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Speaker 1: Now we're joined by Notre Dame offensive tackle. I'll be

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Speaker 1: whack them meal. What's going on?

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Speaker 2: Man?

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Speaker 3: I'm just living left right now at the shrill and ball,

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Speaker 3: having a great time and join.

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Speaker 4: It all right.

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Speaker 1: So we're two days of practice in. How do you

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Speaker 1: think you've done so far?

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Speaker 3: So far, so good? You know, I think I've played

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Speaker 3: pretty well. Had opportunity to play both left tackle and

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Speaker 3: fol strong, and so I'm just decided is to keep

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Speaker 3: getting better every day.

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Speaker 1: You let me know.

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Speaker 5: My first question is you were a right tackle on

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Speaker 5: Notre Dame, but you've done some left tackle work here

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Speaker 5: this week. How has that been switching over and did

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Speaker 5: you work on that for the last month or so

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Speaker 5: leading up to the East West Triana.

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Speaker 3: There's definitely some work going into it, you know. I

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Speaker 3: think coach Rudoff always tells us we can't be one dimensional.

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Speaker 3: You want to play right tackle, left tackle, right guard,

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Speaker 3: left guard, and so the ability to play most positions

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Speaker 3: it helps any team that you will eventually be on,

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Speaker 3: and so it felt good. It was a good transition,

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Speaker 3: you know, a little bit of a shock because I

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Speaker 3: didn't really know going into it. I was a player

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Speaker 3: left tackle at all, But you know, I'm glad for

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Speaker 3: the opportunity. I'm just thankful a chance to compete out there.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I've talked to a bunch of office linemen

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Speaker 5: over the years that have come to the Giants that

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Speaker 5: have been asked to switch sides.

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Speaker 1: And the old different answer.

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Speaker 5: Some say it's the feat, it's the what for you

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Speaker 5: was the biggest adjustment having to kind of reverse everything

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Speaker 2: It's definitely the feat for me.

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Speaker 3: You know, I feel like the hands are pretty good

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Speaker 3: regard to where I'm at, but like it's getting used

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Speaker 3: to my mind that kicking left, kicking left, kicking left,

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Speaker 3: it's a little bit adjusting, but I'm glad I had

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Speaker 5: How quickly has it kind of you think fallen into

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Speaker 5: a comfort zone for you now that you've been doing

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Speaker 2: Oh, very quick.

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Speaker 3: It's really just coming from the training last month, even

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Speaker 3: some training during the season, and like coach Rudolf really

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Speaker 3: prepared us for both sides of the ball, and so

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Speaker 3: even my playing every single reppit right tackle. You're still

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Speaker 3: and so it was a quick transition. I felt pretty

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Speaker 5: I think if they were going to build an offensive

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Speaker 5: tackle on the lab, they look a lot like you,

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Speaker 5: to be quitely, honest, just over two hundred pounds, long arms,

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Speaker 5: good feet. I want to talk about your length first,

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Speaker 5: over thirty four in charms, over thirty four and a

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Speaker 5: half in charms. How do you utilize your length in

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Speaker 3: You always have played with length, that's the biggest saying.

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Speaker 3: It's like it's one of our pillars and the all

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Speaker 3: line them in their dame like make first, meaningful, constant

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Speaker 5: The most offensive line I talked to you will tell

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Speaker 5: me they like to run block more than past block.

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Speaker 1: Are you in that category? Are you a guy that

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Speaker 1: like the pass block.

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Speaker 3: I'll always take run blocking, you know, being able to

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Speaker 1: And I'm going to get to the run blocking in

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Speaker 5: When it comes to pass blocking, what do you think

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Speaker 5: of the most important things from a technique perspective that

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Speaker 2: You're that quick feed.

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Speaker 3: Some of these edge rushers are elite, elite, elite athletes,

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Speaker 5: What I always got it is always you want to

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Speaker 5: like a gun slinger and kind of bring your hands

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Speaker 3: You can't be a gunsling if you don't have those

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Speaker 3: that was a lighter line early in my career, Like

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Speaker 3: I knew the importance of kind of getting your hand

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Speaker 3: and sides, getting on them early, and I'll shutting down.

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Speaker 1: The rush in your passport.

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Speaker 5: What are some of the things that you're still trying

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Speaker 5: to work on and fine tune as you head through

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Speaker 3: The biggest thing is consistent footwork. A lot of times

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Speaker 3: especially in one of one opportunities to about lessons, But

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Speaker 3: I want to have more consistent footwork getting back in

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Speaker 3: my set's getting a little more depth in the pocket.

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Speaker 3: I think as I work on that next month and

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Speaker 3: looking forward. Is to have cleaner sets every single time.

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Speaker 5: All right, So same question in terms of the run game,

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Speaker 5: isn't natural, right, you have to make sure you get

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Speaker 5: good leverage being a Toller offensive tackle. What are some

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Speaker 1: Do you have to be good at? From a technique perspective.

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Speaker 3: You got pad level, padd level is a huge thing.

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Speaker 3: I need to work consistently, you know, having a great

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Speaker 3: first step, but also just playing with violence. End of

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Speaker 3: have great full work and you play with the blasts

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Speaker 3: really just improving on I'm getting that path Levem'm get

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Speaker 5: Notre Dame as an excellent history of producing very good

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Speaker 5: offensive lineman. What is it about Notre Dame that's able

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Speaker 5: to produce linemen so consistently.

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Speaker 3: It's the culture. It's the culture, is the brotherhood. I

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Speaker 3: was so blessed, un fortunate to come with Notre Dame

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Speaker 3: because when I walked in the room, I wasn't the starter,

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Speaker 3: but everyone treated me like equal. You know, guys like

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Speaker 3: Joe Wall, Blake Fish or Jared Pattinson all NFL right now,

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Speaker 3: they all met me, were I mad helped me in

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Speaker 3: my development, Like they weren't afraid to like just reach

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Speaker 3: I just thanks so much for their development. But that

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Speaker 3: culture in the old line truly just breeds competitive mixed breeds, athletes,

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Speaker 3: breeds guys that want to get better. And so if

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Speaker 3: cream of the corporal rise, there will be a lot

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Speaker 1: What was it like blocking for Jeremi I Love this year?

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Speaker 2: It was amazing. It was amazing.

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Speaker 3: J Love is one of the best players I've ever

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Speaker 3: laid eyes on, and like sometimes he makes your job

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Speaker 3: too easy, you know. I remember playing at PID where

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Speaker 3: I had a pretty good deuce block out to the

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Speaker 3: I was un fortunately blocked for them this year.

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Speaker 5: I want to ask you about JD because I think

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Speaker 5: he does fly under the radar and I think if

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Speaker 5: he's on another team, he's a fourteen hundred yard back, right,

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Speaker 5: so tell the fans about him and then ibre and

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Speaker 3: Really JD's is one A one B Jeremi Love. I

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Speaker 3: think they're both. Think they're two best backs in the country.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 3: I think JD spinting carriers with Jeremi Love was one

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Speaker 3: kind of have a chance to overshot him.

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Speaker 2: But like his ability to run cut is a screenplay.

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Speaker 2: I want to say it was the gamest Arkansas where

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Speaker 3: Run the game out CJ can get a little good

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Speaker 3: moving cuts around the field to voice. Every single blocks,

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Speaker 3: breaks a bunch of tackles, Like he's a guy that

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Speaker 3: has a big home run potential. Every single player too,

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Speaker 5: When you're meeting with these coaches, your final question, what

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Speaker 5: are some of the things that they're asking you that

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Speaker 5: that they're trying to learn about you, maybe not even

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Speaker 5: as a football player, but as a guy.

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Speaker 3: Oh what I'll bring where I came from my household?

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Speaker 3: A lot of times like it's your first corotrection of

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Speaker 3: of them and tell you who are a little by

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Speaker 3: your story what sports play growing up? Which thanks for

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Speaker 3: like building that first level, like just this relationship with

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Speaker 1: A strong Were you a multi sport guy? What else

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Speaker 3: I was a multi sport guy, so growing up I

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Speaker 3: played everything soccer, basketball, football, baseball, and as I got

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Speaker 3: in the high school, I end up swishing to track

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Speaker 3: and field through shot put, biscus. I was like two

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Speaker 3: and obviously played football, and.

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Speaker 2: So I think sports.

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Speaker 3: I'm home from a sports family, so like we played

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Speaker 1: What sport do you think helped you become a good

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Speaker 3: I think it's it's it's a combo between uh throwing

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Speaker 7: Just obviously to know my story, but and how I

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Speaker 7: Go I'm a great team guy, bring people with me

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Speaker 1: What do you think you're best at playing tight end?

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Speaker 7: I would say my physicality and just run in space

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Speaker 1: Now you have unfortunate to have not been able to practice.

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Speaker 5: What has it been like betting in the meeting rooms

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Speaker 4: It's goods I'm not able to be out there, So

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Speaker 1: You think you'll be good for the combine?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Percent, very good.

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Speaker 5: What is the things that you've been able to get

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Speaker 4: Yeah, there's just a lot of tips and tricks that

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Speaker 5: You earn two different programs. You started North Carolina ended

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Speaker 4: You are today. Honestly, I said, I'm blessed because I

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Speaker 4: I said, my just athletic abilities just to stands out.

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Speaker 4: I just gotta have good hands, good feet, and the

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Speaker 5: And I think sinking those two up right, your feet

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Speaker 4: make sure it happens.

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Speaker 5: Similar with Jackson Dart, who's obviously with us with the Giants.

449
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Speaker 5: He had a great rookieyear when he finally had a

450
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Speaker 5: chance to play. What was your relationship like with him

451
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Speaker 5: and seeing him succeed the way he has so quickly

452
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Speaker 5: in the NFL.

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Speaker 4: I love Dart, you know, he me and he helped

454
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Speaker 4: so to deal for me to go down the whle

455
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Speaker 4: mess when I was in the traff re portal. Me

456
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Speaker 4: and are also a really good friend, So I'm happy

457
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Speaker 4: for him. And he's a dog. You just got that

458
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Speaker 4: dog mentality, like you see it, like he don't slide,

459
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Speaker 4: he don't run away from no contact. I mean, I

460
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Speaker 4: boy a dog. So it's just fun to watch my

461
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Speaker 4: dare just living this gym and just showing everybody what

462
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Speaker 4: we can do.

463
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Speaker 5: What was it like having him on your roster as

464
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Speaker 5: a leader and just kind of how he brought everyone together,

465
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Speaker 5: because that's that's something that jumped out of me as.

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Speaker 1: A rookie in the NFL. Like you saw the leadership

467
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Speaker 1: skills right away.

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Speaker 4: I mean that's just Dart, and I mean that's something

469
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Speaker 4: that you gotta have at the quarterback position. I mean,

470
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Speaker 4: Dart is very vocal leader. But it's one thing about

471
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Speaker 4: him is he gonna be vocal. He gonna be a love,

472
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Speaker 4: but he's also gonna work his butt off, So therefore

473
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Speaker 4: you have no reason. But they respect him and respect

474
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Speaker 4: everything he does. And then when you see him, how

475
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Speaker 4: he play, how he practiced, how he attacks, everything is

476
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Speaker 4: just like he's just a natural born leader and he

477
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Speaker 4: just has guys to just rally around him.

478
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Speaker 1: What does it do for an offensive lineman to see

479
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Speaker 1: the quarterback?

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Speaker 5: I know you don't want to see him get hit obviously,

481
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Speaker 5: but willing to drop that shoulder into a dB on

482
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Speaker 5: a quarterback scramble and something like that.

483
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Speaker 1: Does that get you already smile on?

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Speaker 4: Man?

485
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Speaker 2: Does that?

486
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Speaker 1: Does that get you guys fired up?

487
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Speaker 2: Get me fired out?

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Speaker 4: Because he running through contact, we better be running through

489
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Speaker 4: contact too. So it's just like, well, you got a

490
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Speaker 4: quarterback better and it's not scared of no type of

491
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Speaker 4: contact whatsoever. It just makes a game fun because you know,

492
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Speaker 4: if he's scrambling, he trying to get a first down,

493
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Speaker 4: he's gonna run through that defender, or at least try to,

494
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Speaker 4: and he gonna get up and talk right after. So

495
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Speaker 4: it's just like you just got to love stuff like that.

496
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Speaker 5: Obviously, you guys that all missed up with a lot

497
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Speaker 5: of stuff this year, coaching change and all that stuff.

498
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Speaker 1: But what was it like making that run the way.

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Speaker 5: He did, going as deep as he did in the

500
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Speaker 5: college football playoffs, come really coming together as a team.

501
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Speaker 4: That was just good because we weren't listening to the media,

502
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Speaker 4: we weren't paying attention to nothing like that whole program.

503
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Speaker 4: Now everybody on that stat fish a site and every

504
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Speaker 4: player we had, we're playing for each other like there's

505
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Speaker 4: no more. We weren't playing for the coaches, plun for

506
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Speaker 4: each other because we put an.

507
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Speaker 2: Auto hard work.

508
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Speaker 4: We worked so hard just to get to that position.

509
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Speaker 4: So we kept that mindset of going one to no

510
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Speaker 4: one to no one to know, and we demanded the

511
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Speaker 4: best out of everybody every game and every practice day

512
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Speaker 4: and day out, every meeting, every walk through. Just wanted

513
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Speaker 4: to make sure everybody was just locked in, knowing in

514
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Speaker 4: the way we wanted it to. But I just felt

515
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Speaker 4: like we had something to prove, We had a point

516
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Speaker 4: to prove, and we just showed everybody that a team

517
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Speaker 4: get just trolly together and just keep balling.

518
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Speaker 5: And I should ask you about your quarterback this year,

519
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Speaker 5: Trinidad Chambless. We're not sure if he's coming out yet.

520
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Speaker 5: He's kind of kind of working that thing out to

521
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Speaker 5: see what happens with him, but man like coming over

522
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Speaker 5: small program and just to see his improvement over the

523
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Speaker 5: course of the year. Why do you think he was

524
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Speaker 5: able to kind of jump in with you guys and

525
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Speaker 5: have the level of success that he did so quickly.

526
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Speaker 4: I mean, because you know, Austin Austin Simmons is a

527
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Speaker 4: great quarterback. Trinidad Chamberliss is a great quarterback. And just

528
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Speaker 4: the fact that the boys were always together and they

529
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Speaker 4: just rallied behind each other. They helped each other out

530
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Speaker 4: and whichever so soon was awesome, good down. We knew

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Speaker 4: that Trin that was awesome good quarterback and once kept

532
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Speaker 4: the beat, so he got in ready to go and

533
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Speaker 4: he proved his point. But honestly, I knew it was good,

534
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Speaker 4: but I ain't know it was that good.

535
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Speaker 1: What made him that good? What what makes him special?

536
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Speaker 4: Just as a gamer?

537
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Speaker 2: That was a gamer.

538
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Speaker 4: I mean, like the way that he could just attack

539
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Speaker 4: you with the deep throws or just run at you.

540
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Speaker 4: It's just his ability just being able to move around

541
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Speaker 4: the pocket. He has really good pocket presence and awareness,

542
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Speaker 4: has a he has a timer, he can fill people

543
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Speaker 4: on him. He's just a good all around quarterback.

544
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Speaker 1: Honestly, Dio, it was a pleasure getting your man. Good

545
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Speaker 1: luck the rest of the week.

546
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Speaker 4: Appreciate you, Thank you all.

547
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Speaker 1: Right, now we're joined by Auburn guard doing wait doing

548
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Speaker 1: what's going on?

549
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Speaker 5: Man?

550
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Speaker 2: How are you? I'm doing great? How are you doing?

551
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Speaker 1: I'm doing great, man, Thanks for being with us.

552
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Speaker 4: Now.

553
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Speaker 1: You made the transition from left tackle to left guard.

554
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Speaker 5: What was that transition like and how did your play

555
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Speaker 5: at left tackle help prepare you to play the guard position.

556
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Speaker 8: Left tackle taught me a lot of technical you know,

557
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Speaker 8: advancements that I could use at guard.

558
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Speaker 2: But guard is significantly different. Yeah.

559
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Speaker 8: The players on the inside are a lot heavier, so

560
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Speaker 8: you have to get on them a lot quicker than

561
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Speaker 8: at tackle.

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Speaker 1: You have to be more patient and talking to guys.

563
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Speaker 5: Everything at guard happens a lot quicker, right, you know,

564
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Speaker 5: you can do your kick and it takes a little

565
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Speaker 5: while from to get you a tackle. But a guard,

566
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Speaker 5: they're kind of on you right away, right, yes, they are.

567
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Speaker 5: What are the challenges of that?

568
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Speaker 1: For a guard?

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Speaker 8: You have to be really in touch with your technique.

570
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Speaker 8: If you like technique, you can easily lose. But if

571
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Speaker 8: you have great technique, you'll win every single ap.

572
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Speaker 5: What are the most important techniques to be successful that

573
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Speaker 5: you're talking about at guard?

574
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Speaker 2: First, you have to you know, get out your stands

575
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Speaker 2: to get to your spot.

576
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Speaker 8: Back to get to your spot, you need tight hands

577
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Speaker 8: on contact and you can shut the down rush down immediately.

578
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Speaker 1: How important is that hand play?

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Speaker 5: So? I don't think fans quite understand how different it

580
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Speaker 5: can be having a guy here, you know, between the

581
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Speaker 5: shoulder and your chest and then getting the outside of

582
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Speaker 5: the shoulder.

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Speaker 1: It's a lot different, right.

584
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Speaker 2: Yes, it is.

585
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Speaker 8: Why it's different because if I hit you in tight,

586
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Speaker 8: I control the block. But if I hit you outside

587
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Speaker 8: on the shoulders, you have leverage and you can control

588
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Speaker 8: the block.

589
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Speaker 5: How do you think first couple of days are practice

590
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Speaker 5: have gone for you? Solf far here east west front.

591
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Speaker 8: The first day of practices it was okay, but not

592
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Speaker 8: to my standard. The second day I did a lot better,

593
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Speaker 8: so I'm thankful for that experience.

594
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Speaker 1: What do you think you did better on day two?

595
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Speaker 8: I got in the dlam Man a lot quicker, I

596
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Speaker 8: was jumped in a lot more. I was using my

597
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Speaker 8: athleticism to my advantages.

598
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Speaker 5: Was it did it take a little while to kind

599
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Speaker 5: of get back into the There's been a while since

600
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Speaker 5: you guys have had pads and helmets on, right, Yes, the.

601
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Speaker 2: First day was kind of a real moment.

602
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Speaker 8: I'm like, Okay, I'm at an All Star game a

603
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Speaker 8: bunch of great players, and I was kind of timid

604
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Speaker 8: learning to playbook.

605
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Speaker 2: Second day I let it loose.

606
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Speaker 1: But was it like trying to learn that playbook in

607
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Speaker 1: such a short period of time.

608
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Speaker 8: I have some great coaches that are teaching me, and

609
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Speaker 8: I have great players around me, and everybody is, you know,

610
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Speaker 8: being helpful. So if I didn't know play during the play,

611
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Speaker 8: they could educate me right before the snap and let

612
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Speaker 8: me know where I needed to go.

613
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Speaker 5: As you've talked to some of the scouts and coaches

614
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Speaker 5: in the knees with some of these NFL teams, did

615
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Speaker 5: they mostly see you as a guard or have they

616
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Speaker 5: talked about having some tackle flex as well?

617
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Speaker 8: They have not mentioned any guard to me, I mean

618
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Speaker 8: talk with to me. They have mentioned me playing center though,

619
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Speaker 8: Oh really center?

620
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Speaker 1: Have you played at center ever before?

621
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Speaker 2: I played center? I practice, but I have zero game

622
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Speaker 2: reps of it in real life?

623
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Speaker 1: Is that something that you'd be willing and excited to

624
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Speaker 1: try and learn how to do?

625
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Speaker 6: Oh?

626
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Speaker 8: Yes, I'm helping. I'm trying to help a team win.

627
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Speaker 8: I mean, whatever I need to do to win, I

628
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Speaker 8: will do.

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Speaker 1: Have you played the right side much at all?

630
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Speaker 2: I'll have some games of me playing right guard? Yes?

631
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Speaker 5: How tough is that to kind of swap from left

632
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Speaker 5: guard to right guard because I don't mess with the

633
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Speaker 5: footwork right and stuff like that.

634
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Speaker 8: It's basically the same thing, but opposite. So if I'm

635
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Speaker 8: taking a speed to power, I'll go right left. If

636
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Speaker 8: I'm at right guard, I will go left right.

637
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Speaker 5: How quickly are you able to kind of make that

638
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Speaker 5: switch in your mind and translate it to your body,

639
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Speaker 5: because you know, if you start off as a backup

640
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Speaker 5: right as a young player, you have to be ready

641
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Speaker 5: to step in at right or left guard if somebody

642
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Speaker 5: happens to go down.

643
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Speaker 8: Oh well, I'm gonna buy all the way into the playbook.

644
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Speaker 8: I'm gonna get a nice vet in front of me

645
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Speaker 8: and follow everything you do. Pick his brain apart and

646
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Speaker 8: be prepared what my number is called.

647
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Speaker 5: What are some of the things that as you've gotten

648
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Speaker 5: with your team that you wanted to show scouts when

649
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Speaker 5: you're on the field here at swash Rine.

650
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Speaker 8: I wanted to show them not only am I athletic,

651
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Speaker 8: but I am strong and I can retain information.

652
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Speaker 5: And as we now walk ahead towards the combine and

653
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Speaker 5: the rest of this draft process, your pro day, things

654
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Speaker 5: like that. What are some of the things that you're

655
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Speaker 5: trying to find tune with your training and continue to

656
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Speaker 5: improve on as an offensive lineman?

657
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Speaker 8: Oh, like I said earlier, the technique, I'm trying to

658
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Speaker 8: get my hands tighter every single play. Make sure I'm

659
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Speaker 8: doing exactly what I need to do to put myself

660
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Speaker 8: in a position to win. Dealing best luck to the

661
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Speaker 8: best way man, Thank you so much, thanks for having me.

662
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Speaker 2: How to get in here?

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Speaker 9: If you're lined up here, you gotta go over the

664
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Speaker 9: middle with at the score great?

665
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Speaker 10: How do we make that happen? I don't know, Bud Tennison,

666
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Speaker 10: does it makes sense?

667
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Speaker 11: Of your money with citizens official bank of Eli Manning.

668
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Speaker 5: Now we're joined by Navy running back slot receiver. We'll

669
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Speaker 5: talk about that, Eli Hid And right, Eli, how are

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Speaker 5: you man.

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Speaker 2: I'm doing well, having a fun time.

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Speaker 5: Here, and obviously you go to Navy, so I want

673
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Speaker 5: to start there. How do you think your experience at

674
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Speaker 5: the Service Academy helped prepare you for this draft process

675
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Speaker 5: over the next three or four months.

676
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Speaker 12: Yeah, it's it's been an interesting four years there and

677
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Speaker 12: I'm very grateful for all the experiences I've had. And

678
00:22:05,200 --> 00:22:07,840
Speaker 12: you know, going to the academy it prepares you in

679
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Speaker 12: a lot of ways. You know, I think the first

680
00:22:10,280 --> 00:22:13,080
Speaker 12: year you get there, it's it's the craziest year. You're

681
00:22:13,160 --> 00:22:18,200
Speaker 12: kind of just thrown into, you know, a pretty high stress,

682
00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:21,600
Speaker 12: hectic environment, and the biggest thing about that is you

683
00:22:21,760 --> 00:22:23,159
Speaker 12: just have to learn how to kind of go with

684
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Speaker 12: the flow and react on your feet. And you know,

685
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Speaker 12: I think that the draft process is similar in a

686
00:22:27,800 --> 00:22:30,120
Speaker 12: lot of ways. Like coming here, you got a whole

687
00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:31,760
Speaker 12: new offense. You've got to learn in a few days.

688
00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:34,280
Speaker 12: You've got to be able to react quickly. So you know,

689
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Speaker 12: I've gotten a lot of experience doing that at maybe,

690
00:22:38,160 --> 00:22:40,640
Speaker 12: so I think that's, you know, helped me in this process.

691
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Speaker 5: I know the rules have changed over the years, so

692
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Speaker 5: I just want to make sure I have a right

693
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Speaker 5: What are your commitment responsibilities now in terms of, you know,

694
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Speaker 5: once you're out of the academy, you're trying to play football,

695
00:22:50,240 --> 00:22:51,880
Speaker 5: when do you have to serve? How does that work

696
00:22:51,920 --> 00:22:53,800
Speaker 5: now in terms of the commitment responsibilities?

697
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Speaker 2: Sure?

698
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Speaker 12: So right now, every other midshipman they five years, and

699
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Speaker 12: iow five years eventually, but upon graduation, I'll enter the reserves,

700
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Speaker 12: and that's a way of allowing me to serve without

701
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Speaker 12: having really any military responsibility, so I can go play

702
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Speaker 12: professional football. And the way it works is one year

703
00:23:17,680 --> 00:23:21,160
Speaker 12: in the reserves counts for half a year active duty.

704
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Speaker 12: So if I play four years in the NFL, say

705
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Speaker 12: I played four years, that would knock off two years

706
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Speaker 12: active duty, so then I would serve three years after

707
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Speaker 12: playing football.

708
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Speaker 5: So no, I think, and that gives you guys the

709
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Speaker 5: flexibility that play sports at the service academy to pursue

710
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Speaker 5: your professional career, which.

711
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Speaker 1: I think makes a lot of sense.

712
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Speaker 5: All right, So as you kind of start here at

713
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Speaker 5: West Shrine, what are your major goals in terms of

714
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Speaker 5: what you're trying to show NFL scouts and coaches when

715
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Speaker 5: you're out there on the field first and foremost.

716
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Speaker 12: Yeah, you know, I think a big thing that you know,

717
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Speaker 12: I've had the chance to do at Navy and even

718
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Speaker 12: in high school, is, you know, be a versatile offensive player.

719
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Speaker 12: You knowretty much. My entire career, I've I've been moved around.

720
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Speaker 12: I've play outside receiver, slot receiver, wing, I've played basically

721
00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:12,639
Speaker 12: tight end at Navy, lined up like a traditional running

722
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Speaker 12: back in high school, played wildcat quarterback. I feel like

723
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Speaker 12: I've kind of done it all, and you know, I

724
00:24:17,280 --> 00:24:19,800
Speaker 12: think that's something that that's it's one of my strong

725
00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:22,880
Speaker 12: suits and something I'm really trying to, you know, show

726
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Speaker 12: the scouts here that you know, I can do everything.

727
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Speaker 12: So I think at Navy that the past two seasons,

728
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Speaker 12: I've had a lot of chances to show them my

729
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Speaker 12: my route running and you know how I kind of operate.

730
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Speaker 2: As a receiver.

731
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Speaker 12: Not as many chances or reps at traditional running back

732
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Speaker 12: at Navy. So that's I think what more scouts want

733
00:24:42,680 --> 00:24:44,320
Speaker 12: to see me as here and you know that I've

734
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Speaker 12: had the chance to show that these few days. So

735
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Speaker 12: you know, I think big for me is shown you know,

736
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Speaker 12: my my kind of route running and hands out of

737
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Speaker 12: the backfield.

738
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Speaker 5: So you measured into five to eleven one ninety seven.

739
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Speaker 5: Is one ninety seven where you want to play? Or

740
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Speaker 5: do you want to be a little bit heavy, a

741
00:24:56,480 --> 00:24:57,040
Speaker 5: little bit lighter?

742
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a little light, you know, came off

743
00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:02,399
Speaker 2: the plane like no food, just like weigh in.

744
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Speaker 4: I was like, shoot, but you.

745
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Speaker 12: Know, I played at two two this year, two of three,

746
00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:09,680
Speaker 12: and I think that that kind of middle two hundred,

747
00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:11,119
Speaker 12: like two of five is a good weight for me.

748
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Speaker 2: So that's where I'm aiming at.

749
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Speaker 5: I'm sure you're going to answer I'm good at all

750
00:25:15,119 --> 00:25:17,000
Speaker 5: of it. But I'll ask you the question, what position

751
00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:18,480
Speaker 5: you think your best at right now? Is Is it

752
00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:19,160
Speaker 5: wide receiver?

753
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Speaker 1: Is it slot? Is it is it running back? Where

754
00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:22,240
Speaker 1: do you think you play your best ball?

755
00:25:23,119 --> 00:25:25,159
Speaker 2: Yeah? I always struggle to answer that.

756
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Speaker 12: I like you said, I think I can do it all,

757
00:25:27,119 --> 00:25:32,120
Speaker 12: but I would say slot receiver. I think I've done

758
00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:34,399
Speaker 12: the most of that. If you look at you know,

759
00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:36,639
Speaker 12: my film from this year, I think a lot of

760
00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:40,120
Speaker 12: my successes is you know, kind of the passing game

761
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Speaker 12: out of the slot.

762
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Speaker 2: So I would say I would say, definitely, uh, the slot.

763
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Speaker 5: So what is it about your specific skill set in

764
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Speaker 5: physical talents that you think allows you to be most

765
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Speaker 5: effective in that position?

766
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Speaker 12: Sure, you know, I think I've I've always been able

767
00:25:56,680 --> 00:25:59,160
Speaker 12: to naturally kind of change direction pretty quickly.

768
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Speaker 4: You know.

769
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Speaker 12: I like to think that I have great agility and

770
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Speaker 12: I can get in and out of my breaks very fast.

771
00:26:04,920 --> 00:26:07,920
Speaker 12: So that, you know, also translates over to running backs.

772
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Speaker 12: Just the good skill set to have as a skill player,

773
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Speaker 12: so I'd say that that's a good thing. And then

774
00:26:13,040 --> 00:26:16,480
Speaker 12: to just having consistent strong hands. You know, I think

775
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Speaker 12: I made a lot of contested catches this year, and

776
00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:20,200
Speaker 12: you know, caught the wide open balls too. You just

777
00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:22,600
Speaker 12: want to be a guy that when the quarterback throws

778
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Speaker 12: the ball to you, you know as you're going to

779
00:26:24,119 --> 00:26:24,480
Speaker 12: go get it.

780
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Speaker 5: So obviously the offensive system in Navy is unique compared

781
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Speaker 5: to what a lot of other teams run. How do

782
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Speaker 5: you think that's going to help you or maybe some

783
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Speaker 5: of the challenges that might be involved are trying to

784
00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:34,440
Speaker 5: transition from that to what you're going to be asked

785
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Speaker 5: to do in the NFL.

786
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Speaker 12: Yeah, you look at the structure of a Naval Academy

787
00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:44,399
Speaker 12: offense and you compare it to the structure of NFL offense,

788
00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:46,200
Speaker 12: they're they're pretty much completely different.

789
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Speaker 2: The skill, like the football skill.

790
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Speaker 12: Fundamentals are the same, but like the you know, the

791
00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:55,280
Speaker 12: what goes into the play is very different. So I

792
00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:57,080
Speaker 12: think that's a big thing is just you know, learning

793
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Speaker 12: some some of those kind of details of an NFL

794
00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:03,200
Speaker 12: offense that you know, we really didn't have at Navy.

795
00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:07,119
Speaker 12: You know, i'd say a thing with that that you know,

796
00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:08,920
Speaker 12: I have to definitely have to work on. I recognize

797
00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:13,320
Speaker 12: that and I am working on it is traditional pass protection,

798
00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:16,159
Speaker 12: not something I've really wrapped at Navy or learn.

799
00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:18,199
Speaker 1: But if you want to be a third down back, right,

800
00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:19,879
Speaker 1: very important percent.

801
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Speaker 12: So that's something that I'm, uh, you've already started working on,

802
00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:25,639
Speaker 12: and you know, I'll be ready to go once I

803
00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:28,399
Speaker 12: get to the NFL offense. But I would say that

804
00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:32,320
Speaker 12: the offense at Navy, you know, something kind of underrated

805
00:27:32,359 --> 00:27:34,359
Speaker 12: about is it really teaches you blocking? Well, I would

806
00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:38,399
Speaker 12: say our offense is really structured on leverage. Leverage is

807
00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:41,000
Speaker 12: so important in blocking and something that we you know,

808
00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:45,320
Speaker 12: really focus on and learn. So I'd say that's something

809
00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:47,199
Speaker 12: definitely taken away from the Navy offense.

810
00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:49,320
Speaker 5: So the physical part of the past protection you shouldn't

811
00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:50,960
Speaker 5: be a problem for you. Is more the mental stuff

812
00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:53,880
Speaker 5: recognizing where guys are coming from exactly. Yes, sure, yeah,

813
00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:56,000
Speaker 5: it makes a lot of sense. You already mentioned the

814
00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:57,960
Speaker 5: blocking part of the past pro What are the parts

815
00:27:58,000 --> 00:27:59,359
Speaker 5: of your game that you kind of have on your

816
00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:01,040
Speaker 5: list with your tea that you're trying to work on

817
00:28:01,119 --> 00:28:02,920
Speaker 5: over the next three months and show NFL teams.

818
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Speaker 12: Yeah, I can do this for sure, I would say,

819
00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:08,440
Speaker 12: kind of finer details in the route running. I think

820
00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:13,120
Speaker 12: that the route tree at NAVY is the simpler than

821
00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:16,040
Speaker 12: the one in the NFL. That kind of goes without saying,

822
00:28:16,119 --> 00:28:18,960
Speaker 12: but you know, just not having experience at some more

823
00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:21,920
Speaker 12: kind of like advanced routes or you know, I find

824
00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:24,000
Speaker 12: the deals with rout running and that's something that I've

825
00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:26,399
Speaker 12: been working on too. I think I really have a

826
00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:29,440
Speaker 12: strong fundamental kind of like baseline for all my route running,

827
00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:31,920
Speaker 12: but you know, really learning from the dudes that do

828
00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:34,200
Speaker 12: it best in the league and those little things you

829
00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:35,080
Speaker 12: can do to get open.

830
00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:37,080
Speaker 1: How do you think the first two days have gone

831
00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:37,280
Speaker 1: for you?

832
00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:40,400
Speaker 12: I think they've gone well. I think I've you know,

833
00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:44,000
Speaker 12: adjusted quickly to the offense. I think I've learned every

834
00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:47,360
Speaker 12: everything I've needed to learn in terms of like playbook,

835
00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:49,440
Speaker 12: but you know, just trying to get better every day.

836
00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:51,840
Speaker 2: I think I've you know, shown my.

837
00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:55,840
Speaker 12: Route running and you know catching ability well, so just

838
00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:57,480
Speaker 12: trying to keep stacking days.

839
00:28:57,520 --> 00:28:59,760
Speaker 5: Here, what is the been the process of like trying

840
00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:01,880
Speaker 5: to learn and an NFL playball over the course of like,

841
00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:03,280
Speaker 5: you know, forty eight hours.

842
00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:08,280
Speaker 12: It's a it's it's been fun, I would say, it's a.

843
00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:10,400
Speaker 12: It's a it's a it's cool to see, you know,

844
00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:12,320
Speaker 12: what they're doing in the offense and here the play

845
00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:15,680
Speaker 12: calls and like what all goes into it. So you know,

846
00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:18,760
Speaker 12: I've enjoyed the process. And it's just you know, it's

847
00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:21,320
Speaker 12: about putting the time and you just gotta you gotta

848
00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:22,480
Speaker 12: study to learn.

849
00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:23,000
Speaker 2: It's simple.

850
00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:25,360
Speaker 5: And then when you kind of sit down you meet

851
00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:28,080
Speaker 5: with these teams, scouts, coaches, stuff like that, what are

852
00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:29,200
Speaker 5: you trying to get across them?

853
00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:29,320
Speaker 2: Then?

854
00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:31,640
Speaker 1: What about you as a guy and and and use

855
00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:32,360
Speaker 1: a football player?

856
00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:35,280
Speaker 12: You know, the thing that I really want them to

857
00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:38,080
Speaker 12: take away is that I am a football player. I'm

858
00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:40,240
Speaker 12: not just a running back or receiver. You know, I'm

859
00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:43,200
Speaker 12: a guy that can, you know, play football at a

860
00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:45,000
Speaker 12: bunch of different positions on offense and then go play

861
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:46,960
Speaker 12: football and special teams like a guy that just goes

862
00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:47,880
Speaker 12: out and plays football.

863
00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:50,960
Speaker 1: You mentioned special teams. Have you had much experience as

864
00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:52,320
Speaker 1: a punter, kick returner.

865
00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:55,640
Speaker 12: Yeah, I have a lot of experience kind of across

866
00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:58,640
Speaker 12: the board with specs. I was a gunner this year,

867
00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:03,040
Speaker 12: I would the punt returner last year, all year, kickoff

868
00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:06,400
Speaker 12: coverage my sophomore year, kickoff return my sophomore year. So

869
00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:09,000
Speaker 12: I've done it all interrupted me, I would be on

870
00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:10,720
Speaker 12: all of them, you know, but they kind of limit

871
00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:12,000
Speaker 12: you a little bit as you get older there.

872
00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:17,440
Speaker 5: So and then finally, when you're in those meetings, what

873
00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:20,000
Speaker 5: are they kind of focusing their questions on you about?

874
00:30:20,040 --> 00:30:21,600
Speaker 5: What do they tend to be asking you most of

875
00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:23,600
Speaker 5: the similar questions you get different questions from all the

876
00:30:23,640 --> 00:30:24,160
Speaker 5: different teams.

877
00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:27,920
Speaker 12: I'd say most of the teams kind of have the same,

878
00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:31,240
Speaker 12: like baseline questions. They just want to get to know you.

879
00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:34,200
Speaker 12: I think that's the biggest thing right now. And then two,

880
00:30:34,280 --> 00:30:36,320
Speaker 12: I think for me individually, like a lot they all

881
00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:38,160
Speaker 12: ask me like what do you want to play? I

882
00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:40,080
Speaker 12: think that's you know, A big question for them is

883
00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:42,680
Speaker 12: where do you see yourself playing? And then for me

884
00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:46,120
Speaker 12: it goes right back. I kind of asked the question too,

885
00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:47,920
Speaker 12: you know, where do you guys see me playing? It's

886
00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:51,920
Speaker 12: it's it's an interesting process of kind of seeing where teams,

887
00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:53,920
Speaker 12: you know, picture me as or you know where i'd

888
00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:55,000
Speaker 12: be placed in their offense.

889
00:30:55,120 --> 00:30:57,400
Speaker 1: Do you get different answers from different teams based on

890
00:30:57,480 --> 00:30:58,240
Speaker 1: your question to them?

891
00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:00,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, And it's basically two things.

892
00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:04,360
Speaker 12: Some teams see me as mainly a running back that

893
00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:06,920
Speaker 12: can be creative out of the backfield with the past game,

894
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:10,240
Speaker 12: and then you know, some see me as kind of

895
00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:11,480
Speaker 12: like a slot receiver receiver.

896
00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:14,760
Speaker 2: So it really just depends on which team you ask.

897
00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:16,920
Speaker 1: When they ask you, where do you want to play?

898
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:17,840
Speaker 1: What do you tell them?

899
00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:22,200
Speaker 12: I always have a hard time. I feel like it's

900
00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:24,240
Speaker 12: so hard to pick. I feel like it switches by

901
00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:27,040
Speaker 12: the day, but it really is. I try to get

902
00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:30,080
Speaker 12: the point across that it's wherever they want me to play.

903
00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:32,320
Speaker 12: I'm the team first guy, and it's it's it's their

904
00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:35,520
Speaker 12: need and I'm very comfortable, equally comfortable playing.

905
00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:38,160
Speaker 5: Either goes back to you being just a football player, right, Yes, sir,

906
00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:40,080
Speaker 5: Eli good luck to the rest of the week, and

907
00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:40,680
Speaker 5: good luck during.

908
00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:41,120
Speaker 4: The draft process.

909
00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:42,280
Speaker 2: Thank you, yes, sir, thank you.

910
00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:44,840
Speaker 1: All right, we're joined by you. I reared in from

911
00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:46,600
Speaker 1: the University of Notre Dame. Eli. How's it going, man,

912
00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:47,520
Speaker 1: how's the first day's been?

913
00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:50,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been awesome. It's been a great experience.

914
00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:53,400
Speaker 13: Has been a lot thrown at us, but it's been

915
00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:56,560
Speaker 13: a great growing experience to know what it's like to

916
00:31:56,680 --> 00:31:59,760
Speaker 13: be in the NFL and just being around outfall coaches.

917
00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:01,760
Speaker 5: I love talking to tight ends because you guys got

918
00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:03,640
Speaker 5: to learn the past game. You gotta learn the run game.

919
00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:05,200
Speaker 5: You got on the blocks, you gotta learn the routes,

920
00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:06,800
Speaker 5: you got to learn everything. So has it been trying

921
00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:10,080
Speaker 5: to absorb all of that over case of forty eight hours?

922
00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:12,640
Speaker 13: Yeah, it's been. It's been a lot. Have spent a

923
00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:14,760
Speaker 13: lot of time on your own, you know, studying the playbook.

924
00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:18,320
Speaker 13: But it's something that I love to do and once

925
00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:21,320
Speaker 13: you figure it out, it's super fun. So it's been great.

926
00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:24,840
Speaker 5: Now, I asked Amil this question too, as I'll ask you,

927
00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:27,480
Speaker 5: because it's true, Notre Dame has a pretty good history

928
00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:28,680
Speaker 5: of turning out good tight ends.

929
00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:31,240
Speaker 1: Right, what is it about that program that you think

930
00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:33,360
Speaker 1: makes it good at doing just that.

931
00:32:33,840 --> 00:32:36,240
Speaker 13: Yeah, I think there's just a standard in the tight

932
00:32:36,320 --> 00:32:39,440
Speaker 13: end room. I think the coaches that we have is

933
00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:42,680
Speaker 13: a big, a big reason. And I I know that

934
00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:45,800
Speaker 13: coach Den Brock, the tight ends coach I had coach

935
00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:48,440
Speaker 13: a lot of good tight ends as well, So he's

936
00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:52,440
Speaker 13: a big reason for the development of my game and

937
00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:55,280
Speaker 13: I attribute that to him a lot. But also there's

938
00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:57,240
Speaker 13: always I think that the standard and the tight end

939
00:32:57,320 --> 00:33:00,680
Speaker 13: room has just been carried on. The tradition and culture

940
00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:05,520
Speaker 13: has been carried on for a long time. And so yeah,

941
00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:07,360
Speaker 13: mixed of that and the coaching staff.

942
00:33:08,040 --> 00:33:10,040
Speaker 5: And your teammate last year Mitchell Evans, he was a

943
00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:11,800
Speaker 5: Day three pick, but by the end of the year

944
00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:14,280
Speaker 5: he was starting. He was playing big, big time snaps

945
00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:16,920
Speaker 5: in the pros. What kind of advice has he given

946
00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:19,719
Speaker 5: to you about this process so that you put your

947
00:33:19,760 --> 00:33:21,840
Speaker 5: best foot forward in this pre draft process.

948
00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:24,920
Speaker 13: Yeah, this this, obviously, this stage of my life is

949
00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:29,800
Speaker 13: very important. We get this, this Shrine Bowl, Combine, Pro Day,

950
00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:32,920
Speaker 13: and it could feel like the longest year of your life,

951
00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:36,840
Speaker 13: but it all pays off. And he's really emphasizing, uh,

952
00:33:37,080 --> 00:33:38,760
Speaker 13: you know, just having confidence in yourself.

953
00:33:38,840 --> 00:33:40,880
Speaker 2: You belong uh in the league.

954
00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:44,920
Speaker 13: Don't think of it as some thing that's beyond you,

955
00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:48,320
Speaker 13: like it's over your head. Have confidence in yourself. You're

956
00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:50,200
Speaker 13: here for a reason and you can play with the best.

957
00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:53,400
Speaker 1: So, and this is where the process starts, right, this

958
00:33:53,560 --> 00:33:54,640
Speaker 1: is the first first step of it.

959
00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:56,600
Speaker 5: So what are the things that when you're on the

960
00:33:56,640 --> 00:33:59,360
Speaker 5: field that you want to show or prove the NFL

961
00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:00,840
Speaker 5: teams and scouts that you can do.

962
00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:03,600
Speaker 13: Yeah, I just want to show them how well rounded

963
00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:06,680
Speaker 13: of a tighten I am. You know I can I

964
00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:11,040
Speaker 13: can block and get dirty in the run game and

965
00:34:11,120 --> 00:34:14,040
Speaker 13: then also just make plays in the in the passing

966
00:34:15,160 --> 00:34:17,239
Speaker 13: as well. So I just want to show them I

967
00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:19,200
Speaker 13: can do both and provide value to their team.

968
00:34:19,719 --> 00:34:22,160
Speaker 5: And that's one thing notre The tight ends have to block, right.

969
00:34:22,200 --> 00:34:23,839
Speaker 5: If you guys don't block, you don't get on the field.

970
00:34:24,840 --> 00:34:27,120
Speaker 5: When you're getting questions from from the GMS and and

971
00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:30,080
Speaker 5: the scouts and stuff in these meetings about your play

972
00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:32,120
Speaker 5: on the field, first do they ask you more about

973
00:34:32,120 --> 00:34:33,480
Speaker 5: the receiving part of your game or do they ask

974
00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:34,920
Speaker 5: you more about the blocking part of your game?

975
00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:35,719
Speaker 2: Yeah?

976
00:34:36,680 --> 00:34:40,239
Speaker 13: Kind of both that there hasn't been any like they've

977
00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:44,040
Speaker 13: all been pretty surface level interviews so far, so a

978
00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:46,120
Speaker 13: lot of it's asking like what your strengths of your

979
00:34:46,160 --> 00:34:49,239
Speaker 13: game are and what your weaknesses are and stuff like that.

980
00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:52,200
Speaker 13: So obviously there's both with both the pass and the

981
00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:52,719
Speaker 13: run game.

982
00:34:53,160 --> 00:34:54,640
Speaker 5: All right, So I'm going to be like a scout, Now,

983
00:34:54,760 --> 00:34:56,160
Speaker 5: what do you think the strains of your game are

984
00:34:56,239 --> 00:34:57,920
Speaker 5: weaknesses are when it comes to being a receiver and

985
00:34:57,960 --> 00:34:58,320
Speaker 5: a blocker.

986
00:34:58,520 --> 00:35:01,719
Speaker 13: Yeah, I think I can do a good job at

987
00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:05,200
Speaker 13: going up and getting the ball, making making explosive plays,

988
00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:08,200
Speaker 13: making people miss one of them on my feet, on

989
00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:12,480
Speaker 13: my feet, and then also I feel like just overall

990
00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:15,440
Speaker 13: blocking as a good part of my game as well.

991
00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:18,200
Speaker 5: So yeah, one of the things that you're trying to

992
00:35:18,239 --> 00:35:19,840
Speaker 5: work on now over the next three months, as you

993
00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:21,919
Speaker 5: get ready, as you play in this game, get ready

994
00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:24,040
Speaker 5: for the combine, do your pro day that maybe you

995
00:35:24,080 --> 00:35:25,759
Speaker 5: want to show NFL teams that might they might have

996
00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:27,000
Speaker 5: some doubts about in your game.

997
00:35:27,239 --> 00:35:31,799
Speaker 13: Yeah, I want to show them how physical I am.

998
00:35:33,239 --> 00:35:36,839
Speaker 13: Also want to show them just again how I can

999
00:35:36,920 --> 00:35:39,120
Speaker 13: do both things that they need me to do, and

1000
00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:43,439
Speaker 13: also just how I don't think they know how fast

1001
00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:45,000
Speaker 13: I am yet either, So that's something I want to

1002
00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:46,680
Speaker 13: prove at the combine as well.

1003
00:35:48,040 --> 00:35:50,919
Speaker 5: And yeah, I mean when you watch you on tape,

1004
00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:53,680
Speaker 5: you mentioned the explosive plays, there's a lot of deep overs,

1005
00:35:53,760 --> 00:35:56,239
Speaker 5: a lot of those deep flag routes. Is that something

1006
00:35:56,280 --> 00:35:58,840
Speaker 5: that came naturally you doing those kind of downfield routes

1007
00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:01,080
Speaker 5: where you're going you catching the ball away from your

1008
00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:02,799
Speaker 5: body an awful lot too. Is that something that kind

1009
00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:04,640
Speaker 5: of came naturally to you or did you develop that

1010
00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:06,319
Speaker 5: along along the way in Notre Dame.

1011
00:36:06,520 --> 00:36:10,319
Speaker 13: Yeah, I feel like that's something I've always had since

1012
00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:13,240
Speaker 13: I was a young kid. I was a basketball player,

1013
00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:17,160
Speaker 13: so love to go up and throw it, throw it down,

1014
00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:18,960
Speaker 13: and I feel like that's something that's helped with, you know,

1015
00:36:19,080 --> 00:36:22,200
Speaker 13: going up and high pointing the ball and making that play.

1016
00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:25,120
Speaker 5: So about how about the blocking part of your game?

1017
00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:27,279
Speaker 5: Do you like running duo? Do you like pulling in

1018
00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:30,000
Speaker 5: like outside zone? Do you like, you know, get out

1019
00:36:30,040 --> 00:36:32,320
Speaker 5: there and in front of screens. What do you have

1020
00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:33,840
Speaker 5: the most fun doing as a blocker.

1021
00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:37,359
Speaker 13: Yeah, I love just being in line and running duo,

1022
00:36:37,520 --> 00:36:41,520
Speaker 13: having to block the defensive end. And then also I find, uh,

1023
00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:44,680
Speaker 13: you know, like counter pulling, pulling for the backers was

1024
00:36:44,719 --> 00:36:45,440
Speaker 13: really fun as well.

1025
00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:48,239
Speaker 5: So now you had a very explosive running back that

1026
00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:49,880
Speaker 5: you were blocking for andre am I I love. And

1027
00:36:50,239 --> 00:36:52,080
Speaker 5: in order to turn an eight yard run into a

1028
00:36:52,239 --> 00:36:54,600
Speaker 5: thirty yard run, they need the receivers and tight ends

1029
00:36:54,680 --> 00:36:57,440
Speaker 5: like you to block. So what was it like blocking

1030
00:36:57,560 --> 00:36:59,360
Speaker 5: for him and knowing how explosive he was, did he

1031
00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:01,279
Speaker 5: give you more moreation to kind of get that extra

1032
00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:03,520
Speaker 5: block to break in for some of those long runs.

1033
00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:04,000
Speaker 1: For sure?

1034
00:37:04,160 --> 00:37:05,800
Speaker 13: Yeah, And you just obviously you don't want to be

1035
00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:07,880
Speaker 13: the guy that doesn't get your block, so that was

1036
00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:08,680
Speaker 13: kind of a motivator.

1037
00:37:08,719 --> 00:37:09,640
Speaker 2: But also knowing that.

1038
00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:13,680
Speaker 13: You know, like outside zone, like they're coming to me

1039
00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:15,600
Speaker 13: and like a lot of this is depending on my block,

1040
00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:19,560
Speaker 13: and it was really fun to you know, see them

1041
00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:22,200
Speaker 13: get past me and make moves and score touchdowns. Is

1042
00:37:22,920 --> 00:37:25,520
Speaker 13: so much fun blocking for those guys, and uh, they

1043
00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:27,080
Speaker 13: got us, They got us off the field quick.

1044
00:37:28,120 --> 00:37:30,000
Speaker 5: When you get to the NFL, you've talked about kind

1045
00:37:30,040 --> 00:37:32,279
Speaker 5: of your speed and your ability to get open down

1046
00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:34,480
Speaker 5: the field. How about the twitchiness for for some of

1047
00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:36,400
Speaker 5: those shorter areas stuff, one of those kind of y

1048
00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:38,120
Speaker 5: option routes right where you kind of go in you

1049
00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:40,120
Speaker 5: get the linebacker safety one on one, you have a

1050
00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:42,160
Speaker 5: choice to change the direction. Where do you think you

1051
00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:43,359
Speaker 5: are in terms of that part of your game?

1052
00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:45,560
Speaker 13: Yeah, I think that's something I can I can work

1053
00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:48,600
Speaker 13: on for sure. I'm kind of seeing as like someone

1054
00:37:48,640 --> 00:37:52,120
Speaker 13: who can win with speed, like you said, and but yeah,

1055
00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:56,600
Speaker 13: those short that's yeah, those short routes where you know,

1056
00:37:56,640 --> 00:37:59,040
Speaker 13: I have to be shifty is something that I'm definitely

1057
00:37:59,040 --> 00:38:02,840
Speaker 13: gonna emphasize working on this offseason. But overall, like you know,

1058
00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:07,560
Speaker 13: I've showed moments in my film doing that. But obviously

1059
00:38:07,760 --> 00:38:10,200
Speaker 13: I think that's honestly one of the errors improvement I

1060
00:38:10,239 --> 00:38:11,680
Speaker 13: can I can focus on this offseason.

1061
00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:13,160
Speaker 1: So all right, then, final question.

1062
00:38:13,239 --> 00:38:14,959
Speaker 5: We talked about what the scouts are asking you about

1063
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:17,680
Speaker 5: your game. How about you as a guy? What what

1064
00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:19,840
Speaker 5: are you telling them that you bring as a teammate

1065
00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:21,920
Speaker 5: in the locker rooms, as a player in the community

1066
00:38:22,960 --> 00:38:24,640
Speaker 5: for whatever NFL city you happen to go to.

1067
00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:27,240
Speaker 13: Yeah, I would just say overall, I'm an elite competitor.

1068
00:38:27,239 --> 00:38:28,800
Speaker 13: I've been that way since I was a kid, and

1069
00:38:29,160 --> 00:38:30,759
Speaker 13: I just love to be on the football field and

1070
00:38:31,520 --> 00:38:34,239
Speaker 13: going up going up against the best people. They're also

1071
00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:38,480
Speaker 13: getting someone that's really consistent. I'm very consistent in the

1072
00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:43,399
Speaker 13: things that I do, and I feel like consistency brings

1073
00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:47,359
Speaker 13: people to where they want to go. And yeah, those

1074
00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:49,920
Speaker 13: two things are are important traits I think I bring

1075
00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:50,440
Speaker 13: to the table.

1076
00:38:50,719 --> 00:38:52,399
Speaker 1: And only smart guys go to Notre Dame, right.

1077
00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:56,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, I'm smart as well. So yeah, yeah, yep.

1078
00:38:56,400 --> 00:38:58,600
Speaker 5: I appreciate you, like may good good luck the rest

1079
00:38:58,600 --> 00:39:00,759
Speaker 5: of the weekend and have fun derder process. We'll seeing

1080
00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:01,240
Speaker 5: the combine.

1081
00:39:01,239 --> 00:39:03,200
Speaker 13: Awesome, Thank you, appreciate you, and I mean that's me

1082
00:39:03,239 --> 00:39:03,959
Speaker 13: and you all.

1083
00:39:03,920 --> 00:39:06,320
Speaker 5: Right now we're joined by jack or Burton, offensive lineman

1084
00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:09,000
Speaker 5: from Kentucky. And I say offensive linemen because you've played

1085
00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:11,640
Speaker 5: both interior guard spots and the center in your career.

1086
00:39:11,640 --> 00:39:13,480
Speaker 5: You move the center this year. How do you think

1087
00:39:13,520 --> 00:39:16,160
Speaker 5: it's helped you as a player, moving from position from

1088
00:39:16,239 --> 00:39:17,680
Speaker 5: position over the course of your career.

1089
00:39:18,040 --> 00:39:20,080
Speaker 14: Yeah, I think for me, like just the experience of

1090
00:39:20,160 --> 00:39:25,160
Speaker 14: getting to Garden Center. They're close, but they're completely different positions. Center,

1091
00:39:25,239 --> 00:39:27,759
Speaker 14: you got to have the mental side of stuff. Learning

1092
00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:30,080
Speaker 14: defense is understanding what the game plan has going into

1093
00:39:30,120 --> 00:39:32,320
Speaker 14: a week. Whereas guard, you're kind of just you know,

1094
00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:34,040
Speaker 14: a soldier that the Center tells you where to go,

1095
00:39:34,200 --> 00:39:36,920
Speaker 14: and you're glass eater from there. So yeah, it's been

1096
00:39:37,040 --> 00:39:40,359
Speaker 14: awesome playing both. I love playing both, so I could

1097
00:39:40,360 --> 00:39:42,319
Speaker 14: see myself playing either at the next level. But it's

1098
00:39:42,360 --> 00:39:45,040
Speaker 14: just been a great experience, especially Don't at the University Kentucky.

1099
00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:47,600
Speaker 5: So and obviously, you know, I'm sure you've been getting

1100
00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:49,400
Speaker 5: questions from all the scouts about this. If you're going

1101
00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:51,279
Speaker 5: to be an interior alignment, especially to start your career,

1102
00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:52,960
Speaker 5: you're gonna have that versatility, right, Is that some of

1103
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:54,439
Speaker 5: the stuff that the guys have been talking to you about.

1104
00:39:54,640 --> 00:39:55,880
Speaker 15: Yeah, I think it's a big thing for them.

1105
00:39:55,920 --> 00:39:57,520
Speaker 14: It's another reason why I wanted to kind of play

1106
00:39:57,560 --> 00:40:00,320
Speaker 14: center this year too, is you know, there's only so

1107
00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:02,440
Speaker 14: many guys that can be on a roster, and you

1108
00:40:02,560 --> 00:40:03,840
Speaker 14: kind of got to be able to either be an

1109
00:40:03,880 --> 00:40:07,080
Speaker 14: interior or an outside guy unless you're just really really good.

1110
00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:10,120
Speaker 14: So yeah, I mean it's been something that they've they've

1111
00:40:10,160 --> 00:40:12,120
Speaker 14: harped on a lot the importance of and I know

1112
00:40:12,200 --> 00:40:14,799
Speaker 14: the coaches at Kentucky really wanted me to have that versatility.

1113
00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:17,600
Speaker 5: So what was the adjustment like for you having to

1114
00:40:17,960 --> 00:40:20,200
Speaker 5: make all those calls and do the protections when you

1115
00:40:20,280 --> 00:40:21,040
Speaker 5: did move the center.

1116
00:40:21,480 --> 00:40:23,960
Speaker 14: Yeah, I mean, there definitely is a learning curve there,

1117
00:40:24,040 --> 00:40:26,040
Speaker 14: But in college you have so long in the offseason

1118
00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:28,080
Speaker 14: you have spring ball and then all the way through

1119
00:40:28,120 --> 00:40:29,960
Speaker 14: fall camp. So by the time we got to fall camp,

1120
00:40:30,040 --> 00:40:33,000
Speaker 14: I mean it was a pretty smooth transition. Really a

1121
00:40:33,040 --> 00:40:36,720
Speaker 14: lot harder with snapping, getting used to snap, Yeah, getting

1122
00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:38,800
Speaker 14: used to playing kind of handicapped without one hand for

1123
00:40:38,880 --> 00:40:41,120
Speaker 14: the first however long it is to snap it.

1124
00:40:41,239 --> 00:40:44,719
Speaker 15: So but like anything else, it's it's you.

1125
00:40:44,840 --> 00:40:46,600
Speaker 14: Start doing it and doing it, and we have to

1126
00:40:46,640 --> 00:40:49,040
Speaker 14: do it so much that it happens pretty quick you

1127
00:40:49,080 --> 00:40:49,640
Speaker 14: get used to it.

1128
00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:52,080
Speaker 5: So what's the key to that is? Again that really

1129
00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:54,360
Speaker 5: quick one handed punch after the snap.

1130
00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:56,440
Speaker 15: Yeah, I think for me that was what I kind

1131
00:40:56,480 --> 00:40:57,279
Speaker 15: of learned was best for me.

1132
00:40:57,280 --> 00:40:59,120
Speaker 14: I mean, if you watch my tape, a lot of

1133
00:40:59,200 --> 00:41:01,600
Speaker 14: snap and jab and kind of get back off of people.

1134
00:41:01,719 --> 00:41:03,880
Speaker 15: So I think everybody's a little different.

1135
00:41:03,960 --> 00:41:06,080
Speaker 14: Some guys are are really blessed and don't have to

1136
00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:08,600
Speaker 14: even mess with the offhand, just throw their you know,

1137
00:41:08,640 --> 00:41:09,880
Speaker 14: they got strong hands can throw them.

1138
00:41:10,920 --> 00:41:13,000
Speaker 15: But yeah, I mean I think it's it's different for everybody.

1139
00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:15,400
Speaker 14: But I really do like the jab and get back,

1140
00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:17,160
Speaker 14: stabb and get back kind of slow down that rush

1141
00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:17,600
Speaker 14: a little bit.

1142
00:41:17,680 --> 00:41:20,760
Speaker 1: So where do you think you played your best football

1143
00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:21,200
Speaker 1: in college?

1144
00:41:21,239 --> 00:41:21,319
Speaker 2: At?

1145
00:41:21,360 --> 00:41:21,800
Speaker 1: Which spot?

1146
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:22,960
Speaker 15: I think center for sure?

1147
00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:23,359
Speaker 4: This year.

1148
00:41:24,160 --> 00:41:26,440
Speaker 14: I think just the maturity, the maturity level I had.

1149
00:41:26,880 --> 00:41:28,279
Speaker 14: You know, I started a lot of games. I was

1150
00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:31,680
Speaker 14: like forty seven games and UH started started playing really young,

1151
00:41:31,920 --> 00:41:34,000
Speaker 14: had some had some bumps in the road there, just

1152
00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:38,360
Speaker 14: confidence wise, ended up seeing sports psychologists before this season.

1153
00:41:38,440 --> 00:41:39,400
Speaker 15: I think just mentally.

1154
00:41:39,840 --> 00:41:42,200
Speaker 14: Physically I was always there, but mentally this year just

1155
00:41:42,320 --> 00:41:44,840
Speaker 14: kind of took that jump in terms of self confidence

1156
00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:45,960
Speaker 14: and believing that I could do it.

1157
00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:48,680
Speaker 15: And I think my tape UH will reflect that.

1158
00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:51,440
Speaker 5: So what made you decide to go and do that

1159
00:41:51,480 --> 00:41:53,120
Speaker 5: and see a sports psychologists And how do you think

1160
00:41:53,160 --> 00:41:54,680
Speaker 5: it did help your mentality and help your play on

1161
00:41:54,719 --> 00:41:55,040
Speaker 5: the field.

1162
00:41:55,360 --> 00:41:58,759
Speaker 14: Yeah, I mean I think like as athletes, you can

1163
00:41:58,840 --> 00:42:00,920
Speaker 14: kind of know when something's wrong, and most people have

1164
00:42:01,160 --> 00:42:04,719
Speaker 14: have those those moments, but the hardest part is, you know,

1165
00:42:04,800 --> 00:42:06,839
Speaker 14: actually going to talk to someone and getting out there

1166
00:42:06,840 --> 00:42:09,120
Speaker 14: and doing that. But for me, I mean, I just

1167
00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:11,359
Speaker 14: love that I love football so much that I wanted

1168
00:42:11,400 --> 00:42:13,960
Speaker 14: to do absolutely anything, even if I didn't think it

1169
00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:16,560
Speaker 14: would work at the time maybe before and kind of

1170
00:42:16,640 --> 00:42:20,600
Speaker 14: just lucked into it actually working and fixing the mental

1171
00:42:20,640 --> 00:42:21,399
Speaker 14: problems I was having.

1172
00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:25,520
Speaker 5: So that's terrific. You're a taller center, you know, usually

1173
00:42:25,520 --> 00:42:27,680
Speaker 5: get me six one six two. You'repe almost six'. Four

1174
00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:30,040
Speaker 5: what is it like when you're going in some of these,

1175
00:42:30,440 --> 00:42:32,880
Speaker 5: stouter defensive tackles that are maybe the lower that have

1176
00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:35,560
Speaker 5: some natural leverage against, you and trying to deal with

1177
00:42:35,640 --> 00:42:37,360
Speaker 5: some of those guys that maybe you know are a

1178
00:42:37,360 --> 00:42:38,040
Speaker 5: little bit lower to the.

1179
00:42:38,080 --> 00:42:40,799
Speaker 14: Ground, YEAH i think for, me like it's like any

1180
00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:42,480
Speaker 14: like even at, guard you kind of got to know,

1181
00:42:42,560 --> 00:42:46,120
Speaker 14: yourself know your. Weaknesses for, ME i know my strength is,

1182
00:42:46,200 --> 00:42:49,120
Speaker 14: Quickness so for, me trying to shock the lineman and

1183
00:42:49,160 --> 00:42:50,640
Speaker 14: get on them if they're a bigger guy that's super,

1184
00:42:50,680 --> 00:42:53,160
Speaker 14: strong like shocking them get on them before they're even

1185
00:42:53,200 --> 00:42:55,279
Speaker 14: out of their stands as. Something or if they're a faster,

1186
00:42:55,400 --> 00:42:56,560
Speaker 14: guy you can kind of get back and be a

1187
00:42:56,600 --> 00:42:59,440
Speaker 14: little more. Patient so it really depends week to. Week,

1188
00:43:00,520 --> 00:43:02,600
Speaker 14: yeah but it's super important just to know what you're good,

1189
00:43:02,640 --> 00:43:04,440
Speaker 14: at know what you need to work. On, obviously keep

1190
00:43:04,480 --> 00:43:06,600
Speaker 14: working on, both but use those to your.

1191
00:43:06,640 --> 00:43:08,799
Speaker 5: Advantage what do you like to run on you aside zone.

1192
00:43:08,840 --> 00:43:10,680
Speaker 5: Guy do you like to, pull like to run dual?

1193
00:43:10,719 --> 00:43:12,319
Speaker 5: Blocks what's your favorite part of one?

1194
00:43:12,360 --> 00:43:14,600
Speaker 14: Blocking we did EVERYTHING i can tug, you BUT i,

1195
00:43:14,719 --> 00:43:16,920
Speaker 14: think you, KNOW i kind of get a little excited

1196
00:43:16,960 --> 00:43:19,840
Speaker 14: WHEN i Hear i'm pulling for sure or screen stuff

1197
00:43:19,880 --> 00:43:22,000
Speaker 14: where you have you, know it's it's rare AT o

1198
00:43:22,120 --> 00:43:23,759
Speaker 14: line you have an opportunity to get one of those

1199
00:43:23,800 --> 00:43:25,520
Speaker 14: wild blocks that the whole stadium is gonna.

1200
00:43:25,560 --> 00:43:28,279
Speaker 15: See, yeah so those are always. Fun BUT i do

1201
00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:31,479
Speaker 15: love reaching. PEOPLE i, MEAN i love shades two eyes

1202
00:43:31,480 --> 00:43:32,080
Speaker 15: and wide.

1203
00:43:31,920 --> 00:43:33,960
Speaker 14: Zone where you're kind of you, know you know your

1204
00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:37,440
Speaker 14: block's gonna make or break the play and can't let

1205
00:43:37,480 --> 00:43:38,000
Speaker 14: your teammates.

1206
00:43:38,040 --> 00:43:41,120
Speaker 1: Down, LIKE i love the the excitement of those moments.

1207
00:43:41,160 --> 00:43:43,160
Speaker 1: Too so how do you think practice is con so

1208
00:43:43,239 --> 00:43:43,719
Speaker 1: far for you this?

1209
00:43:43,800 --> 00:43:45,480
Speaker 15: Week, YEAH i feel Like i've had a really good two.

1210
00:43:45,560 --> 00:43:48,840
Speaker 14: Days, Obviously oh lines of hard, position there's always stuff

1211
00:43:48,840 --> 00:43:51,759
Speaker 14: to clean. Up it's, never never no rest in our.

1212
00:43:51,840 --> 00:43:54,759
Speaker 14: Position but, YEAH i MEAN i feel blessed the guys

1213
00:43:54,760 --> 00:43:57,239
Speaker 14: That i'm. Around that makes make my job.

1214
00:43:57,320 --> 00:43:58,040
Speaker 15: Easy playing in the.

1215
00:43:58,080 --> 00:44:00,160
Speaker 14: Middle you, know you've got to have good cohesiveness with three,

1216
00:44:00,239 --> 00:44:02,600
Speaker 14: guys AND i mean in two Days we've built a

1217
00:44:02,719 --> 00:44:05,000
Speaker 14: pretty good knowing what each other, like how we like

1218
00:44:05,080 --> 00:44:07,359
Speaker 14: to play, combos stuff like. That, SO i, Mean i've

1219
00:44:07,360 --> 00:44:09,000
Speaker 14: been blessed with those. Guys they've allowed me to have

1220
00:44:09,080 --> 00:44:10,320
Speaker 14: a great day along with the coaches.

1221
00:44:10,360 --> 00:44:12,680
Speaker 5: Here so all, right now we welcome in from The

1222
00:44:12,840 --> 00:44:14,480
Speaker 5: university Of cincinnati wide Receiver Jeff.

1223
00:44:14,480 --> 00:44:15,920
Speaker 1: Coldbell Jeff, man how do you think you? Are three

1224
00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:17,479
Speaker 1: days here have gone so far to e sweat.

1225
00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:20,359
Speaker 4: RUN i mean at, FIRST i feel like it's going,

1226
00:44:20,400 --> 00:44:21,840
Speaker 4: well just trying to you, know get the flow of

1227
00:44:21,880 --> 00:44:23,600
Speaker 4: they get the jitters. OUT i, mean this is like

1228
00:44:23,640 --> 00:44:26,920
Speaker 4: an interview process with forty million dolls watching, you, so you,

1229
00:44:26,960 --> 00:44:28,960
Speaker 4: know just trying not to be. Tense i'm just grateful

1230
00:44:28,960 --> 00:44:30,480
Speaker 4: for the opportunity THAT i feel like it's going.

1231
00:44:30,560 --> 00:44:30,719
Speaker 5: Well.

1232
00:44:31,080 --> 00:44:32,320
Speaker 1: Now you're wearing The bearcat.

1233
00:44:32,360 --> 00:44:34,959
Speaker 5: Sweatshirt but you spent three years At, lindenwood correct before

1234
00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:37,880
Speaker 5: you went To cincinnati four four Year? Sorry do you

1235
00:44:37,920 --> 00:44:41,160
Speaker 5: still carry that like small school chip on your shoulder

1236
00:44:41,200 --> 00:44:43,240
Speaker 5: even though you got The cincinnati sweatshirt.

1237
00:44:43,280 --> 00:44:44,960
Speaker 4: ON i can't never forget where you came, from you, Know,

1238
00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:46,759
Speaker 4: god And god always wrapped The lindo with a baby

1239
00:44:46,840 --> 00:44:49,120
Speaker 4: TILL i, Die so, YEAH i mean pay how much

1240
00:44:49,160 --> 00:44:50,000
Speaker 4: of what the PLAYER i may.

1241
00:44:50,200 --> 00:44:52,799
Speaker 6: Become and you, Know i'm always grateful for.

1242
00:44:52,800 --> 00:44:54,120
Speaker 2: The new With what did you learn?

1243
00:44:54,200 --> 00:44:56,279
Speaker 1: There and then how did you build upon what you

1244
00:44:56,400 --> 00:44:57,840
Speaker 1: learned there when you got To? Cincinnati?

1245
00:44:58,280 --> 00:44:59,160
Speaker 2: WOW i learned a lot At.

1246
00:44:59,200 --> 00:45:01,279
Speaker 4: Lindwood, HONESTLY i say the biggest thing is just being

1247
00:45:01,320 --> 00:45:03,480
Speaker 4: where your feet, are you, know enjoying each. Moment you,

1248
00:45:03,560 --> 00:45:06,000
Speaker 4: know you never know when it can in the. Heartbeat

1249
00:45:06,080 --> 00:45:08,239
Speaker 4: SO i just felt like going To, CINCINNATI i was

1250
00:45:08,280 --> 00:45:09,800
Speaker 4: just trying to enjoy it and take it in like

1251
00:45:09,880 --> 00:45:11,480
Speaker 4: as a, kid LIKE i never would have Thought i'd

1252
00:45:11,480 --> 00:45:13,880
Speaker 4: be able to play powerful football even you, know SO

1253
00:45:14,160 --> 00:45:16,400
Speaker 4: i just it was JUST i feel like that's one

1254
00:45:16,400 --> 00:45:18,400
Speaker 4: of my bigges, accomplishments being able to SAY i could do.

1255
00:45:18,480 --> 00:45:19,839
Speaker 6: That so that's a good.

1256
00:45:19,840 --> 00:45:23,439
Speaker 10: Answer did you know anything about your your grade coming

1257
00:45:23,480 --> 00:45:26,880
Speaker 10: into your seeds into your your last Season? Cincinnati did

1258
00:45:26,920 --> 00:45:29,319
Speaker 10: you talk TO nfl? Scouts did they say if you were?

1259
00:45:29,400 --> 00:45:31,840
Speaker 10: Rated did you do because you were primarily off the

1260
00:45:32,040 --> 00:45:33,160
Speaker 10: scouting gradear coming in this?

1261
00:45:33,280 --> 00:45:34,759
Speaker 6: Season, Ah, NO i.

1262
00:45:34,880 --> 00:45:37,000
Speaker 4: HADN'T i didn't even know what when you said, GREAT

1263
00:45:37,040 --> 00:45:39,200
Speaker 4: i didn't really know what he, meant but, like, uh, Uh,

1264
00:45:39,760 --> 00:45:41,400
Speaker 4: no not. REALLY i always knew in my heart LIKE

1265
00:45:41,440 --> 00:45:43,840
Speaker 4: i wanted to do five years of, Football so LIKE i,

1266
00:45:43,920 --> 00:45:45,719
Speaker 4: KNEW i just wanted, to you, know go SOMEWHERE i

1267
00:45:45,760 --> 00:45:46,759
Speaker 4: can really prove my skill.

1268
00:45:46,840 --> 00:45:49,640
Speaker 5: Set so what what do you think is the strongest

1269
00:45:49,680 --> 00:45:51,520
Speaker 5: part of your skill set of your game as a wide?

1270
00:45:51,560 --> 00:45:55,000
Speaker 4: RECEIVER i would say my speeding length for. SURE i

1271
00:45:55,040 --> 00:45:57,320
Speaker 4: feel like it creates an advantage for, me you, know

1272
00:45:57,440 --> 00:45:58,400
Speaker 4: so that some people may not.

1273
00:45:58,520 --> 00:46:01,200
Speaker 5: Have do you think that if you look at the,

1274
00:46:01,239 --> 00:46:03,160
Speaker 5: production there's not a specially since then there's not a

1275
00:46:03,200 --> 00:46:04,640
Speaker 5: ton of, production, Right but then you look at your.

1276
00:46:04,640 --> 00:46:07,680
Speaker 5: MEASURABLES i saw how you moved out there. Too you're,

1277
00:46:07,719 --> 00:46:10,160
Speaker 5: big you're, long you're over two hundred. POUNDS i saw

1278
00:46:10,160 --> 00:46:12,440
Speaker 5: your run past cornerbacks in practice all day over the.

1279
00:46:12,480 --> 00:46:15,839
Speaker 5: Weekend how much untapped potential do you think you still

1280
00:46:15,920 --> 00:46:17,480
Speaker 5: have if you get in the right spot with the

1281
00:46:17,560 --> 00:46:19,160
Speaker 5: right coaching to continue to grow as a wide.

1282
00:46:19,200 --> 00:46:22,279
Speaker 4: RECEIVER i feel Like i'm pretty still rough. FOOTBALL i

1283
00:46:22,320 --> 00:46:24,960
Speaker 4: feel like there's STILL i. Left you, Know i'm still

1284
00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:26,640
Speaker 4: a mode being able to be. Formed SO i feel,

1285
00:46:26,640 --> 00:46:28,719
Speaker 4: LIKE i mean the right system right people like just

1286
00:46:28,800 --> 00:46:30,560
Speaker 4: with the, OPPORTUNITY i feel like you, know the sky's the.

1287
00:46:30,640 --> 00:46:34,719
Speaker 2: Limit what what was like playing With?

1288
00:46:34,880 --> 00:46:37,719
Speaker 4: Sowersby who are you talking about a guy who's an.

1289
00:46:37,719 --> 00:46:39,960
Speaker 4: ELITE i, mean he's just an elite. GUY i mean

1290
00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:42,360
Speaker 4: he brings what a leader needs to be to the.

1291
00:46:42,440 --> 00:46:45,359
Speaker 4: TEAM i feel LIKE i love playing for. Him i'm

1292
00:46:45,400 --> 00:46:48,440
Speaker 4: surprised he didn't come out this, year BUT i, mean you,

1293
00:46:48,520 --> 00:46:50,680
Speaker 4: know he's whatever team he goes, TO i know this

1294
00:46:50,800 --> 00:46:52,520
Speaker 4: year he's gonna have a great, year hoping he wins That.

1295
00:46:52,600 --> 00:46:55,279
Speaker 4: Heisman BUT i mean he really brought the team, together

1296
00:46:55,440 --> 00:46:56,920
Speaker 4: really showed him that he wanted me to go. THERE

1297
00:46:57,000 --> 00:46:58,719
Speaker 4: i MEAN i felt, like you know that show like

1298
00:46:58,800 --> 00:47:00,880
Speaker 4: persistence to get the type of guy you want to

1299
00:47:00,880 --> 00:47:01,680
Speaker 4: play for and have on your.

1300
00:47:01,719 --> 00:47:03,839
Speaker 10: Team you graduated From Linda.

1301
00:47:03,880 --> 00:47:06,160
Speaker 1: Wood what was your?

1302
00:47:06,200 --> 00:47:07,680
Speaker 4: Degree interdisciplinary?

1303
00:47:07,719 --> 00:47:09,240
Speaker 10: Studies exactly?

1304
00:47:09,320 --> 00:47:10,640
Speaker 4: WHAT i cann't tell.

1305
00:47:10,680 --> 00:47:11,919
Speaker 2: YOU i don't.

1306
00:47:11,960 --> 00:47:15,200
Speaker 4: KNOW i went from a finance worts made it to interdisciplinary, study,

1307
00:47:15,360 --> 00:47:15,920
Speaker 4: so you, know.

1308
00:47:16,360 --> 00:47:17,160
Speaker 1: Finance that's pretty.

1309
00:47:17,200 --> 00:47:18,960
Speaker 5: Good so when you got, here what did you kind

1310
00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:21,080
Speaker 5: of want to show scouts and all these guys that

1311
00:47:21,160 --> 00:47:23,440
Speaker 5: here are watching you that maybe aren't that familiar with

1312
00:47:23,600 --> 00:47:24,759
Speaker 5: the game and they're just starting to get to know

1313
00:47:24,840 --> 00:47:26,200
Speaker 5: you as a. Player what did you want to show

1314
00:47:26,239 --> 00:47:26,719
Speaker 5: them after on the.

1315
00:47:26,760 --> 00:47:28,520
Speaker 4: FIELD i just wanted to show them, Like i'm how

1316
00:47:28,560 --> 00:47:30,840
Speaker 4: EXPLOSED i am twitching, this you, know just HOW i

1317
00:47:30,880 --> 00:47:32,320
Speaker 4: can get in and out of breaks cuts like that

1318
00:47:32,480 --> 00:47:34,120
Speaker 4: with me being a taller. Guy so that's kind of,

1319
00:47:34,120 --> 00:47:35,799
Speaker 4: hard you, know tall players to do. That just show

1320
00:47:35,840 --> 00:47:38,320
Speaker 4: them THAT i. Can you, Know I'm i'm ready for this.

1321
00:47:38,480 --> 00:47:40,480
Speaker 1: Level so what do you work on in training to

1322
00:47:40,840 --> 00:47:42,279
Speaker 1: try to improve? That you mentioned you got the. Length

1323
00:47:42,360 --> 00:47:44,319
Speaker 1: we know you got the speed to be that guy

1324
00:47:44,440 --> 00:47:45,840
Speaker 1: that can separate at the top of the.

1325
00:47:45,920 --> 00:47:48,560
Speaker 4: Route just continuing in the sharp of my, game just

1326
00:47:48,680 --> 00:47:51,600
Speaker 4: like you, know attacking, leverage how to attack, leverage WATCHING dB,

1327
00:47:51,680 --> 00:47:52,279
Speaker 4: speed things like.

1328
00:47:52,360 --> 00:47:54,720
Speaker 10: That so are you going to the combine?

1329
00:47:55,120 --> 00:47:56,759
Speaker 2: Sir what's what are?

1330
00:47:56,760 --> 00:47:58,279
Speaker 10: You what marks are you looking for and what are

1331
00:47:58,320 --> 00:48:02,200
Speaker 10: you working on to get? Better what tests are you

1332
00:48:02,280 --> 00:48:03,279
Speaker 10: working to get a bit of mark?

1333
00:48:03,360 --> 00:48:05,880
Speaker 6: ON i like times and stuff like.

1334
00:48:06,000 --> 00:48:08,359
Speaker 4: What i'm just trying to get over anything all over

1335
00:48:08,440 --> 00:48:10,279
Speaker 4: eleven two in a broad.

1336
00:48:10,160 --> 00:48:11,600
Speaker 6: You, know trying to jump forty four.

1337
00:48:11,719 --> 00:48:13,600
Speaker 4: Four SO i mean just trying to you, know continue

1338
00:48:13,600 --> 00:48:16,279
Speaker 4: to crack my game to be more, explosive really looking

1339
00:48:16,280 --> 00:48:19,279
Speaker 4: at the technical side or restarting the, forty just trying

1340
00:48:19,280 --> 00:48:19,520
Speaker 4: to get.

1341
00:48:19,560 --> 00:48:22,520
Speaker 10: Out so did you play any of the sports in

1342
00:48:22,600 --> 00:48:23,480
Speaker 10: high school besides?

1343
00:48:24,160 --> 00:48:25,640
Speaker 1: FOOTBALL i was a soccer player.

1344
00:48:25,480 --> 00:48:27,560
Speaker 2: Going in my whole. Life so not no.

1345
00:48:27,719 --> 00:48:30,600
Speaker 4: Basketball i'm not getting. Basketball so, yeah it's pretty much soccer.

1346
00:48:30,880 --> 00:48:33,680
Speaker 5: Soccer SO i imagine the soccer stuff must help you

1347
00:48:33,760 --> 00:48:35,800
Speaker 5: with your, footwork change, direction and kind of come in

1348
00:48:35,840 --> 00:48:36,440
Speaker 5: out of, breaks right.

1349
00:48:36,440 --> 00:48:38,799
Speaker 4: EXACTLY i feel like the soccer, though it gives me an.

1350
00:48:38,840 --> 00:48:40,960
Speaker 4: ADVANTAGE i feel LIKE i could have went pro and so,

1351
00:48:41,200 --> 00:48:43,319
Speaker 4: No i'm, joking BUT i feel like it definitely does

1352
00:48:43,400 --> 00:48:44,600
Speaker 4: give me an advantage with a feed.

1353
00:48:44,640 --> 00:48:48,800
Speaker 5: Break and then when you knew with these guys and

1354
00:48:48,840 --> 00:48:50,520
Speaker 5: they're interviewing, you what are some of the questions that

1355
00:48:50,560 --> 00:48:52,160
Speaker 5: you're kind of being peppered with that they're trying to

1356
00:48:52,239 --> 00:48:54,120
Speaker 5: learn about you as who either this is the first

1357
00:48:54,160 --> 00:48:55,960
Speaker 5: time you're really getting face to face contact with these

1358
00:48:56,000 --> 00:48:57,239
Speaker 5: guys that they're trying to learn about you as a

1359
00:48:57,280 --> 00:48:57,680
Speaker 5: guy and as a.

1360
00:48:57,719 --> 00:49:01,000
Speaker 4: Player just, background like how you are as a, player

1361
00:49:01,080 --> 00:49:03,320
Speaker 4: how do you like to be? Coached you, know just

1362
00:49:04,160 --> 00:49:05,680
Speaker 4: how did you deal with the versity in your? Life

1363
00:49:06,600 --> 00:49:08,120
Speaker 4: what are you looking for when you get into the?

1364
00:49:08,200 --> 00:49:10,719
Speaker 4: League you, know who AM i? Support staff is things like.

1365
00:49:10,800 --> 00:49:13,279
Speaker 5: That and then, finally as you now move into the

1366
00:49:13,280 --> 00:49:14,840
Speaker 5: common we talked about some of the testing and some

1367
00:49:14,960 --> 00:49:16,760
Speaker 5: of the technical training to do better at the. Events

1368
00:49:16,920 --> 00:49:18,680
Speaker 5: how about from a technique, perspective what are some of

1369
00:49:18,719 --> 00:49:20,279
Speaker 5: the things you're really trying to? Find you and as

1370
00:49:20,320 --> 00:49:22,440
Speaker 5: a wide receiver as you get to something like your pro,

1371
00:49:22,560 --> 00:49:24,800
Speaker 5: day when they see on the field again working football,

1372
00:49:24,800 --> 00:49:25,600
Speaker 5: Trops i'm.

1373
00:49:25,480 --> 00:49:27,920
Speaker 4: Just, saying creating more, separation being physical in and, out,

1374
00:49:27,920 --> 00:49:31,040
Speaker 4: arouse just showing that explosive twitching thiss and just continuing

1375
00:49:31,080 --> 00:49:31,800
Speaker 4: to seeking it out of.

1376
00:49:31,880 --> 00:49:32,840
Speaker 2: Breaks things like.

1377
00:49:32,920 --> 00:49:34,880
Speaker 1: That it was great getting all you, man bestluck the

1378
00:49:34,920 --> 00:49:35,160
Speaker 1: rest of the.

1379
00:49:35,160 --> 00:49:36,400
Speaker 4: Way thank, You thank you.

1380
00:49:36,480 --> 00:49:39,440
Speaker 5: Guys all, Right John, Schmoke Tony. Pauline now we're joined

1381
00:49:39,480 --> 00:49:41,480
Speaker 5: by wide receiver Jam michael start.

1382
00:49:41,480 --> 00:49:41,680
Speaker 1: Event.

1383
00:49:41,880 --> 00:49:42,400
Speaker 4: Jay how are you?

1384
00:49:42,480 --> 00:49:44,160
Speaker 2: Man i'm doing, Well, Man i'm doing. Well all.

1385
00:49:44,200 --> 00:49:45,640
Speaker 1: Right so you three days of practice in the, book

1386
00:49:45,640 --> 00:49:46,080
Speaker 1: how do you think you?

1387
00:49:46,120 --> 00:49:48,360
Speaker 16: DID i think out of, solid solid. Showing it's a

1388
00:49:48,400 --> 00:49:50,239
Speaker 16: lot of fun to be out here playing ball. Again you,

1389
00:49:50,280 --> 00:49:52,040
Speaker 16: know my last game was back In. November so being

1390
00:49:52,080 --> 00:49:54,239
Speaker 16: able to get back and practice on the grass and you,

1391
00:49:54,280 --> 00:49:56,200
Speaker 16: know just do WHAT i love to do is always

1392
00:49:56,239 --> 00:49:56,719
Speaker 16: gonna be a fun.

1393
00:49:56,760 --> 00:49:58,040
Speaker 5: Time how long did it take you to get back

1394
00:49:58,040 --> 00:49:59,439
Speaker 5: into the groove getting the help out of the pads

1395
00:49:59,480 --> 00:50:01,279
Speaker 5: back together back on, Again like ten.

1396
00:50:01,360 --> 00:50:04,560
Speaker 16: SECONDS i love, football so being able to put the

1397
00:50:04,600 --> 00:50:06,759
Speaker 16: humble back on and go out and catch a pill it's.

1398
00:50:06,800 --> 00:50:10,520
Speaker 10: FUN a couple questions about your college. Career you kind

1399
00:50:10,560 --> 00:50:12,480
Speaker 10: of went from the fire to the boiling, pot From

1400
00:50:12,800 --> 00:50:14,719
Speaker 10: ucla To. Florida what was that? Transition?

1401
00:50:14,880 --> 00:50:15,680
Speaker 2: Like it was, great.

1402
00:50:15,719 --> 00:50:18,040
Speaker 16: MAN i Loved ucla AND i Love. Florida so being

1403
00:50:18,080 --> 00:50:20,400
Speaker 16: able to go into that room and be surrounded by

1404
00:50:20,400 --> 00:50:22,360
Speaker 16: a whole bunch of guys that are very talented and

1405
00:50:22,760 --> 00:50:25,320
Speaker 16: very competitive is good for, everybody AND i had a

1406
00:50:25,360 --> 00:50:25,520
Speaker 16: lot of.

1407
00:50:25,560 --> 00:50:28,080
Speaker 10: Fun what was the difference in the offenses that you

1408
00:50:28,160 --> 00:50:30,040
Speaker 10: played or was there a difference between the two?

1409
00:50:30,120 --> 00:50:34,040
Speaker 16: Offenses to be, honest, Like i'm comfortable in every offense i'm,

1410
00:50:34,080 --> 00:50:36,239
Speaker 16: in so being able to learn another offense is like

1411
00:50:36,239 --> 00:50:38,319
Speaker 16: another task for, me AND i just view it as

1412
00:50:38,400 --> 00:50:41,040
Speaker 16: LIKE i love learning new, Things so being able to

1413
00:50:41,600 --> 00:50:43,680
Speaker 16: go over there To florida and learn that offense and

1414
00:50:44,160 --> 00:50:45,600
Speaker 16: master it was a fun.

1415
00:50:45,640 --> 00:50:47,400
Speaker 5: Time what was it like trying to learn the offense

1416
00:50:47,440 --> 00:50:49,439
Speaker 5: here in a span of only forty eight hours before

1417
00:50:49,480 --> 00:50:49,759
Speaker 5: the first.

1418
00:50:49,800 --> 00:50:50,160
Speaker 4: Practice.

1419
00:50:50,280 --> 00:50:52,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, man it's a. Lot you.

1420
00:50:52,120 --> 00:50:53,480
Speaker 16: Know they give you a playbook with a whole bunch

1421
00:50:53,520 --> 00:50:55,040
Speaker 16: of things on, it so you just have to stay

1422
00:50:55,080 --> 00:50:56,960
Speaker 16: in the book and you just got to rep.

1423
00:50:57,000 --> 00:50:58,720
Speaker 2: It that's HOW i, learned is by just constant.

1424
00:50:58,760 --> 00:51:01,360
Speaker 16: Repetition so it's day three, now SO i feel Like

1425
00:51:01,400 --> 00:51:04,200
Speaker 16: i've been in this playbook for months. Now everything's starting

1426
00:51:04,200 --> 00:51:04,960
Speaker 16: to click and it's been.

1427
00:51:05,000 --> 00:51:07,000
Speaker 5: Fun when THESE nfl teams ask you about you as

1428
00:51:07,000 --> 00:51:09,319
Speaker 5: a wide, receiver what your greatest strength, is, like what's

1429
00:51:09,360 --> 00:51:11,160
Speaker 5: your go to think a wide receiver that makes you?

1430
00:51:11,239 --> 00:51:12,160
Speaker 5: Productive what do you tell?

1431
00:51:12,200 --> 00:51:15,160
Speaker 16: THEM i can take the top off every defense that simple?

1432
00:51:15,239 --> 00:51:16,880
Speaker 4: Speed, yeah it's good.

1433
00:51:16,920 --> 00:51:19,520
Speaker 10: Answer are you going to the? Combine, Yeah i'm gonna be.

1434
00:51:19,520 --> 00:51:21,160
Speaker 10: There what are you expecting to run in the forty?

1435
00:51:21,480 --> 00:51:21,800
Speaker 2: Fast?

1436
00:51:22,760 --> 00:51:27,080
Speaker 10: Fast give me a put a number dext to fast just.

1437
00:51:27,239 --> 00:51:28,680
Speaker 2: Fast you're gonna see on combine.

1438
00:51:28,719 --> 00:51:31,400
Speaker 10: Day so let me ask you why you're. Here are

1439
00:51:31,440 --> 00:51:34,720
Speaker 10: you learning ANY nfl? Techniques do they teach anything different

1440
00:51:34,920 --> 00:51:36,120
Speaker 10: from what you're used to in?

1441
00:51:36,239 --> 00:51:39,160
Speaker 16: College there's more just learning the playbook and being around

1442
00:51:39,160 --> 00:51:40,920
Speaker 16: a whole bunch OF nfl. Coaches so being able to

1443
00:51:41,360 --> 00:51:43,759
Speaker 16: talk about things in the league that you don't get

1444
00:51:44,000 --> 00:51:45,759
Speaker 16: like by just looking it up on the. Internet so

1445
00:51:46,000 --> 00:51:47,479
Speaker 16: it's been fun to be around a lot OF nfl

1446
00:51:47,560 --> 00:51:50,320
Speaker 16: coaches and just learn learn AN nfl playbook.

1447
00:51:50,000 --> 00:51:53,920
Speaker 5: When you're talking to scouts AND gms scouting directors in

1448
00:51:54,000 --> 00:51:55,560
Speaker 5: these one a lot of means with THE nfl, teams

1449
00:51:55,719 --> 00:51:57,320
Speaker 5: what are some of the questions that they've been peppering

1450
00:51:57,400 --> 00:51:58,800
Speaker 5: with and trying to focus on as they try to

1451
00:51:58,840 --> 00:51:59,640
Speaker 5: learn little bit more about.

1452
00:51:59,640 --> 00:52:02,880
Speaker 16: You every team is asked like WHY i transfer so

1453
00:52:03,000 --> 00:52:05,759
Speaker 16: much so just having to explain that story again and

1454
00:52:05,960 --> 00:52:07,600
Speaker 16: really just trying to figure out what type of GUY

1455
00:52:07,600 --> 00:52:08,200
Speaker 16: i Am to be.

1456
00:52:08,239 --> 00:52:10,320
Speaker 1: Honest what's your answer when they ask you about the transfer.

1457
00:52:10,360 --> 00:52:13,200
Speaker 16: Stuff it's a long, story but ultimately it just came

1458
00:52:13,280 --> 00:52:16,600
Speaker 16: down to just. Situations every, SITUATION i just decided it

1459
00:52:16,680 --> 00:52:18,040
Speaker 16: was best to find new.

1460
00:52:18,120 --> 00:52:20,160
Speaker 5: Guys what do they ask you about you as a

1461
00:52:20,200 --> 00:52:21,719
Speaker 5: guy in terms of what you bring to the locker

1462
00:52:21,760 --> 00:52:23,640
Speaker 5: room as a person blending in with your teammates and

1463
00:52:23,840 --> 00:52:24,239
Speaker 5: trying to be a.

1464
00:52:24,320 --> 00:52:26,120
Speaker 16: Leader they just asked me kind of like what type

1465
00:52:26,120 --> 00:52:28,040
Speaker 16: of ENVIRONMENT i grew up, in WHY i chose to

1466
00:52:28,080 --> 00:52:31,440
Speaker 16: play football out of all, things and that's just the

1467
00:52:31,520 --> 00:52:33,520
Speaker 16: same thing THAT i have to keep explaining to every.

1468
00:52:33,560 --> 00:52:36,880
Speaker 10: Team did you play a sports in high school besides?

1469
00:52:36,920 --> 00:52:39,600
Speaker 16: Football, yeah OBVIOUSLY i played, football THEN i ran, track

1470
00:52:39,640 --> 00:52:40,040
Speaker 16: AND i played.

1471
00:52:40,040 --> 00:52:42,440
Speaker 5: Basketball how do you think basketball helped you become a

1472
00:52:42,440 --> 00:52:43,000
Speaker 5: better football?

1473
00:52:43,040 --> 00:52:46,040
Speaker 16: Player it helped me with my blocking because obviously playing

1474
00:52:46,080 --> 00:52:47,600
Speaker 16: defense you got to get low and stick with your,

1475
00:52:47,640 --> 00:52:49,799
Speaker 16: Guys so it blocking as a, receiver you know you're

1476
00:52:49,800 --> 00:52:52,560
Speaker 16: going AGAINST dB they're, quick so it's Like i'm playing basketball,

1477
00:52:52,560 --> 00:52:53,399
Speaker 16: again just having to play.

1478
00:52:53,480 --> 00:52:57,120
Speaker 10: Defense What i'm assuming you were sprinting track anything?

1479
00:52:57,160 --> 00:52:59,120
Speaker 2: Else, YEAH i. JUMPED i jumped a little.

1480
00:52:59,120 --> 00:53:00,160
Speaker 4: BIT i did long long.

1481
00:53:00,320 --> 00:53:03,640
Speaker 10: Jump what was YOUR pbp or whatever they.

1482
00:53:03,760 --> 00:53:06,439
Speaker 2: PR i think it was like a twenty three four or. Something.

1483
00:53:06,800 --> 00:53:10,719
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah in high, school you recruited for track and

1484
00:53:10,800 --> 00:53:11,120
Speaker 10: field at.

1485
00:53:11,160 --> 00:53:13,279
Speaker 2: All NOW i was already committed to, football so it.

1486
00:53:13,360 --> 00:53:14,200
Speaker 1: Was, like it was no.

1487
00:53:14,320 --> 00:53:16,400
Speaker 5: Point if there's one thing for the rest of this

1488
00:53:16,480 --> 00:53:18,520
Speaker 5: draft process that you want to show or prove TO

1489
00:53:18,640 --> 00:53:20,279
Speaker 5: nfl teams that you can do, that maybe they have

1490
00:53:20,360 --> 00:53:21,560
Speaker 5: some questions about what would it Be.

1491
00:53:21,920 --> 00:53:23,840
Speaker 16: Just That i'm A i'm a true, RECEIVER i can do.

1492
00:53:23,920 --> 00:53:25,440
Speaker 16: Everything i'm not just a deep, shot you. KNOW i

1493
00:53:25,480 --> 00:53:27,239
Speaker 16: can run the short, ROUTES i can, BLOCK i can

1494
00:53:27,280 --> 00:53:28,960
Speaker 16: get on special team to run down make a. Tackle

1495
00:53:29,120 --> 00:53:31,359
Speaker 16: so just showing, that Like i'm not just a one trick.

1496
00:53:31,400 --> 00:53:32,840
Speaker 1: Pony is that something that you want to show in

1497
00:53:32,880 --> 00:53:34,200
Speaker 1: the game On? Tuesday, yeah for.

1498
00:53:34,280 --> 00:53:35,799
Speaker 16: Sure every TIME i step on the, Field i'm trying

1499
00:53:35,800 --> 00:53:36,080
Speaker 16: to prove.

1500
00:53:36,120 --> 00:53:38,040
Speaker 10: That let me ask you, This john asked you what

1501
00:53:38,280 --> 00:53:40,759
Speaker 10: you're the best? Statribute if your game is what do

1502
00:53:40,840 --> 00:53:41,800
Speaker 10: you think you have to work on the.

1503
00:53:41,880 --> 00:53:44,920
Speaker 16: Most some things THAT i THINK i always continue to work.

1504
00:53:44,960 --> 00:53:46,319
Speaker 16: ON i don't think you could ever catch too many

1505
00:53:46,360 --> 00:53:49,280
Speaker 16: football So i'm always work on my hands and. FOOTWORK

1506
00:53:49,280 --> 00:53:50,719
Speaker 16: i don't THINK i could ever be too good at,

1507
00:53:50,760 --> 00:53:53,520
Speaker 16: footwork So i'm always continue to work releases topp of the,

1508
00:53:53,640 --> 00:53:56,360
Speaker 16: routes you, know different, stems and just continue to improve my.

1509
00:53:56,800 --> 00:54:01,280
Speaker 10: Feet besides doing actual route, running are there other drills

1510
00:54:01,360 --> 00:54:03,320
Speaker 10: or exercises that you do as far as your for

1511
00:54:03,840 --> 00:54:05,120
Speaker 10: quickness and balance and things like.

1512
00:54:05,200 --> 00:54:06,480
Speaker 2: That, oh you can do like reaction.

1513
00:54:06,640 --> 00:54:10,560
Speaker 16: Time so in the off season AT ucla with my Guy,

1514
00:54:10,680 --> 00:54:12,560
Speaker 16: tim he would throw cards at me AND i have

1515
00:54:12,640 --> 00:54:14,640
Speaker 16: to like catch the. Cards so it helped me with

1516
00:54:14,719 --> 00:54:18,480
Speaker 16: my reaction time and just kind of also translates to my,

1517
00:54:18,520 --> 00:54:19,560
Speaker 16: feet my, Feet.

1518
00:54:19,800 --> 00:54:21,920
Speaker 1: Okay, michael good, stuff, man appreciate it and the best

1519
00:54:21,960 --> 00:54:22,239
Speaker 1: look at the.

1520
00:54:22,280 --> 00:54:23,040
Speaker 2: Game thank, you thank.

1521
00:54:23,080 --> 00:54:24,759
Speaker 11: You if you want to know how to manage two

1522
00:54:24,840 --> 00:54:27,160
Speaker 11: minutes of crunch time, Football i'm your. Man but if

1523
00:54:27,200 --> 00:54:29,960
Speaker 11: you're wondering about a long term financial, plan you should

1524
00:54:29,960 --> 00:54:32,080
Speaker 11: talk To. Citizens, HEY i can also talk long.

1525
00:54:32,160 --> 00:54:33,800
Speaker 15: Care i'd like to learn ABOUT amlia.

1526
00:54:33,840 --> 00:54:37,000
Speaker 1: Routine, YES i KNEW i could help make sense of

1527
00:54:37,080 --> 00:54:37,600
Speaker 1: your money With.

1528
00:54:37,800 --> 00:54:40,440
Speaker 5: Citizens and now we're joined by tight end from Usc lake.

1529
00:54:40,520 --> 00:54:42,040
Speaker 5: Mccreelake how do you think the first couple of days

1530
00:54:42,080 --> 00:54:42,560
Speaker 5: have gone?

1531
00:54:42,600 --> 00:54:42,800
Speaker 2: Here for?

1532
00:54:42,920 --> 00:54:45,319
Speaker 11: You they've gone. WELL i think every day's gotten better

1533
00:54:45,480 --> 00:54:47,600
Speaker 11: just you, know getting used to the, schedule the, playbook

1534
00:54:47,920 --> 00:54:50,879
Speaker 11: kind of just the flow of. Things so it was good. Today,

1535
00:54:50,920 --> 00:54:52,799
Speaker 11: hopefully you know tomorrow we can be even.

1536
00:54:52,880 --> 00:54:55,160
Speaker 5: BETTER i don't know if you pay attention to the

1537
00:54:55,200 --> 00:54:56,839
Speaker 5: class in, general BUT i think just from the group

1538
00:54:56,880 --> 00:54:58,480
Speaker 5: of tight ends that are, here so a lot of

1539
00:54:58,560 --> 00:55:02,000
Speaker 5: like why in line tight ends in this? Class why

1540
00:55:02,040 --> 00:55:04,439
Speaker 5: do you think that's kind of becoming more in vogue

1541
00:55:04,440 --> 00:55:06,120
Speaker 5: in college football when you, look you, know four or

1542
00:55:06,120 --> 00:55:07,680
Speaker 5: five years ago with a lot of these you, know

1543
00:55:07,760 --> 00:55:09,839
Speaker 5: two hundred and twenty five pound guys that are splitting out.

1544
00:55:09,880 --> 00:55:11,840
Speaker 1: Wide now we're get a lot more in line guys like.

1545
00:55:11,880 --> 00:55:14,800
Speaker 11: You, YEAH i think just the versatility of that position

1546
00:55:14,960 --> 00:55:17,719
Speaker 11: is so helpful in offenses of you, know being able

1547
00:55:17,760 --> 00:55:21,000
Speaker 11: to run and pass with those guys on the field

1548
00:55:21,040 --> 00:55:23,680
Speaker 11: and them being good at their, job and it's really

1549
00:55:23,719 --> 00:55:25,239
Speaker 11: hard to. Cover you don't, know if you've got to

1550
00:55:25,239 --> 00:55:28,120
Speaker 11: put a backer on them or a nickel or you,

1551
00:55:28,200 --> 00:55:30,160
Speaker 11: know it's. Tough you, know if if you're really good

1552
00:55:30,160 --> 00:55:31,640
Speaker 11: at that, position it's tough to cover for.

1553
00:55:31,680 --> 00:55:34,120
Speaker 5: Sure all, Right so let's talk about the run blocking

1554
00:55:34,160 --> 00:55:35,520
Speaker 5: part of, this because that's kind of where it all.

1555
00:55:35,520 --> 00:55:36,800
Speaker 1: Starts if you get to get on the, field you

1556
00:55:36,800 --> 00:55:37,440
Speaker 1: got to build a run.

1557
00:55:37,440 --> 00:55:39,320
Speaker 5: Block what do you think the most important things That

1558
00:55:39,360 --> 00:55:41,480
Speaker 5: titan has to be good at from a technique perspective

1559
00:55:41,520 --> 00:55:42,280
Speaker 5: to be a good run.

1560
00:55:42,160 --> 00:55:45,040
Speaker 11: Blocker probably just your hand. PLACEMENT i think that's the first.

1561
00:55:45,080 --> 00:55:47,919
Speaker 11: Thing hand hand placement and pad. LEVEL i think those

1562
00:55:48,280 --> 00:55:51,080
Speaker 11: are your bread and. Butter if you're consistent with, that

1563
00:55:51,480 --> 00:55:54,680
Speaker 11: everything kind, of you, know figures itself. Out so as

1564
00:55:54,719 --> 00:55:56,160
Speaker 11: long as you got, that you should you should be

1565
00:55:56,239 --> 00:55:56,520
Speaker 11: doing all?

1566
00:55:56,600 --> 00:55:58,800
Speaker 5: Right did that come more naturally to you as you

1567
00:55:58,920 --> 00:56:00,759
Speaker 5: advanced the blocking part of a tight end spot or

1568
00:56:00,800 --> 00:56:02,239
Speaker 5: did you consider yourself more of a natural?

1569
00:56:02,360 --> 00:56:06,600
Speaker 11: Receiver probably more natural. RECEIVER i, Think, uh blocking and

1570
00:56:07,360 --> 00:56:10,120
Speaker 11: involves a lot of technique and it's kind of tough

1571
00:56:10,200 --> 00:56:13,759
Speaker 11: to teach. THAT i was lucky to get AN o

1572
00:56:13,920 --> 00:56:18,000
Speaker 11: line coach background with my position coach AT usc for three,

1573
00:56:18,080 --> 00:56:21,399
Speaker 11: YEARS uh Coach, hanson who's OUR o line coach AT usc,

1574
00:56:21,560 --> 00:56:24,360
Speaker 11: Now so he he taught me a lot of. TECHNIQUE

1575
00:56:24,560 --> 00:56:26,320
Speaker 11: i think that's WHERE i got a lot of my technique.

1576
00:56:26,360 --> 00:56:26,759
Speaker 2: From so.

1577
00:56:28,320 --> 00:56:30,080
Speaker 11: You, know all that all that credit goes to, him

1578
00:56:30,120 --> 00:56:32,160
Speaker 11: AND i think that helped me a lot for.

1579
00:56:32,239 --> 00:56:35,839
Speaker 5: Sure what part of the blocking technique do you think

1580
00:56:35,880 --> 00:56:37,680
Speaker 5: you made the most improvements on from when you got

1581
00:56:37,719 --> 00:56:39,160
Speaker 5: THE usc to where you are, today.

1582
00:56:40,360 --> 00:56:44,080
Speaker 11: FROM usc to here, NOW i, think just, uh. CONSISTENCY

1583
00:56:44,600 --> 00:56:46,560
Speaker 11: i would put some really good reps on tape of

1584
00:56:46,760 --> 00:56:50,560
Speaker 11: being really physical with good, fundamentals and then you, KNOW

1585
00:56:50,800 --> 00:56:53,160
Speaker 11: i would just be physical and my fundamentals will be

1586
00:56:53,160 --> 00:56:55,280
Speaker 11: all over the. Place SO i think Now i'm starting

1587
00:56:55,320 --> 00:56:58,319
Speaker 11: to hone in on you know that consistency going up,

1588
00:56:58,440 --> 00:56:59,920
Speaker 11: enough AND i obviously still got to work on, it

1589
00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:03,440
Speaker 11: and you, know there's sometimes THAT i could work on,

1590
00:57:03,520 --> 00:57:05,279
Speaker 11: it for, sure BUT i think that's something that's gotten.

1591
00:57:05,360 --> 00:57:08,200
Speaker 5: Better how about the past receiving part of, This what

1592
00:57:08,320 --> 00:57:09,520
Speaker 5: are some of the things that you want to show

1593
00:57:09,600 --> 00:57:12,840
Speaker 5: scouts at this game this week and some of your receiving.

1594
00:57:12,920 --> 00:57:15,560
Speaker 11: Skills, YEAH i think just you know That i'm a

1595
00:57:15,880 --> 00:57:17,520
Speaker 11: dynamic rout. RUNNER i think the WAY i get in

1596
00:57:17,600 --> 00:57:22,760
Speaker 11: and out of breaks is you, know rare for my, position, height,

1597
00:57:22,880 --> 00:57:24,920
Speaker 11: Weight SO i just you don't want to showcase, that

1598
00:57:25,040 --> 00:57:27,920
Speaker 11: showcase THAT i have really good, hands can make contested.

1599
00:57:28,000 --> 00:57:31,680
Speaker 5: Catches And, yeah what has it been like trying to

1600
00:57:32,000 --> 00:57:33,600
Speaker 5: get through the mental part of the week this? WEEK

1601
00:57:33,680 --> 00:57:36,080
Speaker 5: i think that's probably one of the more challenging, parts,

1602
00:57:36,160 --> 00:57:38,480
Speaker 5: right having to digest this playbook as a tight end

1603
00:57:38,480 --> 00:57:39,720
Speaker 5: that has to learn all, RIGHT i got to learn

1604
00:57:39,720 --> 00:57:43,240
Speaker 5: the blocking, scheme pass, protection run game. Routes there's a

1605
00:57:43,280 --> 00:57:45,040
Speaker 5: lot for you to kind of bring in over the

1606
00:57:45,080 --> 00:57:46,000
Speaker 5: course of you, know two three.

1607
00:57:46,080 --> 00:57:48,120
Speaker 11: Days, YEAH i think it definitely is a, lot BUT

1608
00:57:48,160 --> 00:57:50,520
Speaker 11: i think it's really. GOOD i, mean you, know when

1609
00:57:50,760 --> 00:57:52,880
Speaker 11: we're all on teams here in the next couple of,

1610
00:57:52,920 --> 00:57:56,080
Speaker 11: months the playbook style will be a little, Similar so

1611
00:57:56,200 --> 00:57:58,680
Speaker 11: it's good to you, know learn it now and not you,

1612
00:57:58,760 --> 00:58:01,720
Speaker 11: know go into something can completely, foreign you, know in

1613
00:58:01,760 --> 00:58:04,000
Speaker 11: a couple of. Months So i'm grateful to you, know

1614
00:58:04,160 --> 00:58:06,760
Speaker 11: be learning from these, coaches And i've already learned so

1615
00:58:06,880 --> 00:58:09,760
Speaker 11: much being, here and you, know the playbook gets smooth

1616
00:58:09,760 --> 00:58:12,960
Speaker 11: and smoother every, day and it's less, thinking you, know

1617
00:58:13,000 --> 00:58:14,640
Speaker 11: when when you know the, playbook you like the back

1618
00:58:14,680 --> 00:58:16,760
Speaker 11: of your. Hands SO i think that's the most important

1619
00:58:16,800 --> 00:58:19,160
Speaker 11: part is just go out there to where you know

1620
00:58:19,200 --> 00:58:20,640
Speaker 11: it so well that you don't have to think about

1621
00:58:20,640 --> 00:58:22,920
Speaker 11: it and you can you can just you, know control

1622
00:58:23,080 --> 00:58:23,480
Speaker 11: what you can.

1623
00:58:23,520 --> 00:58:25,800
Speaker 1: Control what's your process like for you trying to learn a,

1624
00:58:25,840 --> 00:58:27,320
Speaker 1: playbook do you? Do will you go about?

1625
00:58:27,360 --> 00:58:27,800
Speaker 4: It do you have a?

1626
00:58:28,240 --> 00:58:29,680
Speaker 1: METHOD i don't have.

1627
00:58:29,800 --> 00:58:32,640
Speaker 11: Like a specific. METHOD a lot of it's just memorization

1628
00:58:32,800 --> 00:58:33,840
Speaker 11: of what the concepts.

1629
00:58:33,920 --> 00:58:34,240
Speaker 6: Mean and.

1630
00:58:35,880 --> 00:58:39,439
Speaker 11: Something i've learned is like the route combination will sound

1631
00:58:39,520 --> 00:58:42,120
Speaker 11: like the, words so like if we have a shallow and,

1632
00:58:42,160 --> 00:58:45,080
Speaker 11: cross we'll call it Shallco so IT'S i, mean not

1633
00:58:45,200 --> 00:58:47,000
Speaker 11: all of them are that. Simple that was a easier

1634
00:58:47,040 --> 00:58:50,520
Speaker 11: one to. Learn but when when you see the play,

1635
00:58:50,720 --> 00:58:52,920
Speaker 11: like it'll make sense why it's called what it.

1636
00:58:53,040 --> 00:58:55,280
Speaker 5: Is, god it makes a lot of sense when you've

1637
00:58:55,320 --> 00:58:57,520
Speaker 5: been meeting with some of the teams and the scouts

1638
00:58:57,600 --> 00:58:59,920
Speaker 5: and all that stuff in these individual, meetings what is

1639
00:59:00,000 --> 00:59:00,959
Speaker 5: some of the things that they're kind.

1640
00:59:00,840 --> 00:59:02,720
Speaker 1: Of peppering with and trying to get answers.

1641
00:59:02,760 --> 00:59:06,480
Speaker 11: On, YEAH i, mean honestly different interview with every. Team

1642
00:59:06,560 --> 00:59:08,720
Speaker 11: so some teams will put me on a, board want

1643
00:59:08,760 --> 00:59:10,320
Speaker 11: to see what my favorite players, were see WHAT i

1644
00:59:10,360 --> 00:59:12,760
Speaker 11: would do against third and. Five they want to see

1645
00:59:12,760 --> 00:59:16,640
Speaker 11: a pass play with a tight end split. OUT a

1646
00:59:16,720 --> 00:59:19,160
Speaker 11: lot of them just background getting to know WHO i,

1647
00:59:19,240 --> 00:59:22,520
Speaker 11: am knowing about, me knowing you know Why i'm doing.

1648
00:59:22,400 --> 00:59:25,320
Speaker 2: What i'm, doing and just you.

1649
00:59:25,400 --> 00:59:28,240
Speaker 11: KNOW i think it just depends, on you, know what teams.

1650
00:59:28,280 --> 00:59:29,760
Speaker 11: Want So i've done a little bit of a little

1651
00:59:29,760 --> 00:59:30,040
Speaker 11: bit of it.

1652
00:59:30,120 --> 00:59:32,040
Speaker 5: All how do you think the offense you had AT

1653
00:59:32,120 --> 00:59:34,320
Speaker 5: usc is translating to some of the more pro style

1654
00:59:34,360 --> 00:59:35,400
Speaker 5: stuff they might be teaching to?

1655
00:59:35,440 --> 00:59:37,600
Speaker 11: Hear, YEAH i think it's helping a. Lot LIKE i,

1656
00:59:37,680 --> 00:59:41,280
Speaker 11: said the run game is learning from Co chans and

1657
00:59:41,360 --> 00:59:42,919
Speaker 11: has helped me a. LOT i think that that's helping

1658
00:59:42,960 --> 00:59:45,320
Speaker 11: me a lot out. HERE i think a lot of

1659
00:59:45,360 --> 00:59:47,720
Speaker 11: the routes are. Similar obviously the verbiage is, different but

1660
00:59:48,880 --> 00:59:51,600
Speaker 11: concepts are. Similar SO usc taught me a lot and

1661
00:59:51,800 --> 00:59:52,520
Speaker 11: it's helping a lot for.

1662
00:59:52,600 --> 00:59:54,160
Speaker 5: Sure and then, finally what are you trying to get

1663
00:59:54,160 --> 00:59:56,120
Speaker 5: across in these meetings to these? Teams about you as a,

1664
00:59:56,160 --> 00:59:58,000
Speaker 5: guy what you bring to the locker, room the type

1665
00:59:58,000 --> 01:00:00,760
Speaker 5: of person you are with WHATEVER nfl team you might

1666
01:00:00,800 --> 01:00:01,200
Speaker 5: wind up.

1667
01:00:01,200 --> 01:00:03,400
Speaker 11: With, YEAH i THINK i JUST i want them to

1668
01:00:03,520 --> 01:00:05,720
Speaker 11: know THAT i feel LIKE i have a lot to

1669
01:00:05,840 --> 01:00:07,920
Speaker 11: prove AND i feel like that's kind of what my

1670
01:00:07,960 --> 01:00:11,600
Speaker 11: playing style looks. LIKE i played with a chip on my,

1671
01:00:11,640 --> 01:00:15,040
Speaker 11: shoulder and you, KNOW i feel Like i'm overlooked AND

1672
01:00:15,280 --> 01:00:17,000
Speaker 11: i like. THAT i like kind of being like the

1673
01:00:17,080 --> 01:00:20,040
Speaker 11: underdog and proving people. Wrong it's fun to do. That

1674
01:00:20,200 --> 01:00:22,520
Speaker 11: SO i want them to know, that know THAT i

1675
01:00:22,640 --> 01:00:25,440
Speaker 11: MAY i really do love. FOOTBALL i don't do this

1676
01:00:25,600 --> 01:00:27,880
Speaker 11: for you, know everything that comes with. FOOTBALL i do this,

1677
01:00:28,040 --> 01:00:29,640
Speaker 11: because you, KNOW i really do love the.

1678
01:00:29,680 --> 01:00:31,840
Speaker 5: Sport like best luck the rest of the, Weekend good

1679
01:00:31,880 --> 01:00:34,240
Speaker 5: luck doing the draft, processes, sir thank, You and now

1680
01:00:34,240 --> 01:00:35,520
Speaker 5: we're joined by tight End.

1681
01:00:35,560 --> 01:00:36,760
Speaker 1: Sutrari how are you?

1682
01:00:36,760 --> 01:00:36,840
Speaker 2: Doing?

1683
01:00:36,960 --> 01:00:37,760
Speaker 1: Men i'm then.

1684
01:00:37,880 --> 01:00:39,840
Speaker 2: Good so you have an interesting.

1685
01:00:39,920 --> 01:00:43,440
Speaker 5: Story instead of me summarizing, it why don't you tell

1686
01:00:43,480 --> 01:00:45,800
Speaker 5: the folks how you got into the football and how you.

1687
01:00:45,880 --> 01:00:46,920
Speaker 1: Got here to these west Ryne.

1688
01:00:46,920 --> 01:00:51,520
Speaker 17: Gebbe, YEAH i mean really coming from From, london born

1689
01:00:51,560 --> 01:00:57,680
Speaker 17: and raised obviously over there as FOOTBALL O soca And,

1690
01:00:57,800 --> 01:00:59,439
Speaker 17: YEAH i was playing a bunch of different sports growing.

1691
01:00:59,520 --> 01:01:05,440
Speaker 17: Up i've seen FOOTBALL tv and eventually someone put me

1692
01:01:05,480 --> 01:01:07,960
Speaker 17: onto a local team about ten minutes right from my.

1693
01:01:08,040 --> 01:01:10,760
Speaker 17: House ended up playing there and just fell in love

1694
01:01:10,800 --> 01:01:12,480
Speaker 17: with the, game and then from there just kind of.

1695
01:01:12,600 --> 01:01:15,520
Speaker 17: Escalated a year LA i was playing for THE Nfl

1696
01:01:15,560 --> 01:01:20,320
Speaker 17: academy In, london and then a year run from THEN

1697
01:01:21,000 --> 01:01:24,200
Speaker 17: i was At Clearwell academy In florida and go recruit

1698
01:01:24,320 --> 01:01:27,640
Speaker 17: out of there To Arkansas state and Then Offenso, State

1699
01:01:28,000 --> 01:01:29,360
Speaker 17: colorado And Mississippi.

1700
01:01:29,360 --> 01:01:32,880
Speaker 5: State did you interact at all with The International pathway?

1701
01:01:32,920 --> 01:01:36,440
Speaker 5: PROGRAM i Know oceium and your Former giant he has

1702
01:01:36,560 --> 01:01:39,200
Speaker 5: roots In, england much like You Jerman lbun or Another,

1703
01:01:39,320 --> 01:01:41,120
Speaker 5: giant he has roots In england as.

1704
01:01:41,120 --> 01:01:43,280
Speaker 1: Well did you have any you, know back and forth

1705
01:01:43,360 --> 01:01:43,680
Speaker 1: of them.

1706
01:01:43,600 --> 01:01:45,400
Speaker 5: In terms of trying to make that transition and now

1707
01:01:45,440 --> 01:01:47,600
Speaker 5: that you're trying to get into the league working with

1708
01:01:47,680 --> 01:01:48,800
Speaker 5: some of the INTERNATIONAL nfl.

1709
01:01:48,840 --> 01:01:50,840
Speaker 17: Guys, yeah, yeah And i'm welcome with him for sure

1710
01:01:51,240 --> 01:01:55,400
Speaker 17: with The Player pathway. Program it's funny you Say Osium

1711
01:01:55,400 --> 01:01:58,640
Speaker 17: minua because he's actually one of the. Pieces So Ocean

1712
01:01:58,680 --> 01:02:01,960
Speaker 17: mina And Jason bell want to show With Mark, chaplain

1713
01:02:02,520 --> 01:02:03,919
Speaker 17: and that was the show THAT i used to watch

1714
01:02:04,000 --> 01:02:05,200
Speaker 17: that kind of told me the game of.

1715
01:02:05,240 --> 01:02:08,040
Speaker 6: Football so, yes pretty running that you brought.

1716
01:02:08,160 --> 01:02:10,440
Speaker 1: Up but, yeah you said you fell in over the.

1717
01:02:10,480 --> 01:02:11,960
Speaker 1: Game what made you fall over the? Game what do

1718
01:02:12,000 --> 01:02:12,439
Speaker 1: you love about?

1719
01:02:12,480 --> 01:02:12,520
Speaker 5: It?

1720
01:02:13,240 --> 01:02:16,640
Speaker 17: SEE i, played AS i, said a bunch of different sports,

1721
01:02:16,680 --> 01:02:19,720
Speaker 17: before soccer or, rugby possible like whatever it, was.

1722
01:02:21,520 --> 01:02:24,320
Speaker 6: And just clicked like LIKE i just never felt that

1723
01:02:24,400 --> 01:02:26,840
Speaker 6: way about or just it.

1724
01:02:26,960 --> 01:02:27,200
Speaker 5: Was it.

1725
01:02:27,320 --> 01:02:29,240
Speaker 17: Was it's kind of an, emotion you don't you just

1726
01:02:30,080 --> 01:02:32,040
Speaker 17: you know when you know you know What i'm. Saying so,

1727
01:02:33,240 --> 01:02:36,919
Speaker 17: YEAH i MEAN i just started playing AND i was like, wow, Wow,

1728
01:02:37,400 --> 01:02:38,640
Speaker 17: YEAH i got to.

1729
01:02:38,720 --> 01:02:40,840
Speaker 5: Imagine part of that's the, physicality, right you know you

1730
01:02:40,920 --> 01:02:44,120
Speaker 5: can PLAY i played, basketball you, know soccer it's not

1731
01:02:44,200 --> 01:02:44,880
Speaker 5: at the same level of.

1732
01:02:44,920 --> 01:02:46,480
Speaker 1: Physicality why do you love the fact THAT a.

1733
01:02:46,520 --> 01:02:48,240
Speaker 5: Right i'm gonna go against this two hundred sixty five

1734
01:02:48,320 --> 01:02:49,800
Speaker 5: pounds monster over here And i'm gonna have to go

1735
01:02:49,880 --> 01:02:50,200
Speaker 5: block that.

1736
01:02:50,320 --> 01:02:54,400
Speaker 6: DUDE i, mean at the end of the. DAY i

1737
01:02:54,560 --> 01:02:55,600
Speaker 6: like to compete.

1738
01:02:56,880 --> 01:02:58,360
Speaker 17: AND i had to get one over on, people AND

1739
01:02:58,360 --> 01:02:59,880
Speaker 17: i hate people thinking they have one over on. Me

1740
01:03:00,120 --> 01:03:04,439
Speaker 17: so when it when it comes down to, it there's

1741
01:03:04,480 --> 01:03:08,160
Speaker 17: eleven man on each team that are on the. Field

1742
01:03:09,000 --> 01:03:10,320
Speaker 17: by the end of the, day you go. Win you're

1743
01:03:10,320 --> 01:03:10,919
Speaker 17: one v one.

1744
01:03:12,880 --> 01:03:14,200
Speaker 6: And that's WHAT i. DO i win my one v

1745
01:03:14,280 --> 01:03:15,040
Speaker 6: one Is no matter who.

1746
01:03:15,040 --> 01:03:17,800
Speaker 5: Is as you developed as a, player where do you

1747
01:03:17,840 --> 01:03:19,760
Speaker 5: think you're furthest along in your? Game is it as a,

1748
01:03:19,800 --> 01:03:22,120
Speaker 5: blockers as a. Receiver where do you think your biggest

1749
01:03:22,120 --> 01:03:22,680
Speaker 5: strength is right?

1750
01:03:22,720 --> 01:03:25,480
Speaker 17: NOW i think at this point my biggest strength is

1751
01:03:25,560 --> 01:03:27,360
Speaker 17: just my versatility in the passing game.

1752
01:03:29,080 --> 01:03:29,920
Speaker 6: That's gonna stretch the.

1753
01:03:29,960 --> 01:03:32,520
Speaker 17: FIELD i can Get, YEAH i can turn to yard

1754
01:03:32,560 --> 01:03:36,160
Speaker 17: catch for a twenty yard. GAME i feel Like i'm

1755
01:03:36,280 --> 01:03:40,160
Speaker 17: just very vasatile in that in that. Area But i'm

1756
01:03:40,160 --> 01:03:43,760
Speaker 17: also a willam blocker and just doing everything that needs

1757
01:03:43,800 --> 01:03:44,240
Speaker 17: to needs to be.

1758
01:03:44,320 --> 01:03:46,520
Speaker 5: Done to be, honest what do you want to prove

1759
01:03:46,680 --> 01:03:49,160
Speaker 5: or SHOW nfl coaches and scouts when they watch out

1760
01:03:49,200 --> 01:03:49,760
Speaker 5: here At East West.

1761
01:03:49,840 --> 01:03:52,919
Speaker 17: RINE i just want to show them the complete player

1762
01:03:52,960 --> 01:03:57,120
Speaker 17: THAT i. AM i, Mean i've been playing this game

1763
01:03:57,200 --> 01:03:59,960
Speaker 17: now for a few. Years not as many as, Others

1764
01:04:00,200 --> 01:04:05,000
Speaker 17: BUT i mean they've seen the, tape So i've just

1765
01:04:05,040 --> 01:04:06,760
Speaker 17: got to kind of show what's on the tape out

1766
01:04:06,800 --> 01:04:09,640
Speaker 17: here in person and show WHO i am as a

1767
01:04:09,640 --> 01:04:09,960
Speaker 17: player FOR.

1768
01:04:10,040 --> 01:04:12,400
Speaker 1: Roll we're doing this after one day of.

1769
01:04:12,440 --> 01:04:16,280
Speaker 6: Practice how to, GO i mean practices, practice you, know

1770
01:04:18,440 --> 01:04:20,360
Speaker 6: don't you don't get too, high too, Low you just

1771
01:04:20,880 --> 01:04:21,840
Speaker 6: prepare for the next day of.

1772
01:04:21,880 --> 01:04:24,680
Speaker 5: Practice for all you, mentioned you you've been playing this

1773
01:04:24,800 --> 01:04:26,600
Speaker 5: sport as long as maybe some of other guys. Here

1774
01:04:26,800 --> 01:04:30,000
Speaker 5: so what was it like trying to digest what's maybe

1775
01:04:30,200 --> 01:04:31,840
Speaker 5: a bit of a dumb down but still AN nfl

1776
01:04:31,880 --> 01:04:34,040
Speaker 5: playbook in a span of like thirty six, hours which

1777
01:04:34,080 --> 01:04:35,760
Speaker 5: to me seems like it's kind of an impossible.

1778
01:04:35,840 --> 01:04:36,040
Speaker 4: Task.

1779
01:04:36,520 --> 01:04:40,320
Speaker 17: Yeah, NO i mean it's definitely, challenging but that's what

1780
01:04:40,400 --> 01:04:42,400
Speaker 17: they want to. See they want to see how fast

1781
01:04:42,440 --> 01:04:47,240
Speaker 17: you can. Learn kenny adapts on the, fly AND i

1782
01:04:47,320 --> 01:04:52,400
Speaker 17: kind of knew that coming. In, obviously college or certain

1783
01:04:52,440 --> 01:04:56,880
Speaker 17: college's offenses around completely different TO nfl, offenses just with

1784
01:04:57,000 --> 01:05:00,400
Speaker 17: like hurdles and the length of the paper and all that.

1785
01:05:00,440 --> 01:05:02,280
Speaker 6: Stuff so it was definitely an.

1786
01:05:02,320 --> 01:05:05,920
Speaker 17: Adjustment BUT i knew it would be, hard AND i

1787
01:05:06,000 --> 01:05:07,480
Speaker 17: Knew i'd have to that's quickly coming.

1788
01:05:07,520 --> 01:05:11,720
Speaker 5: In, finally when you've met with some of THESE nfl, teams, coaches,

1789
01:05:11,800 --> 01:05:13,840
Speaker 5: scouts what are some of the questions they're asking? You

1790
01:05:13,920 --> 01:05:15,640
Speaker 5: what if they peppered you? About and what are you

1791
01:05:15,720 --> 01:05:17,320
Speaker 5: trying to get across from them when they ask you those?

1792
01:05:17,400 --> 01:05:19,960
Speaker 6: Questions they've asked me.

1793
01:05:20,040 --> 01:05:23,160
Speaker 17: EVERYTHING i, mean really, REALLY i feel like they're trying

1794
01:05:23,160 --> 01:05:27,640
Speaker 17: to get a great sense of your, personality what type

1795
01:05:27,640 --> 01:05:30,920
Speaker 17: of guy you, are and then obviously like how much

1796
01:05:30,960 --> 01:05:31,360
Speaker 17: fool will you?

1797
01:05:31,440 --> 01:05:35,120
Speaker 2: Know they might put up some film and see.

1798
01:05:35,840 --> 01:05:38,360
Speaker 6: Just your decision making and ask you why, this why?

1799
01:05:38,480 --> 01:05:40,000
Speaker 2: That or draw, this draw.

1800
01:05:40,080 --> 01:05:42,400
Speaker 17: That BUT i think they're just trying to get a

1801
01:05:42,400 --> 01:05:45,080
Speaker 17: whole sense of the player as a. Whole is he

1802
01:05:45,160 --> 01:05:46,600
Speaker 17: going to mention the locker? Room is he going to

1803
01:05:46,960 --> 01:05:48,040
Speaker 17: be a team guy that type of?

1804
01:05:48,040 --> 01:05:49,640
Speaker 5: Stuff what are you trying To, finally what are you

1805
01:05:49,680 --> 01:05:51,800
Speaker 5: trying to get across? Them not about you the football,

1806
01:05:51,800 --> 01:05:53,600
Speaker 5: player you the, Guy like what you're all about and

1807
01:05:53,640 --> 01:05:55,080
Speaker 5: what you would bring to a locker, room the type

1808
01:05:55,080 --> 01:05:55,720
Speaker 5: of stuff you're talking.

1809
01:05:55,720 --> 01:06:00,680
Speaker 17: ABOUT i mean me just as a player or not

1810
01:06:00,760 --> 01:06:03,400
Speaker 17: as a, players as a, PERSON i get along with.

1811
01:06:03,480 --> 01:06:07,640
Speaker 17: EVERYONE i feel LIKE i try and connect with Everyone

1812
01:06:07,720 --> 01:06:09,400
Speaker 17: i'm going to be around in the building every, day

1813
01:06:10,360 --> 01:06:13,560
Speaker 17: no matter who that, is AND i just bring, goodbyes bring,

1814
01:06:13,680 --> 01:06:14,960
Speaker 17: fun bring, energy.

1815
01:06:16,640 --> 01:06:18,560
Speaker 6: And YEAH i just got there with a smile.

1816
01:06:18,320 --> 01:06:20,600
Speaker 1: On my, face say your best, luck flavor room for,

1817
01:06:20,640 --> 01:06:23,240
Speaker 1: You thank, you, appreciated thank. You and now we're.

1818
01:06:23,160 --> 01:06:26,680
Speaker 5: Joined by Weak forest running back Demand Claiborne. Deman what's going, on?

1819
01:06:26,760 --> 01:06:27,600
Speaker 1: Man how are you doing?

1820
01:06:27,680 --> 01:06:27,840
Speaker 2: Well?

1821
01:06:27,920 --> 01:06:29,040
Speaker 9: Man i'm, happy happy to be.

1822
01:06:29,120 --> 01:06:31,880
Speaker 18: Here, great you, know great, people great energy around, here

1823
01:06:31,920 --> 01:06:33,760
Speaker 18: and you, Know i'm just excited to be you, know

1824
01:06:33,800 --> 01:06:34,560
Speaker 18: in this position right.

1825
01:06:34,600 --> 01:06:36,760
Speaker 1: Now all, right so we're recording this after the first.

1826
01:06:36,760 --> 01:06:38,320
Speaker 6: Practice how do you think you?

1827
01:06:38,360 --> 01:06:39,040
Speaker 1: Did how did it go for?

1828
01:06:39,160 --> 01:06:41,440
Speaker 18: You, yeah, so you know the start, off the start off,

1829
01:06:41,480 --> 01:06:43,600
Speaker 18: PRACTICE i was a little, nervous you, know just getting out.

1830
01:06:43,640 --> 01:06:45,080
Speaker 9: There, yeah, yeah one hundred.

1831
01:06:45,080 --> 01:06:47,080
Speaker 18: Percent, uh you, know all the scouts out there and

1832
01:06:47,160 --> 01:06:49,200
Speaker 18: everybody watching you definitely have me a little.

1833
01:06:49,240 --> 01:06:52,320
Speaker 9: Nervous but, uh went through, Indy, uh it was way

1834
01:06:52,400 --> 01:06:52,600
Speaker 9: it was.

1835
01:06:52,680 --> 01:06:55,160
Speaker 18: Tired didn't really expect to be as tired AS i,

1836
01:06:55,320 --> 01:06:57,280
Speaker 18: was especially Since i've been trying in for the combine

1837
01:06:57,320 --> 01:06:59,680
Speaker 18: and all that. Stuff but, uh you, know football condition

1838
01:06:59,760 --> 01:07:04,080
Speaker 18: is a little different than trying to put the forty hundred,

1839
01:07:04,120 --> 01:07:07,439
Speaker 18: percent and, so uh, GOD i was moving. Well foot

1840
01:07:07,480 --> 01:07:09,280
Speaker 18: work and stuff went, well and you, know had some

1841
01:07:09,360 --> 01:07:11,400
Speaker 18: one on one. ROUTES i went up and you KNOW

1842
01:07:11,480 --> 01:07:14,360
Speaker 18: i came, down you, know. Awkwardly uh but all. Good you,

1843
01:07:14,440 --> 01:07:16,560
Speaker 18: Know i'm excited to get back and you, Know i'm

1844
01:07:16,600 --> 01:07:17,200
Speaker 18: just excited to be.

1845
01:07:17,240 --> 01:07:20,640
Speaker 5: Here what was it like trying to absorb this playbook

1846
01:07:20,720 --> 01:07:23,080
Speaker 5: in such a short period of Time and did that

1847
01:07:23,120 --> 01:07:24,680
Speaker 5: add to some of the nerves maybe a little bit

1848
01:07:24,720 --> 01:07:25,160
Speaker 5: one hundred?

1849
01:07:25,160 --> 01:07:27,560
Speaker 18: Percent you, know last Night i'm up eating wings and

1850
01:07:27,680 --> 01:07:29,960
Speaker 18: in my. PLAYBOOK i wake up this morning AND i

1851
01:07:30,000 --> 01:07:32,600
Speaker 18: got an apple juice in my. Playbook, so, uh just

1852
01:07:32,720 --> 01:07:35,000
Speaker 18: trying to you, know remember those plays and lock those

1853
01:07:35,080 --> 01:07:37,320
Speaker 18: plays in and lock them, down because that does show

1854
01:07:37,760 --> 01:07:39,800
Speaker 18: that you're prepared and that you're ready to go and

1855
01:07:39,880 --> 01:07:41,040
Speaker 18: that you know what you're. Doing and you know a

1856
01:07:41,080 --> 01:07:43,120
Speaker 18: lot of scouts would like to see that just from

1857
01:07:43,160 --> 01:07:46,640
Speaker 18: a maturity. Standpoint and so definitely definitely was SOMETHING i

1858
01:07:46,680 --> 01:07:48,520
Speaker 18: had to key in on and lock in. On but,

1859
01:07:48,680 --> 01:07:50,880
Speaker 18: uh you, KNOW i was getting getting into the, groove you,

1860
01:07:50,960 --> 01:07:52,840
Speaker 18: know and you, know just one of those freak. Accidents

1861
01:07:52,880 --> 01:07:55,000
Speaker 18: but you, Know i'm just excited for this opportunity and to.

1862
01:07:55,040 --> 01:07:57,240
Speaker 5: Be, here So i'm will play a game. HERE i

1863
01:07:57,360 --> 01:08:00,200
Speaker 5: turned on your tape and one word came to.

1864
01:08:00,240 --> 01:08:01,080
Speaker 1: Mind what do you think that word?

1865
01:08:01,200 --> 01:08:01,240
Speaker 12: Was?

1866
01:08:01,360 --> 01:08:01,600
Speaker 2: Fast?

1867
01:08:01,760 --> 01:08:06,280
Speaker 5: Speed, yes, sir talk about your game and how your

1868
01:08:06,360 --> 01:08:08,760
Speaker 5: speed kind of plays into how you operate on the. Field,

1869
01:08:08,840 --> 01:08:09,400
Speaker 5: yeah one hundred.

1870
01:08:09,400 --> 01:08:11,680
Speaker 9: Percent SO i am a pretty fast.

1871
01:08:11,720 --> 01:08:14,240
Speaker 18: Guy uh definitely not the, fastest but that's my goal

1872
01:08:14,360 --> 01:08:16,559
Speaker 18: to eventually get to the, top you, know always, working

1873
01:08:17,200 --> 01:08:20,240
Speaker 18: always room to, improve but uh, yeah definitely WHEN i

1874
01:08:20,280 --> 01:08:22,439
Speaker 18: get the ball in my, HANDS i like to use

1875
01:08:22,479 --> 01:08:25,719
Speaker 18: my speed to an. Advantage but also While i'm, FAST

1876
01:08:25,800 --> 01:08:27,800
Speaker 18: i am a patient. Back, Uh SO i do like

1877
01:08:27,840 --> 01:08:29,599
Speaker 18: to let stuff to develop SO i can be able

1878
01:08:29,600 --> 01:08:31,639
Speaker 18: to see what's in front of me and what's. HAPPENING

1879
01:08:32,640 --> 01:08:34,280
Speaker 18: i do, think you, know playing in the slow mesh

1880
01:08:34,360 --> 01:08:37,760
Speaker 18: offense for three years kind of helped me develop that

1881
01:08:37,960 --> 01:08:40,720
Speaker 18: patience and finding WHERE i need to. Go and so

1882
01:08:40,920 --> 01:08:43,120
Speaker 18: just putting my speed to it allowed me to you,

1883
01:08:43,200 --> 01:08:45,840
Speaker 18: know be more even more explosive and to create even

1884
01:08:45,880 --> 01:08:50,519
Speaker 18: more dynamic. Plays and you, know it's just it's, been you,

1885
01:08:50,600 --> 01:08:52,800
Speaker 18: know just a great opportunity and something That i've been

1886
01:08:52,840 --> 01:08:55,200
Speaker 18: looking forward to since being in the. Offense WHERE i

1887
01:08:55,200 --> 01:08:58,280
Speaker 18: can broadcast my show my talents and out running.

1888
01:08:58,320 --> 01:08:59,040
Speaker 9: People whenever you.

1889
01:08:59,080 --> 01:09:00,639
Speaker 5: Go to one of These All star, game you'll sit

1890
01:09:00,680 --> 01:09:02,719
Speaker 5: down with your team as you transition from the, seasons

1891
01:09:02,800 --> 01:09:04,320
Speaker 5: the draft, process and you'll set out.

1892
01:09:04,240 --> 01:09:04,720
Speaker 1: A series of.

1893
01:09:04,760 --> 01:09:06,920
Speaker 15: Goals, right what were some of the goals that you set.

1894
01:09:06,760 --> 01:09:08,840
Speaker 5: Out for yourself getting to The Shrine bowl that you

1895
01:09:08,920 --> 01:09:10,439
Speaker 5: wanted to show the coaches and scouts that are.

1896
01:09:10,479 --> 01:09:12,240
Speaker 18: Here, YEAH i wanted to definitely show them THAT i,

1897
01:09:12,320 --> 01:09:15,640
Speaker 18: could you, know my footwork was was, clean THAT i

1898
01:09:15,680 --> 01:09:17,640
Speaker 18: could catch you, KNOW i think sometimes.

1899
01:09:17,280 --> 01:09:18,360
Speaker 2: This season just.

1900
01:09:18,479 --> 01:09:21,680
Speaker 18: Panicking some of the easiest CATCHES i, dropped but some

1901
01:09:21,760 --> 01:09:24,280
Speaker 18: of the hardest ONES i, Made AND i just wanted

1902
01:09:24,280 --> 01:09:25,479
Speaker 18: to be able to show them THAT i could come

1903
01:09:25,479 --> 01:09:28,679
Speaker 18: in and execute those. Things you, know starting off practice,

1904
01:09:28,720 --> 01:09:30,519
Speaker 18: EARLY i did go out there and showcase THAT i,

1905
01:09:30,560 --> 01:09:32,960
Speaker 18: could you, know my footwork was. GOOD i did drop

1906
01:09:33,000 --> 01:09:36,519
Speaker 18: a pass, early but came back and made a great

1907
01:09:36,560 --> 01:09:38,040
Speaker 18: one in one on. One and that's what that's, about

1908
01:09:38,200 --> 01:09:40,519
Speaker 18: just you, know growing and you, know executing ther next

1909
01:09:40,520 --> 01:09:43,320
Speaker 18: opportunity and so uh, yeah, man it's been fun and

1910
01:09:43,320 --> 01:09:44,360
Speaker 18: it's been a great opportunity for.

1911
01:09:44,760 --> 01:09:47,160
Speaker 5: You wait in five, nine, yep is that where you

1912
01:09:47,280 --> 01:09:49,080
Speaker 5: want to. Be do you think that's your ideal playing.

1913
01:09:48,880 --> 01:09:52,840
Speaker 18: With, No i'm definitely gonna get up to like. Seven

1914
01:09:53,080 --> 01:09:56,680
Speaker 18: i'm trying to be there by the. Combine SO i

1915
01:09:56,760 --> 01:09:58,400
Speaker 18: got some eating to, do got some eating to, do

1916
01:09:58,479 --> 01:10:02,080
Speaker 18: guys on ways to hit, uh protein, shakes the. Train

1917
01:10:02,800 --> 01:10:05,200
Speaker 18: But i'm excited for. It i'm training In, Tampa florida

1918
01:10:05,280 --> 01:10:08,240
Speaker 18: With Yo. Murphy him and his staff has been great

1919
01:10:08,320 --> 01:10:10,439
Speaker 18: and helping me reach the GOALS i want to. Reach

1920
01:10:10,520 --> 01:10:12,920
Speaker 18: and you, know for the next couple of months or you,

1921
01:10:13,000 --> 01:10:15,240
Speaker 18: know leading up to the to the draft until my pro,

1922
01:10:15,840 --> 01:10:18,320
Speaker 18: Day i'll be training with those guys and, uh they'll

1923
01:10:18,360 --> 01:10:20,200
Speaker 18: definitely have me ready and prepare for the next.

1924
01:10:20,240 --> 01:10:22,960
Speaker 5: Opportunity, now when people see those, measurements even if you're

1925
01:10:23,000 --> 01:10:24,639
Speaker 5: like one ninety seven or, whatever you end up getting

1926
01:10:24,640 --> 01:10:26,559
Speaker 5: to people here to, think all, right at that, size

1927
01:10:26,600 --> 01:10:27,479
Speaker 5: we're thinking third down.

1928
01:10:27,520 --> 01:10:28,760
Speaker 9: Back, yeah guy that can catch?

1929
01:10:28,800 --> 01:10:31,800
Speaker 1: It are you okay with being kind of put into that?

1930
01:10:32,800 --> 01:10:34,519
Speaker 5: Column or would you rather be a guy that, said,

1931
01:10:34,560 --> 01:10:36,760
Speaker 5: NO i CAN i can touch it seventeen eighteen.

1932
01:10:36,520 --> 01:10:37,639
Speaker 1: Times a game And i'm, okay.

1933
01:10:37,520 --> 01:10:38,160
Speaker 9: Yeah one hundred.

1934
01:10:38,160 --> 01:10:41,080
Speaker 18: Percent, Yeah, NAH i definitely don't like to be H,

1935
01:10:42,560 --> 01:10:45,040
Speaker 18: yeah cold of miles to be you, know that type of.

1936
01:10:45,120 --> 01:10:48,120
Speaker 9: Bat BUT i definitely want to be able, to uh you.

1937
01:10:48,120 --> 01:10:52,080
Speaker 18: Know gain more weight and be able to sustain those hits,

1938
01:10:52,600 --> 01:10:55,800
Speaker 18: ultimately because that's what's about being available and uh you,

1939
01:10:55,880 --> 01:10:57,439
Speaker 18: know put my best foot forward and being able to

1940
01:10:57,479 --> 01:10:59,639
Speaker 18: get on the field and touch the rock fifteen sixteen

1941
01:10:59,720 --> 01:11:01,640
Speaker 18: times and, uh you, know be the best version of.

1942
01:11:01,720 --> 01:11:04,840
Speaker 5: Myself for for my future. Team you mentioned it heading

1943
01:11:04,880 --> 01:11:08,400
Speaker 5: in a bit. Too beny drops this season for your.

1944
01:11:08,439 --> 01:11:10,240
Speaker 5: Preference when you went back and you looked at, him

1945
01:11:10,560 --> 01:11:13,400
Speaker 5: is that a technique? Thing is it a concentration? Thing

1946
01:11:13,479 --> 01:11:15,280
Speaker 5: when you went back and kind of looked at, it

1947
01:11:15,400 --> 01:11:16,880
Speaker 5: where you ran into those problems and what are you

1948
01:11:16,920 --> 01:11:19,880
Speaker 5: doing now to try to correct? THEM i definitely think

1949
01:11:19,920 --> 01:11:23,280
Speaker 5: it was a concentration. THING i think SOMETIMES i.

1950
01:11:23,280 --> 01:11:25,960
Speaker 18: Would get overly, excited ESPECIALLY i had one in a

1951
01:11:26,040 --> 01:11:29,760
Speaker 18: duke game where it's open drop AND i, knew, Yeah

1952
01:11:29,760 --> 01:11:32,840
Speaker 18: i'm looking down the field to score a, touchdown which you,

1953
01:11:32,920 --> 01:11:35,400
Speaker 18: KNOW i got to just take every play and let

1954
01:11:35,439 --> 01:11:37,680
Speaker 18: the play play fully out and, uh you, know just

1955
01:11:37,760 --> 01:11:39,840
Speaker 18: do my, job you. Know and so SOMETIMES i, definitely

1956
01:11:39,960 --> 01:11:42,840
Speaker 18: uh try to do a little too, much which you

1957
01:11:42,880 --> 01:11:46,040
Speaker 18: know caused me to drop some. Passes definitely didn't like

1958
01:11:46,120 --> 01:11:48,320
Speaker 18: that about my game this, year especially coming off of

1959
01:11:48,640 --> 01:11:51,040
Speaker 18: my junior year where you, KNOW i barely dropped you

1960
01:11:51,080 --> 01:11:52,080
Speaker 18: know the rocks.

1961
01:11:51,840 --> 01:11:54,000
Speaker 9: And you catch your balls down the field down, there

1962
01:11:54,520 --> 01:11:55,800
Speaker 9: so you know all those.

1963
01:11:55,840 --> 01:11:59,040
Speaker 18: Things was you definitely with things THAT i knew after

1964
01:11:59,080 --> 01:12:01,280
Speaker 18: the season WHEN i went back to, REEVALUATE i needed

1965
01:12:01,320 --> 01:12:03,479
Speaker 18: to get better at and you, know part of it

1966
01:12:03,600 --> 01:12:06,400
Speaker 18: just focusing, locking, looking looking the ball in and uh

1967
01:12:06,520 --> 01:12:08,840
Speaker 18: then making the plays after. That and so uh, yeah

1968
01:12:08,880 --> 01:12:10,800
Speaker 18: now that's definitely my goal is to continue to aim

1969
01:12:10,920 --> 01:12:12,519
Speaker 18: better for that and continue to get better in that

1970
01:12:12,640 --> 01:12:13,760
Speaker 18: aspect of the of the game for.

1971
01:12:13,840 --> 01:12:15,320
Speaker 5: Sure and of course to be on the field on

1972
01:12:15,360 --> 01:12:18,760
Speaker 5: third down you have to be good at bbu blitz pick,

1973
01:12:18,840 --> 01:12:21,639
Speaker 5: up pick a past protection right one hundred? Percent where

1974
01:12:21,720 --> 01:12:23,080
Speaker 5: where are you with? That and and what do you

1975
01:12:23,160 --> 01:12:24,880
Speaker 5: think some of the keys are for running back to

1976
01:12:24,960 --> 01:12:27,120
Speaker 5: be a good pass? Protect, yeah so early in my

1977
01:12:27,200 --> 01:12:30,160
Speaker 5: CAREER i definitely struggle as a. FRESHMAN i WANT i

1978
01:12:30,240 --> 01:12:33,439
Speaker 5: wanted no parts of the. Contact, uh you're like one

1979
01:12:33,800 --> 01:12:35,840
Speaker 5: in this like some two hundred and forty pounds.

1980
01:12:36,800 --> 01:12:39,080
Speaker 18: Fools B, yeah one hundred, Percent AND i think UH

1981
01:12:39,200 --> 01:12:40,760
Speaker 18: i had a great coach by the name Of John,

1982
01:12:40,840 --> 01:12:43,240
Speaker 18: hunter who uh you, know always used to tell, me

1983
01:12:43,680 --> 01:12:47,080
Speaker 18: tell us this. Analogy if you push a uh uh

1984
01:12:47,560 --> 01:12:49,439
Speaker 18: a refrigerator at the top is when to just tip.

1985
01:12:49,520 --> 01:12:51,400
Speaker 18: Over but if you get low and push it from the,

1986
01:12:51,439 --> 01:12:54,080
Speaker 18: bottom it can move leverage and. Leverage and so uh

1987
01:12:54,160 --> 01:12:55,960
Speaker 18: he always used to teach us to put the face you,

1988
01:12:56,040 --> 01:12:59,240
Speaker 18: know our uh va our face mask on the via

1989
01:12:59,280 --> 01:13:01,400
Speaker 18: their next and uh he always used to teach, us you,

1990
01:13:01,439 --> 01:13:04,759
Speaker 18: know great techniques to move big. People and my sophomore

1991
01:13:04,800 --> 01:13:08,479
Speaker 18: year and, JUNIOR i definitely developed great you, KNOW i

1992
01:13:08,479 --> 01:13:11,840
Speaker 18: would say blocking. Techniques SOMETIMES i definitely would lose the other,

1993
01:13:11,920 --> 01:13:13,560
Speaker 18: side the other person THAT i was going against THAT

1994
01:13:13,560 --> 01:13:16,040
Speaker 18: i might have lost. To he's also on, scholarship he's

1995
01:13:16,080 --> 01:13:18,000
Speaker 18: also getting a, course AND i love, check you, know

1996
01:13:18,120 --> 01:13:19,680
Speaker 18: and so it's just the nature of the.

1997
01:13:19,720 --> 01:13:21,120
Speaker 2: Game this.

1998
01:13:21,320 --> 01:13:24,320
Speaker 9: YEAR i definitely have some VPUs THAT i definitely could

1999
01:13:24,320 --> 01:13:26,920
Speaker 9: have got better. At, Uh but the way we played

2000
01:13:26,960 --> 01:13:29,120
Speaker 9: and everything we did move in the, pocket it was

2001
01:13:29,200 --> 01:13:29,800
Speaker 9: a lot less of.

2002
01:13:29,880 --> 01:13:34,160
Speaker 18: That and so, YEAH i definitely understand the leverage of

2003
01:13:34,240 --> 01:13:36,679
Speaker 18: it and just being physical putting your face on somebody

2004
01:13:36,760 --> 01:13:38,080
Speaker 18: and wanting, to you, know protect THE.

2005
01:13:38,160 --> 01:13:40,439
Speaker 9: Qb you stand next to the million dollar, man and

2006
01:13:40,520 --> 01:13:41,800
Speaker 9: you got to make sure he stay, up you know

2007
01:13:41,840 --> 01:13:41,960
Speaker 9: WHAT i.

2008
01:13:42,040 --> 01:13:44,680
Speaker 18: Mean and, so, uh you KNOW i lose sleep sometimes over,

2009
01:13:44,720 --> 01:13:46,920
Speaker 18: that you, KNOW i might actually go back and you

2010
01:13:47,040 --> 01:13:49,240
Speaker 18: know watching my blizz pick up clips even more than

2011
01:13:49,400 --> 01:13:51,679
Speaker 18: just running the. Ball, uh just due to the fact

2012
01:13:51,680 --> 01:13:53,680
Speaker 18: that you, know When i'm running the, ball, uh you,

2013
01:13:53,760 --> 01:13:55,760
Speaker 18: KNOW i got if, SOMETHING i could protect, myself you,

2014
01:13:55,840 --> 01:13:57,760
Speaker 18: know but THE qb can't really protect yourself when he's

2015
01:13:57,800 --> 01:14:00,479
Speaker 18: in throwing motion and seeing stuff. Backside and so, uh

2016
01:14:00,640 --> 01:14:02,120
Speaker 18: IF i let that, guy LIKE i, SAY i love,

2017
01:14:02,200 --> 01:14:04,120
Speaker 18: THEM i don't want to see him get beat, up you.

2018
01:14:04,200 --> 01:14:06,560
Speaker 9: Know and so just doing everything in my will to

2019
01:14:06,880 --> 01:14:09,000
Speaker 9: keep that guy upright is it's, definitely.

2020
01:14:08,800 --> 01:14:11,640
Speaker 18: Uh Something i've taken pride in and uh SOMETHING i

2021
01:14:11,640 --> 01:14:13,519
Speaker 18: will continue to take pride in getting to the next.

2022
01:14:13,600 --> 01:14:14,160
Speaker 9: Level final.

2023
01:14:14,240 --> 01:14:15,960
Speaker 5: QUESTION i don't know how many meetings you've. Had obviously

2024
01:14:16,080 --> 01:14:18,040
Speaker 5: all THE nfl teams are in these meetings right around

2025
01:14:18,040 --> 01:14:19,439
Speaker 5: this in the media. Area when you've met with some

2026
01:14:19,520 --> 01:14:21,680
Speaker 5: of these, coaches in these scouts and gms whoever you're

2027
01:14:21,680 --> 01:14:23,439
Speaker 5: in the room, with what are most of the questions

2028
01:14:23,479 --> 01:14:25,040
Speaker 5: and stuff that they're kind of preffering you with is

2029
01:14:25,080 --> 01:14:26,880
Speaker 5: they try to get you no better as just not

2030
01:14:27,000 --> 01:14:27,640
Speaker 5: only a, player but a.

2031
01:14:27,680 --> 01:14:29,479
Speaker 18: Guy, YEAH i mean they just want to know about you,

2032
01:14:29,520 --> 01:14:33,280
Speaker 18: know family, stuff home, life WHO i am as a,

2033
01:14:33,360 --> 01:14:34,920
Speaker 18: person how DO i react to certain?

2034
01:14:34,960 --> 01:14:37,599
Speaker 9: Things, uh my playing? Abilities well it was the way

2035
01:14:37,640 --> 01:14:38,160
Speaker 9: first you have to be.

2036
01:14:38,160 --> 01:14:41,560
Speaker 18: Smart, yeah and uh and, uh you, know they just

2037
01:14:41,640 --> 01:14:43,200
Speaker 18: asked me about you, know some things they might have

2038
01:14:43,240 --> 01:14:46,000
Speaker 18: seen on tape or emotional stuff that they might have

2039
01:14:46,080 --> 01:14:49,479
Speaker 18: seen where in the. Game my passion is very very

2040
01:14:50,400 --> 01:14:52,479
Speaker 18: up there And i'm very very intense AND i want to.

2041
01:14:52,520 --> 01:14:54,479
Speaker 18: WIN i hate to, lose you, know and, so uh

2042
01:14:54,560 --> 01:14:56,400
Speaker 18: they bring that, up and, uh you, know we talk

2043
01:14:56,439 --> 01:14:59,360
Speaker 18: about it and we talked through, it and you know after,

2044
01:14:59,479 --> 01:15:01,360
Speaker 18: that you, KNOW i shake everyone's hand AND i appreciate

2045
01:15:01,439 --> 01:15:03,400
Speaker 18: them because it Is it is a blessing and it

2046
01:15:03,520 --> 01:15:05,680
Speaker 18: is a great opportunity to uh to even just be

2047
01:15:05,720 --> 01:15:07,559
Speaker 18: sitting in front of these guys and, uh.

2048
01:15:07,600 --> 01:15:09,479
Speaker 9: You, know having a conversation with them about you, know

2049
01:15:09,560 --> 01:15:10,160
Speaker 9: something you're good.

2050
01:15:10,200 --> 01:15:11,720
Speaker 5: At, well you, know let me follow up with that

2051
01:15:12,439 --> 01:15:14,320
Speaker 5: when you're trying to explain to them who you are

2052
01:15:14,560 --> 01:15:16,400
Speaker 5: as a, person, right because you can be a great,

2053
01:15:16,439 --> 01:15:18,639
Speaker 5: player but if you don't have that personal, drive dedication

2054
01:15:18,720 --> 01:15:19,439
Speaker 5: and stuff like that to.

2055
01:15:19,520 --> 01:15:22,160
Speaker 1: Succeed and it feels. Hard, man you have to make it.

2056
01:15:22,320 --> 01:15:24,760
Speaker 1: Right so what are you trying to get across to them?

2057
01:15:24,960 --> 01:15:25,240
Speaker 2: About?

2058
01:15:25,479 --> 01:15:27,360
Speaker 1: Demand, cleaveborn demand THAT i.

2059
01:15:27,479 --> 01:15:30,040
Speaker 18: Care you know THAT i genuinely do love WHOEVER i

2060
01:15:30,160 --> 01:15:32,479
Speaker 18: come to contact. WITH i do have a big heart at,

2061
01:15:32,560 --> 01:15:36,040
Speaker 18: times and sometimes it could be a little too, big you,

2062
01:15:36,160 --> 01:15:38,320
Speaker 18: Know but LIKE i also understand, that you, know stepping

2063
01:15:38,360 --> 01:15:40,679
Speaker 18: into this room of, life that it is a business

2064
01:15:40,760 --> 01:15:43,280
Speaker 18: and like you, know feelings don't necessarily exist in a

2065
01:15:43,320 --> 01:15:46,040
Speaker 18: lot of. Businesses and uh SO i do understand that

2066
01:15:46,120 --> 01:15:48,439
Speaker 18: concept of, things and so really just want, to you,

2067
01:15:48,520 --> 01:15:50,400
Speaker 18: know show to these guys how much of a great

2068
01:15:50,400 --> 01:15:52,760
Speaker 18: TEAMMATE i can, be how MUCH i do, care how

2069
01:15:52,840 --> 01:15:54,720
Speaker 18: PASSIONATE i, am and how MUCH i just want to,

2070
01:15:54,760 --> 01:15:57,320
Speaker 18: win and uh you, know get the people we go

2071
01:15:57,400 --> 01:15:59,360
Speaker 18: to work with every day a reason to.

2072
01:15:59,439 --> 01:16:02,760
Speaker 9: Smile come, on let's been a plusure angela best talk this.

2073
01:16:02,840 --> 01:16:03,759
Speaker 1: Week thank you for adversat.

2074
01:16:03,800 --> 01:16:03,840
Speaker 6: It