1 00:00:03,279 --> 00:00:11,559 Speaker 1: Your birthday. It is. I appreciate it. Anybody get you something, 2 00:00:11,640 --> 00:00:14,000 Speaker 1: it's locker room. Oh now to stop the locker room. 3 00:00:14,160 --> 00:00:17,000 Speaker 1: My dad bought me something special. He he bought me 4 00:00:17,079 --> 00:00:20,799 Speaker 1: like this Clone Hill State thing. Um, it's all on 5 00:00:20,840 --> 00:00:23,360 Speaker 1: the internet, but he just bought me something special and 6 00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:24,919 Speaker 1: it was. It was kind of cool because something I 7 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:27,840 Speaker 1: keep first in my life. So, yeah, I have to 8 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:32,400 Speaker 1: deal with Saturday. Then I gotta ask you Saturday. Yeah. Yeah, 9 00:00:32,600 --> 00:00:35,919 Speaker 1: tough one, tough one. Um, like I said, I told him, 10 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:39,159 Speaker 1: But it's twenty fourteen. Lost Virginia Tech first game, so 11 00:00:39,840 --> 00:00:41,440 Speaker 1: you could you could do the same things. You gotta 12 00:00:41,479 --> 00:00:44,880 Speaker 1: believe so, but I believe in him. The defense is 13 00:00:44,880 --> 00:00:47,360 Speaker 1: gonna be straight, offense is already doing good. But a 14 00:00:47,440 --> 00:00:50,880 Speaker 1: love and Garrett Wills out there. So I'm really looking 15 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:53,320 Speaker 1: forward to this these next couple of games. Is just 16 00:00:53,360 --> 00:00:55,040 Speaker 1: to see who's gonna be on the field for them 17 00:00:55,080 --> 00:00:59,480 Speaker 1: for them guys, and we're looking forward to it. So 18 00:01:00,440 --> 00:01:02,360 Speaker 1: what was your reaction when you found out that you 19 00:01:02,400 --> 00:01:05,399 Speaker 1: were traded here? Um, it was a crazy reaction. I 20 00:01:05,480 --> 00:01:07,560 Speaker 1: was like practiced with the Ravens. I forgot what day 21 00:01:07,560 --> 00:01:11,920 Speaker 1: it was. Um, coach hardball came to me and he 22 00:01:11,959 --> 00:01:14,080 Speaker 1: was like, we're going to trade you. And I was like, 23 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:16,880 Speaker 1: my mom was just everywhere. I didn't know where to 24 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:19,600 Speaker 1: go with my mind. Had an apartment down there. I 25 00:01:19,720 --> 00:01:22,720 Speaker 1: was settled down there, and it just it just happened. 26 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:26,080 Speaker 1: I flew here that next day, flew into Providence, came 27 00:01:26,160 --> 00:01:30,120 Speaker 1: up here, and I just snapping clear and I'm on 28 00:01:30,160 --> 00:01:31,800 Speaker 1: a new team now, so it's time. It's time to 29 00:01:31,840 --> 00:01:34,640 Speaker 1: grind and get to know different people on the team, 30 00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:37,400 Speaker 1: on the staff, and just learn from from Gilmore and 31 00:01:37,520 --> 00:01:41,720 Speaker 1: JC and mill. So what's that adjustment Like? You come 32 00:01:41,720 --> 00:01:43,959 Speaker 1: out of the draft, you spend months kind of locking 33 00:01:43,959 --> 00:01:46,240 Speaker 1: in on this one defense, and then late in the 34 00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:49,000 Speaker 1: preseason it's, oh, never mind, you're actually coming to a 35 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:51,000 Speaker 1: new team and learning a whole new defense. What's that 36 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:53,920 Speaker 1: adjustment process been like for you? Oh? Yeah, that adjustment 37 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:57,000 Speaker 1: is I'm not gonna lie. It's very very hard just 38 00:01:57,080 --> 00:02:00,640 Speaker 1: going to Baltimore learning their defense and how they play, 39 00:02:00,680 --> 00:02:04,480 Speaker 1: how they practice, and coming here it's a totally different atmosphere. 40 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:07,920 Speaker 1: They practice different, they lift different here, the coaches are 41 00:02:07,920 --> 00:02:10,840 Speaker 1: different here, the system is different here. So I just 42 00:02:10,919 --> 00:02:12,799 Speaker 1: it's just something I have to adjust to and that's 43 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:15,400 Speaker 1: a part of life. So you gotta adjust in life, 44 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:17,760 Speaker 1: and it's just something I gotta adjust to and to 45 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:19,919 Speaker 1: get to where I want in my goals, had to 46 00:02:19,919 --> 00:02:24,560 Speaker 1: adjust them said, how helpful has this group of players 47 00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:26,520 Speaker 1: been to make sure that adjustment was a little bit 48 00:02:26,560 --> 00:02:28,639 Speaker 1: easier to? Oh yeah, definitely. When I first walked in, 49 00:02:28,760 --> 00:02:31,240 Speaker 1: they all welcome me in the whole, the whole. All 50 00:02:31,320 --> 00:02:33,720 Speaker 1: the players welcome me. Um, just want to getting to 51 00:02:33,760 --> 00:02:35,960 Speaker 1: know me and things. I'm a quiet person, so um 52 00:02:36,120 --> 00:02:38,799 Speaker 1: they've been getting get me to talking things like that. 53 00:02:38,880 --> 00:02:42,600 Speaker 1: And then I'm just being around Gilmore on JC got meals, 54 00:02:42,960 --> 00:02:46,240 Speaker 1: you got ap, you got dev Just being around all 55 00:02:46,280 --> 00:02:48,600 Speaker 1: them guys and they seeing how they practice, how they work, 56 00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:50,880 Speaker 1: how they put like they put a lot of time 57 00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:53,079 Speaker 1: in into their craft and the film work and it 58 00:02:53,160 --> 00:02:55,480 Speaker 1: shows up on the fielding on game day. So just 59 00:02:55,919 --> 00:02:57,760 Speaker 1: right now, I'm just trying to learn and grasp everything 60 00:02:57,800 --> 00:03:03,240 Speaker 1: for them and from my coaches. Just give one might 61 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:06,840 Speaker 1: got me, he he might got me. What do you 62 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:10,760 Speaker 1: remember about the prep process with the paperies? Um, pre 63 00:03:10,880 --> 00:03:13,000 Speaker 1: draft process. I caught I talked to coach Mike a 64 00:03:13,080 --> 00:03:15,360 Speaker 1: little bit. Um. I know we had our little one 65 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:17,680 Speaker 1: on one talk, but that's really like the only one 66 00:03:17,720 --> 00:03:20,880 Speaker 1: I remember. Um. I remember him coming to a house 67 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:23,959 Speaker 1: state my last year before COVID hit, and he was 68 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:26,840 Speaker 1: in our meeting room, and um, he was just listening 69 00:03:26,960 --> 00:03:29,359 Speaker 1: things like that. And I remember coaches, my own coach 70 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:31,079 Speaker 1: comes and things telling me that they really liked me 71 00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:33,760 Speaker 1: at the Patriots and things like that. So, UM, I 72 00:03:33,800 --> 00:03:36,280 Speaker 1: just knew it was it's you win here, and I'm 73 00:03:36,360 --> 00:03:38,480 Speaker 1: a winner. I want four state championships, a little league 74 00:03:38,560 --> 00:03:43,360 Speaker 1: national championship, all Big ten championships. So I'm a winner 75 00:03:43,360 --> 00:03:44,920 Speaker 1: and that's all I care about is winning. So I'm 76 00:03:44,920 --> 00:03:47,600 Speaker 1: on a winning program, and right now all I care 77 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:54,680 Speaker 1: about his winning. So yes on Sweetwater. What was that 78 00:03:54,800 --> 00:03:58,480 Speaker 1: sweet our midget year, So that would be Sweetwater, not 79 00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:01,480 Speaker 1: the Hawks. It's it's a bird, but our organization is 80 00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:05,960 Speaker 1: called Sweetwater. Each year we went to nationals and we 81 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:09,320 Speaker 1: lost until my last year before going into high schoolball, 82 00:04:09,320 --> 00:04:14,280 Speaker 1: you know, winning national song. No, you wouldn't believe if 83 00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:16,920 Speaker 1: I was a linebacker. I was a linebacker, played receiver 84 00:04:16,960 --> 00:04:20,680 Speaker 1: and tight end a little bit. So you mentioned practicing here. 85 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:23,040 Speaker 1: It's different lifting, it's different. I mean we've never been 86 00:04:23,040 --> 00:04:25,400 Speaker 1: treated what what are some of those differences between we 87 00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:28,440 Speaker 1: saw in Baltimore versus you're lifting different here. Um, Here 88 00:04:28,520 --> 00:04:30,200 Speaker 1: we do a lot of legs and Baltimore to do 89 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:33,520 Speaker 1: a single legs, single single arms and stuff like that. 90 00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:35,960 Speaker 1: Here you do a lot of legs and you benching 91 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:38,160 Speaker 1: things like that. But every day it's a definitely a 92 00:04:38,240 --> 00:04:41,479 Speaker 1: leg day here. I see they really want to work 93 00:04:41,480 --> 00:04:44,000 Speaker 1: on your explosion here. That's the number one thing. Practice 94 00:04:44,080 --> 00:04:45,640 Speaker 1: wise is kind of the same because you've got a 95 00:04:45,640 --> 00:04:47,080 Speaker 1: lot of a lot of guys that are bets and 96 00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:50,280 Speaker 1: they're very intense. It's just probably harder in Baltimore. That 97 00:04:50,279 --> 00:04:53,400 Speaker 1: would be a little difference. Um. Meeting wise, it's probably 98 00:04:53,440 --> 00:04:57,240 Speaker 1: the same. But lifting is probably the most difficult thing 99 00:04:57,279 --> 00:05:00,200 Speaker 1: in the playbook because it's different laneage, different length. Ain't 100 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:03,839 Speaker 1: with ten that's that's really awesome. What was that first 101 00:05:03,880 --> 00:05:07,039 Speaker 1: preseason game or just the last preseason game? Like I 102 00:05:07,040 --> 00:05:09,120 Speaker 1: think you've been on the team for about forty eight 103 00:05:09,120 --> 00:05:12,640 Speaker 1: hours and then played thirty something snaps? What was that experience? 104 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:14,360 Speaker 1: Like that was crazy? But at the end of the 105 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:16,880 Speaker 1: day's football. I've been playing this my whole life, So 106 00:05:16,960 --> 00:05:19,200 Speaker 1: I just went out there. They taught me to three 107 00:05:19,200 --> 00:05:21,560 Speaker 1: calls that I'd need to know, and I played. I 108 00:05:21,560 --> 00:05:23,440 Speaker 1: played on calls and just have fun out there and 109 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:25,680 Speaker 1: I just made it fun. And like I said, I'd 110 00:05:25,680 --> 00:05:27,640 Speaker 1: like to win, and we want to win at the 111 00:05:27,720 --> 00:05:29,880 Speaker 1: end of the day. So playing with all them guys 112 00:05:29,880 --> 00:05:33,160 Speaker 1: like Ross and everybody was just out there on the field. 113 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:35,680 Speaker 1: I was just having fun and playing doing my job. 114 00:05:35,760 --> 00:05:38,320 Speaker 1: So did you talk to anybody you know when you 115 00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:40,120 Speaker 1: got traded? If you had a former teammate or somebody 116 00:05:40,160 --> 00:05:42,040 Speaker 1: you knew who had played here. Is there anybody you've 117 00:05:42,040 --> 00:05:44,680 Speaker 1: got in touch with? I didn't talk to Matt Jones, 118 00:05:44,680 --> 00:05:46,600 Speaker 1: but I knew matches. Me and Matt Jones actually played 119 00:05:46,640 --> 00:05:49,880 Speaker 1: seven on seven together when we was younger in high school, 120 00:05:50,480 --> 00:05:52,320 Speaker 1: so we already knew each I know his parents, his 121 00:05:52,320 --> 00:05:55,400 Speaker 1: parents and my parents. He went to bowls. I'm in Trinity. 122 00:05:55,560 --> 00:05:58,000 Speaker 1: It was the top two schools in Jacksonville. So me 123 00:05:58,040 --> 00:05:59,960 Speaker 1: and Matt Jones were already close. We already had it 124 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:02,360 Speaker 1: could have a connection thing. So did you say anything 125 00:06:02,360 --> 00:06:03,919 Speaker 1: when you got traded or did you see when you 126 00:06:03,920 --> 00:06:06,480 Speaker 1: got it? I just saw him when I when I 127 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:10,080 Speaker 1: they gave me the notice, I left that afternoon, so 128 00:06:10,080 --> 00:06:12,240 Speaker 1: it was like it was really no reason to attack 129 00:06:12,320 --> 00:06:14,400 Speaker 1: something to call him yeah, and it was already on 130 00:06:14,440 --> 00:06:18,839 Speaker 1: the internet. So what oh, Mac maca is the same 131 00:06:19,600 --> 00:06:22,599 Speaker 1: as he is today. I feel like seven or seven 132 00:06:22,640 --> 00:06:26,039 Speaker 1: playing with us, he he got that grit and just 133 00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:28,280 Speaker 1: how he acts right now, I feel like that I 134 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:30,440 Speaker 1: came from kind of seven or seven playing with us, 135 00:06:30,480 --> 00:06:33,719 Speaker 1: And if Matt's the same person we used to play 136 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:36,120 Speaker 1: Cam Newton team. I remember Matt talking to John. I 137 00:06:36,160 --> 00:06:38,599 Speaker 1: think he threw a winning touchdown that game and stuff 138 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:41,440 Speaker 1: like that. So Matt, Matt always been the same person. 139 00:06:41,960 --> 00:06:43,880 Speaker 1: A lot of people doubted him when he was younger, 140 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:45,800 Speaker 1: saying do not go to Bama, but you see what 141 00:06:46,160 --> 00:06:48,680 Speaker 1: he did. Um, he's one of the best that I 142 00:06:48,720 --> 00:06:50,640 Speaker 1: feel like to come out of Obama in my opinion. 143 00:06:50,640 --> 00:06:53,560 Speaker 1: So now and then I always believe in Matt. So 144 00:06:54,839 --> 00:06:58,400 Speaker 1: did you play an estimate that seven seven playing? No, 145 00:06:58,520 --> 00:07:05,240 Speaker 1: we played together if you play role so right now, 146 00:07:05,279 --> 00:07:07,840 Speaker 1: it is just learning the defense, grasping it and just 147 00:07:07,920 --> 00:07:10,640 Speaker 1: keep on getting better every day. Um, like like you 148 00:07:10,720 --> 00:07:13,680 Speaker 1: never know anything happened with any r DV. So just 149 00:07:13,760 --> 00:07:16,840 Speaker 1: grasping it and learning and just learning from the guys. 150 00:07:16,840 --> 00:07:18,880 Speaker 1: And then when my numbers called, just got to make 151 00:07:18,920 --> 00:07:24,440 Speaker 1: my players. Um, so you seven camps, m that this 152 00:07:24,640 --> 00:07:30,040 Speaker 1: was a tenth grade. This is bring up to them 153 00:07:30,680 --> 00:07:39,280 Speaker 1: to remember from what was IMG. This was IMG was 154 00:07:39,360 --> 00:07:43,760 Speaker 1: hot nationals. Um. We actually lost the first game going 155 00:07:43,800 --> 00:07:46,880 Speaker 1: into bracket play and so we had to we kept 156 00:07:46,880 --> 00:07:49,520 Speaker 1: on playing repetted. We played like party, like eleven games 157 00:07:49,520 --> 00:07:50,600 Speaker 1: that day. We made it all the way to the 158 00:07:50,600 --> 00:07:53,600 Speaker 1: final for so it was it was crazy. Um we 159 00:07:53,640 --> 00:07:55,560 Speaker 1: had a great team. Yeah, we had a lot of 160 00:07:55,600 --> 00:07:58,560 Speaker 1: players that's either in the league or in college right 161 00:07:58,600 --> 00:08:03,800 Speaker 1: now doing big things. That's really cool. MHM had fun back. Um, 162 00:08:03,960 --> 00:08:08,640 Speaker 1: literal league days were definitely fun for me. So. Um, 163 00:08:08,720 --> 00:08:12,080 Speaker 1: so we got Tyreek. You got Rachel Account he went 164 00:08:12,160 --> 00:08:16,640 Speaker 1: to Georgia play for the Browns. Now it's a lot. Uh, Demetrius, 165 00:08:16,880 --> 00:08:21,840 Speaker 1: I want to say Robinson, he played for Georgia receiver. Um, 166 00:08:21,880 --> 00:08:24,520 Speaker 1: this is before MATC. And we got Kevin Toller, he 167 00:08:24,560 --> 00:08:26,600 Speaker 1: played for the Bears. You got Jeff Holland he's not 168 00:08:26,640 --> 00:08:28,600 Speaker 1: gonna leave m are. You got Andre Smith played for 169 00:08:28,600 --> 00:08:30,480 Speaker 1: the Bills. Like these are all the people I like 170 00:08:30,560 --> 00:08:34,200 Speaker 1: grew up with looking up to and we're all here 171 00:08:34,320 --> 00:08:36,600 Speaker 1: and it's just crazy. You know, I'm i was probably 172 00:08:36,600 --> 00:08:38,440 Speaker 1: the youngest guy to all of them, so it's just 173 00:08:38,480 --> 00:08:44,120 Speaker 1: it's just crazy how it happened, Sir. I appreciate y'all. 174 00:08:44,720 --> 00:08:44,880 Speaker 1: Thank