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- 0:08Speaker 1: Welcome to the ozone podcast, presented by by star credit
- 0:13Speaker 1: with Jaguars senior writer John Osan. I always say I'm
- 0:17Speaker 1: excited about these. I love getting to know these guys
- 0:19Speaker 1: a little bit. I'm excited about this one because I had,
- 0:22Speaker 1: I have not had a chance to get to know
- 0:24Speaker 1: this player, uh covid last year weren't really talking to
- 0:27Speaker 1: the locker room and it's been a revelation to talk
- 0:30Speaker 1: to him a little bit in the locker room and
- 0:32Speaker 1: find out he's one of the better locker room guys
- 0:34Speaker 1: in there. In terms of talking to the media, I
- 0:36Speaker 1: think he might even enjoy it a little bit. I
- 0:38Speaker 1: don't want to put words in his mouth, but it's
- 0:41Speaker 1: UH Jaguars Defensive End Tackle Lineman, Roy Robertson Harrison, I
- 0:47Speaker 1: can't thank you enough for joining us today. I appreciate
- 0:50Speaker 1: and uh, you know, I didn't get a chance to
- 0:53Speaker 1: talk to you very much last year, but I think
- 0:55Speaker 1: you don't mind uh talking to the the media a little
- 0:58Speaker 1: bit and being a little bit of a spokesman. Is
- 1:01Speaker 1: that from being a veteran? Is that your personality or
- 1:03Speaker 1: tell me about that a little bit. It's been an
- 1:05Speaker 1: older guy. Um, obviously it's in our contract. We gotta
- 1:08Speaker 1: talk to the media. Um, give you all what y'all need.
- 1:11Speaker 1: You know, you guys have a job to do. We
- 1:12Speaker 1: have a job to do and UH, making sure we're
- 1:14Speaker 1: meeting right in the middle. Now, is that something as
- 1:16Speaker 1: a rookie, second year guy, you would have been comfortable with,
- 1:19Speaker 1: or have you matured as a player on that front,
- 1:22Speaker 1: just in terms of being able to do that over time? Maturity,
- 1:25Speaker 1: you know, you uh, you get more and more as
- 1:27Speaker 1: you you know, play well, Um, over over time and Um,
- 1:30Speaker 1: you see older guys. I've had the opportunity to play
- 1:33Speaker 1: with a lot of good guys a team and UH
- 1:36Speaker 1: came back back in Chicago and Danny and Um, you know,
- 1:39Speaker 1: they kind of just show you how to talk to
- 1:41Speaker 1: the media and we kind of responsors you need to
- 1:42Speaker 1: give while you're speaking. Um. So that was kind of, uh,
- 1:46Speaker 1: where I learned how to really talk to talk to
- 1:48Speaker 1: the media and just be a guy that is available.
- 1:51Speaker 1: Got You, Um and talking to a little bit in
- 1:55Speaker 1: the locker room, a sense that you really like this
- 1:58Speaker 1: culture that's going on on here. I think everybody does.
- 2:01Speaker 1: Tell me about that and tell me what it means
- 2:05Speaker 1: to you to be a part of this going forward
- 2:07Speaker 1: right now. Man, this is it's a fun thing to
- 2:10Speaker 1: be a part of. Um, the culture of the locker
- 2:12Speaker 1: room is great. Everybody's UH, everybody's just coming together. Man,
- 2:16Speaker 1: everybody just wants to win and Um, I feel like
- 2:19Speaker 1: everybody's doing what's necessary, Um to win, and that's the
- 2:24Speaker 1: little things. Um. You know, being an older guy, Um,
- 2:27Speaker 1: I'd like to set the set an example. Just go
- 2:30Speaker 1: out there and play. I don't really like to talk much, Um,
- 2:33Speaker 1: but man, a lot of a lot of guys are
- 2:35Speaker 1: just happy to be here and just happy to play ball. Um.
- 2:39Speaker 1: You know, we're just working, working each week to get
- 2:42Speaker 1: a w and uh, Um you know, that's all it is, man,
- 2:46Speaker 1: is little things every single day. I asked you about
- 2:51Speaker 1: Doug Peterson a little bit later on, but to tell
- 2:53Speaker 1: me about this defense. It has the feeling of a
- 2:56Speaker 1: group that feels like it has a chance to be special.
- 3:01Speaker 1: You know, obviously shout out last week, but overall, first
- 3:03Speaker 1: two games ups and downs. But do you guys feel
- 3:07Speaker 1: that way and tell me why? Man, uh, you know,
- 3:10Speaker 1: we had a good offense coming, a good team coming
- 3:11Speaker 1: this week and Um, we're able to keep zero points
- 3:14Speaker 1: on the board and uh, that's we're just setting a standard. Um,
- 3:17Speaker 1: we're expecting to play that play like that every single
- 3:20Speaker 1: week and, Um, you know, we're pushing each other to
- 3:23Speaker 1: to be more disciplined, to make sure the communications there
- 3:27Speaker 1: and just, you know, just holding each other accountable, you know,
- 3:30Speaker 1: every single day. Um, you know, today's a Thursday practice.
- 3:33Speaker 1: It also started yesterday. You know, today and tomorrow just
- 3:37Speaker 1: a prep but um, I mean I feel like everybody's
- 3:40Speaker 1: preparing well, we're talking out there, UM, and it's it's
- 3:44Speaker 1: just fun right now. It's just it's fun to be
- 3:47Speaker 1: playing Jacks football right now, man. So, Um, you know,
- 3:50Speaker 1: right now we got the charges and that's our focus
- 3:53Speaker 1: right now. We're not looking you know, later on down
- 3:54Speaker 1: the line. We're looking at right now against L A. Um,
- 3:57Speaker 1: we did have a good game against Indie, but that's
- 3:59Speaker 1: put to bed. Moving on and tell me about you
- 4:02Speaker 1: a little bit. I have a feeling from reading a
- 4:06Speaker 1: little bit about you that your background has shaped you
- 4:09Speaker 1: a little bit. You went to you tap from Texas.
- 4:14Speaker 1: Why you tap? If you can take me back that far, uh,
- 4:17Speaker 1: and how did your journey start on that front? Oh Yeah,
- 4:23Speaker 1: I went to U tap. Played there for five years.
- 4:25Speaker 1: Red Shirted and then played U for four and man,
- 4:29Speaker 1: I want to go play for Andre Patterson. Man, he's
- 4:31Speaker 1: in Um, he's with the giants knack. Um just wanted
- 4:34Speaker 1: to play for a coach with a really good experience
- 4:37Speaker 1: and knowledge and Um, he gave me that. Um showed
- 4:40Speaker 1: me a lot of tools I could use and there's
- 4:44Speaker 1: obviously helped got me to this level. Um, forever thankful
- 4:47Speaker 1: for him and, um, everything he's been able to to
- 4:51Speaker 1: give me, Knowledge Wise, coaching wise. But Um, yeah, man,
- 4:54Speaker 1: played at Utap, came come undrafted to Chicago and I'm blessed, man,
- 5:00Speaker 1: I can't complain at all. Um, here in Jacksonville, blessed
- 5:05Speaker 1: been able to be a part of this team and Um,
- 5:09Speaker 1: you know, there's no where else I'd rather be right now.
- 5:11Speaker 1: And you mentioned the undrafted. It seems we're looking at
- 5:14Speaker 1: your career. Had to sort of fight for it a
- 5:17Speaker 1: little bit, had to come through, had to earn your
- 5:19Speaker 1: way in Chicago and then earn times snaps position. Um.
- 5:24Speaker 1: Is that an accurate portrayal and if so, how did
- 5:27Speaker 1: that shape you in terms of where you eventually got to?
- 5:30Speaker 1: Every single day you gotta work. That's it, Um, undrafted,
- 5:35Speaker 1: you just you just gotta come in every day. You can't.
- 5:39Speaker 1: You can't think about yesterday or tomorrow. You gotta be
- 5:43Speaker 1: where you at, be where your feet are. and Um, yeah, man, uh, uh, shoot,
- 5:48Speaker 1: were years of seven undrafted. You know, you don't really
- 5:52Speaker 1: see it, but man, I like uh, I like my
- 5:55Speaker 1: I love my story and I love that I could
- 5:57Speaker 1: be an example for guys undrafted. Um, like I said,
- 6:00Speaker 1: I'm blessed. Man. Um, I didn't know where I was
- 6:03Speaker 1: gonna be at when I first got to Chicago. I
- 6:05Speaker 1: didn't think I was gonna make it this far, you know,
- 6:07Speaker 1: when I first came in. But Um, you know, keep
- 6:11Speaker 1: going first and uh, you know, just keep working. And
- 6:15Speaker 1: it sounds like that still shapes your approach every day. Absolutely,
- 6:18Speaker 1: I guess you still work today like you're an undrafted guy. Absolutely,
- 6:22Speaker 1: seventeen or sixteen. Yes, sir, I mean that's that's what
- 6:26Speaker 1: it is, man. You can't relax, you can never be
- 6:29Speaker 1: too comfortable. Um, I mean, yeah, I signed a contract
- 6:33Speaker 1: last year, but you know, it's a revolve and doing
- 6:35Speaker 1: his league, so I gotta make sure I'm coming to work.
- 6:38Speaker 1: You maybe understand that. Every single day, where you come from,
- 6:42Speaker 1: every single day now it seems like that also shapes
- 6:45Speaker 1: your playing on the field. When I watch you, UH,
- 6:49Speaker 1: high effort on every play and a lot of guys
- 6:51Speaker 1: say they're high motor guys, but even a lot of
- 6:53Speaker 1: your sacks come from keep going and going and going. Um.
- 6:58Speaker 1: Is that something you have to think about or is
- 7:00Speaker 1: or is that just who you are as a player?
- 7:01Speaker 1: You just gotta go out there and play ball, man. Um.
- 7:04Speaker 1: You know. Yeah, like you said, a lot of my
- 7:06Speaker 1: sacks came from effort rusher's but it's all about continue
- 7:10Speaker 1: to play. You know, you don't get a rush, you
- 7:12Speaker 1: can't just stop in the middle of the play. You
- 7:13Speaker 1: gotta keep going. You don't know what the quarterback's gonna do.
- 7:16Speaker 1: You don't know if he still has the ball, if
- 7:17Speaker 1: he threw it. Um, you know they say run to
- 7:19Speaker 1: the ball. Let's say he throws the ball in the
- 7:22Speaker 1: receiver fumbles. Like if I'm running to the ball, you
- 7:24Speaker 1: know that's good. Things happen when you run to the ball. So, Um,
- 7:27Speaker 1: you know there's a chance for a fumble recovery or
- 7:30Speaker 1: let's say the quarterback deal roll out the pocket, I'm
- 7:32Speaker 1: still going, you know, still have a chance. You got
- 7:34Speaker 1: to continue to play. Through the whistle. It still feels like,
- 7:37Speaker 1: from watching you, that you still you have more. Yeah,
- 7:41Speaker 1: I guess, potential to reach what I'm trying to get.
- 7:42Speaker 1: Oh yeah, absolutely. I mean, I feel like I'm a
- 7:44Speaker 1: student of the game, Um, and I'm learning a lot
- 7:47Speaker 1: from buck, coach buck man, he's really good, coach Mike,
- 7:50Speaker 1: all those guys on defense, they're just teaching us the game.
- 7:54Speaker 1: You know, every single day I feel like I'm coming
- 7:56Speaker 1: in here learning something new, Um, and those guys are
- 7:59Speaker 1: they're they're good, they're good coaches, but they're great teachers,
- 8:03Speaker 1: and especially Doug Man. He's teaching us about the game.
- 8:06Speaker 1: We have little situations we look at and it it
- 8:09Speaker 1: helps me a lot, you know, when I'm going out
- 8:10Speaker 1: there playing, that circles back. The next question is about Doug.
- 8:14Speaker 1: I'm going to assume last year was frustrating and not
- 8:17Speaker 1: have you get into that too much, but tell me
- 8:19Speaker 1: about the first time you met doug and maybe you
- 8:23Speaker 1: the first time you really realized this thing was going
- 8:25Speaker 1: to go in a new direction starting. In fact, this
- 8:28Speaker 1: is energy, man. He's just he's got good energy. Um.
- 8:32Speaker 1: You know, he's he's got a smile on his face.
- 8:35Speaker 1: You know, it's it's not. It's like it's you can't
- 8:38Speaker 1: think about all the bad, you know, you gotta think
- 8:41Speaker 1: about what you know, the good stuff. So yeah, we
- 8:44Speaker 1: lost Um Week one, but it's okay, you got we
- 8:48Speaker 1: got some bad things we need to clean up, but
- 8:50Speaker 1: let's also look at the fact that, you'll we we
- 8:52Speaker 1: fought that whole game. You know. We're just talking about
- 8:55Speaker 1: the positive. Is. He's just a positive guy all the
- 8:57Speaker 1: time and, Um, you know, I think that. I think
- 9:00Speaker 1: that's good. You can't you can't always just be a
- 9:02Speaker 1: Debbie Downer, you know, every single day or you know,
- 9:06Speaker 1: when know, whenever I see you. Can't just be in
- 9:08Speaker 1: that Mug just, Oh yeah, whatever. You know, Doug, he's
- 9:11Speaker 1: just he's just a real positive dude and it's a
- 9:14Speaker 1: good guy to be around, the way he's able to
- 9:16Speaker 1: reach you guys. Is it evident that he played? Yeah,
- 9:19Speaker 1: he understands, understands players. Yeah, I mean he's been in
- 9:22Speaker 1: the locker room I think fourteen years. You know, is
- 9:25Speaker 1: it fourteen years? Yeah, we played and now he's yeah,
- 9:29Speaker 1: same thing. Same thing with coach Mike, like he's played
- 9:32Speaker 1: for a long time. Coach Buck played for a long time.
- 9:34Speaker 1: So they know, they know how to communicate with us.
- 9:36Speaker 1: They know how to talk to us because they were
- 9:38Speaker 1: in they was in our seats, there was in that
- 9:39Speaker 1: locker room. So they know how it goes, Um, you know.
- 9:43Speaker 1: So they know, they know how to get through to
- 9:45Speaker 1: they know how. The coaches know how to talk to us. Um.
- 9:48Speaker 1: But I feel like they're all doing a really good job.
- 9:51Speaker 1: Tell me about buck a little bit, coach, but that's good.
- 9:54Speaker 1: That's my guy. Man, he he just he has knowledge, man,
- 9:57Speaker 1: he has a lot of knowledge. Seen a lot of ball,
- 10:00Speaker 1: has been a couple of super bowls and you know,
- 10:02Speaker 1: you get a coach like that, you know, I feel
- 10:04Speaker 1: like you should listen to him, listen to the things
- 10:07Speaker 1: he has to say just from his experience. And it
- 10:09Speaker 1: wasn't like he was there. He wasn't in the League
- 10:12Speaker 1: for two years, went to Super Bowl. He's, you know,
- 10:14Speaker 1: double digit seasons. Um. So here's a lot of knowledge
- 10:17Speaker 1: that he can give to us, and especially young guys
- 10:20Speaker 1: coming in. Um. But Yeah, man, I love coach, but man,
- 10:24Speaker 1: really good coach. Man, I mean I got I could
- 10:26Speaker 1: go on and on about buck. You know, he's a
- 10:28Speaker 1: he's a good dude. Man. How does he reach it?
- 10:31Speaker 1: I mean it's willing to have played. Not Everybody who
- 10:34Speaker 1: plays can go coach, but from talking to different guys,
- 10:37Speaker 1: he really reaches you guys. Make it makes sense. He
- 10:40Speaker 1: just he knows how the coaches make it makes sense. Um,
- 10:44Speaker 1: you know, we we got all defense in and the
- 10:47Speaker 1: way he coaches it is just it makes sense how
- 10:49Speaker 1: he does it. You know. So I can't really get
- 10:52Speaker 1: too much into it, but you know, it just keeps
- 10:54Speaker 1: it very simple. You know, tell me about this front
- 10:57Speaker 1: seven with Josh, the tray line, with the interior guys.
- 11:01Speaker 1: It seems like it is playing. Overall. We're together. I
- 11:07Speaker 1: guess where's the ceiling for you guys? How good do
- 11:08Speaker 1: you guys feel like you can be as a group?
- 11:10Speaker 1: I mean we we we've set the standard last week,
- 11:14Speaker 1: so we've got to just continue to go. We can't
- 11:17Speaker 1: think about like I said, we can't think about Indie, Um,
- 11:20Speaker 1: but we we've we've shown and put it out there
- 11:22Speaker 1: that we can be a great defense. Um, as long
- 11:25Speaker 1: as we discipline, as long as we um playing together
- 11:28Speaker 1: and communicating, I think we could be a really good defense.
- 11:33Speaker 1: You mentioned it earlier coming here with a smile. Um,
- 11:37Speaker 1: I don't overplay it but are you surprised it how
- 11:41Speaker 1: quickly Doug and this group and you guys have been
- 11:45Speaker 1: able to establish that? There weren't a lot of smiles
- 11:48Speaker 1: last year? I'm not surprised at all. We were having fun.
- 11:52Speaker 1: You're having fun. It makes everything a whole lot better.
- 11:54Speaker 1: You know, everything that we do is everybody is happy
- 11:58Speaker 1: to go to practice. We're excited to go work, you know,
- 12:01Speaker 1: because we know how great we can be. Obviously it's
- 12:03Speaker 1: earlier in a year, but we know how great this
- 12:06Speaker 1: you know this team can be. And, Um, you know
- 12:08Speaker 1: nobody else, nobody else knows but us. You know, the
- 12:12Speaker 1: writers or whoever else. They could talk and do whatever
- 12:14Speaker 1: they want. They don't know because they ain't in here
- 12:16Speaker 1: working with us. You know, sir, the last thing we
- 12:20Speaker 1: do on this five. It's five quick questions, just some fun.
- 12:29Speaker 1: All right. What was your last Binge Watch? Oh, we're
- 12:33Speaker 1: talking shows here, all right. Um, my last Binge Watch,
- 12:39Speaker 1: because I do watch a lot of shows. I am
- 12:43Speaker 1: short on Ozark. I have a few left on Ozark.
- 12:46Speaker 1: I'm short on Ozark, but I'm a big Lord of
- 12:50Speaker 1: don't do that. I'm a big Lord of the Rings Guy.
- 12:52Speaker 1: So I'm watching Lord of the Rings Right now and
- 12:54Speaker 1: I'm also watching Um um dragons, game of game of thrones.
- 13:00Speaker 1: Those things takes you like four weeks to get through.
- 13:03Speaker 1: But yeah, my last Binge Watch that I actually sat
- 13:06Speaker 1: there and was catching up on episodes. It was probably Izardy. Okay.
- 13:10Speaker 1: So you smiled when I asked you this. Give me
- 13:13Speaker 1: your top five of all time. What are you? I
- 13:17Speaker 1: should have had. You should have told me something. I
- 13:18Speaker 1: would have came prepared. Um, sons are anarchy. I can't
- 13:23Speaker 1: put it on the list, but it's top five for me.
- 13:26Speaker 1: That was one of the first shows I ever sat
- 13:28Speaker 1: and watched. Um ozark is in there. M Hmm. Game
- 13:33Speaker 1: of thrones was definitely up there with the best character on. Alright,
- 13:40Speaker 1: she she'd take care of but man handled. It was
- 13:44Speaker 1: the last song you listened to in your car on
- 13:46Speaker 1: the last song I listened to probably, uh, probably that
- 13:51Speaker 1: girl by stevie wonder. Okay, old school. I'm an old
- 13:54Speaker 1: school guy, man. Mom's played a lot of stevie wonder
- 13:57Speaker 1: when I was growing up. On the way to school
- 13:58Speaker 1: she played Stevie. So what's the best stevy wonder album? Shoot,
- 14:03Speaker 1: all of them. I can't five or six round believe it.
- 14:06Speaker 1: I can't lie to you, Stevie. That's my guy. Okay,
- 14:08Speaker 1: I got you. I got you. Are Old School, so
- 14:10Speaker 1: that's like Mayer. Why do you wear your number? Um,
- 14:15Speaker 1: I war ninety. I chose five because I was the
- 14:17Speaker 1: last ninety number available when I was in Chicago and
- 14:21Speaker 1: I stuck with it. I wanted to wear ninety three.
- 14:25Speaker 1: I was born in ninety three, so one of the
- 14:27Speaker 1: ninety three, but couldn't get ninety three. Ninety five is
- 14:30Speaker 1: only available ninety number. I had seventy four in the
- 14:32Speaker 1: preseason my first year. So at that point you was
- 14:36Speaker 1: happy to get a number. I was just one of
- 14:38Speaker 1: I just wanted the ninety number. I didn't want no
- 14:39Speaker 1: seventy number. I just wanted to be like everybody else
- 14:41Speaker 1: on the D line have a ninety number. So I
- 14:43Speaker 1: got you. What's Your Best Sport? Football? Oh, I mean
- 14:46Speaker 1: I played football. I just played football. Baseball, I tried out,
- 14:50Speaker 1: but I couldn't really. I couldn't really. Uh, I couldn't
- 14:53Speaker 1: really play no baseball, but I picked up golf this
- 14:56Speaker 1: all season. Yeah, I could. Chick. You're not Christian, Kirk
- 15:01Speaker 1: good yet. No, I can. I can chip, though. You
- 15:04Speaker 1: give me about you give me about a hundred feet.
- 15:06Speaker 1: I could I could chip route. Yeah, maybe you just
- 15:08Speaker 1: do that all around the course. Then all around the
- 15:10Speaker 1: course I'm sitting there chipping. Um, I'm actually pretty good
- 15:13Speaker 1: putting two. So yeah, my short games points, Bigg as
- 15:17Speaker 1: you are. The long game is gonna come to see
- 15:19Speaker 1: the long game, man, I'll tell you. Long game is tough.
- 15:22Speaker 1: It's it's tough to swing them clubs, but short game
- 15:24Speaker 1: I've learned to kind of. Are you too biggest swing
- 15:26Speaker 1: the clubs? Is that? I mean? I don't know, man,
- 15:28Speaker 1: to be honest with so I actually I recently got
- 15:30Speaker 1: some some clubs that fit, because before with short clubs,
- 15:34Speaker 1: but I want to got me some clubs that fit.
- 15:35Speaker 1: I went and got fitted up and got up. Oh yeah,
- 15:39Speaker 1: I'm any chance I get by. I can't remember last
- 15:42Speaker 1: time I played since we've been, you know, preseason and yeah,
- 15:45Speaker 1: since camp started. So Um, any chance I do get
- 15:48Speaker 1: an offseason, I've been able to hit hit the range
- 15:51Speaker 1: and only played maybe three times on the course. Well,
- 15:55Speaker 1: you're in the right area for them all over the place.
- 15:58Speaker 1: It's a good deal. Final question. Who's your biggest influence?
- 16:02Speaker 1: All right, in terms of WHO's the person that's responsible
- 16:06Speaker 1: for you being in the NFL? Mm Hmm, I would
- 16:10Speaker 1: say my parents. Um, what do they mean? My Mom's man,
- 16:15Speaker 1: she uh she was. She was a single mom for
- 16:18Speaker 1: twelve years, raised me and my sister together and uh,
- 16:22Speaker 1: she worked the tail off and then, Um, she got married. Man,
- 16:25Speaker 1: my pops, he showed me every day what it means
- 16:27Speaker 1: to work get up early. He's a bus driver and man,
- 16:32Speaker 1: four or five in the morning he's up, and that's
- 16:34Speaker 1: where he showed me really what it really meant to
- 16:37Speaker 1: get up early and go get it Um. And so
- 16:40Speaker 1: I mean for me, I'm an early bird. I like
- 16:43Speaker 1: to get up, I'd like to get my work in
- 16:45Speaker 1: early and, uh, you know, knock it out. But both
- 16:48Speaker 1: of them just the examples, they said, on what it
- 16:50Speaker 1: means to just get up and go get it Um.
- 16:53Speaker 1: You know, nobody, nobody cares what your situation is. You
- 16:56Speaker 1: gotta go out there and work for what you want
- 16:58Speaker 1: and you know that. That was the example. And then
- 17:02Speaker 1: next to them as my kids, my family, Um, you know,
- 17:06Speaker 1: they gotta eat some kind of weight. So I gotta
- 17:09Speaker 1: make sure, I gotta make sure that I go out
- 17:10Speaker 1: there and handle my business. Mine's your influencing your motivation
- 17:15Speaker 1: or Robinson Harrison, I can't think. I can't thank you
- 17:17Speaker 1: enough for taking the time and broken it up. I
- 17:19Speaker 1: think fans are going to enjoy this. I appreciate you
- 17:22Speaker 1: being on the appreciate you man. Thank you,