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- 0:00Speaker 1: I mean, it was a blessing to uh be the
- 0:01Speaker 1: first person in my family to walk across the stage.
- 0:04Speaker 1: But you know, I was just thinking about getting back
- 0:06Speaker 1: to work and come back and playing football. Jackson. Why
- 0:11Speaker 1: was that That's the first thing I'll ordered off Amazone
- 0:13Speaker 1: when I got drafted, so that that night. That's how
- 0:18Speaker 1: these tiss two das fens for you. Just being to
- 0:19Speaker 1: be on the field, that's been a blessing, you know,
- 0:22Speaker 1: to come out here with the guys, with the rookies,
- 0:23Speaker 1: and you know, just come out here and work every day,
- 0:25Speaker 1: try to get better. Does it feel real yet? If
- 0:28Speaker 1: you're in the NFL? Pop, definitely. We all come out
- 0:30Speaker 1: here for this sep well being a little kid out
- 0:34Speaker 1: here playing, so y'all love it. Next week you don't
- 0:37Speaker 1: start getting integrated for us the defense? When I say that,
- 0:41Speaker 1: what does that make your Hi? How the second the
- 0:42Speaker 1: juice is flowing? Or is this another day at the office.
- 0:45Speaker 1: I've been already getting integrated to the defense. I've been
- 0:48Speaker 1: doing offense and defense the last past two days. I
- 0:50Speaker 1: just came out here in the offense. The fans being
- 0:52Speaker 1: out here such a way. What what was that experience
- 0:55Speaker 1: like just trying to run. Uh, there's been a blessing.
- 0:57Speaker 1: You know how the fins come out here and check
- 0:58Speaker 1: us out, you know, check out the whole team in
- 1:00Speaker 1: the in the rookies. So it's been a blessing. That's
- 1:03Speaker 1: been different. Has it been different where you at all
- 1:05Speaker 1: to have to learn to playbooks? I know you probably
- 1:07Speaker 1: did in the past, but he's at the NFL level.
- 1:09Speaker 1: Hasn't been different so far. Uh, not not so much different.
- 1:12Speaker 1: You know, you just gotta get used to it. You know,
- 1:14Speaker 1: it's just you know a lot of different type of
- 1:17Speaker 1: type of calls. But other than that, the defense is
- 1:19Speaker 1: pretty easy. You just gotta get used to the offense.
- 1:21Speaker 1: What about the offense? So of what makes out a
- 1:23Speaker 1: challenge with us? Uh, just longer calls and you know,
- 1:26Speaker 1: concepts are different. So you just gotta you know, I
- 1:30Speaker 1: saw there were a few times over there where if
- 1:32Speaker 1: you didn't get it right how you wanted it, you
- 1:34Speaker 1: would go right back to the front line. Just why
- 1:36Speaker 1: why was it so important for you to get that
- 1:38Speaker 1: kind of down? Uh? Cause you know, organization that expected
- 1:41Speaker 1: a lot out of me, you know, expect me to
- 1:42Speaker 1: come out here and play right away. So i'm'a do
- 1:44Speaker 1: whatever it takes for me to get out there and
- 1:45Speaker 1: play right away. You used to, uh, you know, you
- 1:48Speaker 1: used to be pacing yourself, conditioning wise, or if you
- 1:50Speaker 1: have to pace yourself a little bit because of exactly
- 1:53Speaker 1: what you just said. There's high expectation to do too
- 1:56Speaker 1: much too soon, and are you are you ready for
- 1:58Speaker 1: that or can you paste that out through the extra
- 2:00Speaker 1: you much until a certain season. Now, I'm definitely ready,
- 2:02Speaker 1: you know, but we gonna take our time with it,
- 2:04Speaker 1: and we was just gonna get better each day. When
- 2:06Speaker 1: did you meet that? Your walk us through that? Really?
- 2:10Speaker 1: When I met him, uh, when our game here, it
- 2:12Speaker 1: was it was like we hit it off right away.
- 2:15Speaker 1: You know. He he's been in Green Bay. He talked
- 2:17Speaker 1: de Monte Adams, so you know, just seeing him coach
- 2:19Speaker 1: a player like that, it's just, you know, I know
- 2:21Speaker 1: I can learn a lot from him. Anything stand out
- 2:25Speaker 1: to you about Ransom? Never to eily tell you anything
- 2:28Speaker 1: in terms of personality or a player. I don't know
- 2:32Speaker 1: what to tell you about that one. How about some
- 2:35Speaker 1: of the other one Saturday here? Did you know any
- 2:37Speaker 1: of 'em or you got into the room with them? Oh? Yeah,
- 2:39Speaker 1: I know a couple of 'em. But you know, we
- 2:40Speaker 1: was gonna go in there as a group, and there's
- 2:42Speaker 1: Tarl Harder as you know, be on the team and
- 2:44Speaker 1: fight for each other and go out there and play.
- 2:46Speaker 1: Nice to have a couple of teammates here former former Colorado, Yeah,
- 2:49Speaker 1: it's very nice. And my boys out here, you know,
- 2:51Speaker 1: coming out here and in Baland, did you have any
- 2:54Speaker 1: for them or did I know? It was a part
- 2:57Speaker 1: of me. They did what they had to do to
- 2:58Speaker 1: get to this level. So I'm excited for premace where
- 3:00Speaker 1: you've taken out no leadership for so and so you've
- 3:03Speaker 1: been around the rookies, do you like do you breaks
- 3:05Speaker 1: that kind of thing? I yes, yeah, I definitely embrace
- 3:07Speaker 1: you been a uh a leader in a in the room.
- 3:09Speaker 1: You know. I try to do everything right so they
- 3:11Speaker 1: can fall behind me and do the same as me.
- 3:13Speaker 1: You're out here dancing doing your thing. Is it important
- 3:15Speaker 1: for you to be authentic, to be who you are,
- 3:17Speaker 1: regardless of being a rookie or whatever. Yes, it's definitely.
- 3:20Speaker 1: It's definitely a blessing to you know, be able to
- 3:22Speaker 1: do that. You know, I gotta be authentic, you know,
- 3:24Speaker 1: gotta bring the energy up out here, you know, make
- 3:26Speaker 1: sure everybody. Everyone is having fun, you know, with a
- 3:28Speaker 1: smile on their face and doing what you love. Why
- 3:30Speaker 1: is that important? Sorry? Why is it important? From a
- 3:32Speaker 1: team standpoint? Try it just help all of us, but
- 3:34Speaker 1: in a different way. So it's definitely super important. Still question,
- 3:38Speaker 1: But when you start doing offensive defense in the practice,
- 3:40Speaker 1: or somebody just handing you a white jersey and a
- 3:42Speaker 1: deal of jersey, or I'll just working, Uh, I don't know. Yeah,
- 3:45Speaker 1: they probably just changed my coloring and I've been a
- 3:47Speaker 1: different coloring than everybody going about since you got drafted.
- 3:52Speaker 1: Not the process, it's a seam or anything been surprising
- 3:55Speaker 1: to you? Is something that you weren't expecting at all? Nah,
- 3:58Speaker 1: nothing's been surprising. You know. I just go and be
- 4:00Speaker 1: where my feet are. So I'm just excited to be here.
- 4:03Speaker 1: Have you got to work with Lawrens? Not? My boat's
- 4:06Speaker 1: not here yet and we'll get here in like five days.
- 4:11Speaker 1: With Trevor Lawrence? And what's that been like? Oh? Yeah,
- 4:13Speaker 1: talk to him on the phone. You know, that's just that,
- 4:15Speaker 1: that's just private what we talked about in you know,
- 4:18Speaker 1: our our conversations. But yeah, I talked to him. Is
- 4:21Speaker 1: there anyone that you're looking forward to see you when
- 4:24Speaker 1: they all, when you all get together. I'm looking forward
- 4:27Speaker 1: to seeing uh all of that. So I'm really, do
- 4:28Speaker 1: you know, take knowledge from him and go out there
- 4:31Speaker 1: and just you know, build a bun and get started
- 4:34Speaker 1: stuff to keep the weight on out here, and it's
- 4:36Speaker 1: only gonna get harter. What ideally for you, what would
- 4:38Speaker 1: you like to play at this year weight? Well, coach
- 4:41Speaker 1: told me to play at Nah. He just let me yo,
- 4:45Speaker 1: you know, he just let me go out here and
- 4:46Speaker 1: just play and just have fun. Anything else, alright, Thanks TV,
- 4:51Speaker 1: Thank you