Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Official Jets Podcast, presented by Amazon
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Speaker 1: Eric Allen joined by Locklin Edwards. Lock thanks for coming
Speaker 1: up to the studio. Yeah, man, we appreciate it. So
Speaker 1: you've got the white sweatshirt on today? Obviously the Jets
Speaker 1: had new uniforms unveiled in the spring. Now that you've
Speaker 1: seen the combinations throughout most of the two thousand nineteen campaign,
Speaker 1: what's your favorite? Um? Actually, I really like the black.
Speaker 1: I didn't think I would lock it as much as
Speaker 1: I did. Um, my favorite was the green, and now black.
Speaker 1: It is definitely become the favorite. But why didn't you
Speaker 1: think you'd like it at first? Probably because it's just
Speaker 1: so different from what we had previous. Yes, um, but
Speaker 1: it's really great on me. And so the last two times,
Speaker 1: I know, the first time the Jets wore black a loss,
Speaker 1: but they'll finish the year with the two win one
Speaker 1: mark in the Blacks. Maybe that's why you like Busy
Speaker 1: beat the Giants and then of course Takedown in Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: So I've been meaning to ask you this for a while.
Speaker 1: Here we go, Yeah, here we go. When you were
Speaker 1: overseas back home in Australia the way you got into punting.
Speaker 1: I read this and I just want to know if
Speaker 1: this is true or not. One of your teachers happened
Speaker 1: to be driving by, like some field and you were
Speaker 1: just kicking a football, and like, this is how I
Speaker 1: imagine this. He's literally driving by, you know, you got
Speaker 1: like some beautiful background. He's like, that's one of my students.
Speaker 1: It's like, wait a minute, he's kicking a football. Wait
Speaker 1: a minute, he's really good at this. Wait a minute,
Speaker 1: I have to stop. Pull over, like, throw all my hazards.
Speaker 1: Tell Lachlan that he should go kick in the NFL,
Speaker 1: or go kick football is overseas in college? Is that act? Like?
Speaker 1: Is that essentially how it happened? Essentially happened? I? Um,
Speaker 1: we would just we actually started throwing the football and
Speaker 1: back then I was even worse thrown. Um, and we
Speaker 1: just started kicking it and he drives Boston. Um, he's
Speaker 1: now one of my good buddies. A goot telpye. Um
Speaker 1: he's originally from Connecticut. Sorry, he recognized the football compared
Speaker 1: to doing Australian football. Um. Yeah, he stopped and came
Speaker 1: over and uh, and had a chat and he said,
Speaker 1: do you want to try it? And I thought he
Speaker 1: was joking and he led me in the right direction
Speaker 1: and ended up going to college six months later in Texas.
Speaker 1: In Texas, Yeah, what'd your family think about you leaving Australia.
Speaker 1: It's not like a kid growing up in Florida Park
Speaker 1: and they're going to Georgia or something like that. You
Speaker 1: left Australia. Yeah. They kind of kind of scoffed at
Speaker 1: the start because I was like, you know, you're joking.
Speaker 1: But after a while and you know, started you know,
Speaker 1: started to figure out how we could actually do it. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, they caught on a bit more and they
Speaker 1: saw that people had actually done it before me. Um,
Speaker 1: and we started watching some TV shows like Azzi's Abroad
Speaker 1: and Stuff, which was a show on ESPN back then.
Speaker 1: And that followed guys like Darren Bennett and um Ozzy's
Speaker 1: met McBryan that had been in the NFL and college system. Um,
Speaker 1: and they started to, you know, to think it might
Speaker 1: be a good idea And yeah, but but are you
Speaker 1: thinking and you and your family thinking free education or
Speaker 1: maybe I got a chance to do this as my
Speaker 1: livelihood and make money doing it and start a career.
Speaker 1: It didn't really start it as I think I could
Speaker 1: do it in the NFL. It just sort of started as, um,
Speaker 1: you know, I want to go see how colleges in America.
Speaker 1: I want to see the world, you know. And I
Speaker 1: hadn't been out of Australia at that stage, um, and
Speaker 1: it just looked like a load of fun. Um you
Speaker 1: know you see Texas in in the movies and stuff.
Speaker 1: It was just a great, you know, a chance for
Speaker 1: me to try something new. And uh, you know, luckily enough,
Speaker 1: I I did all right and was able to make it.
Speaker 1: What was your NFL consumption growing up? And what is
Speaker 1: the general NFL consumption like in Australia, Because I imagine
Speaker 1: it's decent. But not only that, the the time zones
Speaker 1: are just so different. So if you're watching a one
Speaker 1: o'clock game here, like, I have no idea what time
Speaker 1: it is in Australia, but I imagine you have to
Speaker 1: be up pretty late to watch some NFL game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so depending on daylight savings and stuff. Mom, mom and
Speaker 1: dad is set in the alarm at about four four
Speaker 1: o'clock in the morning, um, just to watch them play football.
Speaker 1: So and they've never missed a game, which is great. Um.
Speaker 1: But before, you know, growing up, I didn't really see
Speaker 1: much NFL. Um you'd see the movies like remember the Titans.
Speaker 1: That's a good soundtrack, Yeah, fright, and allarts stuff like that,
Speaker 1: so you know, I had a little understanding of it.
Speaker 1: And you know, it was like a small town, small
Speaker 1: Texas towns that were like everything was football, and I
Speaker 1: was like, that's not true. But you know, long behold,
Speaker 1: it is pretty true. Um. It's growing on in Australia now,
Speaker 1: especially with the more guys we get in um, you know,
Speaker 1: and every time we get a professional sports player like
Speaker 1: you know Valentine, like how it spurs you know, more
Speaker 1: interest from the republic And yeah, they they like to
Speaker 1: see people other than punners, you know in the NFL.
Speaker 1: So for folks who don't have the roster in front
Speaker 1: of them. What what college did you do in Texas?
Speaker 1: Sam Houston State, Sam Houston State, So how much culture
Speaker 1: shock when you went there? And did you even go
Speaker 1: on a visit before actually pecking your bags and leaving Australia.
Speaker 1: Obviously didn't go on a boat, but imagine you flew
Speaker 1: over but I probably would rather to vote. Actually, the
Speaker 1: flight over it was terrible, was it? Really? Remember the flight? Well,
Speaker 1: they know it's long. It was only because I got
Speaker 1: on the plane. In my whole road the power wasn't working,
Speaker 1: so I couldn't watch a movie. I couldn't even turn
Speaker 1: my heart on like the overhead light. Yeah, so I
Speaker 1: put and it's you know, sixteen hours from Sydney to
Speaker 1: l A or fourteen your take. So you were in
Speaker 1: the three across. I was in the economy Yeah, definitely, um,
Speaker 1: and I luckily had a seat between me, so you know,
Speaker 1: I had a little bit of room, but still pretty brutal.
Speaker 1: You know, I've been six ft five ish back there.
Speaker 1: It's not great. But I pulled out the laptop and
Speaker 1: I unfortunately I hadn't seen the movie before I put
Speaker 1: on with Marshall. Really Matthew mcguy, I want a plane
Speaker 1: And you know the whole movie is about a plane crash,
Speaker 1: which is you know, it's a horrible thing. You're going
Speaker 1: to college, yes, but right, but you're watching We are
Speaker 1: Marshall on a plane international flight. This is your first
Speaker 1: international flight time. Yeah. Yeah, but the culture shock was
Speaker 1: it was huge. When I got there. They had had
Speaker 1: an Australian there before me, so they sort of knew
Speaker 1: what to expect. But he was a bit older. I
Speaker 1: think he was like twenty seven when he got there,
Speaker 1: and I was I just turned twenty one, and you know,
Speaker 1: people couldn't really understand me. I couldn't really understand them,
Speaker 1: and it it was kind of like, you know, you just
Speaker 1: give each other a not and just go about your way.
Speaker 1: You know. Did you initially have a full ride there? Um?
Speaker 1: So I was. I was told I could, I would
Speaker 1: have a full ride. And when I got there, I
Speaker 1: was informed i'ld get a half scholarship. Oh no, yeah,
Speaker 1: so it wasn't It wasn't great. Um we had to
Speaker 1: figure out whether I could even in the first place. Um,
Speaker 1: and you know, Mom and Dad thankfully made it, made
Speaker 1: it work for me. Um, Huntsville is a pretty cheap
Speaker 1: place and we're able to find some cheap accommodation for
Speaker 1: the for the year, and um, so we made it work.
Speaker 1: I didn't get on full scholarship until my last year. Wow,
Speaker 1: do you consider yourself an adventurous guy a courageous guy?
Speaker 1: Because I know myself at eighteen, nineteen, twenty years old,
Speaker 1: there's no way in hell I'll be like, oh, I
Speaker 1: tried to support for six months. Maybe you know it
Speaker 1: was a rugby league or something like that, and people
Speaker 1: are like, hey, give it a try over here. I
Speaker 1: couldn't do it. No. I mean it's probably sort of
Speaker 1: more of I guess Australian culture. I guess it's more
Speaker 1: just you know, give it a shot. What's the worse
Speaker 1: it can happen? You know, I'll just stand up back
Speaker 1: home where I am. Sorry. Um, I was at university
Speaker 1: back there, and I thought, why not give it a shot,
Speaker 1: and you know, if it all goes, you know, in
Speaker 1: pair shape, I'll come back. I've never lived in Texas before.
Speaker 1: What is Texas? Like? Everybody talks about everything is bigger
Speaker 1: in Texas, you know. And now you're living up here
Speaker 1: in New York obviously, UM yeah, I love it. I
Speaker 1: Um I got place down in Austin. Um so we
Speaker 1: lived there in the off season. UM, I really enjoy it.
Speaker 1: You know, Austin has a great, great culture as in
Speaker 1: music scene. It's got a good night life. Ray Street
Speaker 1: Rainy Street is yeah, six Streets a bit too young
Speaker 1: for me now, so I kind of hang out a
Speaker 1: Rainy Street if I do go out at all, kind
Speaker 1: of a homebody lately. Um, but yeah, I really like,
Speaker 1: really like Texas. Have you been to Terry Black's barbecue?
Speaker 1: I haven't. I'm not a big barbecue guy. You know.
Speaker 1: That's hard to be, you know, in Texas and not
Speaker 1: be a barbeque guy. So what do you eat down there?
Speaker 1: By the way, how did you and your your fiance
Speaker 1: decided in Austin? So I went to obviously Samuson State,
Speaker 1: which is a little bit north of Houston. Um, small town.
Speaker 1: We went out there, and I want to say New
Speaker 1: Year's Eve, my first year in college, all sick in.
Speaker 1: You and I had a great time obviously you two
Speaker 1: is a huge, huge university, a lot of young people,
Speaker 1: and I had a lot of a lot of fun. Um.
Speaker 1: And then when my FANSI was coming out of college, Um,
Speaker 1: she needed to find a job. She's a nurse and
Speaker 1: and Austin had an opening and we said, let's do it.
Speaker 1: We went out there. I can't get over the barbecue thing.
Speaker 1: You lived in Texas for how many years including um,
Speaker 1: about for or four including school? Yeah? And how many years? Five? Now? Okay,
Speaker 1: so you've been there five years and you've you just
Speaker 1: don't like it, like, what don't you like about it?
Speaker 1: So I don't like it? Um, I just don't need
Speaker 1: it all the time, you know, I can I understand
Speaker 1: I don't need it all the time. Are you Are
Speaker 1: you a fish guy? Oh yeah, I like a bit
Speaker 1: of sushi, um, a lot of sushi. Um, big Mexican
Speaker 1: food guy? Are you okay? Because well, we don't really
Speaker 1: have it in Australia and if you do, it's too
Speaker 1: fancy and they charge you a lot. I'm more about
Speaker 1: like a hole in the wall Mexican food. But I
Speaker 1: do know that a corona is really expensive Australia. Everything
Speaker 1: is expensive in Asia. I know that too, but I
Speaker 1: know coronas are extremely expensive compared to here. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: like taxi and everything. You guys drink I pas over
Speaker 1: there have been done there. Um yeah you know all
Speaker 1: all of you guys. Well we'll venture out to that.
Speaker 1: But okay, UM, so you got some news. What can
Speaker 1: you tell us about your recent engagement and wedding plants? Um? Yes,
Speaker 1: So we we went and got engaged in Australian Laru,
Speaker 1: which is um pretty pretty special place for Australia in general. Um,
Speaker 1: not much out there other than a huge huge rock
Speaker 1: if you want to google it. Really, Hey, what's your
Speaker 1: name again? All the Aru or airs Rock depending what
Speaker 1: you want to type in both will work or eds
Speaker 1: as rock Kada state with an accident. Okay, how's your
Speaker 1: American accent gotting any better since being here? Try? And
Speaker 1: then we want to hear about the proposal too. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I try not to work on it too much because
Speaker 1: every time I go home, you know, I'll get flak
Speaker 1: for it. People are like, what are you doing? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're Australian, Yeah exactly, all right, so you're at the rock? Um?
Speaker 1: Yeah it was. And it was in my pocket all weekend,
Speaker 1: you know, a week and I couldn't find the right
Speaker 1: time to do it because it's pretty. You can't really
Speaker 1: wear nice clothes and get a good photo because it's
Speaker 1: so hot. It was about forty degrees celsius every day,
Speaker 1: which is a hundred and tennish thousands of flyes. So
Speaker 1: we're in a fly net. Not ideal for a girl
Speaker 1: to put up on Instagram of a photo you know,
Speaker 1: we're going to fly. So I did the best I could, um,
Speaker 1: and it got to the stage where I was like,
Speaker 1: all right, if I don't do it now I'm not
Speaker 1: going to do it on this trip. So um, yeah,
Speaker 1: I just got down on the knee said will you
Speaker 1: marry me? And she said absolutely? And it worked out well.
Speaker 1: But you wanted to do it at home as I
Speaker 1: wanted to do it in Australia. Yeah, brought the ring
Speaker 1: over here and then we did it over there. So
Speaker 1: it's probably too expensive over there, probably, you know. Just
Speaker 1: so what are what are the plants where you guys
Speaker 1: getting married? Getting married in Hawaii? Um, you know, halfway
Speaker 1: between Australia in Texas. Alisa has a bit of family
Speaker 1: from Hawaii, so it's gonna work out pretty well. Um,
Speaker 1: it'll get my my family a trip to Hawaii too.
Speaker 1: So have they ever been? They haven't? Have you? I
Speaker 1: have been? Um yet I have. My first year in
Speaker 1: the league, we went out to Hawaii. Okay, No, So
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about this. Is she a native Texas? She
Speaker 1: is from Corpus Christie, Yes, Corpus Christie. So how her
Speaker 1: dad to handle this? When you asked him, Hey, you
Speaker 1: did be So I remember having this conversation with you.
Speaker 1: You were talking about it. Yeah, I was surprising. Um,
Speaker 1: he was super happy about it. And you know, originally
Speaker 1: you know, you never you don't know how they're gonna
Speaker 1: react you because you's thinking maybe he's going to try
Speaker 1: and steal my daughter away to Australia one day. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess, I guess I didn't think about that. Part
Speaker 1: is you're not like you know somewhere in the States
Speaker 1: you happen to be. Yeah. Yeah, it's very it's one
Speaker 1: side of the world or the other. Um no, it
Speaker 1: was great. Um, I just had to chat on the
Speaker 1: phone because there was no way I could drive three
Speaker 1: as the corpse Christy without you know, setting off alarm
Speaker 1: bells or something with with Ali. So called him a
Speaker 1: couple of days before we went went to Australia and um,
Speaker 1: how to chat and it's super happy about it. No,
Speaker 1: he's unfortunately Cowboys fan too, so okay, so he most
Speaker 1: loved Week six. Yeah, he came out here. He had
Speaker 1: to wear a Jets Jase though Ali didn't let him work.
Speaker 1: He was so fortunately enough for him, he didn't get
Speaker 1: you know, Jets fans worked out, so he did him
Speaker 1: a favor. What have you found your Okay? So I
Speaker 1: know Australia has a couple of like native food, mainly
Speaker 1: the meat pie. Have you found the meat pie out
Speaker 1: here or something that reminds you of home, you can't
Speaker 1: so you can't get it um shipped and frozen out here. Um.
Speaker 1: I haven't done it yet, but Ali learned when she
Speaker 1: was back in Australia how to make sausage roll. Um.
Speaker 1: I don't expect you to know what it is. It's
Speaker 1: kind of it's kind of like a meat in a
Speaker 1: pastry rolled up. It's kind of like it like a
Speaker 1: pig in a blanket. Yeah better, Um, I'm not a
Speaker 1: big hot dog, guys. Sorry that the pig in blanket
Speaker 1: isn't great? Uh? Ok yeah right that barbecue. No pigs
Speaker 1: in a blanket? Yeah, this is crazy destination wedding. But
Speaker 1: you guys was probably gonna be rather big or small.
Speaker 1: We're hoping it's not too big, of course. Um, we'll see,
Speaker 1: you know, we're still getting our se pace. We'll see.
Speaker 1: I gotta ask this, okay, so very recently, just get
Speaker 1: a game winner from Sam faking a forty four yard
Speaker 1: or what? What is your property? You are the holder.
Speaker 1: You are a key part of the operation. Everybody talks
Speaker 1: about operation out there in terms of field goals and
Speaker 1: extra points. But I don't think people's minds registered to
Speaker 1: oh Hennessee Lachlan, they're the big deal incorporated in all this.
Speaker 1: What do you do one on the sideline? Is what
Speaker 1: any situation when the Jets are moving down the field
Speaker 1: and you know, okay, not only maybe we're going for
Speaker 1: a game winner here, but maybe it's a game winner
Speaker 1: time explorers. Um, yes, I went whenever the offense on
Speaker 1: the field, will me and Tom will be getting snaps
Speaker 1: of some sort, you know, depending where we are on
Speaker 1: the field. As soon as we crossed the fifty, we
Speaker 1: start to get field goal snaps, um, And yeah, it's
Speaker 1: just trying to keep a lid on it. You know,
Speaker 1: we didn't know what we're gonna do with time out
Speaker 1: its whether it was a Harry Harry field goal or
Speaker 1: was a um a milk it And we just went
Speaker 1: down there. We were watching the whole time. We'll get
Speaker 1: a snap every now and then. It's just trying to
Speaker 1: keep it a lid on your emotions and and just
Speaker 1: do what you've practiced. You know a couple of thousand times.
Speaker 1: Was that your second game winning field goal that it
Speaker 1: held for almost Chandler against Jet Jaguars and um, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is the second one. But but is it like
Speaker 1: baseball in terms of when a guy's really going he's
Speaker 1: got a no hitter. The old superstition is don't talk
Speaker 1: to so before vickens about to get out there? Is
Speaker 1: it just you and Hennessey talk and you leave that
Speaker 1: dude alone because you know he's just got to go
Speaker 1: through his prep being his own zone. Absolutely, I'll leave
Speaker 1: him alone. Um. The worst thing you ever say, you know,
Speaker 1: he's say it in college all the time is the
Speaker 1: same position players go up and start talking to the kicker,
Speaker 1: and this is leave him alone. You know this is
Speaker 1: this is his moment um. So yeah, I'll just run out,
Speaker 1: you know, give him pound my back, let's go, and
Speaker 1: you know he need he put it through. How do
Speaker 1: you keep your hands and fingers from not getting too
Speaker 1: cold or too nervous like sweaty palms or anything like that.
Speaker 1: I actually really like holding. Um, isn't that a learned
Speaker 1: trait from you? Like when you came in the league.
Speaker 1: Have you did you hold up to that date? I
Speaker 1: hadn't held in a game. Um, but I how to practice.
Speaker 1: I got through throughout college. But you know, having to
Speaker 1: learn to hold to for Nick Faulkes he's pretty picky
Speaker 1: with these holds, so he helped me a lot. Um
Speaker 1: him and Tanna went my first year. They took me
Speaker 1: on the wing and show me the ripes and not
Speaker 1: now Tom. Tom's out. He's a great snapper. Sorry, he
Speaker 1: makes it makes it easy. But you're one of the
Speaker 1: few guys in the stadium. Am I correct on? This
Speaker 1: is that you got to keep your head down. So
Speaker 1: when he's kicking a ball, are you just waiting to
Speaker 1: hear the reaction or to stay up? And you can
Speaker 1: time it perfectly where you finally see the ball. So
Speaker 1: I usually don't see the bowl until it's through the
Speaker 1: three projects in my spot. Um, and then because you've
Speaker 1: got the line in front of nice while stand up. Sorry,
Speaker 1: I can usually tell from how Sam is if we
Speaker 1: make it or not. Ah, do you remember what you
Speaker 1: said to me yesterday? I mean after you, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I got my hug and I want to know. This
Speaker 1: time of year, obviously it gets chilly up here in
Speaker 1: New Jersey and in the Northeast. As a specialist, sometimes
Speaker 1: you have a little extra time on your hands up practice.
Speaker 1: Are you freezing during practice? Um? Well, you know if
Speaker 1: we're indos we'll go outside and we'll actually get some
Speaker 1: work in the cold, and um, you know, try to
Speaker 1: get used to it as much as you can. It's
Speaker 1: kind of hard to get used to the weather because
Speaker 1: it's so different every game. Um, but we'll get out
Speaker 1: there and get some snaps and stuff. But we'll try
Speaker 1: to get we'll try to keep warm, and we'll just
Speaker 1: bundle up once we're done without part of the practice.
Speaker 1: But for the most part, we actually stay pretty active
Speaker 1: throughout the day. How close are you dudes? You went Hennessey,
Speaker 1: You've been together for a while and then you had
Speaker 1: to bring the new guy in. You guys have really
Speaker 1: been through a lot this year. Talking about adversity on
Speaker 1: the team, adversity on the field goal team, I mean
Speaker 1: you work with every kicker, uh, this side of the Mississippi.
Speaker 1: I fell like, well, yeah, this is um if you
Speaker 1: look at it, this a fifth kicker I've had in
Speaker 1: four years. Um, second this season. Or if you don't
Speaker 1: even want to like in the active see you know, yeah, Um,
Speaker 1: first year was Nick Fogg, then we went Channel and
Speaker 1: Jason and then now we've got Sam as well as
Speaker 1: the Vic earlier in the year. Sorry, Um, it's really
Speaker 1: me and me and Tom we've got a pretty good
Speaker 1: sink and um, you know, I'm pretty confident we can
Speaker 1: we can help any any kicker that comes in here. Um.
Speaker 1: And you know, as soon as I come out the door,
Speaker 1: it's like, how mane, what kind of holds you like?
Speaker 1: How do you like it? And they'll tell me what
Speaker 1: they want. I'm like, all right, well, what's this work
Speaker 1: on it? How many different kinds of holds are there?
Speaker 1: Because I feel like, to e as point, fans focus
Speaker 1: on two things, very black and white. Is it in
Speaker 1: or is it out? And they don't think about the operation,
Speaker 1: the snap, the hold, but even within that, like how
Speaker 1: many different kinds of holds are there? So it comes
Speaker 1: down to the preference of the kicker obviously. So a
Speaker 1: lot of guys will want a bit of a lean
Speaker 1: on it towards me, not towards them. Um. And some
Speaker 1: guys I want to straight up and down. Nick Folk
Speaker 1: was was interesting. He had he didn't want to give
Speaker 1: up the uprights, so he had me lean the ball
Speaker 1: according to the wind. So you tell me I want
Speaker 1: a large lean here or a small lean or a
Speaker 1: medium lean, um, you know, and then you've got to
Speaker 1: find the spot with that lean because you don't want
Speaker 1: to put it down and then lean it. So you're
Speaker 1: just trying to make your the kicker's job as easy
Speaker 1: it is, because it is. It is a tough job.
Speaker 1: I know, I you know, I don't. I'm not jealous
Speaker 1: of his job at all. You know, it's a touch job.
Speaker 1: What about the weight program for a guy was constantly
Speaker 1: booting throughout the year, not yet given any away trade
Speaker 1: secrets from justice or anybody, but how much legs do
Speaker 1: you deal in the off season and then how much
Speaker 1: do you have to do? You'll scale back a little
Speaker 1: bit during the season. Majority of our leg strength work
Speaker 1: comes in the off season. You're trying to put on
Speaker 1: some weight because as the season goes on, you're not
Speaker 1: you're kind of maintaining, but you're still losing a bit
Speaker 1: of it. Um, So you're trying to put on as
Speaker 1: much strength as you can in the off season without
Speaker 1: losing flexibility and you know, leg speed and stuff. So
Speaker 1: it's a pretty fine balance. Um, there's not really too
Speaker 1: much science to it. Oh that might be I don't
Speaker 1: really know it, but um, we'll lift, we'll lift legs
Speaker 1: heavy basically once a week or not we'll do some
Speaker 1: accessory lifts as well as your main like squat or
Speaker 1: or box jump or something like that. But for the
Speaker 1: most part, you're trying to to stay in you you're kicking,
Speaker 1: just trying to keep your legs fresh and keep kicking
Speaker 1: well over the strength wise of it. You much of
Speaker 1: Valentine Holmes before. He was on the praise of squad
Speaker 1: for a while. Now he's gone back. He's gonna play
Speaker 1: in the Rugby League again, I believe. Um, what about
Speaker 1: the legend of him? Is that real? Like? How big
Speaker 1: is he in Australia? I mean, he's a superstar. He
Speaker 1: went he went back and he signed a what a
Speaker 1: six year contract within two days? So um, he was
Speaker 1: he was snapped up pretty quickly when he got back. Um.
Speaker 1: I unfortunately I didn't see his career because I had
Speaker 1: got to America when he started. So, I mean's basically
Speaker 1: all of his career. But until he got here, did
Speaker 1: you have friends back home tell you that he was
Speaker 1: coming here? Like how did you hear of it? And
Speaker 1: had you heard of him prior to him walking through
Speaker 1: the doors? I had it so my parents, Um I
Speaker 1: skyped them once a week. Um, and you know they
Speaker 1: told they basically tell me everything that's going on, because
Speaker 1: I try to shout out most of this stuff m
Speaker 1: that doesn't really pertain to me or you know. Um,
Speaker 1: they told me that he was coming over and and
Speaker 1: then I did some radio shows in Australia that they
Speaker 1: you know, they they were going crazy every Yeah. Sorry.
Speaker 1: They did a couple of um, a couple of crews
Speaker 1: follow him throughout the preseason. I feel like, who came
Speaker 1: from Australia and to follow him? And he got that sense.
Speaker 1: Did he reach out to you when he came over
Speaker 1: and said hey luck? He did? Yeah, So I gave
Speaker 1: him a ride to to practice for um a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks until he you know, he figured out he's
Speaker 1: traveling stuff and we were living in the same building.
Speaker 1: So um, great guy. Yeah great. Uh, his wife's cool,
Speaker 1: him and her and all. He got on really well.
Speaker 1: So it was a good little mix. And you know,
Speaker 1: I hope he hoping, you know, all the best for
Speaker 1: the future. Yeah. He always seemed like a very very
Speaker 1: humble guy, like what was the story. He didn't tell
Speaker 1: any of the running backs or anyone on the team
Speaker 1: like who he was, so you could you could have
Speaker 1: spoiled a lot for him. You could have been like, hey,
Speaker 1: I know you guys are cool. You know this is
Speaker 1: and he he just didn't want any of that. So yeah,
Speaker 1: he's a great guy. How many games have your family?
Speaker 1: You're one of three boys, Uh, had an opportunity to
Speaker 1: actually see you play professionally. Professionally, they've my mom and
Speaker 1: dad have seen me play too, and they were seen
Speaker 1: against Jacksonville and Miami home games and we won both
Speaker 1: of them. Sorry because they gotta keep on comment. That's right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Miami game was at like the second week of the
Speaker 1: season or what it was a super hot one. He
Speaker 1: it was Miami. Yeah, we crushed him my home and
Speaker 1: then Jacksonville went to over time and channel at the
Speaker 1: game winner. So what about your brothers? They got to
Speaker 1: come to more games, by the way, if they're two
Speaker 1: at all, Yeah, yeah, definitely. Um, they came to some
Speaker 1: college games, my last my senior day and a game
Speaker 1: after that. And they haven't been able to make out
Speaker 1: since you know, you're just working and stuff and they're
Speaker 1: getting married and my the middle brother and now I
Speaker 1: has a kid and yeah, and then I would was
Speaker 1: probably getting married and much so I can go home
Speaker 1: for that Sorry, a lots going on. It's gonna you're
Speaker 1: gonna have a busy offseason. What um, what do they do?
Speaker 1: Your brothers ells brothers of coppenter Um middle brother is
Speaker 1: a mining engineer. Dad's coppenter and mom works for the
Speaker 1: Cause Guide, which is a part of the big newspaper
Speaker 1: in Australia. So if you ever buy over here, would
Speaker 1: you have your dad and your brother come over and
Speaker 1: work on the floors. That's what the first thing I
Speaker 1: would think about is that I got a carpenter in
Speaker 1: the family. My pops can handle this and my brother
Speaker 1: can handle this. Yeah, likely we got a half already.
Speaker 1: That was um. They built it for us and that
Speaker 1: was all that. Sorry, I didn't have to do to
Speaker 1: my still, but I'm pretty handy, I think myself. Um,
Speaker 1: I can do some of that. I was. I was
Speaker 1: a labor for two years and then went to college
Speaker 1: in Australia and it was a bottend or not. I've
Speaker 1: done a couple of stuff and I know my way around.
Speaker 1: It was a little bit Wow the bartender this first
Speaker 1: st I've heard of that. Uh, how much did you? No? No?
Speaker 1: In Australia, I wasn't able to work at sam us
Speaker 1: and this with a visa and visa rules and how
Speaker 1: much did you enjoy with it? Oh? I didn't Yeah
Speaker 1: you didn't know. I mean bartending you a bad hours.
Speaker 1: And yeah, I'm sure you've you've seen some interesting things. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, just yeah. And what part of Australia did
Speaker 1: you Um, we're so where I was at university? I
Speaker 1: was in Ballarat um so I was bartending at a
Speaker 1: horse race track. Oh yeah, um, and yeah I was
Speaker 1: basically a brick layers labor for two years as well
Speaker 1: before that. And yeah, I mean that was a great
Speaker 1: hours either. But it was good, you know, good money
Speaker 1: and paid the bills. Yeah. Now you're kicking footballs. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's come a long way from bart that's a very
Speaker 1: interesting background brick Huh. Well, I wasn't doing any of
Speaker 1: the science of stuff. I was just carrying stuff around
Speaker 1: and making making cement and stuff. That's pretty sweet. Now.
Speaker 1: How big is your place in Austin? Is that an
Speaker 1: apartment or is it you got a house? We got
Speaker 1: a house? Yeah? Um? Is it right in city limits
Speaker 1: or now it's a little north. It's between Austin and
Speaker 1: ran Rock. Um. Austin's booming, so it's pretty it's pretty
Speaker 1: expensive about there. Now. Sorry, you gotta try and find
Speaker 1: a spot where it's not too crazy. Um has a
Speaker 1: lot going on there. It's kind of like the tech
Speaker 1: capital of Texas. I think. Sorry, Yeah, I went to
Speaker 1: Austin a couple of months ago. I didn't know that
Speaker 1: quickly you quickly realized. I also didn't know there was homeless,
Speaker 1: large homeless um contingency in Austin too. Yeah, I'll start
Speaker 1: to see that a lot around the whole country. It's
Speaker 1: to see the discarpency and no doubt about that. Well
Speaker 1: you got anything else, No, you're gonna end it up
Speaker 1: talking about the homeless. We gotta get we gotta get,
Speaker 1: we gotta we gotta get back, and we gotta help people.
Speaker 1: What give us something that that you missed from Australia
Speaker 1: that you think America should adopt. Oh and don't say
Speaker 1: meat pies? No what? Um? That is a good quite
Speaker 1: and I wish I had the time to think about it.
Speaker 1: Um probably just be a little more easy going, I
Speaker 1: guess relaxed. I think that's uh. I don't know that
Speaker 1: typically you think, but typically, um, you would say that
Speaker 1: that that people appear a little bit more uptight maybe aggressive?
Speaker 1: Is that because do you say easy going? I'm thinking
Speaker 1: about the opposite though, Yeah, yeah, I would say that
Speaker 1: with that saying that, you know, yeah, I'll just I'll
Speaker 1: try to be more relaxed. I think in terms of
Speaker 1: you know, walking down the street, if you know someone's
Speaker 1: in your height, it's like, oh you know, you're sorry mate?
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, oh yeah, no that doesn't happen. Yeah, it happen.
Speaker 1: I think that's more of a Northeast thing though, that
Speaker 1: in America. Do you well, he lives in Texas. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, but don't you think in Texas is at
Speaker 1: least a little easier to you? I guess, um, speed
Speaker 1: limits are a bit higher out there too. You. I
Speaker 1: guess where's a good spot? I mean, this is a
Speaker 1: beautiful country. But if people are going to go travel
Speaker 1: to Australia, um, where do you suggest they stuff? Well,
Speaker 1: I'm from I'm from a little bit south of Melbourne.
Speaker 1: So Melbourne's great for like sporting capital of Australia basically, Um,
Speaker 1: but you got to hit Sydney, of course, got to
Speaker 1: hit Melbourne, and then I would say the whole East
Speaker 1: Coast is great? Is that the Gold Coast? Gold Coast
Speaker 1: is a bit north of Sydney. Um, and then above
Speaker 1: that is like Cape Tribulation and um, the Great Batteref
Speaker 1: and stuff up there, so awesome spots. Um, you can
Speaker 1: see a lot as you know, you've got tropics, you've
Speaker 1: got deserts. You know, you've got mountain ranges if you
Speaker 1: want kangaroos. Um. How often do you flow back to Australia?
Speaker 1: Hopefully once a year, once a year, and then you
Speaker 1: typically stay for a long a couple of weeks, um,
Speaker 1: you know, hopefully three. But she kind of depends on
Speaker 1: training and what else is going on over here? What
Speaker 1: Ireland are getting married on? Um? No, no, wait, is
Speaker 1: that the big one? I think the big one is
Speaker 1: Why isn't it? I don't know, I'm not sure. Al
Speaker 1: kind of had hands off planning for the probably been
Speaker 1: trying to focus on do you know how a job?
Speaker 1: And that's that's a smart Yeah, that's a smart move. Yeah.
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