Press Conferences (Gee Scott Jr.) Elite Edition September 2

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2:20I think we're seeing that here with the school walkers as well. I think when we talked to you in camp, you said you were excited about how you guys are going to run the ball this year. And obviously, you've done that. At what point did it become clear to you guys are going to be able to kind of hang your hat for the ball the way you are now? I just think we're such a balanced offense. I think this kind of going against our team, especially in specifically against our offense. I think there's just too many things you have to respect the perimeter and you have to respect the run game. You have to respect the stretch and inside zone. All the different things that we can do, putting the ball over the field in perimeter or even taking a shot down the field. You have to respect some of the things that just leaves gaps in the ability to catch the ball for six and seven and eight yards. So I guess to answer your question, the more dynamic wherever to be on perimeter, the more we're able to connect when we hit on shots. I think the better it's going to be able to open up the run game as well. But I think Coach Kelly and a coach today they do an amazing job just putting

3:22us in the right position and we don't have to think about that kind of stuff. We just awful minds that is 4 to 6, 8 to V plus 2 to play as hard and as violent as we can. And we'll look at the scoreboard at the end of the game and see where we are. Is that balance the best you've had to be in here? How would you guys characterize the balance of the ball? Yeah, I just think I don't know. I don't want to sum up. I don't want to compare, but I think we're just a very balanced team. I don't it's not much weakness. Now, when I say that, we still have the humility to know that we must continue to be better weekend and we doubt. But when I just look at our team as a whole, I don't just see like, let's go pick on this guy because this guy can't do x, y, z or we can leave him. I think we have 11 guys on both side of the ball that are able to be dynamic and the physical and strong players. And I think we're just a complete team. But again, I say that with humility. We want to continue to weekend and week out be the best team. We know we have to show up because on any given week you can lose. So we show up every week with the intentions of

4:23the National Championship. Let's say you've got to have this team for the Iowa game. Yeah. Can we remember men? What's going to help you grow as a leader? What's going to help you grow more comfortable? I guess it's being kind of a voice. I would disattribute that to my faith. My Lord, David, Jesus Christ. I think before you can lead anybody else, you have to have a sense of foundation who you are. Having a sense of self and idea of self. And I think the more that I've been able to be strong in my faith, the more confidence it is given me into being leaders to other people, being able to be a leader to other people. But I think that's where it starts. How can you lead people if you're not really sure of where you are? And then also when it comes to practice, practicality of football, I think the more you haven't understand the more veteran you are in this often, the more that you know, the more ability you can then hand knowledge to the next group of younger guys coming behind you. So that all helps the leadership. But I would attribute that to my faith, my strong foundation, and knowing who I am.

5:27Maybe some of the better intellectuals of the years that you kind of were able to learn from as well. Notice that they were pretty good leaders as well. You asked who were some others. There were so many. This being my 50 year, I've seen many, many leaders all the way going back to my freshman who were just in and past school and Jonathan Cooper, those guys to then the next group of guys with Chris and all those different guys growing up coming through here. I've seen many great leaders and I think there's something I would definitely say that something special with the leaders on this team. I would say there's not the leaders that we have on this team, but not just leaders due to seniority, due to it's just my turn. But I would look at the leaders that we have on this team and say they're sincerely leaders, not just by, not just leaders, but it's not as hemi down. They're truly, we have great leaders on this team. The first question, Brandon was saying that you feel like Will is just built in the moment.

6:28Do you kind of feel that way too? Yeah, I feel like he never, he never gets too high. He never gets too low. He's always locked in and focused and that's the kind of, I don't know what temperament is the right word, but the right attitude, if you will, for like a better word, that's the right attitude that you want. From the quarterback, no matter what spot we are in the game, we look to Will and who will be able to lead our hard work. We have confidence in that. All right, gee, thank you. Thank you. It's like a supplement for you. Yeah, it's like something's going to be good. Yeah, I was a good scout, man. What was good about going to the draft and drafts here before? But, you know, I think you're playing the games obviously, so I said that, you know, I was a good swimmer, I shared my guys on and, like I said, I did not know that I was a good swimmer. Oh, you're a bad swimmer. I mean, you're going to get the best

7:32teams that we're good, and that's why I was there when I was in Swap and I was going hard and made myself better as a swimmer. Would be like you're where you should be in your development even though you didn't make a plan like that? Yeah, I think so. What's that like mentally, each week, you know, obviously wouldn't need a good team as you mentioned during the week, but you don't have that carry to the end of the line. Yeah, I'm glad. And humans are selfish by nature, so obviously I wanted to play it, but, you know, I, again, I accepted it, what happened, and I, uh, put my head down in turn my guys on, so I did what I, what I wanted to do. What, did you turn it to making this a lot of experience right now? Well, I'd be lying with that. It's something a little bit wrong. It was definitely hard at first, you know, I had to deal with, wasn't self mentally, but I would say during mid-spring after spring, you know, I said, okay, I'm going to be better at this. I had a really good summer, really good fall camp, and I grew a lot during the season. What's like down reaction? Yeah, I mean, again, I've, you know, I've used a year ago,

8:38and I'm way past it, you know, so I'm, I'm ready for this season. What do you feel like your role can be, that's it? Uh, whatever they need me to do, you know, I'm, I'm a self-inverte, I can, uh, I can provide a lot of blocking in and passing in, so, it's very, it's been really, it's been very difficult, I feel some empathy with, uh, on a guy, so I like him a lot, it's been a good, uh, good long history. Yeah, I mean, again, I, we, we, we, we bounce down the server, so, uh, sometimes we're watching film, I don't know, that's me or someone, it takes you a second, okay, I feel, yeah, uh, it's great that you deserve. Yeah, yeah, I mean, like I said, there's a, there's a batch in the country,

9:38there's a division, and getting going is them, really working with technique, my handplates, my feet, uh, for a year, you know, I think, not, not, not, not be able to play, not able to play, uh, really, really. Yeah, yeah. It, it, but at the same time, we were different skin. Now, we were, we were dapped down, uh, 26,000, 26,000 players. But here's more than, we, we do do dapped runs, that's more than, and so, different footwork, different, uh, body and vision, but, I, I, I, I continue to show, I'm going to do. Do you feel like there's just an opportunity for all of you in the tight end room with K now? Yeah, we're at this K for sure, but we're communicating and we're making sure that we're doing it. What's your vibe on? The strength of the brand of the whole group and the spring game. What is now? What are your strengths? I mean, it just shows how, what we have going on in the highest state.

10:40And we're fortunate enough to have a program. I mean, they gave my natural program that I think it shows the power of the program. Here at Mike right now? I think so. How difficult is there that much more is that for you as a true freshman? First spring also, you're the middle linebacker. It's just a responsibility getting everybody lined up, getting the call, but knowing my assignment, I didn't know how it's going to be, but it just ups him a little bit more. So it's going to take some getting used to, but I know I'm really... How much do you think that's going to help you in the fall? What? Being Mike. I think it's going to be good, being able to roam around and just take it charge. I'm definitely used to that comfortable with that, so I feel like it's going to be good for me in the fall. Does it help you learn a defensive scheme faster to have that much responsibility? Yeah, for sure. Knowing what everybody's doing and everybody's responsibility is definitely going to help me play better in the morning.

11:40What's the typical day like for a true freshman middle linebacker trying to learn the key points off the practice field? Off the practice field. Just waking up and getting there early, probably watching the film. We got practice or weight, so we're not getting through that. I mean, I mean, I mean, so more, more the game knowledge. I mean, I've got an individual meeting, so just learning to learn to that more. And then after that, after that, I've never got class and stuff. So after class, we definitely got to stay on the film some more. What film are you watching? What do you watch? Oh, practice film, practice film. Like your film? Yeah, knowing what I did wrong, what I could improve on and learn new installs. All of your tricks physically since a role. I definitely got a little bit stronger for sure. Speed, speed, a little bit faster. You came in at what and you are at what now as far as weight? I came in at 215, I'm at 215. What's the target weight? I was so particular, you're trying to get to it. Right now, 235, 235, 235.

12:41Doesn't take me long to get to you guys where you want to be, right? What are your expectations for your freshman? Every time you get to get some Dr. James Lornais, he has a nice sense of say about you. What are your expectations for your first two? Just getting on a field and making plays, I feel like that's a good experience for me. I just want to get out there and make plays. Describe your game. It's a long backer. I think I can do a little bit of everything I can cover, I can rest faster. I can play to run to. I think those are all my strengths. I think my screenplay is faster. I think I can do anything. When that's usually a big Texas flavor on this team, a lot of Texas guys has. It's been like here for like the last 10 years. That's got to make you feel kind of home. Talk more about that if you would. Just Texas guys, football is really big in Texas. So with that Texas Ohio pipeline, I'm knowing I got guys from Texas.

13:43I love it. You'll stay through the pre-proc. I'm the goal line. If you open up with a long horse, start your collegiate career. Thank you Peter. A little extra gas in the tank. What's it just inspired you to see what Cody Simon was able to do here last year? Not only as a player, but as a leader. That's definitely something I look forward to becoming and being able to do those things. That Cody did, Cody did, the way he played, all the plays he made. I feel like that's a good aim for me. That example is sunny setting for a group right now. His position, his switch from safety to my back. I feel like the way that he played last year, being his first year of my back. I feel like if he could do it, I could do it. So you know, that's definitely good example. You have a lot of experience playing safety. Yes, I'm really saying that. I love it. And I expect that to continue. I expect that to develop more and more into a leadership role.

14:44So we already feel and be a mainstay and bring along that O-line group. Which we're starting about. So our awesome is a big topic. Brian, I think it was around this time last year, where people were talking about Brandon's being such a big leader behind the scenes. And I know he didn't play maybe Starter's Smash last year, but how important was he to just what you wanted that room, the chemistry you'd be in? And how much brother you've seen from that? Yeah, Brandon's always been a big part of our learn. He's a super wise coach really. He drives it, he helps run it. Cornel was taking a big role in that as well this year. Frankly, all those guys are stepping up. Cornel, JJ, David Adolf. These guys were all, I've made progression. But from a leadership standpoint, those guys are really trying to take over with B-I-B-M, and at the forefront of that. So I expect that. And that's good. He holds himself to the highest standard, but one of them is sort of bringing in more and more guys at all. And that's the same fashion. Brandon, that's the best thing that Jeremiah does in the plays and the wraps

15:46when he does a half a thousand. You know, I think that best thing Jeremiah does is just, he just always wants to learn. So, you know, as a coach, you can't, you know, maybe him. You can't like put him on a personal. He does not want that. So, he being held accountable, you know, there have been opportunities that he finished more without the ball on your hands, turn up field. I identify him, he applies. So, I'm not going to say there's one individual thing in the ball's not in his hands. I think just overall for him, he's always trying to learn, he's always trying to contribute, whether he's that, you know, he knows there's a decoyish mentality or a block of mentality because he's a big guy or whatever that role is, he just loves running the Y and then applying it in that role in that play. And we're trying to get him lost last week, which they talked about, far now, maybe taking the biggest strides, not only one in terms of leadership that's off season. Did you guys have the push now?

16:46Was that all kind of him naturally kind of stepping into that role? No, it's more him for sure. There's probably a conversation that was had, obviously, that, you know, we know you're capable of this. One ought to be this guy. Whatever those conversations are between myself, it's a coach make and coach stay. But ultimately, you know, players apply, players choose to do things. We can recommend and suggest all we want, but ultimately, players are responsible for making plays and making changes. So, yeah, I would agree with coach. You know, he's a huge strides, you know, love him for it. He's the right kind of guy for it. He's the right kind of guy. You know, we're going to be as kind of guy. A lot of guys have a lot of respect for him. So, do you want a great job? Absolutely love it. And then there's conversation that had where we're seeing it. And a lot of sees really taking the, taking the reins of it and the, and the ran with it. All right. Go ahead. Talk to the board about what it takes, more kind of the second group to get on field and turn for replacing those guys.

17:48Are you seeing that maybe more of an opportunity to have some rotation this year, given what you've gotten in internal experience and whatnot behind? Yeah, there's always a chance. I mean, there's so many reps being had in practice. And you're either, you know, playing at the level of the guys that are starting, or you're not, um, ultimately that's what it comes down to. Right? So, if you can match the execution level and or bet or whatever, ultimately the film tells you who should be on the field on Saturdays. And at what point in the game, you know, and whether it be situationally or not. And, um, guys maximizing those rep opportunities, ultimately dictates how that works. Right? So, we've got lots of reps early in spring. And we've got two fields going. We've got tons of reps happening. And more times than that, it kind of shows itself. But, uh, yeah, I do that, frankly, every year. It's the same opportunity, but those guys just have to do it.

18:51And, um, you know, you love defining roles, but guys define roles. And, uh, they earn ways. And if you keep it that way, ultimately the respect in your room and in the position room on your team, um, should, should stay true. And so, um, a lot of competition right now, a lot of good stuff happening. We're just going to try to see who does it more consistently over time. Every time that we've talked about, it seems like it's been more of a catch-up. A lot of you rolled really. Like, I was like, past that with him. Where have you seen and shaped the biggest sense of development? Since the spring's in the last song. Yeah, I think him going through his first spring really helped him. First winner really helped him, um, being grounded for his first, for a summer, you know, instead of like showing up and having acclimations for a month, before you actually get into it. I mean, all of those things, you know, almost makes you feel like you're, in your third year, like, for Jeremiah, or these young guys that came in this year,

19:51to come in January. But at the time you get to your second year, you're almost still like at your third year, because you've, you know, worked with Coach Mick, you've had a spring, you've had a summer, you've had a fall, camp, you've had a fall season, and you're like, gosh, something's a second year. I would say when you come in June, it's still all new until you get back to June. And so, you know, that's what, you know, my own experience, my own now. I mean, he fully understands that. I mean, there, you don't understand it. I'm good, I'm good, I'm good, you don't realize it. So, um, yes, I mean, it's your question, long windedly, I'd say that, um, my mom's in a really good spot, and he's put himself in a position to compete for getting on the field, whether it be offensively or special teams, I expect him to earn roles in special teams, even before you even get on offense, that's how we're built here, right? Defensively and offensively, you can't get on special teams, I don't know how you expect to put off with a defense. So, you know, the guys on special teams are the best football players, period.

20:51So, those guys, I like to see mom in that light, but obviously, you know, great spring is growing, and I want to see him keep building on what he's doing. You know, when someone has stepped back, I know he's not going to understand the progression he's on is really good. What kind of asset has been tied up with playing basketball since? Yeah, I love really enjoyed getting to know Tyler. I think really how they have his football IQ and his personality, and how he commands with his room and his guys, and how he pulls relationships, the overall, and having Tyler in the building is a great honor, a great, great situation. What do you still have to do in such a way? Well, I mean, I can't say that anything, it's only day two. So, like, we're going to see about the body of work. These guys have been a pretty good job of making the plays we're supposed to make, and then we'll go from there.

21:51So, one day two install, we're looking at the body of work for guys to separate themselves, not just today or day. With the quarterbacks, though, just kind of a general blanket, what are you looking to see first day, second day, third day? Consistency. What you do most often is exactly who you are. So, when you consistently make the play, because it's the communicator, because it's the loud, because it's the energy, consistently the parallel, whatever that is, the consistency level of anybody, ultimately dictates your identity. So, we're chasing that, two early right now, to speak past that, but like, we're going to keep building. I was going to say I talked yesterday about how important the cadence is with the quarterbacks, what he's looking for there. Have you seen both those guys deliver what you're looking for? Yeah, they're going to go job their own with it, and they understand it's a weapon. Right, I'm just talking about it. David, eight off off the course. All seated in the quarterbacks, go on to California. You're working out there and bonding, you have a time, you have to think that's that, and you can have that time to go on and be able to put the men in here for it.

22:53Yeah, I think anytime you can work together, guys are getting a feel for each other, not only just, oh, he throws the ball like this. It's more about the camaraderie. He has my back. More than anything, you can't challenge a relationship. You don't have a relationship. So, you can't challenge a guy, you can't be out of guy, you can't get, you know, push a guy, unless the relationship is built first. So, the faster you get the relationship built, the quicker you can get to uncomfortable conversations, and ultimately you grow. So, during the foundation, it's still number one, and those guys doing that in their own is a good sign. From your space, when you're able to kind of get away, obviously you work here at the moment, you're able to get away kind of keeping being together and kind of push each other in that sense. How much does that help you with other things? I mean, I don't know how much you're pushing each other when you're on your own. I mean, again, I'm not. When they're on their own, they're going to do it on their own time. And so, it feels a little more ownership, I think, at times when you do stuff like that,

23:54but again, ultimately it's just the bond going. What's up? What's new? It wasn't there in January. But it's all this now. Oh, yeah, it's all personal. Oh, my goodness. I guess I'll do it. You talk a little bit about the cool basketball. That seems like a finished real offseason. What can you learn about it? It was awesome. Playing full basketball, and we're literally trying to drown each other to win. Everything here, right? There was no files. We just want to know who could execute the plays. Coach is included. And literally when I say nothing was off limits, there was nothing off limits. One, the guys kind of who show up, the guys that compete, the guys,

24:56oh, that's right. I mean, poor son, he gets attiated on everything he does. So it doesn't matter. Every coach is probably that way. Anytime you're around, people manage this. It's a human nature, if you're wired that right. But it was a lot of fun. Who's the best player? The guys in the locker, who's the best player? The cool basketball? I mean, it's not real basketball. Athleticism, drive, evaluate. Yeah, I know, I could like, I think of our groups. There was a three-something that was pretty good. It went all along there. But then me, JJ, who else beat him? He was up there. No, I did not. We lost the first one. But it was Carnell, it was BI, and it was Lincoln. Those three, we could not, they went for a run. Good seven or eight, and row. We did some bad turnovers in our first game.

25:56We were identifying some toughest competitions. God, you have to plan again, but there was like an eighth game, and we dominated. We've heard a lot about Lincoln's athleticism. How much does it show up in everything? It seems like the team does involve baseball, cool basketball. Do you see it everywhere? It is a competitive. I think that's the biggest thing that comes off on Link. It's enjoyable to look sports with him, at least on your side. We plan as much, so I just wanted to get more experience under my belt. I can bring younger guys with me because I've been through a lot of good. One of those younger guys, we're seeing it out here. It's the first time in Skordall this last year. What have you seen from Will? I kind of felt like last year we all forgot about him because he was hurt. Now he's running almost a second man out of the eye. You and Ty. What have you seen in the event that you're doing? Will is a workhorse. He's going to stay quiet. He's going to work hard. 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. Rarely has any mistakes.

26:58What would be a successful season? A national championship? A ring? When? All the games we don't want to lose anything. We got a mindset that we can't beat. We just got to go show it. That mindset, different. It seems like you guys expect a national championship every year. This year even more so. You guys have all come back for this. You guys have all decided like an up and down. Does that feel the difference? Or is it not really any difference? It's just the same work. It's definitely a difference. Everyone working harder. We noticed our last run. Most of us don't have any years after this. So we got to go bigger going home and we're not trying to go home. It's finished big. We know what you guys think of Michigan. But when you look at what they did, they won the national championship. And you guys took them down to the final minute. Right? You know what I mean? You were right there. Something goes a little different. You guys could have won that game against them. Does that tell you anything about like that? Hey, you guys want to win a national championship. But you played to the 59th minute with the team

28:00that won the national championship last year. Like you're that close. So I'm saying we just work harder. That's kind of coach makes of saying, you know, nobody cares. It's work harder. Like those, you know, when we played Georgia, it's the same thing. Yeah. Last, last play, you know, they went on the win in 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 titles. Of course it is, you know, it's frustrating. But you can't change the outcome. You can't really dwell on it. You just got to, you know, come back and work harder. Do things better than you did last year. And hopefully the outcome will change. Is that as you get older, you kind of learn. I thought I was working harder than you always find out there's a little more than you could have been doing. Yeah, definitely. I mean, that's how that's what growing up is basically in college. I thought French 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. So just to learn anything. If the stamina is a 16, then the answer is like, what do you need it to be to be your best?

29:02Uh, 85. 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. So that's the stamina. You young to happen. It's been a thing. The idea of a potential is 16, is that really great. I mean, I'm sad about that idea. Does it make you nervous about, can you last that long? You're really worried. You're worried about that. I think, I think we, I definitely can last. I was just, you know, we got to get the young guys to come along with us. We can't play 50 snaps a game. There's just too much on our bodies. Just everybody. It's like, online, D-Line. We got to get those younger guys to play, you know. Get that pieces on the D-Line and the online. And everywhere else. So we can last that long. Speaking of the top-lice game, I don't know if you like playing that many snaps again. I don't know if any of us were really expected to be playing that many snaps. Uh, yeah, I did. Unless we were like winning by like, a lot.

30:02Uh, I thought like, there are no mom and me, you know, I can go sit down or something. But we're playing them big games like, you know, Notre Dame, too, or North, those kind of games. Of course, I wouldn't be in, because I know I can contribute. And I won't want to put that on anyone else when I know I can get the job done. What stands out about Kevin McDonald? Is he got the key? Have you guys ever seen him? Oh, yeah, definitely. K-Mac is a K-Mac's animal. Y'all, you haven't really seen it yet, but in practice, he shows it all the time. He's just, he's growing right now. He has a work ethic. He just has to get, you know, in a playbook, things like that. You guys are about the exact same size. Listen, you're both listening to 6-3, you're 3-27, he's 3-26. Yeah, he's a very often. I kind of look at him like my junior, but, you know, K-Mac, he's going to be a great player. He's just got to develop more and get into playbook. It's really a lot on you, older guys. There's that large group of young guys, and then there's the seniors in your back. Is that part of your task for this year to bring those guys along as well? Yeah, definitely. It's going to be leaders. Like I said, we've got to have them play this year. We can't just play all the snaps.

31:02They got to get in there and get some work. And we've got to get them right during the all season so they can play. And not just play, they want to like contribute, like, make plays, tackle, and sex. It's a stage I work this first. It seems like these guys get bigger. Each one of the freshmen class is with their group leader. Do those guys kind of, does it kind of why you want to solve the first? Yeah, they definitely use some big dudes. They're all work hard. I've only seen much of some of the day too when I'm passing on. But throughout the workouts, they've been working hard. They're determined. I'd say that. And it looks like they're ready to work at me. How important is those? It feels like there's a lot of great defense. You have big athletic defense attackers who can eat up space. But all of them move, you know, right? That is that. Is that an inquire that maybe from a great defense? To have guys like you that have some fault, but also have great feet. I think that is definitely. I think if you look at the last couple of national championship winners, like Team up North, they got two good, uh,

32:05detacled, two athletic detacles. Look at Georgia, two athletic detacles. I think that's definitely neat if you want to go on that big run and beat those big teams. If you think about that, they're almost defined by the defense attackers. Like, what's Georgia? Jordan Davis and Janet Carter. Let's miss you again. It's Chris Jenkins. Couple more questions. What is it like? How? I mean, you understand because you play it. But I feel like some time, I don't know, people realizing how important defense attackers are. A little bit more than they used to. I think so. I think they're starting to develop more and more of these like freakiest detacles. Yeah. Like in the combine, just now you see in like those guys, they're moving forward to 478s and things like that. So we'll see. And when you think about the freakiest out-line defense attacker, how do you think you fit into that mold of that kind of player? You watch that and say, yeah, that's me. Yeah, definitely. I think I'm top notch when it comes to detacles, but I don't want to, you know, get a big head, but you know, watch it come on. I watch it through the drills.

33:05I have tape here, you're like, you're looking like my film. So I think I'm up there with all these guys. Do you become like a artist who comes to the bad guy's house? I think your legs have your legs. When you're going, you're not doing as much a weapon on the weapon. How do you work on that? Do you have like a goal in mind? I don't remember how many you had last year. You have a goal in mind? How many do you want to have hit us? I mean, as many as I can have, I think I have more than that, but I think they're counting. I think they're counting some of them. It's some of them where I just missed it. But I think we work on drills matching the hand. I think that goes big. What we do is a D line, you know, just affecting the quarterback is, anyway, you can. It's just great for the defense. That little thing covering his eye, you know, he might throw it. A little bit to the left to our player. So it's something that you really, really have to work on. You just threw that with what you do. It's a theory that's one of the things that you've maybe worked on the most. You can bring your time here because there are a few guys that I've seen.

34:06Oh, that pass really takes a little bit. We don't have to ask this. We're kind of kind of expected for something. I think I just have like an eye for the ball kind of. I kind of just look at the quarterback and just, I see him like load up. I just try to get in his ways. And sometimes he just throws it to me. I'm irritated if you want to be a high state quarterback. I'm getting a bad dog passes. I mean, they get frustrated, but you know, we're a team, you know, we're just getting better. I should lot of a lot of different backs, man. They just learn to grow for them. If you got a pick on top three backs, you have to go right now. One, two, three. I don't really have a top three, but I'll give you one. I would say, say, Juan Gibbs and I like McCaffrey. Although he was injured this year, I like McCaffrey. Who's the best back in this draft? Best back in this draft. I lead out of the yard. That's y'all decision. Playing well, Howard.

35:07What I'm going to remember most. We're a Howard, man. He's just 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 going to remember about him. Yeah, he's going to be really good, man. He's on Coach Lock. I think he got the transfer in as well from West Virginia. Just that one, two punch with them both as well. They're going to be really good backs. And so James, people's, man, he's smart. The way that he goes about his business, man. He's mature. And so, man, he's growing, you know, just as a person and as a player. And so, man, yeah, definitely Ohio State. You know, that running back room is in great hands. So, it's right there, like I'm looking at some UFC spotting through that on this top-up base in personality and approach. I'll keep that up until the same end. Yeah. Coach, Coach Hartline, man. He's full of energy, man. And he's creative as well, you know.

36:07I'm just learning from him as well, you know. I'm trying to run more outside the backfield. It was being able to learn from Coach Hartline. And so, he's definitely creative at what he does. And he brings a lot of energy to the team as well. And so, I think that would do really good. I'm just waiting for the playoffs. I'm waiting for the playoffs. That's probably what Coach Tensady just did. Just in Tensady, man. And Tensady, how to playoffs. Every game, man, is like the intensity got, you know, higher and higher. And so, you know, being able, I know in the lead, it's the same thing. Even if it's not the playoffs, just every game and intensity it keeps getting higher and higher. And so, yeah, you just, I know you got to bring it, you know, each and every day and come in and work. And just like Ohio State, you know, I definitely feel like Ohio State. Definitely do a good job of preparing us for that. You know, I just remember even before going through this process, I'll talk to a lot of players before that. And they told me a lot of just about how much Ohio State prepared them, you know, for the NFL. And so, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I know I took a couple of days off after the National Championship.

37:14And then, shoot, right after that, I'm writing Sample Florida and I'm right to it. And so, yeah, I think while I trained, I trained at your performance. I think it's called the House of Athlete or the Compound now. They did a good job, man. They're just bringing us in and the way they went about training us, man. They did a really good job. The Bucking Nears, you know what I have. Temple of Tampa. Tampa, nice. It's a nice city, man. Really nice. The 40, the broad and the vert. You've been in the ball for ages, it's an awesome locker. Do these beat-tier mentality of like when you've got a linebacker or the jab, bigger than you and you're getting ready to score a ball for them? Yeah. Yeah. Nah, man. It's really all about technique. And then it's about mindset as well. And so, I say, you know, it's for the love of my brother. It's for the love of Will Howard. It's for the love of the receivers who I got on the perimeter. Just making sure, you know, first of all, my quarterback doesn't get sacked.

38:15And I tell Will, I think it was before the first game. I was like, I got your brother. It's like, I said, man, I'm not going to let you get hit, you know. And so, I don't know if I gave up a sack. I'm not sure that. But I know if I did, I haven't given up too many. And so, man, it's for the love of my brother's, though, man. Making sure the ball get in their hands, you know, the guys on the outside and making sure they get fed. You had to hit the practice field later today. What is something you've been working on right now, when you need time? In my game, you can't really work on this, you know, in all season. I feel like it's more so, you know, you got to put the pads on. You got to go through some inside run, you know, maybe. It's really just continuing to run through tackles. And so, that's, I feel like that's one of the areas in my game. You know, I want to continue to get better at it. I feel like I did a good job of that in my senior year. And so, I just want to continue to build on that. Yes, I did. Yes, I did. So, people say you look like a little bit more out there. You get back in nursing. I think that would be more. I did meet with New Orleans as well.

39:17I never got that comparison. Actually, I know I have a Camarra shoe. Yeah, man, I have a Camarra great, great back, man. Just what he does and knows, one on one matchups, he's dangerous, man. And he's so smooth. He's so smooth as well. I'm not going to lie. He's smooth. Yeah. Inside zone from stack, being able to hit that thing downhill. And I'll say the next one is probably just an option route out of the backfield. You know, and man and man coverage, you're getting on that line backer. And so. Yeah. Yeah, I say the man the biggest thing is the way that he carries himself, man. And the way that man, he approaches the game. He comes in with the mindset, you know, he's going to work every single week. You know, every practice, you know, he's working hard. You know, even shoot.

40:18I don't know. Every good thing. And he had it. Every game was a good game for him, man. And so, but still, man, he always has the mentality to mindset that, you know, he's going to come in each and every day. He's going to continue to work and get better, man. And so he's definitely man. He's going to be a special player, man. He really is. Man, a lot of ups and downs, man. It's just how you respond to adversity. And I feel like that's something that God has definitely helped me to do better. It's just, I'm not having something to lean on now. You know, I remember before I met him, you know, going through those adversity, I had nothing to run to. You know, you can run to people, but they still can't. It's not too much. They can't truly help you. You know, I feel like, you know, I feel like the only person that can truly help you is your relationship with Jesus Christ. And so, being able to lean on him, you know, he gives you, in those moments, where it's tough, you know, where it's slow. And when you're behind the scenes and you're going through things that people don't know about, he gives you that peace and comfort, you know, even in those moments, man, where it's

41:23so hard that you can't explain. It's like, man, I'm going through this, but like, how am I still filled with this internal joy? You know, how do I have so much peace in this situation? And so, that's something that only Jesus Christ can give you. And so... You know, the back of the firm, you can just empower and judge on this spiritual effect. Which aspect, the future, those other individuals that you run to follow, and from being around, how are you? Man, those guys have such a great mentality, man. I just really love their mentality, especially Q as well. You know, I talked about Will Howard, his leadership, but Quintetown mentality, man, that boy just, yeah, that boy just gifted, you know, you see, you know, sometimes he put in a situation where he looked like, you know, he should have a negative five yards. And as soon as you know it, you know, he, that running through somebody, stiff arm and somebody and shoot, it's a game to 10. It's a... I think, yeah, man, I think it's just like, he's just gifted, man, too, beyond it.

42:29He's just gifted, you know, he's a big back, you know, he's strong and so, you know, he's able to do those things. So, yeah, man, it's definitely, you know, I look at his game and I want to, you know, at the same time, I want to learn from Quintetown. You know, I want to look at his game and it's like, man, where can I get better at as well? You know, that's the type of player I am. I'm always looking to get better, man. I'm always looking to grow as a player. What's your last one to be in San? Julian San. Oh, yeah, he's going to be a great, he's going to be a great quarterback, man. He's so, so accurate. And so, he's definitely, man, I know Coach Dez definitely going to get him right. Just, you know, continue to grow as a leader, continue to grow as a player. And so, he's going to be really good for our state. He's there. I know just the quarterback position. I feel like, you know, the quarterbacks in the past, they've definitely been vocal. And so, I feel like that's something that they're definitely going to ask Julian San as well. It's to be that vocal leader and lead the offense and lead the team. Right, right. Thanks, Trent. You're welcome. Sure, man, he has a bill like JK Dobbins.

43:32And I kind of see them, you know, similar, similarities in their game as well. And I know JK Dobbins, he was a great running back. I feel like he's not talked about his none. A lot, but man, his career here, you watch his highlights is great. I remember before I recruit, before I committed here, I remember watching JK Dobbins highlights like every, every one of his years here, like four or five times. And so, man, he was such a great back. And I feel like, you know, when I see JK Dobbins, when I see James people, I see similarities to both of their games, I feel like they play the same. And so, appreciate you all. Yeah, I've been going on. This...

46:06Well, I got coming in last year. I knew it was all just a tacky everyday, really the same way. It's technically a van's area, right? Physically, how different are you? Weight wise, body wise, all that from the 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 at 244? Or maybe I'll be able to feel like an almost different machine out there. Yeah. I just feel like I'm like, like, more downhill, like stronger, like I'm taking all the bloods better. It's a big move. 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. You've got to get ready to just play 30 more snaps.

47:08So, how would you describe how much you're looking forward to it from an eighth standpoint? Yeah, I'm looking forward to it. I'm ready for it. I'm ready for it. The text is open. It's a rematch. But it's not really two different teams compared to the last time you all played and stuff. How has that enhanced this camp for you and this team getting ready for the where an opener of that magnitude? Yeah, with an opener like that, we've been emphasizing it a lot. We know we got coming. So we know we got to do what we're preparing for it. I think Riley ready to prepare right now. He advanced freshman, like he ended up here in the book. He stood in like he advanced and his measurements was crazy. He saw like the saw line too. Or, like, you said you're ready. What was that process like during last season? Did you feel yourself becoming more and more ready for whatever the team needed for you? Yeah, because that's pretty much what my role was. Which is 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.

48:11When you say ready, is it more a physical thing? Is it a mental thing? When I say ready, I think it's pretty much like everything physically, mentally, mostly. I think I'm there. A different is that feeling this year than last year? I asked a one more time. How different is that responsibility that should be that you should just be emotional about? If it was last year, you knew you were a whole way. I feel like it's a way bigger responsibility with me having to step up this year. But I kind of go about it the same way. Like last year, I was attention to what everything I did. I feel like this year is going to be the same thing. It's probably a little bit more. Is somebody who's some reason that you said help me to try? It won't work? How's anybody working with you? I say, scrawling, now I say, like when you think of me, you would think of like a bullet,

49:13like a silver bullet. I don't really a bullet. I'm always on the ball. That's how I like to play and think. I don't think I'm going to be my nickname. I'm not saying that the nickname is that so. Oh yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's it. How does that fit you? What are you enjoying about the playing in that kind of style? I think it fit me because I just like the defense. I feel like you said we got a lot of freedom and we moving around a lot of the terms. It's like, no, I don't know. I don't really know how to answer that. That's okay. You can go on your instincts a little bit more, maybe. It's not so thinking of too much. I don't even know if I say that because there's a lot of thinking going on. But it's like, I just like his defense. I like how the pressure is different. I like what he got going on. What was it sad when CJ left the ring? No, I wanted to say that. I was kind of like happy for him.

50:13That's what he wanted. No. No. That's my dog. I'm kind of missing a little bit. I'm happy for him. Well, don't thank you. Go ahead. One last question. Coach Daze talked a lot about the guys who played some last year, but maybe weren't the starters and the hunger for 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 along with some of your classmates? Yeah, I do feel like I did win the national championship, but like you said, my role wasn't the same as how it's going to be this year. So yeah, I definitely want to go get another one experienced that feeling with me be on the field, a lot more place. Great. Oh, Bill, thank you very much. Thanks, I got to go. I'm sorry. I mean, I just started off with competing with the other two guys. I feel like I've made a statement on who I am and how I fit this defense and I'm just trying

51:14to build off that and keep playing and my goal is to be better than the other two guys and not let any of the younger guys be better than me. And their goal is the exact same thing and it just builds competition and we're just like getting better every day and there's obviously some stuff. We've all messed up and stuff, but we're getting better every day and just learning. It's pretty exciting, yeah, we're going to have a lot of family members there. A lot of people will be there. I'm pretty excited. Got all my buddies back home, all texting me every day, so yeah, we're pretty pumped. The Ocean delights us as playful otters restore coastal kelp forests. The Ocean teaches us how our choices impact even the deepest places. The Ocean connects us. Visit monoraybayacquarium.org slash connects. CalShe's own CEO says it himself. And yes, two thirds of people on CalShe lose money. So what does it take to be in the other third? You have to do extensive amount of research to be good.

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53:25He's really stepped up as our leader of the defense. Being in his room, I really get to see how he operates every day. He doesn't take a single rep off. He's not just the most vocal leader, but he's also, like, he leads by example. He is one of the biggest, fastest, strongest dudes we have, but he's also the hardest working dude we have. He's never skipping out on recovery, watching film. Literally everything, he represents what a buck-eye football player should be. And just learning from him every day, it's helped me a ton. He's pretty athletic. He knows what he's doing, too. He's a savvy football player. And so it's good having him and the locker right next to me, and us just talking ball every day, and how he could have done this better, and I could have done this better. And we're just making each other better, and we're having fun out there and flying around.

54:36I mean, it's awesome having him, because he really does understand it. I would say he understands it more than most guys. He was a captain, and all American here. And the stuff even he's doing today, every day he'll show some sort of, every single, we're going through camp every day, and he's going, he's posting a picture of every, all American linebacker we've had, and we got to learn about him, not just the brotherhood we have here, but the past brotherhood. So we learn new, all American linebacker every week, and we got to learn what he did for the buck-eyes, and what he did in the league, and stuff like that. And so I think it's helped a lot. He's having the young guys learn the fight song, and pop quiz and them and stuff. So it's great. We're having a lot of fun in the linebacker room. It helps a ton, because when you walk in the linebacker room, when I walked in, I was like, man, this brotherhood is real.

55:39And I have older guys helping me when I got here, because we had a pretty old team last year, and they brought me in, and I came in on a boot, and I didn't know how I was going to go, and they were all cheering me on, even though I was hurt in the weight room. I'm getting cheered on in competitions and stuff like that. And guys, they know your name, and it's helped a lot. And so I think this past year has really helped me bring in the young guys, and help with them, and stuff like that. And we're super tied as a linebacker unit, and so it's been great. This week's all America. Today was Pepper Johnson. So number 98, he was a baller. So we've had one every day. We've had different guys. We had Spielman yesterday. So it's just someone new every day, and it's fun, because you get to hear. Lauren Eyes has a lot of stories about them, which is some funny stories, too. He hasn't posted his yet.

56:40Eventually, I think he will. So we'll see. I think all of them, they're just, like, there's so many that have come through here. And I think it helps. There's a standard. If you play linebacker here, the goal should be the best linebacker unit in the country, across the board, and have the best linebackers. And so I think that's really set a standard for us. And I think that's one of the main reasons I like them so much is that he's not only our personal relationship is great, but like he knows everything about the game. And I'm learning so much every single day. And you can't find a coach who doesn't know more about linebacker than he does. And he's been through every situation. He knows when the offense does this play, what's hard for the linebacker on that play?

57:43And he understands it and finds ways to help us get through those plays and stuff like that. What's it mean to be a higher player? It meant a lot. I feel like it was one of my biggest accomplishments in my life up to now. Obviously, I think the goal one day is to be a captain here, but I feel like being an iron buck, I have a big, big off season and getting bigger and stronger. I think you just made a lot because our teammates vote on it too. And so just knowing that like every day when we do those one-on-one competitions and leading guys, people are noticing that I was giving everything I had. So it meant a lot to have coach make and all of them choose me to be an iron buck. When the time to watch all season is different, you can just enjoy your people, if you had it, what's that one of them? The ocean moves us, whether that's surfing a wave or taking in an inspiring view. The ocean feeds us, sustainable seafood practices bring the ocean's bounty to our plates. The ocean teaches us how our everyday choices, big and small make an impact.

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59:49It's like having an emergency care and a pharmacy right at home. It includes essential prescriptions like a moxasillin and generic z-pack to treat a wide range of common and serious illnesses. So if you wake up sick, at home or on the road, you already have what you need. No waiting for your doctor, no hours at urgent care, no pharmacy lines, no copays. Just match your symptoms to the right prescription in your guidebook or call their telemedicine doctor standing by. Start on your med sooner and feel better faster. Every home needs at least one medical emergency kit. 40 years online in minutes and it's shipped to your door and say $45 with promo code blue at urgentcaredkit.com slash blue. That's promo code blue at urgentcaredkit.com slash blue. Yeah, I mean, I think right off the bat when the last season ended, you know, my goal was to be a starter and ironbuck eye and just taking steps every day. And we read a book, chopwood, care, water, and it's a lot about living in the present. And so I think that's helped, helped all of us a ton is like, what can we do today to be our very best? And so I think that's, that's what's helped me a lot.

1:00:51I mean, I still got a long way to go. So I mean, we still got to play Texas. You did a big, you did a last question. Did that mean you were going to get the best? You did a work that kind of just being you, the best to audience. Yeah, I mean, my parents have instilled a, you know, strong work ethic at me and, you know, not backing down for many situations and stuff like that. And so I think just going in, you know, leading and giving everything I got every day is just, you know, how it happened that I guess. Dick, do it now. Like now that I've, like, there's a name for it. Yeah. But honestly, it's pretty, because like, I've basically like sent, I mean, you can ask like my parents, like, since I was in like middle school, I've never like been like soup, like I just get really excited and I just like start like flexing out. Like since I've been like 11 years old, I've always done that. And yeah, there's like a ton of high school pictures of me doing it. And yeah, that's just what I've always done. So it's pretty funny. I think a big positive for that celebration is like normal people in the stands can do it. Yeah. Which is not the case with some sort of like even I could do the bow flex. Yeah.

1:01:51Yeah. Yeah. There we go. But I like the way he doesn't like he doesn't stand over the quarterback. He's just celebrating like dude, he just like the quarterback. It's time to bow flex. Yeah. Have you heard from either bow flex or bow jangles are from the Carolina. I have not, I mean, I haven't, I guess I haven't done a great job of reaching out, but yeah, I probably shouldn't. Let's go. Well, they should call you. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. If I can't buy the bow meal at Kenan Stadium by Saturday at 8 p.m. Yeah. Do you like the bow seconds and it's kind of hard to say that it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, I like it. I like it. Okay. Um, that's actually interesting because uh, came in actually was the one who made that up last year. Like our first game last year, we played South Carolina and I had like two or one and a half or something like that. And so came in was calling me that last year too. So it was pretty interesting to see like the origins of that. Yeah, just need a little momentum. Yeah.

1:02:51Yeah. Exactly. I was 10% of anything. We had to go to go. Um, were you impressed jealous or something else which Javari Ritzies pick six against Virginia? Oh, no, that's, that, I mean, I'm sure y'all saw the clip too. Like that was all him. Like there was literally like a shallow pat like it wasn't even like a screen or something. The shallow he like tipped it up caught it and then Heisman the quarterback while holding the ball like a loaf of bread in the other hand. And like, I don't know. He's a freak for sure. So I mean, that was just straight impressed there. I don't know. I haven't had an interception here and I don't know if I had any high school either. So really? Yeah, that was, that was pretty sick to see him doing that and like running down the field next because I was on the field at the same time. Yeah. Yeah. Were there any moments where you wondered if he was going to run out of gas? Honestly, no, just because I like, I mean doing like the workouts the whole summer with him like he's a three tech. But like he's not really because like he's just so free like he's big enough to do it.

1:03:51But he's also so athletic for his size that yeah. Now he's a freak for sure. So all right. Tell us a little bit about growing up bow young bow. Tell us a little bit about your background up. Hmm. Um, I started playing football when I was like seven or so. My dad played college football at Yukon. My mom played college volleyball at Yukon. So they were both there and so I always was around athletics pretty much my whole life. We were like super competitive like anytime we get in trouble we'd be doing like push ups and that stuff. I remember when I was like five years old like we'd have a game where like my dad would sail the couch and we'd like go back basically doing like one on one like playing receiver in DB or some. I have two brothers and a sister. So very competitive household. I started playing football when I was like seven or whatever. Mostly because my dad played football into my older brother. I don't know. I'm not sure if you're all familiar with the like the pop Warner Super Bowl stuff where you like you go to Orlando.

1:04:52So my older brother had done that a couple of times. So after that I was like, okay, I definitely want to start playing football. I started playing my dad was my coach. And then we end up doing the same thing. We went to Super Bowl twice since seventh and eighth grade. And then from there is history high school football. Where do you fall in the siblings? So I've won older brother, me younger brother, younger sister. What's the game most likely to cause a fight if y'all are all playing? Oh, definitely basketball. My little brother was a very big who's quite the referee during some of that stuff. He'd always get mad and like call penalties and yeah, definitely. I don't know. We played a lot of basketball. We also we had like our neighbor had like a football. It wasn't it was just like a their front yard was like kind of like curved. So we like play football on that every time and like you can throw the football over the house for like the deep balls and it was cool. But yeah, no, we played we were always outside growing up the whole time. Would you beat your little brother up? The ocean delights us as playful otters restore coastal kill for us.

1:05:55The ocean teaches us how our choices impact even the deepest places. The ocean connects us. Visit monoraybayacquarium.org slash connects. CalShe's own CEO says it himself. And yes, two thirds of people on CalShe lose money. So what does it take to be in the other third? You have to do extensive amount of research to be good. There are people that spend copious amount of money, time, resources, energy. They've dedicated their lives to basically becoming good at it. All that and still. And yes, two thirds of people on CalShe lose money. That's CalShe in their own CEOs words. Go to www.fairpredicts.com to learn more. This is Dave Roberts. If you're heading into summer without a medical emergency kit, you're taking a risk most people don't think about until it's too late. Summer colds linger and can turn into sinus infections at last for weeks. Getting sick right before vacation can derail everything. And we're traveling, finding a doctor and pharmacy is stressful. That's why I ordered medical emergency kit.

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1:08:01I mean, he might have heard of you, but he wanted to get down mom. Yeah, exactly. But yeah, so there was a lot of that going on. I'm sure he could tell you more, but yeah. You were academic all ACC last year. Yeah. And you're in the business school. So I think that's one of those things or no joke. How do you manage your time to do all these things successfully? It's a good question. Um, I don't really know. You just kind of, I feel like if you care about something you can make time, I'm not sure. I've always been like a very big math person my whole life. And luckily for the business school here, that was like the big criteria. Like you do the calculus and the stats and the e-con. So that was kind of right up my alley. Not past my. Yeah. And then also having like good friends to be around. Like I'm sure you all know Will Hardy and Connor are both in the business school with me too. So like we kind of been on the same track our whole career, which has been pretty cool and been nice to have like other people around you to help you get better and stuff. So yeah.

1:09:02That sounds like a very intelligent household you guys have. Yeah. You guys just like Friday night or Saturday night after the game everybody's like out and you're like guys look. We got some e-con we needed. Celebrate like normal with calculus. Yeah, I guess so. I guess. Yeah. What do you like to do outside of football? Hmm outside. I've recently I've gotten into fishing a lot more, which has been we my girlfriend has a beach house or that they live at their from more head city. So I went fishing with her dad and stuff and it was really fun. I don't know. I like to do very spontaneous things all the time. I'm sure I can talk to y'all more about that later, but I don't know. I don't know. But yeah, we I don't know. Me, Connor will do a lot of interesting fun things. I've played a lot of pickle ball and that kind of stuff.

1:10:04I don't know. We did like a whole scavenger hunt one time. It was funny. I don't know. Do a lot of stuff like that. But yeah. Fishing with the girlfriend's dad can be some pressure because like you want to do well, but not too well. Yeah. How did you handle that? I it was kind of he's he was legit. Legit that he's lived his whole life. I was not legit. I caught like maybe two fish the whole time, but it was fun. It was sometimes like the great thing about fidget is kind of like more of like just being out there and like the peaceful vibe was Almost better than actually catching sometimes. So I thought that was pretty cool. You set up a scavenger hunt like well, I'm well actually Connor will set it up. And then he just like randomly like so like me and Connor were roommates will was not at the time. And they just like randomly like put a note card outside my door and then me and Kate law. Yeah, yeah. And we had yeah, they just did a whole spontaneous scavenger hunt. And yeah, it was it was fun.

1:11:06It was very cool day like. It was yeah, it was like six p.m. or seven p.m. And we finished at like 10 p.m. But yeah, there was so even in acting. Yeah, yeah, it was it was fun though. It was very very creative by car well. So there has been a lot that has happened with this team this year both on the field and off the field. Yeah, how have you guys tried to manage all of that? I mean, it's just it's a lot to happen to people. How have you guys tried to manage that maybe individually and together? Yeah, I think it's definitely everybody handles it a lot different. I mean, just a lot of different especially like obviously all this stuff with Tiley can be very tough. For me, I just tried to keep focused on my goals and trying to individually work to get better. Like and focus even more on football and in school and stuff. And I don't know for other people. I think that's kind of like the mindset of the whole team is just we want to move forward and in the right way.

1:12:08And I think that biweek was very important for us to kind of like take a time out, reset mentally and lock back in. And I think that showed pretty well these past two weeks. You're talking about that first biweek. Yeah, the first biweek. What's the best advice you got during that time? I think kind of just that like just focus on what's important and like not let the outside noise affect you too much. And almost like just shut your ears off to the outside noise and just focus on the next thing ahead of you. And Coach Marrakeen talked a lot about like you know you have like the high beams on your cars. Turn the high beams off just focus on what's in front of you right there. And yeah, I think that was pretty good advice. He seems like a really good coach to me. Have you enjoyed working with him? No, he's awesome. Yeah. What is what is that relationship been like? What has been beneficial for you? What's been beneficial? He's just the amount of knowledge he has is pretty insane.

1:13:08Obviously he's in the NFL for a long time and coach some pretty dang good players. But just like being able to watch film with him and be able to look at different tells or he does a big like run cut up every week for what the team's main runs are. Obviously like this week we're playing like week force and they do like the big mesh stuff and so I don't just like little details that a lot of people don't tend to see that we can look closer as he helps a lot of that. Some coach Brown has talked a lot about and this has been a heavy topic for a lot of the year, particularly with the defense of life about rotating you guys in more so that the amount of snaps and everybody plays. The ocean delights us some marvel at the colorful world below the surface. The ocean feeds us others find nourishment and it's bounty the ocean teaches us how our everyday choices impact even the deepest places. The ocean moves us whether we're riding a wave or soaking in its breathtaking beauty.

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1:16:12And then now I'm these past few weeks, I've been getting like 30 something. So for me, I can't speak to the fact of like playing too much and then like body hurting because that wasn't the case for me last year. But I'm sure that like guys like came in and days probably feel that a lot more so being able to stay fresh is a big thing because like, I don't know, like say like you're playing the game for 60 plays and like they're like throwing the ball and you can't even put your best stuff on film really because you're tired and your gas. That doesn't really work well for anybody. Like so like playing more plays is not necessarily equal more production. That's a defending that slumish feels like it would be tough. Yeah. What's what's one or two things I can look for when I'm watching on Saturday that will help me try to be able to figure out what they're doing. These things coach Collins has talked about is just like penetrating like if you sit there just sit on the block and just let them do their thing. It's going to put a big bind on the guys in the back end and because like they have to play the run and the past that whole time.

1:17:14So for us just being able to penetrate and we have some really big strong defensive tackles. So the quarterback will like step up really far when they're riding that match. So for them to be able to get through the line and get in the quarterback's face and again like with him stepping up like getting your hands up was a big thing too. But for us on the edge is just getting off the ball and trying to get to him as fast as we can. That's a big thing putting the pressure on them versus letting them dictate us. That's that's probably the biggest thing I'd say. All right. Three weeks left in the regular season. Yeah. It feels it just feels like a different team. I don't know how else to say it like what what in your mind is kind of the mindset of these last couple of weeks. And what do you think will be important for you guys to continue to play well? Yeah. Mindset wise. I don't know. I think I think we're just starting to focus on like the little things even more and just completely buying into that. And then I don't know.

1:18:14Everybody is since since summer workouts we've always talked about like we break everything down on champions and like we want to be the best thing that we can be. And I think now we're kind of like getting towards that point and just finishing this year like going three and a one these last three weeks. I feel like that's very important to everybody and everybody's pretty bought into that. 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 through a lot of those younger guys. We're seeing it out here. It's the first time I've heard all of your guys here. What's the point? What do you think of Will? Because I kind of felt like life is real forgot about him because he was hurt. Now he's run in almost a second man. Now if I'm new and tied. What have you seen in your memories? Well as a workhorse he goes stay quiet you go and work hard and that's what I love about him. He focuses he don't really talk much. He's going to get the job done do a job right. Rarely has any mistakes. What would be a successful season? A national championship?

1:19:14A ring? When all the games we don't want to lose anything. We got a mindset that we can't beat and we just got to go show it. That mindset different. It seems like you guys expect a national championship every year. This year even more so you guys have all come back for this. You guys have all decided like that. Does that just keep feeling different? Or is it not really any different? It's just the same work. It's definitely a difference. Everyone working harder. We noticed our last run. Most of us don't have any years after this. So we got to go go bigger going home then we're not trying to go home. So it's finished big. We know what you guys think of Michigan. But when you look at what they did they won the national championship. And you guys took them down to the final minute. You know what I mean? I mean you were right there. Something goes a little different. You guys could have won that game against them. Does that tell you anything about like that? Hey, you guys won a winner national championship. But you played to the 59th minute with the team that won the national championship last year.

1:20:14Like you're that close. So I'm saying we just like work harder. That's kind of coach makes a saying you know nobody cares. It's just work harder. Like those you know when we played Georgia it's the same thing. Last play you know they went on the win in 90s. So we just got to get over that hump at the end of the season. I think we'll be fine. How frustrating is that? You're that close against the last two national titles. Of course it's frustrating. But you can't change the outcome. You can't really dwell on it. You just got to come back and work harder. Do things better than you did last year and hopefully the outcome will change. Is that as you get older you kind of learn. I thought I was working hard and you always find out there's a little more than you could have been doing. Yeah definitely. I mean that's how that's what growing up is basically in college. I thought French me here I was working. It's hard as I could but now I look back at it. I really wasn't working hard at all compared to what I'm doing now. So just to learn anything. The stamina is a 16. What do you need it to be to be your best? It's like it's a 75.

1:21:1680 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. Get the shape. The idea of a contingent is 15 and 17 and 17. I have about that idea. Does it make you nervous about can you last that long? I think I think I definitely can last. I was just you know we got to get the young guys to come along with us. We can't play 50 snaps of game. There's just too much on our bodies. Just everybody like online. We got to get those younger guys to play you know get that pieces on the D line and the online and everywhere else so we can last that long. Speaking of the life plan. I don't know if any of us were really expected to be for that next time. Yeah I did unless we were like winning by like a lot. I thought like there are no mom's you know I can go sit down or something.

1:22:17But we're playing them big games like you know Notre Dame too or North. Those kind of games. Of course I want to be because I know I can contribute and I won't want to put that on anyone else when I know I can get the job. What stands out about Taden McDonald's? You got the game. You got some of the second. Oh yeah definitely. K-MAC is a K-MAC animal. You haven't really seen it yet but in practice he shows all the time. He's just he's growing right now. He has to work I think he just has to get you know in the playbook things like that. You guys are about the exact same size. Listen you're both listening six three you're three twenty seven he's three twenty six. Yeah he's kind of look at him like my junior but you know K-MAC he's going to be a great player. He's got to develop more and getting to play. There's really a lot on you older guys there's that large group of young guys and then there's the seniors in the back. Is that part of your task for this year to bring those guys? Yeah definitely we got to be leaders. Like I said we got to have them play this year. We can't just play all the snaps. They got to get in there and get some work and we got to get them right during the all season.

1:23:18So 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 one first in the class. Those guys kind of those are going to kind of while you know so first. Yeah they're definitely some big dudes 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. I can say that and it looks like they're ready to work. How important is those feels like there's a lot of great defense. You have big athletic defense attack to get beat up space. But also move you know right there is that. Is that a requirement maybe for great defense to have guys like you that have some balls but also a great team? I think that is definitely I think if you look at the last couple of nice and championship winners. I like to my North they you know they got to get a detaco to athletic detacles look at Georgia to athletic detacles.

1:24:21I think that's definitely need if you want to go on a big run and beat those big teams. If you think about this they're going to find by the defense attack. What's Georgia Jordan Davis and DL Carter? Let's miss again it's Chris Jenkins. Couple more questions. You know this one is like how I mean you understand it because you play it. But I feel like some time I don't know are people realizing how important defense tackles are? A little bit more than they used to? I think so. I think they're starting to develop to develop more and more of these like freakiest detacles. In the combine just now you see in like those guys they're moving four to four seven eights and things like that. So we'll see. And when you think about the freakish attack how do you think you fit into that. All of that kind of player. You watch that and say yeah that's me. I think I'm top notch when it comes to detacles but I don't want to you know get a big head but you know watch it come on. I watch it do the drills. I have to see it like you're looking like my film. So I think I'm up there with all those guys.

1:25:23Do you become like a artist who comes to batting up passes the thing away. When you're going to bring practice you're not doing as much a weapon or the weapon. How do you work on that? Do you have like a goal one? I don't remember how much you have. You have a goal one. How many of you want to have? I mean as many as I can have I think I have more than that but I think they're counting. I think they're counting some of them and some of them were like just missed it. But I think we work on drills matching the hand I think that's goes big. What we do is a D line you know just affecting the quarter back is. Any way you can is just great for the defense you know just that little thing covering his eye you know he might throw it. A little bit to the left to our player. Something that you really really have to work on. It's a theory that's one of the things that you've maybe worked on the most. It's a good thing you're trying here because there are a few guys that I've seen. Oh that passes. We don't have that. We're kind of kind of expected for the people.

1:26:23I think I just have like a like an eye for the ball kind of. I kind of just look at the quarterback and just I see him like load up. I just try to get his ways and sometimes he just throws it to me. I'm here at the. I mean they get frustrated by you know we're just getting better. I should lot of a lot of different backsman and just learn to grow for them. You got to pick your top three backs and you got to go right now. I don't really have a top three but I'll give you I'll give you one. I would say say Juan Gibbs and I like McCaffrey auto. He was injured this year. I like McCaffrey best back in this drive. I lead out of the yard. That's y'all decision. Playing with Howard what I'm going to remember most.

1:27:23We're 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 going to remember about him. Yeah he's shoot. He's going to be really good man. He's on Coach Lock. I think he got the transfer in as well from West Virginia. Just that one two punch with them both as well. They're going to be really good backs. And so James people's man. He's smart the way that he goes about his business man. He's mature and so man. He's growing you know just as a person in as a player. And so man yeah definitely Ohio State you know that running back room is in great hands. Yeah coach Coach Hartlund man. He's full of energy man and he's creative as well. You know I'm just learning from him as well. You know trying to run more outside the backfield was being able to learn from Coach Hartlund.

1:28:24And so he's definitely creative at what he does. And he brings a lot of energy to the team as well. And so I think they'll do really good. Straight line is all the way from the playoffs. That's what he was most interested in. Just intensity man. And since he got the playoffs every game and it's like the intensity got you know higher and higher. And so you know being able I know in the lead it's the same thing. Even if it's not the playoffs just every game and intensity it keeps getting higher and higher. And so yeah you just I know you got to bring it you know each and every day and come in and work. Just like Ohio State you know I definitely feel like Ohio State they definitely do a good job of preparing us for that. You know I just remember even before going through this process I'll talk to a lot of players before then. And they told me a lot of just about how much Ohio State prepared them you know for the NFL. And so yeah. Yeah. Yeah I know I took a couple days off after the national championship and then shoot right after that.

1:29:28I'm writing right in Tampa Florida and I'm right to it. And so yeah I think while trained I trained at your birth performance. I think it's called the House of Athlete or the compound now. They did a good job man. They're just bringing us in and the way they went about training us man. They did a really good job. The Bucking Nears. No I haven't. Tampa nice. It's a nice city man. Really nice. The 40 to broad and the vert. Yeah. Yeah. No man. It's really all about technique and then it's about mindset as well. And so I say you know it's for the love of my brother. It's for the love of will highway. It's for the love of the receiver. So I got on the perimeter just making sure you know first of all my quarterback doesn't get sacked. And I told will I think it was before the first game.

1:30:30I was like I got your brother. I said man I'm not going to let you get hit you know. And so I don't know if I don't know if I gave up a sack. I'm not sure that but I know if I did I haven't given up too many. And so man it's for the love of my brother's though man making sure the ball get in their hands. You know the guys on the outside and making sure they get fed. You had to hit the practice field later today. What is something you've been working on right now? In my game. You can't really work on this you know in all season I feel like it's more so you know you got to put the pads on you got to go through some inside run. You know maybe it's really just continuing to run through tackles. And so that's I feel like that's one of the areas in my game. You know I want to continue to get better. I feel like I did a good job of that my senior year. And so I just want to continue to build on that. Yes I did. Yes I did. I didn't mean to get back in person. I did mean with New Orleans as well. I never got that comparison actually.

1:31:31I know I'm a good man. I'm a great great back man. Just what he does and those 101 matchups he's dangerous. Man he's so smooth. He's so smooth as well. I'm not going to lie he's smooth. Yeah. Inside zone from stack being able to hit that thing downhill. And I'll say the next one is probably just an option route out of the backfield. You know a man and man coverage. You're getting on that linebacker. And so. Yeah. I say the man the biggest thing is the way that he carries himself man and the way that. Man he approaches the game. He comes in with the mindset you know he's going to work every single week. You know every practice you know he's working hard. You know even shoot him. I don't know every good.

1:32:31I think he had every game was a good game for him man and so but still man he always has him in Tallahidhi the mindset that you know he's going to come in each and every day he's going to continue to work and get better man and so he's definitely man he's going to be a special player man. He really is. I think it's a massive thing. When it was back on him what do you want to stand out for? Man a lot of ups and downs man it's just how you respond to adversity and I feel like that's something that God has definitely helped me to do better. It's just not have something to lean on now. You know I remember before I met him you know going through those adversity I had nothing to run to you know you can run to people but they still can't it's not too much they can't truly help you you know I feel like you know I feel like the only person that can truly help you is your relationship with Jesus Christ and so being able to lean on him you know he gives you in those moments where it's tough you know where it's slow and when you're behind the scenes and you're going through things that people don't know about he gives you he gives you that peace and comfort you know even in those moments man where

1:33:35it's so hard that you can't you can't explain it's like man I'm going through this but like how am I still filled with this internal joy you know how do I have so much peace in this situation and so that's something that only Jesus Christ can give you and so which aspect do you do those other individuals that you want to follow and from being around power to him? Um man eight those guys have such a great mentality man I might just really love their mentality especially Q as well you know I talked about Will Howard his leadership but Quincham and Taldi man um that boy just yeah that boy just gifted you know you see you know sometimes he put in a situation where he looked like you know he should have a negative five yards and as soon as you know it you know he that running through somebody stiff arm and somebody and she that's again a 10 it's uh yeah man I think it's just like

1:34:39he'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 yeah man it's definitely you know I look at his game and I want to you know at the same time I want to learn from Quincham you know I want to look at 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 going to be a great but he's going to be a great quarterback man he's so so accurate and so um he's definitely man I know Coach Dez definitely going to get him right just you know um container grow as a leader container grow as a player and so he's going he's going to be really good for a high state uh he's that I know just the quarterback position um I feel like you know the quarterbacks in the past they've they've definitely been vocal and so I feel 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.

1:35:40Shoot man he has he has a build like JK Dobbins and um I kind of see them you know similar similarities in their game as well and I know JK Dobbins he was a great running back I feel like he's not talked about his none um a lot but man his career here you watch his highlights is great I remember um before I recruit before I committed here I remember watching JK Dobbins highlights like every every um one of his years here like four or five times and so man he was such a great back and um I feel like you know um when I see JK Dobbins when I see um James people I see similarities to both of their games I feel like they play the same and so I appreciate you all

1:38:18so all I got coming in last shot I knew it was all just attack every day really the same way it's taking advantage very well physically how different are you weight wise body wise on that from the year ago um I think I got a lot bigger I'm like 240 you know like 244 right now last year I played it like 236 to 37 what does it feel like 244 you feel like an 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 like more downhill like stronger like I'm taking all the bloods better it's bigger no is it daunting uh maybe that's not the correct term but to think you're going to be playing much more than you did even last year and you played quite a bit last year and stuff what do you have to get straight in your head about being on the field that much more this is gotta get ready to just play 30 more snaps so but are you are you how

1:39:22would you describe how much you're looking forward to it from an eight stand point yeah I'm looking forward to it I'm ready for it I'm ready for it I'm ready for it I think the text is open it's a rematch and so to say but it's not really two different teams compared to the last time you all played and stuff how's that enhanced this camp for you and this team getting ready for the we're an opener of that magnitude yeah with an opener like that we've been um we've been emphasizing it a lot we know we got coming so we know we got to do we've prepared for it I think Riley ready to play right now he he advanced freshman like he ended up hitting the book he stood in like he advanced and his measurements was crazy like he saw like the saw line to him or go like you said you're ready right you know you're ready what was that process like during last season could you feel yourself becoming more and more ready yeah cuz 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

1:40:27when I say ready I think it's pretty much like everything physically mentally most of me I think I'm there a different is that feeling this year is analyzed oh asked a one more time how different is that responsibility um I feel like it's uh it's a way bigger responsibility with me having to step up this year but I kind of go about it the same way like last year I was intentional with everything I did I feel like this year it's gonna be the same thing it's probably a little bit more it won't work I was buddy where do I see uh I say describe like now I say like when you think of me you would think of like a like a bullet like a silver bullet but I'm really a bullet I'm always on the ball that's how I like to play a thing

1:41:30you know I ain't I ain't got to be my nickname but I'm not saying that the thing can be that's all right oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah that's like 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 you know I don't know I don't really not answer that that's okay does it you get to go on your instincts a little bit more maybe and it's not so thinking of too much I don't even know if I say that because there's a lot of thinking going on but it's like I just like it's defense I like I'm pretty different because I like what you got going on uh now I want to say that I was kind of like happy for you like yeah that's what you want don't listen to that no no that's my dog I'll say yeah kind of missing a little bit but yeah

1:42:33I'm happy for you don't thank you go ahead one last quick coach days talked a lot about the guys who played some last year but maybe weren't the starters and the hunger for that wasn't maybe your national championship you guys will win your own yeah how much do you feel that as a guy who certainly contributed last year but will be in this bigger role and along with some of your yeah I do feel like um yeah I do feel like I did win a nati ladship but like you said my role wasn't same as how's gonna be this year so yeah I definitely want to want to go get another one experienced that like feeling we need to be on the field a lot more place it's great oh bell thank you very much thank you when we were talking to you during the week you said last game didn't go great so how would you say this game went for you uh me it was a solid I think offense played a good game uh you know definitely execute in the run gaming in the past game as well um I'm not gonna lie to you I think I saw a color stat line he has four incompletions all over to me so I'm not very happy about that we definitely I get that fixed but uh

1:43:33we'll continue to build on our chemistry and as I see things on your first experience playing here at home was that like for you it was great it was great um now that crowd was rocking the energy was you know amazing um a super happy that everybody came out and supported the Cardinals so hopefully they continue to come out I think it's more wins well that first time I fell in touch now feeling like well great um regimental hopefully they confirmed it as I was going through everything I know it was close but uh definitely a great player there hard was this past week just coming off of uh performance that you're not usually don't uh have how hard was it just to kind of get to this next Sunday um I think you can never get too high never get too low um last week I know it's gonna get too low this week I'm not gonna get too high on a successful day so uh I need you to try to approach each game with the same mindset at the same preparation same routine no matter how the results are obviously if things are going bad got to change some things but uh not they never had any lack of confidence in myself or the rest of the team so I've

1:44:36routine to get better each and every week and um continue to grow. Does it have to get into the flow immediately you know you make a play really in the game does it help? uh it helps definitely helps a little bit uh I think every receiver can tell you that once you get the ball your hands a little bit especially early on the game uh it kind of could just relax and just go and play freely especially for me um I'm still what's my second game really so I'm still trying to get used to everything and uh I think it'll all start to you know develop and grow second touchdown why did you break that route deep? yeah kind of saw the pre snap um based on the play that we called I know I kind of had to over-round and no once a kind of scramble to the right roll to the right I kind of feel like there is only nobody deep there and obviously with Kyler and his ability to extend the play you always got to be ready and kind of have an priests nap you know what I want to do if he starts to scramble so um I just took a high you know obviously great vision uh he saw me and we connected on a big play there. Yo when you don't did you think you were going to get to the goal line or were you where you're going to be? Oh no I did once I took off I was getting an end zone for sure um

1:45:38and that JG always tell us not to reach so I'm sorry he's gonna tell me about that but uh um glad I made the play for sure. What was another scramble? Off-scatial what's a key for you to help? Get open um make sure he can see you first and foremost uh get open find open space make yourself available. On the second scramble drill on the left side line was that intentional you kind of stepped back they did the safety then you went deep was that intentional? What's going through your mind there is just kind of all based on the field? Yeah I mean it's a little bit of field obviously um now I kind of saw the deep fence that there was no way deep and uh you know kind of once I came back to Kyla I knew he would kind of drive on it uh and then kind of you made a you turn and took it deep and obviously with Kyla's vision like I said his building is in the play second to none and um you know I was in grateful he saw me. On that first test sounds is does it all feel familiar when you score and paris is lifting you out? Yeah definitely um we've been talking about that for a while now so I'm glad we got the fight because he has to do that. Are you feeling good Kyla? You can come for it, really? Yeah I mean I think it's great obviously

1:46:43his skill setting his ability um he can do everything on the football field obviously from in the pocket extended to play now I think I'll do I do a good job of you know getting myself open when the play breaks down obviously that's one of his best abilities obviously in the pocket have everything one time I feel like I'm pretty good route runner so now I can get open on time and on schedule and we kind of just I do our thing from there. Mike said you didn't change anything about your pretty good routine. Did you think about it? Did you think about changing anything up or did you know I got to just do the same thing? No I can't change anything up just off of one one week um I think more than more brilliant anything the process is probably the most in the critical and important factor to anything the results are going to be what they're going to be depending on the week depending on the defense how the game flows so the results come very but long as your process stays the same I think that's most important. What are your catches more of it there's a defender draped all over you what does more for your confidence or validate your confidence that or scoring the touchdowns? I'm just happy because it's a completion um no however however it comes it comes I'm just going to do my job to get open and catch the ball for Kyler

1:47:48and uh I just go from there really. Mike said that he texted you after the game while how sweet to kind of give some words of wisdom what does it mean to have the support of some of that your locker made over there? Yes I couldn't ask for a better teammate really than Mike and just to really rest the receiver room since the first day I got there they've always had my back always wanted to support me um the that receiver room is great I've been a lot of special receiver rooms from a talent standpoint and the talent's just up there as you know with the rest of them but just the characters and persons personalities in that room is really second to none so um I'm super thankful they always have my back and I was in they always have their back as well um but no Mike for him to do that definitely meant a lot to me and obviously we do everything pretty much together we do on jug machine throughout the week we're always on jug machine um just to find it any way that we can you know make each other better so I have a teammate like Mike like I said you know he's been great and I wouldn't ask for anybody better. Did you feel like you left some meat on the bone in terms of the plays that you could have made and then how much does he have to kind of fuel you for next week? Definitely like I said for a conclusion for Kyler and they were

1:48:52all to me it's definitely um you know unacceptable and you're continuing to get better um develop that chemistry develop that relationship as you get more getting rid of some sort of come so week two we have 15 weeks left so um I'm not worried uh continue to get better like I said. When did you realize that all the physical completions were targets for you? Well look at the the stat or the stat sheet a box score whatever it is kind of on a sideline um it was very disappointed you know that's all that you have a color region was telling us in the locker-american game you're wondering if you would have some jokes for the team this week in in meetings yeah they've been on the and all obviously all the rookies have kind of had to stay jokes before the meetings um it's not really my personality I kind of just sit there and uh listen to the coaches but um I told them we'll see we'll see about that you like it's time to deliver though he said to be an oliaman you would have been fine by now uh yeah um like I said the receiver room they're the great job of uh not having me do too many no outlander

1:49:53things and like I said I couldn't ask for a better receiver room how many texts did you have when you checked your phone after the game uh master really haven't gotten around to it yet I just kind of enjoyed the win with my teammates um obviously that's our first win of the year against the division opponent um I'll build a lot of momentum going forward performance like this I was just asking what are performance like this says about the offense in in big situations hostile environments um just putting it all together what does that say about what this team can do moving forward I think within a building we think we have the best offense and it felt just from a talent standpoint uh who the coaches are um it is obviously with one back there we can do anything um I think we have continued to show that improve that on a weekly basis and uh we'll continue to get better obviously the whole offensively hasn't had much you know in game action just yet really really the only second game so continue to grow and I'm a superstar to see where we go from here

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1:53:10we plan as much so I just wanted to get like more experience under my belt so I can bring younger guys with me because I've been through a lot. One of those younger guys we're seeing it out here it's the first time it's heard all your life years. What have you seen from Will? because I've actually never really ever got about it because he's heard it now he's running you know almost a second man out of five. You're tied. What have you seen in the medical emergency kit? Will is a workhorse he he goes stay quiet he's going to work hard and that's what I love about he focuses 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 single national championship? By ringing 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. Seems like you guys expect the national championship over here this year even more so you guys have all come back with us as if all decided like that. Is that this could kill a difference or is there not really any difference it's just the same

1:54:12work? 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 you you were right there something goes a little different you guys could have won that game against them. Does that tell you anything about like that hey you guys want to win a national championship but you played to the 59th minute with the team that won the national championship last year like you're that close. 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 when we played Georgia it's 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 titles? Uh of course as you know it's frustrating but you can't change the outcome you can't really do

1:55:16other one uh do I own it you just got to you know come back and work harder do things better than you did last year and hopefully the outcome will change. As soon 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 and you could have been doing it. 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 now I look back at it I really wasn't working hard at all compared to what I'm doing now so just to learn anything. The stamina is a 16 and the answer to like what do you need it to be to be your best? 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 that's all on me I just got to run harder in shape. So that's the stamina I see you guys are hard and it's fun to thank you. The idea of potentially the 16 and 17 and 17 and I see you guys are the side of about that idea that's a make you nervous about can you last that long? You're worthy of it. I think I think I definitely get last I was just you know we got to get the young guys

1:56:22to come along with us we can't play 50 stamps again that's just too much on our bodies uh just everybody like online D line we gotta get those younger guys to play you know get that pieces on the D line and online and everywhere else so we can last that long run. Speaking of the life plan I'm not sure if you like playing that movie snap to me last year if you love me I don't know if any of us were really expected to be like that next time. Ah yeah I did unless we were like winning by like a line uh I thought like there are no moments you know I can go sit down or something but we're playing them big games like you know Notre Dame too or North those kind of games of course I want to be because I know I can contribute and I won't want to put that on anyone else when I know I can get the job done. What stands out about Kaden McDonald's you got the key you guys in a second? Oh yeah definitely K-Mac is a K-Mac's animal y'all you haven't really seen it yet but in practice he shows all the time he's just he's just he's growing right now he has a work ethic he just has to get you know in the playbook and things like that. You guys are about the exact same size

1:57:22it's listed you're both listed six three you're three twenty seven he's three twenty six. Yeah he's I kind of look at him like my my junior but you know K-Mac he's going to be a great player he's got to develop more and getting a playbook. It's really a lot on you older guy there's that large group of young guys and then there's the seniors in your back is that part of your cast for this year to bring those guys along as well. Yeah definitely we got to be leaders um like I said we got to have them play this year we can't just play all the snaps they got to get in there and get some work and we got to get them right during the all season so they can play and not just play they want to like contribute like make plays tackle sex. I see like these guys get bigger each one first in the class because they're bigger the those guys kind of those are going to kind of why you want to sell them first. Yeah they're definitely some big dudes um and they all work hard I'm really seeing much it's only a day two when I'm passing on but throughout the workouts they've been working hard you know they they're determined I'd say that and it looks like they're ready to work with me.

1:58:24How important this notes feels like there's a lot of great defenses that you have big athletic defensive tactics you can eat up space but also move you know right through that because that's an environment maybe for great defense to have guys like you that have some balls but also have great feet. I think that is definitely I think if you look at the last uh a couple of national championship winners uh like seem up north they didn't know they got too with uh detaco two athletic detacles look at Georgia two athletic detacles so I think that's definitely neat if you want to go on that big run and beat those big teams. If you think about this they're going to find why the defense attack is like what's Georgia Jordan Davis and James Carter let's miss again it's Chris Jenkins. Couple more questions we find this funny like how I mean you understand it because you play it but I feel like sometimes 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

1:59:26to develop more and more of these like freakiest detacles yeah like in the combine just now you seeing like those guys they're moving toward the 478s and things like that so we'll see. And when you think it when you think about this freakish attack how do you think you fit into that mold of that kind of player? You watch that and say yeah that's me. Oh yeah definitely I think I'm top notch when it comes to detacles but I don't want to you know get a big head but you know watch it come on I watch it do the drills I have tape here you're like you're looking like my film so I think I'm up there with all those guys. Do you become like a artist who comes to batting up guys? Think your legs have your things. I mean you're going you're not doing as much a weapon on the left hand. That's how do you work on that? Do you have like a goal in mind? I don't remember how many you had last year but you have a goal in mind. I mean as many as I can have I think I have more than that but I think he said it. I think they can count some of them and some of them were like just listed so

2:00:26but I think we work on drills 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 you covered is I you know he might throw it a little bit to the left to our players. So it's something that you really really have to work on. You can do that with what you do. It's really that's one of the things that you can maybe work on the most. You can bring your time here because there are a few guys that I've seen like oh that past few guys. We don't have to ask this kind of kind of expected for the future. 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 way and sometimes he just throws it to me. I don't know how your stages if you like to be a high state quarterback student. I think you're bad down fastest. I mean they get frustrated by you know we're a team you know we're just getting better. I should lot of a lot of different backs man they just learn to grow for them. You gotta pick your top three backs and you gotta go right now. One two three.

2:01:27Uh I don't really have a top three but I'll give you I'll give you one. I would say Sequan 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'll lead out of the yard that's y'all that's y'all decision. Playing with Will Howard when I'm going to remember most. We're a Howard man he's just such a great lead such a great leader man. It's just like in moments where you know usually a lot of players they fold man. He was just always calm and relaxed man. He just the leader that he was man that's one thing I'm going to remember about him. Yeah he's shoot he's going to be really good man. He's um Coach Lock I think he got the transfer in as well from West Virginia just that one two punch with them both as well they're going to be really good backs and so James

2:02:28people'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 as a person in as a player and so man yeah definitely Ohio State you know that running back room is in great hands. Yeah um Coach Coach Hartlum man he's full of energy man and he's creative as well you know I'm just learning from him as well you know I'm trying to run more outside the backfield was being able to learn from Coach Hartlum 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 they'll do really good. Um just intensity man then since he got the playoffs um every game man it's like the intensity got you know higher and higher and so um you know being able I know in the lead it's it's the same thing even if it's not the playoffs just every every game and intensity it keeps getting higher and higher so yeah you just I know you got to bring it you know each and every day and come in

2:03:32and work just like Ohio State you know I definitely feel like Ohio State they definitely do a good job of preparing us for that you know I just remember even before going through this process I'll I'll talk to a lot of players um before then and they told me a lot of just about how much Ohio State prepared them you know for the NFL and so yeah yeah yeah I know I took a couple days off after the um national championship and then shoot right after that I'm right in right in sample Florida and I'm right to it and so um yeah I think while I trained I trained at um your morph performance um I think it's called the House of Athlete or the compound now um they did they did a good job man they're just bringing us in and the the way they went about training us man they were they did a really good job the bucket near you know I haven't tamper tamper nice this is nice it's a nice city man really nice

2:04:32uh the 40 to broad and avert so you think uh yeah uh yeah no man uh 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 receivers who I got on the perimeter just making sure you know um first of all my quarterback doesn't get sacked um and I I told will I think it was before the first game I was like I got your brother it's uh I said man I'm not gonna let you get hit you know um and so 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 brother's though man making sure the ball get in their hands you know the guys on the outside and making sure they get fed in my game uh you can't really work on this you know in all season I feel like it's more so

2:05:36you 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 to run through tackles and so that's I feel like that's one of the areas in my game you know I want to continue to get better I 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'm a Camera shoe yeah man I've come here great great back man um just what he does and those 101 matchups he's dangerous man and he's so smooth he's so smooth as well I'm not going to be like he's smooth yeah um inside zone from stack being able to hit that thing downhill and I'll say the next one it's probably just an option route out of the backfield you know a man and man coverage you're getting on that linebacker and so

2:06:47yeah I say the man the biggest thing is the way that he carries himself man in the way that man um he approaches the game he comes in with the mindset you know he's going to work every single week you know every practice you know he's working hard you know um even shoot I don't know every good I think he had every game was a good game for him man and so but still man he always has him in Tallahdee the mindset that you know he's going to come in each and every day he's going to continue to work and get better man and so he's definitely man he's going to be a special player man he really is man a lot of ups and downs man it's just how you respond to adversity and I feel like that's something that God has definitely helped me to do better is this um and I 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

2:07:49truly 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 um even in those moments man where it's so hard that you can't you can't explain it's like man I'm going through this but like how am I still filled with this internal joy you know how do I have so much peace in this situation and so that's something that only Jesus Christ can give you and so man those guys have such a great mentality man I might just really love their mentality especially um Q as well you know I talked about Will Howard his leadership but Quencia I'm a mentality man um that boy just yeah that boy just gifted you know you see you know sometimes

2:08:55he put in a situation where he looked like you know he should have a negative five yards and as soon as you know it you know he that running through somebody stiff arm and somebody and she just gained a 10 it's uh yeah man I think it's just like he's just gifted man to be honest he's just gifted you know he's he's a big back you know he's strong and so um you know he's able to do he's able to do those things and so yeah man it's definitely you know I look at this game and I want to you know at the same time I want to learn from Quencia you know I want to look at this game is like man where where can I get better at as well you know that's the type of player I am I'm always looking to get better man I'm always looking to grow as a player Julian San oh yeah he's gonna be a great but he's gonna be a great quarterback man he's so so accurate and so um he's definitely man I know Coach Dez definitely going to get him right just you know um continue to grow as a leader continue to grow as a player and so he's going he's gonna be really good for high state uh he's uh I know just a quarterback position um I feel

2:09:59like 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 him Julian San as well it's to be that vocal leader and lead the um and lead the offense and lead the team shoot man he has he has a build like JK Dobbins and um I kind of see them you know similar similarities in their game as well and I know JK Dobbins he was a great running back um 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 um when I see JK Dobbins when I see um James people I see similarities to both of their games I feel like they play the same and so appreciate

2:12:54you all I got coming in last year I knew the role so I just attacked Eric Dave really the same way it's taking advantage very rare physically how different are you weight wise body wives on that from the year ago um 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 what does it feel like a 240 for a belt you feel like an almost a different machine out there yeah what does it what does it feel like to be running around out there like you are but with more uh more back I just feel like I'm like like like like more downhill like stronger like I'm taking on blood's better it's bigger yeah is it daunting uh maybe that's not the correct term but to think you're going to be playing much more than you did even last year and you played quite a bit last year instead of what you have to get straight in your head about being on the field that much more this is got to get ready to just play there any more snatch so

2:13:57how would you describe how much you're looking forward to it from an eight stand point yeah I'm looking forward to it I'm ready for it I'm ready for it I'm ready for it I think it's not really two different teams compared to us time y'all play this stuff how does that enhance this camp for you and this team getting ready for they were an opener with that magnitude yeah with an opener like that we've been um we've been emphasizing it a lot we know we got coming so we know we got to do we're prepared for it I already just probably worked it I think Rowley ready to prepare right now he he advanced freshman like he ended he in the book he stood in like he advanced and his measure was crazy like he saw like a saw like to say you're ready what was that process like during last season could you feel yourself becoming more and more ready the team needed yeah because that's pretty much what my role was just whenever I was needed I had to step up so I feel like that's what built me into me being able to say I'm ready for this year when you say ready is it more a physical thing

2:15:01a mental thing when I say ready I think it's pretty much like everything physically mentally mostly I think I'm there a different is that feeling this year than last year oh asked one more time how different is that responsibility 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 it won't work I was by word you watch uh I say I say scraw my game I say like when you think of me you would think of like a like a bullet like a silver bullet like I'm really a bullet I'm always on the ball that's how I like to play a thing

2:16:07no I ain't I ain't gotta be my nickname but oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah that's like oh think it fit me because I don't know I just like the defense I feel like we got like you say we got a lot of freedom and we moving around a lot a lot a lot of the terms is like no I don't know I don't really not answer that that's okay does it you know you can go on your instincts a little bit more baby and it's not so thinking of too much I don't even know if I say that because there's a lot of thinking going on but it's like I just like it's deep I like how it's pretty deep because I like what you got going on now I wanted to much sad I was kind of like happy fun like yeah that's what you want all right no that's my dog I'll say yeah kind of missing a little bit but yeah I'm happy fun

2:17:09though oh well don't thank you go ahead one last question coach days talked a lot about the guys who played some last year but maybe weren't the starters and the hunger for that wasn't maybe your national championship you guys know in your own yeah how much do you feel that as a guy who certainly contributed last year but will be in this bigger role and along with some of your your classmates yeah I do feel like um yeah I do feel like I did win a nadi last year 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 maybe on the field a lot more place this is great oh well thank you very much thanks thanks to court of act left hand to quarterback he's very smart he doesn't really take too many chances he knows what he wants to do he goes through as easily well so that's a very toxic quarterback I've been very top of the year I think you just get me right to get back

2:18:13to what a lot of the process like to address that and how different being just as the name that's fell you guys in front of the more sense of the play if you mentioned the court of our ex-guys and I've seen what's more than the best in terms of your big grunt seems to go from the outside like it's pretty yes that's a really stupid way what was it like in this interview in that room you know what those dates you guys sort of changed over maybe some lost things so yeah he's just here being simple and trusting the guys you know we have so much trust in the coaches you know make the right uh you know the changes and of course to be the best position possible and I think maybe just that I think for us we just had to go out there and do the copp and stuff the plan whatever the players call whatever maybe just go out there execute what the impression is execution is a lot of the motive so I mean we call it but as long as everybody's mindset has one mentality is just go getting you know make sure there's no game I think that changes the mindset everybody on the suitable against it

2:19:15you have to be right on being changed and you all and as they were arguing take your horse uh I mean at first like you know it was a tough loss so you know as any it felt like everything was big but then when you kind of just take your time to look at everything and analyze everything it was just like man we just we just need to keep everything simple um make everything and just just about us and you know not like feel like we're um you know making everything about them it's you know we we can dictate what they do and I think that was the mindset it made letterman wrong yeah uh JT I know you get to watch a little bit of video of Caleb and Lathen and Jordan what stands out about that group from your from your vantage point oh they're expected they're relentless man I mean Lathen uh Caleb and I mean everybody in that BIA core yes they can cover but you know when it's time to you know stop the run they'll they'll come down 12 yards out however however they however far off the front line scribbles and coming you know those are the nose in there and you know I respect them for that because you know there's gonna be times where we need them make them tackles and I mean they're displaying it this whole season

2:20:15yeah how critical are they in a game of this magnitude obviously everybody's critical but you know me that yeah sort of the last line of defense but sometimes the last line of defense is in the middle of it yeah um I mean they play a huge role I mean like you said it takes everybody from the front for it's like a check reaction the front foot don't do their job then you know falls you know the back end so we off to work as a collective unit and I think there's a reason that there's 11 of us out there and you know it's crazy if more person do their job then you know something you go wrong but if we just all continue to stay uh communication with one another uh continue to just lay each other know we have each other's backs and just trust one another and man I think that that uh that performance is gonna be off the charts well for the right now yeah uh this that we asked you to see how would you describe the mentality of the defense right now being this opportunity for a red map of the warden yeah hungry and thankful I mean uh we know how the last last time when you know we uh we had a chip on our shoulder I mean we were riding high before that game and we took that loss and we came back had to make a couple changes but I think we understand what you know everything's that stake right now um

2:21:16you know uh just fighting to where another house stages for next game that's what's on stake and just to be able to represent this uh this state and this uh this team I mean we understand what's uh what's on the line and you know we're just hungry and blessed that we get this opportunity playing the Rose Bowl right behind your back of the game what do you remember most about walking off the field in Eugene what was kind of all your minds in that moment I just uh I mean there is a uh I don't think anybody imagined it imagine us losing um you know I didn't uh that's for sure and I think after that it was uh kind of hit deep uh I understand it that man we still there's still a lot of ball left to be played I mean you can let it sting for a little bit but you know if you let it carry over too long then you know there there goes there goes your whole um season by thing we did a great job of just understanding coming together in this room right here um not being afraid to display um or hold accountability for one another and you know as as that happened

2:22:20you came back regrouped and you know we're just you're just going right now um and I'm just blessed for those specific moments you know losing I mean no one wants to lose but the the testimonies and the things you're taught within those little situations speaks of all of you. That's our old rock, Vladimir Drill. Hey, Jay, what did you see from Kenya? That the last couple of weeks that was there like a push from him and then there were many conversations with him and we could see like he's playing some of the best football and things. Yeah I mean that's that's my boy he's in the R2X club too but um you know uh Kiyada I mean every time there's his numbers call he goes out there and makes the most of it um no no matter uh where where we at in the game when he goes out there he's just hungry you wants to go make plays and and you know we see it in practice so it's not surprising to us. Bill Rebino has put this back. Dylan Gabriel is obviously very elusive in her talent and he's not very tall um how important it could be to just kind of stay in your past rush lanes and neglect a lot of balls and kind of

2:23:23make a difference that way. Yeah I think it just comes on being disciplined uh no one who you're playing against like you said Dylan he's uh he sure but he's very elusive I mean he can he is making throws I mean he get out the puck he can do everything um so I think for us we just have to discipline and just continue to just uh meet with Coach Jay me with uh coach knows and understand how we can uh just eliminate that. I should about you and Jack I mean your personality seems to be a little different you're more on the quiet side he's yeah how about you play together four years both five store guys kind of describe your relationship with him uh friendship with him and just kind of how you complement each other. Man that's uh that's my brother like he said um we're different but very alike um think outside I'm like you said he's louder I'm quiet but you know once we're on that field we're like the same person um we'll do anything for this team you know we'll die for our players and we'll give everything we got. Room together for four years right? Yeah fall camp every room yeah sometimes go over there so over there so yeah.

2:24:27There's a neat one who's the messing one? Uh we have our share of days when we when I'm neat he's neat or you know we might both be messy but we do a good job yeah uh I'd probably say I would better kick the jack though. Tony Gertman, Buck I Hell. When you're playing a team for the second time and that was almost a season to go by now. Yeah how much of uh are you at square one with with this scouting and preparation or how much do you take from that game and how much do you avoid taking so that you don't have any preconceived notions of what you're going up against offense on the offense line? I'll say it's it's pretty 50-50 I mean uh that game like you said it was a while ago but at the same time they elevated as a team so did we so we understand that they they had they made some changes for sure um you know there's team there's a certain density we can take back from that game but we also understand that um they went on a little run after that and we can see that they elevated as an offense so we just got to continue to watch those games dissect other games and just continue to see um what stands out and what they change from the for the past game.

2:25:30We got a couple calls on zoom that will wrap up with uh first we have uh Nick Hamilton from nightcast media Nick. I just wanted to ask you basically about the synergy of this defense and how you guys were able to not only celebrate the triumphs but get through the adversity be able to be this top notch defense that you are in college football today. Here you have the question one more time yeah no problem uh I want to ask you about the synergy you are able to develop over the course of the season obviously celebrating the triumphs but also getting through the adversities to where you are all the top notch defense that you are today. Yeah uh I mean like you said that we went through a lot of trials to trials um but there's also there's a lot things we can take away from all the wins and losses um and from those those wins we understood that hey we can be the best defensive country and from those losses we understand that there's still um things that need to be fixed and I think when you take all that in at once

2:26:31that comes out to the the common goal or the common talk which is you can there's always learning points everywhere and depending how we dissect those games or how we just continue to come as one and elevate um you know we we continue to just um collect all those those learning points and just continue to grow from them. The ocean moves us whether that's surfing a wave or taking in an inspiring view. The ocean feeds us sustainable seafood practices bring the ocean's bounty to our plates. The ocean teaches us how our everyday choices big and small make an impact. The ocean delights us as playful otters restore coastal kelp forests. The ocean connects us. Find your connection at monoraybeacquarium.org slash connects. Calhchis own CEO says it himself. And yes two thirds of people on Calhchis lose money. So what does it take to be in the other third? You have to do extensive amount of research to be good.

2:27:33There are people that spend copious amount of money, time, resources, energy, dedicated their lives to basically becoming good at it. All that and still. And yes two thirds of people on Calhchis lose money. That's Calhchis in their own CEOs words. Go to www.fairpredics.com to learn more. Hi this is Dave Roberts heading into summer without a medical emergency kit. That's a risk. Summer colds can linger and getting sick on vacation can derail everything. That's why everyone needs a medical emergency kit. It includes doctor prescribed medications to treat common and serious illnesses. So if you wake up sick at home or on the road, you already have what you need. It's like having an urgent care and pharmacy at home. Say 45 dollars with code blue at urgentcare kit.com slash blue urgentcare kit.com slash blue. JT what have you guys done better in the first in the Tennessee game and just late in the season,

2:28:34do you think about turning some of the pressures that you've got on quarterbacks in the sacks and getting home in some of those situations? Yeah I think it was more just understanding the defense as a whole, understanding everybody's job. The thing has the season went on. We have to understand that. We have to know what's going on in the back can. We have to know what's going on. The linebacker crew to understand what plays we have room of freedom. And I think once we understood that and got a better understanding of everybody's job. I mean it showed this play because everybody knows what each other is doing. It's not like the linebacker know what they're doing. The corners and B.I. they know only their job. I think we all know each other's job and we continue asking each other questions on if they're bliss and how they can get to the quarterback and if I'm dropping playing quarterbacks by I can ask Cody on how to open field tackle. So we just kind of lean on each other's understanding because like I said, like Denzel knows how to play corner-bending then I know how to play corner. So you know he has more wisdom at that position than I do.

2:29:36JT thank you very much. Thank you. It's a yes of course when we have will that when he's firing it's ultimately going to help our whole team. But that's the kind of the mindset that we have for everybody is that we all need to be doing our part and doing our job and ultimately we have the guys we have the talent. And so you look up at the scoreboard and like we're at. Scotty will let you have a couple of zoom questions and you have them there? Yes sir our first question is going to come from Michael Cohen. Michael go ahead. Do you want to try to throw that first punch early in games? There's different ways you could try and do it to do so vertically in the passing game aggressively. Like where does that come from? Is that a coach day message? A coach Kelly message somewhere else just to attack in that way in particular deep down the field repeatedly? Yeah I think that's just our entire identity as an offense. I think yeah definitely coach day and coach Kelly they kind of install that that mindset is that we're not we're not going to hold back we're not going to hold back we're going to come after them. It's sometimes coming after an offense or sorry coming after a defense doesn't always look like

2:30:40taking a 50 yard 60 yard shot down the field. Sometimes that's just we're going to run the ball right at you. And so I think it's yeah that's just kind of the mindset behind it that we're going to come right after you guys despite how it looks it might be a vertical throw or it might be to it might be running in between the tackles but the whole message stays the same is that we're going to be dominant we're going to be the proactive ones that we're going to throw the first punch. Next one's going to come from Dan Hope. Dan go ahead. G you mentioned that you guys need to upgrade every week. How do you guys make sure you keep that same edge you've had you don't get complacent when you've played as well as you have the last two games. Yeah I think that's everybody's job in here and I think a special a special emphasis on our coaching staff that they have a responsibility to make sure from top to bottom that this thing stays like a run well ran oiled machine and I think they do a great job at that one thing that don't allow us to do around here is get complacent or to be comfortable with wins although you know coach data is a great job he tells us all the time you know to whenever we win these games he says

2:31:44enjoy this win for 24 hours you know be able to feel it it's important to celebrate your victories but when you come back in your 24 hours later run it the next week it's too competitive about here playing out of how to stay you can't lose football games and so the whole goal is to celebrate the victory but you know get your head down and get right back to work whether you win or you lose or whatever it looked like last week to get your head back down and get back to work and show up for Tuesday practice and get ready to roll again. Our final one from zoom is going to come from Kirk Bowles. Kirk go ahead. Hey G I don't know if you even watch the Texas game or what are their tape they obviously blew a 16 point lead and the way you guys are riding high dominating do you feel like that gives you an edge and confidence in this game and do you think you all play a more physical brand of football than Texas? No I wouldn't say that we find our confidence in anything that an opponent would do like I mentioned a moment ago we all of our confidence and all of our motivational all of our motivation comes internally.

2:32:49We don't look at an opponent and say you know they blew they blew a 16 point lead or so we're going to give us more confidence that you know how much more can we do or we're not going to look at team that maybe just blew out another team and maybe be a little bit more timid because this is going to be a good team. I think a lot of our motivation and a lot of our drive comes from what happens internally in this building. I don't care what anyone says you can show it before games you can take your shirt off you can try to flex your muscles and you know look however you want to look but when you cut on the tape ultimately what you put in this week and throughout the week preparation and what you did this whole entire year is what's going to show up on Saturdays. The raw raw stuff the you know the false motivation that may come from you know what happened week prior to that team that's all that's all meaningless what really is important is what did you do that week to prepare to be ready for competitive excellence on Saturday and so that's the mission around here is to make sure we're doing our due diligence we're doing we're putting the work in necessary to show up on Saturday to be confident and dominant. The ocean delights us some marvel at the colorful world below the surface. The ocean feeds us

2:33:55others find nourishment and it's bounty. The ocean teaches us how our everyday choices impact even the deepest places. The ocean moves us whether we're riding a wave or soaking in its breath taking beauty. The ocean connects us find your connection at monoraybe aquarium dot org slash connects. CalShi's own CEO says it himself and yes two thirds of people on CalShi lose money so what does it take to be in the other third you have to do extensive amount of research to be good there are people that spend copious amount of money time resources energy they've dedicated their lives to basically becoming good at it all that and still and yes two thirds of people on CalShi lose money lose money lose money that's CalShi in their own CEOs words go to www.fairpredicts.com to learn more this is Dave Roberts if you're heading into summer without a medical emergency kit you're taking a risk most people don't think about until it's too late summer coldslinger and can turn in

2:34:56design and infection said last for weeks getting sick right before vacation can derail everything and we're traveling finding a doctor and pharmacy is stressful that's why I ordered medical emergency kit it's like having an emergency care and a pharmacy right at home it includes essential prescriptions like a moxasillin and generic z-pack to treat a wide range of common and serious illnesses so if you wake up sick at home or on the road you already have what you need no waiting for your doctor no hours at urgent care no pharmacy lines no copays just match your symptoms to the right prescription in your guidebook or call their telemedicine doctor standing by start on your med sooner and feel better faster every home needs at least one medical emergency kit 40 years online in minutes and it's shipped to your door and say 45 dollars with promo code blue at urgent care kit.com slash blue that's promo code blue at urgent care kit.com slash blue we have time for a few more questions here locally the cold sheeran WVMS what's it going to be like going up against kuneurs and what was your relationship like with

2:35:58him? I briefly met it was good having him here he was definitely a cool guy we never he wasn't here long enough for him and I to be very close but obviously you know when you line up on the other side of the field it's there's no you know friendships in that moment you know we're there to win a game and so I think I don't think it really makes a difference if you know who's at quarterback and I don't think that's something that we're going to be thinking about but obviously after the game or you know it's going to be exciting it's exciting to play against you know someone that you know but ultimately it doesn't really matter who's in their uniform we're going to our goal is to come after them regardless who they are. I hope you see Will change on the field and off the field for the moment you first met him. Yeah Will has you know continuously became more of a confident leader he's somebody that I've seen take tremendous strides in his faith and his servant leadership and it's just been amazing to be a part of and amazing to witness I think he's just been kept

2:37:03continuously growing to be more comfortable and confident and this is all of just one year I mean I can only imagine if you were to have two years here and what he would be able to accomplish but it's just been amazing to be around him he's grown to be one of my better friends on this team and you know I'm assuming I'm speaking off all of the blockization that we're excited to have him. There will have been one that's this fast. You and everyone in your class that helps them down and previous years you've fallen short of your goals. I know you're focused on the moment but are you guys savoring this that maybe the disappointments have made this even more special even within this year. Yeah yeah I ride on my iBlack every game Romans 828 and we know that all of things work together for the good of those who love the Lord and I'm just a firm believer that everything that we have been through as a team all the hurt all the hardship all the tears all the shame everything we've been through has ultimately led us to where we are today and I have confidence in that and that's why I'm not a big believer in getting too high or getting too low

2:38:08when I lose games I try to stay you know it's even kill as possible same way when we win games because I ultimately just have the fit the faith and the ability to know that the Lord is working all of these things together to make us better so these moments I think through hardship I believe that makes people closer and so I think as a result of the things that we have been through you're looking at a very tight knit team and so I'm just excited for what the future holds for us. You need to learn to shame and you know like losing a game is not a crime it's just a disappointment yeah but is it is that the kind of pressure that you guys feel here and when you lose it's not just a loss it's shame yeah it's important right here it's not especially at the Ohio State University from the time that you sign up here you know exactly what you're getting into and our coaching staff does a great job of making sure when it's time you know after you go through a whole spring summer and off season that by the time we get to game one you know exactly what you're up for and so losing is absolutely unacceptable around here and there can be a bit of shame to maybe

2:39:10even show yourself in public because of a loss that you've had but again my point being is that despite the things that we have been through I'm a firm believer that there has to be a certain amount of faith that you have trust that all of these things are working for moments like this and you know even in my I don't know how this may sound but even in my my personal life regardless of even what happens in the future from today moving forward I will continue to keep the faith that that's working for my good whether it's making me a better father one day in the future I better husband one day in the future however that may look I believe in how the faith that the Lord is working all things together for the good of those who love him. A couple more questions here. Do you have any Birmingham podcasts? G.I. You're starting to go down the road and I was just here asking about it anyway because the the transformation you as a person so I think obvious to everyone. Can you imagine yourself three years ago when the person you are now and now leaving you why I say whenever it happens whether it's one week or three weeks from now like with the

2:40:14legacy that you're leaving here is it something that you would have ever imagined about yourself? No man no I think there's I think what has taken place in my life and the lives of other people on this team and I know that this I'm here to talk about football but it's a true testament of the Lord that I serve. He's taking my heart and he's made me new. His word promises that he'll take your heart of stone and make it a heart of flesh that he will soften you and making you more into his image when you take on your cross and know him and I think that's exactly what has taken place in my life and just when I look back on my journey and the things that I've been through even that question that you just asked me it kind of made a little emotional just because when you said that for whatever reason I just thought back just some years ago when I when I headbutted that you know guy from Tealham North and just the amount of public ridicule that I received from that and the anger that I received from that and you know that's just one thing that was blown up big but there were other things that were going on that maybe like that was a behavior pattern that I maybe I had and I just look at what the Lord

2:41:18has done in my life and not just myself but other guys on this team it's just been amazing to say the least and I'm able to stand here confident and say the things that I do because of the revelation that he has given me that he is true and that no matter what happens on this field that there's a place that I can call home with a relationship with him. It's an interesting juxtaposition of you were on you were on the way to being like the bad example yeah like don't here's a guy with all this opportunity and took this path and you know absolutely right took it and changed it and I just I just think it's fascinating. No we don't talk to you all of them so I just know man also were you suggesting you know five or six years? No not at all no man no no man but you're uh you're absolutely right and again I say it again and I emphasize it that it's just a true testament of Christ um and I just encourage everybody that's even whether in the room or watching it um that if you may

2:42:20you may feel like you're that protocol you're that one who's felt like you've strayed away too far and there's there's no way that a Lord can forgive the Lord this Lord that you're talking about can forgive the things that I've done um I just want to encourage you that there's no sin that you've committed that can outweigh his justice and outweigh his grace that he has for you and the love that he has for you and so I think um there was intentional the things that I went through to get to where I am now to maybe shine that light on somebody else. You watch from Columbus here Joey Coffin? Clums this back. Uh Texas is past defense just to go like good into the Liberty big plays and getting interceptions what what is stood out about that back end when you watch some of my films? Yeah um I think just for the couple days of how to watch them on film I think talked about and they look like a pretty good team uh it looks like they do a good job all the way around um the ocean moves us whether that's surfing a wave or taking in an inspiring view the ocean feeds us sustainable seafood practices bring the ocean's bounty to our plates

2:43:25the ocean teaches us how our everyday choices big and small make an impact the ocean delights us as playful otters restore coastal kelp forests the ocean connects us Find your connection at monoraybeacquarium.org slash connects CalShi's own CEO says it himself and yes two thirds of people on CalShi lose money so what does it take to be in the other third you have to do extensive amount of research to be good there are people that spend copious amount of money time resources energy they've dedicated their lives to basically becoming good at it all that and still and yes two thirds of people on CalShi lose money lose money lose money that's CalShi in their own CEOs words go to www.fairpredicts.com to learn more this is Dave Roberts if you're heading into summer without a medical emergency kit you're taking a risk most people don't think about until it's too late summer coldslinger and can turn into sinus infections at last for weeks getting sick right before vocation can

2:44:27derail everything and we're traveling finding a doctor and pharmacy is stressful that's why I ordered medical emergency kit it's like having an emergency care and a pharmacy right at home it includes essential prescriptions like a moxasillin and generic z-pack to treat a wide range of common and serious illnesses so if you wake up sick at home or on the road you already have what you need no waiting for your doctor no hours at urgent care no pharmacy lines no copays just match your symptoms to the right prescription in your guidebook or call their telemedicine doctor standing by start on your med sooner and feel better faster every home needs at least one medical emergency kit 40 years online in minutes and it's shipped to your door and say 45 dollars with promo code blue at urgencaredkit.com slash blue that's promo code blue at urgencaredkit.com slash blue they look again they look good but these are the moments that you live for these are the moments that the reasons why you come here to a house date we preach all the time to like when you come here you play for games where you play against someone we call these match-up games where you're

2:45:27almost playing against yourself and when you're playing against yourself that means you're not just gonna be bigger you're not just gonna be stronger you're not just gonna be faster and so the question comes down to well if I'm not bigger and stronger or faster and we kind of look the same then what's gonna make me win and I think ultimately the answer to that question is all the intangible things that you work on throughout the season the things that kind of you can't really see on the outside the grit that you may have in your heart the distance that you're willing to go to win the game the skill that you have acquired throughout the season all of the intangible things are gonna be on display this weekend and we'll see either them or ourselves who is put more into into the intangibles to win these kind of games. Any final questions Tim Maine letter and roll? Yeah as you've been speaking here G. I'm just saying of other teams I've covered in the past really good teams and stuff and I have one guy one time tell me there was almost like a home in the background when you're in this building and stuff of like work being

2:46:28done and things like that and you kind of you have a feel for the spiritual aspect of this team also and stuff. Do you feel that special home or where we want to call it about this team at this moment? Without a doubt without a doubt I said it a few times in the interview post-game and I'll say it again there was a moment that we were able to share after coming off of that loss against team of north we had a player-led meeting where we were able to hash out some of the differences what we think is going wrong there was just a moment to be very vulnerable with each other as brothers there was some frustration that was going on and ultimately at the end of it in this room actually we stood in here all 100 plus guys and we locked in arms we put arms around each other actually when we looked around in that moment there's actually a few guys that were even tearing up just because of the powerful moment that it was and we were able to pray together and I think ever since that moment moving forward I wouldn't even say it's just from that moment I kind of knew all along but I believe that there's something very special about this team and I think I think people are

2:47:31getting ready to witness the special ability that this team has I've received many a lot of ridicule and you know coming after losses of just you know how people may they say things like they I miss real football players I'm tired of these Christian athletes on the field I miss the real gritty football players and I think here moving forward people are going to be able to witness the strength of the Lord that we serve. Your day is over my podcast. Toughest team wins bottom line. Yes you feel that in your heart too that the toughest team finally wins these games. Yes yes I think I mean there's an accumulation of a lot of things there's being tough having discipline not getting you know dumb penalties having great technique you know again when you give these matchup games it's all the intangibles that you can't really see I'm not just going to walk out in the field and just have confidence that I'm bigger than them and I'm stronger than them like we can and maybe some other games that's just not how it works and so it's going to come down to all the intangibles and my more discipline and I'm not going to hold on this play and I going to make the catch when the ball comes to me am I going to uplift my teammates am I going to

2:48:34be positive and we're going to be a cancer on this team you know all those little things are all what goes into winning these kind of games like you mentioned toughness and so we hang our hat on that and that's the goal is to go out there and be tough and put all these things together and get a win at down in Texas. Thank you very much. I certainly thanks I see. I can each play at a time no matter what the score is and doing it to the best of your ability. What what ails this offense the most? I think just saying I had the chance and getting getting past those third downs converting on this third downs I mean that's what we got to be better at and within the day we got to put him in zone and we're not doing that we're not doing our job so are you guys creating more explosive plays as an offense? Right I think you stick with it you know the explosive plays are going to come and now we've got to trust that and they'll be there for us for sure. Coach Sins has been here for high-end lows over the many many years he's been with this program now what sort of his message to

2:49:35your group right now or when you're turning to him what is he saying as far as how to get through this? Yeah so I think it's just really just coming and attacking every day as you would regardless and you know staying staying even even through hardship and attacking it attacking it the same way every day that's really all you can do and you just get a little better every day and see where it takes you. Based on the way things already we're setting up but then also we chase them. Simons was calling the game on Saturday. It seemed like tight ends are going to be a big part of this as you guys are trying to pull out and what role do you think you guys are going to have in trying to get this offense? Yeah I think we I think the role is always try to help the offense move the ball and whether they were called upon to do that in the past game or the run game we just got to step up and do our job at a high level and whatever you ask from us we just got to do it at high level and let the offense go. You're some of leaders on the offense. Some of the leaders have to say Gus is a big leader. I mean he's been doing it for a while

2:50:38and someone that everyone trusts is going to do his job at a high level and I think we have Hudson's a good leader too as well obviously he's a quarterback so he takes on that leadership role and I think we just have a good amount of leaders throughout the offense. We were told George might be fairly close to getting back what would mean to get him back in the mix with the Titans. Yeah it'd be great I mean George is a great athlete so having him out there can only help. You know we're really excited about him and what you can do on the field so it'd be great. Right. Yeah that's a great question. A lot of the information and a lot of things before like during the time of those older players are a lot different than the knowledge and information that we have now and I mean we're able to treat concussions and also back then is like if you got a concussion they were sending you right back into the game so now it's a lot different. We got a protocol and it gives your brain time to heal and everything so I think things

2:51:39are setting plays now where it's a lot better than before and that time where we're making problems later on so that's why I'm not really too concerned about it. Can you recommend it to you? Say it again. So how much recommended by the trainer or Michael Stank? Oh no I just wanted to get into a new helmet. I mean people have a refer to they also don't know our team meeting has said how there's a number of helmets are better than other helmets right now so I just wanted to check those out and see what they are. Is this how you question any more severe than the others you had? No that's one of the other things. I mean I'm not going to give a whole seminar on concussions over here but no it's not necessarily more severe. Each concussion like just what I learned each concussion is its own specific concussion and you gotta give that time to heal and then once has healed and ready to go once you get back out here you're good so it's not like concussions are building on top of each other like you give it time and heal but I think like before what guys were getting trouble with the long time ago is like they get a concussion not fully healed and they go right back out there and playing. Denzel, can you see a side or maybe part of it? Can you just reflect on how you ground some

2:52:43showing up here in barely 21? Yeah I've been here for a little while now I've been enjoying every second of it. I always came in trying to be a captain and trying to lead these guys as best as I can and I definitely feel that I've grown vocally and just trying to help build the team up and build myself up so I'm just trying to do anything I can to help this team. How about in a concussion situation like this you're so close to reminding your brother do you have to sort of involve the family's decision on how to go? Yeah definitely they came down with me so when I was I had like when the team was here doing meetings I was driving up to a Pittsburgh meeting with the concussion specialists and everything and they were with me and just easing their mind that that's the biggest thing easing their mind they're all they're worried and everything but they'll be okay they'll be good. We saw the play with Elijah Mott or your head growing. Say it again. We saw the play at practice. Yeah. Did you think through the up for two weeks after that? I mean I was good pretty it was that day that I was kind of had a headache and everything but

2:53:46I was pretty much good after that but it was just about going through the protocol and I mean there was no rush back we weren't playing regular season games so I mean I was just really good in the time that he wasn't any rush. You both is wearing already in half and still had a helmet to helmet from your perspective and actually an expert but are those doing what they're intended to do you know Danike wearing it when he got first you know I'm saying like guys are still getting concussions and getting them wearing. Yeah it's definitely still a physical sport so I mean concussion and I happen regardless I know if you were in a guardian cap or not. I think it could be looked at too I know and just talked about on the guardian cap I don't think in the back that is as much padding as I would like but I feel it could be looked at but I think you get a concussion whether you're wearing a guardian cap or not so I mean stuff happens this is a physical game sorry would you just to clarify this you said you're going to get any helmet also wear the guardian caps during the games. No I'm not going to. You feel good about this game helmet that you've got.

2:54:50Yeah yeah. So you know the name and the brand of helmet like any details you have. Oh I'm not sure the brand of name yet I'll have the get it from those guys inside but you guys will definitely be seeing as soon though. I haven't got a just yet. How do you feel about not playing in a preseason game. You have to say as you're a career and learning to run a big game. I want to say it's not a big deal but I don't feel any pressure any like I just needed to play in a preseason game. I feel that's a great opportunity for the younger guys to get out there and showcase what they're able to do. Well I still been practicing and playing working out and getting ready for the season so I mean I know the game I'm looking forward to that first game and yeah I'm not really concerned about not being able to get a snap of the preseason game. I think about MJ did feel in the particularly during the joint practice is in the first time. Yeah MJ is a number one corner. I mean you you guys see it. He's gonna be big for this year and I think that's what's special about this team. We got three number one corners myself. MJ and Greg I thought we all number ones and we able to do different things out there on the field and

2:55:52other one guys out another guy can step in and not lose track or not lose pace on what we got going on. Yeah definitely like you said bring it in that's exactly bring in energy bringing guys along MJ's real vocal out there and he competes as he's in competitor out there and just working hard and trying to be the best. He got the mindset of wanting to be the best and he is so we just go out there and compete with one another. We're happy to see CD Lam get his contract signed and be ready to go out there and play this game so you can face the better. Now I'm definitely happy for him that's like changing contract and everything for him and his family so definitely happy for him and looking forward to going to having that match up in the game. I always love going against the number one guys and best guys on that team so I'll be looking forward to it. It ends up we got more of the history and concussions that we're talking about. I think when you suffer the latest one people who cover the team and fans are wondering how loud the discussion

2:56:58could you conflict with Tyron? For that ever go through your mind or do you immediately know you're going to come back? Yeah like I said this is a game I love and I love playing this game being with the guys out here. I really don't see myself doing too much other stuff so unless I'm just really physically unable to play this game I don't see myself stepping away from football no time soon so and like I said before I can't take it easy on these receivers out here so me being out here I got to give them a good look and just go out there and play but I answer your question now I haven't seen myself walking away though. Are you actually out of pro football now? Yes. Yeah. Hey did you know uh great-could-miles hard in the steel drafts? What have you seen? Say what say it again? Sorry great-could-miles hard in the steel drafts when you seen from any other camp and what kind of excites you by hand? Yeah Miles he's been balling he's been showing out making plays against the Vikings and uh just making plays out here so it was big for him to make the team I was happy for him we all congratulating and he's going to be a big piece on our team though like coming going forward.

2:58:00Didn't some of the other rookie you mentioned making the receivers better where have you seen how have you made Jamari talked about how you you've helped him you know as a rookie what what have you seen out of him in his development? Yeah he's been looking good since he came in I think he's been getting better and better uh he's night and day from once he came in so where he's at now I believe and I think that's just his competitive nature and what he's been doing out there in practice and us going against one another out there so uh he's been good and he's going to be a big piece as well uh to our offense. So what's the tip to you? What's the tip do you give receivers how can you help a receiver do that? Yeah I mean it's a constant communication like if I were to win on a red they may come and ask me uh what it is that you've seen on that play that you're able to get in position and I'll tell them that I may ask them a question so it's just that constant communication on how we can get each other better. I appreciate it thank you guys thank you thank you thank you thank you I just

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3:00:02this is Dave Roberts if you're heading into summer without a medical emergency kit you're taking a risk most people don't think about until it's too late summer coldslinger and can turn into sinus infection said last for weeks getting sick right before vacation can derail everything and we're traveling finding a doctor and pharmacy is stressful that's why i ordered medical emergency kit it's like having an emergency care and a pharmacy right at home it includes essential prescriptions like a moxasillin and generic z-pack to treat a wide range of common and serious illnesses so if you wake up sick at home or on the road you already have what you need no waiting for your doctor no hours at urgent care no pharmacy lines no copays just match your symptoms to the right prescription in your guidebook or call their telemedicine doctor standing by starting your med sooner and feel better faster every home needs at least one medical emergency kit 40 years online in minutes and it's shipped to your door and say 45 dollars with promo code blue at urgencare kit.com slash blue that's promo code blue at urgencare kit.com slash blue you

3:01:06are challenging it's not a positive it is a positive it's a super positive just going with this unjuremologist that's going to make Saturday super easy there do you guys feel like does that count the mindset that you take an everyday at practice like you just say you're not happy during my catch your little people like I have a 98 out of 100 receivers that's what if you keep that in the back of your head and we want to get Jeremiah and Carnell and Brandon and Becca yes that's my mindset like in practice all day I want those boys to give me everything that they have so I go up and inside of the day it's gonna be easy for me and I'll be prepared what have you seen with grocery be young foreigners obviously we saw that Jeremiah last year their germane sorry but Calvin and some of the errands some of the young guys how do you see them come along um and Scott has gotten completely better from his brain glad completely better is that just time in the program I'm just getting used to the speed of

3:02:10college rubber I was in what about Calvin he was obviously here last year anyway um Kevin has gotten a lot better like I would say that he's gotten a lot smarter and then he also write GB go ahead and think he's there about Calvin's intelligence you know the you know where he's grown where specifically is it the film room is it I pick it up you know the playbook where have you seen that drain up a grab I would say Calvin has gotten smarter just like his game knowledge like expecting like up a different kind of routes and stuff like that perfect what did everything start to click for him so last year was it in the saucey when did you feel really comfortable I would say it in the spring I started to get a lot more comfortable in our decent we say you break up the past yesterday with the Jeremiah name I'm sorry for your ass but what is like going on against him do you it seems like you enjoy it yeah I love it he's he's tough I like going against him a lot he's really good what what what have you improved in your game just from that for example those those 101 matchups this preseason or whatever you know how

3:03:15badly who this game is so Jeremiah he forces me to play the back of if you don't play the ball against him he'll go get it yeah yeah and you and you Dave's in there how would you describe this defense now compared to this time a year ago from this standpoint of a confidence factor you don't mean that you guys feel on the field what how would you describe it it's different about it I feel like everybody's a lot more smart is there everybody's like I would just say I would go go just just just just smarter yeah but when you when you look up and late and ran some decided to come back and Caleb down transfer it in what what did you feel about the did it just grow stronger in that one week span two weeks span you're still what I'm saying I feel like those guys have played at that level those guys have played at yeah I would say that like a downcoming and what they say he was coming back ZL say he was coming back it just still like

3:04:18thanks man of course yeah we got swag GT how would you describe the mentality of the defense right now being this opportunity for a rematch award in yeah hungry and thankful I mean we know how the last last time when you know we we had a chip on our shoulder I mean we were riding high before that game and we took that loss and we came back how to make a couple changes but I think we understand everything's that stick right now you know just fighting to where another house stage jersey for the next game that's what's on stake and just to be able to represent this this state and this this team I mean we understand what's on the line and you know we're just hungry and blessed that we get this opportunity to play in the Rose Bowl right behind your Adam King WBNS what do you remember most about walking off the field in Eugene what was kind of going to your behind in that ball? I mean there was a I don't think anybody imagined it imagine us losing you know I didn't that's for sure and I think after that it was a kind of head deep

3:05:18I understand it that man we still there's still a lot of ball left to be played I mean you can let it sting for a little bit but you know if you let it carry over too long then you know there there goes there goes your whole season by I think we did a great job of just understanding coming together in this room right here not being afraid to display or hold a accountability for one another and you know as as that happened he came back regrouped and you know we're just going right now and and I'm just blessed for those specific moments you know losing I mean no one wants to lose but the testimonies and the things you're taught within those little situations speaks of all of them. What did you see from Kenya last couple weeks? Was there like a push from him? Yeah I mean that's my boy he's in the R2X club too but you know Kenyatta I mean every time

3:06:19his numbers call he goes out there and makes the most of it no matter where where we are in the game when he goes out there he's just hungry he wants to go make plays and you know we see it and practice so it's not surprising to us. Bill Rebino, I suppose this back. Dylan gave us obviously a very loose to the inner talent and he's not very tall and how important it could be to just kind of stay in your past rush lanes and neglect a lot of balls and kind of make a difference that way. Yeah I think it just comes out being disciplined no one who you're playing against like you said Dylan he's a he sure but he's very elusive I mean he can he is making throws I mean he get out the pike he can do everything so I think for us we just have to discipline and just continue to just meet with Coach Jay me with the coach knows and understand how we can just eliminate that. I should about you and Jack I mean your personality seems to be a little different you more on the quiet side he's yeah how about you play together four years both five store guys kind of

3:07:20describe your relationship with him friendship with him yeah just kind of how you cop with each other man that's my brother like he said we're different but very alike I think outside on like you said he's louder I'm quiet but you know once we're on that field we're like the same person we'll do anything for this team you know we'll die for our players and we'll give everything we got yeah fall camp yeah sometimes go over there slip over there we have our share of days when we when I'm neat he's neat or you know we might both be messy but we do a good job yeah I'd probably have a better kick in the jack though Tony Gertman like I held when you're playing a team for the second time and that was almost a season to go by now how much of are you at square one with with this scouting preparation or how much do you take from that game how much do you avoid taking so that you don't have any pre-exignations and what you're going up against

3:08:22off that's on the offensive line I say it's pretty 50-50 I mean that game like you said it was it was a while ago but at the same time they elevated as a team so did we so we understand that they they had they made some changes for sure you know there's team there's a certain density we can take back from that game but we also understand that they went on a little run after that and we can see that they elevated as an offense so we just got to continue to watch those games dissect the other games and just continue to see what stands out and what they change from the past game we got a couple calls on zoom that will wrap up with first we have Nick Hamilton from Nightcast media Nick I just wanted to ask you basically about the synergy of this defense and how you guys were able to not only celebrate the triumphs but get through the adversity be able to be this top-notch defense that you are in college football today here you get the question one more time yeah no problem

3:09:23I want to ask you about the synergy you are we're able to develop over the course of the season obviously celebrating the triumphs but also getting through the adversities to where you go all all the top-notch defense that you all are today yeah I mean like you said that we went through a lot of trials the trials but there's also there's a lot of things we can take away from all the wins and losses and from those those wins we understood that hey we can be the best defense of the country and from those losses we understand that there's still things that need to be fixed and I think when you take all that in at once they come down to the the comical or the comment talk which is you can there's always learning points everywhere and depending how we dissect those games or how we just continue to come as one and elevate you know we continue to just collect all those those learning points and just continue to grow from them and run the final question Joey Coffin Columbus dispatch Joey the ocean delights us some marvel at the colorful world below the surface the ocean feeds us others find nourishment in its bounty the ocean teaches us how our everyday choices

3:10:30impact even the deepest places the ocean moves us whether we're riding a wave or so can in its breathtaking beauty the ocean connects us find your connection at monoraybeacquarium.org slash connects Calhchee's own CEO says it himself and yes two-thirds of people on Calhchee lose money so what does it take to be in the other third you have to do extensive amount of research to be good there are people that spend the most of your amount of money time resources energy they've dedicated their lives to basically becoming good at it all that and still and yes two-thirds of people on Calhchee lose money lose money lose money that's Calhchee in their own CEOs words go to www.fairpredicts.com to learn more this is Dave Roberts if you're heading into summer without a medical emergency kit you're taking a risk most people don't think about until it's too late summer coldslinger and can turn into sinus infections at last for weeks getting sick right before vacation can derail everything and we're traveling finding a doctor and pharmacy is

3:11:33stressful that's why I ordered medical emergency kit it's like having an emergency care and a pharmacy right at home it includes essential prescriptions like a moxasillin and generic z-pack to treat a wide range of common and serious illnesses so if you wake up sick at home or on the road you already have what you need no waiting for your doctor no hours at urgent care no pharmacy lines no copays just match your symptoms to the right prescription in your guidebook or call their telemedicine doctor standing by start on your med sooner and feel better faster every home needs at least one medical emergency kit 40 years online in minutes and it's shipped to your door and say $45 with promo code blue at urgent care kit.com slash blue that's promo code blue at urgent care kit.com slash blue JT what have what have you guys done better in the especially in the Tennessee game and just late in the season you think about turning some of the the pressures that you've got on a quarterbacks in the sacks and getting a home in some of those situations yeah I think it was more just

3:12:36understanding the defense as a whole understanding everybody's job thing as the season went on we had to understand that you know we have to know what's going on the back can we have to know what's going on the lineback recruit to understand what plays we have a room of freedom and I think once we understood that and got a better understanding of the of everybody's job I mean it it showed display because you know everybody knows what each other's doing it's not like the lineback is know what they're doing the corners and be I they know only their job I think we all know each other's job and we continue to ask each other questions on you know if they're listening how they can get to the quarterback and you know if I'm dropping and playing quarterbacks by I can ask Cody on how to open field tackle so you know we just we just kind of lean on each other's understanding because you know like I said like Denzel knows I play corner better than I know I'd play corner so you know he has more more wisdom at that position than I do

3:13:37definitely a little bit of both obviously I just wanted the team to win I think you got a chance to win no definitely towards it and then stretch that last drive I was a couple plays here a couple calls that he made me should have gotten but I think the frustration more so it just comes from no one's anything he said he was a little surprised how much attention you got right away from defense how about you yeah definitely we maybe give them more one-on-ones kind of how the game plan was set up um getting about like different coverage of the cloud to my side and this is kind of how the game goes what's the process then we're whatever reason just just see that yeah definitely um especially in college a lot of the game fans defensively we're taking you away um you know we had a lot of success at a high-speed with one of the boys having different the weapons they're kind of still get the victories and um I was yeah you continue to do better jobs doing it here a lot of communication the process been like post game getting on the same

3:14:37page with Kyler you guys exchanged taxed or you guys didn't know yeah they're filming definitely kind of asking what did I see there kind of go over a play and um I just how I get him what I saw and kind of different feedback there exchange words Marv I get it we're asking questions about the previous game bar either type of guy to let a game like that winger or how do you flush it you gotta move on gotta move on some long season guy what 16 more of them hopefully no I can stay healthy throughout the year and uh just continue to build and get better each week okay did so much work throughout the off season to get on the same page how different is it when you get into that bring it to season yeah it's totally different it's totally different um they could do a lot of things you know in shirts and shorts and then once you go out there put practice and get pads on you do like the the point practice we do with the colds but there's nothing like actually going out there um not in live action and really trying to be on the same page so I think that relationship will continue to develop and we'll get better. Is that it just a matter of rubs them as much as anything? Yeah I think definitely um like I said I was kind of my first live

3:15:40action together um so I think it's in the back when you're early impressions uh yeah but now obviously I have a death certificate JG's call or preseason and I obviously be all feel really healthy that's kind of the most important thing that I was thinking that was a lot of healthy and going for it so um that's it I can say. Marvin what are your early impressions of the Rams what do you think of the Rams? Yeah I mean they're a good team they're good physical team they got a new lot of new guys up front I think that's kind of where the strong suit is kind of a little different to Buffalo come over a little match coverage so I'm excited to build this wasn't many of them wasn't many of them so uh I thought I could do it. I'm just what you think game versus just playing you know not getting a preseason game actually into the post-reason. Definitely definitely thinking a lot out there and um yeah I think I've come with reps think to think and less and just going out there and playing definitely come with reps and it's

3:16:42something you're on you're better at but um they definitely say I was thinking a lot out there. Is there anything you can do to prevent that strong coverage and the past because you're you're gonna fix that a lot obviously. Yeah I mean you just got to team you get open for yourself making yourself available uh the one the ball does anyway making the play um this just taking you away that means other guys aren't having chance to get open so uh that's how kind of how I look at it is no longer since you know offense it's the best thing of course. They're kind to be with Kyla is this something that comes pretty quickly in a new game or something like that? Uh hopefully sooner or later I think um they'll continue to see we'll see I don't think we're in a bad place right now at all obviously I don't really think that but uh just a live reps will continue to grow and show. You know like at practice it looks like a positive you know I mean so but he the energy yeah would be on just a high level of view on stuff too so I was kind of how

3:17:43I would be going on um really my whole life I would get I felt team captain like specifically and I felt I wasn't a captain in high school wasn't a captain in college but I'm gonna make a joke in high school so I feel like I'm not gonna be a captain like he's that I felt. But that would be awesome you know but you know that happens I'd be great but not either way I want to assume a role as a captain from the perspective of guys onto a visual word and get back in that way. Yeah I mean I can't say that um I mean I guess the biggest thing is that I felt like I felt like how you used to in the past but it didn't take just the first LTAs it took training and left and right once this season ended because I know what it was going to be for sure so I just went a lot of reps um just to give back to feeling like myself for the LTAs

3:18:46and then that whole first week but now like today specifically just changing some small things with my feet that is it talking about the long coach about some things I can do my feet to get to that to sell my nutritional angle that I love to sit on and tell you I thought I felt I felt great already but I'm okay I felt even better out of it so I need more exercises tomorrow now I'm getting my feet back and how I like the right side and on the left side so I'm excited. I mean obviously I feel like um in the league whether I left the right there's total audience premier guys obviously the high expectations for the left and right tackle but um there's definitely uh like the level of energy and like the expectation definitely taking the human skin because now connect the blind side that's the as the tackle well you know so um so yeah I would say in terms of communication as far as just even outside of the facility and stuff like that I really crave that but tackle quarterback and bond even more off the field I think

3:19:49has been something that's even the cool thing. I got a text one day is I hey I keep well up I was like you know yeah I've been training both I've been training both you know I I asked after the season they're like honestly you know we'll talk to you if something happens season I just got a text on how to have this with the free agency then so I was like you know what I had a O season right tackle so if I get the word I'm going I'm staying right tackle you know what I did before I build on that but I saw I was like I might as well as a train of left tackle now as if I'm gonna be left tackle and I'd rather do that than train on right time with the color A you know what I mean it's felt like let me just prepare to advance I'll see how it's got you know I think occasionally on third down there be a lot of twists I was just not like it's automatic and I think that was my mindset for like the first half of the season like I didn't have to go it's again with some products like oh my gosh

3:20:51they did that I kind of figured like okay like this is this is the type of rush man again this is how this guy usually rushes if I get the vibe this is how the ends like the rush you know tackles first year guys you got the premium patch on already know what it was gonna be already you know all the every stunt and honestly just knowing that's kind of an advantage to so you're not you're not you're not oh the brother twist my side it was never air gone but it come out the hot like three plays in a row two minutes I do that it was a win so a lot of you know what I mean I'm watching more everybody else ain't rarely really goes out there occasionally third down I was like you know he's gonna pick me you know what I mean so that effect it's kind of it's also kind of an engine away but it's also exciting okay I'm gonna give the hardest look you know those are real real reps you know the day so really out on our way to kind of process that I was like hey when they tell me

3:21:53let me know but I'm just gonna train it I was training all left till t.a.s I guess if I didn't hear anything about t.a.s I came in like so you know what I mean because just like I'm cool with training both continue I would have been cool training both continually but I feel like anybody any position will be like okay like you want as soon as possible give your feet kind of subtle and your hips subtle and your hands so then certain kind of what we would have been hard to behave or both they're good no but they're definitely but in terms of the development it was definitely a lot faster to stay on all one side but I think having that the weeks that we had to transition with seasons over you know good I'm trying to get up put up and we things out of town right now but when it comes back I'm gonna show them to you on the house so I just got a house is not too far from so I told them I got that house like I could yell outside

3:22:57DJ you know I mean so yeah that's doesn't have any stock or anything doesn't mean anything so we're we have to play on Friday and that's really all that matters we're gonna take two more from zoom before turning it back our first one's gonna come from Stephen from Cleveland.com go ahead I'm sorry hey Caleb we've seen you were talking about the Ohio State Office the success that they've had obviously Jeremiah has been a big part of that what's it been like this year going against him in practice and you know after doing that there's a surprise at all to see him having a success he's had as a freshman no it doesn't bring surprises it was pretty pretty easy to see the talent that he has and the blessings that God has put on his plate but it's always a it's always a challenge going against Jeremiah and the other receivers and Mecca and Carnell in practice and even guys like

3:23:58Brandon and his impression Rogers they they do a great job bringing looks for the defense and create a lot of obstacles. I'll find a question from zoom is gonna come from Dan Hope. Go ahead Dan. Caleb you Quinn had a lot of success against you guys when you played him at Alabama last year just what do you remember from going up against him last year and what can you learn from that game? Really smart quarterback knows how to operate their offense. Puzzle ball in the right places and then Coach Sarkieson does a great job putting him in positions to win. All right back to you. Yep thank you Rob Aller Columbus this match Caleb JT and Jack planned off some sides and they is opposite off the field as they are on in terms of personality and just the people they are. They're offices but they also like one of the closest people I know they spend a lot of time together they've come from different sides of the country so they're different people for sure but

3:24:58they're both really great people are really great men. I'm sorry I respect both of them. How did you do that? I'm not going to do that I'm sorry I'm not going to do that. It's about to ask the war on podcast throughout the throughout the season we would always see you on Wednesday nights you and Nathan would be some of the last people off the field. For the things that you're working on after a practice always the same is it a routine what are the things that you're hoping to get out of those extra moments after practice? It's a routine pretty much the the keys that we need to go into the game with and then also changes week to week on based on what our jobs are going to put us into doing so every week we go through the same things and then we add certain things that we do for the what the team that we play is going to ask us to accommodate. Bill we've been on this club this past yeah I already got one okay Joey Goughlin club is this bad. Kelvin one takes us to play action and Nathan to use

3:26:05play action a career bit what's what do they do well in those spots and most things you can do is in those moments with Quinn. They do a really good job with I candy and it creates a lot of challenges for deep into in order to see if it's runner pass and see because that's when they're going to take their shots to as well so really just having great eye discipline seeing the line is seeing what is telling us so that's what it does. Deep right Nick Walker Letterman role. Hey look you guys had a pretty good game plan for Tyler Warren when you guys played him you guys have another Texas has a good tight end and Gunnar how what do you guys gonna have to do to limit him and how do you think about his game? He's a really good player he makes a lot of plays and he's has a lot of receiving yards this year so really just do the same thing we've done all year just be discipline in our responsibilities and if you're on them you got to make the play when it comes. Right from the manager bill at claimon.com when you think their receivers is kind of a whole you know

3:27:06they spread ball around since a lot of what stands out about you know the way that they can spread ball around with the guys. A lot of really good athletes I play with Isaiah Bond last year who's a really great receiver a lot of speed and then all their receivers have made a lot of plays so everybody has to be on that piece of cues if we're gonna stop them and have a do a really good job. Front row here Tim May Letterman role. Yeah Kale but you moved up here and I don't have to tell you when you moved basically a year ago and stuff it was a little bit of a leap of faith because you know you know how many athletes are on this team get athletes to stuff but when did you really feel this defense come into its own and then then pass that man watching in Rose Bowl you you recognition of what was coming seem to be on point did it feel like that I mean you personally. I think the defense has played really well throughout the season I think we've had games where we played better and games where we haven't put it all together but I think that's how

3:28:08all defenses are so I can't say there's a certain moment where I think we put it together. But what's your second part of your question? You seem really on point against Oregon about recognizing what was what was coming I mean you were really active out there directing and things like that did it feel like that I guess. I feel like as Luke said earlier the preparation that we put in goes into that and just feeling comfortable and what we're doing comfortable and what we're seeing with the other teams I feel like that's a that allows us to play fast and to me and Latins to communicate everybody else. Did I miss anyone for questions here Steve how long and 24 years before? Yeah Caleb but you came to Ohio State to play for national championship and there were a lot of ups and downs throughout the season just to be in this position the last four teams still live just you feel validated by that and did you always have faith that this is how it was going to turn out. I came to Ohio State to become a better player and to help the team be as good as

3:29:10it can be not to win a national championship not like that wasn't the only goal for me coming here really just wanted to be in the team and be with the brotherhood but it's a great feeling being in the final four and being with the team and everything that comes with that but it's a blessing to be here. And one final question Bill were Ben Wentz Club is this bad. Yeah I did want to follow up when I talked to you at that time of the game you said when they scored their first and second touchdown you were really hot on the sidelines. What was your message to the team and you know that's a good offense they're going to score against most people. Why were you so hot? Really just because we didn't execute which let them score so we've done that a lot which is something we can't do in these big games and these games where it's winter go home so we got to make the plays when they come and you got our competitive excellence as coach Dases make the play where your numbers call. Caleb thank you very much. I feel like they're definitely picking up quick. I mean I was in their shoes one time and I had Zach Harrison, Javonte and Tyler Friedell in front of me so I feel

3:30:13like I'm just trying to be able to kind of one of those peers that they work for me and kind of just giving them the steps to get there and I feel like they're definitely picking up quick and they're definitely going to be one of the great Russians. I feel like all the camps I've definitely gotten a big course word and I love that because I ask coach Jay for it I love getting more reps because I just like protecting my craft so I mean some people may not need it some people need it but I mean I just like to get as many reps as I do. I mean for me it's always just kind of getting my little details perfectly like my steps my footing kind of just perfecting my toolbox is what we call it and my craft and just trying to be like a win-ever-hugged play so it's kind of good. Yeah um definitely just getting stronger faster everything all the above but uh one of my big

3:31:24things is being leader and kind of just not trying to look still look up to Jack and JT and kind of have my own kind of leadership and be able to bring people into so I feel like kind of have a lot of leaders on the D line and at the D in position so we kind of all kind of just house off each other. That's a tough challenge for me to go through all the uptiles guys playing with them all if you're in on the field and just starting to get stuck in the middle of the night and you're starting to push the best you like so you need to push those guys out of that position. Um it's good competitive and we love it so we all competitive people we all love to push each other and I feel like the springing the best side of all is we feel like we all just kind of bouncing off each other and seeing what one person does and we kind of build it into our two-box and we all kind of just kind of build one great thing. You were going to last year and you got to get the shot of the full back and the day of coaching that I dare to coach them I mean how did that come about because you're a jack saw your sloppy. You're getting touched out. So I definitely didn't high school I was full back and a little bit of tidied in so I feel like it kind of saw what I could do

3:32:28there and coach Wilson honestly he left watching it too before he left and uh I feel like you playing that seat in coach day's head and coach day kind of just went for it and uh tried to do the best I could to do it. Is that continuing now? New playbook I did not know you haven't got that far. Um I like to think myself as a football player I can really play any position on the field you need me to just give me a weaker two to learn it and kind of perfect it and I'll try to do my best for you. Kid Jack you the same thing. Oh yeah. Graphically that's why. I was talking to coach Johnson on Tuesday about some of the conversations he sort of saw you and got out to have some conversations after JT and Jack decided to come back just got to win into those for your perspective and how did that help you maybe get the right mindset I guess. I guess I'm going to need these questions. Um definitely kind of seeing it all the way through. I feel like the people kind of just see what happened and they don't know everything that goes into it how long the season is now. What you got to do to prepare for and what

3:33:30happened and all that time from here to to then. So uh I feel like we definitely just coach day and me kind of connected and every kind of just talks man or man and uh he kind of just said straight to me and I feel like we kind of both have been honest and we know we're making it yada. We're making each other better every day and we got the four best Dn's five best Dn honestly and the college football and we're going to be one of the best D lines and college football. I don't think you feel like a better player today anymore. I feel like I'm checking big steps to my roles of just being responsible and being more of a leader and uh kind of stepping up and taking a step to kind of get out there more on the team and kind of bring people in and uh feel like and kind of helping out more. How do you record your head around the posture system? I mean the sounds bizarre but I mean the season goes by so fast already so you know when you're kind of like week 10 and you're like wow it's already week 10 so now it's kind of gives you more time to kind of enjoy it and kind of savor it because we've come already here for you to feel like I'm fresh from some of those crazy.

3:34:32But you don't want to spend all your power in the first uh first month of the year right then there is a that pace yourself that but I mean there's a mindset that I didn't have the season. Yeah definitely definitely going to have that the mental stability that handle all those weeks and all those practices. How much has Larry talked to you guys about last question right here. Okay 16, 2017, four and a five two five sevens all in so much. Does he talk about that? I mean he doesn't have to talk about it. We know about it. We see it in every day. We watch the film. We see them all working together. We know what it could be. We know we could become so we know we we're right at the same right the right place at the right time and God wanted us to be here and he knew we wanted us all to come together and kind of play together and be able to bounce off and uh just perfect our craft together and I feel like we are just great individuals and we come together with some discussion. Great doing it. What what what the deliberations surprise is even a conversation like it should always be live. Let's tell you tell you tell you by football so um obviously there's a proximity to the season which

3:35:32is a little reckless I understand that but in spring when you're competing for jobs I mean if I'm a quarterback I'm asking to be alive so I can show him how I'm different than you know anyone that can't be alive you know what I mean they're always trying to find an edge and if you're never fully alive I don't think you fully give guys opportunity to to be who they want to be or who they can be so that being said you know I will cast my vote but that will not be my final decision on that but I will cast my vote. I think I said hey I'm doing it well it was good for all parties involved and uh more we can do that the better but ensure that is coming to a close year very quickly so. Right uh Jeremiah off the field we saw after practice on this underday that the mob that came to get autographs and things when when you're working with him on all these things you're talking about but also dealing with the life of being one of the biggest names in college football how do you help mentor him in that past? Yeah I mean it's a blessing to be able

3:36:38to be in a position where you know can provide insight or I wouldn't say recommendations but just no give perspective um well how he chooses to receive the first perspective or not one and or not I mean he always does but which is fine but to be in that position is really humbling that being said he does a really good job on his own he doesn't need to check talent too much he's really done a great job again the way he was raised and his morals and humble would always sign and taking pictures I'm always trying to be the bad guy for him because he's not going to be and uh just says again more about his character uh but he's not the only I mean he's not the only guy any guy would kind of do that we have a group full of awesome young guys uh but Jeremiah has done a great job with it handling it and uh it's definitely growing at an exponential rate to say the least uh but um I think he's built for it and he's been handled at a high level uh but oh those around them were trying to help him out a little bit yeah what made uh Quincy the first freshman to do this black striker mission uh uh

3:37:46yeah I mean uh that's a good question I think that uh you know frankly you know it I don't I know I'm not really fully involved with that so I can be but I wasn't you know I think that people on the outside would it be defense or even coach day or anybody brought it to my attention you know we're kind of just going about practice and that's our expectation and make plays not make mistakes um and he was starting to make a lot of a lot of plays consistently and I think the consistent level uh that he's been as a person uh being on being on time and and doing what his job description on each play and the ball is coming in your way and making some big plays and uh you know it starts it starts being seen by your peers and your peers start asking for they start barking get his stripe off all those kind of things that's the ultimate sign of respect I think uh with your peers um you know go to your bat and he's not going for his bat no one know people are bringing it to your position coach I think it uh speaks volumes of the uh the general respect that you're earning uh through the process so I think

3:38:49is something like that happened and uh you know as well deserve based on his peers and the other coaches step on impressioning Cleveland dot com Ryan Day was talking about how impressed he's been this spring with Austin's serval all that he's been able to do and Tyler Bohn was talking last week about the importance of the cross-training and all that that goes into that just how much have you seen Austin benefit from this spring and everywhere that he's been and how big of a piece you think he's going to be regardless of where he fits on this offensive line yeah I think Austin's been awesome I mean he literally you know what would say say he played every spade every position we just move around you know and uh he handles it and you know he's one of those guys I feel like you watch film over and over again day after day his name never really gets brought up you know in a good way like he on the old line your name gets brought up when uh usually not going as well you know I mean they're literally at the point of attack on every single play so there's nowhere to hide and so uh but Austin when his name gets brought up he's like man that was a good job right good job pass off that combo whatever it's it's always positive and uh been really impressed with him he

3:39:51started in the winter did a great job through the winter um again continuing to build their respect for his peers and then he's going a good job really good job just being uh very consistent through spring our left Jeff Gilbert press roast Brian said you've been working more with the whole offense it comes to quarterback play what has grown in your I don't know appreciation of that position and what those guys have to do and go through what do you think more about those guys versus maybe what you thought before just a wide receiver guy yeah I mean I mean there's no just a wide receiver guy if you are just a wide receiver guy you won't be a very later on it's all about it's all about quarterback play you know so I think in that same world though to the point is that you know in order to be a great receiver or a great receiver or you know receiver guy whatever you want to call it uh there's only one page just a quarterbacks page so everything is based off them they're whether they're progression they're timing the stresses they have is what we're trying to minimize so if you don't fully understand the quarterback play it's hard to you know maximize

3:40:57receiver play I think you know that being said um yeah I mean I'm still always learning you know I think that uh I can't say anything's jumped out massively right now uh but I would say that uh you know I guess I would say that the preparation level I mean the what is required to execute and play at a high level it's just not capable in the a lot of time right I mean there's only so much time where I'd be with players if you're not willing to spend you know your own time getting prepared for practice to be uh to maximize one's ability there's a good chance you're not going to maximize your ability so you know other positions I mean aligns same thing I mean receiver play sometimes can can you know get away from it we do a great job studying and in being in the room extra for sure but the requirement of a quarterback to know uh the fixed protections uh the BR run game coordinator based on the calls you know to get us in different checks I mean there's so much they need to know and uh frankly uh the you know the aligns only as good as the quarterback the receiver's only as good as

3:42:00the quarterback they're often silly as good as the quarterback and it's our responsibility to put guys in position to maximize with their capable of maximizing but their inability uh to notice that they can just spend extra time outside the a lot of time I think it's critical and the amount that it takes I guess that was maybe a little naive too but uh the guys are doing a great job doing it at the time just a couple more coaches got a meeting uh Rob Eller Columbus this past Brian you know you guys reached the mountain top you got a banner out there national champs I think you keep these guys grounded being in the moment looking ahead not back are you tougher on them because no I think that I mean I think we have a lot of guys you know what I think it's understanding that we were trying to build the map to get to where you wanted to get to but now that we have the map doesn't mean we've traveled the path so like we know what it looks like the guys that are here know what it's supposed to look like the guys before us said I'm believeable example of how to get to where

3:43:03you want to get to um so the focus is on trying to you know replicate what they just did and how they operated can't say we've done that right now so it's very easy to stay motivated because they already know it's not good enough frankly and so uh the last thing they want to do is put in a ton of effort and then not reach their goals so uh motivation I don't think is needed I think there is a catching up of those and maybe aren't quite sure what it takes you know and but overall um motivation is not what we've needed uh clarity of message is definitely what we've been focused on and uh I think the message is being received so uh not concerned about you know motivation and and the uh uh looking back if you will I think everyone's pretty pretty focused on being forward and knowing we haven't accomplished anything so Steve and me, Steven Scott Browne. Who would you say is the leader of your water seeker? we're right now? I would say carnal tate, Brennan and his uh probably done the most most outspoken

3:44:04you know in the room uh yeah I would say they're doing a good job those were probably the two guys that would jump out of my room yep I mean because Brennan he's been a vocal obviously carnal taking on that role yeah more and being more vocal he's a good football player obviously in the city I'll do there but that process for him and becoming a more vocal leader took for you to say that about him what someone's a question carnal like what do you see like the growth part of it uh yeah I mean he's I think he's pulled guys aside you know it had one-on-one conversations with him uh he's locked in you know just I think he saw the impact that a mecha made and the role he played and to think that we're gonna lose that and then be a better group probably doesn't mathematically make sense to him so someone's got to set up in that role and one everyone respects him too you know he's capable of it and uh it's just the desire and the appreciation I think to be at the order at table now and the overhead and and appreciate the way I met could probably win about his his business and so um

3:45:04he probably valued that appreciated that uh and he's just making sure we still have that fine a quick bill of bill to close this time could you assess the running back room uh I think it's pretty much assumed both is running back to CJ and and uh James think that's hand-in-systems probably the way you got to go again um how do you think how's it working and you see third and maybe fourth guy is in there I think that you know in college football uh we're in a football any football really you got to have depth in the running back room I think that uh very apparent in the NFL it's usually a two-back system you know very very rarely is it one guy but in college I think we saw the benefit of that last year uh the ability to complement each other is really important and the ability for us to identify what they do great and put them in good positions to be what they are uh what their best that I should say uh it's really important as a coaching staff I've been very impressed with uh even the younger guys Sam and and and uh Bo and the way they've come along uh the consistency so what you're chasing right you're always able to that's

3:46:08why you're here but how often you do it ultimately dictates how much you play so but uh overall I think locksmen on them they understand the standard and in past pro and uh not being a guy we got to sell them out because you can't pass protect so we were blessed what especially with tray last year and and quenchon so um but no these guys have done a good job they're competing uh they've been very coachable uh you know it's it's it's shown a blog on film um but uh yeah I mean it's always hard on backs I mean every opportunity you get to go live and and break tackles really gives you the most feedback on what these guys are capable of you're just playing tag out there you never get any art at least you shouldn't uh but the running backs um you know on contact they've done a good job James has done a really good job growing really excited about him everyone's really excited about him and CJ um so uh you know I think ultimately now group the uh hug will all go with the group B is probably based on you know the top the bottom rising right and we never

3:47:10have some guys at the top but you know where's the floor and so I think uh uh bow and sam has done a really good job and many some more guys to get healthy and more guys on campus but uh very encouraged the ocean moves us surfing a wave or savoring the view the ocean delights us as playful honors restore coastal kelp forest the ocean connects us visit monoraybayakorium.org slash connects kalshi's own CEO says it himself and yes two-thirds of people on kalshi lose money so what does it take to be in the other third you have to do extensive amount of research to be good there are people that spend copious amount of money time resources energy they've dedicated their lives to basically becoming good at it all that and still and yes two-thirds of people on kalshi lose money lose money lose money that's kalshi in their own CEOs words go to www.fairpredics.com to learn more this is Dave Roberts if you're heading into summer without a medical emergency kit

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3:49:17football intelligence he's picked it up you know he's kind of of of those incoming freshmen who still should be in high school he's a guy I think you're going to point to and you can see right now he's going to be a player over to the right Austin Ward the podcast a healthy Mitchell Melton how does he fit in for your defense what does he bring to it yeah he's you know Mitch is that combination player you know in in our four down you know he's a guy that can do a lot of things drop fold in there and make plays you see some of that all the time really athletic um you know we're kind of loaded at that end position so he's going to play there but you know like I said last year we we haven't needed it but he's a guy you would point to along with C.J. Hicks you know for the for the long season um people get injured you get a little light inside it's always hard on the defensive tackles but if you're going to play with uh three ends

3:50:23you know that matches a guy who definitely can do all that he has that over to the left Joey Kaufman Columbus dispatch Jim you've talked about this before but I think in past years where you're going up against a really talented receiver group offense to encourage your players to it's not okay if they give up the play and to go nearly almost the first half today where you the offense didn't get in the end zone until the late in the second half just and you guys have guys down the second area just what what did you think of that sort of trend and how it's evolved in the way you guys almost shut them out the first half yeah I think it's become um you know an expectation now um you know our DB's you know our BIA best in America we led the country in past defense right I think uh it was 96 what I uh what I got here and it was number one last year so they've they've taken that spirit so it's a competitive spirit it's an expectation now

3:51:23it doesn't matter who we're going against it's it's they they view it as a standard so that was good to see in the first first half uh over to the right Spencer Holbrooke, Vladimir and Role. Jim we've talked about safety changing the way that you play defense in the Leo and the linebackers but how much does having the depth that you guys have a defensive tackle change the way that you can do things defensively yeah I mean you're going to play to your strengths you know and uh that's that's my job is to what do we have and what do we do best and when you have defensive tackles um and I've said it before it it helped our defense so much last year when you have defensive tackles that actually make tackles which is what we have right now it changes the way you call a game you know it certainly helps you be um in better shape on explosive plays on the back end you don't have to do a whole lot to help those guys out because they're making tackles so you got to go

3:52:24you got to go with that you know you got to you got to let those guys play and and and they're good so you can't get too far away from the scheme of having those defensive tackles make place because they're doing it and it works uh over to the left Tony Gurdman Buckeye Huddle Jim Ryan talked about the quarterback run being more of a thing with the offense she's you're during the season how much of uh when you're facing a team like that how much does that impact your day-to-day throughout the week preparing for that yeah it's a ton you know it I think it changes everything you do on defense um you see it everywhere from the NFL on down if you have a quarterback who can make plays with his feet your scheme better be designed that you know to to take that away into account for it so it changes the way you look at everything when you're game planning thank you Donovan over here to the right uh Tim May the Tim May podcast when I asked uh Ryan about just for example Calvin Simpson Hunt but the uh corner seemed to be playing almost with the chip owner shoulder to a certain extent I mean Davis and Nick Benoson took the day personally it

3:53:28looked like you know to make it's uh some of the hype going into the game but uh what what do you see from that group in particular that uh Buie's you going into this offseason yeah when you can when you have corners that you can count on again it's just like having defensive tackles in the run game when you have corners you can count on that are going to compete all the time no matter what the situation is and we've developed that again it changes the way you call the entire game I mean you you're you're able to leave those guys on an island you're able to switch up converges and they know what they're doing and they take great pride in it so um having those guys out there in the development it's a big deal it really is yeah I mean he's he did come in late and you know um he compete he's one of those guys that just competes every day doesn't say much

3:54:28you know he's trying to live up to the standard or the other guys and you you see him coming along you know you see him step by step coming along and and you know put him in a you know competitive atmosphere same step up that's a great sign and final question for coach Knowles Dan Hope 11 warriors you mentioned CJ Hicks a few minutes ago have you seen him take the strides you need to see the spring to trust him as a guy who could be a potential starter on his defense yes I mean uh I think CJ has shown that uh he has talent and uh I think it's my job to put him in the best situations for him because he can be a force um you know he's much better when he's bloodsing or he's directed because he's able to use his athletic ability but he has certainly shown that he's going to be able to help this defense coach thank you very much for your time all right and uh we will bring uh offensive coordinator and quarterback's coach chip kelly to the

3:55:32podium now we'll open up the questions over to the left bill rabbinowitz Columbus dispatch chip um what are your just general impressions of the offense coming out of spring especially quarterback the ocean delights us some marvel at the colorful world below the surface the ocean feeds us others find nourishment in its bounty the ocean teaches us how our everyday choices impact even the deepest places the ocean moves us whether we're riding a wave or soaking in its breath taken beauty the ocean connects us find your connection at monoraybe aquarium dot org slash connects kalshi's own CEO says it himself and yes two-thirds of people on kalshi lose money so what does it take to be in the other third you have to do extensive amount of research to be good there are people that spend copious amount of money time resources energy they've dedicated their lives to basically becoming good at it all that and still and yes two-thirds of people on

3:56:34kalshi lose money lose money lose money that's kalshi in their own CEOs words go to www.fairpredicts.com to learn more hi this is Dave Roberts heading into summer without a medical emergency kit that's a risk summer colds can linger and getting sick on vacation can derail everything that's why everyone needs a medical emergency kit it includes doctor prescribed medications to treat comment and serious illnesses so if you wake up sick at home or on the road you already have what you need it's like having an urgent care and pharmacy at home say forty five dollars with cold blue at urgent care kit dot com slash blue urgent care kit dot com slash blue we'll look at all 15 so I think you know this day is is a big part of it you know because it was the first time they were at the play some of those guys that were got the plan from the crowd and it was an amazing crowd you know you get 80 thousand for spring game now you can see some of the young guys kind of looking around like wow this is different than the indoor but that's what

3:57:34they have to get ready to play it so we got better from practice one practice 15 you know it's still in evaluation through the whole process but it's not something in the players though too that we we're not making a decision walking off the field today saying hey this is the direction that we're going in we'll we'll be very authentic and and look through everything and make sure that we get a really good feel for what it all looks like and then who will best move this offense that's that's what our decision is going to be so I do I think we got a lot of guys there um that parts tough I think because you got you there's guys that deserve reps you know and they're all competing for it so you know sometimes you'd like to be sometimes when you had a guy who was in initial starter well he's going to get the bulk of the reps he got him better but um they capitalize on we really rolled him you know if you were at some of our screen praxis you're watching all those guys rotate in rotate out um and as we talk about all the time you know the old adj is don't count your reps make your reps count you know and we'll put it all together and really come up with you know which guy do we really feel is going to make gonna help us move this offensively over to the far right bill landis the podcast kings of the north hey chip um you some of

3:58:38me first talked to you that the the basis of a lot of your success running the football just kind of figuring out what your guys do best and then leading into that over 15 practices now how good of a field do you think you have for that and then what did the next few months look like as you try to piece that all together really good question um it's it's interesting because the one thing that I think sometimes makes it tough and an evaluation is what a good front we want to get you know so for 15 practices those guys on the other side of the ball were pain you know Jack and JT and Tyleek and those guys but I know come fall there's not gonna be anybody more happy that we have those guys on the defense side of all because of what they can do so um I still think we'll have to really evaluate that what we're good at what we're not what we got to get better on what we got to work on but I think the work we got against such a quality defense was uh was really key for us uh over to the far left Nathan Barrett Cleveland dot com so year ago at this time um it came out of the spring with still a lot of question marks about the offensive line um

3:59:39and even I guess that last season came out with question marks what have you seen that progress in the time that you've been here and and what's your confidence level that that offensive line is gonna allow this offense to do everything it wants to do this fall yeah I mean I've been here short amount of time so I didn't know I really don't have anything to compare to so I kind of tabula rasa come in with a blank slate and just observe it and I think we're really athletic um I think Donnie and and and Seth and those guys inside are really smart and really intelligent um they allow you to to be able to make adjustments in game um just talking football with some of those guys it's like wow these these guys are wired the right way and a lot of those guys have played a lot of football so um they can bank on their experience there you know I think we we've got about four guys that have played significant amount of snaps and we got to make sure we can find out who the fifth guy is um but that's similar to where the quarterback spot is I think and I also think in the offensive line you you're not gonna play a 16-17 game season and just play with five guys you know you really have to develop your depth there um there's gonna be a number two center that's gonna play a lot of football it's gonna be a number two guard whether it's on either side of the

4:00:42ball there's gonna be a third tackle I think you you're gonna get tested especially with this new in this new playoff format you really have to think that way so you know you're not looking for five starters you're really looking for 10 starters because you're gonna have to you're gonna have to probably play 10 guys to get when you get through a 16-17 game season over to the right Austin Ward the podcast chip I think it was the first play of the game the T-Formation and then the reverse center spin move with Will Howard understood what's the inspiration for that package and that sort of uh rink of what the quarterback mr. Hayes there's a there's a looming figure around this whole program you know we get to get to work every day and then Woody Hayes athletic center so it was good enough for Woody we're gonna stay with we we're gonna do it we ran some last year I think we took 21 snaps at UCLA and T got a short yardage formation for us and we've done some different things with it but um I also I think our players had a lot of fun you know practicing that and doing some different things so um it's a small part of our offense you know we will not be in the T 21 times in one game but you know we may get it in some short yardage situations and I

4:01:47think it's come back there's a lot of schools right now that um are starting to do that you know it's really just you're trying to you know you got a half a yard to get you know you're trying to get your big guys in the game and I think we use three tight ends and two running backs in our formation today with Packard being the the full back in that situation so there's a lot of different things you can do in short yardage but um a little bit of a tribute to coach coach Hayes and and then what he made to this program Joey Kaufman Columbus dispatch over to the left chip as you look back now you've been here two months 15 spring practices or something you feel best about what you've been able to accomplish with this offense the ocean moves us whether that's surfing a wave or taking in an inspiring view the ocean feeds us sustainable seafood practices bring the oceans bounty to our plates the ocean teaches us how our everyday choices big and small make an impact the ocean delights us as playful otters restore coastal kelp forests the ocean connects us find your connection at monoraybeacquarium.org slash connects

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4:03:53well i haven't accomplished anything because i didn't take a snap but i think the most impressive thing since i've been here is how close close this football team is you know some programs talk about a brotherhood there this is really a brotherhood our practices as we talked about how good our defense is it's they're highly competitive but they're not combative and those guys really work very very well together both the whole line of the d line the seconder and the receivers the competition is the but it's got to be the best there is in the country you know and that makes you better but i think sometimes competition you know guys can lash out and it gets really combative and then all of a sudden the fight breaks out and the fight breaks out and we're trying to accomplish and get footballed on but i think the way these guys cooperating work together as a group is a special bond and i think you're you're going to need the the closest team and the most connected teams on the ones that win over to the right here Andy Baxter and Letterman Rock chip obviously there's been a lot of talk about Jeremiah but a mecca is the big return in this group he kind of reminded everyone what he can do today what's it been like working with him and what kind of weapon can he be for you guys a good point and a mecca has reminded me

4:04:54and the other 14 practice sessions of what he can do special player you know and and jj's are really talented player also but you know i think i think all of the the whole group in Cornell tape did some really good things watching him this spring and for all of them you know i mentioned it with the offensive line i i came in with the blank slate you know i had no opinions formed not that really just wide eyeed and just observed them but you know that i think that white receiver is really special and i i think there's a bunch of guys in there and again when you have to play multiple multiple games after the regular season is over you're going to make sure you're going to need depth like that and the fact that it's you feel a little bit comfortable right now that we got some guys there that can make some plays on the perimeter and that really dictates how people are going to defend you know so you got a couple really good running back you know so really going to load the box you really going to load the box and leave those guys in one on coverage well then it's the quarter-bacter responsibility to decipher that and get the ball of those guys so or do they have listed double covers they list a double coverage and now it's a little

4:05:55bit lighter box and you can run the ball so having too many weapons is a good problem to have second roll-f pat Murphy 24-7 sports chip we've talked a lot about kind of the quarterbacks maybe vying for the starting spot but some of the younger guys what have you seen from them we got an opportunity to see more of them today than we probably have what's your assessment of them as they kind of get in this i i always am so impressed with young guys that enroll early in watching how they get acclimated and what they do you know when you look at Julian and air and and jj you know they should be in the hot lunch line of their high school and they're out here playing in front of 80,000 people and they've really progressed when you watch them in meetings and listen to them and they interpret you know so basically the whole concept here is we throw them in the deep end and see if they can swim you know this we didn't baby anything we don't put the install in with hey you guys are in style we're an install this with the older players and then you guys you know go set

4:06:56at the kitty table and we're just going to do the really simple things with you you know they get it all in the more they can digest the more when you're in a room when you're checking for understanding and asking questions and they can spit back to you the more confidence you have when they get in there with the plays that you can call for them so those guys have been in process they're still learning you know they were the the guys today that we're kind of looking around and saying wow there's like 80,000 people here along with the offensive coordinator in the quarterback coach because I was kind of looking around because I had actually never been in the stadium until yesterday when we had our 14th practice in there so I played Ohio State once when I was at Oregon but that was in the Rose Bulls high had never been actually in the stadium until yesterday so I caught myself when I went into the stadium today looking around saying 80,000 for spring game that's impressive. Got time for just a few more folks over here to the right Dylan Davis Delaware is that given what you just said about throwing them into the deep end what stood out the most to you about Julian's progression through 15 practices and where he is as you guys head out to spring. Julian is a very fast processor you know he really thanks very very quickly on his feet like

4:08:04he makes really quick decisions he doesn't stick on and read he can progress and any sees things really well for for a young player you know and not having been exposed to a lot of college defenses and especially what Jim does you know Jim can make Jim can make a young freshman quarterback cry with some of the stuff he does but you know I never saw that with Jules and I that's been in press of his his ability to retain and you know him and JJ the compliment I would say to him is if you got here and you didn't know what class they were and you wouldn't say that those guys were freshmen in terms of how they picked things up and you know sometimes freshmen act like freshmen but the guys who are special they don't act like freshmen you know they act like their football players and those are two guys that are examples of that far left Cameron T. Robinson the athletic chip you on the topic of freshmen James people's and Sam got on the second half yeah you talk about how deep you need to be in this era college football but as you search for RB 3 what did you see

4:09:06from them today and what is what is their growth been like in this spring yeah James really flashed early for for me not knowing again kind of let's just take don't worry about what the background is where they're from who they are the this guy of this stars this guy of that stars it's they're all bakai some just how they do and I think James has got really good feel and vision he can hit things I thought Sam did some really good things today T.C. is another guy who really came along during the spring and in work constantly talking in our staff meetings about depth we're very cognizant of the fact that the playoff situation has changed so you have to develop that depth you know used to be maybe have a pair and a spare is what everybody says but I I think you may have to have more than not you know you're talking about 16 17 games you're you're really going to be tested that way so I was really happy with with how those young guys have come along in the 15 training sessions that we've had over here to the right Tim May the Tim May podcast thank you Jerry you have your own podcast yeah like these guys all have like a name next to

4:10:08their new name show okay that's pretty cool he must have some juice if you got you got your name in your podcast definitely okay by the way I like it it's not just the lunch last hot lunch last while it's a hot lunch line yeah just two quickies number one do you feel compelled to let these quarterbacks know where they stand you know it's coming up Tuesday you know to me they're yeah you know where does that go I mean in your mind yeah we're all sit down as a staff and visit meet on it and then Ryan I mean he he does an unbelievable job of I think all our players understand where they fit and what what the picture is and we'll give him our assessment this isn't you know we're not going to come back but we do it after every day they know where they stood after practice one after two after three after four we grade everything they're getting constant feedback in terms of where we are and then after 15 which we had today but but we we can't do it unless you watch the film and can can really look at the things because you may see something but you're on the sideline you know why did he make that decision well I couldn't really see the field safety

4:11:09from where he was okay now I understand why he made that decision so you know what what what what the well meetings with all our players and that's that's always been the method so this week during you know between one day through Friday we're all scheduled no one's going on the road recruiting until after that but we're all a player meeting so every position you know offensive line defensive line line-backer safety is everybody everybody's going to sit down with their position coaches and know where they fit and we see them but do you feel a pressure with with the transfer portal looming I mean you know you've been a head coach for a long time I mean is that on your mind at TSD yeah I think all two are aware of it and 100 percent and I don't think it's pressure but I think you just open lines of communication and everybody knows you know which what your evaluation was through the training sessions that we have guys we've got to have we got real quick at last two questions Dan Hope and then Rob Aller the ocean delights us some marvel at the colorful world below the surface the ocean feeds us others find nourishment

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4:14:17college football you get 15 training sessions in the off season and then they'll go back to work and with Mick in the in the weight room and getting bigger getting faster getting stronger they'll have organized activities themselves and they do a really good job of that but once there's a football like we're not allowed to be there to evaluate and even assess so they're really from a football simp on our own until August so you always want to do it earlier but I also believe every time I've been involved in this is that it kind of happens organically and authentically you know because the players know if you say hey we decided we're going to be with Joe and they all think it's Tim you know they know they're in the locker room with him every day players players understand you know who they'd feel is the guy and most of the time it the decision is very obvious you know when you just say hey this is where we are with it you know but there's that timetable thing I don't

4:15:17I can't give you an exact timetable on that so Rob chip you talk about Julian but typically in your experience you've done it again like Tim said a long time long does it take for the game to slow down for a young QB I think it depends on the individual you know I've had some kids where early you know you're like wow Marcus Murray Odo was like that remember vividly second practice and he got to the fifth reading the progression and threw it out here in this big game and I asked him why I do it all I asked why because I just want to understand it and they said why did you do that and he goes I don't know what we call that defense but there was like a lot of guys over there and they didn't seem like there was anybody over there but for him to process at that family he was right and he came back the other day whether that was cover 60 other day coach like I learned what you guys call the coverages but it all happens differently I've got guys that for two years seem like they're just you know they're really struggling and then the light bulb goes off and you know whoa like they got it so everybody has different learning styles you know our job

4:16:23and the evaluation process is to identify those learning styles so you know they're cognitive learning they're an auditory learner you know do they do they learn by field is it is it more a field guy you know a more film guy you know it's all different and I think we have to keep poking and prodding and for us as coaches that's the challenge too is what is their best learning style and how can we convey it because education basically is just a transportation knowledge but it really doesn't matter what I know or what Ryan knows it matters what they know so that's that's always kind of what we're working on and studying and thinking about and kind of where we are and how much can they handle and then how much is too much you know because this may be a great play I agree 100% but if you don't feel it's a good play then then why is it in you know I mean and that's that's this whole feeling out process that we're all they're learning us and we're learning them so I have identities so to coaches really running quarterbacks that's something you've always sort of lean toward or is it year by year case by case what advantages do you like about

4:17:26because all your guys can run a little bit yeah I think a running quarterback causes problems for your defense so when when plays break down the unscheduled plays you know if you just go back to the recent Super Bowl on that last drive the two big plays where my homes run but petrol my homes is not a runner and he's not calling design quarterback runs for Pat but when the defense matches up and plays two men and turns their back to the quarterback well maybe the best decision is to take off you know the second one he took out I'm like he may score you know a lot of guys go and they want a hook side you know and and and there's times where you have to understand if you do have a running quarterback we talk about the best of the best ability is availability you know you're not low on your shoulder and taking people on but we are always looking for quarterbacks that have the ability to run we're not looking for running backs that can throw you know so you're not going to see us 20 times a game we're running the quarterback and there are people that run it offensive styles and are really successful with it but with this group we have right now that's not now they can hurt you with the feet will did it when he was at

4:18:29case date you know obviously Devon took off a couple times today air took off a couple times today Lincoln's a really really good athlete Julian can run but you know we're not calling design quarterback runs you know you're not going to see you know I tremendous for matter respect for coach Hayes and the legacy that he left here the straight T is about as far as we go we are not going single wing so we are not going to snap and run quarterback ISO and quarterback power so but it is a it's another weapon you know and if it also keeps defense is honest you know if your defense event is going to continue to bend from the quarterback pleasant he's on the edge and he's getting first downs within the defensive and has to stay outside and contain the quarterback well then we can run the ball up and and hand the ball off sometimes in our running game our quarterback really is a blocker he's responsible for a defender if the defender was cheating and fitting in on the run well then his responsibility is to make make the defense be honest and and that's really air did that a couple times today and we had a block that safety was sticking his face in there so we're took off around the edge what happens in next play the defense is wider then

4:19:29what do we get to do we get a chance to hand the ball off to the running man great coach thank you so much for your time and thank you for being a buck I was definitely addressed here this pretty easy I think Austin Saradow stepped up in a big way you know with with Donnie being out and and then you know Carson can play both guard and center which is good and you know we've actually you know sent us done a nice job as well but it was good to see Austin you know he moved from guard to tackle a couple times and even with the ones he was in their battle in his tail off so I think we have built some depth there but again you know we got to go play some games and see what we're at Rob Aller time what's the main thing you want to see out of your back you know again whether it's whatever happened last year is last year but I know that the message to our to our offensive line is we want to play one of the hardest playing offensive line in the country now we got to play with technique but at the end of the play like knock the line of scrimmage back and play with your hair on fire as hard as you possibly can there's a lot that goes with the playing in the offensive line it's all the communication

4:20:32there's a lot of things that have to get into place I think Seth has done a nice job of communicating understands the offense better now he takes control up front and brings everybody together well which is great but but to me like that's it now we could list a bunch of other things but to me we've got to move the line of scrimmage we've got to be just playing with our hair on fire and knocking people back and playing physical and that's to start the game that's the end of the game no no I don't see it that way at all I think you know we'll see what we got this year but I feel like you know we've got some really good young players in the system I think that we should have the best offensive line in the country that's that's the standard here has been for a long time and you know and so you know we'll keep pushing towards that this year and you know I think you know everybody in that room it's the same thing Brian I was the situation the real linebacker you should go right now

4:21:35yep so sunny has really stepped up and played well he's made this transition from safety to linebacker very well I think you did a nice job in the spring but you could definitely see as he went into the the summer just you know bigger stronger being more comfortable closer to the line of scrimmage it's different when you're closer to the line of scrimmage I was doing a better job getting his you know hands on on you know on offense alignment and getting off a block he's in a better job doing a better job with his hand that he understands the communication the linebackers always have to be involved with the front make them be involved and fit into the back end he's doing that you know I think he's you know looking forward to play playing in a game and you know getting an idea of what it all looks like but I can tell you in practice he's playing fast he's playing violent and I think he's you know he does a nice job of taking the meeting to the field being very intentional about his work but playing really hard yeah I even talked to Jim because you know we'll make that final decision here over the weekend but he's

4:22:38certainly leader in the club boss can you tell Ryan I mean Seth McLaughlin can tell he's been there done that is he as he projected that to the offensive line you're still and I'm saying for the leadership stand a grown man yes how does that just come up how does it show up a bunch of ways it just poised it's not getting rattled when you know coach parks at you it's you know okay I got this let me get it under control it's seeing something in practice and being able to adjust on the move it's being prepared when you walk on the field it's recognizing how hard you have to play at the position it's you know kind of all of those things into one but he's got great communication up front he talks to the guys he's moving quickly in there and when you have experience like he has you know the game seems to slow down at times yet you know he seems to be playing it fast lover

4:23:49hey there was a point where you got a black stripe off and I feel like it took a step in the right direction when you come in in the summer it is very difficult to get on the field especially early in the season whether he does or not I will see but if he could do is the practice the way that he's been practicing then he'll give himself a chance to be in a rotation midway through the season or later in the season which is similar to some of the wider series he had before you know you've seen some of those guys get some reps really in the season they've been making impact later in the season I think that's probably more his path right now now you know he shows up and starts doing great and you know we'll you know we'll give him the reps he deserves or like Jeremiah is in a different situation because he came in here in January and he was a little bit ahead anybody comes in and January to me I don't look at them as a freshman anymore they've been here they're in the program and we expect them to contribute to

4:25:04still in there right there talking and communicating but in the skirminess we've had it's you know it's been offense very defense so I've mostly been on the offensive side still kind of going through all those types of things and there's a lot to work through this year just with you know the play clock and then it's going to mean by that is you know the close to player communication inside of 15 goes off just there's a lot of things that go on there and we don't really get notification on that so I'm trying to you know just help chip with that and some some communication that we're a person now but I'm going to be very much involved with special teams I think with a two minute warning there's some strategic things that are going to go on again the half in the game that you know I'd really be involved with but to your point just overall just looking guys in the eye making sure that you know they get the right looking their eye you know that you know they they understand you know with the situation what's going on in the game you know I think that happens sometimes in young players you know they just like playing the next play you know and that's not just how that's not how it works we've got to win the situations and so you know all

4:26:06those things will come into play and making a game adjustments you know being involved with on all three phases you know watching you know the game in a table to try to identify what happened in the last series I think all all those things will be happening right now Nick is going to be the starter and you know that that competition going to next week but right now as we head into the weekend that he is the starter and the plan is for everybody the first time to go up and on Saturday and Saturday and he's got a strong leg he's he's made it a good transition into the country but also just playing you know football and not Australian to this football which is very very different the you know snap to kick is really improved you know that was one thing he has a he's a taller guy so the ball has to get out of this you know that after foot faster I think he's done that his hang time has been good and he's been more consistent you'll see you know he'll

4:27:12he'll kick a few that'll just go right out of the stadium they just got a strong strong leg so we're looking for that consistency he's he's shown that here most recently so he's got the upper hand right now and last question to you for a minute well right um I don't know if it's because Will maybe took a little bit longer to make the decision in December than some of the other top of the line quarterback who's did or because maybe there was a thought he wasn't going to be to start her against take this year but it seems like people have viewed him kind of as a game manager type of quarterback after eight months with him where do you see his ceiling of what what what his will special traits you and where do you see him taking a selfie I see you know a bunch of trades there I think the first trade is size there's big he can stand in the pocket and he's strong um so I mean that's the first thing you notice about him and then whether it's standing in the pocket with boys I think that's another trade that he has that's excellent he he feels the rush um but he stands right in there I think the next trade is just you know he's just top-end speed and he can run 22 miles an hour at that size

4:28:16which uh there's not a lot of guys who can do that I think that's an extraordinary trade and I would I would say his overall leadership commands and the huddle is is another you know something that he's he's really you know grown into in the last few months when he's been here and then his accuracy he's been very accurate since he's been here um and when he knows what's going on and he could anticipate what's happening I mean it looks right just feel and and he can hurt you you know a bunch of different ways so um you know his ceiling yeah that's that's that's going to be kind of you know up to how he plays this season but um you know I see a player who has a lot of great skills that you know translates well to the next level so we'll see but I know his first focus is on winning games around here hopefully I'll take a look at the goal line and down to the Jackson please the ocean moves us whether that's surfing a wave or taking in an inspiring view

4:29:22the ocean feeds us sustainable seafood practices bring the ocean's bounty to our plates the ocean teaches us how our everyday choices big and small make an impact the ocean delights us as playful otters restore coastal kelp forests the ocean connects us find your connection at monoraybe aquarium dot org slash connects calciss own CEO says it himself and yes two-thirds of people on calciss who's money so what does it take to be in the other third you have to do extensive amount of research to be good there are people that spend copious amount of money time resources energy they've dedicated their lives to basically becoming good at all that and still and yes two-thirds of people on calciss lose money lose money lose money that's calciss in their own CEOs words go to www.fairpredicts.com to learn more hi this is Dave Roberts heading into summer without a medical emergency kit that's a risk summer colds can linger and getting sick on vacation can derail everything that's why everyone

4:30:26needs a medical emergency kit it includes doctor prescribed medications to treat common and serious illnesses so if you wake up sick at home or on the road you already have what you need it's like having an urgent care and pharmacy at home say forty five dollars with code blue at urgentcare kit dot com slash blue urgentcare kit dot com slash blue meaning I'm nursing naturally so I'm first complete I was good I was rolling also is it weird I mean I was also yeah you yeah it's but like I prepared well and camp and practice all week and I was I was ready um yeah I have two multi-year starters it did a lot I mean I couldn't ask them hey what we got here but I was prepared well I mean I was telling Jimmy and said like I would lie or clash with him

4:31:27I'll be emotional excited it was just there's a guy from Ohio what does it mean to start it was always my dream to come here and play and start and having that like me I just got to keep going keep building those days and those games and keep building what a much younger Austin don't you know you know you know you know you know I don't think even I told like when I asked out yeah younger self even committing I wouldn't believe that now I have a couple of starts for me yeah awesome has this happened faster than you I think you're technically a soft one you know I knew that year two I was gonna see you some playing time now starting week one year two I didn't see that but like I was ready in spring ball like I knew I was going I was going to play some soft games but so what does it mean to you to it's not only get the opportunities to play but like you play well enough now and coaching staff trust you

4:32:36I guess it shows like my preparation my hard work and just everything I put into this and I went showing up on a field there are moments the top season being in the spring and and I kind of realized that you could play at this high level I was with the ones you know if you know you did yeah uh the definitely was in a training camp I mean black and highly can tie every day so like it feels it feels a lot of confidence and doing it well and not like getting balled or anything so there's defensive tag wasn't that I was the guy that you missed him uh hero in uh Jason Moore and Taiwan all those guys me pretty much anyone on the deepened line gets pretty tough time so and came back as well so yeah he helped me a lot of my hard work like the towel about the stability and the drinks and a lot how much can he help you he helped me a lot and I'm proud that he's our starting center not someone else but um I mean he's like the captain of the line he's

4:33:37another voice on the line with guys like Josh Fryer and Josh Simmons dining and Tiger that means another voice and another captain of the look ways of having that and I'm with this much experience help you can tell you like before the play what's going on like how to block someone like we need to do and like helps a lot. Tiger is talking about how calm he is. How much does that benefit you? You have a guy who's kind of been there and it makes us more calm like especially me and hey that's our first start so like we were up here with what's said like he brought us down and we were like five like our emotions weren't high we settled in. Is that like something he tells you is that something you can pick up on by home he's acting how do you kind of mean sense with him. It's by how he's acting and what I mean him when we're on the side of him both Josh dining like he was telling us like hey cool like we got him but it's pretty much like oh everyone

4:34:41old cool group. How much do you think as a first time starter how much did you add that though? Me and a lot and that was my first time ever using high pads we didn't use the high pads in high school but I mean you can just like try to remember the defense you can just come on a side line and bring a full plate and get help up really well. Probably the first or second but after that I thought we'd say oh and settle it. Awesome thank you very much. You think it's blocked by a real game. Has he been a part of you settling in the gut? That's um I want to say maybe I don't know but I mean when I when I'm for sure you got the job I was really excited because I'm one of those guys who's the tempo I can run with the tempo you know I mean I'm I'm playing basketball all life in set of football and I feel like just the fast pace often so we're running really fits the guys we have right now I'm really excited for that. I know you can throw football 65 yards but can you kick a football 75 yards and blink it. No. Probably question. Lincoln what's your question? How is your your room man

4:35:48He's a blessing man I can't complain. He's a great guy. What's his name's Lincoln. Teen Hoes. Oh he's cleaner. I think we're both really clean that's why we find to pick each other's roomies because we're very clean and we don't like our burdens really messy. Well it's true though it's the truth they're both pretty clean. Luke are you still a cross training in tapville or if you just been all-guard this spring? Oh so far I've been all-guard I really don't know like I said I'm taking it practice I practice I can't end up being a back attack or I could not but no I'm just really focused in on this past practice and connection with him. Yeah. Oh that mean a lot you know you put a lot of work in to play here and it's been a dream just for being in Ohio kid is I'm from Ohio kid's perspective it's I mean that's the biggest switch possible out as I would say that's it'd be pretty cool. What was it like just last year first game getting on the field for the first time? It didn't like this is gonna be a weird answer

4:36:50but it feel like I was playing a game you know that made sense I was pretty locked in I felt like just no anxiousness no stress no nothing really I just went in that first game was like shoot I'm here now it's time to roll you know I didn't really hit me I was like it didn't even hit me after like I want to like what'd you feel there and if like getting out there at the end I just like honestly I don't know I felt less nervous I didn't high school and I'd make some no sense. Um a lot I mean I'm learning from Josh Ann Austin I think prior to one of my biggest role Monos series my bigger big brother my first game. So I'm up with Dia? I don't want to Dia okay yeah no yeah yeah so yeah Padeon Austin those are my guys man I'm even Miles too I mean all three of them that's those are my roommates and they're progressing every day as well on and I'm excited to see where they where they can get to and I'm excited to play on the field with them. Oh yeah you know it's been really helpful you know just keep in my mind just settled and straightforward on the next blood.

4:37:56It's a great question um like I said I mean I just need to say consistent in my word I think that's the biggest thing for me is just thinking consistent in my word about the next blood. Absolutely I mean when you see defensive when you see defensive start arguing with each other and things like that I mean that makes it a lot easier you know have those 10-11 I mean it feels good and rip off these runs because I mean we put in so much work of those in practice and you know seeing the product you know that hard work you know Tech reserve since that this offensive line wise is y'all prepared this week with Jonathan back in there that y'all are cold first time really this season. You know it's not

4:38:56pretty can all of a sudden it's just more of Donald Jackson, Rick C's, and all American etc. I'm enjoying the group you know. Donald Jackson is a very good football player here. When he's on the field he makes his presence tough man we've all been training and all my home. There's no margin so I'll do it when you know I'm gonna get it to him we know it can be. Yeah there's a secret being there's a sense of watching you guys last week here. You know we're even more of a force it felt like watching you guys maybe even though did it feel like that? Yeah I mean we put in a work during practice we practice really hard coach day really challenges us in practice hard positions coaches really challenges us in practice hard and so that was just a result of it. But when it's rolling like that what does it feel like being in the mix of that being on? It's us it's when you work hard for something and you're able to see like what comes out of it like that's there's no better feeling in it.

4:40:04No I mean I was really funny to see Tiger what has set been off from the coaching guys for the first two games? What's it been like playing next hand for the last two? He's you know he's really calm and stormy you never see real panic and having a guy like that next to you and you know you're having really played as many meetings for the snaps. There's no one outside of that. I left him in the right you know the fire and set those guys they do so much for this offensive I'm pleased. People have talked about his intelligence really kind of showing up in the film room and on the field where have you noticed that intelligence and how has that helped you? Yeah like I said in crunch time you know when things are exactly looking like how we practice it you know having a guy like that that will slow down will do this this this and then

4:41:04we have to keep having a guy like that like this there's none better than that. You know what's my favorite cake right brother Oh hi no I almost came back to Cobblesson I guess a little more yeah tell you're looking at Marshall they got a couple guys in the deep hits of the road that has big ten rodings absolutely what do you see when you look at their territory you've seen 15, 7 up all those guys are pretty big six and size yeah those those guys there they're real players they're real players you can tell they're coach well you can sell they go hard you know they're real players over that we've been okay I think that's into the best of our quality to you know expect and I'm prepared for that

4:42:09another day yeah they play they play good ball over there and you know their defense plays hard they they challenged teams you know sometimes they might be overlooked and they still challenged teams you know you can tell they come out there with the mentality like no matter who's in front of the challenge um I mean the actions right there right in front of you right now which is kind of a good thing and kind of a bad thing uh which should uh shake off the rest you know hidden back in it inside yeah I mean I um I hear from Chris every once in a while trying not to bother him too much but well it's it's always it's always good to hear from guy like that guys like the one even Matt Jones would turn him back

4:43:14then for this year uh just uh be able to contend for that job the ball is still set um I think you got a lot of my weight my just my height this more regard height um when I'm faster my feet and I just see you use the technique right now some still sometimes like basketball want to want to be on that just like defend but you know you got to stay in stitch going some blocks exactly yeah that's a very question I mean I don't think I feel like these two can answer that for the V right now I think KK here I can answer that uh I don't know what I don't know what to say about that what do you guys think I go guys every day you know this man is strong whether I'm talking about like you get the basketball feel like you know it's not like you can just do what this I mean he recovers really fast like just the only way I'll shrink as he has and he got the grip right he doesn't give up on the playing like you said he's gonna go in and watch the film

4:44:19is he sounds like a coach man sounds like a coach chip kelly's influence change your mind about maybe like the idea of tackle versus guard because obviously his offensive federal election is for like yeah the offensive blind player that's you that part of you settle in the guard that's um I want to say maybe I don't know but I mean when I when I'm pretty sure you got the job I was really excited because I'm one of those guys is the tempo I can run with the tempo you know I mean I'm I'm playing basketball all I can settle football and I feel like just the fast pace offense that we're running really fits the guys we have right now I'm really excited for that I know you can throw a football like 65 yards but can you kick a football of 75 yards like Lincoln no I probably question Lincoln what was your question how is your uh your roommate

4:45:20he's a blessing man I can't complain he's a great guy what's his name's linking keen holes oh who's cleaner I think we're both really clean that's why we kind of pick each other's roommates because we're very clean and we don't like our words really messy well it's true though it's the truth they're both pretty clean so Luke are you still a frost training at tackle some or have you just been all guard this break oh so far I've been all guard um I really don't know like I said I'm taking it practice I practice I could end up being back at tackle I couldn't know but you know I'm just really focused in on this past practice and the next one so yeah oh that mean a lot um you know you put a lot of work in to play here and spend a dream just for being an Ohio kid is I'm from a Ohio kid's perspective that's I mean that's the biggest wish possible I would have I would say that's that'd be pretty cool what was it like last year first game getting on the field for the first time it didn't fly this is gonna be a weird answer but it could feel like I was playing a game

4:46:24yet that may sense I hit I was pretty locked in I felt like just no anxiousness no stress no nothing really I just went in that first game was like you shoot out in here now it's time to roll you know it didn't really hit me I was like it didn't even hit me after but I want to like what'd you feel there and if like get out there at Indiana I'm just like honestly I don't know I don't know I felt less nervous I didn't actually go and I had to make some no sense um a lot I mean I'm learning from Josh Ann Austin I think Friars said were my biggest role models here is my bigger big brother my first game in the some of the other I don't know okay yeah no yeah yeah so yeah Pideon Austin those are my guys man I mean even Miles too I mean all three of them that's those are my roommates and they're progressing every day as well and I'm excited to see where they where they can get to I'm excited to plan and feel with them oh yeah you know it's been really helpful you know just keep in my mind just settled and straightforward on the next plan it's a great question um like I said I mean the I just need to take

4:47:33consistent in my word I think that's the biggest thing for me is just taking consistent and worry about the next plan to my game and I was I was like whoa I never had that happen like no other school like just Ohio State for the 10th of my game that was like wow that's crazy do you like I mean I do but at the same time I don't just like to be a normal person yeah I mean yeah I want to feel I'm a little bit more chipy a little bit but sometimes I I still be quite on the same competitive part of you where did that when did you know you said about yourself about oh I've been had that at me since I was like eight nine years old means happens you mean just high-end house rate just to be competitive that's the reason why I chose to come to Ohio State just to compete each and every day gets to go get the best DB group in the country oh yeah for sure I'm just going to get them two guys the best two

4:48:37DBs in the country I mean that's the reason I can't hear this is going to get God just go make me better each and every day yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah I said I said I said well he said I did when he defed little boy he said I'm here I said okay I'm gonna be back and that's something be back then when I'm better play I just walked off that's it yeah I said I told you when coming back right I feel great just us three to be on the field together we're gonna make a lot of plays this year all I learned a lot especially from Cardinal because we both played outside so me just learning from him and you know the things he learned he just teaching me and you know he used my heart more and stuff like that so you just teaching me the game for sure what specifically you got better at it yeah I said my footwork that's the biggest thing me in coach hotline was looking

4:49:42not that's one thing I need to get better on so I mean I just worked on that in all seasons and just got better over time well let me still get your work actually my work at the end I mean just I really don't know I can't really answer that but it just it's just in me like I just want to work that's one thing I think I say I get it from my dad my dad really the reason why I worked so hard because since I was like eight years old he just wanted me to just work and be the best that what I do so I mean I really I said get from my dad yeah yeah yeah I said yeah I wasn't I wasn't flippin out of I don't know why people made the same my guess that I was a bugger and that's it oh he said a big example me just I ain't gonna say it was only just my dad it was me I have a cousin's name you know it's made it play for the Seattle Seahawso so I

4:50:44was I would look at the him as well he was doing I West Virginia would take on Austin and statement Bayley something he was a motivation for me and just all the guys that grew up before me and my regardless area uh and brow area for sure I mean just looking up to those guys like I say Brandon and for sure he was uh class ahead of me so I seen the things he was doing in eight grade and I was just like whoa I mean that's something I want to do what do you know about the expectations for you I mean I Chris Carter on my podcast he was actually to be I think it should be a factor from the first play first day first game etc those are big expectations what do you have bracelets um I I really don't I mean I know it's big expectations for me because you know no one playing the country coming in and all the hype around me so I mean I just try to block out all that stuff and just focus on the main thing just the team and I receive a room and the locker room and know just first game come if I don't know see the expectations that y'all have for me I mean I don't really care I just want to go out then win the game I'm much of a confidence for you when people like Chris Carter Marvin Harrison

4:51:50Jr. saying this guy can maybe next break a fever no hot state uh I mean it's it's something great I mean I just got I just got to go out then on the field and just show you guys that I could beat it and that's no part of the great uh great Ohio State receiver to come through here so I mean it's a blessing and know how that but and I just got to go out then play and show you guys all it means a lot for me to be uh was it the first freshman uh yeah I mean just that's aggressive for me uh for sure just you know shows all the hard work that I put in after me on the way to my dad really the maturity um know just be older than no act my age I go through my age I mean a lot of people tell me that I don't act my age I'm at way a way beyond my way beyond my years um me just it just gotta be mature and know that don't I like it here

4:52:55uh just no when I see a 50 50 ball I mean just I just think it's I gotta make the play it is on me you know matter how the ball is uh if it's a bad ball just feel like I gotta make that play no matter what the circumstances you know matter if it's a bad ball I feel like the ball is mine no matter who I'm fronting me or no no matter what you're getting between the ball and the fender come from I mean that kind of sets you apart my opinions but all the way so as you always has that night oh yeah I did always have that next I was like since I started to parents see right like eight year nine years old I just found the way to you know make sure that ball is mine when it's in the air and I just I'll always find a way to find a way to make my quarterback look good oh yeah for sure he definitely made a big jump from in the spring um I like his confidence uh he's starting to talk more talk a lot of mess on the field and I like that about my quarterback love quarterback to like the talk and you know just get around his pairs and make him feel good about it so he talked on the field uh no just you just said a lot of stuff I

4:54:01can't say but he'll talk for sure okay Jeremiah thank you thank you guys it was on me my split was too while he wanted me to come my split down so that I was that that was on me that wasn't a good idea the ocean delights us some marvel at the colorful world below the surface the ocean feeds us others find nourishment in its bounty the ocean teaches us how our everyday choices impact even the deepest places the ocean moves us whether we're writing a wave or soaking in its breathtaking beauty the ocean connects us find your connection at monoray aquarium dot org slash connects calciss own CEO says it himself and yes two-thirds of people on CalShi lose money so what does it take to be in the other third you have to do extensive amount of

4:55:02research to be good there are people that spend copious amount of money time resources energy they dedicated their lives to basically becoming good at it all that and still and yes two-thirds of people on CalShi lose money lose money lose money that's CalShi in their own CEOs words go to www.fairpredics.com to learn more there's also that play aside clear that will the offense correct it is if you're single about one one brats man they're willing to take that shot to you every time that were you expecting to have this bigger role in the offense this is not at all not at all just coming in no just a Ohio State and just all the receivers that been here and I was here before I got here so I did not have no expectation there was having the role that I had right now so I mean I just get all the things they got and they would have been this position right now is that so real to you then to be putting up time number you already have oh yes for sure I mean but no job nothing I still got to do me finish the hand what does this say on the trust

4:56:04he tells me a lot each and every day that you know single hot single covers 101 going to you don't matter who or you don't matter just throwing it up you just go me I just got to make a play as well because there's a moment in spring or this in the trend camp or I say I say fall camp that's really when he was just trusting me just throwing it out and I'm just going to go get it you said you're supposed to do what yeah to why yeah I should have cut my split now I think I was you know like bottom of the numbers I should have been like numbers plus numbers plus two I believe yeah something like that so that's the reason why he just played over top yeah that's who is just the only great intersection I mean I mean I mean I'm

4:57:08a little bit I still feel like I'm just a regular freshman but you know a lot of people say I'm not but I mean just the role that I have just coming in it's just it's it's been a blessing I just can't thank the can't say it's on me it's on God and just the coaches were trusting me to have a put a freshman out there and just to go out there and make plays and just build out there actually expect how much you would have gotten uh not that much because you know you got you got card now take you got mecha boogal I came back you got bringing in that big of your uh jaden baller all of them guys so really my mentality just coming in just working learning and just no play special teams and make plays on special teams a lot of my mentality was yeah um me just watching them they uh we've been attending last three teams in place so I mean

4:58:10it's gonna be a better team that I have last couple years that um we played uh higher state as we call they said so man's gonna be a good game you gotta go to uh be a higher state as all we gotta be as uh thank you thank you thank you man oh yeah for sure uh we hungry right now um I can see in the air body uh everybody in office all was in line quarterback will how we're receiving we definitely hungry for sure we're gonna go out there and has a dinner and just put on the show Austin Moore the podcast should you now hypothetically what would it know you more uh being interfered with not getting the call or not being able to catch anyone oh I say be able not to make the catch anyway uh I fly everybody I'm storing me I have to catch it no matter how if the different on me or not I just feel like I have to make it play no matter what um I mean I play it Saturday I feel like I could record it but you know it was a pass interference but it touched my hands I should record it uh damn hope love you're worried Jeremiah there's a lot of discourse from fans this week about you not winning but Sean Alexander freshman year award just

4:59:14what's your thoughts on that uh I mean me calling is a great player as well I mean I can't really not kill um no Sean is a great guy I talked to him uh two weeks ago um it's a great guy uh learned a lot of uh the Instagram outside of football as well so I mean I really can't focus on that I'm just worried about uh beating Oregon and no just going out there to pass a dinner and just put on the shirt and anybody else has questions uh Tom Moore fuck I hung up you mentioned getting bragging and finally she getting used to that frustrating we see that from the father teams yeah is that frustrating is that you know you and it feels like you always think you're open are you still open when you're bragging oh yeah for sure I'm sure I'm still over no matter what bragging or not um I mean me they just came out with a good game plan to break it me and a mecha and you know uh me just you know things didn't go as planned as we thought it would but you just got to keep moving on just move forward as uh I see Steven how I did 24 seven sports did you mind that the two touchdown plays that you had with Will Howard how many times do you think you guys rep that to get you know those

5:00:14were perfect throws perfect patterns and you beat your guy off the line of scrimmage just how many times do you think and what does it take to perfect that uh I think we read the lease the ocean moves us surfing a wave or savoring the view the ocean delights us as playful otters restore coastal kelp forest the ocean connects us visit monoray bay aquarium dot or slash connects kalshi's own CEO says it himself and yes two-thirds of people on kalshi lose money so what does it take to be in the other third you have to do extensive amount of research to be good there are people that spend copious amount of money time resources energy they dedicated their lives to basically becoming good at it all that and still and yes two-thirds of people on kalshi lose money lose money lose money that's kalshi in their own CEOs words go to www.fairpredics.com to learn more I don't know how many times and practice over the weeks that we had off um I mean just came down to

5:01:15you know they press me we we taking a shot that's what they told me uh the week we was off and he told me her before they gave in the locker room I just got to give you a shot and that's what he did and I just made a play the first game to get started just how tough was that challenge against their secondary I know you have to finally get the end of the game but you guys made place all day long against them just what what's your thought about the challenge those guys gave you a shot I say the challenge is gonna be you know a good challenge they have some great global guys there Jabbar Muhammad number seven or Niko Rhee or the other corner of my nine over there they a great global guys um I mean probably the best we go see all year for sure um we just got a good new you know biohio state that's all uh Tony Merlin fuck I have a deer by uh so what are you in that open you know probably when the whole team on me I should say uh uh I mean I'm always open to me for sure um me just no throw the ball in my area I'm gonna find a way to make a play as I'll go say

5:02:16step on christianick please on dot com you talked earlier about you know some of the great athletes that you got challenged and you aspire to be like I guess where's that confidence kind of come from for you how long have you had that confidence that you know you have the ability to be you know one of the greatest in this sport uh I mean a lot of people told tell me that I'm gonna be great at what I do um since I was about um going into high school a lot of people tell me that um me just you know football is all I know and that's all I really want to do like I live breathe sleep football like that's all I really care about don't care about everything outside of football like football is all I know and I just want to play football rest my life um me just you know the weeks that we had all we were just working on deep deep shots uh

5:03:16tell us uh immediately that we have uh we got to take shots down fill um we just got to connect on them and you know will tell me before uh before the games like I said um you just got throw the ball out then just give me a chance and I'm gonna make a play for you that's what that's what he told me and I just got to make a play for you Adam King don't you be an ass we can all joke we can all talk about the expectations and the starter that has become you know you were just 13 games how do you handle that I mean you're just a freshman how do you take all these expectations know when you step on the field that you're always open and still go out there and play uh me expectations I mean I can't know how you're staying for a reason that's what I wanted um when it be challenged I wanted the expectation expectations I should say um me coach hotline just helped me uh throughout the whole year just preparing me for each game each week uh a mecca buka uh cardinalate Brendan and just really the whole receiver on just helped me uh stuff I don't really know about uh it just helped me throughout the whole week and uh you know I

5:04:18can't really say it's all on me because my talent is but they really been a big part of the reason I'm having the season that I'm having for sure uh Andrew Gillett William and Doc Brown Jeremiah over a thousand years 12th of December first year when you look back at your freshman year what was the most difficult part about adjusting to the college and what was the part that you had not you know the hardest part about trying to train this one uh learning that playbook uh uh playbook is certain else uh just coming in uh spring ball uh me just new plays in every week I'm like well what is this like this new plays every day in coach hotline like you you go you go be good uh we got no summer fall camp you go be straight so I mean just you know that's it that's definitely was the hardest part just learning to playbook and a lot of other things have to say for sure uh I'm pretty I'm pretty sure I got it down the path right now but uh net season I really want to learn everything the h z uh yeah I really want to learn everything in the uh playbook for net sure for sure that would be 247 sports you mentioned

5:05:22you know how many guys it might take you to not feel a little bit so when you are one on one and well talk about what he sees you mean one on one what is going through your mind as you wind up and realize there's one guy covering you win that's all I could say I mean that's a uh coach hotline uh we do something like in a hotel uh Friday night before the year he asked me like a question like you get one on one something like that he asked me uh what do you do I say win and everybody just start laughing I don't know where every like it's true like you got a win you win on one uh battle so yeah um you're from the right to the landed teams of the North Jeremiah then moved you around some against Tennessee to the point where you get a couple matchups against linebackers yeah uh what goes through your mind but you find yourself matched up against a linebacker uh I just start laughing in my head a little bit um um I mean linebackers can't really cover uh receivers like that so I just know like it's most likely to be open um but you know they just try to movement around a lot because you know people try to bracket me when I'm

5:06:23outside just alone by myself so that's why they just move me around a lot or less they love and more in the land for Jeremiah you mentioned the most difficult part of your freshman campaign is they'll learn in the playbook what has been the best part so far I was gonna rub off on people eventually um and I would also say that you know you kind of have to understand who you're talking to you know people certainly stuff makes different people tick so you've got to know you guys you know if you got to get harder on somebody to to make them go or if you got to kind of relate to them you know pull them aside have it talk so I think that all goes um into leadership and you have to be able to that has to be a skill that you have to be able to develop. What's the difference about Coach Day now the music true hit coach now he's given public college duties uh I said what's been different about him? I want to say you know too much has necessarily changed but you can tell he has tremendous trust in coach Kelly um and what he's what he's going to do in the uh kind of the schemes and everything that he's brought into our program so um the fact that you know he has such confidence in him and his play party ability makes us

5:07:26tremendously confident so um coach Day has has always been coached in skidding continue to stay that way um but I'm glad uh he's able to you know focus more on what he needs to focus on. I just he's kind of a field general in a sense kind of the quarterback on that side a lot of people might make they just you know the Mike linebacker we have Cody Simon who does that as well but um Caleb is kind of that for our secondary kind of make sure things are clicking on all cylinders and he's just a very cerebral kid very smart and he's able to kind of take control of the defense so make make the right calls make the right checks so he's definitely annoying for the office to deal with but it makes us better. I would say impacting entire offense um it's not like you know we're not oblivious to the fact of the caliber player he is but um you know as as an offense you come out and you expect to execute on anybody who's lined up the classroom. So yeah I never really

5:08:31thought about like that but um we definitely come a come a long way since my freshman year um thankful to the Lord that he's kept me all these years and he kept my head on straight and allowed me to you know develop into the person that I am now um but so you know coming full circle it is really surreal moments to be in my senior year playing against you know the three black on my first catch me so it's really cool. I remember I remember Kyle getting yelled at he was a ball he was not supposed to throw and I also remember um getting pushed out at like the one or two year online so that's kind of a bittersweet memory but um it was a great memory I mean I have to say yes if I don't think I should score it I don't think I should be playing football who's uh my my um yeah my my came in he kind of has all the intangibles over his CV you can tell he just loves the game the way he goes about his business um he runs every route to perfection he's a he's a you know very cerebral kid um and every time he gets on the field he expects perfection so um he's just got to continue to develop continue to work and uh

5:09:37I'm really excited to see what he's able to do for us. Look at how heavy he seems to our bias man roll over camp to be able to put his opportunities starting the other day. Yeah um I think you know it's no secret that he has all the physical capabilities that you would want or receive at really any position he could play because there's nothing to football feel um with his athletic ability but um so a lot of it for him was putting together the mental piece of the game you know not just understanding what he has on a specific play but the whole concept um understanding defense and all that type of stuff so um there's nothing really that can get you ready for that moment for your first snap and call us because it is different than high school but um you know once he wants to get's acclimated gets used to it I don't know I know Dows is gonna take off for us and each of us thinks. What do you see in faith continuing to train the team together? Yeah I mean it's been a it's been a huge part of everything that we've done been a huge part of a lot of the reasons why the scene is getting back and everything like that so we have a team Bible study that we continue to do and continue to grow I'm kind of just preaching to the other gospel to the guys on the team and um it's definitely permeated throughout the team throughout the

5:10:37years because you know looking back a couple years ago there wasn't that many people on the team heavily into their faith um and along came a couple special people who really changed the dynamics of our program but um you know the Bible says one man plans the other man watches but God ultimately brings the increase so um we're just trying our best to stay obedient to the Lord and he's done tremendous things. What is two special people you just mentioned? I'll say kind of the the uh the founders I would say of the team's faith um we're definitely uh master team for one uh came in bad and Xavier Johnson so those guys. What do you view as your responsibility as captain? Um really what I view my responsibility as a captain is just as a as a person in general is to push everybody closer to Christ um and you know by doing that I try to walk as close to Christ as I can myself I'm gonna kind of be that example and be that life where people look up to um and I think all the the basic principles that are found in the Bible and you're trying to appreciate Christ will naturally naturally make you a better leader a better person better football player in the sense

5:11:38I just try my best to anyway yeah I mean we have specific goals going into every single week um some of our goals for this week is you know things can get sloppy in the week one you see it all across the country um you know false-starts penalty is all these types of stuff so we're really just trying to be clean go out there play a fast complete football game um clicking on and firing I'm also under so um by no means are as underestimating and your opponent we go out there on the field every Saturday expecting to pull out whoever lines up across from us so that's just our mentality so we're gonna hold true to them

5:12:43yeah very very un-series not very funny guy um kind of lines the room when he walking when he walks in and um he's just he's a true joy to be around um you can kind of throw willing to any setting and he's gonna get along with everybody there so um definitely of the uh the team chemistry locker room we love having him around so we're super glad he's part of the student online they were getting back there a little quicker than so far and we all were so expected on the player oh come out of the age we like we knew that they were in the team that played at the audience like you mentioned there was some paths to that kind of shoes of rod and some things that maybe left the wheeler on some plays but when the ball did come out you guys were efficient in the passing game there's gonna take the beanberg to play the earth for the temperatures what allowed is the passing effect to stay that prolific as even the office of the wide room they each run and they all run and they all run and they all run and they're all just had to come out quicker and so but they're yet to see every detail from the wide room they've had to do that and they run faster and quicker and they're much do you feel like that game can be a building block for you in terms of continuing to be a big impact on the outside oh I feel like each game of building but we a stack each game and stuff like that so this uh I

5:13:47just made bigger plays in games so like that's uh I just thought I guess another building block from the mud oh they've been doing pretty good they've been doing stuff like that new guys new places and stuff like that we're all trying to pick up uh from the injuries and stuff oh we do got a good hands getting the pocket down from the water you got to get in there probably get the safety get a lot of backers or a dns or like that whatever they need to do on your touchdown catch so this one I can just the ball will allow us to come down okay bye bye they're throwing the wind yeah yeah yeah that was like what's it like like I used to a ruler and picked up did you you three of the ball will be coming in sooner or later this year if you call it my girl meaning you know they'll get three big time my receivers made before five if you figure them bitchy it would find you insignificant at significant times yeah I knew a ball come my way each and every week we have plays for each and all of us

5:14:48and stuff like that it just really depends on what the defense uh it gives us players to give us one thing and it's not a ball goes away from me or goes come to me and stuff like that so ultimately it's not in my decision or ball goes and yet you're you're blocking a state of point so like you're blocking is our point yeah our blocking from the wide-out has been a big emphasis this year and stuff like that because we lacked that pretty much all last year so they've been a big emphasis in the block industry from the wide-out and when you look at Penn State on the video what just stands out about there maybe that passed the pass what you're which you're going to be personally up against them uh they're pretty good select points they played man that was like that so we got to win on one and one that's out of them on the perimeter I'm pretty much the same uh man covered doll around they got a little size on the stuff like that uh they all probably bring me to take that all right thank you guys

5:15:50hi guys that's a better question he's the way he kind of brings some good energy uh jace middle 10 right there too yeah he kind of uh overseas max of warmth a little bit so uh that's pretty fun uh and then catching we uh we all have some pretty good opportunities for catching especially practice we've all made some really good fish here yeah uh definitely competitive but the good way uh we're all there supportive uh we all know our same thing we're working with each other we hope we tell you better because we all know that we need each other

5:17:27that's what our unit is we're turning the topic I would say we definitely I mean I want to really say it's real in the topic that's real in the telling earlier so it's right there um so you know if it's a laugh I would say our indie uh kind of builds an effort for our them I'm going to go on full reps and I'll go with the toes with the blocks. I'm working my sword today to get you to do that.

5:18:29So I'm going to have to split, I'm going to split, I'm going to split. There's a really good point against me this year. How much do you have? How much do you have? How much do you have? How much do you have? How much do you have? How much do you have? Is it a big one too? So just being able to go back home and spend time with family is good. It's not very good. How often do you go back? I would say probably once a week, otherwise we'll be somewhere around there. Not that far. There's some good people. Yeah, get a family dinner there. Yeah. Do you ever go back for a very high school event? Sure. Go back to being there. Yeah. For the schedule for next week. Do you play for me a fire wades or this week I can go back. So it's not very good. When things ramp up for a school, you come to balance that. You go covered in the frame. Yeah, it does. Especially when the scheme is frustrating. You really have to go to the high school event and be really down on the streets.

5:19:33Now that one of these former 10 years, what excites you about getting on field and anything you play, meaning will football. You know, brothers, seeing the brothers succeed. You just know them all the work that will put them in the middle of the room. Yeah. That's awesome. Are you a big guy who had on taking the environment or you just fall business once you step on it? Honestly. I probably said to my whole business. I kind of just kind of went out there and bought a lot of money. But there's moments when we had a big run at Notre Dame. I'm getting out of it. That was awesome. It was moments like that. We just kind of had to look at it. And we had to come back. Yeah. When you were at Notre Dame, what kind of career for that? For everything that you do. Is there a way that you can get fresh in that moment? Practice. You know, breaking fears. Practice, practice, practice. And then, you know, at the game, it's just right there about practices.

5:20:38What you're thinking about is, you're talking about the PDs. You know, it's kind of a working sense of practice. How do they push you as you have a better experience? A little quicker than we do. So I'd like to get my hands on them a little bit. If I can, I'm just kind of going off with that. That, you know, their quickness kind of helps me get my feet on. That was what made me pay for how much I've come up with. That was the hard thing for my product. That was the kind of thing that you get. I think both teams, you have as well. And you're taking the guy that you need and will, and then you're fighting for that new goal. What if they might see the top program? I mean, you've seen a lot of those get-as well. And you're probably getting more. I mean, I made a cable up for the second season. So we're on the green side. Which is on the top, that's not how that world's going to bring that along.

5:21:38We all know how that is. I think it's a little bit more of a question. I think it's a very caring part of them. When I'm using it, I think about how many guys are having their own back in the flight. How much do you like that? You know, I don't like that. I think it's a very good feeling to have them. People don't know what they're having. Like, I'm not really thinking about it. Right. I think it's good. Well, I would be very, very, very, very, very, very, and I think that's a lot of things that I'm going to be able to do. Yeah, I'm going to have to ask this little, maybe I can show you what I'm going to do. How important is my push-up over the helmet? I'm going to be fine. You're going to be fine. Good. Yeah, we're close with them. We talked a lot. How was it? You moved on and off the stage? I think that's a big fact. Absolutely, but I would say during mid-spring, I just springed. I thought, okay, I'm going to be better at this. I've had a really good summer, really good fall camp, and I grew a lot of time to see it. What's like, don't react to it. Yeah, I mean, again, I've used a year ago, and I'm way past it.

5:22:41So I'm ready for this. What do you feel like your role can be? Whatever the name you could do. I'm a self-employed player. I can divide a lot of block and man and pass the ball. It's been really, it's been very, very difficult to play with all the guys. So I'd like to know how I could do that for the first two ball hits. Yeah. I think it's a kind of hard to do. Yeah. I think it's a kind of hard to do. I think it's an awful lot of career. Yeah, yeah. I mean, again, we've been down to summer. So I think that's the first one I want to sell my home. I don't know, that's near. I'm going to take a second. Okay, okay. So yeah, it needs to be great as it deserves. It's a lot of slotting. It's a lot of slotting. It should be a lot of block. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, like I said, there's a good best in the country. There's a good room. In the doughing instead, we're going to take me, my hand plays for my feet for a year.

5:23:45I think not, not, not, not be able to play, not able to build the rear, the rear. Yeah. It did, but at the same time, we were a different skin. We were a gap down 26,000 points, 26,000 points, but here's more than we do do gap runs. That's what we're saying. So it's different, but we're doing different bodies and visionings. And I think that's a huge advantage for me to figure out what I'm going to do. I don't see you feel like there's just an opportunity for all of you in the tight end, though. You know, with K-1,000. Yeah. We're at this page for free. But, you know, we're getting women to the building. 351. Right. We're in the power of the whole building. We're in the spring game. We're in the lost game. Now, why would you worry about that? I mean, it just shows how, what we have going on in the highest state. And I know we're fortunate enough to have a program having a game on natural programming.

5:24:46I think it shows the power of the program. So, you know, we're going to have a program that we can tell Cody and said maybe that started last week before Iowa. You're thought on how you guys move back here this weekend? I think going back to this foundation, I was a team. We believe that we're built on toughness. It's one thing to say, but I believe that we show up weekend. We got when we showed toughness. But to your point, last week, I believe there was position group that were challenged. Not necessarily taking a personal, but just challenged to practice harder. Let's see, how hard can we practice? And so, I think ever since then, there has been another step that we've taken. But that's the whole goal. I mean, I hope in two, three weeks from now, there's even another step that we take forward for where we are now. That's just the evolution of getting better at the team. And I think one thing I've noticed with this football team is I think every single week we play, we've continues to getting better. But I mean, that's just life, right? I mean, the thing you continue to do, you have the hope to continue to get better at it. But I think we're seeing that here with this football team as well.

5:25:48I think when we talked to you in camp, you said you were excited about how you guys are going to run the ball this year. And obviously, you've done that. At what point did it become clear to you guys were going to be able to kind of hang your hat more in front of the ball the way you are now? I just think we're such a balanced offense. I think this kind of going against our team, especially in specifically against our offense. I think there's just too many things you have to remember. You've got to respect the perimeter and you have to respect the run game. You have to respect the stretch and the inside zone. All the different things that we can do, putting the ball over the field in perimeter or even taking shots down the field. You have to respect so many things. That just leaves gaps in the ability to gash the ball for six and seven and eight yards. So I guess to answer your question, the more dynamic wherever to be on the perimeter, the more we're able to connect when we hit on shots, I think the better it's going to be able to open up the run game as well. I think Coach Kelly and Coach Day they do an amazing job just putting us in the right position and we don't have to think about that kind of stuff.

5:26:48We just all hope mine that is 4 to 6, 8 to V plus 2 to play as hard and as violent as we can. We'll look at the scoreboard at the end of the game and see where we are. Is that balance the best you've had in here? How would you guys characterize the balance of that? Yeah, I just think I don't know, I don't want to sum up, I don't want to compare. But I think we're just a very balanced team. I don't, it's not much weakness. Now, when I say that, we still have the humility to know that we must continue to be better weekend and we gout. But when I just look at our team as a whole, I don't just see like, let's go pick on this guy because this guy can't do X, Y, B or we can leave him. I think we have 11 guys on both side of the ball that are able to be dynamic and the physical and strong players. And I think we're just a complete team. But again, I say that with humility. We want to continue to weekend and week out be the best team. We know we have to show up because on any given week you can lose. So we show up every week with the intentions that it's a national championship.

5:27:48Let's say it's not a lot about the Saturday days of the lesson. You're going to have this meet for the Iowa game with the group men. What's going to help you grow as a leader and what's going to help you grow more comfortable, I guess, as being kind of a voice in my team? I would just attribute that to my faith. My words, they would do the strikes. I think before you can lead anybody else, you have to have a sense of the foundation of who you are. Having an offensive self and idea of self. And I think the more that I've been able to be strong in my faith, the more confidence it is giving me into being leaders to other people, being able to be a leader to other people. But I think that's where it starts. How can you lead people if you're not really sure of where you are? And then also when it comes to practice, practicality of football, I think the more you have an understanding of an offensive, the more that you are in the offensive, the more that you know, the more ability you can bend, hand-knowledge to the next group of younger guys coming behind you. So that all helps the leadership. But I would attribute that to my faith, my strong foundation, and no one who I am.

5:28:51Maybe some of the better intellectuals of the years that you kind of were able to learn from as well. I noticed that they were pretty good leaders as well. You asked who were some? Others, there were so many. This name I think here, I've seen many, many leaders always going back to my freshman who was just in and past school and Jonathan Cooper. Those guys to then the next group of guys with Chris and Fayer. All the different guys going up coming through here, I've seen many great leaders. And I think there's something I would definitely say that's something special with the leaders on this team. I would say that there's not the leaders that we have on this team, but not just leaders due to seniority, due to it's just my turn. But I would look at the leaders that we have on this team and say they're sincerely leaders. Not just by leaders, it's not just Hamie down. They're truly, we have great leaders on this team. The first question, Brandon was saying that he feels like Will is just built for the moment.

5:29:52Do you kind of feel that way too? Yeah, I feel like he never gets too high, he never gets too low. He's always locked in and focused. And that's the kind of, I don't know, temperament is the right word. But the right attitude, if you will, for like a better word, that's the right attitude that you want. So from the quarterback, no matter what spot we are in the game, we look to Will and who will be able to lead our huddle. And we have confidence in that. All right, gee, thank you. Really, man, it's tough practices, you know, hard camping so far and tough practices. So really just coming in each and every day, man, it's just trying to get better. How important is Navajo, in the run, especially now in big time? The ocean moves us, whether that's surfing a wave or taking in an inspiring view. The ocean feeds us, sustainable seafood practices bring the oceans bounty to our plates. The ocean teaches us how our everyday choices, big and small make an impact.

5:30:54The ocean delights us as playful otters restore coastal kelp forests. The ocean connects us. Find your connection at monoraybeacquarium.org slash connects. Calhsi's own CEO says it himself. And yes, two thirds of people on Calhsi lose money. So what does it take to be in the other third? You have to do extensive amount of research to be good. There are people that spend the copious amount of money, time, resources, energy, they've dedicated their lives to basically becoming good at it. All that and still. And yes, two thirds of people on Calhsi lose money. lose money. lose money. lose money. That's Calhsi, in their own CEOs' words. Go to www.fairpredics.com to learn more. Man is very important. The coaches, they stress that a lot. We've got to run the boss. Not to run, especially in these matchup games. You know these big, same games. So we've definitely been working to try to do that. What's the most intense memory you have? The most lost one.

5:31:54Got here. I angle a lot. It's so many. Paul Camp, no, Paul Camp. I got so many there. It's a lot. What was the first impression when you went shot and all you guys first met? I think when he first got here, he came in the room. He gave us his speech. Jesus, I'm a dog. I'm a dog. That's right. I knew I was like, we in it. We in it. I love Coach Langman. He's the man that's out of the key. I thank God for bringing him here. He's been amazing. He's been a huge part of the same. You have a coach quite intense as with Carlos. Coach Oliver was that way. He coached me that way. And coach does it as well. Both of those guys. Thank you.

5:32:54I'm so thankful that God has allowed us to cross pass. They both been really helpful in my life. Maybe on whether it's that stuff I'm up to solve the other day, or do we just have to generally keep in balance sometimes? I was born as a for running back to work on stuff with a kind of your off hand, and you're not carrying it all over. I mean, I feel like it's just a tool. You can use sometimes that comes out. And so one thing that Coach Light help us work on is just using different tools. And so it definitely comes to show on Saturday. You know sometimes. So yeah, it's really important to just try to work on those tools as a running back. What about contact now? And so I'll do the first batch over the course of the group. It's like that's going to scream for you really. Yeah. Shoot really, man. Just like the part of this program is getting developed. And so really just getting developed here. You know, the coaches here, they've been doing a good job helping me grow and become a better running back. And so especially having Coach Light here,

5:33:55he's been a huge part of the success. I praise God, first and foremost, but with him bringing Coach Light here, him leading Coach Light here, man, he's been a huge part of that. So with Coach Sean, we talk so much. You guys have talked about it. We split carries. But now that you're actually in the season, you deal during for a drive and then Coach comes in. You go over that nerve drive. You feel that defenses are more worn down where you're not in first time going the way. You split back, it feels before, but you've always been with the future back. Now you're kind of split carries. Do you feel like when you feel the defenses are a little more worn down than you are when you get in there, it's the first light first quarter or early second quarter? Every now and I mean, it really depends on the team. You know, there are some teams that play hard, you know, four, four quarters. And so yeah, it really depends on the team, to be honest. Do you think split carries might kind of help you at all in the end? Yes, it has helped me in so many ways. And you know, it's a long season for real.

5:34:55And so the biggest thing is just helping with the wear and tear. And I'm just building off each other moment of two. So it's helped in so many ways. And you kind of look at me wearing here. Does it even help when you get me down up like you do? No, you're not. Maybe getting the volume. It's like, it's not harder. Because I don't have a helps at all. Coach, they actually talked about that too, to be honest. Does he spread to the team? You know, if you get tired, you know, we got, we got, we got definitely the same. You know, guys who can come in and make plays. And so he actually expressed that. Bigger chances are come, but what's impressed you about the audience and why in the world? Man, really the work they've been playing in, you know, they're in practice. I mean, I know y'all see it, you know, during on Saturdays. But man, really the work they're playing in, they're in practice. You know, it's hard, man. And those guys do a good job of, you know, just coming in each and every day and trying to get better. So you talk very thick, getting off from Sean. And he comes out with a step arm. You come out with a thumb. You guys, you guys beat off that physicality. I want to, one of another, one of another. Yeah, man. Like I said, man, there's definitely, we build momentum,

5:35:56you know, off each other and I'll definitely build momentum off when Sean, man. When Sean is a great running back, I believe the shoot of best running back in the country, man. That boy, talented man. And, you know, I'm so thankful, man, to have him here, man. He's going to be a huge part of the scene. Thanks for having me. Yeah, we got on the field and I'm so excited. I thought it was just amazing to see. So as it's the same, you know, I gave him the arms and the props and we got to the end of my bro, that's the hell of a lot. But he's just good to see him. Did you hear him yell from the side of my face? No. Because he was so loud, he could hear it on a TV microphone. No, actually, I did, man. I just seen the blitz click up, but it was a lot of fun. You make you want to go out there and hit one? For sure. Yeah, for sure. How was your fans program center? Oh, I thought. Definitely, you know, I didn't get a lot of blitzes in the spars. I think all they had, like, the ocean moves us. Whether that's surfing a wave or taking in an inspiring view, the ocean feeds us. Sustainable seafood practices bring the ocean's bounty to our plates. The ocean teaches us how our everyday choices, big and small

5:36:59make an impact. The ocean delights us as playful otters restore coastal kelp forests. The ocean connects us. Find your connection at monoraybeacquarium.org slash connects. CalShi's own CEO says it himself. And yes, 2-thirds of people on CalShi lose money. So what does it take to be in the other third? You have to do extensive amount of research to be good. There are people that spend, quote, your amount of money, time, resources, energy. They've dedicated their lives to basically becoming good at it. All that and still. And yes, 2-thirds of people on CalShi lose money. Lose money. Lose money. That's CalShi in their own CEOs' words. Go to www.fairpredics.com to learn more. Yeah, I didn't have any pressure on Saturday. So definitely want to want to share. Yeah, I just got Coach Kaley yesterday. He's here. Does he call things differently when you're in the game? When he sees you're in the game or in when he sees Pravee in the game, he says no. He's like that too. The fact that you choose the back, you just run the planes.

5:38:00Yeah, I think that's the biggest thing. I don't totally play it. I don't draw anything else because I just got there. Just executing. Yeah, I know you're trained the same. You look at the guy you see. Basically, he's a little bit different. Right, guys? Yeah. How do you like this back in the game? I'm a shot. This office. You know, it's only the first game. So I wish I could say, definitely how much I like it so far. But I think as we continue throughout the season, we get to showcase a lot of different. That's why how does it compare to what you can do? The Ole Miss stuff, the variety of plays, et cetera. I think just starting off the season at the point that we're now like, we haven't really done too many crazy games. Just right away. Let's see how practice we do. Yeah, you already did. Does it feel pretty deep to you? Oh, yeah, definitely. It's going to be fun and it's time to share. Which one, does it feel like you guys are close in the run game because you're open? Yeah, I definitely think so. Like I said, we see on the film how everybody

5:39:01has collectively come together and has proved that we're missed or loved like that, but I think we definitely will. I'm sorry, I had that big walk. What's that Brandon in it? I'm a little wild. What was your point of view of that? We're watching back on film. What's every action for you and how much of an emphasis it is that it was actually ran ahead. Yeah. Definitely, definitely a big emphasis, especially at our position, super important, just to see what we do in practice together and the equal xp. What was the reaction to seeing that block for the day? I mean, at the moment, I just like, dang it, I'm like, too far. Sure. Coach Kelly was talking about you, great beyond James Peoples. Doesn't really matter who's in the game. They call it the same way. And James, like, what did you see in his first performance? And do you see some similarities that all between the US? I think in James, man, just saying how far you're going there and be super excited with the performance. Like, go out there for his first game and see him get the run and get the dude out.

5:40:02And just see him get the experience of like his first game. Me and Tray both just enjoy it. Were you surprised at all the sea terrorizing that happened first ever game? I think just as a team and like, we're so talented and everybody just worked so hard since we've been here. And you just get to see what each of your teammates can do. So it's like when they go out on Saturdays, it feels so fast. Great. Which one? Thank you very much. Thanks for the challenge. It's a hot one with that. It takes step on, just walk towards the locker room. You don't mind. Really just coming in each and every day, man, it's just trying to get better. How important is the run, especially now in big time? Man, it's very important. The coaches, they stress out a lot. We've got to run the boss, not to run, especially in these match-up games, these big-time games. So we've definitely been working to try to do that.

5:41:04What's the most intense memory you had the most lost one that's got here? I angle a lot. It's so many. It's so many. Fall count, no, fall count, man. I got so many there, fall count. But yes, it's a lot, man. OK, what was the first impression playing with you when you clinched out all you guys first met? I think when he first got here, he came in the room. He gave us the speech. He was like, I'm a dog. I'm a dog. And that's right, that's right. I knew I was like, we in it, man. We in it. But now, I love Coach Log, man. It's all the deep friends here, man. I thank God for bringing him here, man. He's been amazing in this room on the same man. He's been a huge part of the same. So I was talking to you about this. You have a coach quite intense as with Carlos'. Oh, yeah, man. Coach Ophor was that way. He coached me that way. And Coach Log does it as well.

5:42:07And so, yeah, man, both of those guys, man, I'm so thankful that God has allowed us to cross pass. They both been really helpful in my life. Maybe on what other sets, the problem with the Sal the other day, or do we just kind of generally keep it in balance sometimes? I would point as if we were running back to work on stuff with the kind of off hand that you're not carrying the forward. I mean, I feel like it's just a tool. You can use sometimes that comes out. And so one thing that Coach Log helped us work on is just using different tools. And so it definitely comes to show on Saturday. You know, sometimes. So, man, that's, yeah, it's really important to just try to work on those tools as it runs back. The ocean moves us, surfing a wave or savoring the view. The ocean delights us as playful otters restore coastal kelp forest. The ocean connects us. Visit monoraybeacquarium.org slash connects. CalShe's own CEO says it himself. And yes, two thirds of people on CalShe lose money.

5:43:08So what does it take to be in the other third? You have to do extensive amount of research to be good. There are people that spend copious amount of money, time, resources, energy. They've dedicated their lives to basically becoming good at it. All that and still. And yes, two thirds of people on CalShe lose money, lose money, lose money, lose money. That's CalShe in their own CEOs words. Go to www.fairpredics.com to learn more. What about contact now? I told you to prove that over the course of your career. It seems like that's going to be strange for you. Yeah. Shoot, really, man. Just like the part of this program is getting developed. And so really just getting developed here. You know, the coaches here, they've been doing a good job of helping me grow and become a better running back. And so especially having Coach Lock here, he's been a huge part of the success. I praise God first and foremost, but with him bringing Coach Lock here, him leading Coach Lock here, man, he's been a huge part of that. So. Wait. Wait, Sean, we talk so much.

5:44:09You guys have talked about it. You know, split carries. But now that you're actually in the season, you deal with your in-for-drive and the coach comes in. You go over that nerve drive. You feel that defenses are more worn down where you're not in first time going the way. You split back, those before, but you've always been with the feature back. Now you're kind of split carries. Do you feel like, when you feel the defenses are a little more worn down than you are, when you get in there, it's the first light first quarter or early second quarter? Every now and I mean, it really depends on the team. You know, there are some teams that play hard, you know, four, four quarters. And so yeah, it really depends on the team, to be honest. Do you think split carries might kind of help you at all in the end? Yes. It has helped me in so many ways. And you know, it's a long season for real. And so the biggest thing is just helping with the wear and tear. And I'm just building off each other moment of two. So it's helped in so many ways. And you kind of look at it anywhere in here. Does it even help you when you get down up like you do? No, you're not. Maybe getting the volume. It's like, it's not harder.

5:45:10It doesn't have a helps at all. Coach, they actually talked about that too, to be honest. Does he express to the team? You know, if you get tired, you know, we got definitely on the same, you know, guys who can come in and make plays. And so he actually expressed that. We're trying to succumb, but what's impressed you about the audience and why in the world are you guys doing it? Man, really the work they've been playing in, you know, they're in practice. I mean, I know y'all see it during on Saturdays. But man, really the work they're playing in, they're in practice. You know, it's hard, man. And those guys do a good job of, you know, just coming in each and every day and trying to get better. You talk very thick, getting off from Sean. And he comes out with a step arm. You come out with a thumb. You guys, you guys beat off that mentality. I want to, one of another, one of another. Yeah, man. Like I said, man, there's definitely, we build momentum, you know, off each other and not definitely build momentum off when Sean, man. When Sean is a great running back, I believe the shoot of, best running back in the country, man. That boy, talented man. And, you know, I'm so thankful, man, to have him here, man. He's going to be a huge part of the scene.

5:46:12Thanks, Sean. Yeah, man. He's been working really hard, man. Even before this evening, he had a great spring, great summer, especially throughout fall count. He took a lot of reps and went against the top players, taught defense in the country. So I think he's ready to have the build. As a bad team game, if you recognize what team is happening, whether they bring off the manager goal or then coming in, or against you, where is the strength of the game? I'm not going to lie. Sometimes I'm too locked in. I don't really notice it. But it went to be going down. And it was still clear that it's in K-1. And so this is trying to motivate him. You know, he can do it, man. The manager is in his great battle. But we have the team trying to do it. I want to go for the win. Praveen, on one of the things you can do, add the veteran, add the back, then to help those guys out front. I think the biggest thing, you know, is just continuing to encourage each other. And those tough times, you know, when it gets hard, I think that's the biggest thing.

5:47:12I think there's a lot of time with time to get hard. You know, you can get selfish. I think that's how it's done. And so that's something that God has been helping me work on. And those tough times, you know, to not be selfish, you know, at all. And really encourage the guys, you know, around me and spread his life. Is that when you've seen throughout the team here, or was it happening in a half? Yes, I've definitely seen that, man. We've definitely been listening each other up and encouraging each other. You know, just, they're really trying to put the pace and focus on the basketball. We'll talk yesterday about how this lost good positive in the United States is in the right place. You haven't had a lot of chances. That just has a lot more time. How do you feel like you guys are turning the page of the positive in the United States? I think really, that was, that was like the biggest focus when we, when we came in after that loss, I met as a team. It's just like Coach Day, really did a good job with that. You know, just like, man, we all got to own up to the mistakes that were made. But, you know, one thing I love and respect about Coach Day, is that he took it upon himself. You know, he called himself out,

5:48:12and it was like that, so I know. But it's, and really it is on all of us, you know, the team. And so that's one thing I really love about Coach Day is that, you know, he was willing to check himself. Fred, what was the last week's practice, like specifically coming off that? It was, it was, it was tough now. It was a great week of development, you know, getting better and cleaning up the little details of the fence. You know, I think, you know, we, that we continue to strive on the little things, the little details, you know, we can really go forward. What's different about coming off the loss early out of this season, compared to coming up that first loss later in the year? I think the biggest thing is just, it humbles us, you know, it keeps us focused on the right thing. Like, I believe this is a test of our faith, you know, in the Lord. I think this, I believe, you know, he wanted it to go this way, you know, in test our faith, you know, we continue to trust him, even when things don't go our way. And, you know, he's helping us pass that test. You said Coach Day called himself out. What did he call himself out on?

5:49:12What kind of things do you say? Really just as a head coach, you know, this is his team, you know, he's like the guy. And so he was just like, it really starts with me. And so we love that, you know, I think a lot of times, you know, coaches were pinpointing on everyone else, but Coach Day, you know, man, he just took it upon himself and like, that's how he, you know, he's going to get it big. And, you know, he's definitely been pushing us, man, and pointing us in the right direction, man, and helping us clean up things. Trey, Quinter, I'm usually the football brand. So how many companies do you career? What do you see from him kind of found the back of that? This week, how they do this week, how we have a better procedure down the globe? Where did he add the characters, you know, corresponding to them? Quinter, man, he's been responding to that virtually really well. Yeah, he's definitely not used to putting the ball on the ground. And so he's definitely been working hard in practice to get that fit. And then, Quinter, there's a really great player and he's definitely going to bounce back. If you've been kind of guy, you have to go over to write out what that happened

5:50:13and give him some motivation to comfort. You kind of leave it well. Yeah, I mean, we always go through the bridge and we encourage each other, man, Quinter, Sean, you know, he encourages me, I encourage his hands, so man, it's like, you know, we just sharpened each other, and then, and therefore, each other, you know, when you meet him. So you're going to the 2014 title team getting on inside of you? Is there a 10-day anniversary? Do you remember watching Zekin and those guys as a kid? And how did they put your memory to them? I'm not going to lie. I did not watch it at the kids. I'm not going to lie. Have you gotten to know them now or just what's your sort of like, you with that team? Yeah, that team was loaded. That's what I heard about the team. Like, it was really loaded. I see highlights every now and then, I think, leaping off to like the Champions League against the BELMA, right? Yeah, he had like four, right? Four tuts, for the four. Yeah, I think so, but I know that team was stagnant. I was loaded, so a lot of great guys on the team.

5:51:13Thank you, baby. I appreciate you. I think that's right. You know, just coming in, you know, with the white mindset, trying to put it in the work you see in every day and get better as a team. What are some ways that you and you are trying to kind of contrast the complement one and all, like, things that you may not be able to do as well as the other and vice versa? Shoot, I don't know. We'll see. Where is James Stepnum going before some things happen to you? You're holding my place on your back, huh? Man, James has been so good, man. He's a really good person, man, good player. And he comes in every day, you know, just trying to get better. You know, he kind of reminds me a lot about myself in some way, man. And this is hunger and everything is coming in. He's going to be a great player, man. He's continuing to buy, you know, to go over here and you know where we're trying to go. You know, he's going to be a huge part of this offense. You said this person, Jim.

5:52:13What's the matter about this game? Man, he just made someone do it, man. He's a funny dude. And, man, yeah, I just love a man as a brother, man. I got to eat you. You know, just a chance. You know, I knew James when he was recruited. And so we talked a little bit. And just like being here, man, just being there, you know, help him to serve him. You know, the world called him as a group. It's been a good man, a conversation that we had, you know, just off the field. And so just being able to be that one, you know, when he's in the middle of this thing. It's right. The good guys every season is a set of builds. How does the impact affect the one of them? Running down? Yeah. How does it affect the guy with the down? I think he's going to be okay. I think he's going to be a factor. Oh, man. Killed it down. He's a good player, man. I was so glad. You know, he's here, man. He's been really good for the defense, man. And yeah, man, he's all around the field, you know, making plays in the ranked game, past game, everywhere. And he shows up everywhere. What is your view as your response of love?

5:53:16As a captain, Jesus teaches greatness to serve him. And so I just, you know, I think for me, you know, I just want to be, you know, the Lord's humble servant. And just be able to serve others, you know, the players on my chain, you know, how I reckon do so and be the captain that the Lord wants me to be. And so, you know, it's a big responsibility, you know, the biggest thing is just like that I pray on it. And that the Lord helps me to remember is that, you know, I'm trying to please him and not others. And so, you know, just keep my eyes on the Lord and continue to allow him to work on my heart to be a better team captain for my team. I think that's, it's going to be really good. That's how you would have told me when you got here. You should have kept that up. So, you're not really a man, it's just, yeah, not really a man. I'm just so thankful, you know, that God has placed me in this position and that my teammates, you know, they picked me to be in this position. And yeah, I'm just so thankful, man, and just being in this position, like I just want to be able to bring Lord to the Lord's name.

5:54:17And so, like I said, man, just leaning on him, you know, it's tough, man. It's tough being a captain because every day, you know, you got to come in and people are looking at you. You know, you things right. And so, there's been days where I struggle and I'm just gotten in the secret place with the Lord and just asking the Lord to for help, you know. And he bought me due, man. And he's continuing to make me a better person, a better team. What do you want to do? What's your question on you two steps in this first semester Saturday and going to sit here again? But I don't even think we talked much about that yet. Yeah, I don't know how much we talked about that. We still locked in there right now, man. It's just when that time comes. What would you tell him about the atmosphere going on on Saturday? You can do it from Saturday. It's a side of, man. It's a side, especially first game, being back in the shoe. The walk and seeing a fans and everything. You know, it's a huge environment. So, yeah, I'm, man, I know he's going to be so excited.

5:55:17You guys are going to bring him up to the country. You're loaded. You're going to be able to expect y'all to make a run all the way to the championship game. We know what happens. And how legit is that when you're in your city and more your city? I'll trade you on about this team. Yeah. Shoot, man. You know, it's a long season. And so I think the biggest thing is that we're trying to do as a team. You know, this year, it's not lit too far ahead. It's just taking one game at a time. You know, I think that's the biggest thing right there, man. Let's just focus on hacking and marshaling the next game, the next game. And then eventually, like, we'll get there, man. We'll get there. But just every day just trying to focus on one day at a time, putting in the work. And I'm preparing for the opponent. You know, we have each week. All right, right. Thank you. Thanks for having me. Appreciate you, man. I'm so, you know, it's been great. And the more that I just throw to these receivers and just get, you know, get around these guys, you know, the more we're coming together and becoming a team. And it's, it's cool to see and we just got to keep doing it and keep practicing as hard as we event.

5:56:20Life practice has been what it'd be like, but not like that. You know, I think I've, I think I've done a pretty good job protecting the football and, and being smart with my decisions. You know, I think that I want to continue to push the ball down the field when I, when I have opportunities to and be accurate down the field and, and get, get some more arrow my, on my deep balls. Those are just a couple things that I've, I've thought about personally, but, you know, I think, I think one of the bigger things is, you know, what are we doing as a team? And, you know, obviously, you know, I'm thinking about myself and how I can be better, but, you know, the bigger thing is how can we be better as a team? How can I facilitate that being a quarterback? You know, how can I encourage somebody, you know, before we go out there to remind them, hey, you know, if it's a running back, you know, make sure on 60 and whatever protection, you know, you got these guys. You know, doing, doing things like that is, is something I want to continue to grow in for my team, you know, because that's, at the end of the day, you know, all 11 guys have to do their job every single play and, you know, being the quarterback, you kind of have to facilitate that a little bit and help those guys and make sure that, you know, we're being the best team we can be.

5:57:30Yeah, yeah, yeah, I felt fast. It was nice to get out and running a little bit. You know, I, I, we made a little, made a little QB call on that play and got out and ran and, um, it was fun. You know, obviously it's, it's nice to compete with those guys and running, you know, trying out runs and some, some TVs that are really, really fast. But yeah, it was a good play. I know when you're in your, you know, you want to do it with a lot of the past, you know, it's a big, you know, it's a big part of my game and it's going to need to be a part of our game as an offense. You know, whether that's in a re-game and in the scramble game, whatever it may be, and, you know, I just want these guys on my team to know that, you know, I'm willing to run the ball and go get that extra yard when I need to, you know, because at the end of the day, that's what really, that's what it really comes down to. You know, are we going to run some quarterback, you know, run place, sure, but, you know, at the end of the game when it's third and five and everyone's, you know, everyone's covered down the field, am I going to be able to tuck the ball down and go, you know, go get 60 yards and run someone over that.

5:58:43That's, that's one of the bigger things and I think, you know, I want those guys, you know, they're out there with me to know that, you know, I'm going to go get that extra yard. You know, it's been part of your game, but some quarterbacks are able to run, but not willing. The ocean moves us, whether that's surfing a wave or taking in an inspiring view. The ocean feeds us, sustainable seafood practices bring the ocean's bounty to our plates. The ocean teaches us how our everyday choices, big and small make an impact. The ocean delights us as playful otters restore coastal kelp forests. The ocean connects us. Find your connection at monoraybeacquarium.org slash connects. CalSheezone CEO says it himself. And yes, two thirds of people on CalShe lose money. So what does it take to be in the other third? You have to do extensive amount of research to be good. There are people that spend copious amount of money, time, resources, energy, they've dedicated their lives to basically becoming good at it.

5:59:43All that and still. And yes, two thirds of people on CalShe lose money. Lose money. That's CalShe, in their own CEOs' words. Go to www.fairpredics.com to learn more.