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- 0:00Speaker 1: Travis Hunter is a Jacksonville Jaguar, and really what comes
- 0:03Speaker 1: to mind for me right thinking about the sport of
- 0:06Speaker 1: football and really the power of the game itself, right,
- 0:11Speaker 1: it's capacity to ignite belief, right, belief in ourselves, belief
- 0:16Speaker 1: in others, right, belief in achieving what many may deem impossible.
- 0:23Speaker 1: Travis Hunter, he embodies belief right. He's a rare person,
- 0:29Speaker 1: he's a rare player, but he's also a reminder that
- 0:33Speaker 1: the boundaries of the game of football were built to
- 0:37Speaker 1: be challenged, and so the decision to select him was
- 0:42Speaker 1: actually a statement, a statement for how we plan to
- 0:45Speaker 1: move who we are, and we want him to be
- 0:50Speaker 1: nothing more than him because when he is, he elevates
- 0:54Speaker 1: the space around him, from the football field, to the city,
- 1:00Speaker 1: to the game of football itself. Travis Hunter is who
- 1:04Speaker 1: we've been hunting up. Couldn't be more jacked to be
- 1:07Speaker 1: sitting right here beside him and introduce you all to
- 1:11Speaker 1: the man of the hour.
- 1:19Speaker 2: Thank you James. As we get into the Q and
- 1:21Speaker 2: A here with the media, please direct your questions to
- 1:24Speaker 2: Liam James or Travis and identify yourselves and we can
- 1:28Speaker 2: begin the learning process. Also mentioning your.
- 1:30Speaker 3: Affiliation too, if you could.
- 1:33Speaker 2: And so let's begin.
- 1:34Speaker 3: Who's got the first question?
- 1:36Speaker 2: Let's go with Mark.
- 1:45Speaker 4: This is for Travis Mark Long with the Associated Press.
- 1:47Speaker 4: How'd you get the football?
- 1:49Speaker 3: How I get the football?
- 1:49Speaker 4: How'd you get the football?
- 1:50Speaker 3: Walk in the building and took it from coach?
- 1:54Speaker 4: He took it from him.
- 1:55Speaker 3: Yeah, he was over there playing with the football. Was like,
- 1:57Speaker 3: let me hold that.
- 1:58Speaker 4: So you've had it for how long now?
- 2:00Speaker 3: Since I walking in the building.
- 2:04Speaker 4: So what's what's been a whirlwind last night today? What's
- 2:08Speaker 4: what's kind of take me through, take us through what
- 2:11Speaker 4: the last twelve hours, fifteen hours been like?
- 2:14Speaker 3: It's been excited. I normally go to sleep on planes,
- 2:16Speaker 3: but I stayed up the whole time, just licking out
- 2:18Speaker 3: the window. Why so well, I just excited to get
- 2:23Speaker 3: here and be able to come back home and you know,
- 2:25Speaker 3: be able to you know, get to work.
- 2:28Speaker 5: Jeane Travis, Jean Fornett from the Times Union. Everybody you
- 2:34Speaker 5: know regurgitates all your stats, receiving yards, interceptions, all that stuff.
- 2:40Speaker 5: What probably a lot of people don't realize is that
- 2:43Speaker 5: you're a four point zero student, and there's not many
- 2:46Speaker 5: high end first round draft picks that have that kind
- 2:49Speaker 5: of GPA. So I'm wondering where does it I'm assuming
- 2:53Speaker 5: you've been a very good student for a very long time.
- 2:55Speaker 5: Where where does that mindset come from. Is it a
- 2:57Speaker 5: matter of just feeling like that's a challenge just like
- 3:00Speaker 5: a game, or is it a mindset that was sort
- 3:02Speaker 5: of passed on to you from a family member about
- 3:05Speaker 5: the importance of being well rounded.
- 3:07Speaker 3: Just the mindset of trying to be the best at
- 3:09Speaker 3: everything I do. You know, I don't want nobody to
- 3:11Speaker 3: do or have a step ahead of me. So I
- 3:13Speaker 3: just want to be the best at everything that's including work.
- 3:16Speaker 3: I hope I can go back and walk to stage.
- 3:19Speaker 3: May Eighth's go to Demetris Demetris for ture havis a
- 3:25Speaker 3: Demetris Harvey with the Floida Times Union.
- 3:27Speaker 6: We we've heard you talk about a lot of coaches
- 3:30Speaker 6: that have helped you in the past. Obviously coach Prime
- 3:32Speaker 6: and your coaches over at Colorado JSU, but you know,
- 3:37Speaker 6: talk about coach Drew Johnson. Just what was he able
- 3:40Speaker 6: to do for you sort of laying the foundation for
- 3:42Speaker 6: you as a player.
- 3:43Speaker 3: He helped me out a lot. You know, I got
- 3:44Speaker 3: my footwork right, you know, really you didn't have to
- 3:47Speaker 3: put the dog in me. I was born with it
- 3:49Speaker 3: in me. So he got my footwork right, you know,
- 3:51Speaker 3: he just he just helped me out a lot with
- 3:53Speaker 3: my feet work and how to understand the game.
- 3:55Speaker 6: And you've talked about this a lot. How much you
- 3:57Speaker 6: love your family, how much you you you you want
- 4:00Speaker 6: to be with them and help them and do anything
- 4:02Speaker 6: you can. Just you know, how how have you been
- 4:05Speaker 6: how has it been with your family during these times?
- 4:08Speaker 6: How have they sort of motivated you to help you
- 4:10Speaker 6: get here where you are today?
- 4:11Speaker 3: I have my little brother, you know, he motivates me
- 4:13Speaker 3: because he's trying to, you know, be better than me. So
- 4:15Speaker 3: I got to make I gotta set the bar high.
- 4:18Speaker 2: Let's go to John and then mea for Travis.
- 4:22Speaker 7: John Hipple is on that side, Travis, Just what does
- 4:25Speaker 7: it mean to you seeing, you know, a team have
- 4:27Speaker 7: that kind of commitment and faith to go up and
- 4:29Speaker 7: get you and do what they have to do and
- 4:31Speaker 7: have you be their guide the whole process.
- 4:33Speaker 3: I mean, it gives me a sense of they believe
- 4:35Speaker 3: in me. You know, they trust everything that I've done
- 4:38Speaker 3: this far. So I just got to go out them
- 4:40Speaker 3: and prove them right.
- 4:42Speaker 8: For Travis Mea O'Brien ten excel, great to meet you
- 4:45Speaker 8: in person. Favorite class he took it Colorado or Jackson State?
- 4:50Speaker 3: Favorite class? I couldn't really tell you I have a
- 4:55Speaker 3: favorit class because I just got the work done.
- 4:58Speaker 8: But do you have like a favorite subject like growing up?
- 5:02Speaker 3: Or my favorite subject growing up was math. I'm super
- 5:05Speaker 3: super good at math, but not really. I don't have
- 5:08Speaker 3: a really favorite class, a favorite suspect.
- 5:10Speaker 8: Okay, one more on the school front for you. Walk
- 5:13Speaker 8: us through this idea of you were born in West
- 5:15Speaker 8: Palm Beach, you were once upon a time almost going
- 5:18Speaker 8: to go to Florida State, to come back to Florida.
- 5:20Speaker 8: Is there this sense of maybe destiny? And what have
- 5:24Speaker 8: the emotions of specifically coming here meant to you in
- 5:27Speaker 8: the last twenty four hours.
- 5:29Speaker 3: It meant that I can fish year round, it's hot here,
- 5:35Speaker 3: and I get to see family all the time. Two big.
- 5:43Speaker 9: Travis Tony Wickers were locked on jaguarsh. We'll give you
- 5:45Speaker 9: hypothetical real quick because of your competitiveness. It's more than seven.
- 5:50Speaker 9: You break the huddle is one on one and Travis
- 5:53Speaker 9: Travis Hunter to wide receiver sees Travis hundred the corner
- 5:56Speaker 9: across from her, and the ball's coming your way. Which
- 5:59Speaker 9: one of y'all comes down with?
- 6:00Speaker 3: Travis hunder.
- 6:08Speaker 2: Really good answer. All right, Brent, it's.
- 6:10Speaker 10: A correct answer. Brett Martino from CBS forty seven, Fox
- 6:14Speaker 10: thirty Action Sports shacks Travis, you changed or helped change
- 6:18Speaker 10: jackson State? Gonna put them on the map Colorado? Help change?
- 6:23Speaker 10: How can you help change Jacksonville and the trajectory of
- 6:27Speaker 10: this organization.
- 6:29Speaker 3: I'm gonna just say I'm gonna come out and do
- 6:30Speaker 3: my job. I'm not gonna say I'm gonna change anything.
- 6:32Speaker 3: I don't want to set the expectation too high, so
- 6:35Speaker 3: I'm gonna just come in and do my job. Man,
- 6:36Speaker 3: Hopefully we changed the atmosphere.
- 6:39Speaker 10: I'll give you another hypothetical. What's it like having Brian
- 6:42Speaker 10: Thomas Junior on one side of the field and you
- 6:45Speaker 10: on the other side of the field. How would you
- 6:46Speaker 10: defend that as a defensive coordinator or a cornerback.
- 6:49Speaker 3: I'm not gonna let them know how to defend that,
- 6:51Speaker 3: so I can say.
- 6:54Speaker 2: Let's go behind Alessandra and then we'll work our way down.
- 6:58Speaker 3: All right, let's go to your rock.
- 7:00Speaker 11: Just go Sorry, Mike Drocco with ESPN, Travis, what do
- 7:04Speaker 11: you think about what James said a few minutes ago
- 7:07Speaker 11: about you being not only drift pick all that, but
- 7:09Speaker 11: a statement for this franchise and the rest of the week.
- 7:12Speaker 3: What I think about it was a great choice. I
- 7:14Speaker 3: just got to come do my job.
- 7:18Speaker 12: Hayes Hey, Travis, congratulations Hayes Carling with ten ten XL
- 7:23Speaker 12: Brian Thomas Jr. Had such an amazing rookie season. How
- 7:26Speaker 12: much can you learn from him? And have you got
- 7:28Speaker 12: a chance to talk to him yet? And how big
- 7:31Speaker 12: will he be in your development in terms of getting
- 7:34Speaker 12: some advice from him on how he was able to
- 7:36Speaker 12: really get acclimated to the NFL so quickly.
- 7:39Speaker 3: He would be big for me. You know, he did
- 7:40Speaker 3: a great job his rookie season. We got a lot
- 7:43Speaker 3: to I got a lot to improve and prove under myself.
- 7:46Speaker 3: So I'm gonna asks him a lot of questions. He'll
- 7:47Speaker 3: probably get annoyed because I'm asking so much questions, But
- 7:50Speaker 3: I wanted a bit. I want to be the best.
- 7:51Speaker 3: I want to be better than him, So I'm gonna
- 7:53Speaker 3: try to soak up all the knowledge that he allows
- 7:56Speaker 3: me to take from him.
- 7:59Speaker 13: Travis can dulations I'm all said for popery up news
- 8:01Speaker 13: for jackson Last night, James said that you're one of
- 8:04Speaker 13: the few players that can actually change the sport itself.
- 8:07Speaker 13: So I'm wondering what you think when you hear your
- 8:09Speaker 13: new GM say that.
- 8:11Speaker 3: It's a blessing. But I still do my job.
- 8:14Speaker 13: And have you been able to talk to or meet
- 8:15Speaker 13: any of the other Jaguars players?
- 8:17Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought that. Trevor Lawrence, what do you What.
- 8:19Speaker 13: Did you guys talk about it? Can you hear that.
- 8:22Speaker 3: He's just ready to work?
- 8:23Speaker 2: So straight back?
- 8:26Speaker 14: Travis will Brown, Jacksonville Today, w JCT Public Media. You've
- 8:30Speaker 14: been in Jacksonville before, when Jackson State came here against
- 8:34Speaker 14: Cookman in twenty two. You were a freshman on that team.
- 8:37Speaker 14: Presuming that was one of the first times you had
- 8:38Speaker 14: a chance to be in an NFL stadium, What was
- 8:42Speaker 14: it like to even though you didn't play in that game,
- 8:44Speaker 14: what was it like to be in this atmosphere, be
- 8:46Speaker 14: in Jacksonville. And I think there's a video floating around
- 8:49Speaker 14: social that said you could envision yourself being here, So
- 8:52Speaker 14: describe being able to envision something and making it come
- 8:55Speaker 14: to pass.
- 8:56Speaker 3: It's just a blessing. You know, to see it come
- 8:58Speaker 3: full circles meant three years since I said that. So
- 9:01Speaker 3: I'm just happy to be here and be able to
- 9:02Speaker 3: walk on the field again.
- 9:05Speaker 8: One follow up, Travis, referencing your time in Colorado four
- 9:09Speaker 8: win season that first season you were out in Boulder.
- 9:11Speaker 8: Obviously the Jaguars just won four games. What did you
- 9:14Speaker 8: learn about yourself during that season and what did you
- 9:17Speaker 8: share with your teammates that maybe you can bring here
- 9:19Speaker 8: to Jacksonville.
- 9:21Speaker 3: Just got to lock in more, you know, got to
- 9:22Speaker 3: be willing to put in an extra work, and that's
- 9:24Speaker 3: what we did, you know, bring everybody together, and we
- 9:28Speaker 3: want a lot more games by doing it.
- 9:31Speaker 2: We're going to go back one Brett.
- 9:36Speaker 10: I've heard you say a couple of times. Now, Travis,
- 9:37Speaker 10: do your job. Just do your job. What does that
- 9:40Speaker 10: look like? What does that mean? What is your job?
- 9:44Speaker 3: My job is to come out and be Travis Center,
- 9:45Speaker 3: come out and play how they how they envision me
- 9:48Speaker 3: to play, and you know, exceed all the expectations.
- 9:51Speaker 10: Liam, speaking of envisioning, now that this became official last night,
- 9:56Speaker 10: I'm sure you've conjured up some things in your mind
- 9:59Speaker 10: for the last couple of months or a couple of weeks,
- 10:01Speaker 10: whatever it is. But how much is your mind moving
- 10:05Speaker 10: over the last twelve to fifteen hours of what you
- 10:07Speaker 10: can do on the offensive side of the ball?
- 10:10Speaker 15: Yeah, the offensive mind, and you starts to get extremely excited, right,
- 10:14Speaker 15: and then you have to switch back to being Hey,
- 10:17Speaker 15: I'm a head football coach, and we know that he's
- 10:20Speaker 15: going to be able to do both. We feel that
- 10:22Speaker 15: in our bones we're going to set that up that
- 10:24Speaker 15: way from a schedule, from an operation standpoint, the way
- 10:28Speaker 15: that we're going to operate for him, to set him
- 10:31Speaker 15: up to have the most success that he can, in
- 10:33Speaker 15: fact then help the Jacksonville Jaguars become the best version
- 10:36Speaker 15: of ourselves. And that's been something we've been excited about
- 10:40Speaker 15: talking through for the last month. And to meet him
- 10:42Speaker 15: here again in person today and being around him only
- 10:44Speaker 15: just validates that.
- 10:47Speaker 2: Rock BENJ.
- 10:48Speaker 11: William I'm assuming there's going to be that inevitable tug
- 10:50Speaker 11: of war between you and Coach Camp about getting him
- 10:53Speaker 11: as much as possible does the head coach automatically win that?
- 10:57Speaker 9: Have you guys sort of like talked that through yet already?
- 10:59Speaker 15: We have, we've we've we've you know, had those conversations
- 11:03Speaker 15: and you know, we have to be fluid. We kind
- 11:06Speaker 15: of mentioned this last night in terms of from a
- 11:09Speaker 15: scheduling standpoint, all those things we have it laid out,
- 11:11Speaker 15: but we also have to have the ability to be
- 11:13Speaker 15: agile and be fluid on specific days. If we didn't
- 11:17Speaker 15: feel like you got enough work on one side of
- 11:19Speaker 15: the ball the previous day, then we need to be
- 11:21Speaker 15: able to move forward and get them those reps the
- 11:23Speaker 15: next day. So, you know, I think both Camp and
- 11:27Speaker 15: I and Grant are all on the same page about, Hey,
- 11:29Speaker 15: how how is this thing going to work? What do
- 11:31Speaker 15: we want it to look like, what we wanted to
- 11:33Speaker 15: look like, what it look like at Colorado, And that's
- 11:37Speaker 15: that would be pretty good for us.
- 11:40Speaker 5: Gee please, Travis. You know, obviously coming into the NFL,
- 11:44Speaker 5: just that in itself is enough motivation for you to
- 11:48Speaker 5: do your best. I'm wondering, is there any extra motivation
- 11:51Speaker 5: because the Jaguars sacrificed a lot of draft capital just
- 11:55Speaker 5: to move up three spots to get you.
- 11:57Speaker 3: Yeah, it's definitely a lot of motivation. You know, the
- 12:01Speaker 3: sacrifice a lot to get me. That means they believe
- 12:03Speaker 3: in me, and that just validates that I need to
- 12:06Speaker 3: go out here and just do my job.
- 12:09Speaker 4: Travis, you mentioned last night that you were house hunting
- 12:12Speaker 4: that you looked. Did you find something already?
- 12:14Speaker 3: No, I'm still looking, but I found a couple of houses.
- 12:17Speaker 15: And what does it.
- 12:18Speaker 4: Look What does this the rest of this weekend or
- 12:20Speaker 4: next week look look like for you in terms of
- 12:22Speaker 4: getting acclimated and adjusted and settled.
- 12:25Speaker 3: Probably just grabbed the playbook, get my boats shipped down here,
- 12:28Speaker 3: and get on the water.
- 12:31Speaker 4: And then James, you guys talked about getting sports science involved.
- 12:36Speaker 4: Does that can you can you give a rookie extra
- 12:39Speaker 4: time if he's going to play one hundred snaps? Do
- 12:41Speaker 4: you give him extra rest during the week to get
- 12:43Speaker 4: him ready for the next hundred snaps?
- 12:45Speaker 9: How does that work?
- 12:46Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a lot of layers to that.
- 12:48Speaker 1: Certainly we have to operate within you know, all measures
- 12:51Speaker 1: and compliance with lead mandates. But at the same time, yeah,
- 12:55Speaker 1: there's a certain level of recovery and preparation in order
- 12:59Speaker 1: to take on the workload that he's about to sort
- 13:02Speaker 1: of take on. And I can I can say, right,
- 13:05Speaker 1: I think the first question came from Jeene today around
- 13:08Speaker 1: the football, right, I think you know it was you Okay, Yeah,
- 13:12Speaker 1: it just don't mix that you you guys again, you
- 13:15Speaker 1: may have. I don't know who was that.
- 13:16Speaker 3: Asked about the ball.
- 13:18Speaker 1: You know it sure is, But I don't know who
- 13:21Speaker 1: it was that asked about the football last night. But
- 13:23Speaker 1: it didn't take long for Travis to produce his first takeaway, right,
- 13:27Speaker 1: So it's gonna it's gonna be a fun go if
- 13:29Speaker 1: that's what we see here on the horizon. But again,
- 13:32Speaker 1: it's got a lot of layers to the sports science
- 13:34Speaker 1: front and making sure that uh, you know, we're operating
- 13:37Speaker 1: on all cylinders.
- 13:38Speaker 3: Justin Travis.
- 13:40Speaker 16: Last night, James talked about being bold and having confidence
- 13:43Speaker 16: and kind of lacking fear and not letting that, you know,
- 13:47Speaker 16: mold his life. I wanted to ask you about your
- 13:49Speaker 16: confidence coming in. You said you want to play both ways.
- 13:52Speaker 16: They want you to play both ways. Where did that
- 13:53Speaker 16: confidence come from and how long did it take you
- 13:55Speaker 16: to kind.
- 13:56Speaker 3: Of develop it. I kind of developed more confidence out
- 13:59Speaker 3: of younger start playing football when I was four. I
- 14:01Speaker 3: have older cousins, so they used to bully me and
- 14:03Speaker 3: I was the youngest out there playing football with him.
- 14:05Speaker 3: So I had to get that confidence. I'm not gonna
- 14:07Speaker 3: let y'all bully me and push me around. So that's
- 14:10Speaker 3: just how I go about life. I'm not gonna let
- 14:11Speaker 3: anybody push me around tell me what I can't do.
- 14:13Speaker 3: I'm just go out and show.
- 14:14Speaker 2: Okay, we're gonna do a couple more. Let's go down
- 14:17Speaker 2: to Haze if we can with that, mic.
- 14:18Speaker 12: Please, James, you mentioned something last night that Travis asked
- 14:23Speaker 12: some really good questions that showed his football curiosity. Can
- 14:27Speaker 12: you give us some details on kind of things that
- 14:30Speaker 12: those conversations.
- 14:32Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, the details around him.
- 14:34Speaker 1: I don't know that are top of mind, but I
- 14:36Speaker 1: do know the sensation that you get when you experience
- 14:39Speaker 1: somebody who has a growth mindset and you see it
- 14:41Speaker 1: unfold in front of you. And the way in which
- 14:44Speaker 1: that Travis was going about that conversation was certainly something
- 14:48Speaker 1: that sparked, you know, a little bit of an alarm
- 14:51Speaker 1: that was, Oh, he's somebody who wants to learn and
- 14:54Speaker 1: he's interested in getting more information and knowing that he
- 14:58Speaker 1: doesn't have every answer. And that's something that we talked
- 15:01Speaker 1: about a little bit more today. And the more experience
- 15:05Speaker 1: that you get, the harder it becomes to remain curious,
- 15:09Speaker 1: and so keeping that curiosity at the surface of your
- 15:13Speaker 1: mind so that that's not something you ever lose, knowing
- 15:16Speaker 1: that there's always means of improving.
- 15:19Speaker 10: James, are you trying, Are you guys trying not to
- 15:21Speaker 10: put a number from a snap standpoint, or do you
- 15:24Speaker 10: guys have a number in mind that he could handle.
- 15:27Speaker 1: I haven't scoped out a number specifically. I think we're
- 15:30Speaker 1: going to get through this initial onboarding window here throughout
- 15:34Speaker 1: the off season program and see where we end up
- 15:36Speaker 1: by the end of that before ever come into some
- 15:39Speaker 1: concrete count there.
- 15:42Speaker 10: Travis, it sounds like, or it seems like, from the
- 15:44Speaker 10: outside looking in, you're such a gifted athlete that things
- 15:46Speaker 10: have come so easy for you. Do you expect that
- 15:51Speaker 10: to be the case at the NFL level? And if not,
- 15:54Speaker 10: how do you balance all the successes with some ups
- 15:58Speaker 10: and downs in adversity that could it?
- 16:01Speaker 3: I don't think anything's comes easy to me, you know,
- 16:03Speaker 3: I kind of I gotta work for it, you know,
- 16:05Speaker 3: I had to work for the play both sides of
- 16:06Speaker 3: the ball, even being with coach prom y'all just happen
- 16:09Speaker 3: to see the the perfect end. But I did a
- 16:12Speaker 3: lot of work to, you know, to get to where
- 16:15Speaker 3: I'm at. So I'm gonna continue to put in the
- 16:16Speaker 3: work and continue to grind, and I'm gonna just continue
- 16:19Speaker 3: to do what I do.
- 16:20Speaker 10: Do you get married next month?
- 16:22Speaker 3: Yes? What what's this?
- 16:25Speaker 10: What's all of that like compared to all of this
- 16:29Speaker 10: that's going on right now?
- 16:30Speaker 3: I kind of just you know, let my fiancee hand
- 16:32Speaker 3: it out and I just you know, go to work.
- 16:37Speaker 2: Okay, we're gonna wrap it up with two quickies, John
- 16:40Speaker 2: and then Jeane, and then we're gonna cut James.
- 16:42Speaker 7: You mentioned last night, just the energy Travis brings to
- 16:45Speaker 7: any space that he's in. Is that something you're already
- 16:47Speaker 7: sensing kind of inside facility, inside the fan based community,
- 16:50Speaker 7: et cetera.
- 16:51Speaker 1: Uh, you know what, I don't think it takes much
- 16:54Speaker 1: to see that Travis has gravitational pull. You know, he's uh,
- 16:58Speaker 1: he's got a smile that will light up a room,
- 17:01Speaker 1: and yeah, there it is, Let it shine. But it
- 17:05Speaker 1: is certainly something that most everybody that I've come in
- 17:08Speaker 1: contact with who has experienced a session with Travis says
- 17:13Speaker 1: very similar things.
- 17:15Speaker 5: Ji for microphone, I'm sorry if you want to if
- 17:21Speaker 5: you care, both care to address this. Both of you
- 17:24Speaker 5: have come from the NFC, so you probably don't pay
- 17:26Speaker 5: as much attention to the AFC teams when you're working
- 17:29Speaker 5: in the FC. The AFC South has not been regarded
- 17:32Speaker 5: as a very tough division in recent years. How much
- 17:37Speaker 5: do you think the investments all four teams have made
- 17:40Speaker 5: in quarterbacks might change that trajectory in the next two, three,
- 17:44Speaker 5: five years.
- 17:45Speaker 15: Yeah, it definitely could. I mean, you can see there's
- 17:48Speaker 15: there's been a tangible investment in some in that position
- 17:52Speaker 15: in this division. You know whether that leads to a
- 17:55Speaker 15: little bit more of the known passing situations, getting the
- 17:58Speaker 15: ball in the air a little bit more, But for us,
- 18:01Speaker 15: it's more, okay, how do we continue to be explosive
- 18:05Speaker 15: on the offensive side of the ball for us and
- 18:07Speaker 15: then also get people that can take the ball away
- 18:10Speaker 15: from the other team on defense, and in this league
- 18:13Speaker 15: you have to get takeaways and to affect the quarterbacks
- 18:17Speaker 15: that are in this league now, you have to be
- 18:20Speaker 15: able to rush them and you have to be able
- 18:22Speaker 15: to get your hands on the football. So we're excited
- 18:24Speaker 15: about that opportunity.
- 18:26Speaker 5: Real quick, Travis, did you play any other sports in
- 18:29Speaker 5: high school beyond football? And could you give us your
- 18:32Speaker 5: wedding date?
- 18:34Speaker 3: My wedding is private. But I did play basketball when
- 18:40Speaker 3: I first moved to Georgia. I played basketball my eighth
- 18:41Speaker 3: grade through high school. Thank you.
- 18:44Speaker 2: Okay, let's put the rap on the Q and A
- 18:46Speaker 2: right there.