Welcome to the Command Center Podcast. I'm Julie Donaldson. What a difference a year makes, especially for second year player Jamie Davis. After learning the rope to the NFL of his rookie season, he came up with a renewed purpose and led the team with tackles with one hundred and four and before he headed out this offseason, well, he's taught by the players Club to talk with one of the best to ever put on the Burgundy and goal
linebacker London Fletcher and wide out Santana Moss. Check it out, Jamie, you're two in the books man, end up leading the team in tackles this year. How did it feel to kind of go through the season that you had and after obviously the rookie year you had and playing as well as you did this year? Absolutely, I mean, I feel like this was definitely a big year of growth for me, just figuring out who I am as a player and just giving me something to build off going forward.
One of the things that stood out, man, is that you can tell you can see your growth. You know, sometime it's not something that's just glaring, you can just you know, put your finger on but we actually saw you fly around to the ball. Was that from the position change or that was just from just the familiar you know, being familiar now with stuff and having that extra help that you say you was getting from Cold
throughout the season. I think that was more so being familiar with the position a lot more seeing things that I've seen before last year, and just going out there and just trying to put it a little bit more of a stain on different plays that that was out there for me to make in your one and I think just going forward, that's just something I'm gonna have to continue to build off of so that I could
just make more of a mark on this team. Cole went down, you eventually started wearing the green dot man. That was a little different for y'all. I'm not sure if you in college, y'all signal everything. I don't even know if y'all have you know, the headset. What was that like for you? You know, having to call a defense and listen to it for the communication. I think it was one of those things for me that was
like you got to step up and show out. I mean, Cold went down and it was just an eye open experience for me because it was like Okay, next man up. That was always the mentality that I had in my head anyway, So just when I got the opportunity, it was like, Okay, now you got to be more of a vocal leader kind of guy and just step up to the plate and just put your best foot forward.
You know, one of the things that come with being a veteran or starting to stack those years up on your you know your resume, is the confidence and you know, the off seasons are much different. Now you can go into your off season just knowing that I'm gonna really step things up, and I'm gonna go out here and I'm attack certain different things that I know that I need to work on. Is that something that's going through
your head now? I know the confidence is there, we saw it in your game, But are you already mentally preparing for this off season just knowing that, man if I do X, Y and Z, I'm definitely for the bringer on a different level. You know this next time around. Is that something that you've already been thinking about or that you're probably that it happened whenever happens. Absolutely, I mean in my head right now, it's like it's time to put your best foot forward to show everybody that
you are all pro linebacker. So now you gotta change little things up as far as like alignments and stuff like that. To figure out little things I could take your game to the next level again next year. So it's like where do you go from here? It's like you don't want to be average at the end of the day. So I'm one of those guys. It's always going to do it as best as possible and just
bring everything I got. When you look at this season overall, and obviously, you know three days we felt like it was three different seasons, you know, the wonding fourth Star, then running off to seven and five, and then obviously the way the season ended. What will you remember most about this year That we didn't quit at the end of the day, no matter what, even if it started slow, we picked it back up and it didn't end the way we wanted it too. But I mean, look at
a testament of yesterday Lakai went down with Dallas. I mean, if you asked me, I mean we had our backs against all we never volted, So I mean going forward, that's something to build off of, and I just know the guys around me got my back and like coach Rivera always say, all we got is all we needed. So how was it looking at some of them young guys yesterday? Man, I got it. Yeah, I'm glad you
asked that. It was just sitting there watching, just watching everybody flying around and just you know exactly how they was going to play because of how they approached it throughout the we can practice and it was just amazing to just see everybody doing their job and just it wasn't really a surprise because it was one of those things that we always prepare the same exact way and just went out there and showed everybody that it ain't gonna be a cake walk over us or anything like that.
So they went out there and played their game and the results spoke for him, So that was good. One of the first things when I saw Tanna to day, he was like many have a colligue hut that you know you see him running around. He was making a ton of plays, did some things running down the middle of the field and cover two. It's like, sayn why haven't he been playing? You know what is that something you've seen in colleague in practice all season? Lost league
is a dog man. He definitely earned his respect from in my eyes when I first met him. To be honest, like I've been new, League was a dog. So just seeing him go out there and take take advantage of his opportunity or something that's really humbling. This is knowing that I'm the same kind of guy as well. So just being around a guy like League, I think going forward, he always gonna make his mark as well, do you guys, M Because I knew I was always one of those guys.
I went home, I went to Miami, and you know, I felt like we had some of the best upbringing when it came to you know, strength and conditioning right there on campus with our scrim coach Andrew Swayze. I'm not sure how you guys do it now nowadays, but do you go back to where you're from, or do you stay around in the area and say, you know, get some of the guys from the team and work out or how do you do that. I feel like
that's probably one of the safest routes to take. It is probably sticking around the area because you're around the strength staff, they get to see you, they can keep their hands on you and do as much as possible
to keep developing you as a player. So I mean going forward, you know, like, Okay, we've seen this guy around the facility, we know that he was putting in that work in the offseason, and then going forward, you got other guys that's gonna slowly start to trickle back in as well so that they can get on boarding and that chemistry just keeps growing. Yeah, man, this is uh we if you have this type of jump next year.
I love the fact that you said all Pro line back, Pro Bowl, all Pro lineback, and you know, as I watched on the field, the talent is there, the confidence is growing. You know, each and every week we saw a progress throughout the season. It's just a little thing, like you said, that alignment and learning a little intricacies of playing that position. Man, I can't wait to see a year three from you. I can't wait you. It's
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