1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:02,880 Speaker 1: Well, it's just uh said that he was very pleased 2 00:00:02,920 --> 00:00:06,280 Speaker 1: with your performance on Sunday. How'd you feel about just 3 00:00:06,360 --> 00:00:08,039 Speaker 1: kind of getting back into the flow of things. 4 00:00:08,520 --> 00:00:10,200 Speaker 2: For me, it felt good to be back out there. 5 00:00:10,280 --> 00:00:12,840 Speaker 2: Felt like I ain't played football almost a year, So 6 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:16,200 Speaker 2: it just, uh felt good to be back out there 7 00:00:16,280 --> 00:00:19,080 Speaker 2: with my team, getting comfortable with the costs playing fast. 8 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:23,440 Speaker 1: How big of a deal is it for you would 9 00:00:23,480 --> 00:00:27,080 Speaker 1: your weight and everything to be able to play run 10 00:00:27,160 --> 00:00:29,560 Speaker 1: support and and put your nose in there and make 11 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:31,000 Speaker 1: a play like you did in. 12 00:00:30,920 --> 00:00:34,760 Speaker 2: That shortyard situation. I mean, in this defense, everyone who's 13 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:37,640 Speaker 2: on the edge, whether that's dns or corners, we know 14 00:00:37,760 --> 00:00:39,680 Speaker 2: that a lot of teams are gonna try to tack 15 00:00:39,760 --> 00:00:42,080 Speaker 2: us on the outside. So you know, of you a corner, 16 00:00:42,080 --> 00:00:43,640 Speaker 2: you gotta come up and tackle on this defense or 17 00:00:43,640 --> 00:00:47,120 Speaker 2: you're not gonna play here. You the goal line situation 18 00:00:47,159 --> 00:00:50,040 Speaker 2: you had, you got a shot at the guy. How 19 00:00:50,080 --> 00:00:51,879 Speaker 2: much was it, like, did you take from that too 20 00:00:52,159 --> 00:00:55,040 Speaker 2: into that fourth ount situation, like better technique or was 21 00:00:55,040 --> 00:00:57,520 Speaker 2: there anything like that? No, I just I just don't 22 00:00:57,560 --> 00:00:59,640 Speaker 2: sit back. I just shoot whether I hit him or 23 00:00:59,680 --> 00:01:02,200 Speaker 2: I don't hit him, Like I got a team if 24 00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:04,560 Speaker 2: he go up in there is gonna get cloudy, and 25 00:01:04,560 --> 00:01:08,800 Speaker 2: that's why I expected on that fourth down, go up 26 00:01:08,840 --> 00:01:10,560 Speaker 2: in there. Just make sure he don't get outside. Just 27 00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:12,640 Speaker 2: shoot my shot. And I didn't get him that time, 28 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:14,600 Speaker 2: but the fourth down when I did. 29 00:01:14,880 --> 00:01:16,760 Speaker 1: When were your coaches and your teammates have talked a 30 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:19,039 Speaker 1: lot about the difference in your confidence this season. Is 31 00:01:19,080 --> 00:01:20,160 Speaker 1: that something that you're feeling. 32 00:01:20,600 --> 00:01:22,959 Speaker 2: Yeah, most definitely. I just feel like I'm getting back 33 00:01:22,959 --> 00:01:25,080 Speaker 2: to who I am. Last year, I don't feel like 34 00:01:25,440 --> 00:01:27,720 Speaker 2: I was me all the way, whether that stuff going 35 00:01:27,880 --> 00:01:30,160 Speaker 2: on inside the build or outside the building, I just 36 00:01:30,160 --> 00:01:31,880 Speaker 2: didn't feel like me. But now I feel like I'm back. 37 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:35,840 Speaker 2: First year, you really progressed as a season one on. 38 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:37,360 Speaker 2: Last year was not as good. 39 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:39,360 Speaker 1: How would you compare those first two years? 40 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:43,080 Speaker 2: What was the difference in you two? I just say 41 00:01:43,480 --> 00:01:47,119 Speaker 2: a big learning curve going into my rookie year strong 42 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:49,800 Speaker 2: and kind of having that sophomore slope. My second year, 43 00:01:50,720 --> 00:01:53,440 Speaker 2: I just felt like mentally I wasn't prepared. Physically, I 44 00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:56,000 Speaker 2: wasn't prepared. I kind of felt like it was given 45 00:01:56,040 --> 00:01:58,400 Speaker 2: to me just because I came off a strong playoff 46 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:03,040 Speaker 2: run my rookie year. But this year, anybody job is 47 00:02:03,120 --> 00:02:05,160 Speaker 2: up for grabs. That's how I look at it, and uh, 48 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:08,800 Speaker 2: that's the mentality I took going into work starting from OTAs. 49 00:02:09,160 --> 00:02:11,560 Speaker 1: Do you think I feel like I don't know that 50 00:02:11,600 --> 00:02:13,560 Speaker 1: it was kind of a wasted year last year? Or 51 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:15,239 Speaker 1: did you learn a lot like going. 52 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:15,480 Speaker 2: To the Witches? 53 00:02:15,520 --> 00:02:15,640 Speaker 1: Oh? 54 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:17,880 Speaker 2: Yeah, no, most definitely nothing is a wasted year for me. 55 00:02:18,240 --> 00:02:22,800 Speaker 2: I learned a lot sitting back watching those guys play 56 00:02:22,840 --> 00:02:25,520 Speaker 2: and still perform. Well. I still took my mental notes 57 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:27,239 Speaker 2: and j I just knew, like when my time came 58 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:29,919 Speaker 2: back around, I was gonna, uh make the most about 59 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:32,480 Speaker 2: of it. A moment of truth for you after the 60 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:34,640 Speaker 2: season was over, that you sort of realized that, I mean, 61 00:02:34,639 --> 00:02:36,040 Speaker 2: they Coul's they say a lot of times that the 62 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:38,920 Speaker 2: guy's biggest development comes between year one. 63 00:02:38,720 --> 00:02:39,239 Speaker 1: And year two. 64 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:43,800 Speaker 2: Yeah kind of, yeah, I would say for me, after 65 00:02:43,880 --> 00:02:47,600 Speaker 2: Week eight last year, I just knew. I put in 66 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:49,680 Speaker 2: my mind right there what I was doing the off season. 67 00:02:49,720 --> 00:02:51,880 Speaker 2: I had my off season planning already planned out. I 68 00:02:51,960 --> 00:02:53,799 Speaker 2: knew when I was leaving, I knew where I was going, 69 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:56,880 Speaker 2: I knew who who I was training with. So around 70 00:02:56,880 --> 00:02:58,720 Speaker 2: that time, that's when it kind of clicked in for me. 71 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:02,640 Speaker 1: Oh here off season, Like, did you kind of change 72 00:03:02,680 --> 00:03:04,359 Speaker 1: things up going into this this year? 73 00:03:04,520 --> 00:03:06,920 Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, I had a more structure off season. I'm 74 00:03:07,080 --> 00:03:08,840 Speaker 2: I mean, of course, I took some time to myself, 75 00:03:08,880 --> 00:03:12,320 Speaker 2: but after like two three weeks, I got right to 76 00:03:12,360 --> 00:03:16,840 Speaker 2: training in Dallas with Mooney and just I was in 77 00:03:16,919 --> 00:03:19,640 Speaker 2: Dallas this whole off season training with him and some 78 00:03:19,680 --> 00:03:22,000 Speaker 2: other guys and we were all just working. Was there 79 00:03:22,040 --> 00:03:24,160 Speaker 2: ever a point last season where you felt dejected in that. 80 00:03:24,240 --> 00:03:25,440 Speaker 1: Maybe you couldn't do this? 81 00:03:25,720 --> 00:03:26,720 Speaker 2: You say that again, Was. 82 00:03:26,720 --> 00:03:28,359 Speaker 1: There ever a point last season where you fell in 83 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:31,280 Speaker 1: deject dejected and maybe this wasn't something You're gonna be 84 00:03:31,320 --> 00:03:31,720 Speaker 1: able to do? 85 00:03:31,919 --> 00:03:35,120 Speaker 2: Nah? I thought they thought that, But that just made 86 00:03:35,160 --> 00:03:38,280 Speaker 2: me more mattern, just more eager to prove 'em wrong. 87 00:03:38,320 --> 00:03:42,840 Speaker 2: I like proving people wrong. So yeah, that was my mindset, 88 00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:45,280 Speaker 2: just like, let's prove him wrong. It's more. 89 00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:49,480 Speaker 1: Imagine working out with with Moone. You get a lot 90 00:03:49,520 --> 00:03:52,680 Speaker 1: of time to sort of pick his brain. I mean, 91 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:54,760 Speaker 1: a anything that you kind of took away from that 92 00:03:54,800 --> 00:03:58,240 Speaker 1: from just to understanding the game standpoint. 93 00:03:57,840 --> 00:04:01,360 Speaker 2: Really just knowing on why I'm here and that I 94 00:04:01,440 --> 00:04:03,320 Speaker 2: belong here and now I'm here for a reason, just 95 00:04:04,040 --> 00:04:06,800 Speaker 2: bring it back that dog mentality that I showed that 96 00:04:06,880 --> 00:04:09,640 Speaker 2: I play with, and that's just me, Like good rep, 97 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:11,960 Speaker 2: bad rap, next rep. Like I'm gonna be me at 98 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:13,400 Speaker 2: the end of the day if I lose or win. 99 00:04:13,560 --> 00:04:15,520 Speaker 2: So just being me at the end of the day, 100 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:15,920 Speaker 2: that's all. 101 00:04:18,120 --> 00:04:20,320 Speaker 1: Where do you go from here? But what's your focus 102 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:22,960 Speaker 1: as preseason? What is forward? 103 00:04:23,040 --> 00:04:26,640 Speaker 2: I'm trying to keep getting better for myself, honestly. I mean, 104 00:04:26,680 --> 00:04:29,120 Speaker 2: I love proving people wrong. But I know what I'm 105 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:31,919 Speaker 2: capable of and I know what i can do, and 106 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:33,800 Speaker 2: I just feel like I'm not all the way there yet, 107 00:04:33,839 --> 00:04:36,600 Speaker 2: but I'm getting there and I feel it, so yeah, 108 00:04:36,640 --> 00:04:38,279 Speaker 2: it's like a charge up. I feel it coming. 109 00:04:40,480 --> 00:04:41,240 Speaker 1: You need to get there. 110 00:04:41,960 --> 00:04:43,720 Speaker 2: Where are you trying to get I'm trying to I'm 111 00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:45,480 Speaker 2: trying to be one of the best. But I just 112 00:04:45,480 --> 00:04:47,360 Speaker 2: gotta keep on working in practice, showing what I can 113 00:04:47,400 --> 00:04:50,279 Speaker 2: do in these preseason games, and just showing the coaches 114 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:51,919 Speaker 2: that I'm one of the players on the team that 115 00:04:51,920 --> 00:04:55,520 Speaker 2: they can lean on and trust.