It was a lot of fun out there. Um, you know playing the first game. Obviously had a little bit of jitis before the game, but once you stepped out there, you're just playing football. So it was a lot of fun get that first game under my belt. Tempao, any difference in Tempa would you notice anything? Um? Not really. It was kind of what I expected what we've been practicing. UM. Obviously players are fast out there, hits are kind of hard and um, but now it was a lot of fun.
What do you think of your performance? UM? I thought I did pretty well. There's definitely things I need to improve on. Um, but that's kind of me to expect it with the first game. How good does it feel to be out there and you know, you think in your head you can do it, but actually do it before it feels really good. Um. You know, we got a great group of guys that supported me really well, and uh, you know, a lot of players played well. So it was fun to be out there with those
guys camp at this level. And I think I did pretty well in blocking. Um, Like I said before, UH, need to improve on it, but that's kind of with everything in the game. After the first game, you know, I need to see things a little bit faster, But I feel like I did pretty well. Looked like on some of those you were winning the nose tackle. Did you do any of that in college or is that all stuff you've learned kind of this this spring and summer. Yeah.
I never really wammed uh the three techs defensive tackles in college. Um, but you know we have it in this offense and something that willing to do able to do, so it's kind of fun. Can you break down what happened on that that touchdown? It looked like a kind of a scrambled drill and then you got open there. Yeah, you know, I just kind of ran my route. When I look back, I saw Nate step up and trambled on my side, So just kind of shipped to do a spot where I thought I was opening. He was
able to hit me. A great play by him. Are you expecting to play a lot you need in the red zone? Maybe more than instances or that's where've not these Um, you know, I'm not really sure what the coaches are planning on doing with everybody. Um. Obviously I want to play as much as I can, but that's up to the coaches that touchdown. Is that something you pride yourself on, always making yourself available when when I play goes off script like that. Yeah, you know, um,
anytime I have the chance to get the ball. Um, I liked too, so uh definitely in cases like that, you know, defensive breakdown, it's hard to cover guys for so long. So um, it's a option or opportunity where you can make a big play you could have done better or even need to forward some other things. And I tell you look back and find you like, go, okay, I wish that well. I mean I dropped the ball earning the game, and you know it's just uh NFL.
You know, you can always get better. What Zach sadie before the game, before you kind of got your first action out here, you know, he just uh kind of gave it. Came up to me and just said, you know, do your thing, Um, have fun out there. You're not gonna play a perfect game, no one ever does, but just play your hard. It doesn't have fun. Is it a relief just as much you got the first game out of the way that you've already gone through right
now finally, Yeah, you know it was. It was exciting, you know the NFL has a long offseason, so it was a lot of fun getting back to this first game playing and you know, I'm really excited looking forward to next week, getting better this week and going to Fox Row. What's that feeling like? It was really cool? You know, it's uh, the whole team was there pretty quick. The guy tackled me in the end zone, and uh,
just celebrating with the teammate. Nate was pretty happy. Um, and it's celebrating with all the old Liman's other wide receiver Ertz and Rodgers and the other tight ends came in. Uh just kind of supported me. So that was really fun. Your first catch was three twenty six ars. Look like you found him saut spot in the zone. Can you scrub what happened there? Yeah? Um, it's a pretty good play that we have. And I was able to kind of sell it and just get open and just sat
there and they follow me. So credit to him and credit to Olin giving him time to do that.