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Speaker 1: Welcome to another episode of the Bus and Spring Football Tour.

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Speaker 1: Alabama Fans, the emotional maturity that you're about to hear

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Speaker 1: from both Tyler Booker and Jalen Milroe does nothing but

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Speaker 1: fire you guys up. Whatever culture building happens at Alabama,

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Speaker 1: it's why they're one of the most premier schools in

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Speaker 1: the country. Talking with Tyler Booker, we talked about being

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Speaker 1: an IMG athlete growing up through that. What IMG offers

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Speaker 1: the head that this kid has on his shoulders. I

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Speaker 1: don't know if he fakes it in the camera, it's

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Speaker 1: a different off camera. It doesn't seem like it, but

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Speaker 1: it's incredible. We talked to him and Jalen Milroe both

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Speaker 1: about the culture differences between coach de Boor and playing

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Speaker 1: under coach Saban, the new wrinkles that coach de Boors brought.

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Speaker 1: Some fun stories about Coach Saban and Jalen Milroe as well.

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Speaker 1: Talking to him about how he was committed to Texas,

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Speaker 1: the Committee and going to Alabama. That's a funny process

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Speaker 1: some of his favorite moments. You guys are going to

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Speaker 1: love these conversations. If you're an Alabama fan and you're

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Speaker 1: new to Bus with the Boys, the Spring Football Tour,

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Speaker 1: we sit down with coaches. Are we sitting with the

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Speaker 1: head coach that will be on the episode tomorrow? And

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Speaker 1: we sit down with players to talk about the ins

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Speaker 1: and outs of their journey, why they chose their school,

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Speaker 1: and a whole lot of fun inside. You guys are

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Speaker 2: Do you guys play the team from Friday Night Lights seven?

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Speaker 3: That's far away? That's that's out the way.

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Speaker 2: We played seven hours. I looked it up on the

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Speaker 2: drive over. It's a long way.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it ain't near me.

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Speaker 2: Yeah what but why do I know the name? Katie Texas?

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Speaker 3: Like what I have any Doughton play that Katie High?

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah?

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Speaker 3: And then like Katie Katie High like a powerhouse in

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Speaker 3: Texas and they play like nationally and like they they

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Speaker 3: probably like one of the best teams in the country

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Speaker 3: really and so that's where they like get the you know,

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Speaker 3: like the yeah, a lot of light because like they

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Speaker 3: play with really good and then uh, we played them

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Speaker 3: actually in high schools. So when I was in high school,

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Speaker 3: we lost in them freshman year, my sophomore year, junior

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Speaker 3: would be to my senior year of high school. But

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Speaker 3: what's funny about it is that the last time they

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Speaker 3: lost a district game, I was in kindergarten. The last

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Speaker 3: time I lost a disc games. Like since then, they

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Speaker 3: been underfeeding district. And then boom, like they take off

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Speaker 3: from playoffs and like they either go to state or

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Speaker 3: like losing like the fifth or fourth round. So like

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Speaker 3: they're like they're like they're real good. Bro, yeah good, Yeah, that.

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Speaker 2: Is wild growing up in Texas.

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Speaker 4: Yep.

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Speaker 2: You obviously have the Longhorns there. I feel like everybody

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Speaker 2: loves the Longhorns. And you're going through your entire process, wow, Obama.

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Speaker 3: Uh, I'm being honest. During the process initially, you know,

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Speaker 3: the biggest thing you want to look out of your

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Speaker 3: family and like, you know, what is the best decision

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Speaker 3: for yourself but also your family, and you know, Texas

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Speaker 3: was the option, and it was the option staying close

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Speaker 3: to home, which is Houston staying there. Uh. And I

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Speaker 3: was committed to Texas for two years and the biggest

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Speaker 3: thing I had to get out of my way was

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Speaker 3: said in my next forty years in my life, not

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Speaker 3: just run about the present and looking at the future.

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Speaker 3: And when it came to it, you know, everyone's gonna

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Speaker 3: sell your dream. I mean to come here, we're gonna

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Speaker 3: develop you, and we're gonna put your position to do this,

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Speaker 3: this and this. But like not the the hard questions

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Speaker 3: are how you gonna set me to set up and

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Speaker 3: be provide for my family one day? Like that's the

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Speaker 3: biggest thing, you know. And then of course, you know

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Speaker 3: you talk ex's and o's and being developed and sometuff

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Speaker 3: like that. But Coach Saving, you know, during the process

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Speaker 3: with Coach Saving, I was committed to Texas, but I

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Speaker 3: was taking calls. I was answering people, and Coach Saving

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Speaker 3: with one of them. The one thing that stook out

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Speaker 3: to me was during the process of whatever, coach you know,

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Speaker 3: we were FaceTime whatever, and he told me, hey, like

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Speaker 3: during the draft when two gets selected, I'm gonna call you.

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Speaker 3: I'm like, man, you ain't gonna call me. What you

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Speaker 3: talking about? You anna call me? So what? So with

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Speaker 3: the whatever pick, Savan called me and said, hey, you

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Speaker 3: come here, this will be you the next So I

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Speaker 3: was a junior high scho it would be you in

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Speaker 3: the next five to six years. So I'm committing like

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Speaker 3: there's no question, Like I'm committing like nothing. Ain't gotta

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Speaker 3: sell me nothing. That's what I want to do. And

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Speaker 3: he's at the draft at the draft, so he's face

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Speaker 3: right right his face time, so I've seen his face

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Speaker 3: like he was like that. I'm like, man, I'm laughing,

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Speaker 3: like yeah, that's right. Nah, he was serious, like talking

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Speaker 3: about the bold face, talk about my next future and

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Speaker 3: you know what all needed to be done, all this stuff.

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Speaker 3: Then gave me like his dad talked. Then he gave

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Speaker 3: me the coach talking. I'm I'm like, man, like, this

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Speaker 3: this is why I'm committed to Texas. So man like

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Speaker 3: I signed and committed. No one know that, but I

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Speaker 3: signed committed to Alabama like before I even posted it,

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Speaker 3: so like I would commit for Alabama like for a while.

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Speaker 3: And so shoot was like a little thing like that.

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Speaker 3: And then it was like talking about my future, talking

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Speaker 3: the a like there's nothing like greater than that a

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Speaker 3: I know all that good stuff, but like dog like

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Speaker 3: Paris and someone see that he didn't know what it

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Speaker 3: lot of things that took place to you know, committing

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Speaker 2: When you get sorry ahead when you I just wanted

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Speaker 2: to talk about that silent commit for a second. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: so you got you get that phone call from saving

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Speaker 2: did you suldently go okay, I'm going to Alabama.

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Speaker 1: To him on the phone?

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Speaker 3: Oh no, no, no, no, it's like like you hang the phone.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, most.

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Speaker 2: Definitely they wouldn't know. And then you had to go

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Speaker 1: When you get off the phone and you're talking to

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Speaker 3: Well, well, the thing was that like to thinking through

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Speaker 3: biggest thing is when I decommitted from the school, I

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Speaker 3: waiting for that next quarterback in each class, whether it's

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Speaker 3: So like they needed no answer because they'll go right

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Speaker 3: course I thought it through. My parents looked at it,

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Speaker 3: and so like that. And what I mean by signing

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Speaker 3: So like my job is locked. Like when we look

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Speaker 3: Like twenty five people in the class all wanted them

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Speaker 3: part of Alabama. I told them like, hey, like I'm

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Speaker 1: Like this, my Texas dropped the ball. The Texas dropped

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Speaker 3: Yeah they did, you know, yeah, yeah, it was it was.

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Speaker 3: It was some things during you know, the process, that

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Speaker 3: that the best of my future. I think that was

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Speaker 3: the best. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Legit. Yeah sounds like you were just had a side

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Speaker 2: check and you were like, all right, cool, I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: date you.

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Speaker 3: Stay quiet here once I take care of that.

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Speaker 2: I look at me. I promise I'm gonna be with you.

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Speaker 1: Take us to your first couple of years of BAM.

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Speaker 1: I like getting to learn from somebody like Bryce Young.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: For me coming into college, it was a great opportunity

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Speaker 3: for me to get better. I think that was. You know,

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Speaker 3: people have different mindsets when it comes to cause me.

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Speaker 3: I want to play trade right away. I want to

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Speaker 3: be the best me when in any form of fashion.

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Speaker 3: I want to be the best gentle of Mirrod I

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Speaker 3: can be. Whether it was academics, whether it was getting

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Speaker 3: I was trying to be my best me, and so

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Speaker 3: whenever my time was right to be on the field,

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Speaker 3: that's not my job.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 3: I let my actions speak loud of my words, you know.

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Speaker 3: And so to speak about my time here, I think

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Speaker 3: it's been humbling, just the just the what all goes

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Speaker 3: into being an outdown quarterback, you know, and every form

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Speaker 3: the row of a quarterback, you know, going from you know,

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Speaker 3: Mac Jones, the two Jayalen Hurst, Bryce are all different.

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Speaker 3: All those guys are different, and it's okay. And there's

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Speaker 3: no certain right way to play quarterback position. Everyone's different,

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Speaker 3: you know. We look at the NFL. It's the same way.

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Speaker 3: The top guy in the lead might be different than

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Speaker 3: the thirty two guys, you know, and and it's and

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Speaker 3: that's okay. But to speak about my time here, it's

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Speaker 3: been great. It's been great to see what the resources

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Speaker 3: a few days ago to look at that. That's like,

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Speaker 3: that's like, it's been great. So it's been a lot

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Speaker 3: of positive more than the negatives I can say. And

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Speaker 3: it's been humbling and it's been a great experience throughout

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Speaker 3: the process. But for me, I just learned so much

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Speaker 3: about myself and so learn so much more that I

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Speaker 3: have in stored just being here and just mean a

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Speaker 3: lot of great guys.

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Speaker 2: You said it was such a humbly experience, Like you know,

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Speaker 2: if you're getting offers from Texas and Alabama and all

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Speaker 2: these other schools, like you've been the man since you've

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Speaker 2: put a football on your head, Like you've always been

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Speaker 2: the star at the star of the showunds, but I

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Speaker 2: see his shoulders, that's a warm upset. That's crazy. But

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Speaker 2: you like, yeah, you're you're the man, Like you've been

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Speaker 3: But I can truly say that I'm glad it happened

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Speaker 1: Blowing away, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: It is wild. You and booked the way you guys

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Speaker 2: You're a new offense. Coach, de board comes in. What

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Speaker 3: I think I can do whatever I want where they

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Speaker 3: I'm just very you know, confident on our coaching staff,

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Speaker 3: You know, that's their job is to be a coach

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Speaker 3: what makes Alabama about us? As people? You know, where

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Speaker 3: great stuff on offense. You know, for me, I'm a

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Speaker 3: It's been great to have him here and we're just

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Speaker 3: I think the quality that you have to have is

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Speaker 3: You got to be passionate. You know, It's it's hard

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Speaker 3: You see coach Coach, You see coach. You know that's

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Speaker 3: Everybody kept on talking. I ain't gonna lie. Everybody kept

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Speaker 3: And so that's something that I'm seeing now is like, man,

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Speaker 1: What are some of your favorite memories with coach Saban?

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Speaker 3: My favorite memory, I'm being honest, Like my favorite memory,

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Speaker 3: I remember that practice. Man, I drive back in the

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Speaker 3: I was swinging the ball, swinging the ball like bad

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Speaker 3: everybody jumping up with me. Coaches, Man, what I get back?

433
00:18:51,880 --> 00:18:55,120
Speaker 3: I see this short man red as can beat Coach

434
00:18:55,160 --> 00:18:58,120
Speaker 3: Savan where a hat at practice? I didn't even see

435
00:18:58,160 --> 00:19:00,600
Speaker 3: his hat, Dog, I see his hair. Man, he ran

436
00:19:00,640 --> 00:19:04,520
Speaker 3: down there. Man cuts me clean out, said the ball

437
00:19:04,640 --> 00:19:07,840
Speaker 3: security for the boss Security, he said, could have discored.

438
00:19:07,920 --> 00:19:12,359
Speaker 3: He said, I ain't gonna see what he said. I said, Wow,

439
00:19:12,440 --> 00:19:18,000
Speaker 3: I said roll tired, I walk off. Yeah no, yeah,

440
00:19:18,080 --> 00:19:20,080
Speaker 3: that that's probably my favorite, mamor because i'malking about it's

441
00:19:20,080 --> 00:19:21,840
Speaker 3: the inder practice, you know what I'm saying. Everybody juiced up.

442
00:19:21,880 --> 00:19:23,800
Speaker 3: You know, it's competitive at the end of practice. Man,

443
00:19:23,800 --> 00:19:26,840
Speaker 3: it's fun like ones go too, go work. We're man,

444
00:19:27,320 --> 00:19:30,200
Speaker 3: it's competitive. You know, everybody's going hard balls at the wall,

445
00:19:30,200 --> 00:19:33,119
Speaker 3: like everybody's ready to go. So it was a last

446
00:19:33,200 --> 00:19:35,720
Speaker 3: rack and like it was good play because the last play,

447
00:19:35,880 --> 00:19:37,720
Speaker 3: you know, we scored. It was supposed to play. And

448
00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:39,200
Speaker 3: then man, he was hot. He don't care, but none

449
00:19:39,240 --> 00:19:41,520
Speaker 3: of that, he don't care what move I made, great decision.

450
00:19:41,600 --> 00:19:45,200
Speaker 3: I made details. Ball security. Ball security was key man

451
00:19:45,240 --> 00:19:48,520
Speaker 3: because one thing we talked about is the ball is

452
00:19:48,520 --> 00:19:51,200
Speaker 3: the team. So coach g a running back coaches ball team.

453
00:19:51,720 --> 00:19:53,920
Speaker 3: You're like, it's a simple thing, but it means a lot.

454
00:19:54,040 --> 00:19:57,359
Speaker 3: Boss Kitty is very important when it comes to winning

455
00:19:57,359 --> 00:19:59,280
Speaker 3: a football game. And we talked about the twelve percent

456
00:19:59,359 --> 00:20:03,200
Speaker 3: rule here at Bama, and when you're on that opposite

457
00:20:03,280 --> 00:20:07,200
Speaker 3: end of the sticks as far as turnovers and penalties

458
00:20:07,200 --> 00:20:10,280
Speaker 3: and stuff like that, you're less likely to win. And uh,

459
00:20:10,520 --> 00:20:13,240
Speaker 3: when we harp on that with the Boss security turnovers

460
00:20:13,560 --> 00:20:15,800
Speaker 3: and uh you know the penalty aspect of it at

461
00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:18,240
Speaker 3: practice because all of it is documented at practice, and

462
00:20:18,320 --> 00:20:21,240
Speaker 3: so it's very important. You know, that's me now mature

463
00:20:21,760 --> 00:20:23,440
Speaker 3: because at the time I ain't care what he was saying.

464
00:20:23,440 --> 00:20:26,200
Speaker 3: I said I made a good play. Yeah, and uh

465
00:20:26,240 --> 00:20:28,199
Speaker 3: so that you know, you got to mature in that

466
00:20:28,240 --> 00:20:31,240
Speaker 3: stage to understand what coach is talking about because it's gonna,

467
00:20:31,359 --> 00:20:33,600
Speaker 3: it's gonna you're gonna benefit from it with doing the

468
00:20:33,680 --> 00:20:34,440
Speaker 3: right way in the game.

469
00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:37,879
Speaker 2: Yeah, with a Sabing Like every Bama player you talk to,

470
00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:40,560
Speaker 2: he's just like they talk about how infamous he was

471
00:20:40,600 --> 00:20:42,359
Speaker 2: for just the ass chewings he would give. Guys. You

472
00:20:42,359 --> 00:20:44,960
Speaker 2: got to get example there, like what's the worst ass

473
00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:47,080
Speaker 2: chewing you've heard Nick Saban given another player?

474
00:20:47,560 --> 00:20:51,480
Speaker 3: Okay, I will say this be real like initially like

475
00:20:51,600 --> 00:20:54,440
Speaker 3: coming to college, right, I ain't know how hard coach

476
00:20:54,440 --> 00:20:57,760
Speaker 3: saying what everybody talking about Harty was. But like one

477
00:20:57,840 --> 00:21:00,440
Speaker 3: phrase he said that like never still with me was

478
00:21:00,520 --> 00:21:02,520
Speaker 3: kiss my ass. That was just stuff like it was

479
00:21:02,600 --> 00:21:04,600
Speaker 3: kiss my ass Like that was just that was just

480
00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:07,920
Speaker 3: thing like you kiss my ass. Like I'm like, you know,

481
00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:11,400
Speaker 3: I'm yeah, we'll talk about you know what I'm saying, yeah,

482
00:21:11,560 --> 00:21:13,439
Speaker 3: talking about that's one thing that was that was his

483
00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:14,960
Speaker 3: favorite word. That's how you know he hat when he

484
00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:17,280
Speaker 3: say that and slam his hat. Oh yeah, you got

485
00:21:17,320 --> 00:21:19,720
Speaker 3: him today, Like he intens the rest of the day.

486
00:21:19,760 --> 00:21:21,359
Speaker 3: If you hit you with that and walk through we

487
00:21:21,560 --> 00:21:23,840
Speaker 3: walk through dog, we appear ad one and he say that,

488
00:21:24,160 --> 00:21:26,000
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, he's gonna be honest the whole day, the

489
00:21:26,040 --> 00:21:26,520
Speaker 3: whole day.

490
00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:29,760
Speaker 1: Have you guys ever had an ass shooting for missing class?

491
00:21:31,880 --> 00:21:34,400
Speaker 3: That's like one on one talk, Yeah, to get.

492
00:21:34,359 --> 00:21:36,719
Speaker 1: One because I always enjoy like you know you have

493
00:21:36,840 --> 00:21:39,560
Speaker 1: like a you obviously you have a great coach, like

494
00:21:39,640 --> 00:21:41,399
Speaker 1: I got to play for Coach bo Polini and I

495
00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:43,919
Speaker 1: feel like the fellas now that were removed from it.

496
00:21:44,200 --> 00:21:46,320
Speaker 1: You talk about all like the fun stories that you're

497
00:21:46,320 --> 00:21:48,480
Speaker 1: telling now, but that helped mold us to be who

498
00:21:48,480 --> 00:21:51,320
Speaker 1: we are. And you think about times like Coach Bow

499
00:21:51,359 --> 00:21:53,280
Speaker 1: would have us we had miss class and we're in

500
00:21:53,320 --> 00:21:55,439
Speaker 1: a team meeting and he's staying in each guy up

501
00:21:55,480 --> 00:21:58,119
Speaker 1: that a teacher wrote him an email on whether they

502
00:21:58,119 --> 00:22:00,399
Speaker 1: were sleeping in class or being lazy and last ye

503
00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:02,280
Speaker 1: and he would make each guy stand up and read

504
00:22:02,280 --> 00:22:04,320
Speaker 1: the note and he took this water bottle. He's like,

505
00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:06,359
Speaker 1: I didn't come here to go fucking nine and three.

506
00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:08,560
Speaker 1: He's like, I'm not here to babysits. You're either going

507
00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:10,600
Speaker 1: to do it all the time or you're never gonna

508
00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:12,399
Speaker 1: do it. You don't just show up on Saturday. So

509
00:22:12,640 --> 00:22:14,600
Speaker 1: I appreciate you sharing these stories because I know people

510
00:22:14,640 --> 00:22:17,320
Speaker 1: are probably watching, like, damn saved, it's crazy. Those are

511
00:22:17,359 --> 00:22:19,320
Speaker 1: like the things that mold you into you know, who

512
00:22:19,359 --> 00:22:21,400
Speaker 1: you're going to be and being successful like after.

513
00:22:22,480 --> 00:22:24,280
Speaker 2: Man, you know, I mean, everybody gets there asked you.

514
00:22:24,560 --> 00:22:26,440
Speaker 2: Hope was always a guy like if you missed it,

515
00:22:26,800 --> 00:22:29,400
Speaker 2: you'll have class checkers. Always when there's like probably one

516
00:22:29,440 --> 00:22:34,360
Speaker 2: guy that it's probably five to seven white dude. Every

517
00:22:34,720 --> 00:22:36,879
Speaker 2: every college has it. Every college has it, and he

518
00:22:36,920 --> 00:22:39,120
Speaker 2: sits there really good to see it. Yeah, God, he's

519
00:22:39,119 --> 00:22:41,880
Speaker 2: here again and he's always. We had the same dude

520
00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:43,880
Speaker 2: in Michigan do that, but our coach wouldn't like chew

521
00:22:43,960 --> 00:22:45,919
Speaker 2: us out in front of team. He's walking be like

522
00:22:46,160 --> 00:22:46,880
Speaker 2: six am.

523
00:22:47,119 --> 00:22:47,639
Speaker 3: Walk away.

524
00:22:48,080 --> 00:22:49,879
Speaker 2: It's a six am you're out there doing what what

525
00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:51,720
Speaker 2: kind of punishments y'all have to do here? Because we

526
00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:54,320
Speaker 2: well we had to do log rolls. Just lay down.

527
00:22:54,960 --> 00:22:57,119
Speaker 1: Yeah, do that?

528
00:22:57,240 --> 00:22:59,040
Speaker 2: Play pushes? What else y'all do?

529
00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:06,520
Speaker 3: Bear crawl? Uh? Shoot sleg pushes? Uh? Pop ups like

530
00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:09,080
Speaker 3: across the field each each five yard, like you do it?

531
00:23:09,119 --> 00:23:09,520
Speaker 3: Pop up?

532
00:23:10,119 --> 00:23:10,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's brutal.

533
00:23:10,880 --> 00:23:12,840
Speaker 3: Yeah you got, you got, Yeah, you got. Yeah.

534
00:23:13,119 --> 00:23:14,920
Speaker 1: We had these Turkish gheit us. We're holding the forty

535
00:23:14,920 --> 00:23:17,280
Speaker 1: five pound plate and you're just one hundred reps if

536
00:23:17,280 --> 00:23:22,240
Speaker 1: you're late. Bro. Good time, yeah, good good times now yeah,

537
00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:24,160
Speaker 1: good time, yeah, good times. We had a dirty locker

538
00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:27,920
Speaker 1: room once after a game and he was coach Bo's

539
00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:29,600
Speaker 1: pissed that we didn't clean up. So we had to

540
00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:31,680
Speaker 1: do three hundred yards of pencil balls the whole team,

541
00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:34,239
Speaker 1: and they're setting orange cones out where everybody's throwing up.

542
00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:36,640
Speaker 1: Good times.

543
00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:39,000
Speaker 2: We used to have to wear red shirts if guys

544
00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:40,960
Speaker 2: weren't like following the standard, and a bunch of guys

545
00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:43,600
Speaker 2: they miss class or something happened, so we like my

546
00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:45,320
Speaker 2: senior year, they put us all in the red shirts,

547
00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:48,480
Speaker 2: every one of us. And I was full on drinking

548
00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:51,320
Speaker 2: the kool aid of like Michigan or die. I'm not

549
00:23:51,359 --> 00:23:53,679
Speaker 2: putting this on. So we let a revolt the seniors

550
00:23:53,680 --> 00:23:54,840
Speaker 2: with a revolt. We put all the show.

551
00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:59,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can picture you leading a revolt. Yeah yeah,

552
00:23:59,560 --> 00:23:59,919
Speaker 1: put these up.

553
00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:01,800
Speaker 2: We all take them off, and you're proud of us,

554
00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:04,560
Speaker 2: you guys working like the team. Yeah that was that miracle.

555
00:24:04,520 --> 00:24:05,479
Speaker 2: But who do you play for?

556
00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:07,200
Speaker 3: The United States of America?

557
00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:10,199
Speaker 2: And like, all right, okay, guys are good. It is

558
00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:11,760
Speaker 2: crazy because some of the stuff you do now that

559
00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:14,120
Speaker 2: you hate when your husbands like me and Will, you're

560
00:24:14,119 --> 00:24:15,080
Speaker 2: gonna look back on and be.

561
00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:21,399
Speaker 1: Like, yeah, yes, take us to your last play of

562
00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:26,760
Speaker 1: the season. Yeah, you obviously have a QB design run. Yeah,

563
00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:27,240
Speaker 1: you come up.

564
00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:29,680
Speaker 2: Time out, we get a code act time out. Yeah,

565
00:24:29,920 --> 00:24:31,800
Speaker 2: you guys go. Did you guys keep the same play

566
00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:33,440
Speaker 2: from the timeout?

567
00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:34,680
Speaker 3: I can tell you that. Man.

568
00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:38,840
Speaker 2: It's a different office, brother, it's a different office.

569
00:24:39,320 --> 00:24:42,360
Speaker 3: Zero. Hey great, Hey, So it.

570
00:24:42,359 --> 00:24:44,879
Speaker 2: Was a it was a design quarterback run with the

571
00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:47,520
Speaker 2: option to throw it out to the back. You had

572
00:24:47,560 --> 00:24:47,920
Speaker 2: the back.

573
00:24:48,400 --> 00:24:50,800
Speaker 1: But he's a he's a gamer.

574
00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:54,200
Speaker 2: I'm saying, here's my question. I'm glad you brought this

575
00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:55,560
Speaker 2: up because I really want to figure out a way

576
00:24:55,560 --> 00:24:58,840
Speaker 2: to get here. If that snap is right at your stomach,

577
00:24:58,840 --> 00:24:59,880
Speaker 2: are you throwing that out to the back?

578
00:25:01,119 --> 00:25:04,280
Speaker 3: I guess We will never know, all right, Kanye, But

579
00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:05,280
Speaker 3: I will never know.

580
00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:09,600
Speaker 1: If you were to answered like a yes, and at

581
00:25:09,640 --> 00:25:11,720
Speaker 1: the end of the day, you want to make a play, absolutely,

582
00:25:12,080 --> 00:25:14,240
Speaker 1: what do you think about what goes through your mind

583
00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:16,320
Speaker 1: when you think about that last play, because obviously you

584
00:25:16,359 --> 00:25:17,640
Speaker 1: can see the emotion on your face.

585
00:25:17,760 --> 00:25:21,800
Speaker 3: I'll be real like that truly made me really love

586
00:25:22,359 --> 00:25:24,240
Speaker 3: the coaching staff because to see how much they believe

587
00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:29,040
Speaker 3: in me. It is probably one of the most impactful

588
00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:32,560
Speaker 3: plays of our whole season. And the balls in my

589
00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:34,040
Speaker 3: hands the last play a game that speaks a lot

590
00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:36,119
Speaker 3: about our coaches that believe it in me, and so

591
00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:38,560
Speaker 3: I took it as a positive although we came out short.

592
00:25:39,119 --> 00:25:40,920
Speaker 3: But after that game and when I went back to

593
00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:43,639
Speaker 3: the hotel room, I reflected on the season, reflected on

594
00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:46,399
Speaker 3: the game that made me truly believe. That made me

595
00:25:46,520 --> 00:25:50,400
Speaker 3: like really see how confident they were with me. And

596
00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:53,200
Speaker 3: from that, you know, I remember I actually called coach

597
00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:57,560
Speaker 3: Reeese and told him a thank you, thank you. Yeah

598
00:25:57,600 --> 00:26:00,959
Speaker 3: we lost, man, but like, thank you, Shay. And when

599
00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:03,200
Speaker 3: when it went to the first conference after the game,

600
00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:06,240
Speaker 3: I had my head up high because they believed in me.

601
00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:09,240
Speaker 3: And that ain't the last snap, I'm gonna take up football.

602
00:26:09,240 --> 00:26:11,560
Speaker 3: So yeah, like, we want to win. We wanted to

603
00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:13,840
Speaker 3: win the National championship, you know, we wanted to We

604
00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:16,280
Speaker 3: had goal set for ourselves, of course, and this is

605
00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:18,520
Speaker 3: me speaking after the game. Of course, I had a

606
00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:20,320
Speaker 3: lot of emotion and I wanted I wanted to score.

607
00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:23,720
Speaker 3: I wanted to push our team to where we all

608
00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:25,600
Speaker 3: wanted to be at towards the end of the season.

609
00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:27,879
Speaker 3: Unfortunately we didn't do that. Do that. But it's like

610
00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:29,920
Speaker 3: the positive, you know, that's the positive that I saw

611
00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:31,840
Speaker 3: from him. Man, they believed in me so much, the

612
00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:34,480
Speaker 3: whole team, not just them. You know, no one when

613
00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:36,320
Speaker 3: Coach Reese gave us that play card one was like, man,

614
00:26:36,359 --> 00:26:38,880
Speaker 3: what why are you calling that? Everyone said that bet.

615
00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:40,840
Speaker 3: No one, not the off salon, at the receiver, at

616
00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:43,600
Speaker 3: the running back. No one had any hesitation on that face.

617
00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:45,879
Speaker 3: We just came up short. That's all it was because

618
00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:47,840
Speaker 3: like no one, I looked at everybody eyes. I looked

619
00:26:47,840 --> 00:26:50,439
Speaker 3: at everybody eyes, and I looked at him, and they

620
00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:53,640
Speaker 3: all confident. And that's all a part of the game.

621
00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:56,359
Speaker 3: You know, you win something, you loose, and unfortunately lost

622
00:26:56,359 --> 00:26:56,640
Speaker 3: that one.

623
00:26:57,280 --> 00:26:58,200
Speaker 2: It was a classic game.

624
00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:09,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was was Yeah, it was yeah what uh.

625
00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:12,919
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, but we we asked. When I was

626
00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:16,280
Speaker 2: at Michigan, we were asked, and so you guys were

627
00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:19,000
Speaker 2: always so good, and so many times Derek would tell

628
00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:21,479
Speaker 2: me how bad we were, and other Alabama guys can

629
00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:23,800
Speaker 2: tell us how bad we were, and so that was

630
00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:25,480
Speaker 2: a sweet moment. It wasn't instant classic.

631
00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:26,880
Speaker 1: It was a great game.

632
00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:29,240
Speaker 2: Everyone loved it. We were laughing because I was just

633
00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:30,879
Speaker 2: kind of staring off in the distance for a second.

634
00:27:31,119 --> 00:27:33,200
Speaker 2: Fee it was a classic.

635
00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:35,920
Speaker 1: It was absolutely it was done. I'm done.

636
00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:42,440
Speaker 3: That's good, okay, because it's all good and I respect it.

637
00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:44,440
Speaker 2: What can we What can you think Michigan cheated?

638
00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:49,160
Speaker 3: Huh? Do you think they won? They won? They won,

639
00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:49,800
Speaker 3: they got it.

640
00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:50,800
Speaker 1: They had your calls.

641
00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:53,480
Speaker 3: Huh they won, No matter they won.

642
00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:55,640
Speaker 1: They won.

643
00:27:56,520 --> 00:27:59,640
Speaker 2: Yes, Will, Will, he's the worst best friend. Actually asked

644
00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:01,440
Speaker 2: for congra.

645
00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:04,440
Speaker 4: We beat.

646
00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:06,120
Speaker 2: He would do the rasta. We played and we beat

647
00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:08,400
Speaker 2: them forty two to seven. And then when the whole

648
00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:10,280
Speaker 2: cheating scale came out, he goes, I knew something was up.

649
00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:19,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, hey, book the generation Michigan beat us this year.

650
00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:23,639
Speaker 1: Not when not my senior year. Yeah, just when Taylor

651
00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:24,720
Speaker 1: and I played against each other.

652
00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:28,760
Speaker 2: Don't pat my back like that. What happened to you before?

653
00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:35,280
Speaker 1: Yo? Y'all sved this? Yes? Yeah, yeah, we were terrible.

654
00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:38,440
Speaker 1: Then what can we What can we expect out of

655
00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:40,240
Speaker 1: the Alabama Crimson Tide this year?

656
00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:47,520
Speaker 3: I think really driven, we're starving, and we're really passionate

657
00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:51,240
Speaker 3: about each other. That's how I can sympathy this football

658
00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:55,440
Speaker 3: team is those three things right there. And you know,

659
00:28:55,440 --> 00:28:57,600
Speaker 3: we have goal set for ourselves that we want to accomplish,

660
00:28:57,960 --> 00:29:00,760
Speaker 3: but we we acknowledge those to take place right now.

661
00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:03,200
Speaker 3: What we're doing right now? What are the habits that

662
00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:06,560
Speaker 3: we have right now? I think that's that's something that's

663
00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:09,200
Speaker 3: super exciting because we're nowhere near where we want to

664
00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:11,800
Speaker 3: be at and we acknowledge that, and we're excited for

665
00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:13,440
Speaker 3: what the future hold because we have a lot of

666
00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:15,760
Speaker 3: tests in front of us, and so we're just gonna

667
00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:18,040
Speaker 3: embrace it and enjoy the journey.

668
00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:20,680
Speaker 1: Who's an NFL player you see out there that you

669
00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:24,040
Speaker 1: would love to play with one day, that you love

670
00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:24,880
Speaker 1: to throw the rock too?

671
00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:33,360
Speaker 3: I ain't really looked at that place. I think I

672
00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:34,200
Speaker 3: don't really got one.

673
00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:36,240
Speaker 1: You don't got one, You don't got you don't got

674
00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:37,280
Speaker 1: catch you watching the league.

675
00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:40,000
Speaker 3: I'm not watching everybody Like for me, like I respect game.

676
00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:42,760
Speaker 3: So like every starting quarterback to start for each team,

677
00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:45,800
Speaker 3: I respect the respect them because it was a journey

678
00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:47,080
Speaker 3: to get them to word they or that. Nothing was

679
00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:48,840
Speaker 3: given to an nothing was handed to them. They they

680
00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:51,240
Speaker 3: had to earn it. And so for everybody that's the

681
00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:54,520
Speaker 3: starting quarterback in the NFL, I look at their game

682
00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:56,640
Speaker 3: and that's something that I want to be one day.

683
00:29:56,800 --> 00:30:00,959
Speaker 1: Who are your top three favorite quarterbacks in the NFL?

684
00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:07,760
Speaker 3: Uh Lamar Jackson, Patrick Mahomes and Rogers.

685
00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:15,200
Speaker 2: Okay, Joey b Oh Yeah, I love Joey Bart.

686
00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:15,800
Speaker 3: I like I like them a lot. I like them

687
00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:18,360
Speaker 3: a lot. I like Joey b swag take the football

688
00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:22,320
Speaker 3: lot of I like his swag like different. I like that.

689
00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:23,760
Speaker 3: I like how you move on the field like that

690
00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:24,160
Speaker 3: a lot.

691
00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:26,800
Speaker 1: Who's the swaggiest dude on the team Swaggers?

692
00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:30,360
Speaker 3: I probably give it to the dvs. The DB's probably

693
00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:32,680
Speaker 3: got the most swag, most drip, you know, they wearing

694
00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:34,960
Speaker 3: unnecessary stuff like during the game, like what do you

695
00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:36,960
Speaker 3: got that on for? They're talking about I put that

696
00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:37,360
Speaker 3: ship on.

697
00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:42,040
Speaker 1: We got to we're on a mission with Duke Cannon

698
00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:44,760
Speaker 1: there sponsor of ours to find the smelliest student the

699
00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:46,760
Speaker 1: locker room. In your opinion, who would be the smelliest

700
00:30:46,760 --> 00:30:48,680
Speaker 1: student in the locker room.

701
00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:50,400
Speaker 3: I'm gonna be real, like I look at I look

702
00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:53,200
Speaker 3: at the blocks in the locker room. I'll block cleans.

703
00:30:53,320 --> 00:30:55,520
Speaker 3: I don't know. Like we keep it nice and clean,

704
00:30:55,640 --> 00:30:59,240
Speaker 3: smell good. We keep it nice and fabuloso around our lockers.

705
00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:01,080
Speaker 1: Would you guess?

706
00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:01,640
Speaker 4: Who?

707
00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:02,480
Speaker 1: Would you guess?

708
00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:06,520
Speaker 3: I don't hurt nobody feeling? On book?

709
00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:11,320
Speaker 1: You got thin skin? Who would you think.

710
00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:16,640
Speaker 3: What I'm saying? I heard nobody feeling? Yeah?

711
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:19,400
Speaker 1: No, we we appreciate it. Man, Do you have anything else?

712
00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:21,160
Speaker 4: Book?

713
00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:23,320
Speaker 1: Was there anything that when we were talking to when

714
00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:26,280
Speaker 1: he when he went back on the depth chart, a

715
00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:28,600
Speaker 1: moment that you saw out of jailing during that time

716
00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:31,120
Speaker 1: where either you guys are rallying around him or something

717
00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:33,160
Speaker 1: that you saw out of him to keep him ready

718
00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:34,320
Speaker 1: for the next opportunity.

719
00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:45,040
Speaker 5: Wow, if you were watching the game, if you if

720
00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:46,640
Speaker 5: you only watched gentilely, you wouldn't be able to tell

721
00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:49,960
Speaker 5: that he wasn't playing like his energy everything about him

722
00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:51,640
Speaker 5: said that he was the guy and that's how he

723
00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:54,840
Speaker 5: carried himself and he was supporting the other two guys

724
00:31:54,840 --> 00:31:58,080
Speaker 5: that were in at the time. So yeah, you just

725
00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:00,600
Speaker 5: that that was really defined a moment for him as quarterback.

726
00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:03,600
Speaker 5: And everybody was bought into him and believed in him

727
00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:06,560
Speaker 5: before that, but I feel like that really just amplified

728
00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:09,000
Speaker 5: our trust in him after that moment.

729
00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:14,000
Speaker 1: I love it, man, Thank you answer Fellas, Thank you man.

730
00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:14,640
Speaker 3: Appreciate you.

731
00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:17,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, Oky for the Michigan man.

732
00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:20,360
Speaker 3: You let me. Let me ask us some questions. Go ahead,

733
00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:23,720
Speaker 3: what is your most memorable moment in college? Each of you,

734
00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:25,440
Speaker 3: what's your best moment y'all had in college?

735
00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:30,280
Speaker 1: Pick six Georgia New Year, New Year's Day, they called

736
00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:32,680
Speaker 1: the New Year six games, right, they named it that.

737
00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:34,760
Speaker 1: They coined it that. After my pick six against Aaron

738
00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:37,600
Speaker 1: Murray and the Georgia Bulldogs, we went up thirteen and

739
00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:40,880
Speaker 1: thirteen to seven on at that point the end of

740
00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:43,120
Speaker 1: the game, didn't you know, reflect what happened in that

741
00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:45,000
Speaker 1: first quarter. But that was probably my favorite memory. I

742
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:47,520
Speaker 1: could barely feel my body. Yeah, I read this screen,

743
00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:49,160
Speaker 1: I picked it off, took it to the house, probably

744
00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:51,040
Speaker 1: rant like yourself of four to two on the way

745
00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:53,960
Speaker 1: to the end zone, and that was my most hype

746
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:56,080
Speaker 1: moment probably ever playing.

747
00:32:56,160 --> 00:33:00,280
Speaker 2: Twenty eleven, playing beating Ohio State one and three against

748
00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:03,440
Speaker 2: the Hoto State them. Yeah, in twenty years we beat

749
00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:06,000
Speaker 2: them twice. Yeah until his last three years. So that

750
00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:07,320
Speaker 2: I got one, that's awesome.

751
00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:12,640
Speaker 1: What about yours most memorable? It's been your favorite moment? Oh,

752
00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:16,400
Speaker 1: that's easy. For thirty one? Iron Bowl that's probably the

753
00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:19,320
Speaker 1: most favorite one. I'll give that was a good experience.

754
00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:21,920
Speaker 1: Is the Iron Bowl just crazy week of building up

755
00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:22,200
Speaker 1: to it?

756
00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:25,240
Speaker 3: I will say like for me, I didn't really understand

757
00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:28,680
Speaker 3: the Ironbol be real. I'm from Texas and I didn't

758
00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:32,160
Speaker 3: really get into is my opportunity to take a snap

759
00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:34,840
Speaker 3: in Ironbol? And like nothing, it's nothing that compares to that.

760
00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:38,320
Speaker 3: I will say, like that's something that that that rivaly.

761
00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:40,800
Speaker 3: I I could pete and say that's the that's probably

762
00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:41,880
Speaker 3: the best rivaly in the country.

763
00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:43,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a huge.

764
00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:47,600
Speaker 3: I'll say that because I mean to ask you this question, like,

765
00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:50,440
Speaker 3: while you're at Michigan, how often do you see Ohio

766
00:33:50,520 --> 00:33:52,240
Speaker 3: State fans as your neighbors.

767
00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:56,440
Speaker 2: They try to come try, they try a pretty good

768
00:33:56,440 --> 00:33:57,640
Speaker 2: bordered area exactly.

769
00:33:58,360 --> 00:34:01,400
Speaker 3: But while you're here, you're in test Loose, Your your

770
00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:04,840
Speaker 3: your neighbor might be an Auburn guy. And that's that's

771
00:34:04,840 --> 00:34:09,960
Speaker 3: within because how far premiere uh two and a half,

772
00:34:10,040 --> 00:34:12,880
Speaker 3: bout two and a half, And so that's that's the

773
00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:16,200
Speaker 3: thing within the you know, the rivalry and stuff like that.

774
00:34:16,640 --> 00:34:18,960
Speaker 3: And like even our professors like they might be an

775
00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:21,600
Speaker 3: Auburn grad. Like it's so you're gonna see an Auburn

776
00:34:21,640 --> 00:34:24,960
Speaker 3: person throughout your time during the season. So like you're

777
00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:27,720
Speaker 3: gonna it's gonna it's alway that competitiveness throughout the time.

778
00:34:28,239 --> 00:34:30,800
Speaker 3: And then whether it's at Auburn or whether it's in

779
00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:33,439
Speaker 3: Test Loose, You're gonna bring a great crowd. It's gonna

780
00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:36,919
Speaker 3: be loud, it's gonna be rocking, and there's nothing greater

781
00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:38,160
Speaker 3: than being victorious in the game.

782
00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:41,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you're not gonna see it high State grad.

783
00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:44,480
Speaker 2: It's not gonna You're.

784
00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:46,760
Speaker 3: Not gonna see it into the game. On Saturday.

785
00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:48,120
Speaker 2: Dude, when you were talking with the iron Ball, I

786
00:34:48,120 --> 00:34:49,560
Speaker 2: live it. Do you not remember the last player of

787
00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:56,520
Speaker 2: the iron Ball? Oh yeah, Bro, it was crazy take

788
00:34:56,560 --> 00:34:57,440
Speaker 2: us to that place.

789
00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:01,520
Speaker 3: Register you said balls.

790
00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:05,040
Speaker 2: Like, oh god, I was. I was in the airport

791
00:35:05,560 --> 00:35:07,640
Speaker 2: watching that. I was like, oh my God, Auburn is

792
00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:09,520
Speaker 2: gonna beat Alabama. This is gonna be nuts.

793
00:35:09,560 --> 00:35:11,040
Speaker 3: My wife's like, why are you so hype over this?

794
00:35:11,120 --> 00:35:13,720
Speaker 1: I'm like, if you just saw these last several plays,

795
00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:15,399
Speaker 1: like you guys should have had no shot a.

796
00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:17,360
Speaker 2: Bro Like what four or five? How long ago was

797
00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:19,239
Speaker 2: that when they returned the kick that was We're not

798
00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:21,600
Speaker 2: gonna bring that up, but that was insane, Like there's

799
00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:25,040
Speaker 2: insane games. What was that? Like? What was that play?

800
00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:27,759
Speaker 3: Gagger?

801
00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:29,959
Speaker 2: It's called Bigger, Yeah, that's crazy. You we talk about

802
00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:31,399
Speaker 2: that play, but you were talking about four five play

803
00:35:31,480 --> 00:35:36,799
Speaker 2: against Michigan. That's no But that that play though, were

804
00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:39,359
Speaker 2: you just throwing up a prayer? You were throwing up

805
00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:44,320
Speaker 2: a prayer? You practice it. You practice situational ball games.

806
00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:48,600
Speaker 2: I'd look at the ball you said, God.

807
00:35:50,680 --> 00:35:52,879
Speaker 3: No, Like i'mna real with you. Like it might sound

808
00:35:52,920 --> 00:35:55,040
Speaker 3: a cliche thing, man, but like we practice that thing

809
00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:58,160
Speaker 3: every single week. Like Friday, we had walked through and

810
00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:00,120
Speaker 3: we're very intentional when we do the walk through, so

811
00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:03,400
Speaker 3: there's no talking on the sideline, there's no joking around

812
00:36:03,680 --> 00:36:05,440
Speaker 3: if you're not if you're not on the field, you're

813
00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:09,479
Speaker 3: on the sideline watching and you know, we take those

814
00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:11,960
Speaker 3: walk through very seriously. We go through every scenario in

815
00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:14,600
Speaker 3: the game. If we don't do it right during walk through,

816
00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:17,200
Speaker 3: we're gonna do it all over again until we perfected

817
00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:20,480
Speaker 3: literally a perfect walk through. Every outcome of the walkthrough,

818
00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:25,400
Speaker 3: where there were special teams, offense, defense, leaving the huddle,

819
00:36:25,440 --> 00:36:28,120
Speaker 3: going substitutions. All that we work all that din the

820
00:36:28,160 --> 00:36:31,799
Speaker 3: walk throughs, and that's one that played the grave Digger.

821
00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:35,640
Speaker 3: We worked at Durren walk throughs on Fridays, and you know,

822
00:36:35,680 --> 00:36:37,239
Speaker 3: we didn't know when we're going to utilize it, when

823
00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:40,080
Speaker 3: we're gonna have to use it, but everyone was prepared

824
00:36:40,120 --> 00:36:43,040
Speaker 3: and it was just like the play against Michigan. You know,

825
00:36:43,560 --> 00:36:47,000
Speaker 3: that fourth fourth down play was equivalent to that fourth

826
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:49,000
Speaker 3: and thirty one. You know, when we called that play,

827
00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:52,080
Speaker 3: no one was fearful of the play. No one was like, man,

828
00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:54,520
Speaker 3: why coach calling that play. Everyone was like, we were

829
00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:56,080
Speaker 3: all locked in all bet this, We're gonna roll with it.

830
00:36:56,080 --> 00:36:57,520
Speaker 3: We're gonna do it at the best of our ability.

831
00:36:57,840 --> 00:36:59,560
Speaker 3: And so when it came to fourth and thirty one,

832
00:36:59,680 --> 00:37:01,080
Speaker 3: the same is the fourth and five player.

833
00:37:01,080 --> 00:37:05,200
Speaker 2: We just we just succeeded on this one fourth That's

834
00:37:05,239 --> 00:37:10,799
Speaker 2: an NFL blitz numbers, everything of that verse and thirty dude,

835
00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:13,320
Speaker 2: but you when you threw that up, what were you thinking?

836
00:37:15,200 --> 00:37:17,239
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, just you're you're you've got to just

837
00:37:17,239 --> 00:37:19,600
Speaker 1: be thinking, well, let's just see nah no, like hey,

838
00:37:19,640 --> 00:37:20,319
Speaker 1: we'll find out.

839
00:37:22,719 --> 00:37:26,000
Speaker 3: Like I just see the field very well, and I

840
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:28,239
Speaker 3: saw he was one on one, and so I took

841
00:37:28,239 --> 00:37:30,359
Speaker 3: a shot given given, you know, put it a great

842
00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:33,239
Speaker 3: ball placement, because if I've put anywhere else, who's gonna

843
00:37:33,239 --> 00:37:36,000
Speaker 3: go either out of bounce, picked off, not in the

844
00:37:36,120 --> 00:37:38,160
Speaker 3: range that we can make a grab and beat him

845
00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:41,000
Speaker 3: and allow I be to make a make a IB play.

846
00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:43,200
Speaker 3: So I just put it in a place where he

847
00:37:43,200 --> 00:37:45,200
Speaker 3: can make a play on the ball. And I had

848
00:37:45,239 --> 00:37:47,880
Speaker 3: great time. They haven't. They didn't have a too strong

849
00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:49,719
Speaker 3: a pass for us, So I had enough time to

850
00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:52,880
Speaker 3: make a play. So when we talk about like everyone

851
00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:54,160
Speaker 3: doing their job, is that what happened?

852
00:37:54,719 --> 00:37:57,040
Speaker 1: What was the emotion in the locker room after that?

853
00:37:57,600 --> 00:37:58,160
Speaker 2: Insane?

854
00:37:58,680 --> 00:38:02,360
Speaker 3: Be real like like it was it was crazy, but

855
00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:05,279
Speaker 3: like you based off your head coach, Like yeah, you

856
00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:08,439
Speaker 3: know what I'm saying, Like if head coach happy jumping around,

857
00:38:08,480 --> 00:38:10,560
Speaker 3: you're gonna do the same thing. Like it was cool.

858
00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:12,040
Speaker 3: When it was like lock in all we got game

859
00:38:12,080 --> 00:38:16,960
Speaker 3: next week. Yeah, yeah, it was exciting for like like

860
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:20,160
Speaker 3: fifteen seconds. You know, it was like boys, he was

861
00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:21,080
Speaker 3: having fifteen seconds.

862
00:38:21,120 --> 00:38:21,920
Speaker 1: Happy for you guys that.

863
00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:23,920
Speaker 3: You won exactly. You know what I'm saying. We had

864
00:38:23,960 --> 00:38:27,760
Speaker 3: Jordian next. Yeah, but we arbituation absolutely, yeah, we should.

865
00:38:28,080 --> 00:38:29,239
Speaker 1: There's a lot of correct on that.

866
00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:29,600
Speaker 4: Yeah.

867
00:38:29,719 --> 00:38:33,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not okay thirty one, that's okay. Yeah, it's okay.

868
00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:36,640
Speaker 2: Always coaching the process, yeah yeah, yeah, exactly, not the result.

869
00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:38,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, man, we appreciate it, bro, appreciate it.

870
00:38:39,080 --> 00:38:41,560
Speaker 1: It's been awesome, even great. It's pretty lot fun.

871
00:38:41,600 --> 00:38:44,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, appreciate with us, Yeah, no doubt.

872
00:38:44,520 --> 00:38:47,840
Speaker 1: Subscribe, drop comments, Thank thank you, Jalen, thank you book

873
00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:49,680
Speaker 1: and thank you coach the board.

874
00:38:50,760 --> 00:38:55,200
Speaker 2: Like Tyler Booker, how are we doing, sir, phenomen I'm

875
00:38:55,239 --> 00:38:58,400
Speaker 2: doing out standing here in the great state of Alabama.

876
00:38:58,640 --> 00:39:00,919
Speaker 2: Ended up very prestigious. You know, diversity with a hog

877
00:39:01,120 --> 00:39:02,160
Speaker 2: life cannot be any better.

878
00:39:02,160 --> 00:39:04,640
Speaker 4: Face with the hall. Yeah, where else would you rather be?

879
00:39:05,440 --> 00:39:05,920
Speaker 1: Michigan?

880
00:39:10,280 --> 00:39:15,240
Speaker 2: That was these already shaking us. I went to Michigan.

881
00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:18,440
Speaker 5: That was that was goe that was yeah, yeah, I

882
00:39:18,560 --> 00:39:18,799
Speaker 5: hear you.

883
00:39:19,320 --> 00:39:21,520
Speaker 4: You have you got to live through the new guys.

884
00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:24,080
Speaker 2: I do, no question. Yeah when I played there.

885
00:39:23,920 --> 00:39:24,920
Speaker 4: I don't know what you did there.

886
00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:26,879
Speaker 2: When you were in middle school. When I was playing, Bro,

887
00:39:27,080 --> 00:39:29,399
Speaker 2: we were not good. It was tough deal.

888
00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:32,200
Speaker 1: Dela. We were walking in earlier this morning. I was like, yeah,

889
00:39:32,239 --> 00:39:34,360
Speaker 1: you know we we we whooped Alabama or whatever. I

890
00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:36,200
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, but you played Alabama too, right.

891
00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:40,560
Speaker 2: We played in twenty twelve Cowboy Classic. It was like

892
00:39:40,600 --> 00:39:43,560
Speaker 2: forty two to fourteen. They came out, They're like Derrick

893
00:39:43,600 --> 00:39:45,399
Speaker 2: Henry didn't play. I don't think Derek he was even

894
00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:48,160
Speaker 2: there yet, but they had like d Heart, all these dudes. Yeah,

895
00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:49,560
Speaker 2: it was just a slaughter fest.

896
00:39:49,719 --> 00:39:51,600
Speaker 1: And as a big ten guy, I was watching the game, like,

897
00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:53,160
Speaker 1: you know, you're like, come on, Michigan, let's go like

898
00:39:53,200 --> 00:39:55,359
Speaker 1: show them, show them that the big tall and then

899
00:39:55,400 --> 00:39:58,040
Speaker 1: you guys just it was over started.

900
00:39:58,640 --> 00:39:58,880
Speaker 3: It was.

901
00:39:59,120 --> 00:40:01,760
Speaker 2: But you you've had You've played a lot of different teams.

902
00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:03,600
Speaker 2: You've also played in high school a bunch of forty

903
00:40:03,640 --> 00:40:08,000
Speaker 2: year old men. When you're at IMG Academy. Yeah, who

904
00:40:08,160 --> 00:40:12,080
Speaker 2: was Yeah, Bro, Bishop Sycamore, this is Sycamore? What was that?

905
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:15,160
Speaker 2: How that happened? How did they get that past?

906
00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:18,600
Speaker 5: The officials. That's above my pay grade. But I knew

907
00:40:18,600 --> 00:40:20,799
Speaker 5: something was up when I got out there. The guy

908
00:40:20,920 --> 00:40:23,360
Speaker 5: was like five to four. He woon number twenty seven.

909
00:40:23,600 --> 00:40:26,640
Speaker 5: He had like a full beard. I was like, okay,

910
00:40:26,680 --> 00:40:28,680
Speaker 5: this is different. And then they had like you know

911
00:40:28,719 --> 00:40:30,319
Speaker 5: how you put the quarters in the machine, you get

912
00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:33,320
Speaker 5: stickers out. They had those on their helmets instead of decals,

913
00:40:33,360 --> 00:40:37,239
Speaker 5: and I was like, okay, like like we're gonna run

914
00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:37,680
Speaker 5: up the score.

915
00:40:37,719 --> 00:40:38,200
Speaker 4: It's whatever.

916
00:40:38,520 --> 00:40:40,480
Speaker 5: Like we were in Ohio. We were there for a week,

917
00:40:40,560 --> 00:40:43,719
Speaker 5: so we were just looking forward to doing that. We

918
00:40:43,760 --> 00:40:46,240
Speaker 5: had a game at the next school. It's called lasal

919
00:40:46,760 --> 00:40:49,239
Speaker 5: that's where that's the that should have been an ESPN game.

920
00:40:49,320 --> 00:40:51,840
Speaker 5: But everything happens for a reason. Because that bitch of

921
00:40:51,880 --> 00:40:52,520
Speaker 5: the sycamore thing?

922
00:40:52,520 --> 00:40:54,120
Speaker 1: Did you know? But like before it came out, where

923
00:40:54,239 --> 00:40:56,160
Speaker 1: was it? Basically it came out, y'all, weren't surprises? Are

924
00:40:56,200 --> 00:40:57,600
Speaker 1: do you guys kind of know like why you're playing

925
00:40:57,600 --> 00:40:59,200
Speaker 1: the game? Like, yo, these are grown men out here.

926
00:40:59,320 --> 00:41:01,440
Speaker 5: So I was on the way to see my family

927
00:41:01,440 --> 00:41:03,319
Speaker 5: after the game and I was going to hug my

928
00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:04,920
Speaker 5: dad and he was shaking his head. I was like,

929
00:41:05,920 --> 00:41:07,719
Speaker 5: we just put up fifty on this team.

930
00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:09,360
Speaker 4: What's wrong? He said, I don't know.

931
00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:11,479
Speaker 5: I was listening to the ESPN broadcast and they said,

932
00:41:11,480 --> 00:41:13,399
Speaker 5: like they can't verify any of these players, Like they're

933
00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:14,520
Speaker 5: saying it was a fake school.

934
00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:18,200
Speaker 4: I was like what he was like, they're saying.

935
00:41:18,520 --> 00:41:20,799
Speaker 2: For forty year old men to relive a dream.

936
00:41:21,160 --> 00:41:23,080
Speaker 5: Yeah, pretty much. I don't know what dream they were living.

937
00:41:23,360 --> 00:41:28,040
Speaker 5: I wouldn't want to get beat by high schoolers, especially right.

938
00:41:29,239 --> 00:41:31,920
Speaker 1: Oh man, I hear you have quite the relationship with

939
00:41:31,960 --> 00:41:34,480
Speaker 1: our producer JP. He was your guy back at IMG.

940
00:41:34,640 --> 00:41:37,400
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's my guy JP. Like, whatever we needed, we

941
00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:39,960
Speaker 5: hit JP. It was JP, Josh and it was two

942
00:41:40,040 --> 00:41:43,680
Speaker 5: guys named So those those four like they held us

943
00:41:43,680 --> 00:41:45,680
Speaker 5: down the whole time. The IMG is pretty rough. It's

944
00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:49,160
Speaker 5: they keep you locked down. So whenever we wanted to

945
00:41:49,320 --> 00:41:51,440
Speaker 5: escape JA, we hit JP one of those guys, and

946
00:41:51,440 --> 00:41:53,560
Speaker 5: we'd be out all day do whatever whatever we wanted.

947
00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:55,400
Speaker 2: JP was your chauffeur.

948
00:41:55,840 --> 00:41:58,399
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, but yeah, I be bringing pulled the van.

949
00:41:58,640 --> 00:42:00,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, pulled the van, get the guys in there, and

950
00:42:00,200 --> 00:42:00,480
Speaker 2: get out.

951
00:42:00,520 --> 00:42:02,319
Speaker 5: So getting the van was a hard part because they

952
00:42:02,320 --> 00:42:05,080
Speaker 5: were there were scheduled trips at IMG and then like

953
00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:07,640
Speaker 5: JP and all those other guys. They had a lot

954
00:42:07,680 --> 00:42:09,520
Speaker 5: of trust from like the higher up, So if we

955
00:42:09,560 --> 00:42:11,480
Speaker 5: could find a van, we were we were out.

956
00:42:11,719 --> 00:42:13,520
Speaker 2: What do you guys go do in Brandington? Because I

957
00:42:13,560 --> 00:42:16,400
Speaker 2: trained there for the combine? There is nothing there.

958
00:42:16,480 --> 00:42:20,719
Speaker 5: So there's a movie theater about down the street. There's

959
00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:23,360
Speaker 5: a mall about thirty to forty minutes away, and we

960
00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:25,320
Speaker 5: would just go walk around because we're at IMG. We

961
00:42:25,320 --> 00:42:27,000
Speaker 5: ain't had no time to have a job, have money,

962
00:42:27,040 --> 00:42:29,919
Speaker 5: so just go people watch at the mall and then

963
00:42:30,520 --> 00:42:31,799
Speaker 5: we get something to eat.

964
00:42:31,960 --> 00:42:33,319
Speaker 4: That was That was about it. But it was better

965
00:42:33,360 --> 00:42:34,400
Speaker 4: than being stuck on campus.

966
00:42:34,840 --> 00:42:36,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean the.

967
00:42:35,960 --> 00:42:38,880
Speaker 2: Campus is super nice. It's like five five hundred acres.

968
00:42:38,920 --> 00:42:39,560
Speaker 2: It's massive.

969
00:42:39,680 --> 00:42:39,839
Speaker 3: Yeah.

970
00:42:39,920 --> 00:42:42,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, talk about the IMG because I mean i've only

971
00:42:42,719 --> 00:42:45,120
Speaker 1: I feel like it's grown so much, probably since you

972
00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:47,360
Speaker 1: were there. But what you got you just go is

973
00:42:47,400 --> 00:42:48,320
Speaker 1: that like a high.

974
00:42:48,200 --> 00:42:50,160
Speaker 2: School you just go to. It's essentially all in one.

975
00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:53,279
Speaker 2: Like Brandonton, Florida is like newly weds and nearly dead.

976
00:42:53,280 --> 00:42:57,440
Speaker 2: It's like the slow there's nothing to do there, but

977
00:42:57,560 --> 00:42:59,880
Speaker 2: like then there's all of a sudden, this amazing facility.

978
00:43:00,160 --> 00:43:02,279
Speaker 2: We're like every sport like people literally come from all

979
00:43:02,280 --> 00:43:04,640
Speaker 2: around the world to train there because it's like so nice.

980
00:43:04,680 --> 00:43:07,360
Speaker 2: Everything's so high tech and beautiful, and they're like, literally

981
00:43:07,400 --> 00:43:08,960
Speaker 2: when I was there, they're like, we're gonna put a

982
00:43:08,960 --> 00:43:11,279
Speaker 2: hospital right here, so everything's all in one. They had

983
00:43:11,440 --> 00:43:13,800
Speaker 2: everything you could possibly need. And I think the football

984
00:43:13,800 --> 00:43:16,680
Speaker 2: team is like just a year old or something like that. Yeah,

985
00:43:16,680 --> 00:43:18,600
Speaker 2: we're about to have like the greatest football team, the

986
00:43:18,760 --> 00:43:20,839
Speaker 2: greatest high school football team of all time. And they've

987
00:43:20,880 --> 00:43:23,120
Speaker 2: really you guys are what number.

988
00:43:22,880 --> 00:43:23,399
Speaker 3: One every year?

989
00:43:24,280 --> 00:43:25,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, pretty much.

990
00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:28,600
Speaker 5: And we actually won our first national championship my junior year.

991
00:43:28,960 --> 00:43:31,080
Speaker 5: And it was always pretty tough because like, not a

992
00:43:31,120 --> 00:43:33,480
Speaker 5: lot of schools want to play us, and understandably so

993
00:43:33,640 --> 00:43:36,120
Speaker 5: we picked the best talent from all around the country.

994
00:43:36,320 --> 00:43:38,280
Speaker 5: But you look at some of these other local high schools,

995
00:43:38,320 --> 00:43:40,440
Speaker 5: like this kid lives forty minutes away. This kid lives

996
00:43:40,480 --> 00:43:43,479
Speaker 5: an hour away. So what's the difference between I amg

997
00:43:43,680 --> 00:43:46,279
Speaker 5: us and y'all? So it got harder to find good

998
00:43:46,320 --> 00:43:49,279
Speaker 5: teams to play. But whoever wanted to play us, we

999
00:43:49,320 --> 00:43:51,640
Speaker 5: played them. I feel like modern day that was before

1000
00:43:51,680 --> 00:43:53,719
Speaker 5: my time, so we always try to play them.

1001
00:43:53,760 --> 00:43:54,960
Speaker 4: They didn't really want to.

1002
00:43:54,880 --> 00:43:57,120
Speaker 1: Play us, but they're in Kelli right.

1003
00:43:57,000 --> 00:43:59,920
Speaker 5: Yeah, they're on CALLI but just having that target on

1004
00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:02,040
Speaker 5: your back every week, it's just like playing here. And

1005
00:44:02,080 --> 00:44:04,360
Speaker 5: I felt like that's what made this this decision to

1006
00:44:04,400 --> 00:44:06,400
Speaker 5: come to alban with. So, just like I was at

1007
00:44:06,400 --> 00:44:08,359
Speaker 5: the pinnacle of high school football, why don't not come

1008
00:44:08,360 --> 00:44:09,520
Speaker 5: to the pinnacle of college football?

1009
00:44:09,640 --> 00:44:11,279
Speaker 2: Yeah? What was that process like for you? Because I'm

1010
00:44:11,280 --> 00:44:13,400
Speaker 2: sure when you go to IMG, the minute they say, oh,

1011
00:44:13,440 --> 00:44:15,200
Speaker 2: this kid got an IMG to play football, they probably

1012
00:44:15,200 --> 00:44:16,319
Speaker 2: gonna throw a scholarship your way.

1013
00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:16,919
Speaker 4: Oh for sure.

1014
00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:20,040
Speaker 2: You had everybody who do like what he's a big

1015
00:44:20,080 --> 00:44:24,239
Speaker 2: boy too. Yeah, I mean you look fantasticuts the house.

1016
00:44:24,239 --> 00:44:27,320
Speaker 2: You could probably run like the wind. You're a specimen,

1017
00:44:27,400 --> 00:44:30,279
Speaker 2: my friend. But when you had Alabama and all these

1018
00:44:30,280 --> 00:44:32,239
Speaker 2: other schools, what's up with your top five? What were

1019
00:44:32,239 --> 00:44:32,759
Speaker 2: your top five?

1020
00:44:32,800 --> 00:44:37,840
Speaker 5: My top five was Florida, Oregon, Georgia, Ohio State, and

1021
00:44:37,880 --> 00:44:38,800
Speaker 5: Alabama obviously.

1022
00:44:39,719 --> 00:44:42,799
Speaker 1: Was it? Was it an easy decision? Was this an

1023
00:44:42,800 --> 00:44:45,120
Speaker 1: easy decision for you? Did you always want to Was

1024
00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:46,560
Speaker 1: it always Bama or was it close?

1025
00:44:46,880 --> 00:44:47,720
Speaker 4: It was really close.

1026
00:44:47,760 --> 00:44:51,719
Speaker 5: I was kind of put off Bybama at first. It's

1027
00:44:51,719 --> 00:44:54,360
Speaker 5: because they they started to recruiting me a little later. So,

1028
00:44:54,520 --> 00:44:56,480
Speaker 5: like that the back of the my I always got,

1029
00:44:56,480 --> 00:44:58,840
Speaker 5: like the simple graphics that they send everybody. I always

1030
00:44:58,840 --> 00:45:01,239
Speaker 5: got the little camp in So I'm like, okay, I

1031
00:45:01,280 --> 00:45:03,560
Speaker 5: have better relationships with other schools. But when they was

1032
00:45:03,560 --> 00:45:06,200
Speaker 5: time to set up my official visits, Coach Gillespie he's

1033
00:45:06,200 --> 00:45:07,920
Speaker 5: still here. He was like, Hey, are you coming to

1034
00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:09,440
Speaker 5: visit us? In my head, I'm like, no, I'm not

1035
00:45:09,440 --> 00:45:12,120
Speaker 5: going to visit Alabama. I'm going to go somewhere else.

1036
00:45:12,200 --> 00:45:14,480
Speaker 5: And where were you thinking about going at that time?

1037
00:45:14,560 --> 00:45:16,960
Speaker 5: I had a great relationship with Penn State, so I

1038
00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:18,600
Speaker 5: was going to go there, and I was actually going

1039
00:45:18,680 --> 00:45:21,840
Speaker 5: to visit them right before everything got shut down by COVID,

1040
00:45:21,920 --> 00:45:24,120
Speaker 5: So I was like, I always wanted to visit there. Uh,

1041
00:45:24,280 --> 00:45:27,320
Speaker 5: some of my homeboys have already committed, but I decided

1042
00:45:27,360 --> 00:45:29,040
Speaker 5: to make that my last o V. And I felt

1043
00:45:29,040 --> 00:45:30,759
Speaker 5: like that worked out perfectly because I was able to

1044
00:45:30,760 --> 00:45:33,920
Speaker 5: compare all the other schools to the standard, which is Alabama,

1045
00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:35,840
Speaker 5: and I saw nobody else really compare it.

1046
00:45:37,480 --> 00:45:40,360
Speaker 2: No one else compared. So when you came here, like

1047
00:45:40,360 --> 00:45:41,759
Speaker 2: what'd y'all do for your visit?

1048
00:45:43,360 --> 00:45:52,279
Speaker 4: We just walked, we came around. I hung out.

1049
00:45:54,080 --> 00:45:58,920
Speaker 2: That means he had a good visit, no doubt, no doubt.

1050
00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:00,319
Speaker 1: I kind of can't remember.

1051
00:46:01,040 --> 00:46:03,080
Speaker 2: Did Penn State know you were gonna comment? Did they

1052
00:46:03,120 --> 00:46:04,680
Speaker 2: have a good idea that you were gonna Like, Hey,

1053
00:46:04,719 --> 00:46:06,560
Speaker 2: did you tell any coaches like, hey, I might actually

1054
00:46:06,560 --> 00:46:07,000
Speaker 2: come here?

1055
00:46:07,320 --> 00:46:09,040
Speaker 5: So Penn State like I kind of took them out

1056
00:46:09,040 --> 00:46:10,920
Speaker 5: after I decided to visit Alabama And it was funny

1057
00:46:10,920 --> 00:46:13,080
Speaker 5: and like the day I got offered by Alabama, the

1058
00:46:13,200 --> 00:46:15,000
Speaker 5: Penn State coach called me. He was like, hey, you

1059
00:46:15,520 --> 00:46:18,200
Speaker 5: were still around. I was like, yeah, of course, but

1060
00:46:18,280 --> 00:46:19,920
Speaker 5: he knew what was gonna happen. He knew it was

1061
00:46:19,920 --> 00:46:20,359
Speaker 5: gonna happen.

1062
00:46:20,440 --> 00:46:20,800
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1063
00:46:20,840 --> 00:46:22,839
Speaker 2: What was it like walking into this building? You see

1064
00:46:22,840 --> 00:46:25,719
Speaker 2: all the national championship rings? You see I walked into

1065
00:46:25,760 --> 00:46:29,680
Speaker 2: y'all's offensive line rope, and there's all American after all American?

1066
00:46:29,800 --> 00:46:32,640
Speaker 2: Like that standard is so high here, Like, what was

1067
00:46:32,680 --> 00:46:35,160
Speaker 2: the intimidation factor for you walking in as an eighteen

1068
00:46:35,239 --> 00:46:35,759
Speaker 2: year old kid?

1069
00:46:35,880 --> 00:46:37,960
Speaker 5: I don't think there was an intimidation factor, just because

1070
00:46:37,960 --> 00:46:41,840
Speaker 5: I had already been through a lot. I've already seen

1071
00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:45,359
Speaker 5: this kind of environment on lower levels. So just taking

1072
00:46:45,360 --> 00:46:47,080
Speaker 5: you through my football journey. I was born and raised

1073
00:46:47,120 --> 00:46:49,920
Speaker 5: in New Haven, Connecticut. I spent my freshman year at

1074
00:46:49,960 --> 00:46:52,920
Speaker 5: Bergen Catholic in New Jersey just to get a higher

1075
00:46:53,080 --> 00:46:54,920
Speaker 5: grade of football, and then I went to IMG. So

1076
00:46:55,280 --> 00:46:57,239
Speaker 5: I'm used to change. I'm used to being put in

1077
00:46:57,239 --> 00:46:58,879
Speaker 5: the fire, So coming here, I knew it was gonna

1078
00:46:58,880 --> 00:47:01,000
Speaker 5: be a challenge, but ready to embrace it.

1079
00:47:01,520 --> 00:47:04,319
Speaker 1: Being an upper classman. Now, what responsibilities do you feel

1080
00:47:04,320 --> 00:47:06,799
Speaker 1: like you take on now being the young guy, having

1081
00:47:06,840 --> 00:47:08,760
Speaker 1: those years behind you, and being more of a leader

1082
00:47:08,800 --> 00:47:09,480
Speaker 1: in the locker room.

1083
00:47:09,840 --> 00:47:11,839
Speaker 5: I feel like I stepped into that leadership role last

1084
00:47:11,920 --> 00:47:14,239
Speaker 5: year when Bryson Will left, So that's something that we

1085
00:47:14,280 --> 00:47:18,160
Speaker 5: really focused on spreading that the weight of leadership throughout

1086
00:47:18,160 --> 00:47:19,440
Speaker 5: the team, and I feel like that's why we were

1087
00:47:19,440 --> 00:47:22,400
Speaker 5: so much better. So being able to lead and know

1088
00:47:22,480 --> 00:47:24,920
Speaker 5: I have guys that have my back like malachaim or

1089
00:47:25,080 --> 00:47:29,279
Speaker 5: JC Latham, Dallas Turner, Jayln Menroe, all those guys, knowing

1090
00:47:29,320 --> 00:47:31,719
Speaker 5: that they have my back, leading as a younger guy,

1091
00:47:31,760 --> 00:47:34,800
Speaker 5: but still being a leader. Just going and going into

1092
00:47:34,800 --> 00:47:37,200
Speaker 5: this year, I'm trying to develop some of the other

1093
00:47:37,280 --> 00:47:40,239
Speaker 5: younger leaders on this team, because Alben was only going

1094
00:47:40,280 --> 00:47:42,120
Speaker 5: to be as good as I leave it, you know

1095
00:47:42,120 --> 00:47:44,600
Speaker 5: what I mean. So just like Taylor could talk about

1096
00:47:44,640 --> 00:47:48,160
Speaker 5: how good Michigan is now and how they weren't that

1097
00:47:48,200 --> 00:47:51,160
Speaker 5: good back when he was there. I want to be

1098
00:47:51,200 --> 00:47:54,360
Speaker 5: able to brag like him, so making sure I'm developing

1099
00:47:54,360 --> 00:47:55,080
Speaker 5: the next class.

1100
00:47:55,080 --> 00:47:57,399
Speaker 4: So that's why I'm very big into recruiting, very good.

1101
00:47:57,880 --> 00:47:58,880
Speaker 2: That's a good way to put it. I was a

1102
00:47:58,920 --> 00:48:00,439
Speaker 2: big recruiter too. It did not pay off.

1103
00:48:02,640 --> 00:48:07,279
Speaker 1: You got to you gotta respect it. He's abste What

1104
00:48:07,360 --> 00:48:09,640
Speaker 1: are some of those small things you feel like, you know,

1105
00:48:10,239 --> 00:48:13,000
Speaker 1: trying to mentor those younger guys. Is it being more vocal,

1106
00:48:13,120 --> 00:48:15,760
Speaker 1: is it more like one on one time with guys?

1107
00:48:15,800 --> 00:48:18,480
Speaker 1: Like what do you feel like you've been trying to

1108
00:48:18,520 --> 00:48:20,480
Speaker 1: develop being a leader.

1109
00:48:20,520 --> 00:48:24,319
Speaker 5: Trying to balance out like being like in your face

1110
00:48:24,360 --> 00:48:26,160
Speaker 5: and then like pulling guys to the side, making sure

1111
00:48:26,239 --> 00:48:28,160
Speaker 5: like making sure I praise guys as much as I

1112
00:48:28,200 --> 00:48:30,760
Speaker 5: correct them. And that's something I've really focused on this spring,

1113
00:48:31,239 --> 00:48:32,880
Speaker 5: and just working with some of the younger guys, Like

1114
00:48:33,800 --> 00:48:35,399
Speaker 5: you know what it's like working with a younger guy

1115
00:48:35,440 --> 00:48:37,200
Speaker 5: and he's making the same mistakes over and over against

1116
00:48:37,280 --> 00:48:38,840
Speaker 5: Like all right, bro, like you messed up on this

1117
00:48:38,920 --> 00:48:40,800
Speaker 5: four times in a row. You're obviously not paying attention.

1118
00:48:41,120 --> 00:48:43,000
Speaker 5: So I get on them and then I pull them

1119
00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:44,520
Speaker 5: aside after and just make sure to be like, hey,

1120
00:48:44,560 --> 00:48:44,960
Speaker 5: are you good?

1121
00:48:45,000 --> 00:48:46,680
Speaker 4: Is everything good with you? Okay?

1122
00:48:46,960 --> 00:48:49,000
Speaker 5: So now that everything's fine, I need you to tighten

1123
00:48:49,000 --> 00:48:51,800
Speaker 5: it up. So just really making sure that they understand

1124
00:48:51,800 --> 00:48:54,000
Speaker 5: before you lead other people, you have to lead yourself

1125
00:48:54,000 --> 00:48:57,040
Speaker 5: and the man that you would want them to imitate you.

1126
00:48:57,080 --> 00:48:57,440
Speaker 1: What do you?

1127
00:48:57,520 --> 00:48:57,880
Speaker 3: Where do you?

1128
00:48:57,920 --> 00:49:01,320
Speaker 1: Where did you learn that? IMG Academy imgcame? It was

1129
00:49:01,360 --> 00:49:02,600
Speaker 1: it guys older than you, Like.

1130
00:49:02,600 --> 00:49:04,319
Speaker 4: It was guy it was it was guys older than me.

1131
00:49:04,360 --> 00:49:06,759
Speaker 5: But we actually had like a leadership class, Like this

1132
00:49:06,800 --> 00:49:08,400
Speaker 5: is stuff that we did on a daily basis. So

1133
00:49:08,440 --> 00:49:11,400
Speaker 5: we had like we had leadership sessions. It was called ADP,

1134
00:49:11,560 --> 00:49:15,600
Speaker 5: right JP, It's called ADP. So there was like leadership

1135
00:49:15,640 --> 00:49:18,919
Speaker 5: sessions and mental training things like that. So like something

1136
00:49:18,960 --> 00:49:21,399
Speaker 5: I took from mental training at IMG is like visualization.

1137
00:49:21,880 --> 00:49:23,600
Speaker 5: So like before every game, I put a towel over

1138
00:49:23,680 --> 00:49:26,560
Speaker 5: my head and I emerged myself into the game that

1139
00:49:26,600 --> 00:49:28,440
Speaker 5: I'm about to play, So like I think about what

1140
00:49:28,520 --> 00:49:30,839
Speaker 5: my gloves feel like, how tight my paths are, what

1141
00:49:30,880 --> 00:49:33,200
Speaker 5: the what's gonna spell like, what's gonna sound like? So

1142
00:49:33,280 --> 00:49:34,920
Speaker 5: like I'm really in the game, and then I just

1143
00:49:35,320 --> 00:49:37,560
Speaker 5: look at the script, see the play, run the play

1144
00:49:37,600 --> 00:49:39,440
Speaker 5: on my head, next play, and I just go through

1145
00:49:39,440 --> 00:49:42,600
Speaker 5: the whole script just so I essentially played the game mentally.

1146
00:49:42,680 --> 00:49:44,320
Speaker 5: Now I just have to go out and do it physically.

1147
00:49:44,360 --> 00:49:47,160
Speaker 5: So little things like that just helped me become the

1148
00:49:47,160 --> 00:49:48,040
Speaker 5: player I am today.

1149
00:49:48,400 --> 00:49:49,759
Speaker 1: You gotta get a had on your shoulders, bro.

1150
00:49:50,880 --> 00:49:53,359
Speaker 2: You know, like the development you don't understand this, but

1151
00:49:53,400 --> 00:49:55,160
Speaker 2: the development you have right now, as far as from

1152
00:49:55,200 --> 00:49:59,799
Speaker 2: a mental mental process, is above and beyond right now.

1153
00:50:00,280 --> 00:50:02,880
Speaker 2: It's very impressive. With Nick Saban, you came here, he

1154
00:50:02,920 --> 00:50:05,080
Speaker 2: was the head coach, yes, when you heard the news

1155
00:50:05,080 --> 00:50:07,480
Speaker 2: that he was retiring, Like, how did that affect you?

1156
00:50:07,600 --> 00:50:11,080
Speaker 2: Because everybody came here to play with the greatest college

1157
00:50:11,080 --> 00:50:12,120
Speaker 2: football coach of all time.

1158
00:50:12,280 --> 00:50:15,840
Speaker 5: Of course I was hurt, obviously, that was my initial reaction.

1159
00:50:15,920 --> 00:50:17,400
Speaker 5: I was just like, oh my gosh, Like I was

1160
00:50:17,440 --> 00:50:19,920
Speaker 5: expecting him to come in there and kind of rip

1161
00:50:20,000 --> 00:50:21,680
Speaker 5: us about the Michigan game, not so much RiPP us

1162
00:50:21,680 --> 00:50:22,960
Speaker 5: to be like, Hey, this is why we lost, and

1163
00:50:23,160 --> 00:50:24,839
Speaker 5: here's how we're going to correct it. Here's how we're

1164
00:50:24,840 --> 00:50:26,600
Speaker 5: going to get back there and then get further. That's

1165
00:50:26,600 --> 00:50:28,520
Speaker 5: what I was expecting, so for him to go up

1166
00:50:28,520 --> 00:50:30,600
Speaker 5: there and retire, it was just it was really a.

1167
00:50:30,560 --> 00:50:31,080
Speaker 4: Shock to me.

1168
00:50:31,719 --> 00:50:34,960
Speaker 5: But I've just been embracing it because I'm I've always

1169
00:50:34,960 --> 00:50:37,080
Speaker 5: been been big on legacy, Like how am I going

1170
00:50:37,120 --> 00:50:39,160
Speaker 5: to leave my legacy here? And I feel like there's

1171
00:50:39,160 --> 00:50:41,239
Speaker 5: no better way to leave my legacy than win the

1172
00:50:41,320 --> 00:50:42,719
Speaker 5: national championship with coach Bowler.

1173
00:50:43,040 --> 00:50:46,239
Speaker 1: When when coach Chapin does retire, does your intendance go

1174
00:50:46,360 --> 00:50:47,759
Speaker 1: up on? Thinking, Hey, who's going to be the next

1175
00:50:47,800 --> 00:50:49,480
Speaker 1: guy in here? Maybe I hit the portal? Now that

1176
00:50:49,520 --> 00:50:52,439
Speaker 1: we're in the portal generation, the portal era, Well what

1177
00:50:52,560 --> 00:50:55,040
Speaker 1: was that process like for you? I was just sitting

1178
00:50:55,080 --> 00:50:56,919
Speaker 1: back and kind of observing he was going to be next.

1179
00:50:57,080 --> 00:50:58,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, sit back and observe.

1180
00:50:58,160 --> 00:51:00,880
Speaker 5: But to be honest, the portal was never it was

1181
00:51:00,920 --> 00:51:03,520
Speaker 5: never an option for me just because I've i have

1182
00:51:03,640 --> 00:51:05,680
Speaker 5: too many roots playing it here as far as like

1183
00:51:06,239 --> 00:51:07,680
Speaker 5: my teammates and everybody in this.

1184
00:51:07,640 --> 00:51:09,239
Speaker 4: Building and then this community as well.

1185
00:51:09,280 --> 00:51:11,399
Speaker 5: So like I'm, like I mentioned earlier, like I've been

1186
00:51:11,400 --> 00:51:15,200
Speaker 5: moving all around the place, all around since I was

1187
00:51:15,760 --> 00:51:17,400
Speaker 5: even even in middle school. I didn't mention this. I

1188
00:51:17,400 --> 00:51:18,960
Speaker 5: went to middle school an hour and a half away

1189
00:51:19,000 --> 00:51:20,440
Speaker 5: I woke up at five o'clock in the morning. So

1190
00:51:20,600 --> 00:51:23,080
Speaker 5: I've just been moving my whole life, and Tuscu Luise

1191
00:51:23,120 --> 00:51:25,960
Speaker 5: has given me the first real sense of community in

1192
00:51:26,560 --> 00:51:28,600
Speaker 5: my life, and I really wasn't willing to let that go.

1193
00:51:29,400 --> 00:51:32,560
Speaker 1: Talk about your foundation, like, it seems like you have

1194
00:51:33,680 --> 00:51:37,560
Speaker 1: good parents, good support if you're waking up at five am,

1195
00:51:37,880 --> 00:51:40,680
Speaker 1: travel the middle school and kind of jumping around high

1196
00:51:40,680 --> 00:51:43,279
Speaker 1: schools and then trying to get to IMG because in

1197
00:51:43,320 --> 00:51:45,480
Speaker 1: their mind, your mind, this is the best These are

1198
00:51:45,520 --> 00:51:47,800
Speaker 1: the best moves for success to have in your future.

1199
00:51:47,960 --> 00:51:51,520
Speaker 5: Yeah, my foundation is really my immediate family. So I

1200
00:51:51,520 --> 00:51:53,239
Speaker 5: grew up in a two point household, my mom and

1201
00:51:53,280 --> 00:51:56,319
Speaker 5: my dad. I have a older sister and a younger brother,

1202
00:51:56,440 --> 00:51:59,680
Speaker 5: and they like, just as how much I'm committed to

1203
00:51:59,680 --> 00:52:02,400
Speaker 5: this that I'm living out right now, everybody else in

1204
00:52:02,400 --> 00:52:04,600
Speaker 5: that house is committed to it as well, because it

1205
00:52:04,640 --> 00:52:07,200
Speaker 5: wasn't just them. It's me doing the physical work, but

1206
00:52:07,200 --> 00:52:09,640
Speaker 5: it's my mom also waking up at five o'clock, having

1207
00:52:09,640 --> 00:52:11,560
Speaker 5: to change her work schedule to pick me up from

1208
00:52:11,560 --> 00:52:13,960
Speaker 5: the bus stop. At bus stop at four o'clock, my

1209
00:52:14,080 --> 00:52:16,600
Speaker 5: dad getting off a third shift, waking up early, taking

1210
00:52:16,600 --> 00:52:18,719
Speaker 5: me to school sometimes taking me to workouts and then

1211
00:52:18,719 --> 00:52:20,480
Speaker 5: my brothers and sisters having to sit in the car

1212
00:52:21,120 --> 00:52:23,520
Speaker 5: all day waiting for those workouts to finish. So it's

1213
00:52:23,600 --> 00:52:26,560
Speaker 5: just the commitment to this dream by my whole family.

1214
00:52:26,640 --> 00:52:28,600
Speaker 5: That's that's what makes it so easy. That's what makes

1215
00:52:29,320 --> 00:52:30,680
Speaker 5: that that's my why. They're my why.

1216
00:52:30,880 --> 00:52:32,240
Speaker 1: That's amazing. That is amazing.

1217
00:52:32,360 --> 00:52:35,879
Speaker 2: Yeah, from an offensive standpoint, how much has changed from

1218
00:52:35,920 --> 00:52:37,080
Speaker 2: next shaving to coach the board.

1219
00:52:37,600 --> 00:52:39,360
Speaker 5: I feel like it's gonna be a lot more explosive.

1220
00:52:39,360 --> 00:52:41,000
Speaker 5: You're gonna see the ball in the air a lot more,

1221
00:52:41,040 --> 00:52:44,200
Speaker 5: and it's gonna be like real complimentary football. So that,

1222
00:52:44,280 --> 00:52:45,640
Speaker 5: I mean, that was the goal last year, but you

1223
00:52:45,640 --> 00:52:48,040
Speaker 5: could see it in the way that close the board

1224
00:52:48,040 --> 00:52:49,799
Speaker 5: costs his offense. So as soon as I heard that

1225
00:52:49,840 --> 00:52:51,600
Speaker 5: he was the he was going to be the guy,

1226
00:52:51,680 --> 00:52:53,759
Speaker 5: went back and watched the Texas game because that's a

1227
00:52:53,880 --> 00:52:55,480
Speaker 5: mutual opponent that we had, and I saw how he

1228
00:52:55,600 --> 00:52:57,719
Speaker 5: called the game and the and the rhythm of what

1229
00:52:57,840 --> 00:52:59,400
Speaker 5: he called it and how he helps the office of

1230
00:52:59,440 --> 00:52:59,879
Speaker 5: line out.

1231
00:53:00,080 --> 00:53:02,279
Speaker 4: So we're not dropping back forty to fifty times a game.

1232
00:53:02,360 --> 00:53:06,520
Speaker 5: We have run action, we have play action, we got power,

1233
00:53:06,480 --> 00:53:08,000
Speaker 5: and we're going to throw the ball out of a

1234
00:53:08,080 --> 00:53:11,319
Speaker 5: power set. So just how he switches things up, I'm

1235
00:53:11,400 --> 00:53:12,479
Speaker 5: very excited to playing this offense.

1236
00:53:12,760 --> 00:53:15,080
Speaker 2: His culture too, seems crazy, Like you look at Washington

1237
00:53:15,160 --> 00:53:17,520
Speaker 2: last year and they played like I think more than

1238
00:53:17,520 --> 00:53:20,120
Speaker 2: half of their games there were underdogs and they obviously

1239
00:53:20,200 --> 00:53:22,560
Speaker 2: won all but one. And it's like to have that

1240
00:53:22,640 --> 00:53:25,279
Speaker 2: kind of culture of like being underdogs consistently and coming

1241
00:53:25,280 --> 00:53:26,799
Speaker 2: and winning. And now he comes to a place that

1242
00:53:27,400 --> 00:53:29,520
Speaker 2: just constantly has talent, like you gotta think you guys

1243
00:53:29,520 --> 00:53:30,240
Speaker 2: are gonna crush.

1244
00:53:30,080 --> 00:53:31,280
Speaker 4: It this year, Oh for sure.

1245
00:53:31,320 --> 00:53:34,520
Speaker 5: Just his energy is just everything that he brings, like

1246
00:53:34,600 --> 00:53:37,400
Speaker 5: what makes him him is what makes him perfect for

1247
00:53:37,440 --> 00:53:39,200
Speaker 5: this job. So the first thing that he told us

1248
00:53:39,280 --> 00:53:41,400
Speaker 5: like he had non negotiables, and the first one is like,

1249
00:53:41,560 --> 00:53:43,800
Speaker 5: we're gonna be a family, We're going to grow closer together.

1250
00:53:44,000 --> 00:53:45,839
Speaker 5: And I feel like that was the biggest improvement from

1251
00:53:45,840 --> 00:53:48,279
Speaker 5: my freshman year to my sophomore year, and there was

1252
00:53:48,280 --> 00:53:49,920
Speaker 5: a bigger provement. I feel like we were a much

1253
00:53:49,960 --> 00:53:52,000
Speaker 5: better team. And that's why coach Saban Ray is about

1254
00:53:52,640 --> 00:53:54,719
Speaker 5: that team house. One of his favorites is because of

1255
00:53:55,000 --> 00:53:57,040
Speaker 5: how close we were during the off season and how

1256
00:53:57,040 --> 00:53:59,200
Speaker 5: close we grew together during the season. What times were tough,

1257
00:53:59,280 --> 00:54:02,880
Speaker 5: like sef game was ugly, but instead of turning on

1258
00:54:02,920 --> 00:54:05,160
Speaker 5: each other and pointing a finger, we all decided to

1259
00:54:05,160 --> 00:54:06,839
Speaker 5: come together and be like, look, let's put that, let's

1260
00:54:06,840 --> 00:54:09,759
Speaker 5: put our egos aside and understand how how great we

1261
00:54:09,800 --> 00:54:10,080
Speaker 5: can be.

1262
00:54:10,480 --> 00:54:11,920
Speaker 4: And we did that. From there on, we.

1263
00:54:11,920 --> 00:54:14,279
Speaker 1: Just took off What what wrinkles do you feel like,

1264
00:54:14,320 --> 00:54:17,920
Speaker 1: Coach the world is brought to Alabama from Washington, give

1265
00:54:18,000 --> 00:54:21,279
Speaker 1: back into the uh the couple the wrinkles he's brought

1266
00:54:21,280 --> 00:54:23,640
Speaker 1: because we talked about him bringing up the music and

1267
00:54:23,640 --> 00:54:25,399
Speaker 1: everything else. What are a couple of things that he's

1268
00:54:25,440 --> 00:54:26,520
Speaker 1: brought from Washington?

1269
00:54:26,680 --> 00:54:29,440
Speaker 5: So music and practice and then like music before meetings too.

1270
00:54:29,480 --> 00:54:31,439
Speaker 5: So I remember like it was his second meeting here

1271
00:54:31,880 --> 00:54:33,319
Speaker 5: and I walked in they got they got a little

1272
00:54:33,320 --> 00:54:33,799
Speaker 5: baby playing.

1273
00:54:33,840 --> 00:54:34,960
Speaker 4: I'm like, what is going on?

1274
00:54:35,320 --> 00:54:37,960
Speaker 5: Just coming from Coach Saving where everybody walks in you

1275
00:54:38,120 --> 00:54:41,080
Speaker 5: So it's funny there there is just a big white

1276
00:54:41,120 --> 00:54:42,000
Speaker 5: board and there's.

1277
00:54:41,800 --> 00:54:44,799
Speaker 4: A little space so you can see Coach saving loie six.

1278
00:54:44,800 --> 00:54:48,959
Speaker 5: Loafers walking in. Everybody goes to now coach the board

1279
00:54:49,000 --> 00:54:51,799
Speaker 5: like hey, hey, hey, coach, how's everybody doing? So it's

1280
00:54:51,840 --> 00:54:53,600
Speaker 5: just it's just the coach is different.

1281
00:54:54,000 --> 00:54:58,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, polar opposite situation, size six loafer starts squeaking by

1282
00:54:58,440 --> 00:55:04,880
Speaker 2: the door, everyone gets scared of. Oh ship, that is

1283
00:55:04,920 --> 00:55:07,720
Speaker 2: a bit of a deal. How is from the blocking

1284
00:55:07,760 --> 00:55:09,000
Speaker 2: scheme standpoint, is it different?

1285
00:55:09,280 --> 00:55:10,319
Speaker 4: No, it's pretty much the same.

1286
00:55:10,360 --> 00:55:12,920
Speaker 5: So I feel like the biggest difference this year is

1287
00:55:12,960 --> 00:55:14,479
Speaker 5: going to be like the cadence of the play calls

1288
00:55:14,560 --> 00:55:17,879
Speaker 5: because up front things are called differently just because every

1289
00:55:17,880 --> 00:55:20,360
Speaker 5: officers line coach has a weird way of calling stuff.

1290
00:55:20,760 --> 00:55:23,480
Speaker 5: But it's the same. It's still the same. It's on

1291
00:55:23,560 --> 00:55:25,239
Speaker 5: our side on you'll do the.

1292
00:55:25,239 --> 00:55:27,400
Speaker 2: Thing when you look at the board and then you

1293
00:55:27,400 --> 00:55:29,520
Speaker 2: look back and you go, or somebody calling something.

1294
00:55:29,760 --> 00:55:31,880
Speaker 5: No, we so since they have the mic in their

1295
00:55:31,880 --> 00:55:34,680
Speaker 5: headphones this year, which is gonna be doing a little sugarhod.

1296
00:55:34,239 --> 00:55:35,160
Speaker 4: On getting straights of the ball?

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Speaker 1: Oh for real?

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00:55:36,080 --> 00:55:37,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, because everybody's helmet.

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Speaker 4: No, not everybody, just the quarterback, just a quarterback, which

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00:55:40,680 --> 00:55:41,600
Speaker 4: I think is a great.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, certain schools picked up on those boards, so we

1302
00:55:43,760 --> 00:55:45,520
Speaker 5: thought it wouldn't be a good idea to do that anymore.

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Speaker 1: Certain this guy, Yes, certain schools picked up on some things.

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00:55:49,920 --> 00:55:52,440
Speaker 2: Now he can't ring and being nasty.

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00:55:52,560 --> 00:55:58,239
Speaker 1: I'm a big way though. You give it. You do

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00:55:58,360 --> 00:56:00,520
Speaker 1: give some good juicy quotes with the media. Yeah, I'm

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00:56:00,520 --> 00:56:03,560
Speaker 1: gonna explain. I'm gonna quote what you said, and I

1308
00:56:03,600 --> 00:56:05,960
Speaker 1: want you to go into this mentality. We want to

1309
00:56:06,000 --> 00:56:08,520
Speaker 1: physically dominate you. We want to intimidate you. We want

1310
00:56:08,520 --> 00:56:10,759
Speaker 1: the third quarter to roll around and the defense to

1311
00:56:10,800 --> 00:56:12,759
Speaker 1: be like, oh my gosh, we can't stop the run.

1312
00:56:12,960 --> 00:56:15,000
Speaker 1: How are we going to stop this run? We want

1313
00:56:15,040 --> 00:56:18,000
Speaker 1: to we want to physically impose our will. Talk about

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00:56:18,960 --> 00:56:22,239
Speaker 1: cultivating that mentality and being confident enough to speak on

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00:56:22,239 --> 00:56:23,920
Speaker 1: all like that, especially to the media.

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00:56:23,960 --> 00:56:28,200
Speaker 5: So that quote was really just me challenging myself and

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00:56:28,239 --> 00:56:30,319
Speaker 5: the rest of the office with Lineman to be like, hey,

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00:56:30,360 --> 00:56:32,160
Speaker 5: like I put this president out here, we have to

1319
00:56:32,200 --> 00:56:34,239
Speaker 5: go live up to it. And Taylor can tell you

1320
00:56:34,320 --> 00:56:36,719
Speaker 5: that's every office of Lineman's creed like you want to

1321
00:56:36,760 --> 00:56:39,440
Speaker 5: go out and do that. We were just bold enough

1322
00:56:39,440 --> 00:56:41,479
Speaker 5: to go out and say it, like I said, JC

1323
00:56:41,600 --> 00:56:44,600
Speaker 5: said it so like we were just making ourselves live

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00:56:44,680 --> 00:56:47,239
Speaker 5: up to that standard of playing office of line like that,

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00:56:47,360 --> 00:56:50,239
Speaker 5: and that's that's how Alabama has been so successful in

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00:56:50,239 --> 00:56:53,960
Speaker 5: the past. They just had a dominant office of line.

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00:56:54,480 --> 00:56:58,560
Speaker 1: Do you have a favorite post game meal, favorite ritual.

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00:56:59,200 --> 00:57:00,600
Speaker 4: I have a favorite post game ritual.

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00:57:00,680 --> 00:57:03,560
Speaker 5: So whenever we're home, they have buses driving back here

1330
00:57:03,600 --> 00:57:04,919
Speaker 5: to the facility, But.

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00:57:05,200 --> 00:57:06,040
Speaker 4: I like to walk.

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00:57:06,160 --> 00:57:07,799
Speaker 5: I like to walk back just so like all the

1333
00:57:07,840 --> 00:57:10,080
Speaker 5: fans who came to the game, Like I can interact

1334
00:57:10,120 --> 00:57:13,040
Speaker 5: with the fans, you know, like just like some people

1335
00:57:13,080 --> 00:57:15,239
Speaker 5: spend their last to come to an Alabama football game,

1336
00:57:15,520 --> 00:57:17,480
Speaker 5: and I know this thirty second interaction I can have

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00:57:17,720 --> 00:57:20,320
Speaker 5: with some family that's gonna last than thirty years, Like

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00:57:20,360 --> 00:57:22,280
Speaker 5: they're never going to forget that interaction I have with

1339
00:57:22,320 --> 00:57:22,960
Speaker 5: them after the game.

1340
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Speaker 4: So I just love walking back.

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00:57:25,320 --> 00:57:27,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, I see what you like right over? See why

1342
00:57:27,600 --> 00:57:33,640
Speaker 1: you like this? Yeah? Real, he say, hey, we got

1343
00:57:33,640 --> 00:57:35,600
Speaker 1: to get book on, Like he's he'd be great.

1344
00:57:35,680 --> 00:57:37,360
Speaker 2: When you're walking back from one of those games, how

1345
00:57:37,400 --> 00:57:38,520
Speaker 2: long does it take you to get back to the

1346
00:57:38,560 --> 00:57:40,040
Speaker 2: stadium or get back to the facility.

1347
00:57:40,800 --> 00:57:45,520
Speaker 5: So it's not it doesn't take that, I probably say

1348
00:57:45,840 --> 00:57:47,880
Speaker 5: because I'm stopping and signing stuff and talking to people

1349
00:57:47,920 --> 00:57:51,040
Speaker 5: as well, So like probably say it takes like fifteen

1350
00:57:51,200 --> 00:57:53,720
Speaker 5: twenty minutes. After the spring game, it was wild because

1351
00:57:53,720 --> 00:57:55,439
Speaker 5: it was a free game, so so many people were there.

1352
00:57:55,840 --> 00:57:57,680
Speaker 5: It got it got to the point I was like, look, guys,

1353
00:57:58,000 --> 00:58:00,520
Speaker 5: like like listen, I'll walk and take pere, but like

1354
00:58:00,720 --> 00:58:02,560
Speaker 5: we just got to walk because I still have my

1355
00:58:02,600 --> 00:58:04,320
Speaker 5: knighbrases on. It was a spring game, so I still

1356
00:58:04,320 --> 00:58:06,000
Speaker 5: have my neighbers on, still have my clissong. Like, man,

1357
00:58:06,000 --> 00:58:07,600
Speaker 5: I gotta get back walking back like that.

1358
00:58:07,720 --> 00:58:08,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was, I was.

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00:58:09,160 --> 00:58:10,520
Speaker 5: I just love doing that, and then I get to

1360
00:58:10,520 --> 00:58:13,640
Speaker 5: like talk to my family after too, you know what

1361
00:58:13,640 --> 00:58:13,880
Speaker 5: I mean.

1362
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Speaker 4: I just I just love being around there.

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00:58:15,280 --> 00:58:17,320
Speaker 5: I feel like that's my favorite part about being that

1364
00:58:17,320 --> 00:58:19,840
Speaker 5: a beam of that community, in that family with n

1365
00:58:19,880 --> 00:58:21,080
Speaker 5: I l is.

1366
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Speaker 2: The offensive line like as a group sponsored by anybody.

1367
00:58:24,200 --> 00:58:29,240
Speaker 4: Not yet, but we're open.

1368
00:58:30,400 --> 00:58:32,160
Speaker 5: Yeah we did. We did the beef jerky that that

1369
00:58:32,200 --> 00:58:35,560
Speaker 5: did pretty well. We're gonna try to boost that up.

1370
00:58:35,600 --> 00:58:36,960
Speaker 5: But looking for other stuff too.

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Speaker 1: What do you feel like sets this culture apart from everywhere.

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00:58:39,680 --> 00:58:41,600
Speaker 4: Else under standards of excellence.

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00:58:41,600 --> 00:58:44,520
Speaker 5: You have guys that you have a lum that will

1374
00:58:44,560 --> 00:58:46,160
Speaker 5: come back here and tell us like this, this is

1375
00:58:46,200 --> 00:58:48,440
Speaker 5: what the standard is. And they're alum that work in

1376
00:58:48,440 --> 00:58:51,400
Speaker 5: the building, so you're always being reminded of what the

1377
00:58:51,440 --> 00:58:53,520
Speaker 5: past was like and how you have to live up

1378
00:58:53,520 --> 00:58:56,040
Speaker 5: to that and it's not. We don't see it as pressure.

1379
00:58:56,040 --> 00:58:57,960
Speaker 5: We see it too. We see it as a challenge

1380
00:58:57,960 --> 00:59:00,880
Speaker 5: and we want to create our own ligacy here, like

1381
00:59:01,280 --> 00:59:03,160
Speaker 5: we want this team to have his own legacy here,

1382
00:59:03,480 --> 00:59:07,880
Speaker 5: just like how their team had a legacy here and legacy.

1383
00:59:08,280 --> 00:59:11,800
Speaker 2: Well, there are so many NFL guys that went to Alabama.

1384
00:59:12,080 --> 00:59:13,560
Speaker 2: Of all those guys that are still in the league,

1385
00:59:13,600 --> 00:59:14,920
Speaker 2: who's one dude you'd want to play with.

1386
00:59:15,360 --> 00:59:18,040
Speaker 5: One dude that I want to play with, probably Evanil

1387
00:59:18,400 --> 00:59:20,680
Speaker 5: And just because he's an IMG guy, we had a

1388
00:59:20,880 --> 00:59:23,640
Speaker 5: very similar path. He was at IMG for three years.

1389
00:59:24,640 --> 00:59:26,200
Speaker 5: He's in New York right now, so that's close to

1390
00:59:26,240 --> 00:59:28,120
Speaker 5: home for me. So just playing with him and then

1391
00:59:28,600 --> 00:59:30,280
Speaker 5: I pick his brain every now and then as well,

1392
00:59:30,360 --> 00:59:32,840
Speaker 5: So just having that relationship with him and just looking

1393
00:59:32,920 --> 00:59:35,240
Speaker 5: up to him, like I are really looking up to him.

1394
00:59:35,520 --> 00:59:37,800
Speaker 2: What do you like when you pick his brain? What

1395
00:59:37,880 --> 00:59:39,560
Speaker 2: does he tell you about the NFL con part to college?

1396
00:59:39,960 --> 00:59:41,640
Speaker 5: He just tells he talks about the speed of the

1397
00:59:41,680 --> 00:59:44,560
Speaker 5: game and how it becomes even more of a business.

1398
00:59:44,880 --> 00:59:46,600
Speaker 5: So you just have to be prepared for that and

1399
00:59:46,680 --> 00:59:49,280
Speaker 5: just make sure you have everything in order before you

1400
00:59:49,360 --> 00:59:51,320
Speaker 5: get there, so nothing catches you off hard.

1401
00:59:52,640 --> 00:59:55,280
Speaker 1: With everything you've experienced, with the support of your parents,

1402
00:59:56,440 --> 01:00:01,120
Speaker 1: going to IMG, taking leadership courses, mental courses, visualization, all

1403
01:00:01,200 --> 01:00:04,240
Speaker 1: that stuff, and being at a place like Alabama. In

1404
01:00:04,280 --> 01:00:07,440
Speaker 1: your opinion, what qualities make a good leader?

1405
01:00:09,440 --> 01:00:11,960
Speaker 5: Never ask anybody to do something that you wouldn't do yourself.

1406
01:00:12,000 --> 01:00:13,800
Speaker 5: And I learned that before even was at IMG. I

1407
01:00:13,840 --> 01:00:17,880
Speaker 5: learned that from coach Nunzio Capanelli. He was at Burghn Catholic,

1408
01:00:18,240 --> 01:00:19,720
Speaker 5: so he recruited me to go to Burgon Catholic and

1409
01:00:19,800 --> 01:00:21,440
Speaker 5: then I think he took a job at Ruggers. He

1410
01:00:21,520 --> 01:00:23,320
Speaker 5: might be at Syracuse right now. But that that has

1411
01:00:23,360 --> 01:00:25,120
Speaker 5: always stuck with me, just about being the leader, Like

1412
01:00:25,120 --> 01:00:27,479
Speaker 5: how am I? How am I going to ask my

1413
01:00:27,680 --> 01:00:29,680
Speaker 5: center to do something that I'm not doing myself? Like

1414
01:00:29,720 --> 01:00:31,000
Speaker 5: how am I gonna tell him to play harder? And

1415
01:00:31,000 --> 01:00:33,040
Speaker 5: I'm not even playing that? My heart is so just

1416
01:00:33,080 --> 01:00:35,560
Speaker 5: like because you're you're you're holding yourself to that standard

1417
01:00:35,680 --> 01:00:36,680
Speaker 5: and people are gonna follow.

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01:00:37,280 --> 01:00:37,840
Speaker 3: I love that.

1419
01:00:38,000 --> 01:00:39,440
Speaker 2: Do you read books on leadership at all?

1420
01:00:40,040 --> 01:00:40,280
Speaker 4: Yes?

1421
01:00:40,360 --> 01:00:43,760
Speaker 5: I did what you what you in Right now I'm

1422
01:00:43,760 --> 01:00:44,760
Speaker 5: reading the book by Tony Dunge.

1423
01:00:44,840 --> 01:00:46,640
Speaker 4: I forget the name of it. I just started it,

1424
01:00:46,960 --> 01:00:49,720
Speaker 4: but just meeting him. I actually met him at my.

1425
01:00:49,840 --> 01:00:53,200
Speaker 5: Official physic in Oregon, so then he's just a legendary coach.

1426
01:00:53,200 --> 01:00:56,240
Speaker 5: And my my dad's a huge football fanatic. So just

1427
01:00:56,320 --> 01:00:58,040
Speaker 5: meeting him and just getting into that book.

1428
01:00:58,120 --> 01:01:00,640
Speaker 1: Is is it the one where he's transitioning to Tampa Bay.

1429
01:01:01,760 --> 01:01:03,680
Speaker 4: No, it's it's called Uncommon that book.

1430
01:01:03,720 --> 01:01:07,160
Speaker 2: Okay, a couple, Dude, does your family still live up north?

1431
01:01:07,280 --> 01:01:07,600
Speaker 4: They do?

1432
01:01:07,720 --> 01:01:10,280
Speaker 2: How often do they make it down all the time? Yeah?

1433
01:01:10,280 --> 01:01:12,480
Speaker 5: So, my my little brother, he's playing football right now,

1434
01:01:12,560 --> 01:01:16,000
Speaker 5: so my parents will alternate weeks when they so somebody

1435
01:01:16,040 --> 01:01:17,800
Speaker 5: will stay at for his game and somebody will come

1436
01:01:17,840 --> 01:01:20,800
Speaker 5: out here. But yeah, we make it work. And that's

1437
01:01:20,840 --> 01:01:22,800
Speaker 5: that's the thing about us. So I don't think I

1438
01:01:22,800 --> 01:01:24,840
Speaker 5: mentioned this earlier. My dad and I used to come

1439
01:01:24,880 --> 01:01:26,560
Speaker 5: here for the Alabama of Football camps, the Next Tame

1440
01:01:26,600 --> 01:01:29,800
Speaker 5: of Football camps when I was in middle school. So

1441
01:01:29,920 --> 01:01:31,800
Speaker 5: we've always been committed to the dream, no matter what

1442
01:01:31,800 --> 01:01:32,200
Speaker 5: it tooks.

1443
01:01:32,600 --> 01:01:34,040
Speaker 4: They're always here, always.

1444
01:01:33,760 --> 01:01:34,720
Speaker 1: Been committed to the dream.

1445
01:01:34,880 --> 01:01:37,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is awesome. I literally I don't think i've

1446
01:01:37,240 --> 01:01:39,560
Speaker 2: ever met a kid that's in college. You're a kid,

1447
01:01:39,560 --> 01:01:41,280
Speaker 2: you're an adult. But a guy in college that has

1448
01:01:41,320 --> 01:01:43,520
Speaker 2: had a head on their shoulders like you do use

1449
01:01:43,600 --> 01:01:45,080
Speaker 2: you seem like you really could.

1450
01:01:44,920 --> 01:01:48,280
Speaker 1: Be smoke screens, you know what I mean. The you

1451
01:01:48,320 --> 01:01:50,000
Speaker 1: know what I mean, but.

1452
01:01:50,000 --> 01:01:53,080
Speaker 2: You can believe like a scout, you find they're gonna

1453
01:01:53,080 --> 01:01:56,880
Speaker 2: look like we don't. Character and leadership not a problem,

1454
01:01:57,760 --> 01:01:59,920
Speaker 2: an easy combine. Yeah, that's awesome. We appreciate you.

1455
01:02:00,080 --> 01:02:02,200
Speaker 1: But on, man, I got one more question for you

1456
01:02:03,480 --> 01:02:06,080
Speaker 1: at I m G. What's your favorite soccer field?

1457
01:02:07,640 --> 01:02:10,000
Speaker 3: M hm hm.

1458
01:02:11,360 --> 01:02:14,120
Speaker 1: Thank you guys, make sure you subscribe my stars.

1459
01:02:14,480 --> 01:02:16,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, great, stars, Thank.

1460
01:02:16,520 --> 01:02:19,080
Speaker 1: You for coming on. It's been a lot of fun, bro.

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01:02:19,200 --> 01:02:19,720
Speaker 1: Appreciate you.