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- 0:00Speaker 1: You know, I'd like to think that we're you know,
- 0:02Speaker 1: pretty special together. You know, Ross and Logan. Obviously last
- 0:07Speaker 1: year was my rookie year, but they've kind of continued
- 0:09Speaker 1: to keep me under their wing and kind of show
- 0:12Speaker 1: me the ropes and what it's like to be a
- 0:13Speaker 1: pros pro. And obviously Ross going you know, three time
- 0:16Speaker 1: Pro bowler and Logan being a Pro Bowl last year
- 0:18Speaker 1: and you know, the best punner in the league in
- 0:20Speaker 1: my opinion and a lot of people's opinion. It's cool
- 0:22Speaker 1: to have those guys in my room. And like I said,
- 0:24Speaker 1: they teach me how to be a pro.
- 0:26Speaker 2: What does a kicker do in the offseason?
- 0:29Speaker 3: Good question?
- 0:30Speaker 1: A lot of golf, No, But like I said, I'll
- 0:33Speaker 1: probably take about a month off. There's a lot of
- 0:36Speaker 1: specialists that like to go out to San Diego. There's
- 0:39Speaker 1: an ex kicker in the NFL, Nick Novac. He kind
- 0:42Speaker 1: of has a little I would say, kind of retreat.
- 0:44Speaker 1: I guess that is the best way to put it.
- 0:45Speaker 1: But a lot of guys go out there to train,
- 0:47Speaker 1: kick it around for a little bit. So I'll probably
- 0:49Speaker 1: take about a month off and then kind of start
- 0:51Speaker 1: getting my body back into it a month later. And
- 0:54Speaker 1: you know, obviously the next step is building for the
- 0:55Speaker 1: next offseason. That's that's the beauty of it. We get
- 0:57Speaker 1: another shot at this thing. And so yeah, looking forward
- 1:00Speaker 1: to that.
- 1:01Speaker 4: You had a season where you obviously set the NFL
- 1:04Speaker 4: record and then have the second longest field goal. But
- 1:07Speaker 4: that aside, what are you most pleased about from your
- 1:10Speaker 4: season in twenty twenty five?
- 1:12Speaker 1: I think something that twenty twenty five taught me was
- 1:16Speaker 1: that I'm a resilient person. I've never battled adversity in
- 1:20Speaker 1: my career as much as I have this year, and
- 1:22Speaker 1: I think it's taught me not only a lot as
- 1:24Speaker 1: a football player, but as a man that I can
- 1:26Speaker 1: handle getting knocked down and I'm not going to let
- 1:28Speaker 1: it affect me. I mean, I went I think nineteen
- 1:31Speaker 1: or twenty straight there for a little bit and proved
- 1:34Speaker 1: to myself that I am good enough to kick in
- 1:36Speaker 1: this in this league. And so I think I was
- 1:37Speaker 1: really proud of myself for that. Obviously, I didn't do
- 1:41Speaker 1: my job to my best ability yesterday, and I can
- 1:44Speaker 1: take accountability for that. I need to make that kick
- 1:46Speaker 1: and to you know, put our team in the best
- 1:48Speaker 1: chance to win. But you know, I'm proud of myself for,
- 1:52Speaker 1: you know, being resilient through a time where you know,
- 1:55Speaker 1: maybe other people would have gotten knocked down and I.
- 1:57Speaker 3: Got back up.
- 1:58Speaker 1: I was proud of myself and taught myself that I
- 2:00Speaker 1: have a strong mental fortitude.
- 2:02Speaker 3: Excuse me if you already answered this, but Ross getting
- 2:04Speaker 3: named All Pro? Just man, what was he for you
- 2:06Speaker 3: this year?
- 2:07Speaker 5: Now?
- 2:07Speaker 1: I mean that guy's I'm telling you those I can't
- 2:09Speaker 1: ever say this enough. Those two guys are so stinking
- 2:11Speaker 1: good at what they do. And it's it's a blessing
- 2:14Speaker 1: that I got put here because they not only are
- 2:17Speaker 1: good at their jobs, but they're good at just being
- 2:19Speaker 1: a pro and mentoring me into being as good as
- 2:22Speaker 1: they are. And you know, it's it's cool to have
- 2:24Speaker 1: those guys, you know in my locker room. And not
- 2:27Speaker 1: only just those guys, but other teammates around this locker room.
- 2:30Speaker 1: You know Dewey and Eric, he's played in the league
- 2:33Speaker 1: for so long, just kind of him, you know, teaching
- 2:36Speaker 1: me to be resilient pro and you know, the leadership
- 2:40Speaker 1: just with Trevor and Josh and all those guys. Man,
- 2:41Speaker 1: those guys are such pros pros and you can see
- 2:44Speaker 1: it in their tape on the field.
- 2:45Speaker 3: It's really cool to be a part of.
- 2:46Speaker 6: How was it to play in the atmosphere all year
- 2:48Speaker 6: and the energy.
- 2:50Speaker 2: Man was it was a great energy yesterday.
- 2:52Speaker 7: But like I said earlier in the week, last week,
- 2:55Speaker 7: I was like, the fans did a great job just
- 2:57Speaker 7: coming out and showing the support going to see we
- 3:01Speaker 7: felt them each and every game, and especially the last game.
- 3:03Speaker 7: Yes today, we felt yall energy and we appreciate everything
- 3:07Speaker 7: that y'all did this season.
- 3:08Speaker 8: You talked about how fun it was to play in
- 3:10Speaker 8: this defense.
- 3:10Speaker 9: When did you get a feeling about that that this
- 3:13Speaker 9: defense was gonna.
- 3:13Speaker 10: Get let you play that free and have that much
- 3:15Speaker 10: fun out though?
- 3:16Speaker 7: Uh, Honestly, as soon as camp came in and he
- 3:19Speaker 7: was just you know, breaking down the defense to the
- 3:21Speaker 7: you know, just to the players and how we can
- 3:24Speaker 7: manipulate the offense to doing what we want them to do,
- 3:27Speaker 7: you kind of seen the vision like right away.
- 3:30Speaker 2: But it really came into play.
- 3:34Speaker 7: During camp and we had like our joint practice and
- 3:37Speaker 7: stuff like that, and we really seen like how elite
- 3:41Speaker 7: of a defense we could we can really be once,
- 3:43Speaker 7: you know, cause you go and against our offense each
- 3:45Speaker 7: and every day.
- 3:45Speaker 3: So we know, they tendencies and things like that.
- 3:47Speaker 7: But once once we got to like pa against somebody
- 3:50Speaker 7: else and we you know, we got to do what
- 3:52Speaker 7: we do, we realized, oh, it's gonna be a special year.
- 3:56Speaker 3: Internio.
- 3:56Speaker 11: What use How did you feel like you grew as
- 4:01Speaker 11: a as a player this year as a season grew on?
- 4:03Speaker 2: What did you get better at?
- 4:06Speaker 10: Yeah?
- 4:06Speaker 12: I think I just feel like as a as a player,
- 4:09Speaker 12: I grew in so many ways and just like little
- 4:14Speaker 12: details of of the game, just like what's my film
- 4:17Speaker 12: watching it, or just like how I'm attacking the player
- 4:21Speaker 12: or each play bent Nes, or you know, just being
- 4:24Speaker 12: fundamentally sound as a player, which allowed me to be
- 4:27Speaker 12: in position to go out and make plays. And when
- 4:31Speaker 12: you have, like I said, I I give a lot
- 4:33Speaker 12: of credit to coach Kemp and to the leaders in
- 4:35Speaker 12: our room, uh Ry Mary and Jordan Lewis. Like they
- 4:38Speaker 12: came in and they made sure that the younger guys,
- 4:41Speaker 12: include myself or we was at the right spots and
- 4:46Speaker 12: being detailed about our our footwork and being detailed about
- 4:49Speaker 12: just the little things. So when we get in those
- 4:51Speaker 12: positions to make plays, it wouldn't shocking.
- 4:54Speaker 13: It's easy, man, cause when you have success like that.
- 4:56Speaker 13: It's it's easy to be like, Okay, we only need
- 4:58Speaker 13: to find two in a few things. It's n out
- 5:00Speaker 13: like it's a a complete overhaul of the you know,
- 5:02Speaker 13: the the guys or or coaching staff or anything that
- 5:05Speaker 13: that that needs to be changed. It's a a few tweaks.
- 5:08Speaker 13: Like you said, it's a few things that we we.
- 5:10Speaker 6: Need to understand. I really think it's just the details.
- 5:12Speaker 13: That you know, we need to be in, uh to
- 5:14Speaker 13: to be better at what Sorry, you know, you fine,
- 5:18Speaker 13: you fine, Yeah, just be more detailed in in in
- 5:21Speaker 13: in the system in the second year.
- 5:23Speaker 6: And I feel like we really have a really good
- 5:24Speaker 6: foundation of that.
- 5:25Speaker 13: So that's just the the thing I think we need
- 5:28Speaker 13: to work on, just get more detailed. I mean, it's
- 5:30Speaker 13: definitely a good feeling to know that's that's all we
- 5:32Speaker 13: need to do.
- 5:33Speaker 2: Children.
- 5:33Speaker 10: What does traps Hunter's future look like?
- 5:37Speaker 11: Uh?
- 5:37Speaker 13: It was uh he was extended, he was descending when
- 5:40Speaker 13: he was playing, when he got hurt.
- 5:43Speaker 8: After the he he was finding his groove, you know,
- 5:45Speaker 8: offense and defense.
- 5:46Speaker 13: Uh Uh, it felt like he was making a big
- 5:48Speaker 13: play every time, you know, we needed him. So Uhm's
- 5:51Speaker 13: just like I said, he he knows what it's ex
- 5:54Speaker 13: expected of him now that we know what he needs,
- 5:56Speaker 13: and you just you know, just working, honestly, keep working
- 5:59Speaker 13: and playing.
- 6:00Speaker 14: You know, you mentioned those young guys, they were all
- 6:02Speaker 14: crowded around your locker yesterday. What's your message to them
- 6:05Speaker 14: and what does it say that immediately after a tough
- 6:07Speaker 14: loss in playoffs like that, that they're all huddled up to.
- 6:10Speaker 8: The other one.
- 6:10Speaker 15: Uh.
- 6:10Speaker 6: They they just wanna be better.
- 6:11Speaker 13: He just wanna learn and hungry to to be better
- 6:13Speaker 13: football players. And and that's that's all we I I
- 6:16Speaker 13: wanted from them, and you know, uh, that's all I
- 6:19Speaker 13: uh we need from you know that that desire, cause
- 6:21Speaker 13: they're already really really good football players. It's just a
- 6:23Speaker 13: desire to to go out there and and wanna be
- 6:25Speaker 13: better and you know, wanna study and wanna you know,
- 6:28Speaker 13: wanna work out and do different things to make themselves better.
- 6:30Speaker 13: So it it's definitely encouraging to to have that around
- 6:34Speaker 13: me as a as a guy.
- 6:36Speaker 6: You know that that that's a leader.
- 6:38Speaker 13: To have guys that that wants to that wanna get
- 6:40Speaker 13: better and want this team to be better.
- 6:41Speaker 6: So it's it's definitely encouraging.
- 6:43Speaker 13: Science it's just it's just just disappointed way it ended.
- 6:47Speaker 14: Did you see that appetite that that want to that
- 6:51Speaker 14: grow from over the year.
- 6:52Speaker 13: I mean I worked out with aj And and Jarry
- 6:55Speaker 13: and over the off season and and you could tell 'em, Man,
- 6:57Speaker 13: it was hungry.
- 6:58Speaker 6: They was hungry learned.
- 6:58Speaker 13: It was hungry to understand and you know what it
- 7:00Speaker 13: was to be a professional in this league. And I
- 7:02Speaker 13: think they took a really big step this year, and
- 7:04Speaker 13: it's it's just you know, now it's the next step
- 7:06Speaker 13: to you know, superstarter. You know, I told him, it's
- 7:09Speaker 13: it's always it's as different levels to you know, being
- 7:12Speaker 13: a a football player, a professional football player in this league, and.
- 7:16Speaker 6: That I think I think they understand that.
- 7:18Speaker 13: And you know, as time goes on, they gonna completely know,
- 7:20Speaker 13: uh what I mean by that, but uh, you know,
- 7:23Speaker 13: it's just their their hunger and their will to go
- 7:25Speaker 13: out there and learn.
- 7:26Speaker 6: That's that's very.
- 7:27Speaker 5: Encouraging Travis real quick, How much easier do you think
- 7:30Speaker 5: it will be for him next year coming back? He's
- 7:33Speaker 5: already got the offense and the defense down, doesn't have
- 7:35Speaker 5: to worry about how.
- 7:36Speaker 6: The schedule's gonna work.
- 7:37Speaker 5: Flipping between the boasts will that help him significantly.
- 7:42Speaker 16: Man.
- 7:43Speaker 6: He he he already had it. He already had that effactor.
- 7:45Speaker 13: Man, he had that want to, that will to go
- 7:47Speaker 13: out there and and and do whatever we needed to
- 7:50Speaker 13: be done on the football field.
- 7:51Speaker 6: It's just you know, being healthy.
- 7:53Speaker 13: Now, getting stronger, getting better in the weight room and
- 7:55Speaker 13: different things like that. But other than that, man, it's
- 7:58Speaker 13: it's it's about the fortitude he already has. You know,
- 8:00Speaker 13: he has the talent to go do out go out
- 8:01Speaker 13: there and do it. It's just about being a bigger
- 8:03Speaker 13: and better athlete now.
- 8:04Speaker 3: So w what did coach camp just kind of mean
- 8:07Speaker 3: to you?
- 8:07Speaker 2: And you know, your kind of career.
- 8:09Speaker 8: And he he missed everything. He he he brought the
- 8:12Speaker 8: coach out in me. He brought the the the guy
- 8:16Speaker 8: that you know.
- 8:16Speaker 13: I always wanted to be, you know, just the the
- 8:19Speaker 13: stute guy that that to go out there and help
- 8:21Speaker 13: guys and and and be that solid rock that the guys.
- 8:23Speaker 6: Can depend on.
- 8:24Speaker 13: And he leaned on me, and I'm forever grateful for
- 8:27Speaker 13: you know, experience that he's given me as a as
- 8:30Speaker 13: a guy, as a captain, as a guy that he
- 8:32Speaker 13: saw as a leader on his defense. And he I've
- 8:35Speaker 13: learned so much in the short time that I've been
- 8:37Speaker 13: with him, just as far as you know, not only
- 8:39Speaker 13: being a better football player and learning the game, but
- 8:41Speaker 13: you know, just a caring man.
- 8:43Speaker 8: You know, he cares for us, He cares for our
- 8:45Speaker 8: will being.
- 8:45Speaker 13: He wants us to be the best man that we
- 8:47Speaker 13: can be for our families and in the football team.
- 8:50Speaker 8: So it was, it's it's that's I think that's the
- 8:54Speaker 8: the the.
- 8:55Speaker 6: Biggest heartbreak of it all.
- 8:56Speaker 17: Man.
- 8:56Speaker 13: He we couldn't get it done for him, and and
- 8:59Speaker 13: that hurt the most, especially being him being the first
- 9:01Speaker 13: time coordinator, winning it and all it it It just
- 9:04Speaker 13: doesn't sit right for us, but for more with me
- 9:06Speaker 13: because I I, I really do believe he deserves that
- 9:09Speaker 13: the way he's been coaching us and the way he's
- 9:11Speaker 13: led us to, you know, to the season we had
- 9:14Speaker 13: now it it it really doesn't sit right with me
- 9:16Speaker 13: that that we didn't get it done.
- 9:17Speaker 2: Thanks y, Jordan. Uh, what's your rehab look like and
- 9:20Speaker 2: what do you expect to be back up a field?
- 9:22Speaker 13: Hopefully a few months. Hopefully a few months. I'm pushing
- 9:24Speaker 13: for a few months. Coach Hardball always said you wanna
- 9:27Speaker 13: cut your your recovery time and half.
- 9:29Speaker 6: So hopefully I can. I can do that, you.
- 9:32Speaker 8: Know, oh hard board, Uh but uh.
- 9:35Speaker 13: Yeah, hopefully I can. I can I can do that
- 9:37Speaker 13: in a few months and get ready to go. But
- 9:39Speaker 13: like I'm I'm I'm gonna be you know, I'm gonna
- 9:42Speaker 13: be the I'm gonna attack this thing, you know, uh,
- 9:44Speaker 13: full head of steam. Just another challenge that I have
- 9:46Speaker 13: to go through. But I have a I have a
- 9:48Speaker 13: good support group. Some of my brothers gonna be with me, uh,
- 9:51Speaker 13: you know, like Jarian hopefully I get more than Jariy
- 9:53Speaker 13: and the aj some of the guys come with me.
- 9:55Speaker 13: So uh yeah, i'm'a have a good support group with it.
- 9:58Speaker 13: But you know, I i'm'a have fun with it. You know,
- 10:00Speaker 13: I have fun with it and and and.
- 10:01Speaker 6: Treat this like like I did did this season.
- 10:04Speaker 8: Man, you don't have it, you know, lead the guys
- 10:06Speaker 8: and you know, doing with all my heart.
- 10:08Speaker 2: Where did you grow the most this year? Where me? Uh?
- 10:12Speaker 15: I think I grew more from a mental aspect as
- 10:15Speaker 15: far as you know, things that I went through throughout
- 10:17Speaker 15: the season as far as personal, but uh team aspect,
- 10:20Speaker 15: I feel like, feel like just being more connected with
- 10:24Speaker 15: the players in the locker room. When I say connected,
- 10:26Speaker 15: that's in not just in the building, but outside of
- 10:29Speaker 15: the building as well, kind of just doing things a
- 10:31Speaker 15: little bit different than the the bond that we had
- 10:33Speaker 15: amongst each other.
- 10:34Speaker 4: What did Coach Camp do just take picture, look at
- 10:37Speaker 4: at flipping the mindset of this defense.
- 10:40Speaker 5: Uh.
- 10:41Speaker 2: I I'll say, it's just the the energy that he brought. Uh.
- 10:44Speaker 15: He brought the same energy every day and uh consistently.
- 10:46Speaker 15: Consistency is something that you wanna ask for out of everybody,
- 10:50Speaker 15: no matter if it's in playing the game of football
- 10:52Speaker 15: or just being the same person every day. Uh, that's
- 10:55Speaker 15: something that I feel like that it really instilled them
- 10:57Speaker 15: to all the players in the building, not just on
- 11:00Speaker 15: the defense side of the ball. Offensive, special teams got
- 11:02Speaker 15: them on just in the building in Gymer.
- 11:05Speaker 18: That's what you brough going through what you went through
- 11:07Speaker 18: this season risks me just battling through all that.
- 11:09Speaker 2: How much better will that make you going forward? Man?
- 11:12Speaker 2: It definitely make me a lot better for me.
- 11:14Speaker 15: I feel like that'll it'll be a testament to high
- 11:16Speaker 15: proceed with my uh prehab things of that nature. I
- 11:19Speaker 15: felt like I was already doing things to kind of
- 11:21Speaker 15: be preventative of the energies or whatever. But it's football.
- 11:25Speaker 15: It's a hundred percent injury rate. Uh, things gonna happen.
- 11:27Speaker 15: But going forward, I feel like for me, it's just
- 11:29Speaker 15: gonna kind of help my schedule a lot more with that.
- 11:32Speaker 19: So, Uh, Sarah, what's your confidence level that if you
- 11:36Speaker 19: guys don't s that you can keep a sending against
- 11:39Speaker 19: this team, you canna keep a sending and.
- 11:40Speaker 2: It's just off from you confidence level? Is it is high?
- 11:43Speaker 13: Uh?
- 11:43Speaker 15: Obviously, I feel like like we were just talking this,
- 11:45Speaker 15: it's obviously we set a new standard for how we
- 11:48Speaker 15: want things to be ran within this organization.
- 11:50Speaker 2: And I'm I'm all forward. I feel like we.
- 11:53Speaker 15: Definitely just gonna continiously grow uh head in the right
- 11:55Speaker 15: direction as long as we continuously believe and consistently be
- 11:59Speaker 15: the same people individuals or as far as our work
- 12:02Speaker 15: at it every day and it's gonna it's gonna pay off.
- 12:04Speaker 4: And then can you let this one linger?
- 12:07Speaker 20: I know you guys try to live by the twenty
- 12:08Speaker 20: four hour rule, but now seen of the season, does
- 12:10Speaker 20: this one m stick around a.
- 12:11Speaker 2: Little bit more?
- 12:12Speaker 5: Uh?
- 12:12Speaker 15: It's definitely go stick around obviously for uh. Obviously, it's
- 12:15Speaker 15: a one to know season that we was going to
- 12:17Speaker 15: into the playoffs.
- 12:18Speaker 2: It's a loss.
- 12:19Speaker 15: It's gonna carry on into the off sea for me,
- 12:21Speaker 15: I can s say for me, it might it it'll
- 12:23Speaker 15: linger a little bit, but it's not gonna stop me
- 12:25Speaker 15: from living my life. Uh, going out and enjoying my family. Uh,
- 12:28Speaker 15: this is time for that for whore. I can really
- 12:30Speaker 15: go into all my family, but it's definitely gonna be
- 12:32Speaker 15: filled to the fires for high pre prepping the offseason.
- 12:36Speaker 7: What is your off season process kind of like, like,
- 12:38Speaker 7: is it important to kind of disconnect for a little.
- 12:39Speaker 2: Bit A hundred percent.
- 12:41Speaker 15: I obviously you want to disconnect anytime you you get
- 12:44Speaker 15: a chance to, uh, But offseason, I feel like that's
- 12:46Speaker 15: the time where I really get to go obsolutely just
- 12:49Speaker 15: take my nieces to school, things of that nature, be
- 12:51Speaker 15: more involved with my mom, dad, grandparents are getting older,
- 12:54Speaker 15: just being able to genuinely be there for the people
- 12:56Speaker 15: who's always there for me. They get to see my process.
- 12:58Speaker 15: But I was telling my mom my dad last night,
- 13:00Speaker 15: like it's hard for me to kind of get to
- 13:02Speaker 15: see the process of my nieces grow up, and I
- 13:04Speaker 15: feel like I.
- 13:04Speaker 2: Miss out on a lot. So I get to catch
- 13:06Speaker 2: up on some things like that.
- 13:07Speaker 19: So you moving for some movement on a contract extat your.
- 13:10Speaker 15: Potentially Uh, I'm not speaking on anything dealing with that. Uh,
- 13:14Speaker 15: that's not in I just play ball and let my
- 13:17Speaker 15: agent and people upstairs do what they gonna Look.
- 13:20Speaker 20: Would you wanna to stay here?
- 13:21Speaker 15: Though I would love to be here, I wouldn't wanna
- 13:23Speaker 15: be nowhere else. I'd Sally was drafted here. I feel
- 13:25Speaker 15: I love this community. I love players in this locker room,
- 13:28Speaker 15: I love coaching staff, I love everything about this organization.
- 13:31Speaker 15: I fe like the trajectory that we're going and I
- 13:34Speaker 15: wanna be a part of it. So I I love
- 13:35Speaker 15: to be here forever.
- 13:36Speaker 18: Every single you talk about taking that next step, that
- 13:39Speaker 18: next trajectory, What does that look like in twenty twenty six?
- 13:42Speaker 2: Oh, man, I Skyt's a limit for me. Man.
- 13:44Speaker 15: I still feel like I have a long way to
- 13:46Speaker 15: go within my process. I actually, like I said, the
- 13:48Speaker 15: injury this year was the about the injuries for me
- 13:50Speaker 15: or just trying to overcome those things. But I feel
- 13:52Speaker 15: like I still I'm not sh I haven't even scratched
- 13:55Speaker 15: the surface of the potential that I know what I
- 13:57Speaker 15: can capable of playing, and that to consistency if Uh,
- 13:59Speaker 15: it's gonna be more so of a consistency thing for me,
- 14:03Speaker 15: uh at this point in my career and just wanted
- 14:05Speaker 15: to continue to grow, get one percent better every day. Uh,
- 14:08Speaker 15: but it's I'm my I'm not even scratched the service man.
- 14:11Speaker 15: It's it's no limit on the ceiling for me.
- 14:14Speaker 8: How wild was it to.
- 14:15Speaker 14: Be a part of this turnaround from last season to.
- 14:17Speaker 15: This season, Like, it's for sure, Yeah, just my process
- 14:20Speaker 15: of being here coming in. I obviously made the playoffs
- 14:22Speaker 15: my rookie year, but last two seasons it was kind
- 14:24Speaker 15: of a down year. But seeing the the growth of
- 14:26Speaker 15: this organization from I wouldn't even just say from a
- 14:29Speaker 15: wind a space. It's just more so about the camaraderie
- 14:31Speaker 15: within the building, the people in the building, connection, things
- 14:34Speaker 15: of that nature. It's it it's great to see that
- 14:37Speaker 15: that happening, and uh that that's the direction that you
- 14:39Speaker 15: wanna go. I feel like it's it's much needed. Like
- 14:41Speaker 15: I said earlier, it's it definitely set a new standard
- 14:44Speaker 15: card on you never.
- 14:44Speaker 17: Used the excuses the the injuries is your excuse, but
- 14:48Speaker 17: now can you tell us take us through how hampering
- 14:50Speaker 17: like that really was?
- 14:51Speaker 15: I still won't use it as an excuse cause, Uh, obviously,
- 14:53Speaker 15: if I'm out there on the field, regardless of if
- 14:55Speaker 15: I have on the cast or VERSTU or whatever it is,
- 14:57Speaker 15: I wanna be the best version of the me that
- 14:59Speaker 15: I can't be they.
- 15:00Speaker 2: Uh.
- 15:01Speaker 15: With with that being said, I wanna be the best
- 15:02Speaker 15: player in lead regardless of being injured or not. But uh,
- 15:05Speaker 15: it definitely took a toll on me. Obviously playing with
- 15:07Speaker 15: one hand, that's a deep defensive alignment. MM, It's hard
- 15:10Speaker 15: to do certain things, but uh, I definitely try to
- 15:14Speaker 15: do my best within what I could do with with
- 15:17Speaker 15: limited range of motion, things of that nature. But uh,
- 15:20Speaker 15: then as far as the me, uh, it's just it
- 15:22Speaker 15: is what it is. Man Like I said, it's a
- 15:24Speaker 15: hundred percent injury raiding in this game, and I just
- 15:26Speaker 15: wanna I wanna be there for my teammates regards of
- 15:29Speaker 15: injured herd or whatever.
- 15:30Speaker 16: Does it say a lot about you playing.
- 15:31Speaker 2: Through those Uh.
- 15:32Speaker 15: I feel like a lot of guys go out there
- 15:34Speaker 15: and play through injuries, but for me, a hundred percent, Uh,
- 15:36Speaker 15: I'm one of those guys. I'm not going back down til
- 15:38Speaker 15: I'm six feet underre and that's with me.
- 15:40Speaker 2: Being dead.
- 15:41Speaker 15: Uh, regardless of i'm'a go out there and lay it
- 15:43Speaker 15: all on the line whenever I can, Cause that's what
- 15:46Speaker 15: I pride myself for all longers. I'm able to wake up
- 15:48Speaker 15: with another opportunity at life, h then that that's all
- 15:52Speaker 15: I need to go be better at whatever it is, as
- 15:54Speaker 15: far as my rehab or whatever.
- 15:56Speaker 2: I just wanna be better.
- 15:57Speaker 10: Oh interested, are you to see what your market is
- 15:59Speaker 10: if it comes to that?
- 16:01Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you know, these are all questions.
- 16:03Speaker 21: It's like I'm still trying to process, you know, just
- 16:06Speaker 21: everything that's happened.
- 16:07Speaker 2: Right now with this team.
- 16:08Speaker 21: And yeah, I mean if I wasn't expecting for us
- 16:13Speaker 21: to be done playing right now, so I'm not really
- 16:16Speaker 21: thinking about it right now.
- 16:18Speaker 14: We let this one linger.
- 16:20Speaker 13: I know, twenty twenty two you guys went further and
- 16:22Speaker 13: it probably hurt.
- 16:23Speaker 9: But does this one hurt more?
- 16:24Speaker 18: Does it linger more?
- 16:25Speaker 11: Does the twenty four hour rule live up to it?
- 16:28Speaker 2: Yeah?
- 16:28Speaker 21: I mean this one it was almost surprising in a sense,
- 16:34Speaker 21: like I I mean, I'm honest, like I wasn't really
- 16:37Speaker 21: expecting to be done playing right now, so I'm still
- 16:41Speaker 21: trying to comprehend it. I think there's a level of like,
- 16:45Speaker 21: you know, just disappointment in the fact that you know,
- 16:48Speaker 21: we couldn't close the game out and now you look
- 16:50Speaker 21: around and everybody's packing the locker and it all just
- 16:53Speaker 21: happens so fast. So yeah, I mean it's gonna linger,
- 16:57Speaker 21: especially knowing that we don't have another week to you know,
- 17:00Speaker 21: make it right. But at the same time, you know,
- 17:02Speaker 21: you gotta get over it and get your body right
- 17:05Speaker 21: and you know, just look back on all the good
- 17:07Speaker 21: things that we did this year.
- 17:09Speaker 4: What's next for you personally.
- 17:11Speaker 10: And off season?
- 17:13Speaker 21: Yeah, just get the body right, see what the future holds.
- 17:17Speaker 21: I'm definitely I'm gonna, you know, take some trips and
- 17:21Speaker 21: ultimately get back into my routine. You're back, stronger, faster, smarter,
- 17:27Speaker 21: same off season grind, but definitely gonna take a little
- 17:30Speaker 21: time off quickly.
- 17:31Speaker 3: Future to be here? Would you like the future.
- 17:34Speaker 1: To be here?
- 17:35Speaker 21: I just want to be where God wants me to
- 17:36Speaker 21: be at the end of the day. That's that's where
- 17:38Speaker 21: I want to be. And I'm waiting on that answer
- 17:41Speaker 21: from him. Like I said, I haven't put any thought
- 17:43Speaker 21: into it. Everything's been you know, about trying to be
- 17:47Speaker 21: the best player I can be for this team. This
- 17:48Speaker 21: year and ultimately, you know, I want to be where
- 17:51Speaker 21: God wants me to be.
- 17:52Speaker 10: How quickly could you tell that what Camp runs fit you?
- 17:56Speaker 2: Hm?
- 17:56Speaker 10: How quickly could you tell Camp nearly Ski fit your strengths?
- 18:01Speaker 21: You based on just how the whole scheme works together,
- 18:07Speaker 21: that you can tell, I mean from a a linebackers perspective, Yeah,
- 18:10Speaker 21: you you.
- 18:11Speaker 2: Like, you know what he's asking the lbs to do.
- 18:14Speaker 21: You know, just the play style, the aggressive nature, the
- 18:18Speaker 21: way he coaches it as well as far as just
- 18:20Speaker 21: the aggressive nature of striking blocks and you know, winning
- 18:24Speaker 21: one on one when.
- 18:25Speaker 2: You get your opportunities.
- 18:26Speaker 21: So yeah, that that definitely plays a lot into to
- 18:29Speaker 21: my strengths.
- 18:31Speaker 4: This team has been through a lot since you've been here.
- 18:33Speaker 4: Can you just reflect on the last four years around here?
- 18:36Speaker 21: It's been a journey that as his team and obviously
- 18:40Speaker 21: myself everything that I've been through.
- 18:44Speaker 2: It's it.
- 18:45Speaker 21: It's been a journey. That's That's the best way to
- 18:48Speaker 21: say it. But I'm ultimately just just so proud of
- 18:51Speaker 21: all the strides that everyone is taken even to get
- 18:55Speaker 21: to this point. Uh even not year this year, But
- 18:57Speaker 21: then you think about my rookiear too, finding a way
- 19:00Speaker 21: to to close out the UH division and win the
- 19:03Speaker 21: South and next year, you know, not capturing the the
- 19:07Speaker 21: vis the division by one game, coming down the last game.
- 19:11Speaker 21: It's just been a journey that I've been super grateful to.
- 19:15Speaker 2: Be a part of. And yeah, I mean, I'm just,
- 19:19Speaker 2: you know, so proud of everybody.
- 19:21Speaker 10: If you are back every year, you start over with
- 19:24Speaker 10: a new team. Not all these guys got ken. Willmentum
- 19:27Speaker 10: carry from season to season?
- 19:29Speaker 2: Ah, I believe so.
- 19:30Speaker 21: I think that momentum should be carried in the off season,
- 19:33Speaker 21: and off season carries the momentum into the regular season.
- 19:37Speaker 21: So yeah, everybody needs to take time to to just
- 19:41Speaker 21: get away from the game and you know, spend that
- 19:44Speaker 21: time with their families, their loved ones. But ultimately that
- 19:47Speaker 21: momentum they're talking about kicks back up. Uh really in
- 19:50Speaker 21: the next month or so, whenever people begin working out again.
- 19:54Speaker 2: That's when that momentum starts to carry.
- 19:56Speaker 10: We watch the rest of the games, or is it
- 19:58Speaker 10: once you're out you're out?
- 20:00Speaker 21: Oh yeah, I'm a football fan. You know, I love
- 20:02Speaker 21: the game, so I'm definitely gonna be tuned in. Couldn't
- 20:06Speaker 21: watch games last night just cause you're so devastated. I
- 20:08Speaker 21: was probably probably one of the only times I really
- 20:10Speaker 21: didn't watch football, especially playoff football. Good football. But yeah,
- 20:15Speaker 21: I'm definitely gonna be tuned in m give us.
- 20:17Speaker 4: An overall view of just the turnaround in this organization
- 20:21Speaker 4: in a year's time. It's gotta be rewarding to be
- 20:23Speaker 4: part of this group.
- 20:24Speaker 9: Right, Yeah, it was definitely a good feeling to uh
- 20:28Speaker 9: get a lot more wins this year, uh get back
- 20:30Speaker 9: in the playoffs. Just I'm really proud of the group,
- 20:34Speaker 9: the the guys on the team just uh s really
- 20:37Speaker 9: a lot of the same guys obviously have some guys different,
- 20:39Speaker 9: but just understanding that talent has been there. Just using
- 20:42Speaker 9: it right and having the right compidence in ourselves and
- 20:45Speaker 9: attacking games the right way week and week out, we'll
- 20:47Speaker 9: we'll get us where we wanna go. So just keep
- 20:49Speaker 9: growing and building. But it's all possible with the people
- 20:52Speaker 9: that we had in the room.
- 20:53Speaker 4: Where did you grow the most as a player this year?
- 20:56Speaker 4: Are you you know at the stage in your career
- 20:58Speaker 4: where it's uh gonna be the same.
- 21:01Speaker 9: It never the same, uh year in year out. You
- 21:03Speaker 9: gotta understand who you are as a player. Uh, athleticism, mindset,
- 21:09Speaker 9: what you've seen already, you know, kind of you're always
- 21:12Speaker 9: stacking uh plays from what happened to your previous years,
- 21:14Speaker 9: always learning and growing in the game. I think that's
- 21:17Speaker 9: kind of where my mind of taking a step is.
- 21:20Speaker 9: Understanding offense is a little bit better and stuff, Understanding
- 21:24Speaker 9: this scheme's a little bit better. I understood the chess
- 21:26Speaker 9: match of football a lot better this year, and as
- 21:28Speaker 9: you get older, I think that's that's what t gonna
- 21:30Speaker 9: have to happen so in order to keep being in
- 21:32Speaker 9: the right spots play and play out. So I'm happy
- 21:35Speaker 9: with what I did and I was able to trust
- 21:37Speaker 9: my teammates and keep building relationships. I think that was
- 21:39Speaker 9: a great thing that happened in the locker room this year,
- 21:42Speaker 9: just how close we got, and that's kind of what
- 21:44Speaker 9: was needed to have the year that we had.
- 21:46Speaker 10: What did coach Camp and his style kind of make
- 21:48Speaker 10: team this year?
- 21:49Speaker 9: I just like his attacking mindset and uh, really just
- 21:53Speaker 9: be dominat your one eleven, then it'll do great for
- 21:55Speaker 9: everybody on the team. So everybody had their role within
- 21:58Speaker 9: the defense, and once you understood it and stood the
- 22:01Speaker 9: different plays eight through at you your role, how it
- 22:04Speaker 9: affect the next person that's how you saw everybody eat.
- 22:06Speaker 2: So I was very happy to just kind of be
- 22:08Speaker 2: a part of a team defense.
- 22:09Speaker 19: Occasionally, when there's a regime change, it sometimes takes a
- 22:12Speaker 19: while for like the culture to get set.
- 22:14Speaker 6: And everything like that.
- 22:15Speaker 19: But that kind of happened pretty quickly for your this year.
- 22:17Speaker 19: So how does that impact next year? Is that give
- 22:19Speaker 19: you guys a head start for next year?
- 22:21Speaker 6: You think it?
- 22:22Speaker 2: Really?
- 22:24Speaker 9: I think every year you're gonna have it could be
- 22:26Speaker 9: like the same overarching culture, but like the little nuances
- 22:29Speaker 9: within it. So I think it's all about the players,
- 22:31Speaker 9: is what I kind of learned. Like, I think when
- 22:33Speaker 9: the players kind of bought into each other, that's when
- 22:35Speaker 9: you saw the culture start to be established here. Obviously,
- 22:38Speaker 9: the coach has his personality that will affect the whole team,
- 22:41Speaker 9: and I love the coach's personality here, always trying to
- 22:44Speaker 9: prove something and attacking UH from Coach Cohen and UH
- 22:47Speaker 9: coach Camp. But really s the players really taking it
- 22:50Speaker 9: upon themselves to play for one another and bring that
- 22:53Speaker 9: to the field every game, every practice. Even UH that
- 22:56Speaker 9: was like when we got really close to the team,
- 22:57Speaker 9: that's when we took off.
- 22:59Speaker 10: You guys try to.
- 23:00Speaker 11: Live by the twenty four hour rules still or does
- 23:02Speaker 11: this one linger a little bit longer?
- 23:03Speaker 9: Yeah, that's a last game I have for this season,
- 23:05Speaker 9: So that's gonna linger, but it'll propel me in the
- 23:08Speaker 9: off season.
- 23:08Speaker 6: Uh, knowing that you know, we are good.
- 23:11Speaker 9: We were a great team, good team, but we weren't
- 23:13Speaker 9: good enough, you know what I'm saying. So I wanna
- 23:15Speaker 9: get better and better every year I play. And if
- 23:18Speaker 9: I'm not getting better, I'm probably gonna get out of here.
- 23:19Speaker 9: So Uh, I wanna get better for the team, uh,
- 23:22Speaker 9: better for myself in order to keep doing what I
- 23:25Speaker 9: wanna do.
- 23:25Speaker 8: How what is the.
- 23:26Speaker 14: Feeling around this team at the end of this season
- 23:28Speaker 14: kind of compared to the lost couple of seasons?
- 23:33Speaker 9: The first season we had maybe a little similar. We
- 23:36Speaker 9: were just, you know, happy to be in this situation.
- 23:40Speaker 9: Obviously we wade it a little bit farther, but it
- 23:43Speaker 9: was sad. Then the next year we missed it. Next
- 23:44Speaker 9: year we got our our bad, bad year. Uh and everybody,
- 23:48Speaker 9: I mean, I remember sitting down here very very sad
- 23:51Speaker 9: last year, just knowing a lot of things were about
- 23:52Speaker 9: to change up.
- 23:53Speaker 2: Uh.
- 23:53Speaker 9: So this year, I guess we're very pleased at what
- 23:56Speaker 9: we're capable of, and obviously we proved what we're capable of,
- 23:59Speaker 9: but we know there's feel more or less to be done.
- 24:01Speaker 9: So everybody's kind of ready to work towards that. You know,
- 24:06Speaker 9: we know we're upper echelne in in the league, but
- 24:08Speaker 9: we gotta prove that weekend, week out starting this off
- 24:11Speaker 9: season because it's not gonna be given to us. Uh,
- 24:13Speaker 9: we gotta go take everything. How we do this year,
- 24:15Speaker 9: we gotta go prove it again.
- 24:17Speaker 8: What does it?
- 24:18Speaker 19: What does this off season look like for you?
- 24:20Speaker 9: Uh? I don't even know, so i'm'a find out. That's
- 24:23Speaker 9: that's all you'll get to know what's the But I'll
- 24:26Speaker 9: g I'll be getting better though, sorry to answer it.
- 24:28Speaker 2: Answer, I'll be getting better.
- 24:29Speaker 16: L what's the biggest sign to your wife you guys
- 24:32Speaker 16: started here is sustainable, not just next year.
- 24:34Speaker 3: Before one more time.
- 24:36Speaker 16: What's the biggest sign to you that what you guys
- 24:38Speaker 16: have established here is sustainable, not just for twenty twenty six.
- 24:42Speaker 9: But long time ago year In this book, I don't
- 24:45Speaker 9: really live in the long term. I live in and
- 24:46Speaker 9: then now I don't really know how to answer your question,
- 24:49Speaker 9: cause I think next year is gonna have a new
- 24:51Speaker 9: way to attack it and become the team that we
- 24:53Speaker 9: wanna be.
- 24:55Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 24:55Speaker 9: So when I yeah, when next year happens, you know
- 24:58Speaker 9: we're gonna have, uh a new set of challenges or
- 25:02Speaker 9: whatever that we're gonna have to meet and uh push through.
- 25:05Speaker 9: But it's gonna build us and get us better and
- 25:06Speaker 9: better as the year goes on. But we know, I
- 25:08Speaker 9: just from this year, we know when we do play
- 25:11Speaker 9: how we're supposed to play well, we're very capable of.
- 25:13Speaker 9: So I think that's the kind of confidence you you
- 25:15Speaker 9: should attack the off season with. But know what it
- 25:17Speaker 9: takes to actually get to this moment.
- 25:18Speaker 8: A block like that more fun for your big highlight catch,
- 25:21Speaker 8: a block like up, Yeah.
- 25:22Speaker 2: For sure. Uh that's what I'm That's what I'm here for.
- 25:25Speaker 10: That's a veteran not to There's gonna be new players
- 25:28Speaker 10: coming in next year, but it's core. Guys. Can you
- 25:31Speaker 10: carry over this success into next year?
- 25:34Speaker 2: I mean, I hope so if not, If you can't,
- 25:36Speaker 2: then what you doing it for?
- 25:37Speaker 21: You know what I mean?
- 25:37Speaker 18: Like, I'm I'm hoping we definitely can and be better
- 25:40Speaker 18: than what we were this year, because I think a lot
- 25:43Speaker 18: of the mistakes we made this year, we're self inflicted,
- 25:45Speaker 18: you know what I mean. So it's a lot of
- 25:46Speaker 18: opportunity for us to just address ourselves and grow from that,
- 25:49Speaker 18: and then we'll worry about the rest of it when
- 25:50Speaker 18: we get there.
- 25:51Speaker 17: He touched on bonding with Liam a little bit, getting
- 25:54Speaker 17: to know in personally. What can that help, How can
- 25:55Speaker 17: that help translate maybe onto the field.
- 25:58Speaker 18: I mean, I think communication helps everything at the end
- 26:00Speaker 18: of the day. So if he's able to understand where
- 26:02Speaker 18: I'm coming from, and I'm able to understand how he
- 26:04Speaker 18: wants certain things done and why he wants certain things done,
- 26:06Speaker 18: I feel like it helped me get it done better.
- 26:08Speaker 3: Where can sixteen?
- 26:11Speaker 18: Honestly, I may use he tall, he fast, he did,
- 26:14Speaker 18: he could throw I really, it's up to him.
- 26:17Speaker 2: He can go where you wanna go. Truthfully, Hey, we.
- 26:20Speaker 4: Got a whole bunch of with how challenging for you
- 26:23Speaker 4: was this season overall? Just starting where you did, getting traded,
- 26:27Speaker 4: new offense, playoff.
- 26:28Speaker 18: Run, m It's a lot in one year, right, I mean, yeah,
- 26:31Speaker 18: change is stuff, especially changed from coast to coast, you
- 26:34Speaker 18: know what I mean? That Alan was tough, but it
- 26:38Speaker 18: was worth it at the end of the day. Like
- 26:39Speaker 18: I enjoyed every bit of it. It was a great experience.
- 26:42Speaker 2: I'll do it again.
- 26:43Speaker 18: Hopefully I don't have to do it again, but like
- 26:45Speaker 18: I would come back here again, that opportunity.
- 26:47Speaker 2: To present it is tough again. So it was great
- 26:48Speaker 2: for sure.
- 26:49Speaker 6: Season ends is probably earlier than your hope.
- 26:51Speaker 13: But is there Are you at a point where you
- 26:52Speaker 13: can say this was a a fun season overall?
- 26:55Speaker 20: Oh yeah, it was a It was an awesome season
- 26:57Speaker 20: as far as fun, just six experience with this team
- 27:00Speaker 20: coming together. Obviously, how it changed throughout the season, the growth,
- 27:05Speaker 20: the steps that we took as a team, individual players,
- 27:08Speaker 20: the success stories of guys just stepping up in big moments.
- 27:11Speaker 20: I mean, there were so many good things, so many
- 27:13Speaker 20: positive things to look at. Obviously, we left a lot
- 27:15Speaker 20: out there at the end of it, and we you know,
- 27:17Speaker 20: we feel like we had a real shot if we
- 27:19Speaker 20: could have kept playing and found a way to win yesterday.
- 27:21Speaker 20: And that's just like I said that post game, it's life,
- 27:24Speaker 20: and unfortunately you put a lot of time and work
- 27:27Speaker 20: into it and you don't always get the result that
- 27:29Speaker 20: you want. So you got to look at the things
- 27:32Speaker 20: that you can do better and improve on. But we
- 27:33Speaker 20: made a lot of improvements this year. We grew a lot.
- 27:36Speaker 20: I know personally, took a lot of steps. I'm thankful
- 27:38Speaker 20: for the staff, all these players that I played with.
- 27:41Speaker 20: That it takes a lot to have the success that
- 27:43Speaker 20: we had, and I know there should have been more
- 27:45Speaker 20: for us, but still to get to where we got,
- 27:46Speaker 20: you know, a lot of work goes into it, so we.
- 27:48Speaker 2: Don't want to overlook that.
- 27:49Speaker 20: And because it's been whatever, it was seven eight months
- 27:52Speaker 20: of straight work.
- 27:53Speaker 2: So thankful for this group.
- 27:55Speaker 6: The environment at the bank yesterday, I mean packed house.
- 27:57Speaker 2: You thought about that.
- 27:58Speaker 18: It's not gonna look like that next year, sures about half.
- 28:03Speaker 20: Yeah, you know I thought about that, I guess today
- 28:05Speaker 20: and I hadn't thought about it beforehand. And thankful for
- 28:08Speaker 20: our fans in our city. I mean, it just shows
- 28:11Speaker 20: how great our community is, and especially when when we're
- 28:13Speaker 20: playing well and giving them something to be proud of
- 28:16Speaker 20: on the on the field, and the way they show
- 28:17Speaker 20: up for us and the home field advantage yesterday was
- 28:20Speaker 20: was really cool. I mean, the fans showed up, they
- 28:22Speaker 20: were allowed and yeah, it's gonna look a little bit
- 28:24Speaker 20: different moving forward, but you know we still need that
- 28:27Speaker 20: same support and so I would just encourage the fans
- 28:29Speaker 20: to keep doing what they do and showing up for us,
- 28:32Speaker 20: because you know it means a lot to us, and
- 28:33Speaker 20: we're going to continue to work and put something out
- 28:36Speaker 20: there that you.
- 28:36Speaker 2: Guys are proud of yesday.
- 28:38Speaker 17: There's no guarantee that next year is going to be
- 28:40Speaker 17: as good or the same, But what gives you confidence
- 28:43Speaker 17: that there's there'll be a lot of carryover and you'll
- 28:46Speaker 17: be able to pick up kind.
- 28:47Speaker 16: Of where you left off.
- 28:48Speaker 20: Yeah, I think you just look at the improvements that
- 28:50Speaker 20: we made over the course of the season, really as
- 28:53Speaker 20: a team, playing together, but especially offensively. Look at where
- 28:56Speaker 20: we were week one all the way till till now.
- 29:00Speaker 20: I mean, we've improved drastically in a lot of different areas,
- 29:04Speaker 20: and I think that's a r you know, product of
- 29:06Speaker 20: the work we put in and learning the system more
- 29:09Speaker 20: and guys get more comfortable, and so you know that's
- 29:11Speaker 20: gonna carry over and that's gonna happen. But we st
- 29:13Speaker 20: My comment was more, but you gotta put the work in.
- 29:15Speaker 20: You gotta earn it. You can't just expect this to
- 29:18Speaker 20: happen every year. There's a lot of work that goes
- 29:20Speaker 20: into this. It takes a lot to get here, and
- 29:23Speaker 20: obviously it takes even that much more to to continue
- 29:25Speaker 20: to play and and to go, you know, one day
- 29:28Speaker 20: whin a super Bowl. So we know we have to
- 29:30Speaker 20: do We know the work that it's gonna take to
- 29:31Speaker 20: get back to this point. And that's I guess more
- 29:34Speaker 20: of my point is, it's not just something that's gonna happen,
- 29:37Speaker 20: you know, just because we did it this year. So
- 29:40Speaker 20: uh but yeah, I have a lot of confidence than this.
- 29:42Speaker 20: Like I said, this staff, these players, that we're gonna
- 29:44Speaker 20: put the work in that we're gonna make those improvements
- 29:46Speaker 20: and we're gonna continue.
- 29:46Speaker 17: To grow travels for a long time.
- 29:49Speaker 10: Now he goes into free Agency's people to come back.
- 29:52Speaker 10: What kind of next step could he take in this offense?
- 29:55Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean he's had Travis had an awesome year.
- 29:58Speaker 20: You know, I'm really excited for him just as an
- 30:01Speaker 20: individual of what he was able to accomplish. And obviously
- 30:04Speaker 20: it takes a lot of people to make that go.
- 30:06Speaker 20: But just the year he had, the work he put it.
- 30:07Speaker 20: He put a lot of work in this offseason learning
- 30:09Speaker 20: the system, took a bunch of big steps and pass
- 30:11Speaker 20: protection and obviously just his vision the way he ran.
- 30:14Speaker 20: He was great all year, so obviously, you know, I
- 30:18Speaker 20: hope he's back. That's one of my guys that've been
- 30:19Speaker 20: with him for eight years, so it's gonna be a
- 30:22Speaker 20: little bit different if he's not. I know that he's
- 30:23Speaker 20: earned every opportunity's gonna get he's earned, and he's played
- 30:27Speaker 20: really well and he's been a great player here and
- 30:29Speaker 20: I'm hoping that he's still here. But I also understand
- 30:31Speaker 20: that this business is funny sometimes, so you can never know,
- 30:35Speaker 20: and it's never my business to get into all that.
- 30:37Speaker 20: But you know, I really hope he's back, and he's
- 30:39Speaker 20: a He's a great guy for one and works his
- 30:42Speaker 20: tail off, and he's earned everything that's gonna.
- 30:43Speaker 16: Get the next step for you in this offense, what
- 30:46Speaker 16: do you want to do better or where do you
- 30:49Speaker 16: want to be better in the offense?
- 30:51Speaker 20: Yeah, I mean, I think that's gonna be a reflection
- 30:55Speaker 20: point just to this offseason and go back and watch
- 30:56Speaker 20: him tape and see, you know, there's a bunch of
- 31:00Speaker 20: steps that I took in the right direction of the season.
- 31:02Speaker 20: I think the consistency, accuracy, you know, pocket movements, i'd say,
- 31:09Speaker 20: extended plays, some of those things there's some improvements that
- 31:11Speaker 20: I wanted to make and I did, and I think
- 31:14Speaker 20: that it's all those things, just continuing to refine them and.
- 31:17Speaker 2: Get better and better. Footwork in the pocket more consistent.
- 31:19Speaker 20: I think as the season went on, a couple of
- 31:21Speaker 20: things maybe got a little sloppy, some of the footwork
- 31:23Speaker 20: in the pocket. Continue to improve, accuracy, different arm angles.
- 31:28Speaker 20: Just continuing to give guys a chance to get the
- 31:30Speaker 20: ball as soon as possible in space so they can
- 31:32Speaker 20: go make plays. Can you know, taking some more completions
- 31:36Speaker 20: underneath earlier in games and different things, you know, but
- 31:39Speaker 20: I got to watch it all and see what those
- 31:41Speaker 20: exact things are. I don't want to just you know,
- 31:43Speaker 20: say the first things that come to mind right now.
- 31:45Speaker 20: But I know there's a lot of improvements that I
- 31:46Speaker 20: can still make, and I know we're heading in the
- 31:48Speaker 20: right direction. But I kind of continue to put the
- 31:49Speaker 20: work on.
- 31:51Speaker 16: For you.
- 31:52Speaker 19: I mean, last few other questions were about your health
- 31:54Speaker 19: and machine all the way through no issues that we
- 31:57Speaker 19: know of anyway, So I mean that's a major step, right.
- 32:01Speaker 20: Uh Yeah, it's it feels good, you know. Obviously, like
- 32:04Speaker 20: you said, it's injuries have been have been a thing
- 32:07Speaker 20: the last couple of years and have been tough. So
- 32:10Speaker 20: I think just being healthy throughout the season, being able
- 32:12Speaker 20: to build on that week after week and have the
- 32:14Speaker 20: continuity of our group. And there's always stuff guys are
- 32:17Speaker 20: fighting through, So I'm just thankful for the group. Guys
- 32:19Speaker 20: are battling through a lot in a season that a
- 32:21Speaker 20: lot of people don't know about, so a lot of
- 32:22Speaker 20: guys stepped up. But yeah, I'm thankful for my health.
- 32:25Speaker 20: And you know, obviously our guys up fronted an awesome
- 32:28Speaker 20: job protecting all year and couldn't ask more out of them,
- 32:30Speaker 20: so just got to containue to build off of it.
- 32:32Speaker 20: But ye, it'll be nice going into off season, you know,
- 32:34Speaker 20: pretty healthy for the most part.
- 32:35Speaker 4: Hey, can you tell us how your relationship with Liam
- 32:38Speaker 4: morph Does the year went along or or did it?
- 32:41Speaker 4: How did it grow as with or was it there's
- 32:43Speaker 4: that widely known meaning about letting it rip? Was that
- 32:46Speaker 4: a turning point or give us an overview of that relationship.
- 32:50Speaker 20: Yeah, it's It's been an awesome year of just us
- 32:53Speaker 20: growing together, you know, learning more, obviously getting closer in
- 32:56Speaker 20: our relationship and just having a lot of open, honest
- 32:59Speaker 20: conversations after games before games, we talk a lot, you know,
- 33:03Speaker 20: Friday Saturday before the game about the game plan and
- 33:05Speaker 20: going into it. And then post game we'd go up there.
- 33:07Speaker 20: Early in the season when it felt like our offense
- 33:09Speaker 20: wasn't clicking and or maybe I didn't play my best
- 33:11Speaker 20: one game, we would talk a lot and just have
- 33:14Speaker 20: those open, honest conversations. I'd tell him like something I'm
- 33:17Speaker 20: not seeing maybe the same or you know, if I'm
- 33:20Speaker 20: struggling in one area, I'm kind of explaining why, and
- 33:23Speaker 20: he's giving me feedback. And he just gave me all
- 33:25Speaker 20: the confidence to you to know that he had my back,
- 33:28Speaker 20: And I think that's like one of the best things
- 33:29Speaker 20: as the quarterback, to know that the people around you
- 33:31Speaker 20: believe in you. I got your back, and he just
- 33:34Speaker 20: gave me that freedom, just cut it loose, and I
- 33:36Speaker 20: think that's a big part of, you know, why the
- 33:39Speaker 20: improvements came. But it's also just an accumulation of all
- 33:42Speaker 20: the reps and everything coming to fruition of just time
- 33:45Speaker 20: on task, all the work that's put in. It kind
- 33:47Speaker 20: of comes together all at the same time and you
- 33:50Speaker 20: see the improvements.
- 33:51Speaker 2: And it's our whole offense, though it's not just me.
- 33:53Speaker 20: So I think that confidence from him and from our
- 33:55Speaker 20: staff really goes.
- 33:56Speaker 2: A long way. He touched on it a little bit earlier.
- 33:58Speaker 9: But obviously you guys have had a lot of fans
- 34:01Speaker 9: support this season.
- 34:01Speaker 17: Could you kind of reflect on that and kind of
- 34:04Speaker 17: like what your message in would be to fans for
- 34:06Speaker 17: the next few seasons.
- 34:07Speaker 20: Just thank you guys for showing up and showing out
- 34:09Speaker 20: for us. Obviously it was uh, you know, it was
- 34:12Speaker 20: a fun year and we were able to win a
- 34:13Speaker 20: lot of games and unfortunately didn't win as many in
- 34:16Speaker 20: the in the playoffs as we wanted to. But to
- 34:18Speaker 20: have your guys support and have that home field advantage
- 34:21Speaker 20: when when it comes to the end of the season
- 34:23Speaker 20: for these big games to win the division against Tennessee
- 34:26Speaker 20: or this first game against Buffalo, I mean, it really
- 34:28Speaker 20: really makes it difference. So I thank you to all
- 34:31Speaker 20: the fans. I know you guys are invested in this
- 34:34Speaker 20: and care a lot about it, and we just want
- 34:36Speaker 20: to do our best for you guys and for our
- 34:38Speaker 20: city and good days arehead.
- 34:40Speaker 17: I know during the regular teason, you guys live by
- 34:42Speaker 17: this twenty four hour rule.
- 34:43Speaker 10: We got further in twenty twenty two.
- 34:45Speaker 6: Is this one hurt a little bit more.
- 34:46Speaker 8: Do you let this one.
- 34:47Speaker 14: Linger a little bit or what's you know at your
- 34:50Speaker 14: after most game reaction to that.
- 34:52Speaker 20: Yeah, these usually last a little longer than twenty four hours.
- 34:55Speaker 20: When the season's over. I mean it's it's uh yeah,
- 34:58Speaker 20: it's it's really disappoint and you know, I think you
- 35:01Speaker 20: look at our team and I had all the confidence
- 35:03Speaker 20: that you know, no plans by anyone were being made
- 35:07Speaker 20: about our off season because we all thought we were gonna
- 35:09Speaker 20: keep playing. I mean, no one's making any plans tell
- 35:11Speaker 20: after the super Bowl. And that's just the confidence that
- 35:12Speaker 20: we had that we're gonna keep playing. We can beat anybody.
- 35:15Speaker 20: And unfortunately, we just didn't make quite enough plays on Sunday.
- 35:18Speaker 20: And Buffalo's really good team and they did so you
- 35:21Speaker 20: can't take anything away from them. Credit goes to them.
- 35:24Speaker 20: You know, we got to make the adjustments and the
- 35:27Speaker 20: corrections and improve so that when we're back in that position,
- 35:30Speaker 20: you know, we find a way to win the game
- 35:32Speaker 20: at the end. So, uh yeah, it stings.
- 35:34Speaker 6: It hurts.
- 35:34Speaker 2: You put so much work in and then all of
- 35:36Speaker 2: a sudden it's it's over.
- 35:37Speaker 20: You know, this is our spent our life for I
- 35:40Speaker 20: mean for me, for I mean basically a year straight
- 35:42Speaker 20: after my surgery, just rehabbing to get back, all the
- 35:45Speaker 20: time spent with the coaches, the guys in the off season,
- 35:47Speaker 20: and then obviously all season and training camp. I mean
- 35:49Speaker 20: it's it's your life, every every day, and our families
- 35:52Speaker 20: sacrifice a lot and we're grateful to do it. It's
- 35:54Speaker 20: not I'm not complaining in one bit. I mean it's
- 35:56Speaker 20: a it's a privilege. But when it ends, it's just
- 35:59Speaker 20: it's so sudden. It's kind of hard to describe the feeling.
- 36:02Speaker 20: So uh it hurts, its stings. It's not for al,
- 36:05Speaker 20: it's not for a lot. It's not because of a
- 36:06Speaker 20: lack of effort.
- 36:07Speaker 2: Though.
- 36:07Speaker 20: Then these guys, I mean, we worked our ass off
- 36:09Speaker 20: all year and like I said, sometimes it doesn't go
- 36:12Speaker 20: exactly the way you want it to, and uh, you
- 36:14Speaker 20: gotta find out why and trying to make those improvements.
- 36:16Speaker 4: Three coaches, two playoff runs, foot injury, rookie year. Just
- 36:20Speaker 4: kind of reflect back on what this has been like
- 36:22Speaker 4: for five years here.
- 36:24Speaker 3: I feel like I just inflected on my journey.
- 36:25Speaker 2: Man.
- 36:26Speaker 11: H honestly, just been an amazing journey. I just like
- 36:29Speaker 11: from when I started to where I came. I felt
- 36:30Speaker 11: like this season was just a reflection of like how
- 36:33Speaker 11: my five years here have been just uh, just all
- 36:35Speaker 11: the expectations I had for myself and everything like that,
- 36:38Speaker 11: and uh having that foot injury in my first year
- 36:40Speaker 11: and not been able to to do the things I
- 36:42Speaker 11: wanted as a rookie.
- 36:43Speaker 2: You know.
- 36:43Speaker 11: Uh, And I old it, tell anybody, I would have
- 36:46Speaker 11: been Rookie of the Year and those things like that,
- 36:47Speaker 11: and it didn't go my way.
- 36:48Speaker 3: But I feel like God always.
- 36:49Speaker 11: Like he has other plans for you, and sometimes you know,
- 36:52Speaker 11: things just happened, like, uh, we win that game yesterday
- 36:55Speaker 11: and I think we were gonna lose, and I.
- 36:56Speaker 3: It just wasn't out of time.
- 36:58Speaker 11: But I feel like we we're not sad because we lost,
- 37:02Speaker 11: but we said because all the work that we put
- 37:03Speaker 11: into it, and I think that we did to get
- 37:05Speaker 11: to that moment, you know. But I'm just grateful, like
- 37:08Speaker 11: to say, my five years to say at least just
- 37:10Speaker 11: to be a part of a standard that has been
- 37:12Speaker 11: set here. I feel like, uh, no, we did those
- 37:15Speaker 11: five years or whatever I didn't, those five years can't
- 37:17Speaker 11: be taken away, Like it's a standard that's set and uh,
- 37:19Speaker 11: just for the guys to go be here in the
- 37:20Speaker 11: future like they have something to follow now. So I'm
- 37:23Speaker 11: just proud of that and uh grateful that I was
- 37:25Speaker 11: able to be a part of that journey.
- 37:26Speaker 10: Oh quickly when you shifting to the business side and
- 37:29Speaker 10: what your future may.
- 37:30Speaker 3: Hold, uh, I mean honestly, uh not quickly.
- 37:34Speaker 11: I I think that's why we hire our agents while
- 37:36Speaker 11: we hire those people because I feel like, as a human,
- 37:39Speaker 11: it's why I take your emotion and emotional the emotional
- 37:42Speaker 11: side out of it.
- 37:43Speaker 3: Uh, just like you. Uh, I invested five years into this.
- 37:45Speaker 11: Like when I got drafted, I thought, I I think
- 37:49Speaker 11: any plantings, you gonna retire with the team that get
- 37:52Speaker 11: drafted to. You know, you never think about the business
- 37:54Speaker 11: side of the the game.
- 37:55Speaker 3: I think that's why we have.
- 37:56Speaker 11: Those people, uh who to think about those things for
- 37:58Speaker 11: us because as humans, but we can act out emotions
- 38:01Speaker 11: and that would really be great for my finances or
- 38:03Speaker 11: my family and the things that I need in my life.
- 38:05Speaker 11: So uh, I feel like for me, it's gonna take
- 38:07Speaker 11: me at a while to get past it, but I'm
- 38:09Speaker 11: pretty sure my agent to hit me with some of thecourage,
- 38:12Speaker 11: your words or something just help me move forward and uh,
- 38:15Speaker 11: you talk to my family just being around them and
- 38:18Speaker 11: you know, just see what these tastes. I've never been
- 38:20Speaker 11: a part of this process, but just gotta go through it.
- 38:23Speaker 8: What would be the goal?
- 38:24Speaker 19: Who you like, would.
- 38:25Speaker 18: You want to stay here?
- 38:27Speaker 6: H for sure?
- 38:27Speaker 3: I feel like most definitely.
- 38:29Speaker 11: I feel like when I got dropted, I wanted to
- 38:30Speaker 11: be one of the best running backs to ever you know,
- 38:33Speaker 11: put in a jersey.
- 38:34Speaker 3: I want to be remember with like.
- 38:35Speaker 11: The guys, uh Fred Taylor, Murray's Jones, ju you know
- 38:40Speaker 11: you had Leonard from that just guys who have been here,
- 38:42Speaker 11: like you want to set that standard.
- 38:43Speaker 2: You want to live a legacy.
- 38:45Speaker 3: I feel like I was able to do that at Clemson.
- 38:47Speaker 11: Now, that's why I went there, to create a legacy,
- 38:49Speaker 11: to leave a legacy, and I felt you got people
- 38:51Speaker 11: to come and follow that now and obviously you won't
- 38:53Speaker 11: do it in the NFL. But it's just a different
- 38:56Speaker 11: It's just different. It's not college, just different of how
- 38:59Speaker 11: everything works. And that's the business side of it and
- 39:01Speaker 11: the aspects and things that go into it that you
- 39:04Speaker 11: don't I might not ever understand, but it's not for
- 39:06Speaker 11: me to understand. So I kind of just stopped trying to,
- 39:08Speaker 11: uh figure those things out and just focus on what
- 39:11Speaker 11: I could do on the field and everything else else
- 39:13Speaker 11: take care of itself.
- 39:14Speaker 14: Your parents moved here, obviously Trevor was of Florida at
- 39:16Speaker 14: the time. But what has Jacksonville in particular meant to you?
- 39:19Speaker 14: And maybe that's why this makes the process just even
- 39:23Speaker 14: more heart runching as.
- 39:24Speaker 19: You get ready to go through it.
- 39:25Speaker 3: Uh, I feel like Jacksonville, Uh it helps me. It
- 39:27Speaker 3: helped me a lot, you know.
- 39:28Speaker 11: Uh, just a small kid, a small town kid from Jenes,
- 39:31Speaker 11: Louisiana and just coming here. I feel like the city
- 39:34Speaker 11: has always embraced me. They always made me feel welcome,
- 39:36Speaker 11: made me feel like it was home. And I just
- 39:39Speaker 11: I and I never had access to a beach, So
- 39:41Speaker 11: when I got access to a beach, it was just
- 39:43Speaker 11: amazing for me.
- 39:44Speaker 6: Uh, it was just.
- 39:45Speaker 3: Actually on the cake.
- 39:45Speaker 11: And uh, just to see the growth that I've seen
- 39:48Speaker 11: through these five years, Uh here in Jacksonville has been
- 39:50Speaker 11: amazing And just I feel like that people are very
- 39:52Speaker 11: welcoming and I just love the aspect of it. And man,
- 39:55Speaker 11: the weather in Florida, like the Lord knows the codes
- 39:59Speaker 11: never for me, so seeing me here for a reason.
- 40:01Speaker 11: So uh, just thinking about not having having those Sunday
- 40:05Speaker 11: practices in December, it's.
- 40:07Speaker 3: Kind of just mind blowing. But uh, we'll see what happens.
- 40:10Speaker 10: You're not signed with Green Bay, then.
- 40:12Speaker 3: Ain't got to worry about me knowing the code. Probably
- 40:15Speaker 3: not app was to say that.
- 40:18Speaker 10: I running back friendly was William's offense in terms of
- 40:22Speaker 10: what it allowed you to do.
- 40:24Speaker 11: I feel like, uh, Liam's offense is very running back friendly. Uh,
- 40:27Speaker 11: but I also take the the skills that you know.
- 40:29Speaker 11: Also it's being in situations. But I feel like Liam
- 40:32Speaker 11: he's a very modern coach, so he knows how to
- 40:35Speaker 11: create and attack mismatches, and I feel like that's what
- 40:38Speaker 11: his offense really, uh really really showcased this year, just
- 40:42Speaker 11: to put us in position to make plays. And uh
- 40:44Speaker 11: I was thinking with that, I was I was one
- 40:45Speaker 11: of those people that could be out there and uh
- 40:47Speaker 11: helps out that standard and uh going to make those plays.
- 40:49Speaker 5: You were here in twenty two and it started off
- 40:52Speaker 5: okay in twenty three, and then things kind of tell Bart,
- 40:54Speaker 5: why is this regime and this thing that you built
- 40:57Speaker 5: this year, why is that different?
- 40:59Speaker 2: It's different?
- 40:59Speaker 11: But because of the mindset, UH just because of the
- 41:02Speaker 11: the goals that we had, like uh we he never
- 41:04Speaker 11: had to buy winning uh uh a a super Bowl.
- 41:07Speaker 11: It was always about being your best self each and
- 41:09Speaker 11: every week. And uh that kind of just goes back
- 41:11Speaker 11: to when I was at Clemson just being around like
- 41:13Speaker 11: winning organizations and winning uh programs. It's never about the
- 41:18Speaker 11: the f finished product is always about growing and I feel.
- 41:21Speaker 3: Like Coin understands that.
- 41:22Speaker 11: So you come in here and get anybody to buy
- 41:25Speaker 11: into a growth mindset to get better each and every day,
- 41:27Speaker 11: you're gonna have success. Succession just a buyer product if
- 41:30Speaker 11: us just coming in here and putting that hard work
- 41:32Speaker 11: in and then preparing us for each and every Sunday.
- 41:34Speaker 3: So when we step on that field, we had to
- 41:36Speaker 3: plan free. And that's all you.
- 41:38Speaker 11: Could asks for as a player, just to have coaches
- 41:40Speaker 11: and people to put you in your best position to
- 41:42Speaker 11: go out there and be able to showcase your talents.
- 41:45Speaker 18: You've been around Trevor for eight years now and he's
- 41:47Speaker 18: played some of his best ball this season.
- 41:50Speaker 17: What's the next level for him?
- 41:51Speaker 18: Do you see him go?
- 41:52Speaker 10: Like?
- 41:52Speaker 11: How much more can he get up there?
- 41:55Speaker 6: Uh?
- 41:56Speaker 11: Trauve, I feel like we none don't understand Trevor, But
- 42:01Speaker 11: I would say biggest thing for him is just.
- 42:05Speaker 3: Just let his nuts hang.
- 42:06Speaker 11: I guess, just just just be cocky, you know, man,
- 42:09Speaker 11: just uh stop caring people think, uh and in reality.
- 42:13Speaker 3: Uh just just don't give it down. Man, You're you're
- 42:16Speaker 3: the man.
- 42:17Speaker 11: Like, just go out there and be yourself, make plays
- 42:20Speaker 11: and just play fearlessly and uh reckless with reckless abandonment.
- 42:23Speaker 5: Do you let this one linger?
- 42:24Speaker 18: I know you guys try to live by the twenty
- 42:25Speaker 18: four hour role during the season, but it's the last
- 42:27Speaker 18: game of the season.
- 42:28Speaker 8: Do you let this one linger?
- 42:29Speaker 10: You just try to live by that twenty four hour
- 42:31Speaker 10: role this time around.
- 42:32Speaker 11: I mean, you try to live by that twenty four
- 42:34Speaker 11: hour rule, but when it's the last one like this,
- 42:38Speaker 11: it it does nothing but just lights the fire up
- 42:40Speaker 11: under you for next season. And uh So if if
- 42:43Speaker 11: we often just hone in onto that that energy, that
- 42:46Speaker 11: emotion that we felt and take that in the off
- 42:48Speaker 11: season to get better, I feel like everyone is not
- 42:50Speaker 11: gonna be better for it next year.
- 42:52Speaker 3: And that's all you could asks for as a player.
- 42:54Speaker 11: So I feel like you wanna get over it, but
- 42:57Speaker 11: it's not gonna happen, especially when we see those guys
- 42:59Speaker 11: out there playing UH next weekend, and we know that
- 43:01Speaker 11: we could have been in this position and we're not.
- 43:04Speaker 11: It's gonna hit, it's gonna hit a little harder, So
- 43:07Speaker 11: we just gotta bottle it up and and and just
- 43:09Speaker 11: focus on how can we not be in the position
- 43:11Speaker 11: next year?
- 43:12Speaker 3: And I think everyone we have the right people in
- 43:14Speaker 3: the UH building for that