1 00:00:03,279 --> 00:00:09,440 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Command Center Podcast. I'm Julie Donaldson. What 2 00:00:09,560 --> 00:00:12,080 Speaker 1: a difference a year makes, especially for second year player 3 00:00:12,160 --> 00:00:14,600 Speaker 1: Jamie Davis. After learning the rope to the NFL of 4 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:17,160 Speaker 1: his rookie season, he came up with a renewed purpose 5 00:00:17,400 --> 00:00:19,680 Speaker 1: and led the team with tackles with one hundred and 6 00:00:19,840 --> 00:00:22,920 Speaker 1: four and before he headed out this offseason, well, he's 7 00:00:22,920 --> 00:00:24,599 Speaker 1: taught by the players Club to talk with one of 8 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:26,560 Speaker 1: the best to ever put on the Burgundy and goal 9 00:00:26,880 --> 00:00:31,880 Speaker 1: linebacker London Fletcher and wide out Santana Moss. Check it out, Jamie, 10 00:00:32,080 --> 00:00:34,519 Speaker 1: you're two in the books man, end up leading the 11 00:00:34,520 --> 00:00:36,920 Speaker 1: team in tackles this year. How did it feel to 12 00:00:37,040 --> 00:00:39,320 Speaker 1: kind of go through the season that you had and 13 00:00:39,760 --> 00:00:42,599 Speaker 1: after obviously the rookie year you had and playing as 14 00:00:42,640 --> 00:00:44,559 Speaker 1: well as you did this year? Absolutely, I mean, I 15 00:00:44,560 --> 00:00:46,360 Speaker 1: feel like this was definitely a big year of growth 16 00:00:46,360 --> 00:00:48,440 Speaker 1: for me, just figuring out who I am as a 17 00:00:48,479 --> 00:00:50,520 Speaker 1: player and just giving me something to build off going forward. 18 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:52,640 Speaker 1: One of the things that stood out, man, is that 19 00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:55,800 Speaker 1: you can tell you can see your growth. You know, 20 00:00:55,880 --> 00:00:58,840 Speaker 1: sometime it's not something that's just glaring, you can just 21 00:00:59,440 --> 00:01:02,160 Speaker 1: you know, put your finger on but we actually saw 22 00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:05,160 Speaker 1: you fly around to the ball. Was that from the 23 00:01:05,160 --> 00:01:07,480 Speaker 1: position change or that was just from just the familiar 24 00:01:07,720 --> 00:01:10,399 Speaker 1: you know, being familiar now with stuff and having that 25 00:01:10,520 --> 00:01:12,880 Speaker 1: extra help that you say you was getting from Cold 26 00:01:12,880 --> 00:01:15,480 Speaker 1: throughout the season. I think that was more so being 27 00:01:15,520 --> 00:01:19,120 Speaker 1: familiar with the position a lot more seeing things that 28 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:21,200 Speaker 1: I've seen before last year, and just going out there 29 00:01:21,240 --> 00:01:23,080 Speaker 1: and just trying to put it a little bit more 30 00:01:23,080 --> 00:01:24,920 Speaker 1: of a stain on different plays that that was out 31 00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:27,360 Speaker 1: there for me to make in your one and I 32 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:29,160 Speaker 1: think just going forward, that's just something I'm gonna have 33 00:01:29,200 --> 00:01:31,120 Speaker 1: to continue to build off of so that I could 34 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:33,400 Speaker 1: just make more of a mark on this team. Cole 35 00:01:33,480 --> 00:01:36,280 Speaker 1: went down, you eventually started wearing the green dot man. 36 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:38,640 Speaker 1: That was a little different for y'all. I'm not sure 37 00:01:38,640 --> 00:01:41,080 Speaker 1: if you in college, y'all signal everything. I don't even 38 00:01:41,120 --> 00:01:43,520 Speaker 1: know if y'all have you know, the headset. What was 39 00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:45,720 Speaker 1: that like for you? You know, having to call a 40 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:48,920 Speaker 1: defense and listen to it for the communication. I think 41 00:01:48,920 --> 00:01:50,360 Speaker 1: it was one of those things for me that was 42 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:52,200 Speaker 1: like you got to step up and show out. I mean, 43 00:01:52,760 --> 00:01:54,640 Speaker 1: Cold went down and it was just an eye open 44 00:01:54,720 --> 00:01:57,120 Speaker 1: experience for me because it was like Okay, next man up. 45 00:01:57,160 --> 00:01:58,760 Speaker 1: That was always the mentality that I had in my 46 00:01:58,760 --> 00:02:01,840 Speaker 1: head anyway, So just when I got the opportunity, it 47 00:02:01,920 --> 00:02:03,200 Speaker 1: was like, Okay, now you got to be more of 48 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:05,040 Speaker 1: a vocal leader kind of guy and just step up 49 00:02:05,080 --> 00:02:06,760 Speaker 1: to the plate and just put your best foot forward. 50 00:02:07,280 --> 00:02:09,960 Speaker 1: You know, one of the things that come with being 51 00:02:09,960 --> 00:02:12,480 Speaker 1: a veteran or starting to stack those years up on 52 00:02:12,560 --> 00:02:17,320 Speaker 1: your you know your resume, is the confidence and you know, 53 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:19,720 Speaker 1: the off seasons are much different. Now you can go 54 00:02:19,720 --> 00:02:22,760 Speaker 1: into your off season just knowing that I'm gonna really 55 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:24,359 Speaker 1: step things up, and I'm gonna go out here and 56 00:02:24,360 --> 00:02:26,560 Speaker 1: I'm attack certain different things that I know that I 57 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:29,160 Speaker 1: need to work on. Is that something that's going through 58 00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:30,840 Speaker 1: your head now? I know the confidence is there, we 59 00:02:30,840 --> 00:02:33,400 Speaker 1: saw it in your game, But are you already mentally 60 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:36,079 Speaker 1: preparing for this off season just knowing that, man if 61 00:02:36,120 --> 00:02:38,679 Speaker 1: I do X, Y and Z, I'm definitely for the 62 00:02:38,760 --> 00:02:41,640 Speaker 1: bringer on a different level. You know this next time around. 63 00:02:41,880 --> 00:02:43,799 Speaker 1: Is that something that you've already been thinking about or 64 00:02:43,919 --> 00:02:46,840 Speaker 1: that you're probably that it happened whenever happens. Absolutely, I 65 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:48,919 Speaker 1: mean in my head right now, it's like it's time 66 00:02:48,919 --> 00:02:50,600 Speaker 1: to put your best foot forward to show everybody that 67 00:02:50,639 --> 00:02:53,240 Speaker 1: you are all pro linebacker. So now you gotta change 68 00:02:53,320 --> 00:02:55,720 Speaker 1: little things up as far as like alignments and stuff 69 00:02:55,760 --> 00:02:57,280 Speaker 1: like that. To figure out little things I could take 70 00:02:57,320 --> 00:02:59,640 Speaker 1: your game to the next level again next year. So 71 00:02:59,680 --> 00:03:01,680 Speaker 1: it's like where do you go from here? It's like 72 00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:03,400 Speaker 1: you don't want to be average at the end of 73 00:03:03,440 --> 00:03:05,280 Speaker 1: the day. So I'm one of those guys. It's always 74 00:03:05,320 --> 00:03:07,440 Speaker 1: going to do it as best as possible and just 75 00:03:07,480 --> 00:03:11,679 Speaker 1: bring everything I got. When you look at this season overall, 76 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:14,600 Speaker 1: and obviously, you know three days we felt like it 77 00:03:14,600 --> 00:03:16,720 Speaker 1: was three different seasons, you know, the wonding fourth Star, 78 00:03:17,280 --> 00:03:19,640 Speaker 1: then running off to seven and five, and then obviously 79 00:03:19,800 --> 00:03:22,920 Speaker 1: the way the season ended. What will you remember most 80 00:03:22,919 --> 00:03:25,320 Speaker 1: about this year That we didn't quit at the end 81 00:03:25,320 --> 00:03:27,960 Speaker 1: of the day, no matter what, even if it started slow, 82 00:03:28,040 --> 00:03:29,800 Speaker 1: we picked it back up and it didn't end the 83 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:31,280 Speaker 1: way we wanted it too. But I mean, look at 84 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:34,359 Speaker 1: a testament of yesterday Lakai went down with Dallas. I mean, 85 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:36,880 Speaker 1: if you asked me, I mean we had our backs 86 00:03:36,920 --> 00:03:39,760 Speaker 1: against all we never volted, So I mean going forward, 87 00:03:39,760 --> 00:03:41,400 Speaker 1: that's something to build off of, and I just know 88 00:03:41,480 --> 00:03:43,839 Speaker 1: the guys around me got my back and like coach 89 00:03:43,920 --> 00:03:45,760 Speaker 1: Rivera always say, all we got is all we needed. 90 00:03:45,800 --> 00:03:48,920 Speaker 1: So how was it looking at some of them young 91 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:51,040 Speaker 1: guys yesterday? Man, I got it. Yeah, I'm glad you 92 00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:55,280 Speaker 1: asked that. It was just sitting there watching, just watching 93 00:03:55,280 --> 00:03:57,760 Speaker 1: everybody flying around and just you know exactly how they 94 00:03:57,800 --> 00:03:59,560 Speaker 1: was going to play because of how they approached it 95 00:03:59,560 --> 00:04:01,560 Speaker 1: throughout the we can practice and it was just amazing 96 00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:04,120 Speaker 1: to just see everybody doing their job and just it 97 00:04:04,160 --> 00:04:05,880 Speaker 1: wasn't really a surprise because it was one of those 98 00:04:05,880 --> 00:04:07,920 Speaker 1: things that we always prepare the same exact way and 99 00:04:07,960 --> 00:04:10,520 Speaker 1: just went out there and showed everybody that it ain't 100 00:04:10,520 --> 00:04:12,320 Speaker 1: gonna be a cake walk over us or anything like that. 101 00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:13,840 Speaker 1: So they went out there and played their game and 102 00:04:13,880 --> 00:04:16,000 Speaker 1: the results spoke for him, So that was good. One 103 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:17,840 Speaker 1: of the first things when I saw Tanna to day, 104 00:04:17,880 --> 00:04:22,720 Speaker 1: he was like many have a colligue hut that you 105 00:04:22,760 --> 00:04:25,039 Speaker 1: know you see him running around. He was making a 106 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:28,080 Speaker 1: ton of plays, did some things running down the middle 107 00:04:28,080 --> 00:04:31,600 Speaker 1: of the field and cover two. It's like, sayn why 108 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:34,960 Speaker 1: haven't he been playing? You know what is that something 109 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:38,279 Speaker 1: you've seen in colleague in practice all season? Lost league 110 00:04:38,360 --> 00:04:40,960 Speaker 1: is a dog man. He definitely earned his respect from 111 00:04:41,080 --> 00:04:42,880 Speaker 1: in my eyes when I first met him. To be honest, 112 00:04:42,880 --> 00:04:44,760 Speaker 1: like I've been new, League was a dog. So just 113 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:47,159 Speaker 1: seeing him go out there and take take advantage of 114 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:50,240 Speaker 1: his opportunity or something that's really humbling. This is knowing 115 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:51,800 Speaker 1: that I'm the same kind of guy as well. So 116 00:04:52,360 --> 00:04:54,479 Speaker 1: just being around a guy like League, I think going forward, 117 00:04:54,480 --> 00:04:57,360 Speaker 1: he always gonna make his mark as well, do you guys, 118 00:04:57,680 --> 00:04:59,760 Speaker 1: M Because I knew I was always one of those guys. 119 00:04:59,760 --> 00:05:02,400 Speaker 1: I went home, I went to Miami, and you know, 120 00:05:02,520 --> 00:05:05,240 Speaker 1: I felt like we had some of the best upbringing 121 00:05:05,279 --> 00:05:07,719 Speaker 1: when it came to you know, strength and conditioning right 122 00:05:07,760 --> 00:05:12,159 Speaker 1: there on campus with our scrim coach Andrew Swayze. I'm 123 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:15,520 Speaker 1: not sure how you guys do it now nowadays, but 124 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:18,279 Speaker 1: do you go back to where you're from, or do 125 00:05:18,320 --> 00:05:19,960 Speaker 1: you stay around in the area and say, you know, 126 00:05:20,120 --> 00:05:21,760 Speaker 1: get some of the guys from the team and work 127 00:05:21,760 --> 00:05:23,400 Speaker 1: out or how do you do that. I feel like 128 00:05:23,440 --> 00:05:25,800 Speaker 1: that's probably one of the safest routes to take. It 129 00:05:25,880 --> 00:05:28,240 Speaker 1: is probably sticking around the area because you're around the 130 00:05:28,279 --> 00:05:30,120 Speaker 1: strength staff, they get to see you, they can keep 131 00:05:30,120 --> 00:05:33,040 Speaker 1: their hands on you and do as much as possible 132 00:05:33,080 --> 00:05:34,920 Speaker 1: to keep developing you as a player. So I mean 133 00:05:35,040 --> 00:05:37,760 Speaker 1: going forward, you know, like, Okay, we've seen this guy 134 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:39,640 Speaker 1: around the facility, we know that he was putting in 135 00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:41,920 Speaker 1: that work in the offseason, and then going forward, you 136 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:44,080 Speaker 1: got other guys that's gonna slowly start to trickle back 137 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:45,719 Speaker 1: in as well so that they can get on boarding 138 00:05:45,760 --> 00:05:49,200 Speaker 1: and that chemistry just keeps growing. Yeah, man, this is 139 00:05:49,360 --> 00:05:52,440 Speaker 1: uh we if you have this type of jump next year. 140 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:55,440 Speaker 1: I love the fact that you said all Pro line back, 141 00:05:56,320 --> 00:05:59,600 Speaker 1: Pro Bowl, all Pro lineback, and you know, as I 142 00:05:59,680 --> 00:06:04,479 Speaker 1: watched on the field, the talent is there, the confidence 143 00:06:04,640 --> 00:06:06,440 Speaker 1: is growing. You know, each and every week we saw 144 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:09,000 Speaker 1: a progress throughout the season. It's just a little thing, 145 00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:12,840 Speaker 1: like you said, that alignment and learning a little intricacies 146 00:06:12,920 --> 00:06:15,280 Speaker 1: of playing that position. Man, I can't wait to see 147 00:06:15,320 --> 00:06:17,360 Speaker 1: a year three from you. I can't wait you. It's 148 00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:22,760 Speaker 1: gonna Beau already. 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