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Speaker 1: Welcome to a special edition of From the Podium podcast

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Speaker 1: as we take you behind the scenes of this weekend's

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Speaker 1: rookie mini Camp. I'm Jason Gibbs, and on today's podcast,

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Speaker 1: you'll hear from all six of our draft picks as

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Speaker 1: they spend their first full days here at the Cross

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Speaker 1: Country Mortgage Campus. Before we hear from the rookies, though,

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Speaker 1: let's hear from head coach Kevin Stefanski after the first

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Speaker 1: day of Rookie Mini Camp.

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Speaker 2: We love having rookies in the building because they're seated

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Speaker 2: in their chairs fifteen minutes prior to the meeting. All

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Speaker 2: the notebooks are open, pencils in their hand, very eager learners.

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Speaker 2: Same thing out here, you know. I think the walk

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Speaker 2: through this morning started at ten forty five, and I

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Speaker 2: think ten twenty five. All of them were out here,

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Speaker 2: so a little bit different than their veteran counterparts, but

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Speaker 2: really fun work, fun for us to put them in

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Speaker 2: a helmet, put them through an individual drill.

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Speaker 3: As you know.

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Speaker 2: The emphasis on this on today, on certainly this week,

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Speaker 2: is on teaching and learning, not just the system, but

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Speaker 2: getting to know our teammates and them getting to know

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Speaker 2: the coaches, the staff et cetera. So really pleased with

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Speaker 2: how those guys handled today. And there's more work to do.

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Speaker 2: They have some studying when they get back to the

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Speaker 2: hotel tonight and we'll get ready tomorrow for day two

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Speaker 2: of rook Communicamp. But really pleased with where these guys are.

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Speaker 2: And with that, I'll take any questions.

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Speaker 4: How do you think Zach looked.

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Speaker 5: I mean, it's been a while since he'd been on

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Speaker 2: For football, Yeah, he said last time was, you know,

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Speaker 2: his last game, so putting that helmet back on. But

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Speaker 2: he looks good, He's comfortable, he's working very hard with

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Speaker 2: Andy and Roally and those guys. Just really pleased with

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Speaker 2: with where he is. But he looked comfortable to me.

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Speaker 3: Is it more conditioning for him than any.

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Speaker 2: I think I think you could probably say that about everybody.

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Speaker 2: What happens is you're in really good pro day shape,

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Speaker 2: and you're in shape for the combine and you're getting

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Speaker 2: ready to run forty yard dashes, and that's not really football.

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Speaker 2: So I think a lot of these guys are gonna

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Speaker 2: work themselves back into quote unquote football shape. But Zach's

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Speaker 2: no different than a lot of those guys. I don't

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Speaker 2: know that he's eligible to be a part of Rockimnicount. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and I don't know if he's ready to be throwing

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Speaker 2: like that, but I check Tony, but I do not

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Speaker 2: believe he's eligible the individual T shirt.

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Speaker 6: I just what do you hope to glean and take

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we look at it as really this

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Speaker 2: weekend is the start and then going into next week. Uh,

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Speaker 2: it's really ramping these guys up as quickly as possible

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Speaker 2: so that when they get dropped into general pop they

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Speaker 2: they kind of know what the systems about, they know

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Speaker 2: what the coaches are about, they know what to expect

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Speaker 2: in the meeting room. So all of this is a process.

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Speaker 2: So they're going to be overwhelmed today with information and

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Speaker 2: that's okay. Uh, they have they have time, we have

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Speaker 2: time to work through it. But uh, it may feel

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Speaker 2: like they're drinking out of a fire hose with some

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Speaker 2: of the things we give them. But that's just that's

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Speaker 2: a very natural reaction to getting new information.

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Speaker 7: Uh.

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Speaker 2: But but a lot of it is just there's no

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Speaker 2: much time with the playbook as you can.

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Speaker 8: Dwan talked about at Cincinnati he played more laterally, he

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Speaker 8: didn't get downfield as much. But so number one, what

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Speaker 8: have you guys seen in him that shows that he

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Speaker 8: has maybe some of those traits you're looking for and

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Speaker 8: just your first impression a specific way.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you're right.

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Speaker 2: Actually, there's different schemes as we all know, and and

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Speaker 2: our scheme is about attack and getting off the ball.

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Speaker 2: So that's something that Jacques was working hard with the

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Speaker 2: that's that's why we're here. We're here to work.

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Speaker 9: Have you've been around bookies for a long time, He's

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Speaker 9: there Like a couple of things that you feel and

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Speaker 4: When they.

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Speaker 2: Just get on cross country Mortgage campus, you know, just

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Speaker 2: as as a rookie, some of those things that that

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Speaker 2: make smart decisions off the field as much as on

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Speaker 7: The mine back and Nataniel Watson Kevin did did you

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Speaker 7: know any of about.

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Speaker 4: Him before this?

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Speaker 10: And what.

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Speaker 7: Well?

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Speaker 2: We liked him as a player, We liked the tape.

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Speaker 2: He's a he's a very physical player. Goes by Bookie. Uh,

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Speaker 2: he's a good kid. Uh doing a nice job out here,

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Speaker 2: just making some calls initially, but very physical linebacker. We

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Speaker 2: think he fits what we do, Booky. You have to

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Speaker 11: Just the first day, but what were your first impressions

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Speaker 2: And I thought Mike did a nice job. Again, Mary Kay,

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Speaker 2: like you said, first day of school. But to see

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Speaker 2: I think Jacques and Jordan Thomas do an outstanding job

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Speaker 2: watching over there, he's in his stance and Jock's walking

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Speaker 2: So there's so much nuance that goes into it that

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Speaker 2: a nice job today and we just want to build

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Speaker 4: Kevin, I think you have.

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Speaker 6: Seven tryout players here this weekend. You got six draft

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Speaker 6: picks who themselves are fighting to make this roster. What

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Speaker 2: We really don't care, Darryl, whether you're drafted or you're

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Speaker 2: tryout for us. Right now, this is an evaluation period,

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Speaker 2: so all of those guys will get a fair shot

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Speaker 2: as we look at them and see how they do

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Speaker 2: on the practice field. I've been around guys that have

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Speaker 2: are we are certainly looking at all these players and

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Speaker 12: Stuff it couch, How much does it resuonate when like

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Speaker 12: Juwan is playing not just for a spot on the team,

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Speaker 12: but for a family of four, and he's just really

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Speaker 11: Family and his children and all that.

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Speaker 2: Right, I think, you know, he does a great job.

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Speaker 2: He shared with the team, and he was up here

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Speaker 2: He's he's probably enjoying the sleep here in the hotel.

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Speaker 2: But but yeah, I think all these guys have a story.

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Speaker 2: All these guys have a they're they're all doing it

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Speaker 7: This is not a rookie question, but Andy Dickinson still

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Speaker 7: stepping in for uh for Bill called what's that like

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Speaker 4: I mean, does he had how's here in the respect?

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Speaker 2: I think Jeff, with any person coming in to replace anybody, uh,

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Speaker 2: he's had a really uh interesting career already. He's been

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Speaker 12: You be preparing for Communicamp and all the things because

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Speaker 12: it's a time earlier this week you got it out

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Speaker 12: the Flag Football Championship.

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Speaker 10: What was you and.

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Speaker 2: Well I saw you down there, Cam. Uh, that was awesome,

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Speaker 2: what a cool event. Uh. I can't tell you how

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Speaker 2: the games. I think there were twenty eight teams down there.

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Speaker 2: UH some incredible athletes. Some of the plays, the throws

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Speaker 2: That needs to be a varsity sport. The fact that

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Speaker 10: Uh.

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Speaker 2: Just go down there and watch uh those young ladies

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Speaker 2: Was was so fun for me to see. And I

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Speaker 2: it wasn't coordinated. We all just wanted to go down

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Speaker 2: was a great night down there. There's something about being

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Speaker 2: in your stadium and your hometown stadium playing UH football.

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Speaker 2: It's something that as a kid, I was able to

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Speaker 2: that's part of the reason why in in June June sixth,

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Speaker 2: UH our foundation is gonna host a f A co

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Speaker 2: ed flag football UH tournament down there there on June six, So, UH,

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Speaker 2: just for me watching the girls at a high level

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Speaker 2: excited that we'll be able to go down there, uh

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Speaker 2: for more information on that, Tony the Keepers Foundation dot org.

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Speaker 4: While you're talking about that, why did you think now

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Speaker 4: is the right time for you to start your own here?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Good question. That was my family and I we

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Speaker 10: To do as part of it.

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Speaker 13: To your just this is your fifth year here.

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Speaker 2: Like time to settle Yeah, it took we had took

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Speaker 6: I think to ask you about the schedule mm hasn't

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Speaker 2: You go to London? Yeah, I really don't. I like schedule,

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Speaker 10: This year.

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Speaker 2: What do we request last yer?

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Speaker 14: Oh?

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Speaker 4: Got it? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Nothing specific?

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Speaker 2: I don't. We'll see if we have a fifth quarterback

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Speaker 11: Just wondering, what are your sort of goals for this

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Speaker 16: Just to you know, well, first of you know, I

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Speaker 4: What's the first little bit for you? Yeah, and just

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Speaker 16: blessing to my Lord Savor Jesus.

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Speaker 4: Christ God, did you put bros jersey?

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Speaker 10: Guy?

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Speaker 7: Uh?

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Speaker 10: Not yeah, not yet, not yet put the practice jersey on.

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Speaker 16: But you know that ain't ain't the real thing in

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Speaker 4: No doubt.

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Speaker 16: I mean, I feel like it won't really like sync

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Speaker 4: Is it like that for you at Ohio stage?

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Speaker 7: Reacity have you gotten from your teammates at Ohio stage?

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Speaker 16: Yeah, I mean, uh, I still talk to those guys

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Speaker 5: And what are your first suppression of but Chi shorts

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Speaker 5: and and you're just not being you know, having been

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Speaker 16: Him, Yeah, oh yeah, I mean he's the great coach.

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Speaker 8: I know when you were here, right after you got director,

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Speaker 13: In these last couple of weeks.

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Speaker 16: Yeah, I mean, uh, just talking to Duane and Luke

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Speaker 11: How about guys like Maurice Hurst I exact on the

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Speaker 10: How, yeah she a fired your game in college?

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Speaker 11: Yeah you met Mulworthy.

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Speaker 17: No, ma'am these other guys yet or any of the

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Speaker 16: Uh, I met, like, uh, just a couple of events,

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Speaker 16: you know, but uh, nothing nothing to crazy. You know,

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Speaker 16: they're not all all all all the way in the

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Speaker 10: And that was kind of.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 16: I mean I played all over from you know, from

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Speaker 16: I mean, uh, I mean, I'm one of those guys

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Speaker 4: It's your individual numbers probably would have been better just

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Speaker 13: Like where you fit, how you fit?

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Speaker 16: Uh no yet, Yeah, no, sir, not yuh not at

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Speaker 16: But you know, just uh getting into my playbook right now,

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Speaker 4: What are in your.

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Speaker 16: I mean, just uh being a leader out here. You know,

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Speaker 16: just uh s sending high expectations for myself and you know,

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Speaker 4: Got of your first talk about your long arms? Yeah? First,

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Speaker 4: but do you think that's like a strength for you?

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Speaker 4: And how do you get that?

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Speaker 7: Uh?

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Speaker 16: I would say, yeah, it's you strength, but I mean

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Speaker 16: d linemen they're great. They have a lot of lower

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Speaker 10: Lower half of my body.

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Speaker 4: For sure. Thing you've always noticed myself.

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Speaker 16: Yeah he's great. Yeah, I definitely, Yeah, for sure. I

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Speaker 2: Did you have a favorite player?

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Speaker 16: Not really, I mean I just love the Browns in

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Speaker 18: So did you want happen to mention anything about the

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Speaker 18: fact that what happened to him on his first day

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Speaker 11: You camp last year? Did he share that with you?

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Speaker 10: Augh? Nah? Oh you have no, Nah, I don't. I

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Speaker 10: don't know. Yeah, I don't know what happened. I'll just

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Speaker 4: I got you, Ray, what what you know? Y? You're

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Speaker 4: Well w what is what is that transition?

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Speaker 7: Oh?

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Speaker 16: That's that's just like a burden off my shoulders. You know,

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Speaker 16: going to study all no more so, so you know,

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Speaker 10: You know, classroom's meetings and all that.

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Speaker 16: So I mean just getting out the uh, all the

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Speaker 6: Has it been overwhelming at all when you're you walk

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Speaker 16: Nah, nah, I It's it's not overwhelming. I mean I

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Speaker 16: holding me to a higher standing, and I hold myself

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Speaker 16: just happy to be out here, and you know, I

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Speaker 10: For sure.

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Speaker 18: Have they said anything and all whatsoever about your size?

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Speaker 18: Do they want to stay the exact same size that

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Speaker 16: Yeah, they haven't said anything about that, so yeah, I

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Speaker 16: mean I'm pretty sure they like me just the way

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Speaker 16: I am.

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Speaker 13: What kind of questions are you?

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Speaker 12: Are you asking the meetings maybe like they still the.

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Speaker 4: Anger room or yeah, give any of your coaches.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean just asking questions, you know.

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Speaker 16: I mean we haven't been around vets or anything like that,

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Speaker 16: but just coaches, Like what does it take to you

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Speaker 4: After your draft thing, one.

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Speaker 10: Brown games, uh yeah in my lifetime and you got

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Speaker 10: to see said.

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Speaker 4: You didn't have a favorite player and give a favor

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Speaker 10: Uh not really.

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Speaker 16: It's so many memories I don't have. It's not one

448
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Speaker 16: particular for sure.

449
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Speaker 4: What was he answer to that question?

450
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Speaker 3: What does it take to be a rookie the year?

451
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Speaker 10: Uh?

452
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Speaker 16: I mean it takes a lot of hard work and dedication.

453
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Speaker 16: You know, you gotta be the last uh last guy out,

454
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Speaker 16: first guy I am for sure. You gotta be early

455
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Speaker 16: the means and everything, and you just got to stay

456
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Speaker 16: after practice and be more eager. You gotta be a

457
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Speaker 16: student of the game, but just eager to learn more.

458
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Speaker 16: You know, never be satisfied, never be comfortable, always asking

459
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Speaker 16: more questions.

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Speaker 10: Uh, I mean no, it was coach Jock.

461
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Speaker 4: What do you what does is that a goal for you?

462
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Speaker 10: Yeah? Of course, I mean I feel like anybody has

463
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Speaker 10: that goal. You be fool not too in this business.

464
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Speaker 4: We have a met coach Shock. Yet what's he like?

465
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Speaker 13: Uh?

466
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Speaker 16: A great, great coach. You know, he's just v uh D,

467
00:18:05,840 --> 00:18:07,960
Speaker 16: very demanding, like Coach Schwartz. You know, we they hold

468
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Speaker 16: us to a high standard and a lot of expectations.

469
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Speaker 16: But you know what I'm saying, ultimately we gotta put

470
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Speaker 16: the work in ourselves. You know, they can't want it.

471
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Speaker 16: You know, they can only want it for us so much.

472
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Speaker 16: But you know, at the end of the day, it's

473
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Speaker 16: it's Mike Hall that has to come out here on

474
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Speaker 16: the field to make it uh happen.

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Speaker 4: When do you start about what do you try about Schwartz?

476
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Speaker 4: I like this week? How does he go about selling tones?

477
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Speaker 4: You guys?

478
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Speaker 16: Uh, Yeah, we haven't been around like Schwarts too too

479
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Speaker 16: too much, you know, and we hear him talk a

480
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Speaker 16: little bit and anything like that. But like I said before,

481
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Speaker 16: he's very demanding. And you know what I'm saying, he

482
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Speaker 16: means business. You know when whenever we're in the belding,

483
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Speaker 16: uh and whenever we're in the building, you know, gotta

484
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Speaker 16: pay attention and take notes and all that.

485
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Speaker 11: He had conversations with that shot. Does he set about

486
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Speaker 11: your kid? He really likes He wants you to just

487
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Speaker 11: show on the meals.

488
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Speaker 16: Yeah, just so, I mean, uh, just me in general.

489
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Speaker 16: I mean I was just say, just my get off

490
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Speaker 16: and my ability to take off the ball and anything

491
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Speaker 16: like that, and just my strength and my speed to

492
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Speaker 16: power and all that.

493
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Speaker 10: Like there's always a.

494
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Speaker 13: Lot said about it. Justine calls to the Yether.

495
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Speaker 4: Yeah, obviously you.

496
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Speaker 14: Haven't had a chance to get out there who were

497
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Speaker 14: an experience in the fielder, but where you anticipated maybe

498
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Speaker 14: he's been one of the biggest challenges.

499
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Speaker 10: In the justice metaphor.

500
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Speaker 16: Uh, I'm not really worried about the challenges or anything

501
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Speaker 16: like that. I mean, when I'm in the building, I'm

502
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Speaker 16: here to working on I don't worry about any fears

503
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Speaker 16: or anything like that. You know what I'm saying. Just

504
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Speaker 16: gotta focus on the main thing. Come out here and work.

505
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Speaker 16: As long as you have that mindset, you'd be good.

506
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Speaker 4: I know you've been rooi. You spend any time for

507
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Speaker 4: either better than guys, no, sir, no sir? Uh yeah,

508
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Speaker 4: a little bit.

509
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Speaker 16: I mean just get it like, uh a slight text

510
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Speaker 16: or anything like that, but nothing major.

511
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Speaker 1: After Hall spoke to the media, it was time to

512
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Speaker 1: hear from wide receiver and fifth round pick out of

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Speaker 1: Louisville Jamari Thrash.

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Speaker 5: I know it's it's still very early, but what's this

515
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Speaker 5: last week week and a half been like where you're

516
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Speaker 5: just adjusting from being a draft hopeful to a draft

517
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Speaker 5: picked to now in.

518
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Speaker 4: Real community field.

519
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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 10: I really just try to take everything a day at

521
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Speaker 10: a time.

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Speaker 4: To be honest with you.

523
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Speaker 16: Uh, we got here yesterday flight got laid twice, so, uh,

524
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Speaker 16: we're kind of late getting up here. But right now

525
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Speaker 16: I'm just taking the day at time. Tryna stay the playbook,

526
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Speaker 16: tryna make sure I stay in shape, and uh, just

527
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Speaker 16: you know, keep the ground, keep the ball rolling.

528
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Speaker 11: Knowing the role that they have in mind for.

529
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Speaker 18: You, with your ability to separate all the things that

530
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Speaker 18: you do so well from them. Are there certain NFL

531
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Speaker 18: receivers that you know, have you grabbed some film on you.

532
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Speaker 11: Know, Cold Easily or Julian Element or west wilk Welk

533
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Speaker 11: or anybody like that to sort of start to get

534
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Speaker 11: a feel for what they want.

535
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Speaker 10: Uh No, ma'am. Uh like I said, Like I say,

536
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Speaker 10: it was my first day out here, so we did

537
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Speaker 10: walk through.

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Speaker 16: Uh just seeing what's what uh coach, Uh, well, see

539
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Speaker 16: what coach does it in the offense. Just seeing what

540
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Speaker 16: he does in offense, Uh, knowing they camping Buffalo, seeing

541
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Speaker 16: what he did with those guys, and just really just

542
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Speaker 16: finding my role and just finding my fitting offense.

543
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Speaker 4: What have they told you to the expect that I use.

544
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Speaker 10: Uh I haven't told me anything.

545
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Speaker 6: Uh.

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Speaker 16: Right now, I'm just going to playing my roles, doing

547
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Speaker 16: everything day at a time. And uh just making play

548
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Speaker 16: one opportunity presents it.

549
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Speaker 9: So their personal guests talking about really liking your ability

550
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Speaker 9: to separate what allowed you to do then.

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Speaker 16: Uh just study film, Uh, being able knowing I'm going

552
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Speaker 16: who I'm going against, and just and take information each play.

553
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Speaker 4: Do you think that skill obviously that translated to Louisville.

554
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Speaker 4: Do you think it can translate to this level as well? Uh?

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Speaker 10: Most definitely Uh yeah, h yeah, yes, sir, I definitely do.

556
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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 4: Coach McGee, uh uh talkt of a week or so doular.

558
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Speaker 5: He he talked about you know, your your ability to

559
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Speaker 5: adjust to whatever you know, just willingness to do whatever

560
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Speaker 5: it it to.

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Speaker 4: Where does that?

562
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Speaker 5: I mean when did you kind of establish first and

563
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Speaker 5: establish that mindset that hey, whatever whatever the team needs

564
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Speaker 5: me to do, are I'm willing to do?

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Speaker 10: Uh? Pretty early?

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Speaker 16: Uh probably say you go back to my Georgia State days.

567
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Speaker 16: Uh knowing you know, when the opportunity come, like I said,

568
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Speaker 16: when the opportunity comes to present itself, you.

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Speaker 10: Know, just make the most of it.

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Speaker 16: And uh when I want to just brons offense, Uh

571
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Speaker 16: you know I was, I was just on one side

572
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Speaker 16: and Coach Browns often but when I went to your

573
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Speaker 16: single bowl. It just showing my versatility and showing that

574
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Speaker 16: I could play inside and outside. Uh, definitely helped me.

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Speaker 4: Did you know when you went to the little Ville

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Speaker 4: that you would be able to make that jump as

577
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Speaker 4: seamlessly as you did?

578
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Speaker 2: Uh?

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Speaker 10: Sort of? Could it?

580
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Speaker 16: Cause when I got in a portal, when I got

581
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Speaker 16: a transfer portal, I just did a lot of lot

582
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Speaker 16: of research and just seeing what Brown did with Charlie

583
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Speaker 16: Jones and knowing I played the same position as Charlie Jones.

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Speaker 10: You know, it made a lot of sense to me.

585
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Speaker 10: So I guess you could say that, well.

586
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Speaker 9: The ability to go from further states a Littleville and

587
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Speaker 9: have success, does that give you a lot of confidence

588
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Speaker 9: coming at this to this level that you can make

589
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Speaker 9: the same.

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Speaker 4: Type of jump.

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Speaker 18: Uh?

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Speaker 2: I haven't.

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Speaker 10: I haven't ever thought about that. Uh well yeah, I

594
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Speaker 10: probably say, yes, sir.

595
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Speaker 2: Have you been introduced to the special teams couch here yet?

596
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Speaker 10: Yes, sir, I just did a couple gun or drills.

597
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Speaker 4: Okay, so that's what he's gotta get started out out.

598
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Speaker 4: How is it the end didn't return up?

599
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Speaker 10: I can't I can't answer that. I don't know why.

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Speaker 4: I still had a good return.

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Speaker 16: Yeah, uh like sometime you know, coaches my already had

602
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Speaker 16: the guys that they won't back there.

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Speaker 11: How about any of the current Bronze receivers. Have you

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Speaker 11: heard from any of those guys? Have they reached out

605
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Speaker 11: to you?

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Speaker 19: Uh?

607
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Speaker 16: I talked to James, to James Prochet, Uh, I talked

608
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Speaker 16: to Mike Woods. I haven't talked to anybody else. I

609
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Speaker 16: just talked to those two guys.

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Speaker 4: Looking for that kind of learning another.

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Speaker 16: Are Yeah, most definitely. Uh Hopefully you know when I

612
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Speaker 16: getting the wrong with those guys, uh him, Judy, Elijah Moore,

613
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Speaker 16: I'll be able to dis sect, you know, and learn

614
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Speaker 16: different things from those guys, different techniques and different uh s,

615
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Speaker 16: different strategies when it come to, you know, playing football.

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Speaker 13: How tough is it going to be cracking that group

617
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Speaker 13: to to get something?

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Speaker 16: I mean, they're they're all great players. Like I said,

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Speaker 16: you know, I'm a type of guy. You know, I

620
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Speaker 16: don't mind waiting my turn. You know, I don't mind

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Speaker 16: playing my role. So whatever the coach need to do whatever,

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Speaker 16: those guys even don't willing to do it.

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Speaker 4: Why do you think you didn't have any hoorrified off?

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Speaker 10: I don't know.

625
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Speaker 4: I don't know.

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Speaker 10: Uh, I mean, like I said, always, I always feel

627
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Speaker 10: like I produced, you know, good numbers, but uh they

628
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Speaker 10: I don't know.

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Speaker 4: I don't know if I can't say, is that really

630
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Speaker 4: frustrating for you back then?

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Speaker 10: Uh?

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Speaker 3: Sort of.

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Speaker 16: But at the same time, I know God got me

634
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Speaker 16: and so you know, just taking my time and my head.

635
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Speaker 16: Coach I always told me though, don't it's not don't

636
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Speaker 16: be afraid to be a big fish in a small pond.

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Speaker 16: So that stuff that always stuck to me too. And so,

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Speaker 16: like I said, my opportunity came, I just made the

639
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Speaker 16: most of it.

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Speaker 4: You feel like the fact that you're here kind of

641
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Speaker 4: proved everybody wrong.

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Speaker 16: Uh, I still got a long way to go. I

643
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Speaker 16: still got a long way to go. But uh, like

644
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Speaker 16: my m job's not finished yet. So yeah, I still

645
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Speaker 16: take time to you know, learn and distick stuff. And

646
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Speaker 16: different players did ja mar.

647
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Speaker 20: Throughout the pre draft process, there's lots about your route

648
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Speaker 20: running the how much pride do you to or more so,

649
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Speaker 20: how much of a strainth is that when you were

650
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Speaker 20: in off of the comments just about getting a chance

651
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Speaker 20: to pick a friends and Mark Coop did your dun

652
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Speaker 20: You guys want to.

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Speaker 6: Sort of pride themselves on the outside or you kind

654
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Speaker 6: of learn even.

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Speaker 14: More techniques and die from them.

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Speaker 16: I'm really excited, uh, like just being I think just

657
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Speaker 16: being in that room, it just speaks a lot of volume.

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Speaker 16: Excelf UH got guy like like Mark Cooper, UH coach

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Speaker 16: Uh coach o'she you know he did a good job

660
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Speaker 16: of today is just showing a lot of film over

661
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Speaker 16: Mark Cooper showing out, you know, how well he wins

662
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Speaker 16: versus slants and his route running. So like, I'm just

663
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Speaker 16: really excited just to be in a room with those

664
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Speaker 16: guys and just learn from them.

665
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Speaker 10: School Was it like that look like for you, ma'am?

666
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Speaker 4: What does versatility look like?

667
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Speaker 10: Being able to do whatever my coach need me to do?

668
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Speaker 10: Playing inside? Outside?

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Speaker 16: Was that's running running down, being a gun or on

670
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Speaker 16: special team and a part return, you know, whatever they

671
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Speaker 16: want me to do?

672
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Speaker 4: School boys?

673
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Speaker 5: What what is it?

674
00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:05,159
Speaker 3: Maybe you feel like, you know, I still need to

675
00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:06,960
Speaker 3: work on this. This is this is an aspect it

676
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Speaker 3: might game.

677
00:25:07,359 --> 00:25:10,639
Speaker 5: I'm I don't feel comfortable enough with where I'm at.

678
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Speaker 19: Uh.

679
00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:12,240
Speaker 10: Definitely my contested catchers.

680
00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:14,159
Speaker 16: I think that was something that I struggle with, uh

681
00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:16,280
Speaker 16: in my Georgia State days and at my time at Louisville.

682
00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:20,120
Speaker 11: Is there a receiver in the NFL that you most

683
00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:22,159
Speaker 11: closely identified with in terms of.

684
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Speaker 10: A con Uh? No, ma'am, No, no, ma'am serious.

685
00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:27,040
Speaker 16: I watch a lot of film on guys like I

686
00:25:27,119 --> 00:25:31,080
Speaker 16: watch a lot of uh Davonte Adam Davonte Smith. Uh,

687
00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:33,399
Speaker 16: Jamaar Chase is probably one of my favorite receivers. But

688
00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:35,680
Speaker 16: I don't really just try to idalyze my game after

689
00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:37,440
Speaker 16: those guys. I just try to, you know, beat me.

690
00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:42,000
Speaker 14: You talk about uh adjusting from the lower level of

691
00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:45,239
Speaker 14: culture ball to like, you know, the Power five. Now

692
00:25:45,280 --> 00:25:47,520
Speaker 14: you're making another adjustment to the NFL. Just I know

693
00:25:47,560 --> 00:25:49,399
Speaker 14: you ever been out there to really experience it?

694
00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:51,480
Speaker 20: You but what are you anticipating maybe or some of

695
00:25:51,480 --> 00:25:52,359
Speaker 20: the biggest adjustments you.

696
00:25:52,320 --> 00:25:53,080
Speaker 21: Have to make at this ball?

697
00:25:53,359 --> 00:25:53,479
Speaker 2: Uh?

698
00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:58,159
Speaker 16: Definitely playbook, Uh, playbooks. Understanding my assignment and my alignments. Uh,

699
00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:00,879
Speaker 16: Like like playing in the NFL, the hashes, you know,

700
00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:02,440
Speaker 16: they're a lot closer, you got a more feel to

701
00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:05,160
Speaker 16: play with. So just understanding the alignments and assignments.

702
00:26:07,080 --> 00:26:07,280
Speaker 7: Good.

703
00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:09,800
Speaker 10: Thank you, I thank you.

704
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Speaker 1: I think one of our two seventh round picks, defensive

705
00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:16,600
Speaker 1: tackle Juwan Briggs out of Cincinnati has an amazing story

706
00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:20,240
Speaker 1: to tell. The father of three talks about his journey

707
00:26:20,520 --> 00:26:24,000
Speaker 1: growing up in Cincy, playing at Virginia, then finishing his

708
00:26:24,119 --> 00:26:26,640
Speaker 1: college career back home with the Bearcats.

709
00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:28,000
Speaker 13: John, what's just the.

710
00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:30,720
Speaker 9: Emotional ride beIN Lake from getting the call a couple

711
00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:32,760
Speaker 9: of weeks ago to now being here for the first time.

712
00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:36,320
Speaker 21: I've been on emotional high ever since, so you know,

713
00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:38,359
Speaker 21: it was always a building up to this point and

714
00:26:39,119 --> 00:26:41,000
Speaker 21: just making sure that I could, you know, put myself

715
00:26:41,040 --> 00:26:43,119
Speaker 21: in a position to hear my name called. So now

716
00:26:43,119 --> 00:26:45,280
Speaker 21: I'm riding high on those emotions and ready to attack

717
00:26:45,359 --> 00:26:46,600
Speaker 21: camp with that same energy.

718
00:26:46,760 --> 00:26:47,560
Speaker 13: As Saturday went on?

719
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Speaker 4: Did you think you were going to get drafted?

720
00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:52,359
Speaker 21: I always approached it with, you know, the worst expectation,

721
00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:55,040
Speaker 21: and then if you hear something great, just think of

722
00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:57,840
Speaker 21: it as a hell of a blessing. So that's how

723
00:26:57,880 --> 00:26:59,600
Speaker 21: I looked at it. You know, I wanted to make

724
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Speaker 21: sure I have things in line. You know, I have

725
00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:03,040
Speaker 21: my family, so you know, I'm not just thinking of

726
00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:04,840
Speaker 21: things on a whim. So I want to make sure

727
00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:07,440
Speaker 21: I had things aligne to plan in place, and I

728
00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:09,280
Speaker 21: just got blessed enough to hear my name called. So

729
00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:10,919
Speaker 21: I gotta make the most of them.

730
00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:13,399
Speaker 13: What's the short version of leaving Virginia coming back to

731
00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:14,080
Speaker 13: your hometown?

732
00:27:14,119 --> 00:27:15,359
Speaker 4: Why did that go about him?

733
00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:16,320
Speaker 13: Why was that important?

734
00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:19,960
Speaker 21: Yeah, So what happened was I was like six games in,

735
00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:23,120
Speaker 21: doing well, already had three sacks, twenty tackles, feeling pretty

736
00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:26,359
Speaker 21: good as a nose tackle. But my wife had gotten

737
00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:30,120
Speaker 21: pregnant with my son. So you know, the stipend wasn't

738
00:27:30,359 --> 00:27:33,160
Speaker 21: wasn't what it was now back then, So the stipend

739
00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:35,760
Speaker 21: one there, nil wasn't there. So I figured we weren't

740
00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:38,960
Speaker 21: gonna be able to support a child on what I

741
00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:41,880
Speaker 21: was getting there. So, you know, we had a couple

742
00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:44,520
Speaker 21: of choices. She's from Philly, I'm from Cincinnati, so it's

743
00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:47,320
Speaker 21: either go you Penn or go Temple, or I can

744
00:27:47,359 --> 00:27:50,400
Speaker 21: go to University of Cincinnati. Both her parents worked, only

745
00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:52,600
Speaker 21: my dad worked, so I figured we'd get more help

746
00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:54,720
Speaker 21: at home. You know, I was able to get back home.

747
00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:57,280
Speaker 21: I actually picked up a couple of jobs, and you know,

748
00:27:57,320 --> 00:27:58,440
Speaker 21: I was able to make the most of it.

749
00:27:58,560 --> 00:27:59,359
Speaker 4: What were those jobs.

750
00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:02,280
Speaker 21: I was manager at a chicken spot called Chicken Comb.

751
00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:05,440
Speaker 21: Pretty much just you make ice cream cone, put chopped

752
00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:07,639
Speaker 21: up chicken and it's the wildest thing, but people loved it.

753
00:28:07,840 --> 00:28:08,960
Speaker 3: How long did you do that?

754
00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:12,600
Speaker 21: It was during the off season, so pretty much during

755
00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:14,520
Speaker 21: the summer and into the winter.

756
00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:17,920
Speaker 13: I would work there. And my manager Kenny, great guy.

757
00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:20,080
Speaker 21: I mean, to this day, he is a great dude

758
00:28:20,119 --> 00:28:21,879
Speaker 21: for letting me do that, and you know, just let

759
00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:23,960
Speaker 21: him teach me how to do all that and pretty

760
00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:25,800
Speaker 21: much let me provide for my family and.

761
00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:27,840
Speaker 13: My people do that. So it's pretty nice.

762
00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:28,960
Speaker 3: Tough.

763
00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:30,080
Speaker 13: Oh yeah, yeah.

764
00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:32,480
Speaker 21: So I'm waking up early, getting to practice early, about

765
00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:37,160
Speaker 21: six after six. You go practice lyft pretty much until

766
00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:41,520
Speaker 21: about maybe three four five, you know, if it's a

767
00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:43,800
Speaker 21: d season there or if it's a spring ball day,

768
00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:46,560
Speaker 21: you're going to five six o'clock. After five six o'clock,

769
00:28:46,560 --> 00:28:48,720
Speaker 21: I'm heading right up thirty minute drive to Blue Ash

770
00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:51,680
Speaker 21: down there and uh, closing up shop and you know,

771
00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:54,000
Speaker 21: working until about you know, home about ten, ten thirty

772
00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:57,240
Speaker 21: and make dinner and breakfast, make breakfast and dinner.

773
00:28:57,120 --> 00:28:59,960
Speaker 13: For the next day, and you know, wash rooms, repete.

774
00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:04,000
Speaker 10: You know.

775
00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:07,080
Speaker 21: As as as much as I can say that that

776
00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:10,240
Speaker 21: stuff smelled delicious, I probably could not eat eat any

777
00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:10,920
Speaker 21: of that anymore.

778
00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:13,960
Speaker 4: Reading about you Johanna.

779
00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:16,080
Speaker 8: Mean, it just seems like talking about your family now,

780
00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:16,600
Speaker 8: but that's.

781
00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:17,280
Speaker 4: A big part of yours.

782
00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:19,000
Speaker 8: Can you just talk about how you met your life

783
00:29:19,080 --> 00:29:20,600
Speaker 8: or your kids and all that.

784
00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:22,680
Speaker 21: Yeah, So as soon as we touched down at UVA,

785
00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:25,600
Speaker 21: we met. So I got there I think June sixth,

786
00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:28,240
Speaker 21: right after my state track meet. She got there early

787
00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:32,080
Speaker 21: as like a transition program. So literally the first day

788
00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:34,160
Speaker 21: we got there was there was a campfire at our dorm,

789
00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:37,280
Speaker 21: met her soar then then it was kind of petered

790
00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:39,200
Speaker 21: off a little bit, but then it ran back up,

791
00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:41,200
Speaker 21: and you know, it kind of got there into the

792
00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:44,400
Speaker 21: second year in the season my son popped out, so

793
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:47,479
Speaker 21: I was like, well, you know, time to grow up.

794
00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:50,640
Speaker 21: And you know, after that, we uh convened together made

795
00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:53,600
Speaker 21: a pros and CON's list of staying versus leaving. So

796
00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:56,600
Speaker 21: we decided that would be best to leave. Left when

797
00:29:56,680 --> 00:29:59,360
Speaker 21: Cincinnati and then you know, I figured it would only

798
00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:02,400
Speaker 21: be right and well, hey, you already are having my son,

799
00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:05,160
Speaker 21: let's get married. So that's kind of how things fell

800
00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:08,120
Speaker 21: into place and where I mean, we've just been killing

801
00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:08,680
Speaker 21: it since then.

802
00:30:10,040 --> 00:30:13,400
Speaker 4: I just how much of a sense of urgency trying

803
00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:13,840
Speaker 4: to get.

804
00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:14,560
Speaker 22: To this spot right now.

805
00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:16,400
Speaker 21: I mean it's been a it's been a heck of one.

806
00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:19,640
Speaker 21: I mean, just really understanding how to manage time, even

807
00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:22,040
Speaker 21: in the sense of, you know, just with a kid,

808
00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:24,600
Speaker 21: let alone being having a wife and somebody else in

809
00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:27,560
Speaker 21: your house. Just understand the importance of time, you know.

810
00:30:27,760 --> 00:30:31,280
Speaker 21: So it's definitely been slapping me on the behind, trying

811
00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:32,920
Speaker 21: to have me really be urgent on things.

812
00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:35,880
Speaker 4: What were the kids reactionally where you got that call.

813
00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:39,440
Speaker 19: And told I would love to say that they were,

814
00:30:39,560 --> 00:30:43,240
Speaker 19: you know, daddy, daddy, but uh, my kids are my kids.

815
00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:45,320
Speaker 21: You know, they like to do what they like to do.

816
00:30:45,840 --> 00:30:48,800
Speaker 21: So I'm freaking wrangling them. They're running around acting crazy,

817
00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:51,080
Speaker 21: mind you, They're they go to bed at seven thirty promptly.

818
00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:53,880
Speaker 21: So they're running around, you know, my daughter and son wrestling.

819
00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:56,200
Speaker 21: So I'm pulling them apart, and you know, I get

820
00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:58,800
Speaker 21: that call on my phone, all right if I siting

821
00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:01,240
Speaker 21: that my wife's holding my youngest son and trying to

822
00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:04,520
Speaker 21: hold them back at the same time. So so it

823
00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:05,840
Speaker 21: was it was a lot of It was a lot

824
00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:06,440
Speaker 21: of fun that night.

825
00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:09,000
Speaker 13: And they in their names, please.

826
00:31:09,280 --> 00:31:13,960
Speaker 21: So juwan my oldest son is three, Wren my daughter,

827
00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:16,920
Speaker 21: she'll be two in July, and then Zane, my youngest

828
00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:17,600
Speaker 21: is eight months.

829
00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:20,360
Speaker 8: I mean, it just seems like you have so many

830
00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:22,160
Speaker 8: exploits as a field, which I'm sure we're gonna want

831
00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:23,440
Speaker 8: to get to you, but I know you're on like

832
00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:26,640
Speaker 8: Bruce Fellman's Freaks list last year going into that, I mean,

833
00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:27,240
Speaker 8: what did that mean.

834
00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:27,720
Speaker 13: To make that list?

835
00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:30,120
Speaker 8: It's kind of widely talked about, at least amongst us,

836
00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:33,120
Speaker 8: and just talk about your your training and lifting and

837
00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:35,680
Speaker 8: conditioning and all that stuff. How much it's it's helped

838
00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:36,840
Speaker 8: you fans to this point.

839
00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:37,320
Speaker 9: Yeah.

840
00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:40,360
Speaker 21: So for me, I'm big on especially when I was younger,

841
00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:43,000
Speaker 21: I was big on being really eclectic. And you can

842
00:31:43,080 --> 00:31:45,160
Speaker 21: be eclectic but be you know, bad at a lot

843
00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:47,840
Speaker 21: of stuff. So my thing was be eclectic and fine

844
00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:51,320
Speaker 21: what you're really really really good at. I was good at,

845
00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:53,120
Speaker 21: you know, singing, I was good at academics. I was

846
00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:54,840
Speaker 21: good at football, I was good at track and field,

847
00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:57,520
Speaker 21: and I was good at loving all my family and working.

848
00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:00,800
Speaker 21: So I took those basically five six things and then

849
00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:03,000
Speaker 21: just put my all into it. You know, I love

850
00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:06,000
Speaker 21: working out, even from high school and into college, you know,

851
00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:09,920
Speaker 21: getting getting more workouts and extra workouts. I love nutrition,

852
00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:12,360
Speaker 21: so just taking care of my body, making sure that

853
00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:14,600
Speaker 21: you know, I look the way I should move, and

854
00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:17,320
Speaker 21: I move the way I should look. So just making

855
00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:19,680
Speaker 21: sure I have that and you know, family of course,

856
00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:21,440
Speaker 21: just making sure I have time for them as well.

857
00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:25,320
Speaker 21: Football man, I could talk about football for hours, whether

858
00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:27,520
Speaker 21: it be watching film. I mean I don't play video

859
00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:30,040
Speaker 21: games or anything, so whether it be standing up late

860
00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:33,040
Speaker 21: watching film, my son, drawing up stuff on the board,

861
00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:35,040
Speaker 21: or you know, even just getting now walking through and

862
00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:37,760
Speaker 21: doing a couple of club rips on something. So it

863
00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:40,800
Speaker 21: was really just a matter of trying to put my

864
00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:43,200
Speaker 21: all into those five to six things that I really

865
00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:45,320
Speaker 21: decided to do. And that's pretty much what I'm doing

866
00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:45,680
Speaker 21: now too.

867
00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:50,240
Speaker 6: How does your you know your family and just you

868
00:32:50,320 --> 00:32:55,440
Speaker 6: know what your experience can inform your expectations and your

869
00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:56,600
Speaker 6: drive coming.

870
00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:57,480
Speaker 13: In here as a booking.

871
00:32:58,040 --> 00:33:00,760
Speaker 21: I mean, I think it's everything everybody or why, but

872
00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:03,440
Speaker 21: you know, it's a big thing to have your why,

873
00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:05,120
Speaker 21: and it's a real big thing to love. It's a

874
00:33:05,120 --> 00:33:07,400
Speaker 21: really big thing to love football. But it's a little

875
00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:09,440
Speaker 21: bit different when you have somebody else depending on you,

876
00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:12,080
Speaker 21: and I got four people depending on me immediately so

877
00:33:12,840 --> 00:33:15,040
Speaker 21: that kind of ams up the urgency to the things,

878
00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:17,200
Speaker 21: and uh it just really makes me take advantage of

879
00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:19,760
Speaker 21: every single second out there. You were receiving calls when

880
00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:23,400
Speaker 21: you were agent in in the last round about undrafted offers.

881
00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:26,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, the the ability to.

882
00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:28,680
Speaker 13: Choose your own team than you know, to you or

883
00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:29,480
Speaker 13: would you rather.

884
00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:30,320
Speaker 4: Have better free agency?

885
00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:33,920
Speaker 21: I think everybody's end goal is to get drafted. You know,

886
00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:37,240
Speaker 21: I'd love being Cleveland Brown, so I'll shoot I think

887
00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:40,880
Speaker 21: obviously I walked into it with the expectation of, you know,

888
00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:43,560
Speaker 21: don't expect anything, and then be proud of a blessing

889
00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:47,120
Speaker 21: that you could received. And uh so after that, I mean, no,

890
00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:49,400
Speaker 21: I wasn't you know, I wasn't looking at I wasn't

891
00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:51,880
Speaker 21: really saying, oh, yeah, you know, I'm just gonna forego

892
00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:52,520
Speaker 21: the last.

893
00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:53,840
Speaker 10: Round and be undrafted.

894
00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:56,400
Speaker 21: That's never, ever, ever been a thought process. I think

895
00:33:56,640 --> 00:33:59,640
Speaker 21: hearing my name called is something that my family will relish.

896
00:33:59,720 --> 00:34:02,120
Speaker 13: And to this day, how many teams do you know

897
00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:02,960
Speaker 13: We're interesting?

898
00:34:03,360 --> 00:34:04,840
Speaker 21: It was a it was a bunch of them, you know,

899
00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:07,680
Speaker 21: I don't really know exactly. You know, everything was happening

900
00:34:07,760 --> 00:34:09,960
Speaker 21: so fast. My son Juan was taking my phone and

901
00:34:10,040 --> 00:34:12,440
Speaker 21: my daughter was grabbed biting at my ankles, so you

902
00:34:12,520 --> 00:34:13,719
Speaker 21: know it was it was a lot going on.

903
00:34:14,360 --> 00:34:16,760
Speaker 13: What is harder wrangling three kids or forty two reps

904
00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:19,480
Speaker 13: on the bench press? You know, I'll tell you what.

905
00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:22,240
Speaker 21: Forty two reps on the bench press actually felt serene

906
00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:24,759
Speaker 21: compared to what those kids put me through on a

907
00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:27,560
Speaker 21: nightly basis. But you know that's why you know, my

908
00:34:27,640 --> 00:34:30,279
Speaker 21: wife's a superstar. She's actually wrangling them all right now.

909
00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:37,319
Speaker 21: So yes, so, yeah, see, you hope to be here,

910
00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:39,080
Speaker 21: but as a seventh rounder, you're not guaranteed.

911
00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:40,480
Speaker 4: So is the family moving up right away?

912
00:34:40,560 --> 00:34:40,600
Speaker 6: Like?

913
00:34:40,640 --> 00:34:41,480
Speaker 4: How are you handling?

914
00:34:41,719 --> 00:34:43,520
Speaker 21: No matter what, I keep my family with me, So

915
00:34:43,719 --> 00:34:46,360
Speaker 21: I'm actually going to look in and figuring out and

916
00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:48,640
Speaker 21: getting a place, and I you know, my goal is

917
00:34:48,719 --> 00:34:51,320
Speaker 21: to outwork and pretty much just put my best foot forward.

918
00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:54,160
Speaker 21: And you know, all you can do is control the controllabulls.

919
00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:56,640
Speaker 21: You know, you could just be responsible for yourself. But

920
00:34:57,360 --> 00:35:00,520
Speaker 21: in saying that, family is one of my big things.

921
00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:02,920
Speaker 21: So I'm keeping my family with me all throughout this process.

922
00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:05,120
Speaker 21: If I gotta break a lease, i gotta sign a

923
00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:07,080
Speaker 21: new one, doesn't really matter to me as long as

924
00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:09,359
Speaker 21: my family's with me, and you know, just really being

925
00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:10,879
Speaker 21: able to go home and look at that why every

926
00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:11,920
Speaker 21: time it's something big for me.

927
00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:14,640
Speaker 12: Now one hear what excites you the most about the

928
00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:15,960
Speaker 12: Cleveland Browns.

929
00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:16,640
Speaker 3: And just being in this city.

930
00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:19,640
Speaker 21: Ah, I mean it's big for me coming from coach

931
00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:23,759
Speaker 21: Schwartz and coach Jacques and coach JT. Is just really

932
00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:28,080
Speaker 21: big for me coming from a freaking lateral passive type

933
00:35:28,360 --> 00:35:30,520
Speaker 21: defense to be able to really just pin my ears

934
00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:32,759
Speaker 21: back and go. I've never really had the chance. You know,

935
00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:34,200
Speaker 21: a lot of guys will say, oh, well he did

936
00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:36,719
Speaker 21: forty two reps and he squats X y Z. Well

937
00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:38,360
Speaker 21: why is he on the line all the time, or

938
00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:41,160
Speaker 21: why is he you know, playing ladder or whatever, And

939
00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:43,680
Speaker 21: a lot of people don't understand that. You know, if

940
00:35:43,719 --> 00:35:46,080
Speaker 21: you're a well coached player, you do what the scheme dictates,

941
00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:47,920
Speaker 21: and that's what I like to do to help my

942
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:50,720
Speaker 21: team win and help my team be great. But finally,

943
00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:52,480
Speaker 21: you know, I get a chance to kind of play

944
00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:54,359
Speaker 21: it what I think would be my strengths, and that's

945
00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:56,600
Speaker 21: just attacking a guy in front of me and just

946
00:35:56,680 --> 00:35:59,000
Speaker 21: really getting the feel and you know, letting my strength play.

947
00:35:58,880 --> 00:36:00,759
Speaker 4: Aspart what world is iss you playing?

948
00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:02,200
Speaker 3: And they change it?

949
00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:03,399
Speaker 4: Yeah.

950
00:36:03,520 --> 00:36:06,600
Speaker 21: So I started off playing from really a true like

951
00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:10,280
Speaker 21: reading nose zero to pretty much like two IY sometimes

952
00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:13,120
Speaker 21: the three tech and pass thrnarios. Then that next year

953
00:36:13,120 --> 00:36:15,359
Speaker 21: at Virginia all the way up and down the line,

954
00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:17,560
Speaker 21: so we did a lot of read front four IYE

955
00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:19,879
Speaker 21: four tech, a little bit of five tech and pass

956
00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:24,520
Speaker 21: scenarios zero as well. My next year Cincy UH five tech,

957
00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:27,320
Speaker 21: true five tech and pass situations. I screwed down and

958
00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:30,239
Speaker 21: be a three uh the next year, but beefed up

959
00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:32,680
Speaker 21: a little bit. Was a true read nose zero tech

960
00:36:32,719 --> 00:36:35,439
Speaker 21: two gaping guy mind you just so all the line.

961
00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:38,320
Speaker 21: So the year after that, this uh past year, I

962
00:36:38,440 --> 00:36:41,040
Speaker 21: was a pretty much a five technique. Sometimes I'll be

963
00:36:41,080 --> 00:36:44,280
Speaker 21: standing up, sometimes I'll be dropping back in coverage. Sometimes

964
00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:46,279
Speaker 21: i'd be a little four eye, you know, attacking that

965
00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:49,520
Speaker 21: guard's shoulder. But you know, I just I just can't

966
00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:51,400
Speaker 21: tell you how refreshing it is to just be able to,

967
00:36:51,719 --> 00:36:53,560
Speaker 21: you know, pin your ears back and attack a guy

968
00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:56,600
Speaker 21: as opposed to doing this taking the lateral step first.

969
00:36:57,000 --> 00:36:58,600
Speaker 4: So sore a three technique year.

970
00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:03,360
Speaker 13: Yeah, Interior, so you had a man attacking Steve.

971
00:37:03,520 --> 00:37:05,880
Speaker 4: You think you showed en up like film. Obviously you

972
00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:08,239
Speaker 4: did that. The Browns saw the qualities they were looking for.

973
00:37:08,560 --> 00:37:09,320
Speaker 13: Yes, sir, I think so.

974
00:37:09,480 --> 00:37:12,080
Speaker 21: And I think a big thing for me was just

975
00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:14,520
Speaker 21: being able to attack the can't like the bull circuit

976
00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:16,839
Speaker 21: after uh least my last game. I mean, we didn't

977
00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:19,120
Speaker 21: get a bowl game, so you know, being able to

978
00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:22,000
Speaker 21: go to the Hula, you know, thankful for them to

979
00:37:22,160 --> 00:37:25,120
Speaker 21: for invite me to that. Then after the Hula I

980
00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:27,759
Speaker 21: earned it invite to the Shrine. Thank for that as well.

981
00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:30,080
Speaker 21: And just being able to just really attack those guys

982
00:37:30,120 --> 00:37:31,880
Speaker 21: and beat up on those old linemen. It's something that

983
00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:34,120
Speaker 21: has brought me to this point. I mean, doing all

984
00:37:34,160 --> 00:37:36,240
Speaker 21: that during the pro day is great too, but actually

985
00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:38,439
Speaker 21: being able to see a guy go against top tier

986
00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:40,759
Speaker 21: old lineman is something that will, you know, make your

987
00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:41,640
Speaker 21: case a little bit better.

988
00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:41,880
Speaker 10: I think.

989
00:37:42,040 --> 00:37:44,480
Speaker 13: Did you know anything about the Browns before you were

990
00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:46,120
Speaker 13: drafted here? Yes, sir, so.

991
00:37:46,239 --> 00:37:49,200
Speaker 21: My dad's from Detroit, my mom's from uh Springfield, so

992
00:37:49,719 --> 00:37:52,000
Speaker 21: we've pretty much been around the whole Midwest area all

993
00:37:52,040 --> 00:37:55,319
Speaker 21: the time. And you know, yeah, I know I've known

994
00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:57,080
Speaker 21: a lot, but I've known a good amount about the

995
00:37:57,120 --> 00:38:02,279
Speaker 21: ground play. Hey, if they would have if they would

996
00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:03,680
Speaker 21: have had me, I would have gladly. I would have

997
00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:04,960
Speaker 21: con been down there. I think it was like a

998
00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:07,080
Speaker 21: two day discrepancy. I would have gladly opped on a

999
00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:09,360
Speaker 21: flight and went down there. A lot of guys like

1000
00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:11,560
Speaker 21: to opt out of the games. I'm a big proponent

1001
00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:13,120
Speaker 21: of if you want as much tape as you can get,

1002
00:38:13,520 --> 00:38:15,239
Speaker 21: So I would have gladly went down there and done that.

1003
00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:17,279
Speaker 21: But I didn't get invite, So I made the most

1004
00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:18,040
Speaker 21: of my opportunities.

1005
00:38:18,160 --> 00:38:19,799
Speaker 3: You can ever mentioned knowing what you like and once

1006
00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:21,120
Speaker 3: you're good at then you said music.

1007
00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:22,600
Speaker 4: Can you tell us about your relationship with that?

1008
00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:25,280
Speaker 21: Yeah, So music has been a big thing in my family.

1009
00:38:25,920 --> 00:38:28,160
Speaker 21: My mother and father and pretty much everyone on their

1010
00:38:28,239 --> 00:38:30,680
Speaker 21: side have all grown up with music and their families

1011
00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:33,560
Speaker 21: and singing in church, even singing there in concerts, and

1012
00:38:33,680 --> 00:38:37,360
Speaker 21: singing and playing and orchestras during you know, school. I

1013
00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:40,000
Speaker 21: had four older sisters. All of them were musically inclined

1014
00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:42,120
Speaker 21: a little more so than me, i'd say, but they

1015
00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:45,520
Speaker 21: all did different things. So that plays back into me

1016
00:38:45,640 --> 00:38:47,520
Speaker 21: saying I like to be eclectic. I decided to look

1017
00:38:47,560 --> 00:38:49,400
Speaker 21: at all of them and try to do everything. So

1018
00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:53,239
Speaker 21: my you know, my oldest sisters vocalists, but then they

1019
00:38:53,280 --> 00:38:55,920
Speaker 21: were also good at the piano and percussion. Second or

1020
00:38:56,040 --> 00:38:58,759
Speaker 21: third oldest sister, she was a violinist.

1021
00:38:58,920 --> 00:38:59,400
Speaker 4: Pretty much.

1022
00:38:59,640 --> 00:39:02,520
Speaker 21: She was at the violin and also a great vocalist.

1023
00:39:02,560 --> 00:39:04,320
Speaker 21: She's actually she actually does a lot of shows in

1024
00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:04,960
Speaker 21: Kansas City.

1025
00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:05,160
Speaker 14: Now.

1026
00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:08,200
Speaker 21: My third older sister is a vocalist, plays the piano.

1027
00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:10,800
Speaker 21: She played the clarinet all the time. So for me,

1028
00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:13,600
Speaker 21: you know, I just wanted to try to do everything

1029
00:39:13,680 --> 00:39:16,200
Speaker 21: they did. So, you know, I fooled around on the piano.

1030
00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:19,080
Speaker 21: I have a saxophone at home. There's a flute flating around,

1031
00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:22,160
Speaker 21: you know, there's I had bass guitars, electric guitar. My

1032
00:39:22,239 --> 00:39:25,080
Speaker 21: son broke my electric guitar I don't have. He actually

1033
00:39:25,160 --> 00:39:27,160
Speaker 21: broke it in half, so I gotta get a new one.

1034
00:39:28,640 --> 00:39:30,400
Speaker 21: I had an acoustic guitar. Gave it away to a

1035
00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:34,120
Speaker 21: friend a uva as like keepsake. But yeah, just making

1036
00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:36,480
Speaker 21: sure that I kind of keep that around. I like,

1037
00:39:36,560 --> 00:39:38,560
Speaker 21: I like my kids to be able to pass that

1038
00:39:38,719 --> 00:39:40,480
Speaker 21: down as well. So I think it's important.

1039
00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:42,480
Speaker 4: You weren't like playing at halftime in high school.

1040
00:39:42,280 --> 00:39:44,560
Speaker 13: Or anything, Oh at halftime, No, but I was.

1041
00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:45,239
Speaker 4: But I was.

1042
00:39:45,440 --> 00:39:47,920
Speaker 21: I've sung in multiple different uh you know, singing for

1043
00:39:48,040 --> 00:39:49,960
Speaker 21: national anthem singing at I had a lot of different

1044
00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:53,120
Speaker 21: solos at different concerts. Even going into college, I had

1045
00:39:53,120 --> 00:39:55,200
Speaker 21: a lot of different solos. A couple of different solos

1046
00:39:55,200 --> 00:39:57,600
Speaker 21: at UVLS and a couple of different courses there. I

1047
00:39:57,719 --> 00:40:00,040
Speaker 21: went on tour in London to sing with the a

1048
00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:02,920
Speaker 21: capella group at UVA as well called the Hullaba Who's

1049
00:40:03,160 --> 00:40:06,279
Speaker 21: great time, great guys. Once I got to UC they

1050
00:40:06,360 --> 00:40:09,920
Speaker 21: actually have a pretty well acclaimed music program called CCM.

1051
00:40:10,520 --> 00:40:12,879
Speaker 21: So I sang through there and all their courses until

1052
00:40:12,880 --> 00:40:15,279
Speaker 21: I graduated. Then this last year is pretty much just

1053
00:40:15,440 --> 00:40:15,839
Speaker 21: been balled.

1054
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:17,879
Speaker 13: So the rookie show.

1055
00:40:17,960 --> 00:40:21,239
Speaker 21: Then hey, you know, if you need me a bust

1056
00:40:21,320 --> 00:40:26,600
Speaker 21: few notes. Then gladly, oh, I was shopping the discus.

1057
00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:27,400
Speaker 13: I got.

1058
00:40:29,160 --> 00:40:32,919
Speaker 21: High hurdles sometimes, how'd you do? I was a state

1059
00:40:32,960 --> 00:40:35,759
Speaker 21: placer for a disc so shot was pretty good. I

1060
00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:38,759
Speaker 21: think our pr I couldn't pr in the right time,

1061
00:40:38,880 --> 00:40:42,440
Speaker 21: so got like a fifty two and like a random nod.

1062
00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:45,560
Speaker 21: Didn't didn't matter meat basically, But then once it got

1063
00:40:45,640 --> 00:40:48,239
Speaker 21: time for state qualifiers, I threw like a forty nine

1064
00:40:48,440 --> 00:40:51,400
Speaker 21: six or something crazy obviously not the best outcome. But

1065
00:40:51,480 --> 00:40:53,040
Speaker 21: for discus, I was able to throw that thing out

1066
00:40:53,080 --> 00:40:55,680
Speaker 21: there pretty far and in the placing the state, and

1067
00:40:56,280 --> 00:40:56,920
Speaker 21: it's pretty nice.

1068
00:40:57,760 --> 00:41:00,719
Speaker 6: Is there a player, current performer that like you really

1069
00:41:00,800 --> 00:41:04,480
Speaker 6: looked looked up to and did you feel like you're

1070
00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:06,200
Speaker 6: I don't want to say the next but like you

1071
00:41:06,400 --> 00:41:07,280
Speaker 6: modeled your game.

1072
00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:09,360
Speaker 10: After uh So.

1073
00:41:09,560 --> 00:41:11,480
Speaker 21: One thing I will say is I was never the

1074
00:41:11,560 --> 00:41:14,800
Speaker 21: guy I liked watching football holistically, you know, watching everything,

1075
00:41:14,920 --> 00:41:16,840
Speaker 21: even as a young guy. So there was never like

1076
00:41:16,880 --> 00:41:18,239
Speaker 21: a team or player and I'm like, oh, yeah, I

1077
00:41:18,320 --> 00:41:20,360
Speaker 21: want to be that. But one guy can say they

1078
00:41:20,360 --> 00:41:22,320
Speaker 21: always popped out, and one guy I'll look up YouTube

1079
00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:25,040
Speaker 21: highlights that it was always the dominance Sue just seeing

1080
00:41:25,120 --> 00:41:27,520
Speaker 21: you know, his his aggression towards the game and you

1081
00:41:27,600 --> 00:41:30,160
Speaker 21: know his intensity and even technique and just being able

1082
00:41:30,200 --> 00:41:31,040
Speaker 21: to affect the game.

1083
00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:31,560
Speaker 4: As a big guy.

1084
00:41:31,960 --> 00:41:34,960
Speaker 21: It's something that you know, I tell you, I take

1085
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:37,680
Speaker 21: a lot of pride in watching him, Fletcher Cox. I

1086
00:41:37,760 --> 00:41:40,480
Speaker 21: mean even not guys now like Grady Jarrett, was being

1087
00:41:40,640 --> 00:41:42,600
Speaker 21: able to watch guys in my position do things at

1088
00:41:42,640 --> 00:41:43,200
Speaker 21: the high level.

1089
00:41:44,440 --> 00:41:46,319
Speaker 22: You haven't been in many locker rooms or these other guys.

1090
00:41:47,880 --> 00:41:50,040
Speaker 22: You're not the old guy but I just feel like

1091
00:41:50,120 --> 00:41:52,320
Speaker 22: the old guy in those locker rooms and even just

1092
00:41:52,840 --> 00:41:53,520
Speaker 22: here this weekend.

1093
00:41:53,719 --> 00:41:56,160
Speaker 21: Yeah, so I mean, shoot, you know, I'm only I

1094
00:41:56,239 --> 00:41:57,920
Speaker 21: was only I'm only twenty two, but I had my

1095
00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:00,120
Speaker 21: three kids when I was twenty one, So a lot

1096
00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:03,760
Speaker 21: of guys you'd come, Oh uncle Briggs, Oh uncle's coming coming. Meanwhile,

1097
00:42:03,840 --> 00:42:05,200
Speaker 21: some of these guys are three years older than me

1098
00:42:05,320 --> 00:42:07,719
Speaker 21: in college, so I think it'll be refreshing being the

1099
00:42:07,760 --> 00:42:08,439
Speaker 21: young guy again.

1100
00:42:08,600 --> 00:42:09,560
Speaker 13: So we'll see what's happening.

1101
00:42:09,680 --> 00:42:12,000
Speaker 11: Do you have a college teammate at either place who.

1102
00:42:11,920 --> 00:42:18,200
Speaker 21: Was married married at UVA there were a couple here

1103
00:42:19,160 --> 00:42:21,440
Speaker 21: at u see or not here and you see, uh,

1104
00:42:23,200 --> 00:42:25,480
Speaker 21: I don't think so, not at least when I was.

1105
00:42:25,800 --> 00:42:26,719
Speaker 13: You might be married now, but.

1106
00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:29,720
Speaker 3: With obviously starting a family.

1107
00:42:30,520 --> 00:42:32,800
Speaker 13: You switch schools, but be also graduated. K.

1108
00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:34,680
Speaker 3: When did you get your degree?

1109
00:42:34,719 --> 00:42:35,879
Speaker 4: What's it in? Yeah?

1110
00:42:36,840 --> 00:42:39,760
Speaker 21: I was a double major, uh, physics and music at UVA.

1111
00:42:40,400 --> 00:42:43,880
Speaker 21: Also had some computer science stuff and there, so you know,

1112
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:46,480
Speaker 21: once I transferred, it was really iffy because the portals

1113
00:42:46,520 --> 00:42:49,920
Speaker 21: just opened up. So I transferred, and my academic advisor

1114
00:42:49,960 --> 00:42:52,200
Speaker 21: basically said, you know, you'll have to add two extra

1115
00:42:52,280 --> 00:42:55,920
Speaker 21: years to your program or you could switch to interdisciplinary studies.

1116
00:42:56,000 --> 00:43:00,359
Speaker 21: Graduated early, so switched to that. Graduated earlier than she thought.

1117
00:43:00,400 --> 00:43:02,800
Speaker 21: I actually graduated and I think three years so I

1118
00:43:02,840 --> 00:43:05,440
Speaker 21: had graduated December twenty twenty two, got in college in

1119
00:43:06,040 --> 00:43:10,200
Speaker 21: twenty nineteen, so to say, graduated with my undergrad Then

1120
00:43:10,239 --> 00:43:14,440
Speaker 21: I got grad certificate and software development. I would gladly

1121
00:43:14,480 --> 00:43:16,680
Speaker 21: go back and get more grad certificates. But the way,

1122
00:43:17,040 --> 00:43:18,600
Speaker 21: mind you, I said, I like to be prepared, so

1123
00:43:19,160 --> 00:43:21,920
Speaker 21: you know, the way jobs line up and qualifications line up,

1124
00:43:22,280 --> 00:43:25,160
Speaker 21: me going and doing that will pretty much be the

1125
00:43:25,239 --> 00:43:27,640
Speaker 21: same level of getting a master's in computer science or

1126
00:43:27,640 --> 00:43:30,279
Speaker 21: computer engineering, cause you gotta do the same things. So

1127
00:43:30,760 --> 00:43:33,359
Speaker 21: I feel like it'll give me more job flexibility being

1128
00:43:33,360 --> 00:43:34,920
Speaker 21: able to go back and get something, say like a

1129
00:43:35,160 --> 00:43:38,480
Speaker 21: graduate certificate and cybersecurity, or a graduate cause mine is

1130
00:43:38,520 --> 00:43:41,080
Speaker 21: in software development, maybe a grad certificate and just general

1131
00:43:41,160 --> 00:43:44,839
Speaker 21: computer engineering. So just making sure that, you know, put

1132
00:43:44,880 --> 00:43:46,520
Speaker 21: my hand in every basket I can when I get that.

1133
00:43:47,640 --> 00:43:51,279
Speaker 5: Going back to the singing aspect in your sister's being

1134
00:43:51,560 --> 00:43:54,000
Speaker 5: in now all does well hope like when you were younger,

1135
00:43:54,280 --> 00:43:55,920
Speaker 5: how did you figure out.

1136
00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:58,000
Speaker 16: That you that you had that talent as well?

1137
00:43:58,320 --> 00:44:01,359
Speaker 21: Yeah, so I'm complaining about my my parents. I mean,

1138
00:44:01,760 --> 00:44:05,200
Speaker 21: our house was like a cacophony of noise all the time.

1139
00:44:05,680 --> 00:44:08,880
Speaker 21: We were making bands in the basement. My sister's upstairs,

1140
00:44:08,960 --> 00:44:11,839
Speaker 21: playing instruments, practicing together because a lot of them were

1141
00:44:11,880 --> 00:44:13,759
Speaker 21: in school together. We're so close. All of us are like,

1142
00:44:14,280 --> 00:44:16,640
Speaker 21: at most two and a half three years apart. Some

1143
00:44:16,760 --> 00:44:18,560
Speaker 21: of us are like one and a half So they

1144
00:44:18,600 --> 00:44:20,960
Speaker 21: were in the same orchestras, in the same choirs. So

1145
00:44:21,040 --> 00:44:24,560
Speaker 21: they're singing, practicing their parts, playing their instruments together. So

1146
00:44:24,640 --> 00:44:26,160
Speaker 21: it was a lot of noise. So, I mean, it

1147
00:44:26,239 --> 00:44:28,000
Speaker 21: was pretty natural for me to just you know, hop

1148
00:44:28,080 --> 00:44:30,040
Speaker 21: in and see what I can do, and you know,

1149
00:44:30,280 --> 00:44:32,080
Speaker 21: yell at me, tell me stop, you don't sound right.

1150
00:44:32,160 --> 00:44:34,239
Speaker 21: And I go to school and get into and learn.

1151
00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:36,920
Speaker 21: Then I sound perfect with him, So it was just

1152
00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:39,080
Speaker 21: a matter of you know, learning it from them.

1153
00:44:39,400 --> 00:44:42,960
Speaker 1: Rounding out Friday's availability was linebacker Nathaniel Watson out of

1154
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:46,759
Speaker 1: Mississippi State. Watson talks about playing college ball with current

1155
00:44:46,840 --> 00:44:49,960
Speaker 1: Brown's dB mj Emerson and what he brings to the

1156
00:44:50,040 --> 00:44:51,920
Speaker 1: table for your Cleveland Browns.

1157
00:44:53,640 --> 00:45:01,640
Speaker 4: Good good, good, glad to sign out. Finally watching, Well,

1158
00:45:01,680 --> 00:45:04,279
Speaker 4: what are your first impressions here of your rookie minue cap.

1159
00:45:05,560 --> 00:45:08,640
Speaker 19: Uh you know, feeling great, you know ready, just uh

1160
00:45:09,200 --> 00:45:11,719
Speaker 19: glad to be back in football football season. So you

1161
00:45:11,760 --> 00:45:13,759
Speaker 19: know me and ain't football season, but getting close with me.

1162
00:45:14,120 --> 00:45:16,520
Speaker 19: I went through all the uh like combining pro days

1163
00:45:16,560 --> 00:45:19,359
Speaker 19: and stuff, So I'm glad all that over, Like trained

1164
00:45:19,480 --> 00:45:22,640
Speaker 19: for track athlete for a big good couple of months.

1165
00:45:22,680 --> 00:45:24,320
Speaker 19: Now I'm back in the football shapes. So yeah, I

1166
00:45:24,360 --> 00:45:25,400
Speaker 19: just can't wait to get started.

1167
00:45:25,440 --> 00:45:27,840
Speaker 22: Yeah, and sow you for face timing the partin net

1168
00:45:27,840 --> 00:45:29,439
Speaker 22: were sent after you got picked, cause he been giving

1169
00:45:29,480 --> 00:45:31,879
Speaker 22: you some some pointers or telling you where to live

1170
00:45:31,960 --> 00:45:32,560
Speaker 22: or anything like that.

1171
00:45:32,920 --> 00:45:34,600
Speaker 19: Yeah, we ain't talk too much about living, but he

1172
00:45:34,680 --> 00:45:36,520
Speaker 19: really just talked about like how I'm a fitting the

1173
00:45:36,560 --> 00:45:38,960
Speaker 19: defensive scheme. He said, he gonna love to get me

1174
00:45:39,040 --> 00:45:41,239
Speaker 19: around here. So uh, I just can't wait to get

1175
00:45:41,280 --> 00:45:42,960
Speaker 19: with him and the rest of the like the older players,

1176
00:45:43,480 --> 00:45:45,879
Speaker 19: just to learn more from all on and the Uh.

1177
00:45:46,160 --> 00:45:48,560
Speaker 4: You so you were at school a long time, six years?

1178
00:45:48,640 --> 00:45:50,880
Speaker 3: Can you just explain how that came to be? So

1179
00:45:51,480 --> 00:45:53,000
Speaker 3: you end up playing six years?

1180
00:45:53,160 --> 00:45:53,239
Speaker 2: Uh?

1181
00:45:53,440 --> 00:45:55,680
Speaker 19: Holy gonna come out last year. But I just didn't

1182
00:45:55,680 --> 00:45:57,560
Speaker 19: feel like I was ready my s like me personally,

1183
00:45:57,560 --> 00:45:59,200
Speaker 19: I ain't feel like I was ready take the next

1184
00:45:59,239 --> 00:46:01,000
Speaker 19: step to the league, So I just decided to go

1185
00:46:01,080 --> 00:46:04,000
Speaker 19: back another year. I mean it's free education, so I

1186
00:46:04,080 --> 00:46:05,799
Speaker 19: might well go ahead and use it, get it another

1187
00:46:05,880 --> 00:46:08,600
Speaker 19: get another degree, and then just finish out as best

1188
00:46:08,600 --> 00:46:09,000
Speaker 19: as I can.

1189
00:46:09,480 --> 00:46:11,319
Speaker 4: And you got a couple of degrees. Yeah, I got too.

1190
00:46:11,320 --> 00:46:13,320
Speaker 4: I got a undergrad and the master's. So yeah, what

1191
00:46:13,440 --> 00:46:13,880
Speaker 4: old there in?

1192
00:46:14,560 --> 00:46:19,040
Speaker 19: Uh my undergrad interbitionary study, which is concentration of kinesiology, criminology,

1193
00:46:19,040 --> 00:46:22,240
Speaker 19: and psychology. And then my master is work for workforce

1194
00:46:22,360 --> 00:46:23,160
Speaker 19: education leadership.

1195
00:46:23,280 --> 00:46:24,560
Speaker 4: So yeah, what does it?

1196
00:46:24,719 --> 00:46:25,480
Speaker 13: What does that mean?

1197
00:46:26,080 --> 00:46:27,640
Speaker 4: Which one? It worked force?

1198
00:46:28,480 --> 00:46:29,080
Speaker 7: Uh? It it mean?

1199
00:46:29,120 --> 00:46:30,719
Speaker 19: It really just I can do anything with it, So

1200
00:46:30,760 --> 00:46:33,080
Speaker 19: I can uh really be a coach or if I

1201
00:46:33,160 --> 00:46:34,919
Speaker 19: wanted to just give me a nice job.

1202
00:46:35,320 --> 00:46:38,640
Speaker 13: So yeah, and you played for five different head coaches.

1203
00:46:39,320 --> 00:46:43,120
Speaker 19: Oh I I played for three free Yeah cause more

1204
00:46:43,160 --> 00:46:47,000
Speaker 19: head I go. I I committed under uh damn mothering right,

1205
00:46:47,080 --> 00:46:49,160
Speaker 19: and then I committed. Yeah, I never played for so

1206
00:46:49,200 --> 00:46:51,640
Speaker 19: I played for more head coach Leech and coach on net.

1207
00:46:51,920 --> 00:46:53,840
Speaker 4: So you have a lot of country changes.

1208
00:46:54,000 --> 00:46:56,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, you elected to stay at Mississippi State.

1209
00:46:56,880 --> 00:46:59,520
Speaker 19: You want Yeah, it just my lord to which is

1210
00:46:59,640 --> 00:47:02,440
Speaker 19: speak for yourself, you know, and with transperporter and everything

1211
00:47:02,520 --> 00:47:04,080
Speaker 19: out is going on in college, you have a lot

1212
00:47:04,120 --> 00:47:07,120
Speaker 19: of kids wanna dip out, chase the money a lot,

1213
00:47:07,560 --> 00:47:10,839
Speaker 19: and me personally with some of the other other fella

1214
00:47:11,000 --> 00:47:14,160
Speaker 19: my other fella team made psmissigp State. We had selected

1215
00:47:14,239 --> 00:47:16,000
Speaker 19: just to stay and ride it out to the wheels

1216
00:47:16,040 --> 00:47:16,359
Speaker 19: fall off.

1217
00:47:16,440 --> 00:47:17,120
Speaker 4: So that's what we did.

1218
00:47:18,080 --> 00:47:21,080
Speaker 11: Yeah, you see, just you know, so you're well educated

1219
00:47:21,200 --> 00:47:22,360
Speaker 11: and you got it all together.

1220
00:47:22,440 --> 00:47:25,080
Speaker 17: But when you look at, you know, some of the

1221
00:47:26,400 --> 00:47:30,200
Speaker 17: stuff in your background to meet you, you might think

1222
00:47:30,280 --> 00:47:33,319
Speaker 17: that you are as you know, you've got a master's degree, y'all,

1223
00:47:33,440 --> 00:47:35,120
Speaker 17: but you might think that you had a little bit

1224
00:47:35,160 --> 00:47:35,760
Speaker 17: of whatever.

1225
00:47:37,320 --> 00:47:39,640
Speaker 11: What what's the deal with some of that off the

1226
00:47:39,680 --> 00:47:40,640
Speaker 11: field stuff that you want?

1227
00:47:40,880 --> 00:47:41,000
Speaker 18: Uh?

1228
00:47:41,160 --> 00:47:44,279
Speaker 19: I mean young, young and dumb, I mean having to

1229
00:47:44,320 --> 00:47:46,920
Speaker 19: a lot of young people. So I mean you really can't.

1230
00:47:46,960 --> 00:47:48,920
Speaker 19: I really don't look too much back back into it.

1231
00:47:49,040 --> 00:47:51,520
Speaker 19: You know, it's a learning process. Learn from all, learn

1232
00:47:51,560 --> 00:47:54,000
Speaker 19: from all my mistakes. So that's really just move forward.

1233
00:47:54,239 --> 00:47:56,279
Speaker 22: What I mean, what were some of the biggest lessons too,

1234
00:47:56,480 --> 00:47:58,959
Speaker 22: especially cause I mean, you know, the drag racings.

1235
00:47:58,640 --> 00:48:01,600
Speaker 19: And then somebody got hurt yuh so really just uh

1236
00:48:02,560 --> 00:48:05,759
Speaker 19: really just uh me being more careless or like who

1237
00:48:05,880 --> 00:48:09,239
Speaker 19: who around me and stuff, you know, taking precaution, you know,

1238
00:48:10,239 --> 00:48:13,960
Speaker 19: really just knowing when knowing not the play around in

1239
00:48:14,080 --> 00:48:18,360
Speaker 19: cars and like just just do more for myself, just

1240
00:48:18,440 --> 00:48:20,360
Speaker 19: because you got a spotlight on yourself. So you know,

1241
00:48:20,719 --> 00:48:22,279
Speaker 19: being in the league, and then when I was in

1242
00:48:22,320 --> 00:48:25,120
Speaker 19: misign state, having big shoes to feel and being in

1243
00:48:25,239 --> 00:48:25,759
Speaker 19: my role, you.

1244
00:48:25,800 --> 00:48:27,480
Speaker 4: Got a lot of eyes on you. So just uh

1245
00:48:27,560 --> 00:48:30,120
Speaker 4: being cautures and everything. Did you like you have a

1246
00:48:30,200 --> 00:48:32,759
Speaker 4: lot of experience on special teams in this year?

1247
00:48:33,840 --> 00:48:35,960
Speaker 19: Yeah, in my like in the back of the years

1248
00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:38,200
Speaker 19: I s I played special team. I've only played special

1249
00:48:38,239 --> 00:48:40,840
Speaker 19: team my sophomore year and then the years I I

1250
00:48:40,960 --> 00:48:43,640
Speaker 19: played few of it. But I really ain't got too much.

1251
00:48:43,719 --> 00:48:46,359
Speaker 19: So I look to play a lot, especially head though. Yeah,

1252
00:48:46,960 --> 00:48:48,880
Speaker 19: I mean, I'm I I do whatever I need to

1253
00:48:48,920 --> 00:48:50,640
Speaker 19: do on the field. So I I mean, if I

1254
00:48:50,719 --> 00:48:52,600
Speaker 19: got if I gotta learn how to play lineman, i'm'a

1255
00:48:52,600 --> 00:48:52,880
Speaker 19: play it.

1256
00:48:54,400 --> 00:48:54,760
Speaker 10: Special.

1257
00:48:56,360 --> 00:48:59,520
Speaker 4: That's the plan. That's the plan. Most definitely what you know.

1258
00:48:59,520 --> 00:49:03,080
Speaker 6: About Z about the Browns, So what do you know

1259
00:49:03,200 --> 00:49:06,400
Speaker 6: about this grove of Browns backs.

1260
00:49:06,160 --> 00:49:09,040
Speaker 19: That they play fast, physical, and they gonna get to

1261
00:49:09,080 --> 00:49:12,520
Speaker 19: the ball. So it really what uh uh coach been

1262
00:49:12,560 --> 00:49:15,200
Speaker 19: telling us about. So really just showing us, like what

1263
00:49:15,400 --> 00:49:18,560
Speaker 19: what's our job description and everything, which is be the

1264
00:49:18,640 --> 00:49:22,160
Speaker 19: GPS the navigator so like controller defense, keep you calm

1265
00:49:22,239 --> 00:49:22,640
Speaker 19: and everything.

1266
00:49:22,719 --> 00:49:24,800
Speaker 22: So, yeah, do you get concerned.

1267
00:49:24,440 --> 00:49:27,400
Speaker 11: That perhaps some teams thought about some of that on

1268
00:49:27,560 --> 00:49:29,160
Speaker 11: the field stuff and that's where you rested to a

1269
00:49:29,160 --> 00:49:30,960
Speaker 11: six round? And how greatful are you that the Browns

1270
00:49:31,440 --> 00:49:33,840
Speaker 11: really just got to know you as a person and

1271
00:49:33,920 --> 00:49:34,279
Speaker 11: saw that.

1272
00:49:34,880 --> 00:49:36,560
Speaker 4: Nah, I mean, I mean, I don't think it went

1273
00:49:36,600 --> 00:49:37,320
Speaker 4: too much into it.

1274
00:49:37,600 --> 00:49:39,840
Speaker 19: M me personally. I think it's politics. I mean I

1275
00:49:40,040 --> 00:49:42,319
Speaker 19: I can't speak too much on it. So, I mean

1276
00:49:42,360 --> 00:49:43,640
Speaker 19: it is what it is. But I'm thankful for the

1277
00:49:43,640 --> 00:49:45,520
Speaker 19: opportunity that the Browns called me. I mean I got,

1278
00:49:45,719 --> 00:49:49,040
Speaker 19: I got at the senior ball. I had a good time. Well,

1279
00:49:49,120 --> 00:49:51,120
Speaker 19: Coach f the safety coach, so I me and him

1280
00:49:51,160 --> 00:49:53,000
Speaker 19: chopped it up a lot. I had a feeling that

1281
00:49:53,000 --> 00:49:54,399
Speaker 19: I was gonna come to the Browns. I just didn't

1282
00:49:54,400 --> 00:49:56,200
Speaker 19: know when. So I mean he told me they were

1283
00:49:56,200 --> 00:49:58,239
Speaker 19: gonna give me, so, I mean, yeah, he went lying.

1284
00:49:58,360 --> 00:50:00,360
Speaker 19: So you you had you were a big off defensive

1285
00:50:00,400 --> 00:50:04,120
Speaker 19: store in high school. Yeah, I be telling people, nah,

1286
00:50:05,160 --> 00:50:10,040
Speaker 19: I mean I don't uh it r du So when

1287
00:50:10,120 --> 00:50:12,440
Speaker 19: coach Morehead came in, he had coach Lupabool with him

1288
00:50:12,840 --> 00:50:15,319
Speaker 19: and when he was uh NFL linebacker the NFL coach,

1289
00:50:15,600 --> 00:50:18,320
Speaker 19: so he really like persuade me over to come to defense,

1290
00:50:18,360 --> 00:50:21,080
Speaker 19: saying I make a lot of money on defense sides.

1291
00:50:21,120 --> 00:50:22,799
Speaker 4: So then I just went with the flow.

1292
00:50:22,840 --> 00:50:26,200
Speaker 19: And then after seeing like previous linebackers get drafted and

1293
00:50:26,280 --> 00:50:28,160
Speaker 19: then go on to make money, I was like, I

1294
00:50:28,239 --> 00:50:31,440
Speaker 19: might really have a shot at this. You don't missing touchdowns,

1295
00:50:32,320 --> 00:50:34,480
Speaker 19: I mean not really. I I I I give I

1296
00:50:34,600 --> 00:50:36,520
Speaker 19: get it my happiness. I knocking people out, So I

1297
00:50:36,600 --> 00:50:38,120
Speaker 19: mean that's a positive for me.

1298
00:50:38,480 --> 00:50:41,399
Speaker 8: There's this new kickoff poles. I guess that they're gonna

1299
00:50:41,400 --> 00:50:43,920
Speaker 8: be in effect for coverage and all that in the NFL.

1300
00:50:43,960 --> 00:50:46,279
Speaker 8: It seems like nobody really knows how that's gonna work yet.

1301
00:50:46,400 --> 00:50:48,400
Speaker 8: How excited are you? You know, as you get more

1302
00:50:48,440 --> 00:50:50,840
Speaker 8: into special teams to kind of be a part of

1303
00:50:50,920 --> 00:50:52,879
Speaker 8: that here from the ground before or something.

1304
00:50:52,880 --> 00:50:54,520
Speaker 19: I don't know how it gonna work either, but I

1305
00:50:54,680 --> 00:50:56,920
Speaker 19: know it's like we close together so that I mean

1306
00:50:56,960 --> 00:50:59,439
Speaker 19: it's just a better impact. I mean, like I said,

1307
00:50:59,440 --> 00:51:01,440
Speaker 19: I'm a physical persons. I just love hitting somebody. So

1308
00:51:01,560 --> 00:51:02,840
Speaker 19: I mean, I just can't wait to get out there

1309
00:51:02,840 --> 00:51:05,279
Speaker 19: on special team. How many years did you play with

1310
00:51:05,360 --> 00:51:09,360
Speaker 19: AMers Emerson Emerson three part? It was a pretty particularly

1311
00:51:09,400 --> 00:51:11,000
Speaker 19: close or just teammates.

1312
00:51:10,640 --> 00:51:12,200
Speaker 4: Or h we we quote.

1313
00:51:12,200 --> 00:51:14,880
Speaker 19: We hung out outside of football and then on on

1314
00:51:14,960 --> 00:51:17,200
Speaker 19: the field. I was their leader, so they had a

1315
00:51:17,239 --> 00:51:19,120
Speaker 19: listen to me. But now but now I gotta look

1316
00:51:19,160 --> 00:51:21,600
Speaker 19: up to him since he old head so did once

1317
00:51:21,600 --> 00:51:24,640
Speaker 19: he got here. Cause yeah, yeah, yeah, I yeah, I've

1318
00:51:24,640 --> 00:51:26,520
Speaker 19: been following I've been following Brown since he came up

1319
00:51:26,520 --> 00:51:28,839
Speaker 19: with uh I have. I I was following Seahawks when

1320
00:51:29,800 --> 00:51:32,239
Speaker 19: my old old offensive lineman d Lineman went up. That

1321
00:51:32,320 --> 00:51:34,880
Speaker 19: came on and Charlee Cross and then I'll be following

1322
00:51:34,960 --> 00:51:37,920
Speaker 19: Cowboys with uh my with Dak Prescott of course, and

1323
00:51:38,000 --> 00:51:39,879
Speaker 19: then another linebacker Tires Week.

1324
00:51:39,960 --> 00:51:42,520
Speaker 13: So yeah, I I follow every time that a teammate

1325
00:51:42,800 --> 00:51:43,480
Speaker 13: riscott to him.

1326
00:51:43,800 --> 00:51:45,360
Speaker 4: Nah, I mean, I just I just watched 'em. I

1327
00:51:45,520 --> 00:51:46,040
Speaker 4: just watched 'em.

1328
00:51:46,200 --> 00:51:48,480
Speaker 19: I play I played on seconds that lot. I don't

1329
00:51:48,520 --> 00:51:50,080
Speaker 19: quote me, I don't quote me on that, but he

1330
00:51:50,160 --> 00:51:52,360
Speaker 19: if you. Yeah, i'm'a get my team with that. He

1331
00:51:52,440 --> 00:51:57,040
Speaker 19: fell a six roun surprise, Uh, I mean it is

1332
00:51:57,080 --> 00:51:58,800
Speaker 19: what it is at that point. I mean it just

1333
00:51:58,880 --> 00:52:01,880
Speaker 19: be grateful opportunity. I wasn't surprised. I definitely, I definitely

1334
00:52:01,960 --> 00:52:04,880
Speaker 19: was emotional though, me and just seeing my mom and

1335
00:52:04,960 --> 00:52:07,640
Speaker 19: grandmother there when they heard my name get called and

1336
00:52:07,760 --> 00:52:10,200
Speaker 19: they just started busting out of tears. They really made

1337
00:52:10,239 --> 00:52:12,640
Speaker 19: me break down playing with never to cry, but you know,

1338
00:52:12,960 --> 00:52:14,759
Speaker 19: man cry, So the.

1339
00:52:16,040 --> 00:52:18,080
Speaker 4: Fact that you felt that's try they give you a

1340
00:52:18,080 --> 00:52:19,800
Speaker 4: little more edge group the people that passed.

1341
00:52:19,640 --> 00:52:19,840
Speaker 10: Up on you.

1342
00:52:20,000 --> 00:52:21,600
Speaker 4: I mean I was gonna have the edge regardless.

1343
00:52:21,640 --> 00:52:22,080
Speaker 3: That's just me.

1344
00:52:22,440 --> 00:52:24,800
Speaker 19: I'm my work there to speak for yourself. I always

1345
00:52:24,800 --> 00:52:29,680
Speaker 19: play with the edge, just trying to get paid. So really, yeah, you.

1346
00:52:29,719 --> 00:52:32,640
Speaker 9: Talk about your physicality and the Browns mentioned kind of

1347
00:52:32,800 --> 00:52:35,719
Speaker 9: you if you the rare size that you have, do

1348
00:52:35,800 --> 00:52:37,680
Speaker 9: you feel like you're different than a lot of linebackers

1349
00:52:37,719 --> 00:52:39,520
Speaker 9: in today's NFL just because you are whatever?

1350
00:52:40,520 --> 00:52:43,560
Speaker 19: Yeah, me personally, just because it ain't too many linebackers

1351
00:52:43,560 --> 00:52:48,080
Speaker 19: that can blitz, blitz, cover and stop the runs. And

1352
00:52:48,200 --> 00:52:50,120
Speaker 19: me personally, I think I got all three of them phases.

1353
00:52:50,600 --> 00:52:53,680
Speaker 22: So do you think you're the fact you were older.

1354
00:52:53,840 --> 00:52:55,400
Speaker 22: Do you play six years? Do you think that was

1355
00:52:55,480 --> 00:52:57,319
Speaker 22: part of the reason when maybe some teams stayed away

1356
00:52:57,320 --> 00:52:57,520
Speaker 22: from me.

1357
00:52:58,719 --> 00:52:59,200
Speaker 10: No, I don't know.

1358
00:52:59,320 --> 00:53:00,960
Speaker 4: I don't know too much about this, so nah.

1359
00:53:01,440 --> 00:53:05,600
Speaker 7: So yeah, what what is it like the emotions of

1360
00:53:05,760 --> 00:53:09,279
Speaker 7: you sitting there and names kid getting called or not

1361
00:53:09,480 --> 00:53:09,960
Speaker 7: your name?

1362
00:53:10,560 --> 00:53:13,040
Speaker 4: Is it anxiety or why would you describe that?

1363
00:53:15,320 --> 00:53:17,839
Speaker 19: I really just describe it is I was laid back

1364
00:53:17,920 --> 00:53:20,560
Speaker 19: to chilling, just spending time with the family, you know,

1365
00:53:20,719 --> 00:53:23,520
Speaker 19: having having a having the family all around, just spending

1366
00:53:23,560 --> 00:53:25,800
Speaker 19: time with them, just see 'em just be happy for

1367
00:53:25,880 --> 00:53:28,040
Speaker 19: me in a moment. And then when my name got called,

1368
00:53:28,080 --> 00:53:29,840
Speaker 19: just seeing all they smiles on their face. So it

1369
00:53:29,920 --> 00:53:31,000
Speaker 19: really went too much to it.

1370
00:53:31,200 --> 00:53:34,440
Speaker 13: Can you describe your hometown on small.

1371
00:53:34,239 --> 00:53:39,080
Speaker 19: As seven hundred blood? It's one caution light? What's the

1372
00:53:39,120 --> 00:53:41,680
Speaker 19: big it's one caution light. It's the biggest only think

1373
00:53:41,719 --> 00:53:45,440
Speaker 19: it worked the biggest story. I think Dollar June? What

1374
00:53:45,680 --> 00:53:49,240
Speaker 19: is Dollar June? Okay, Jones h it it's Maplesville, small

1375
00:53:49,360 --> 00:53:51,759
Speaker 19: town y like you passed through Tessalus, but you go

1376
00:53:51,960 --> 00:53:53,440
Speaker 19: you come out of tuss and try to go to

1377
00:53:53,520 --> 00:53:54,759
Speaker 19: Montgomer You wouldn't even know it's there.

1378
00:53:55,000 --> 00:53:58,000
Speaker 4: It's a it's a gas station that I don't know.

1379
00:53:58,239 --> 00:53:58,840
Speaker 4: You wouldn't know it.

1380
00:53:58,920 --> 00:54:01,480
Speaker 19: You wouldn't know it's Mapleville unless you like drive to town,

1381
00:54:01,840 --> 00:54:04,719
Speaker 19: which again there's one culture light in the middle of town.

1382
00:54:04,840 --> 00:54:08,560
Speaker 2: So the only player to come out of there NFL player.

1383
00:54:09,120 --> 00:54:13,840
Speaker 19: Now my uncle on my dad's side, Tamaya ag and

1384
00:54:13,880 --> 00:54:15,720
Speaker 19: the hair mar all them came to the NFL.

1385
00:54:15,880 --> 00:54:17,840
Speaker 9: So do you agree when people say you're just a

1386
00:54:17,880 --> 00:54:20,399
Speaker 9: country morning, like a down home what a down home

1387
00:54:20,440 --> 00:54:20,920
Speaker 9: country guy?

1388
00:54:21,080 --> 00:54:28,200
Speaker 4: Like, that's I sound country? You don't where the personnel

1389
00:54:28,200 --> 00:54:29,960
Speaker 4: guy said you were. I think your high school coach

1390
00:54:29,960 --> 00:54:31,719
Speaker 4: to that's I'm a country boy.

1391
00:54:32,920 --> 00:54:34,719
Speaker 13: I mean I don't.

1392
00:54:34,960 --> 00:54:38,160
Speaker 19: I mean, I don't. I think I'm just a natural person. Yeah,

1393
00:54:38,280 --> 00:54:40,040
Speaker 19: I mean I got a little city and country in me,

1394
00:54:40,120 --> 00:54:40,920
Speaker 19: though I ain't gonna lie.

1395
00:54:41,160 --> 00:54:43,520
Speaker 17: Yeah, did Mark ever since set the bar pretty high

1396
00:54:43,560 --> 00:54:47,160
Speaker 17: for you in terms of coming in here as a

1397
00:54:47,280 --> 00:54:49,160
Speaker 17: rookie and just knocking.

1398
00:54:49,000 --> 00:54:49,560
Speaker 5: Out of the park.

1399
00:54:50,960 --> 00:54:53,279
Speaker 19: Yeah, I think he told linebacker something about me. So

1400
00:54:53,440 --> 00:54:55,719
Speaker 19: we'll see. We'll see when when they all get here

1401
00:54:56,120 --> 00:54:58,160
Speaker 19: what he says. So we'll see how high he's at

1402
00:54:58,200 --> 00:54:58,759
Speaker 19: the bar for me.

1403
00:54:59,280 --> 00:55:01,759
Speaker 12: You were still like it and uh scout for saying

1404
00:55:01,760 --> 00:55:03,239
Speaker 12: that one of the big things they like about you

1405
00:55:03,320 --> 00:55:07,279
Speaker 12: with your intelligence and how quick uh for you when

1406
00:55:07,320 --> 00:55:08,800
Speaker 12: you're here now and watch some of the questions that

1407
00:55:08,920 --> 00:55:10,760
Speaker 12: you're asking, what does some take you're hoping good.

1408
00:55:11,000 --> 00:55:13,600
Speaker 4: Take ins or you like a sponge in the stud Uh?

1409
00:55:13,719 --> 00:55:15,920
Speaker 19: Really just how I can get on the field quicker,

1410
00:55:16,440 --> 00:55:19,440
Speaker 19: how I can learn faster. Really, like you said, just

1411
00:55:19,640 --> 00:55:22,600
Speaker 19: taking everything in. Be a sponge aks the coaches why

1412
00:55:22,600 --> 00:55:24,719
Speaker 19: they doing this? Why this is why? They Just aks

1413
00:55:24,760 --> 00:55:27,359
Speaker 19: the question why. That's really what I was uh talked

1414
00:55:27,360 --> 00:55:30,560
Speaker 19: throughout my draft process, just aks why behind every every question.

1415
00:55:30,719 --> 00:55:33,440
Speaker 13: So, yeah, we got time for one more.

1416
00:55:33,480 --> 00:55:34,120
Speaker 10: You gotta leave.

1417
00:55:34,719 --> 00:55:37,280
Speaker 14: There's there's always a lot said about just the transition

1418
00:55:37,360 --> 00:55:40,960
Speaker 14: to college to the NFL. Obviously you haven't been out there, yes,

1419
00:55:41,200 --> 00:55:43,680
Speaker 14: especially football team. Just what are you into speeding or

1420
00:55:44,200 --> 00:55:46,799
Speaker 14: some of the bigger adjustments that you'll have.

1421
00:55:46,880 --> 00:55:47,680
Speaker 13: To kind of experiences?

1422
00:55:47,800 --> 00:55:54,320
Speaker 19: Bigger for me probably, I honestly, I mean you know,

1423
00:55:54,520 --> 00:55:57,640
Speaker 19: I probably ill probably just say really just uh being

1424
00:55:57,680 --> 00:56:00,400
Speaker 19: out there with guys that I didn't watch grown up

1425
00:56:01,160 --> 00:56:03,879
Speaker 19: and being a starstruck for a whole. So yeah, I'm

1426
00:56:03,880 --> 00:56:07,080
Speaker 19: probably gonna that probably be my biggest like infacit like

1427
00:56:07,120 --> 00:56:09,560
Speaker 19: getting over Cama Gear I see my girl, I'll be like,

1428
00:56:10,600 --> 00:56:13,680
Speaker 19: I'm really on his team. I'm really, I'm really on

1429
00:56:13,800 --> 00:56:15,440
Speaker 19: eight teams. So yeah, that's probably gonna be like the

1430
00:56:15,520 --> 00:56:18,880
Speaker 19: biggest thing. So yeah, I look forward to it. So

1431
00:56:19,520 --> 00:56:21,640
Speaker 19: all right, appreciate y'all.

1432
00:56:21,800 --> 00:56:24,920
Speaker 1: Saturday's availability kicked off with our third round pick out

1433
00:56:24,960 --> 00:56:28,000
Speaker 1: of Michigan, Zach Ziner, who broke down the first day

1434
00:56:28,040 --> 00:56:29,840
Speaker 1: of practice for the rookies.

1435
00:56:30,080 --> 00:56:32,839
Speaker 5: We haven't had much of a chance to really get

1436
00:56:32,880 --> 00:56:35,680
Speaker 5: to know Andy Pickerson, you know, since he's been hired.

1437
00:56:36,040 --> 00:56:39,520
Speaker 5: How would you, as somebody who's we just get into him,

1438
00:56:39,640 --> 00:56:42,919
Speaker 5: how would you describe him to somebody? Is in terms

1439
00:56:43,000 --> 00:56:46,320
Speaker 5: of the kind of kind of coaching is the interactions

1440
00:56:46,400 --> 00:56:46,840
Speaker 5: you've had with.

1441
00:56:47,360 --> 00:56:50,839
Speaker 23: Yeah, I mean, obviously great dude, great guy, phenomenal coach.

1442
00:56:51,440 --> 00:56:53,160
Speaker 23: It's been fun getting to know him, just like, yeah,

1443
00:56:53,160 --> 00:56:54,719
Speaker 23: I mean I've only been in the meeting room, you know,

1444
00:56:54,880 --> 00:56:56,799
Speaker 23: a couple of times with him so far, but uh,

1445
00:56:57,239 --> 00:56:59,040
Speaker 23: you know, just being around him, learning the way he

1446
00:56:59,200 --> 00:57:01,719
Speaker 23: coaches and the way uh you know, he coached.

1447
00:57:01,520 --> 00:57:03,120
Speaker 3: Us out on the field has been great so far.

1448
00:57:04,600 --> 00:57:07,000
Speaker 4: Under field, just to be back out on the field yesterday,

1449
00:57:07,080 --> 00:57:08,400
Speaker 4: getting to do some football stuff.

1450
00:57:08,480 --> 00:57:09,719
Speaker 3: Oh, I mean it felt great.

1451
00:57:09,760 --> 00:57:11,439
Speaker 23: I've been itching to get back out there on the field,

1452
00:57:11,440 --> 00:57:12,920
Speaker 23: you know what I mean, going through the whole process

1453
00:57:12,960 --> 00:57:14,560
Speaker 23: and doing all that and not be able to you know,

1454
00:57:14,680 --> 00:57:15,720
Speaker 23: compete and do anything.

1455
00:57:16,600 --> 00:57:18,200
Speaker 3: I mean, it felt great. So I've been working for

1456
00:57:18,320 --> 00:57:19,680
Speaker 3: my whole rehabits get back out there.

1457
00:57:19,840 --> 00:57:21,520
Speaker 4: Did you wake up fielding pretty good this morning?

1458
00:57:21,680 --> 00:57:21,920
Speaker 2: I did?

1459
00:57:22,000 --> 00:57:23,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, no, I thought.

1460
00:57:23,240 --> 00:57:25,440
Speaker 23: I mean, obviously a little sowred just being back out there,

1461
00:57:25,520 --> 00:57:27,560
Speaker 23: but uh, I you know, I'm not as sore as

1462
00:57:27,600 --> 00:57:28,920
Speaker 23: I thought I was gonna be, So you know, that

1463
00:57:29,040 --> 00:57:30,640
Speaker 23: wasn't that was a nice When I woke up.

1464
00:57:31,400 --> 00:57:32,080
Speaker 13: Kevin was saying that.

1465
00:57:32,120 --> 00:57:34,800
Speaker 4: You know, just pretty stuff, communicating.

1466
00:57:35,760 --> 00:57:38,040
Speaker 13: It's been so long with something then watching or trying

1467
00:57:38,080 --> 00:57:38,600
Speaker 13: how any more.

1468
00:57:40,000 --> 00:57:41,840
Speaker 23: Yeah, I mean it's been a minute, so just getting

1469
00:57:41,880 --> 00:57:44,680
Speaker 23: out there, knocking the russ back off. But I mean

1470
00:57:44,760 --> 00:57:46,600
Speaker 23: it's fun, you know what I mean, just learning the playbook,

1471
00:57:46,600 --> 00:57:48,560
Speaker 23: getting out there, moving around with the guys, you know,

1472
00:57:49,000 --> 00:57:51,760
Speaker 23: learning how the dudes are moving next to me, the communication,

1473
00:57:51,960 --> 00:57:53,000
Speaker 23: all that good stuff, for sure.

1474
00:57:53,200 --> 00:57:56,400
Speaker 4: Is that the most you've done some injury yesterday? Yeah?

1475
00:57:56,520 --> 00:57:58,280
Speaker 23: Yeah, definitely, I mean I've been working up, doing my

1476
00:57:58,360 --> 00:58:01,560
Speaker 23: rehab and all that, but actively definitely the most I've done.

1477
00:58:04,440 --> 00:58:07,720
Speaker 11: Teacher learn you guys, So what's kind of your your

1478
00:58:07,920 --> 00:58:08,520
Speaker 11: process and.

1479
00:58:10,560 --> 00:58:11,600
Speaker 17: Around and learning.

1480
00:58:13,040 --> 00:58:15,439
Speaker 23: Yeah, I mean I'm still trying to learn everyone's names.

1481
00:58:15,480 --> 00:58:17,040
Speaker 23: I mean there's a lot of names, you know what

1482
00:58:17,080 --> 00:58:19,360
Speaker 23: I mean. Learning all the new calls and new playbook

1483
00:58:19,440 --> 00:58:21,920
Speaker 23: and uh, you know, all the new plays. But you know,

1484
00:58:22,120 --> 00:58:24,200
Speaker 23: I mean, I think that's the beauty of rookie manning

1485
00:58:24,240 --> 00:58:26,800
Speaker 23: camp is just all us rookies here, you know, learning together,

1486
00:58:26,960 --> 00:58:29,080
Speaker 23: learning from each other. You know, if you know, if

1487
00:58:29,280 --> 00:58:31,280
Speaker 23: I make mistakes or someone else makes a mistake, you know,

1488
00:58:31,400 --> 00:58:33,040
Speaker 23: learning from that and you know, trying not to let

1489
00:58:33,080 --> 00:58:35,280
Speaker 23: it happen again. And you know, just all the new lingo,

1490
00:58:35,520 --> 00:58:38,160
Speaker 23: different ways to you know, the coaches coach. So there's

1491
00:58:38,160 --> 00:58:42,240
Speaker 23: been a lot for sure. The lift side, yes, I

1492
00:58:42,280 --> 00:58:44,720
Speaker 23: mean I've never played any game time it left, but uh,

1493
00:58:45,000 --> 00:58:47,200
Speaker 23: coach Moro line coach was great last year. You know,

1494
00:58:47,600 --> 00:58:49,800
Speaker 23: me and Trevor we'd be in spring ball or camp

1495
00:58:49,880 --> 00:58:51,560
Speaker 23: and you know it gets kind of repetitive, so you

1496
00:58:51,600 --> 00:58:53,320
Speaker 23: know he'd switch us around and move us around. So

1497
00:58:53,400 --> 00:58:55,000
Speaker 23: you know, I've got work at left and center.

1498
00:58:55,280 --> 00:58:59,120
Speaker 4: So how much hast.

1499
00:58:59,440 --> 00:59:01,120
Speaker 23: Yeah, I mean I mean we were just taking it

1500
00:59:01,200 --> 00:59:03,280
Speaker 23: right yesterday, but he said, yeah, we're gonna once we

1501
00:59:03,360 --> 00:59:05,680
Speaker 23: get the basics down, we're gonna start switching around, moving

1502
00:59:05,680 --> 00:59:06,280
Speaker 23: all over the place.

1503
00:59:06,320 --> 00:59:09,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, what do you look for?

1504
00:59:09,520 --> 00:59:11,840
Speaker 5: And I mean you've had a number of blind coaches

1505
00:59:11,880 --> 00:59:15,040
Speaker 5: in your career, I mean what do you make say, good.

1506
00:59:14,920 --> 00:59:17,800
Speaker 4: Line what what are you looking for? Maybe not even

1507
00:59:17,840 --> 00:59:18,280
Speaker 4: in a good.

1508
00:59:18,200 --> 00:59:19,880
Speaker 3: Line coach, but just a good coach.

1509
00:59:20,280 --> 00:59:22,200
Speaker 23: Yeah, I mean, especially in the line room, there's so

1510
00:59:22,280 --> 00:59:24,040
Speaker 23: much you can critique on every play. I mean, even

1511
00:59:24,080 --> 00:59:27,120
Speaker 23: if it's you know, an explosive run and you know

1512
00:59:27,480 --> 00:59:29,720
Speaker 23: the backers not touched till safety. I mean, there's still

1513
00:59:29,720 --> 00:59:31,720
Speaker 23: something you can always hear correct, whether it's you know,

1514
00:59:32,800 --> 00:59:35,640
Speaker 23: footwork or hand place. I mean, there's something small that

1515
00:59:35,720 --> 00:59:38,120
Speaker 23: you can corrack down there on every play. So you know,

1516
00:59:38,280 --> 00:59:41,040
Speaker 23: just a coach that's looking at that and you know

1517
00:59:41,200 --> 00:59:42,880
Speaker 23: able to coach us and teach us that for sure.

1518
00:59:43,120 --> 00:59:44,280
Speaker 4: It's like as to a.

1519
00:59:44,320 --> 00:59:45,160
Speaker 13: New position coach.

1520
00:59:45,360 --> 00:59:49,360
Speaker 4: Not only that, but you're learning new drills and techniques.

1521
00:59:48,880 --> 00:59:50,439
Speaker 13: And things like that right out of the game.

1522
00:59:50,880 --> 00:59:52,600
Speaker 23: Yeah, I mean it's kind of like, you know, you're

1523
00:59:52,600 --> 00:59:54,480
Speaker 23: a freshman in collegy in but you know you're starting

1524
00:59:54,520 --> 00:59:57,440
Speaker 23: all over, so, you know, just learning the way they coach,

1525
00:59:57,560 --> 01:00:00,960
Speaker 23: you know, the new playbook, the new lingo. It's a

1526
01:00:01,000 --> 01:00:02,880
Speaker 23: lot to take in, but you know, you slowly start

1527
01:00:02,960 --> 01:00:05,240
Speaker 23: picking it up. And you know, we've been making flashcards

1528
01:00:05,280 --> 01:00:07,360
Speaker 23: and all that good stuff. So, uh, you know, it's

1529
01:00:07,360 --> 01:00:11,920
Speaker 23: been going really smooth so far. Yes, yeah, you know,

1530
01:00:11,920 --> 01:00:14,000
Speaker 23: I'm gonna be here for uh, you know, until we

1531
01:00:14,080 --> 01:00:16,000
Speaker 23: get off and end of June or whatever it is.

1532
01:00:18,200 --> 01:00:22,400
Speaker 3: No, so I graduated in December sports management.

1533
01:00:23,960 --> 01:00:24,520
Speaker 10: What's been.

1534
01:00:26,880 --> 01:00:28,600
Speaker 23: You know, it hasn't been bad. I mean I've been

1535
01:00:28,640 --> 01:00:30,840
Speaker 23: saying there's I feel like there's much worse states I

1536
01:00:30,840 --> 01:00:32,760
Speaker 23: could have moved to. You know, it's a I flew

1537
01:00:32,840 --> 01:00:34,880
Speaker 23: to Detroit, drove my stuff down here, so it was

1538
01:00:34,880 --> 01:00:37,680
Speaker 23: an easy move for me, you know.

1539
01:00:37,840 --> 01:00:39,360
Speaker 3: So I'm happy to be here for sure.

1540
01:00:40,280 --> 01:00:43,080
Speaker 4: Doesn't go along with Cleveland. It's just it's just down there.

1541
01:00:44,640 --> 01:00:47,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I mean there's obviously the Michigan Ohio state.

1542
01:00:47,560 --> 01:00:49,600
Speaker 23: Rivalry and all that, but I mean, you know, Mike's

1543
01:00:49,640 --> 01:00:52,080
Speaker 23: here now, so I mean we're in the big leagues now.

1544
01:00:52,120 --> 01:00:53,960
Speaker 3: You know, it's a job. We're all here to get paid.

1545
01:00:54,880 --> 01:00:56,320
Speaker 3: You know, we're all here to you know, help the

1546
01:00:56,360 --> 01:00:57,160
Speaker 3: team win on Sunday.

1547
01:00:58,360 --> 01:01:00,280
Speaker 4: Is your transition because you've.

1548
01:01:00,200 --> 01:01:04,280
Speaker 22: Played a place like Michigan, a pro program, which it

1549
01:01:04,840 --> 01:01:07,120
Speaker 22: obviously your days are longer, it's all about football now.

1550
01:01:07,200 --> 01:01:09,280
Speaker 23: But does it help that you played a place like that, Yeah,

1551
01:01:09,320 --> 01:01:11,320
Speaker 23: I think it is. I think Michigan really prepared us

1552
01:01:11,360 --> 01:01:13,000
Speaker 23: well for even the whole process, and you know, the

1553
01:01:13,080 --> 01:01:15,880
Speaker 23: transition into you know, the NFL. I think you know

1554
01:01:15,960 --> 01:01:17,800
Speaker 23: the way coach Harball ran and he ran it like

1555
01:01:18,000 --> 01:01:20,120
Speaker 23: he was coaching a pro team. So it's been a

1556
01:01:20,200 --> 01:01:21,560
Speaker 23: really smooth transition so far.

1557
01:01:22,680 --> 01:01:26,320
Speaker 2: Transition how you guys always.

1558
01:01:27,640 --> 01:01:31,680
Speaker 11: College obviously been out there just day.

1559
01:01:32,200 --> 01:01:33,760
Speaker 4: What are you sort of anticipating it might be.

1560
01:01:33,880 --> 01:01:35,560
Speaker 13: One of the bigger or some of the bigger.

1561
01:01:37,400 --> 01:01:39,960
Speaker 23: Yeah, I mean obviously it's it's all balling off, so

1562
01:01:39,960 --> 01:01:41,480
Speaker 23: you know, there's no school you gotta worry about any

1563
01:01:41,520 --> 01:01:43,160
Speaker 23: of that kind of stuff. And you know, just really

1564
01:01:43,200 --> 01:01:45,880
Speaker 23: focusing on the playbook, learning you know, all the new lingo,

1565
01:01:45,960 --> 01:01:48,080
Speaker 23: and once you get that nailed down, you know, the

1566
01:01:48,160 --> 01:01:50,160
Speaker 23: game can really try to slow down for you because

1567
01:01:50,200 --> 01:01:52,560
Speaker 23: you're not thinking about, hey, I gotta go this way,

1568
01:01:52,680 --> 01:01:54,960
Speaker 23: do all that, so you know, I mean, obviously it's

1569
01:01:55,000 --> 01:01:56,640
Speaker 23: gonna be bigger, faster, stronger, you know what I mean,

1570
01:01:56,720 --> 01:01:59,080
Speaker 23: even the stuff from high school to college. There's another

1571
01:01:59,120 --> 01:02:01,880
Speaker 23: stuff from college NFL. So you know, I'm excited to

1572
01:02:01,880 --> 01:02:03,040
Speaker 23: see what challenges it brings.

1573
01:02:03,400 --> 01:02:07,160
Speaker 2: This is kind of like orientation for you guys.

1574
01:02:07,640 --> 01:02:10,560
Speaker 4: So was there the big coach, the fans, get getting

1575
01:02:10,560 --> 01:02:12,440
Speaker 4: any veterans staying in front of the room.

1576
01:02:13,680 --> 01:02:13,800
Speaker 10: Uh?

1577
01:02:13,920 --> 01:02:15,800
Speaker 23: Not yet, I know, Uh, some of the second your

1578
01:02:15,840 --> 01:02:17,560
Speaker 23: guys are coming back. I mean we've been running into

1579
01:02:17,600 --> 01:02:18,840
Speaker 23: some of them, you know, coming in and out of

1580
01:02:18,880 --> 01:02:19,280
Speaker 23: the building.

1581
01:02:19,360 --> 01:02:20,280
Speaker 3: But no, not yet.

1582
01:02:20,720 --> 01:02:21,920
Speaker 4: The pool guard game, it.

1583
01:02:22,400 --> 01:02:24,840
Speaker 6: Had been a staple here the last couple of years,

1584
01:02:25,400 --> 01:02:27,600
Speaker 6: and obviously Jold and White are some of the best

1585
01:02:27,680 --> 01:02:29,280
Speaker 6: in the insts. I think you did some of that

1586
01:02:29,520 --> 01:02:32,360
Speaker 6: at Michigan. How much did you enjoy that?

1587
01:02:32,880 --> 01:02:34,720
Speaker 23: Yeah, I mean we pulled a ton of Michigan and

1588
01:02:34,720 --> 01:02:36,280
Speaker 23: you know, that's something I enjoyed doing and I think

1589
01:02:36,320 --> 01:02:39,000
Speaker 23: it's a strength to you know, my game, and you know,

1590
01:02:39,040 --> 01:02:41,200
Speaker 23: I'm excited to you know, meet Wide and Joel and

1591
01:02:41,320 --> 01:02:41,840
Speaker 23: just learn.

1592
01:02:41,720 --> 01:02:44,000
Speaker 3: From those guys here.

1593
01:02:46,160 --> 01:02:46,840
Speaker 6: Coming back.

1594
01:02:48,280 --> 01:02:49,000
Speaker 10: What was it like just.

1595
01:02:50,960 --> 01:02:52,360
Speaker 4: Like the other.

1596
01:02:55,800 --> 01:02:57,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's real now. You know what I mean.

1597
01:02:58,000 --> 01:03:00,480
Speaker 23: You know, you got the parking pass to get car in.

1598
01:03:00,640 --> 01:03:03,840
Speaker 23: You know you have they'll face ID so I mean,

1599
01:03:03,920 --> 01:03:05,680
Speaker 23: you know, you put the helmet, the jersey on, so

1600
01:03:06,200 --> 01:03:09,200
Speaker 23: you know, it's like it's real. It's my first job,

1601
01:03:09,360 --> 01:03:10,680
Speaker 23: you know what I mean. So you know, I'm just

1602
01:03:10,920 --> 01:03:12,240
Speaker 23: I'm excited to attack us.

1603
01:03:13,080 --> 01:03:16,040
Speaker 22: Hen you explaining again you cut.

1604
01:03:15,920 --> 01:03:17,880
Speaker 4: Them out last year and decided to come back.

1605
01:03:18,240 --> 01:03:21,440
Speaker 11: Went into that and was it a group thing with

1606
01:03:21,560 --> 01:03:22,360
Speaker 11: the players.

1607
01:03:22,000 --> 01:03:23,120
Speaker 4: Because they all kind of hip.

1608
01:03:23,720 --> 01:03:25,840
Speaker 23: Yeah, you know, there was probably six of us that

1609
01:03:25,920 --> 01:03:29,800
Speaker 23: were debating about leaving last year and going to the league.

1610
01:03:29,880 --> 01:03:31,840
Speaker 23: But you know, I think it comes down to the

1611
01:03:31,880 --> 01:03:34,120
Speaker 23: culture we had in Michigan, and you know it was

1612
01:03:34,160 --> 01:03:36,680
Speaker 23: an individual but like kind of had a snowball effect,

1613
01:03:36,680 --> 01:03:38,160
Speaker 23: you know. I mean once one guy said, hey, I

1614
01:03:38,280 --> 01:03:39,720
Speaker 23: want to run this thing back and try to win

1615
01:03:39,760 --> 01:03:41,600
Speaker 23: it all. It's like, well, I don't want to be

1616
01:03:41,640 --> 01:03:43,240
Speaker 23: that one guy that didn't go back, and you know

1617
01:03:43,320 --> 01:03:44,920
Speaker 23: they won it all. Then you regret that for your

1618
01:03:44,920 --> 01:03:47,840
Speaker 23: whole life. So you know, I don't regret going back

1619
01:03:47,840 --> 01:03:49,000
Speaker 23: at all. It is one of the best years of

1620
01:03:49,040 --> 01:03:49,400
Speaker 23: my life.

1621
01:03:51,280 --> 01:03:51,480
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1622
01:03:51,600 --> 01:03:53,720
Speaker 23: Yeah, unfinished business going into it. You know, we had

1623
01:03:54,080 --> 01:03:55,920
Speaker 23: two years of losing in the playoffs, and you know

1624
01:03:56,360 --> 01:03:58,040
Speaker 23: that left a bad taste in a lot of our mouths.

1625
01:03:59,520 --> 01:04:02,800
Speaker 5: I mean, really older Michigan player, you know, because they

1626
01:04:02,880 --> 01:04:06,000
Speaker 5: produced somebody great up with glenders. Was there any of

1627
01:04:06,040 --> 01:04:07,960
Speaker 5: those guys that came back that you really kind of

1628
01:04:08,040 --> 01:04:11,200
Speaker 5: latched on to, that you know, over your while you

1629
01:04:11,280 --> 01:04:13,600
Speaker 5: were up there, that you try to you know, learn

1630
01:04:13,720 --> 01:04:15,439
Speaker 5: from and you know, pick their brain.

1631
01:04:15,600 --> 01:04:15,800
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1632
01:04:15,800 --> 01:04:18,360
Speaker 23: I mean guys like Taylor Lawn and Steve Hutchinson. You

1633
01:04:18,400 --> 01:04:20,960
Speaker 23: know they're around the building a good amount. And you know,

1634
01:04:21,000 --> 01:04:23,000
Speaker 23: Steve Hotchson would come into the meeting room, you know,

1635
01:04:23,560 --> 01:04:25,360
Speaker 23: tell us what he saw, how.

1636
01:04:25,320 --> 01:04:26,360
Speaker 3: He broke down film.

1637
01:04:26,720 --> 01:04:26,800
Speaker 7: Uh.

1638
01:04:26,920 --> 01:04:28,600
Speaker 23: You know, he'd beat out there at practice. You don't

1639
01:04:28,600 --> 01:04:30,880
Speaker 23: have to practice. He'd be like, hey, I saw this

1640
01:04:31,080 --> 01:04:32,360
Speaker 23: or this talk about hand placement.

1641
01:04:32,480 --> 01:04:32,600
Speaker 10: Uh.

1642
01:04:32,960 --> 01:04:34,680
Speaker 3: So, I mean there's definitely some older guys that came in.

1643
01:04:34,720 --> 01:04:38,560
Speaker 4: To help us out. Did you have a favorite Tarba as?

1644
01:04:41,000 --> 01:04:42,600
Speaker 23: I mean, I got a lot of good stories about

1645
01:04:42,640 --> 01:04:45,640
Speaker 23: Coach Harbo, but uh, I mean he's a great guy.

1646
01:04:45,800 --> 01:04:46,480
Speaker 4: He's a great guy.

1647
01:04:47,600 --> 01:04:47,920
Speaker 3: Thanks.

1648
01:04:48,160 --> 01:04:50,800
Speaker 1: The final guest of honor this weekend at Rookie Mini

1649
01:04:50,880 --> 01:04:54,280
Speaker 1: Camp Corner, Miles Harden Out of South Dakota. He's got

1650
01:04:54,320 --> 01:04:56,920
Speaker 1: a great story to tell, and the turnover machine at

1651
01:04:57,040 --> 01:05:00,520
Speaker 1: corner could turn some heads this fall for your clear Brown.

1652
01:05:00,960 --> 01:05:03,120
Speaker 4: What's the weak thing like through you so far? Uh,

1653
01:05:03,160 --> 01:05:04,040
Speaker 4: it's been good so far.

1654
01:05:04,120 --> 01:05:06,040
Speaker 15: It's just great being out here in Cleveland and just

1655
01:05:06,160 --> 01:05:08,520
Speaker 15: learning from the new guys, seeing the coaches and everybody here.

1656
01:05:11,280 --> 01:05:15,240
Speaker 5: What does a guy from South Florida or through Florida end.

1657
01:05:15,280 --> 01:05:16,320
Speaker 4: Up in South Dakota.

1658
01:05:17,000 --> 01:05:19,400
Speaker 15: Uh, it's just the relationships I built with the coaches. Coacharges,

1659
01:05:19,480 --> 01:05:21,680
Speaker 15: Coachure Hanson. We built a good relationship with me and

1660
01:05:21,800 --> 01:05:24,840
Speaker 15: my family, and also my teammate that's there, Na Josiah

1661
01:05:25,080 --> 01:05:26,840
Speaker 15: We They recruited both of us out of high school.

1662
01:05:26,880 --> 01:05:29,320
Speaker 15: So just me and him going there and the relationship

1663
01:05:29,360 --> 01:05:31,200
Speaker 15: I have with Coacharge because of Hanson, That's what letted

1664
01:05:31,240 --> 01:05:31,560
Speaker 15: me going in.

1665
01:05:32,760 --> 01:05:35,680
Speaker 8: It seemed like from reading about you that maybe you've

1666
01:05:35,720 --> 01:05:38,440
Speaker 8: had some interest from FBS schools, but that it was

1667
01:05:38,480 --> 01:05:41,080
Speaker 8: important for you to stay in South Dakota and not

1668
01:05:41,600 --> 01:05:43,560
Speaker 8: enter the border or any anything. Can you just kind

1669
01:05:43,600 --> 01:05:45,840
Speaker 8: of tell us about that aspect of of who you

1670
01:05:45,880 --> 01:05:47,160
Speaker 8: are and white was important to stay there.

1671
01:05:47,280 --> 01:05:49,960
Speaker 15: Uh, it's important because my family raised me on loyalty,

1672
01:05:50,080 --> 01:05:52,120
Speaker 15: like we're we're a lot of people. And everywhere I

1673
01:05:52,200 --> 01:05:55,080
Speaker 15: started off finished from Optimist to high school and college.

1674
01:05:55,120 --> 01:05:57,440
Speaker 15: Everywhere I started at off finished So in the family

1675
01:05:57,520 --> 01:05:59,919
Speaker 15: I built that South Dakota, I wouldn't leave them for nothing.

1676
01:06:00,880 --> 01:06:02,800
Speaker 4: Was that like a culture shot when you got there?

1677
01:06:03,720 --> 01:06:03,840
Speaker 2: Uh?

1678
01:06:04,080 --> 01:06:05,840
Speaker 4: Not not really? It was a weather shot.

1679
01:06:05,960 --> 01:06:08,680
Speaker 15: Yeah, it was a weather shot, but it was also

1680
01:06:08,800 --> 01:06:10,800
Speaker 15: Uh coming from a big, big city going to a

1681
01:06:10,840 --> 01:06:12,720
Speaker 15: small town, I was also a big adjustment.

1682
01:06:12,840 --> 01:06:13,880
Speaker 3: But I did well.

1683
01:06:15,000 --> 01:06:16,400
Speaker 4: You played against Missouri.

1684
01:06:16,520 --> 01:06:18,880
Speaker 5: Missouri was one of the teams you played last year.

1685
01:06:19,320 --> 01:06:21,240
Speaker 4: When you played a team like that, you know guys

1686
01:06:21,320 --> 01:06:24,120
Speaker 4: like Burden and you know the guys receivers they had.

1687
01:06:24,640 --> 01:06:26,680
Speaker 5: How much did you kind of elevate your try to

1688
01:06:26,720 --> 01:06:28,440
Speaker 5: elevate your game in those games? And how much do

1689
01:06:28,560 --> 01:06:31,320
Speaker 5: you feel like that's pre games like that prepare used

1690
01:06:31,320 --> 01:06:32,280
Speaker 5: to what pl did?

1691
01:06:32,360 --> 01:06:33,360
Speaker 4: Jump here about the team?

1692
01:06:33,640 --> 01:06:33,760
Speaker 10: Uh?

1693
01:06:33,760 --> 01:06:36,320
Speaker 15: I did a lot to prepare my game, uh mentally

1694
01:06:37,040 --> 01:06:39,560
Speaker 15: Uh just being able to diagnose film and watch the

1695
01:06:39,600 --> 01:06:41,240
Speaker 15: little details that they could give me to help me

1696
01:06:41,280 --> 01:06:41,800
Speaker 15: play faster.

1697
01:06:41,960 --> 01:06:42,040
Speaker 19: Uh.

1698
01:06:42,080 --> 01:06:43,720
Speaker 10: I feel like that helped me play faster that game

1699
01:06:43,920 --> 01:06:44,800
Speaker 10: and had the game I had.

1700
01:06:47,680 --> 01:06:50,800
Speaker 4: Do you have some good cornerbacks on this team. Have

1701
01:06:50,880 --> 01:06:51,640
Speaker 4: you met any of 'em?

1702
01:06:51,680 --> 01:06:51,840
Speaker 16: There?

1703
01:06:52,160 --> 01:06:54,600
Speaker 4: Uh? I met Denzel yesterday. What was that wor?

1704
01:06:55,040 --> 01:06:55,160
Speaker 10: Uh?

1705
01:06:55,200 --> 01:06:55,640
Speaker 4: It was good.

1706
01:06:55,720 --> 01:06:57,440
Speaker 15: You know, coach had brought him in the locker room

1707
01:06:57,440 --> 01:06:58,800
Speaker 15: to see me. It was good to see him and

1708
01:06:59,000 --> 01:07:01,440
Speaker 15: just talk to him. And hopefully i'm'a be under him

1709
01:07:01,520 --> 01:07:02,480
Speaker 15: under his wing soon.

1710
01:07:03,040 --> 01:07:06,320
Speaker 6: What have these last couple of days been like for

1711
01:07:06,560 --> 01:07:08,760
Speaker 6: you know, for you walking in this building and you're

1712
01:07:08,800 --> 01:07:10,480
Speaker 6: kind of getting a crash course, and not only in

1713
01:07:10,520 --> 01:07:13,080
Speaker 6: the National Football League, but you know what the Browns

1714
01:07:13,120 --> 01:07:13,960
Speaker 6: are gonna be expecting.

1715
01:07:14,640 --> 01:07:16,840
Speaker 15: Uh, it's been surreal, like it. It still hasn't hitten

1716
01:07:16,840 --> 01:07:18,840
Speaker 15: me yet that I'm in the NFL right now. Uh,

1717
01:07:18,880 --> 01:07:20,720
Speaker 15: It's it's just crazy that I'm I'm here standing in

1718
01:07:20,760 --> 01:07:23,360
Speaker 15: this position that I'm in right now, and it's it's

1719
01:07:23,400 --> 01:07:24,880
Speaker 15: been surreal. So I'm just taking it in a day

1720
01:07:24,920 --> 01:07:27,120
Speaker 15: by then taking it day back there currently experience.

1721
01:07:27,160 --> 01:07:28,680
Speaker 21: It said that you thought that you might have a

1722
01:07:28,720 --> 01:07:31,200
Speaker 21: profile to play more night got inside, just careios how

1723
01:07:31,280 --> 01:07:32,040
Speaker 21: much you didn't.

1724
01:07:31,760 --> 01:07:33,440
Speaker 4: How much you did that in college and high school?

1725
01:07:33,800 --> 01:07:33,880
Speaker 10: Uh?

1726
01:07:33,920 --> 01:07:35,720
Speaker 15: I did it in college like the past two years,

1727
01:07:36,120 --> 01:07:38,080
Speaker 15: I started, Uh moving inside and playing inside.

1728
01:07:38,440 --> 01:07:39,120
Speaker 10: So I'm op.

1729
01:07:39,160 --> 01:07:39,800
Speaker 15: I'm open to it.

1730
01:07:40,240 --> 01:07:42,960
Speaker 2: Most like maybe not things coming that sage the outside

1731
01:07:42,960 --> 01:07:43,400
Speaker 2: to inside.

1732
01:07:43,880 --> 01:07:45,480
Speaker 15: Uh I, I just feel like the biggest thing going

1733
01:07:45,520 --> 01:07:47,640
Speaker 15: inside is this. It's more room inside. You know, it's

1734
01:07:47,640 --> 01:07:49,960
Speaker 15: a two way go rther than outside. You you pretty

1735
01:07:50,040 --> 01:07:51,920
Speaker 15: much could send 'em one away. So I just say

1736
01:07:52,000 --> 01:07:53,960
Speaker 15: inside is two way go. That's the biggest adjustment to

1737
01:07:54,000 --> 01:07:58,000
Speaker 15: be about to say, said they I play safety. I

1738
01:07:58,040 --> 01:07:59,760
Speaker 15: play safety in high school, so it it's nothing new

1739
01:07:59,800 --> 01:07:59,920
Speaker 15: to you.

1740
01:08:00,880 --> 01:08:04,600
Speaker 4: A little bit bigger under the Yeah, welllls, I know

1741
01:08:04,680 --> 01:08:06,080
Speaker 4: what the corners that are here already.

1742
01:08:06,080 --> 01:08:08,680
Speaker 8: You always talking about when playing with for Brandon Lynch

1743
01:08:08,760 --> 01:08:10,080
Speaker 8: and how he is as a coach would have been

1744
01:08:10,080 --> 01:08:12,600
Speaker 8: your first impressions of him and getting.

1745
01:08:12,360 --> 01:08:14,080
Speaker 15: Out there on the field, and actually, uh I I

1746
01:08:14,200 --> 01:08:16,560
Speaker 15: love cause man, coach cool, coach cool and he's a

1747
01:08:16,640 --> 01:08:19,439
Speaker 15: former Missouri Valley guy, so we already established a relationship

1748
01:08:19,479 --> 01:08:21,599
Speaker 15: with that. So I that that linked us a little

1749
01:08:21,640 --> 01:08:24,120
Speaker 15: bit closer for him knowing where I came from and

1750
01:08:24,360 --> 01:08:24,719
Speaker 15: he came.

1751
01:08:24,680 --> 01:08:25,320
Speaker 4: From the same place.

1752
01:08:25,360 --> 01:08:26,920
Speaker 10: But coach is cool, and I I liked the coach

1753
01:08:26,960 --> 01:08:28,320
Speaker 10: and he's given me and everything was.

1754
01:08:28,320 --> 01:08:28,640
Speaker 4: Doing with me.

1755
01:08:29,680 --> 01:08:31,439
Speaker 13: You were at there about like what Division, Like what

1756
01:08:31,560 --> 01:08:32,479
Speaker 13: high schools did you play?

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Speaker 18: Uh?

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Speaker 15: We played. We played Saint Thomas. Uh the major school Yeah,

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01:08:37,240 --> 01:08:37,880
Speaker 15: the manjor schools.

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Speaker 10: What was that like? In time?

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01:08:40,320 --> 01:08:41,080
Speaker 13: Do you everyone talks.

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01:08:40,880 --> 01:08:41,559
Speaker 15: About the competitions?

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01:08:42,000 --> 01:08:43,120
Speaker 4: Somebody act what was that about?

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01:08:43,600 --> 01:08:43,720
Speaker 10: Uh?

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01:08:43,760 --> 01:08:45,840
Speaker 15: It was good just going against the best competition every week,

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01:08:45,920 --> 01:08:49,640
Speaker 15: playing Saint Thomas, American Heritage, Uh Delert Uh Northwestern.

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Speaker 14: It.

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Speaker 15: It was just great going out there playing against good

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01:08:51,600 --> 01:08:53,439
Speaker 15: schools and having a competition we had down there.

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Speaker 4: Did you visit here a good quarter drive?

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01:08:55,680 --> 01:08:56,000
Speaker 10: No, sir?

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01:08:56,400 --> 01:08:59,280
Speaker 4: So when the Browns collected, you were you're like nobody

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01:08:59,360 --> 01:08:59,640
Speaker 4: knew men?

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01:09:00,400 --> 01:09:01,679
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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01:09:01,720 --> 01:09:04,439
Speaker 15: It It was crazy because when uh, when UH coach

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01:09:04,520 --> 01:09:06,680
Speaker 15: Barry called me, Uh, I saw him on the phone.

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01:09:06,720 --> 01:09:08,479
Speaker 15: I didn't know who it was at first, cause when

1778
01:09:08,479 --> 01:09:10,920
Speaker 15: I got the phone called, my background just everybody started

1779
01:09:10,960 --> 01:09:12,599
Speaker 15: yelling and stuff, so I I couldn't hear it really,

1780
01:09:12,920 --> 01:09:15,120
Speaker 15: but I heard when he said it's it's a Cleveland Browns,

1781
01:09:15,200 --> 01:09:17,080
Speaker 15: and Uh, I got happy right there.

1782
01:09:17,120 --> 01:09:19,280
Speaker 13: I just know I was coming home, Like what could

1783
01:09:19,600 --> 01:09:22,960
Speaker 13: did you s uh talk that through him or ask

1784
01:09:23,120 --> 01:09:25,360
Speaker 13: who I I I heard.

1785
01:09:25,479 --> 01:09:28,000
Speaker 15: I heard some of the conversation, so I knew where

1786
01:09:28,000 --> 01:09:29,360
Speaker 15: I was going and he told me I was gonna

1787
01:09:29,360 --> 01:09:31,160
Speaker 15: call me later, so we ended up talking later.

1788
01:09:32,760 --> 01:09:34,759
Speaker 4: Jim Schwartz, what was man coverage?

1789
01:09:35,120 --> 01:09:36,479
Speaker 3: It's just that something he's driving.

1790
01:09:36,640 --> 01:09:38,360
Speaker 4: That's something you get excited about.

1791
01:09:38,760 --> 01:09:39,760
Speaker 2: Pointing guys man again.

1792
01:09:39,920 --> 01:09:40,560
Speaker 10: Yeah, it it is.

1793
01:09:40,960 --> 01:09:42,800
Speaker 15: I played man coverage in UH college as well, so

1794
01:09:42,920 --> 01:09:44,320
Speaker 15: it it's nothing new to me. I I go out

1795
01:09:44,320 --> 01:09:45,679
Speaker 15: there and play man getting somebody's face.

1796
01:09:46,120 --> 01:09:48,240
Speaker 4: There's there's so much. There's so many teams that plays

1797
01:09:48,280 --> 01:09:51,040
Speaker 4: though in the law. So excited he played at some

1798
01:09:51,120 --> 01:09:52,080
Speaker 4: place where they.

1799
01:09:52,080 --> 01:09:54,439
Speaker 22: Do value playing man to man and that he's gotta.

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01:09:54,280 --> 01:09:54,800
Speaker 10: Put that on you.

1801
01:09:55,000 --> 01:09:56,559
Speaker 15: Yeah, I do, just being able to go out there

1802
01:09:56,600 --> 01:09:58,800
Speaker 15: and play man on man mano a mano and just

1803
01:09:59,120 --> 01:10:00,800
Speaker 15: having to go out there and beat the person in

1804
01:10:00,800 --> 01:10:02,080
Speaker 15: front of me and not let him catch the ball.

1805
01:10:02,680 --> 01:10:05,160
Speaker 6: A lot of rookies are expected to come in and

1806
01:10:05,280 --> 01:10:07,160
Speaker 6: contribute on special teams.

1807
01:10:08,439 --> 01:10:10,519
Speaker 4: How do you think you fit into that equation?

1808
01:10:10,800 --> 01:10:11,680
Speaker 10: I think I fit into it.

1809
01:10:11,760 --> 01:10:11,960
Speaker 4: Well.

1810
01:10:12,280 --> 01:10:14,040
Speaker 15: I just go out there and play any any role

1811
01:10:14,080 --> 01:10:15,760
Speaker 15: they put me in. I'm willing to do it, so

1812
01:10:16,160 --> 01:10:17,240
Speaker 15: I think I can contribute to it.

1813
01:10:17,560 --> 01:10:19,840
Speaker 6: Getting a crash course on the new kickoff rule right now?

1814
01:10:19,920 --> 01:10:21,679
Speaker 3: For yeah, we are.

1815
01:10:23,160 --> 01:10:25,680
Speaker 15: We're gonna start soon, I believe. But he went over

1816
01:10:25,760 --> 01:10:28,240
Speaker 15: a little bit in the meetings drills with you.

1817
01:10:28,439 --> 01:10:31,559
Speaker 13: Yeah, how much media covered something to go to death?

1818
01:10:32,400 --> 01:10:32,559
Speaker 14: Uh?

1819
01:10:34,160 --> 01:10:35,040
Speaker 10: What do you mean by that? Like?

1820
01:10:37,160 --> 01:10:40,080
Speaker 15: Oh, not with like all the cameras right there. Know

1821
01:10:40,520 --> 01:10:42,479
Speaker 15: it'll probably be like one to two. But that I

1822
01:10:42,600 --> 01:10:45,160
Speaker 15: really we didn't well, I didn't do that much Meati covered, So.

1823
01:10:48,280 --> 01:10:48,600
Speaker 4: Thank you.

1824
01:10:50,840 --> 01:10:51,080
Speaker 10: That's it.

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Speaker 1: That's this weekend's recamp on Rookie Mini Camp. Like and

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