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- 0:00Speaker 1: I'm gonna be honest, I had no clue until post game.
- 0:03Speaker 1: I think Amanda doing one of the two, came up
- 0:05Speaker 1: to me and was like, you just broke the record
- 0:07Speaker 1: for first first kicker to break fifty field goals, actually
- 0:11Speaker 1: the youngest, so I thought that was pretty cool. I
- 0:12Speaker 1: really had no clue that it was gonna happen.
- 0:14Speaker 2: So it's pretty cool now that you know you have
- 0:16Speaker 2: both records.
- 0:17Speaker 1: Which one's cool probably still the longest, because I mean
- 0:21Speaker 1: we joke around about that as guys around the league
- 0:23Speaker 1: all the time, and then you finally get an opportunity
- 0:25Speaker 1: to break it, and those opportunities don't come very often
- 0:27Speaker 1: to break it, and to finally break it was that
- 0:30Speaker 1: had such an opportunity time as well, was huge.
- 0:32Speaker 3: Liam was talking about the fact that you know you're
- 0:34Speaker 3: going to Mile High the atmosphere, their.
- 0:36Speaker 4: Golf balls go a lot further there than what they
- 0:38Speaker 4: do here. What about you for kicking?
- 0:40Speaker 1: Yeah, I was just telling Ryan I'd played there, played
- 0:43Speaker 1: not at Colorado, but in Utah before when we played
- 0:47Speaker 1: Yu my sophomore year, and I think the ball definitely
- 0:49Speaker 1: does fly a little bit further. Obviously, I've only had
- 0:52Speaker 1: one sort of experience with that. So obviously we'll have
- 0:55Speaker 1: to experiment with that in pre game a little bit
- 0:57Speaker 1: and see how far it does impact the ball, how
- 0:59Speaker 1: far you can shoot. That's all depending on I don't
- 1:03Speaker 1: know what the win situation, cold situation.
- 1:04Speaker 2: There's a lot of factors they go into it.
- 1:06Speaker 1: So we'll see before we'll see how the wegs field
- 1:08Speaker 1: on game do.
- 1:09Speaker 5: Just having the opportunity to come out there and the
- 1:12Speaker 5: coach is trusting me, the players trusting me to go
- 1:14Speaker 5: out there and do my job.
- 1:16Speaker 3: Which this league, if you're if they spend a lot
- 1:19Speaker 3: of money on people, there's been draft picks on people.
- 1:21Speaker 3: Those people usually get prioritized. Do you feel that's different
- 1:26Speaker 3: around here, that if you play in good football.
- 1:27Speaker 2: You're gonna get an opportunity.
- 1:29Speaker 6: Uh.
- 1:29Speaker 5: I just control what I can.
- 1:31Speaker 7: Uh.
- 1:31Speaker 5: I go where I'm told. When I first got here,
- 1:34Speaker 5: I was practice squad and giving a look to the offense,
- 1:37Speaker 5: which you know all of us like to do. And uh,
- 1:40Speaker 5: when they tell me to go somewhere, I go somewhere.
- 1:42Speaker 5: They tell me to go on, be a kicker, I'll
- 1:44Speaker 5: be a kicker, you know. I just I do what
- 1:46Speaker 5: I'm told and try to do it in my best ability.
- 1:48Speaker 3: They have been along snapping opportunity.
- 1:50Speaker 5: No, you know, that's the ham's job, man, which I
- 1:54Speaker 5: look over it, I see if snapping the ball and
- 1:56Speaker 5: everyone's just like, what the heck's going on?
- 1:58Speaker 2: Man?
- 1:58Speaker 5: But but yeah, no, it can down just to doing
- 2:01Speaker 5: what you're told and doing the best of your ability.
- 2:03Speaker 3: What did it mean to you to get your first
- 2:05Speaker 3: start after this long journey all these years?
- 2:09Speaker 5: It meant a lot. But it came down to just
- 2:10Speaker 5: trusting your fundamentals and technique, and uh it was it
- 2:15Speaker 5: was an honor and a privilege. So uh, you know,
- 2:17Speaker 5: I try to make the most out of it.
- 2:19Speaker 6: It's in a long road to get it here, though.
- 2:21Speaker 6: I mean, even moving a bunch of different teams. What
- 2:23Speaker 6: what looking back on it, does it make it more
- 2:25Speaker 6: awarding now that you're you're getting time in a spot
- 2:28Speaker 6: and a competing team.
- 2:29Speaker 5: Absolutely, I mean every single day in this league is
- 2:32Speaker 5: a blessing.
- 2:33Speaker 2: Uh.
- 2:33Speaker 5: You never know when it's the last time you're gonna
- 2:35Speaker 5: test that field. Uh, let alone be on a team,
- 2:37Speaker 5: be in the locker room. I was on the couch before.
- 2:40Speaker 5: And you know, it's it's easy to take this game
- 2:42Speaker 5: for granted until you're in that position. So it's definitely
- 2:46Speaker 5: a blessing and I'm gonna try to make the most
- 2:48Speaker 5: out of everything I get.
- 2:50Speaker 6: Who told you you were getting your first start?
- 2:53Speaker 5: Uh honestly, I didn't really know until the day of
- 2:56Speaker 5: the game. And we constantly rotate during practice and everyone gets,
- 3:00Speaker 5: you know, equal amount of reps and uh, you know,
- 3:03Speaker 5: like I said, going back to I go where I'm told,
- 3:05Speaker 5: and uh yeah, I was decited to do that.
- 3:07Speaker 1: I just showed up on a white board pregame.
- 3:10Speaker 5: Uh pretty much. Yeah. Yeah, so uh we don't we
- 3:12Speaker 5: we don't know uh who's who's going in or who's
- 3:15Speaker 5: starting who's not. But that's what I was told. So
- 3:18Speaker 5: I went in there and tried to do the best
- 3:20Speaker 5: of my ability.
- 3:20Speaker 1: Who's the first person you called afterwards?
- 3:22Speaker 8: Uh?
- 3:22Speaker 5: My dad? I called my dad. Yeah. I lost my
- 3:24Speaker 5: mom back in twenty three and uh I was my
- 3:27Speaker 5: best friend, and uh you know, my dad's now my
- 3:31Speaker 5: best friend too. I mean we're always close, but uh
- 3:33Speaker 5: but yeah, no, that's my I'm really close to my
- 3:35Speaker 5: dad now and uh so yeah, that was the first time.
- 3:38Speaker 2: It was his reaction, he w, he was.
- 3:40Speaker 5: He was very happy and proud, and that's what I
- 3:42Speaker 5: do it for it. Really, it's for my family and
- 3:44Speaker 5: for you know, future generations, whenever that may be. But
- 3:47Speaker 5: uh yeah, I do it for my family, and I
- 3:48Speaker 5: also do it, you know, for my love of my teammates.
- 3:51Speaker 3: What does it say about this team that it's it's
- 3:53Speaker 3: story like yours, bj Green, Danny Strigo. I mean that's
- 3:57Speaker 3: a lot of guys that nobody would have penciled than
- 4:00Speaker 3: two months ago being a part of this thing. Yeah,
- 4:02Speaker 3: Quenton Morris, I mean the list goes on and.
- 4:04Speaker 5: On, right, No, it just goes. It just goes to
- 4:07Speaker 5: the type of guys we have in this locker room.
- 4:09Speaker 5: Those guys are undrafted. I was undrafted, and uh it
- 4:12Speaker 5: comes with the mindset. So I mean those guys are
- 4:15Speaker 5: just jumping at the bit for any opportunity they get
- 4:17Speaker 5: and they've been maximizing on that. So uh, it's it's
- 4:20Speaker 5: good to see that as rookies being as mature as
- 4:23Speaker 5: they are stepping into the roles that they have. So
- 4:27Speaker 5: I it's a it's a great MoMA seeing that.
- 4:29Speaker 6: Hey, you got the phone called here you are, I
- 4:31Speaker 6: mean here it is important December Football.
- 4:34Speaker 2: Room, no doubt, no doubt.
- 4:35Speaker 9: I'm actually from Brunswick, so you know, hometown team. I'm
- 4:40Speaker 9: just happy to be here, honestly, and like, like you said,
- 4:43Speaker 9: it's it's championship football, and this is what you kind
- 4:47Speaker 9: of dream of as a as a boy growing up
- 4:49Speaker 9: with aspirations to play for the Jags. Being from Brunswick,
- 4:54Speaker 9: you wanna, you know, play on a championship Jaguars football team.
- 4:59Speaker 6: But I guess uh, I could probably guess your favorite
- 5:01Speaker 6: Jaguar player if you're running back.
- 5:03Speaker 2: Oh, of course, of course.
- 5:05Speaker 9: And he followed me on Instagram like when I was
- 5:07Speaker 9: in Seattle, and I was.
- 5:08Speaker 2: Like, dang, that's sweet.
- 5:10Speaker 9: That's sweet. But yeah, I kind of d m him
- 5:13Speaker 9: every chance I get asked for advice.
- 5:17Speaker 6: Pretty sweet or moja.
- 5:19Speaker 2: Oh come on, I was too. I was too. I
- 5:24Speaker 2: was too young to.
- 5:26Speaker 9: Really watch Fred but yeah, Maurice, yeah.
- 5:31Speaker 3: I figure that might be the case.
- 5:34Speaker 2: I forgot how old I am too.
- 5:36Speaker 9: Yeah, no, Fred t man, I was. I was a
- 5:38Speaker 9: little too young to like actually like have memories of
- 5:41Speaker 9: like watching it. But then like you know, Mojo being
- 5:46Speaker 9: being undersized, but big heart, that's that's because I played
- 5:51Speaker 9: quarterback in high school and quarterback my whole life. And
- 5:54Speaker 9: then you know, everybody telling me like, oh, you're too
- 5:56Speaker 9: little to play quarterback, so I kind of used that chip.
- 6:00Speaker 9: I'm undersize I'm gonna do it. But then I get
- 6:02Speaker 9: to college play running back and you know, rest is history.
- 6:05Speaker 2: What were you doing, uh before you got the.
- 6:07Speaker 3: Call where we're at?
- 6:08Speaker 2: Uh?
- 6:09Speaker 5: Home?
- 6:10Speaker 9: Actually I had just finished some recovery stuff. You know,
- 6:14Speaker 9: we did dinner at the house, my wife, my three boys,
- 6:17Speaker 9: and then my agent just called and was like, yeah,
- 6:20Speaker 9: you want to go to Jacksonville.
- 6:21Speaker 2: Was like, shoot, do I let's go.
- 6:24Speaker 3: It's yeah, home Bruns. The obviously kick return game and
- 6:31Speaker 3: figure that's why they got you for some depth, but
- 6:33Speaker 3: also maybe add to that part of the game this
- 6:36Speaker 3: week maybe Yeah.
- 6:37Speaker 9: I mean whatever they have me doing, uh, you know,
- 6:41Speaker 9: I'm ready to do it. I'll prepare, you know, to
- 6:44Speaker 9: play whatever, and then come game time or before the game,
- 6:48Speaker 9: they'll tell me what.
- 6:49Speaker 2: I need to do and we'll go execute.
- 6:51Speaker 3: As a guy who's been around it, how comfortable are
- 6:53Speaker 3: you just walking in and just play it again?
- 6:55Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, I've so.
- 6:56Speaker 9: I've I've been you know, on practice squad with the
- 6:59Speaker 9: Panthers going against their one defense, and yeah, I've been
- 7:02Speaker 9: playing football for however, many weeks this season.
- 7:05Speaker 5: Has been going.
- 7:06Speaker 9: So I'm pretty prepared to step in and if needed
- 7:10Speaker 9: and do what I gotta do.
- 7:12Speaker 2: Their faces on the coaching staff. Does that help the transition? Metal?
- 7:15Speaker 2: Oh yeah.
- 7:16Speaker 9: I spent a good bit of time with coach Whip
- 7:19Speaker 9: in Arizona and then Shane and Chad and those guys
- 7:23Speaker 9: uh Khalii and Seattle, So yeah, it makes it you know,
- 7:28Speaker 9: familial like this, like family coming from you know, Seattle,
- 7:33Speaker 9: Land other places.
- 7:34Speaker 2: So yeah, it made it a little bit better.
- 7:37Speaker 8: These big time games that you guys have on Sunday
- 7:39Speaker 8: or these types of games that you know you get
- 7:41Speaker 8: so excited for as a player.
- 7:43Speaker 10: Yeah, this is this is a cool one. A game
- 7:44Speaker 10: like this late in December. I mean, this is you.
- 7:48Speaker 10: You try to give yourself the opportunity to play meaningful
- 7:50Speaker 10: games this time of year, and we've done that. So
- 7:52Speaker 10: it's the next one that's always going to be the
- 7:53Speaker 10: most important one. But kind of like I was alluding
- 7:56Speaker 10: to earlier, just what can we do this week to
- 7:58Speaker 10: make ourselves a little bit better? What can we small details,
- 8:02Speaker 10: technique fundamentals that we can improve on.
- 8:03Speaker 2: For this week?
- 8:04Speaker 8: Do you're the I mean you're on five game win straight. Now,
- 8:07Speaker 8: do you applaud yourself at all or do not worry
- 8:10Speaker 8: about the celebrations since you guys are still in season.
- 8:13Speaker 10: I think you're definitely proud of what you've accomplished, but
- 8:17Speaker 10: you still have to take it and learn from it
- 8:19Speaker 10: because every game you win or lose, there's gonna be
- 8:22Speaker 10: things that you can get better at. So it feels
- 8:25Speaker 10: good to win. You'd love to be able to coach
- 8:26Speaker 10: off a win, and that's awesome, But where are we
- 8:28Speaker 10: gonna make the next improvements? Because you win some games
- 8:32Speaker 10: and you say we won, But if we play like
- 8:34Speaker 10: that versus someone else, we're not gonna win. And so
- 8:36Speaker 10: it's like I said, keeping yourself grounded, keeping yourself based
- 8:40Speaker 10: on what got you here, and continue to improve it.
- 8:43Speaker 3: You weren't at all about Cohen to the shoulder on
- 8:45Speaker 3: the game winning fist pumps.
- 8:48Speaker 10: I saw I'm robbing it today, told them to go.
- 8:50Speaker 10: I totally needs a massage.
- 8:51Speaker 2: We'll see.
- 8:52Speaker 10: We'll see if you can still call it and have
- 8:54Speaker 10: to get granted there?
- 8:56Speaker 4: How much are you.
- 8:57Speaker 3: Guys now looking forward to that? After a w him
- 9:00Speaker 3: coming in there.
- 9:01Speaker 2: It's pretty cool.
- 9:02Speaker 10: The he's very the animation is fun because it's an
- 9:06Speaker 10: emotional game and we work so hard and for so
- 9:10Speaker 10: long to get to Sunday just to have the opportunity
- 9:12Speaker 10: to go do that, so to take advantage of it,
- 9:17Speaker 10: especially like we did last Sunday. It's good and it's
- 9:20Speaker 10: the right thing to be excited to be happy about.
- 9:23Speaker 6: But it's Denver pass rush and I mean it's They've
- 9:26Speaker 6: got some elite guys, but it's deep too. There's a
- 9:28Speaker 6: lot of guys with three or four or more sacks
- 9:30Speaker 6: in this team.
- 9:31Speaker 2: Yeah, great group of players.
- 9:33Speaker 10: Definitely the strength of their entire team, but definitely their
- 9:35Speaker 10: defensive front. For us, it's just what are we gonna
- 9:39Speaker 10: do to put ourselves in the best position to win,
- 9:42Speaker 10: whether that be our scheme, the calls you make, But
- 9:44Speaker 10: even more importantly, I'd say, how are we gonna hone
- 9:47Speaker 10: in our technique and fundamentals? Like That's the tenth time
- 9:50Speaker 10: I've said that, but it's always what I believe. It's
- 9:52Speaker 10: truly how I think this game needs to be played,
- 9:54Speaker 10: and it's how you win. I think when we use
- 9:56Speaker 10: our technique we can beat anyone. That's that's what it
- 9:58Speaker 10: has to be. You have to have that that feeling
- 10:00Speaker 10: and that trust in yourself throughout the week that when
- 10:03Speaker 10: you get to Sunday, you know you did everything you
- 10:04Speaker 10: could to be prepared to play this game. Which has
- 10:08Speaker 10: changed for the offensive line since the rams that rams
- 10:11Speaker 10: Seattle kind of lull there for you guys with the
- 10:15Speaker 10: sacks and all.
- 10:15Speaker 2: Of a sudden you're keeping Trevor clean every week.
- 10:18Speaker 10: You know, I kind of I kind of attribute to
- 10:20Speaker 10: what I just said, Like when you go through a
- 10:24Speaker 10: point of adversity like that was, you look at the
- 10:29Speaker 10: tape and you say, why did this?
- 10:31Speaker 2: Where? What what's causing this to happen?
- 10:33Speaker 10: And again I in my opinion that can always be
- 10:36Speaker 10: attributed to technique and fundamentals, but that you watch it
- 10:41Speaker 10: and you say, okay, how can I what am I doing?
- 10:44Speaker 10: What am I doing that I shouldn't be? Or what
- 10:47Speaker 10: can I be doing that I'm not Those are kind
- 10:49Speaker 10: of the two ways you're gonna look at it and
- 10:52Speaker 10: finding the proper way to improve. So the answer is
- 10:54Speaker 10: what do what should I do? Or how do I
- 10:57Speaker 10: want to do things? Not don't do this? It's more
- 10:59Speaker 10: like do this and the stuff. So it's it's honestly,
- 11:03Speaker 10: it's simple. I'd say it's simple. It's not easy, but
- 11:06Speaker 10: it really does come down to those things every play.
- 11:08Speaker 7: I mean, we've been on the road for a while,
- 11:10Speaker 7: just you know, doing what we do the best, just
- 11:12Speaker 7: executing our our our plays and understanding you know, it's
- 11:15Speaker 7: about us at the end of the day, you know,
- 11:17Speaker 7: and you know, you know, minimize those mistakes and you know,
- 11:20Speaker 7: just play our brand of football.
- 11:21Speaker 2: So you know, just perfecting.
- 11:22Speaker 7: Ourselves and going out there and trying to impose our
- 11:25Speaker 7: will and our opponents.
- 11:26Speaker 2: It doesn't matter, you know who we play.
- 11:27Speaker 7: Of course they're a really good team, but it's it's
- 11:29Speaker 7: it's always about us.
- 11:31Speaker 6: There's a lot of noise over there about that Broncos defense,
- 11:33Speaker 6: But what stands out about their offense when you pop
- 11:36Speaker 6: it on, what's their personality?
- 11:38Speaker 7: Like, uh, bone Knicks can extend plays man, he can
- 11:40Speaker 7: he can throw the ball wherever he wants it, and
- 11:42Speaker 7: they have some really explosive receivers to go get it.
- 11:44Speaker 7: And you know, of course they have they have Ingram
- 11:47Speaker 7: there too, so they have you know, on all levels
- 11:50Speaker 7: of you know, receiving threats that they can go get
- 11:52Speaker 7: it done. And of course r J he's been playing
- 11:55Speaker 7: really well too. Uh, the the rookie, so they can.
- 11:57Speaker 7: They can get it done to run in the past,
- 12:00Speaker 7: so they're definitely not just one dimensional football play, I
- 12:03Speaker 7: mean football team. So we gotta you know, prepare for
- 12:05Speaker 7: the running pass with them.
- 12:07Speaker 5: See altitude real?
- 12:10Speaker 7: Oh of course, yeah, So I played I played there
- 12:12Speaker 7: a few times and it was real. I also played
- 12:15Speaker 7: in Utah coach over there in the mouth, so I
- 12:17Speaker 7: was gasping. But you know, we were professional athletes. You know,
- 12:20Speaker 7: we gotta get ready for that. Gotta understand that does
- 12:22Speaker 7: that does sometimes play a factor, But we gotta be
- 12:25Speaker 7: ready for the fourth quarter, you know, go out there
- 12:26Speaker 7: and execute and you know, do what we do.
- 12:28Speaker 5: Is that why they've been so good? Maybe in the
- 12:30Speaker 5: fourth quarter?
- 12:31Speaker 2: It's no, No, they're just a good team. They're just
- 12:32Speaker 2: a good team.
- 12:33Speaker 7: They understand how to finish and uh they they they
- 12:36Speaker 7: do a l a a really good job of you know,
- 12:38Speaker 7: running tempo and different things like that, and and their
- 12:40Speaker 7: defense is always attacking. So it's just about, you know,
- 12:43Speaker 7: what type of football team they are, and that's just
- 12:45Speaker 7: who they are. So I feel like we we we'd
- 12:47Speaker 7: really have a good match up with them, and feel
- 12:50Speaker 7: like we that type of football team too, So it
- 12:52Speaker 7: doesn't matter what what where we play?
- 12:54Speaker 4: We gotta go out there and you know, handle business, big.
- 12:56Speaker 8: Time game on senarities or types of games.
- 12:59Speaker 4: They're really excite.
- 13:00Speaker 7: What you guys, I like, I get the butterflies for
- 13:04Speaker 7: every game I play, honestly, And that's just me being
- 13:07Speaker 7: you know, in love with this game since I was,
- 13:08Speaker 7: you know, five years old. So every game is very
- 13:12Speaker 7: important to me. In the NFL, you know, uh you
- 13:15Speaker 7: every game definitely counts. So this one definitely counts today,
- 13:18Speaker 7: I mean for Sunday and it it it It definitely
- 13:20Speaker 7: means a lot for you know, all these games mean
- 13:22Speaker 7: a lot for us going forward.
- 13:25Speaker 3: How impressive would it be the sweet DAYFC West and
- 13:28Speaker 3: how good those teams are and and what you been
- 13:30Speaker 3: able to do so far?
- 13:31Speaker 2: I guess yeah.
- 13:32Speaker 7: I mean, like I said, we we just wanna go
- 13:34Speaker 7: out there and execute against anybody that we play. Of course,
- 13:37Speaker 7: it's always a good thing where you can win on
- 13:38Speaker 7: the road, but like I said, it's about us going
- 13:41Speaker 7: out there and playing our brand of football and being
- 13:43Speaker 7: able to go there and an a and appose I
- 13:45Speaker 7: will what.
- 13:46Speaker 3: Uh the animation the personality of Liam when he comes
- 13:50Speaker 3: in after a win. Are are you now like Uh,
- 13:52Speaker 3: can't wait for that after after ten of these things.
- 13:55Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, we can't wait for victory Monday. That's wha.
- 13:58Speaker 4: That's where a lot of guys are decided are out.
- 14:00Speaker 7: But of course, you you love it when your your
- 14:02Speaker 7: coach goes out there even even during the game, you know,
- 14:04Speaker 7: show that emotion that you know he's investing in he
- 14:06Speaker 7: wanted to go. He wanna go there and and and
- 14:08Speaker 7: compete with you know, the play callers that he's going
- 14:10Speaker 7: up against. So it it's definitely a good thing when
- 14:12Speaker 7: you know you you have a fiery guy like that on.
- 14:14Speaker 2: Your side that wanna go up there and and win
- 14:16Speaker 2: games too.
- 14:17Speaker 7: So you know, he he creates that culture and we
- 14:20Speaker 7: just go out there and field and you know, have
- 14:22Speaker 7: that we embodied you.
- 14:23Speaker 2: Know what I'm saying Leam too too today about how
- 14:26Speaker 2: he feels like he's seeing the trust and this team growing.
- 14:28Speaker 5: Just how much from your perspective, have you seen the trust.
- 14:30Speaker 4: Within each other guard?
- 14:31Speaker 2: Uh? I mean we we do everything together.
- 14:33Speaker 7: We go out, Uh, we go to uh different you know,
- 14:35Speaker 7: charity events and support each other not just on the field,
- 14:38Speaker 7: but you know, just understanding what you w w what your
- 14:40Speaker 7: guys are and who who your guys are. So when
- 14:43Speaker 7: we got that, you know that trust and we understand
- 14:45Speaker 7: who we are.
- 14:46Speaker 2: We understood how we we want to play.
- 14:48Speaker 7: On the field together and we want to play for
- 14:50Speaker 7: each other and.
- 14:51Speaker 4: And and we never want to let wanted another.
- 14:53Speaker 2: Down, so that it the grown.
- 14:56Speaker 7: The trust has grown a lot, and we've been gotten
- 14:58Speaker 7: closer as a team.
- 14:58Speaker 4: And you can feel that when we on the feel
- 15:00Speaker 4: inn of the fut