1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:03,400 Speaker 1: What did I do. I saw some friends, kept up 2 00:00:04,200 --> 00:00:08,520 Speaker 1: my Yale connections, saw my family, obviously, my brother, my parents, 3 00:00:08,920 --> 00:00:11,720 Speaker 1: went back to Saint Louis, just chilled out there, good 4 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:14,840 Speaker 1: calm headspace, and eventually started working out a little bit 5 00:00:14,920 --> 00:00:17,360 Speaker 1: here lightly. Then I went to Denver to really start 6 00:00:17,440 --> 00:00:21,560 Speaker 1: moving again. That's kind of my routine. Saw some friends 7 00:00:21,560 --> 00:00:23,119 Speaker 1: on the weekends if I if I felt like I 8 00:00:23,160 --> 00:00:25,639 Speaker 1: needed to see some people. But you know, just stuck 9 00:00:25,680 --> 00:00:28,520 Speaker 1: to my routine, always about being better than I was 10 00:00:28,600 --> 00:00:31,560 Speaker 1: last year, going forth to the end of my career. 11 00:00:32,159 --> 00:00:34,480 Speaker 2: What was the biggest thing that you learned last year 12 00:00:34,520 --> 00:00:35,840 Speaker 2: that you said, maybe I need to do a little 13 00:00:35,840 --> 00:00:36,120 Speaker 2: bit more. 14 00:00:36,600 --> 00:00:40,000 Speaker 1: Yeah. First, it's gonna be understanding our scheme, how people 15 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:42,120 Speaker 1: attack our scheme. I think that when you play more 16 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:45,440 Speaker 1: years in the scheme, then you can understand, you know, 17 00:00:46,400 --> 00:00:48,640 Speaker 1: where people are going to be sitting down or exactly 18 00:00:48,680 --> 00:00:50,840 Speaker 1: like down in the distance, where I should be looking 19 00:00:50,880 --> 00:00:53,800 Speaker 1: at what plays I can make, what plays I didn't 20 00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:55,400 Speaker 1: make last year. I mean we already started looking at 21 00:00:55,400 --> 00:00:57,760 Speaker 1: and I'm moved here kicking myself. But you know, when 22 00:00:57,800 --> 00:00:59,400 Speaker 1: you take some time off then come back to it. 23 00:00:59,440 --> 00:01:01,160 Speaker 1: Now you're kind of coming back to it as a student, 24 00:01:01,320 --> 00:01:03,160 Speaker 1: and you want to be able to apply what you 25 00:01:03,240 --> 00:01:04,679 Speaker 1: learn going in the next year so I can play 26 00:01:04,680 --> 00:01:07,080 Speaker 1: faster and make more plays for this team. 27 00:01:07,560 --> 00:01:09,800 Speaker 2: You're a teammate with Calvin Ridley. He just talked about it. 28 00:01:09,920 --> 00:01:11,760 Speaker 2: You know, you guys get to know each other in Atlanta. 29 00:01:11,800 --> 00:01:13,679 Speaker 1: Can you talk about what he brings to this locker 30 00:01:13,760 --> 00:01:15,800 Speaker 1: room into the jets of the team. I mean, first, 31 00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:19,959 Speaker 1: he's a good dude, you know, very respectful dude. I 32 00:01:19,959 --> 00:01:22,320 Speaker 1: heard him talking about that. But you know, he respects 33 00:01:22,319 --> 00:01:24,119 Speaker 1: the game. For sure. He's gonna come in. He puts 34 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:26,319 Speaker 1: that work in and even with all the talent that 35 00:01:26,319 --> 00:01:28,959 Speaker 1: he has, he's a hard worker. And he came in, 36 00:01:29,360 --> 00:01:31,360 Speaker 1: you know, even though it's oka, he looked ready to go. 37 00:01:31,400 --> 00:01:33,880 Speaker 1: I talked to some people running routes with him and 38 00:01:34,080 --> 00:01:35,800 Speaker 1: they said he looked ready to go. So I'm very 39 00:01:35,800 --> 00:01:37,560 Speaker 1: excited for him, and I hope he has all the 40 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:40,080 Speaker 1: success that he needs here. It gets all the success 41 00:01:40,120 --> 00:01:42,160 Speaker 1: that he needs here, because I definitely believe in all 42 00:01:42,160 --> 00:01:44,800 Speaker 1: this his talent and ability. But obviously he's gonna be 43 00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:47,640 Speaker 1: a weapon for us on offense, and whenever he gets 44 00:01:47,680 --> 00:01:49,000 Speaker 1: the ball, you know, he can make a big play 45 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:50,760 Speaker 1: out of it. So I'm excited to see what the 46 00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:52,880 Speaker 1: offense does with him. I know your suret. 47 00:01:53,240 --> 00:01:54,480 Speaker 2: What's up about the shirt? 48 00:01:54,600 --> 00:01:56,800 Speaker 1: The shirt man, that's what the defense believes in. Right here, 49 00:01:56,840 --> 00:01:58,840 Speaker 1: we was down and out and then we started talking 50 00:01:58,880 --> 00:02:02,560 Speaker 1: about thinking takeaways. Coach Bob Sutton said, if you want 51 00:02:02,560 --> 00:02:04,800 Speaker 1: to become, you know, an effective defense in the lead, 52 00:02:04,880 --> 00:02:06,960 Speaker 1: we gotta take the ball away. So we all came 53 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:10,639 Speaker 1: back this OTAs and this was in our lockers, think takeaways, 54 00:02:10,639 --> 00:02:13,040 Speaker 1: and me personally, I want more takeaways, you know, elevate 55 00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:16,080 Speaker 1: my game, elevate this defense, and you gotta be thinking 56 00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:18,120 Speaker 1: it at all times. So you go to sleep thinking that, 57 00:02:18,160 --> 00:02:20,079 Speaker 1: you wake up thinking it's gonna happen for you. So 58 00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:22,119 Speaker 1: we're gonna get more takeaways. I think we was top ten, 59 00:02:22,280 --> 00:02:24,920 Speaker 1: top five in the league, maybe maybe number four. We 60 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:28,840 Speaker 1: just went over takeaways. Man, get that ball in your hands. 61 00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:30,160 Speaker 1: Good things happen. 62 00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:33,079 Speaker 2: After you've been able to sort of see what happened 63 00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:35,679 Speaker 2: during the season last year on defense. That what gives 64 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:37,720 Speaker 2: you the confidence. I guess that this team might take 65 00:02:37,720 --> 00:02:39,560 Speaker 2: a bigger leave on defense this year. 66 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:43,840 Speaker 1: It's really understanding the scheme, understanding my teammates, next to me, 67 00:02:44,480 --> 00:02:46,880 Speaker 1: and then we can all communicate together. So it's not 68 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:49,280 Speaker 1: you know, I've been in the league a long time, 69 00:02:49,280 --> 00:02:51,720 Speaker 1: it's not me communicating what I'm seeing, what I'm anticipating. 70 00:02:51,720 --> 00:02:54,320 Speaker 1: This kind of bouncing ideas off each other before the play, 71 00:02:54,760 --> 00:02:56,960 Speaker 1: seeing what we're seeing even during the play. So all 72 00:02:56,960 --> 00:02:59,120 Speaker 1: these guys coming under expect this guy coming over, you 73 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:01,040 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So kind of the experience that 74 00:03:01,080 --> 00:03:02,960 Speaker 1: we all have of playing together and then within the 75 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:05,360 Speaker 1: same scheme being able to play faster, being one step 76 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:07,360 Speaker 1: ahead of what we were was last year. Because I 77 00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:09,639 Speaker 1: definitely want to improve on what I did last year 78 00:03:09,639 --> 00:03:11,760 Speaker 1: as a defense, what we did last year, We got 79 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:12,680 Speaker 1: to make more things happen. 80 00:03:12,960 --> 00:03:15,440 Speaker 2: You guys have three players that will be going into 81 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:18,600 Speaker 2: their second year, Trayvon, Chad, Yeah, and Devin. What was 82 00:03:18,639 --> 00:03:20,839 Speaker 2: that like for you going year one to year two? 83 00:03:20,880 --> 00:03:23,000 Speaker 2: And how big of a jump can a player make 84 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:23,560 Speaker 2: in that time? 85 00:03:24,040 --> 00:03:26,560 Speaker 1: A big jump just because you understand where you're supposed 86 00:03:26,560 --> 00:03:28,280 Speaker 1: to be on every play. You're gonna go watch all 87 00:03:28,320 --> 00:03:30,720 Speaker 1: this film, all these cut ups of you know, plays 88 00:03:30,720 --> 00:03:33,359 Speaker 1: that you might have messed up on technically, but now 89 00:03:33,360 --> 00:03:36,200 Speaker 1: it's like all you're gonna see the same formation next year. 90 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:37,640 Speaker 1: So now it's like, all right, I know I'm going 91 00:03:37,680 --> 00:03:40,760 Speaker 1: to be here. I remember from last year they ran 92 00:03:40,840 --> 00:03:44,120 Speaker 1: these kind of plays out of this formation. Just being 93 00:03:44,360 --> 00:03:46,200 Speaker 1: as I said, one step ahead of the game now, 94 00:03:46,560 --> 00:03:49,440 Speaker 1: making sure you're retaining that information, learning from your mistakes, 95 00:03:49,560 --> 00:03:51,080 Speaker 1: and kind of just applying that to be a better 96 00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:53,560 Speaker 1: second year player. I think this is just how it goes. 97 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:55,600 Speaker 1: How do you look at these workouts? 98 00:03:55,600 --> 00:03:57,000 Speaker 2: So it's just a good time to kind of get 99 00:03:57,080 --> 00:03:59,200 Speaker 2: most of the team together and kind of start the 100 00:03:59,280 --> 00:04:00,000 Speaker 2: gelling process. 101 00:04:00,200 --> 00:04:05,320 Speaker 1: Generling process, culture, keep that culture up. Obviously, we enjoy 102 00:04:05,440 --> 00:04:08,480 Speaker 1: being together. We definitely have fun out there, but everybody's working. 103 00:04:10,120 --> 00:04:12,760 Speaker 1: We don't take the workouts lightly, I'll put it that way, 104 00:04:12,880 --> 00:04:14,400 Speaker 1: but we have a lot of fun out there, kind 105 00:04:14,400 --> 00:04:16,320 Speaker 1: of guys drawing back and forth at each other. Make 106 00:04:16,360 --> 00:04:19,000 Speaker 1: sure we're keeping the camaraderie up. But we definitely you know, 107 00:04:19,080 --> 00:04:21,159 Speaker 1: lifting our weights and stuff, and then if you need to, 108 00:04:21,680 --> 00:04:23,800 Speaker 1: you know, get a little extra. Eventually, as this OTA 109 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:26,279 Speaker 1: period goes on, seeing what you know, you feel like 110 00:04:26,279 --> 00:04:29,480 Speaker 1: you need to improve on working that work that into 111 00:04:29,520 --> 00:04:30,279 Speaker 1: your workout as well. 112 00:04:30,839 --> 00:04:34,680 Speaker 2: The culture not automatically carry over if it's most of the. 113 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:38,599 Speaker 1: Same guy Atlanta wanted won a Super Bowl to you 114 00:04:38,640 --> 00:04:42,120 Speaker 1: before I got there, I'm pretty sure like the brotherhood 115 00:04:42,160 --> 00:04:44,480 Speaker 1: and stuff when I first got there was very similar, 116 00:04:44,640 --> 00:04:47,720 Speaker 1: but we weren't winning. So I just want to make 117 00:04:47,720 --> 00:04:50,119 Speaker 1: sure we're keeping up that same standard that we always 118 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:52,160 Speaker 1: tried to preach about in Atlanta when I was first there, 119 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:54,560 Speaker 1: That same standard that we had going in the end 120 00:04:54,600 --> 00:04:57,599 Speaker 1: of last year, how we approached things, how we making 121 00:04:57,640 --> 00:05:00,640 Speaker 1: sure no excuses about things. Uh, same thing gotta come 122 00:05:00,640 --> 00:05:02,840 Speaker 1: to anybody new coming to the team, anybody who was 123 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:04,560 Speaker 1: on the team last year, remember what got us there? 124 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:07,040 Speaker 1: Even improve on that because it's easy to say, all right, 125 00:05:07,040 --> 00:05:09,320 Speaker 1: we got it now. We surprised some people then, but 126 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:11,000 Speaker 1: they're gonna be ready for us. So it's like we 127 00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:13,120 Speaker 1: got to have that same standard to even improve on it, 128 00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:16,360 Speaker 1: to make that same to make a leap from last year. Yeah, 129 00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:17,400 Speaker 1: you definitely preaching that. 130 00:05:17,520 --> 00:05:19,839 Speaker 2: Sorry, when you watch the tape back from last year 131 00:05:19,880 --> 00:05:21,840 Speaker 2: as a team, what was the biggest thing that the 132 00:05:21,920 --> 00:05:23,400 Speaker 2: Jaguars need to improve upon on. 133 00:05:23,839 --> 00:05:26,599 Speaker 1: We's got to finish finish plays, finish tackles, tackle better, 134 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:32,960 Speaker 1: better communication pre snap and then you know, just trust 135 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:35,000 Speaker 1: your your brother and their assignment. A lot of that 136 00:05:35,160 --> 00:05:37,599 Speaker 1: was a new scheme. A lot of times we're going 137 00:05:37,640 --> 00:05:40,320 Speaker 1: in the weeks with kind of new variations of plays. 138 00:05:41,080 --> 00:05:42,760 Speaker 1: So that now that like if we had the same 139 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:45,120 Speaker 1: place from last year, maybe tweak some stuff up, but 140 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:47,200 Speaker 1: we understand where we're all supposed to be, so now 141 00:05:47,200 --> 00:05:49,440 Speaker 1: we can disguise better. Now we can kind of, you know, 142 00:05:49,440 --> 00:05:51,560 Speaker 1: maybe tilt this safety down or bring this safety on 143 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:54,080 Speaker 1: the blitz because you know, week in week out we 144 00:05:54,160 --> 00:05:56,080 Speaker 1: run the same plays. They kind of know how we 145 00:05:56,120 --> 00:05:57,640 Speaker 1: line up to it. Now, when we get like some 146 00:05:57,680 --> 00:06:00,640 Speaker 1: more comfortability, if that's the word, some more wildness and 147 00:06:00,640 --> 00:06:03,200 Speaker 1: stuff in our call, we can kind of play with, 148 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:05,800 Speaker 1: play with a little bit, try to disguise a little bit, 149 00:06:05,880 --> 00:06:07,680 Speaker 1: make sure we can make our play at the end 150 00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:10,200 Speaker 1: of the day, but not be so not have a 151 00:06:10,240 --> 00:06:14,200 Speaker 1: tell for ourselves. Teams obviously change your year. This team 152 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:16,479 Speaker 1: you kept most of or running tacked the core. 153 00:06:16,960 --> 00:06:18,560 Speaker 2: Do you guys feel like this is a little bit 154 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:18,880 Speaker 2: of a. 155 00:06:19,040 --> 00:06:21,680 Speaker 1: Running back situation. Let's let's run back and be a 156 00:06:21,720 --> 00:06:22,160 Speaker 1: little bit. 157 00:06:22,040 --> 00:06:22,800 Speaker 2: Better than last year. 158 00:06:23,560 --> 00:06:25,240 Speaker 1: I mean, I hope we do better than last year 159 00:06:25,320 --> 00:06:27,800 Speaker 1: running back. We got the same guys, but we know, 160 00:06:27,839 --> 00:06:29,880 Speaker 1: we got you know, steps to take. I don't think 161 00:06:29,880 --> 00:06:32,360 Speaker 1: we can have success with how we played last year. 162 00:06:32,400 --> 00:06:33,880 Speaker 1: I think we have to be better than last year. 163 00:06:34,120 --> 00:06:36,480 Speaker 1: And I'm gonna keep preaching that to the guys who 164 00:06:36,520 --> 00:06:39,520 Speaker 1: were definitely a young, malleable team, and we can be 165 00:06:39,560 --> 00:06:41,760 Speaker 1: molded to any way we start going. So we got 166 00:06:41,760 --> 00:06:43,440 Speaker 1: to make sure we're going in the right direction. We 167 00:06:43,480 --> 00:06:46,000 Speaker 1: can't just line it up how we was last year. 168 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:48,000 Speaker 1: We got to be better and we're gonna have that 169 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:49,440 Speaker 1: that attitude the whole offseason. 170 00:06:49,520 --> 00:06:51,560 Speaker 2: From a leadership at the standpoint, what was the challenge 171 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:53,279 Speaker 2: that you had last year coming in as a free 172 00:06:53,320 --> 00:06:56,440 Speaker 2: agent versus now where you've led this team and tackle 173 00:06:56,600 --> 00:06:59,440 Speaker 2: let the league and tackles and establish yourself. 174 00:07:00,160 --> 00:07:01,880 Speaker 1: Last year I was I'm kind of a naturally kind 175 00:07:01,880 --> 00:07:04,920 Speaker 1: of shy guy. When I get comfortable around people, that's 176 00:07:04,920 --> 00:07:07,600 Speaker 1: when I kind of, you know, I won't say exert myself, 177 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:12,520 Speaker 1: but I'm comfortable people, people comfortable with me. Lead by 178 00:07:12,560 --> 00:07:14,880 Speaker 1: example at first, make sure I take care of, you know, 179 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:17,080 Speaker 1: how people view me, and then I can start you know, 180 00:07:17,160 --> 00:07:19,000 Speaker 1: leading them. But you know, the whole bunch of young 181 00:07:19,040 --> 00:07:21,560 Speaker 1: guys too. On top of that, I kind of had 182 00:07:21,560 --> 00:07:24,600 Speaker 1: to start talking a little earlier. Now I got more 183 00:07:24,720 --> 00:07:27,720 Speaker 1: comfortable with those young guys. I start trusting those young guys. 184 00:07:27,760 --> 00:07:30,040 Speaker 1: They are taking accountability within themselves to get better, to 185 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:33,240 Speaker 1: understand the defense and stuff. You know, the sky is 186 00:07:33,280 --> 00:07:34,600 Speaker 1: the limit for us, as long as we stay on 187 00:07:34,640 --> 00:07:37,360 Speaker 1: the same page and just stay comfortable with each other, 188 00:07:37,520 --> 00:07:39,760 Speaker 1: keep working on our connections that way. On the field, 189 00:07:39,760 --> 00:07:41,840 Speaker 1: it's the same way. It just seems seamless like we're 190 00:07:41,880 --> 00:07:44,240 Speaker 1: best friends out there playing for each other. 191 00:07:46,320 --> 00:07:47,280 Speaker 2: Thanks for