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Jalen Milroe & Tyler Booker Talk Football After Nick Saban + Recruiting Stories To Get To Alabama · Bussin' With The Boys

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to another episode of the Bus and Spring Football Tour.
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  Speaker 1: Alabama Fans, the emotional maturity that you're about to hear
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  Speaker 1: from both Tyler Booker and Jalen Milroe does nothing but
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  Speaker 1: fire you guys up. Whatever culture building happens at Alabama,
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  Speaker 1: it's why they're one of the most premier schools in
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  Speaker 1: the country. Talking with Tyler Booker, we talked about being
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  Speaker 1: an IMG athlete growing up through that. What IMG offers
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  Speaker 1: the head that this kid has on his shoulders. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if he fakes it in the camera, it's
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  Speaker 1: a different off camera. It doesn't seem like it, but
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  Speaker 1: it's incredible. We talked to him and Jalen Milroe both
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  Speaker 1: about the culture differences between coach de Boor and playing
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  Speaker 1: under coach Saban, the new wrinkles that coach de Boors brought.
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  Speaker 1: Some fun stories about Coach Saban and Jalen Milroe as well.
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  Speaker 1: Talking to him about how he was committed to Texas,
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  Speaker 1: the Committee and going to Alabama. That's a funny process
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  Speaker 1: some of his favorite moments. You guys are going to
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  Speaker 1: love these conversations. If you're an Alabama fan and you're
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  Speaker 1: new to Bus with the Boys, the Spring Football Tour,
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  Speaker 1: we sit down with coaches. Are we sitting with the
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  Speaker 1: head coach that will be on the episode tomorrow? And
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  Speaker 1: we sit down with players to talk about the ins
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  Speaker 1: and outs of their journey, why they chose their school,
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  Speaker 1: and a whole lot of fun inside. You guys are
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  Speaker 2: Do you guys play the team from Friday Night Lights seven?
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  Speaker 3: That's far away? That's that's out the way.
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  Speaker 2: We played seven hours. I looked it up on the
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  Speaker 2: drive over. It's a long way.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it ain't near me.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah what but why do I know the name? Katie Texas?
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  Speaker 3: Like what I have any Doughton play that Katie High?
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah?
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  Speaker 3: And then like Katie Katie High like a powerhouse in
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  Speaker 3: Texas and they play like nationally and like they they
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  Speaker 3: probably like one of the best teams in the country
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  Speaker 3: really and so that's where they like get the you know,
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  Speaker 3: like the yeah, a lot of light because like they
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  Speaker 3: play with really good and then uh, we played them
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  Speaker 3: actually in high schools. So when I was in high school,
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  Speaker 3: we lost in them freshman year, my sophomore year, junior
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  Speaker 3: would be to my senior year of high school. But
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  Speaker 3: what's funny about it is that the last time they
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  Speaker 3: lost a district game, I was in kindergarten. The last
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  Speaker 3: time I lost a disc games. Like since then, they
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  Speaker 3: been underfeeding district. And then boom, like they take off
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  Speaker 3: from playoffs and like they either go to state or
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  Speaker 3: like losing like the fifth or fourth round. So like
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  Speaker 3: they're like they're like they're real good. Bro, yeah good, Yeah, that.
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  Speaker 2: Is wild growing up in Texas.
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  Speaker 4: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: You obviously have the Longhorns there. I feel like everybody
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  Speaker 2: loves the Longhorns. And you're going through your entire process, wow, Obama.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, I'm being honest. During the process initially, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the biggest thing you want to look out of your
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  Speaker 3: family and like, you know, what is the best decision
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  Speaker 3: for yourself but also your family, and you know, Texas
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  Speaker 3: was the option, and it was the option staying close
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  Speaker 3: to home, which is Houston staying there. Uh. And I
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  Speaker 3: was committed to Texas for two years and the biggest
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  Speaker 3: thing I had to get out of my way was
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  Speaker 3: said in my next forty years in my life, not
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  Speaker 3: just run about the present and looking at the future.
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  Speaker 3: And when it came to it, you know, everyone's gonna
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  Speaker 3: sell your dream. I mean to come here, we're gonna
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  Speaker 3: develop you, and we're gonna put your position to do this,
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  Speaker 3: this and this. But like not the the hard questions
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  Speaker 3: are how you gonna set me to set up and
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  Speaker 3: be provide for my family one day? Like that's the
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  Speaker 3: biggest thing, you know. And then of course, you know
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  Speaker 3: you talk ex's and o's and being developed and sometuff
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  Speaker 3: like that. But Coach Saving, you know, during the process
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  Speaker 3: with Coach Saving, I was committed to Texas, but I
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  Speaker 3: was taking calls. I was answering people, and Coach Saving
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  Speaker 3: with one of them. The one thing that stook out
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  Speaker 3: to me was during the process of whatever, coach you know,
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  Speaker 3: we were FaceTime whatever, and he told me, hey, like
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  Speaker 3: during the draft when two gets selected, I'm gonna call you.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, man, you ain't gonna call me. What you
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  Speaker 3: talking about? You anna call me? So what? So with
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  Speaker 3: the whatever pick, Savan called me and said, hey, you
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  Speaker 3: come here, this will be you the next So I
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  Speaker 3: was a junior high scho it would be you in
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  Speaker 3: the next five to six years. So I'm committing like
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  Speaker 3: there's no question, Like I'm committing like nothing. Ain't gotta
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  Speaker 3: sell me nothing. That's what I want to do. And
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  Speaker 3: he's at the draft at the draft, so he's face
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  Speaker 3: right right his face time, so I've seen his face
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  Speaker 3: like he was like that. I'm like, man, I'm laughing,
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  Speaker 3: like yeah, that's right. Nah, he was serious, like talking
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  Speaker 3: about the bold face, talk about my next future and
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  Speaker 3: you know what all needed to be done, all this stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Then gave me like his dad talked. Then he gave
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  Speaker 3: me the coach talking. I'm I'm like, man, like, this
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  Speaker 3: is the place I need to be at and so
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  Speaker 3: this is why I'm committed to Texas. So man like
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  Speaker 3: I signed and committed. No one know that, but I
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  Speaker 3: signed committed to Alabama like before I even posted it,
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  Speaker 3: so like I would commit for Alabama like for a while.
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  Speaker 3: And so shoot was like a little thing like that.
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  Speaker 3: And then it was like talking about my future, talking
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  Speaker 3: about why is this the best option to being developed
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  Speaker 3: and stuff like that, and then the resources was wearing
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  Speaker 3: the a like there's nothing like greater than that a
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  Speaker 3: logo like like, I know you went to Michigan. I know,
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  Speaker 3: I know all that good stuff, but like dog like
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  Speaker 3: that a is special, or like you can be in
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  Speaker 3: Paris and someone see that he didn't know what it
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  Speaker 3: is like and then just the network and it comes
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  Speaker 3: with it, you know. And so there's like there's a
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  Speaker 3: lot of things that took place to you know, committing
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  Speaker 3: here and being here. But I think that's one example
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  Speaker 3: that I have that always be special.
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  Speaker 2: When you get sorry ahead when you I just wanted
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  Speaker 2: to talk about that silent commit for a second. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so you got you get that phone call from saving
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  Speaker 2: did you suldently go okay, I'm going to Alabama.
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  Speaker 1: To him on the phone?
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  Speaker 3: Oh no, no, no, no, it's like like you hang the phone.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, most.
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  Speaker 2: Definitely they wouldn't know. And then you had to go
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  Speaker 2: up to them and slightly.
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  Speaker 1: When you get off the phone and you're talking to
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  Speaker 1: your family, what's that conversation taking place?
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  Speaker 3: Well, well, the thing was that like to thinking through
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  Speaker 3: you know, you don't want to make an emotional decision
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  Speaker 3: during the process, and so you know, I'm talking to
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  Speaker 3: them and I'm telling you, hey, I'm committed to Texas,
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  Speaker 3: but like my options are open. And you know, my
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  Speaker 3: biggest thing is when I decommitted from the school, I
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  Speaker 3: wanted to commit automatically, so like I I didn't want
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  Speaker 3: to decommit, and then I'm just I'm just sitting there,
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  Speaker 3: like knowing no option because during my time, like a
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  Speaker 3: lot of guys are committing quick, like every power you know, uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, big school in the country all had to
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  Speaker 3: commit at every single school, and so like they were
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  Speaker 3: waiting for that next quarterback in each class, whether it's
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  Speaker 3: taking two quarterbacks or one quarterback. And Alabama was one
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  Speaker 3: of the class the school that were only taking one quarterback.
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  Speaker 3: So like they needed no answer because they'll go right
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  Speaker 3: there at Louisana and go get them a quarterback. You know,
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  Speaker 3: so they needed a quarterback and uh, you know, they
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  Speaker 3: were vocal with that, but I think, you know, of
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  Speaker 3: course I thought it through. My parents looked at it,
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  Speaker 3: and so like that. And what I mean by signing
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  Speaker 3: commit is like you tell the school you're committing to
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  Speaker 3: them and say I'll figure out the rest of it.
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  Speaker 3: So like my job is locked. Like when we look
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  Speaker 3: at the class, like you're gonna have twenty five class,
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  Speaker 3: Like twenty five people in the class all wanted them
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  Speaker 3: part of Alabama. I told them like, hey, like I'm
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  Speaker 3: thinking about coming here.
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  Speaker 1: Like this, my Texas dropped the ball. The Texas dropped
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  Speaker 1: the ball anywhere.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah they did, you know, yeah, yeah, it was it was.
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  Speaker 3: It was some things during you know, the process, that
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  Speaker 3: was that I needed to look at the you know
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  Speaker 3: that the best of my future. I think that was
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  Speaker 3: the best. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Legit. Yeah sounds like you were just had a side
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  Speaker 2: check and you were like, all right, cool, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: date you.
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  Speaker 3: Stay quiet here once I take care of that.
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  Speaker 2: I look at me. I promise I'm gonna be with you.
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  Speaker 1: Take us to your first couple of years of BAM.
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  Speaker 1: I like getting to learn from somebody like Bryce Young.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: For me coming into college, it was a great opportunity
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  Speaker 3: for me to get better. I think that was. You know,
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  Speaker 3: people have different mindsets when it comes to cause me.
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  Speaker 3: I want to play trade right away. I want to
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  Speaker 3: be the best me when in any form of fashion.
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  Speaker 3: I want to be the best gentle of Mirrod I
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  Speaker 3: can be. Whether it was academics, whether it was getting
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  Speaker 3: my body in shape to be in a position i
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  Speaker 3: am today, whether it was having more knowledge of football,
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  Speaker 3: I was trying to be my best me, and so
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  Speaker 3: whenever my time was right to be on the field,
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  Speaker 3: it was that time. And so I wasn't pressuring coach
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  Speaker 3: to hey, play me, play me, play me. That's not
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  Speaker 3: that's not my job.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 3: I let my actions speak loud of my words, you know.
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  Speaker 3: And so to speak about my time here, I think
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  Speaker 3: it's been humbling, just the just the what all goes
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  Speaker 3: into being an outdown quarterback, you know, and every form
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  Speaker 3: and fashion. You know. We had different guys stepping in
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  Speaker 3: the row of a quarterback, you know, going from you know,
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  Speaker 3: Mac Jones, the two Jayalen Hurst, Bryce are all different.
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  Speaker 3: All those guys are different, and it's okay. And there's
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  Speaker 3: no certain right way to play quarterback position. Everyone's different,
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  Speaker 3: you know. We look at the NFL. It's the same way.
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  Speaker 3: The top guy in the lead might be different than
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  Speaker 3: the thirty two guys, you know, and and it's and
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  Speaker 3: that's okay. But to speak about my time here, it's
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  Speaker 3: been great. It's been great to see what the resources
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  Speaker 3: of the A and what it has, the people that
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  Speaker 3: you meet along the journey. I met Michael Jordan there's
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  Speaker 3: a few days ago to look at that. That's like,
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  Speaker 3: that's like, it's been great. So it's been a lot
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  Speaker 3: of positive more than the negatives I can say. And
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  Speaker 3: it's been humbling and it's been a great experience throughout
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  Speaker 3: the process. But for me, I just learned so much
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  Speaker 3: about myself and so learn so much more that I
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  Speaker 3: have in stored just being here and just mean a
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  Speaker 3: lot of great guys.
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  Speaker 2: You said it was such a humbly experience, Like you know,
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  Speaker 2: if you're getting offers from Texas and Alabama and all
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  Speaker 2: these other schools, like you've been the man since you've
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  Speaker 2: put a football on your head, Like you've always been
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  Speaker 2: the star at the star of the showunds, but I
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  Speaker 2: see his shoulders, that's a warm upset. That's crazy. But
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  Speaker 2: you like, yeah, you're you're the man, Like you've been
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  Speaker 2: the man everywhere you've gone. Now you get to Alabama
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  Speaker 2: and you're riding the pine for a little bit, you're
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  Speaker 2: on the bench, and you're like if these talking about
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  Speaker 2: the humbly experience, like at any point where you're like, i'
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  Speaker 2: might have to get out of here. Maybe I made
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  Speaker 2: the wrong mistake, Maybe I made the wrong choice coming here.
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  Speaker 2: Was there a feeling like that.
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  Speaker 3: I could truly say that I wouldn't change anything by
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  Speaker 3: my time in college. I'm glad it happened. Everything that
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  Speaker 3: took place where I've been in college, I'm appreciative of
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  Speaker 3: it and it got me better. But to answer a question,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I gave a commitment to my parents before
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  Speaker 3: I left text and I told them I'm get my
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  Speaker 3: degree from Alabama. I don't care what care what happens.
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  Speaker 3: I don't care from the fourth string, third string, the starter,
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  Speaker 3: no matter what, I'm gonna get my degree. And I
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  Speaker 3: was blessed and fortunate enough to do that this past December.
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  Speaker 3: So that's one of the accomplishments that I had. Now
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  Speaker 3: I'm working on my mass so my parents don't get
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  Speaker 3: my master from Alabama, and so it just little things
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  Speaker 3: that I have for myself, whether a short song goal,
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  Speaker 3: longsong goals. I know that I need to achieve to
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  Speaker 3: be where I'm at in the future, and so there's
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  Speaker 3: nothing that was going to take me away from that.
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  Speaker 3: And so it just like little goals I have for
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  Speaker 3: myself and just being determined and just believing in myself.
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, you guys do a good job
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  Speaker 1: with your young men with aspirations beyond the football field.
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  Speaker 1: Congratulations on that too.
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  Speaker 3: Appreciation.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, you did have some adversity of you're on this
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  Speaker 1: past year, you have the USF game comes up, you're
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  Speaker 1: the starting quarterback. USF game happens, then you go to
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  Speaker 1: a backup role. Talk about your process, trying to because
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  Speaker 1: as athletes man, when you take an ego shot like
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  Speaker 1: that or an ego hit, it's hard to like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's the process, it's not the result. Staying and be
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  Speaker 1: where your feet are. Hey, next opportunity is going to
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  Speaker 1: consantly talk through that adversity for us until you got
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  Speaker 1: your next opportunity.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely, it was a process. I think that's one
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  Speaker 3: of the greatest things that could have happened, was that
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  Speaker 3: that that time right there, and I learned a lot
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  Speaker 3: about myself, and I learned about how to truly go
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  Speaker 3: get get through adversity. A lot of people can see
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  Speaker 3: adversity and fear from it, and I change my perspective
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  Speaker 3: and face everything and arise and throughout that journey, you know,
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  Speaker 3: all I did was lean on my supporting cast that's
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  Speaker 3: around me and not any external factors. Because when you
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  Speaker 3: look at external factors, they can waver away from your goals.
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  Speaker 3: And that's something that I took pride in. It was
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  Speaker 3: not really looking at external factors and not worrying about,
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  Speaker 3: you know, things I can't control. And during that time,
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  Speaker 3: you can look at a lot of things that are
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  Speaker 3: uncontrollables instead of the things that I controllable. What I
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  Speaker 3: can control is my attitude around my teammates. What I
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  Speaker 3: can control is how how long I'm in the film room.
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  Speaker 3: I can control what I'm eating in my body. I
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  Speaker 3: can control how prepared I am if I was going
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  Speaker 3: a game, I can control you know, how great of
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  Speaker 3: a teammate I am. Throughout the process. There's a lot
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  Speaker 3: of things I can control in set of the uncontrollables
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  Speaker 3: and the uncontrollable was the decision to benchment, and I
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  Speaker 3: look at the controllable and I look at you know,
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  Speaker 3: how can I benefit from from this situation? And to
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  Speaker 3: look at it. You know, there's some things that I
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  Speaker 3: did to improve as a player, improve my mindset, strengthen
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  Speaker 3: my mindset, see who was truly for me and not
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  Speaker 3: against me. So I learned a lot through that process.
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  Speaker 3: But I can truly say that I'm glad it happened
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  Speaker 3: I'm glad it happened. I'm glad it it took place
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  Speaker 3: because they benefited me in the long run.
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  Speaker 1: Blowing away, Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It is wild. You and booked the way you guys
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  Speaker 2: like set present yourself, the way you guys speak on everything.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's truly impressive to look at. But you're in
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  Speaker 2: a new offense. Let's keep with the with the interview going.
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  Speaker 2: You're a new offense. Coach, de board comes in. What
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  Speaker 2: do you see differently going in here? Because you have
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  Speaker 2: a very unique skill set, like you're you're in a
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  Speaker 2: very elite athlete. You see yourself slinging it a whole
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  Speaker 2: lot more going in this fall.
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  Speaker 3: I think I can do whatever I want where they
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  Speaker 3: running throw it like I can do whatever I wanted
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  Speaker 3: to do offense. So if I want to choose to
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  Speaker 3: run the game, run the whole game, I can choose
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  Speaker 3: to run the whole game. I can choose to throw
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  Speaker 3: this game. I can choose to throw this game. And
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  Speaker 3: I'm just very you know, confident on our coaching staff,
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  Speaker 3: confident in what they see in the future as far
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  Speaker 3: as our offense. But speak about coach the board. Coach
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  Speaker 3: the board has been done a really good job in
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  Speaker 3: the relationship aspect. You know, coach is going to coach,
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  Speaker 3: whether it's tech, talking about offense, talking about defense, talking
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  Speaker 3: about special teams. Coach is going to be a coach.
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  Speaker 3: You know, that's their job is to be a coach
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  Speaker 3: and influence us in a positive way, to get us
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  Speaker 3: to be successful in whatever form or fashion they see
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  Speaker 3: it as. But for me, I look at it as
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  Speaker 3: he comes here. He doesn't know us, He doesn't know
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  Speaker 3: us at all. But he took an initiative to get
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  Speaker 3: to know every single player on the whole team, and
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  Speaker 3: then he figured out who the leaders leaders of the
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  Speaker 3: team was. In the same day that he got here,
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  Speaker 3: he sat down all the leaders on the team and
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  Speaker 3: he had a notebook, was writing taking notes of what
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  Speaker 3: we were, the comments that we had about what the
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  Speaker 3: standard is here, what is what is? What is? What
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  Speaker 3: what makes Alabama about us? As people? You know, where
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  Speaker 3: we're from, how many siblings do you have, you know,
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  Speaker 3: what's your hobbies? All that stuff. On the same day
• 14:07
  Speaker 3: he got here the same day and from there I said,
• 14:10
  Speaker 3: maybe we got someone special. He truly cares about us.
• 14:13
  Speaker 3: He truly cares about the program in itself, you know,
• 14:16
  Speaker 3: and that was my initial thought process on coach to board,
• 14:19
  Speaker 3: you know, talk about the coach aspect of it. He's
• 14:22
  Speaker 3: offensive minded, so it's really good for me as a
• 14:24
  Speaker 3: quarterback to be under him. He does a lot of
• 14:27
  Speaker 3: great stuff on offense. You know, for me, I'm a
• 14:29
  Speaker 3: student of the game, so I like to look at
• 14:31
  Speaker 3: where he's been at and whatever quarterback they have is
• 14:34
  Speaker 3: really explosive in the passing game and does a really
• 14:36
  Speaker 3: good job on offense and you know with the concepts
• 14:39
  Speaker 3: and stuff like that and all the different things that
• 14:41
  Speaker 3: take place and with the with the offense. So that's
• 14:44
  Speaker 3: been great. And then also he's with he's withholding what
• 14:47
  Speaker 3: the standard is at Alabama. You know, it's a it's
• 14:51
  Speaker 3: a big program to step into and it just shows
• 14:53
  Speaker 3: who he is as a person to step in in
• 14:54
  Speaker 3: this leader role as our head coach. So it's been great.
• 14:58
  Speaker 3: It's been great to have him here and we're just
• 15:01
  Speaker 3: in May and we just all believe in them.
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: Well, same question that we have for Book, like him
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: sitting down and asking what the standard is here, asking
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: about leadership. The spots you've been in, you seem like
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: somebody who is very in tune with the you know,
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: awareness and being patient in times of adversity. What are
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: qualities to you that make a good leader.
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: I think the quality that you have to have is
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: you can't withhold so on into a standard that you
• 15:26
  Speaker 3: don't have a set for yourself. That's that's very important.
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: I think number two, I think you have to be
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: the same guy every single day. One day. He can't
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: be happy one day, he can be mad one day.
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: You can't be inconsistent of your habits and who you
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: are as a person. And that's very important. And then
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: you got to be driven. You got to be driven.
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: You got to be passionate. You know, It's it's hard
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: to be the man that's passionate and has goal set
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: for themselves because nothing that you can say, I can
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: say that can take this man's joy and what he
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: has set for himself and what he wants to accomplish.
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: I think that's very important to any leader. They had
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: to withhold themselves. So those three things or the fourth
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: things I mentioned, I love that.
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: With coach the board like uh just I mean, you
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: hear about saving and you know, intimidating guy. Everything was quiet,
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: You were quiet when the meeting room happened comes in
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: and they got music playing before meetings there. Doing music
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: at practice like that had to be like a culture
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: shock almost for you all. Did that takes for you
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: guys to get used to that?
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: I will say that was different, I'm being honest with you.
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: That was much different. You know. You know when Coach
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: Saving came in the room and you're talking, be quiet,
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: you see Coach Savings can come in here, you doing,
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: You see coach Coach, You see coach. You know that's
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: that's the initial thought. And so because the boy, I'm
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: gonna be real, the boy came in, everybody kept on talking.
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: I'm like, what y'all doing?
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: Everybody kept on talking. I ain't gonna lie. Everybody kept
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: on talking. They just laughed kiki ki uh and keeping
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: on the conversation. But nothing nothing negative but that just
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: you know, there's a difference. But uh, I'll say it's
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: just modern. It's just modern to what it is now.
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: As far as influencing the guys now in this generation,
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: is that aspect of the music that practice, allowing them
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: to be themselves on an everyday basis and not being
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: too tight, because when a guy is comfortable and free,
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: that's when you can get the best out of that player.
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: And so that's something that I'm seeing now is like, man,
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: like we're just cutting it loose, not being so tight
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: as we're on the field, as we're preparing, as we're
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: all together, you know, we're just I'm able to see
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: Guy's personalitymore. I would say that I'm able to see
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: that more. And now I'm able to see everyone really
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: enjoy the process and not be so hard on themselves
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: and not be on critical on themselves because all the
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: coaches are given the critical which what we do need,
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: but also the positive reinforcement behind it to get us
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: to have the right mental state to be on this
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: journey that' wrong.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: What are some of your favorite memories with coach Saban?
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: My favorite memory, I'm being honest, Like my favorite memory,
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: I remember that practice. Man, I drive back in the
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: pocket there and over seven man they're covering. It's like nothing,
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: nothing's open. I'm talking about this double covered. You know,
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: they got the perfect call for our past concept down
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: the field, nothing's open, got a nice pass for us
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: from the defense, and I reverse out make a good
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: move when he falls down. I'm talking about you know,
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: I dropped him dog like it was a good move,
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: dropped him and be honest with you, spin out of it.
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: Dog took off, took off I'm talking about I clocked.
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: I ran afford to that play like I was. I
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: took off, took off man. I took off man. I'm real.
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: I was swinging the ball, swinging the ball like bad
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: balls security, bad boss security took off man. And you
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: know you can't hit the quarterback in practice. But I
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: kept on running. I kept on running, ran straight. I'm talking.
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: I finished on the opposite goal line right. Everybody hyped up.
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: It was like the end of practice, like at this
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: time the backup. So the ones go and the twos go,
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: and the twos get the last record every practice. So
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: I take off man. Everybody celebrating on our sideline, everybody celebrating,
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: everybody jumping up with me. Coaches, Man, what I get back?
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: I see this short man red as can beat Coach
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: Savan where a hat at practice? I didn't even see
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: his hat, Dog, I see his hair. Man, he ran
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: down there. Man cuts me clean out, said the ball
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: security for the boss Security, he said, could have discored.
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: He said, I ain't gonna see what he said. I said, Wow,
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: I said roll tired, I walk off. Yeah no, yeah,
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: that that's probably my favorite, mamor because i'malking about it's
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: the inder practice, you know what I'm saying. Everybody juiced up.
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: You know, it's competitive at the end of practice. Man,
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: it's fun like ones go too, go work. We're man,
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: it's competitive. You know, everybody's going hard balls at the wall,
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: like everybody's ready to go. So it was a last
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: rack and like it was good play because the last play,
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: you know, we scored. It was supposed to play. And
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: then man, he was hot. He don't care, but none
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: of that, he don't care what move I made, great decision.
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: I made details. Ball security. Ball security was key man
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: because one thing we talked about is the ball is
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: the team. So coach g a running back coaches ball team.
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: You're like, it's a simple thing, but it means a lot.
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: Boss Kitty is very important when it comes to winning
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: a football game. And we talked about the twelve percent
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: rule here at Bama, and when you're on that opposite
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: end of the sticks as far as turnovers and penalties
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: and stuff like that, you're less likely to win. And uh,
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: when we harp on that with the Boss security turnovers
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: and uh you know the penalty aspect of it at
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: practice because all of it is documented at practice, and
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: so it's very important. You know, that's me now mature
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: because at the time I ain't care what he was saying.
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: I said I made a good play. Yeah, and uh
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: so that you know, you got to mature in that
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: stage to understand what coach is talking about because it's gonna,
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: it's gonna you're gonna benefit from it with doing the
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: right way in the game.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, with a Sabing Like every Bama player you talk to,
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: he's just like they talk about how infamous he was
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: for just the ass chewings he would give. Guys. You
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: got to get example there, like what's the worst ass
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: chewing you've heard Nick Saban given another player?
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: Okay, I will say this be real like initially like
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: coming to college, right, I ain't know how hard coach
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: saying what everybody talking about Harty was. But like one
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: phrase he said that like never still with me was
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: kiss my ass. That was just stuff like it was
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: kiss my ass Like that was just that was just
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: thing like you kiss my ass. Like I'm like, you know,
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: I'm yeah, we'll talk about you know what I'm saying, yeah,
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: talking about that's one thing that was that was his
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: favorite word. That's how you know he hat when he
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: say that and slam his hat. Oh yeah, you got
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: him today, Like he intens the rest of the day.
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: If you hit you with that and walk through we
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: walk through dog, we appear ad one and he say that,
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, he's gonna be honest the whole day, the
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: whole day.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: Have you guys ever had an ass shooting for missing class?
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: That's like one on one talk, Yeah, to get.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: One because I always enjoy like you know you have
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: like a you obviously you have a great coach, like
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: I got to play for Coach bo Polini and I
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: feel like the fellas now that were removed from it.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: You talk about all like the fun stories that you're
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: telling now, but that helped mold us to be who
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: we are. And you think about times like Coach Bow
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: would have us we had miss class and we're in
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: a team meeting and he's staying in each guy up
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: that a teacher wrote him an email on whether they
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: were sleeping in class or being lazy and last ye
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: and he would make each guy stand up and read
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: the note and he took this water bottle. He's like,
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: I didn't come here to go fucking nine and three.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: He's like, I'm not here to babysits. You're either going
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: to do it all the time or you're never gonna
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: do it. You don't just show up on Saturday. So
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: I appreciate you sharing these stories because I know people
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: are probably watching, like, damn saved, it's crazy. Those are
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: like the things that mold you into you know, who
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: you're going to be and being successful like after.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: Man, you know, I mean, everybody gets there asked you.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: Hope was always a guy like if you missed it,
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: you'll have class checkers. Always when there's like probably one
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: guy that it's probably five to seven white dude. Every
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: every college has it. Every college has it, and he
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: sits there really good to see it. Yeah, God, he's
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: here again and he's always. We had the same dude
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: in Michigan do that, but our coach wouldn't like chew
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: us out in front of team. He's walking be like
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: six am.
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: Walk away.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: It's a six am you're out there doing what what
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: kind of punishments y'all have to do here? Because we
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: well we had to do log rolls. Just lay down.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, do that?
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: Play pushes? What else y'all do?
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: Bear crawl? Uh? Shoot sleg pushes? Uh? Pop ups like
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: across the field each each five yard, like you do it?
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: Pop up?
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's brutal.
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah you got, you got, Yeah, you got. Yeah.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: We had these Turkish gheit us. We're holding the forty
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: five pound plate and you're just one hundred reps if
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: you're late. Bro. Good time, yeah, good good times now yeah,
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: good time, yeah, good times. We had a dirty locker
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: room once after a game and he was coach Bo's
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: pissed that we didn't clean up. So we had to
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: do three hundred yards of pencil balls the whole team,
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: and they're setting orange cones out where everybody's throwing up.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: Good times.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: We used to have to wear red shirts if guys
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: weren't like following the standard, and a bunch of guys
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: they miss class or something happened, so we like my
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: senior year, they put us all in the red shirts,
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: every one of us. And I was full on drinking
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: the kool aid of like Michigan or die. I'm not
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: putting this on. So we let a revolt the seniors
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: with a revolt. We put all the show.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I can picture you leading a revolt. Yeah yeah,
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: put these up.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: We all take them off, and you're proud of us,
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: you guys working like the team. Yeah that was that miracle.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: But who do you play for?
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: The United States of America?
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: And like, all right, okay, guys are good. It is
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: crazy because some of the stuff you do now that
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: you hate when your husbands like me and Will, you're
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: gonna look back on and be.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: Like, yeah, yes, take us to your last play of
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: the season. Yeah, you obviously have a QB design run. Yeah,
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: you come up.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: Time out, we get a code act time out. Yeah,
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: you guys go. Did you guys keep the same play
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: from the timeout?
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: I can tell you that. Man.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: It's a different office, brother, it's a different office.
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: Zero. Hey great, Hey, So it.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: Was a it was a design quarterback run with the
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: option to throw it out to the back. You had
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: the back.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: But he's a he's a gamer.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: I'm saying, here's my question. I'm glad you brought this
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: up because I really want to figure out a way
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: to get here. If that snap is right at your stomach,
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: are you throwing that out to the back?
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: I guess We will never know, all right, Kanye, But
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: I will never know.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: If you were to answered like a yes, and at
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: the end of the day, you want to make a play, absolutely,
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: what do you think about what goes through your mind
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: when you think about that last play, because obviously you
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: can see the emotion on your face.
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: I'll be real like that truly made me really love
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: the coaching staff because to see how much they believe
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: in me. It is probably one of the most impactful
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: plays of our whole season. And the balls in my
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: hands the last play a game that speaks a lot
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: about our coaches that believe it in me, and so
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: I took it as a positive although we came out short.
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: But after that game and when I went back to
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: the hotel room, I reflected on the season, reflected on
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: the game that made me truly believe. That made me
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: like really see how confident they were with me. And
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: from that, you know, I remember I actually called coach
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: Reeese and told him a thank you, thank you. Yeah
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: we lost, man, but like, thank you, Shay. And when
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: when it went to the first conference after the game,
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: I had my head up high because they believed in me.
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: And that ain't the last snap, I'm gonna take up football.
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: So yeah, like, we want to win. We wanted to
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: win the National championship, you know, we wanted to We
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: had goal set for ourselves, of course, and this is
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: me speaking after the game. Of course, I had a
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: lot of emotion and I wanted I wanted to score.
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: I wanted to push our team to where we all
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: wanted to be at towards the end of the season.
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: Unfortunately we didn't do that. Do that. But it's like
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: the positive, you know, that's the positive that I saw
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: from him. Man, they believed in me so much, the
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: whole team, not just them. You know, no one when
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: Coach Reese gave us that play card one was like, man,
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: what why are you calling that? Everyone said that bet.
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: No one, not the off salon, at the receiver, at
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: the running back. No one had any hesitation on that face.
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: We just came up short. That's all it was because
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: like no one, I looked at everybody eyes. I looked
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: at everybody eyes, and I looked at him, and they
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: all confident. And that's all a part of the game.
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: You know, you win something, you loose, and unfortunately lost
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: that one.
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: It was a classic game.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was was Yeah, it was yeah what uh.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, but we we asked. When I was
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: at Michigan, we were asked, and so you guys were
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: always so good, and so many times Derek would tell
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: me how bad we were, and other Alabama guys can
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: tell us how bad we were, and so that was
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: a sweet moment. It wasn't instant classic.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: It was a great game.
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: Everyone loved it. We were laughing because I was just
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: kind of staring off in the distance for a second.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: Fee it was a classic.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: It was absolutely it was done. I'm done.
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: That's good, okay, because it's all good and I respect it.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: What can we What can you think Michigan cheated?
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: Huh? Do you think they won? They won? They won,
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: they got it.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: They had your calls.
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: Huh they won, No matter they won.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: They won.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: Yes, Will, Will, he's the worst best friend. Actually asked
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: for congra.
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: We beat.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: He would do the rasta. We played and we beat
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: them forty two to seven. And then when the whole
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: cheating scale came out, he goes, I knew something was up.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, hey, book the generation Michigan beat us this year.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: Not when not my senior year. Yeah, just when Taylor
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: and I played against each other.
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: Don't pat my back like that. What happened to you before?
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: Yo? Y'all sved this? Yes? Yeah, yeah, we were terrible.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: Then what can we What can we expect out of
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: the Alabama Crimson Tide this year?
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: I think really driven, we're starving, and we're really passionate
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: about each other. That's how I can sympathy this football
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: team is those three things right there. And you know,
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: we have goal set for ourselves that we want to accomplish,
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: but we we acknowledge those to take place right now.
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: What we're doing right now? What are the habits that
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: we have right now? I think that's that's something that's
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: super exciting because we're nowhere near where we want to
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: be at and we acknowledge that, and we're excited for
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: what the future hold because we have a lot of
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: tests in front of us, and so we're just gonna
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: embrace it and enjoy the journey.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: Who's an NFL player you see out there that you
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: would love to play with one day, that you love
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: to throw the rock too?
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: I ain't really looked at that place. I think I
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: don't really got one.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: You don't got one, You don't got you don't got
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: catch you watching the league.
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: I'm not watching everybody Like for me, like I respect game.
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: So like every starting quarterback to start for each team,
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: I respect the respect them because it was a journey
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: to get them to word they or that. Nothing was
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: given to an nothing was handed to them. They they
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: had to earn it. And so for everybody that's the
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: starting quarterback in the NFL, I look at their game
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: and that's something that I want to be one day.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: Who are your top three favorite quarterbacks in the NFL?
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: Uh Lamar Jackson, Patrick Mahomes and Rogers.
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: Okay, Joey b Oh Yeah, I love Joey Bart.
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: I like I like them a lot. I like them
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: a lot. I like Joey b swag take the football
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: lot of I like his swag like different. I like that.
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: I like how you move on the field like that
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: a lot.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: Who's the swaggiest dude on the team Swaggers?
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: I probably give it to the dvs. The DB's probably
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: got the most swag, most drip, you know, they wearing
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: unnecessary stuff like during the game, like what do you
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: got that on for? They're talking about I put that
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: ship on.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: We got to we're on a mission with Duke Cannon
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: there sponsor of ours to find the smelliest student the
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: locker room. In your opinion, who would be the smelliest
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: student in the locker room.
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna be real, like I look at I look
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: at the blocks in the locker room. I'll block cleans.
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: I don't know. Like we keep it nice and clean,
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: smell good. We keep it nice and fabuloso around our lockers.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: Would you guess?
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: Who?
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: Would you guess?
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: I don't hurt nobody feeling? On book?
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: You got thin skin? Who would you think.
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: What I'm saying? I heard nobody feeling? Yeah?
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: No, we we appreciate it. Man, Do you have anything else?
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: Book?
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: Was there anything that when we were talking to when
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: he when he went back on the depth chart, a
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: moment that you saw out of jailing during that time
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: where either you guys are rallying around him or something
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: that you saw out of him to keep him ready
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: for the next opportunity.
• 31:36
  Speaker 5: Wow, if you were watching the game, if you if
• 31:45
  Speaker 5: you only watched gentilely, you wouldn't be able to tell
• 31:46
  Speaker 5: that he wasn't playing like his energy everything about him
• 31:50
  Speaker 5: said that he was the guy and that's how he
• 31:51
  Speaker 5: carried himself and he was supporting the other two guys
• 31:54
  Speaker 5: that were in at the time. So yeah, you just
• 31:58
  Speaker 5: that that was really defined a moment for him as quarterback.
• 32:00
  Speaker 5: And everybody was bought into him and believed in him
• 32:03
  Speaker 5: before that, but I feel like that really just amplified
• 32:06
  Speaker 5: our trust in him after that moment.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: I love it, man, Thank you answer Fellas, Thank you man.
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: Appreciate you.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Oky for the Michigan man.
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: You let me. Let me ask us some questions. Go ahead,
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: what is your most memorable moment in college? Each of you,
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: what's your best moment y'all had in college?
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: Pick six Georgia New Year, New Year's Day, they called
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: the New Year six games, right, they named it that.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: They coined it that. After my pick six against Aaron
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: Murray and the Georgia Bulldogs, we went up thirteen and
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: thirteen to seven on at that point the end of
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: the game, didn't you know, reflect what happened in that
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: first quarter. But that was probably my favorite memory. I
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: could barely feel my body. Yeah, I read this screen,
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: I picked it off, took it to the house, probably
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: rant like yourself of four to two on the way
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: to the end zone, and that was my most hype
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: moment probably ever playing.
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: Twenty eleven, playing beating Ohio State one and three against
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: the Hoto State them. Yeah, in twenty years we beat
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: them twice. Yeah until his last three years. So that
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: I got one, that's awesome.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: What about yours most memorable? It's been your favorite moment? Oh,
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: that's easy. For thirty one? Iron Bowl that's probably the
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: most favorite one. I'll give that was a good experience.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: Is the Iron Bowl just crazy week of building up
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: to it?
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: I will say like for me, I didn't really understand
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: the Ironbol be real. I'm from Texas and I didn't
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: really get into is my opportunity to take a snap
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: in Ironbol? And like nothing, it's nothing that compares to that.
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: I will say, like that's something that that that rivaly.
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: I I could pete and say that's the that's probably
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: the best rivaly in the country.
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a huge.
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: I'll say that because I mean to ask you this question, like,
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: while you're at Michigan, how often do you see Ohio
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: State fans as your neighbors.
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: They try to come try, they try a pretty good
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: bordered area exactly.
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: But while you're here, you're in test Loose, Your your
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: your neighbor might be an Auburn guy. And that's that's
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: within because how far premiere uh two and a half,
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: bout two and a half, And so that's that's the
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: thing within the you know, the rivalry and stuff like that.
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: And like even our professors like they might be an
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: Auburn grad. Like it's so you're gonna see an Auburn
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: person throughout your time during the season. So like you're
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: gonna it's gonna it's alway that competitiveness throughout the time.
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: And then whether it's at Auburn or whether it's in
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: Test Loose, You're gonna bring a great crowd. It's gonna
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: be loud, it's gonna be rocking, and there's nothing greater
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: than being victorious in the game.
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but you're not gonna see it high State grad.
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: It's not gonna You're.
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: Not gonna see it into the game. On Saturday.
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: Dude, when you were talking with the iron Ball, I
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: live it. Do you not remember the last player of
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: the iron Ball? Oh yeah, Bro, it was crazy take
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: us to that place.
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: Register you said balls.
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: Like, oh god, I was. I was in the airport
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: watching that. I was like, oh my God, Auburn is
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: gonna beat Alabama. This is gonna be nuts.
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: My wife's like, why are you so hype over this?
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: I'm like, if you just saw these last several plays,
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: like you guys should have had no shot a.
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: Bro Like what four or five? How long ago was
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: that when they returned the kick that was We're not
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: gonna bring that up, but that was insane, Like there's
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: insane games. What was that? Like? What was that play?
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: Gagger?
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: It's called Bigger, Yeah, that's crazy. You we talk about
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: that play, but you were talking about four five play
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: against Michigan. That's no But that that play though, were
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: you just throwing up a prayer? You were throwing up
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: a prayer? You practice it. You practice situational ball games.
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: I'd look at the ball you said, God.
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: No, Like i'mna real with you. Like it might sound
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: a cliche thing, man, but like we practice that thing
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: every single week. Like Friday, we had walked through and
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: we're very intentional when we do the walk through, so
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: there's no talking on the sideline, there's no joking around
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: if you're not if you're not on the field, you're
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: on the sideline watching and you know, we take those
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: walk through very seriously. We go through every scenario in
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: the game. If we don't do it right during walk through,
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: we're gonna do it all over again until we perfected
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: literally a perfect walk through. Every outcome of the walkthrough,
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: where there were special teams, offense, defense, leaving the huddle,
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: going substitutions. All that we work all that din the
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: walk throughs, and that's one that played the grave Digger.
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: We worked at Durren walk throughs on Fridays, and you know,
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: we didn't know when we're going to utilize it, when
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: we're gonna have to use it, but everyone was prepared
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: and it was just like the play against Michigan. You know,
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: that fourth fourth down play was equivalent to that fourth
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: and thirty one. You know, when we called that play,
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: no one was fearful of the play. No one was like, man,
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: why coach calling that play. Everyone was like, we were
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: all locked in all bet this, We're gonna roll with it.
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: We're gonna do it at the best of our ability.
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: And so when it came to fourth and thirty one,
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: the same is the fourth and five player.
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: We just we just succeeded on this one fourth That's
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: an NFL blitz numbers, everything of that verse and thirty dude,
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: but you when you threw that up, what were you thinking?
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, just you're you're you've got to just
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: be thinking, well, let's just see nah no, like hey,
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: we'll find out.
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: Like I just see the field very well, and I
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: saw he was one on one, and so I took
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: a shot given given, you know, put it a great
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: ball placement, because if I've put anywhere else, who's gonna
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: go either out of bounce, picked off, not in the
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: range that we can make a grab and beat him
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: and allow I be to make a make a IB play.
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: So I just put it in a place where he
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: can make a play on the ball. And I had
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: great time. They haven't. They didn't have a too strong
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: a pass for us, So I had enough time to
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: make a play. So when we talk about like everyone
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: doing their job, is that what happened?
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: What was the emotion in the locker room after that?
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: Insane?
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: Be real like like it was it was crazy, but
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: like you based off your head coach, Like yeah, you
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: know what I'm saying, Like if head coach happy jumping around,
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: you're gonna do the same thing. Like it was cool.
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: When it was like lock in all we got game
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: next week. Yeah, yeah, it was exciting for like like
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: fifteen seconds. You know, it was like boys, he was
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: having fifteen seconds.
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: Happy for you guys that.
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: You won exactly. You know what I'm saying. We had
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: Jordian next. Yeah, but we arbituation absolutely, yeah, we should.
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of correct on that.
• 38:29
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not okay thirty one, that's okay. Yeah, it's okay.
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: Always coaching the process, yeah yeah, yeah, exactly, not the result.
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, man, we appreciate it, bro, appreciate it.
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: It's been awesome, even great. It's pretty lot fun.
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, appreciate with us, Yeah, no doubt.
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: Subscribe, drop comments, Thank thank you, Jalen, thank you book
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: and thank you coach the board.
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: Like Tyler Booker, how are we doing, sir, phenomen I'm
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: doing out standing here in the great state of Alabama.
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: Ended up very prestigious. You know, diversity with a hog
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: life cannot be any better.
• 39:02
  Speaker 4: Face with the hall. Yeah, where else would you rather be?
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: Michigan?
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: That was these already shaking us. I went to Michigan.
• 39:15
  Speaker 5: That was that was goe that was yeah, yeah, I
• 39:18
  Speaker 5: hear you.
• 39:19
  Speaker 4: You have you got to live through the new guys.
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: I do, no question. Yeah when I played there.
• 39:23
  Speaker 4: I don't know what you did there.
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: When you were in middle school. When I was playing, Bro,
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: we were not good. It was tough deal.
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: Dela. We were walking in earlier this morning. I was like, yeah,
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: you know we we we whooped Alabama or whatever. I
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: was like, yeah, but you played Alabama too, right.
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: We played in twenty twelve Cowboy Classic. It was like
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: forty two to fourteen. They came out, They're like Derrick
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: Henry didn't play. I don't think Derek he was even
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: there yet, but they had like d Heart, all these dudes. Yeah,
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: it was just a slaughter fest.
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: And as a big ten guy, I was watching the game, like,
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: you know, you're like, come on, Michigan, let's go like
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: show them, show them that the big tall and then
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: you guys just it was over started.
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: It was.
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: But you you've had You've played a lot of different teams.
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: You've also played in high school a bunch of forty
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: year old men. When you're at IMG Academy. Yeah, who
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: was Yeah, Bro, Bishop Sycamore, this is Sycamore? What was that?
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: How that happened? How did they get that past?
• 40:15
  Speaker 5: The officials. That's above my pay grade. But I knew
• 40:18
  Speaker 5: something was up when I got out there. The guy
• 40:20
  Speaker 5: was like five to four. He woon number twenty seven.
• 40:23
  Speaker 5: He had like a full beard. I was like, okay,
• 40:26
  Speaker 5: this is different. And then they had like you know
• 40:28
  Speaker 5: how you put the quarters in the machine, you get
• 40:30
  Speaker 5: stickers out. They had those on their helmets instead of decals,
• 40:33
  Speaker 5: and I was like, okay, like like we're gonna run
• 40:37
  Speaker 5: up the score.
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: It's whatever.
• 40:38
  Speaker 5: Like we were in Ohio. We were there for a week,
• 40:40
  Speaker 5: so we were just looking forward to doing that. We
• 40:43
  Speaker 5: had a game at the next school. It's called lasal
• 40:46
  Speaker 5: that's where that's the that should have been an ESPN game.
• 40:49
  Speaker 5: But everything happens for a reason. Because that bitch of
• 40:51
  Speaker 5: the sycamore thing?
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: Did you know? But like before it came out, where
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: was it? Basically it came out, y'all, weren't surprises? Are
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: do you guys kind of know like why you're playing
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: the game? Like, yo, these are grown men out here.
• 40:59
  Speaker 5: So I was on the way to see my family
• 41:01
  Speaker 5: after the game and I was going to hug my
• 41:03
  Speaker 5: dad and he was shaking his head. I was like,
• 41:05
  Speaker 5: we just put up fifty on this team.
• 41:07
  Speaker 4: What's wrong? He said, I don't know.
• 41:09
  Speaker 5: I was listening to the ESPN broadcast and they said,
• 41:11
  Speaker 5: like they can't verify any of these players, Like they're
• 41:13
  Speaker 5: saying it was a fake school.
• 41:15
  Speaker 4: I was like what he was like, they're saying.
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: For forty year old men to relive a dream.
• 41:21
  Speaker 5: Yeah, pretty much. I don't know what dream they were living.
• 41:23
  Speaker 5: I wouldn't want to get beat by high schoolers, especially right.
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: Oh man, I hear you have quite the relationship with
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: our producer JP. He was your guy back at IMG.
• 41:34
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's my guy JP. Like, whatever we needed, we
• 41:37
  Speaker 5: hit JP. It was JP, Josh and it was two
• 41:40
  Speaker 5: guys named So those those four like they held us
• 41:43
  Speaker 5: down the whole time. The IMG is pretty rough. It's
• 41:46
  Speaker 5: they keep you locked down. So whenever we wanted to
• 41:49
  Speaker 5: escape JA, we hit JP one of those guys, and
• 41:51
  Speaker 5: we'd be out all day do whatever whatever we wanted.
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: JP was your chauffeur.
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, but yeah, I be bringing pulled the van.
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, pulled the van, get the guys in there, and
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: get out.
• 42:00
  Speaker 5: So getting the van was a hard part because they
• 42:02
  Speaker 5: were there were scheduled trips at IMG and then like
• 42:06
  Speaker 5: JP and all those other guys. They had a lot
• 42:07
  Speaker 5: of trust from like the higher up, So if we
• 42:09
  Speaker 5: could find a van, we were we were out.
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: What do you guys go do in Brandington? Because I
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: trained there for the combine? There is nothing there.
• 42:16
  Speaker 5: So there's a movie theater about down the street. There's
• 42:20
  Speaker 5: a mall about thirty to forty minutes away, and we
• 42:23
  Speaker 5: would just go walk around because we're at IMG. We
• 42:25
  Speaker 5: ain't had no time to have a job, have money,
• 42:27
  Speaker 5: so just go people watch at the mall and then
• 42:30
  Speaker 5: we get something to eat.
• 42:31
  Speaker 4: That was That was about it. But it was better
• 42:33
  Speaker 4: than being stuck on campus.
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean the.
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: Campus is super nice. It's like five five hundred acres.
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: It's massive.
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, talk about the IMG because I mean i've only
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: I feel like it's grown so much, probably since you
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: were there. But what you got you just go is
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: that like a high.
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: School you just go to. It's essentially all in one.
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: Like Brandonton, Florida is like newly weds and nearly dead.
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: It's like the slow there's nothing to do there, but
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: like then there's all of a sudden, this amazing facility.
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: We're like every sport like people literally come from all
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: around the world to train there because it's like so nice.
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: Everything's so high tech and beautiful, and they're like, literally
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: when I was there, they're like, we're gonna put a
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: hospital right here, so everything's all in one. They had
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: everything you could possibly need. And I think the football
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: team is like just a year old or something like that. Yeah,
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: we're about to have like the greatest football team, the
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: greatest high school football team of all time. And they've
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: really you guys are what number.
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: One every year?
• 43:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah, pretty much.
• 43:25
  Speaker 5: And we actually won our first national championship my junior year.
• 43:28
  Speaker 5: And it was always pretty tough because like, not a
• 43:31
  Speaker 5: lot of schools want to play us, and understandably so
• 43:33
  Speaker 5: we picked the best talent from all around the country.
• 43:36
  Speaker 5: But you look at some of these other local high schools,
• 43:38
  Speaker 5: like this kid lives forty minutes away. This kid lives
• 43:40
  Speaker 5: an hour away. So what's the difference between I amg
• 43:43
  Speaker 5: us and y'all? So it got harder to find good
• 43:46
  Speaker 5: teams to play. But whoever wanted to play us, we
• 43:49
  Speaker 5: played them. I feel like modern day that was before
• 43:51
  Speaker 5: my time, so we always try to play them.
• 43:53
  Speaker 4: They didn't really want to.
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: Play us, but they're in Kelli right.
• 43:57
  Speaker 5: Yeah, they're on CALLI but just having that target on
• 44:00
  Speaker 5: your back every week, it's just like playing here. And
• 44:02
  Speaker 5: I felt like that's what made this this decision to
• 44:04
  Speaker 5: come to alban with. So, just like I was at
• 44:06
  Speaker 5: the pinnacle of high school football, why don't not come
• 44:08
  Speaker 5: to the pinnacle of college football?
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah? What was that process like for you? Because I'm
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: sure when you go to IMG, the minute they say, oh,
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: this kid got an IMG to play football, they probably
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: gonna throw a scholarship your way.
• 44:16
  Speaker 4: Oh for sure.
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: You had everybody who do like what he's a big
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: boy too. Yeah, I mean you look fantasticuts the house.
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: You could probably run like the wind. You're a specimen,
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: my friend. But when you had Alabama and all these
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: other schools, what's up with your top five? What were
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: your top five?
• 44:32
  Speaker 5: My top five was Florida, Oregon, Georgia, Ohio State, and
• 44:37
  Speaker 5: Alabama obviously.
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: Was it? Was it an easy decision? Was this an
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: easy decision for you? Did you always want to Was
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: it always Bama or was it close?
• 44:46
  Speaker 4: It was really close.
• 44:47
  Speaker 5: I was kind of put off Bybama at first. It's
• 44:51
  Speaker 5: because they they started to recruiting me a little later. So,
• 44:54
  Speaker 5: like that the back of the my I always got,
• 44:56
  Speaker 5: like the simple graphics that they send everybody. I always
• 44:58
  Speaker 5: got the little camp in So I'm like, okay, I
• 45:01
  Speaker 5: have better relationships with other schools. But when they was
• 45:03
  Speaker 5: time to set up my official visits, Coach Gillespie he's
• 45:06
  Speaker 5: still here. He was like, Hey, are you coming to
• 45:07
  Speaker 5: visit us? In my head, I'm like, no, I'm not
• 45:09
  Speaker 5: going to visit Alabama. I'm going to go somewhere else.
• 45:12
  Speaker 5: And where were you thinking about going at that time?
• 45:14
  Speaker 5: I had a great relationship with Penn State, so I
• 45:17
  Speaker 5: was going to go there, and I was actually going
• 45:18
  Speaker 5: to visit them right before everything got shut down by COVID,
• 45:21
  Speaker 5: So I was like, I always wanted to visit there. Uh,
• 45:24
  Speaker 5: some of my homeboys have already committed, but I decided
• 45:27
  Speaker 5: to make that my last o V. And I felt
• 45:29
  Speaker 5: like that worked out perfectly because I was able to
• 45:30
  Speaker 5: compare all the other schools to the standard, which is Alabama,
• 45:34
  Speaker 5: and I saw nobody else really compare it.
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: No one else compared. So when you came here, like
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: what'd y'all do for your visit?
• 45:43
  Speaker 4: We just walked, we came around. I hung out.
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: That means he had a good visit, no doubt, no doubt.
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: I kind of can't remember.
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: Did Penn State know you were gonna comment? Did they
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: have a good idea that you were gonna Like, Hey,
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: did you tell any coaches like, hey, I might actually
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: come here?
• 46:07
  Speaker 5: So Penn State like I kind of took them out
• 46:09
  Speaker 5: after I decided to visit Alabama And it was funny
• 46:10
  Speaker 5: and like the day I got offered by Alabama, the
• 46:13
  Speaker 5: Penn State coach called me. He was like, hey, you
• 46:15
  Speaker 5: were still around. I was like, yeah, of course, but
• 46:18
  Speaker 5: he knew what was gonna happen. He knew it was
• 46:19
  Speaker 5: gonna happen.
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: What was it like walking into this building? You see
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: all the national championship rings? You see I walked into
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: y'all's offensive line rope, and there's all American after all American?
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: Like that standard is so high here, Like, what was
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: the intimidation factor for you walking in as an eighteen
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: year old kid?
• 46:35
  Speaker 5: I don't think there was an intimidation factor, just because
• 46:37
  Speaker 5: I had already been through a lot. I've already seen
• 46:42
  Speaker 5: this kind of environment on lower levels. So just taking
• 46:45
  Speaker 5: you through my football journey. I was born and raised
• 46:47
  Speaker 5: in New Haven, Connecticut. I spent my freshman year at
• 46:49
  Speaker 5: Bergen Catholic in New Jersey just to get a higher
• 46:53
  Speaker 5: grade of football, and then I went to IMG. So
• 46:55
  Speaker 5: I'm used to change. I'm used to being put in
• 46:57
  Speaker 5: the fire, So coming here, I knew it was gonna
• 46:58
  Speaker 5: be a challenge, but ready to embrace it.
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: Being an upper classman. Now, what responsibilities do you feel
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: like you take on now being the young guy, having
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: those years behind you, and being more of a leader
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: in the locker room.
• 47:09
  Speaker 5: I feel like I stepped into that leadership role last
• 47:11
  Speaker 5: year when Bryson Will left, So that's something that we
• 47:14
  Speaker 5: really focused on spreading that the weight of leadership throughout
• 47:18
  Speaker 5: the team, and I feel like that's why we were
• 47:19
  Speaker 5: so much better. So being able to lead and know
• 47:22
  Speaker 5: I have guys that have my back like malachaim or
• 47:25
  Speaker 5: JC Latham, Dallas Turner, Jayln Menroe, all those guys, knowing
• 47:29
  Speaker 5: that they have my back, leading as a younger guy,
• 47:31
  Speaker 5: but still being a leader. Just going and going into
• 47:34
  Speaker 5: this year, I'm trying to develop some of the other
• 47:37
  Speaker 5: younger leaders on this team, because Alben was only going
• 47:40
  Speaker 5: to be as good as I leave it, you know
• 47:42
  Speaker 5: what I mean. So just like Taylor could talk about
• 47:44
  Speaker 5: how good Michigan is now and how they weren't that
• 47:48
  Speaker 5: good back when he was there. I want to be
• 47:51
  Speaker 5: able to brag like him, so making sure I'm developing
• 47:54
  Speaker 5: the next class.
• 47:55
  Speaker 4: So that's why I'm very big into recruiting, very good.
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: That's a good way to put it. I was a
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: big recruiter too. It did not pay off.
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: You got to you gotta respect it. He's abste What
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: are some of those small things you feel like, you know,
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: trying to mentor those younger guys. Is it being more vocal,
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: is it more like one on one time with guys?
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: Like what do you feel like you've been trying to
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: develop being a leader.
• 48:20
  Speaker 5: Trying to balance out like being like in your face
• 48:24
  Speaker 5: and then like pulling guys to the side, making sure
• 48:26
  Speaker 5: like making sure I praise guys as much as I
• 48:28
  Speaker 5: correct them. And that's something I've really focused on this spring,
• 48:31
  Speaker 5: and just working with some of the younger guys, Like
• 48:33
  Speaker 5: you know what it's like working with a younger guy
• 48:35
  Speaker 5: and he's making the same mistakes over and over against
• 48:37
  Speaker 5: Like all right, bro, like you messed up on this
• 48:38
  Speaker 5: four times in a row. You're obviously not paying attention.
• 48:41
  Speaker 5: So I get on them and then I pull them
• 48:43
  Speaker 5: aside after and just make sure to be like, hey,
• 48:44
  Speaker 5: are you good?
• 48:45
  Speaker 4: Is everything good with you? Okay?
• 48:46
  Speaker 5: So now that everything's fine, I need you to tighten
• 48:49
  Speaker 5: it up. So just really making sure that they understand
• 48:51
  Speaker 5: before you lead other people, you have to lead yourself
• 48:54
  Speaker 5: and the man that you would want them to imitate you.
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: What do you?
• 48:57
  Speaker 3: Where do you?
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: Where did you learn that? IMG Academy imgcame? It was
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: it guys older than you, Like.
• 49:02
  Speaker 4: It was guy it was it was guys older than me.
• 49:04
  Speaker 5: But we actually had like a leadership class, Like this
• 49:06
  Speaker 5: is stuff that we did on a daily basis. So
• 49:08
  Speaker 5: we had like we had leadership sessions. It was called ADP,
• 49:11
  Speaker 5: right JP, It's called ADP. So there was like leadership
• 49:15
  Speaker 5: sessions and mental training things like that. So like something
• 49:18
  Speaker 5: I took from mental training at IMG is like visualization.
• 49:21
  Speaker 5: So like before every game, I put a towel over
• 49:23
  Speaker 5: my head and I emerged myself into the game that
• 49:26
  Speaker 5: I'm about to play, So like I think about what
• 49:28
  Speaker 5: my gloves feel like, how tight my paths are, what
• 49:30
  Speaker 5: the what's gonna spell like, what's gonna sound like? So
• 49:33
  Speaker 5: like I'm really in the game, and then I just
• 49:35
  Speaker 5: look at the script, see the play, run the play
• 49:37
  Speaker 5: on my head, next play, and I just go through
• 49:39
  Speaker 5: the whole script just so I essentially played the game mentally.
• 49:42
  Speaker 5: Now I just have to go out and do it physically.
• 49:44
  Speaker 5: So little things like that just helped me become the
• 49:47
  Speaker 5: player I am today.
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: You gotta get a had on your shoulders, bro.
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: You know, like the development you don't understand this, but
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: the development you have right now, as far as from
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: a mental mental process, is above and beyond right now.
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: It's very impressive. With Nick Saban, you came here, he
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: was the head coach, yes, when you heard the news
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: that he was retiring, Like, how did that affect you?
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: Because everybody came here to play with the greatest college
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: football coach of all time.
• 50:12
  Speaker 5: Of course I was hurt, obviously, that was my initial reaction.
• 50:15
  Speaker 5: I was just like, oh my gosh, Like I was
• 50:17
  Speaker 5: expecting him to come in there and kind of rip
• 50:20
  Speaker 5: us about the Michigan game, not so much RiPP us
• 50:21
  Speaker 5: to be like, Hey, this is why we lost, and
• 50:23
  Speaker 5: here's how we're going to correct it. Here's how we're
• 50:24
  Speaker 5: going to get back there and then get further. That's
• 50:26
  Speaker 5: what I was expecting, so for him to go up
• 50:28
  Speaker 5: there and retire, it was just it was really a.
• 50:30
  Speaker 4: Shock to me.
• 50:31
  Speaker 5: But I've just been embracing it because I'm I've always
• 50:34
  Speaker 5: been been big on legacy, Like how am I going
• 50:37
  Speaker 5: to leave my legacy here? And I feel like there's
• 50:39
  Speaker 5: no better way to leave my legacy than win the
• 50:41
  Speaker 5: national championship with coach Bowler.
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: When when coach Chapin does retire, does your intendance go
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: up on? Thinking, Hey, who's going to be the next
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: guy in here? Maybe I hit the portal? Now that
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: we're in the portal generation, the portal era, Well what
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: was that process like for you? I was just sitting
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: back and kind of observing he was going to be next.
• 50:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah, sit back and observe.
• 50:58
  Speaker 5: But to be honest, the portal was never it was
• 51:00
  Speaker 5: never an option for me just because I've i have
• 51:03
  Speaker 5: too many roots playing it here as far as like
• 51:06
  Speaker 5: my teammates and everybody in this.
• 51:07
  Speaker 4: Building and then this community as well.
• 51:09
  Speaker 5: So like I'm, like I mentioned earlier, like I've been
• 51:11
  Speaker 5: moving all around the place, all around since I was
• 51:15
  Speaker 5: even even in middle school. I didn't mention this. I
• 51:17
  Speaker 5: went to middle school an hour and a half away
• 51:19
  Speaker 5: I woke up at five o'clock in the morning. So
• 51:20
  Speaker 5: I've just been moving my whole life, and Tuscu Luise
• 51:23
  Speaker 5: has given me the first real sense of community in
• 51:26
  Speaker 5: my life, and I really wasn't willing to let that go.
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: Talk about your foundation, like, it seems like you have
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: good parents, good support if you're waking up at five am,
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: travel the middle school and kind of jumping around high
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: schools and then trying to get to IMG because in
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: their mind, your mind, this is the best These are
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: the best moves for success to have in your future.
• 51:47
  Speaker 5: Yeah, my foundation is really my immediate family. So I
• 51:51
  Speaker 5: grew up in a two point household, my mom and
• 51:53
  Speaker 5: my dad. I have a older sister and a younger brother,
• 51:56
  Speaker 5: and they like, just as how much I'm committed to
• 51:59
  Speaker 5: this that I'm living out right now, everybody else in
• 52:02
  Speaker 5: that house is committed to it as well, because it
• 52:04
  Speaker 5: wasn't just them. It's me doing the physical work, but
• 52:07
  Speaker 5: it's my mom also waking up at five o'clock, having
• 52:09
  Speaker 5: to change her work schedule to pick me up from
• 52:11
  Speaker 5: the bus stop. At bus stop at four o'clock, my
• 52:14
  Speaker 5: dad getting off a third shift, waking up early, taking
• 52:16
  Speaker 5: me to school sometimes taking me to workouts and then
• 52:18
  Speaker 5: my brothers and sisters having to sit in the car
• 52:21
  Speaker 5: all day waiting for those workouts to finish. So it's
• 52:23
  Speaker 5: just the commitment to this dream by my whole family.
• 52:26
  Speaker 5: That's that's what makes it so easy. That's what makes
• 52:29
  Speaker 5: that that's my why. They're my why.
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: That's amazing. That is amazing.
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, from an offensive standpoint, how much has changed from
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: next shaving to coach the board.
• 52:37
  Speaker 5: I feel like it's gonna be a lot more explosive.
• 52:39
  Speaker 5: You're gonna see the ball in the air a lot more,
• 52:41
  Speaker 5: and it's gonna be like real complimentary football. So that,
• 52:44
  Speaker 5: I mean, that was the goal last year, but you
• 52:45
  Speaker 5: could see it in the way that close the board
• 52:48
  Speaker 5: costs his offense. So as soon as I heard that
• 52:49
  Speaker 5: he was the he was going to be the guy,
• 52:51
  Speaker 5: went back and watched the Texas game because that's a
• 52:53
  Speaker 5: mutual opponent that we had, and I saw how he
• 52:55
  Speaker 5: called the game and the and the rhythm of what
• 52:57
  Speaker 5: he called it and how he helps the office of
• 52:59
  Speaker 5: line out.
• 53:00
  Speaker 4: So we're not dropping back forty to fifty times a game.
• 53:02
  Speaker 5: We have run action, we have play action, we got power,
• 53:06
  Speaker 5: and we're going to throw the ball out of a
• 53:08
  Speaker 5: power set. So just how he switches things up, I'm
• 53:11
  Speaker 5: very excited to playing this offense.
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: His culture too, seems crazy, Like you look at Washington
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: last year and they played like I think more than
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: half of their games there were underdogs and they obviously
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: won all but one. And it's like to have that
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: kind of culture of like being underdogs consistently and coming
• 53:25
  Speaker 2: and winning. And now he comes to a place that
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: just constantly has talent, like you gotta think you guys
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: are gonna crush.
• 53:30
  Speaker 4: It this year, Oh for sure.
• 53:31
  Speaker 5: Just his energy is just everything that he brings, like
• 53:34
  Speaker 5: what makes him him is what makes him perfect for
• 53:37
  Speaker 5: this job. So the first thing that he told us
• 53:39
  Speaker 5: like he had non negotiables, and the first one is like,
• 53:41
  Speaker 5: we're gonna be a family, We're going to grow closer together.
• 53:44
  Speaker 5: And I feel like that was the biggest improvement from
• 53:45
  Speaker 5: my freshman year to my sophomore year, and there was
• 53:48
  Speaker 5: a bigger provement. I feel like we were a much
• 53:49
  Speaker 5: better team. And that's why coach Saban Ray is about
• 53:52
  Speaker 5: that team house. One of his favorites is because of
• 53:55
  Speaker 5: how close we were during the off season and how
• 53:57
  Speaker 5: close we grew together during the season. What times were tough,
• 53:59
  Speaker 5: like sef game was ugly, but instead of turning on
• 54:02
  Speaker 5: each other and pointing a finger, we all decided to
• 54:05
  Speaker 5: come together and be like, look, let's put that, let's
• 54:06
  Speaker 5: put our egos aside and understand how how great we
• 54:09
  Speaker 5: can be.
• 54:10
  Speaker 4: And we did that. From there on, we.
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: Just took off What what wrinkles do you feel like,
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: Coach the world is brought to Alabama from Washington, give
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: back into the uh the couple the wrinkles he's brought
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: because we talked about him bringing up the music and
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: everything else. What are a couple of things that he's
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: brought from Washington?
• 54:26
  Speaker 5: So music and practice and then like music before meetings too.
• 54:29
  Speaker 5: So I remember like it was his second meeting here
• 54:31
  Speaker 5: and I walked in they got they got a little
• 54:33
  Speaker 5: baby playing.
• 54:33
  Speaker 4: I'm like, what is going on?
• 54:35
  Speaker 5: Just coming from Coach Saving where everybody walks in you
• 54:38
  Speaker 5: So it's funny there there is just a big white
• 54:41
  Speaker 5: board and there's.
• 54:41
  Speaker 4: A little space so you can see Coach saving loie six.
• 54:44
  Speaker 5: Loafers walking in. Everybody goes to now coach the board
• 54:49
  Speaker 5: like hey, hey, hey, coach, how's everybody doing? So it's
• 54:51
  Speaker 5: just it's just the coach is different.
• 54:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, polar opposite situation, size six loafer starts squeaking by
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: the door, everyone gets scared of. Oh ship, that is
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: a bit of a deal. How is from the blocking
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: scheme standpoint, is it different?
• 55:09
  Speaker 4: No, it's pretty much the same.
• 55:10
  Speaker 5: So I feel like the biggest difference this year is
• 55:12
  Speaker 5: going to be like the cadence of the play calls
• 55:14
  Speaker 5: because up front things are called differently just because every
• 55:17
  Speaker 5: officers line coach has a weird way of calling stuff.
• 55:20
  Speaker 5: But it's the same. It's still the same. It's on
• 55:23
  Speaker 5: our side on you'll do the.
• 55:25
  Speaker 2: Thing when you look at the board and then you
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: look back and you go, or somebody calling something.
• 55:29
  Speaker 5: No, we so since they have the mic in their
• 55:31
  Speaker 5: headphones this year, which is gonna be doing a little sugarhod.
• 55:34
  Speaker 4: On getting straights of the ball?
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: Oh for real?
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, because everybody's helmet.
• 55:38
  Speaker 4: No, not everybody, just the quarterback, just a quarterback, which
• 55:40
  Speaker 4: I think is a great.
• 55:41
  Speaker 5: Yeah, certain schools picked up on those boards, so we
• 55:43
  Speaker 5: thought it wouldn't be a good idea to do that anymore.
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: Certain this guy, Yes, certain schools picked up on some things.
• 55:49
  Speaker 2: Now he can't ring and being nasty.
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: I'm a big way though. You give it. You do
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: give some good juicy quotes with the media. Yeah, I'm
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: gonna explain. I'm gonna quote what you said, and I
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: want you to go into this mentality. We want to
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: physically dominate you. We want to intimidate you. We want
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: the third quarter to roll around and the defense to
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: be like, oh my gosh, we can't stop the run.
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: How are we going to stop this run? We want
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: to we want to physically impose our will. Talk about
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: cultivating that mentality and being confident enough to speak on
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: all like that, especially to the media.
• 56:23
  Speaker 5: So that quote was really just me challenging myself and
• 56:28
  Speaker 5: the rest of the office with Lineman to be like, hey,
• 56:30
  Speaker 5: like I put this president out here, we have to
• 56:32
  Speaker 5: go live up to it. And Taylor can tell you
• 56:34
  Speaker 5: that's every office of Lineman's creed like you want to
• 56:36
  Speaker 5: go out and do that. We were just bold enough
• 56:39
  Speaker 5: to go out and say it, like I said, JC
• 56:41
  Speaker 5: said it so like we were just making ourselves live
• 56:44
  Speaker 5: up to that standard of playing office of line like that,
• 56:47
  Speaker 5: and that's that's how Alabama has been so successful in
• 56:50
  Speaker 5: the past. They just had a dominant office of line.
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: Do you have a favorite post game meal, favorite ritual.
• 56:59
  Speaker 4: I have a favorite post game ritual.
• 57:00
  Speaker 5: So whenever we're home, they have buses driving back here
• 57:03
  Speaker 5: to the facility, But.
• 57:05
  Speaker 4: I like to walk.
• 57:06
  Speaker 5: I like to walk back just so like all the
• 57:07
  Speaker 5: fans who came to the game, Like I can interact
• 57:10
  Speaker 5: with the fans, you know, like just like some people
• 57:13
  Speaker 5: spend their last to come to an Alabama football game,
• 57:15
  Speaker 5: and I know this thirty second interaction I can have
• 57:17
  Speaker 5: with some family that's gonna last than thirty years, Like
• 57:20
  Speaker 5: they're never going to forget that interaction I have with
• 57:22
  Speaker 5: them after the game.
• 57:23
  Speaker 4: So I just love walking back.
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I see what you like right over? See why
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: you like this? Yeah? Real, he say, hey, we got
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: to get book on, Like he's he'd be great.
• 57:35
  Speaker 2: When you're walking back from one of those games, how
• 57:37
  Speaker 2: long does it take you to get back to the
• 57:38
  Speaker 2: stadium or get back to the facility.
• 57:40
  Speaker 5: So it's not it doesn't take that, I probably say
• 57:45
  Speaker 5: because I'm stopping and signing stuff and talking to people
• 57:47
  Speaker 5: as well, So like probably say it takes like fifteen
• 57:51
  Speaker 5: twenty minutes. After the spring game, it was wild because
• 57:53
  Speaker 5: it was a free game, so so many people were there.
• 57:55
  Speaker 5: It got it got to the point I was like, look, guys,
• 57:58
  Speaker 5: like like listen, I'll walk and take pere, but like
• 58:00
  Speaker 5: we just got to walk because I still have my
• 58:02
  Speaker 5: knighbrases on. It was a spring game, so I still
• 58:04
  Speaker 5: have my neighbers on, still have my clissong. Like, man,
• 58:06
  Speaker 5: I gotta get back walking back like that.
• 58:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I was, I was.
• 58:09
  Speaker 5: I just love doing that, and then I get to
• 58:10
  Speaker 5: like talk to my family after too, you know what
• 58:13
  Speaker 5: I mean.
• 58:13
  Speaker 4: I just I just love being around there.
• 58:15
  Speaker 5: I feel like that's my favorite part about being that
• 58:17
  Speaker 5: a beam of that community, in that family with n
• 58:19
  Speaker 5: I l is.
• 58:21
  Speaker 2: The offensive line like as a group sponsored by anybody.
• 58:24
  Speaker 4: Not yet, but we're open.
• 58:30
  Speaker 5: Yeah we did. We did the beef jerky that that
• 58:32
  Speaker 5: did pretty well. We're gonna try to boost that up.
• 58:35
  Speaker 5: But looking for other stuff too.
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: What do you feel like sets this culture apart from everywhere.
• 58:39
  Speaker 4: Else under standards of excellence.
• 58:41
  Speaker 5: You have guys that you have a lum that will
• 58:44
  Speaker 5: come back here and tell us like this, this is
• 58:46
  Speaker 5: what the standard is. And they're alum that work in
• 58:48
  Speaker 5: the building, so you're always being reminded of what the
• 58:51
  Speaker 5: past was like and how you have to live up
• 58:53
  Speaker 5: to that and it's not. We don't see it as pressure.
• 58:56
  Speaker 5: We see it too. We see it as a challenge
• 58:57
  Speaker 5: and we want to create our own ligacy here, like
• 59:01
  Speaker 5: we want this team to have his own legacy here,
• 59:03
  Speaker 5: just like how their team had a legacy here and legacy.
• 59:08
  Speaker 2: Well, there are so many NFL guys that went to Alabama.
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: Of all those guys that are still in the league,
• 59:13
  Speaker 2: who's one dude you'd want to play with.
• 59:15
  Speaker 5: One dude that I want to play with, probably Evanil
• 59:18
  Speaker 5: And just because he's an IMG guy, we had a
• 59:20
  Speaker 5: very similar path. He was at IMG for three years.
• 59:24
  Speaker 5: He's in New York right now, so that's close to
• 59:26
  Speaker 5: home for me. So just playing with him and then
• 59:28
  Speaker 5: I pick his brain every now and then as well,
• 59:30
  Speaker 5: So just having that relationship with him and just looking
• 59:32
  Speaker 5: up to him, like I are really looking up to him.
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: What do you like when you pick his brain? What
• 59:37
  Speaker 2: does he tell you about the NFL con part to college?
• 59:39
  Speaker 5: He just tells he talks about the speed of the
• 59:41
  Speaker 5: game and how it becomes even more of a business.
• 59:44
  Speaker 5: So you just have to be prepared for that and
• 59:46
  Speaker 5: just make sure you have everything in order before you
• 59:49
  Speaker 5: get there, so nothing catches you off hard.
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: With everything you've experienced, with the support of your parents,
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: going to IMG, taking leadership courses, mental courses, visualization, all
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: that stuff, and being at a place like Alabama. In
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: your opinion, what qualities make a good leader?
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 5: Never ask anybody to do something that you wouldn't do yourself.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 5: And I learned that before even was at IMG. I
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 5: learned that from coach Nunzio Capanelli. He was at Burghn Catholic,
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 5: so he recruited me to go to Burgon Catholic and
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 5: then I think he took a job at Ruggers. He
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 5: might be at Syracuse right now. But that that has
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 5: always stuck with me, just about being the leader, Like
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 5: how am I? How am I going to ask my
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 5: center to do something that I'm not doing myself? Like
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 5: how am I gonna tell him to play harder? And
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 5: I'm not even playing that? My heart is so just
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 5: like because you're you're you're holding yourself to that standard
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 5: and people are gonna follow.
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 3: I love that.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 2: Do you read books on leadership at all?
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 4: Yes?
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 5: I did what you what you in Right now I'm
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 5: reading the book by Tony Dunge.
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 4: I forget the name of it. I just started it,
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 4: but just meeting him. I actually met him at my.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 5: Official physic in Oregon, so then he's just a legendary coach.
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 5: And my my dad's a huge football fanatic. So just
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 5: meeting him and just getting into that book.
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: Is is it the one where he's transitioning to Tampa Bay.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 4: No, it's it's called Uncommon that book.
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 2: Okay, a couple, Dude, does your family still live up north?
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 4: They do?
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 2: How often do they make it down all the time? Yeah?
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 5: So, my my little brother, he's playing football right now,
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 5: so my parents will alternate weeks when they so somebody
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 5: will stay at for his game and somebody will come
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 5: out here. But yeah, we make it work. And that's
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 5: that's the thing about us. So I don't think I
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 5: mentioned this earlier. My dad and I used to come
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 5: here for the Alabama of Football camps, the Next Tame
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 5: of Football camps when I was in middle school. So
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 5: we've always been committed to the dream, no matter what
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 5: it tooks.
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 4: They're always here, always.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: Been committed to the dream.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that is awesome. I literally I don't think i've
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 2: ever met a kid that's in college. You're a kid,
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 2: you're an adult. But a guy in college that has
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 2: had a head on their shoulders like you do use
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 2: you seem like you really could.
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: Be smoke screens, you know what I mean. The you
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: know what I mean, but.
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 2: You can believe like a scout, you find they're gonna
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: look like we don't. Character and leadership not a problem,
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 2: an easy combine. Yeah, that's awesome. We appreciate you.
• 1:02:00
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