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Speaker 2: Welcome to another edition of the Giants Little Podcast, brought

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Speaker 2: to you by Citizens, the official bank of the New

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Speaker 2: York Football Giants. Coming to you from Frisco, Texas, the

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Speaker 2: site of the Shrine Bowl, the East West Game, and

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Speaker 2: the Giants have a lot of presents down here. Mike

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Speaker 2: Kafka is the head coach of the West team. Michael

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Speaker 2: Goobriel the new special teams coach. He's with the East

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Speaker 2: Angela Bakers down here, she's coaching tight end. So the

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Speaker 2: Giants with a big time presence down here, getting an

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Speaker 2: up close and personal look at these draft prospects that

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Speaker 2: could be new members of the Giants come the end

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Speaker 2: of April when we have the twenty twenty four NFL Draft.

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Speaker 2: So what I've done here, they have multiple media sessions

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Speaker 2: players down here talk to them one on one. So

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Speaker 2: I've done kind of quick, rapid fire interviews anywhere between

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Speaker 2: would find interesting that I think are interesting prospects, and

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Speaker 2: I put them all together. So we're going rapid fire here, guys,

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Speaker 2: interview to interview to interview as we talk to these

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Speaker 2: players at the East West Shrine Game to try to

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Speaker 2: type of players they are and also what type of

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Speaker 2: people they are as you begin your draft evaluations heading

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Speaker 3: Here we go, and.

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Speaker 2: Now we're joined by USC wide receiver TODs Washington. TODs,

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Speaker 2: Nice to meet you, man, How are you.

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Speaker 4: Nice to meet you?

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Speaker 5: I'm doing well.

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Speaker 4: I'm excited to be here.

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Speaker 2: Now this is Day one. You haven't done a whole

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Speaker 2: lot yet, But what has this process been like for

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Speaker 4: It's been pretty cool, especially like the caaraderie.

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Speaker 6: Get to meet guys you know that you've seen on

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Speaker 6: as people. Besides that, you know, just get in front

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Speaker 6: of these scouts and you know, just taking it all

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Speaker 6: in techniques experience and it's been a you know, a

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Speaker 2: What are your big goals this week for what you

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Speaker 3: In meetings and when you get out out there on

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Speaker 6: Just trying to learn this displaybook is as quickly as possible,

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Speaker 4: You know, get comfortable comfortable in it.

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Speaker 6: I feel like the quicker I can get comfortable in it,

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Speaker 4: You know on next Thursday, for sure.

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Speaker 2: What has it been like working with these NFL coordinators

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Speaker 3: Had at USA.

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Speaker 4: It's it's very fast paced.

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Speaker 6: You know a lot of different terminology, so just trying

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Speaker 4: So that's been a big part of it.

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Speaker 2: Now you are mostly a slot guy at USC, right,

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Speaker 2: But and people think slot, they think short area quickness.

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Speaker 3: Whip routes and stuff. But you were kind of a

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Speaker 7: Right.

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Speaker 2: They use a lock down the field, slot fades going

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Speaker 3: So how would you classify yourself.

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Speaker 2: In terms of like an archetype or prototype wide receiver

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Speaker 4: I could play out in the outside.

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Speaker 6: You know before you know, these past two seasons, I

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Speaker 2: Obviously, you play with a very unique talent at quarterback

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Speaker 3: How much was that plan, Like do you.

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Speaker 2: Guys have like in this play, if we gotta scramble,

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Speaker 4: We have a lot of general rules.

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Speaker 6: We run scrambled drill like every Tuesday practice, you know,

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Speaker 4: So just kind of implemented that into the system.

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Speaker 6: It made it you know, simpler to you know, no

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Speaker 4: You need to go. Most definitely, what plays you know

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Speaker 2: If teams ask you about you and Kleb and how

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Speaker 2: and how your skill sets woul transfer, what would you

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Speaker 6: Just just finding grass, a lot of a lot of

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Speaker 6: you know, what we've been learning so far.

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Speaker 4: I've got the opportunity to see that.

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Speaker 6: You know, it's similar in ways like that, where you

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Speaker 6: find grass and you know, make decisions off the defender,

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Speaker 2: Finally, when you leave here, you finish your week and

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Speaker 2: What's your main focus in terms of your off season

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Speaker 3: It's more like football Olympics.

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Speaker 2: Right when you get to the combine and you start

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Speaker 6: To be explosive and everything, you know, whether it be

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Speaker 6: get more and more explosive and be able to showcase

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Speaker 2: You have any track experience, then a lot of that

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Speaker 2: stuff is technic, right.

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Speaker 6: Most definitely, Yeah, I ran track in high school, did

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Speaker 6: it long jump, triple jump.

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Speaker 4: So it's been cool to see you.

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Speaker 6: Know how some of that has helped me, you know

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Speaker 6: throughout this you know draft training.

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Speaker 2: Do you have a forty yard gap dash goal that

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Speaker 4: Uh no, sirah, we'll see when we see.

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Speaker 3: Tas good stuff. Man, I appreciate the time. Thank you.

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Speaker 2: And now we're joined by Steel Chambers, Ohio State linebacker.

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Speaker 2: Steel Thanks for doing this, Man, appreciate.

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Speaker 8: It, of course.

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Speaker 3: Man, glad to be here.

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Speaker 2: Obviously you're coming from a program that is a pro factory.

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Speaker 2: You guys developed pros on both sides of the ball

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Speaker 2: pretty regularly. What has it been like You only hearday

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Speaker 2: trying to learn an NFL playbook in twenty four hours

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Speaker 3: That's been good.

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Speaker 9: I mean, I think Ohio State certainly has prepared as

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Speaker 9: well for that. Coach Nills has a great defensive scheme

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Speaker 9: over there, so I think that's really prepared me for

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Speaker 9: coming in and learning everything in a day or so.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 2: I was talking to Curtis Jacobs fellow, a big ten

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Speaker 2: the same thing to you. I feel like offenses now

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Speaker 2: we're designed to put guys like you in conflict, right,

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Speaker 2: whether it's read options or rbos, misdirection motion, right, they

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Speaker 2: want you guys to taking fall steps. So to you,

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Speaker 2: what's right now in the current modern landscape of al

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Speaker 2: offensive work is the key to being a good off

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Speaker 9: He being a good off ball linebacker, I think I discipline,

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Speaker 9: that's a huge thing, especially with that RPOs, read options,

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Speaker 10: I think so many quarterbacks now are mobile, so.

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Speaker 9: You got to be able to run with them, got

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Speaker 3: Get to the ball before he ball even gets there.

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Speaker 9: So, I mean, there's a bunch of different ways, but

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and people looking for linebackers that can cover in

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Speaker 2: think you're a very good covers linebacker. What do you

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Speaker 2: think it is about your game that makes you good

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Speaker 9: I think I discipline that's huge. Knowing whether they're in

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Speaker 9: I know some I've definitely got ter as just getting

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Speaker 2: Where do you think you would fit best at an

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Speaker 9: I say, like off ball somewhere inside, and then I

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Speaker 2: We talked about covers. But obviously in the Big Ten,

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Speaker 3: He ain't playing exactly.

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Speaker 11: That's one of our keys to winning games.

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Speaker 9: Stop the run, run the ball, especially in the Big

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Speaker 9: Ten with all the big heavies up front.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, I want to ask you about some of your teammates, right,

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Speaker 2: I think a lot of people will caught by surprise,

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Speaker 2: so many of your guys going back to Ohio State, Right, Yeah,

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Speaker 10: A big story for us.

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Speaker 3: So when you when you saw that, what did you think?

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Speaker 11: I think they were about to win a title next year.

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Speaker 9: I mean you got you got some guys that they

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Speaker 9: were supposed to go like in a higher rounds coming back.

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Speaker 9: I think they're making some dangerous over there. And then

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Speaker 9: you add stuff like uh Will Howard Caleb Downs. I mean,

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Speaker 9: it's an all star team over there. So yeah, Columbus

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Speaker 9: is about to produce something crazy. I'm glad I'm gonna

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Speaker 9: be able to watch it.

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Speaker 2: How much of that is this guys don't want to

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Speaker 2: leave until they beat Michigan.

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Speaker 9: I think that's a big thing, especially after the twenty

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Speaker 9: twenty three game. I think that probably pushed a lot

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Speaker 9: I leaving or am I staying?

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Speaker 10: And they decide to stay.

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Speaker 2: Now, one of the teammates on your side of the

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Speaker 2: ball coming out is defensive tackle Michael Hall. Right, can

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Speaker 2: you tell me about him and what NFL team might

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Speaker 9: Oh, dude, he's a bulldog. You're gonna get just an

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Speaker 9: absolute force in the middle. I mean he's gonna come

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Speaker 9: in every single day with the smilest face.

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Speaker 10: This great attitude, great guy.

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Speaker 2: Then finally, and I'm sure you've talked of other Ohio

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Speaker 9: Speed change the direction. Then don't lose the football edge.

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Speaker 9: I guess just showing yourself with people that you trust,

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Speaker 2: Can steal good stuff man, Best luck the rest of

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Speaker 2: Torren's cornerback out of Arizona State, Rowe. You've had one practice,

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Speaker 13: It's it's been pretty busy and honestly, but you know,

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Speaker 13: You know, it hasn't been really challenging for real, for real,

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Speaker 2: What are your goals when you get on the practice field,

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Speaker 5: Just Sean, you know what kind of player again?

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Speaker 13: You know, a lockdown corner, a pressman corner and I

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Speaker 2: That you talk about press man, That's what NFL eval

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Speaker 2: many college teams play quarters, they don't press a lot.

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Speaker 5: Am I going to use my long orange? I get

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Speaker 13: With my long ns on somebody, And I feel like

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Speaker 3: And I'm playing to my size and playing to my visit.

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Speaker 2: Things that don't know six three two ten bigger corner.

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Speaker 2: So I imagine I know the answer already. If a

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Speaker 3: Absolutely?

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Speaker 2: What is it like going up against what you're some

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Speaker 13: It's been a fun change. I'm very competitive, so I

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 13: I learned something from from them guys on their Rep.

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Speaker 13: Depending on you know, who I'm going against. So I'm

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Speaker 13: Nah, I kind of you know, I like to do

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Speaker 3: Very good.

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Speaker 2: When you leave here and you start training for your

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Speaker 13: I would like to go run run my forty wheel,

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Speaker 3: She'll do a lot of three code works. Basically, what

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Speaker 2: Pack absolutely taking it off the field a little bit.

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Speaker 2: When you meet with these scouts. In these meetings here,

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Speaker 13: I'm a good person. Like off the field, you'll have

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Speaker 13: A lot of players want to be around outside of football,

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Speaker 5: Field type thing. So just let them know that I'm

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Speaker 13: Good person, and you know I can be afraid of

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Speaker 3: Have you been in anyone's ear?

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Speaker 2: Have they been in uria about giving you any sort

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Speaker 13: Can now And I realized, just mean, you know, leaning on,

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Speaker 2: Bro, best luck, man, enjoy talking to you and goo

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Speaker 2: luck the rest of the week and the rest of

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Speaker 5: Thank you, sir, I really do appreciate it.

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Speaker 3: How are you good? How about you doing great? First,

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Speaker 2: You only played three games in your last year at

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Speaker 3: How are you and how.

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Speaker 2: Quickly are you going to be up to speed once

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Speaker 14: Yeah, well, I injured. My left plants are plate in

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Speaker 14: To be locked into these interviews. I know it's going

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Speaker 3: Now, right tackle and left tackle at pitt.

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Speaker 2: Where are you more comfortable if a team might ask

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Speaker 14: It's on the right side right now. I mean, you know,

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Speaker 2: I got to imagine, though, having both that on tape

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Speaker 14: And you know, I'm willing to play left, right, guard, center.

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Speaker 14: Wherever the team needs me to play to win, That's

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Speaker 3: Don't matter to me.

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Speaker 14: I can play both and I've proven that i can

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Speaker 3: Needs me to do. Now.

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Speaker 2: Your listed size was six six three fifty. Is that

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Speaker 14: I've never been three fifty. I'm six six, three thirty.

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Speaker 3: That's why I asked the question. But you know a

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Speaker 14: I was three thirty this year, and you know, I

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Speaker 14: You know, I need some weight to you know, block

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Speaker 14: But you know, a long enough wingspan to compete in the.

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Speaker 2: NFL certainly meet the threshold for offensive tackle in the

448
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Speaker 2: league for sure, Yes, sir, absolutely, So as you get

449
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Speaker 2: into the combine process, now, you mentioned you're gonna be

450
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Speaker 2: rehabbing and kind.

451
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Speaker 3: Of preparing at the same time.

452
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Speaker 2: So how are you going to kind of balance that

453
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Speaker 2: where you're trying to be as good physically as you

454
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Speaker 2: can be for those Olympic style events, right, but you

455
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Speaker 2: also want to make sure your foot's good, right.

456
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Speaker 14: I mean, there's got to be you know, some sort

457
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Speaker 14: of you know, uh, I guess a voice in the

458
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Speaker 14: back of my head where it says, you know, just

459
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Speaker 14: take care of your toe here. But at the same time,

460
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Speaker 14: do what you can, and you know, do what you

461
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Speaker 14: can every day to you know, go towards the combine

462
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Speaker 14: and pro day. But still at the same time, you

463
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Speaker 14: got to monitor what's going on down there. Once it's

464
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Speaker 14: fully healed and once I feel ready to go, you know,

465
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Speaker 14: still that's it's gonna be something in the back of

466
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Speaker 14: my mind that I got a monitor, so, you know,

467
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Speaker 14: something I gotta take serious. But right now I'm working

468
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Speaker 14: on the physicals and you know, doing the best I can.

469
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Speaker 14: So we'll see we're an end zone up when we

470
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Speaker 14: get Tod.

471
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Speaker 3: Can you still lift and squad and do all that stuff?

472
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Speaker 3: I can.

473
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Speaker 14: I'm lifting lower body right now. And you know, like

474
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Speaker 14: I said, I've been running and doing like seventy five

475
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Speaker 14: percent running and stuff like that. So you know, it's

476
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Speaker 14: just only a matter of time for you know, it's

477
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Speaker 14: fully there, but just still needs a little bit more

478
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Speaker 14: time to go.

479
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Speaker 3: Now, good to know.

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Speaker 2: Final question, you mentioned that you want to lock in

481
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Speaker 2: on these interviews here. What's one thing that maybe you

482
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Speaker 2: want teams to know about you as a football player.

483
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Speaker 2: One thing you want teams to know about you as

484
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Speaker 2: a guy.

485
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Speaker 3: As a football player. I want them to know how

486
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Speaker 3: athletic I am.

487
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Speaker 14: I mean, I don't think a lot of teams understand how,

488
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Speaker 14: you know, my athleticism and what I can do in

489
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Speaker 14: a forty yard dash or a vertical jump or something

490
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Speaker 14: like that. That's why I want to be ready by

491
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Speaker 14: the combine and you know, not a football player. I

492
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Speaker 14: want them to understand how good of a leader I am.

493
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Speaker 14: And you know how serious I take competition, competing, whether

494
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Speaker 14: it's you know, on the field or off the field.

495
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Speaker 3: With video games or a game of chess.

496
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Speaker 14: I want them to know that I'm a competitor and

497
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Speaker 14: I'll always compete till you know, the end of my

498
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Speaker 14: career chess player.

499
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Speaker 3: I like chess a lot. Tell me about why.

500
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Speaker 14: Just it's very, very fascinating to me that there's endless

501
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Speaker 14: possibilities and I don't know, I think about the history

502
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Speaker 14: of the US Bobby Fisher are going to Iceland playing

503
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Speaker 14: Boris FASKI, I don't know. It just fascinated to me,

504
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Speaker 14: and my brother got me onto it and it was

505
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Speaker 14: just a, you know, interesting topic for me. It's an

506
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Speaker 14: interesting game, there's infinite possibilities and just a fun game

507
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Speaker 14: to get your mind off of, you know, some stuff sometimes.

508
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Speaker 2: So do you find playing offensive tackles almost like playing

509
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Speaker 2: a little chess matching chess match against those defensive ends

510
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Speaker 2: trying to figure out.

511
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Speaker 3: Their past rush plan.

512
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Speaker 14: Honestly, it is as complicated as there's a lot of

513
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Speaker 14: possibilities when it comes to formation defenses. So I guess

514
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Speaker 14: you could say that, and yeah, I guess it's kind

515
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Speaker 14: of like the same combinations, but I think chess is

516
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Speaker 14: maybe a little bit more complex.

517
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Speaker 2: What do you think the strongest part of your game

518
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Speaker 2: is with with your passpro against those defensive ends.

519
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Speaker 3: Right now, that's a good question.

520
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Speaker 14: I'd say you keeping up with them, like just literally

521
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Speaker 14: like staying with them. My athleticism, I think I can.

522
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Speaker 14: I can keep up with any of these past in

523
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Speaker 14: the league. I think I can compete with any of

524
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Speaker 14: these fast rushers in the league. So I think my

525
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Speaker 14: athleticism really helps me with that aspect.

526
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Speaker 2: And there's one technique thing you still want to work

527
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Speaker 2: on as you head to the pros.

528
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Speaker 12: What is it?

529
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Speaker 3: It's my anchor.

530
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Speaker 14: You know, bul rush is a big thing and you know,

531
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Speaker 14: obviously a lot of people do it. And I've proved

532
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Speaker 14: to myself that I have a good anchor. I just

533
00:19:18,080 --> 00:19:19,880
Speaker 14: need to apply it a little bit more and maybe

534
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Speaker 14: get a little bit stronger in the legs.

535
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Speaker 3: And yeah, that's really it's great geting to meet you man,

536
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Speaker 3: appreciate the time. Great to meet you too.

537
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Speaker 2: Thank you for your tom And now we're joined by

538
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Speaker 2: Mason McCormick, offensive lineman for South Dakota State. I don't

539
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Speaker 2: care if it's FCS. It's one of the best football

540
00:19:34,920 --> 00:19:36,560
Speaker 2: programs in the country, so I want to start there.

541
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Speaker 2: What makes out Dakota State such a good football program.

542
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Speaker 15: Well, first of all, I think it just starts with

543
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Speaker 15: the community and how many people have done to help

544
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Speaker 15: that place scrow to see the success of this program,

545
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Speaker 15: it's really been a stepping stone. It's taken a lot

546
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Speaker 15: of guys who put in a lot of time to

547
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Speaker 15: get to this place we are now and to see

548
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Speaker 15: the loyalty that we've had within our guys, whether it's

549
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Speaker 15: through the transfer portal and whatever else, it's it's pretty

550
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Speaker 15: cool and I think it's it's a bond like no other.

551
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Speaker 2: What is it about the culture there, from the coaches

552
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Speaker 2: to the players that have helped turn you into the

553
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Speaker 2: player you are today.

554
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Speaker 15: Well, everybody talks about how they want to be a family,

555
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Speaker 15: but I truly believe South Dakota State was very family like.

556
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Speaker 15: There was no clicks within the locker room. It was

557
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Speaker 15: a very everybody was really really tight. And to be

558
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Speaker 15: able to go into a locker room knowing that all

559
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Speaker 15: these guys got your back and that you have all

560
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Speaker 15: these guys back is a pretty special feeling.

561
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Speaker 2: And you play in those games against North Dakota State,

562
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Speaker 2: right those rivalry games, you have to be physical, you

563
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Speaker 2: have to set the tone.

564
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Speaker 3: Do you consider yourself one of those tone setters.

565
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Speaker 8: I absolutely do.

566
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Speaker 15: I'd like to think that I do set the tone

567
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Speaker 15: for our offense, and uh from a physicality standpoint, from

568
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Speaker 15: a mentality standpoint, I want to go out there and

569
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Speaker 15: impose our will and give give the guys uh the

570
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Speaker 15: confidence they need uh to see what I'm doing and

571
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Speaker 15: execute at a high level.

572
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Speaker 2: And what I enjoyed watching you on tape in preparation

573
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Speaker 2: for this is that you don't play up to the whistle.

574
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Speaker 2: You play through the whistle, and it's a little bit

575
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Speaker 2: different there, Like you make sure that you finish your

576
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Speaker 2: blocks right.

577
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Speaker 12: Absolutely.

578
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Speaker 15: I mean, I think there's one way to play this game,

579
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Speaker 15: and to uh, you got to play it super hard

580
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Speaker 15: and there's there's no uh if ins or butts about it.

581
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Speaker 8: But uh, to be able to play the.

582
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Speaker 15: Game that way, you gotta know, you gotta know the

583
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Speaker 15: referees limits a little bit, but uh, you want to

584
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Speaker 15: take it as far as you can just so the

585
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Speaker 15: other guys know that they can't keep up with you

586
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Speaker 15: just because your motor is that high.

587
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Speaker 2: Now you're the starting left guard for South Dakota State,

588
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Speaker 2: do you want to work on the right side a

589
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Speaker 2: little bit over the weekend here to try to show

590
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Speaker 2: the NFL teams you have versatility a little bit.

591
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Speaker 15: Yeah, I'll be ready for the interior three positions.

592
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Speaker 3: I was center to.

593
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Speaker 15: Yees center as well. I've I was our backup center

594
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Speaker 15: at Southakota State as well. Just if anything happened to

595
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Speaker 15: our center, I would have slid over to center. So

596
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Speaker 15: I'm ready to roll for or the interior three positions.

597
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Speaker 15: It's just sow everybody how versatile I am.

598
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Speaker 2: How many practice reps at college? Did you get at center?

599
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Speaker 8: A lot?

600
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Speaker 16: Yeah?

601
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Speaker 8: I don't.

602
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Speaker 15: I couldn't give you a number or anything, but I

603
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Speaker 15: was practicing it every week so for six years.

604
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Speaker 2: So is that something that you're going to try to

605
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Speaker 2: communicate to the NFL decision makers and you meet with

606
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Speaker 2: them here this week, that you are a versatile player.

607
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Speaker 15: Yeah, I mean I want them to know that I'm

608
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Speaker 15: willing to help a team in whatever way possible. I

609
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Speaker 15: was on punch Shield at SDSU and I loved it.

610
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Speaker 15: There's there's not a lot of guys who love punch shield,

611
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Speaker 15: but I'm willing to do whatever it takes. I'm gonna

612
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Speaker 15: be as versatile as possible and just want to help

613
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Speaker 15: a team.

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Speaker 8: Out.

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Speaker 2: Aside from the versatility, when you meet with these teams,

616
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Speaker 2: what's maybe one thing about you as a football player

617
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Speaker 2: and one thing about you as a guy that you

618
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Speaker 2: want to make sure you get across.

619
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Speaker 15: As a football player, I'm extremely gritty. I'm gonna grind

620
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Speaker 15: people into the ground.

621
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna tape show is it by the way, just

622
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Speaker 2: f y, I appreciate it.

623
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Speaker 15: But I'm gonna play as hard as I can no

624
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Speaker 15: matter what. As a human being, I just want people

625
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Speaker 15: to know that I'm a loyal guy. I like to

626
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Speaker 15: be in places if somebody does something for me that

627
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Speaker 15: means something to me.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

629
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Speaker 15: I mean I probably could have left to the transfer

630
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Speaker 15: portal and got some money from NIL, but these these

631
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Speaker 15: people poured so much into me to be to get

632
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Speaker 15: to where I am today, and so to be able

633
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Speaker 15: to give back to that program, and it's not necessarily

634
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Speaker 15: even give back, but to be able to stay there

635
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Speaker 15: and allow them to reap the benefits of what they

636
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Speaker 15: helped create, I think is pretty cool.

637
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Speaker 2: Do you think, given your self described grittiness and your physicality,

638
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Speaker 2: that maybe sometimes people overlook you athleticism because I do

639
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Speaker 2: think when you watch it, you get up to that

640
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Speaker 2: second level.

641
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Speaker 3: Get on those linebackers pretty well.

642
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Speaker 8: I think so.

643
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Speaker 15: I think that's like a stereotype with tough players, that

644
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Speaker 15: is that they're not athletic. I'm excited to prove people

645
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Speaker 15: wrong this week is well is at the Combine?

646
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Speaker 3: What are your big goals? Now?

647
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Speaker 2: When you leave here you get to do the Combine stuff.

648
00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:06,600
Speaker 2: It's all the Olympic training is not so much football,

649
00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:08,119
Speaker 2: which I know a lot of the football guys don't like,

650
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Speaker 2: but it's what you have to do.

651
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Speaker 5: Right.

652
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Speaker 3: What are some of the things you're gonna be focusing

653
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Speaker 3: on over that next month or so? Uh? So you

654
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Speaker 3: are ready to go with the Combine?

655
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Speaker 15: Yeah, I'm training down here in Frisco with Duke Manyweather.

656
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Speaker 3: Oh wow, it's a good guy to train with.

657
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Speaker 15: Yeah, And so I'm just I'm just gonna be keep

658
00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:27,200
Speaker 15: focusing on football because ultimately that's what we're here for.

659
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Speaker 15: But I'm gonna be ready to do whatever it takes

660
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Speaker 15: at the Combine to show out and show how athletic

661
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Speaker 15: I really am.

662
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Speaker 2: What has it been trying to learn an NFL playbook

663
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Speaker 2: in like two days getting ready for practice?

664
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Speaker 3: Uh?

665
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Speaker 15: The first meeting was a lot just because here in

666
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Speaker 15: a lot of lingo, but I'm I'm pretty smart with

667
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Speaker 15: playbooks and I've picked it up pretty quick.

668
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Speaker 3: So awesome.

669
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Speaker 2: And then finally I've talked to a couple of the

670
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Speaker 2: other small school guys that are you know with you

671
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Speaker 2: talk to the big big, big Big, the big man

672
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Speaker 2: from Howard who's too my gosh it Gigan humanba Right.

673
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Speaker 2: I talked to CJ from Holy Cross and they're just

674
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Speaker 2: so excited to get a chance to go up against

675
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Speaker 2: some of these power five guys. Obviously, you get a

676
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Speaker 2: couple of games year where you can do that, so

677
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Speaker 2: it is on tape, but being able to do.

678
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Speaker 3: That in this environment, how exciting is it for you?

679
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Speaker 8: Yeah, it's exciting.

680
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Speaker 15: I'm I'm a true competitor, and to be able to

681
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Speaker 15: compete against the best of the best here at this game,

682
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Speaker 15: it's pretty exciting and I look forward to it. It's

683
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Speaker 15: a cool opportunity. I'm gonna take advantage of it.

684
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Speaker 2: Bason, great stuff, good luck this week, good luck the

685
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Speaker 2: rest of the way, and hopefully get.

686
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Speaker 3: Drafted nice and high.

687
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Speaker 8: Appreciate it.

688
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Speaker 2: And now we're joined by Virginia wide receiver Malik Washington.

689
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Speaker 3: The league.

690
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Speaker 2: I know you're early in the process, What has it

691
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Speaker 2: been like so far trying to absorb this NFL offense

692
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Speaker 2: in rapid fire fashion.

693
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Speaker 17: Yeah, I think it takes a lot of studying. And

694
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Speaker 17: I was told the guys that are smart don't win.

695
00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:49,359
Speaker 17: The guys that study do, the guys that take notes,

696
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Speaker 17: and so it's just been studying, taking notes, trying to

697
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Speaker 17: prepare as best I can.

698
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Speaker 3: Now.

699
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Speaker 2: Your head coach is Mike Kafka, one of the Giants coaches. Obviously,

700
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Speaker 2: if you had a chance to interact.

701
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Speaker 17: With them much at all so far this week or now,

702
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Speaker 17: I just act you met up with him this morning.

703
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Speaker 17: I just talked about he he's a Northwestern graduate. I'm

704
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Speaker 17: a Northwestern graduate. So we just connected a little bit

705
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Speaker 17: over that. I want to make sure he knew like man,

706
00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:12,720
Speaker 17: we spent some time in Everson, Illinois before, So just

707
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Speaker 17: making a connection through that. But hopefully I'll get a

708
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Speaker 17: chance to talk to him a little bit more.

709
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Speaker 3: Now.

710
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Speaker 2: You led the FBS one hundred and ten receptions, right,

711
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Speaker 2: where do you think when an NFL asks you maybe

712
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Speaker 2: your strength is a wide receiver? How would you quantify

713
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Speaker 2: those two NFL value whatever they ask that question to you?

714
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Speaker 17: Yeah, I mean I think nobody's catching the ball better

715
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Speaker 17: than I do. You know, nobody's making more catches, no

716
00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:34,879
Speaker 17: more's doing nobody's doing more with the catch than I do.

717
00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:36,320
Speaker 17: I think I'm one of the best in the country

718
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Speaker 17: when it comes to catching the ball and then making

719
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Speaker 17: guys miss, forcing mixed tackles, and getting yards after catch.

720
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Speaker 17: So I think right there, that's where my value is.

721
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Speaker 17: I can catch the ball. I'm reliable. I catch it

722
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Speaker 17: everywhere on the field, and once I do catch it,

723
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Speaker 17: the play is not over.

724
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Speaker 5: You know.

725
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Speaker 17: That's just the start of the play, and I'm going

726
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Speaker 17: to go get more yards for us first downs, two touchdowns.

727
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Speaker 3: Yeah.

728
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Speaker 2: When I watched your tape the first day, I came

729
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Speaker 2: the mind he plays a lot bigger than his listed

730
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Speaker 2: weight and height. Right, you're almost like a little Deebo Samuel.

731
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Speaker 2: You catch the ball and then there's a lot of

732
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Speaker 2: yards after catching off. Is that something that you really

733
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Speaker 2: take pride in, that being a playmaker with the ball

734
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Speaker 2: in your hands.

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Speaker 12: Yeah.

736
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Speaker 17: I just joked with another guy.

737
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Speaker 10: Like, I'm allergic to grass.

738
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Speaker 3: I don't want to go down.

739
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Speaker 17: I don't want to get tackled, and so when I

740
00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:18,040
Speaker 17: catch that ball, for me, that's the start of the play.

741
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Speaker 17: Not when we snap the ball, so I know I'm

742
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Speaker 17: going to catch the ball, it's.

743
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Speaker 11: How many yards am I gonna get after?

744
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Speaker 17: That's my question of I had how many guys am

745
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Speaker 17: I gonna make miss? Or who's gonna miss this tackle first,

746
00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:30,199
Speaker 17: or something like that. So for me, it's always just

747
00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:32,800
Speaker 17: earning that actually yard, earning that place on the field.

748
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Speaker 2: In the same way, then, can you invent yourself being

749
00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:37,600
Speaker 2: used in a lot of those other ways of wide

750
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Speaker 2: receivers use jet sweeps in the backfield. The Giants have one, though.

751
00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:43,879
Speaker 2: Robinson right he was at Kentucky called a lot of passes.

752
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Speaker 2: When he was in Nebraska, he was used as a

753
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Speaker 2: running back too. Do you see yourself as almost that

754
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Speaker 2: multi dimensional weapon rather than just a receiver.

755
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Speaker 17: Yeah, I want to help out in a variety of ways.

756
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Speaker 17: I think that's gonna be my biggest tool is just

757
00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:57,720
Speaker 17: being versatile, being able to take some snaps in the slide,

758
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Speaker 17: maybe take some snaps that were out of wide at

759
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Speaker 17: Z then moving into the backfield, becoming the extension of

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Speaker 17: the run.

761
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Speaker 10: Game, whether that's runner or pass.

762
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Speaker 17: I think that's what I need to be prepared and

763
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Speaker 17: ready to do, is fill that role for whatever team.

764
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Speaker 2: You know, draftsman, what are your major goals this week

765
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Speaker 2: to show these coaches and scouts that are watching you.

766
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Speaker 17: I want to show that I can separate at NFL level.

767
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Speaker 10: I want to show that.

768
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Speaker 17: I do have the speed to you know, make difference

769
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Speaker 17: making plays. And I want to continue to just show

770
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Speaker 17: what I put on film, that I'm reliable, that I

771
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Speaker 17: can catch the ball, and that I'm a you know,

772
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Speaker 17: a good route runner.

773
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Speaker 3: Then when you leave here, it's training time.

774
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Speaker 2: It's basically basically training for the Olympics, right, you got

775
00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:30,560
Speaker 2: to get better forty time and everything like that. What's

776
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Speaker 2: your major focus then when you start getting into the

777
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Speaker 2: gym and you start getting ready for the combine, Yeah.

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Speaker 17: I mean I want to I want to get there

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Speaker 17: and dominate the combine. I don't I don't want to

780
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Speaker 17: settle for some good numbers. I want to have great numbers.

781
00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:43,320
Speaker 17: I want to leave the combine or to smile on

782
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Speaker 17: my face. So, I mean, the goal right now is

783
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Speaker 17: just to get that forty down as much as possible

784
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Speaker 17: and show that.

785
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Speaker 10: I do have elite speed.

786
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Speaker 17: I can run with the with the best of them.

787
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Speaker 17: And so for me, when I get back to xpe

788
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Speaker 17: out in Florida.

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Speaker 8: That's going to be the goal.

790
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Speaker 3: Over fourteen hundred receiving yards.

791
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Speaker 2: You watch it on tape, nobody catches it from behind,

792
00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:01,360
Speaker 2: and so I think you got a pretty good job

793
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Speaker 2: in the league. Awesome stuff, good good stuff, and wish

794
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Speaker 2: you luck this week and the rest of the process.

795
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Speaker 8: Thank you.

796
00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:09,480
Speaker 2: And now we're joined by Leonard Taylor, defensive lineman from Miami. Leonard,

797
00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:11,120
Speaker 2: obviously you're not out there on the field this week,

798
00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:12,880
Speaker 2: but you hear you're going to meetings and everything else.

799
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Speaker 3: What are your main.

800
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Speaker 2: Goals that you want to accomplish this week being at

801
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Speaker 2: the Shrine Bowl.

802
00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:20,719
Speaker 18: Really just to be down there with the system, Lennard,

803
00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:22,560
Speaker 18: what's going on? So when I go out there, I

804
00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:26,280
Speaker 18: get up fully understanding how everybody plan basically, what what

805
00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:28,360
Speaker 18: do you gotta do basically to accomplish the in.

806
00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:30,880
Speaker 2: What has it been like being in these meeting rooms

807
00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:33,000
Speaker 2: and trying to digest a whole new system that you

808
00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:34,840
Speaker 2: haven't played in before in a span of twenty four

809
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Speaker 2: to forty eight hours.

810
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Speaker 18: I mean, it's been good. Really, just just got to

811
00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:40,480
Speaker 18: learn the playbook. You get a fully understanding of it

812
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Speaker 18: on you. Once I did that, I understand I mean

813
00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:46,120
Speaker 18: the playbook, it's pretty simple either a shade or three tech,

814
00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:47,840
Speaker 18: so I mean it's pretty adaptable.

815
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Speaker 12: Just going out there, just trying to rap it consistent.

816
00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:52,920
Speaker 2: When you have meetings with these scouts and other front

817
00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:55,080
Speaker 2: offers personnel from teams over the course of this week.

818
00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:57,480
Speaker 2: What are you trying to get across about. You're the

819
00:29:57,480 --> 00:29:59,160
Speaker 2: football player and you're the person.

820
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Speaker 18: Really just if there was a pig, I'm gonna go

821
00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:05,760
Speaker 18: out there be dominant one hundred percent and off the field,

822
00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:07,680
Speaker 18: I'm just I'm a good, genuine person.

823
00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:09,320
Speaker 12: I mean no hard to anyone.

824
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Speaker 18: I just want to be just myself basically just walk

825
00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:15,400
Speaker 18: around with a smile on my face, bring people joining happiness.

826
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Speaker 2: Obviously, you're one of the more gifted athletes coming out

827
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Speaker 2: in this year's draft. What are some of the technical

828
00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:21,960
Speaker 2: things that you're still trying to refine and work on

829
00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:24,920
Speaker 2: as you head into the draft process with the combine,

830
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Speaker 2: Pro Day and all that other stuff.

831
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Speaker 18: Really just being more intent in my way getting off

832
00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:34,640
Speaker 18: the ball, Uh, being that guy that's always in the

833
00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:37,240
Speaker 18: film that's around the balls much supposed to being that

834
00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:39,160
Speaker 18: big guy around the ball as much as possible.

835
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Speaker 5: Just being a dominant.

836
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Speaker 2: Player at the end of the day, If a scout

837
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Speaker 2: would ask you what you think the strongest part of

838
00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:46,400
Speaker 2: your game is right now, what do you think you

839
00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:47,560
Speaker 2: would tell them?

840
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Speaker 18: My get off, how how fast I get to the quarterback,

841
00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:53,520
Speaker 18: how I've been to corner. That's really my push, the power,

842
00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:56,320
Speaker 18: just just being strong all above.

843
00:30:56,440 --> 00:30:58,239
Speaker 2: Yeah, lending her good stuff, then good luck the rest

844
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Speaker 2: of the week and the rest of the draft process.

845
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Speaker 12: All I appreciate what you think.

846
00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:03,320
Speaker 2: All right now, We're joined by Kansas State edge player

847
00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:05,959
Speaker 2: Khalid Duke. Khalid, First of all, how was day one

848
00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:07,480
Speaker 2: to practice out there on the field today?

849
00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:12,920
Speaker 19: It was good, Definitely entertaining, like just to be around

850
00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:17,120
Speaker 19: all that talent around me. Definitely what's fun though, I'm

851
00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:18,320
Speaker 19: just enjoying the process.

852
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:20,880
Speaker 2: I know you're focusing on the stuff you did in

853
00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:22,000
Speaker 2: college being an edge player.

854
00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:24,120
Speaker 3: Are they having you some more off ball.

855
00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:25,920
Speaker 2: Stuff here too, to try to show coaches that maybe

856
00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:26,240
Speaker 2: you can.

857
00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:27,239
Speaker 3: Expand your game a little bit.

858
00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:29,800
Speaker 19: I haven't really been doing too much of that, but

859
00:31:30,040 --> 00:31:33,440
Speaker 19: I definitely I'm definitely and looking forward to doing that,

860
00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:38,440
Speaker 19: but more being on the edge here and being more

861
00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:39,520
Speaker 19: in a three point stands.

862
00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:41,920
Speaker 3: What do you think your best pass rusher is right now.

863
00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:44,720
Speaker 19: I think my best passwords move is definitely the Ghosts.

864
00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:47,400
Speaker 19: I think my best calendar is probably a spin move.

865
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Speaker 8: Yeah.

866
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Speaker 2: I'll tell you the thing that I love watching you

867
00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:52,280
Speaker 2: on tape heading into this week, I think you have

868
00:31:52,280 --> 00:31:54,640
Speaker 2: a relentless motor. How much is being a good pass

869
00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:57,480
Speaker 2: rusher and getting that sack production just not quitting and

870
00:31:57,520 --> 00:31:58,720
Speaker 2: giving up on a play?

871
00:31:58,760 --> 00:31:59,000
Speaker 20: Man.

872
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Speaker 19: I think having a is one of the best things

873
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Speaker 19: being on the edge, because I feel like you're gonna

874
00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:07,400
Speaker 19: you're gonna find yourself in predicaments where we're having to

875
00:32:07,520 --> 00:32:11,080
Speaker 19: move doesn't always work, you know, like like with a

876
00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:14,880
Speaker 19: good tap one stuff. So having a good motor, uh

877
00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:18,320
Speaker 19: and being and beating the laziness out of a guy,

878
00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:20,000
Speaker 19: like you know what I'm saying, So like when a

879
00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:22,040
Speaker 19: guy gets lazy and stuff like that, things like that,

880
00:32:22,120 --> 00:32:24,280
Speaker 19: and then you take advantage of those moments.

881
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Speaker 3: I forget what game was.

882
00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:27,720
Speaker 2: Remember one of the games you got double team initially

883
00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:29,240
Speaker 2: on the play and you're fighting with the guys, playing

884
00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:31,120
Speaker 2: with the guys. The quarterback ends up scrambling back to

885
00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:33,400
Speaker 2: the weak side and then you close in your finish.

886
00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:35,000
Speaker 3: Do you look back at the pull like that? And

887
00:32:35,040 --> 00:32:37,880
Speaker 3: that's why you don't quit on a play exactly.

888
00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:40,600
Speaker 19: I think you're talking about UCF yeh, yeah, when he

889
00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:42,760
Speaker 19: came out. That's definitely one of the reasons why you

890
00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:44,600
Speaker 19: never given want to play because you are gonna get

891
00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:47,640
Speaker 19: yourself and predictaments like that. But if you keep going

892
00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:50,560
Speaker 19: and keep fighting, that's when you start to get your sacks. Like,

893
00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:54,280
Speaker 19: you know, most pass rushers who hit like like high

894
00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:57,920
Speaker 19: his and amounts of sacks, most of the sacks come

895
00:32:57,920 --> 00:32:59,480
Speaker 19: off with an effort and not just moves.

896
00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:02,479
Speaker 2: What has it been like trying to learn an NFL

897
00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:05,360
Speaker 2: defense in forty eight hours and try to translate into

898
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:05,800
Speaker 2: the field.

899
00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:08,120
Speaker 19: It's been fun. I would say it's been real fun.

900
00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:11,960
Speaker 19: Like you know, I always like to challenge myself and

901
00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:13,400
Speaker 19: become better at this game.

902
00:33:13,440 --> 00:33:14,520
Speaker 8: So yeah, what.

903
00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:16,400
Speaker 2: Are some of the questions that you're getting from the

904
00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:18,640
Speaker 2: scouts in front office personnel when you're having meetings with

905
00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:20,920
Speaker 2: them kind of on the side on your off time.

906
00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:25,240
Speaker 19: A lot of a lot of am I willing to

907
00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:29,080
Speaker 19: play like off the edge like differently, like you know,

908
00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:30,880
Speaker 19: like being able to drop into the flight and things

909
00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:31,280
Speaker 19: like that.

910
00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:34,480
Speaker 12: Some off field questions and things like that.

911
00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:37,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, at your size, do you feel like you could

912
00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:39,680
Speaker 2: be a four to three and in the league, or

913
00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:40,800
Speaker 2: do you think you're more of a kind of a

914
00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:43,200
Speaker 2: three to four outside stand up line backer.

915
00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:44,320
Speaker 12: I think I can do both.

916
00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:46,440
Speaker 19: I think if I want to go to a fourth three,

917
00:33:46,480 --> 00:33:47,760
Speaker 19: I probably have to put on some weight, but I

918
00:33:47,760 --> 00:33:50,920
Speaker 19: think I'm capable of doing that, And in a three four,

919
00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:51,920
Speaker 19: I think I could do that too.

920
00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:55,360
Speaker 3: What's your playing with right now? Is that where you've

921
00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:56,640
Speaker 3: been and is that where you want to be?

922
00:33:56,760 --> 00:33:59,160
Speaker 19: That's where I've been for the past three years, but

923
00:33:59,720 --> 00:34:02,400
Speaker 19: I think think most teams will probably won't meet against

924
00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:02,920
Speaker 19: them with So.

925
00:34:04,280 --> 00:34:06,520
Speaker 2: When you leave here you start preparing for your pro day,

926
00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:09,279
Speaker 2: perhaps to combine what are the things you're going to

927
00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:11,880
Speaker 2: be focusing on in your training so that you perform

928
00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:14,560
Speaker 2: the way you want when you have those opportunities.

929
00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:18,480
Speaker 19: I would say, uh, definitely my forty mobility is one

930
00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:21,880
Speaker 19: of them. It's one of the big things I'm focus on.

931
00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:25,800
Speaker 19: Another is probably I change the direction. They're trying to

932
00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:26,760
Speaker 19: have a good l drill.

933
00:34:27,200 --> 00:34:28,880
Speaker 2: So basically trying to show guys that you can do

934
00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:30,640
Speaker 2: more than just go straight ahead right.

935
00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:33,120
Speaker 3: Yes, sir, yes, sir, awesome, clear well busted. Luck with

936
00:34:33,160 --> 00:34:35,239
Speaker 3: all that we appreciate it and hopefully get drafted nice

937
00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:35,560
Speaker 3: and high.

938
00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:37,239
Speaker 12: Sir, thank you.

939
00:34:37,239 --> 00:34:40,480
Speaker 13: You love turf, You're good at it, So you start

940
00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:41,120
Speaker 13: a turf biz.

941
00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:45,879
Speaker 21: Business grows, your savings grow, become the most celebrated name

942
00:34:46,120 --> 00:34:47,040
Speaker 21: in turfs?

943
00:34:47,560 --> 00:34:49,400
Speaker 10: Are you ready for all that life brings?

944
00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:51,600
Speaker 3: Now?

945
00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:54,200
Speaker 2: We're joined by quarterback Keaton Slovas Keaton, We've had one

946
00:34:54,239 --> 00:34:56,840
Speaker 2: practice so far, I imagined for a quarterback, this is probably

947
00:34:56,920 --> 00:34:59,960
Speaker 2: tougher than other positions, trying to learn an NFL playbook

948
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:03,040
Speaker 2: a matter of forty eight hours. Maybe, how has that

949
00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:04,279
Speaker 2: process been so far for you?

950
00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:05,319
Speaker 11: Yeah, it hasn't been too bad.

951
00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:07,719
Speaker 22: You know, Davis Webb's done a great job, you know,

952
00:35:08,239 --> 00:35:10,359
Speaker 22: helping us learn and also like take like giving us

953
00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:12,800
Speaker 22: some some leeway a little bit, you know, understand the plays.

954
00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:16,360
Speaker 22: But also unfortunately but also fortunately for me, I got

955
00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:18,000
Speaker 22: to play in three different offenses in college.

956
00:35:18,160 --> 00:35:20,000
Speaker 3: I was gonna ask you that, Yeah, that definitely.

957
00:35:19,719 --> 00:35:21,240
Speaker 11: Has helped me pick stuff up quicker.

958
00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:23,200
Speaker 22: And I kind of a method of how to you know,

959
00:35:23,200 --> 00:35:25,680
Speaker 22: piece together playbook and learn it fast and to the

960
00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:27,880
Speaker 22: point where I'm feeling confident calling in the huddle one

961
00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:28,719
Speaker 22: time and getting out in.

962
00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:30,880
Speaker 2: Rolling is the language familiar to you. The way they

963
00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:32,000
Speaker 2: call him plays and everything are.

964
00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:34,720
Speaker 22: Yeah, it's a similar style, and there's there's always words

965
00:35:34,719 --> 00:35:37,439
Speaker 22: that like carry over and route names that carry over,

966
00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:39,480
Speaker 22: and but most time you have to switch out the

967
00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:42,280
Speaker 22: words for a different word. But the formula is pretty

968
00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:43,759
Speaker 22: pretty consistent for the most part.

969
00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:44,440
Speaker 11: So that's nice.

970
00:35:44,560 --> 00:35:46,400
Speaker 2: Now, we had Davis as a backup quarterback for the

971
00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:48,680
Speaker 2: Giants for a bunch of years. Funny guy, Funny guy,

972
00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:50,440
Speaker 2: What has it been like learning from him as your

973
00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:51,280
Speaker 2: offensive coordinator?

974
00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:53,880
Speaker 11: Yeah, I know, he's been awesome and he's played the position.

975
00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:55,919
Speaker 22: I think that's so awesome to have as a coach

976
00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:57,759
Speaker 22: or as a player to have a coach that's played

977
00:35:57,760 --> 00:36:00,560
Speaker 22: the position and understands, you know, from your point of view,

978
00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:03,319
Speaker 22: how the game looks and what's realistic, and uh, yeah,

979
00:36:03,360 --> 00:36:05,319
Speaker 22: it's it's been awesome. And he you know, he played

980
00:36:05,320 --> 00:36:07,040
Speaker 22: in a bowl game like this too, so he understands

981
00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:08,680
Speaker 22: what it's like for us getting a bunch of stuff

982
00:36:08,680 --> 00:36:10,360
Speaker 22: and he's like, Hey, I wanna push you guys, but

983
00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:12,000
Speaker 22: I'm not going to make you unrealistic. We're here for

984
00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:13,359
Speaker 22: a week, we're having a good time, and I want

985
00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:14,840
Speaker 22: you guys to you know, showcase what you can do

986
00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:17,440
Speaker 22: and not be kind of overwhelmed by too much information.

987
00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:20,399
Speaker 2: You mentioned the fact that you've been with three different schools, right, USC,

988
00:36:20,560 --> 00:36:23,480
Speaker 2: pitt And that'll b yu When teams ask you about

989
00:36:23,520 --> 00:36:26,440
Speaker 2: the transfer process and why you went through those different schools.

990
00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:28,680
Speaker 2: How have those conversations been in What do you say

991
00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:29,000
Speaker 2: to them?

992
00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:30,920
Speaker 22: Yeah, most teams just you know, tell me your story

993
00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:33,279
Speaker 22: and why you transferred, you know, and you know that's

994
00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:33,759
Speaker 22: the thing for me.

995
00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:35,480
Speaker 11: I never wanted to be that guy, but I pretty

996
00:36:35,560 --> 00:36:36,600
Speaker 11: much have to, you know, tell him.

997
00:36:36,640 --> 00:36:38,759
Speaker 22: You know, my coach got fired at USC. It was

998
00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:41,560
Speaker 22: an ideal situation and uh, you know, talking to the

999
00:36:41,600 --> 00:36:43,319
Speaker 22: new guy. They're bringing someone else in. It was time

1000
00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:45,960
Speaker 22: for me to move on. And when I talk about Pittsburgh,

1001
00:36:45,960 --> 00:36:47,920
Speaker 22: you know, I was going to play for Jordan Adison

1002
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:53,000
Speaker 22: all returning, senior line returning, Ryan back receiver too is returning.

1003
00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:55,360
Speaker 11: Then after spring Jordan leaves.

1004
00:36:55,920 --> 00:36:58,120
Speaker 22: We go through the season, our left tackle gets hurt

1005
00:36:58,560 --> 00:36:59,640
Speaker 22: and again we had to find you.

1006
00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:03,279
Speaker 11: Ended we were talking about me coming back from last year.

1007
00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:05,399
Speaker 22: I have to kind of think would I still come

1008
00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:07,080
Speaker 22: to the situation if I was in the portal again?

1009
00:37:07,120 --> 00:37:09,360
Speaker 11: And ultimately my in my head, I was like, no,

1010
00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:09,960
Speaker 11: I wouldn't have.

1011
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:11,480
Speaker 22: So I wanted to do what was best for me

1012
00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:14,759
Speaker 22: in my last year to give myself the best chance

1013
00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:17,000
Speaker 22: to you know, make at this level and have a year,

1014
00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:18,800
Speaker 22: you know, similar to the first couple of years of

1015
00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:19,200
Speaker 22: my career.

1016
00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:21,640
Speaker 2: Besides that, what else are you trying to get across

1017
00:37:21,680 --> 00:37:24,560
Speaker 2: to these teams and scouts and coaches in front office

1018
00:37:24,560 --> 00:37:26,319
Speaker 2: personnel when you do meet with them on the side

1019
00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:27,480
Speaker 2: during this weekend.

1020
00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:28,239
Speaker 11: I think just who I am?

1021
00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:29,520
Speaker 22: You know, I have a lot of confidence in who

1022
00:37:29,520 --> 00:37:31,040
Speaker 22: I am as a football player, as a leader, as

1023
00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:33,480
Speaker 22: a quarterback, but they don't know me, you know, so

1024
00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:36,360
Speaker 22: I need to kind of get that across and you know,

1025
00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:38,480
Speaker 22: explain my leadership style, explain how I would be on

1026
00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:40,920
Speaker 22: a day day basis my strengths as a person and

1027
00:37:40,960 --> 00:37:42,920
Speaker 22: as a quarterback, and like what, I'm confident.

1028
00:37:43,719 --> 00:37:45,920
Speaker 2: Obviously you have a ton of film out there, right

1029
00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:47,839
Speaker 2: you guys have seen you take a lot of snaps.

1030
00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:48,280
Speaker 3: To a lot of passes.

1031
00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:50,799
Speaker 2: Is there anything on the field that you feel like

1032
00:37:50,880 --> 00:37:54,439
Speaker 2: you want to show or make sure NFL scouts see

1033
00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:54,680
Speaker 2: you do?

1034
00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:55,520
Speaker 5: Yeah?

1035
00:37:55,680 --> 00:37:57,680
Speaker 22: I mean I ended the year with a with an

1036
00:37:57,840 --> 00:37:59,640
Speaker 22: owner nerve injury and at tricyp injury.

1037
00:37:59,680 --> 00:38:01,239
Speaker 11: So I think think the main thing for me coming

1038
00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:01,600
Speaker 11: out was.

1039
00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:03,960
Speaker 22: Like, hey, showing I'm healthy that can throw the ball

1040
00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:05,719
Speaker 22: the same, if not better then you know when I

1041
00:38:05,760 --> 00:38:09,920
Speaker 22: was in November going through it. So I think that's

1042
00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:11,239
Speaker 22: the main thing is to show him healthy and then

1043
00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:12,839
Speaker 22: showing him that you have a lot of prime arm

1044
00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:14,319
Speaker 22: and the throws I can make, and just proving that

1045
00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:15,480
Speaker 22: I can make every throw on the field.

1046
00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:17,920
Speaker 2: They asked you, what do you think your greatest strength

1047
00:38:18,239 --> 00:38:19,160
Speaker 2: as a quarterback is.

1048
00:38:19,239 --> 00:38:19,919
Speaker 3: What would you answer?

1049
00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:20,719
Speaker 11: I would say my arm.

1050
00:38:20,719 --> 00:38:22,160
Speaker 22: You know, I think I can make every throw on

1051
00:38:22,200 --> 00:38:24,480
Speaker 22: the field. And there's stuff I want to get better at.

1052
00:38:24,520 --> 00:38:26,839
Speaker 22: I want to get better at throwing smaller spaces off

1053
00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:29,920
Speaker 22: platform And you watch Matthew Stafford. He as a helmet

1054
00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:31,719
Speaker 22: in his chest, He's still ripping it out, you know,

1055
00:38:31,760 --> 00:38:32,880
Speaker 22: twenty yards of the field.

1056
00:38:32,840 --> 00:38:33,640
Speaker 3: No look half the time.

1057
00:38:33,719 --> 00:38:35,120
Speaker 22: Yeah, and he's not even looking at him. So I

1058
00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:36,840
Speaker 22: would like to get to that point one day. And

1059
00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:38,160
Speaker 22: you know, I've been working on it. I work with

1060
00:38:38,160 --> 00:38:40,360
Speaker 22: the same coach as he has, so that's like the standard.

1061
00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:43,800
Speaker 22: But yeah, that's what ultimately I'm pretty confident.

1062
00:38:43,560 --> 00:38:45,319
Speaker 2: You talk about working when you leave here, I'm sure

1063
00:38:45,320 --> 00:38:47,200
Speaker 2: it's time to prepare for pro Day, prepare for the

1064
00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:48,160
Speaker 2: combine and all that stuff.

1065
00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:49,600
Speaker 3: What are some of the things, aside from what.

1066
00:38:49,600 --> 00:38:51,120
Speaker 2: You already mentioned, that you're going to be focusing on

1067
00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:52,080
Speaker 2: over the next couple of months.

1068
00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:54,160
Speaker 22: Yeah, I think that's the main thing, just you know,

1069
00:38:54,160 --> 00:38:56,720
Speaker 22: putting together pro Day script, getting ready for the combine throws,

1070
00:38:56,719 --> 00:38:59,319
Speaker 22: and then hopefully running better forty then people think, yeah,

1071
00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:01,719
Speaker 22: I'm Lamar Jackson, but I think I'll run a better

1072
00:39:01,760 --> 00:39:02,920
Speaker 22: time than most people will think.

1073
00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:05,480
Speaker 2: So rookie, and thanks for joining man. Best of luck

1074
00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:06,440
Speaker 2: this weekend and the rest of the way.

1075
00:39:06,520 --> 00:39:07,480
Speaker 11: Yes, sir, thank you so much.

1076
00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:08,480
Speaker 3: And now we're.

1077
00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:11,359
Speaker 2: Joined by Justin Rodgers, defensive tackle out of Orbro Justin,

1078
00:39:11,360 --> 00:39:12,080
Speaker 2: thanks for being with us.

1079
00:39:12,120 --> 00:39:12,239
Speaker 10: Man.

1080
00:39:12,239 --> 00:39:14,080
Speaker 3: How's this week going so far? I know we're early.

1081
00:39:14,640 --> 00:39:17,080
Speaker 23: It's going great right now. I know it's really getting

1082
00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:20,560
Speaker 23: getting meeting the guys here and all that mean old faces,

1083
00:39:20,680 --> 00:39:22,839
Speaker 23: you know. So it's been fun here.

1084
00:39:23,680 --> 00:39:23,879
Speaker 3: Now.

1085
00:39:24,080 --> 00:39:26,040
Speaker 2: I want doing my work on you before I talk

1086
00:39:26,080 --> 00:39:28,000
Speaker 2: to you. I see you're listening to three forty six.

1087
00:39:28,840 --> 00:39:31,160
Speaker 2: You don't look three forty six man like like you

1088
00:39:31,200 --> 00:39:33,280
Speaker 2: wait in today what'd you weigh in at I wait.

1089
00:39:33,120 --> 00:39:34,160
Speaker 5: In here three thirty seven?

1090
00:39:34,960 --> 00:39:35,520
Speaker 12: Yeah?

1091
00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:37,520
Speaker 3: Is that a goal? You had to try to get

1092
00:39:37,560 --> 00:39:38,400
Speaker 3: the weight down a little bit?

1093
00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:40,799
Speaker 23: Or I'm still getting the wait now, I'm gonna get

1094
00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:42,040
Speaker 23: down to like three twenty.

1095
00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:44,319
Speaker 3: Why do you think that's the idea of playing wait

1096
00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:44,600
Speaker 3: for you?

1097
00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:45,000
Speaker 11: Oh?

1098
00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:48,920
Speaker 23: Just because like I just feel comfortable around here, or

1099
00:39:49,040 --> 00:39:51,040
Speaker 23: you probably get down in three twenty five.

1100
00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:54,759
Speaker 2: When you talk to teams and they ask you, where

1101
00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:56,520
Speaker 2: do you think your best spot on the offensive line is?

1102
00:39:56,520 --> 00:39:58,120
Speaker 2: Do you see yourself as that you knows? Do you

1103
00:39:58,120 --> 00:39:59,920
Speaker 2: see yourself more as like a shadey guy at three teen?

1104
00:40:00,239 --> 00:40:04,160
Speaker 23: I'd say probably shade in those? And I can play

1105
00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:07,239
Speaker 23: the three, so really all over the board for real.

1106
00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:12,279
Speaker 2: So they asked you, put position aside, what you do

1107
00:40:12,400 --> 00:40:14,000
Speaker 2: best as a player on the field right now?

1108
00:40:14,040 --> 00:40:16,480
Speaker 12: What would you tell them play the shade in and those?

1109
00:40:18,040 --> 00:40:20,600
Speaker 3: In terms of technique, what do you do best to stop.

1110
00:40:20,360 --> 00:40:23,600
Speaker 23: The run and getting up feeling making habit?

1111
00:40:24,680 --> 00:40:29,200
Speaker 3: Is it hands power, anchoring, hands.

1112
00:40:28,640 --> 00:40:32,000
Speaker 5: And power and anchoring for real? Really everything for real?

1113
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:35,040
Speaker 2: What are your goals this week that you want to show.

1114
00:40:35,360 --> 00:40:37,000
Speaker 2: Let's start with the coaches on the field first. What

1115
00:40:37,040 --> 00:40:38,080
Speaker 2: do you want to show them this.

1116
00:40:38,160 --> 00:40:40,600
Speaker 23: Show them I'm here to work and know just keep

1117
00:40:40,600 --> 00:40:44,279
Speaker 23: working from these coaches, you know, just have fun and

1118
00:40:44,440 --> 00:40:47,440
Speaker 23: learn learning, learn from these coaches for real stuff I

1119
00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:48,760
Speaker 23: can use in the near future.

1120
00:40:49,440 --> 00:40:51,360
Speaker 2: You mentioned learning you have to learn a playbalk in

1121
00:40:51,440 --> 00:40:53,920
Speaker 2: like two days. It's not easy. What has that been

1122
00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:54,399
Speaker 2: like so far?

1123
00:40:54,920 --> 00:40:59,080
Speaker 23: This is really asking questions, just having just different questions.

1124
00:40:59,400 --> 00:41:02,200
Speaker 23: I'm asking, well, everything's been easy?

1125
00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:02,560
Speaker 5: For real?

1126
00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:04,440
Speaker 3: What has it been like?

1127
00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:06,560
Speaker 2: Or what do you want to show at least and

1128
00:41:07,200 --> 00:41:09,480
Speaker 2: express to the scouts that sit down with you in

1129
00:41:09,520 --> 00:41:11,359
Speaker 2: meetings as teams, try to get to know you as

1130
00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:13,320
Speaker 2: a person as much as a player.

1131
00:41:13,760 --> 00:41:16,000
Speaker 5: I'm just a funny guy.

1132
00:41:16,480 --> 00:41:19,319
Speaker 23: I love football and just know I just want to

1133
00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:20,600
Speaker 23: take his game to the next level.

1134
00:41:21,440 --> 00:41:23,080
Speaker 2: Justin this was great man, best look the rest of

1135
00:41:23,120 --> 00:41:25,120
Speaker 2: the week. And then when you're done here, you got

1136
00:41:25,120 --> 00:41:27,799
Speaker 2: to go to do combine training, right, what's your big

1137
00:41:27,800 --> 00:41:29,640
Speaker 2: goals you start doing your training for the combiny?

1138
00:41:30,080 --> 00:41:33,680
Speaker 23: Just really like no working on mar forty and all that.

1139
00:41:34,520 --> 00:41:37,000
Speaker 23: Just working on a little bit of bench here, but

1140
00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:39,960
Speaker 23: anythink else, just you know, just getting ready for everything.

1141
00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:41,879
Speaker 3: Best of luck to you man, Appreciate the time.

1142
00:41:41,960 --> 00:41:42,359
Speaker 8: Yes, sir.

1143
00:41:43,160 --> 00:41:46,000
Speaker 3: Now we're joined by quarterback for the West team, Jarius Monroe.

1144
00:41:46,080 --> 00:41:46,360
Speaker 4: Jarious.

1145
00:41:46,440 --> 00:41:47,840
Speaker 3: Nice to meet you, man. How's the week been so

1146
00:41:47,880 --> 00:41:49,200
Speaker 3: far for you? I know what's early on?

1147
00:41:49,440 --> 00:41:52,120
Speaker 24: It's been great, man. I'm loving everybody that I'm meeting.

1148
00:41:52,680 --> 00:41:54,040
Speaker 24: I'm having a great time honestly.

1149
00:41:54,480 --> 00:41:54,839
Speaker 3: All Right.

1150
00:41:55,080 --> 00:41:57,160
Speaker 2: I got to talk to you about your FCS days because

1151
00:41:57,480 --> 00:42:00,080
Speaker 2: I cover some FCS for the NEC up here. I

1152
00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:02,080
Speaker 2: respect for the guys that run the FCS. You were

1153
00:42:02,200 --> 00:42:03,840
Speaker 2: nickels State for a long time before you went to

1154
00:42:03,920 --> 00:42:06,360
Speaker 2: two A and right. How did that help you prepare

1155
00:42:07,080 --> 00:42:09,400
Speaker 2: Nickel State for FBS football.

1156
00:42:09,600 --> 00:42:12,040
Speaker 24: It just really humbled me, man, and it put me

1157
00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:13,040
Speaker 24: in a different headspace.

1158
00:42:13,080 --> 00:42:13,160
Speaker 23: Man.

1159
00:42:13,239 --> 00:42:15,840
Speaker 24: It'll be many nights while I'm just grinding by myself,

1160
00:42:17,040 --> 00:42:18,120
Speaker 24: and it showed me that life.

1161
00:42:18,160 --> 00:42:20,040
Speaker 12: You know, I knew I was different, you know.

1162
00:42:20,160 --> 00:42:23,200
Speaker 24: So once I once I went to the FCS, it

1163
00:42:23,239 --> 00:42:25,359
Speaker 24: was it was a great, great program. I was with great,

1164
00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:29,520
Speaker 24: great head coaching, Tim Riebow. And they're still rolling, man.

1165
00:42:29,600 --> 00:42:31,760
Speaker 24: But I love the guys out there at Nicholson.

1166
00:42:33,080 --> 00:42:35,839
Speaker 2: I imagine when you got to the FBS level then

1167
00:42:35,840 --> 00:42:38,840
Speaker 2: you kind of look back because the program size is different, right,

1168
00:42:38,880 --> 00:42:40,680
Speaker 2: The amount of money in the program is different. So

1169
00:42:40,880 --> 00:42:42,359
Speaker 2: how much did you almost have to be a self

1170
00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:45,440
Speaker 2: motivator to believe in yourself to get you to that

1171
00:42:45,560 --> 00:42:46,320
Speaker 2: FBS level.

1172
00:42:46,960 --> 00:42:50,120
Speaker 24: I always believed in my talents, So believing in my

1173
00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:52,840
Speaker 24: talent wasn't the issue for me. I had that confidence

1174
00:42:52,880 --> 00:42:56,520
Speaker 24: one hundred percent just having other people see it, you know,

1175
00:42:56,840 --> 00:43:00,120
Speaker 24: having my coach trusted me, and you know, having the

1176
00:43:00,160 --> 00:43:02,200
Speaker 24: patience with me to build me to be a better player,

1177
00:43:02,239 --> 00:43:03,920
Speaker 24: because there was a lot that I didn't know, and

1178
00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:05,080
Speaker 24: I'm such a sponge man.

1179
00:43:05,440 --> 00:43:07,600
Speaker 12: Once I begin to learn things, then I just I

1180
00:43:07,680 --> 00:43:08,480
Speaker 12: just took off from there.

1181
00:43:09,040 --> 00:43:11,680
Speaker 3: You're a bigger corner. You're six to over two hundred pounds.

1182
00:43:11,719 --> 00:43:13,960
Speaker 2: If you would describe your play style to someone that's

1183
00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:15,640
Speaker 2: never seen you play before, how would you do it?

1184
00:43:15,960 --> 00:43:16,160
Speaker 13: Man?

1185
00:43:16,360 --> 00:43:18,759
Speaker 24: I'm grinding. I love this game like I love to

1186
00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:20,480
Speaker 24: get in your face. I love to lock you up

1187
00:43:20,520 --> 00:43:22,440
Speaker 24: however you want to do it. I'm ready to get

1188
00:43:22,440 --> 00:43:24,440
Speaker 24: out there and just dominate whoever's out there, you know.

1189
00:43:24,520 --> 00:43:26,279
Speaker 24: So that's how I describe my game.

1190
00:43:26,320 --> 00:43:26,480
Speaker 7: You know.

1191
00:43:26,520 --> 00:43:28,880
Speaker 24: If coach wants to say, hey, you're not gonna have

1192
00:43:28,920 --> 00:43:31,080
Speaker 24: any help on this play, then I'm that guy. I'm

1193
00:43:31,120 --> 00:43:32,600
Speaker 24: the guy that you want to be telling that too.

1194
00:43:32,920 --> 00:43:35,279
Speaker 2: Now, you were part of a two lane program that

1195
00:43:35,560 --> 00:43:38,120
Speaker 2: kind of emerges one of the better college football programs

1196
00:43:38,120 --> 00:43:40,160
Speaker 2: the last couple of years. Most are about your group

1197
00:43:40,160 --> 00:43:41,719
Speaker 2: in your team that allows you to win as many

1198
00:43:41,760 --> 00:43:42,399
Speaker 2: games as you did.

1199
00:43:42,800 --> 00:43:45,160
Speaker 24: The coaching man, Coach Fritz is such a great coach man,

1200
00:43:45,200 --> 00:43:47,279
Speaker 24: and the positions he would put us in would be

1201
00:43:47,360 --> 00:43:49,719
Speaker 24: always be great positions in the game plan. And how

1202
00:43:49,719 --> 00:43:52,120
Speaker 24: hard we practice. You know, we practice harder than we

1203
00:43:52,120 --> 00:43:54,520
Speaker 24: played the games most of the time. So I think

1204
00:43:54,520 --> 00:43:56,120
Speaker 24: that put us in the best position to win those

1205
00:43:56,120 --> 00:43:56,640
Speaker 24: many games.

1206
00:43:56,800 --> 00:43:59,359
Speaker 3: You talk about Wendy getting people's face and dominate them. Right.

1207
00:43:59,440 --> 00:44:02,319
Speaker 2: I looked up your analytics. You play press almost half

1208
00:44:02,360 --> 00:44:04,279
Speaker 2: the time. So that's what NFL teams want to see, right,

1209
00:44:04,320 --> 00:44:06,719
Speaker 2: They want to see corners that play press coverage. What

1210
00:44:06,800 --> 00:44:08,799
Speaker 2: is it about playing press coverage that you enjoy and

1211
00:44:08,840 --> 00:44:09,640
Speaker 2: you think you're good at.

1212
00:44:10,120 --> 00:44:11,960
Speaker 24: I think it's just me versus you. You know, and

1213
00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:13,960
Speaker 24: you're right here. It ain't no running away from me.

1214
00:44:14,320 --> 00:44:16,759
Speaker 24: There's no it's it's you have to beat me right now.

1215
00:44:16,920 --> 00:44:19,640
Speaker 24: So I think it's just it's a it's a type

1216
00:44:19,640 --> 00:44:21,279
Speaker 24: of mentality that you have to have to play that.

1217
00:44:21,320 --> 00:44:22,560
Speaker 24: You know, you have to be a dog to be

1218
00:44:22,600 --> 00:44:24,640
Speaker 24: a press corner. You know, that's what I love to do.

1219
00:44:24,719 --> 00:44:24,839
Speaker 9: Man.

1220
00:44:24,840 --> 00:44:26,160
Speaker 12: I like to get in your face and pressing.

1221
00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:28,840
Speaker 24: You know, I'm fine with playing any position on the field,

1222
00:44:28,880 --> 00:44:31,000
Speaker 24: but if I can get out there corner and press you,

1223
00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:32,200
Speaker 24: then you know that's what I want to do.

1224
00:44:32,480 --> 00:44:32,560
Speaker 7: Now.

1225
00:44:32,640 --> 00:44:34,080
Speaker 2: There are a couple of different ways to play press, right,

1226
00:44:34,120 --> 00:44:35,600
Speaker 2: you can try to beat somebody up. You can kind

1227
00:44:35,600 --> 00:44:36,960
Speaker 2: of press it and then mirror them a little bit.

1228
00:44:37,080 --> 00:44:38,520
Speaker 2: What's your preferred style when you're.

1229
00:44:38,440 --> 00:44:40,320
Speaker 12: Impressed depending on the opponent.

1230
00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:42,359
Speaker 24: I like to do a lot of film study on

1231
00:44:42,400 --> 00:44:45,359
Speaker 24: what guys like and what they don't like. What's their

1232
00:44:45,440 --> 00:44:49,000
Speaker 24: favorite type of routes, you know, things like that's do

1233
00:44:49,040 --> 00:44:52,160
Speaker 24: they buzz their feed? Do they come forward? Sometimes you

1234
00:44:52,200 --> 00:44:54,200
Speaker 24: have to be way less aggressive. Sometimes you have to

1235
00:44:54,200 --> 00:44:59,080
Speaker 24: be more aggressive depending on your opponent. So you just

1236
00:44:59,160 --> 00:45:01,279
Speaker 24: have to fill it out throughout the game most of

1237
00:45:01,280 --> 00:45:03,520
Speaker 24: the time, but sometimes you can see it on film.

1238
00:45:03,840 --> 00:45:05,799
Speaker 2: Now, the one thing I was impressed by watching you

1239
00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:07,680
Speaker 2: to get ready for this interview is that even though

1240
00:45:07,680 --> 00:45:09,640
Speaker 2: you play a lot of press, you're able to get

1241
00:45:09,640 --> 00:45:12,120
Speaker 2: your head around to locate the ball to get some interceptions. Now,

1242
00:45:12,160 --> 00:45:14,479
Speaker 2: and that's a tough skill, right. Some guys have trouble

1243
00:45:14,520 --> 00:45:17,040
Speaker 2: getting their head around to locate the football. How do

1244
00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:18,719
Speaker 2: you figure out when to look back?

1245
00:45:18,760 --> 00:45:20,759
Speaker 3: What are you reading? You're reading the wide receivers hands,

1246
00:45:20,800 --> 00:45:21,840
Speaker 3: you're looking at their eyes.

1247
00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:23,359
Speaker 2: How do you know when that ball's in the air

1248
00:45:23,360 --> 00:45:25,000
Speaker 2: so you can get those shoulders around to turn around

1249
00:45:25,040 --> 00:45:25,839
Speaker 2: to make a play on the ball.

1250
00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:28,200
Speaker 24: That's an art, man, It's definitely an art. There's a

1251
00:45:28,239 --> 00:45:29,920
Speaker 24: lot of receivers I played this year. I had to

1252
00:45:29,960 --> 00:45:31,719
Speaker 24: look through the film and see, you know, do this

1253
00:45:31,760 --> 00:45:34,520
Speaker 24: guy have late hands? Does he like the back shoulder?

1254
00:45:34,840 --> 00:45:36,879
Speaker 24: Does he hold his hands up there for a while

1255
00:45:36,920 --> 00:45:39,200
Speaker 24: after the catch? Is he loose with the ball after

1256
00:45:39,239 --> 00:45:41,560
Speaker 24: the catch? So things like that can help you make

1257
00:45:41,600 --> 00:45:43,719
Speaker 24: decisions on when you need to throw your hands to

1258
00:45:43,760 --> 00:45:45,680
Speaker 24: his hands because I see a lot of cornerbacks get

1259
00:45:45,719 --> 00:45:49,000
Speaker 24: pis throwing too early. But if you're able to fill

1260
00:45:49,280 --> 00:45:52,200
Speaker 24: this receiver and understand how he plays the game, it

1261
00:45:52,239 --> 00:45:56,359
Speaker 24: gets way way easier. And then also finding the ball.

1262
00:45:56,560 --> 00:45:59,480
Speaker 24: Finding the ball is a big great technique that you know.

1263
00:45:59,520 --> 00:46:01,799
Speaker 24: I'm still development, I'm still getting better at home. I'm

1264
00:46:01,800 --> 00:46:03,319
Speaker 24: a sponge man. There's so much I want to learn

1265
00:46:03,360 --> 00:46:06,080
Speaker 24: about this game. So still learning a lot of things,

1266
00:46:06,080 --> 00:46:08,200
Speaker 24: but definitely that's one of my greatest sprints.

1267
00:46:08,760 --> 00:46:09,280
Speaker 3: In zone.

1268
00:46:09,360 --> 00:46:11,439
Speaker 2: You had a couple of those interceptions with your eyes

1269
00:46:11,480 --> 00:46:12,640
Speaker 2: on the quarterback as well.

1270
00:46:13,280 --> 00:46:15,120
Speaker 3: What are the keys to being a good zone defender?

1271
00:46:15,160 --> 00:46:15,680
Speaker 3: In your eyes?

1272
00:46:16,360 --> 00:46:17,359
Speaker 12: Vision and breaking man.

1273
00:46:17,400 --> 00:46:19,680
Speaker 24: You have to break when you see that ball, release man,

1274
00:46:19,560 --> 00:46:22,080
Speaker 24: don't don't think about it. Don't think a second. You know,

1275
00:46:22,239 --> 00:46:24,480
Speaker 24: do your job and then break to that ball. You

1276
00:46:24,560 --> 00:46:26,520
Speaker 24: never know where the ball can go up. You never

1277
00:46:26,560 --> 00:46:28,040
Speaker 24: know if it can bibble, You never know how the

1278
00:46:28,040 --> 00:46:31,319
Speaker 24: ball is gonna bounce. So always just vision and break man,

1279
00:46:31,680 --> 00:46:34,640
Speaker 24: being really reactive. I've always been reactive. I think that's

1280
00:46:34,680 --> 00:46:38,200
Speaker 24: my greatest sprint. I think I'm very very quick, and

1281
00:46:38,280 --> 00:46:40,080
Speaker 24: I think I'm also very fast, so that a lot

1282
00:46:40,120 --> 00:46:42,120
Speaker 24: of people don't understand yet, but they will.

1283
00:46:42,760 --> 00:46:44,560
Speaker 2: Well, I'm going to ask you after you're done here

1284
00:46:44,600 --> 00:46:46,600
Speaker 2: and I'll circle back to practice here in a second.

1285
00:46:46,600 --> 00:46:48,319
Speaker 3: But you brought up the speed right when you leave here.

1286
00:46:48,880 --> 00:46:50,800
Speaker 2: It's all in combine training trying to get ready to

1287
00:46:50,840 --> 00:46:53,319
Speaker 2: run that forty right, what are your plans and what

1288
00:46:53,360 --> 00:46:54,600
Speaker 2: are some of your goals.

1289
00:46:54,280 --> 00:46:56,000
Speaker 3: That you begin to train for the combiny.

1290
00:46:56,880 --> 00:46:59,040
Speaker 24: My goals are you know, four three, four to four

1291
00:46:59,120 --> 00:47:02,000
Speaker 24: range with the forty. I'm just gonna keep training, you know.

1292
00:47:02,040 --> 00:47:04,920
Speaker 24: I'm training at Bomba, Ritos, and I'm just really excited

1293
00:47:04,920 --> 00:47:07,040
Speaker 24: about what he has planned for us. My numbers have

1294
00:47:07,120 --> 00:47:09,839
Speaker 24: already begin to go in the right direction, so I'm

1295
00:47:09,840 --> 00:47:11,520
Speaker 24: just ready to see how how much better they can

1296
00:47:11,640 --> 00:47:12,959
Speaker 24: do your speed?

1297
00:47:13,000 --> 00:47:13,520
Speaker 3: Your speed right?

1298
00:47:13,600 --> 00:47:16,040
Speaker 2: So how much of that is technique getting your number down,

1299
00:47:16,040 --> 00:47:18,160
Speaker 2: like learning those same techniques that track guys use that

1300
00:47:18,160 --> 00:47:20,240
Speaker 2: Olympians used to kind of get that time down.

1301
00:47:20,239 --> 00:47:22,200
Speaker 24: Right, That's the thing, you know, technique, Like you said,

1302
00:47:22,200 --> 00:47:25,239
Speaker 24: that's something that I've never been taught with this running thing.

1303
00:47:25,360 --> 00:47:29,120
Speaker 24: So just learning technique and how to have a great

1304
00:47:29,200 --> 00:47:31,279
Speaker 24: form when you're running and not be so tense. It's

1305
00:47:31,320 --> 00:47:34,000
Speaker 24: the small things that I'm learning and it's actually been

1306
00:47:34,040 --> 00:47:36,200
Speaker 24: implementing into my game and helping me a lot.

1307
00:47:36,360 --> 00:47:36,600
Speaker 5: Yeah.

1308
00:47:36,800 --> 00:47:38,239
Speaker 3: Oh to be able to translate some of that to

1309
00:47:38,280 --> 00:47:38,920
Speaker 3: the field too.

1310
00:47:38,840 --> 00:47:40,879
Speaker 12: Yeah, definitely, definitely, And I think you guys have see

1311
00:47:40,880 --> 00:47:41,719
Speaker 12: that tomorrow for sure.

1312
00:47:42,040 --> 00:47:44,360
Speaker 2: Okay, well, you're gonna hit the field for practice on Saturday.

1313
00:47:44,400 --> 00:47:46,520
Speaker 2: We're doing this interview on Friday. What do you want

1314
00:47:46,560 --> 00:47:48,439
Speaker 2: to show these coaches when you're on the practice field.

1315
00:47:48,719 --> 00:47:50,560
Speaker 12: I just want to show him that I'm the guy man.

1316
00:47:50,680 --> 00:47:52,360
Speaker 24: You know, whatever they need me to be, you know,

1317
00:47:52,520 --> 00:47:56,640
Speaker 24: a great tackler, reactive player, a great corner. Whatever they

1318
00:47:56,640 --> 00:47:58,120
Speaker 24: need me to be out there, I can be the guy.

1319
00:47:58,239 --> 00:47:59,799
Speaker 24: So I just want to make sure that I put

1320
00:47:59,800 --> 00:48:02,280
Speaker 24: that on film and put that out there that everyone

1321
00:48:02,360 --> 00:48:03,439
Speaker 24: knows that I can be the guy.

1322
00:48:03,920 --> 00:48:05,239
Speaker 2: Now, I'm sure you can be studying the hell out

1323
00:48:05,239 --> 00:48:06,920
Speaker 2: of your playbook between now and then, because you got

1324
00:48:06,920 --> 00:48:09,600
Speaker 2: to basically absorber defense in a couple of days here, right.

1325
00:48:09,719 --> 00:48:10,960
Speaker 3: What has that process been like?

1326
00:48:11,600 --> 00:48:12,799
Speaker 12: Actually pretty easy, man.

1327
00:48:13,600 --> 00:48:17,080
Speaker 24: So I've had a different DC almost every year every

1328
00:48:17,160 --> 00:48:19,800
Speaker 24: year that I've played football except my first two years.

1329
00:48:19,840 --> 00:48:24,120
Speaker 24: So I'm excited, man, I'm I'm excited to see what

1330
00:48:24,560 --> 00:48:25,280
Speaker 24: we have to offer.

1331
00:48:25,560 --> 00:48:26,799
Speaker 12: All the players that we've learned so.

1332
00:48:26,840 --> 00:48:30,160
Speaker 24: Far, I've kind of dissected them, understood how I will

1333
00:48:30,239 --> 00:48:33,080
Speaker 24: understand it in our defense, you know, translating it a

1334
00:48:33,120 --> 00:48:36,040
Speaker 24: different way, and just getting ready to communicate. Man, I

1335
00:48:36,080 --> 00:48:38,879
Speaker 24: think that's a lost art that I got to bring here.

1336
00:48:39,080 --> 00:48:41,560
Speaker 2: All right, final question, you have a chance to meet

1337
00:48:41,560 --> 00:48:43,640
Speaker 2: with scouts new with NFL teams while you're here too.

1338
00:48:43,719 --> 00:48:44,600
Speaker 3: That's a big part of this.

1339
00:48:45,320 --> 00:48:46,640
Speaker 2: What are some of the things you're trying to get

1340
00:48:46,680 --> 00:48:49,480
Speaker 2: across to them about Jerry. It's not just as a

1341
00:48:49,520 --> 00:48:50,600
Speaker 2: football player, but as a guy.

1342
00:48:51,280 --> 00:48:53,120
Speaker 12: I just want them to know I'm a great person, man.

1343
00:48:53,320 --> 00:48:56,920
Speaker 24: I'm a great energy guy. I like to be the

1344
00:48:56,960 --> 00:48:58,120
Speaker 24: happiest person in the building.

1345
00:48:58,200 --> 00:49:01,040
Speaker 12: That's just me, man. I tell than my god Taj.

1346
00:49:00,920 --> 00:49:03,120
Speaker 24: Spears and he just told me to be myself, man,

1347
00:49:03,160 --> 00:49:05,440
Speaker 24: And I think that was great advice, man, because when

1348
00:49:05,440 --> 00:49:07,360
Speaker 24: I'm being myself, I'm way more comfortable.

1349
00:49:07,360 --> 00:49:09,400
Speaker 12: I'm way more loose, and I just have fun.

1350
00:49:09,840 --> 00:49:12,360
Speaker 2: Aiji is gonna be a hell of a pro two Mannah, Definitely.

1351
00:49:13,560 --> 00:49:15,640
Speaker 2: That dude can run. Hey, Gary's good stuff. That's look

1352
00:49:15,680 --> 00:49:16,239
Speaker 2: the rest of the week, man.

1353
00:49:16,239 --> 00:49:18,120
Speaker 12: We appreciate the time to appreciate you, man.

1354
00:49:18,520 --> 00:49:22,320
Speaker 2: And now we're joined by Illinois wide receiver Isaiah Williams. Isaiah,

1355
00:49:22,360 --> 00:49:24,759
Speaker 2: first of all, thanks for being with us. How much

1356
00:49:24,760 --> 00:49:26,879
Speaker 2: have you been able to really dive in so far?

1357
00:49:26,960 --> 00:49:28,560
Speaker 2: This is the first day or here? Is it mostly

1358
00:49:28,560 --> 00:49:30,799
Speaker 2: playbook stuff? Have you been in meetings yet? What if

1359
00:49:30,840 --> 00:49:31,600
Speaker 2: you had a chance to.

1360
00:49:31,520 --> 00:49:35,120
Speaker 25: Show these coaches so far, it's just been meetings, meetings,

1361
00:49:35,120 --> 00:49:38,959
Speaker 25: as far as just learning the playbook, learning our assignments,

1362
00:49:39,560 --> 00:49:42,439
Speaker 25: meeting the coaching staff. I actually haven't had the chance

1363
00:49:42,480 --> 00:49:45,560
Speaker 25: to do interviews. Shit, that's next. So looking forward today,

1364
00:49:45,600 --> 00:49:48,200
Speaker 25: I'm feeling like this kind of a warm up for that.

1365
00:49:48,440 --> 00:49:50,200
Speaker 25: It's a good thing I'm being able to do this

1366
00:49:50,400 --> 00:49:53,359
Speaker 25: talk to you guys. But yeah, right now, the only

1367
00:49:53,400 --> 00:49:55,759
Speaker 25: thing we have to do so far was meetings and

1368
00:49:55,960 --> 00:49:58,560
Speaker 25: just meeting people. That's been the biggest thing, meeting new people,

1369
00:49:58,600 --> 00:49:59,440
Speaker 25: meeting new faces.

1370
00:49:59,520 --> 00:50:02,040
Speaker 2: All right, I'm gonna play the role of scout here, Isaiah,

1371
00:50:02,360 --> 00:50:05,280
Speaker 2: come into the NFL. What do you think you bring

1372
00:50:05,280 --> 00:50:07,040
Speaker 2: to the field as a wide receiver? What do you

1373
00:50:07,120 --> 00:50:07,680
Speaker 2: do best?

1374
00:50:07,920 --> 00:50:09,560
Speaker 3: Right now? Right now?

1375
00:50:11,120 --> 00:50:14,880
Speaker 25: I'm dependable, like you can always kind of me to

1376
00:50:14,920 --> 00:50:17,880
Speaker 25: do my job, to know my assignment, carry myself like

1377
00:50:17,920 --> 00:50:23,520
Speaker 25: a pro first and foremost elusive, have good hands, uh,

1378
00:50:23,600 --> 00:50:26,400
Speaker 25: and yeah, making plays after the catch or if you

1379
00:50:26,400 --> 00:50:28,440
Speaker 25: want to put send me on a deep route like

1380
00:50:28,480 --> 00:50:31,919
Speaker 25: whatever whatever you need, I could do it for you.

1381
00:50:31,920 --> 00:50:34,239
Speaker 2: You know you listen to one eighty, right, but when

1382
00:50:34,239 --> 00:50:36,880
Speaker 2: I watch you play, you're breaking tackles.

1383
00:50:36,920 --> 00:50:38,919
Speaker 3: I feel like you play bigger than that one eighty.

1384
00:50:39,040 --> 00:50:41,160
Speaker 3: You're laughing. You agree with that? Yeah, I agree.

1385
00:50:41,200 --> 00:50:44,239
Speaker 25: I actually waded into I actually waited in yesterday. I

1386
00:50:44,280 --> 00:50:47,080
Speaker 25: was waiting four point eight, so getting my weight up

1387
00:50:47,120 --> 00:50:51,239
Speaker 25: a little bit. But I just it goes back to

1388
00:50:51,239 --> 00:50:55,040
Speaker 25: our strength coach, just getting strong in a weight room.

1389
00:50:55,040 --> 00:50:57,279
Speaker 25: Not the biggest guy, you know, I wasn't gifted with that,

1390
00:50:57,600 --> 00:50:59,560
Speaker 25: but making a muscle what I do have, you know

1391
00:50:59,600 --> 00:51:01,880
Speaker 25: what I'm saying, And it's the hard inside that you

1392
00:51:01,920 --> 00:51:02,799
Speaker 25: know that really matter.

1393
00:51:03,200 --> 00:51:05,840
Speaker 3: So yeah, I agree with that. I play bigger than

1394
00:51:05,880 --> 00:51:06,239
Speaker 3: what I.

1395
00:51:06,160 --> 00:51:09,879
Speaker 25: Am, but a lot of that is due to our

1396
00:51:10,360 --> 00:51:13,560
Speaker 25: great strange staff, Tank righting his staff and Illinois just

1397
00:51:13,640 --> 00:51:15,319
Speaker 25: constantly getting stronger, getting better.

1398
00:51:17,080 --> 00:51:19,920
Speaker 2: What do you think is an underrated part of playing

1399
00:51:19,920 --> 00:51:22,160
Speaker 2: wide receiver that's really important that you don't think enough

1400
00:51:22,160 --> 00:51:22,840
Speaker 2: people talk.

1401
00:51:22,640 --> 00:51:26,879
Speaker 3: About like blocking like that? Yeah?

1402
00:51:26,960 --> 00:51:30,600
Speaker 25: Why just because man, you block on that on the

1403
00:51:30,640 --> 00:51:35,040
Speaker 25: perimeter them touchdown blocks. That's the difference between a running

1404
00:51:35,080 --> 00:51:37,759
Speaker 25: back getting tackled by the safety, are you making that

1405
00:51:37,800 --> 00:51:40,600
Speaker 25: block on the safety and the running back scoring a touchdown?

1406
00:51:40,840 --> 00:51:42,839
Speaker 25: And that's one thing I want to attack while I'm

1407
00:51:42,840 --> 00:51:46,040
Speaker 25: here showing people that I could block that I'm willing

1408
00:51:46,080 --> 00:51:48,879
Speaker 25: to block because I feel like it's an underrated part

1409
00:51:48,920 --> 00:51:50,960
Speaker 25: of the game that a lot of people, you know,

1410
00:51:51,080 --> 00:51:52,840
Speaker 25: take for granted because it ain't the glorious thing. It

1411
00:51:52,840 --> 00:51:55,920
Speaker 25: ain't no status statue for or you got a pancake block,

1412
00:51:56,000 --> 00:51:58,160
Speaker 25: or you made a touchdown block, it's no statue for it.

1413
00:51:59,200 --> 00:52:01,200
Speaker 25: I feel like it's something that's very underrated because you

1414
00:52:01,239 --> 00:52:03,239
Speaker 25: make that block, it's a touchdown. Like a lot of

1415
00:52:03,280 --> 00:52:06,279
Speaker 25: the times you get that safety. You're playing the Big ten,

1416
00:52:06,320 --> 00:52:06,919
Speaker 25: you better block.

1417
00:52:07,040 --> 00:52:09,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're playing the Big ten, you better blockock. You

1418
00:52:09,400 --> 00:52:12,280
Speaker 3: better have your head on the swivel. Big ten different.

1419
00:52:12,600 --> 00:52:15,279
Speaker 2: Absolutely, man, no question about it. I think you're an

1420
00:52:15,320 --> 00:52:17,759
Speaker 2: excellent route runner. You talked about being consistent and being

1421
00:52:17,760 --> 00:52:20,120
Speaker 2: where you want to be. What to you makes a

1422
00:52:20,160 --> 00:52:22,200
Speaker 2: good technical route runner.

1423
00:52:22,320 --> 00:52:26,560
Speaker 25: Technical route runner first, like you said, being detailed, if

1424
00:52:26,600 --> 00:52:29,839
Speaker 25: the quarterback want you here at this time and if

1425
00:52:29,880 --> 00:52:31,640
Speaker 25: you plust runner out at twelve yards.

1426
00:52:31,480 --> 00:52:33,000
Speaker 3: Running around at twelve yards.

1427
00:52:34,000 --> 00:52:38,120
Speaker 25: Also being able to maneuver defenders sometimes understanding it's not

1428
00:52:38,160 --> 00:52:40,800
Speaker 25: gonna be a straight line, like you're gonna have to

1429
00:52:41,040 --> 00:52:44,239
Speaker 25: give second level releases. Give a release. A great route

1430
00:52:44,280 --> 00:52:46,680
Speaker 25: runner he able to win at the line of scrimmage.

1431
00:52:47,040 --> 00:52:49,280
Speaker 25: You're also able to win at the top of the route.

1432
00:52:49,360 --> 00:52:51,480
Speaker 25: So I feel like one of the biggest things. And

1433
00:52:51,520 --> 00:52:53,600
Speaker 25: if say, if you lose at the line of scrimmage

1434
00:52:53,840 --> 00:52:55,719
Speaker 25: at the top of the ride, if you out faster.

1435
00:52:55,520 --> 00:52:57,560
Speaker 3: Than the dB, all right, great.

1436
00:52:57,640 --> 00:53:01,759
Speaker 25: But also I feel like it's it's understanding concepts and

1437
00:53:01,840 --> 00:53:05,600
Speaker 25: understanding football once you really get into like a lot

1438
00:53:05,640 --> 00:53:07,600
Speaker 25: of stuff good in one on one, but a lot

1439
00:53:07,640 --> 00:53:10,640
Speaker 25: of times you don't translate to the field, like it's

1440
00:53:10,640 --> 00:53:12,440
Speaker 25: a lot of guys like that they just gifted. But

1441
00:53:12,719 --> 00:53:15,440
Speaker 25: also you got to understand football. For example, like if

1442
00:53:15,440 --> 00:53:18,719
Speaker 25: you on the scheme and you the first progression, you

1443
00:53:18,800 --> 00:53:20,440
Speaker 25: gotta know. Only way I'm gonna get the ball if

1444
00:53:20,480 --> 00:53:22,560
Speaker 25: on the first progression is if I'm fast, like I

1445
00:53:22,560 --> 00:53:24,880
Speaker 25: gotta get to my rout fast because I'm the first progression.

1446
00:53:25,040 --> 00:53:27,879
Speaker 25: If the quarterback see me not getting separation, he's off

1447
00:53:27,880 --> 00:53:31,239
Speaker 25: of me. However, if I'm the third read, I got time.

1448
00:53:31,640 --> 00:53:33,920
Speaker 25: I don't want to win too fast and then let

1449
00:53:33,960 --> 00:53:36,719
Speaker 25: the dB catch up late, because then it's gonna mess

1450
00:53:36,760 --> 00:53:39,720
Speaker 25: up the quarterback. Look I'd rather be slow, be patient,

1451
00:53:39,800 --> 00:53:42,320
Speaker 25: and then create separation at the last minute for the quarterback.

1452
00:53:42,520 --> 00:53:44,400
Speaker 25: I feel like I understand things like that and that

1453
00:53:44,560 --> 00:53:48,240
Speaker 25: just goes back to when I play quarterback, playing quarterback

1454
00:53:48,320 --> 00:53:51,280
Speaker 25: understanding what a quarterback won't. I feel like being quarterback

1455
00:53:51,320 --> 00:53:54,520
Speaker 25: friendly first and foremost being quarterback friendly, being on the

1456
00:53:54,520 --> 00:53:57,160
Speaker 25: same paper quarterback. It's the easiest way to put it.

1457
00:53:57,560 --> 00:53:58,400
Speaker 25: That's a great answer.

1458
00:53:58,440 --> 00:54:00,960
Speaker 2: And I think probably manipulating lever just part of that too, right,

1459
00:54:01,040 --> 00:54:02,640
Speaker 2: Like if you got a route, you got to run

1460
00:54:02,680 --> 00:54:03,120
Speaker 2: a slant.

1461
00:54:03,200 --> 00:54:04,840
Speaker 3: He showed inside leverage. You got to run out. He

1462
00:54:04,840 --> 00:54:05,840
Speaker 3: shown outside leverage.

1463
00:54:05,960 --> 00:54:08,080
Speaker 2: You need to do something subtle on your route to

1464
00:54:08,160 --> 00:54:09,439
Speaker 2: get him to move right.

1465
00:54:09,560 --> 00:54:12,800
Speaker 25: Yeah, for example, like if he's playing inside, you gotta slint.

1466
00:54:13,320 --> 00:54:15,799
Speaker 25: Now you know, you gotta get him thinking like you're

1467
00:54:15,800 --> 00:54:17,759
Speaker 25: about to go fade. You're not gonna be able to

1468
00:54:17,800 --> 00:54:20,800
Speaker 25: just go inside and run and slint. So now, okay,

1469
00:54:20,840 --> 00:54:23,520
Speaker 25: how can I get him so bite on this fade

1470
00:54:23,640 --> 00:54:25,239
Speaker 25: because if I just try to run in, I'm gonna

1471
00:54:25,280 --> 00:54:27,880
Speaker 25: run right into him. Or if I got an hour route,

1472
00:54:28,440 --> 00:54:31,160
Speaker 25: how can I get him to jump inside? Or how

1473
00:54:31,160 --> 00:54:34,840
Speaker 25: can I step on his toes to get outside or

1474
00:54:34,960 --> 00:54:37,799
Speaker 25: get him running and then cut back underneath him? Just

1475
00:54:37,880 --> 00:54:41,000
Speaker 25: knowing them type things like, man, that's huge, how.

1476
00:54:40,960 --> 00:54:42,160
Speaker 3: Big of a part of this process?

1477
00:54:42,200 --> 00:54:44,520
Speaker 2: If you trying to show teams that you can trust

1478
00:54:44,520 --> 00:54:46,600
Speaker 2: me inside, but you can trust me outside too.

1479
00:54:46,880 --> 00:54:49,240
Speaker 25: Man, it's huge out Look, we just had a meeting

1480
00:54:49,640 --> 00:54:52,960
Speaker 25: with our coach, and doing the meeting, he was like, Okay,

1481
00:54:53,000 --> 00:54:54,360
Speaker 25: you guys gonna play this position.

1482
00:54:54,840 --> 00:54:56,479
Speaker 3: The first thing I said, coach, if.

1483
00:54:56,400 --> 00:54:59,120
Speaker 25: We learned the whole playbook, like can we move around

1484
00:54:59,239 --> 00:55:01,160
Speaker 25: like I want to show like I could play M,

1485
00:55:01,239 --> 00:55:02,920
Speaker 25: but I also could play Z. That's exactly what I

1486
00:55:02,960 --> 00:55:05,080
Speaker 25: told you. I said, Code, is there a way that

1487
00:55:05,120 --> 00:55:08,919
Speaker 25: the ms could play Z too? Because truthfully, I don't

1488
00:55:09,040 --> 00:55:10,960
Speaker 25: learn formation wise.

1489
00:55:11,800 --> 00:55:13,360
Speaker 3: I don't learn every position.

1490
00:55:13,040 --> 00:55:15,759
Speaker 25: Formationwise, but that's just how my brain wired from playing

1491
00:55:15,840 --> 00:55:18,160
Speaker 25: quarterback in the past. My brain wired to the point

1492
00:55:18,160 --> 00:55:22,360
Speaker 25: where I could just learn formation so like easily everybody

1493
00:55:22,440 --> 00:55:25,000
Speaker 25: instead of learning having to learn one person. So I

1494
00:55:25,040 --> 00:55:27,440
Speaker 25: asked him, I'm like, Code, is it possible for me

1495
00:55:27,520 --> 00:55:29,919
Speaker 25: to play inside, in and outside? And also I feel

1496
00:55:29,960 --> 00:55:31,959
Speaker 25: like it's a blessing that I'm on the East team

1497
00:55:32,000 --> 00:55:34,919
Speaker 25: where we're gonna run a lot of twelve and also

1498
00:55:34,960 --> 00:55:37,520
Speaker 25: a lot of eleven, which is good for me being

1499
00:55:37,560 --> 00:55:40,280
Speaker 25: able to show like, Okay, I can plan the twelve personnel,

1500
00:55:40,280 --> 00:55:44,720
Speaker 25: I can plan the eleven personnel like whatever whatever you need.

1501
00:55:45,520 --> 00:55:47,600
Speaker 2: And then finally when you leave here you head to

1502
00:55:47,680 --> 00:55:48,880
Speaker 2: do your training for the combine.

1503
00:55:48,960 --> 00:55:50,359
Speaker 3: Right, what are your major goals?

1504
00:55:50,360 --> 00:55:52,000
Speaker 2: I know probably some people see you more as an

1505
00:55:52,040 --> 00:55:53,920
Speaker 2: inside guy, and they think, inside guy, you don't need

1506
00:55:53,960 --> 00:55:56,080
Speaker 2: to have that top forty times. But if you can

1507
00:55:56,239 --> 00:55:58,080
Speaker 2: win to your point before, if you can win on

1508
00:55:58,080 --> 00:56:01,239
Speaker 2: that slot fade, that opens up everything else. Right, So

1509
00:56:01,640 --> 00:56:03,319
Speaker 2: is that an important thing for you, that to show

1510
00:56:03,400 --> 00:56:06,200
Speaker 2: them that top end forty time because and that makes

1511
00:56:06,200 --> 00:56:08,000
Speaker 2: people think, all right, well he ran a four to

1512
00:56:08,000 --> 00:56:09,880
Speaker 2: four six, maybe we can't put him outside.

1513
00:56:10,360 --> 00:56:13,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, everything, I mean everything important for me. I want

1514
00:56:13,719 --> 00:56:14,719
Speaker 3: to like.

1515
00:56:14,719 --> 00:56:16,879
Speaker 25: Even with my bench I don't want to give out

1516
00:56:16,920 --> 00:56:22,320
Speaker 25: no numbers now, but like bench forty five, every everything

1517
00:56:22,360 --> 00:56:25,000
Speaker 25: that I could test. I want to show the NFL

1518
00:56:25,040 --> 00:56:28,520
Speaker 25: scouch that I'm a complete athlete, like everything, like and

1519
00:56:28,560 --> 00:56:30,359
Speaker 25: that's been the way that I've been training, just trying

1520
00:56:30,400 --> 00:56:34,279
Speaker 25: to become one percent better every single day everything and

1521
00:56:34,440 --> 00:56:36,879
Speaker 25: just push, also pushing the guys that I'm training with,

1522
00:56:36,960 --> 00:56:38,600
Speaker 25: the other guys that's gonna be have to combine to

1523
00:56:38,680 --> 00:56:41,440
Speaker 25: other guys that's gonna have pro days, like working hard.

1524
00:56:41,480 --> 00:56:43,200
Speaker 25: So when they see me, they also work hard so

1525
00:56:43,200 --> 00:56:44,000
Speaker 25: they could get better.

1526
00:56:44,200 --> 00:56:45,440
Speaker 3: All of us can push each other.

1527
00:56:45,480 --> 00:56:48,560
Speaker 25: But truthfully, I'm trying to put up some crazy numbers

1528
00:56:48,600 --> 00:56:51,320
Speaker 25: in everything like, but it's definitely with the bench. I

1529
00:56:51,320 --> 00:56:53,600
Speaker 25: feel like the bench really gonna surprise me. But I'm

1530
00:56:53,600 --> 00:56:54,799
Speaker 25: not gonna put out no number right now.

1531
00:56:54,800 --> 00:56:56,160
Speaker 3: I ain't gonna put it out a number right now

1532
00:56:56,239 --> 00:56:56,680
Speaker 3: real quick.

1533
00:56:56,680 --> 00:56:58,480
Speaker 2: You mentioned you played quarterback a couple of times. Was

1534
00:56:58,520 --> 00:57:00,000
Speaker 2: that in college too or just in high school?

1535
00:57:00,200 --> 00:57:00,359
Speaker 3: Yeah?

1536
00:57:00,360 --> 00:57:03,799
Speaker 25: I played two years of quarterback in college. I just

1537
00:57:03,800 --> 00:57:07,719
Speaker 25: started playing receiver three years. So this is my three

1538
00:57:07,800 --> 00:57:10,879
Speaker 25: year playing receiver. Yeah, I've been playing quarterback ever since.

1539
00:57:10,880 --> 00:57:12,359
Speaker 3: So I imagine you feel like you still got room

1540
00:57:12,400 --> 00:57:14,400
Speaker 3: to grow then, right, That's why.

1541
00:57:14,280 --> 00:57:16,040
Speaker 25: I'm still learning a lot when it comes to just

1542
00:57:16,240 --> 00:57:18,880
Speaker 25: specifically the receiver position, but a lot of things that

1543
00:57:18,880 --> 00:57:21,720
Speaker 25: I learned that quarterback has helped me make that transition

1544
00:57:22,440 --> 00:57:26,160
Speaker 25: from quarterback to receiver. Just playing quarterback and understanding what

1545
00:57:26,200 --> 00:57:30,240
Speaker 25: the quarterback want, but also actually the little details of

1546
00:57:30,280 --> 00:57:31,040
Speaker 25: how to do that.

1547
00:57:31,480 --> 00:57:32,680
Speaker 3: I'm still learning all them.

1548
00:57:32,600 --> 00:57:35,200
Speaker 25: Things, like, I'm still learning them things because it hasn't

1549
00:57:35,240 --> 00:57:35,760
Speaker 25: been that long.

1550
00:57:36,080 --> 00:57:38,080
Speaker 3: Isaiah Man, this has been great. Best luck the rest

1551
00:57:38,120 --> 00:57:38,400
Speaker 3: of the way.

1552
00:57:38,480 --> 00:57:40,120
Speaker 2: Good luck with the process and hopefully we see get

1553
00:57:40,160 --> 00:57:41,000
Speaker 2: drafted nice and early.

1554
00:57:40,880 --> 00:57:42,680
Speaker 3: On draft night. Yeah, thank you, I appreciate that.

1555
00:57:43,160 --> 00:57:44,840
Speaker 2: All right, now we're joined by a name that shit's

1556
00:57:44,840 --> 00:57:47,560
Speaker 2: doun familiar to football fans, Frank or Junior. And your

1557
00:57:47,600 --> 00:57:49,280
Speaker 2: dad was on the sideline today. I had a tend

1558
00:57:49,320 --> 00:57:51,480
Speaker 2: to catch up with him. What has it been like

1559
00:57:51,520 --> 00:57:53,360
Speaker 2: talking to him? What advice has he given you about

1560
00:57:53,400 --> 00:57:55,960
Speaker 2: the process this week and making a good impression with

1561
00:57:55,960 --> 00:57:57,960
Speaker 2: the coaches and scouts as you participate here in the

1562
00:57:57,960 --> 00:57:58,400
Speaker 2: Shrine Bowl.

1563
00:57:58,520 --> 00:58:02,040
Speaker 26: Oh, my dad have been confident and throughout the whole process,

1564
00:58:02,040 --> 00:58:02,920
Speaker 26: he's been on my side.

1565
00:58:03,120 --> 00:58:04,960
Speaker 27: He just tell me be where your feet are.

1566
00:58:05,360 --> 00:58:08,120
Speaker 26: Enjoy the process because not too many get this process,

1567
00:58:08,120 --> 00:58:10,440
Speaker 26: and not everyone that you're going to be able to

1568
00:58:10,440 --> 00:58:12,080
Speaker 26: be around is going to be in your shoes. So

1569
00:58:12,320 --> 00:58:14,880
Speaker 26: shall enjoy it, work hard every day, don't take it

1570
00:58:14,920 --> 00:58:17,120
Speaker 26: for granted, and just take it as a blessing for

1571
00:58:17,160 --> 00:58:17,600
Speaker 26: what it is.

1572
00:58:17,960 --> 00:58:19,040
Speaker 3: What are your personal goals?

1573
00:58:19,040 --> 00:58:21,240
Speaker 2: What do you want to show the coaches on the field,

1574
00:58:21,240 --> 00:58:23,120
Speaker 2: and then when you get into these interviews and meetings,

1575
00:58:23,160 --> 00:58:25,640
Speaker 2: what do you want to kind of get across about yourself.

1576
00:58:26,080 --> 00:58:27,440
Speaker 27: I want to show in these interviews.

1577
00:58:27,440 --> 00:58:29,040
Speaker 26: I want to show how small I am, how much

1578
00:58:29,040 --> 00:58:31,640
Speaker 26: football and Avene absolutely have, and how I see the

1579
00:58:31,680 --> 00:58:33,400
Speaker 26: game as a test match, not checkers.

1580
00:58:33,840 --> 00:58:36,040
Speaker 27: So I'm just looking on the field.

1581
00:58:36,080 --> 00:58:39,200
Speaker 26: I'm looking forward to showcasing how hard I work, showcasing

1582
00:58:39,240 --> 00:58:42,040
Speaker 26: all my skills, and displaying my leadership as well.

1583
00:58:42,440 --> 00:58:43,760
Speaker 3: Now you've had one practice already.

1584
00:58:43,800 --> 00:58:45,680
Speaker 2: How has it been trying to digest the playbook and

1585
00:58:45,680 --> 00:58:47,680
Speaker 2: turn it around in you know, twenty four to forty

1586
00:58:47,720 --> 00:58:48,160
Speaker 2: eight hours.

1587
00:58:48,800 --> 00:58:51,920
Speaker 27: It's been good. The playbook's been transitioning.

1588
00:58:51,960 --> 00:58:52,240
Speaker 4: Well.

1589
00:58:52,560 --> 00:58:54,480
Speaker 26: I've been through a number system, so we're doing number

1590
00:58:54,520 --> 00:58:57,480
Speaker 26: system here, so I've been through it before. There's a

1591
00:58:57,480 --> 00:58:59,680
Speaker 26: lot of stuff that I already seen, just different language,

1592
00:58:59,720 --> 00:59:01,920
Speaker 26: So just trying to get used to the language of it.

1593
00:59:03,400 --> 00:59:05,840
Speaker 2: When you talk to some of these teams about what

1594
00:59:05,920 --> 00:59:07,720
Speaker 2: your role might be in the NFL. Obviously, you've had

1595
00:59:07,720 --> 00:59:10,400
Speaker 2: two straight thousand yard years. You've been a bellcal in college, right,

1596
00:59:10,640 --> 00:59:12,600
Speaker 2: are you trying to convince these guys that even though

1597
00:59:12,600 --> 00:59:14,720
Speaker 2: maybe you're not the biggest guy from a statue of perspective,

1598
00:59:14,760 --> 00:59:16,640
Speaker 2: height and weight, that you can be a bell cow

1599
00:59:16,720 --> 00:59:17,760
Speaker 2: at the pro level as well.

1600
00:59:18,040 --> 00:59:20,040
Speaker 27: I'm not a guy who likes to tell you, I'll

1601
00:59:20,080 --> 00:59:21,200
Speaker 27: try to show you every day.

1602
00:59:21,200 --> 00:59:21,480
Speaker 10: You like.

1603
00:59:21,720 --> 00:59:24,480
Speaker 26: Whatever team who's going to drop me or pick me

1604
00:59:24,560 --> 00:59:26,360
Speaker 26: up in free agency, I'm just going to show them

1605
00:59:26,360 --> 00:59:28,640
Speaker 26: every day that I come willing to work, and my

1606
00:59:28,720 --> 00:59:31,560
Speaker 26: success is not a mistake. It comes from how hard

1607
00:59:31,560 --> 00:59:33,760
Speaker 26: I work in practice, how much time I put into

1608
00:59:33,800 --> 00:59:34,120
Speaker 26: the game.

1609
00:59:34,480 --> 00:59:37,440
Speaker 2: You talk about treating running back as playing chess and

1610
00:59:37,480 --> 00:59:40,240
Speaker 2: notts checkers. Right, what part of the art of playing

1611
00:59:40,320 --> 00:59:43,360
Speaker 2: running back that maybe you really appreciate. You don't think

1612
00:59:43,360 --> 00:59:45,840
Speaker 2: people on the outside that don't play the position understand

1613
00:59:46,160 --> 00:59:47,400
Speaker 2: what makes a good running back.

1614
00:59:48,040 --> 00:59:51,040
Speaker 27: How being able to use your feet as an advantage.

1615
00:59:51,240 --> 00:59:53,080
Speaker 26: Being able to get in and out of tight space

1616
00:59:53,200 --> 00:59:57,160
Speaker 26: is being able to hit tight creases that others might

1617
00:59:57,200 --> 00:59:59,080
Speaker 26: not and others might not see it as a whole,

1618
00:59:59,120 --> 01:00:01,800
Speaker 26: but being able to use your vision and being able

1619
01:00:01,840 --> 01:00:03,600
Speaker 26: to use your being.

1620
01:00:04,080 --> 01:00:06,600
Speaker 27: It's more of a hand game than a physical game.

1621
01:00:06,640 --> 01:00:09,840
Speaker 27: I feel like, because as long as you're seeing things.

1622
01:00:09,600 --> 01:00:12,080
Speaker 26: Well, as long as you're reacting well, you'll be fine

1623
01:00:12,080 --> 01:00:12,720
Speaker 26: at running back.

1624
01:00:12,960 --> 01:00:14,920
Speaker 2: I gotta imagine a lot of that is vision and

1625
01:00:14,960 --> 01:00:16,920
Speaker 2: trying to set up your blocks too, right, And I

1626
01:00:16,920 --> 01:00:18,600
Speaker 2: guess that's kind of part of the chest that.

1627
01:00:18,640 --> 01:00:20,760
Speaker 3: You're talking about, right, Yes, they're yes there.

1628
01:00:21,160 --> 01:00:22,760
Speaker 2: When you leave here and you start getting ready for

1629
01:00:22,760 --> 01:00:25,320
Speaker 2: the combine, right and your offseason training, your pro day

1630
01:00:25,360 --> 01:00:27,200
Speaker 2: stuff like that. What are some of the ming goals

1631
01:00:27,240 --> 01:00:28,840
Speaker 2: you have in mind as you kind of start with

1632
01:00:28,840 --> 01:00:29,920
Speaker 2: that training when you leave here.

1633
01:00:30,760 --> 01:00:33,520
Speaker 26: I want to just try to improve my forty, continue

1634
01:00:33,520 --> 01:00:36,160
Speaker 26: to get stronger, and I want to show how good

1635
01:00:36,200 --> 01:00:38,160
Speaker 26: I can catch the ball as well, how good of

1636
01:00:38,160 --> 01:00:39,880
Speaker 26: a route runner I am?

1637
01:00:39,920 --> 01:00:43,720
Speaker 2: Anything technique specifically that you're trying to work on or improof.

1638
01:00:45,800 --> 01:00:48,400
Speaker 26: I'm just trying to get better all around, not just

1639
01:00:48,440 --> 01:00:50,960
Speaker 26: one thing, just get better all around. This is the

1640
01:00:51,000 --> 01:00:53,080
Speaker 26: time to do it, so I'm taking it serious and

1641
01:00:53,120 --> 01:00:53,959
Speaker 26: just trying to get better.

1642
01:00:54,160 --> 01:00:56,280
Speaker 2: Well, Frank, best luck. We appreciate you joining us. Thank you,

1643
01:00:56,680 --> 01:00:58,840
Speaker 2: and then we're joined by edge player.

1644
01:00:58,920 --> 01:01:00,440
Speaker 3: Y'll be Yoki. Yabby.

1645
01:01:00,680 --> 01:01:04,280
Speaker 2: You've been with four different college programs, sorts of games played.

1646
01:01:04,320 --> 01:01:05,840
Speaker 2: You had a little pit stop in Houston along the

1647
01:01:05,840 --> 01:01:08,640
Speaker 2: way too. Right, When teams get you in these meetings

1648
01:01:08,640 --> 01:01:11,920
Speaker 2: and then they ask you about swapping teams year to

1649
01:01:12,000 --> 01:01:14,160
Speaker 2: year and why what do you tell them?

1650
01:01:14,720 --> 01:01:18,560
Speaker 21: Immaturity, Like you know, younger Yabi is a different Yabby

1651
01:01:18,640 --> 01:01:20,320
Speaker 21: from Yabby right now.

1652
01:01:20,640 --> 01:01:23,200
Speaker 8: And my last move to Charlotte was a loyalty thing.

1653
01:01:23,280 --> 01:01:25,760
Speaker 21: My head coach was at Michigan, and that's also why

1654
01:01:25,760 --> 01:01:28,000
Speaker 21: I chose Michigan over Georgia and se because those are

1655
01:01:28,040 --> 01:01:29,520
Speaker 21: the other schools I was looking at at the time

1656
01:01:29,520 --> 01:01:29,840
Speaker 21: when I.

1657
01:01:29,800 --> 01:01:31,000
Speaker 8: Graduated from me T. Martin.

1658
01:01:31,600 --> 01:01:34,200
Speaker 21: So I just felt and also I wanted to be

1659
01:01:34,320 --> 01:01:37,960
Speaker 21: a financial literate, so I chose one to Charlotte to like,

1660
01:01:38,000 --> 01:01:39,840
Speaker 21: you know, damn hear come getting my NBA in the fall,

1661
01:01:40,760 --> 01:01:43,240
Speaker 21: and I chose to do that so I can become

1662
01:01:43,360 --> 01:01:45,160
Speaker 21: like like when I do have money, be able to

1663
01:01:45,200 --> 01:01:47,160
Speaker 21: spend it and I'll just blow it. And I just

1664
01:01:47,160 --> 01:01:48,800
Speaker 21: thought it was a good move, especially when me having

1665
01:01:48,800 --> 01:01:52,800
Speaker 21: a daughter, like I'm more I'm a family man, so

1666
01:01:52,960 --> 01:01:54,520
Speaker 21: I just think about her, like you know, with all

1667
01:01:54,520 --> 01:01:55,120
Speaker 21: my decisions.

1668
01:01:55,680 --> 01:01:58,360
Speaker 2: No, absolutely, I think those are fantastic reasons. What did

1669
01:01:58,440 --> 01:02:01,840
Speaker 2: you learn about the game about yourself going through that

1670
01:02:01,880 --> 01:02:04,160
Speaker 2: many different stops and having to learn new places, learn

1671
01:02:04,200 --> 01:02:05,919
Speaker 2: new coaches, learn new systems along the way.

1672
01:02:05,960 --> 01:02:08,240
Speaker 21: I learned I'm very easily adaptable in the sense of,

1673
01:02:08,280 --> 01:02:09,840
Speaker 21: like you know, it doesn't matter where, like I can

1674
01:02:09,840 --> 01:02:11,600
Speaker 21: literally hop into something and just be like you know,

1675
01:02:11,840 --> 01:02:13,840
Speaker 21: cool with is mamthis cold and memraphis.

1676
01:02:13,440 --> 01:02:15,960
Speaker 8: Hot, Like I'm cool with everything.

1677
01:02:16,160 --> 01:02:17,920
Speaker 21: I think there's also been from like you know, Baltimore

1678
01:02:17,960 --> 01:02:19,320
Speaker 21: and Baltimore we have really hot summers.

1679
01:02:19,400 --> 01:02:20,760
Speaker 8: Then we have really cool winners.

1680
01:02:20,520 --> 01:02:23,080
Speaker 3: Too, say in New York, Dude, I feel you exactly.

1681
01:02:23,200 --> 01:02:26,400
Speaker 8: So like it wasn't anything, like you know, it wasn't

1682
01:02:26,400 --> 01:02:27,000
Speaker 8: really too hard.

1683
01:02:27,200 --> 01:02:28,680
Speaker 21: The biggest thing is like you know, just leaving like

1684
01:02:28,720 --> 01:02:30,160
Speaker 21: you know, some of the brothers, like you know that

1685
01:02:30,400 --> 01:02:33,200
Speaker 21: I get along the journey. That was a little difficult,

1686
01:02:33,200 --> 01:02:35,320
Speaker 21: but like you know, like real brothers, we always stay,

1687
01:02:35,400 --> 01:02:38,640
Speaker 21: like you know, in contact, and that's that has.

1688
01:02:38,720 --> 01:02:41,880
Speaker 2: Those experience help you drop in here where you have

1689
01:02:41,960 --> 01:02:44,560
Speaker 2: to learn a system and a playbook in you know,

1690
01:02:44,680 --> 01:02:47,120
Speaker 2: forty eight seventy two hours and just be ready to

1691
01:02:47,120 --> 01:02:48,360
Speaker 2: execute it very quickly.

1692
01:02:49,400 --> 01:02:51,160
Speaker 21: Yeah, but I feel like that kind of stemmed from

1693
01:02:51,760 --> 01:02:55,280
Speaker 21: Batman Michigan in the sense of so I rolled in

1694
01:02:55,520 --> 01:02:59,320
Speaker 21: Michigan late, so I had to learn the playbook really fast.

1695
01:02:59,320 --> 01:02:59,880
Speaker 8: At Michigan.

1696
01:03:00,680 --> 01:03:02,880
Speaker 21: Uh, at first, it was just gonna be like okay,

1697
01:03:02,920 --> 01:03:05,320
Speaker 21: y'all be you don't even play like third downs because

1698
01:03:05,360 --> 01:03:06,960
Speaker 21: like you know, we just trust you right now to

1699
01:03:07,000 --> 01:03:09,880
Speaker 21: just rush then as like, you know, as I showed

1700
01:03:09,880 --> 01:03:12,440
Speaker 21: that I knew the playbook, I was able to like

1701
01:03:12,440 --> 01:03:14,680
Speaker 21: you know, drop and coverage a couple of times, long

1702
01:03:14,720 --> 01:03:17,000
Speaker 21: stick and stuff like that, running different type of twisting

1703
01:03:17,040 --> 01:03:20,360
Speaker 21: games and uh and Obama like it's it's that symbol

1704
01:03:20,400 --> 01:03:21,320
Speaker 21: you don't know the playbook.

1705
01:03:21,360 --> 01:03:23,000
Speaker 8: You're just not gonna play right.

1706
01:03:23,040 --> 01:03:25,280
Speaker 21: Yeah, Like how sa same as real cut throat about it,

1707
01:03:25,320 --> 01:03:27,400
Speaker 21: Like he'll tell you like, I don't care how good

1708
01:03:27,400 --> 01:03:29,360
Speaker 21: you are. It was somebody that for me was just

1709
01:03:29,400 --> 01:03:30,520
Speaker 21: as good, if not better.

1710
01:03:30,360 --> 01:03:31,360
Speaker 8: Before or after.

1711
01:03:31,480 --> 01:03:34,040
Speaker 21: It's gonna be after you and like and if they

1712
01:03:34,080 --> 01:03:35,520
Speaker 21: don't want to playbook, they're gonna be in the same

1713
01:03:35,560 --> 01:03:37,600
Speaker 21: position you are. So like, you know, there's always that

1714
01:03:37,600 --> 01:03:40,760
Speaker 21: cutthroat language and uh kind of used to it.

1715
01:03:41,200 --> 01:03:43,960
Speaker 2: You're your first practice today, you would quite the highlight

1716
01:03:44,000 --> 01:03:47,000
Speaker 2: play rushing off of the left tackle. You've long armed,

1717
01:03:47,000 --> 01:03:49,080
Speaker 2: have been power rushing them, you put them on his back.

1718
01:03:49,080 --> 01:03:50,480
Speaker 2: How do you think your first practice went?

1719
01:03:50,760 --> 01:03:51,040
Speaker 5: Uh?

1720
01:03:51,160 --> 01:03:54,680
Speaker 8: It went, Uh, it went decent. I fallstep both of those.

1721
01:03:55,360 --> 01:03:57,120
Speaker 21: I could do better, a better job of getting off

1722
01:03:57,160 --> 01:03:59,800
Speaker 21: the ball, Uh, using my arms more effectively, using my

1723
01:04:00,440 --> 01:04:02,640
Speaker 21: I mean god, it gave me these arms so like,

1724
01:04:02,680 --> 01:04:05,000
Speaker 21: you know, I need to separate them instead of like

1725
01:04:05,000 --> 01:04:06,560
Speaker 21: you know, being a little bit up too close. I

1726
01:04:06,680 --> 01:04:07,880
Speaker 21: just look at it more like, you know, if that

1727
01:04:07,960 --> 01:04:09,920
Speaker 21: was a game rep that, like, yeah, I might have

1728
01:04:09,960 --> 01:04:12,280
Speaker 21: got a sack, but it's also kind of debatable. Quarterback

1729
01:04:12,360 --> 01:04:15,720
Speaker 21: might like going against somebody like Lamar Jackson. He's a maneuver.

1730
01:04:16,040 --> 01:04:17,600
Speaker 21: Yeah he's out, you know see what I'm saying. So

1731
01:04:17,720 --> 01:04:20,840
Speaker 21: I feel like tomorrow I'll do a better job of

1732
01:04:20,880 --> 01:04:23,000
Speaker 21: like making my rushes more defined. Like so if there

1733
01:04:23,080 --> 01:04:25,480
Speaker 21: are wins, like you can tell they're clear, clean wins

1734
01:04:25,480 --> 01:04:27,480
Speaker 21: and not just oh yeah he muttered the dude, but

1735
01:04:27,800 --> 01:04:28,840
Speaker 21: like clean wins.

1736
01:04:29,080 --> 01:04:31,160
Speaker 2: You talk about your length, Do you consider that your

1737
01:04:31,160 --> 01:04:32,760
Speaker 2: greatest strength of the pass rusher right now?

1738
01:04:32,840 --> 01:04:33,560
Speaker 3: Or is it something else?

1739
01:04:33,640 --> 01:04:36,240
Speaker 21: My greatest numbers pass rusher is that I'm growing, Like

1740
01:04:36,280 --> 01:04:38,280
Speaker 21: I'm not just one type of pass rusher. You know

1741
01:04:38,280 --> 01:04:40,240
Speaker 21: how it's a lot of speed, guys, there's a lot

1742
01:04:40,240 --> 01:04:42,960
Speaker 21: of power guys. I feel like I'm a happy median,

1743
01:04:43,080 --> 01:04:44,720
Speaker 21: you know what I'm saying. And I feel like it's

1744
01:04:44,720 --> 01:04:47,240
Speaker 21: out like a shout out to Aiden Hudginson because like,

1745
01:04:47,240 --> 01:04:48,960
Speaker 21: you know, he actually like I feel like him and

1746
01:04:49,040 --> 01:04:51,240
Speaker 21: Micah they're actually like you know, bringing like you know,

1747
01:04:51,320 --> 01:04:53,160
Speaker 21: that different element to the game where like these guys

1748
01:04:53,160 --> 01:04:55,240
Speaker 21: are fast off the edge, these guys are also powerful,

1749
01:04:55,360 --> 01:04:57,040
Speaker 21: you feel me, so like you know, you have to

1750
01:04:57,040 --> 01:04:59,760
Speaker 21: really set them honest versus like you know, uh, you know,

1751
01:04:59,800 --> 01:05:01,920
Speaker 21: this not no shot to anyone, but like you know,

1752
01:05:01,960 --> 01:05:04,360
Speaker 21: you do have certain guys that are literally speed rushers

1753
01:05:04,400 --> 01:05:06,080
Speaker 21: in there, like you know, they will get run up

1754
01:05:06,080 --> 01:05:08,400
Speaker 21: the field and uh, or you have guys that are

1755
01:05:08,400 --> 01:05:09,200
Speaker 21: power rushers and they.

1756
01:05:09,200 --> 01:05:10,960
Speaker 8: Really like you know, it doesn't work. They're just right

1757
01:05:11,000 --> 01:05:11,960
Speaker 8: there and they're hand fighting.

1758
01:05:12,600 --> 01:05:15,880
Speaker 21: And so finally that happy medium between both and having

1759
01:05:15,920 --> 01:05:18,000
Speaker 21: like you know, multiple moves in your tool bag is

1760
01:05:18,040 --> 01:05:19,680
Speaker 21: always like you know, a big thing to have.

1761
01:05:20,000 --> 01:05:21,680
Speaker 2: What I gotta imagine too, right, But then when you

1762
01:05:21,680 --> 01:05:24,320
Speaker 2: study your opponent and if you have multiple tools, you

1763
01:05:24,360 --> 01:05:26,280
Speaker 2: can really adjust you you're gonna do based on their

1764
01:05:26,280 --> 01:05:27,120
Speaker 2: strengths and weakness, is.

1765
01:05:27,160 --> 01:05:30,560
Speaker 21: Right, Yeah, Like you just look at tackles like angles

1766
01:05:30,880 --> 01:05:32,760
Speaker 21: and like how deep they are in their stance, Like

1767
01:05:32,800 --> 01:05:35,040
Speaker 21: you know, I feel like the deeper the faster they're

1768
01:05:35,040 --> 01:05:35,320
Speaker 21: trying to.

1769
01:05:35,320 --> 01:05:37,640
Speaker 8: Get back, the more up they are, the more they're.

1770
01:05:37,440 --> 01:05:39,080
Speaker 21: Trying to like you know, damn near wind you out,

1771
01:05:39,440 --> 01:05:42,960
Speaker 21: excuse me and uh, And I feel like you know,

1772
01:05:43,080 --> 01:05:44,920
Speaker 21: just the small little tendencies. But that also all that

1773
01:05:44,920 --> 01:05:48,120
Speaker 21: comes back from Bama, like you know, and that's like

1774
01:05:48,120 --> 01:05:50,960
Speaker 21: you know, knowing your opponent, really studying your opponent and

1775
01:05:51,960 --> 01:05:55,040
Speaker 21: like shout out to us, saving shout out to coach Syle,

1776
01:05:55,240 --> 01:05:58,360
Speaker 21: even coach Toss because they were real big on that,

1777
01:05:58,640 --> 01:05:59,920
Speaker 21: like you know, knowing the person you're going to again

1778
01:06:00,040 --> 01:06:02,240
Speaker 21: before you go against them because they might study film

1779
01:06:02,240 --> 01:06:04,200
Speaker 21: a little bit, but you should know everything about that guy.

1780
01:06:04,440 --> 01:06:05,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, you were a five star recruit.

1781
01:06:05,840 --> 01:06:07,520
Speaker 2: As you move from place to place, did you pick

1782
01:06:07,640 --> 01:06:11,000
Speaker 2: up different things from different coaches and players? So obviously

1783
01:06:11,040 --> 01:06:13,280
Speaker 2: if you're in one environment, you master that environment and

1784
01:06:13,320 --> 01:06:15,760
Speaker 2: what they're teaching. But if you bump the different spots,

1785
01:06:15,800 --> 01:06:17,080
Speaker 2: different coaches coach different ways.

1786
01:06:17,160 --> 01:06:18,840
Speaker 21: Right, Yeah, I look at myself like a sponge. You

1787
01:06:18,880 --> 01:06:21,400
Speaker 21: feel me like you're never too old to learn. You

1788
01:06:21,440 --> 01:06:25,440
Speaker 21: feel me like nobody's perfect. So by me bringing to

1789
01:06:25,480 --> 01:06:27,760
Speaker 21: like you know, multiple places, I tried, I did try

1790
01:06:27,800 --> 01:06:29,400
Speaker 21: to like pick up different things. And like I was

1791
01:06:29,400 --> 01:06:32,640
Speaker 21: talking to David, he was at Houston. I was talking

1792
01:06:32,680 --> 01:06:34,440
Speaker 21: to him and I was just like a bra Like

1793
01:06:34,480 --> 01:06:37,080
Speaker 21: I like your game, you feel me and also like Xavier,

1794
01:06:37,280 --> 01:06:38,960
Speaker 21: Xavier is a guy that, like you know, will come

1795
01:06:39,000 --> 01:06:40,800
Speaker 21: out of high school. I've been watching Xavier and I

1796
01:06:40,800 --> 01:06:42,320
Speaker 21: told him that today to his face. I'm like, bro,

1797
01:06:42,400 --> 01:06:44,080
Speaker 21: like I've been a fan, you understand I'm saying, like

1798
01:06:44,240 --> 01:06:46,680
Speaker 21: I'm not. I'm not too prideful to say that, because

1799
01:06:46,680 --> 01:06:48,760
Speaker 21: like you know, game recognize this game, and I feel

1800
01:06:48,800 --> 01:06:50,200
Speaker 21: like we all can learn from each other. And I

1801
01:06:50,200 --> 01:06:51,760
Speaker 21: feel like that's why, like you know, events like this

1802
01:06:51,800 --> 01:06:54,120
Speaker 21: are so like you know, so productive for all like

1803
01:06:54,160 --> 01:06:56,440
Speaker 21: our futures, because you could like pick up things that

1804
01:06:56,480 --> 01:06:58,480
Speaker 21: like you know, other people might be struggling on and

1805
01:06:58,680 --> 01:07:00,200
Speaker 21: they might be like give you a little short cut.

1806
01:07:00,600 --> 01:07:01,640
Speaker 3: Final two questions.

1807
01:07:01,640 --> 01:07:04,560
Speaker 2: One, anything that you have on your checklist that you

1808
01:07:04,600 --> 01:07:07,040
Speaker 2: want to either show coaches on the field this week

1809
01:07:07,160 --> 01:07:09,240
Speaker 2: or you want to get across two scouts when you're

1810
01:07:09,240 --> 01:07:11,120
Speaker 2: in your meetings, Like what are your priorities that you

1811
01:07:11,120 --> 01:07:12,840
Speaker 2: want to show improve over the course of this week.

1812
01:07:12,920 --> 01:07:15,240
Speaker 8: I just want to dominate, like continues to dominate.

1813
01:07:15,320 --> 01:07:17,720
Speaker 21: Today was a decent day, Like like I want you

1814
01:07:17,760 --> 01:07:19,640
Speaker 21: to like you know, say the same thing or oh, yeah,

1815
01:07:19,640 --> 01:07:21,000
Speaker 21: you got a really highlight date tomorrow.

1816
01:07:21,400 --> 01:07:22,720
Speaker 8: Mat fan, I'm tomorrow at the end of the week.

1817
01:07:22,720 --> 01:07:24,240
Speaker 21: You had a highlight week, you know what I'm saying, Like,

1818
01:07:24,280 --> 01:07:25,960
Speaker 21: I want to stand out like a sore thumb, and

1819
01:07:26,000 --> 01:07:27,600
Speaker 21: then I feel like I won't feel content, but I

1820
01:07:27,600 --> 01:07:30,840
Speaker 21: feel like, okay, yeah, I'm on the right right your path.

1821
01:07:30,760 --> 01:07:31,040
Speaker 3: All right.

1822
01:07:31,040 --> 01:07:32,880
Speaker 2: The final question when you leave here, it's time to

1823
01:07:32,880 --> 01:07:34,440
Speaker 2: get ready for your pro day, right, time to get

1824
01:07:34,480 --> 01:07:35,400
Speaker 2: ready for the combine.

1825
01:07:36,320 --> 01:07:37,800
Speaker 3: What are the things you're going to be focusing on

1826
01:07:37,800 --> 01:07:40,760
Speaker 3: in your training that you want to test really well

1827
01:07:40,800 --> 01:07:41,520
Speaker 3: at when.

1828
01:07:41,400 --> 01:07:43,440
Speaker 8: You that's all say watch the forty.

1829
01:07:44,320 --> 01:07:46,520
Speaker 2: You say forties, and a lot of the times pastors

1830
01:07:46,560 --> 01:07:48,320
Speaker 2: just people care about that three cone drol a lot

1831
01:07:48,400 --> 01:07:49,600
Speaker 2: and that could be pretty predictive.

1832
01:07:49,640 --> 01:07:50,960
Speaker 3: But the forty is what you're focusing on.

1833
01:07:51,160 --> 01:07:55,280
Speaker 21: Watch the forties, Watch the forty, and this is the giants.

1834
01:07:55,320 --> 01:07:57,760
Speaker 21: Saw I do have some of the giants. Gary Brightwell,

1835
01:07:57,880 --> 01:08:00,000
Speaker 21: that was my running back in high school. Oh really yeah,

1836
01:08:00,680 --> 01:08:01,280
Speaker 21: Gay Yeah.

1837
01:08:01,400 --> 01:08:01,640
Speaker 8: St.

1838
01:08:01,680 --> 01:08:03,960
Speaker 21: Francis shout out to Gary, like, you know, I've talked.

1839
01:08:04,000 --> 01:08:06,240
Speaker 21: I talked to Gary like last week and uh, like

1840
01:08:06,280 --> 01:08:08,440
Speaker 21: you know, he's another guy like throughout my journey, always

1841
01:08:08,480 --> 01:08:10,320
Speaker 21: like you know, I had my back, always talk the

1842
01:08:10,800 --> 01:08:12,760
Speaker 21: talk confidence into me and like you know, just told

1843
01:08:12,800 --> 01:08:14,720
Speaker 21: me a bro like don't stop, don't give up.

1844
01:08:14,960 --> 01:08:15,560
Speaker 8: Shout to Gary.

1845
01:08:15,560 --> 01:08:16,800
Speaker 21: It's not a lot of people that, like you know,

1846
01:08:16,960 --> 01:08:18,960
Speaker 21: are there. He was there with me when everything was good.

1847
01:08:18,960 --> 01:08:20,360
Speaker 21: He was also there with me when I was going

1848
01:08:20,400 --> 01:08:22,519
Speaker 21: through everything that was bad as well. So I love

1849
01:08:22,560 --> 01:08:24,280
Speaker 21: him like a brother and shot out to him.

1850
01:08:24,439 --> 01:08:26,400
Speaker 3: Y'abby, best to luck man. It was nice getting know

1851
01:08:26,439 --> 01:08:27,080
Speaker 3: you man. Appreciate it.

1852
01:08:27,160 --> 01:08:28,320
Speaker 8: Yes, sir, thank you.

1853
01:08:28,320 --> 01:08:29,479
Speaker 1: You're ready for a change.

1854
01:08:29,640 --> 01:08:32,400
Speaker 17: Payday comes early with Citizens, so go to that retreat.

1855
01:08:33,240 --> 01:08:34,679
Speaker 12: Knew you move to the country.

1856
01:08:35,360 --> 01:08:38,840
Speaker 8: Now you're raising goats and launching a lifestyle brand. Are

1857
01:08:38,920 --> 01:08:40,559
Speaker 8: you ready for all that life brings?

1858
01:08:43,439 --> 01:08:45,599
Speaker 2: Do you want a chance to win ten thousand dollars

1859
01:08:45,640 --> 01:08:48,719
Speaker 2: for your small business? Enter to win a Citizen Small

1860
01:08:48,760 --> 01:08:52,800
Speaker 2: Business Community Champion Award by sharing how your company makes

1861
01:08:52,840 --> 01:08:56,960
Speaker 2: a positive impact on your community. Entered Citizens Bank, dot

1862
01:08:56,960 --> 01:09:01,880
Speaker 2: Com Forward Slash Business Dash Champion Citizens the official bank

1863
01:09:02,120 --> 01:09:04,519
Speaker 2: of the New York Giants. And now we're drawn by

1864
01:09:04,520 --> 01:09:07,680
Speaker 2: Evan Anderson, defensive lineman from Florida Atlantic. Evan, how's this

1865
01:09:08,080 --> 01:09:11,240
Speaker 2: couple days of work, been meetings and one day of practice.

1866
01:09:11,360 --> 01:09:13,479
Speaker 5: It's been good? Can't complain everything I dreamed of.

1867
01:09:14,640 --> 01:09:17,400
Speaker 2: What has been like trying to digest a new defensive

1868
01:09:17,400 --> 01:09:19,519
Speaker 2: system in a span at twenty four to forty eight hours.

1869
01:09:20,439 --> 01:09:21,320
Speaker 5: It really ain't been that hard.

1870
01:09:21,320 --> 01:09:23,280
Speaker 28: From it's been very easy because every y'all played in

1871
01:09:23,280 --> 01:09:25,719
Speaker 28: a new defense, so I was constantly learning the defenses

1872
01:09:26,240 --> 01:09:27,360
Speaker 28: every year in my college career.

1873
01:09:28,040 --> 01:09:29,720
Speaker 2: Is it weird that this is going to be the

1874
01:09:29,800 --> 01:09:32,360
Speaker 2: last time that you're going to be playing like real

1875
01:09:32,400 --> 01:09:36,639
Speaker 2: football before you potentially get into an NFL system NFL game.

1876
01:09:37,400 --> 01:09:37,880
Speaker 5: Yes, sir.

1877
01:09:38,439 --> 01:09:41,599
Speaker 28: Now after this is Atlanta the unknown. So it's really

1878
01:09:41,680 --> 01:09:43,360
Speaker 28: just exciting because at the end of the day, that's

1879
01:09:43,360 --> 01:09:45,200
Speaker 28: what we wanted for a whole well not we, but

1880
01:09:45,240 --> 01:09:46,720
Speaker 28: this is what I wanted for my whole life, and

1881
01:09:47,800 --> 01:09:49,920
Speaker 28: I'm just ready for I feel like just living a moment,

1882
01:09:49,960 --> 01:09:52,599
Speaker 28: take it day by day, and just living life.

1883
01:09:52,600 --> 01:09:53,240
Speaker 12: That's how I feel.

1884
01:09:53,439 --> 01:09:54,840
Speaker 2: What are you trying to get across as some of

1885
01:09:54,840 --> 01:09:57,200
Speaker 2: these NFL front office personnel and scouts when you have

1886
01:09:57,240 --> 01:09:59,439
Speaker 2: the meetings with them down here at the Shrine Bowl.

1887
01:10:00,240 --> 01:10:01,800
Speaker 28: I just want to let them see my personality, to

1888
01:10:01,800 --> 01:10:04,040
Speaker 28: see who I really am, like what I'm like, and

1889
01:10:04,160 --> 01:10:06,760
Speaker 28: not just go like guessing or I'm just letting them

1890
01:10:06,840 --> 01:10:08,320
Speaker 28: really know who I am. Trying to let them know

1891
01:10:08,320 --> 01:10:10,040
Speaker 28: the real of me, so it don't be like I'm

1892
01:10:10,080 --> 01:10:11,559
Speaker 28: trying to have like a fake person, so they know

1893
01:10:11,600 --> 01:10:12,599
Speaker 28: that's that's really Evan.

1894
01:10:12,880 --> 01:10:14,560
Speaker 2: What do you think the ideal role for you is

1895
01:10:14,600 --> 01:10:16,840
Speaker 2: in an NFL defensive system? You think you yourself more

1896
01:10:16,840 --> 01:10:18,720
Speaker 2: of a nose, a one guy guy, a two gap guy.

1897
01:10:18,720 --> 01:10:20,040
Speaker 3: Where do you think your strengths lie?

1898
01:10:20,120 --> 01:10:24,120
Speaker 28: Right now, I'll say my strength line to gapping, stopping,

1899
01:10:24,120 --> 01:10:26,360
Speaker 28: and run. I feel like I could play anything on

1900
01:10:26,479 --> 01:10:29,880
Speaker 28: the defensive line besides and obviously, but I feel like

1901
01:10:29,920 --> 01:10:31,720
Speaker 28: I'm a versatile run defender and that would be my

1902
01:10:31,840 --> 01:10:32,639
Speaker 28: role in the NFL.

1903
01:10:33,640 --> 01:10:35,240
Speaker 3: What did you weigh in when you wait in here

1904
01:10:35,280 --> 01:10:36,040
Speaker 3: down here this week?

1905
01:10:36,200 --> 01:10:37,519
Speaker 5: Three twenty.

1906
01:10:37,720 --> 01:10:39,880
Speaker 2: Now, that's a lot lower than what your listed weight was,

1907
01:10:39,880 --> 01:10:41,360
Speaker 2: which I know a lot of times that stuff's not

1908
01:10:41,479 --> 01:10:42,880
Speaker 2: right right, you're listening way, I think it was like

1909
01:10:42,880 --> 01:10:45,800
Speaker 2: three fifty. So were you that big? And then was

1910
01:10:45,840 --> 01:10:48,400
Speaker 2: it part of your plan to get down to a

1911
01:10:48,439 --> 01:10:49,160
Speaker 2: lower playing weight.

1912
01:10:50,120 --> 01:10:52,000
Speaker 5: Yeah, so I was that big my freshman year.

1913
01:10:52,240 --> 01:10:55,600
Speaker 28: I had lost the weight slowly every season, so I

1914
01:10:55,600 --> 01:10:57,880
Speaker 28: ain't been through fifty six since my freshman year. And yeah,

1915
01:10:57,920 --> 01:10:59,920
Speaker 28: my goal was to get the three twenty before I

1916
01:11:00,680 --> 01:11:02,120
Speaker 28: before I go to the NFL, and I might get

1917
01:11:02,160 --> 01:11:02,960
Speaker 28: down in three fifteen.

1918
01:11:03,000 --> 01:11:04,559
Speaker 5: I am still undecided about that.

1919
01:11:05,080 --> 01:11:06,920
Speaker 3: Why do you think that's the ideal playing way for you?

1920
01:11:08,360 --> 01:11:08,639
Speaker 5: Really?

1921
01:11:08,680 --> 01:11:10,720
Speaker 28: Just because that's the most explosive and I can do

1922
01:11:10,800 --> 01:11:13,120
Speaker 28: everything out that way. I don't feel schluggish, I feel

1923
01:11:13,160 --> 01:11:14,720
Speaker 28: inner draw So I'll just say, feel like me.

1924
01:11:15,479 --> 01:11:18,800
Speaker 2: Do you feel like you know? I'm People I think

1925
01:11:19,040 --> 01:11:21,080
Speaker 2: probably think about you. They think you're a big guy,

1926
01:11:21,120 --> 01:11:22,760
Speaker 2: You're gonna stop the running stuff like that. Do you

1927
01:11:22,760 --> 01:11:24,800
Speaker 2: think when they talk about you that way, they are

1928
01:11:24,880 --> 01:11:27,960
Speaker 2: underestimating your athleticisms. I watched you on tape and I

1929
01:11:27,960 --> 01:11:29,840
Speaker 2: thought you were a really good mover for a guy

1930
01:11:29,880 --> 01:11:31,080
Speaker 2: your size.

1931
01:11:31,400 --> 01:11:34,080
Speaker 28: Yeah, I feel like it's a little underestimation or just

1932
01:11:34,200 --> 01:11:36,960
Speaker 28: lack of knowledge. But at the end of the day,

1933
01:11:37,360 --> 01:11:39,839
Speaker 28: we hear I'm with the top scenes in the country.

1934
01:11:39,920 --> 01:11:42,680
Speaker 28: So this is tom the show end and that's all

1935
01:11:42,720 --> 01:11:45,000
Speaker 28: I can That's all I can do is just try

1936
01:11:45,040 --> 01:11:47,120
Speaker 28: to show them what I am versus what they think

1937
01:11:47,160 --> 01:11:50,360
Speaker 28: and beat like the stereotypes of a nose guard just

1938
01:11:50,360 --> 01:11:52,439
Speaker 28: a gop filler and don't really rest a process I

1939
01:11:52,479 --> 01:11:54,839
Speaker 28: want to show them that I'm a versatile or versatile

1940
01:11:54,880 --> 01:11:55,519
Speaker 28: defensive line.

1941
01:11:56,200 --> 01:11:57,840
Speaker 2: Have you enjoyed going up against some of the Power

1942
01:11:57,880 --> 01:11:59,479
Speaker 2: five guys showing what you can do?

1943
01:12:00,040 --> 01:12:01,559
Speaker 5: Yes? There it was fun. We played Power for our

1944
01:12:01,560 --> 01:12:02,200
Speaker 5: teams every year.

1945
01:12:02,240 --> 01:12:04,320
Speaker 28: So I really don't bond to the hype because at

1946
01:12:04,360 --> 01:12:06,599
Speaker 28: the end of the day, it's the same football no

1947
01:12:06,640 --> 01:12:10,000
Speaker 28: matter what, the same rules. The only difference is the logo.

1948
01:12:10,600 --> 01:12:12,519
Speaker 3: Having great stuff and appreciate the time, best luck, rest

1949
01:12:12,520 --> 01:12:12,840
Speaker 3: of the week.

1950
01:12:12,960 --> 01:12:14,439
Speaker 5: Thank you, not to having a conversation with you.

1951
01:12:14,680 --> 01:12:16,720
Speaker 2: We're now joined by edri and Cooper, who is a

1952
01:12:16,840 --> 01:12:18,800
Speaker 2: do everything linebacker for Texas A and M.

1953
01:12:19,000 --> 01:12:19,639
Speaker 3: You're smiling.

1954
01:12:20,240 --> 01:12:24,200
Speaker 29: Why I'm just listening.

1955
01:12:23,880 --> 01:12:26,599
Speaker 2: To you because look, I watch you and I think

1956
01:12:26,600 --> 01:12:28,879
Speaker 2: you do a little bit of everything. Do you consider

1957
01:12:28,960 --> 01:12:31,880
Speaker 2: being a well rounded off ball linebacker to be one?

1958
01:12:31,880 --> 01:12:32,760
Speaker 3: Are the strengths of your game?

1959
01:12:32,840 --> 01:12:33,840
Speaker 5: It's one hundred percent.

1960
01:12:33,920 --> 01:12:33,960
Speaker 1: No.

1961
01:12:34,040 --> 01:12:35,719
Speaker 29: I feel like I'm a guy that you can play anywhere,

1962
01:12:35,840 --> 01:12:37,960
Speaker 29: use them all, use them all in different types of way.

1963
01:12:37,960 --> 01:12:39,799
Speaker 5: You know, I fly. That's what a lot of NFL

1964
01:12:39,840 --> 01:12:40,840
Speaker 5: teams need these days.

1965
01:12:41,720 --> 01:12:44,320
Speaker 3: What if it Scott asked you what the strength of

1966
01:12:44,360 --> 01:12:46,240
Speaker 3: your game is? Right now? What do you do best.

1967
01:12:46,360 --> 01:12:47,320
Speaker 3: What would you say.

1968
01:12:47,560 --> 01:12:49,880
Speaker 29: Pulling that trigger? You know, once I see something, you know,

1969
01:12:49,960 --> 01:12:52,320
Speaker 29: I feel like it's it's a ball game over no.

1970
01:12:52,400 --> 01:12:54,200
Speaker 29: And that's the one thing I like about myself and

1971
01:12:54,479 --> 01:12:57,360
Speaker 29: just coverage wise, you know, I like to do everything.

1972
01:12:58,280 --> 01:13:00,240
Speaker 2: If there's something over the next few months as you

1973
01:13:00,240 --> 01:13:02,280
Speaker 2: prepare for the combine your protein and stuff that you're

1974
01:13:02,280 --> 01:13:04,120
Speaker 2: still trying to find, tune and work on, what would

1975
01:13:04,120 --> 01:13:04,400
Speaker 2: it be.

1976
01:13:04,880 --> 01:13:07,120
Speaker 5: I find everything all aspects.

1977
01:13:07,120 --> 01:13:09,360
Speaker 29: You know, you can never max out on technique and

1978
01:13:09,400 --> 01:13:11,760
Speaker 29: everything with everything, so I'm just keep working at all

1979
01:13:11,760 --> 01:13:12,400
Speaker 29: my aspects.

1980
01:13:12,840 --> 01:13:13,400
Speaker 11: What do you think?

1981
01:13:14,080 --> 01:13:16,680
Speaker 2: I know it's a broad question, take anywhere you want.

1982
01:13:16,920 --> 01:13:18,920
Speaker 2: What's the key to being a good off ball linebacker?

1983
01:13:18,920 --> 01:13:20,840
Speaker 2: Because I feel like offense is really designed now to

1984
01:13:20,840 --> 01:13:24,719
Speaker 2: put guys like you in conflict, right, misdirection, RPO's motion,

1985
01:13:24,880 --> 01:13:25,960
Speaker 2: jet sweep, all that stuff.

1986
01:13:26,040 --> 01:13:28,400
Speaker 3: So what do you think makes a good off ball linebacker?

1987
01:13:28,920 --> 01:13:33,519
Speaker 29: I'll say situational awareness NOLNG with the offense doing a

1988
01:13:33,640 --> 01:13:36,880
Speaker 29: certain type of situation. And now if you're in a resadan,

1989
01:13:36,960 --> 01:13:39,120
Speaker 29: what to expects, paying wills and stuff like that. Just

1990
01:13:39,120 --> 01:13:41,000
Speaker 29: a little details like that to help you play fast.

1991
01:13:41,280 --> 01:13:42,800
Speaker 3: Now you're not on the field this week. But you're

1992
01:13:42,840 --> 01:13:44,320
Speaker 3: here and you're participating.

1993
01:13:44,640 --> 01:13:46,600
Speaker 2: What do you want to get out of going to

1994
01:13:46,640 --> 01:13:48,640
Speaker 2: the meetings with the team and you know, being in

1995
01:13:48,720 --> 01:13:51,439
Speaker 2: rooms with other college all stars and also NFL coaches.

1996
01:13:51,600 --> 01:13:53,600
Speaker 29: No, just getting a headstart and everything though, and just

1997
01:13:53,680 --> 01:13:56,120
Speaker 29: using the sources around me on what they're looking for

1998
01:13:56,280 --> 01:13:58,920
Speaker 29: and techniques they learned. And I'll just cook I like them,

1999
01:13:59,000 --> 01:14:00,920
Speaker 29: always open to pick up any details I could get.

2000
01:14:01,200 --> 01:14:03,360
Speaker 2: Have you still been trying to really absorb and learn

2001
01:14:03,439 --> 01:14:05,240
Speaker 2: the system even though you're not gonna have to apply

2002
01:14:05,280 --> 01:14:05,840
Speaker 2: it on the field.

2003
01:14:05,880 --> 01:14:07,200
Speaker 3: How has that been always?

2004
01:14:07,240 --> 01:14:09,920
Speaker 29: You know, you never could get tired of trying to

2005
01:14:09,920 --> 01:14:12,360
Speaker 29: work the brand. You know, like this would be a good,

2006
01:14:12,479 --> 01:14:13,320
Speaker 29: good setup for me.

2007
01:14:13,640 --> 01:14:15,559
Speaker 2: And then finally when you meet with the scouts and

2008
01:14:15,800 --> 01:14:19,200
Speaker 2: personnel people that might draft you in a couple of months,

2009
01:14:19,360 --> 01:14:21,160
Speaker 2: what are you trying to get across them about you

2010
01:14:21,200 --> 01:14:23,240
Speaker 2: as the football player and then also about you as

2011
01:14:23,240 --> 01:14:24,920
Speaker 2: the person Me as.

2012
01:14:24,760 --> 01:14:27,120
Speaker 29: A person though I'm a person that you know probably

2013
01:14:27,160 --> 01:14:29,240
Speaker 29: you'll never see you know, upset, you know, I liked

2014
01:14:29,320 --> 01:14:31,599
Speaker 29: my character. I bring you to the team. Know everybody

2015
01:14:31,640 --> 01:14:34,120
Speaker 29: look at me as a good, great person as a player.

2016
01:14:34,240 --> 01:14:37,080
Speaker 29: No hard work, you no bringing the team together. Bonder,

2017
01:14:37,120 --> 01:14:38,880
Speaker 29: you know, bond is a thing I like to bring

2018
01:14:38,920 --> 01:14:40,920
Speaker 29: to the defense so I can talk to each other.

2019
01:14:41,240 --> 01:14:42,600
Speaker 3: And how about you as a player.

2020
01:14:42,520 --> 01:14:46,280
Speaker 29: Oh god, that's want to know. Make play, you know,

2021
01:14:46,320 --> 01:14:48,679
Speaker 29: take away the ball, you know, just just playing fast

2022
01:14:49,000 --> 01:14:49,240
Speaker 29: as you.

2023
01:14:49,240 --> 01:14:50,760
Speaker 3: Good luck the rest of way, man, appreciate the time.

2024
01:14:50,840 --> 01:14:51,360
Speaker 5: Thank you.

2025
01:14:51,760 --> 01:14:53,920
Speaker 2: Now we're joined by one of the West teams, linebacker

2026
01:14:54,240 --> 01:14:55,719
Speaker 2: Penn State's Curtis Jacobs.

2027
01:14:55,760 --> 01:14:56,559
Speaker 3: Curtis, how are you, man?

2028
01:14:56,640 --> 01:14:57,040
Speaker 12: I'm good?

2029
01:14:57,120 --> 01:14:57,839
Speaker 5: How are you?

2030
01:14:57,840 --> 01:14:59,800
Speaker 3: You just told me you grew up a huge Giant fan,

2031
01:14:59,840 --> 01:15:00,800
Speaker 3: so tell me about it.

2032
01:15:01,120 --> 01:15:04,000
Speaker 30: Yeah, well, obviously I was a big Giants fan my

2033
01:15:04,000 --> 01:15:04,679
Speaker 30: my whole life.

2034
01:15:05,520 --> 01:15:07,439
Speaker 12: Brandon Jacobs is actually my favorite player.

2035
01:15:08,360 --> 01:15:10,240
Speaker 30: This is like the first guy I've ever seen that

2036
01:15:10,280 --> 01:15:12,000
Speaker 30: had the same name as me that was a dog

2037
01:15:12,520 --> 01:15:15,000
Speaker 30: me personally. I think he was Dereck Henry before Dereck Henry,

2038
01:15:15,040 --> 01:15:16,519
Speaker 30: but we can talk about that another time.

2039
01:15:17,280 --> 01:15:19,360
Speaker 12: But big Giants fan.

2040
01:15:19,640 --> 01:15:23,000
Speaker 30: Still still been a Giants fan to this day. It's

2041
01:15:23,040 --> 01:15:24,960
Speaker 30: been a little rough, but I was still rocking with

2042
01:15:25,000 --> 01:15:26,960
Speaker 30: I was still rocking with my guys, man all.

2043
01:15:26,920 --> 01:15:30,599
Speaker 2: With Now, I gotta be honest with you, Tackling Brandon

2044
01:15:30,680 --> 01:15:33,360
Speaker 2: Jacobs is not the funnest thing in the world for linebackers.

2045
01:15:33,360 --> 01:15:33,519
Speaker 7: Man.

2046
01:15:33,680 --> 01:15:35,879
Speaker 30: Not easy at all, not easy at all. He's a

2047
01:15:35,960 --> 01:15:38,720
Speaker 30: he's a unit of a guy. And then when you

2048
01:15:38,760 --> 01:15:41,280
Speaker 30: get to having that one or two punch of him

2049
01:15:41,280 --> 01:15:42,760
Speaker 30: and the my Bradshaw, it was tough.

2050
01:15:43,479 --> 01:15:45,479
Speaker 3: Absolutely. All right, let's talk about you a little bit.

2051
01:15:45,960 --> 01:15:46,400
Speaker 3: You're here.

2052
01:15:46,600 --> 01:15:47,840
Speaker 2: What are some of the things that you want to

2053
01:15:47,880 --> 01:15:50,120
Speaker 2: show scouts and coaches both on the field and when

2054
01:15:50,160 --> 01:15:51,799
Speaker 2: you have a chance to meet with them in meetings

2055
01:15:51,800 --> 01:15:53,200
Speaker 2: with these teams over the course of the week.

2056
01:15:53,320 --> 01:15:54,920
Speaker 30: Yeah, I just want to show I can be an

2057
01:15:54,920 --> 01:15:59,840
Speaker 30: instinctual player, really read, react and just be that guy

2058
01:16:00,000 --> 01:16:02,360
Speaker 30: in the field. Also want to show them I have

2059
01:16:02,400 --> 01:16:05,000
Speaker 30: great character, just who I am, and just be me

2060
01:16:05,080 --> 01:16:08,280
Speaker 30: in these interviews and just hope they like me honestly.

2061
01:16:09,080 --> 01:16:12,080
Speaker 2: You know, playing off ball linebacker now, to me, it's

2062
01:16:12,160 --> 01:16:14,879
Speaker 2: maybe the hardest position to play on defense. These offenses

2063
01:16:14,880 --> 01:16:18,720
Speaker 2: are designed now with RPOs, read options, crossers to put

2064
01:16:18,760 --> 01:16:20,880
Speaker 2: you guys in conflict, to try to create space in

2065
01:16:20,880 --> 01:16:21,519
Speaker 2: the middle of the field.

2066
01:16:21,600 --> 01:16:23,240
Speaker 3: Right, So, as you've done this for a.

2067
01:16:23,240 --> 01:16:25,679
Speaker 2: Few years now, what do you think is the key

2068
01:16:26,320 --> 01:16:28,320
Speaker 2: to good off ball linebacker play.

2069
01:16:28,840 --> 01:16:31,640
Speaker 30: I think it's just about being dynamic and what you

2070
01:16:31,680 --> 01:16:34,720
Speaker 30: can do. I feel like nobody in this league likes

2071
01:16:34,720 --> 01:16:36,920
Speaker 30: a one dimensional player. I feel like that type of

2072
01:16:36,920 --> 01:16:39,720
Speaker 30: player is extinct. So just being able to be as

2073
01:16:39,720 --> 01:16:43,639
Speaker 30: flexible as possible. What you can do, just attack every play,

2074
01:16:44,080 --> 01:16:46,599
Speaker 30: run to the ball. Honestly, I feel like most players

2075
01:16:46,640 --> 01:16:49,320
Speaker 30: can be fixed. When you got eleven guys run into

2076
01:16:49,320 --> 01:16:50,920
Speaker 30: the ball with fury.

2077
01:16:51,040 --> 01:16:53,599
Speaker 2: Honestly, what right now do you think you're best at

2078
01:16:53,720 --> 01:16:54,560
Speaker 2: as a linebacker on?

2079
01:16:54,640 --> 01:16:56,519
Speaker 3: What are you still trying to work on to improve?

2080
01:16:57,320 --> 01:16:59,000
Speaker 30: I feel like I'm best with how I can run,

2081
01:16:59,040 --> 01:17:04,040
Speaker 30: in my athleticism, Honestly, I think that's unmatched in any class.

2082
01:17:04,640 --> 01:17:08,080
Speaker 30: I got that type of confidence in my ability, But

2083
01:17:08,240 --> 01:17:11,719
Speaker 30: I just I've been trying to develop on other things,

2084
01:17:11,760 --> 01:17:15,400
Speaker 30: just being where you can be reading keys and helping

2085
01:17:15,439 --> 01:17:17,160
Speaker 30: those keys get to you where you need to be

2086
01:17:17,160 --> 01:17:17,639
Speaker 30: on the field.

2087
01:17:18,000 --> 01:17:19,680
Speaker 2: What do you think your progression has been like at

2088
01:17:19,680 --> 01:17:21,720
Speaker 2: Penn State? Where do you think you've grown the most

2089
01:17:21,760 --> 01:17:23,160
Speaker 2: as a player in your time there?

2090
01:17:23,280 --> 01:17:26,400
Speaker 30: I feel like I've really grown in that being an

2091
01:17:26,439 --> 01:17:30,240
Speaker 30: instinctual player. I feel like that's really developed over time.

2092
01:17:30,680 --> 01:17:33,439
Speaker 30: But the type of player I am, I'm always constantly developing,

2093
01:17:33,560 --> 01:17:37,720
Speaker 30: always constantly learning, and I feel like a event like

2094
01:17:37,760 --> 01:17:39,799
Speaker 30: this definitely gives me a chance to learn some things

2095
01:17:39,840 --> 01:17:42,439
Speaker 30: and get better. And that's really the reason why I'm here.

2096
01:17:42,760 --> 01:17:44,680
Speaker 2: I know you guys haven't done anything on the field yet,

2097
01:17:44,680 --> 01:17:46,519
Speaker 2: but what has it been like trying to absorb that

2098
01:17:46,600 --> 01:17:49,960
Speaker 2: playbook and getting ready to play in an NFL defense?

2099
01:17:50,360 --> 01:17:50,960
Speaker 3: It's been good.

2100
01:17:51,280 --> 01:17:53,120
Speaker 30: A lot of the things that they're doing are similar

2101
01:17:53,160 --> 01:17:55,880
Speaker 30: to things I've seen or similar to things I've done

2102
01:17:55,920 --> 01:17:56,760
Speaker 30: as a linebacker.

2103
01:17:56,800 --> 01:17:58,280
Speaker 12: So just trying to.

2104
01:17:58,160 --> 01:18:00,760
Speaker 30: Be able to relate this to some of the rules

2105
01:18:00,800 --> 01:18:04,559
Speaker 30: I've had, and just just not try to walk on

2106
01:18:04,640 --> 01:18:06,680
Speaker 30: excels all the time. Just be confident in what I'm

2107
01:18:06,720 --> 01:18:08,040
Speaker 30: doing and and play free.

2108
01:18:08,200 --> 01:18:09,960
Speaker 2: You have to play fast, right if linebacker. If you

2109
01:18:09,960 --> 01:18:11,800
Speaker 2: don't play fast, if you hesitate, the play's gone.

2110
01:18:11,880 --> 01:18:12,080
Speaker 3: Right.

2111
01:18:12,280 --> 01:18:13,639
Speaker 12: Yeah, That's that's how it is.

2112
01:18:13,640 --> 01:18:13,840
Speaker 27: Man.

2113
01:18:13,880 --> 01:18:16,160
Speaker 30: If you you take one miss step, that could be

2114
01:18:16,800 --> 01:18:19,120
Speaker 30: that can be your that can be a downfall.

2115
01:18:19,200 --> 01:18:21,160
Speaker 12: Unless your name is Michael Parsons.

2116
01:18:21,479 --> 01:18:23,160
Speaker 3: He's fast. Uh.

2117
01:18:23,320 --> 01:18:25,320
Speaker 2: Where do you think you fit best at an NFL defense?

2118
01:18:25,400 --> 01:18:27,040
Speaker 2: Is that as a three four inside linebacker?

2119
01:18:27,080 --> 01:18:28,360
Speaker 3: Is it a mic? Is it a will? And a

2120
01:18:28,439 --> 01:18:30,439
Speaker 3: four to three? Where do you think you fit best.

2121
01:18:30,880 --> 01:18:32,360
Speaker 12: I think I can fit best anywhere.

2122
01:18:33,160 --> 01:18:36,439
Speaker 30: I've had a really good system at Penn State, where

2123
01:18:36,439 --> 01:18:39,840
Speaker 30: I was able to play all three linebacker spots. I

2124
01:18:39,880 --> 01:18:41,720
Speaker 30: was able to play a little bit of mic, I

2125
01:18:41,720 --> 01:18:43,960
Speaker 30: played a lot of a will position, and then I

2126
01:18:44,000 --> 01:18:45,639
Speaker 30: was able to even play a little bit of big

2127
01:18:45,720 --> 01:18:48,640
Speaker 30: nickel out in the field. So I feel like just

2128
01:18:48,680 --> 01:18:52,360
Speaker 30: that experience guarding a bunch of guys, being in a

2129
01:18:52,360 --> 01:18:55,960
Speaker 30: bunch of uncomfortable situations, I feel like that that helping

2130
01:18:56,040 --> 01:18:56,759
Speaker 30: my development.

2131
01:18:57,040 --> 01:18:58,760
Speaker 2: And you're used as a blitzer a lot too, right,

2132
01:18:59,479 --> 01:19:01,400
Speaker 2: What do you think makes you a good bletzer?

2133
01:19:02,160 --> 01:19:03,679
Speaker 12: Just relentless to the ball.

2134
01:19:04,240 --> 01:19:05,920
Speaker 30: I feel like that really is what you need to

2135
01:19:05,920 --> 01:19:08,639
Speaker 30: be a good blitzer and pass rusher, and I feel

2136
01:19:08,640 --> 01:19:11,040
Speaker 30: like I have both of those abilities, and I'll be

2137
01:19:11,080 --> 01:19:12,800
Speaker 30: able to show that when I get the chance.

2138
01:19:12,960 --> 01:19:14,639
Speaker 2: All Right, Finally, when you leave here a you're gonna

2139
01:19:14,640 --> 01:19:15,679
Speaker 2: start training for the combine.

2140
01:19:15,680 --> 01:19:18,160
Speaker 3: Obviously, what are your main goals? What are you gonna focus.

2141
01:19:18,000 --> 01:19:19,559
Speaker 2: On as you try to get ready for the combine

2142
01:19:19,560 --> 01:19:20,439
Speaker 2: at the end of February.

2143
01:19:20,800 --> 01:19:23,519
Speaker 30: Just being as fast as possible, being in the best

2144
01:19:23,520 --> 01:19:26,639
Speaker 30: shape as possible, just going and attacking it. I feel

2145
01:19:26,680 --> 01:19:29,040
Speaker 30: like that's the only way to approach it, and that's

2146
01:19:29,080 --> 01:19:30,000
Speaker 30: that's how I feel about it.

2147
01:19:30,240 --> 01:19:31,920
Speaker 2: I've got a chance to talk to your head coach

2148
01:19:31,960 --> 01:19:32,920
Speaker 2: about the Giants yet.

2149
01:19:32,920 --> 01:19:33,160
Speaker 10: Have you?

2150
01:19:33,200 --> 01:19:35,200
Speaker 3: Have you quoted him talk to Giants football with him?

2151
01:19:35,560 --> 01:19:35,920
Speaker 3: I haven't.

2152
01:19:35,920 --> 01:19:37,720
Speaker 30: I haven't got the chance to chance to talk to

2153
01:19:37,800 --> 01:19:41,240
Speaker 30: him much. Coach Franklin is a really really moving guy.

2154
01:19:41,360 --> 01:19:43,479
Speaker 30: He's he's worried about a lot of things, so I

2155
01:19:43,479 --> 01:19:45,120
Speaker 30: haven't really got a chance to talk to him about that.

2156
01:19:45,160 --> 01:19:47,479
Speaker 30: But I definitely hope I get to get the chance

2157
01:19:47,520 --> 01:19:50,479
Speaker 30: to talk to some Giants scouts, get to show that

2158
01:19:50,479 --> 01:19:53,599
Speaker 30: I'm a I've been a lifelong fan, and just get

2159
01:19:53,600 --> 01:19:55,240
Speaker 30: to get to I hope I get a chance to

2160
01:19:55,240 --> 01:19:55,640
Speaker 30: play for him.

2161
01:19:55,640 --> 01:19:56,000
Speaker 12: Honestly.

2162
01:19:56,080 --> 01:19:58,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, is Mike Kafka. He had your head coach here.

2163
01:19:58,680 --> 01:20:01,360
Speaker 2: He's obviously the Giants offensive coordinator, so there are connections.

2164
01:20:01,360 --> 01:20:03,479
Speaker 3: Man, Best of luck this week. We really appreciate the time.

2165
01:20:03,520 --> 01:20:04,240
Speaker 12: Appreciate it too.

2166
01:20:04,720 --> 01:20:08,280
Speaker 2: And now we're joined by national champion Cornelius Johnson.

2167
01:20:08,280 --> 01:20:10,960
Speaker 3: Big smile. Are you get bored of that title yet

2168
01:20:11,040 --> 01:20:12,360
Speaker 3: or not quite? Nah?

2169
01:20:12,400 --> 01:20:14,200
Speaker 10: I never get bored of that. That's that's sticking with

2170
01:20:14,240 --> 01:20:14,800
Speaker 10: me for life.

2171
01:20:14,840 --> 01:20:15,040
Speaker 5: Man.

2172
01:20:15,120 --> 01:20:19,240
Speaker 20: We worked hard for that, for that championship, so I'll

2173
01:20:19,240 --> 01:20:21,080
Speaker 20: never get bored of that. But it is a quick

2174
01:20:21,120 --> 01:20:25,519
Speaker 20: turnaround coming from that championship, late postseason run into now

2175
01:20:25,560 --> 01:20:29,120
Speaker 20: the Combine prep, Pro Day, prep, Bowl game prep here,

2176
01:20:29,280 --> 01:20:30,640
Speaker 20: so it is a quick turnaround.

2177
01:20:30,800 --> 01:20:32,320
Speaker 3: How's the body holding up? Okay?

2178
01:20:32,439 --> 01:20:35,559
Speaker 20: Yeah, body straight? Always a blessing, you know, can can

2179
01:20:35,640 --> 01:20:37,479
Speaker 20: never take that for branded. Every time we come out

2180
01:20:37,479 --> 01:20:41,719
Speaker 20: here on the field. It's an opportunity. So definitely feeling good.

2181
01:20:42,000 --> 01:20:43,200
Speaker 3: What did you learn about yourself?

2182
01:20:43,200 --> 01:20:44,920
Speaker 2: Because you guys got to the precipice of winning a

2183
01:20:44,960 --> 01:20:47,200
Speaker 2: national house for a few years, get a little show

2184
01:20:47,240 --> 01:20:48,400
Speaker 2: on you, get a little better, and then you got

2185
01:20:48,439 --> 01:20:50,120
Speaker 2: over the top this year. What did you learn about

2186
01:20:50,120 --> 01:20:52,360
Speaker 2: yourself trying to fight through that stick with it to

2187
01:20:52,400 --> 01:20:53,880
Speaker 2: finally get to where you want it to go.

2188
01:20:54,840 --> 01:20:55,639
Speaker 10: That's a great question.

2189
01:20:55,800 --> 01:20:59,080
Speaker 20: Just not shine away from that big moment, that big

2190
01:20:59,120 --> 01:21:02,280
Speaker 20: spotlight when those games matter most, you know, stepping up

2191
01:21:02,320 --> 01:21:04,640
Speaker 20: to make those plays in any way you can, and

2192
01:21:04,760 --> 01:21:08,320
Speaker 20: just having that confidence between our brothers, man, Like, that's

2193
01:21:08,320 --> 01:21:11,280
Speaker 20: something about these teams. You know, we won the championship

2194
01:21:11,360 --> 01:21:14,040
Speaker 20: in twenty twenty three this past year, but even those

2195
01:21:14,080 --> 01:21:17,080
Speaker 20: other teams before who still won the conference, beat Ohio

2196
01:21:17,200 --> 01:21:21,000
Speaker 20: and won the conference. Those teams are almost part of

2197
01:21:21,040 --> 01:21:23,880
Speaker 20: this championship team too, because like it all builds up

2198
01:21:23,920 --> 01:21:25,839
Speaker 20: to that, we wouldn't be where we are now without

2199
01:21:25,840 --> 01:21:28,680
Speaker 20: those teams. So all those all those brothers I had

2200
01:21:28,680 --> 01:21:30,320
Speaker 20: on those teams are going to be like a connection

2201
01:21:30,400 --> 01:21:31,000
Speaker 20: we have for life.

2202
01:21:31,760 --> 01:21:33,720
Speaker 2: Heck, you guys did so well against Ohio State. They

2203
01:21:33,720 --> 01:21:35,920
Speaker 2: had about eight guys that could have got drafted this

2204
01:21:36,000 --> 01:21:38,000
Speaker 2: year go back because they just want to be Michigan

2205
01:21:38,040 --> 01:21:38,439
Speaker 2: next year.

2206
01:21:38,479 --> 01:21:38,679
Speaker 3: Man.

2207
01:21:39,160 --> 01:21:41,040
Speaker 10: I saw that too. I saw that too. Man.

2208
01:21:41,080 --> 01:21:43,519
Speaker 20: I was like, damn, these guys are really trying to

2209
01:21:43,520 --> 01:21:47,040
Speaker 20: come back and be Michigan. But it's it's never gonna

2210
01:21:47,040 --> 01:21:49,600
Speaker 20: be the same, you know. They it's not gonna be

2211
01:21:49,600 --> 01:21:50,599
Speaker 20: the same even if they do.

2212
01:21:50,680 --> 01:21:52,160
Speaker 10: But I don't think they will.

2213
01:21:52,200 --> 01:21:54,040
Speaker 2: All right, let's talk about you as a player. Obviously

2214
01:21:54,120 --> 01:21:57,519
Speaker 2: you're a bigger wide receiver. What if evaluator asked you

2215
01:21:57,600 --> 01:21:59,800
Speaker 2: what your strengths are as a receiver, what would you

2216
01:21:59,840 --> 01:22:00,680
Speaker 2: tell them?

2217
01:22:00,720 --> 01:22:03,439
Speaker 10: It's a good question. Strength is a receiver?

2218
01:22:04,880 --> 01:22:07,280
Speaker 20: Man, it'd just be running all the routes possible, Like

2219
01:22:08,240 --> 01:22:11,680
Speaker 20: I can run all the routes possible from like the

2220
01:22:11,720 --> 01:22:14,519
Speaker 20: inside slot routes to the outsides.

2221
01:22:15,520 --> 01:22:17,839
Speaker 10: Goal line type of routes.

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01:22:19,400 --> 01:22:19,599
Speaker 7: Uh.

2223
01:22:19,600 --> 01:22:20,680
Speaker 10: Those it's really just like.

2224
01:22:20,640 --> 01:22:24,600
Speaker 20: That footwork and getting off the line of scrimmage and creating.

2225
01:22:24,320 --> 01:22:25,479
Speaker 10: That separation down the field.

2226
01:22:25,520 --> 01:22:28,280
Speaker 20: I like to think I can do all things, so

2227
01:22:28,880 --> 01:22:30,320
Speaker 20: not holding me back from anything.

2228
01:22:31,160 --> 01:22:32,680
Speaker 2: Watching you this week, I thought a lot of your

2229
01:22:32,680 --> 01:22:34,920
Speaker 2: explosives came from those deep in cuts you're running from

2230
01:22:34,960 --> 01:22:37,400
Speaker 2: the outside. It takes a little guts to be willing

2231
01:22:37,400 --> 01:22:39,080
Speaker 2: to catch those passes over the middle when you know

2232
01:22:39,120 --> 01:22:40,519
Speaker 2: those safeties are kind of looking back there.

2233
01:22:40,600 --> 01:22:42,439
Speaker 10: Huh, yeah, for sure. That's a good point.

2234
01:22:42,479 --> 01:22:46,240
Speaker 20: You know, get getting those those slants, those digs, those incuts.

2235
01:22:48,080 --> 01:22:50,800
Speaker 20: That definitely takes some skill to be able to you know,

2236
01:22:50,840 --> 01:22:53,000
Speaker 20: work with. That is also credit to the quarterback, you know,

2237
01:22:53,160 --> 01:22:54,960
Speaker 20: being able to fit it, fit it in there sure,

2238
01:22:55,960 --> 01:22:57,360
Speaker 20: and just practicing timing.

2239
01:22:58,200 --> 01:22:59,960
Speaker 3: Let me ask about JJ McCarthy, your quarterback.

2240
01:23:00,240 --> 01:23:03,320
Speaker 2: What what will the NFL team get with JJ McCarthy

2241
01:23:03,360 --> 01:23:04,519
Speaker 2: if they decide to draft.

2242
01:23:04,320 --> 01:23:08,400
Speaker 20: Him, if they draft Karthy, Uh, they just get a

2243
01:23:08,400 --> 01:23:15,160
Speaker 20: competitor football guy like uh, very tnic quarterback that you

2244
01:23:15,160 --> 01:23:19,320
Speaker 20: know will use his legs in the run game. You'll

2245
01:23:19,320 --> 01:23:21,360
Speaker 20: be surprised probably what he runs in the forty. You know,

2246
01:23:21,400 --> 01:23:24,160
Speaker 20: I'm excited to see how he how he pops out there.

2247
01:23:25,080 --> 01:23:28,720
Speaker 20: And then this friendly kid too, who's you know, go

2248
01:23:28,840 --> 01:23:30,160
Speaker 20: with the community.

2249
01:23:30,120 --> 01:23:33,000
Speaker 10: And uh, it just works hard as a receiver.

2250
01:23:34,160 --> 01:23:36,400
Speaker 2: Does it take more discipline to play for a program

2251
01:23:36,439 --> 01:23:38,720
Speaker 2: like Michigan? You know, you guys played Washington in the

2252
01:23:38,760 --> 01:23:42,559
Speaker 2: football playoffs. They're throwing sixty times a game, JJJ dropping

2253
01:23:42,640 --> 01:23:44,639
Speaker 2: back twenty three times, So you really have to wait

2254
01:23:44,680 --> 01:23:47,040
Speaker 2: for your opportunity and be patient a little bit, right.

2255
01:23:47,040 --> 01:23:49,880
Speaker 20: Nah, That's that's crazy. You notice that too, because like

2256
01:23:50,680 --> 01:23:54,960
Speaker 20: I always wonder if like that's that's something that like

2257
01:23:55,000 --> 01:23:56,120
Speaker 20: people notice.

2258
01:23:55,760 --> 01:23:57,439
Speaker 10: In the in the end of the game.

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01:23:57,520 --> 01:24:01,320
Speaker 20: How like you know, those stats can actually lie sometimes

2260
01:24:01,400 --> 01:24:05,320
Speaker 20: because yeah, you can have stats, right, but say you have,

2261
01:24:06,120 --> 01:24:08,640
Speaker 20: you know, five catches, you had the most catches or

2262
01:24:08,840 --> 01:24:12,040
Speaker 20: hard many yards, but you had fifteen to twenty targets.

2263
01:24:12,479 --> 01:24:14,559
Speaker 20: You're gonna have more catches and stuff. So it's like

2264
01:24:14,680 --> 01:24:17,280
Speaker 20: if we're not even throwing the ball that much. I

2265
01:24:17,400 --> 01:24:20,320
Speaker 20: just hope these teams sort of realize, like watch the tape.

2266
01:24:20,320 --> 01:24:22,599
Speaker 20: I feel like the tape doesn't lie though, sure about

2267
01:24:22,600 --> 01:24:25,200
Speaker 20: what you're what you're putting on filming what your routes are.

2268
01:24:25,960 --> 01:24:28,240
Speaker 20: But that is crazy, how Like you got to be

2269
01:24:28,320 --> 01:24:31,080
Speaker 20: patient and you know sometimes you won't get to get

2270
01:24:31,080 --> 01:24:34,240
Speaker 20: a target, you know, for two quarters, three quarters, con

2271
01:24:34,320 --> 01:24:37,080
Speaker 20: be hour in between your targets, but you still gotta

2272
01:24:37,120 --> 01:24:38,160
Speaker 20: be ready to come down with it.

2273
01:24:38,640 --> 01:24:41,080
Speaker 2: I imagine too, you guys have to do the dirty

2274
01:24:41,080 --> 01:24:43,000
Speaker 2: work the way you run the football. You're not gonna

2275
01:24:43,000 --> 01:24:44,920
Speaker 2: play if you're not gonna block for Michigan.

2276
01:24:44,680 --> 01:24:46,040
Speaker 10: Right, Yeah, for Michigan too.

2277
01:24:46,120 --> 01:24:48,960
Speaker 20: Like that's a good point because you know there would

2278
01:24:48,960 --> 01:24:51,160
Speaker 20: be times even in the next level of the National

2279
01:24:51,160 --> 01:24:54,400
Speaker 20: Football League where that translates. Sure, you know, sometimes you

2280
01:24:54,439 --> 01:24:56,200
Speaker 20: gotta just do that dirty work if you're in a

2281
01:24:56,240 --> 01:25:00,920
Speaker 20: situation to win a ballgame, and that sometimes goes unnoticed

2282
01:25:00,960 --> 01:25:04,680
Speaker 20: by everybody. But I hope there's gms and coaches out

2283
01:25:04,680 --> 01:25:07,479
Speaker 20: there that really watch film and are able to see

2284
01:25:07,479 --> 01:25:08,400
Speaker 20: what really happens.

2285
01:25:09,080 --> 01:25:09,960
Speaker 3: They do don't worry about.

2286
01:25:10,000 --> 01:25:12,679
Speaker 2: Final question, So, Jim Harball, your head coach is heading

2287
01:25:12,720 --> 01:25:15,680
Speaker 2: off to coach the Los Angeles Chargers. If you were

2288
01:25:15,720 --> 01:25:19,040
Speaker 2: to give one hint to the players that'll be awaiting

2289
01:25:19,080 --> 01:25:21,320
Speaker 2: him in Los Angeles to play for coach Harball, what

2290
01:25:21,320 --> 01:25:23,400
Speaker 2: would you tell him?

2291
01:25:23,680 --> 01:25:29,759
Speaker 20: I would say, let me see. I mean, he's probably

2292
01:25:30,160 --> 01:25:32,400
Speaker 20: I'm interested to see what his mindset coming in is

2293
01:25:32,400 --> 01:25:34,240
Speaker 20: gonna be. Obviously, his goal is gonna be to bring

2294
01:25:34,280 --> 01:25:36,160
Speaker 20: a Super Bowl to Los Angeles.

2295
01:25:36,640 --> 01:25:41,240
Speaker 10: That's the only goal at this point. But it's definitely it's.

2296
01:25:41,080 --> 01:25:44,800
Speaker 20: Got to be a different interaction between like professional level

2297
01:25:44,840 --> 01:25:45,639
Speaker 20: and collegiate level.

2298
01:25:46,120 --> 01:25:47,840
Speaker 10: But I don't think he's gonna really treat it that

2299
01:25:47,960 --> 01:25:48,479
Speaker 10: much different.

2300
01:25:48,600 --> 01:25:51,680
Speaker 20: So, like I would say, just get ready to you know,

2301
01:25:52,000 --> 01:25:56,599
Speaker 20: have that mindset of just obviously do what you can

2302
01:25:56,680 --> 01:25:59,200
Speaker 20: on the field, like keep keep your production out, keep

2303
01:25:59,320 --> 01:26:02,720
Speaker 20: keep doing what you're in. But you know, just get

2304
01:26:02,720 --> 01:26:05,439
Speaker 20: ready for him to give you some crazy stories and

2305
01:26:05,720 --> 01:26:08,600
Speaker 20: some crazy type of analogies, you know, to get you

2306
01:26:08,680 --> 01:26:12,439
Speaker 20: motivated or also he'll help you too schematically wise or

2307
01:26:12,439 --> 01:26:13,240
Speaker 20: with technique.

2308
01:26:14,080 --> 01:26:15,200
Speaker 3: Let me squeeze it one more.

2309
01:26:15,400 --> 01:26:17,439
Speaker 2: After you leave here, you show the coaches what you

2310
01:26:17,439 --> 01:26:19,080
Speaker 2: show them, and you can tell me your goals for

2311
01:26:19,120 --> 01:26:20,840
Speaker 2: here too. Then what are your goals once you start

2312
01:26:20,840 --> 01:26:22,160
Speaker 2: doing your training for the combine?

2313
01:26:22,600 --> 01:26:24,960
Speaker 20: Okay, so my goal is here like this week at

2314
01:26:25,000 --> 01:26:29,080
Speaker 20: the Shrine Bowl. Oh that's I mean like in terms

2315
01:26:29,160 --> 01:26:31,680
Speaker 20: of uh, you mean, like in terms of catches on

2316
01:26:31,720 --> 01:26:32,600
Speaker 20: the field, and stuff in.

2317
01:26:32,680 --> 01:26:34,519
Speaker 2: Terms of what you want to show the coaching staff

2318
01:26:34,520 --> 01:26:36,200
Speaker 2: and the scouts that that that you'll be talking to,

2319
01:26:36,280 --> 01:26:38,479
Speaker 2: interviewing with, and and performing for on the field.

2320
01:26:38,680 --> 01:26:41,479
Speaker 20: I mean it's on and off the field. Yeah, you

2321
01:26:41,560 --> 01:26:44,000
Speaker 20: know what I mean, just in those in these interview processes,

2322
01:26:44,320 --> 01:26:46,880
Speaker 20: just show who I am. Get make sure we both

2323
01:26:46,880 --> 01:26:49,200
Speaker 20: get understanding of each other. You know, they're trying to

2324
01:26:49,200 --> 01:26:52,080
Speaker 20: get stuff out of me, you know, different answers, simper questions,

2325
01:26:52,080 --> 01:26:54,920
Speaker 20: but also want to you know, get something from them too,

2326
01:26:55,080 --> 01:26:57,720
Speaker 20: you know, see how they're living and uh, get to

2327
01:26:57,800 --> 01:27:00,360
Speaker 20: get to know them as well. And then on the field,

2328
01:27:00,400 --> 01:27:03,599
Speaker 20: you're just showing that consistency and dominating you know, whoever's

2329
01:27:03,600 --> 01:27:05,440
Speaker 20: in front of me and showing that confidence.

2330
01:27:06,000 --> 01:27:06,559
Speaker 10: And then.

2331
01:27:08,120 --> 01:27:11,599
Speaker 20: Yeah, in terms of getting to the combine and those numbers,

2332
01:27:11,800 --> 01:27:12,040
Speaker 20: you know.

2333
01:27:12,000 --> 01:27:15,880
Speaker 10: I got numbers in my head like that are uh

2334
01:27:17,320 --> 01:27:18,320
Speaker 10: you know that I have that.

2335
01:27:18,400 --> 01:27:19,120
Speaker 3: Do you want to share?

2336
01:27:20,000 --> 01:27:22,639
Speaker 20: I mean I could, but I don't see the point

2337
01:27:22,720 --> 01:27:26,040
Speaker 20: in sharing a smart move, yeah, because like what's the

2338
01:27:26,080 --> 01:27:27,840
Speaker 20: point in sharing. I'm gonna go ahead and do it

2339
01:27:27,880 --> 01:27:29,479
Speaker 20: in a couple of weeks right at the end of

2340
01:27:29,560 --> 01:27:30,280
Speaker 20: this month.

2341
01:27:30,120 --> 01:27:32,320
Speaker 2: And there's no reason to set expectations, right, just go

2342
01:27:32,360 --> 01:27:33,760
Speaker 2: out there and run what you're run right.

2343
01:27:33,720 --> 01:27:36,280
Speaker 20: Yeah, exactly like you have something in your mind obviously,

2344
01:27:36,360 --> 01:27:39,840
Speaker 20: but you know, sometimes it's better than what you think.

2345
01:27:39,920 --> 01:27:41,960
Speaker 20: Sometimes it's gonna play out the way it plays out.

2346
01:27:41,960 --> 01:27:43,800
Speaker 20: You know, you work hard to dude, I can do

2347
01:27:43,920 --> 01:27:45,880
Speaker 20: and I'm gonna get it.

2348
01:27:46,280 --> 01:27:48,160
Speaker 2: Quinn Ellis, this is great, man. Appreciate the time and

2349
01:27:48,200 --> 01:27:49,639
Speaker 2: best of luck throughout this process.

2350
01:27:49,760 --> 01:27:51,280
Speaker 10: Got you, Thank you, John, appreciate it.

2351
01:27:51,640 --> 01:27:54,599
Speaker 3: Now we're joined by Holy Cross Offensive Tackle, CJ. Hands

2352
01:27:54,600 --> 01:27:56,000
Speaker 3: and CJ. Nice to meet you, man. How are you?

2353
01:27:56,040 --> 01:27:57,840
Speaker 16: I'm great man. This is such a blessing to be

2354
01:27:57,880 --> 01:27:59,840
Speaker 16: here and I'm so excited to get it going this.

2355
01:28:00,400 --> 01:28:02,479
Speaker 3: Yeah, you've seen big, big smile, a lot of energy here.

2356
01:28:02,560 --> 01:28:04,200
Speaker 2: How has it been It's early in the process, it's

2357
01:28:04,240 --> 01:28:06,000
Speaker 2: only Friday, You've only had meetings so far.

2358
01:28:06,040 --> 01:28:07,400
Speaker 3: But what has it been like so far? Trying to

2359
01:28:07,439 --> 01:28:08,599
Speaker 3: learn everything so quickly?

2360
01:28:08,760 --> 01:28:10,719
Speaker 16: You know, it's a lot, a lot getting the playbooks,

2361
01:28:10,760 --> 01:28:14,400
Speaker 16: studying and interviews and everything on your plate. But you know,

2362
01:28:14,520 --> 01:28:16,599
Speaker 16: take it day by day, take it second by second

2363
01:28:16,600 --> 01:28:19,200
Speaker 16: and try and do the best you've possibly count every second.

2364
01:28:19,240 --> 01:28:22,439
Speaker 16: So it's been stressful, but that's sure, once we get

2365
01:28:22,439 --> 01:28:25,280
Speaker 16: through that first practice tomorrow, it'll be smooth sailing until

2366
01:28:25,320 --> 01:28:25,599
Speaker 16: the game.

2367
01:28:25,720 --> 01:28:27,200
Speaker 8: So it was very excited.

2368
01:28:27,439 --> 01:28:30,960
Speaker 2: Obviously holy Cross smaller program, but here you've got power

2369
01:28:31,000 --> 01:28:32,160
Speaker 2: five guys all over the place.

2370
01:28:32,200 --> 01:28:33,599
Speaker 3: Are you excited to be able to.

2371
01:28:34,120 --> 01:28:35,720
Speaker 2: Lack of a better term, flex or muscles a little

2372
01:28:35,760 --> 01:28:37,519
Speaker 2: bit against some of these bigger program guys.

2373
01:28:37,360 --> 01:28:39,439
Speaker 16: Yes, sir, I got I got so much confident and

2374
01:28:39,600 --> 01:28:42,680
Speaker 16: confidence behind me with my teammates and everything. It's really

2375
01:28:42,760 --> 01:28:44,800
Speaker 16: exciting to be able to put yourself up against this

2376
01:28:44,840 --> 01:28:48,519
Speaker 16: competition and being like the me and my teammate being

2377
01:28:48,560 --> 01:28:52,160
Speaker 16: the first people and like forty years to be here.

2378
01:28:52,439 --> 01:28:56,000
Speaker 16: It's pretty incredible. So it's such a blessing and I

2379
01:28:56,000 --> 01:28:58,040
Speaker 16: can't wait to dominate the competition tomorrow.

2380
01:28:58,040 --> 01:28:58,960
Speaker 5: It's really cool.

2381
01:28:59,200 --> 01:29:00,800
Speaker 2: Do you feel like you're is anding more than just

2382
01:29:00,840 --> 01:29:02,320
Speaker 2: yourself considering that.

2383
01:29:02,360 --> 01:29:07,320
Speaker 16: Oh, yeah, I'm repacing all holy Cross, all Massachusetts. Yeah,

2384
01:29:07,360 --> 01:29:10,040
Speaker 16: it's it's pretty crazy. I mean there's so many alumni,

2385
01:29:10,240 --> 01:29:13,160
Speaker 16: so many, so many teammates, so many people that are

2386
01:29:13,320 --> 01:29:14,439
Speaker 16: behind me and Jalen.

2387
01:29:14,840 --> 01:29:15,759
Speaker 8: It's it's special.

2388
01:29:16,200 --> 01:29:16,719
Speaker 3: That's awesome.

2389
01:29:16,720 --> 01:29:18,200
Speaker 2: So when you get that out on their field, what

2390
01:29:18,360 --> 01:29:20,880
Speaker 2: do you specifically in terms of your on field play.

2391
01:29:20,880 --> 01:29:22,400
Speaker 2: I want to show the scouts and the coaches that

2392
01:29:22,439 --> 01:29:23,080
Speaker 2: here watching you.

2393
01:29:23,360 --> 01:29:25,479
Speaker 16: I think what I want to show is how calm

2394
01:29:25,479 --> 01:29:28,080
Speaker 16: I play, and how confident I am with my game,

2395
01:29:28,120 --> 01:29:30,400
Speaker 16: and how strong and fast I am. I'm a pretty

2396
01:29:30,479 --> 01:29:33,200
Speaker 16: quick guy, quick twitch guy, and I'm going to put

2397
01:29:33,200 --> 01:29:35,880
Speaker 16: that to work out on the field. Maybe do grade

2398
01:29:35,880 --> 01:29:38,200
Speaker 16: in one on ones and you know, show my how

2399
01:29:38,320 --> 01:29:40,920
Speaker 16: how hard I work. He's passed five years to be

2400
01:29:40,920 --> 01:29:42,880
Speaker 16: able to put myself in this situation.

2401
01:29:42,880 --> 01:29:44,479
Speaker 3: Now three year starter or right guard? Right?

2402
01:29:44,560 --> 01:29:46,120
Speaker 2: Do you want to try to do some stuff on

2403
01:29:46,120 --> 01:29:47,519
Speaker 2: the left side here to try to sort in fil

2404
01:29:47,520 --> 01:29:48,720
Speaker 2: teams your versatility this.

2405
01:29:48,720 --> 01:29:51,240
Speaker 16: Year or this game, I'll be playing left guard, center,

2406
01:29:51,320 --> 01:29:54,080
Speaker 16: and right guard, so I'm doing all in Tierior three,

2407
01:29:54,160 --> 01:29:56,200
Speaker 16: so that should help me out a lot. My first

2408
01:29:56,240 --> 01:29:59,920
Speaker 16: actual reps at center. But I'm confident with my stapping game,

2409
01:30:00,400 --> 01:30:02,400
Speaker 16: confident with myself. So just got to get in the

2410
01:30:02,400 --> 01:30:05,040
Speaker 16: playbook a little bit more tonight and figure it out.

2411
01:30:05,080 --> 01:30:07,200
Speaker 16: But I think I'm I think I should do great.

2412
01:30:07,600 --> 01:30:10,240
Speaker 2: You say first reps, does that mean no even practice

2413
01:30:10,280 --> 01:30:11,080
Speaker 2: reps at center?

2414
01:30:11,200 --> 01:30:14,679
Speaker 16: I've gotten practice reps, but no like live game reps.

2415
01:30:14,720 --> 01:30:19,040
Speaker 16: So I mean I got I got. I'm a little nervous,

2416
01:30:19,080 --> 01:30:21,240
Speaker 16: but you know it's it's gonna be okay. I mean

2417
01:30:21,280 --> 01:30:23,040
Speaker 16: even if I mess up, it's speed to the next

2418
01:30:23,120 --> 01:30:24,720
Speaker 16: how fast you can get to the next play and

2419
01:30:24,720 --> 01:30:25,200
Speaker 16: do it better.

2420
01:30:25,280 --> 01:30:26,920
Speaker 5: So I mean I'm.

2421
01:30:26,760 --> 01:30:29,000
Speaker 16: Excited to be able to showcase that, and I think

2422
01:30:29,000 --> 01:30:31,719
Speaker 16: it will benefit me tremendously in the draft process.

2423
01:30:31,880 --> 01:30:34,480
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you have to play more than one position, right, absolutely.

2424
01:30:34,880 --> 01:30:36,880
Speaker 2: Have you worked more on the shotgun stuff or the

2425
01:30:36,960 --> 01:30:37,840
Speaker 2: under center stuff?

2426
01:30:38,000 --> 01:30:42,160
Speaker 16: Oh definitely? Shotgun thunder center is still I've probably only

2427
01:30:42,880 --> 01:30:48,800
Speaker 16: had over one hundred under two hundred under center snaps.

2428
01:30:48,960 --> 01:30:51,599
Speaker 16: I'm good with it, but I mean it's gonna take

2429
01:30:51,600 --> 01:30:53,880
Speaker 16: a little bit, got all tomorrow to start it, So

2430
01:30:54,560 --> 01:30:55,400
Speaker 16: it's gonna be great.

2431
01:30:55,840 --> 01:30:57,920
Speaker 3: How has the shotgun snaps and practice been going.

2432
01:30:58,160 --> 01:31:02,559
Speaker 16: Shotgun snaps are lightning quick, back there, spiral, they're perfect.

2433
01:31:02,720 --> 01:31:04,040
Speaker 5: There's that very perfect.

2434
01:31:04,680 --> 01:31:07,360
Speaker 2: So at center, once the snap's done, the key is

2435
01:31:07,360 --> 01:31:08,840
Speaker 2: to kind of get your hands up there quick, right,

2436
01:31:08,840 --> 01:31:10,080
Speaker 2: so you can engage quickly.

2437
01:31:10,479 --> 01:31:13,200
Speaker 16: Yeah, that's the key. I mean, being a fast switch guy,

2438
01:31:13,200 --> 01:31:15,200
Speaker 16: I pride myself and how quick I can get up

2439
01:31:15,240 --> 01:31:17,360
Speaker 16: and get my hands on people. So I think it

2440
01:31:17,400 --> 01:31:20,479
Speaker 16: will benefit me a lot to you know, learn snapping

2441
01:31:20,560 --> 01:31:22,120
Speaker 16: and you're to dominate this week.

2442
01:31:22,200 --> 01:31:23,840
Speaker 3: So it's more than just football this year.

2443
01:31:23,880 --> 01:31:26,479
Speaker 2: Got You're gonna meet with scouts and front office personnel

2444
01:31:26,520 --> 01:31:29,160
Speaker 2: and NFL coaches. What do you want them to know

2445
01:31:29,240 --> 01:31:31,679
Speaker 2: about you, not just as a player, but as a guy.

2446
01:31:32,400 --> 01:31:34,200
Speaker 16: I want to show them that I'm going to give

2447
01:31:34,200 --> 01:31:36,439
Speaker 16: it my all every time I get out on the field,

2448
01:31:36,479 --> 01:31:39,880
Speaker 16: every time I'm in an interview. I've wanted this for

2449
01:31:39,960 --> 01:31:43,479
Speaker 16: a long time now, and I want to show how

2450
01:31:43,520 --> 01:31:45,479
Speaker 16: good of a person I am. I pride myself on

2451
01:31:45,560 --> 01:31:48,800
Speaker 16: how how I was raised and what my parents have

2452
01:31:48,880 --> 01:31:51,280
Speaker 16: done for me, and how I can bring a different

2453
01:31:51,320 --> 01:31:54,000
Speaker 16: element to the team and really bring energy and be

2454
01:31:54,080 --> 01:31:55,960
Speaker 16: the best person I can possibly be every day.

2455
01:31:56,320 --> 01:31:58,360
Speaker 2: CJ, good luck, have fun, and good luck the rest

2456
01:31:58,360 --> 01:31:58,920
Speaker 2: of the process.

2457
01:31:58,960 --> 01:32:00,760
Speaker 16: Thank you so much. Have a wonderful Beth.

2458
01:32:01,040 --> 01:32:02,600
Speaker 2: And now we're joined by a name, dank Woy. He

2459
01:32:02,680 --> 01:32:05,760
Speaker 2: is the offensive tackle at of Howard and name. I

2460
01:32:05,800 --> 01:32:08,559
Speaker 2: think you're the biggest guy here, true or false?

2461
01:32:09,320 --> 01:32:10,360
Speaker 3: True?

2462
01:32:10,640 --> 01:32:11,479
Speaker 5: Definitely true.

2463
01:32:11,720 --> 01:32:13,160
Speaker 7: But you know, some of the guys are pretty big,

2464
01:32:13,200 --> 01:32:16,240
Speaker 7: you know, and you know sometimes when you're big, you

2465
01:32:16,280 --> 01:32:18,800
Speaker 7: don't notice it until you see a picture. You know,

2466
01:32:19,200 --> 01:32:23,120
Speaker 7: sometimes sometimes I feel like I'm like like six ' two.

2467
01:32:23,240 --> 01:32:25,799
Speaker 7: Then I'll see a picture like, damn, you look big.

2468
01:32:26,160 --> 01:32:28,400
Speaker 2: For the fans that don't know, listen at six eight,

2469
01:32:28,479 --> 01:32:30,720
Speaker 2: three sixty, I'm gonna be honest with you, don't look

2470
01:32:30,760 --> 01:32:31,400
Speaker 2: three sixty.

2471
01:32:32,080 --> 01:32:32,679
Speaker 3: Where's your way?

2472
01:32:33,640 --> 01:32:35,000
Speaker 7: I think it's just because I'm tall. You know, when

2473
01:32:35,000 --> 01:32:37,760
Speaker 7: you're tall, sometimes that weight it just happens to spread

2474
01:32:37,760 --> 01:32:38,360
Speaker 7: out pretty even.

2475
01:32:38,640 --> 01:32:41,559
Speaker 2: So yeah, all right, is that what you want your

2476
01:32:41,560 --> 01:32:42,240
Speaker 2: playing weight to be.

2477
01:32:43,800 --> 01:32:46,000
Speaker 7: I'm close my playing weight. I want to be around

2478
01:32:46,000 --> 01:32:49,599
Speaker 7: three fifty five three fifty. But yeah, just working there.

2479
01:32:49,640 --> 01:32:50,759
Speaker 7: I'm gonna get there everything.

2480
01:32:51,360 --> 01:32:52,960
Speaker 3: Now when you work here, are you going to work

2481
01:32:53,000 --> 01:32:54,400
Speaker 3: both tackle spots? What's the plan?

2482
01:32:54,479 --> 01:32:54,679
Speaker 5: Yeah?

2483
01:32:54,720 --> 01:32:57,599
Speaker 7: The plan here is you I'm gonna play boat tackle spots.

2484
01:32:57,640 --> 01:33:00,439
Speaker 7: But my comfort side is the left tackle. But you know,

2485
01:33:00,560 --> 01:33:02,600
Speaker 7: as a as a football player and as a competitor,

2486
01:33:02,640 --> 01:33:04,720
Speaker 7: you know, anything I guets here on the field, you're

2487
01:33:04,720 --> 01:33:07,479
Speaker 7: happy to play, honestly. So that's all I'm excited for.

2488
01:33:07,479 --> 01:33:08,160
Speaker 7: It is just play both.

2489
01:33:08,360 --> 01:33:10,720
Speaker 2: How much have you done on the right side, at

2490
01:33:10,800 --> 01:33:12,799
Speaker 2: least in practice, so you at least have the footwork

2491
01:33:12,840 --> 01:33:13,719
Speaker 2: a little bit squared.

2492
01:33:13,880 --> 01:33:16,920
Speaker 7: Yeah, So, unless was it. I want to say two

2493
01:33:17,000 --> 01:33:20,920
Speaker 7: training camps ago, I played right tackle the whole training

2494
01:33:20,920 --> 01:33:23,040
Speaker 7: camp and that's because, yeah, that's because we had a

2495
01:33:23,080 --> 01:33:25,960
Speaker 7: really good as rusher and he was causing having a practice.

2496
01:33:25,960 --> 01:33:28,599
Speaker 7: So coach is like, yeah, I named I played one practice,

2497
01:33:28,600 --> 01:33:30,280
Speaker 7: I left tackle and I moved to the right attackle

2498
01:33:30,320 --> 01:33:32,240
Speaker 7: I'm like, I have not done right tackle in like

2499
01:33:32,360 --> 01:33:34,880
Speaker 7: a while, but you know the competitor in me, and

2500
01:33:34,960 --> 01:33:36,320
Speaker 7: I was like, yeah, I'm gonna go out there and

2501
01:33:36,400 --> 01:33:39,400
Speaker 7: just ball out. So that's what I did. So you know,

2502
01:33:39,520 --> 01:33:41,240
Speaker 7: my mights take a couple of practice sets, but you

2503
01:33:41,240 --> 01:33:42,679
Speaker 7: know I'll get you to get back.

2504
01:33:42,560 --> 01:33:42,960
Speaker 8: Of the groove.

2505
01:33:43,080 --> 01:33:44,960
Speaker 3: Are you gonna take any repsit guard at all or

2506
01:33:45,040 --> 01:33:45,800
Speaker 3: just pray?

2507
01:33:45,840 --> 01:33:48,800
Speaker 7: I guess some guards I wrap why because I think

2508
01:33:48,840 --> 01:33:54,040
Speaker 7: guard is it's very guard. It just it's so easy

2509
01:33:54,040 --> 01:33:55,800
Speaker 7: when you go from tackle to guard. It's a little

2510
01:33:55,840 --> 01:33:58,640
Speaker 7: easier because you're working with less space. And I'm a

2511
01:33:58,680 --> 01:34:03,000
Speaker 7: pretty big guy, so dumb d tackles are gonna be like, wow,

2512
01:34:03,080 --> 01:34:05,960
Speaker 7: why are you here? And I'm like, That's why I'm

2513
01:34:05,960 --> 01:34:07,040
Speaker 7: here because you don't want me here.

2514
01:34:07,520 --> 01:34:09,679
Speaker 2: And clearly you would be very long for that position.

2515
01:34:09,880 --> 01:34:11,400
Speaker 2: You have those long arms, you get on the quick.

2516
01:34:11,439 --> 01:34:13,800
Speaker 2: But what offen is when I'm in Coach always tells

2517
01:34:13,840 --> 01:34:16,639
Speaker 2: me is that guard. Yes, less space, but the guys

2518
01:34:16,680 --> 01:34:17,920
Speaker 2: get on you quicker too.

2519
01:34:18,240 --> 01:34:21,559
Speaker 7: Yeah, but that's a good thing because although I'm also long,

2520
01:34:21,600 --> 01:34:23,400
Speaker 7: I'm also big and I'll be bigger than all of them,

2521
01:34:23,439 --> 01:34:25,960
Speaker 7: so I'm not worried about them getting on me quickly.

2522
01:34:26,000 --> 01:34:27,120
Speaker 7: They're good after work.

2523
01:34:27,920 --> 01:34:30,360
Speaker 2: So what part of your craft do you think right

2524
01:34:30,400 --> 01:34:32,680
Speaker 2: now is the strength of your game in terms of,

2525
01:34:32,920 --> 01:34:35,320
Speaker 2: you know, the technique and skill of being an offensive tackle.

2526
01:34:35,600 --> 01:34:39,880
Speaker 7: Yeah, I feel like I'm somebody that I like. I'll

2527
01:34:39,920 --> 01:34:42,800
Speaker 7: put a ninety ninety seven percent hit rate on this.

2528
01:34:42,880 --> 01:34:44,960
Speaker 7: If I get hands on, I'm pretty much gonna win

2529
01:34:45,000 --> 01:34:47,160
Speaker 7: that rep. So that's why I don't even if I

2530
01:34:47,360 --> 01:34:48,639
Speaker 7: know if I get our guard, I'm gonna be good,

2531
01:34:48,680 --> 01:34:50,400
Speaker 7: like just if I get hands on. It's something very

2532
01:34:50,400 --> 01:34:54,639
Speaker 7: confident in. I have pretty good grip strength. I'm getting

2533
01:34:54,640 --> 01:34:56,800
Speaker 7: better or using my hands or where to put my hands,

2534
01:34:56,800 --> 01:34:59,200
Speaker 7: so that just helps me out a lot. So that's

2535
01:34:59,200 --> 01:34:59,920
Speaker 7: something I take a lot of.

2536
01:35:00,479 --> 01:35:02,200
Speaker 3: And what's something you're still trying to work on and

2537
01:35:02,240 --> 01:35:02,639
Speaker 3: find too?

2538
01:35:02,920 --> 01:35:07,200
Speaker 7: Definitely like lateral lateral movement and you know and uh

2539
01:35:08,880 --> 01:35:10,320
Speaker 7: and speed, and you know that's what comes with it.

2540
01:35:10,320 --> 01:35:12,080
Speaker 7: You know, just as a football player, you know when

2541
01:35:12,120 --> 01:35:13,760
Speaker 7: you are a bigger, longer tackle, these are the kind

2542
01:35:13,760 --> 01:35:15,479
Speaker 7: of things you gotta work on. You know, there's obviously

2543
01:35:15,479 --> 01:35:18,320
Speaker 7: no perfect football player. It's always something you gotta work on,

2544
01:35:18,360 --> 01:35:19,880
Speaker 7: and not just something I gotta work on. It's not

2545
01:35:19,920 --> 01:35:21,880
Speaker 7: something that's like impossible to do. She takes a little

2546
01:35:21,880 --> 01:35:22,879
Speaker 7: bit of hard work and dedication.

2547
01:35:23,600 --> 01:35:25,599
Speaker 2: I love talking to the non Power five guys. I

2548
01:35:25,640 --> 01:35:27,639
Speaker 2: just talked to your teammate from from Holy Cross before

2549
01:35:27,680 --> 01:35:29,439
Speaker 2: and he was his whole face lit up on I

2550
01:35:29,439 --> 01:35:31,719
Speaker 2: asked about getting your hands on some of these Power

2551
01:35:31,760 --> 01:35:34,840
Speaker 2: five guys and showing coaches how you can compete with

2552
01:35:35,200 --> 01:35:36,160
Speaker 2: those guys, right.

2553
01:35:36,120 --> 01:35:38,280
Speaker 7: Yeah, so yeah, it's a little different mentality when you

2554
01:35:38,320 --> 01:35:41,120
Speaker 7: go against the Power five guys because at the end

2555
01:35:41,160 --> 01:35:44,120
Speaker 7: of the day, like although there's like you know levels

2556
01:35:44,120 --> 01:35:46,439
Speaker 7: and football Power five, D one, D two we see

2557
01:35:46,520 --> 01:35:49,120
Speaker 7: all the time. You know, there are guys who went

2558
01:35:49,160 --> 01:35:50,880
Speaker 7: to D two and they're coming to show up because

2559
01:35:50,880 --> 01:35:52,479
Speaker 7: I had the football's football. You know, you play it

2560
01:35:52,520 --> 01:35:54,920
Speaker 7: within the stripes, you play it. The field, doesn't change

2561
01:35:54,920 --> 01:35:57,040
Speaker 7: it because you're playing D one all let's say Canadian

2562
01:35:57,120 --> 01:35:59,160
Speaker 7: like me, where it feels a little different, but at

2563
01:35:59,200 --> 01:36:01,519
Speaker 7: the same time, you know it's the same feel. You know,

2564
01:36:01,520 --> 01:36:04,960
Speaker 7: you're nothing really changes. So half the time, a lot

2565
01:36:05,000 --> 01:36:07,280
Speaker 7: of people are defeated mentally. You know. Maybe you might

2566
01:36:07,320 --> 01:36:10,240
Speaker 7: went to a small school. You see Alabama, You're like, oh, Alabama.

2567
01:36:10,280 --> 01:36:12,880
Speaker 7: But the day he lifts the same wist as you,

2568
01:36:12,960 --> 01:36:14,560
Speaker 7: he eats the same food as you, he breathes the

2569
01:36:14,560 --> 01:36:16,320
Speaker 7: same air as you, and he bleeds just like you do.

2570
01:36:16,479 --> 01:36:18,720
Speaker 7: So it's just about going out there and doing something

2571
01:36:18,720 --> 01:36:21,040
Speaker 7: you've been used to doing. And you know, and obviously

2572
01:36:21,320 --> 01:36:23,280
Speaker 7: regardless of what level you at, you know you're gonna

2573
01:36:23,280 --> 01:36:24,800
Speaker 7: win somebod you're gonna lose something. Just as long as

2574
01:36:24,800 --> 01:36:26,080
Speaker 7: you win more than you lose, you're good.

2575
01:36:26,520 --> 01:36:28,519
Speaker 2: And that's important. As an offensive tackle. I know they

2576
01:36:28,520 --> 01:36:30,120
Speaker 2: talk about this the corners all the time, but for

2577
01:36:30,200 --> 01:36:32,040
Speaker 2: ot too. You gotta have a short memory, right. You

2578
01:36:32,080 --> 01:36:33,879
Speaker 2: can't let one rep rum the next one.

2579
01:36:33,920 --> 01:36:36,160
Speaker 7: Absolutely, and you know, and it's a lot of things

2580
01:36:36,160 --> 01:36:39,280
Speaker 7: that go into it. Sometimes like it's like yeah, like

2581
01:36:39,360 --> 01:36:41,479
Speaker 7: bad things happen. Sometimes you're gonna play a good player,

2582
01:36:41,520 --> 01:36:43,800
Speaker 7: you know, and like you know, like just like how

2583
01:36:44,200 --> 01:36:46,880
Speaker 7: linemen are here, and we're gonna get paid to the block.

2584
01:36:46,960 --> 01:36:48,880
Speaker 7: There's d linemen. We're gonna get paid to get sacked.

2585
01:36:48,920 --> 01:36:51,320
Speaker 7: So you know they're gonna get sacked. They're gonna make plays.

2586
01:36:51,400 --> 01:36:53,080
Speaker 7: But that's some of the good things coach you want

2587
01:36:53,120 --> 01:36:54,880
Speaker 7: to see, Like how do you bounce back? Like just

2588
01:36:54,880 --> 01:36:57,160
Speaker 7: doesn't give a sack? Are you like shutting down?

2589
01:36:57,200 --> 01:36:58,080
Speaker 10: It's like your world over?

2590
01:36:58,240 --> 01:37:00,800
Speaker 7: No, obviously not. You gotta gotta keep going. You just

2591
01:37:00,800 --> 01:37:03,040
Speaker 7: got you make a mistake, that's fine, Like as long

2592
01:37:03,080 --> 01:37:04,880
Speaker 7: as you know what you mess upon and how you

2593
01:37:04,920 --> 01:37:06,400
Speaker 7: could be better, you're gonna be fun.

2594
01:37:06,680 --> 01:37:09,320
Speaker 2: Finally, what is the WFE playing school? Playing football at Howard?

2595
01:37:10,400 --> 01:37:12,640
Speaker 7: It's really fun, I'll tell you that much. Being the

2596
01:37:12,720 --> 01:37:15,800
Speaker 7: nation's capital, DC is a really good environment, really good

2597
01:37:15,840 --> 01:37:20,519
Speaker 7: space to be at, very very social, and especially at Howard.

2598
01:37:20,560 --> 01:37:23,559
Speaker 7: Howard is a very It's a lot of networking go

2599
01:37:23,600 --> 01:37:26,479
Speaker 7: on in this school. So when you're Howard you get

2600
01:37:26,479 --> 01:37:28,120
Speaker 7: to meet oscoos and people. I remember I was talking

2601
01:37:28,600 --> 01:37:31,320
Speaker 7: to one of my friends about it, like somebody went

2602
01:37:31,360 --> 01:37:33,000
Speaker 7: to school with Kamala Harris and they don't know she

2603
01:37:33,040 --> 01:37:35,120
Speaker 7: was gonna be the VP, so you never know. I

2604
01:37:35,160 --> 01:37:37,280
Speaker 7: may went to school with the next president or the

2605
01:37:37,320 --> 01:37:40,439
Speaker 7: next person that invents something great, and you know, and

2606
01:37:40,479 --> 01:37:42,080
Speaker 7: then one day and we'll be like, hey, remember we

2607
01:37:42,080 --> 01:37:44,240
Speaker 7: went to school to get out. Yeah you yeah, you're

2608
01:37:44,240 --> 01:37:45,720
Speaker 7: the guy to help me. I was like, yeah, yeah,

2609
01:37:45,920 --> 01:37:47,439
Speaker 7: you know that's how That's how I'd be Like a Howard,

2610
01:37:47,920 --> 01:37:49,439
Speaker 7: You're gonna meet a lot of great people and a

2611
01:37:49,479 --> 01:37:51,200
Speaker 7: lot of people are gonna be successful in life. So

2612
01:37:51,560 --> 01:37:54,240
Speaker 7: going to football, I mean going to Howard and playful

2613
01:37:54,240 --> 01:37:55,759
Speaker 7: ab out there comes with a lot of benefits.

2614
01:37:55,960 --> 01:37:58,000
Speaker 2: And talk about networking, I mean networking with a bunch

2615
01:37:58,000 --> 01:38:00,519
Speaker 2: of NFL personnel here and these meetings on this So

2616
01:38:00,560 --> 01:38:02,840
Speaker 2: what are you trying to get across about yourself to

2617
01:38:02,880 --> 01:38:05,040
Speaker 2: these teams when you meet with them on the side.

2618
01:38:04,840 --> 01:38:06,240
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm sure. I just want to get to them

2619
01:38:06,280 --> 01:38:08,800
Speaker 7: that I'm a pretty impersonal person. I've been through a

2620
01:38:08,800 --> 01:38:10,320
Speaker 7: lot of things, you know, I had a lot of

2621
01:38:10,439 --> 01:38:14,479
Speaker 7: journeys and I'm just somebody who just sojoy to be around.

2622
01:38:14,479 --> 01:38:17,160
Speaker 7: You know, I'm willing to learn, want know new things,

2623
01:38:17,280 --> 01:38:19,560
Speaker 7: meet new people. So I just want to let them know,

2624
01:38:19,640 --> 01:38:21,120
Speaker 7: you know, I'm just I'm just s here to learn, man,

2625
01:38:21,320 --> 01:38:23,080
Speaker 7: just just share to learn whatever.

2626
01:38:22,840 --> 01:38:24,600
Speaker 2: I can What are some of those journeys that you

2627
01:38:24,600 --> 01:38:26,639
Speaker 2: think have kind of forged you as a person.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: So my initial trip coming from Gone to Canada, I

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Speaker 7: did that flat by myself. It's about nine years old.

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Speaker 18: Wow.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, and you know that definitely prepared me. I mean

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Speaker 7: I was sitting there. It's like, yo, like I don't

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Speaker 7: know anybody here. I'm here, I've never done. This is

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Speaker 7: the first time I flew in the plane. It's like

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Speaker 7: going from that to to like them coming from Canada

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Speaker 7: to Howard, It's like that's nothing.

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Speaker 8: When you when you could do that, you can do anything.

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Speaker 8: You just feel like you now you have superpowers.

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Speaker 2: I mean, this was great man. Best luck to you.

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Speaker 2: We appreciate the time. We'll talk to you soon.

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Speaker 8: Thank you very much. Appreciate you who that.

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Speaker 2: Was a lot of players, folks. But I enjoy doing

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01:39:03,200 --> 01:39:06,000
Speaker 2: those interviews. I sure as heck, hope you enjoyed listening

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01:39:06,080 --> 01:39:08,519
Speaker 2: to them. Really get a good insight into what these

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01:39:08,560 --> 01:39:10,360
Speaker 2: players are on the field and the type of people

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Speaker 2: that they are as well. And it'll be fun having

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Speaker 2: these interviews and information in our back pocket as we

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Speaker 2: continue this draft evaluation process right here on the Giants.

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01:39:24,720 --> 01:39:28,120
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01:39:31,800 --> 01:39:34,680
Speaker 2: draft each and every week. Thanks for being with us

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Speaker 2: in the Giants Little Podcast. I'm off to Mobile, Alabama.

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Speaker 2: I will have a couple of podcasts from you out

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Speaker 2: in Mobile, including a very similar one to this where

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Speaker 2: we talk to a bunch of the prospects at the

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Speaker 2: Senior Bowl, and then we'll have a draft analyst from

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Speaker 2: down there as well. Thanks for being with us, everybody.

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Speaker 2: We'll see you next time on the Giants Tottle Podcast