JP and BMitch discuss the importance of special teams towards the success of a football team.
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00:00And you have a long relationship with Larry Izzo and maybe got in a fight on the field once upon a time.
00:07That's just how things go.
00:09But, like, what was it like?
00:11You got there.
00:12They brought you in.
00:13You know, I'm not even sure that everybody knows they have a B. Mitchell Ward.
00:17Yeah.
00:17Oh, yeah.
00:18Well, they started that award last year where they call it the Brian Mitchell Award Commander-in-Chief Special Teams Award every week.
00:25And Coach had asked me, would I mind coming over to talk to the returners and all like that?
00:31And I'll say, I don't mind.
00:32So I hit him yesterday.
00:33Once you solidified and confirmed that we were going to be here, I said, I'll be over there tomorrow.
00:38He was like, you're going to hit me this morning and say, we got 920 Special Teams practice and, I mean, meeting and we have practice at 12, 15.
00:46Which one do you want to just do practice or you want to come early?
00:49I said, I'll be there early and I'll slip out and come to practice for a little bit as well.
00:53So I went in and he asked me to talk to him a little bit.
00:56And, you know, just basically, I can't tell them nothing they haven't heard already, but just letting them know, like, my journey.
01:03I started off, never returned a kick in my life, and look what I ended up doing.
01:07And talked about Percy and I being from the same area.
01:11Me and Revo have a lot of conversation.
01:13Tress's status on his team was able to point out the fact that Austin Eckler got into this league undrafted.
01:20He became a superstar and still doesn't mind going on a special team to let people understand the importance of it.
01:27Luke played against his dad, you know, and I remember that time I talked to his mom and his dad after the game.
01:32She was like, if he gets out of line, get him in line, bro.
01:35And I'm like, I'll let y'all do that.
01:36But it's just understanding and letting people realize that days of when you're in high school and college and you play a special team and people try to poo-poo on it, this is not about that.
01:49You're getting paid to play.
01:51So the guy that tell you, oh, you just played special team that's sitting on his ass watching you, you know, ignore him.
01:57But it's very important because most times when you go into a game, I mean, offense and defense, some kind of way evens out.
02:06Special teams throws it over into one side or the other.