Speaker 1: Alex, let's start that year to jump that coach Tomland
Speaker 1: always talks about when you look back and after talking
Speaker 1: to coaches, what's I guess the main feedback. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: feel like this year it was year that I definitely grew.
Speaker 1: You know, it's not the year that I wanted to have.
Speaker 1: You I know I can always be better, no no
Speaker 1: matter how good I do, I know that I can
Speaker 1: always be better. But overall, from just a mental standpoint
Speaker 1: and physical standpoint, I feel like I grew a lot
Speaker 1: this year and just be my first starting year in
Speaker 1: the starting role, I feelt like, you know, to take
Speaker 1: a jump, But at the same time, I want to
Speaker 1: take an even bigger jump coming into year three, and
Speaker 1: I know it can be a lot better than I was.
Speaker 1: I'm excited for the off season ahead and just working
Speaker 1: to be the best that can be in year three.
Speaker 1: You said that your goal for the two thousand twenty
Speaker 1: one season was double digit sacks close but did not
Speaker 1: get it. So what do you do in terms of
Speaker 1: setting new goals moving forward for the next season. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I have a lot of the same goals
Speaker 1: that I had this year. Um for me, just really
Speaker 1: working on finishing my coaches really just emphasized with me
Speaker 1: just finishing the top of my rushes. There were so
Speaker 1: many plays and so many rushes where I was right
Speaker 1: by the quarterback but just didn't finish, whether he stepped
Speaker 1: up there or the offensive line was still on me.
Speaker 1: So just really working working on things like that to
Speaker 1: help me finish my rushes. To be able to reach
Speaker 1: out to what didact point is something that's going to
Speaker 1: be emphasis for me in my training this year. Coach
Speaker 1: Salmon has said in terms of t J Watt, he's
Speaker 1: not like a raw ro guy. He's kind of quiet,
Speaker 1: but he's very technical. What is something that um he
Speaker 1: has taught you this year that has helped improve your game? Yeah,
Speaker 1: something that I've always learned from watching the the live
Speaker 1: TV copies before games to get the to get the
Speaker 1: cadence for the for the pleasant team. So that's something
Speaker 1: I did a lot this year, and we would always
Speaker 1: talk about it in meeting, talk about the different cadence
Speaker 1: you to talk about what's the hard count, talk about
Speaker 1: what's on too. So that was something that helped me
Speaker 1: a lot, especially for away games this year, to be
Speaker 1: able to to get work on my get off and
Speaker 1: be able to get out the ball faster, and so
Speaker 1: I'm definitely photo translation for it, as I would feel
Speaker 1: like I was getting on the ball a lot faster
Speaker 1: than I was last year, and so that's something I
Speaker 1: look forward to continue to improve on. I know it's
Speaker 1: maybe a small thing, but how much better or different
Speaker 1: was it that there were fans in the stands this year,
Speaker 1: unlike a rookie or I know you didn't know any better,
Speaker 1: but it had to be a big difference. It was awesome.
Speaker 1: I was just so thankful that there was fans in
Speaker 1: the stands. I was thankful that my parents, um and
Speaker 1: and my fiance and whoever wanted to come to the
Speaker 1: game was able to come this year, whereas last year
Speaker 1: a lot of the games they weren't able to because
Speaker 1: of COVID UM, and so it was just awesome to
Speaker 1: be able to truly experienced steal nation and every time
Speaker 1: they played really Gate, I get chills, and especially that
Speaker 1: last game, you know, Ben's last home game was pretty awesome,
Speaker 1: and so it was awesome to be able to have
Speaker 1: fans in the stands. And so I'm glad that we're
Speaker 1: training in an upboard direction regarding COVID. What are you
Speaker 1: going to do in terms of the offseason working out,
Speaker 1: Where are you going and are you meeting up with
Speaker 1: any teammates? Yeah, um, I'm going. I'm gonna be in
Speaker 1: Charlotte from the majority of my training this all season.
Speaker 1: So I got a good training regiment down there, a
Speaker 1: good trainer, just a good uh just get in a
Speaker 1: good flow down there. And so last year I fel
Speaker 1: like I had one of my best, my best offseason,
Speaker 1: and like I came into camp in great shapes, in
Speaker 1: the best ship in my life. And so I think
Speaker 1: that's gonna be a home baseball me on the off season.
Speaker 1: And so I'm just that's where I'm gonna be that
Speaker 1: and try to get some working with t J sometime
Speaker 1: over all season as well, and some other passbusters as well.
Speaker 1: I mean, you guys go to Wisconsin thinking about it, Yeah,
Speaker 1: So hopefully we can get up there for a week
Speaker 1: or so and I'll get together and get some get
Speaker 1: some training and they'll be awesome. Do you guys take
Speaker 1: some time to um, maybe just you know, do your
Speaker 1: own thing, and then how do you keep in contact
Speaker 1: and maybe keep that momentum, that tightness of the group. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think, you know, we guys definitely, uh, kind of
Speaker 1: had their own time and you're right for the season.
Speaker 1: You guys go on vacation and guys go back visit
Speaker 1: the family and stuff like that. And I think, you know,
Speaker 1: we do have a group chat, so I think we
Speaker 1: always like to keep that running and stuff like that,
Speaker 1: and so that's something we'll we like to do to
Speaker 1: stay at contacts, keep that group chat running. Is it? Linebackers,
Speaker 1: Whole defense? We do have a D line and we
Speaker 1: have a whole defense as well. Um, we usually text
Speaker 1: a lot in the whole defense, so we texted some
Speaker 1: funny stuff in there. So it's pretty cool. Who's kind
Speaker 1: of the ring leader of that? Pay cam? M say
Speaker 1: cam Yeah, cans and when he created so I say
Speaker 1: cans and the ring leader of it? All right, Thanks Alex,
Speaker 1: You're welcome to see