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- 0:00Speaker 1: And that ability to add live put a strain on
- 0:02Speaker 1: a secondary for sure.
- 0:03Speaker 2: I mean, I wouldn't say a strain, just attention to detail.
- 0:07Speaker 2: So trust the guys up front to do what they're doing.
- 0:10Speaker 2: But we just got to stay in coverage all day.
- 0:12Speaker 3: What's this mean to you?
- 0:13Speaker 4: To run out there on Sunday and the stadium as
- 0:15Speaker 4: a starter on this football team.
- 0:17Speaker 5: It means a lot.
- 0:18Speaker 2: I've uh, you know, I like I've I've said it
- 0:20Speaker 2: many times.
- 0:21Speaker 3: This is what I see myself as.
- 0:22Speaker 2: So I've become what I've thought about and I'm just
- 0:25Speaker 2: gonna keep going. I got, you know, a lot of aspirations,
- 0:27Speaker 2: a lot of dreams, and it's it's cool because I
- 0:30Speaker 2: thought about it and it has become reality. So super
- 0:32Speaker 2: excited and you know, I love it here and I
- 0:34Speaker 2: can't wait to be out there. You know, hear that
- 0:37Speaker 2: crowd go again and just get this place turned up.
- 0:39Speaker 5: Super excited?
- 0:40Speaker 4: Is it does that piggyback on last year with injury
- 0:44Speaker 4: and everything tie some emotion into it for you?
- 0:48Speaker 2: No, I just I've always seen myself as a starter,
- 0:52Speaker 2: and you know, I'm not gonna overdo it.
- 0:55Speaker 5: I'm just gonna go do what I.
- 0:56Speaker 2: Do and and try to go bring the guys along
- 1:00Speaker 2: with me.
- 1:00Speaker 4: How prep do you feel like this defense is to
- 1:03Speaker 4: kind of unleash all the things you've tried to work on.
- 1:06Speaker 2: I think we're Yeah, I think we're pretty dialed. Obviously
- 1:08Speaker 2: it's week one, so now the full menu of stuff
- 1:12Speaker 2: is coming out, so we really got to be dialed
- 1:13Speaker 2: into like all our calls. You know, we can't forget
- 1:15Speaker 2: all of our stuff. But I'm super excited to see
- 1:18Speaker 2: how it goes. I know, you know, Coach Camp's gonna
- 1:20Speaker 2: dial some stuff up, so it's gonna be fun.
- 1:24Speaker 6: Is there any uncertainty about what you guys are getting into?
- 1:27Speaker 6: Like do you feel like you know what to expect
- 1:29Speaker 6: from this team? Or I mean there's all that newness.
- 1:32Speaker 5: Like for our like for our stuff or for them.
- 1:34Speaker 6: No, for you guys in terms of what to expect
- 1:37Speaker 6: when you get on getting on the field, right because
- 1:40Speaker 6: everything's new. There's a lot of new players on new faces.
- 1:44Speaker 6: Do you have or do you look at it as
- 1:46Speaker 6: we're ready?
- 1:46Speaker 5: We're good?
- 1:47Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean this is the stuff we've been running
- 1:48Speaker 2: since March, so I think we're ready.
- 1:50Speaker 7: You know, fan base is excited and opening day, a
- 1:52Speaker 7: lot of people are gonna come out and see you
- 1:53Speaker 7: guys for the first time.
- 1:54Speaker 3: What's your message to the fan base that'll be out
- 1:56Speaker 3: here on Sunday. Oh, it's a new brand of football.
- 1:59Speaker 1: We're gonna be physical, know that, regardless of what we're
- 2:01Speaker 1: gonna do with how were we gonna attack 'em.
- 2:02Speaker 3: We we're gonna go out there.
- 2:03Speaker 1: And be physical with those guys, uh, with anybody that
- 2:06Speaker 1: we play. So that's gonna be our brand of football,
- 2:08Speaker 1: and that's we're gonna hang our hand on or just
- 2:09Speaker 1: being a physical bunch to go out there and you know,
- 2:11Speaker 1: beat people up.
- 2:12Speaker 3: Appreciate problem.
- 2:13Speaker 5: Yep yepna handle six four tall long wide receiver. What's
- 2:19Speaker 5: the challenge?
- 2:20Speaker 1: Uh, you try to get your hands on, you know,
- 2:21Speaker 1: disrupt timing. Make sure that you know Bryce you know, uh,
- 2:25Speaker 1: you disrupt the timing so you know.
- 2:26Speaker 3: The the line can get there. D line to get there.
- 2:29Speaker 1: I mean we got a pretty good D line, uh
- 2:31Speaker 1: to go g go out there and chase them around.
- 2:32Speaker 3: But the it it's definitely a big challenge, especially.
- 2:35Speaker 1: When you got a guy that's you know, uh moultable
- 2:37Speaker 1: like Bryce is and guys that can go up there
- 2:39Speaker 1: and get the ball.
- 2:39Speaker 3: So it's definitely a big challenge.
- 2:41Speaker 1: But you know, try to get physical with those guys
- 2:43Speaker 1: and you know, throw some timing and that's that's pretty
- 2:45Speaker 1: much they could do.
- 2:46Speaker 3: So it's gonna be a really good challenge for us.
- 2:48Speaker 3: Do you like when you see a rookie receiver on
- 2:50Speaker 3: the other side? It's different nowadays.
- 2:52Speaker 1: Man, those guys come in professionals and you know, uh
- 2:54Speaker 1: all of this nil stuff. They be ready to go
- 2:56Speaker 1: out there and uh perform anytime they go go so
- 2:59Speaker 1: and they been professional since you know, they're in high school.
- 3:02Speaker 1: So you know, the the the eye, the the the
- 3:04Speaker 1: spectacle of you know, those those guys that are real
- 3:06Speaker 1: special in high school that'd been you know, in a
- 3:08Speaker 1: g in the limelight since they were little. So it's
- 3:10Speaker 1: the same thing, man, Just go out there and prepare,
- 3:12Speaker 1: you know, uh for the scheme and things that they
- 3:14Speaker 1: like to do.
- 3:15Speaker 3: But I don't, I don't.
- 3:16Speaker 1: I don't put too much stock in a guy being
- 3:18Speaker 1: a rookie ar you know, trying to beat him.
- 3:19Speaker 3: Up or anything like that.
- 3:20Speaker 1: Just go play our physical brand of football like we do,
- 3:22Speaker 1: and you know that the chicks fall like that.
- 3:25Speaker 5: What how I agree with you to get out there
- 3:26Speaker 5: in proNT of.
- 3:27Speaker 3: The home crowds that day. I'm extremely excited.
- 3:29Speaker 1: I'm glad that we got a uh our home opener is,
- 3:31Speaker 1: you know, our first game.
- 3:32Speaker 3: So I'm extremely excited to be a Jagged.
- 3:33Speaker 1: Man to go out there and show those guys, well
- 3:35Speaker 1: the fans, that I can go up there and play
- 3:37Speaker 1: with the best of 'em.
- 3:39Speaker 5: What it mean to you to be named the captain
- 3:41Speaker 5: of this team?
- 3:41Speaker 3: It means everything.
- 3:42Speaker 5: Man.
- 3:42Speaker 3: I've been in the league for nine years now.
- 3:44Speaker 1: This is my first time being the captain uh official captain,
- 3:46Speaker 1: So it means a lot for my peers to go
- 3:48Speaker 1: out there and about me, and you know, the the
- 3:50Speaker 1: culture staff to to to give me that that privilege
- 3:53Speaker 1: and and and trust me to to go out there
- 3:55Speaker 1: and lead these guys, be one of the leaders. And
- 3:57Speaker 1: I'm I'm extremely excited to go out there and show
- 3:59Speaker 1: them that I'm I'm fully capably a leader.
- 4:01Speaker 7: Yeah, I'd say it's a tremendous honor. I was a
- 4:05Speaker 7: captain at Notre Name my last two years and that
- 4:08Speaker 7: was one of the greatest honors I could have asked for.
- 4:10Speaker 5: And this is up there with that.
- 4:12Speaker 7: To get that vote from your teammates and others that
- 4:14Speaker 7: have that confidence in you. I mean, as a leader,
- 4:16Speaker 7: that's all you want is to be able to lead
- 4:19Speaker 7: and to help guys and bring them along. So to
- 4:21Speaker 7: know others have that belief in me and to give
- 4:22Speaker 7: me the opportunity to help lead this team along with
- 4:25Speaker 7: other great dudes who are captains and the guys who
- 4:27Speaker 7: aren't captains too.
- 4:28Speaker 3: I mean, we have a lot of leaders.
- 4:29Speaker 5: In this locker room. But that's a tremendous honor.
- 4:32Speaker 3: Yeah, is that a.
- 4:32Speaker 4: Goal when you came over here, I know to talk
- 4:35Speaker 4: to you wanted to be a leader, but to be
- 4:36Speaker 4: a captain's I.
- 4:38Speaker 7: Never really put that specifically in my mind. It was
- 4:42Speaker 7: just always be who I am, be the best version
- 4:45Speaker 7: of myself. And you know that was really it. Let
- 4:48Speaker 7: everything else happen as it happens. If if I wasn't
- 4:51Speaker 7: for the captain and I wouldn't have changed how I
- 4:53Speaker 7: am or.
- 4:53Speaker 5: Who I am.
- 4:54Speaker 7: I would have continued to try to do everything I
- 4:55Speaker 7: can to help the team and help lead.
- 4:57Speaker 5: So do you of.
- 5:00Speaker 3: We're in the city.
- 5:01Speaker 4: I mean, doesn't change anything.
- 5:03Speaker 7: No, I think kind of just like I said, like
- 5:06Speaker 7: I have to operate like myself, like the best version
- 5:10Speaker 7: of myself. All the time, no matter what position you are,
- 5:13Speaker 7: the goal, the number one goal is always helped the
- 5:14Speaker 7: Jags win. I'm gonna do that no matter where, no
- 5:18Speaker 7: matter what position I am.
- 5:21Speaker 3: In this locker room, there's so.
- 5:23Speaker 4: Much talk about you guys, feel like you're physical, you
- 5:27Speaker 4: accomplish that. What gives you the sense that you have
- 5:31Speaker 4: in August going into the year that you're.
- 5:33Speaker 3: A physical fund ball teacher.
- 5:36Speaker 7: If we've practiced physical, we've played physical, But we have
- 5:39Speaker 7: a whole hell of a lot to show up front
- 5:43Speaker 7: front seven, offense and defense. You know, you watch football,
- 5:46Speaker 7: it's it's evident who wins the line of scrimmage a
- 5:48Speaker 7: lot of times wins the game. So that's something we
- 5:50Speaker 7: have in our minds for sure, is to be that
- 5:52Speaker 7: team and not to out physical you, the out tough you,
- 5:54Speaker 7: and just to continue to do what we're good at.
- 5:57Speaker 7: Be ourselves. Like I've been saying, trust art nique fundamentals.
- 6:00Speaker 7: We don't have to be anyone else. We don't have
- 6:02Speaker 7: to be superheroes. We just need to be ourselves and
- 6:04Speaker 7: that is that is plenty, especially with this group.
- 6:06Speaker 5: That we have at all.
- 6:08Speaker 3: For that first game of the season.
- 6:10Speaker 7: Always always very excited, very excited to go put everything
- 6:13Speaker 7: we've been doing on tape.
- 6:14Speaker 1: Do you kind of have to manage it a little
- 6:15Speaker 1: bit because you know, it's a long season. Not to
- 6:17Speaker 1: put too much out there or too much emphasis on
- 6:21Speaker 1: just that first game.
- 6:23Speaker 7: It's hard not to just because you've been focusing on
- 6:25Speaker 7: it for a long time. It's always that first one,
- 6:27Speaker 7: and I feel like once that first one hits, then
- 6:30Speaker 7: you're rolling and it's like there's no looking back. You're
- 6:33Speaker 7: just in it and you're going. So I don't know
- 6:35Speaker 7: if you have to manage it, but it's definitely exciting
- 6:37Speaker 7: to be in a Wednesday where I'm like, Okay, we
- 6:39Speaker 7: got a freaking game this week, Like let's roll.
- 6:42Speaker 5: You know we talked about the physicality. Is that pretty
- 6:44Speaker 5: much number one on the awards circle. It's good.
- 6:47Speaker 7: Number one on the board is like I said, help
- 6:49Speaker 7: the Jags win, and being physical is going to do
- 6:51Speaker 7: that for sure. Being the best version of ourselves are
- 6:53Speaker 7: going to do that. Being the best unit that's going
- 6:55Speaker 7: to do that, that's kind of the the kind of
- 6:57Speaker 7: the the my top for you, help the Jags win,
- 6:59Speaker 7: be the best version of myself, be the best unit
- 7:01Speaker 7: we can be. Physicality falls into that for sure, but
- 7:04Speaker 7: so many other things do too that we cannot fall
- 7:06Speaker 7: short of focusing on, like technique fundamentals, the mental side
- 7:10Speaker 7: of this game as well.
- 7:11Speaker 4: Trevor has given you a lot of credit for this
- 7:13Speaker 4: offense and help imponent and get him comfortable with it.
- 7:17Speaker 4: How do you see him from the six months ago,
- 7:20Speaker 4: five months ago, whatever that was, to now in this
- 7:23Speaker 4: offense and command of it.
- 7:24Speaker 7: I think I've seen a ton of growth, but from Trevor,
- 7:26Speaker 7: it's been really cool to see his confidence has grown.
- 7:31Speaker 7: He's got like he has a great feel for he's commanding.
- 7:34Speaker 7: He always has been commanding the huddle because of the
- 7:36Speaker 7: people it's been, but now he's commanding the offense and
- 7:39Speaker 7: he's owning the scheme like Liam talks about owning this,
- 7:41Speaker 7: owning this playbook, making it his making sure things are
- 7:45Speaker 7: on his plate, and he's taking care of him. So
- 7:46Speaker 7: it's been very cool to see and super proudlem super
- 7:49Speaker 7: grateful to be leading with him and have him as.
- 7:51Speaker 8: Our quarterback, or to think about pledging a certain amount
- 7:56Speaker 8: per sect everybody, not just everybody. I know you guys
- 7:59Speaker 8: don't need any necessarily more motivation to make plays, but
- 8:02Speaker 8: is that a little added kick to the season.
- 8:05Speaker 9: One hundred percent. I think the guys know and they, uh,
- 8:09Speaker 9: they want to contribute. They want to help for me,
- 8:12Speaker 9: contribute a lot more so. Uh, you know they're excited
- 8:14Speaker 9: about it, and you know, I'm excited to keep going
- 8:17Speaker 9: brack it up.
- 8:18Speaker 6: Sorry, when did your top just yet?
- 8:22Speaker 1: So when did you tell me you.
- 8:23Speaker 3: Like about this or watch TI?
- 8:25Speaker 5: Well? I didn't tell them, but I just know in
- 8:27Speaker 5: their heart they appreciate it. Talked to you about that,
- 8:31Speaker 5: you just got you to.
- 8:33Speaker 9: No, I think I told I think I told Trey
- 8:35Speaker 9: about it. I think I told Trery and Eric about it.
- 8:38Speaker 9: But then everybody else is kind of like, you know,
- 8:41Speaker 9: we just get it when we get it and when
- 8:43Speaker 9: they get to get it. So hopefully we get a
- 8:45Speaker 9: lot of sids. I think, Uh, you know, Coach has
- 8:48Speaker 9: a lot of things dolled up for us, and you
- 8:50Speaker 9: know we'll get things cracking.
- 8:52Speaker 3: How curious that you will see how this comes together.
- 8:54Speaker 4: I mean Eric and Mason didn't play a lot in
- 8:57Speaker 4: August and Saunders just got here.
- 9:01Speaker 6: Right.
- 9:02Speaker 9: No, I think, no, No, I'm excited. I think those
- 9:07Speaker 9: guys are excited. I think we got a good grasp
- 9:09Speaker 9: of how we're gonna play this year. We're expecting up
- 9:13Speaker 9: front and just letting it go. Uh So I think
- 9:16Speaker 9: every guy that missed those times and you know, miss
- 9:18Speaker 9: turning camp a little bit.
- 9:19Speaker 5: And you know, Eric's been in the back end. I
- 9:22Speaker 5: think he's adjusted really well. Mason's adjusted really well.
- 9:24Speaker 9: Then those guys understand, like, hey, we know how to
- 9:26Speaker 9: play up front, and we're all gonna play fast, physical
- 9:30Speaker 9: and aggressive.
- 9:30Speaker 5: Josh, you've been creeping, creeping, creeping? Would you like to
- 9:34Speaker 5: go ahead and get.
- 9:35Speaker 9: It, get done and over with.
- 9:36Speaker 6: And just have it behind you and be that and you.
- 9:39Speaker 5: Know, just check You'll check that.
- 9:40Speaker 2: Off and move on to the next thing.
- 9:44Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, you know, I'm you know about the sack
- 9:48Speaker 9: man obviously, y'all. Everybody knows how I feel about it.
- 9:52Speaker 9: You know, when I play well, playing fast, playing physical,
- 9:55Speaker 9: doing I'm supposed to do is gonna happen regardless, and uh,
- 9:58Speaker 9: you know I'm not I'm a obviously be aware of it.
- 10:01Speaker 9: But my attention to details to the next play is
- 10:03Speaker 9: more important.
- 10:04Speaker 6: You know.
- 10:04Speaker 9: I think my guys are gonna help celebrate, but again,
- 10:07Speaker 9: got to come back, got to do it again. And
- 10:09Speaker 9: uh and at the end of the day, I want
- 10:11Speaker 9: to make it hard for trade because I think he's
- 10:12Speaker 9: going to be up there with me one day.
- 10:14Speaker 6: Was this defense to talented last year to be where
- 10:16Speaker 6: it was statistically thirty first in the league?
- 10:19Speaker 5: And where do you guys want to see immediate growth
- 10:21Speaker 5: right out.
- 10:22Speaker 3: Of the gate.
- 10:24Speaker 9: This Sunday, you know, come out. I think, uh again,
- 10:28Speaker 9: we were very talented, same team, let's do it. I
- 10:32Speaker 9: don't really really, you know, last year was last year.
- 10:35Speaker 9: This year, I think we got a lot of good
- 10:37Speaker 9: players that had a lot of key positions. We got
- 10:39Speaker 9: better in a lot of positions. Not saying that they
- 10:42Speaker 9: weren't good last year, but they wanted to see an
- 10:44Speaker 9: area of improvement, and I think we brought in guys
- 10:46Speaker 9: that can compete at a high level and make great
- 10:49Speaker 9: depth to So I'm excited to see those guys play
- 10:52Speaker 9: and get going.
- 10:54Speaker 5: One more sorry, is this a good test for you?
- 10:56Speaker 6: Guys?
- 10:56Speaker 5: Want to be able to stop your rune, be better
- 10:58Speaker 5: against the runs?
- 10:58Speaker 6: Just a really good test right out of the gates.
- 11:01Speaker 9: Hovered.
- 11:02Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 11:03Speaker 9: I think he's a very aggressive runner downhill. U likes contact,
- 11:08Speaker 9: like physicality in this on line. They predicate on being
- 11:11Speaker 9: physical upfront. Big Golf, Big golfensive guy in one of
- 11:13Speaker 9: the move guys. Uh So it's a big test for us.
- 11:15Speaker 9: But if we play our keys and do what we
- 11:18Speaker 9: need to do, you know, continue to control the line
- 11:20Speaker 9: of scrimmage, we're gonna opportunities to stop the run, get
- 11:23Speaker 9: tech phlossos and eventually get sacks and pressures in hers.
- 11:26Speaker 5: Last time more doesn't. Last time you played Carolina you
- 11:29Speaker 5: had three sacks. Broke single singis in the record. Because
- 11:32Speaker 5: I crept into your mind.
- 11:33Speaker 9: At all this week, I will you know, I will
- 11:34Speaker 9: lie if I if I if I didn't know, if
- 11:37Speaker 9: I say it didn't. But you know where I am
- 11:40Speaker 9: as a professional, where I am currently right now in
- 11:42Speaker 9: my career, man is to you know, look at the good,
- 11:45Speaker 9: look at the bad, but also stay in between and
- 11:47Speaker 9: kind of just see where it is.
- 11:49Speaker 5: And you know that was two years ago. Two years
- 11:51Speaker 5: was two years ago.
- 11:52Speaker 9: I can't kind of can't try to recreate and relive
- 11:54Speaker 9: those memories, but create new ones.
- 11:56Speaker 5: And that is by playing play by player, knowing what
- 11:58Speaker 5: I'm doing. I get out there.
- 12:00Speaker 4: Do you do you enter every season as motivated as
- 12:03Speaker 4: you were the previous the same ship. Yeah, of course,
- 12:06Speaker 4: different every year, and I guess where's that level this year?
- 12:10Speaker 5: I mean, great question. I appreciate you asking that.
- 12:14Speaker 6: You know.
- 12:14Speaker 9: That's one thing that I think the older you get,
- 12:17Speaker 9: the longer you play, uh, that's when you start to
- 12:20Speaker 9: feel and lose the you know, not love, but just
- 12:24Speaker 9: why do I play?
- 12:25Speaker 5: You know? And for me, man, I keep it on
- 12:27Speaker 5: my phone. Defensive Player of the Year.
- 12:29Speaker 9: That's a goal that I want to set to you know,
- 12:31Speaker 9: set to achieve. And if I want to achieve that goal,
- 12:34Speaker 9: I have to put into work every single day. There's
- 12:37Speaker 9: goals and accolades that I want to achieve, but there's
- 12:39Speaker 9: also a lot of team success. I feel like if
- 12:41Speaker 9: I play at a high level that I can help
- 12:43Speaker 9: my team achieve that and that's the ultimate goal at
- 12:45Speaker 9: the end of the day, and that will motivates me.
- 12:47Speaker 5: Uh.
- 12:47Speaker 9: I still got a lot of you know, a lot
- 12:48Speaker 9: of chips that I had growing up and uh throughout
- 12:51Speaker 9: this process.
- 12:52Speaker 5: That kind of motivates me.
- 12:53Speaker 9: But at the end of the day, there's a lot
- 12:54Speaker 9: of goals that I need to achieve and you know,
- 12:56Speaker 9: I'm not gonna do that if I'm not focused.
- 12:57Speaker 5: Uh, day in and day out. It's does a fast
- 13:00Speaker 5: start to the season. Very important.
- 13:04Speaker 9: Obviously, we won't want to look stupid, but we don't
- 13:08Speaker 9: want to look bad.
- 13:09Speaker 5: Not trying to say no, you know what I mean.
- 13:12Speaker 9: We want to start fast obviously, but you know, one
- 13:14Speaker 9: thing coach Peterson told us years ago was, you know,
- 13:18Speaker 9: play medical football in February December. So it's like, yes,
- 13:22Speaker 9: it's how fast you start. You can start super fast,
- 13:24Speaker 9: but also die off towards the end. You know, for
- 13:27Speaker 9: us as to you know, what's the consistently, Look what's
- 13:29Speaker 9: the consistency?
- 13:30Speaker 5: Look like we may lose it and we may play great,
- 13:33Speaker 5: but we may but we may lose.
- 13:35Speaker 9: As long as we can play consistent at our positions
- 13:38Speaker 9: as a defense, as an offense, as special teams, and
- 13:40Speaker 9: be in every game, I think we're gonna win more
- 13:42Speaker 9: than enough. So once we get later down the road, consistency,
- 13:47Speaker 9: you know, where every team's slacking off because they're getting exhausted,
- 13:49Speaker 9: they're seeing mundane stuff. Where continue to build is you know,
- 13:54Speaker 9: continue to stay consistent and continue to stay aggressive