Speaker 1: Kevin, Uh, you made it through this season completely healthy,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure that had to be something that that
Speaker 1: you really wanted to do this year after your your
Speaker 1: first couple of seasons getting a little nicked up here,
Speaker 1: and there was that something that was a goal of yours. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I just I was trying to just you know,
Speaker 1: change some people in mind sets on me. I've never
Speaker 1: been known to be that that person to miss anytime,
Speaker 1: So that was kind of a crazy thing to hear.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of background noise of people and who
Speaker 1: thought I was like, say soft, I guess saying I
Speaker 1: wouldn't finish. I couldn't finish the season, even though up
Speaker 1: to the season I never missed the game until I
Speaker 1: got to the league. So I mean, I just wanted
Speaker 1: to change the perception of me, and that played out
Speaker 1: for the entire offensive line. I mean, there's a group
Speaker 1: you guys stayed on the field together. How much did
Speaker 1: that help over the course of the season to get
Speaker 1: that kind of continuity and have that kind of continuity, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it helps a lot um because the office line, you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's the team on on a team, and it's
Speaker 1: it's one of those things where the more time you
Speaker 1: have me and the more experience you have with the
Speaker 1: people around you, the more you feel comfortable, and the
Speaker 1: faster you can play new guys. You're right this year
Speaker 1: in Mason Cole, but damn more to your left and
Speaker 1: you guys obviously played together last year. Do you guys
Speaker 1: feel like you're developing a nice chemistry together. I do
Speaker 1: feel like that. I feel like we've we've bounded a
Speaker 1: lot this last year. I feel like we're just going
Speaker 1: to get better and keep staking. In terms of how
Speaker 1: the running game progressed over the course of the season,
Speaker 1: I mean that has to be I mean, offensive linemen
Speaker 1: love to run the football. Did you take a sense
Speaker 1: of pride and hey, we have a hundred fifty yards
Speaker 1: of game basically over the second half of the season,
Speaker 1: you guys go seven and two because of that running game.
Speaker 1: We definitely love that. We love to have, you know,
Speaker 1: all the pressure put on us. We want to run
Speaker 1: the ball, and we love to run the ball. As
Speaker 1: some muys, we're pretty much having competition with the right side,
Speaker 1: just talking about who's gonna be the best on the
Speaker 1: back side of the play, on the front side of
Speaker 1: the play, and it makes us play even harder. You
Speaker 1: guys had that camaraderie this year despite having some new
Speaker 1: faces in there. How did that develop so quickly? I
Speaker 1: think just the group of guys that we have a
Speaker 1: different type of personalities and stuff. All male are pretty
Speaker 1: good and I think that's that's really what it was.
Speaker 1: Everybody personality kind of managines with everybody else's personality. There's
Speaker 1: no real divas, there's no nobody who's think that's better
Speaker 1: than everybody else. We all just trying to come together.
Speaker 1: It help that you're all around the same age. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that that definitely helps. You know, it's good to have
Speaker 1: vets sometimes, but sometimes it's good to have a young
Speaker 1: group that all wants to work. And you had a
Speaker 1: new line coach this year as well. We pretty much
Speaker 1: used him as a vet, so that was that was
Speaker 1: I think that was a good fit for us. What
Speaker 1: did he do differently that you hadn't done in the past.
Speaker 1: He was a lot more technical and more say gentle
Speaker 1: in his approach when it came to things. Because he's
Speaker 1: been a coach for so long. He understands that you
Speaker 1: can't win everywhere up. He understands that U you have
Speaker 1: off day. He doesn't the person that really just yells
Speaker 1: at you trying to get that out of you because
Speaker 1: he knows what you can do already. In terms of
Speaker 1: the first season with with Kenny Pickett, obviously there's some
Speaker 1: some difference there. You had played with Ben Pickett obviously
Speaker 1: brought the mobility factor to the game. Did that change
Speaker 1: how you approach things or how you block? You try
Speaker 1: to block the same um. Ben had his benefits of
Speaker 1: you know, he was getting the ball out really fast,
Speaker 1: and I think that's what he made up for in
Speaker 1: his mobility. He got it out and like one point
Speaker 1: eight to say it. So you kind of block a little,
Speaker 1: just get on fast and you'll be able to get
Speaker 1: it off. And Kenny the mobility factor, maybe have to
Speaker 1: block a little longer, not that much longer, but he'll
Speaker 1: be able to get out of the pocket. I'll be
Speaker 1: able to move and get where it needs to get
Speaker 1: to this throw. You feel like the way you guys
Speaker 1: finished the season, you can carry that over. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: feel I feel like well to get better. So I'm
Speaker 1: I can't wait till next week, next year,