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Speaker 1: How's your camp.

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Speaker 2: Going so far?

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Speaker 3: Uh?

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Speaker 4: Good, Just really been trying to learn and watch Fred

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Speaker 4: and Dre and the different guys every day and trying

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Speaker 4: to pick up on little things to expand my game.

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Speaker 1: You were really flying around with some confidence on uh Sunday.

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Speaker 1: Do you feel that you've kind of hit that point

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Speaker 1: that rookies they they talk about it. They learned the

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Speaker 1: playbook and then they can play past and you think

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Speaker 1: that that you've hit.

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Speaker 4: That Not necessarily always, just just trying to keep learning

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Speaker 4: every day, Uh, with the new installs and different things

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Speaker 4: and learning the plays, but also just going out and playing.

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Speaker 4: Knowing 'em to play at a hundred ten percent anyways.

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Speaker 4: Just it'll take care of some of the little mistakes

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Speaker 4: and things like that.

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Speaker 5: Giannah Purdue, you played kind of a the star role,

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Speaker 5: the hybrid role, and now you're you can play all

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Speaker 5: three lineback responts. Where where's uh, where where do you

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Speaker 5: feel most comfortable on how you making that transition? Uh?

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Speaker 4: It's not really any one spot where I feel the

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Speaker 4: most comfortable, just because I have been moving around. But

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Speaker 4: I've been playing a lot of mic recently, so that's

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Speaker 4: been I'm begetting to hang of it. And uh just

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Speaker 4: uh I got Fred to watch, so that's a great

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Speaker 4: guy to try and pick up on things and see

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Speaker 4: how he does different calls and things like that and

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Speaker 4: just tryn uh work on my game from there.

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Speaker 1: Is there anything kind of funny to adjust to hearing

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Speaker 1: a uh helmet?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it just just it's just funny, like like you say,

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Speaker 4: it's a radio in your helmet and he got to

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Speaker 4: speaker talking to you, so it's just a little different.

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Speaker 1: Or try to catch yourself talking back, but you can uh.

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Speaker 4: A little bit like early on probably a couple of

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Speaker 4: weeks ago. Yeah, let's guess to do that to you.

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Speaker 3: As far as looking at uh Fred Warner in that

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Speaker 3: room and kind of maybe opening your eyes to see

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Speaker 3: why he's as good as he is.

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Speaker 4: Uh well, just really uh the whole room coming into it,

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Speaker 4: just seeing the work ethic and how they come in

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Speaker 4: every day and treat every day like it's pretty much

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Speaker 4: the last day. So they come in trying to get

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Speaker 4: better or something. Every day is no like you never

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Speaker 4: wanna kind of stay here, always wanna keep getting better

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Speaker 4: each day and stack the day. So really just coming

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Speaker 4: in every day with this ain't mindset to go get better.

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Speaker 2: A lot of times when you can come in, uh

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Speaker 2: in a situation like this where there are established starters,

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Speaker 2: you're gonna be asked to potentially be a special teams player.

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Speaker 2: Maybe have done that for a long time to call

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Speaker 2: what's that like? Trying to make that transition doing that?

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Speaker 4: Uh, it's definitely cool. Just trying to get get out

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Speaker 4: on the field as any way that I can. And

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Speaker 4: then in college I always I played every special teams

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Speaker 4: throughout my career and then uh most recently just being

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Speaker 4: on kickoff and things like that. So it was, Uh,

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Speaker 4: it's kind of good just seeing like the transition from

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Speaker 4: college NFL how the special teams is and just trying

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Speaker 4: to get on the fiel anyway I can.

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Speaker 2: What is that transition?

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Speaker 4: What's what's different on this Uh, just the minor details,

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Speaker 4: like the little things, and really I think for me,

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Speaker 4: the biggest thing is how we game play the other

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Speaker 4: team and how we know different uh things that they

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Speaker 4: like to do.

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Speaker 2: So pretty well known linebacker from doing this building he

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Speaker 2: talk to you at all?

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I I try, and when when I see

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Speaker 4: him acrossing paths and things like that, just always uh

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Speaker 4: tell me to keep my head down, keep working. And

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Speaker 4: uh keep doing the right thing before you came. Uh yeah,

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Speaker 4: a little bit before I came. I did yep.

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Speaker 3: Uh there was a place Sunday where you're flagged for

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Speaker 3: uh unnecessary roughness. Tell me about that play.

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Speaker 2: It's just kind of what you saw.

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Speaker 3: And what was the feedback you got from the coaching

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Speaker 3: after that? Uh?

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Speaker 4: So feedback I got was just, you know, just touch

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Speaker 4: 'em cause uh I had just seen him. Yeah, he

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Speaker 4: rolled a couple of times and nobody was around him,

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Speaker 4: and really just I gotta be able to come under control.

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Speaker 4: And I wasn't even trying to hit him hard or anything.

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Speaker 4: So just come under control, just touch him and tap

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Speaker 4: him down.

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Speaker 3: You playing. Uh you know, when I saw that, I thought, well,

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Speaker 3: it's probably better at this stage to have somebody who

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Speaker 3: wants to put his you know, nose in the action

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Speaker 3: and mixed it up rather than trying to dial it up. Uh.

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Speaker 3: How do you approach that as a line backer as

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Speaker 3: far as you're playing fast and and furious or you

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Speaker 3: but also knowing when to draw that line.

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Speaker 4: I think there's just the balance that uh he kind

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Speaker 4: of had to find, like you said, playing linebacker and

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Speaker 4: do that by watching some of the old, the gods

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Speaker 4: flying Fred, Uh, Curtis, everybody just trying to watch them.

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Speaker 5: Uh.

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Speaker 4: Like you said, you still want to be as physical

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Speaker 4: and playing as fast as you can, but it's obviously

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Speaker 4: a balance in between that where you have to still

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Speaker 4: be patient and do the right thing, so.

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Speaker 5: You play with a lot of aggression. Steve Wilks told

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Speaker 5: us yesterday that, uh, he thinks you really liked what

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Speaker 5: you did between the tackles, but he thinks that you

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Speaker 5: need to maybe put on some weight. What are you

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Speaker 5: what are you playing at right now? And do you

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Speaker 5: agree with that? Do you do you need to put

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Speaker 5: on some weight to get through the season.

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Speaker 3: Uh?

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Speaker 4: This when I just waited and I was two twenty

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Speaker 4: five at the presires. So whatever the coaches need me

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Speaker 4: to do it they feel like I need to put

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Speaker 4: it on a little bit more weight to be able

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Speaker 4: to sustain and be there throughout the season and everything,

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Speaker 4: then that's what I need to do, and just really

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Speaker 4: just finding that balance on a good weight, uh, where

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Speaker 4: I could still fly around and play fast and then

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Speaker 4: be physical as well.

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Speaker 3: Before you were selected, they took d and the I

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Speaker 3: think it is around earlier obviously, Well, I would think

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Speaker 3: you knew that you're on the forty yards radar at

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Speaker 3: that point. Do you remember when D got drafted and

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Speaker 3: what were you thinking at that point?

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Speaker 2: Uh?

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Speaker 4: I don't remember specifically when D got drafted, just cause

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Speaker 4: I was in a little different room in my house

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Speaker 4: with uh other than the TV playing. But I was

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Speaker 4: just just when I got the call from the fortnight,

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Speaker 4: I was just excited ready to come work.

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Speaker 3: I guess the talk was in the in the room.

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Speaker 3: You know, they had you guys rated pretty equally, and uh,

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Speaker 3: they took they got lucky. I guess I got him

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Speaker 3: in one round and you and the next. Did you

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Speaker 3: know him before? And what kind of relationship have you

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Speaker 3: guys formed and is it easier to be breaking in

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Speaker 3: with somebody in your same position like that?

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Speaker 5: Uh?

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Speaker 4: No, I didn't know him initially before, but since uh

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Speaker 4: we've both been here. First there was a zoom meetings

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Speaker 4: right after we had got drafted, So that was great

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Speaker 4: just being able to get to know him, and then

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Speaker 4: when we got down here. Just like you said, it

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Speaker 4: does make it a little easier coming down with a

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Speaker 4: rookie and uh being able to uh everything like that's

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Speaker 4: new to me is also new to him and then

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Speaker 4: we can talk to each other about different things abouts,

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Speaker 4: ideas of each other's head, learning the play the book

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Speaker 4: together and things like that. So that's been good.

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Speaker 5: Obviously, you don't want any of your teammates hurt.

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Speaker 2: But Orn's out right now.

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Speaker 1: Obviously he was going with that third linebacker spot.

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Speaker 2: You're a rookie, but do you see that as maybe

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Speaker 2: a goal for you later this year to kind of

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Speaker 2: carve a roll or that third spot.

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Speaker 4: I can't really predict the future or anything. Just whatever

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Speaker 4: the coaches got for us, and then just go out

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Speaker 4: every day and try and get better. Right, thanks to Hank.

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Speaker 4: Thank you,