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Auburn DE Keldric Faulk - Alabama Loss · The Auburn Undercover Podcast

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  K, how how tough was that one to finish
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  off a tough year,
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  >> man? Every every loss is is tough, but
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  man, um that's an instate rivalry, so
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  you know, every every year we had a loss
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  to him. It was it was always tough.
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  Every each year is worse than the next,
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  so that was that was pretty bad.
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  as a defense, you guys, I mean, you guys
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  only held 280 yards, but had
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  opportunities and then key penalties.
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  How frustrating was that tonight?
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  >> Um, completely completely frustrating.
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  >> Um, like you said, we played really
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  solid on defense, key moments. We got to
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  be better. I mean, that's just been a
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  problem all season.
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  Um,
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  yeah, we just we just got to play sound
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  football, you know, and and we we
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  haven't really put that together on on
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  film uh yet this yet. So, I mean, we we
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  still have room to improve. Um,
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  and it's just, you know, it's just so
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  much room to improve in that team and we
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  got so much talent. You know, the the
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  future is bright.
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  Keldrick Kim's one of your leaders,
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  probably the best player on the offense.
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  Yeah.
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  >> I'm interested what you told him post
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  game and pick him up in the locker room.
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  >> Um, man, just to keep being him, keep
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  him keep having a smile on his face. You
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  know, everybody in the country knows
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  that Cam is going to be a a high draft
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  pick next year. I mean, everybody in the
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  country knows that. You know, I'm sure
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  he knows that, too. So, you know, the
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  best thing for him to do is is to come
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  to work with a with a smile on his face
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  and to keep keep that work ethic he's
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  been having. You know, don't change
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  anything about himself and just just
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  keep being human. [snorts]
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  >> How would you describe these last four
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  weeks or so, you know, playing for DJ
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  Derby?
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  >> The best four weeks of my life. They
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  these last four weeks felt like actual,
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  you know, they they felt like college
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  football. um you know from from
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  Vanderbilt to to now it was just you
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  know a different uh different atmosphere
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  within the um within the whole team. Um
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  >> yeah it was just different and um
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  I'm grateful.
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  >> Has his future been addressed with you
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  guys at all?
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  >> Um nah it really has. I've been more
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  focused on my guys anyway. So
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  >> Kendrick, Coach Den called you the one
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  of the best leaders he's ever coached in
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  his entire career. What does that mean
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  to you?
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  >> Uh man, that means a lot cuz coach
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  didn't coach, you know, great guys like
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  he didn't call he didn't coach like guys
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  that did it at the at the highest of
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  levels that you can. So um I know he had
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  some great leaders in the past and for
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  him to call me the best one is, you
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  know, a milestone in itself. You know, I
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  try to be my myself and my best uh every
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  day I can and um you know, it seems like
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  my myself was was good enough.
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  If this was your last game at Auburn,
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  what's what's what's these three years
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  meant to you?
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  >> Man, um
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  probably the best couple years of my
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  life, you know, from my freshman year to
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  to now, man, it's it was, you know, some
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  of the best years I've I've ever had
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  here. And um man, you know, I ain't
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  nothing but I ain't nothing but grateful
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  for every memory, you know, that I had
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  and all the memories that I will make.
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  [snorts]
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  >> You mentioned you felt like the future
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  was bright. You you came in when when
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  this program was at the bottom, even
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  though it hadn't worked out record-wise,
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  you said you feel like it's close. Do
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  you feel like you you guys have set the
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  table for something coming?
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  >> Man, we most definitely did. Um,
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  you know, if you remember a couple years
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  ago, man, we would be we wouldn't even
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  be be in games sometimes. Um, but now,
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  you know, we we in games. We we holding
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  teams under, you know, I think it was 24
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  points until Vanderbilt or something
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  like that. So, I mean, we was we've been
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  in games before. Now, the next step is
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  just finishing the game. You know, we we
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  have the game in our hands. We just have
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  to learn how to finish the game the
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  right way.
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  This team's faced a lot of adversity
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  throughout the season. We all stuck
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  together. How strong is the bond between
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  all the guys in the locker room?
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  >> Um,
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  man, our our bond is is crazy strong cuz
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  just like you said, we done faced so
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  much adversity from having a head
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  coaching change to, you know,
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  uncertainty in our head coach. Um, you
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  know, we we don't know what's happening
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  with that, but then nobody look forward
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  nobody look at that. We looked at, you
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  know, we have a couple more games
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  together as as, you know, this group
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  right now. And, you know, we're going to
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  make the best of them.