Press Conferences (Devin Sanchez) Elite Edition September 3

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I'm at the bottom and I gotta get to the top.

What do you feel like it's gonna take for you to get from the bottom to the top?

You know, just discipline.

They're big on discipline here and you know, competitive and excellent.

So it's just staying consistent every day.

Just doing the right, having little to none, mental errors.

That's gonna give me on a sale.

And I do what I'm supposed to do.

That's gonna give me on sale.

How do you manage those expectations for people to think that you should be playing week one?

What is season comes around? How do you manage people?

You know, I don't really let it get to my head because I'm here.

I got dudes in the room that are like, I just think, you know, he's gonna be three years start.

I got to main personal American.

I'm playing here too.

So I can't let what people say on the net, you know, get to me because, you know, anybody can say, oh, he's gonna play this year.

But you know, I actually got to prove it.

So I just gotta come out here, you know, work, you know, and that spot.

What's the most important thing you've learned so far in your three months here?

Um, competing every day.

That's the biggest thing.

Having to compete, you know, these guys appear to be, they take winning and losing to heart.

So, you know, my first, my first week up here when we did our competitions, you know,

I was winning, then I actually, I got that first loss on my belt and, you know, it kind of opened my eyes to like, these guys take it to heart.

When they lose, they don't like it.

So, you know, I kind of got that now where I don't like losing.

You had the opportunity to be around the team for that, you know, CFP Ron.

What did you learn from Justbos few weeks seeing this team make that run?

You know, being real tight with your brothers, you know, they're real tight.

You know, they push each other, you know, it's a real brotherhood.

They don't let nobody down. They always got each other back.

So, I mean, it's a new team now. So, you know, we got to build that chemistry with each other, you know, just get tight.

And I feel like when I was there for that playoff running and I practiced, when they were at the National Championship, you know, I just got to watch, you know, how guys are, you know, real locked in.

They're close with each other.

They're not letting nobody slack off. And, you know, I feel like we had the opportunity to do that with this team now.

How did you handle losing?

You handle that first loss.

That first loss, you know, it kind of got to me. It was the IGB, you know, he, you know, he let me hear.

So, after that loss, I was like, nah, I can't let this happen anymore.

Because it's like, now it's not high school where you used 17, 16 years old. And if you lose, you lose.

The appearance is not. If you lose, the coach will see that.

So, and they're going to see how you respond to it.

So, I feel like I had to, you know, open my eyes, I had to go, going there and lock them, like, yeah, I can't let this happen anymore, you know.

So, I got to grow up and, you know, these guys are counting on me too.

So, it's really important that I don't lose.

If you had to describe yourself as a competitor, how would you do that?

I'm a great competitor, you know. I like winning.

Who does something like winning?

So, I mean, winning is, it's in my blood. You know, my parents taught me that at a young age, you know, going out there competing for anything that you want.

And I feel like if you can go out there and compete for it, you know, it's yours.

And if you can compete for it all the time, who's going to take it from me?

So, I mean, I'm a good competitor. I'm always going to go out there and try to take what's mine and if it's out there, then anybody can have it.

And I'm going to be the one who's going to get it.

There's some role markers in your room, obviously. Are you a talker? What would your natural resources be?

Yeah, I mean, it could come out on me, you know.

But I don't really, I'm really in my game through the talker for this part.

But, you know, if it gets there, it gets to that point where, yeah, I can bring it out.

Because, you know, regardless, I'm not just going to let nobody just come out here and just, you know, catch balls on me.

If I'm having a good day when I'm consistently getting TVUs, yeah, I'm going to talk.

But, you know, being in that room, you kind of got to talk, you know, the Jermaine, you got IGD, you know, those real talkers in that room.

So, it kind of makes you want to bring it out. And, you know, when you bring that out, that just brings energy out of the whole defense.

And when you got the whole defense clicking, I mean, you can see what's happening.

Is there anyone that's kind of a competition you're at?

It was during the winter. We were doing, you know, just stuff on the field.

So, we were just, just having the time of the field. Just a lot of competitions.

So, I mean, he just kind of, it was a day where, you know, they had us going up against just the freshmen.

And then they kind of threw us in there and fired against the older guys.

So, we had to, you know, we had to wake up and, you know, we all kind of lost.

And it all kind of, like, we all kind of can't get that professional group like, what are we going to do about this?

Because, you know, some of their kind of less to step up in those roads.

Yeah, definitely, definitely, definitely, definitely my work on college moments.

You know, just showing that, you know, it's real now, a middle-high-ostate.

I'm not in Houston, Texas, no more in my school. Far from my family.

You know, I got to wake up, I got to grow, I got to mature fast.

And, you know, I just got to get ready for the next level.

You've mentioned high school a couple of times.

How did, you know, grow it up there in Texas, playing at that level.

How do you feel like that helped you prepare for Ohio State?

I still like you prepare good, you know. I feel like I went to a powerhouse in Texas.

We obviously ran the Houston area.

You know, we've been running the Houston area for a long time now.

And I feel like, you know, we're a real college program.

We live just like these guys who do the same lifts.

You know, the level of ball I play, the highest level of ball in Texas, 6A.

You know, we're going against guys like Dunkin' Bill,

North Carolina, those top schools, you know, receive it to Coyne and where I go against him.

I want to get some three times in my career.

So, I mean, those that really prepared me for this level, you know, coming in like,

okay, this is not where it's a little school where, oh, they don't believe that I can come here and make an impact.

I came from big schools, so they're counting on me to make an impact.

Because, you know, I think, I mean, everybody would say Texas is one of the highest player bars in the country.

You know, it goes us floated in the probably Georgia.

So, I mean, they're counting on me to be ready and that level of ball prepared me real, real well.

How'd you do against Coyne?

You know, it was when lose, when lose.

You know, I went some, he lost some.

So, I mean, it's just getting better on shot and higher.

Because, you know, he's the top receiver, obviously, in our class.

You know, I feel like he's going to have a good impact at the audience.

So, I mean, it's just, it's just, it's just, just, just, you know, what's going to happen next.

Looking forward to seeing him again?

Yeah, definitely, definitely.

And you know, I plan on planning against him.

We don't, we want to see him this year.

Hopefully, we see him in the big ten championships.

So, you know, I want that rematch, you know.

Devan, you committed super early in the process six months after that.

You shut things down when, quite frankly, someone of your caliber didn't have to do that.

You could have, you've seen kids play the game a little bit longer than that.

But you chose to not do that.

Just kind of lock it here.

Why?

You know, because this was, this was, this was what I felt, this was home.

You know, I didn't really feel like, you know, standing Texas was a good thing for me.

I didn't, I didn't feel like that was home for me.

Up here, I just felt like it was home.

You know, because of law and because they, you know, they're making it, you know,

making me feel important up here.

And then, you know, like you could ask, because what, how many times I came up here,

do I, my high school career, I came up here 13 times.

So, it got to the point where I was knowing the guys on the team.

I had the numbers to fight that.

When I come up here, you know, I don't got to always build the coaches.

I can go chill with something that guys on the team.

So, it was just, just me, you know, knowing what I want to put in my college ball at,

you know, knowing where I felt like it was home and then, you know,

it was also my parents too, you know.

My mom being, you know, feeling safe that, you know,

I'm up here, you know, I'm handling the business and not having to worry about me.

And she goes to sleep.

Right.

You get on the roll and that's the end of the game.

Defense is more sound and those guys are more stiff as far as giving up yards.

And as the game goes, it's like, okay, guys are softening up.

So, I just keep running it.

But you kind of see it, especially right now.

What do you see from Indiana's defensive front?

That's the strength of their team.

Yeah, undefeated team right now.

I think, more so sound and, you know, those guys are super disciplined.

They like, they want to give up yards.

So, that's our job to go out there and make a good deal.

We talked to Trey last week about just kind of how fresh he felt.

How about you, obviously?

Have you worked with the last couple of years?

Yeah, man.

I think right now, you know, I felt the best ever.

But like, especially mentally and physically, I feel great.

And just having a great group of guys around me to go out there and try to go win it all.

So, you know, having Trey around as well, he's been sent to Asset to this team.

And, you know, just supporting each other throughout this whole year.

And just trying to go win it all.

Which I'm going to expect the offensive line to pick up where it left off.

Obviously losing, Asset is a huge blow and stuff.

What have you noticed like today from the Asprey to Cobra that group?

Yeah, I don't know there's anything out of the ordinary.

Whoever steps in, those guys are going to execute.

So, I don't have any doubts of anybody.

I don't know how far the line I know.

I know they're going and execute and play their best.

Thank you.

Thank you, guys.

We got a couple of wins.

So, I was really that next level step of competitiveness that I needed.

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That Murphy 2474, you met the...

You guys came into the Tennessee game with a lot of outside motivation,

with Michigan Boss and kind of the three weeks of the talk.

I know obviously there's still that motivation to go on and win a national championship,

but how do you keep that kind of edge for lack of better term mentally after some of that stuff has kind of gone away,

probably the big one?

I would say, kind of if you lose your edge, I wouldn't really call you a true competitor.

I think that, you know, the way with the college football playoffs is structured,

the intensity cranks every single week.

So, if you're not more intense than you were the last week, then something's wrong with you.

I think that Tennessee was a great win, great for our momentum,

but we have our full focus on Oregon, not worrying about anything in the past,

nothing in the future, our full focus towards this game.

And then, you know, we win this one, we go on to the next one,

our full focus is going to be on that one.

So, it's just, you keep moving down a ladder like this.

Step on Christy, please let me know.

Michael, there's been a lot of change in college football in the playoffs and things of that nature,

but the way is some of you and some of your teammates and coaches talk about the Rose Bowl,

seems like that's one game that's really maintained a lot of that tradition.

You play it in it, you know, what it's about.

Could you explain it to, you know, also you would never have a chance to play it in why the Rose Bowl

does maintain, you know, that level of respect for players and coaches?

Yeah, I think, I don't know, there's just something about it,

something in the air down there in Pasadena.

It's just a beautiful venue, especially that time of the year.

Like you said, the tradition is held year in and year out.

And it's kind of the game you dream of playing in when you're a little kid,

you know, playing back yard football with your friends.

The role of the role is always one that tends to come up,

so just having a chance to play in it is definitely very surreal.

And this is going to be my second time, so I'm going to do my best to take it all in

while also being fully focused on organ.

Dan, let me worry.

Matthew Will, said he still has nine minutes about bad first game in organ.

What kind of drive you seem to him this week wanting to get back at this one?

Yeah, Will is, he's a laser focused person.

He goes about his business.

He's very loose and he's very calm and he's able to rally the team.

But you can see it in his eyes that this game means everything is going to be fine.

And this game means everything to him.

So every single practice, every single huddle, making sure we're sharp,

making sure we have a better practice than we had last than yesterday,

a better practice in organs having.

So his full focus is on being this team.

And obviously it's hard not to think about the stuff of the past,

but I know he's laser focused on what we got coming up.

Tony Gervin, fuck I have.

Matthew, when you're a kid playing back yard doing what team we played for?

Honestly, I wasn't, I was never really a, a buck I fan until, you know,

I really committed here and I saw what it was all about.

I was actually an organ fan growing up, especially on the Pacific Northwest.

You know, my grandpa went to UW and stuff like that.

So I like the Huskies too, but there was a legendary football player named Foto Liatto

from my high school and he went to organ.

And a couple of y'all probably know that story.

So I'm a couple of years back, but he tragically died in the car accident.

And, you know, he was, he was someone I looked up to in high school.

You know, I was relatively close with him even though he was a bit older than me in age.

But I'm just seeing what he did at my high school and then going on to play big time football

organ. That was a school that I really dreamed of going to.

Let's see Bill Vell, what's this about?

I think actually another Jeremiah question.

Is there one moment, one play, one something that made you visco.

Oh man, I've never seen that before. That's just incredible.

Yeah, I'll say it's happened multiple times.

There's not really one. I can pinpoint, but the more he does it, the more I tend to react less.

So I would say probably my earliest memories of it were in spring ball.

Kind of getting the first glimpse of him when he's making all these ridiculous catches.

And he still does it time and time again, even now.

But it's just more common now for me.

Bill Landon, one of the things that came from the North.

I think you had, I think, was 12 touches in the first game against Oregon 10 receptions.

Two carries. Is there something about this matchup that favors you?

And now that you have, where that productive, the first time you played this team,

what kind of attention? I guess maybe different defenses. Are you expecting to see?

Yeah, I mean, we're not entirely sure what their gameplay is going to be, but we're paired for everything.

You know, I'm not going to get too much into scheming stuff like that.

But we know that if the ball comes our way, we've got to make those plays.

So whether I have 10 receptions again coming up this game where I have zero or one,

we're just looking to get this win on the road because it's really a road game for us,

you know, flying across two times zones.

So I think that, you know, it's going to be a great matchup, but they tend to focus on me more.

Or not, it doesn't really matter to me because I know our team has a great playing regardless.

That time for a couple more questions, Spencer, over a letterman role.

You guys ever surprised when we were game end?

You look at the strategy card, also, we got to put the water to your hands.

You can kind of feel it throughout the game, I would say.

You know, he's a true competitor.

He wants to get involved, but at the same time he's super selfless.

He's really humble. So he's going to do whatever it takes for the team to get a win.

But it's the competitor nature and that wants to, you know, contribute as much as he can.

So, you know, I try to be in his ear to tell him to be level head and stuff like that.

Not that I need to. He's a very level headed and selfless guy like I'm saying.

But, you know, sometimes I just how the game goes.

You know, I had a game this year where I only had one catch.

But, you know, we ended up winning by lot.

So, I think that, you know, it's hard or it's easy to be focused on the personal attributes

that you could have game in and game out.

But no one's really going to remember those if we're holding up the trophy at the end of the year.

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He can be a number one.

I think 95% of CalShe's right now, but he's like number three.

When you see his work that they call those things that he goes in there, makes a play.

And you guys ever come behind him like, yeah, this guy can absolutely be a number one on the most CalShe's.

I would disagree with you.

I think that he is a number one.

I think that we don't have a number three receiver.

I think we have three number one receivers out there.

So whatever the defense, you know, if they want to put their attention on one guy or a couple of us,

they're not really doing their selves any favor because we're going to have a favor will match up on the other side of the ball.

So that's never how we view ourselves.

We know we're alpha dogs out there every single one of us knows we have the capabilities to be a number one receiver.

And we are number one receivers.

And final question.

Steve, how long are you going to be 24 hours of sports?

Yeah, mech at the end of that game, he made one of the clutch plays that passed down the sideline.

At any time when you make that play, you think, did you ever, your mind that we're going to win this game after we were now close to field goal range.

I mean, did that play in your mind, say, my goodness, we got a chance to get out of here with the win.

Yeah, I definitely knew where I caught the ball and I knew we were, you know, closer being in field goal range.

So, you know, there was a sense of, you know, I knew I knew was a big play that I made.

But in those moments, you have to finish out the game no matter what you can't get a big head, you can't get complacent, you have to finish the game until the clock hits zero.

So that's something we've been working on, you know, we work on two minute every single Wednesday, every single Wednesday practice.

So today we'll work on our two minute and we don't even call it two minute.

We call it clutch because in those time, in those games, in those big moments, someone has to make a clutch play.

So we're focusing on that every single game, knowing that we're going to have to make one of those plays coming down the stretch here.

What would it mean if you're able to finish this one off and get to the final four of this playoff?

Just what in your mind just, would this be, you know, just the ultimate, I suppose, to be a team that's already beaten earlier this year?

No, I think the ultimate would be winning the national championship.

So, you know, we're focused on this.

This just happens to be the next team in the way. We're not focused on, when we played them earlier this year, whether they got the win over us, they're just a nameless, faceless opponent.

So we're going out there fully prepared, not worried about what's happening in the past.

You know, we played them before, we felt them out. So it's all about who got better from that point in time until now.

A matter of thank you for your time.

Thank you.

Prior to when I got there, so I just got to give you the message of being finished on that.

So what was it about a high state staff that may be correlated between what you were going into with Alabama that you felt you could transition over here?

I felt like there was a really good quarterback development here.

Coach Day, Craig quarterback Westberg, you know, the quarterbacks they've had just the past five years shown.

They've kind of great numbers and I've just played on things the right way and I've wanted to come this offense because by hand, because my coach Kelly, you know, making just the line.

Staff it.

Staff it.

Staff it.

I had been in much contact with them.

They weren't really a, I didn't know that stuff.

Really, one of the things that Coach Day says is that you don't like to have your hands held.

You know, you played up an age a lot of time.

What is it about you to drive you to want that much?

I would say, you know, in high school, I had a coach that, you know, he was giving me a lot of responsibility and I he would, you know, cut a lot of, not a responsibility.

I mean, make, make, make, make, and so on.

And so I just, you know, I want to be the best player that he can be and take, take the need with you.

Do things the right way and just, just do things the right way.

I love watching Joe Barrow. He makes that adjustment line. He's a really good decision maker.

I like Justin Herbert, and I charge his hands and I watch him play on some of those guys in the middle of the phone.

You know, give us your makers who make these mistakes.

I would say I live in North Florida. I'm working on the Michael's side.

You know, I can't stay in trying to get the people to be more, but I'm welcoming you right there with the guys that are doing my work.

I can't be a weird friend.

I can't do a good job.

Definitely, definitely quite confidence. Definitely confident in your ability to play.

I know a lot of people have to play.

I actually, I think I've only been here once in a few months now, since I love them.

Really good to be places to be, hang out with friends, about a second.

I think I've visited maybe freshman and sophomore year.

Yeah, just for the camper and visit just the super-synomy.

It was really good that I really loved that.

I know it was only a few days, but being in the Alabama program, especially as they prepared for ballpoint upfront,

what did you take away from that short period of time in the course?

Yeah, it was really good with the coach of recent give-save and they were coaching players hard.

I saw the work that takes you to the playoffs and then coming here to see the older guys putting their work in the winter.

I see all the other leaders putting their work in and showing them how it takes.

How much of a relationship did you have with Aaron, obviously?

He had been committed.

You come in, you're 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.

We've been coming in here, the quarterback room, everyone here is really close.

We're all pushing each other to be better.

We're all taking push points from each other trying to be better.

Coach, you're trying to make a few fights to fight.

I'm just expecting you to fight for the fight.

I would say we are a cop, I surprise.

Come back from the game and it was a little bit high-spirits because of the team journey.

It was high-priced.

How did you feel when that happened?

Did you have any questions or any of your assignments?

I was a freshman, I had to try to go all back.

There was definitely a lot of emotions, but I might be leaning on helping me through it.

I was able to make the right decision.

I'm not thinking of a little bit of a combination of that.

I have a true question.

What do you think is the best way to make sure you're on the ground?

I can't really explain how that happened.

I'm just trying to develop and take push for coach day.

I can have a great quarter-night risk.

I take push for coach Kelly.

I just want to develop and run the offense when they want it.

I take push for coach and try to come out and make it.

Did you look at your face at push for break?

I think that I can be a really good decision maker.

I think that's the kind of a lot of things.

I was always around football.

My bow was a quarterback at Penn.

He used to call it back in the eighth and I was at Penn.

So I've always been around football.

I just been at other office in Paisquare.

I think I was a quarterback.

I was a quarterback at Penn.

I was a quarterback at Penn.

I used to call it back in the eighth and I was a high school.

I just went to that school.

I've always been around football.

I just been at other office in Paisquare.

I just had it on my back.

Who do you want more?

Who's your favorite Tayden?

Packer.

Who's the saying?

I have a taste of fire.

I'm a type of person.

I'm a type of person.

I just never like you.

He's certainly making a case to get on the field this fall.

So I think it's been a really good spring for CJ.

There's always, whenever you have a good day,

you've got to follow it up by another good day.

You know, and stack days.

That's what a pro does.

You want to be a pro.

You've got to keep stacking.

That's the expectation.

He's had some really good days and then he's had some days where you're trying to push him a little bit.

I think CJ, where he is now compared to where he was last fall,

he's a lot better football player.

You've heard a lot of good things about a lot of business here.

So far, I was hearing going down the gate hours, our buddies.

Are you envisioning right now that you want this to be a five, six person operation?

Yeah, well, I think Coach Day's talked about it a lot, right?

It's gonna be a long season.

And so I think we need to have,

I've always been on the opinion, if you have two guys, you have two guys.

When you ride with them, right?

If you have six, you have six, and I have to blessing.

So I would say right now we're probably at five.

That I would feel confident rotating out there on the field.

And look, I'm old school, right?

So I come from the era, I used to yell at Luke Pickle with you taking out.

Oh, I get so mad.

I get some, maybe 42, whatever against young style state.

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?

The ones that you're judged off of, when you get to the game, are we healthier?

And I think that's, it's kind of a both, a both-hand, right?

So I feel confident with five guys, and that's gonna be a week to week.

You know what I mean?

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,

and 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 what I mean?

Just because you started last week.

So I think it's gotta be that iron sharpens, iron constant competition through the whole fall.

That is something that James Dornis would be doing in the player kind of a dream,

as he just alluded to, but is that part of which one has to drive you then?

Was it, was it driving you then?

Then you just assumed that was kind of the case when you played anyway.

I, I always felt when I was here that they were trying to out-and-recute me,

which is the reality, right?

Yep.

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 used 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 fit to happen to them that can happen to me?

So I just tried 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 loves.

If you loaf on the field, you're a traitor.

Like, you should just go play for the other team.

Like, 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 have the player who was like,

all right, 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 every single day.

What's the next step that you're going to be doing straight this year?

I think it's just seeing, you know, we haven't done like any of my series.

You know what I mean?

So we know you 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 a well backer.

So the next time he sees it, maybe a throw catch tackle is at the intersection.

You know what I mean?

Because he's seen it from that perspective.

Everything he's seen before this has been from top down off the shelf, right?

So now it's dropping back, settling, striving.

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 we can't talk about specific recruits, but just overall,

how do you feel like that's going and are you enjoying your feeding?

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, and maybe she's 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.

And 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 stepped already talking about the long season and the need to play more now?

Well, I think, yeah, you're going to have to have depth.

That's just a reality, right?

If the longer season there's more games.

And there's no excuse to have placed like here, like if you're all playing with a maybe a guy who was third or fourth, that doesn't matter.

You know, like you got to be ready to go.

So I think depth is crucial at all of the vision.

Because 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 than you were.

How do you, how do you marry that when they made that at the same mentality that you need and 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 to 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 because when they crave football, then the other stuff will take care of itself, right?

And they'll just keep getting better and better and better if they want to be the best.

Two more questions for Dave.

Yeah, that's I mean, I think that's your job as recruiters.

You got to figure out what's the mindset of the kids and are they 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 they had a felt they do the same thing, right?

Now they're attending the massive about the money and they're saying, okay, we're going to give this person money as a change their motivation.

Or they still love ball. So now it means and college is 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 tell a little bit of the elevation from our bell from end of the class.

Obviously, missing time last year with the injury, but where he's at now versus the expectation that you had to move this way.

Our bell is, I mean, shown a lot of progress.

You know, most importantly, you know, mentally with the playbook and everything.

I think our bell last year, there was a couple things, right?

Because of injuries on the D line and camp.

You know, he moved to 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, you know, 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 he's a special athlete. And so our bell has had a good spring.

You've 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 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 probably make sure he's put my foot back.

And I think it's still comes down for the most part.

Like 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 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, I might be the thing that's going to be the most important thing.

It's always a factor.

But I think you still just need to find out who the kids that love football and they want to be developed.

And I think that kids on the L 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.

So 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 time to leave here, you know, and then you have the question,

I get a ton of, 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 advantage.

I mean, let me even work, you know, and kick off and punch teams as well as look down to the like 40 or 30.

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, in 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 a linebacker, 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.

That sense of team when you're in special teams that we every position matters.

If you're curious if someone has been a VNFL, what do you think?

What VNFL is doing to kick off now?

Do you think that's even good for college?

I mean, the thing that states it takes away like the surprise on side, you know what I mean?

But all these rules are changing so much for the safety of the game.

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.

Thanks, guys.

You're welcome.

Have a good day.

Thanks.

Have a good day.

Have a good day.

Have a good day.

Have a good day.

Thanks, guys.

You're welcome.

I think when you go into a game like this, one of the most important things is to avoid distractions.

So I'm letting my wife handle that right now, which is a lot.

But, you know, the number one thing for us right now is focusing on this game.

And so I said that to our team that we have to avoid all distractions right now.

We have a lot of family, a lot of friends, a lot of people who certainly want to come to the game.

And obviously those things need to get taken care of.

But ultimately, we have to do our job.

They're all there to see us.

And that's what we're going to focus on.

So, no, it's an opportunity, obviously, to be on stage and finish our mission.

But we have to make sure we avoid all distractions.

It just makes me realize I've grown up a lot since then.

I'm not going to be able to do that.

You know, again, I feel like our guys are men.

We have 145 guys on the team right now, which is, you know, when you, when you hear it,

it just kind of blows you away.

You have that many guys and everybody's job on the team.

And that includes coaches and staff is not to be a distraction to the other player as they prepare.

But also just in general, you know, avoiding distractions for the, for yourself in terms of your, your focus.

And so, when you, you know, the question right there about tickets and all the different things or some of the stuff that, you know, the stories that are written, you know, talking about, you know, previous years or previous games or things that make it has nothing to do with what's going on in this game.

And just being focused on this game and how we execute.

And that's been a message without overdoing it.

But our guys understand what the message is. And I believe they're locked in.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Well, I know that we need everybody.

So, you know, former players, you know, people who are going to be at the game and having a great presence in Mercedes-Benz stadium and being allowed.

Yeah, we'll need them.

So, we're playing for them.

You know, people who are back home in their living rooms, whether it's back in Ohio or, you know, in another country or across the country, you know, just set in great energy.

Our guys feel all that.

So, you know, we're playing for everybody.

It was pulling to be a buck guy.

We're playing for a buck guy nation for sure.

We're also playing, you know, for each other.

And for this team.

And that's it.

I'm not going to get too far into that right now, but that's it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

He's like family.

He is, you know, being the first really commit and guy who recruited the other guys, especially on defense, but also on offense.

He just, he was a leader from the jump.

And being a buck guy meant even more to him growing up in Columbus and Pickering, Tino, Ohio is family of just great people.

This is a guy who overcame some things.

He just didn't come in his freshman year and dominate, leaving three years and going to the NFL to be a first round draft pick.

I mean, this is a guy who, again, I say it all the time, you know, where's a hard hat to work every day, brings his lunchpale to work, and has the respect of his teammates.

And, you know, you're seeing his play, do his talking, talking this year.

So, I know who he wants to play at his best, this, this game.

Being a captain, you know, again, you know, in August having his teammates vote him in was a big deal for him.

It was an emotional moment.

And, you know, winning some of these games has really built him.

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We're more confidence in knowing that this is what he wants.

You know, he wants to win a national championship more than anything.

And that I think represents our entire team.

I just think that this year with the 12 team playoff, it's just been a little bit different.

And there's a lot.

Everyone has their own story.

And there's a lot of great teams out there.

And you know, a lot of things come into play when you make a run like this.

Injuries and just different things.

So we'll look at it at the end of the year and figure out, you know, the adjustments that need to be made.

I think internally.

But I also think that, you know, we all need to look at, you know, how this is playing.

And what this means, you know, playing 16 games.

I think it's a great learning opportunity to see what that what that's going to look like moving forward.

But I know it's been exciting for college football and for their fans.

Yeah, I think they do a great job on offense.

Coach Dembrox done a great job wherever he's been.

Riley Leonard's an excellent leader.

Jeremiah Love is one of the most talented backs we've gone against.

And they have a very good offense align.

The heavens is really good at tight end.

They have multiple tight ends.

Receivers are our weapons.

So, you know, they're going to, they're going to challenge us in a lot of different areas.

And so we have to play big 10 football.

And that's what it's going to look like.

And, you know, every play matters when you play in a game like this.

And certainly against this team, it'll be the same way.

Yeah, I think we built.

We say this in all the time is that, you know, when you have momentum, you got to keep it.

When you don't, you got to go get it.

And, you know, we didn't have momentum at the end of the season.

We had to create our own momentum.

And then we started to build some momentum.

And now we have to keep it.

But I think the ability for our guys to sustain throughout the season has been significant here.

And now it's going to be the best.

It's got to ramp up.

And again, the goal was to play our best game and to finish the mission.

But we talked early in the season about building a foundation for down the road.

And just like anything else, you build a foundation of a building.

When storms come, it has to withstand those storms.

But now we've got to finish.

We've got to finish what we started.

And that's it.

I think, again, there'll be time to reflect on some of those things after the game.

Right now, we're just going to continue to look at Monday night and play in our best game.

You know, it's been enjoyable to be able to start it off with the home game against Tennessee.

And then one of the roads to the Rose Bowl to LA.

That was an experience.

And then, you know, so went through that and then went down to Texas.

And played Texas in Texas, which was very much like a road game.

And so now we're into Atlanta.

And we have a lot of guys on our team from the Atlanta area, from the southeast.

So for a lot of these guys, it's like coming home.

So that's exciting.

But it's allowed, you know, our families and team to kind of be on a road together for the last, you know, month.

But we just like, I kind of say like we're like train rats.

We just come to work and figure out what the next mission is to get back to work that way.

You know, that's generally what it is.

And every once in a while, you've got to come up for air and realize that, you know, it has been a great run.

And, but now we got to finish it.

And so, you know, every once in a while, you take a step back, but then you get refocused on what matters.

But to your point, it's about everybody.

And certainly it all starts with the players and what they do.

And I think that, you know, our energy has continued to grow.

I think, you know, we talk about like the mental fatigue.

I just don't see that with our guys.

I think there's, it's only increased. The energy has increased.

The focus has increased.

I think our team is fresh right now.

You know, I think, you know, if you had to, we could continue to play for a few more weeks.

But, but that just shows you the experience, the maturity, the depth that we have.

And I think that's all important.

But, but we're not going to play anymore.

We got one more left.

And it's going to be our best.

See that again?

Yeah, yeah, we have. We have.

And, you know, excellent football players with, you know, just great focus on family.

And, you know, just, you can see how important relationships matter.

And, you know, when you have an opportunity to recruit families and get into their homes,

you got to feel for what that's like at home.

And, and you can certainly see how, you know, in the Haitian community, family matters, relationships matter.

So that when you bring somebody into your family and the football family, you know, they grab on to the culture.

And, and it's been a huge asset to our team.

Say it one more time.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Oh, I got you.

Oh, yeah, we're kind of, I guess that that transition has been happening the last few years, but you can see obviously this year.

It's really accelerated.

And the thing that's hit me is that, you know, we're.

We're in the middle to late January.

We're still playing.

You know, some teams are, you know, starting spring ball in another week or so.

And so it's just very, very different.

I think it's all things that we have to learn from when we assess what's going on.

But it's been hard to take a step back and look at anything because, you know, you know, you have a short period of time to get back and win the next game.

And like every single ounce of your energy has to be to go win the next game.

And then you wake up and you realize you're on to the next one.

And so we're not there right now, but I know after the season, you got to wake up.

What just happened, you know, and then we'll try to assess it the best we can and make it better.

I know there's a lot of things that we can do to make this all better.

And I know institutionally we'll continue to make those adjustments.

Like you said, and do things the way we've done before, but also adjust.

But also, you know, I think in college football, we need to look and see how we can make this even better as it's gone on because every year it has gotten better.

And I think it's great right now, but man, when you think about the potential and what it can be for the players and these teams, it's pretty extraordinary.

Oh, yeah, that's it.

That's it.

That's it.

I think our strength coach, Mick Morati really, you know, symbolizes kind of what that means.

You know, he has this old school work ethic, you know, because the line's still the line and the cone still the cone.

You still got to have your foot behind the line.

You still got to run through the cone plus two.

But there's so many other things now.

There's sports science.

There's GPS.

There's a longer season.

And so having to be able to adapt with those times is important.

And I think it's the same way with our program and how we run things.

And the tradition is not going to change Ohio State.

And that's one of the reasons why these guys come here.

It's one of the things we sell and recruiting.

You know, is that, you know, just over a hundred years of football and the great teams and players that have come before and what the expectation and, you know, we have an obligation to be the best in a world of what we do.

And that's the expectation, whether you're a player or coach and we own that.

We absolutely embrace that and, but then also adjusting with the times.

And now we have a new playoff system in place.

But all that being said, here we are.

A couple more days before the game.

And we've got a chance to finish our season and finish the mission.

And then again, cement ourselves in the history of Ohio State football as the 19th to win an national championship.

And the third in over 50 years.

A lot of good teams along the way.

And that's been a message to our guys.

And it's not about how you start.

It's how you finish.

I try not to get too much into those nostalgic thoughts because it's just it's a distraction.

And there when you're in a game like this, it's easy to easy to get distracted players and coaches.

So what matters is what we do on Monday night.

How we execute, how hard we play.

And that's it.

And then after the game, I think there's a great opportunity to sit back and think about all those types of things.

But yeah, there's a lot that I could probably go into if we were to sit back and talk about what Monday night means.

But, but ultimately we have to we have to go win the game.

And that's it right now.

So 48 hours out.

I know a lot of people want to talk about different things.

And I think that's why I'm focused on executing at a high, high level.

Everybody doing their job.

And find a way to win the game in the fourth quarter.

And that's it.

I think, you know, in life, you know, you have to work through tough times.

And it's how you respond to those tough times.

And that's it.

And that's been the message all along to our players.

And it's not always how how things happen in your life.

It's how you respond.

And I think our guys have learned a lot about that.

And I again, I said this before.

I think there's some great stories to be told about, you know,

what went on behind behind closed doors and, you know, some of the things that were said and, you know,

the personal challenges that we had for each other and, you know, collectively the story.

But the only way that gets told is if a banner gets put up in a hoodie.

And that's it.

And that's the sobering reality of this game that nobody cares about what you go through.

And you got to win that final one to finish the mission.

And so that's it for our guys.

And, you know, as much as some of these, these wins have been great wins for us.

You know, to me, you know, it's about winning this final game.

And so all that being said, I think our guys have learned a lot about life over the last month.

I think it's been a tight group.

We've seen the good, the bad and the ugly.

And it's a special group of guys that care a lot about each other.

And they're going to go on to be very, very successful moving forward because they're strong.

They're loyal.

And they're very mature.

You're going to see, you know, 10, 20, 30 years down the road.

These guys make an unbelievable impact not only on their families, but in the community and in the game of football.

Yeah, it's it's football.

And, you know, I said to my wife all the time, like that's, we signed up for it.

And, you know, it's the highest of highs and the lowest of lows.

This game will take you to knees and give you some of the greatest experiences in the world.

And that's it.

You know, not a lot of people get to experience those, those highs and lows.

And you have to manage the tough times and you got to enjoy the good ones.

And that's it.

And, you know, the more you're in this game, the more you're going to realize that.

And that's it.

And those are opportunities to show strength.

And that's it.

So, you know, we're counting on that to make a difference on Monday night.

Yeah, you got it.

Yeah, that's it.

So, you know, I have a question.

I'm going to say that this is a great example for the younger groups.

One of the good things about having 145 guys on the roster is some of these new freshmen and,

and transfers that are coming in get to see what it's supposed to look like.

Get the C great leadership.

If this wasn't the case, they wouldn't have an opportunity to see what, you know,

a mecca book is like Wil Howard, Travian Henderson, Lathen Ransom,

Denzel Burke, you know, go through the list Cody Simon.

Not only for one week, but several weeks.

And these guys are, they're men, they are.

And the way that they go about their business, not only they love being Ohio State Buckais,

but they love their teammates and all those things matter.

And so, again, they want to play their best game here and finish themselves and cement themselves.

So that, you know, when they come back, they can see that banner up there and you have a big,

little ring to show for it.

So, that's it.

So we'll get back to the hotel here, get back to work, get to these meetings and focus on what matters right now.

Yeah, hard to put in the words what a mecca is meant to this team or to me or to my family or to Ohio State.

It started when he first got here.

He had a different look in his eye. He's extremely competitive.

No jobs too small for a mecca.

He's selfless. He's really made it unbelievable strides in his life, but also just in his faith.

And, you know, when he speaks, people listen, he's very well thought out.

He said, I don't have a conversation with a mecca book or you're going to walk away extremely impressed.

And, but then when you talk about his play on the field, he's made a lot of great plays.

He's been very clutch. He's been very consistent.

And this is a guy I know who wants to finish his fish his career out with a great game Monday night.

I think when you're when you're starting out this season and you're putting a roster together, you have to start from this game and move back.

And, and I think when when that happens, you have to build a team.

I think now the big 10 has allowed us to do that with with the addition of some different styles of play on the west coast.

And then certainly the traditional big 10 play.

It's a combination of being able to get big and strong and heavy and stop the run and run the football when it matters, but also being a spread out game where you can be in a little bit of a track meet and have the skill to play with anybody in the country.

I think that's the combination that you need to have.

And that's the goal every year to do that.

You know, when you when you need to go get that yard, you get that yard.

And when it's time to get that stop, you got to get that stop, but also having the skill to be able to run with everybody in the country.

And that's that's how we start. And then as the season goes on, we look to identify the areas where we have to get better or whatever that might be.

But I think it all starts in the off season with our off season program and what Mick Morati does.

And I think our off season program when and I know it now because when I see players come from other teams, that's you get great feedback.

You know, you get you know, guys who come in from different programs and say, you know, talk to me about what your program is compared to our program off season during the season, all that.

It really gives me confidence knowing we're doing the right things.

I think every year you learn and I think, you know, to be to be, you know, to be honest, I think, you know, every year I learn and grow and figure out what needs to be done to get it fixed and identify the issues and be honest and call it out for what it is and get it fixed and get it addressed.

So what leaders do and you know, they look out in the horizon, see what's coming because the soldiers are fighting right in front of you.

And that's what they are. And so what's coming down the road and then obviously what areas need to get addressed and get fixed.

And I always starts with, you know, who's in the right seats, you know, players, coaches and staff making sure that's organized and then building it from there.

And so every year you grow to try to get better and then, you know, identify it the next year and move on from there and keep growing.

And we all have to continue to learn and I think, you know, I've done that as well.

Yep.

Yeah, Caleb is mature beyond his years.

He's a tremendous player, but he brings a work ethic that's tremendous. He and Latham ran some both in the way that they bring energy to practice every day.

And they let their play do the speak, do the talking for them, but, but they're great leaders.

During the recruiting process, I went all the way down to the wire. It's been told before and we were right there at the end and, you know, I wish them good luck and understood.

And then, when, when coach retired and, you know, he was in the portal, it was an opportunity to reconnect with him.

And I think he had great relations with players and it's been great to see him.

This year really flourish within our culture and you're seeing the best version of him now.

Well, it's going to be a great environment. We know that great crowds on both sides. So it'll be electric.

And, you know, different than in the past where you kind of had these, you know, bowl game and then a final game.

We, you know, these playoff environments now or something that, you know, we've become accustomed to.

And so we need to focus on what really matters in the execution and find a way to win the game in the fourth quarter.

That's it. You know, this is a team that continues to come at you. So we know what's going to take four quarters.

It went all the way down to the last play last time we played them. And, you know, we have to be prepared for that. But, but that's it.

Great environment. You know, and, you know, it's good to get over there today to have practice just to kind of see it again. Feel it again.

And I know our guys will be ready.

All good. Okay. Thanks. One more question here.

Yeah, I think he's built confidence as an offense, Aliam and throughout his career, and especially this year.

And he's become a leader for some front. And we'll need him to be at his best in this game as well. Thanks. Yeah.

You know, this is about.

Yeah, I mentioned this before that, you know, this is about these players in this game. And it's all going to be about who executes well during the game.

That's it. And I think our guys understand that and feel that.

And I know there'll be a lot of conversation, which is great. It's exciting for the fans to talk about. But we know what really matters. And that's what our focus is on is executing at the highest level we possibly can.

What are you doing the dirty work? Like body body like doing the dirt? That's how it was. At first, man. I just wanted to.

They drive me high, be able to catch passes. I thought I was just be able to catch passes, catch touchdowns, but just be able to do everything.

Turn it to a complete receiver, trying to put myself in that position to do a dirty work.

I just like I said, I want to be every hour. See I don't want to come up. Did you kind of feel like reprogrammed kind of like how you?

Yeah, my thought process, my mindset. At a reprogram really this this year. I try to block some some last year, but I wasn't really fully.

At area. So this year, this offseason, I got said, I wanted to. I didn't want to come out and run and run in place.

It's going to take away from the play action. So I got said, just trying to do everything I can to be in my room.

Was week one kind of a test of that? I guess it's probably easy to block when the ball is coming right over.

That's kind of all you do. Yeah, I feel like a lineman out there, you know, saying that's not so.

That's not so. It's going to be some games and not going to see the ball, but I'm least at least winning.

We got the best office in league. So they ain't done the complaint about it. I'm just trying to do my job at the highest I can and help the team win.

You feel that way? That's what I consider. Yeah, I definitely feel that way.

We could have made some adjustments last week. Filly out of great game plan. They had a great front seven. Stopped around.

So that's just above the road. We're going to get better. I'm glad it happened early in the year.

And so we could bounce back from it. So it's only going to make it better.

Is anyone that helped you with that mindset? Did you go to anyone for advice about not really is just how I was looking on film.

I just say want to look weak in a running game or when I come out and we run the ball.

Just felt like I was kind of weak on myself. So just trying to take it took a step forward and I got said try to try to get stronger to be able to make those blocks.

First of all, I do the dirty work. Is that something you were trying to do regardless? Like I know the system prioritizes it, but like if it was a different system that wasn't really calm.

Was that something just period of like I got to do this better? Yeah, for sure. I was one of my biggest weaknesses that I had to improve on.

Like I said, I just want to live a week in a blocking game. I had to run in bags and quarter bags.

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And Lyman count on me, so that's something I definitely wanted to improve.

I mean, you kind of, sorry, you can go ahead and get your own.

So you're just talking about how, you know, when you got drafted, you were like, you know, on first round, or I want the ball, things like that.

And you would said last year, you know, that was kind of hard for you in that Tampa game when you didn't get the ball.

But you see him kind of like at peace with where you're at now.

Like is that all part of that, you know, growth mindset of it's not always going to be me, but I'm still.

Yeah, it's a team sport.

I kind of got caught in the kind of try catch area pass last year.

Trying to be the number one receiver, but like I said, it was just a growing, I was young.

It just allowed me to grow with experience.

And it's not always going to come my way, but as long as I'm winning, I'm doing my job.

That's the only thing I can control.

So just trying to control their controlables and, uh, everything right after.

Considering the rivalry with Atlanta and how last year ended, do you feel like there's going to be any carryover from how last year ended this week?

They always play as good.

It's always a good game.

We played against them.

We know it's going to come down to the wire.

Big player or great player show up in big time game.

So we had to have our best player show up and play at the best.

It's going to be a great game.

I just need to just continue playing.

Going back here, just getting in that way.

I enjoy every time.

I don't really have any players that I can play.

I've got a big pain.

That was great.

You think you're going to like to change it to what's going to be the door.

Yeah.

Just decided okay. I'm committing a now.

You're a fast-hiding and going there.

I'm so pretty.

How?

Crazy.

It's actually really big.

I just go like, you know, every season to see me getting the offer from here.

My life is just in the sky.

It's great.

I just feel it.

I'm pretty sad.

I mean obviously we got a couple of years before you.

I'm curious about how you fix your high entrance training.

How do you seem?

It's pretty good.

You started to get a pop-up, but I mean in terms of the guy you want to join, how do you miss the pop-up?

Here's our test of hard work.

We're not going to miss any rocks or lot of food.

Our test of hard work is going to burn campus.

Get your rocks lost, jump in.

Get your pants shut.

Something great.

You have a great, great ceiling構.

What do you want?

Out of the corner back here.

If you're missing a test, I'm sorry.

I said, oh, I thought this was part of the water.

We have made it zero with all of the tests.

We've got a test, we've got a test, we've got a test.

I don't know if it's a test.

I don't know if it's a test.

But it's a seven-year-old test.

It's a test, it's a test, it's a test.

It's a three-year-old test.

So that's good.

We're just going to open the front row.

Oh, I hear.

That was the one.

There's a test.

I can't hear the rest.

I can't hear the rest.

I can't hear the rest.

I can't hear the rest.

I'm going to open the front row.

What's your first thing?

I'm seeing you first.

I'm just doing this.

I can't hear the rest.

I'm trying to work there.

I'm trying to help.

Thank you, bro.

This is Coach Today.

Thank you very much.

Thank you very much.

Thank you very much.

Now I'm a coach.

I'm a coach today.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Once again, your missing.

I'm really talking about this.

I'm going to tell you about that.

I guess it's a little bit of a problem.

I guess of him or his partner, or his partner who work there or his sister.

For some of the matter, we just find everybody at them.

Yeah.

What do you think he can bring to you with profit?

It's like.

That's what it's about the end.

So let's wouldn't like for you to count on you being out of time today.

It's just a little long.

I don't think anybody outside looking at a real question is the strength of your commitment

like you're locked in the last eight you set it over and over but you're making visits

around the country you see in other schools it's almost a totally different mindset

what's that?

how do you approach these other visits and how do you communicate with Ohio State about them

what's been the message to them?

I'm always locked in you know I'm still enjoying my sense

this is only one time

I'm very excited to join other schools outside of life

it's going to be really hard to try to get the flip

so how do you stay in this world to be?

what is it that made you want to take place with them?

so yeah Sunni is a great person

is that something that you had to kind of learn or is there something that you had

when you came in here like the little disappear things have been

something I had to learn with him Cody do like Tommy

some I had to learn with just to what does Peyton bring to the defense?

Peyton is a um Peyton is a great down hill like

thumpin type long back or like Peyton go talk with somebody you like a secure

talking like that's what type of prince Peyton is

have you talked to him about that third line backer role that you had last year and what to expect yet?

I haven't really talked to him about it we just we all claim we all think I haven't

found anybody to talk to him about that

a different is this fall camp knowing the spot that you're going to be in as opposed to a year ago

when you had Cody inside of it and something open

but they're on the front line

well I say it's too much different I mean

I know the role I got coming in last year I knew the role so I just tacked every day

really the same way

physically and very rare

physically how different are you weight wise body wise on that from a year ago?

I think I got a lot bigger I'm like 240 you know like 244 right now

last year I played at like 236 to 37

what does it feel like a 244 or a belt you feel like almost a different machine out there?

yeah what does it feel like to be running around out there like you are but with more

and more back

I just feel like I'm like

like like more down hill like stronger like I'm taking all blocks better

it's bigger

is it don't think 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

there are even more snaps so

how would you describe how much you're looking forward to it from an 8th standpoint?

yeah I'm looking forward to it I'm ready for it

I'm ready for it

the text is opener it's a rematch

but it's not really two different teams

compared to the ones that I'm going to play the stuff

how is that enhanced this camp for you and this team getting ready for

an opener for that magnitude?

yeah with an opener like that we've been

we've been emphasizing it a lot

we know we got coming so we know we got to do

we've been prepared for it

I think it's probably worth it

I think Riley ready to play right now

he advanced freshmen like he ended up here in the book

he studied in like he advanced

and his measurements was crazy

like he saw it on the side line too

you said you're ready

you know you're ready

what was that process like during last season

could you feel yourself becoming more and more ready

for whatever the team needed from you?

yeah because that's pretty much what my role was

just whenever I was needed I had to step up

so I feel like that's what built me into me being able to say I'm ready for this year

when you say ready is it more

a physical thing?

is it a mental thing?

when I say ready I think it's pretty much like everything physically,

mentally, mostly I think I'm there

but different is that feeling this year than last year?

that's the most possible thing to happen

I asked that one more time

how different is that responsibility

that you can just say emotionally call that

if anyone's last year you knew you were a home player

oh

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 it's going to be the same thing

it's probably a little bit more

somebody who's some reason

they were saying

and what word?

somebody where do you watch?

uh I say

describe my game

when you think of me you would think of like a

like a bullet

like a silver bullet

I don't really know what it is

that's how I like to play a thing

no I ain't got to be my nickname

but I'm saying that the nickname

oh yeah

yeah

yeah that's it

how does that fit you

and what are you enjoying about it

and what are you enjoying about it

and that kind of stuff

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 moving around a lot

a lot of the terms is like

no I don't know I don't really know how to answer that

that's okay does it?

you can go on your instincts

a little bit more maybe

and it's not so thinking of too much

I don't even know if I say that

I just like his defense

I like how the pressure defense

I like what he got going on

uh

now I wanted to much

sad I was kind of like happy for you

yeah that's what you want

no

all right

that's my dog

I'm happy for you

go ahead one last

coach days talked a lot about

the guys who played some last year

the starters and the hunger

for that wasn't maybe

your national championship

you guys will win your own

how much do you feel that is

a guy who certainly contributed last year

but will be in this bigger role

and a lot of some of your classmates

yeah I do feel like

yeah I do feel like

I did win a nati-lash but like you said

my role wasn't

same as how it's going to be this year

so yeah I definitely want to go get another one

or bell thank you very much

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Yeah, that's done we got the normal Smith

It's very intentional but he knows that we're human so you know, he knows nobody's gonna be perfect and

So K to mess up, but it's the thing is being able to learn from that mistake and not do it again

Um, it's different, but like I said, I've just been enjoying the ride

I like why I am now, so I'm just gonna

Girl at this fight and get to where I want to go

100%

No, it's very hard

We just look at our 222 class. We get a lot of guys. So now we probably only have like five or six guys here

exactly

So I'm being able to just stick it through and just

No, I feel like me staying here

Each year I feel like I was telling this thing

Because yeah, it was opportunity to transfer, but I just kept feeling like God just stay

Let his will be done just let his will know

No

I try to every little drill that we do I try to make sure I'm doing it

To to the team, you know, I don't like to mess up and that's why you see me after practice working with coach John

C. Norr

Cross Patricia because of the fact I know it's very urgent, but um, I still feel like I have time

Only the spring

You have 158 days probably to replace

What exactly did you start to make that transition though?

And you heard they were hiring not for just your

Obviously in December it was different because we had coach knows here and coach knows for some words

He was telling me different ways he was going to use me with the jack and where he's going to have me line up and things like that

um

Coach day what he was telling me was

We're going to bring in a different coach and just you know

They'll just be a specific coach just sort of decision. I was playing just that way could just be easier on everybody

And that probably was just going to be coach knows because obviously it's just decency, but um with coach Patricia coming in

I feel like it's a lot easier on everybody because of the fact like I said his experience and he

Everything that we're doing now it just feels like everybody can just play fast you to be themselves

We talk about every day

Every day because of the fact we got to

Like yeah, we have one good day today, but we do have to stack day on top of day on top of day because of the fact

We played sex and sex is just in the playoffs

You know they're not on such either you know that

They're probably in the same mindset as we are right now because they lost a lot of starters

But it just doesn't mean

No

I feel like watching those guys

I feel like you can see like it helped them the longer

Especially with the blue especially with the gay last year because the fact it was his first year on one on a lot of scrimmage, but um

No, obviously I watch those guys. I watch other guys, but

I mean it means that they can happen really

I

I mean I just got to learn everything slowly of course is a lot to learn um

But I got a lot of hope so

You guys had a very unique experience all the early and rollies you got a chance to go to

Send my final some of you went to the Rose Bowl

There's nothing caught in a little national championship game. What was like? What was that like? How much?

You think that helped you? Oh, that was incredible. Just see how other ladies live in the

Position and just seeing what they did how they prepared

What was the highlight of that that time other than winning the national championship?

Is there something that stands out to you?

Oh, just being able to travel and get the meat on everybody

Meat all the players

Everybody at one in the and meat all early and rollies that early

I was really just living on your own got to be independent

That's pretty much it

I'm comfortable with that are you still trying to get me

I mean of course is adjustment but I'm getting this for you

Uh, yes, your money is 100%

I mean of course it's hard to miss my senior year

I live here kind of with some of my best friends

I think you did my hand right?

Uh, it was an interesting year

I'm sorry, but how did you get your

Oh, really?

This is how uh, baby my dad's like my dad and my master's partner

Like, once I was born

Like once I was born, okay, forever

Why did they make that?

Uh, my dad looked up to me and he had

I'm a junior so I was working again

You're

I think you should be your first name in the heart, right?

Yeah, okay, so you could wear eight too

You know I'm not sure I'm 34

Yeah, you got two choices

It's a desire that can be addicted for people

You know, I think I fell into that

No way younger age but super bad

That's not

I

Said again

I watched the last episode of Land Band

On the planet down a little bit, it's a pretty show

What you can get a little hot but I don't know that

His wife seems like a little bit

I don't know how he handles it

It's a good show

If the order seems to be coming on the come up

With all this mineral rights

I'm excited to see how it goes

Oh, I've never been a good job

I was surprised honestly, it seemed like

It seemed like you knew what he was doing for you

So you reported a question

You say you hit your mom in the salary

You guess when it all

Just mom gonna pay raise or

I don't know what to talk about that

Is there

Have a meeting or something

The good thing

Hold your mouth

Everybody talk to him

You're about to trust

He's

How much

I

Don't know

Yeah, well

I think I'd be doing this service to

My teammates

You know me even think about what's this

What's right in front of us is an over

And that's another thing that got us so

Me so much

Who is just being present in every single room that I'm in

You know not looking too far ahead because I'm tripping on what's right in front of me

So

Again, I just that's too so for sure of the thank you for meeting

If you think about what's next

Bigger or you at least will wear that there's a lot of speculation out there

That people are gonna throw a huge number of people to go in the portal

And you can see

I mean right now

This is not worried about all that stuff

I mean

People can say all they want to say

You know, I'm just focused on

I'm focused on products

Nervous

I mean I still get nervous for sure but I just don't think

I think I do a couple of just

Understanding that

That moment whatever moment it is that I'm nervous about it doesn't define who I am as a person

And it doesn't define who I am and God's eyes

And

Understanding and knowing that

It's just

Kind of put like this force field of peace around me that I think it allows me to be able to be calm in certain situations

But it doesn't that's not good

I mean I just love the game so much and if you don't get nervous or a little bit of work

But I don't think you you have that same love I mean I've got butterflies since you know going into football games since I was

No, five six years old

I've been

I just you know football just doesn't mean as much as it did to me back then I want it to always

I've been told

I

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

Well as a workhorse he he goes take quite you go work hard and that's all I love about him

He focuses he don't really talk much. He's going to get the job done do a job right really has any mistakes

The

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

Every year this year even more so you guys have all come back for this as if all decided like enough as it was

Is that is to keep feeling difference 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 like we most of us don't have any years after this

So we got to go go bigger going home and we're not trying to go home

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? I mean you

You were right there something goes a little different you guys could have been one like him 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

So I'm saying we just like work harder. That's that's kind of coach makes of saying you know nobody cares

Just work harder like those you know won't play Georgia is 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?

Uh, of course as you know it's frustrating, but you can't change the outcome

You can't really dwell on it. You just gotta 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

You could have been doing yeah, definitely. I mean that's how that's what

Growing up is basically in college. I thought fresh me. 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

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It's 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

I think I think

I definitely can last I was just you know, we got to get the young guys are coming along with us

We can't play 50 snaps again. That's just too much on our bodies

just

Everybody like online D line we got to get those younger guys to play you know get that pieces on the D line and online and everywhere else

So we can last

I

Yeah, I did unless we were like winning by like a lot

I thought like there knows mom is you know, I can go sit down or something

But we're playing them big games like you know

Notre Dame too or North those kind of games. I of course. I wouldn't be because I know I can contribute and

I won't want to put that on anyone else when I know I get the job

I think

Oh, yeah, definitely came back as a

Came back to animal y'all you haven't really seen it yet, but in practice he shows all the time. He's just

He's just he's growing right now. He has a work. 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 six three you're three twenty seven. He's three twenty six

Yeah, I kind of look at him like my my junior, but you know, came out he's gonna be a great player

He's got to develop more and getting to play book. It'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 cast for this year to bring those guys

Yeah, definitely we got to be leaders um, like I say, we got to have them play this year

We can't just play all the snaps. They got to get in there and get some work

And we got to get them right during the all season so they can play and I just play they want to like contribute like make plays tackles sex

It seems like these guys get big

Each first class

Those guys kind of doesn't kind of why you want to solve the first

Yeah, they're definitely some big dudes um, and they all work hard. I'm only seeing much of something day two

When I'm passing on but throughout the workouts they've been working hard, you know, they they're determined

And it looks like they're ready to work

athletic defensive tackles who can eat up space

Move, you know, right?

That is that is that

I'm trying to 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 nice and championship winners like team up north. They you know, they got to get

Detackle two athletic detackles look at Georgia two athletic detackles

I think that's definitely need if you want to go on that big run and beat those big teams

Think about this if they were to find by the defense

What's Georgia's Jordan Davis and Daniel Carter? Let's

Michigan is

Chris Jenkins

I mean you understand because you play it, but I feel like sometime I don't know it's about people realizing how important defense

tackles are a little bit more than they used to I think so uh, I think they're starting to develop to develop more and more of these like

Freakiest detackles

Like in the combine just now you seeing like those guys they're moving

We're in a 478 and things like that so

We'll see and when you think it when you think about those freakish

Oh, yeah, definitely. I think I'm top-notch when it comes to detackles, but I don't want to you know

Get a big head, but you know watch the come on. I watch you do the drills. I have tape to you like you like my film

So I think I'm up there

Do you become like a artist

You're going

I mean as many as I can have I think I have more than that

But I think he said it I think they count some of them and it's some of them where I like just missed it

But I think we work on drones matching the hand. I think that's uh goes big and uh

What we do is a D-line, you know, just affecting the quarterback is

Anyway, you can it's just great for the defense, you know, just that little thing covered is I you know, he might throw it

A little bit to the left to our player. So

Kind of

I think I just have like a like a eye for the ball kind of I kind of just look at the quarterback and just I see him

I load up. I just try to get in his ways and sometimes he throws it to me

I mean they get frustrated, but you know we're a team. You know we're just getting better

Yeah, I should lot of a lot of different backsman and just learn and grow for them

Uh

I don't really have a top three, but I'll give you I'll give you one. I would say

Sae Kwan Gibbs and

I like McCaffrey auto he was injured this year. I like McCaffrey

I appreciate it. Who's the best back in this draft? Best back in this draft. I lead out of the yard. That's y'all that's y'all decision

Playing with well Howard when I'm going to remember most uh

We're a Howard man. He's just such a great lead such a great leader man. It's just like

In moments where you know usually a lot of players they fold man

He was just always calm and relaxed man. He just the leader that he was man. That's one thing. I'm gonna remember about him

Yeah, he's

Shoot

He's gonna be really good man. He's um

Coastal I think he got the transfer in as well from West Virginia just that one two punch with them both as well

They're gonna be really good backs and so James people's man

He's smart the way that he goes about his business man. He's mature and so man. He's growing, you know

Just as a person in as a player and so man. Yeah

Definitely oh, hi estate, you know that running back room is in gray hands

He's

Yeah, um

Coach coach hard line man. He's full of energy man and um he's creative as well

You know, I'm just learning from him as well, you know

Trying to run more outside the backfield was being able to learn from coach hard line

And so he's definitely creative at what he's he does and he brings a lot of energy to the team as well

And so I think that'd do really good

So

Um just the intensity man then since the other playoffs um

Every game and it's like the intensity got you know higher and higher and so um, you know being

Maybe I know in the lead. It's it's the same thing even if it's not the playoffs

Just every every game and then since 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 just like Ohio State

You know, I definitely feel like Ohio State they definitely do a good job of preparing us for that

You know, I just remember even before going through this process. I'll I'll talk to a lot of players

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 days off after the um

National championship and then

Shoot right after that. I'm right in right in Tampa, Florida and I'm right to it and so um

Yeah, I think while trained I trained at um your worth performance. I think it's called the house of athlete or the compound now

Um, they did they did a good job, man

I'm just bringing us in and the the way they went about training us man. They were they did a really good job

The bucket nearest know I haven't

Tampa Tampa nice. This is nice. It's a nice city man really nice

Uh, the 40 to broad and avert

Yeah

It's really all about technique and then it's about mindset as well

And so um, I say you know, it's for the love of my brother. It's for the love of will highway

It's for the love of the receiver. So I got on the perimeter just making sure you know, um first of all my quarterback doesn't get sacked

And I I told will I think it was before the first game. I was like I got your brother is

I said man, I'm not gonna let you get hit, you know, um, and so um, I don't know if I don't know if I gave up a sack

I'm not sure that um, but I know if I did I haven't given up too many and so man

It's for the love of my brothers though man making sure that the ball get in their hands

You know the guys on the outside and making sure they get fed

In my game uh, you can't really work on this you know in all season

I feel like it's more so you know, you got to put the pads on you got to go through some inside run

You know, maybe uh, it's really just continuing run through tackles and so that's I feel like that's one of the areas in my game

You know, I want to continue to get better. I I feel like I did a good job of that my senior and so I just want to continue to build on that

Yes, I did yes, I did

Uh, I did me with um New Orleans as well um, I never got that comparison actually um, I know I have a comrade

Sure, yeah, man. I have a comrade 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 gonna like he smooth

Yeah

um

Inside zone from stack being able to hit that thing downhill and I say the next one is probably

Just an option route out of the backfield, you know, and man and man coverage. You're getting on that line backer and so

He

Yeah, I say the man the biggest thing is the way that he carries himself man and the way that man um, he approaches the game

He comes in with the monster, you know, he's gonna work every single week, you know, every practice, you know

He's working hard, you know, um even shoot. I 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 gonna come in each and every day

He's gonna continue to work and get better man, and so he's definitely man. He's gonna be a special player, man

He really is

Man, uh a lot of ups and downs man. It's just

How you respond to adversity and I feel like that's something that God has definitely helped me to do better

Is this um now have something to lean on now, you know, I remember before I met him, you know, going through those adversity

I had nothing to run to, you know, you can run to people, but they still can't it's not too much

They can't truly help you, you know, I feel like you know, I feel like the only person that can truly help you is your relationship with Jesus Christ

And so being able to lean on him, you know, he gives you in those moments where it's tough, you know, where it's low and um

When you're behind the scenes and you're going through things that people don't know about um, he gives you he gives you that peace and comfort, you know

Even in those moments man, we're so hard that you can't you can't explain. It's like man. I'm going through this

But like how am I still filled with this internal joy? You know, how do I have so much peace in this situation?

And so that's something that only Jesus Christ can give you and so

I'm being around

Um

Man, those guys have such a great mentality man. I might just really love their mentality, especially um

Q as well, you know, I talked about will Howard his leadership, but Quinch, I'm an entity 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

Then as soon as you know it, you know, he that running through somebody step on somebody and shoot us again to 10 and so

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 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 Quinch, you know, I want to look at this game is like man

Where where can I get better at as well? You know, that's the type of player I am

I'm always looking to get better man. I'm always looking to grow as a player

Julian San. Oh, yeah, he's gonna be a great but he's gonna be a great quarterback man

He's so so accurate and so um, he's definitely man. I know coach dad's 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 high state

I

He's that I know just the quarterback position. Um, I feel like you know the quarterbacks in the past

They've they've definitely been vocal and so I feel 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 the um and lead to offense and lead to steam

You

Shoot man, he has he has a build like JK Dobbins and um, 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

Um 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 times and 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 y'all

You

You

You

You

All I got coming in last round to the role so I just attack every day really the same way

It's a very very rare

Oh, I think I got a lot bigger. I'm like 240. You know like 240 for right now last year. I played it like 236 to 37

So like almost a different

Machine out there. Yeah, what's it? What does it feel like we run around out there like you are but with more

More bad. I just feel like I'm like

Like

Like more downhill like stronger like I'm taking all blocks better. It's a big

Is it daunting?

Maybe that's not the correct term but to think you're going to be playing much more than you did even last year

And you played quite a bit last year instead of what you have to get straight in your head about being on the field that much more

Just gotta get ready to just play 30 more snaps. So

But are you are you how would you describe how much you're looking forward to it from an age 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

But it's not really two different teams compared to last time y'all played stuff

How's that enhanced this camp for you and this team getting ready for the where an opener of that magnitude?

Yeah, we're the opener like that we've been um we've been emphasizing it a lot and we know we got coming

So we know we gotta do we've been prepared for it. Oh, I think it's probably worth it

Yeah

Um, I think Riley ready to play right now. He he advanced freshman like he ended he in the book

He stood in like he advanced and his measurements is crazy like he saw like a saw line to

Said you're ready

What was that process like during last season? Could you feel yourself

Becoming more and more ready?

We're ready to do the team needed to do yeah, because that's pretty much what my role was

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?

A mental thing when I say ready I think it's pretty much like everything physically mentally mostly. I think I'm there

Oh

Oh

I feel like it's uh

It's a way bigger responsibility with me having to step up this year, but

I kind of go about it the same way like last year. I was intentional with everything I did

I feel like this year it's gonna be the same thing. It's probably a little bit more

And what work?

I say

Scrub my gun 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 bullet. I'm always on the ball. That's how I like to play a thing

No, I ain't ain't got to be my nickname, but

Oh

Oh

Think it fit me because

I don't know. I just liked 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 no, I don't know. I don't really not answer that

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 his things I like how to put it to the defense. I like what you got going on

I wanted to my sad I was kind of like happy for you

That's my dog. I go so yeah kind of missing a little bit. Yeah, I'm happy for 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

That wasn't maybe your national championship you guys

Yeah, how much do you feel that as a guy who certainly contributed last year, but we'll be in this bigger role and

I wanted some of your

Yeah, I do feel like um

Yeah, I do feel like I did win a naliela shirt, but like you said my role wasn't same as how's gonna be this year

So yeah, I definitely want to go get another one experience that like feeling with me be on field a lot more place

Great, oh, Belle. Thank you very much

I've been using you, you know, and that almost at safety role of stuff. How much is it grown?

That you can put your finger on yeah, I was growing immensely. I mean

Caleb he makes a lot of checks lathe and makes a lot of checks

I listen to them

Whatever they need if I need to cover somebody out. I'll go cover anybody if they need me to do run support

I'll do run support and it's really what Caleb does what we do and lathe

It just goes back to the coach g's preparation

And everyone's preparation to give us more flexibility and doesn't matter who's in those positions

And we can all play every position whether it's covering somebody or running running and tackling

Yeah, did you feel like that was the case before the Oregon game? You're showing up Sammy

Something's been added. Uh, it just you know rely on a little bit more go ahead. Yeah, it did

I've probably been a broska game

A me getting more safety reps and we had a five week to prepare

So I really learned to play book a lot more even though I knew the playbook. I learned a lot more

Mount like in debt, you know, so uh really just after the Oregon game

It helped me a lot to go back to safety go go to nickel and everywhere

Do you guys had a lot of issues of giving up big plays in a passing game of the first game against Oregon?

What do you feel if you guys need to do better this time around to make sure that doesn't happen?

Just the same same mindset we got to challenge these receivers

you know

Every dog has her day

Maybe some people didn't have their day that that game, but um

We'll look out there and hopefully change the narrative and we still play with the same confidence same technique and

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And Tenzeh obviously had a tough game and that one what have you seen from him and how he's responded?

Do you get a sense of from him how

Halt he is for this rematch? Oh, yeah, he's super stoked for this rematch

His preparation has been very good

He's always been preparing even though it didn't go the way he wanted to go that game

But he just always had had his confidence and we're going to see a big game out of him this week and

You know, I know you guys wanted to play them in anapolis

But the fact that you get to play them at the Rose Bowl

I mean get a second chance and people have said he don't get that very often

How determined are you guys to take advantage of it?

We're super super determined we watch film

I mean we've lost a lot of film the first time we play them now. We've got another six games that they play

Of film to watch and it's just they've grown a lot as a team same as us. We've grown a lot

We're not the same team we were when we played them week one or weeks six or whatever

But now we're out there and going to play fast physical and everything like that

Jordan we're gonna jump to the to assume a question here from Joey Coffin Columbus this batch

Oh my bad not you Joey

Cameron T. Robinson the athletic

Hey Jordan

You moved around a lot and the second day I knew in your career and and now kind of getting some many more safety reps

What is it like at this point when when wall or or coach knows comes to you and asks you to do some else and and just how much can you lean on?

The experiences you've had moving around when you're trying to to learn something new in the middle of season

Means a lot we always talk about and this is if is being on selfish

Whether that's making plays or not making plays or doing your job so another person can make plays

That's kind of what we pride ourselves on and it's just fun me moving around different positions

Uh, I'm always up for a new challenge and a lot of people in the country can't do that

I just hold myself to that standard where I can play any position and excel

I don't know about it

Okay, uh, anybody else need to question let me know but otherwise we can go to Austin or the podcast

Jordan when you were talking about watching film or again

Which one do you think is more valuable to you watching that against yourself?

You know seven games ago even if you've changed or the ensuing six games for Oregon which one do you put more stock in?

Kind of both for me. Uh, I kind of watch

What I did

Things I did well things I didn't do too well against them and

Their team is like their scheme has changed some players have been out those those stretch of games

So uh, I really watched the past game we played and I know they're gonna go back to some of the stuff that they liked

Of course and different games like Penn State maybe Illinois. They run a lot of men

So just watching watching stuff like that every game matters. So yeah

You

Thank you very much. Thank you. 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

One of those younger guys we're seeing

Last year we all forgot about it because he was hurt

Now he's running

Well as a workhorse he he goes stay quiet. You go work hard and that's all I love about him

The focus is he don't really talk much. He's going to get a job done do a job right really has any mistakes

What would be a successful season?

Uh national championship

Ring

When all the games we don't want to lose anything

Uh, we got a mindset that we can't be beat

We just gotta go show 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 that

Because that is

You feel the difference or is it not really any difference? It's just the same

It's definitely a difference everyone working harder. Um, we noticed our last run

Like we most of us don't have any years after this

So we got to go go bigger going home and we're not trying to go home

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? I mean you

You were right there something goes a little different you guys could have been one that came against them

Does that tell you anything about like that? Hey you guys want to win a national championship

But you played to the 59th minute with the team that won the national championship last year like you're that close

So I'm saying uh, we just like work harder. That's that's kind of coach makes uh saying you know

Nobody cares. Just work harder like those know when we played Georgia is 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

Uh, of course as you know, it's frustrating, but you can't change the outcome

You can't really do it on uh do it on it. You just gotta you know come back and work harder do things

Better than you did last year and hopefully the outcome will change

And as you get older you kind of learned I thought I was working hard and you always find out there's a little more

Yeah, definitely. I mean that's how that's what growing up is basically in college

And I thought freshman year I was working as 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

Uh

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

I

About that idea

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

No line and everywhere else so we can last

Ah, yeah, I did unless we were like winning by like a lot

I thought like there are no mom easy not gonna sit down or something

But we're playing them big games like you know

Notre Dame too on North those kind of games. I of course I want to be because I know I can contribute and

I won't want put that on anyone else when I know I get the job

Donald

Oh, yeah, definitely came back as a

Came back to animal y'all you haven't really seen the 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 six three you're three twenty seven. He's three twenty six

Yeah, I kind of look at him like my my junior, but you know, came out he's gonna be a great player

He's got to develop more and getting the playbook. It's really a lot on you older guys

There's that large group of young guys and then there's the seniors in your back

Part of your task for this year to bring those guys

Yeah, definitely we got to be leaders um, like I say, we got to have them play this year

We can't just play all the snaps. They got to get in there and get some work and we got to get them right

Burn all season so they can play and not just play they want to like contribute like make plays tackles sex

It seems like these guys get bigger

Each person in class

Those guys kind of doesn't kind of why you want to solve the person

Yeah, they're definitely some big dudes um, and they all work hard. I'm really seeing much it's only day two

When I'm passing on but throughout the workouts they've been working hard, you know, they they're determined

And it looks like they're ready to work with me

This feels like

There's a lot of great defenses that you have big

Haslatic defense attack

Move, you know, right?

Is that important maybe for great defense to have guys like you that have some fault but

Also a great feat. I think that is definitely I think if you look at the last

Couple of national championship winners are like team up north. They you know they got two good

Detackle two athletic detackles look at Georgia two athletic detackles

I think that's definitely need if you want to go on that big run and beat those big teams

If you think about this if they're going to find by the defense attack was like

What's Georgia's Jordan Davis and Daniel Carter? What's Michigan is

Chris Jenkins

You understand because you play it, but I feel like sometime I don't know it's about 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 detackles

Like in the combine just now you seeing like those guys they're moving

We're in the 478s and things like that so

We'll see and when you think it when you think about those freakish

Uh, yeah, definitely I think I'm top-notch when it comes to detackles

But I don't want to you know get a big head, but you know watch the command. I watch you do the drills

I have tape tea like looking like my film. So I think I'm up there

Do you become like a artist

Think your legs

You're going

I mean as many as I can have I think I have more than that

But I think he said it I think they didn't count some of them and

Is some of them why like just missed it so but I think we work on drones matching the hand

I think that's uh goes big and uh

Will we do as a D line you know just affecting the quarterback is

Anyway, you can it's just great for the defense. You know just that little thing covered is I 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

It's one of the things that you maybe worked on the most during your time here because there are a few guys that I've seen

Like oh that passed

I think I just have like a like a eye for the ball comment. I kind of just look at the quarterback and just I see him

I load up. I just try to get in his ways and sometimes he just throws it to me

I mean they get frustrated, but you know we're a team. We're just getting better

Yeah

Watch a lot of a lot of different backs man. They just learn to grow for them

Uh

I don't really have a top three, but I'll give you I'll give you one. I would say

Sequan Gibbs and