Mike Macdonald said he wants to throw a lot at you. Seems like you've been out there a ton both preseason games. You got a lot of reps during the week. How do you feel like these past couple of weeks have benefited you?
I feel like these past couple of weeks have been a blessing honestly. Everybody knew I needed the extra reps and just everything's been planned out for me to try to get better and learn things a better way.
He's mentioning you've got the tackling part down. What is left after the next step. He's talked about you taking reads, drops and different way to play the defense.
I'd say just diagnosing the plays better. Expanding my vision and stop trying to see too much and focus on my keys ahead. So I just think, honestly just reading all the plays better.
Is anything you are doing now familiar from UTEP (University of Texas-El Paso)?
Everything is probably just one gap over, but everything seems pretty similar from UTEP.
Are you going to get some kind of trophy for the number of plays you've you played the last couple of days?
I'm not getting a trophy for that. I know they expect that from me.
When you say you are trying not to see too much and stay focused, can you explain more?
I would say motions here and there, and just focusing on my keys and not trying to see everything going from left to right, but just keeping a little tunnel vision and focus on what's at hand.
Second part of that is the communication. Once you see that and relaying that to your other players.
Just trying to get everyone on the same page and make your jobs way easier and know what everybody is doing around you.
With the couple days of joint practices, what do you feel you guys got out of that?
For one thing, the team just got better just taking this whole trip down here for a few days. Everybody bonding more. But I will say for the joint practices, it felt good going against someone else other than yourself. I feel like everybody tried to see where everybody was at. I'd say it was a pretty successful trip for us.
