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The DiCecco Daily Special: What Is The 'Why' For NFL Draft Top-50 Prospect CB Chris Johnson? · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Hello everyone. Andrew decheco here Eagles beat reporter for insidethe
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  Speaker 1: birds dot Com and it's a special edition of the
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  Speaker 1: Checho Deli. And the reason being is because I'm joined
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  Speaker 1: by a twenty twenty five second team All American and
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  Speaker 1: Mountain West Conference Player of the Year. That would be
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  Speaker 1: San Diego State cornerback Chris Johnson. Chris, I appreciate you
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  Speaker 1: carving out some time.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, certain man, how you doing.
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing great. So, first and foremost, what has this
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  Speaker 1: experience been like from your perspective?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, this whole experience has been great, man. Definitely a
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  Speaker 3: dream come true. Obviously, like my whole life, I wanted
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  Speaker 3: to play in the NFL, so you know, this whole
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  Speaker 3: process leading up to us all a part of that.
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  Speaker 3: So I've definitely just been enjoying this process for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Now, I understand your father played a pivotal role in
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  Speaker 1: getting you into the game of football. How did he
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  Speaker 1: influence your plunge into the game.
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  Speaker 2: Really?
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  Speaker 3: Like, uh, Like, he didn't really take too much control
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  Speaker 3: in it. It was kind of just like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: we grew up a football family, so he grew up
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  Speaker 3: with TV with the TV on football all the time,
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  Speaker 3: so that's really what I was around, you know, and
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  Speaker 3: he wasn't really like, uh, forcing me to play or
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  Speaker 3: nothing like that, So I just took it slowly.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, my love for the game grew strong
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  Speaker 2: from a young age for sure.
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  Speaker 3: So also him being able, you know, to come home
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  Speaker 3: from work from a long shift and you know, still
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  Speaker 3: go outside and throw the football with me or take
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  Speaker 3: me to practice whatever.
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  Speaker 2: It was so definitely between him and my mom.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, what age did you start playing? Uh?
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  Speaker 2: I started playing officially at seven?
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  Speaker 1: And were you always a corner now league?
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  Speaker 3: I was like, you know, you kind of just it's
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  Speaker 3: just separated by like athletics in little league, so like
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  Speaker 3: the more athletic guys is gonna be the ones with
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  Speaker 3: the ball the most. So I was really playing running
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  Speaker 3: back back then, like running back and linebacker really.
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  Speaker 1: So when you got to elan Or Roosevelt High School,
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  Speaker 1: I understand that you experience a pretty significant growth spurt.
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  Speaker 1: Could you tell that story?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well was it? I want to say it was
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  Speaker 3: from my sophomore to my junior year. Like I was
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  Speaker 3: just really small. I don't even know how small I was,
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  Speaker 3: but I was definitely like the five eight, five nine range.
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  Speaker 3: Like during my sophomore year of football, and then came
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  Speaker 3: my senior or my junior season, it kind of got
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  Speaker 3: we got like extra time because of the whole COVID thing.
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  Speaker 2: So our season was like really like a year later.
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  Speaker 3: Almost, So in that extra downtime, I grew to like
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  Speaker 3: pretty much the hot I am now so about I
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  Speaker 3: was about six feet still a little bit underweight, but
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  Speaker 3: I gained a lot of weight too, So definitely just
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  Speaker 3: and that Girlsburg for sure like just changed the way
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  Speaker 3: I was able to play definitely.
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  Speaker 1: And why did you officially transition to playing cornerback?
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 3: I did that really after after like Little League once
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  Speaker 3: I played like my last year in.
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  Speaker 2: Like of junior high.
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  Speaker 3: My last couple of years when I was in middle school,
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  Speaker 3: I was really playing corner already.
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  Speaker 1: So you go to San Diego State and the first
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  Speaker 1: two years you're not starting, but you're playing a pivotal
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  Speaker 1: role on defense and on special teams. From a mental perspective, Chris,
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  Speaker 1: how did you go about processing everything and staying patient?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Man, I really just took it.
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  Speaker 3: As you know, my job wasn't at that time to
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  Speaker 3: play defense, you know what I mean. So being able
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  Speaker 3: to tell myself that understand. You know, my job for
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  Speaker 3: the team right now is to play special teams. So
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna focus on that and ball out doing that.
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  Speaker 3: And also while doing that, I'm gonna be locked in
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  Speaker 3: to watching the older guys play, see what they like
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  Speaker 3: to do, see what they're allowed to do, what they
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  Speaker 3: get in trouble doing, and kind of just taking pieces
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  Speaker 3: from their game and adding it to mine. You know,
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  Speaker 3: So special teams. You know, it's only really like a
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  Speaker 3: handful of plays again, so the rest of the game,
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  Speaker 3: I'm just really dialed in watching same thing at practice,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I was getting a solid amount of reps
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  Speaker 3: at practice, but like once we split up into offense
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  Speaker 3: and defense, I was really just watching and you know,
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  Speaker 3: just being able to stay patient, understand that you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's not my time yet, but it will be.
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  Speaker 2: So I was able to sit there and learn.
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  Speaker 1: For sure, now watching your game, it was evident that
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  Speaker 1: you you really took the special teams, You almost embraced it.
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  Speaker 1: Is that fair to say?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? For sure, Yes, sir, you had.
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  Speaker 1: A block punt in twenty twenty four, I believe, and
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  Speaker 1: so would that be something you'd be welcome to doing?
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  Speaker 1: Sort of moonlighting on special teams at the next level.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, for sure.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah really, Like honestly, coming out of high school, man,
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  Speaker 3: like the whole like energy round special teams is just
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  Speaker 3: like different. You know, Like in high school, if he
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  Speaker 3: was on special teams, you was probably mad about it,
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  Speaker 3: like damn yeah on special teams. But when I went
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  Speaker 3: there to college, I has changed my mindset to like, look,
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  Speaker 3: I want to be able to travel with the team
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  Speaker 3: wherever they go. So whatever I can to do, if
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  Speaker 3: it especially seems, I'm gonna do it. But actually playing
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  Speaker 3: special teams in the college level helped me like learn
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  Speaker 3: and understand how important that that that third of the
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  Speaker 3: game is, you know what I mean, it kind of
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  Speaker 3: goes you know a lot of people, like even like
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  Speaker 3: fans of the game, you know, they don't realize how
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  Speaker 3: important getting a good punt is or getting a good
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  Speaker 3: kick return is until you're actually doing it. So once
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  Speaker 3: I did it my freshman and sophomore year, I understand
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  Speaker 3: how important it was. I'm like, yeah, like I got
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  Speaker 3: to keep doing this, like because I want to be
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  Speaker 3: able to help the team out wherever I can it
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  Speaker 3: as long as I'm healthy enough to do it, I'm
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  Speaker 3: gonna do it now.
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  Speaker 1: Looking back at the start of your career at San
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  Speaker 1: Diego State to the end of it, where do you
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  Speaker 1: feel you showed the most growth in your game.
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  Speaker 2: I probably save my confidence, man for sure.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously with time I grew with my speed, with my strength,
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  Speaker 3: but really just being a confident player, man. And it
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  Speaker 3: really goes for all positions on the field. But I
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  Speaker 3: feel like cornerback, for sure, you gotta have overflowing confidence.
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  Speaker 3: And definitely when I first got on on campus, I
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  Speaker 3: was lacking that a little bit, transitioning from being the
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  Speaker 3: best player on my high school team and now being
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  Speaker 3: a new kid on campus. But definitely being able to
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  Speaker 3: grow into that role and use my confidence in my.
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  Speaker 2: Play for sure that helped me.
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  Speaker 1: Now, defensive backs might be my favorite position to really
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  Speaker 1: watch and focus on. They tend to be on the
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  Speaker 1: chattier side. Chris.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Would you consider yourself as someone who likes to talk
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  Speaker 1: a little bit on the field and and have that swagger?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure, man. Like I said, it's a part
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  Speaker 2: of confidence.
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  Speaker 1: Man.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like, you know, I'm not always talking, but
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  Speaker 3: I feel like I talk enough though, and I enjoy
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  Speaker 3: talking too, obviously, you know, I'm a real energetic guy,
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  Speaker 3: and I like to get my energy around to my teammates.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm gonna sure my teammates hear me, you know,
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  Speaker 3: my pop it to the other team. But yeah, man,
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  Speaker 3: I just feel like, like I said, it's just about confidence, man,
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  Speaker 3: being able to pop it to the other team's sideline
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  Speaker 3: and understand.
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  Speaker 2: Like you know, I'm here like gonna have to do
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  Speaker 2: something about it.
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  Speaker 1: So I think that's sort of the nature of the position.
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  Speaker 1: You're out there on an island. You have no choice,
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  Speaker 1: but you have to be confident. Is there a receiver
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  Speaker 1: that you can remember that was particularly chatty in any
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  Speaker 1: of your encounters.
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  Speaker 2: Trying to Dan, I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Not, not really a game. I know in practice we
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  Speaker 3: would go at it though, for sure. So you know,
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  Speaker 3: a lot of guys on the team, like uh, you
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  Speaker 3: know last year, like like Jake Bostick, Dono, like those guys,
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  Speaker 3: they was they would always pop it back and forth
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  Speaker 3: for me in the game. I'm really yeah, a lot
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  Speaker 3: of guys they really didn't say too much. They would
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  Speaker 3: pop it a little bit, but you know I was
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  Speaker 3: I was the main one popping it.
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  Speaker 1: Now, the scheme you played in at San Diego State
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  Speaker 1: had some balance man in zone one. Do you have
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  Speaker 1: a preference between the two and which man or zone?
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  Speaker 1: How does that accentuate your skill set in either or?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I really don't have a preference to either or man.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like it's all based on another team, like
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  Speaker 3: is really playing chess man, some downs is gonna be
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  Speaker 3: better for zone and some downs gonna be better for man.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't really have a preference.
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  Speaker 3: But with our defense, man, I just liked that we
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  Speaker 3: ran a lot of quarters last year, so there's a
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  Speaker 3: lot of checks in that, a lot of zone checks,
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  Speaker 3: a lot of man checks, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 3: So our base call, we would call a quarter's call,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, have to field this is playing man,
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  Speaker 3: have to field playing zone. And I just like being
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  Speaker 3: able to be like versatile with it so that a
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  Speaker 3: quarterback can't be dialed in on us, the receivers can't
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  Speaker 3: be dialed in on our techniques and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 1: Your ball skills are evident. So you had five interceptions
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  Speaker 1: over the past two seasons, I believe nine passes defended, Chris,
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  Speaker 1: What do you do to really hone in and have
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  Speaker 1: that those ball skills out in? What do you do
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  Speaker 1: off the field to do that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, honestly, man, I feel like I'm blessed to be
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  Speaker 3: able to have that natural ball skills where maybe they
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  Speaker 3: weren't natural at some point, but I feel like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: like I said, like I would beg my dad as
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  Speaker 3: soon as he at home from a long shift, I
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  Speaker 3: work to go play catch outside for an hour, And
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  Speaker 3: I feel like stuff like that just you know, strengthen
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  Speaker 3: my hand eye coordination, you know, like unknowingly, like I
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't even training it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just playing catch with my dad.
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  Speaker 3: Something that I also feel like helping my my hand
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  Speaker 3: eye coordination too, is that like me and my dad
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  Speaker 3: used to throw the baseball too, so obviously you know
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  Speaker 3: you got to match your hand to the ball and
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  Speaker 3: a lot smaller than a football. So just doing stuff
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  Speaker 3: like that obviously, you know, every day I'm out on
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  Speaker 3: the field, we incorporate a ball, whether it's going to
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  Speaker 3: track it down the field or just running through catching it.
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  Speaker 3: And so you know, those everyday reps are obviously just
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  Speaker 3: gonna get you more comfortable catching the ball.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, and your I discipline, You're able to play with
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  Speaker 1: anticipation and instincts when it comes to the film study.
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  Speaker 1: What's your approach to that?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, man, just being thorough.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like, you know, we do a great job
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  Speaker 3: in a building already game planning for our opponent.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, me like being you know the place
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  Speaker 2: I want to get to. Man, it just requires extra effort.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, after all that, I'm really gonna end
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  Speaker 3: up rewatching it again, just you know, double check and
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  Speaker 3: make sure I didn't miss none, because you know, in
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  Speaker 3: the meeting room sometime, you know we might be in
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  Speaker 3: the rush. We got to get out to the field,
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  Speaker 3: So you know, just like to be throwing that stuff
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  Speaker 3: and don't miss anything, you know, be sure to see
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  Speaker 3: all the all the small details and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like that helps me, you know, be a
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  Speaker 3: step ahead of my opponent come game day.
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  Speaker 1: In the world of college football, there's typically a lot
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  Speaker 1: of movement. The two part question one did you ever
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  Speaker 1: consider entering the transfer portal and what compelled you to
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  Speaker 1: stay at San Diego State all four years?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I definitely thought about entering the portal, man, but
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  Speaker 3: you know, when the time came, I just felt like
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  Speaker 3: my best decision was to stay. I felt like I've
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  Speaker 3: known a lot of guys who decided to transfer, and
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  Speaker 3: you know, it worked out for him, but I also
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  Speaker 3: know a lot of guys who didn't work out for
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  Speaker 3: and you know, it's really.
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  Speaker 2: A toss up.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, at that time, I just felt like
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  Speaker 3: I wasn't willing to take a risk. Man, Like my
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  Speaker 3: main goal, like I said when we first got on here,
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  Speaker 3: my dream was to get to the NFL. So you know,
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  Speaker 3: I know I know enough guys who transferred out and
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  Speaker 3: you know, the grass wasn't greener. And you know now
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  Speaker 3: now today, you know they they're not pursuing their dreams
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  Speaker 3: no more.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm like, you know what, like, I'm gonna stay here.
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna stay down, stay where I'm at, stay where
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  Speaker 3: I know what I'm gonna do. And so you know,
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  Speaker 3: I'm definitely happy with that decision.
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  Speaker 1: In your words, Chris, what makes you the top cornerback
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  Speaker 1: in this class?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I just feel like I'm relentless man, you know, uh,
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  Speaker 3: not to say nobody else in the classes, but I
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  Speaker 3: just feel like, you know, my work ethic is different
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  Speaker 3: and my values are different as well. Like we ain't
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  Speaker 3: here talking about special teams, how important that is to
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  Speaker 3: to me? You know, just uh, I feel like that.
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  Speaker 3: That just shows like like like how I play. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I'm a relentless ball player, whether it's you know, going
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  Speaker 3: down on punt to make a tackle or you know,
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  Speaker 3: if I got to fit the run up on a
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  Speaker 3: big running back to you know, get get a third
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  Speaker 3: down stop. Like whatever it is, whatever I gotta do,
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  Speaker 3: I'm willing to do it, and I'm happy to do it.
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  Speaker 1: Who are some NFL cornerbacks that you watched and really
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  Speaker 1: have taken something from their game?
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  Speaker 4: Uh?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, obviously, Like like guy like Pastor Tam for sure,
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  Speaker 3: I'll try to take as much from his game as
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  Speaker 3: I came with him, you know, being at the top
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  Speaker 3: right now.
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  Speaker 2: Really another guy like to watch.
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  Speaker 3: His JC horn too, So between the two of those guys,
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  Speaker 3: for sure try to take take pieces from their games.
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  Speaker 1: So I feel I know which way you're laning here.
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  Speaker 1: But this is a question that's going to require a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of thinking creating the perfect cornerback. I'm talking
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  Speaker 1: football intellect, mind, footwork, and ball skills. What would you
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  Speaker 1: take from each cornerback to make the ultimately the best corner.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I probably would say like like size for sure,
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  Speaker 2: like size and speed.
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  Speaker 3: A guy like I would say like Tarik Wooland for sure,
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  Speaker 3: like he's like huge and he could run. You know,
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  Speaker 3: it don't get much better than that footwork. I'll probably
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  Speaker 3: go with Pat with his footwork, you know, whether he's
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  Speaker 3: impressed or off.
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  Speaker 2: And then I definitely say ball skills.
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  Speaker 3: I like J C.
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  Speaker 2: Horn ball skills for sure.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned Rick Wohen. Is he a corner that you
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  Speaker 1: watch a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I'm not, you know, being a corner myself,
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  Speaker 3: I'm always died in at different guys, Like I like
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  Speaker 3: to watch Queen All a lot, you know, especially because
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  Speaker 3: he's from a small school as well, just kind of
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  Speaker 3: like I watch his transition to the NFL, you know,
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  Speaker 3: me being from a smaller school, like obviously I was
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  Speaker 3: rooting for him. But yeah, being a corner myself, I
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  Speaker 3: just watch all kinds of football. Like I'm really a
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  Speaker 3: football fan first, so I'm just always watching football and
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  Speaker 3: always you know, just seeing who's on the field.
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  Speaker 1: Have you leaned on anyone in particular, whether it be
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  Speaker 1: already at the NFL level, or a coach or anyone
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  Speaker 1: a parent to help get you through this process or
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: maybe what's to expect down the line?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Really, just you know, obviously my agents, some of the
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  Speaker 3: guys that that's in my agency, and then I know
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  Speaker 3: a couple guys in the NFL that came to San
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  Speaker 3: Diego State.
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  Speaker 2: So like I talked to Darren Hall, I talk to
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  Speaker 2: Pat mcmo.
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  Speaker 3: As you know, up of guys just in the league,
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  Speaker 3: you know that went through the drive process, the rookie
• 15:04
  Speaker 3: minie camp, you know, just talking to them and picking
• 15:07
  Speaker 3: their brains on you know, what they thought about it.
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: Any tips and advice they could give me? So for sure, Yeah,
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: what's your why?
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: Chris?
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: My why?
• 15:17
  Speaker 3: Man?
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: It really just comes down to, like the competition within myself.
• 15:20
  Speaker 3: Man, Like I feel like, you know, I'm a perfectionist
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: at heart, and you know my.
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: Why is to is to get as close to there
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: as possible.
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: Like I know, nobody could be perfect, you know what
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: I mean, but you could get close to it and
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: you could strive to be really close to it.
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: So I feel like, you know, in my mind, I'm
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: always creating a new goal for myself.
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: You know, Like last season my goal was to you know,
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: be like what's to end, what's to be able to
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: be in this draft class?
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: Like I didn't even.
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: Have goals as far as like you know, with what
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: I did this year, But I feel like I just
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: smashed those goals and you know it's not over it though,
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: Like I made new goals for myself, and you know,
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: next year I might have new goals for myself, and
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: you know, just to keep improving and keep proving myself
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: right for sure. Like, like I said, confidence is a
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: big part of my game. So I'm definitely confident in
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: my abilities. But I got to go out there and
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: improved every day.
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: Now. Are you someone who writes down your goals or
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: are they kind of in your mind?
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm more like a mental note guy.
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: I've bring down a few of them, but like I
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: just like knowing and thinking thinking about in the back
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: of my head for sure.
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: Looking back on your college career, what game do you
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: feel best represents who you are as a player.
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: My college career, I would probably say.
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: Oh, man, that's a horrid one. I think Kyle was
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: a pretty good game for me this year. You know,
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: obviously I had to pick in that game. But overall,
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: I feel like I cover well, I tackle really well.
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: I want to say I ran down there, I'm punk
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: a couple of times, but like, I just feel like,
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: you know, it shows all aspects of game.
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: I don't have a specific game where I'm like, oh,
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: like watch this game for coverage or oh I tackle good.
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: This game was like, nah, I felt like that was
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: a was a pretty complete game by me. I gave
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: up a couple of catches, but you know, it is
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: what it is. But like, like I said, I played
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: some good. I played good in coverage, I tackled really well,
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: and I showed up on special teams as well. I
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: feel like that just describes me as as a player.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: Now, being that this is an Eagles podcast, I must
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: ask Chris, have you met with the Eagles?
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: Yes? Sir?
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: Was it a thirty visit?
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: Nah? No, sir?
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: Did you meet with them virtually?
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah? I met with him on the zoom.
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: I want to say, yeah, I don't remember when it was,
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: but I met with him for sure twice.
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: I want to say, do you remember if you spoke
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: to either Joe Casper or cornerbacks coach Roy Anderson.
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: I talked to Joe Casper and then I talked to.
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: You know, I can't remember who the other one was,
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: but I talked to two different people on on those
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: two zooms.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: Cool. Have you given any thought to what it's gonna
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: be like when you hear a name called on Draft night? Not?
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: Really?
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: Man Like, I don't know what emotions I'm an experience obviously.
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: Like I keep telling myself, like, you know, I'm not
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: gonna get emotional, but you know, in a moment, you
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: never know, you never know what I'm gonna.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: Be feeling like. So I'm definitely just excited.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: Man.
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: You know the time is coming down to hear my
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: name potentially called, and you know it's just it's gonna
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: be a dream come true for sure.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: Now, will you be attending the draft?
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: Nah, I'm gonna just be at home at home with
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: my family chilling.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: Awesome. Well, Chris, I really appreciate you carving out some
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: time and talking with me about your your football experience,
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: and I wish you nothing but the best.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: Yes, sir, I appreciate you, man. I appreciate you having
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: me on here.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: Absolutely well for Chris Johnson, I'm Andrew de Checko. Thanks
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: for tuning into a special edition of the check O
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: Deli and I'll catch you all on the next one.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: Yes, sir,