WEBVTT - A Conversation with Jets LB Quincy Williams (9/13) 0:00:03.200 --> 0:00:06.280 Welcome to Official Jets Podcast. Eric Allen here in studio 0:00:06.400 --> 0:00:09.799 with Jets linebacker Quincy Williams. So we're joined by Bart 0:00:09.840 --> 0:00:13.160 Scott is always Quincy. You guys didn't get the results 0:00:13.360 --> 0:00:16.200 you wanted against the Baltimore Ravens, But what kind of 0:00:16.239 --> 0:00:19.640 positives can you take out of that matchup heading into 0:00:19.640 --> 0:00:22.159 week two? On the positives we can take out of 0:00:22.200 --> 0:00:25.800 it is then what we wanted to showcase. On defense, 0:00:25.920 --> 0:00:28.280 I can talk defense. I'm a defensive player, so I'm 0:00:28.320 --> 0:00:31.400 start with dead. So the biggest thing is run game 0:00:31.440 --> 0:00:35.640 and just the violence of our defense. UM, we rebuild it. UM. 0:00:35.680 --> 0:00:38.440 A lot of the players that we have now UM 0:00:38.440 --> 0:00:41.960 went back to based fundamentals and stuff, and we wanted 0:00:41.960 --> 0:00:43.600 to stop to run this game. And I think they 0:00:43.680 --> 0:00:46.360 end up having was six or three yards running and 0:00:47.159 --> 0:00:49.680 for a team that's top five the last couple of years, 0:00:49.760 --> 0:00:51.839 that's a good thing. And there was an accomplishment that 0:00:51.880 --> 0:00:56.800 we wanted to accomplish. So that's really it. And you 0:00:56.840 --> 0:00:59.200 know the game plan with the containing Lamar Jackson. I 0:00:59.280 --> 0:01:01.640 saw you guys at four guys on the second level 0:01:01.920 --> 0:01:04.679 to make sure that the defense they get flanked. You know, 0:01:04.720 --> 0:01:06.720 you can take your minutes. Probably last year, you guys 0:01:06.760 --> 0:01:09.560 gave up a hunter yard Russia almost in every game. 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:12.000 Now we know kind of fast forward and you know, 0:01:12.040 --> 0:01:14.880 you guys went in, you watched the film and maybe 0:01:14.920 --> 0:01:18.480 some details on technique. How difficult was it to kind 0:01:18.480 --> 0:01:20.959 of have that non verbal communication being that you know 0:01:21.040 --> 0:01:24.520 now in today's game, you know, starters don't really collectively 0:01:24.640 --> 0:01:27.840 play in the preseason. So how much of that is 0:01:27.880 --> 0:01:29.760 just rust and kind of not being in sync with 0:01:29.800 --> 0:01:31.880 the guys next to you, and how much of that 0:01:32.000 --> 0:01:34.600 was what they did? Um? A lot of them is 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:37.479 just us being ourself. Um. The biggest thing I coach 0:01:37.520 --> 0:01:40.080 told us with a lot of games are lost and 0:01:40.160 --> 0:01:43.679 I want so just cutting down on the mentors. We 0:01:43.760 --> 0:01:47.200 had three explosive I think they all let the points. 0:01:47.680 --> 0:01:49.800 We actually had four explosives, but we call one of 0:01:49.840 --> 0:01:53.559 the penalties are explosive. So the biggest thing is cutting 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:57.880 down now are explosive and really just playing a sound 0:01:57.920 --> 0:02:02.800 defense and not beating ourselves. If you guys are consistent 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:06.720 against the run this year, what is the potential for 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:10.080 the defense potentials? Um, there is no seiling to it, 0:02:10.680 --> 0:02:14.080 disguise limits for us. That's the biggest thing. But like 0:02:14.200 --> 0:02:16.440 my mind set was, my mind set has been this 0:02:16.480 --> 0:02:19.920 whole year offseason, all that stopping the run on the 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:23.160 back end and handed the back end. We got um good, 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:26.200 nice piece of new pieces on the in the back end, 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:29.320 so I'm very excited about that. But my focus in 0:02:29.960 --> 0:02:34.720 the front, the linebackers, our focus was to stop the run. Now, 0:02:34.840 --> 0:02:37.040 Robert Salom made some comments saying that, hey, we need 0:02:37.080 --> 0:02:39.400 some young guys to kind of mature and grow up 0:02:39.680 --> 0:02:42.079 and have a sense of urgency. You know, the good 0:02:42.080 --> 0:02:44.120 thing about what you guys did in free agency, but 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:46.120 also what you guys did in the draft. If you 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:48.320 guys have tremendous depth, and I think that was really 0:02:48.360 --> 0:02:50.960 apparent the fact when you look at you know, you 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:53.320 guys able to roll in Sheldon rankings and you can 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:55.880 bring in Franklin Myers, and you can bring getting Clemens 0:02:55.919 --> 0:02:58.640 and Jacob and you know, you guys can continue on 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:00.360 the on the on the on that I know, the 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:03.520 defensive minds kind of just breaking fresh bodies. You on 0:03:03.520 --> 0:03:06.639 the second level, you guys really don't don't interchange that much. 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:08.800 But you know, when you think about you know, you 0:03:08.840 --> 0:03:11.640 guys are young, and how are you guys gonna try 0:03:11.639 --> 0:03:14.080 and kind of bridge the gap to kind of maybe 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:19.000 mature and understand the game and become veterans in short order. Um, 0:03:19.160 --> 0:03:22.200 when you talk about, you know, being able to be 0:03:22.280 --> 0:03:24.960 a unit that's veteran even though you guys are still y'all. 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:28.520 The biggest thing is keeping the game simple. So that's 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:30.640 how we said, So the older guys that we do 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:32.640 having the room, the vending guys that we do having 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:36.240 the room, just telling the younger guys like, hey, um, 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:40.160 the draft happened. You had um preseason, so like now 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:42.600 we're trying to grow up like you're doing. You play 0:03:42.640 --> 0:03:45.800 in the same position that vendors are playing. Like you 0:03:45.880 --> 0:03:47.600 came to take someone's job. You took the job. You 0:03:47.600 --> 0:03:49.520 know what you're gonna do with it. So that's the 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:52.760 biggest thing. So, um, just finding those older guys to 0:03:53.160 --> 0:03:55.240 learn how I think we had a conversation today with 0:03:55.280 --> 0:03:58.560 a couple of guys just what's our routine on going forward, 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:01.880 So like, just find them a routine, find you a 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:06.000 massage routine, find you some treatment routine. Then also get 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:08.640 your mental ready for the next week. I don't we 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:11.800 went through the corrections today. A lot of guys like, yeah, 0:04:11.800 --> 0:04:13.400 I gotta do this. I gotta do this is better. 0:04:13.720 --> 0:04:15.320 And I was like, yeah, so take that and move 0:04:15.360 --> 0:04:17.800 forward with it and not just look past him like 0:04:17.839 --> 0:04:19.719 well I did this last game. Well I did this 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:21.799 last game. Actually, we had one of our younger guys 0:04:21.839 --> 0:04:27.040 got his first set, um Jermaine Johnson Germain. Yeah, so 0:04:27.560 --> 0:04:29.280 actually told him. I was just like, yeah, you got 0:04:29.279 --> 0:04:31.440 your sack this game. What you did last game really 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:33.400 doesn't matter. It is Monday. We're gonna talk about it now. 0:04:33.560 --> 0:04:36.839 Come Tuesday, get your all day, come Wednesday's about the Browns. 0:04:37.200 --> 0:04:40.039 A lot of times in the National Football League, teams 0:04:40.080 --> 0:04:42.600 are gonna try to spread you guys out, so you're 0:04:42.640 --> 0:04:46.159 forced to play sub packages. With that being set, how 0:04:46.279 --> 0:04:51.159 much do you enjoy playing in that base looks because 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:55.920 it's you, it's c J, and it's k Alexander's that's 0:04:55.920 --> 0:04:59.760 our Viellain type look all that. So that's what we 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:01.840 want kind of want to stay in just having it. 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:04.320 We can play that. We can play any type of 0:05:04.360 --> 0:05:07.440 offense with that right there. Just those guys were running 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:09.880 sideline the sideline, like we got our captain in our 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:12.080 general in the in the middle, and we got our 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:14.680 runners on the outside. So that's the biggest thing running 0:05:14.720 --> 0:05:18.120 sidel one the sideline, and our biggest thing is having 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:20.640 all three linebackers at the ball, no matter where it is. 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:23.040 So when they stopped the camera, like all right, three 0:05:23.080 --> 0:05:26.400 linebackers at the party. So really it's like, are we 0:05:26.440 --> 0:05:29.000 handled this up here? Our dbs haunded this and we're 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:31.520 trusting that our d line gonna handle what they gotta handle. 0:05:32.560 --> 0:05:34.279 I don't know if you guys were in cover three, 0:05:34.320 --> 0:05:36.799 but it looked like white Head had a quick trigger. 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:40.760 He was coming downhill. Yo. Just talk about his his 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:45.080 championship pedigree and also like his his impact on the 0:05:45.160 --> 0:05:47.480 run game yesterday because it was a parent that you know, 0:05:47.880 --> 0:05:50.680 he he is like a runner as well, and he 0:05:50.760 --> 0:05:53.760 has to the temperament in the physicality that you guys 0:05:54.080 --> 0:05:56.440 preach on the second level. Oh, it's really like having 0:05:56.440 --> 0:06:00.400 the fourth linebacker and really so sideline and our line 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:03.560 type mentality. And he's a thumper also, so it's like 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:05.680 having that fourth linebacker. So now it's kind of like 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:08.480 being a little stingy with the taller We gotta hurt 0:06:08.480 --> 0:06:09.919 you up and get there and get them down for 0:06:10.000 --> 0:06:13.080 it be a point five. So uh, we joke about 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:16.360 it a lot, though, But like I said, biggies thing 0:06:16.480 --> 0:06:19.159 coming in the camp, coming into every like no one 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:21.359 would run the bottles. We're gonna make a team one dimensional, 0:06:21.680 --> 0:06:23.520 and the way we do that is stopping to run. 0:06:24.000 --> 0:06:27.960 So they put the pieces together. We put the players together. 0:06:28.360 --> 0:06:32.080 Whether it's Nickel, whether it's Bays, whether it's Dime. You 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:35.720 ain't running the ball on us. Let's talk about you 0:06:35.760 --> 0:06:39.640 guys there at the linebacker position. What are your superpowers? 0:06:40.520 --> 0:06:43.000 Let's start with mostly, then go kwine and then talk 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:47.200 about you. Sorry, here we go. So what we what 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:52.359 we're gonna think about this? All right? C J's our leader. 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:54.600 It's like a lion. He's the lion. We're gonna say 0:06:54.600 --> 0:07:01.680 the lion. So he's the we like villains. We want 0:07:01.680 --> 0:07:05.919 to be a bad guy. So like me, me, I 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:07.920 already took the point of the joke because me, I'm 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:11.840 always laughing, always smiling, I'm always joking around. I'm also 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:15.600 the youngest, I mean experienced. Why his youngest, So I'm 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:18.160 taking the joker road. And then we got c J. 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:21.440 C J is more like the leader of the villains. 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:26.320 So we're gonna say he like, we're gonna say he 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:35.440 liked either doom, we're gonna say doom or we're gonna say, um, yeah, 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:40.080 let's go with that. And then we got Quanquan. Really 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:42.680 can take a few a few few of the villains, 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:49.120 but I'm gonna probably go with Venom. So what do 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:52.120 you think about Kuine wearing a single digit? Like Bart 0:07:52.200 --> 0:07:55.440 was just talking about Jordan's So sometimes I see these 0:07:55.440 --> 0:07:58.480 guys flying around and I'm like, hey, was that Jordan? 0:07:58.600 --> 0:08:03.200 Was that Quan? So I liked the single day he 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:06.600 wore five when he was in the Saints, So really 0:08:09.000 --> 0:08:11.160 it was kind of well, I didn't really recognize. Actually, 0:08:11.200 --> 0:08:13.920 one of the fans recognized and it was like, um, 0:08:14.000 --> 0:08:16.480 it's like fifty six fifty seven, and it was like, 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:20.480 why didn't eight? But then it's a crazier story because 0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:23.920 c J had red tips in his hair and I 0:08:23.960 --> 0:08:27.280 was talking about dying my Harry and then Corn came 0:08:27.400 --> 0:08:30.680 and harry hair died, and I was like, all right, now, 0:08:30.720 --> 0:08:36.320 we can't do this now, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:38.280 So I was like, all right, we all can't have 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:41.920 our hair diar red now. So, I mean, but it's 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:45.800 just like those type things that connection, um everyone like 0:08:45.880 --> 0:08:47.839 we had this thing and I grew when everyone tells 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:51.040 their why, So he knows why I'm playing football. I 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:53.959 know why he's playing football. So if I see him 0:08:54.000 --> 0:08:56.080 like getting down or like having a bad day, you know, 0:08:56.120 --> 0:08:58.120 I just remind him of his why. I really like 0:08:58.480 --> 0:09:01.400 and usual that they were like make that person to 0:09:01.720 --> 0:09:04.200 decide whether they want to be like all right, I'm 0:09:04.200 --> 0:09:06.080 doing this because I want to do this, or like 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:08.920 I ain't really try and do this, but it tells 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:10.720 a lot about the person though, Like if you're not 0:09:10.720 --> 0:09:12.400 gonna do it for your wife, there's nothing I can 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:15.280 tell you to do. So the natural follow up here 0:09:15.320 --> 0:09:18.600 of barter is what is your wife? All right? So 0:09:18.760 --> 0:09:22.640 my wife, my wife's most family orientated, y'all. Not the 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:27.280 three else faith, family, and football. But my biggest thing 0:09:27.360 --> 0:09:30.040 is to be uh actually, which is great because my 0:09:30.080 --> 0:09:32.120 brother actually plays on the team with My younger brother 0:09:32.160 --> 0:09:34.319 actually played on the team with me, and I'm the oldest. 0:09:34.920 --> 0:09:38.520 So my wife is so my brothers so I can 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:40.560 take the light and my brothers and them can have 0:09:40.600 --> 0:09:42.320 a path to walk, and I like that path, and 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:45.920 they learn from my mistakes or also capitalize on my 0:09:46.120 --> 0:09:48.600 blessings or what I'm doing. And I felt like my 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:51.600 brother walked to my footsteps and were like very positive 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:54.560 about it. Um, we had this conversation all the time. 0:09:55.000 --> 0:09:57.760 So that's really my wife. And then my wife actually 0:09:57.600 --> 0:10:01.000 on the team with me. So my brother he's on 0:10:01.160 --> 0:10:06.000 me the same reason I'm on here. We celebrate together. Um, 0:10:06.080 --> 0:10:08.559 that's really the tackles together and stuff. We've got a 0:10:08.559 --> 0:10:11.240 little celebrations together. So really my wife is actually on 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:14.240 the field with me and my otherwise my mom. My 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:16.880 mom passed a breast and so I know every single 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:19.800 thing I'm doing, every moment I'm making every tackle. That man, 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:21.520 I know she's up there watching me and she got 0:10:21.520 --> 0:10:23.680 the best view of the game, so she sees everything. 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:27.320 Now when you when you, I just want to pass 0:10:27.360 --> 0:10:29.160 forward a little bit, right because you talked about the 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:32.280 success that you guys had as far as stopping the run. 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:35.680 But the next week's opponent, you know, it's to Cleveland Brown. 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:38.760 Everybody knows Nick Chub. They understand that, Jacobe bro said 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:42.120 is a placeholder you know for Deshaun watch when he 0:10:42.160 --> 0:10:44.839 gets back. So they're gonna try and establish the run. 0:10:44.880 --> 0:10:47.320 It's going to be about the physicality. How much pride 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:49.040 do you take that if you guys are gonna have 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:51.920 success on defense. It rests on the success of the 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:54.920 front seven. Oh, we take a lot of prode in it. 0:10:55.120 --> 0:10:57.920 Like that's how number one mine says, like make the 0:10:58.000 --> 0:11:00.480 team one to mention, like, no matter what aim it is, 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:03.600 no matter what we're going in there, whether we're going 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:06.080 in base or Nickele, Like I said, the number one 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:09.320 thing is stopping the run. So that's how mindset going 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:12.040 in And I don't think it's gonna have a change 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:16.319 for real. So like the team why he is to 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:21.280 stop his run? And that definitely gets your attention when 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:23.640 you're talking about a bronze team that rolled up more 0:11:23.640 --> 0:11:26.560 than two yards on the ground against the Panthers, and 0:11:26.640 --> 0:11:31.160 partes talked about Nick Chubb kaream hunting company. You know 0:11:31.240 --> 0:11:33.600 what they're gonna do. That's one of those. That's one 0:11:33.600 --> 0:11:38.840 of those get your chin strap, yeah, chance strap, maybe 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:41.920 two mouth pieces, you know, yeah, the top hand bottom, Yeah, 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:43.880 no doubt about it. You just talked about your mother. 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:47.199 You just talked about your mom before. Well, one of 0:11:47.280 --> 0:11:51.040 your thoughts on DJ Reid was his first game as 0:11:51.080 --> 0:11:54.160 a Jet. He comes up with an interception and a 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:57.680 forced fumble and we find out after the game that 0:11:57.880 --> 0:12:00.840 his dad just tragically passed. Yeah, so we actually find 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:03.040 about it after the game too, man, so it just 0:12:03.080 --> 0:12:06.559 makes it even more special. Like I said, like you 0:12:06.600 --> 0:12:08.800 don't really know what a person is going through really, 0:12:08.960 --> 0:12:12.680 so um, you just have your brother's back. Really, so 0:12:13.720 --> 0:12:16.640 we didn't know that, but we knew that found out 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:18.720 after the game. But like during the game, you have 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:21.600 your brother's back. No matter we celebrate together, you never 0:12:21.600 --> 0:12:23.520 know what that person is going through. Like we didn't 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:25.760 even know anything was going on or anything, like well 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:28.520 I didn't know myself and be honest, so just really 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:33.320 like playing next to your brother, like like they their family, 0:12:33.440 --> 0:12:37.520 you feel so um tragedy and all that kind of 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:39.680 stuff and just being really for your brother and like 0:12:39.720 --> 0:12:41.760 that just shows like all of us our family on 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:45.960 this team. So that's yeah, that was kind of crazy. 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:48.400 I mean, I mean you talk about you know, people 0:12:48.480 --> 0:12:50.960 think that you know that athletes a lot of times 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:54.360 are immune to the two things that happened in the world, right, 0:12:54.400 --> 0:12:57.920 you know, because you know, traditionally somebody lose their their father, 0:12:58.040 --> 0:13:00.280 lose a loved one. You know, they take time off 0:13:00.280 --> 0:13:02.640 for work, you don't see them. But in football, you know, 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:04.880 we're expected to show up and play at any time. 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:06.760 So you know, what's some of the things that you 0:13:06.800 --> 0:13:09.160 guys are gonna try and do, or what's the conversation 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:11.760 that you guys are having amongst yourself to rally behind 0:13:11.840 --> 0:13:14.360 him because it may be tough days ahead where he's 0:13:14.400 --> 0:13:16.760 you know, thinking about it, you know the arrangements and 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:19.559 all those things, but he's gonna have to lean lean 0:13:19.600 --> 0:13:22.040 on his brothers like you kind of speak to kind 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:24.000 of how you guys are gonna corral them or you 0:13:24.040 --> 0:13:26.120 know what's going on and how you guys support each 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:27.760 other because it won't be the first of the last 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:30.040 time if you play long enough that you're gonna have 0:13:30.120 --> 0:13:32.679 to deal with a tragedy on on the team with 0:13:32.679 --> 0:13:36.520 with someone in their loved ones. Um the realist thing 0:13:36.640 --> 0:13:39.959 I can tell y'all, and a lot of fans problem. 0:13:39.960 --> 0:13:42.280 I don't know this, but football is a lot of 0:13:42.280 --> 0:13:44.839 people to escape for real, for real. So like my 0:13:44.880 --> 0:13:47.320 mom pass, it was my escape because I knew for 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:50.120 a fact you wanted me playing football. And my brother also, 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:53.360 so he told a certain when he came in today. 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:56.000 He was like, like, no, I wouldn't want to be 0:13:56.000 --> 0:13:58.840 no where else. But with y'all. Like so with him 0:13:58.880 --> 0:14:01.960 saying that, saying like he wouldn't not saying he wouldn't 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:03.880 be with his family, but he's choosing to be with us. 0:14:04.320 --> 0:14:06.280 We tell that's like every time I step out on 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:09.280 the field, like now when we in these meetings, like, man, 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:12.080 this man right here, he could be with his family 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:14.200 moren over there, dad, But yeah, he with us trying 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:17.240 to correct these things and folks, let us focus on 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:21.160 being a better, better team. So it's like, whatever I 0:14:21.200 --> 0:14:23.320 got going on at the house, I'm gonna put that 0:14:23.360 --> 0:14:25.320 to this. I'm make sure I'm here. If he can 0:14:25.360 --> 0:14:27.520 do that, I can do that too. So that's the 0:14:27.520 --> 0:14:30.000 biggest thing. And then it's more like, you know, just 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:31.840 let him know that you got him off the field, 0:14:32.280 --> 0:14:35.000 off the field and on the field. So a lot 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:37.720 of people, a lot of people, especially men with mental 0:14:37.760 --> 0:14:39.960 health and stuff like that. That's a very very huge 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:43.680 thing and people don't really talk about. So that's one 0:14:43.680 --> 0:14:45.680 thing that people try to do, Like especially me and 0:14:45.720 --> 0:14:48.560 my brother, we always smiled around the locker room, laughing joke, 0:14:48.600 --> 0:14:51.520 because you never know what someone else can what someone 0:14:51.560 --> 0:14:53.600 that's going through, and that person like seeing your smile 0:14:53.680 --> 0:14:57.320 and stuff. Like that brighten a day or just laughing 0:14:57.320 --> 0:14:59.160 and joking and stuff like that, you know, just randomly 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:01.400 action a person like you know, how things going on 0:15:01.480 --> 0:15:04.000 off the field, Like a lot of people don't really 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:06.280 ask that though that you at work. They were about 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:08.800 what's at work, what's going on the field, what players 0:15:08.840 --> 0:15:10.280 you got? You know you just pausing and be like 0:15:10.960 --> 0:15:13.400 grevery thing good off the field because off the field 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:18.560 can really affect on the field. So but uh, we 0:15:18.600 --> 0:15:21.160 had this quote. We had this quote this year and 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:25.960 it was like life is what happens. I mean, life 0:15:26.000 --> 0:15:29.960 is tempercent what happens to you. How you respond. So 0:15:30.240 --> 0:15:32.960 really just taking that taking their mindset every day really 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:38.000 speaking about responding. You know, Breece Hall, you know, was 0:15:38.040 --> 0:15:40.560 expected to have a breakout season. We I know I 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:43.040 have him as a you know, maybe a rookie of 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:45.200 the year, offensive rookie of the year. You know, he 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:48.080 had a pipole, you know, fumble. You know, you've been 0:15:48.120 --> 0:15:51.320 a Vegean. We've all made mistakes, We've all had pivotle 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:54.160 plays that we wish we could have back. How do 0:15:54.200 --> 0:15:56.640 you go on that side of the ball as a linebacker, 0:15:56.840 --> 0:15:59.240 just as a brother to kind of talk to him, 0:15:59.400 --> 0:16:02.440 you know, you know this week, and how important is 0:16:02.520 --> 0:16:05.040 make sure that his morale and his confidence is still 0:16:05.080 --> 0:16:08.120 sky high. The same way, the same thing we tell 0:16:08.160 --> 0:16:11.920 everyone is like what you did last game, learn from that, Like, 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:14.600 don't use it as a pillar to step, a pedarsal 0:16:14.720 --> 0:16:16.120 to stand up on the side that I told you 0:16:16.160 --> 0:16:18.240 may be like, hey you made a second lad, you 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:20.240 made it say last week, see if you can get 0:16:20.240 --> 0:16:22.920 another one this week. All right, you made some mistake 0:16:23.080 --> 0:16:26.840 last week, now going to bride breeze more like you 0:16:26.880 --> 0:16:29.400 made me stay last week. Let's not make those same mistakes. 0:16:29.680 --> 0:16:32.080 Let's learn from those mistakes. What did we have how 0:16:32.160 --> 0:16:35.000 we get to this point of view? Really just in 0:16:35.040 --> 0:16:37.480 the game, you gotta have short term memory, short term 0:16:37.480 --> 0:16:39.800 memory laws to the last play. But like during the week, 0:16:39.920 --> 0:16:42.920 you can every day you got a chance, So like, 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:45.960 all right, that part was on him familing, But yeah, 0:16:45.960 --> 0:16:47.760 it's on all of us really because like now we're 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:51.160 telling the practice squad, we're telling the defense. Like I 0:16:51.360 --> 0:16:53.200 started punching at the ball more so he can get 0:16:53.280 --> 0:16:55.400 used to it, because now I feel like I didn't 0:16:55.400 --> 0:16:58.080 have him prepare for it, because when it happened, it 0:16:58.120 --> 0:17:01.200 was more like an old timon. So if I was 0:17:01.240 --> 0:17:03.040 punching more of the ball that practice, like he would 0:17:03.040 --> 0:17:06.399 be more prepared for. So really like not even like 0:17:06.480 --> 0:17:09.000 point fingers are like talking to him, but like talking 0:17:09.000 --> 0:17:11.760 to the whole team. Like him fumbling, that's on all 0:17:11.760 --> 0:17:13.560 of us because we weren't punching at the ball. We 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:16.600 don't prepare you for that. So really just taking it 0:17:16.680 --> 0:17:19.200 like that now, speaking to that a little bit more 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:22.720 because running back to linebackers have a unique relationship because 0:17:22.760 --> 0:17:26.560 we're mirrored body types for mirrored positions and you're One 0:17:26.600 --> 0:17:29.560 of the things that you know he has to learn 0:17:29.680 --> 0:17:32.240 is that when you're fighting for extra yards, you have 0:17:32.359 --> 0:17:35.200 to pin the ball to your chest because if you're spinning, 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:38.159 the ball in your arm naturally comes away from your body. 0:17:38.720 --> 0:17:41.199 So with that being said, you understand that, you know 0:17:41.400 --> 0:17:43.959 that was a tremendous play by Chuck Clark pushing at 0:17:44.000 --> 0:17:45.800 the ball. He did in the right spot, something that 0:17:45.840 --> 0:17:48.159 they practice a lot. But what's some things that you 0:17:48.240 --> 0:17:50.720 can anticipate maybe to help him and help you know, 0:17:50.760 --> 0:17:53.239 both running backs as far as how to it. It's 0:17:53.280 --> 0:17:54.879 like it's weird, right, you don't want to teach them 0:17:54.880 --> 0:17:58.640 how to beat you. Your teammate because you don't want 0:17:58.680 --> 0:18:00.080 him to beat you in practice because you know what 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:02.760 you're trying to do. But you also have an obligation 0:18:02.840 --> 0:18:06.040 responsibility as a teammate to make him better because it 0:18:06.200 --> 0:18:09.720 possibly affects your jobs in the winning, which everybody gets 0:18:09.840 --> 0:18:14.400 more who teacher you know? Yeah, my mind saying is, 0:18:15.320 --> 0:18:17.159 I feel like I'm one of the fast linebackers in 0:18:17.200 --> 0:18:19.760 his league, so i'mn be honest with you. So the 0:18:19.760 --> 0:18:21.920 way I played, the way I practice, the way I play, 0:18:22.200 --> 0:18:25.000 So me, now I need to start punching about me. 0:18:25.000 --> 0:18:26.760 I'm more like a big hit type person, so I'm 0:18:26.760 --> 0:18:28.880 more like jarring the ball from my head. But now 0:18:28.920 --> 0:18:30.760 I'll see, like, all right, I can help my team 0:18:30.800 --> 0:18:32.720 by punching at the ball. Then on top of that, 0:18:32.720 --> 0:18:34.400 I can help the offense by punching at the ball 0:18:34.440 --> 0:18:37.200 now at practice. So now it helps me too though, 0:18:37.240 --> 0:18:40.920 because now I'm practicing, I'm practicing helping him hold the ball. 0:18:40.960 --> 0:18:43.359 But then I'm also helping myself find the ball and 0:18:43.400 --> 0:18:45.560 punch it out too, So it's like it mirrors, so 0:18:45.680 --> 0:18:48.359 like just like we're mirroring each other far as like 0:18:48.480 --> 0:18:51.320 position wise, it's mirroring as far as like skills wise too, 0:18:51.640 --> 0:18:53.480 So I'm punching at the ball to get my little 0:18:53.480 --> 0:18:57.200 mental edge on his focus on getting the ball turnovers. 0:18:57.840 --> 0:19:01.240 So then turn around his up at him like, all right, 0:19:01.480 --> 0:19:03.760 he's punching at the ball. I need to secure the ball. 0:19:04.320 --> 0:19:08.679 So it's like a competition. How do you weigh the 0:19:08.840 --> 0:19:12.320 big hit? Like you talked about the speed, you're going 0:19:12.560 --> 0:19:16.480 sidelines and sideline your hits. When you get your hands 0:19:16.480 --> 0:19:20.360 on somebody body body in contact, they're violent. With that 0:19:20.400 --> 0:19:24.000 being said, how do you weigh that versus Hey, maybe 0:19:24.000 --> 0:19:28.280 I got an opportunity at a takeaway here. Maybe I 0:19:28.320 --> 0:19:30.800 just don't want to worry about the hit. I want 0:19:30.800 --> 0:19:33.240 to get the ball too. So the biggest thing started 0:19:33.240 --> 0:19:35.920 that press because you can't hit your own teammates. So 0:19:36.080 --> 0:19:38.320 with me coming in with the same speed, knowing I 0:19:38.320 --> 0:19:40.400 can't hear my team and are let me find the ball? 0:19:40.440 --> 0:19:43.000 Where's the air behind the ball? Now punching at the ball. 0:19:43.520 --> 0:19:46.400 So in the game, I'm doing the same thing, coming 0:19:46.400 --> 0:19:48.919 at the same not breaking stride anything, coming with the 0:19:48.960 --> 0:19:53.119 same speed, and be honest, most players thinking number one, oh, 0:19:53.200 --> 0:19:55.880