, throw the ball in my area. I'm going to find a way to make a play as I can say. Step on christening. Believe in dot com. You talked earlier about, you know, some of the great athletes that, you know, got challenged and you aspire to be like, I guess, where's that confidence kind of come from for you? How long have you had that confidence that, you know, you have the ability to be one of the greatest in this sport? Uh, I mean, a lot of people told, tell me that I'm going to be great at what I do. Um, since I was about, um, going to high school, a lot of people tell me that, um, me just, you know, football is all I know.

3:20:54And that's all I really want to do. Like I live, breathe, sleep football. Like that's all I really care about. Don't care about everything outside of football. Like football is all I know and I just want to play football rest my life. Thanks for all of our lettering girl. It seemed like you have a role where we tried to connect on some of those defaults throughout the year. We'll be able to finally do those in that moment. I was kind of carried that forward. Was it the same on the way that you guys have been able to continue to progress? I mean, just, you know, the weeks that we had all, we were just working on deep, deep shots, uh, because they tell us, uh, the means that we have, uh, we got to take shots down. Feel, um, we just got to connect on them and, you know, will tell me before, uh, before the games. Like I said, um, you just got to throw the ball out there and just give me a chance. I'm gonna make a play for you. That's what I, that's what he told me and I just got to make a play for. Adam King, don't be a bad ass. We can all joke. We can all talk about the expectations and the start of this become, you know, you were just 13 games. How do you handle that? I mean, just a freshman, how do you take all these expectations?

3:21:55You know, when you step on the field, then you're always open and still go out there and play. Uh, I mean, expectations, I mean, I can't know how you're staying for a reason. That's what I wanted. Um, when it be childless, I wanted the expectation, expectations, I should say. Um, I mean, Coach Hotline just helped me, uh, throughout the whole year, just preparing me for each game, each week. Uh, a mecha, buka, uh, carnival tape, Brendan, and it's really the whole receiver on just helped me, uh, stuff I don't really know about. It just helped me throughout the whole week. And, you know, I can't really say it's all on me because my talent is, but they really been a big part of the reason I'm having the season that I'm having for sure. Andrew Gilllux, Cleveland.com. Jeremiah, over a thousand years, I've been in the first year. When you look back at your freshman year, what was the most difficult part about adjusting to the college game? Part of the, you know, the hardest part about trying to transfer the... Uh, learning that playbook. Uh, I playbook is certainly not just coming in spring ball, uh, mecha's new plays in every week.

3:22:55I'm like, well, what is this? This new plays every day in Coach Hotline. Like, you, we go, you go to be good. Uh, we got no summer fall camp. You go to be great. So, I mean, just, you know, that's it. That's definitely what's the hardest part of just learning the playbook and a lot of other things, how's it safe for sure? You can kind of get that down pad, how long it takes me to feel comfortable on the flip over. Uh, my, I'm pretty, I'm pretty sure I got it down pad right now, but, uh, net season, I really want to learn everything, the H, Z, uh, yeah, I really want to learn everything in the, uh, playbook for net sure, for sure. That would be 24-7 sports. You mentioned, you know, how many guys in my table, you do not feel a little bit. So, when you are one-on-one, and Will's talking about when he sees you being one-on-one, what is going through your mind as you wind up and realize? There's one guy covering you. Wind, that's all I could say. I mean, as a coach hard-law, uh, we do something like, in a hotel, uh, Friday night before the game, he asked me like a question like, you get one-on-one, something like that, he asked me, uh, what do you do?

3:23:56I say, when? And everybody just start laughing. I don't know where everybody's like, it's true. Like, you got a wind, you're one-on-one, uh, about us. So, yep. I'll be right there, Landis. King of the North. Jeremiah, did you move around? So, I'm gonna send a seed to the point where you get a couple matchups against linebackers. Yeah. What goes through your mind when you find yourself matched up against a linebacker? Uh, I just started laughing in my head a little bit. Um, I mean, linebackers can't really cover, uh, receivers like that. So, I just know, like, it's, I'm most likely gonna be open. Um, but, you know, they just try to move me around a lot, because, you know, people try to bracket me when I'm outside just alone by myself. So, that's why they just move me around a lot. Or, uh, they'll have been born the last year. Jeremiah, you mentioned the most difficult part of your freshman campaign has been learning the playbook. What has been the best part so far? I was gonna rub off on people eventually. Um, and I would also say that, you know, you kind of have to understand who you're talking to. You know, people, certain stuff makes different people tick. So, you've got to kind of know your guys.

3:24:56You know, if you got to get harder on somebody to, to make them go or if you got to kind of relate to them, you know, pull them aside, have to talk. So, I think that all goes into leadership and you have to be able to, that has to be a skill that you have to be able to develop. What's been there for a bunch of Coach Day now that he's a true head coach? You know, he's given the play-calling duties and all that stuff. What's been different about him? Um, I want to say, you know, too much has, has necessarily changed, but you can tell he has tremendous trust in Coach Kelly. Um, and what he's, what he's gonna do in the, uh, kind of the schemes and everything that he's brought into our program. So, um, the fact that, you know, he has such confidence in him and his play-calling ability makes us tremendously confident. So, um, Coach Day has always been coached in, he's gonna continue to stay that way. Um, but I'm glad he's able to, you know, focus more on what he needs to focus on. Okay. I'm just, I'm paying a pounds back to the price. Um, he's kind of a field general in a sense, kind of the quarterback on that side. A lot of people may think just, you know, the Mike linebacker, we have Cody Simon who does that as well, but, um, Caleb's kind of that for our secondary.

3:25:58Kind of make sure things are clicking on all cylinders and he's just a very cerebral kid, very smart. And he's able to kind of take control of the defense. So, um, make the right calls, make the right checks. So, um, he's definitely annoying for the office to deal with, but it makes us better. I would say impacting entire offense. Um, it's not like, you know, we're not oblivious to the fact of the caliber player he is, but, um, you know, as, as an offense, you come out and you expect to execute on anybody who's lined up a question. So, that your first catch was the attack, really that bright point. Yeah. Yeah, I never really thought about it like that, but, um, we definitely come a, come a long way since my freshman year. Um, they fall to the lower days, coming all these years and come ahead on straight and allow me to, you know, develop into the person that I am now. Um, but so, you know, coming full circle, it is really surreal moments to be in my senior year playing against, you know, the key blog on my first catch.

3:26:58And it sounds really cool. I remember, I remember Kyle getting yelled at. It was a ball. He was not supposed to throw. And I also remember getting pushed out at like the one or two year online. So, that's kind of a bittersweet memory, but, um, it was a great memory. I mean, I have to say yes, if I don't think I should have scored, I don't think I should be playing football. What, you mean that guy? How he's? I really, really have what he called the team. You were on any questions, you know, at that point. Who's that? My, um, yeah, my, my, came in. He kind of has all the intangibles of a senior. You can tell he just loves the game the way he goes about his business. Um, he runs every route to perfection. He's a, he's, uh, you know, very cerebral kid. Um, and every time he gets on the field, he expects perfection. Um, he's just got to continue to develop, continue to work. And I'm really excited to see what he's able to do for us. Look at how much he seems to revise. May it grow over camp to be able to put this opportunity to start on Saturday. Yeah. Um, I think, you know, it's no secret that he has all the physical capabilities that you would want to receive a really any position.

3:28:00He could play any position on the football field with his athletic ability. But, um, so a lot of it for him was putting together the mental piece of the game. You know, not just understanding what he has on the specific play, but the whole concept. Um, understanding defense is all that type of stuff. So, um, there's nothing really that can get you ready for that moment for your first, not in college because it is different than high school. But, um, you know, once he wants to get acclimated, gets used to it. I have no, I have no doubts it's going to take off for us and do tremendous things. You know, you see in space, considering, um, the team together. Yeah, I mean, it's been a, it's been a huge part of everything that we've done. Been a huge part of a lot of the reasons why the students came back and everything like that. We have a team Bible study that we continue to do and continue to grow. I'm kind of just preaching the truth of the gospel to the guys on the team. And, um, it's definitely permeated throughout the team throughout the years because, you know, looking back a couple of years ago, there wasn't that many people on the team heavily into their faith. Um, and along came a couple of special people who really changed the time and the sub-program. But, um, you know, in the Bible, it says one man plans the other man watches, but God ultimately brings the increase.

3:29:00So, um, we're just trying our best to stay obedient to the Lord and he's done tremendous things. Who does two special people, you just mentioned? Um, I'll say kind of the, uh, the founders, I'll say of the team's faith. Um, we're definitely, uh, master team for one, uh, Cameron Bab and Xavier Johnson. So, those guys, what do you view as your responsibility as a captain? Um, really what I view my responsibility as a captain is just as a, as a person in general, to push, um, everybody closer to Christ. Um, and, you know, by doing that, I try to walk as close to Christ as I can myself. Um, kind of be that example and be that life where people look up to. Um, and I think all the basic principles that are found in the Bible in the time and appreciate Christ, we naturally, naturally make you a better leader, a better person, better football player in a sense. So, um, I just try my best to anyway in. Um, the fact is, um, the plan is, the first fellow is not great in the game.

3:30:02Um, you remember my name? This is Town of the Teen, which is a wrestling team. This is a true team. And you're not a child in physical field. You're just, these folks are going to get special. Where everything you should get out of it, about the future. Why are you so touched? Yeah, I mean, we have specific goals going into every single week. Um, some of our goals for this week is, you know, things can get sloppy in the week one. You see it all across the country. Um, you know, false starts penalty is all these types of stuff. So we're really just trying to be clean, go out there, play a fast, complete football game, um, clicking on and firing on all cylinders. So, um, by no means are you underestimating it and you pull me, we go out there on the field every Saturday, expecting to pull out whoever lines up the cost for us. So that's just our mentality. So we're going to hold true to them. Yeah, very, very un-series guy, very funny guy, um, kind of lines the room when he walking, when he walks in and, um, he's just, he's a true joy to be around.

3:31:02You can kind of throw will into any setting and he's going to get along with everybody there. So, um, definitely up the, uh, the team chemistry locker room. We love having him around. So we're super glad he's part of this team. A line they were getting back there, a little further than football. And we also expected that in the play, uh, come out with an edge. We like, we knew that they were in the team that played in the audience. Like you mentioned, there was some past-effect entries, a fraud, and some things that maybe rushed a little, um, in the plays. But when did the ball day come out? You guys were efficient in the passing game, 15, 16, 13, 20, or it's the temperatures. What allowed is the passing effect to escape that prolific as even the off-hand fly will be from the, um, the off-hand. Um, the ball had just had to come out quicker and so forth. But then we had to see that we didn't go from the wide-out, because we had to do enough fitting-hand and then run faster and quicker. How much do you feel like that game can be a building block for you in terms of continuing to be a big, big, and big party off-hand? Uh, I feel like each game, a building block, a stack each game and stuff like that. So, uh, I just made big plays in games and stuff like that. So, I just thought I guess another building block from the mad. So, now how is the offensive line been working so far just to be murky?

3:32:05Uh, they've been doing pretty good. They've been having stuff like that. New guys, new places and stuff like that. We're all trying to pick up, um, from the injuries and stuff. And you guys, uh, the one game that's won the last game, is the how can the driver's seaters help in that group? Uh, we just got a good end, getting the box down from the wide-out. You guys get in there and probably get the safety, get a lot of backers or a D-N, and stuff like that, whatever they do just to do. On your touchdown catch, so this is like a tough ball a while to come down? Uh, they came, guys. They're struggling into the wind. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Colonel, what's it like? Like I said earlier, did you, did you figure the ball was going to be coming sooner or later this year to follow my graph? Meaning, you know, they've got three big time libraries. They've made it four or five. Did you figure it eventually? It would find you insignificant, insignificant times. Yeah, I knew the ball would come my way. Each and every week, uh, we have plays for each and all of us and stuff like that. It just really depends on what the difference, uh, it gives us, uh, players, it gives us one thing, you know, it's not a ball goes away from me or comes to me and stuff like that. So ultimately, it's not in my decision with ball goes.

3:33:07And yet you're blocking a state on point. So like you're blocking, is that important? Yeah, our block here from the wide open has been a big emphasis this year, stuff like that because we liked that pretty much all last year. So they've been a big emphasis of blocking this year from the wide open. And when you look at Penn State on the video, what just stands out about there? Maybe their past or past what you, that you're going to be personally up against. Oh, they are pretty good fellow corners. They play man and a lot of things like that. And when I went on one, I thought of them on the perimeter. Similarly, I know you got to get in the game last year. Similar as their court or whatever you make it so. I'm pretty much the same, uh, man covered all around. They got a little size on the foot and stuff like that. Uh, they all probably pretty much the same size all around. Thank you guys. Thank you guys. Uh, five guys, I'd say Bennett pressure. He's the way he kind of brings some good energy. Jason Middleton right there too. Yeah, he kind of overseas max the bar a little bit.

3:34:09So that's pretty fun. Catching we all have some pretty good opportunities for catching especially practice. We're going to make some pretty good. Very competitive for a fish here. Yeah, definitely competitive, but in a good way. Uh, well, they're supportive. Uh, we all know our same thing. We're working with them after practice. We're working with each other to help each other get better. We all know that we're moving to other. Well, this year it's going to be awesome. He just dropped us from the wall. That's the pressure point. I'm in there ever point where I'm part of it. I need to be right. Yeah. If you're not as powerful, how seranna does it give you. It's about start. You get them through red, flavour of what they're talking about. Oh no, godpot, it's good辛. It's a good one. Goodie guy. Yeah, goodie guy. How are you gonna play this? Ah, goodie. Yeah, right. Go easy to play with your civel, Worker, Rons,あ you need to know what I want from you. I've got change like even to when I go, Labor activist or setting up job. You see,â bugger, maybe L 사실?

3:35:09I know Lüyorumated that. I mean it was before doctors when I knew that. The records were just first off the tour. Yeah, I was talking to you about the number one. Where it was, where it was, where it was. I was wondering if you were on the top of the stuff. He's definitely on the top of it. And I like that. He's on the top of the 15-month-old. I mean, that's where our unit is. And the doctors when you know anything else, when we have the first lesson on it. Yeah. Where it was like the brain, where you got your hat, and that part. I would say we definitely agree with what he'd started in this way. That's where it was. I started trying to get it. Or just, you know, going on. So, I always think so. I know it didn't work. I'm not laughing. I mean, I want to really say that it's drilling in the toughness.

3:36:09That's drilling and accountability. So, it's right there. So, you know, if it's a laugh, I mean, fall star. That's all that. Is that, is that, you know, those are the last words. I would say our Hindi, kind of, drills it in for us from toughness. Because our English, our language toughness, we're just doing, you know, full-wrap, small, both each other. And I just want to say that, I'm just working on something that I didn't get to do. I'm not talking about it. So, you know, I have to sort of put it in the scope to do this. I'm totally going to go and see what's going on here. How much was your, how much you family been out? So, the great resource to you, is being able to play a piano high school? I mean, being 20 minutes from home is pretty nice. And my dad, playing here, is a big one too. So, just being able to go back home and spend time with family is good. And it's something that I can guarantee. How often do you go back? I would say, probably once a week, or as soon as we get somewhere right around there,

3:37:09not that far. There's some different things. Yeah, get a family dinner. Yeah. No, there. Do you ever go back for a high school event? Or go back to being, or for the schedule for men? Yeah, so you play for me a five weeks, or this week I can go back, or so it's not that far. When things ramp up from school, and how do you balance that, do you know what's coming from the point? I, yeah, it does. Especially when the students start coming up for the event, you really have to go to the university, or maybe if you really don't know, and since then, rather, we're under so much time. What, what excites you about getting on field and playing meaningful football? You know, the brothers, seeing the brothers succeed, and just knowing that all the work that we put in and doing that will go to the end of the year. That's awesome. Are you a big guy that had on taking in the environment, or you could fall business once you step out of the honest field? I, I'd probably say it's in the whole business.

3:38:10I kind of just kind of got my eye out there, and it was really fun, but there's moments, like when we had a big, wronged Notre Dame, I'm taking that all, and that was awesome. There's moments like that, and we just kind of have to look at it and write it down. Yeah. When you were, when you were at Notre Dame, and getting on football snacks, and what, how can you prepare for that for everything that happened for you? Is there a way that you can get fresh in that moment? Breakfast, you know, and the place in here is practice a hundred percent here. So that's when it's in the janitor, and then after the physical unit, you know, in the work on it, at the game it means just right there, about practices, like, close-ups. What do you think about it? That's what it's worth. We're talking about the DDS today, and we're always excited, and working against that in practice, and how do they push you as to having an idea of the better, and the free food? A little quicker than me.

3:39:11So I, I'd like to get my hands on them a little bit, if I can, and just have a big offer, or not, but, you know, their quickness kind of helps me get my sheep in the car. I was, let's take a look at how down that is, by coming from the factory product, and as I'm here, I can both see from your head as well, and you can see the guy, you can see the thing on, and I'm excited for that new bowl. What did they might see that comes from them? I mean, you've seen a lot of those guys, well, they're pretty much with them. I mean, they came up with a different thing, and they said, we're on the green side, just on the top, and I thought, we're more open to the green, not a lot of people. We don't have that as to what you're an outsider. When you think about how many cats are having their own back in the play, how many people are having that eat, and the one on the heart, I don't know, and the cats are so skilled at it. People don't know what they're having, like, an album, and they think, right, I think it's good. Well, you know, in the game, you have a man who's used to this a lot of things, and you know, you have to have that after the rest of the day.

3:40:11So, maybe it's good to have a little bit of experience with the young, and the young, and the young, and the young, and the young, and the young, and the young, and the young, and the young, and the young, and the young д cumulative purposes will be important for every anyone but we're close inゆ Yeah, I mean, again, I've been a year ago and I'm way past it. I'm ready for this. What do you feel like your role can be? Whatever they name me to do. I'm self-employed. I can provide a lot of block man passing in. It's been great. I personally play with Omega. I like to be there.

3:41:13Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Again, we bounce off the start. Sometimes we want to film out. That's me. He's very different. I just want to give you a chance to be on this. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, like I said, there's a better country. There's a better country than in the going and standing. We're going to take my hand and my feet for a year. I think not to be able to play, not to develop that career. Yeah. Yeah. It did, but at the same time, we were different. We were a gap down 26,000, 26,000, and a couple of years more.

3:42:17We do do gap runs. That's more so. It's different but we're doing different body than this. I think it's a huge job. Do you feel like there's just an opportunity for all of you in the tight end room with Cade now? Yeah. We're at this Cade for sure, but we're communicating and we're making sure that better. What's your vibe on the strength of the brand? How is the whole group with a spring game? What is that? What is your word of thought? It just shows how, what we have going on in the highest state. We're fortunate enough to have a program. I mean, a game on a national program. I think it shows the power of projects. Before we head this week in Tilt Coating, that maybe that started last week before Iowa. Your thoughts on how you guys move back? Who are you here? I think going back to this foundation, I was a team. We believe that we're built on toughness. It's one thing to say, but I believe that we show up weekend.

3:43:19We got when we showed toughness. But to your point, last week, I believe there was position groups that were challenged. Not necessarily taking it personal, but just challenged to practice harder. Let's see, how hard can we practice? And so I think ever since then, there has been another step that we've taken. But that's the whole goal. I mean, I hope in two or three weeks from now, there's even another step that we take forward for where we are now. That's just the evolution of getting better at the team. And I think one thing I've noticed with this football team is that I think every single week we play, we've continued to get better. But I mean, that's just life, right? I mean, the thing you continue to do, you have the hopes to continue to get better at it. But I think we're seeing that here with this football team as well. I think when we talked to you in camp, you said you were excited about how you guys are going to run the ball this year. And obviously, you've done that. At what point did it become clear to you that you guys are going to be able to kind of hang your hat in front of the ball the way you are now? I just think we're such a balanced offense. I think this kind of going against our team, especially specifically against our offense.

3:44:19I think there's just too many things you have to remember. You've got to respect the perimeter and you have to respect the run game. You have to respect the stretch and the inside zone. All the different things that we can do, putting the ball over the field in perimeter or even taking a shot down the field. You have to respect some of the things that just leaves gaps in the ability to gash the ball for six and seven and eight yards. So I guess to answer your question, the more dynamic wherever to be on perimeter, the more we're able to connect when we hit on shots, I think the better it's going to be able to open up the run game as well. But I think Coach Kelly and Coach David are doing an amazing job just putting us in the right position. We don't have to think about that kind of stuff. We just awful minds that is 4 to 6, 8 to V plus 2 to play as hard and as violent as we can. And we'll look at the scoreboard at the end of the game and see where we are. Is that balance the best you've had to be in here? How would you guys characterize the balance you're talking about? Yeah, I just think, I don't know, I don't want to sum up. I don't want to compare, but I think we're just a very balanced team.

3:45:20I don't, I don't, it's not much weakness. Now, when I say that, we still have the humility to know that we must continue to be better weekend and we gout. But when I just look at our team as a whole, I don't just see like, let's go pick on this guy because this guy can't do X, Y, Z or we can leave him. I think we have 11 guys on both side of the ball that are able to be dynamic and the physical and strong players. And I think we're just a complete team. But again, I say that with humility. We want to continue to weekend and we gout be the best team. We know we have to show up because on any given week you can lose. So we show up every week with the intention that it's a national championship. Let's say, a lot of us, you know, it's been a few days about the match. You've been on this team for the Iowa game. Yeah. And we're meant. What's going to help you grow as a leader? What's going to help you grow more comfortable? I guess it's being kind of a voice. I would just attribute that to my faith. My Lord, David, Jesus Christ. I think before you can lead anybody else, you have to have a sense of foundation who you are.

3:46:20Having a sense of self, an idea of self. And I think the more that I've been able to be strong in my faith, the more confidence it is given me into being leaders to other people, being able to be a leader to other people. But I think that's where it starts. How can you lead people if you're not really sure of where you are? And then also, when it comes to, you know, practicality of football, I think the more you have an understanding of the offense, the more vexing you are in the offense, the more that you know, the more ability you can then hand dollars to the next group of younger guys coming behind you. So that all helps the leadership. But I would attribute that to my faith, my strong foundation, and no one who I am. Maybe some of the veterans will ask for years that you kind of were able to learn from as well. I noticed that they were pretty good leaders as well. You asked for who or some others. There were so many. This being my 50 year, I've seen many, many leaders all the way going back to my freshman who were just in and pastful and Jonathan Cooper, those guys to then the next group of guys with Chris and all those different guys going up coming through here.

3:47:30I've seen many great leaders, and I think there's something I would definitely say that's something special with the leaders on this team. I would say that there's not the leaders that we have on this team, but not just leaders due to seniority, due to it's just my turn. But I would look at the leaders that we have on this team and say they're sincerely leaders, not just by leaders, but it's not just Hamie Downs. They're truly, we have great leaders on this team. The first question, Brandon was saying that he feels like Will is just built for the moment. Do you kind of feel that way too? Yeah, I feel like he never gets too high, he never gets too low. He's always locked in and focused. That's the kind of, I don't know, temperament is the right word, but the right attitude, if you will, for lack of better words. That's the right attitude that you want from the quarterback, no matter what spot we are in the game, we can look to Will and we'll be able to lead our huddle. We have confidence in that. All right, she, thank you.

3:48:30Really, man, these tough practices, hard camp and so far, and tough practices. So really just coming in each and every day, man, it's just trying to get better. How important is Navajo to the run, especially now in take time? Man, it's very important. The coaches, they stress that a lot. We've got to run the ball, stop the run, especially in these match-up games, these big, same games. So we've definitely been working to try to do that. What's the most intense memory you had the most lost in the last year? I angle a lot. It's so many. It's so many. Paul Camp, no, Paul Camp, man, I got so many there, Paul Camp. It's a lot, man. Okay, what was the first impression when you went shot and all you guys first met? I think when he first got here, he came in the room. He gave us this speech, he was like, I'm a dog.

3:49:30That's right, I knew I was like, we in it, man. I love Coach Lock, man. It's out of the deep, bringing him here, man. Thank God for bringing him here, man. He's been amazing. In this room, on the same man, he's been a huge part of the same. I was talking to you about that. Have you ever had a coach quite intense as with Carlos? Yeah, coach Ophor was that way. He coached me that way. Coach Lock does it as well. Yeah, man, both of those guys, man, I'm so thankful. You know, that God has allowed us to cross paths. You know, they both been really helpful in my life. Maybe on whether or not that's different from what the saw the other day, or maybe we just kind of generally keep in balance sometimes. I was born as a for running back to work on stuff with a kind of off hand, and you're not carrying it as well. I mean, I feel like it's just a tool. You know, you can use sometimes that comes out. You know, one thing that Coach Light hope us work on,

3:50:31which is using different tools. And so it definitely comes to show on Saturday. You know, sometimes, so, man, that's, yeah, it's really important to just try to work on those tools as a running back. What about contact now? And so I'll do the first that over the course of the person. It seems like that's going to be a great deal. Yeah. Shoot, really, man, just like the part of this program is getting developed. And so really just getting developed here. They've been doing a good job of helping me grow and become a better running back. And so especially having Coach Light here, he's been a huge part of the success. I praise God, first and foremost, but with him bringing Coach Light here, and leading Coach Light here, man, he's been a huge part of that. So, with Coach Sean, we talk so much. You guys have talked about it. You know, split carries. But now that you're actually in the season, you deal during for a drive, you feel that defenses are more worn down where you're not in first time. You split back, it feels like you've always been a feature back.

3:51:32Now you're kind of split carries. Do you feel like, when you feel the defenses are a little more worn down than you are, when you get in there, you know, it's first, light first quarter or early second quarter? Every now and I mean, it really depends on the team. You know, there are some teams that play hard, you know, full four quarters. And so, yeah, it really depends on the team, to be honest. Do you think split carries, what kind of helps you at all in the end? Yes, it has helped me in so many ways. And you know, it's a long season for real. And so, the biggest thing is just helping, you know, with the wear and tear. And I'm just building off each other moment of two. So, it's helped in so many ways. And you kind of live anywhere in here, does it even help? When you get down up like, you know, you're not maybe getting the volume, you're just like, it's not harder, or because I don't have a helps at all. Coach, they actually talked about that too, be honest. So, I'm just, he's fresh to the team, you know, if you get tired, you know, we got, we got, we got death on the same, you know, guys who can come in and make plays. And so, he actually expressed that. Bigger chances are come, but what's impressed you about the offends and why in the world?

3:52:35Man, really the work they've been playing in, you know, during practice. I mean, I know y'all see it, you know, during on Saturdays, but man, really, the work that they've been in during practice, you know, it's hard, man. And those guys do a good job of, you know, just coming in each and every day, and trying to get better. So, you talk about your thinking, getting off from Sean. And he comes out with a step arm, you come out with a thumb. You guys, you guys feed off that physicality, I want to, one of another, one of another. Yeah, man, like I said, man, there's definitely, we build momentum, you know, off each other, and I definitely build momentum off my Sean, man. When Sean is a great running back, I believe the shoot of best running back in the country, man. That boy is talented, man. And, you know, I'm so thankful, man, to have him here, man. He's going to be a huge part of the scene. Thanks for having me. Yeah, we got on the field and I thought it was just amazing to see. So, as it's the same, you know, I gave him the arms and the props, and we got to the end of my bro. That's a hell of a lot, but he's just good to see. Did you hear him yell from the side, man? No.

3:53:35He was so loud, he could hear it on a TV microphone. No, actually, I did, man. I just seen the blitz pick up, but it was wild. You make you want to go out there and hit one? For sure. Yeah, for sure. How was your fast-pro-ohm Saturday? I don't. Definitely, you know, I didn't get a lot of blitzes as far as I think all they had. Like, yeah, I didn't have any pressure on Saturday. So, definitely want to want to share. You know, Coach Kelly, yesterday, is he called things differently when you're in the game, when you see you're in the game, or when he sees Pravee on the game, he says no. He felt like that too, the packages, the package, you know, just run the planes. Yeah, I think that's the biggest thing, you know, like I don't totally play it. I don't draw anything else with the coaches, I just go out there and just execute it in your mind. Yeah, I know y'all were trained the same, but you know, you look at the guy you see. Basically, he's a little bit different from the red guy. Yeah. Whoop. How do you like this package? I like this package. This office. You know, it's only the first game, so I wish I could say. Yeah. Definitely how much I like it so far, but I think as we continue throughout the season, we get to showcase a lot of different more other things.

3:54:36How does it compare to what you can do? The Ole Miss stuff, the variety of plays, etc. I think just starting off the season at the point that we're now like, we haven't really done too many crazy games just right away. What's your practice for me? Yeah, you already did. I mean, does it feel pretty deep to you? Oh, yeah, definitely. It's going to be fun and time to share. Which one does it feel like you guys are close in the run game, the buss and you do open? Yeah, I definitely think so. Like I said, we see on the fan, you know, how everybody has collected, we can come together and improve things that we're missed or stuff like that, but I think we definitely. I think we've gone through a big block. What's that Brandon in it? I don't know. What's your point of view of that? We're watching back on film. What's every action for you and how much of an emphasis it is that it was like you ran ahead. Yeah. Definitely, definitely a big emphasis, especially at our position. Super important, just to see what we do in practice together in the Eagle XB.

3:55:38What was the reaction scene? The end of the block for that? I mean, at the moment, I just like, Danny and Mike C. Bar. Sure. Coach Kelly was talking about you, Jamie on James Peoples. Doesn't matter who's in the game, they call it the same way. And James, like, what did you see in his first performance? Do you see some similarities that all between you guys? I think in James, man, just saying, have a go out there and be super excited with the performance. Like, go out there for his first game and see him get the run and get the dude out. Just see him get the experience like his first game. Me and Tray both just enjoy it. Are you surprised at all the sea teramides that happened for the first time in a game? I think just as a team and like, we're so talented and everybody just worked so hard since we've been here. And you just get to see what each of their teammates can do. So it's like when they go out on Saturdays, it's no surprise. Great. Which one? Thank you very much. Thank you guys. Thanks for the challenge. It's a hot one with that. Come on.

3:56:38Just take step one, just walk it towards the locker room. You don't mind. Really just coming in each and every day, man, it's just trying to get better. So, how important is Navajo and the run, especially now in big time? Man, it's very important. The coaches, they stress out a lot. We've got to run the ball and stop the run, especially in these match-up games. You know, these big game. So, we've definitely been working to try to do that. What's the most intense memory you had the most lost last year? I ain't going to lie. It's so many. It's so many. Paul County, no, it's Paul County, man. I got so many there. Paul County. It's a lot, man. Okay. What was the first impression when you went shot and all you guys first met? I think when he first got here, he came in the room.

3:57:40He gave us this speech. Jesus was like, I'm a dog. I'm a dog. That's right. I knew I was like, we in it, man. We in it. I love Coach Lug, man. It's all the deep, brings him. Thank God for bringing him here, man. He's been amazing. In this room, on the same man, he's been a huge part of the same. I was talking to you about that. Have you had a coach quite intense as with Carlos? Yeah, man. Coach Ophor was that way. He coached me that way. Coach Lug does it as well. Both of those guys, man, I'm so thankful that God has allowed us to cross paths. They both have been really helpful in my life. Maybe on whether or not you're still far from up to the other day, or we just kind of generally keep you balanced sometimes. I was born as a bird running back to work on stuff with the kind of off hand, and you're not carrying it all over. I mean, I feel like it's just a tool.

3:58:41You can use sometimes that comes out. You can use one thing that Coach Lug helped us work on. It's just using different tools. It definitely comes to show on Saturday. You know sometimes. That's really important. Just trying to work on those tools as a running back. What about contact now? I'll be able to prove that over the course of your career. It seems like that's going to strengthen you really. Yeah. Shoot, really, man. Part of this program is getting developed. Really, getting developed here. The coaches here, they've been doing a good job of helping me. You know, grow and become a better running back. Especially having Coach Lug here. He's been a huge part of the success. I'm praise God. First and foremost, but with him bringing Coach Lug here, and leading Coach Lug here, man, he's been a huge part of that. We've talked so much. You guys have talked about it. You know, split carries. But now that you're actually in the season, you deal during bird drive and the coach comes in, you go over that bird drive.

3:59:41You feel that defenses are more worn down where you're not in the first time going in the bird. You split back, those before, but you've always been a feature back. Now you're kind of split carries. Do you feel like, when you feel that defenses are a little more worn down than you are, when you get in there, you know, first, light first quarter or early second quarter? Every now and I mean, it really depends on the team. You know, there are some teams that play hard, you know, four-four quarters. And so, yeah, it really depends on the team, to be honest. Do you think split carries might kind of help you at all in any way? Yes. It has helped me in so many ways. And you know, it's a long season for real. And so, the biggest thing is just helping, you know, with the wear and tear. And I'm just building off each other moment of two. So, it's helped in so many ways. And you kind of love when you're in here, doesn't even help. You know, you're not maybe getting the volume, you're just like, it's not harder, because I don't have it helped at all. Coach, they actually talked about that, to be honest. To see his press to the team, you know, if you get tired, you know.

4:00:41We got definitely on the same, you know, guys who can come in and make plays. And so, he actually expressed that. Bigger chances to come, but what's impressed you about the offense and why in the world? Man, really the work they've been playing in, you know, their practice. I mean, I know y'all see it, you know, during on Saturdays, but man, really the work they're doing, their practice. You know, it's hard, man. And those guys do a good job of, you know, just coming in each and every day and trying to get better. So you talk about your thinking, getting off from Sean. And he comes out with a step arm. You come out with a step arm. You guys, you guys beat off that mentality. I want to, one of another, one of another. Yeah, man. Like I said, man, there is definitely, we build momentum, you know, off each other. And I'll definitely build momentum off my Sean, man. When Sean is a great running back, I believe the shoot, the best running back in the country, man. That boy, talented man. And, you know, I'm so thankful, man, to have him here, man. He's going to be a huge part of the scene. Thanks, Sean. Yeah, man. He's been working really hard, man. Even before the season, he had a great spring, great summer, especially throughout ball count.

4:01:44He took a lot of reps and went against Shooter, the top players, taught defense in the country. So I think, I think he's ready to make a bet. As a bad team game, if you recognize what team does happy with it, bring homists in and as you go over, then coming in, you're against two players, those three games. I'm not going to lie. Sometimes I'm too locked in, I don't really notice it. But it might take me to get him down, and he was still clear that he's in K-M. And so this is trying to motivate him. You know, he can do it, man. And then it's a great battle. We have the team to trust him. I'm going to go over. Praveen, on whatever things you can do, add the veteran, add the back, then to help those guys out front. I think the biggest thing is, you know, is just continuing to encourage each other. And those tough times, you know, when it gets hard, I think that's the biggest thing. I think there's a lot of time with time to be hard. You know, you can get selfish, I think I'm talking to him. That's something that God has been helping me work on. It's just, and those tough times, you know, to not be selfish, you know, at all.

4:02:47And really encourage the guys, you know, around me and spread his life. Is that when you've seen throughout the team here, it was passing a half? Yes, definitely seeing that, man. We've definitely been listening each other up and encouraging each other. You know, they're really trying to put the pace and focus on the basketball. We'll talk yesterday about how this lost group has been in the right place. You haven't had a lot of chances yet. That just gives us an important problem. How do you feel like you guys are turning the page of the club? I think really that was, that was like the biggest focus when we came in after I lost my job. And I think that was the best thing, man. After I lost, I met a team. It's just like, Coach Day really did a good job with that. You know, just like, man, we all kind of own up to the mistakes that we made. But, you know, one thing I love and respect about Coach Day is that he took it upon himself. You know, he called himself out and it was like that, so I know. But it's, and really it's not all of us, you know, as a team. And so that's one thing I really love about Coach Day is that, you know, he was willing to check himself. What was the last thing you tried to practice like specifically coming off that game?

4:03:52It was, it was tough now. It was, it was a great week of development, you know, getting better and cleaning up the little details of things. And I think, you know, we, that we can see them struggling a little things, a little details, you know, we can really go forward. What's different about coming off the loss early out of this season here to coming up that first loss later in the year? I think the biggest thing is it just, it humbles us. You know, it keeps us focused on the right thing. Like, I believe this is a test of our faith, you know, in the Lord. I think this, I believe, you know, he wanted it to go this way, you know, in test our faith, you know, we, we continue to trust him. Even when things don't go our way. And, you know, he's helping us pass that test. You said Coach Day called himself out. What did he call himself out on? What kind of things do you say? Really just as a head coach, you know, this is his team, you know, he's like the guy. And so he was just like it really starts with me. And so we love that, you know, I think a lot of times, you know, coaches were 10 point on everyone else, but Coach Day, you know,

4:04:53man, he just took the phone and stuff and like, that's what he's going to get fit. And, you know, he's definitely been pushing us, man, and pointing us in the right direction, man, and helping us clean up things. Trey, Quintan, do you lead a football in the ground? What happened to Fump? What did you see for him? Kind of found him back from that. This week, this is a fast way of, but a procedure down as well. Where did he add in terms of, you know, responding to that? Quintan, man, he's been responding to that virtually really well. Yeah, he's definitely not used to putting a ball on the ground. And so he's definitely been working hard in practice. To get that fit, man, for Sean, there's a really great player and he's definitely going to knock that. It's even kind of guy you have to go over to write out what that happens. And give him some motivation and comfort. You kind of leave for that hand. Yeah, I mean, we always go to the bench and we encourage each other, man, Quintan, you know, he encourages me, I encourage his hands. So man, it's like, man, we're just shopping with each other and then and therefore each other, you know, when you meet him.

4:05:53You're on the 2014 title team getting on inside of there. Ten day anniversary. Do you remember watching the game? Those guys as a kid and how did they put your memories of them? I'm not going to lie. I did not watch it at the kids. Have you gotten to know them now or just what's what's your sort of like you with that team? Yeah, I that team was loaded. That's what I heard about the team. Like it was, it was really loaded. I see highlights every now and then I think we're going off the like the champions. Yeah, he's like four. Right? Four touches. Yeah, I think so, but I know that team was stagnant. I was loaded. A lot of great guys on the team. I think that's why you know, just coming in, you know, with the right mindset, trying to put it in the work each and every day and get better as a team.

4:06:53So what are some ways that you and Sean kind of contrast the problem with one of the things that you may not be able to do as well as the advice first. Shoot, I don't know. We'll see. James. Man James has been so good man. He's man. He's a he's a really good person and good player and he comes in every day. You know, just trying to get better. You know, he kind of reminds me a lot about myself. And this is home and everything is coming in. He's going to be a great player. And he's continuing to buy you know, to overhand her here. And you know where we're trying to go. He's going to be a huge part of this offense. Man, he just made someone join man. He's a buddy. Yeah, I just I just love a man as a brother man. I got you. You know, just just a chance. You know, I knew James when he was recruited. And so we talked a little bit. Just like being here. Man, just being able to help him.

4:07:57And it's been done at conversation that we have, you know, just off the field. And so just being able to meet that one. You know, when he was with you know, the state. They tried to put them with the other. Others impact. Run again. I don't know. Oh man. He's a good player man. I was so glad. You know, he's here. And he's he's been really good for the defense man. And yeah, man, he's he's all around the field, you know, making plays in the ranked game past game everywhere. He shows them everywhere. As a captain, Jesus teaches greatness of serving. And so I just, you know, I think for me, you know, I just want to be, you know, the Lord's humble servant and just be able to serve others. You know, the players on my team, you know, how I reckon do so and be the captain that the Lord wants me to be. And so, you know, it's a big responsibility. You know, the biggest thing is just like that I pray on it and that the Lord helps me to remember that, you know, I'm trying to please him and not others.

4:09:05And so, you know, just keep it my eyes on the Lord and continue allowing them to work on my heart to be a better team. I think that's just going to be really good. I'm not really mad at this. Yeah, not really, man, I'm just so thankful, you know, that God has placed me in this position and that my teammates, you know, they pick me to be in this position. Yeah, I'm just so thankful, man, and just being in this position, like I just want to be able to bring glory to the Lord's name. And so, like I said, man, just leaning on him, you know, it's tough, man. It's tough being a captain because every day, you know, you got to come in and people are looking at you, do things right. And so there's been days where I struggle and just got in the secret place with the Lord and just asking the Lord to for help, you know. And he brought me through, man, and he's continuing to make me a better person, a better teammate.

4:10:05What do you want to point to on you to accept in his first son for Saturday and one of the city on the Internet? I don't even think we talked much about that yet. Yeah, I don't know how much we talked about that. We so locked in there right now, man, it's just when that time comes, we come. What would you tell them about the atmosphere, what is going on on Saturdays? It's a side of, man. It's a side, especially first game, being back in the shoe, the walk and seeing a fans and everything. You know, it's a huge environment. So, yeah, I know he's going to be so excited. You guys are bringing up two in the country. You're loaded. People expect y'all to make a run all the way to the championship game. Who knows what happens in. How legit is that from your band's point in your city, more your city? I'm trading on about this team. Yeah. Shoot, man. You know, it's a long season. And so, I think the biggest thing is that we're trying to do as a team. You know, this year, it's not looked too far ahead. Just taking one game at a time.

4:11:05You know, I think that's the biggest thing right there, man. Let's just focus on hacking and marshaling the next game, the next game. And then eventually, we'll get there, man. We'll get there. But just every day, just trying to focus on one day at a time, putting in the work. And I'm preparing for the opponent. You know, we have each week. All right, right. Thank you. Thanks for right. Appreciate y'all. Appreciate it, man. I'm so, you know, it's been great. And the more that I just throw to these receivers and just get, you know, get around these guys, you know, the more. Or we're coming together and becoming a team and it's it's cool to see and we just got to keep doing it and keep practicing as hard as we as men. I think I've done a pretty good job protecting football and being smart with my decisions. You know, I think that I want to continue to push the ball down the field when I when I have opportunities to and be accurate down the field and get get some more arrow my, on my deep balls.

4:12:06Those are just a couple things that I've I've thought about personally, but you know, I think I think one of the bigger things is, you know, what are we doing as a team? And obviously, you know, I'm thinking about myself and how I can be better, but you know, the bigger thing is how can we be better as a team? How can I facilitate that being a quarterback? You know, how can I encourage somebody, you know, before we go out there to remind them, hey, you know, if it's a running back, you know, make sure on 60 and whatever protection, you know, you got these guys. You know, doing doing things like that is is something I want to continue to grow in for my team, you know, because that's at the end of the day, you know, all 11 guys have to do their job every single play and, you know, being the quarterback, you kind of have to facilitate that a little bit and help those guys and make sure that, you know, we're being the best team we can be. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I felt fast was nice to nice to get out and run a little bit, you know, I, I, we made a little, made a little QB call on that play and got out and ran and, they was fun, you know, obviously it's, it's nice to compete with those guys and running, you know, trying out runs and some BBs that are really, really fast.

4:13:20But yeah, it was a good play. No way, no one you're in your youth, you want to do it with all of the past, you know, big, fire, if you come in your youth, feel like your leg is not going to be in your youth. Oh yeah, absolutely, that's a big part of my game and it's going to need to be a part of our game as an offense, you know, whether that's in a re-game and in the scramble game, whatever it may be. You know, I just want these guys on my team to know that, you know, I'm willing to run the ball and go get that extra yard when I need to, you know, because at the end of the day, that's what really, that's what it really comes down to, you know, are we going to run some quarterback, you know, run place, sure, but, you know, at the end of the game, when it's third and five and everyone's, you know, everyone's covered down the field, am I going to be able to tuck the ball down and go, you know, go get six yards and run someone over like that's, that's one of the bigger things. And I think, you know, I want those guys, you know, they're out there with me to know that, you know, I'm going to go get that extra yard. I've been part of your game, some quarterbacks are able to run, but not willing. You know, I mean, I'm going to be coached all those games.

4:14:21Yeah, as a visitor, Peewee, I mean, I've always, I've, yeah, I've always definitely, you know, when I was a young kid, I was a pretty good runner when I got to high school, I was a tall, you know, skinny pocket passer kind of, and I wasn't really known for my running ability, I ran it, you know, a few times of time. But when I got to K state, I put on a little weight. You know, I started to get a little stronger in the, you know, in my, in my, my leg areas and, you know, and actually my first start against TCU, third play of the game, I ripped off like an 80 yard, QB draw, which I surprised myself a little bit. Like, you know, I had had some good runs in camp and people knew I was good athlete, but like, I was like, man, I just really just do that. From then on, you know, it just kind of became a part of my game. And, you know, I just got more and more confident with it. And, you know, the more you do it, the better you get at it. You know, throughout my whole career there, I obviously ran the ball. I get a mountain. I enjoy running the ball. I think, you know, people always ask me, is it more fun to run the touchdown or throw a touchdown? I like to run it. I think it's pretty cool to, you know, run in there and celebrate with the teammates.

4:15:23But, you know, yeah, it's definitely been a, been a big part of my game. It's needed. So, the guys have said it. It's a good question. Everything is, everything's heightened here. You know, I think, you know, the, you know, you, you feel, you feel the eyes a little bit and you feel, I think, I think the, you know, the one thing I would say is that I don't feel like I have to be a hero here. And I feel like I have the guys around me to where I just need to facilitate and just get them to ball and make good decisions. And at the end of the day, I don't have to go out there and do anything super, super human. You know, I just have to be myself and trust the guys around me. And, you know, in going through camp and through spring ball, like, it was talking to you earlier at them, like, going against his defense every single day is a, is a blessing. And like, I know it sucks at times. And I'm sitting here like, geez, like, you know, in a, in a game, like, that guy's not going to be guarded. Like, that's just in Zelda being a dude for RGB, you know, making a really good play. But like, that's real. And that is going to happen. And we're going to play some really good defenses. But like, I think we're playing, you know, one of if not the best defense in the country every single day. And that's just making me and us better.

4:16:37And, you know, for, for me, you know, it's just, it's elevating my game. And I love the competition. And we all do. I think they're doing a really good job. I think they hear in this offense. They're doing a lot of different things that move around a lot. They're, you know, they're blocking their catching. They're doing a lot of different things. And they've shown some really good flash so far in these first couple days of practice. And I'm excited for this group. I think, gee, you know, geez, doing some really good things. And obviously he's, I mean, he's one of those alpha dogs in the offense. Like, everyone looks to him. You know, he's, he's one of those guys. And, you know, and Wilk has married so it's really good things to Lonnie's and with really good things. Everyone's kind of stepping up. It's been cool to see. I think that tight end rooms definitely bringing the juice coach. He's got him going. And I'm excited to see what they do. Yeah. He's still like you know, right? This one, like, you feel like you're the number one quarterback. You approach practice.

4:17:40Like, you're the starter. The mindset wise, we have how do you go about that? Because obviously it's still a competition. I'm just trying to be the best version of myself every single day. That's, that's all I'm trying to do. And, you know, whatever, whenever I get thrown in there, I'm going to go in there and make the best out of my reps. And, you know, show this team that, you know, I'm, I'm going to fight for them and do everything that we need to do when that's, that's all that matters to me. It's getting better. Be in the best team and I can be. This is the first year that the most and most guys were trying to see tricks of village and, you guys more. Are there any new off? It's been awesome. Yeah, I think it was long overdue. I think, you know, we've had these guys that have ton of knowledge. You know, and have all these weird rules that they couldn't coach. But now being able to, you know, have Riley and Billy and Coach Kelly and Coach Day all coaching us. We got really two quarterback coaches on either field when we're doing like two spot like it's invaluable. And I think Billy's been awesome for the room.

4:18:42You know, I think Riley, Arkansas, don't some really good things. Obviously coach Kelly and coach there, you know, some of the best in the in the country. You know, I've dealt with quarterbacks and you know, the coaching that we're getting is awesome. And I think having the analyst be able to be out there on the field has been really big and long overdue. Well, tips that there is no front line. There's a point you guys looking. We're talking all the reps. At what point would it be helpful to know who the starter is and then be able to get those reps to be the leader more important and kind of take it to the team? Yeah, you know, I wish I could say I don't really know. And you know, that's not up to me. That's that's not my decision. I am I'm just going to be be myself, you know, keep fighting to be the best version of myself every single day. And, you know, try to make the make the most out of my reps and show this team that, you know, I'm going to I'm going to give them my all. And that's all I can do, man. And we're just going to keep compete and keep making each other better and have fun. So, you're passing. You feel like a different pastor. You work in a state and want.

4:19:45Yes, I do. I think I've I've tweaked some things in my mechanics. And, you know, I think the coaching that I'm getting here is not not mechanic wise, but read wise and and he wise and all these different things. And, you know, I'm just I'm getting a different deeper level of coaching. I ever have before. And, you know, I have a deeper understanding of the offense and what the defense is doing. And, you know, my movement keys, my pre snap checklist, my post snap reads like everything's just been faster. And, obviously, you know, my experience helps with that a little bit. But I think, you know, my work with my with my quarterback coach has helped a lot Jeff Christianson, you know, he's he's helped me a ton. And, you know, I, I feel like I've just gotten stronger. And that's helped me a lot too. So, I think I'm throwing the ball with a lot more confidence, throwing a ball a lot better. And a lot of that has to do with the coaching I've gotten. And, you know, that's a credit for those guys for forgetting me ready and, you know, making sure that, you know, I developed myself in the off season. And, you know, I've become the best version of myself going into football.

4:20:49Thank you. Thank you guys. Thank you all. Appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

4:22:04I would say I'm a little bit more quiet around working on the head for a side. You know, I'm just trying to get the people to walk a leader up there with the guys that I'm going to be. Definitely, it's definitely quite confidence. Definitely confident in your ability to play. I know what we do up to. I actually, I think I've only been here once in a few months, I saw some, I love it. I'm really good to be places to be and all friends. I think I've visited maybe freshman or sophomore year. Yeah, just for the camper and visit just the super-cell of these. I know it was only a few days, but being in the Alabama program, especially as they prepared for a football plan from, what did you take away from that short period of time? Yeah, it was really good with the coach of recent drift season. They were coach of players hard and I saw the work that takes to get to the playoffs and I'm coming here.

4:23:09You see the older guys putting the work in there, throughout the winter, you know, seeing our older guys and older leaders putting the work in there and showing them how it takes. How much of a relationship did you have with air, obviously, coming in? He had been committed. You come in, you both freshmen. What was it like before and what's your relationship? We didn't have much relationship prior. We measured it with 11. I knew each other a little bit and then come in here, you know, the quarterback room, everyone here is really close. So we're all pushing each other to be better. We're all taking push points from each other trying to be better. I would say we are a cop, I surprise. You know, come back from the game and you're a little bit high spirits because the team is turning. How did you feel when you were playing for the coach and the coach? There was definitely a lot of emotions but I'd like to be on the opening of the league and I'm going to make the right decision.

4:24:14I think you know, the more buddy you hear, not taking the role of a cop, make the choice. I have a true freshman. What do you think you're doing? Yeah. I can't really explain how that would be. I'm just really trying to develop and take push. I think I've been a brick one of my players here and then I think I've been a push for Coach Kelly. So I just want to develop and run the offense when they want it and then take push points and then trust me on my game. If you look at your skills and push points, maybe I might be fine. But what do you think, what about your game? I think that I can be really good decision makers for the offense and someone who would be absolutely never trust. It's a game called you. Is that an actual game? It's a game that I want to play. I think it's kind of a lot of things. I was always around football. My boat was a quarterback at Penn.

4:25:16He used it quarterback and I was at school and I was at Penn Fall and just picked up so I'd always been around football and then I just been at other offices high school and just really just had a lot of effort. Who do you want to go work? Who's your favorite Tayden? I'm a Tiger. I'm going to show you know and so from a coaching standpoint, yeah it feels a lot better when you're not looking around like... Well, help. You put your right hand down there. Now I think so we had the sickness going back around and it was just slide outside in. You're going to two platoon and go both cards today. You got to coach. And that was good for both parties. As a coach we could so practice and then for the kids getting really good reps out of it. How much does it take to make this thing? It's just a way you can do it. Yeah just just yeah just with the calendar of an offensive line unit anyway. You're going to take the criticism.

4:26:19I think the maturity of these guys is probably what sounded or showed what Donovan I wasn't over there but like... You had to hold his thumb. That's our position. That's who we are. That's when you want to coach this position or play this position like... And you're going to take those. So I think maturity and the growth of those guys understanding what they need to do, why they need to do it. It's going to pay dividends when we get on the field and start playing in the games. We're playing more and continue to play more like linemen and not lines on a page. I think as young guys and new guys you get in you're kind of like... Little hats. Oh I got burned. I'm going to go get the burn. No blocking you. I don't want to block you. You're right. I want to block you. Thanks guys. But just trying to not screw it up or get there. Siggering it out. Schematically or whatever.

4:27:19We're now the ownership and we're going to burn and this is how we're getting here and this is the technique I'm using. That's showing up a lot. That's starting to be true because we're not blocking a pop up dummy. We do pods. We do individuals. Larry's guys and you got good on good and it's showing. That's the positive. As a coach now I'm saying it's going to be better about it because we're doing it. They're doing it because they understand it and we're not just saying I'm going to line on a page. I've got to go block those guys. You mentioned Larry's guys. How much is it almost shining a light if you see a weakness on your line going against those guys? I would think it would expose it pretty well. You get a good read on what you have. Yeah it's another proof though of when you're in a match-up game Ryan talks about this all the time. It's you versus you. If you don't take the right step. If you don't communicate or get the right fit to the right identification, then really good teams and really good players are going to take advantage of that. If you give them something that way. So you're playing you. So for us to answer your question, yeah.

4:28:20They expose like why did I get meat right there? Did he beat me or did I give it to him and he took it? And then Larry's guys can do the same. And whatever the technique may be on a zone player or a gap player or whatever it may be. And we hit something big. He can watch us say hey did you miss their fit? Did they miss their hands? So that good on good that we're getting to go is going to expose a lot of things. Not necessarily how good you are, but when you don't play as good as you are. If that makes sense. Can you just explain to you general question, but how would you see more, I guess, recruiting approach, teaching most change over the person you're talking about? It's still all about in my mind, armament, the evaluation. Like you have to be a guy that can come here and grow and perform and play. The changing has really been with the NIL landscape. And so figuring out what that piece really is, how vested and how far you have to be in that. What's their priorities? So I think that's always that's going to be a fluid thing. But at the end of the day, like, you know, I'm sound boring and cliche, right? But like if a kid loves football,

4:29:23it wants to be great, wants to get developed, wants to be around and play against Larry's guys and those guys in practice. And we feel like we have evaluated with the camp or through tape and we've offered those guys. Is that 40 is that 60 is that 90? I mean, that's that's all far evaluation of what we have. So from a, you know, the game football hasn't changed recruiting change. Yeah, I know that, but you still got to take guys that you can don't develop because that day one ready made guy in the offensive line set. Point of mind if you find it for me because there's a few far between. Hey, you see a roster full with five thousand. And then it seems like there's been a little bit of a struggle to get those top guys. Do you feel like you're approached with NIL as a part of it? Do you feel like it's working? Do you feel like the pitch is a high state? Yeah, because we're not done yet. I mean, you know, keep your head on the swivel here. We're not, I mean, December the long way away and the weekends coming up soon. And you know, where guys are where they're getting recruited, what position before.

4:30:23I mean, that's what we have to do. That's that's my job. Let's coach us. Job as we go together is like evaluating guys that we feel can come here and develop and play and help us to continue to win. And so, yeah, stars matter. Sure. My wife could point out. That's a, that's a really good guy, right? But as I said, those, that pool lineman is not as big as some of the others. I mean, we shouldn't get him. It doesn't mean we're not working to get those guys. And like I said, it doesn't mean that we're done either. That's a long way to December too. How many tournaments in the past? A couple of questions. There's one superstar guy that's up on the map. Is that the star of pipeline or is it hard to really get this to be the place where you're getting this guy? Is it a fast-rooted man? Yeah, I mean, I think you just look at the recent history all the way through or all the stickers on the wall in there. I mean, you know, yeah, we had Paris. He was a national five star guy, right? But then we had other two other draft picks there. The one was in five star guy, right?

4:31:24Luke was in five star guy. I had good players and they got developed and they had all these guys before. I got here all the guys on the wall. I mean, yeah, that's, you'd love to go get all those guys. But do they fit the next up round, guys? So the four star guys, are they really a four star? Are they really fit? Do they really want to do that? Well, pipeline online, you know, you just look on the wall in the room and you've seen all those guys that have come from all different levels. How would you say you're in the evaluation style when you're dealing with so many people wanting to hear before they even play the game as a junior? I needed offer from our eyes. It seems like the process is just kind of possible. It's a way of being about a valuation, right? And it's about attention, in all of the cases. But how much harder do they make to remove when you're looking at a kid who got the size you that you're looking for? But maybe the film is there, maybe the camera performance wasn't what you wanted to see. How do you get him to understand that? Yeah, I think you got to feel through the relationship of what the kid, maybe the relationship with the coach.

4:32:29And just being frank and honest with him. I mean, I'm not smart enough to tell this guy one thing, this guy the other and circle back and all of a sudden you come back and it's like, what was the message you gave here? Just trying to be as straight and communicative as you can. I still don't think though you get into early junior year first two or three games, which we're going to do. And guys that we felt like right there, you need to see that's when the next wave of offers and recruiting stuff goes into. If the kids just looking for a check mark on the internet, yeah, I've probably failed at that. My entire career early on until you know that they're a buck. To be clear, you said I'm not a pop up dummy, can I have a stomach full of those? You? Yeah. I wouldn't love to block you, but... With one leg or both, for two left. Just in the coaches, just in the coaches. Just in the coaches. I'm trying to get in with you. Got you. Three guys. Last question for coach. That they all have a number of players. Two of those starts. We got Josh, he's a Friday, he's a guy. He's got one person.

4:33:30He's going to have 12 or have not. Where do you thought it's going to show up? We're going to watch it. We got this guy. We're going to play it for you. It could be, depend on the day. Like you're in the dull germs in the grind of camp. Practice 12, 13, 14. That veteran guy that kind of grabs the guys like fellas, we've been here. Let's go. This is the Lord talk. We got to pick it up. We got to go. Could be in a situational field. It's like, we're going to third down period. Well, it's not just another play. Hey, it's just third down now. They come over walls or butts in, watch the picks, watch the twists. Whatever the batter is, maybe. I think it will show them in the games. When we hit the first real adversity through whatever game, whatever quarter or whatever drive that shows up. Then that's the next time I'll show up because, as you said, there's, there's gamesmanship there. They've been in and they know now it's not the first time. I'm like, whoa, what's happening? It's, hey, this is happening. Here's how we get through it. I'm super smart. There's a little way. That's something that you think that you guys can just manifest in the last year with a brand of centers to the examples.

4:34:33Obviously, I don't know. Like, do you think that you were missing a little bit of ball and you're just a veteran experienced guy? Yeah, you just, a veteran experienced guy. You know, I mean, he had Matt there. He played a lot of ball. Yeah, Donnie was coming into it, but then, yeah, you're replacing the three new guys. You know, one coming from across the country. Yeah, I have a lot of discovery on the top. I've got a lot of fun. But the last time we came into it, we had a lot of fun. There's a lot of fun in the game. Yeah, I mean, you know, I can't go back on it. Yeah, I can't go back on it. Yeah, we got a lot of fun. Yeah. I mean, I just think of it as a big game. I mean, I don't know. Yeah. So, yeah, I mean, it's a lot of fun. Yeah. I mean, I don't know how to play the game. I mean, you guys, you guys, we're coming into it. So yeah, I mean, experience helps a ton and what's experienced you decide it. I've started this many games, which means he's played this many thousand reps. I've started this many games. going to guard, you know, obviously it helps your drafts out and everything like that, but you know, you don't have to sound to ball, that's pretty sick. You get both hands back, that's been kind of interesting, and I kind of like at the end of spring a little bit, when I was going in with there, I literally didn't know how to use my right hand for a while, I come out to ball, but obviously we've developed them, we're good with that.

4:35:36So it's been a good experience, I know, like me, Luke, you know, take as well, I'll play in some right, I'll play in some right side, so I'm asking him questions, asking Donnie questions on the other side of the ball. I don't know, I love it, I mean, I just love playing football, so I'm able to, whatever, it's so good. What's different with Chip Kelly as the office coordinator right now, that you've noticed with the run game, what do you feel is different? We run the rock, we pound the rock man, it's, it's going to be really fun this year. What does that mean, when you say that, what pound the rock, what does that mean when you're in Bernacchi? I just think the way we run out of the ball and the schemes we're going to implement this year, it's going to be very, very difficult for teams to combat that. I think the amazing offensive minds of Coach Kelly, coach are obviously coach day and coach fry, I think they'd come together and made some really, really fun plays. Not only, you know, obviously like really good scheme, but there's some cool plays in that as well, I know we've loved to run.

4:36:37I remember, I remember freshman year and last year, our defense has been number one defense in the country, and now we've been able to really not, obviously we're not going to beat him up or anything like that. We've been able to move a little bit, so it's been fun seeing that and seeing the guys really get into it. I think Coach Kelly has been awesome and effective. He's a very open-minded coach, we kind of stuff he tries, so we'll be reading the script or reading with him. I'm going to run this up into this, and he's like, okay, it hits like 40 yards, and this is the coolest thing ever. So I'm really excited for this year, and everyone should be too. All right, Carson, thank you for coming. Thank you, Chris. Thanks for having us. Yeah, no, I got a little blue color, yeah. Amazing. I think we're going to have to be a little bit more accurate. I think we're going to have to be a little bit more accurate. All right, folks, it's perfect. I think we need to be three tight ends, and two running backs, and our formation today, and Pepper being the full-backing situation, so those are a lot of different things you can do in short-range, but a little bit of the tribute to Coach Hayes and the way he means those four.

4:37:48I think the most impressive things I said to me was how we were closest for both teams. Some programs talk about a brother, and this is really a brother. Our practices, as we talked about earlier, are defense visits. They're highly competitive, but they're not going to knock him back. And those guys were really good at it. And I think that's a great thing. I think that's a great thing to do. Our practices, as we talked about earlier, are defense visits. They're highly competitive, but they're not going to knock him back. And those guys were really very, very well together, both the old line of the D-line and second-rate receivers. The competition is a big thing, but there's a lot of the rest of the rest of the country that makes you better. But I think sometimes competition, you know, guys from the last shout, and you get really combative, and they're on some of the fight-quakes out of fight-quakes out of fight-quakes out of them. We're trying to accomplish it at the pulp, but I think the way these guys cooperate and work together as a group is a special bond. And I think you're going to need to think about the closest team, and most connected teams are ones that play. Over to the right here. Andy Baxter, a letter from the Rump.

4:38:48Chip, obviously, didn't want to talk about Jeremiah, but Matt Gaetz, the big tournament with Spree, if he can't provide a real what he can do today. What's it been like working with him, and what kind of left it to me for you guys? Good point. And the mechanism has reminded me of the other 14-back sessions that everybody can do, especially in J.J. Silver's early time. But I think all of the whole rundown take, and some really good things, watching him in this room, and for all of them, I mentioned it with the offensive line. I came to work with him, and I had no opinions for him, not that I'm really just blind, I didn't just observe him, but I think that what he's doing is really special. I think there's a bunch of guys in there, and again, you have to play multiple games after the regular season is over. You know, make sure you're going to be in depth like that, and the fact that it's a little bit carthinal right now, that we get some guys in there that can make some plays with the tournament. And that really dictates how people are going to defend it. And I was so, he got a couple of really good running bets. I mean, I was so, I think, in a low-to-boxer, in a low-to-boxer, I think those guys are one of one coverage, but it's the core metrics must really be to decipher that and get them all close next.

4:39:56So, we're doing a couple of companies, a double coverage, and now it's going to be a later-boxer, you can run the ball. So, having too many weapons is a good problem to have. Second roll out, Pat Murphy, 24-7 sports. Typically, we've talked a lot about the core metrics, maybe buying from the starting spot, but some of the younger guys, what have you seen from them? We got not going to see more of them today, and we probably have what's your assessment of them as they kind of game this. I always, in someone's presence with young guys that enroll early in watching how they get acclimated, and what they do. You look at Julian and Aaron and JJ, they should be in the hot, much lighter than Ezra, and they're out here playing a fight, 80,000 people. They've really progressed when you watch them to meetings and listen to them, and they interpret. Basically, the whole concept is, we throw them in the deep end, see if they can swim. There's three things, maybe anything. We don't put the insolven with, hey, you guys are installing insolven, this is for the older players.

4:40:59You guys go set the kitty tape on, we're just going to do really simple things with them. They get it all, and more they can digest the more you're in a role when you're checking for understanding, asking questions, and they can step back to you, the more confidence you have, when they get in with the play, that you can call for them. Those guys have been in process, they're still learning, they were the guys today that were looking around and seeing the violence. That's people here, along with the offensive coordinator, the corporate coach, because I actually never been in the stadium until yesterday when we had our 14th practice in there. I played with half-state months when I was at Orby, but that was in the Rose Bowl, so I never been in the stadium until yesterday. I caught myself running into the stadium today, the grounds, 80,000 per string canals in person. I'm going to have to have a few more folks over here until the right bill of Davis, Delaware, because that given what you've just said about throwing into the deep end, what stood out to most of you about joy and inspiration through 15 practice, and what you guys have that atmosphere?

4:42:01Jim is a very fast processor. He really affects very, very quickly when he makes really quick decisions. He doesn't stick on it, and we can progress in any season, really well from a young player, and not having to expose a lot of college defenses, and especially what Jim does to Jim can make. Jim can make a young freshman who are not a pride with some of the stuff he does, but I never saw that with Jules, and that's been across his ability to retain him and JJ. The compliment I would say is, if you got here and you didn't know what class I would do with, say, those kinds of freshmen, how they pick things up, and sometimes freshmen act like freshmen, but the guys you are special, they don't act like freshmen, they act like football clubs, and those of you guys that are on the surface of it. Far left, Camerity Robinson, the athletic, you, you, you, on top of the freshmen, and J's people to say on that one,

4:43:03yeah, we have run the second half of that. We talk about how deep you need to be in this era college football, but as you search for our Army 3, what did you see from then today, and what, what has their growth been like in the business firm? Yeah, J's really flashed early for me, not knowing again, kind of, let's just say a word about what the background is, where they're from, who they are, the this guy, this guy, this guy, that's not as much. They're all black eyed citizens, just how they do it, and I think J's is kind of really good field of vision, he can get things. I thought Sam was really good things today. T.C. is another guy who really came along during the spring, and in work constantly talking in our staff meetings about that, we're very caught in the center of the faculty, the class situation has changed, so you have to develop that, you know, these could be maybe having parents there, there's one everybody says, but I think you may have to have one, and you're talking about 16-17 games, you're really going to be tested, that way, sounds really happy, but how well you're going to get, come along here within the 15th, 20th sessions of the faculty.

4:44:05Well, here's the right, Tim May, Tim May podcast. Thank you, Jerry. You have no one podcast? Yeah, this guy's all I think, the next to the next, I'm going to be a radio show. There's more to call that one, you know, some juice, the other name, definitely. It's not just the lustful eyes, the hop of lustful eyes. It's the hop of lustful eyes. Just do wait, it's everyone you feel compelled to let these workbacks know where they stand. You know, it's coming up to you, you know, to me, where is that, you know, meaning in your mind? That holds the time as a staff and visit, you know, and mind, he does an unbelievable job of, I think all our players understand where they fit and what the picture is, and what they want to do. And we're not going to come back, but we do it after every day. They know where they spend our time, the time, the time, the three or the four. We greet everything, they're getting constant feedback in terms of where we are. And then after 15, we're treated at today. But we can't do it unless you watch the film and can really look at the things.

4:45:07Because you may see something, but you're on the sideline. Now, why did you make that decision? Well, I couldn't only see the field safety from where he was. And why did you make that decision? So, you know, we're meeting with all the players, and that's always been the method. So this week during, you know, between Monday through Friday, we're all scheduled. No one's going to be running the room, we're going to be able to talk after that. But we're all planning to be in a set of every position. You know, offensive line, defensive line, whatever safety is going to be. We're working in a set of thousands of positions, which is, you know, where they fit. And when you see them. If you feel oppression with the transfer portal, looming, I mean, you better hate coach for a long time. I mean, is that on your mind to use you? Yeah, I think on the road. For other words, one or percent. And I don't think it's pressure. But I think it just opens up to communication and everybody knows, you know, looks. What your evaluation looks to the training sessions we have. Guys, we got to have, we got to real quick. The last two questions. Dan Hope and then Rob Haller. When do you feel like you need to have a starting quarterback named by, and what are the things you're going to be looking for between now and then, and determined to do that?

4:46:12What are the things you're going to be looking for between now and then, and whatever, then, is we're not allowed as coaches to go back out and practice what you know in coach football. You get 15 training sessions. And the other season. And then we'll go back to working with Mick in the way from getting bigger, getting faster, getting stronger. They'll have organized activities themselves. They do a really good job of that. But once there's a football out, like we're not allowed to be there to evaluate and be obsessed. So they're really from a football center on their own until August. So you always want to do it earlier. But I also believe every time I've been involved in this, is that it kind of happens organically and authentically. You know, because the players come. You say that, we just say that we're going to be with Joe. And they all think it's Terry. They know. We're in the locker room the other day. Players understand who they feel with the guy. And most of the time, the decision is very obvious.

4:47:13You know, you just say this is where we are with it. But that timetable thing I can't give you an exact timetable on that. Rob. She had talked about you in the typical year experience you've done. I've been like Tim said a long time. I've only taken for the game to slow down for a very long time. I think it depends on the individual. I've had some kids. More early. You know, I mean like, wow. Parkers Murray always like that. Remember, if it be a second practice, he got to the fifth reading, the progression, the football, the errors, the game. And I asked him, why I do it? I asked why, because this one, I said, I think, why did you do that? Because I don't know what we call that, but there was like a lot of kinds over there. I didn't see like there was any more over there. But for you to process it, that thing was right. You came back to the day, whether that was cover sets, the day comes. I mean, when you guys come out of cover sets, but they all happened to different.

4:48:13I've got guys that for two years, seem like they're just, you know, they're really struggling. And the light bulb goes off, you know, they've got it. Everybody has different learning styles. You know, our job and the evaluation processes kind of find those learning styles. So, you know, they kind of remember they had an October learning, you know, to learn about field. Because it is a more, a field guy, you know, a more film guy, you know, it's all different. And I think we have to keep going. And for us, as coaches, that's the challenge too. What is the best learning style? And how can we today, because education is just a transportation knowledge. But it really doesn't matter what I know or what I know, I was a nurse with a day coach. That's always kind of what we're working on to study and thinking about, kind of where we are, and how much can they handle, and then how much is too much, you know, because this could be a great plan. I agree 100%. But if you don't feel it's good, then why are we wise in, you know, and that's this whole feeling of process

4:49:14that we're learning, asking what I mean. And all that says that identity, so the coaches really running quarterbacks. And something you always sort of lead toward, or is it, you're by your case by case, what advantages do you like about it? Because all your guys can run a little bit. Yeah, I think a running quarter like causes problems for the defense. So when, when the place where it now, the unscheduled place, if you just go back to the recent Super Bowl, on that last hard to too big place from a home's run, potential home's another runner. And he's not calling the design quarterback runs for the pad. But when the defense matches up in place too many in terms of the back to the quarterback, well, maybe the best decision is to take off, you know, the second one is, you know, you may score. You know, a lot of guys go and they want a hook side, you know, and there's time to react to understand if you do a running quarterback, and we talk about the best ability, the best ability is available. You know, you're not going to be sure we're taking people wrong, we are always looking for quarterbacks that have the ability to run.

4:50:16We're not looking for running backs that you've brought. You know, so you're not going to see us 20 times again and we'll run in the quarterback. There are people that run off on six titles and are really successful with it. But with this group we have, right now that's not. Now they can't hurt you. The little didn't when he was at case date, you know, obviously he'd done it two times a couple of times today. Heard to cut a couple of times today. Linkings are really, really good athlete. Julian can run, but, you know, we're not calling the design quarterback runs. We're not going to see, you know, like the tremendous amount of respect for companies in the latest thing that you left here. The strength is as far as we go. We are not going to single way. So we're not going to snap it and run the quarterback by some quarterback powers. But it is another weapon. It also keeps defense as well. You know, for defense, you're not going to continue to mend in the quarterback close to the edge. You're not going to be able to use the first down. Well then the defensive down, that's the style of side. Because in the quarterback, well then we can run the ball lock. And the end of the ball lock. Sometimes I know running the more quarterback really is a blocker.

4:51:17Use response for a defender with the defender's cheating. And the fitting in on the run. And then his responsibility is to make the defense be honest. And that's really eroded that a couple times today. And we had a block that's taking his face in there. So we're going to check out from around the head. What happens in expedited defense is white. Now we're going to get the derivative. Coach, thank you so much for your time. And thanks for being a bucket. Thanks. Thanks. So maybe 42, whatever against Youngstown State. And I'd be so upset coming out of the game. But seeing how violent this game is from this perspective. Now you have to say, hey, okay, not only within games can we keep guys fresh. Right? But can we do that so that when you get to the last few games in the season that act that are the big ones. Right? And then you get to the games that you're judged off of. And you get to the game. Are we healthier? I think that's it's kind of a full full fan. Right? So I'm still confident with five guys. And that's going to be a week to week. You know, and like these guys know, I think honestly, who start to be week to week if you display during the week of practice that you're locked in.

4:52:21And somebody else has a bad mental week. Well, I can't reward you with starting if you have six mental errors during the week. You know, I mean just because you started last week. You've got to be that iron sharpens iron constant complications due to the whole fault. That doesn't sound like something that takes one high to school to be thrown in. What kind of a game is he just alluded to? But is that part of which one has to drive you then? Was it driving you then? Then you just assumed that was kind of the case when you played anyway. I always felt when I was here that they were trying to out-root me. Which is the reality, right? Yeah. Which is why it prepares you so well for the National Football League. That's why Ohio State prepares you so well for the league. Because now it's like they're trying to out-draft you. And so I use that as fuel. But I also thought firsthand, you know, like there was a season where it was John Kerr, Marcus Freeman, certain guys rotating week to week. And so I thought like should it happen to them that can happen to me. So I just try to be a certain way in practice. Like I tell the guys all the time you have to control the things that take no talent. You have to eliminate all the looks. Like if you if you loaf on the field, you're a trader.

4:53:21Like you should just go play for their team. Like that can't you can't be coaching effort. And then you can't have mental errors. Because if you have a mental error, then you can't trust you. So those are the two things I always as a player was like, alright, you're not going to catch me loafing. And you're definitely not going to catch me not knowing what I'm supposed to do. I might get beat. And that's inevitable. It's football, everyone's on scholarship, right? But those two things you can control, how do you see the thing? What's the next step in the summer in Australia? I think it's just seeing, you know, we haven't done like any of my series. You know, we know he can tackle and all that. But I think it's just the repetitive grind of a football game from in the box, the constant. And he's been he's been willing so far, you know what I mean as far as his hand placement has been good. Even more on the strike. He's tough. So it's just continuing to have him challenged to there's plays right now where he's seeing it from the first time from the will backer. So the next time he sees it, maybe a throw catch tackle is at the intersection.

4:54:21You know what I mean? I've seen it before from that perspective. Everything he's seen before this has been from top down off the shelf, right? So now it's dropping back, that'll be driving. So he's made great progress and I'm really happy with how son he's done. James, look at that recruiting. It seems like it's going really well for you. Obviously you can't talk about specific recruits, but just overall how do you feel like that's going in? Are you enjoying your food? I am. I am enjoying it. I think it's fun to build relationships and get to know so many different types of kids, you know? Ohio State presents opportunity, right? And so many different ways. You're not going to get developed better anywhere else in the country. You have the largest fan base, largest alumni, maybe it's his opportunity everywhere, right? So you try to just explore, like explain your passion for the school that did so much for you, you know, especially being an out of state kid, not being from Ohio. And then realizing how much Ohio State changed my life.

4:55:21And so now you communicate that to other young kids who kind of see it and try to tell them the vision, like where you can get to. And I think the fun thing for me is that most of the kids that are recruiting are way more athletic than I ever was. So it's like, I tell them if I can, the only way I survived in the NFL eight years was the fact that I had football intelligence, like I knew where I was going. You know what I mean? I knew where I was fitting. And so now if I can impart that information on kids who are extremely athletic, well now you're not, you got something special, you know what I mean? How much of you guys have this staff already talking about long season and the need to play more guys? Well, I think yeah, you're going to have to have depth. That's just the reality, right? It's a longer season. There's more games. And there's no excuse that a place like here, like if you're all on playing with a maybe a guy who was third or fourth, you know, that doesn't matter. You know, like you got to be ready to go. So I think depth is crucial at all of the division.

4:56:21Because injuries are going to happen. There's part of football, you know, you never want to wish it upon anyone and you're certainly not. But it's just you can't be naive to think that you're just going to have every single starter healthy for the whole season. You talked about your mentality as a player and then you're recruiting different players that you were. How do you, how do you marry that when they made that same mentality that you need is what you want them to have? Well, you figure that out when you get to know them. And there are certainly some kids that you start to recruit to where you see like, you know what? Ohio State might be too big. It might be too big for them. You know what I mean? And so it's not for everybody. You have to want to come in and compete against the best and realize that you have to win every single game. It'd be the best in the world of what you do. That's the expectation that Ohio State. And that's certainly not for everyone. And that's okay. But you have to through the process kind of find out who has that mentality, who really craves football. You know, like who craves football versus a lot of the other fluff that kind of comes with it? Who craves ball?

4:57:23Because when they crave football, then the other stuff will take care of itself, right? And we'll just keep getting better and better and better if they want to be the best. Two more questions for games. Yeah, I think that's your job as a recruiter is you got to figure out what's the mindset of the kid and are they serious about football? And you have to talk to the people that are around them and you got to figure out how to talk to coaches. You just got to try to figure out like who loves ball and the NFL they do the same thing, right? Now they're attending the massive amounts of money and they're saying, okay, we're going to give this person money at the change their motivation or they still love balls. So now it means in college with the same thing like who actually wants to be the best or who just likes the attention that comes with playing football. James, I've already talked about it but can you tell a little bit of the elevation from our bell from the end of the class? Obviously, Mr. Timel actually is the injury that where he's at now versus the expectation that he had to move this way. Our bell has shown a lot of progress. Most importantly, mentally with the playbook and everything.

4:58:25I think our bell last year there was a couple things, right? Because of injuries on the D line and camp. He moved the end for a little bit and then we brought him off the ball and then he had an injury and he kind of missed some time. He wasn't an early mid-year, so he comes in right in the summer and so he missed some reps there. So the see where he's at right now is extremely impressive. And for a guy of that size and that much power and his ability to run, he's a special athlete. And so our bell has had a good spring. He's got to continue to dive into the playbook and got to continue to learn all the little things. And as you go, right, like week one, week two, you start seeing new schemes, new schemes, things build. And it becomes kind of a lot. He's just got to continue to comb through it all because athletically, you know, he's one of the most gifted guys that we have in the room. I know, and I have probably the biggest risk of that. What has changed in the time that you've been recruited to now that you're working with me and like, are there fundamental differences you've noticed in your own area? No, I think it still comes down for the most part.

4:59:25Like, NIL is certainly an aspect for some. For some, it could be the most important thing. It's always a factor. But I think you still just need to find out who are the kids that love football and they want to be developed. And it's about the relationship to an extent. Like, a relationship gets you to the final stretch. For some kids, NIL might be the thing that pushes them over the top. I mean, I don't know. Like, every kid is so different, right? I try to view it as you're just building relationships. And are you going to get a young man to trust you to develop them? And to not only the player that they want to be, but the person that they want to be in the future. And can you convince mom and dad that you're the right person to do that? You know what I mean? So I think one of the things that is helpful is my playing experience. I think, you know, when you've played and you've done it and the drills that you're doing, you know that they work. You're not going to waste your time on stuff that doesn't work. And then the fact that, you know, I am blessed to be at my alma mater. You know, if there's no sense of trying to leave here, you know, and you have to question, I get a ton.

5:00:28And what do you see yourself in five years? I'm like, where I'm sitting? It's my alma mater. You know, my kids love it in Columbus. Obviously, I love Ohio State. So I think those are things that can kind of be in the van. I think I've even worked, you know, to kick off as much team as well. You look back at this like for you and get involved with that. Yeah, it's awesome. Maybe I love it because it gives you an opportunity to coach the whole team. You know what I mean? Like special teams in a spot where the whole team probably minus the quarterbacks, right? Is all in one team room and one meeting room. So you get to actually directly impact other positions and just your own. And I think it also gives. It gives a little bit of urgency to your own room. Like when you're in there every single time, you better be making an impact on punts if you're aligned back to your. You better be making an impact on kick return or on kick off kick off return. Punt return all those things. You better be making an impact, right? Because your coach is in there all the time. So it's been nice and there's a lot of stuff that I think our coaches have done to kind of push that.

5:01:30That sense of team when you're in special teams that we every position matters. If you're interested, somebody's been in a NFL. What do you think will be in a NFL doing a kick off now? And you think that's like it could be good for college? I mean. The thing that stands to take away like the surprise on time, you know what I mean? But all these rules are changing so much for the safety of the game. And I mean, I think it's only a matter of time before it triples down. It seems like everything triples down. So we'll see. As of right now, we'll keep things going the way they are. All right, James. Thank you. Yep. Thanks, guys. Thank you. Everyday. So. Oh, I mean, we had this finisher at the end of practice where I had to make five in a row and going all the way back to 50. It was actually the people who came to end it. And yeah, I just had to make five in a row where we were running.

5:02:31And so we got it. We ran. But we ran one. I did one time. Yeah. Short turns. I'll take the fisherman that way. You were almost. That's fine. Yeah, I feel a little bit. You know, you always been a performer in those kind of moments. And, you know, I felt like I got the team down. But at the same time, I knew that those guys had confidence in me and actually talking with my teammates, Jack and GTE and those kind of guys really got around me. It really helped me. But as a kicker, you kind of just got to wipe it clean and go to the next play. But, yeah, you definitely want to make those kicks. Is that something you had to process like a weak side for? Or is it just something that you got over? It's something you have to get over mid game as a kicker. You can't let their last kick affect you. So, just trying to get through it and get through the game. And I knew I could have made that kick. I mean, it's, it's, yeah, it's just one of those ones that got away from you. But you always look forward to the next one and you always have to correct your mind and get ready for that.

5:03:36I probably say the same as last year. I feel just as confident as I did last year, even though I didn't get too many attempts from deep to show that. But, still feel just as confident as I was doing. 55, 60. Yeah, right around there, right in there. Yeah. That's every kicker's drill. That's every kicker's dream. I mean, you saw the guy from FSU a couple of weeks ago. That's my buddy, Ryan Fitzgerald. Really, really great kicker. But, everybody wants that opportunity to show everybody what you can do. What did you also make? What did you make from year to year? Trying to become more consistent always. You can always become more consistent. You're going to miss every once in a while, but just trying to limit the mistakes and the misses that you do have to just so that you can become as perfect as possible. I guess this is the way I would put it. I mean, the standard is the standard here. Even we didn't look up to it last year. So you got to correct it and get better. What is that consistent? Your book works? It's a lot of things. It's a ball contact.

5:04:37It's confidence in your teammates. It's trusting that the ball's going to be there when it's there. It's getting more down the field on your follow-through. It's not falling through straighter. Yeah, but some of that really worked on us falling through straighter this past all season. So a lot of my balls are going left towards the end of the year. So I had to correct that. And some of you can't really correct mid-season. You want to mess with it. Yeah, I corrected that this all season. Coach, as you said, you won't have to lose against the ball, especially since now that guy's going to be like, you've been to youth, fouls, and abuse, and it's pretty stressful. I have, and I really like it. I like Coach Day being around the specialist and all the special teams. It's just was more involved. It feels of a higher end court in this year. I think you guys saw that in the first game. He's done a great job. Him and Coach Keys and Gunner Danes. They've done a really good job. So yeah, I feel I feel it. It's good. Why do you specifically feel that? Like, where does that show up do you think you have coach Dayan and the high end court? I think the fact that he's paying more attention to special teams.

5:05:39He's seeing the good things that we do. And so he has more confidence in us to put us out there and give guys like Joe a chance. And you know, he pays more attention to things like that. So it's better for us so that we can thrive in those situations that we didn't thrive in last year. And he has the ability to put us out there because his call is the final call. With Joe, your folder or your ball camp or is that the guy who's just starting a funder is also just starting a funder? Me and Joe got a lot of work over the offseason to get him there. And it's not always who the starting funder is. It's just that he's the best at holding. So we got the job. Where you're done every time you set the game and being here. I don't know if you'll see better than we're not doing it. I mean, me and John are like I said, me and John and Joe are like three best friends off the field. So we work a lot on stuff on the field and nobody's around. And so yeah, we've definitely built a good camaraderie between the guys and yeah, I love Joe. Great guy. How does it make a difference for you guys to stay and we have a position called Joe?

5:06:40I don't know how it's really about his balance. It just, it makes you feel like he has more confidence in you than he's putting you out there because he's watched it a lot more. I know for sure on the kickoff reps, he watches kickoff coverage all the time. He loves to see the guys running down the field and we actually made that a really big point of emphasis this past game to run through the goal lines. I joined my teammates running through the goal line. It was pretty fun. I'm not sure if I've had two guys but now there's only my coaches in Rob and Gunner from the other side of the time. I mean Gunner was out there last year but he couldn't give us coaching technique, critiquing on the field. But at halftime he would he would talk to us and Gunner played at BC. He was a long snapper so he provides really good insight into kind of like a, I would compare him to like Brad Robinson, my freshman year. He gives you good insight. It's kind of like a veteran guy. So like when, when things aren't going your way on the field or you're not playing up to the level that you want to, he's kind of there to calm you down and tell you like, Hey, like, I've been there before like the veteran guy even though he's a coach now.

5:07:41So yeah, it's very nice. What is the last question you guys? Rob brings a lot. Man, he's, he's been having a coach. He brings a lot of pressure to it. He makes you feel that every kick really matters. He's really good. He definitely helps with the coverages. The coverages have been much better this season than they haven't had to cover yet. But you can just tell from the guys running down there are a lot more passionate about it. There's bigger emphasis on it. Thank you, Jay. Thank you. Thanks, guys. It was just the first two weeks this season, yeah, like I just said that it probably wasn't best for the player. It didn't take back from my want to be out there in the game. But you know, guys stepped up. It's competitive excellence. Guys executed. And so now I'm just grateful to be back and doing what I can. The primary aspect of the coach to reach your 100th level can fight you throughout.

5:08:41Oh, yeah. What would I like to do? It's just a frustrated player and a coach who knows what's best for him. I thought I was good to go and a lot of people told me I wasn't. I was like, what do you mean I'm fine? And then coach said, you know, talking off the cliff a little bit. But it's just trying to protect me for myself. You know, I've blessed with the opportunity to play a lot of ball this year. And so it was just like, look man, let's calm down for these weeks and we'll get you back after the buy. But I wasn't the most happy camper in the world for a good minute there. But it is what is reprintable. How's that the one that plays that? It was amazing. As a senior, I know I only have a limited amount of opportunities left to play in the other shoe. So just running out of the tunnel, you know, I've never never said I'd take the game for granted. But knowing the only, the number of times I have to do that's wailing down kind of way to wait on me those first few games. And so just playing the game to the highest levels as fast as I can and just taking it all in in the moment.

5:09:46I have a few more Jackson's. A couple of weeks ago, some more entries that way in your mind. I love him. He's like what's in an audience and in the end. I think I was going to come back. Maybe it didn't. I mean, when it happened, I've been lying about it. I mean, I wouldn't take the route. He did obviously. But like, but like I was like, oh my gosh, like what happened? And there was a kind of a moment of like, okay, like how long is it going to take? And then everyone's like, it's I am trying to do like, we don't we don't know like everyone's body heals differently. So just trying to put good things in my body. So I heal as fast as I can and trying to get like, I have to rest doing everything to train. I've done it to do everything. Coach Brian, Coach Day told me to do to try to heal as fast as I can and give that on the field. Did you have any other moments of uncertainty? You definitely remember that. I remember when I was feeling differently.

5:10:46I was like, I don't know what I'm going to do. I'm going to put it in the back. I'm pretty feeling that but I think you know, you should have come back and as you move, you don't know what they are in the first place. And then you have to be with that. You don't know what's going to be like. Yeah, no, there were definitely moments of frustration. I'm not going to lie about that. But our training staff, you know, Stu, Suller, Sean, Tyler, Carl, Kelly, always gave one there. They told me to trust the plan. They said that they've seen this type of thing happen numerous times. And they know that it's going to take a lot of time. You're going to go into the back of the Lecule. And so it's, you know, thinking of it now, it's kind of funny. But in the moment, I was like, don't tell me that. But it's, you know, it is what it is. Yeah, no choice. What do you think of? Awesome. I think it played great. You know, it's a competitive excellence that we talk about here, you know, making plan, you know, was called and also some of us called and he didn't look fantastic job. So it's always great seeing young guys that sound old saying that, but awesome going out there and doing this thing.

5:11:49You know, we all know we could do it. There was not a doubt in my mind. He was going to go out there and show us. But it was great seeing 67. I'm going to be on your way to being his ear. You know, lean up in those games. Kind of a mean, you know, give him tips. What do you want college? Yeah, I know. I would, you know, make my voice known here and there, but he's already honest on his stuff. You know, I do like little new on things that I can't really like like if he does this, he might do this because learning from my mistakes. I was like, hey, like he can do this so you don't make the same mistake I do. But Austin's a fantastic athlete, you know, he's strong as not. And so he did fantastic doing what he does. Well, the key to you, he does much time between, you know, who's ever in your little malony and coming back because time heals all. I mean, it was it was that the thinking without our data to grasp it, sitting out with the maybe tough. In the long run, the right thing. Yeah, that was that was a difficult concept for me to grasp. You know, I've always been a stubborn kid. You know, my mom, but you know, patients, patients hasn't always been my thing.

5:12:50So when it happened, I was like, I'll be back in two weeks. And in two weeks, Canada, I was like, it's the hurts. But it was just, you know, trusting the process and only with the our, our chain of staff knows what they're doing. And they knew they're getting back on the field. And so now that I'm on the field, just keep on going. Yeah, 100% less. We have to feel happy. Feel great. God, what do you guys have a lot of experience on this line when you add a guy like set with that level of experience? How much does that help in that center position? When he has so much, you have to say, thank you for all. Yeah, you know, I'm very, very upset. You know, I'm upset is, I would say that the tip of the spear of our offense, I would say, they'll be like, if teams play us, they're not going to come out and exactly what we think they're going to do. Because that's just, you know, game plan. But set, set communicates throughout the entire, almost down to the snap count of what we have to do to make sure all guys on the same page. There'll be times where, well, in this cadence, and he like yells at me like, hey, we're going over here.

5:13:51And so I know that just follow what he says and then we're going to make a good play out of it. What do you make of rotation and hatred and off-shared, your experience in the guard? What are the pros and cons? Maybe you rotate the extra position? Well, it's a great question. I just play a left guard. I know that both guys are very talented and I know that when they're in the game, they're trying to prove themselves. So just having to convey the flag and guys getting after it. And as long as we move the ball and get to the end zone, I don't think anyone cares if they do it, doesn't it? All right. Not in the back, do you? Thanks a lot, guys. We definitely want to be more disruptive and get more sacks. But, you know, anyone's going to get to Ohio State. They get the ball out fast. They're not going to let us rush them because they know that it was going to happen.

5:14:52So, teams are just smart. They know not to hold the ball. They quick screens, quick passes. But if they hold the ball, it'll be a completely different story. It's frustrating, but it is what it is. We cut out half their game plan just by being explosive dealing with explosive deals. What light has come on for Ty Hamilton in the last couple of years? You know, you've been around him and stuff. What's different about him is approach, etc. I'll say Ty is definitely more of a leader now. He leads the whole D-line, the whole interior. He's that head guy who goes if you need advice for anything. He leads as a great example for the young guys. Yeah, he's almost like this silent partner a little bit. You know, but he last year especially, he's seen you being in the right place at the right time along. That's not a trick. I mean, what do you call that maturity? Why would you call him? I'll say it's just his dedication to the game. He takes things serious, the way he's in the way he's in the right place.

5:15:52His diet, his everything. He's top of the notch on recovery. Yeah, everything you need is a player. And then for you, what's the difference about you three years ago? I mean, right now, as you get right to this season, obviously you want to stay healthy. You can do things like that. Where are you better as a player? I'm not trying to be like a big headed, but I think I've taken a big step since last year. And, you know, I think the whole line has it and I'm just ready to show it next Saturday. Yeah, and how much you over this deal? Is it veterans across the floor? I mean, where are you all going to be known for? I think we're going to be the most disruptive group in the nation. And yeah. I think what Jay has talked about, the public system, exactly what I'm saying. What do you see in your battles with Steph? I said, definitely knows what he's doing. He has a high IQ, you know, strong. Like he's not like a pusher or nothing like that. He's a great player. I'm glad we got him.

5:16:52How do you kind of see him lead that line? Is it better to come in on that experience? I mean, I say he knows what's going on. He tells other people what's going on. If you don't know the play, ask him. He's kind of that guy. Like he knows everything. Strong, fast. I think we'll see what he's very good at. It's a big deal, but you know, it's good work. I think of the day I'm glad. Glad he's that guard. I think it's a better position for him. And you'll be a great guard in the future. Great. Last spring, I think we talked about the Josh Simmons. He thought the Mitchell Mountain has the leading team in the South Washington style. How would you describe the way it gets you to talk about it? Mitch is playing basketball on grass, is what Coach J. Colby. He has a unique style that cannot be reciprocated within anyone. He's a different athlete when it comes to things like this. Tell me, thank you.

5:17:52Hey, Mr. You just want to play that? Mr. Me too. Me too. Me too. Me too. I'm not going to stand here for a while. Last one, the right one. So just back to back here. It's easy out there. It's easy. It's easy coming back. Oh yeah, it's easy. Really easy. You know what's that? What was it like to back here? You were a good player. You were a good player. You were a good player. You were a good player. You know better football. You were a good player. They had big plans for you, right? Did you get your sense there? Yeah, I definitely saw some likeness to my ability to be a good player.

5:18:56So I definitely was excited to get into that position and do what I could do best. It's quite a best of my ability, but of course those things change. You never know what to expect. It's just a normal house. I can't wait to get a ride. We got to watch you excited. We're helping you watch your images. You should be playing on a Harlem, but you feel like that's Saturday during the springing situation. What did you go on really right? I think for the majority of the spring, I've been feeling more confident in myself and my meetings. Even with everything that's happening in the past, there's something to have. A lot to get from lots of people in the program. So I think that kind of showed us how to do it. Or I just might lose a little bit of the display because it's not going to be this one. You take time. I think it definitely took a second to just trust myself in that line. It's been helped me out in the best way. Obviously, but it's just very mental. I found just like every day. Just counteracting the fear or the doubt of my body's in the end.

5:19:57I think my mental area now is really different. Do you feel at home and be fit for that? What's that? You're here for that? I don't usually get in. I do feel at home. I think it's past two years. It's definitely been learning her, but I think now, whether or not I'm actually comfortable and learning about what I need to do and what I'm still saying, I need something to coach us. What it looks like for me to be the best possible version of myself in this position. It's going to be... I think the biggest thing in our group is leadership. We have a lot of guys like you said in our room. We've been battle-tested, so to speak. Especially coming up in this spring and in this fall, we just need to be the anchor. As if it's a unit and needs to show up every day. Damn it down.

5:20:57I don't know if it's going to happen. Especially with this new season, I'd expect that. You don't know until it happens. I'm just curious to see what's going on with this season. What is it that name you might get? All these old guys that came back and got on this spring bus. It's like a little brother-to-big brother to do. A lot of the guys who've been there, we just want to help out and bring along the younger guys. It's definitely a process at times, but I think the love we share in that room is very strong. And with that, I think it helps us get to anything and any challenges that we're coming up. Which maybe you already asked this season. That's what I was going to say. And then here, in the beginning at this point, you finally kind of maybe get that beautiful experience. It's a blessing.

5:21:57A lot of guys in my position have the same injuries as well. I came back. I'm just thankful that I'm here in the best university in the world and the best training staff. And they got me to this point where I can be back to Elfie and better than Elfie. Because I feel like I'm better than what I was. It was humbling, I think, as you're any one. For me, I just remember coming on how to say this is nothing but a dream. I had dreams of being the best version of myself doing all the things you know, the accolades. But then things happened. It took me about the surprise and the force, but I think it also gave me a lesson that I really needed. I needed to grow until better version of myself. I think the journey was needed and it was a blessing to me. Did you have the right question? You ever think about it? I can't do that, man. I love this sport too much to do that. I love the guys around me. I think that's the biggest thing that brought me back. It's just like, I can't do it to them. I know we have what we can be on the field. I'm going to do everything I can to get back on my field. You should like, I'm going to go to the next day.

5:22:59I'm just trying to go day by day. It's hard. That's what I find myself is always going to the future and thinking what I'm going to do this thing. The next day or the next day or the next day, but it's just like it's so overwhelming. It's like, gave me stress. I think for me, it's just worried about some of my other next days. It's like, it hurts for me. And then doing whatever I need to do and whatever. I'm just going to the sharpest and the best. I don't know if you can feel it. Well, that's the last season, I think. It was kind of hard to like trust it. Last season, but I still think my body was at a hundred percent of this. Thank you. Thank you. It's just a little bit of a great play. It's a nice little training for me. There you go. You've talked a lot about the common point of doing it. You've got to act a lot. I'm just going to do it a bit. How much do you want to do? I think what Tile E can do, you have to appreciate what Tile E can try to do the last season. In the middle, you can go back and on to bring those guys a great job of managing.

5:23:59And that's a little bit of a lot inside. So what you want to get out there, you're going to get past rest of it. So you don't want to take those guys off. You're not telling you, you're actually a basketball player. You're tied. You're going to get tied to rest of it.