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Da Ginger Freak · Boundary Corner Podcast

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The. You are muted, Curtis.
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Welcome back to the Boundary Corner podcast along with my
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partner Brian Siegler, Shelton Moss and.
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What a start. What a start.
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Man, we dailing this one. I practiced 2 months on the
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pronunciations tonight guys and it screwed me all up.
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I was about to say Shelton Talley and Jonathan Moss.
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Adam screwed up everything at the beginning of this house.
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That's a good name. Amen.
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Jonathan Moss kind of hits that sounds like a wide receiver if I
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ever heard. You go Sheldon Moss.
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There you go. Sheldon Moss does sound like a
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wide receiver. Sheldon Tally sounds like a
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lineman. How's everybody doing tonight?
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Long time fellas. I think we're doing all right.
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I mean, we're hanging in there. Everybody should be good, man.
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You're about to start sensing football.
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We got football on TV next week. We do tomorrow.
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Tomorrow. Oh, it is tomorrow.
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Game is tomorrow. Tomorrow.
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Tally in the process of buying a house.
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Sheldon about to get started with some volleyball in a few
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weeks here. A lot of fun shit kids about to
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get back to school. Thank the Lord.
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Hey, and we're about, we're about starting right now until
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sometime in December, you're going to see us every week.
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Every week, every week we're going to be here and it's pretty
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awesome. Tonight we do have a very
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special guest. We're going to go ahead and
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bring him in. Defensive lineman, 4 year
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Virginia Tech cokies. Let's see if I got this right.
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James Jankum, bring him in. The Ginger Freak.
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In the flesh, baby Pronounce. It.
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Right, though, James Jankum, sometimes even I messed it up.
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I'm saying dejunko. Which, hey, whichever way you
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want to say. Just as long as you say, yeah, I
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mean, James, like the junk man like.
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The junk. Man, I like the.
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Like that I. Like, I know I've been going off
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in the game with him. I'm just go ahead and say.
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That that's right. I know with the official
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pronunciation you got you got your name, but she also got
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James thrown in. Ginger.
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Oh yeah, without a doubt. That's that's my second name.
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All right, all right. There we go.
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How you doing this evening, man? You sitting there?
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It looked like you were grubbing on some sushi.
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Was that sushi? Yesterday.
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Oh no, we actually see this is This is why I love Virginia
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tank. They got us with some nice
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boneless chicken wings right here there we go We got given
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the 24 pack like like you only get fed like this at P4 schools.
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I mean, I don't know. Man, hey, so so we're on the
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the. Like.
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Eve of camp right now, like everything.
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Everything's about to get going all right.
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Are you going to be able to sleep after this?
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I won't, but just knowing that tomorrow we start camp and we're
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30 days away from the first game, I cannot wait.
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I really can't. But I'm just more focused on
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getting better every single day through camp because there's
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still a lot of stuff I got to learn to get better at.
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So I'm really just, I'm excited for that process and that grind.
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Has it always been? Has it always been like that for
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you? Like the day before, can't
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weather high school or college like just wired.
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Like I like I'll be going, I'll be going to sleep watching Ray
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Lewis or James Harrison's Football for Life.
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And just like getting so pumped up and just like I can't wait to
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do that. I can't wait to have my own
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football for like documentary or my own my own 30 for 30.
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But it's just, it's really just the excitement of it's football
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24/7. Yeah.
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I mean, that's the part that I love the most because I love
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this game. Like I, I never get burnt out,
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never get tired. Like it's nice having everybody
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on the team kind of like we're all in the same cup of time now.
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So it's it's late. Jay, can you remember them as
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your teammates please? Do not hurt nobody on that
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offense. We we meet everybody that's on
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the six. Hey, I'm saying that's all I can
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say. If I get hurt, I get hurt.
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They get hurt, they get hurt. But we don't go out during
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practice, that's for sure. Hey, that's football right
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there, man. Hey, you got you got to love
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that mentality, though. But I know you, this is your
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first, this is your first camp at Virginia Tech.
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I know you've been through some through some fall camp so far,
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though. So when you're going through
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that camp, is there a certain time where your body just kind
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of gets used to the to the banging around and the hitting
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after you've been through camp? It's about halfway through Week
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2 because you know, I mean that first week is just helmets and
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shells. I mean really just helmets for
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the first two days. Then the third day we finally
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get shoulder pads, we get to hit him and then we don't really get
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a hit till like I guess we don't get to go live from my past
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experience, like the second week.
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So it's really like after that second week, after that live
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practice, like 2 days after that live practice when it's like,
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all right, we went live. We've been go live for a damn
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near 2O2 days. Do you still have that same
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intensity? I always got it.
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That chip on my shoulder never, never falls off.
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That's. What's up?
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Yeah. So James, let's let's talk a
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little bit about your journey for people who may not know you
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as well. Just start out you're, you're a
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Virginia kid from Springfield. You, you hit up Independence
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Community College out in Kansas to get your start.
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And then you transfer to Arizona State where he spent a couple
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years, got some decent playing time over there.
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And then you go to Eastern Michigan where, for those who
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don't know, he was not only the highest graded linebacker or
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highest grade defensive player on the Eastern Michigan squad
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last year, but the 19th highest graded linebacker in the
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country. Even though you've played a
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little bit a defensive line as well.
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We'll talk about that in a little bit because you're
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obviously a very versatile player.
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But all these different schools, different places.
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Tell us about your journey and what do you think you've learned
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about yourself along the way? I mean, one thing I learned by
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myself is that I'm resilient. Like there's nothing that can
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that can be in front of me that can stop me because I don't had
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some injuries that people would have just packed it in and say,
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you know what, I'm just going to go work a nine to five.
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And I've had situations where it's like, Dang, I don't think I
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can make it out of this. Like even before I went to
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Independence Community College, I went to the school, I went to
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a private school my senior year, what called Avalon.
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And that was an hour and 45 minute metro ride there and
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back. And not to mention even after
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games, nobody lived in my area. So I had to take the metro home
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after games. You know, I mean, hurt, bruised
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ankle, messed up turf toe walking on the metro, my
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shoulder pads in gear just to go home.
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So it's like it was that was that situation that really
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showed me that like if I went through that, I can go through
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anything like injury on the way is not going to stop me from
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getting to the league and becoming a Hall of Famer.
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So it was really that it was that that semester that really
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taught me like anything that I face I can overcome.
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Like I didn't, I didn't started that little the legit bottom and
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crawled my way up to get to get to where I'm at right now.
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Yeah, I know we talked about this a little off offline, but
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like stuff like that, like that part of your journey that that
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that shows and and you learn real quick how much you love
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football or whether you don't love football, right?
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Like if you're when you're going through that type of thing, you
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learn very quickly. I love this game enough to to to
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give it the blood and give it the time and give it all that
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effort. Yeah, that's facts.
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And that's without a doubt I do because I've seen so many people
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from my high schools to especially junior college where
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it's like you see so many talented people who just don't
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have the, the correct mindset or the necessary mindset, you know
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what I mean? And it's just like, it's, it's
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that mindset of, oh, I'm already good enough when you're really
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not him yet, you know what I mean?
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And that's why that's something I've never had.
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Like I've always felt like when I went to JUCO, I knew this, I
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noticed that because it was during 2020 COVID and all that.
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We're having Zoom meetings and I'm looking at Zoom meeting.
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I see one kid is committed to Auburn and then another kid
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who's Kentucky bounced back and I'm fighting for a spot to try
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to get between either that mic or that will spot to try to get
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in. So it's like even before I went
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to junior college, I was already like, I got to become a
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different animal, you know what I mean?
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For me to even see the field or me to even be a 2 like these
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people are power 5 level players that I have to become to even
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compete with them and beat them out of a spot.
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So it was like even before I went JUCO I was in my backyard
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grinding, lifting weights, going to the field behind my house and
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running my ass off like it was. It's so much dedication that I
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put into this game that I I can't wait for it to auto
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confirmation this season. Man, that that's, that's
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unbelievable because you talk about your journey, you talk
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about injuries and you talk about going JUCO, you talk about
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you went to Arizona State. And correct me if I'm wrong,
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that's when Herm was coached. You got recruited by his staff
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back in 2020. Yeah, I got recruited by Marvin
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Lewis and also originally they recruited me for a linebacker.
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Linebacker. Yep.
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And then midway through the season, after unfortunately Herm
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got fired, Coach Oguano was like, I mean, we we had a
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conversation. I didn't know if I was going to
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red shirt or not. And we decided it's best that we
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have some injuries at defensive end or edge and we're like,
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look, we could really use you at that spot.
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You'll get a lot more playing time.
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And I was like, look, you know what, if I can, if it's best for
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the team, let's do it. So I got about 7 or 8 games at
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defensive end my first year at Arizona State.
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And there's the play. We're going to show a picture in
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a little while. There's a play you made against
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Cal. I wish Brian could have snipped
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it. It was in your Eastern mission
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commitment, I guess the signing day for Eastern Michigan where
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you you laid somebody else. But I I can't take that away
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from Tally. I guess the other thing I want
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to ask before I jump to my next question is, oh, oh, no.
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Did we lose you? Oh, shit.
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We were rolling you there, man, James.
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On in a minute. What happened?
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He's back. Andy's back, Andy's off.
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Andy's back. Can you hear us?
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Yeah, let me turn. Let me turn my phone off.
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Do not disturb. All right.
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My fault, guys. You're.
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Blowing up. You're blowing up.
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Hey, you know what? Somebody said we see you on TV
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right now. Like hey, shout me out.
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We anybody you want to shout or anything you need to shout out,
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we'll we'll give you a piece here as we wrap it up.
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But here's my thing, you have went so you had your you
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coaching staff, you had the Herm coaching staff, the Dillingham
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coaching staff. When you you have been through a
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bunch of coaches and you know, obviously we've got ours now,
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but I want to talk about our guys in just a second.
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But who have those guys made like an impression on you?
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Like who like Marvin Lewis coached in the NFL for years.
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Herm coached like Marvin Lewis was since named for like a
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decade. Like any of those that they
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instill or do something new as part of that journey that really
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has stuck with you. The one thing that Marvel Lewis
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did, he gave me confidence that I did not have like I like.
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And it's not I'm a cocky guy when I'm on the field because my
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preparation, that gives me confidence.
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But my first. They hit him up again.
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Hit. Him up again.
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We are live people. That's what happened when you
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are live. Yeah, I don't know why they keep
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calling me man, but what he said it was, I think like a couple
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weeks after fall camp, he was like, look, man, I'm I'm proud
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of you. Like you're everything that we
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thought you was going to be. And the one thing I would say is
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that, son, once you once you learn how to use your hands and
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really defeat these blocks and all that, there's no doubt in my
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mind that you could be a draft pick one day.
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And like, he probably didn't understand how impactful that
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was. Like for me to hear that, but it
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seems like I'm like Marvin freaking Lewis just said I could
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be a draft pick one day if I just learn how to use my hands.
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So from that, moving on, I'm watching.
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Yeah. I mean, Des Walker pass rush
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videos, all that trying to get right.
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And it, it, it helped me because now I have like, I was that
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linebacker and I was still able to play the edge because I still
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had that mentality of like having that good hands and all
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that good footwork. So it was really like Marvin
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Lewis gave me that confidence to know that, look, you worked
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hard. I see your your hard work but
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you still got to improve your game to be a draft pick.
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I love hearing that, man. Let's talk about your current
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coach. Let's talk about current
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defensive coordinator, Coach Cefkis.
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We're all kind of getting to know him.
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You know, he got hired about the same time you came in.
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You know, we've we've obviously done the backgrounds.
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Everybody knows time at Wofford, time in the NFL.
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But when y'all are in practice or maybe in a meeting room or,
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you know, doing something on the grease board, is there a
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telltale sign like whether it's you or the whole unit or
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somebody else where you know, you just had a really good Rep
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or you just impressed him? Does he do anything?
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Because obviously your guys are young men, like you said, that
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confidence. Is there anything he says or
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does that you know, I did it right, Coach.
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Like what coach keep just reminds me of is kind of like a
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like a Bill Belichick type of coach.
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He's not going to show too much emotion.
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But when you do some good, she's going, Hey, Ginge, he will he
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will DAP you up just like keep it low key.
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But it's still like, oh shit, I got a sack of Kyron Jones coach
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coming over. You DAP me.
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I'm like, all right, that I did some good shit.
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OK, bet. But like one thing about Coach
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Keed is that he's a leader of men like in our locker room,
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like what I said earlier about iron sharpens iron I got I
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literally just got that from him.
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Like the meeting we was just and he said, look, we want to keep
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everybody on on this team safe. But at the end of the day, we're
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not going to do no brother-in-law shit when it's in
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between the lines. We're going to attack.
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Yeah. Oh shit, let's get it.
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That's the sound bite right there, lady.
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That is the sound. Bite right there with that.
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Put that, put it on all the social for the rest of.
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The week right there. I love defense.
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It's like even when he was coming in with the Arizona
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defense, like couple guys were a little bit worried.
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I was, I was a little bit worried too, because I'm like,
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OK, I've played linebacker, I've played defensive end, you know
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what I mean? What do I fit in this game?
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You want me at linebacker? I can play inside.
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You want me at edge, I can play edge.
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You want me AD line, I can play D line.
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Like so we just like we had that conversation and it was like,
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really, we're going to use you where we feel like you could be
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most productive. And I I started like in spring
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ball. I'm not sure you guys know, but
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I started at outside linebacker and then they're like, look,
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you're a big guy. We need some depth at edge or at
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end. So they moved me the end and
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from there I just took off like from there.
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It's like it was, it was less thinking than outside linebacker
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and especially inside linebacker and it was just like, it's
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really just drop your nuts and don't let the don't let the guy
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in front of you beat you. So.
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Whoop his ass everybody. So James, I mean you, I don't
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know no other way you can say it than the way you said it.
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But the question I was going to ask did you kind of answer was
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you've you've shown a lot of versatility just in your play
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from what we've seen watching film and stuff.
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But what like what skill in your two set makes you like so
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versatile? Definitely my work ethic because
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it's it's just something that I've never been the fastest,
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strongest, biggest or even smartest.
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Like I've just had that grind where I'm going to rewrite the
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same play down until 3:00 in the morning until I get it
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instinctively. And then once I get it, I'm
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going to write it down again. Because if I know this play,
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like if I know this playbook like the back of my hand, then I
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can start playing within the playbook.
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Like if I know I got, let's say, if I have a stunt on the
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offensive tackle and I know that maybe a safety is coming to
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blitz. All right, bet that he's coming
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from death, so I can get a little bit more width, get in
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his face a little bit, then redirect and get in my get in my
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gap. So it's just it's just knowing
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like who's blitzing, what's happening within the play, not
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just, oh, I'm in this gap. I got to go to this gap.
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You know, I mean, it's just it's knowing the whole the defense as
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a whole. And that's why that's where I
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dominate because like I played linebacker.
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I know all the coverages that's going on behind me.
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Like I know in cover 2 that shit, I might have some help
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from the safety if he's covered in the flat.
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So boom, if I really want to and I know that it's not 2 by two
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and it's 3 by 1 in the receiver's pod, I could run like
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a quick go route. I might have that safety for or
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that corner for help, so I can probably take an inside move,
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let the quarterback like little stuff like that, that I feel
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like my knowledge can help me make more plays or take take
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smarter risks. That's what.
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I'd say, yeah, it's that whole, you've been at two different
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levels, right? Like you haven't been at the
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back end, but you've been on the you've been in the linebacker
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room, you've been in the defensive end or defensive line
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in general. Don't.
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Say that, don't say that. One hey, it's.
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Spring ask Ask Coach Martin in spring.
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What was it? Yeah, beginning of spring in
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2022. I was with the DBS because.
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I was like I. Don't even know how to cover.
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I need my, I need my DB pedigree.
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There we go. First two weeks I was with the
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DBS, working on my back pedal, all that.
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Well, I had to know because like so everything I've read like
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early on in your career, like you were heavy a special teams.
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I was like, ain't no way that he played that much special teams
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that hadn't seen some degree of, of that coverage element and
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aspect of it as well. Because I mean, usually anybody
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that's that's, that's got that specialties pedigree that's
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actually getting called out for their specialties work has that
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versatility and that ability to, to kind of play in coverage and,
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and kind of understand those concepts.
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I was able to, but it obviously like it's, but it was my
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specialty like special teams. I loved it because it's
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somewhere I knew I could dump, like kick off.
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It's probably my favorite play of the game.
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I'm talking to Coach Moore right now.
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I'm begging. I'm like, look, let me be the
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L5. I know I gained a little bit of
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weight, you know, I mean, I ain't running 21 mph right now,
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but hey, I'll still get down there.
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It's like that's fine. That's my favorite play.
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Like they got to block you like they can't, they can't cut you.
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Like you got to be a head on, head on block.
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And if you want to double team, you bet.
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I'll run through both of them like.
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I know I'm gonna get some contact and I and I might get to
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take somebody's head off so and. That's just like that's the
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biggest tone setter. Like even if the ball goes out
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of bounds, you knock them. I mean, you knock somebody on
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their ass. Like that shows the other team.
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Oh, oh, they came to play. It's like that one play.
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UNC versus Appalachian. I think like like I forgot the
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school was called Appalachian. App state.
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Yeah, App State they did like a little onside kick to them.
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And then I just remember the USC just charged them on the on the
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kickoff return. I'm like, I've never seen that
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for a kickoff return team. But that was hard because that
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set the tone. But yeah, it was just like for
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me playing special teams, hands down creating my identity of I'm
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I'm selfless, like I'll do anything for the team.
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Like literally what my search says, it's it's team over me.
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And I mean, whatever I can do to contribute to the team, I'm
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going to get it done. Well, man, you're 64.
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You got a pretty long wingspan. I think they can sneak up in
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there and you can get up for one this year, take away some points
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off the board. I mean, that's 63, but yeah,
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man, I ain't going to take it away, you know?
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What I mean, what's your wingspan 879?
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I wish I knew I like they test yourself with that, but it ain't
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something I really. You pay, you know I like that.
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I like that. Don't pay attention to that,
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right? Like, who cares if I don't go
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out there and dominate and kick somebody's ass in front of me?
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None of that special bullshit, man.
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No, I love it man. That's why it's even like the
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combine. I'm like, look, just run the
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tape. Like, yeah, I mean, they don't
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like it. Don't matter if I could run like
21:47
a four, three, you know what I mean?
21:50
Who knows? But it don't matter if I could
21:52
jump 11 yards. It matters about OK, are you
21:54
willing to run through a motherfucker face?
21:55
I mean somebody's face like. You, you, you are OK.
21:59
I just want to say this right quick, Curtis.
22:01
I just want to chat. James is the kind of person that
22:06
will make people quit football. Real quick.
22:09
Oh. No, to play football, we'll talk
22:10
about you play against somebody like that.
22:13
I didn't seen it like people like that.
22:15
You talking about playing, talking about going on kickoff
22:18
and running through two people. Do you understand how crazy you
22:21
got to be to want to be on kickoff and run through somebody
22:25
that is like a car crash? That's a car crash, man.
22:28
Oh, yeah. I'd have been in the wedges,
22:31
man. I'd have been talking about
22:33
playing tight end, being in a wedge, and you got to look at
22:35
somebody running at you 21 miles an hour and 19 miles an hour,
22:40
and you got to take that on now. I'm good.
22:42
We actually go. Let me go play the game.
22:45
We called ourselves the Crash Out crew.
22:48
We was all on kick off. I'm talking about you got 5-6
22:51
guys screaming as they're running down the field looking
22:55
for some blood. Like we just, we don't care.
22:57
We want to see who's the biggest crash out of the six of us.
23:00
That's why that's my dogs. Man, that's that's football
23:04
though man, that's it's so refreshing to just see I know
23:07
you I'm not calling you a kid, just a young man like yourself.
23:11
It's got a bright future. It's so refreshing to see like
23:15
you love the game. You know what I'm saying?
23:16
And you keep that with you, bro. Like the, the, the Sky's the
23:20
limit. You can go wherever you want to
23:21
go. You know what I'm saying?
23:22
Playing after playing coaching, just doing whatever you want to
23:26
do. Because you can tell just
23:28
talking to you for it's 23 minutes that we've been talking
23:31
to you that you love the game of football and that's why you're
23:34
so scared at it. So keep going.
23:37
Keep going. What we got next, Sheldon?
23:39
You got one for him? Yeah, let's talk a little bit
23:42
more about coach seekers. Obviously we're in the outside,
23:44
so we don't really know, you know, his personality as well
23:47
because he seems very, you know, serious And I know he's very
23:50
analytical and and process oriented.
23:52
But does does Coach Stevkis ever, you know, say something
23:55
that makes you laugh or joke around or are there any other
23:57
defense coaches that kind of keep it light hearted in the
23:59
room? Cheetah, he keeps it light
24:01
hearted without a doubt. He can make it some funny jokes,
24:04
but like like Coach Stevens, like he'll like throw a spring
24:08
ball, he'll go around. We have like 5 minutes to shoot
24:10
the shit. He'll be like, all right,
24:12
anybody got a joke? I'll raise my hand because I'm
24:16
the only one with a joke. Yeah, I mean, I'll.
24:20
Be like like he's like. I need y'all to entertain.
24:22
Tell me a joke. Right now.
24:25
I need. I need a.
24:26
Funny joke right now, but it's like.
24:29
It's OK. Can I say it on the podcast?
24:31
Yeah, this is this is our rated man.
24:34
Let's this is our. Here, an adult podcast.
24:37
Everybody knows that. So damn, boom, there's this MOB
24:40
player that just won the lottery, right?
24:42
Great guy, you know, I mean, amazing dude, Christian, all
24:44
that, man, man, man of God. So then boom, he goes up to the
24:48
umpire. He's like, yeah, man, like I
24:49
just won the lottery. But, you know, I make all this
24:51
money from the MLBI decided to be best for me to give it away.
24:55
So he's like, oh, the empire's like, oh, that's great of you,
24:57
man. Like, I'm really proud of you.
24:58
That's something great. He's like, yeah.
25:00
So the other night I decided to give it all away to charity.
25:03
And he's like, really to charity.
25:05
Oh, wow. What charity?
25:07
He's like, yeah, but Charity wasn't there.
25:09
So I asked Star and I gave it all to her.
25:15
Yeah. So like.
25:16
I said it in the room and it just went over half the people's
25:20
head. Except, like, I ain't the woo.
25:25
Because don't get wrong like we we still a young team, you know
25:28
what I mean? Yeah, I was just.
25:29
So you got some people that just came out of high school in that
25:31
room which they didn't know. No.
25:32
What are you talking about? Crystal Star, who are they?
25:38
But yes, one of the little jokes I'll be having.
25:41
That's a good one. Man, I'm glad we got to hear the
25:46
joke. Like I, I, I, it's always funny
25:49
to me, like seeing like how different personalities interact
25:51
in the locker room. And I feel like, you know,
25:53
everything I'm hearing is like, I feel like we got, we got a
25:57
good kind of blend of, of, of different guys in that, in that
26:01
locker room And, and, and now on the, on the coaching staff as
26:03
well. Like you got, you got JC Price.
26:05
Let's talk about JCA little bit, because I know, I know you've
26:08
had, you know, some time with him.
26:10
When I say that name, what's that mean to you?
26:13
It's time to work his business, JC prices business.
26:18
Like he, he's the, he's a Virginia Tech defensive line,
26:22
you know what I mean? Model like he done, he done been
26:24
there. He done done that.
26:26
He had his time. Now he's like, look, I'm here to
26:28
coach y'all. It's y'all's time now.
26:30
I hadn't been there, I'd have done that.
26:31
Now it's fine Time for y'all to do it and and do it kind of
26:34
thing. But yeah, he's a, he's a great
26:37
coach. And the one thing I love about
26:38
him the most is that you don't sugarcoat shit like he today he
26:42
told everybody he like, look, there ain't no starters all
26:46
y'all have to work for your spot.
26:48
So like right now I don't know if I'm a starter, but every
26:52
single day during camp I'm going to work my ass off to become
26:54
one. It's solidify that spot because
26:56
we got in and we got some great transfers.
26:58
Like every Divas alignment that we brought in can start and
27:02
probably and definitely will start.
27:04
Like you got Manny, you got Cody Allies, like we got so many new
27:10
transfers that like to me, I'm just like, hey coach, you did
27:13
your thing. Like you, a coach that goes in
27:15
the port and you get the best out of the best.
27:17
And he went double gingers on the edges.
27:20
Oh yeah, me and they you gang like oh, I can't wait for that.
27:27
We already celebrations. Oh man, sack celebration with
27:32
two gingers. Can't wait to y'all meet at a
27:33
quarterback and it when this happens.
27:36
It's not if, it's when it's. Got to move my phone, got more
27:41
sand. If it died, my fault y'all.
27:43
It's a bit more prepared. All good, man.
27:47
Dude, you, you, you. A day before camp.
27:49
It's amazing you're on here with us right now.
27:51
That's right. That's right.
27:52
So, but that is that is JC. We've had a chance to talk to
27:55
JCA couple times. I mean, if y'all for those out
27:59
there, maybe new listeners or whatnot, we interviewed JC last
28:03
all season and he was right man JC don't sugarcoat shit.
28:10
He was in. I mean that interview we had
28:12
with him was crazy. So we're going to let James get
28:15
sorted out here for a couple seconds.
28:18
But. I wasn't something going around
28:19
social media that said all genders are black.
28:23
What? Yeah, that was on that's that's
28:26
been going around social media that gingers are black people.
28:32
All genders. Are black people.
28:34
I'm just telling you man, that's what I've been hearing on
28:36
Facebook. So your problem.
28:40
Is being on Facebook. Ben Bell Ben Bell is Black Ben.
28:45
Bell is black. Ben Bell is black.
28:47
Sheldon, you need to go look that up, man.
28:49
That's real. I think you got red hair too,
28:52
Sheldon. You got some.
28:55
You got some red hair somewhere. Look like it.
28:57
I don't know. I'm.
28:58
I'm pulling this up here. We're going to get him back in
29:00
just a moment here all. Right.
29:01
Curtis is efforting this via Google.
29:05
Now I'm going to Twitter. Twitter's truthful, right?
29:07
Twitter's don't ever lie about anything.
29:10
It ain't even called Twitter no more.
29:11
Sheldon going to get on you about that.
29:13
It's called X. I'm never calling it X.
29:17
I'm never calling. I'm never.
29:18
Calling it X. I'm seeing some.
29:20
I'm seeing some tik toks on here.
29:23
I'm telling you, man, that's what they've been saying for
29:24
like the last month. I don't know why they came up
29:27
with it, but it's out there. I.
29:30
Mean you say anything. I mean it is a trend on TikTok.
29:34
See. Y'all thought I was?
29:35
She thought I was crazy because I'm an old man on Facebook.
29:38
According to the Internet. According to the Internet, oh
29:42
man. Hey, why are we?
29:44
Why are we waiting? I know we're getting back in.
29:47
Can we put this picture up? Can we put the picture up right
29:49
quick? Picture up right now.
29:51
Let me picture Brian while we're waiting.
29:53
Man, look at this. Look.
29:55
At this picture, man, I need that people to understand what's
30:00
going on. I know that's kind of cropped so
30:03
you can't see it. That is 1 human being picking
30:07
another human being up and suplexing it and smiling.
30:13
Oh yeah, yeah, it's our favorite photo.
30:16
Oh, there you go, he's back. He's back, right?
30:18
You were getting into. It I was I was telling, I was
30:20
telling the chat if they didn't understand what was going on,
30:23
but that's a human being picking up another human being and
30:26
suflexing it and y'all and while doing it Well, what I mean is
30:31
this how you feel when you playing football?
30:33
Is this the this the energy you have while pulling?
30:36
Every every single play, because in that moment I'm like, Oh,
30:40
y'all finna slam his ass like Oh be the best feeling.
30:45
That's why like that. And when I'm what's called when
30:49
it's face to face and I scoop them under the legs, I slam on
30:52
their back. Those are my two favorite
30:53
tackles because it's the most like damn, I just got bitch type
30:57
of tackle like like damn, he really just did that to me.
31:00
Like it's, it's demeaning as a man and I love that shit.
31:03
Like. And and The thing is, this type
31:05
tackle, there's video. You've done this multiple times,
31:08
man. And, and, and, and I'm like, I'm
31:11
sure it's the pleasure going through your head when you know
31:14
I got you. You ain't going anywhere.
31:16
You have to fucking feel it. And you know, their point of
31:20
view is, is helplessness. It's just like whenever he
31:23
decides to let me go, it going to hurt.
31:26
I'm hoping I can hold on to the ball.
31:28
The best part is when it's like a running back and they think
31:30
they got got you going downhill and all of a sudden you stop
31:33
that momentum and then pull them back and then just go over the
31:36
top with it. Just blah.
31:39
Now I'm going to ask, I think this is an obvious question.
31:44
I am assuming when you slam somebody's asses down, they hear
31:48
about it, they know about it. Oh yeah, I talk that shit
31:51
without a doubt. Got to like what?
31:55
You going to feel me and you going to hear me?
31:56
You got to let them know. Play like.
31:58
You got to let them know. Because like if you, a
32:00
linebacker, like your team around you feed off your energy.
32:04
It's like being a quarterback, you know, I mean, like what you
32:08
do affects the team around you. So if you have a great ass hit,
32:10
oh shit that was going to be like Oh yeah, bet that they soft
32:13
as fuck. Let's get it.
32:14
Like it's just that's who I was. I was the tone setter on my
32:17
team. I was the man.
32:19
They ain't shit bro, let's go. You got to break their will a
32:22
little bit. You got, you got to let them
32:23
know that it's it's not going to happen.
32:26
You got to break their will and let them know that it's not
32:30
their day-to-day. It's not going to be their
32:32
day-to-day. Now, I know it's probably nobody
32:34
else in the world like UJ, but being in on a football team and
32:40
you've been here for a little bit now, have you found somebody
32:43
kind of in that Bash Brother role that you kind of feed off
32:45
of on your defense yet? Oh yeah?
32:47
Hell yeah. Burgos.
32:48
What? Keyshawn burgos #2 like that
32:54
dude is a crash out. The definition of the word.
32:59
I love him though, like he's somebody that you know that no
33:02
matter what shit. We in the alley, we at the bar,
33:05
he got my back. We on the field on kickoff.
33:07
Oh yeah, I already know. I ain't worried.
33:08
But he he going to make that play if I don't.
33:11
That's what's up, That's what you got to have, man.
33:14
That's what's the difference in having a Oh yeah, that.
33:17
Eight wins, Caleb wins #20 yeah. That's that's Tally's boy,
33:23
that's. He be crashing out.
33:25
I love, I love watching the play.
33:27
Man, we're so excited to see y'all just you know, get started
33:30
to doing what y'all love to do. Man.
33:33
It's like I said, us as fans, we we sitting back rooting for you
33:37
at the games, rooting for you, but for you to come on first of
33:41
all, we appreciate you, but also just with the energy, man, you
33:43
could tell that this is no fabrication.
33:46
You know what I'm saying? No extra nothing.
33:49
I know you eating some wings and that probably make you feel
33:51
good, but I can tell you wake up like this and to see somebody
33:55
playing, like I said, seeing somebody playing that just have
33:59
that kind of enthusiasm. It's like infectious.
34:01
My old ass feel like going playing.
34:03
Let me put my helmet on. Shoot, let me get out here.
34:07
I know the guy 37. I see you have the helmet.
34:15
I might need to go out here to 37 U. 37 U.
34:19
You got eligibility left right? When there's a well, there's a
34:21
way, you can only dig it to the lead.
34:23
I got to get to work. I got to get to work on Mondays.
34:25
I ain't going to go out there and get beat up for them.
34:27
Boy, you'll be looking like Mark Wahlberg and invisible.
34:32
Exactly. So let's throw this out here
34:35
real quick as we get to wrapping it up.
34:37
When everything starts tomorrow, what's the one thing you're most
34:40
excited about? Say it again, my father didn't
34:43
hear. You when, when you guys get to
34:44
start tomorrow, whatever it is, coaches, skiing, being with your
34:48
boys out there, hitting somebody, oh, what's that one
34:51
thing you get the most excited? About for tomorrow.
34:54
Oh, I mean inside run hands down like we got inside run the third
34:57
day. What as I'm waiting for that
34:59
like right now, it's just not saying it's not exciting like,
35:02
but we're in spiders and I'm a defensive lineman.
35:05
So it's like it's a lot of you know what I mean?
35:10
Like like hand fighting, slap boxing and shit.
35:12
But when some shorter pads come on, Oh yeah, it gets real in the
35:15
trenches. You're ready to hit, hit.
35:17
Because at that point it's like shit, I got my pads on, you got
35:20
your pads on. Ain't no brother-in-law shit.
35:21
Let's go. You know what?
35:22
I. Mean brother-in-law shit that
35:25
might be the line of the year. brother-in-law shit everybody.
35:32
What? OK so wait a SEC.
35:33
Wednesday is day three Saturday or is day three Sunday.
35:37
Oh, that's a great question. I live life day by day.
35:39
I don't know, I say I hope it's Saturday.
35:42
The. Sooner it happens when it
35:43
happens. Exactly.
35:45
Now Jay, I know I you you was talking about the defensive
35:49
players that they brought in. They did a pretty good job on
35:52
the offensive side of the ball as well.
35:53
Have you have any other new running backs or offensive
35:57
players been sizing you up? Oh yeah, that boy Bully, Hell
36:01
yeah from Bowling Green. He's like, oh, he was in the Mac
36:04
too. I was like, hell yeah.
36:05
Like Lucky we didn't play your ass, Lucky we didn't play your
36:09
short ass. But but like, I love Bully.
36:13
Like he's somebody that he's going to get after it.
36:15
He's a running back. Like Buddy got that chip on his
36:19
shoulder. He ready to run through anybody
36:20
and I cannot wait to see him. He kind of reminds me of running
36:24
back from Arizona State, my boy Scataboo.
36:26
Like he got, he got that dog in him.
36:29
I'm excited to see him play, without a doubt.
36:31
Definitely. What about on the offensive
36:34
line? There's a bunch of new faces
36:35
kind of pulling through from our perspective.
36:38
What's it been like? I know you had a little bit of
36:40
experience with that in the spring.
36:42
What's that been like so far? What do you like about those
36:44
guys? Oh.
36:45
Not excited we have. This is the most athletic
36:47
offensive line group I've ever been a part of.
36:50
Hands down, like we got my boy Lathe Gannon, my roommate who's
36:55
a freaking he'd be working his ass off and on the field, you
36:58
see that shit show like Johnny number 79, he's a dog, like
37:02
probably one of the most flexible offensive lineman I've
37:04
ever seen in my life and he's athletic as hell.
37:06
And then you got Tom Moose or Tomas.
37:08
I'd be saying his name wrong, but Buddy's a.
37:11
Freaking and he can. Move.
37:14
But yeah, it's we got some dogs in the offensive line like
37:17
Kyron. He going to feel safe in that
37:19
pocket this year. That's what we need.
37:21
Best music to our ears? Music big time to our ears, man.
37:25
Music big time die ears. All right, before we get one
37:27
last question, anybody you want to shout out anything you need
37:31
to shout out? Say hey, shout out my mom, my
37:35
Dukes, you know I love you. Can't wait to see you first
37:37
game. Shout out my boy coach Nana RDF.
37:41
You already know best trainer in the in the whole world and shit.
37:45
Shout out hokey nation. I'm gonna need y'all to show out
37:47
every single every single home game this year.
37:49
Yeah, I mean, come out. Let me see your hokey pride.
37:52
Yes Sir. There we go.
37:54
I love you man all. Right, Brian, the the
37:57
traditional all. Right, We will close it out.
37:59
I mean you've been here what 4-5 months at this point, maybe
38:04
almost six months. I guess at this point you got to
38:07
go to food spot. I know you got the wings there
38:09
that you that you pulling in after practice, but what's the
38:12
go to spot for you so far? It's it's been the same spot
38:14
wherever I go, Chipotle, there we go.
38:18
Ain't ain't never going to change like you you can, you
38:20
can't beat Chipotle's pricing anywhere like and especially the
38:24
way I've been doing it. Like I used to have some fat
38:25
friends back in high school put me on game.
38:27
They're in there. They're like, hey, could they be
38:29
kind of keep you all through that one little small scoop of
38:32
meat and all that? I'm like, Nah, can I get a
38:33
little bit more, but not extra. I appreciate you though.
38:36
Because they kind of charge a. Little bit more, but not extra
38:38
is. I charge you extra like $4.00.
38:40
I'm like Nah get out of here y'all tripping.
38:42
I get a little bit more but not extra.
38:44
He said don't give me the fat tags, give me just a little bit
38:47
more. I was like, that's automatic,
38:48
but it's a little bit more just like, you know, I mean, half a
38:50
scoop and they're coming out of your paycheck.
38:53
But yeah, that's why like Chipotle hands on.
38:55
That's my spot. But hey, if there's a there's
38:57
some spot in Blacksburg, that's you know what I mean?
38:59
Want to throw an NIL deal for some food?
39:01
I'm I'm all for it. I, I 100% bet that really soon
39:07
somebody's going to be throwing you some NIL stuff around
39:10
Blacksburg once they start seeing you first of all play,
39:14
but also energy that you bring. So just keep being you, man.
39:18
Keep being you, brother. Hell yeah.
39:24
Yes, Sir. Curtis, you got anything else?
39:27
I think you're on mute bud. He's muted.
39:30
I would say he was muted. I'm muted this.
39:35
Last for the last 40 minutes, I mean, and even beforehand,
39:38
y'all, y'all didn't get to go through the backstage shift that
39:40
we were talking about with James here.
39:42
But listen man, good luck to you this year.
39:46
The energy you brought tonight. If if you if that resonates with
39:49
this whole team this year, it's going to be a special season.
39:54
Thank you for sharing your story because I think there's a lot of
39:56
people out there and it doesn't matter football or life.
39:59
Your story from Springfield, VA to a private school Independence
40:04
to Arizona State to Eastern Michigan and finally landing
40:07
back at home for that final season.
40:09
You're getting the accolades like Sheldon said early in the
40:12
program, you got recognized last year as being one of the best
40:15
top rated linebackers in the country.
40:17
It's awesome to have you here. It's awesome to see you play and
40:21
man, I, I, I. I can't wait for Labor Day
40:24
weekend. I can't wait to see you the
40:26
first time coming out of the tunnel with 66,000.
40:31
Hopefully, maybe one of us can make it up for that game.
40:33
We're going to try our best, but.
40:34
You got to what? Most death.
40:37
Well man James we were mentioning we married Tally
40:41
buying a house, he got two kids he putting a girl through
40:44
college. I got 3 kids.
40:46
Sheldon Sheldon's job is a weekend type job.
40:48
But we, we will. We are going to try to make
40:50
everything in our. Time pack them in the minivan
40:53
I'm gonna get y'all some tickets and then show up let's get.
40:56
It. There you go.
40:57
There you go. Yeah.
40:59
Well, James, we appreciate you joining us tonight and y'all
41:02
that's going to wrap up this episode of the Boundary Corner
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Instagram, our YouTube accounts, any pod source you can think of.
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As always, the music you heard at the beginning of the program
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was our buddy Jason Long, who's down in Roanoke.
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He plays us in, he plays us out every week.
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Check out Jason Long music.com where we'll link you to all of
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his music, Apple, Spotify and his YouTube account, Facebook
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pages. Also on his website, we'll show
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you where he's playing live music.
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I forgot to bring that up tonight and I'm sure he's
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playing somewhere at local this weekend.
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We appreciate James, you showing up tonight giving us some fun
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times. I'll take one more look at that
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smiling face before we get out of here.
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There we go. That is pretty.
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Funny, there we go, there it is right there.
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We appreciate y'all in the chat and we appreciate you all for
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listening. And as always, let's go.
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Hokies, Hokies. Music.