Speaker 1: Welcome to the Command Center Podcast. I'm Julie Donaldson. What
Speaker 1: a difference a year makes, especially for second year player
Speaker 1: Jamie Davis. After learning the rope to the NFL of
Speaker 1: his rookie season, he came up with a renewed purpose
Speaker 1: and led the team with tackles with one hundred and
Speaker 1: four and before he headed out this offseason, well, he's
Speaker 1: taught by the players Club to talk with one of
Speaker 1: the best to ever put on the Burgundy and goal
Speaker 1: linebacker London Fletcher and wide out Santana Moss. Check it out, Jamie,
Speaker 1: you're two in the books man, end up leading the
Speaker 1: team in tackles this year. How did it feel to
Speaker 1: kind of go through the season that you had and
Speaker 1: after obviously the rookie year you had and playing as
Speaker 1: well as you did this year? Absolutely, I mean, I
Speaker 1: feel like this was definitely a big year of growth
Speaker 1: for me, just figuring out who I am as a
Speaker 1: player and just giving me something to build off going forward.
Speaker 1: One of the things that stood out, man, is that
Speaker 1: you can tell you can see your growth. You know,
Speaker 1: sometime it's not something that's just glaring, you can just
Speaker 1: you know, put your finger on but we actually saw
Speaker 1: you fly around to the ball. Was that from the
Speaker 1: position change or that was just from just the familiar
Speaker 1: you know, being familiar now with stuff and having that
Speaker 1: extra help that you say you was getting from Cold
Speaker 1: throughout the season. I think that was more so being
Speaker 1: familiar with the position a lot more seeing things that
Speaker 1: I've seen before last year, and just going out there
Speaker 1: and just trying to put it a little bit more
Speaker 1: of a stain on different plays that that was out
Speaker 1: there for me to make in your one and I
Speaker 1: think just going forward, that's just something I'm gonna have
Speaker 1: to continue to build off of so that I could
Speaker 1: just make more of a mark on this team. Cole
Speaker 1: went down, you eventually started wearing the green dot man.
Speaker 1: That was a little different for y'all. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: if you in college, y'all signal everything. I don't even
Speaker 1: know if y'all have you know, the headset. What was
Speaker 1: that like for you? You know, having to call a
Speaker 1: defense and listen to it for the communication. I think
Speaker 1: it was one of those things for me that was
Speaker 1: like you got to step up and show out. I mean,
Speaker 1: Cold went down and it was just an eye open
Speaker 1: experience for me because it was like Okay, next man up.
Speaker 1: That was always the mentality that I had in my
Speaker 1: head anyway, So just when I got the opportunity, it
Speaker 1: was like, Okay, now you got to be more of
Speaker 1: a vocal leader kind of guy and just step up
Speaker 1: to the plate and just put your best foot forward.
Speaker 1: You know, one of the things that come with being
Speaker 1: a veteran or starting to stack those years up on
Speaker 1: your you know your resume, is the confidence and you know,
Speaker 1: the off seasons are much different. Now you can go
Speaker 1: into your off season just knowing that I'm gonna really
Speaker 1: step things up, and I'm gonna go out here and
Speaker 1: I'm attack certain different things that I know that I
Speaker 1: need to work on. Is that something that's going through
Speaker 1: your head now? I know the confidence is there, we
Speaker 1: saw it in your game, But are you already mentally
Speaker 1: preparing for this off season just knowing that, man if
Speaker 1: I do X, Y and Z, I'm definitely for the
Speaker 1: bringer on a different level. You know this next time around.
Speaker 1: Is that something that you've already been thinking about or
Speaker 1: that you're probably that it happened whenever happens. Absolutely, I
Speaker 1: mean in my head right now, it's like it's time
Speaker 1: to put your best foot forward to show everybody that
Speaker 1: you are all pro linebacker. So now you gotta change
Speaker 1: little things up as far as like alignments and stuff
Speaker 1: like that. To figure out little things I could take
Speaker 1: your game to the next level again next year. So
Speaker 1: it's like where do you go from here? It's like
Speaker 1: you don't want to be average at the end of
Speaker 1: the day. So I'm one of those guys. It's always
Speaker 1: going to do it as best as possible and just
Speaker 1: bring everything I got. When you look at this season overall,
Speaker 1: and obviously, you know three days we felt like it
Speaker 1: was three different seasons, you know, the wonding fourth Star,
Speaker 1: then running off to seven and five, and then obviously
Speaker 1: the way the season ended. What will you remember most
Speaker 1: about this year That we didn't quit at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, no matter what, even if it started slow,
Speaker 1: we picked it back up and it didn't end the
Speaker 1: way we wanted it too. But I mean, look at
Speaker 1: a testament of yesterday Lakai went down with Dallas. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you asked me, I mean we had our backs
Speaker 1: against all we never volted, So I mean going forward,
Speaker 1: that's something to build off of, and I just know
Speaker 1: the guys around me got my back and like coach
Speaker 1: Rivera always say, all we got is all we needed.
Speaker 1: So how was it looking at some of them young
Speaker 1: guys yesterday? Man, I got it. Yeah, I'm glad you
Speaker 1: asked that. It was just sitting there watching, just watching
Speaker 1: everybody flying around and just you know exactly how they
Speaker 1: was going to play because of how they approached it
Speaker 1: throughout the we can practice and it was just amazing
Speaker 1: to just see everybody doing their job and just it
Speaker 1: wasn't really a surprise because it was one of those
Speaker 1: things that we always prepare the same exact way and
Speaker 1: just went out there and showed everybody that it ain't
Speaker 1: gonna be a cake walk over us or anything like that.
Speaker 1: So they went out there and played their game and
Speaker 1: the results spoke for him, So that was good. One
Speaker 1: of the first things when I saw Tanna to day,
Speaker 1: he was like many have a colligue hut that you
Speaker 1: know you see him running around. He was making a
Speaker 1: ton of plays, did some things running down the middle
Speaker 1: of the field and cover two. It's like, sayn why
Speaker 1: haven't he been playing? You know what is that something
Speaker 1: you've seen in colleague in practice all season? Lost league
Speaker 1: is a dog man. He definitely earned his respect from
Speaker 1: in my eyes when I first met him. To be honest,
Speaker 1: like I've been new, League was a dog. So just
Speaker 1: seeing him go out there and take take advantage of
Speaker 1: his opportunity or something that's really humbling. This is knowing
Speaker 1: that I'm the same kind of guy as well. So
Speaker 1: just being around a guy like League, I think going forward,
Speaker 1: he always gonna make his mark as well, do you guys,
Speaker 1: M Because I knew I was always one of those guys.
Speaker 1: I went home, I went to Miami, and you know,
Speaker 1: I felt like we had some of the best upbringing
Speaker 1: when it came to you know, strength and conditioning right
Speaker 1: there on campus with our scrim coach Andrew Swayze. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure how you guys do it now nowadays, but
Speaker 1: do you go back to where you're from, or do
Speaker 1: you stay around in the area and say, you know,
Speaker 1: get some of the guys from the team and work
Speaker 1: out or how do you do that. I feel like
Speaker 1: that's probably one of the safest routes to take. It
Speaker 1: is probably sticking around the area because you're around the
Speaker 1: strength staff, they get to see you, they can keep
Speaker 1: their hands on you and do as much as possible
Speaker 1: to keep developing you as a player. So I mean
Speaker 1: going forward, you know, like, Okay, we've seen this guy
Speaker 1: around the facility, we know that he was putting in
Speaker 1: that work in the offseason, and then going forward, you
Speaker 1: got other guys that's gonna slowly start to trickle back
Speaker 1: in as well so that they can get on boarding
Speaker 1: and that chemistry just keeps growing. Yeah, man, this is
Speaker 1: uh we if you have this type of jump next year.
Speaker 1: I love the fact that you said all Pro line back,
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl, all Pro lineback, and you know, as I
Speaker 1: watched on the field, the talent is there, the confidence
Speaker 1: is growing. You know, each and every week we saw
Speaker 1: a progress throughout the season. It's just a little thing,
Speaker 1: like you said, that alignment and learning a little intricacies
Speaker 1: of playing that position. Man, I can't wait to see
Speaker 1: a year three from you. I can't wait you. It's
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