00:00This is the kind of size that we like to see, especially from the defensive mindset.
00:06I can't speak for Auburn's line, but that's a battle that's going to continue to make them better as well.
00:11So right now we're just continuing to make iron sharp in the iron.
00:16Compare your mindset, mine, to right now, going into training camp,
00:20to last year going into it as a rookie.
00:23Yeah, going into it as a rookie last year, I'm just trying to do my job at that point.
00:29I'm not trying to do any extra.
00:30I've got, I had Logan Wilson next to me.
00:33I'm just trying to listen to what he's saying pretty much and know where my 111th is.
00:38Now in year two, it's reading the book the second time.
00:41So it's like, you know, as I previously mentioned, reading the book the second time,
00:46you pick up stuff that you didn't see because you have a year under your belt.
00:49You understand what's going on and you're able to play to those levels into the defense.
00:55How can you manipulate, you know, four guys like the best in the world, number line,
01:00to be, you know, a little hesitant because, you know, everything is timing for quarterbacks.
01:04So if we can throw them off by the pre-snap look to change it to, you know,
01:08the post-snap look that will, you know, give Dexter and Boye and all those guys on front cashers,
01:14Shamar, when he gets back, that gives those guys an extra chance to get home
01:16because, you know, front rushing covers works together.
01:19And, you know, it's a, it's a beautiful symphony if you, if you will, when it all plays quite well.
01:24I only ask because of the metaphor you just used.
01:26Are you a big reader?
01:27I am.
01:28I do.
01:28I do.
01:29In my, in my spare time, you know, when I'm not a human jungle gym at home,
01:35I do, I do like to read, sit back, read my Bible, just clear my mind and, you know,
01:40come back, come back to work and get better.
01:42Is that blitz that obviously Barrett went in on and you picked up, is that beautiful music?
01:49Is that the way the symphony is supposed to sound?
01:51It doesn't get any better than that.
01:52I mean, you can hear the crescendo of the cymbals at the end, if you will, you know,
01:56get them to the end zone.
01:58So, it's, that's how it should play.
02:00Of course, you know, sometimes some instruments be a little sharp and that's, you know,
02:04would be at the other 11 step in and, you know, take over and help each other.
02:09How good did that feel in the second practice of camp that executed that well?
02:14Man, it's a, it's a good, it's a good and a bad because, you know, it was,
02:17it was great to make the play, but right now I'm trying to keep my distance from number nine
02:21because, you know, he's a little frustrated right now and you can see it on his face.
02:24So, no telling what he's going to come at us with tomorrow.
02:27So, he'll be ready to get it back in blood probably right away.
02:31So, but that's just going to, you know, make him better and it's going to make me
02:35and Barrett and this entire defense better.
02:37So, don't count him out yet.
02:39You know, he's got that look on his eyes.
02:41So, I'll just be ready.
02:42You probably said it already, but can you just kind of talk me through that play?
02:45Like what you saw and what happened?
02:47Yeah.
02:47So, at that point, you know, I'm kind of guarding Samaje from the line
02:53and he happens to be my coverage, which goes away.
02:56So, I'm looking for anything new that's coming back this way.
02:58Nothing came back right away, but I saw Jamar running a higher route.
03:02So, I'm just playing underneath him.
03:04Don't think he saw me, you know, underneath.
03:06He just kind of saw the guy trailing Jamar and kind of fell into that window.
03:10Right place at the right time.
03:12We found out today that one of your fellow second-year guys, Shamar, avoided serious injury.
03:17How big is that for you to fight?
03:19Man, that's just, that's how the lure works.
03:22You know, you pray right away and that type of stuff happens.
03:25So, it's good to know that he's going to be back.
03:28He even said it when he was on the back of the car that he'll be back.
03:31And we believed it.
03:32We spoke it into existence.
03:33And, you know, sure enough, he will.
03:36His car is here early in the morning because it's what it means to him.
03:39So, he's in here.
03:40He is not a morning person.
03:41I did figure that out last year.
03:44But, you know, this time around, the guy is first in the church room.
03:48He's here.
03:49His car is here because he knows what it means to him and what this team means to him.
03:54And just the feeling you're here.
03:55It makes you want to be here.
03:56It makes you want to work hard.
03:58It makes you want to give everything, even when you can't.
04:00So, he's going to do his 111 by being in here and getting his body right.
04:04You said he was talking when he got on the car.
04:06What did he say?
04:07When he was on the back of the car yesterday after it happened, he was just kind of like,
04:11you know, I'll be back.
04:12And that's his mindset starting today.
04:15He's on the right track.
04:17After seeing what he went through last year, how tough was it, though, to see him suffer an injury the
04:23first day?
04:24Man, it never looks good when a guy holds his leg like that.
04:28But, you know, he's a fighter.
04:31You know, hurt his ankle in the season last year.
04:33He still came back.
04:34So, this is a guy, he's not going to give up.
04:36He's a fighter.
04:37He's a guy that's going to, you know, he's going to be hard-nosed.
04:40He's going to go 100 miles an hour, both on the field and off the field.
04:44So, I have no doubt that he's going to go into the training room, continue to just attack this process
04:48and give back just like anybody would.
04:50Who would mean something to him?
04:51It means everything to this guy.
04:53And I believe, you know, just by him showing up, shoot, almost right when the trainers show up,
04:58it shows them that he's serious about it and he wants to be back when we open up in Orange.
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