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- 0:00Speaker 1: A big one this week going up against Jamar Chase, T. Higgins,
- 0:03Speaker 1: and the Bengals offense. What's your mindset going into the game?
- 0:07Speaker 1: Just go out there and compete. Just be the best
- 0:08Speaker 1: person I can be, and we just got to go
- 0:10Speaker 1: out there and do our job. What do you remember
- 0:12Speaker 1: about that game last year other than, obviously, the penalty.
- 0:15Speaker 2: At the end?
- 0:17Speaker 3: We gave them a chance to be able to call
- 0:20Speaker 3: that call, so I just got to put myself in
- 0:21Speaker 3: the right position the whole game, and we just got
- 0:24Speaker 3: to play Jacksonville football.
- 0:26Speaker 2: When you look at Jamar Chase, what do you think?
- 0:29Speaker 2: Great player. What makes him special? He can do everything.
- 0:32Speaker 2: He can run routes. He can get the ball in
- 0:34Speaker 2: space and just do his thing.
- 0:35Speaker 1: How tough of a challenge is he for a corner?
- 0:39Speaker 3: Like I said, he can do everything. It's really not
- 0:42Speaker 3: about him right now.
- 0:42Speaker 2: It's about us. We just got to do our job.
- 0:44Speaker 3: He's going to do his thing, but we just got
- 0:45Speaker 3: to contain him and just be able to do what
- 0:48Speaker 3: we do.
- 0:48Speaker 1: Do you look forward to a chance to match up
- 0:51Speaker 1: with guys like that?
- 0:54Speaker 2: Every week we got great guys. I'm just looking forward
- 0:56Speaker 2: to playing football. Liam has said focusing on you guys
- 0:59Speaker 2: kind of big message every single week. How important is
- 1:02Speaker 2: it just to get that message across? Have you guys
- 1:04Speaker 2: seen the last couple weeks what it really means? We
- 1:07Speaker 2: just got to continue to get better for real.
- 1:09Speaker 3: We just take the coaching and just continue to fit
- 1:11Speaker 3: the previous week behind us and get better. You're one
- 1:14Speaker 3: of very few players who can score or who has
- 1:16Speaker 3: scored an offensive touchdown and also had an interception.
- 1:19Speaker 2: Which one had a better feeling to it and why?
- 1:22Speaker 2: Both was two different parts of the season. One was
- 1:24Speaker 2: last year and one was this season, so. It's really not.
- 1:27Speaker 2: Just me being able to help my team is really
- 1:29Speaker 2: exciting for me. Neither one felt cool, though?
- 1:31Speaker 1: No. Travis, a lot of people talk about your ball skills.
- 1:36Speaker 2: Are those still developing? When did those really take away
- 1:39Speaker 2: from you? Developing? I don't think ball skills are developing.
- 1:42Speaker 2: You either got it or you don't. I just continue
- 1:45Speaker 2: to do my thing and be comfortable with who I am.
- 1:47Speaker 3: When did that become an elite tool for you? Pretty
- 1:51Speaker 3: much all my life I was just then I had
- 1:54Speaker 3: good ball skills.
- 1:55Speaker 2: It took me out there. I know how to go
- 1:56Speaker 2: get the ball, know how to catch the ball, pretty
- 1:58Speaker 2: much anything. You said it's not something you developed. So
- 2:01Speaker 2: is that just mindset? Is that physical skill?
- 2:04Speaker 1: What is it?
- 2:05Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just a mental mindset. You know, you'll be
- 2:07Speaker 3: able to see the ball, go get it. You know,
- 2:09Speaker 3: you just got to have that attitude about it.
- 2:11Speaker 1: With that, Kent, this morning I was talking about Jordan's interception,
- 2:14Speaker 1: just kind of how he preaches, his feet. Just when
- 2:18Speaker 1: you have a coach that really drills that, what is
- 2:20Speaker 1: that like? on the field and to see it in practice?
- 2:23Speaker 3: I continue to remind you, you know, seeing Johnny and
- 2:26Speaker 3: Rhett was picture perfect, exactly how we envisioned it to happen.
- 2:30Speaker 3: And when we see stuff like that, we just continue
- 2:32Speaker 3: to stay focused and locking on what coach is telling
- 2:34Speaker 3: us to do.
- 2:35Speaker 1: He always talks about camp. That is always talks about
- 2:37Speaker 1: being violent and attacking, whether that's a player with the ball,
- 2:40Speaker 1: attacking the ball in the air, just kind of what's
- 2:42Speaker 1: that mindset been like taken to that coach?
- 2:45Speaker 3: I just try to see and we believe what he's
- 2:48Speaker 3: telling us, you know, because when we do the right
- 2:49Speaker 3: things and do what he's telling us, we make plays.
- 2:52Speaker 1: You found yourself around the ball a lot, even before
- 2:54Speaker 1: you got the interception. Whether it was the Denver game,
- 2:57Speaker 1: you almost got the pick, or against Matt Collins. Is
- 3:00Speaker 1: that things that you're seeing on film? Is that instincts?
- 3:03Speaker 1: Is that natural?
- 3:03Speaker 2: What is that?
- 3:04Speaker 3: Really, just like Cam said, it's the eyes, feet, hands.
- 3:06Speaker 3: All that play a part of the play. But the
- 3:09Speaker 3: plays that when I was around the ball, I didn't
- 3:11Speaker 3: get to the ball fast enough because my eyes was wrong.
- 3:13Speaker 3: But I've got to continue to lock in on the
- 3:15Speaker 3: first detail, which is eyes, and then my feet and
- 3:17Speaker 3: my hands are falling.