1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:01,840 Speaker 1: What do you think is wink wink stick name for 2 00:00:01,880 --> 00:00:05,400 Speaker 1: your dirty thirty? Uh? I felt like it was something 3 00:00:05,440 --> 00:00:07,120 Speaker 1: I was earned. You know, I feel like I'm a 4 00:00:07,120 --> 00:00:09,360 Speaker 1: relentless player, so it's I feel like it's very fitting. 5 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:18,480 Speaker 1: You agree, You agree that you're kind of a pretty guy. 6 00:00:18,520 --> 00:00:20,799 Speaker 1: You like that. Yeah, I grew up in an improvised alia, 7 00:00:20,920 --> 00:00:22,960 Speaker 1: you know, so pretty much growing up in those type 8 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:26,040 Speaker 1: of terms, you know, you gotta always have your guard up, 9 00:00:26,360 --> 00:00:28,560 Speaker 1: you know, and put your best foot forward, and when 10 00:00:28,640 --> 00:00:30,240 Speaker 1: things get rough, you just keep your head down to 11 00:00:30,320 --> 00:00:32,400 Speaker 1: keep on working. So, as I said before, a very 12 00:00:32,440 --> 00:00:37,400 Speaker 1: fitting name. Is it meaningful at all to you to 13 00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:41,080 Speaker 1: be playing against your former head coach Thursday? It's just 14 00:00:41,120 --> 00:00:43,720 Speaker 1: another game, you know. I'm excited to see him because 15 00:00:43,760 --> 00:00:45,200 Speaker 1: you know, he's a reason why I mint is building, 16 00:00:45,479 --> 00:00:47,199 Speaker 1: you know, Salute to that guy. Sleute to get him 17 00:00:47,240 --> 00:00:49,519 Speaker 1: and selected those who came before me. And at the 18 00:00:49,600 --> 00:00:52,400 Speaker 1: end of the day, Uh, it's another opponent, another match, 19 00:00:52,479 --> 00:00:54,080 Speaker 1: and we just excited to see where we had as 20 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:58,160 Speaker 1: a team and as coaches. How do you carry what 21 00:00:58,360 --> 00:01:01,560 Speaker 1: you've been doing in the suffer into the preseason and 22 00:01:01,640 --> 00:01:04,840 Speaker 1: then eventually the regular season. I feel like just staying 23 00:01:04,920 --> 00:01:09,479 Speaker 1: of course, you know, uh, actually allowing things that you've 24 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:11,680 Speaker 1: been doing to be seen on the field, allowing it 25 00:01:11,760 --> 00:01:14,040 Speaker 1: to be translated, and not being so caught up in 26 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:16,640 Speaker 1: the mental thing, the mental side of the game, and 27 00:01:16,760 --> 00:01:18,680 Speaker 1: just being free flowing and understanding that you put the 28 00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:21,120 Speaker 1: work in and you prepare for anything you face once 29 00:01:21,160 --> 00:01:26,160 Speaker 1: you hit that field. Do you say you by the 30 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:29,680 Speaker 1: way you have started camp? Personally, I just want to 31 00:01:30,480 --> 00:01:33,520 Speaker 1: give a salute to those who put the work in 32 00:01:33,640 --> 00:01:36,160 Speaker 1: for me in the manner of giving me insight, giving 33 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:38,480 Speaker 1: me wisdom. The O T A. S played a major 34 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:42,160 Speaker 1: role for our early success, you know, understanding the system, 35 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:45,400 Speaker 1: understanding the scheme, and just the people who worked on 36 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:47,640 Speaker 1: my body before and once I got up here, my coaches, 37 00:01:47,720 --> 00:01:50,480 Speaker 1: you know, my uh, my lady, my family, you know, 38 00:01:50,520 --> 00:01:52,520 Speaker 1: they all played the mental role in my my mental 39 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:55,160 Speaker 1: state now and just where I aim of being later 40 00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:57,440 Speaker 1: on in life. What do you think when you're in 41 00:01:57,480 --> 00:02:01,160 Speaker 1: the defense of the flitz so much said that one time, 42 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:03,160 Speaker 1: what do you think about the possiblity blitzing so much 43 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:05,720 Speaker 1: from that's a lot of opportunities. You know, early on 44 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:08,120 Speaker 1: my rookie year, I was labeled as a guy who 45 00:02:08,200 --> 00:02:10,720 Speaker 1: was b listening, you know. So a lot of people 46 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:12,679 Speaker 1: may forgot that, but I didn't forget that. So I 47 00:02:12,760 --> 00:02:15,880 Speaker 1: definitely have that tool in the toolbag, so as I 48 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:19,200 Speaker 1: know we're gonna unleash it. How did your mental state change? 49 00:02:19,520 --> 00:02:23,800 Speaker 1: How are you different than you were last a year ago? Uh, 50 00:02:24,360 --> 00:02:27,160 Speaker 1: I'll say I'm a guy who was very open minded, 51 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:31,600 Speaker 1: So I'm constantly evolving, you know, I'm more in tune 52 00:02:31,639 --> 00:02:34,240 Speaker 1: with things, you know. I'm I'm in tune with understanding 53 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:36,760 Speaker 1: that you're never gonna be able to eliminate doubt, You're 54 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:38,600 Speaker 1: never gonna be eliminate figure, you never be able to 55 00:02:38,639 --> 00:02:42,600 Speaker 1: eliminate the inevitable of losing reps. So having I understanding 56 00:02:42,680 --> 00:02:44,720 Speaker 1: when I hit that field that it may not go 57 00:02:44,880 --> 00:02:47,440 Speaker 1: my way and be able to respond, you know, so 58 00:02:47,520 --> 00:02:49,600 Speaker 1: I feel like I'm more grounded and more free flowing. 59 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:52,480 Speaker 1: I did was it the end last season with the 60 00:02:52,520 --> 00:02:56,800 Speaker 1: injury and not gonna feel it was a difficult things 61 00:02:56,840 --> 00:02:58,440 Speaker 1: to come to terms with, you know, laying up in 62 00:02:58,480 --> 00:03:01,519 Speaker 1: the hospital to bed and I was, uh, say, I 63 00:03:01,639 --> 00:03:03,440 Speaker 1: was word out for six weeks, you know, and I 64 00:03:03,480 --> 00:03:06,840 Speaker 1: feel like I was at a point where the tide 65 00:03:06,919 --> 00:03:08,679 Speaker 1: was turning into my favor, But at the end of 66 00:03:08,720 --> 00:03:11,040 Speaker 1: the day, something that came and I just had to 67 00:03:11,120 --> 00:03:12,960 Speaker 1: deal with it. And pretty much when I injury came, 68 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:14,359 Speaker 1: I out to reflect a lot of and just be 69 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:17,280 Speaker 1: more of a student of the game, you know, learning 70 00:03:17,320 --> 00:03:19,079 Speaker 1: from the other guys and just be locked in and 71 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:21,320 Speaker 1: understand more of the system that was being taught then, 72 00:03:21,400 --> 00:03:24,000 Speaker 1: but just more of the game of football. You know, 73 00:03:24,080 --> 00:03:26,560 Speaker 1: football want on one type of things and student of 74 00:03:26,639 --> 00:03:28,079 Speaker 1: the game. I mean, you were one of the early 75 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:30,600 Speaker 1: leaders in the clubhouse with the interceptions and training camp 76 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:33,560 Speaker 1: and on. That is the way you're seeing it different 77 00:03:33,600 --> 00:03:35,400 Speaker 1: at all? Is it kind of you know the way 78 00:03:35,440 --> 00:03:40,120 Speaker 1: you're being Yeah, I would say, Uh. I had a 79 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:42,720 Speaker 1: heart to heart with Patrick Graham last year and one 80 00:03:42,760 --> 00:03:44,600 Speaker 1: thing he told me was being from the West coast, 81 00:03:44,640 --> 00:03:47,400 Speaker 1: you had at Cali cool And I wasn't getting the 82 00:03:47,480 --> 00:03:49,680 Speaker 1: line right when I got out of the huddle. You know, 83 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:52,000 Speaker 1: so pretty much once you get a line, once offense 84 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:53,360 Speaker 1: back the huddle, if you get a line, you able 85 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:56,080 Speaker 1: to be more observant. You're able to read what they 86 00:03:56,200 --> 00:03:58,080 Speaker 1: putting right in front of you, you know. So that 87 00:03:58,200 --> 00:04:02,720 Speaker 1: little tip right there has very uh took my game 88 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:04,280 Speaker 1: to the next stop. For sure, that was a much 89 00:04:04,320 --> 00:04:08,280 Speaker 1: needed thing that he instilled in me. For sure, you 90 00:04:08,360 --> 00:04:10,480 Speaker 1: get a wine to get a wine right away. Get 91 00:04:10,520 --> 00:04:12,839 Speaker 1: set up, you know, so when you break the huddle, Yeah, 92 00:04:12,920 --> 00:04:15,960 Speaker 1: get a line. Yeah exactly exactly, Uh want they break huddle, 93 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:17,839 Speaker 1: you know, go to where the pastrip is, or where 94 00:04:17,839 --> 00:04:19,360 Speaker 1: the case may be, wherever the call is. Get a 95 00:04:19,400 --> 00:04:21,480 Speaker 1: line so you can see the formation and see what 96 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:24,360 Speaker 1: what could happen? You know. He taught me that the 97 00:04:24,400 --> 00:04:27,200 Speaker 1: way you can play fast by anticipating anticipated from philp 98 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:29,920 Speaker 1: study and as I said, before seeing what could come 99 00:04:30,880 --> 00:04:36,960 Speaker 1: a few more. You're a chess guy, right, Yeah, I've 100 00:04:36,960 --> 00:04:38,200 Speaker 1: ben't hunted out with kay punches.