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A Conversation with Jets Safety Jordan Whitehead (7/12)

Jul 12, 202231 min
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Host Eric Allen is joined in studio by Jets safety Jordan Whitehead. The veteran DB talks about his introduction to the Jets fans at the MetLife Stadium Draft Party (1:10), why this could be the best secondary Whitehead has played on in his career (1:42) and the talented cornerback pair of DJ Reed and Sauce Gardiner (4:00). The guys also discuss his transition to the Jets defense (8:43), the term box safety (10:07) and how close he has to be with C.J. Mosley to call/align the defense (14:15). Lastly, they chat about how a safety balances going for the big hit or the takeaway (17:51), Jordan's family connection with former Jets CB Darrelle Revis (20:00) and what it means to be from Pittsburgh, PA (21:33).

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We're presented by went Bett. Betty is the team sport bet together at went Back. Eric Ellen here inside at the studio, joined by New Jet safety Jordan's Whitehead. How has the adjustment been going coming back to the Northeast. You know it's been it's been pretty good. Um, being in New York, it's uh, it's a different Like I'm from Pittsburgh. It's a little difference, bigger. Um, it's a

lot more people. You know, the fan base is crazy. Um, but you know, becoming part of this defense, just like what I've been getting used to with the coaches and you know, a gatting used to the players. We've been communicating and trying to you know, get on the same page. And I've been having a lot of fun, you know with the guys on the back end and um, you know c J and Quincy just kind of just running

the thing in the middle. Uh. It's been really exciting just to see the similarities, Um, of the great defenses that we could be. I love that you just said the fan base is crazy. What do you know about them? And why are you already saying well, starting off my first event when we did uh Draft night, I think you had the stadium Draft night. Um, you just had you had the Giants and Jets fans in the stadium, but how crazy like the Jets fans coming up, how

many people there were, Um, just for that night. It was just like you know, you get that in college. You had a little signing events during camping all that things. But it was a lot of fans and just a lot of people that knew who you were. Especially for me and DJ sitting next to each other coming in

New had a lot of love for us. What do you think about the talent on the field that you've seen here the spring, because he talked to the media not too long ago and you said this could be one of the best secondaries I've played on the national football Like, oh yeah, when I said that, I really meant it. Just because Um, the death that we have

here at safety for sure, Um. And then just knowing the corners we had brought, you know, two corners in um, DJ Reid, who had been playing amazing in the last couple of years in the NFL, and then you draft the player at number four saw us. You know, it's just a lot of You've got a lot of confidence with that. And then you have Bryce Hall got a

lot of reps last year, a lot of good snaps. Um, it's just like just you feel good going in the game where you know you can have three solid quarters right now that that has starting, Um experiencing Brice and then saw U. This young guy, but he's ready to work. He's the fourth pit. He better be ready to you know, playing he is. He's been showing a lot um and pressing guys up and making a lot of plays. So what's the story behind number six? Because we're just talking

about it before. I look at the defensive backfield now and it's almost all single digits across the board. Yeah. So my favorite numbers three. That goes back to when I was a little young little league and then I got to college and three was taken, so I went to nine. Um, so fast forward to now upside down to nine and six you know, so that's kind of where I'm at now. It's a multiple three. Um, I was thirty three but I was taking so it's just kind of sixes. I like six too, so it's a

good solid number. Yeah, it's gonna ask you that look good, feel good right for sure? And when you're taking a look at yourself as far as a photograph or maybe in video. We're putting them up, putting up some highlights. What do you think about the six? I'm loving it. My friends hit me back home like you look good in the six, and I'm like, I wish I had three, but the six has grown on me. Yeah. And there is somebody who wears thirty three here with the Jets. Yeah.

If you talk about not approaching him right going with a new number. So I had asked him, but he said it was a childhood number. So I respected that. Um, that's kind of the field. I was going forward three, But I respect somebody that says a childhood number really means a lot to them. Um. Can you talk about the dogs in the secondary? You mentioned DJ and m MOD. DJ seems like a real intense dude, no matter what's

gonna happen, right right. Yeah. You know DJ at to every play, he's correcting it or he's I'm gonna make the next play like that's just his mindset. Um, he shows it every day. Um, and just watching him from the past, you know, I used to keep up with a lot of dbs around the lead and just I

used to see him making a lot of plays. Like he's like me, not a big, super big guy, but he's scrappy and he's all he's fighting every Why is he effective on the outside because Jordan's most guys who are five ft nine playing cornerback in the National Football League. You know, people are gonna say he's got to be an inside guy, right yeah, just um, you know he got the mindset for sure, but then his quickness and his ability to just cover and um, you know his spinash.

He he doesn't give up on plays. That's gonna take him a long way. He understands the game. You're very smart. So that's probably helping him a lot too because he comes to me with you know, that's like safety is usually go to the corners. He's coming to me. Um, just every day there's something new. So so C. J. Mosley was Mosley was sitting in the seat not too long ago doing a podcast and I brought up Sauce and he said, we're calling on my mind? What do

you what do you call on him? So mars his name. They can play on Sunday. But but size or Ama. He made a couple of plays this past week. Um, and he's just shown what he's capable of one, so that's his standard. And um, once he makes some more players doing camp, he's gonna get that that nickname Sauce from the whole team. So maybe you we'll start calling him Sauce. So you guys might calm Sauce Week one against the Baltimore Ravens September eleven, in which will be

a frenzied environment Life Stadium. What do you like about him? Coming out number four overall selection? So he's gonna have a lot of pressure on him externally. Um, but people talk about, yes, he's got swagger, but he's also soaking things. Oh yeah, that's one thing about him. He's uh, he's very like football savvy. Um, he got that confidence. Just that's him. You look at him, you tell he got confidence.

But he's very knowledgeable. He's coachable. Um from me, I'm telling him something that I think and he's I got you in the next play. He's doing it so not just from what I've seen I know in the meeting rooms. I'm not with him all the time, but I'm sure he's just he's soaking up information. The way he's playing, you could tell that he's been studying. Um, he's picking up very fast. What's unique about him in terms of not just what he brings to the table physically, but

also the intangibles. Yeah yeah, like his size, Um, you know, superpower like they were saying, that's what Coach Alla says is pressing, Like get on the line of scrimmage, you get a guy on the line, get up during pressing. That's your superpower. So just I would say for him for that, that's gonna be his advantage. You know, he's gonna do a great job of pressing guys up and just letting him know that this is his island over there. Okay, so we know cornerback got a lot better here in

the off season. Safety tremendous facelift and you're at the center of that. What do you want to say about this group that people don't know? Right? Um? So, and coming in I didn't really um know too much yes about you know them Jet safety play just from being what Tampa on my own team. Um, it was hard. And then when I got here, I started watching film and then I'm like, okay, Alja out there and making plays, you know, Ashton making a lot of plays. I don't

have had a lot of guys changed them. But those guys were out there the most. And I've seen Ashton playing a line and I'm he's pretty good. And then this week at camp, UM, he's just been showing the coaches and showing the players like what he's capable of. You know, he's having a great um O t a camp, a lot of a lot of pigs, a lot of production on the ball, and UM, he's just smart player. He does everything, UM he's told to do. So what I think from these this guy, these guys is like

they got a great coach. We got a great coach at M coaching us. Um, he's very hard on us, very detailed, and that goes a long way. Um from when I first got in the league, that's been the main priority, just little details and M sticks on that all day every day. Is the same person throughout the day. And the guys that they have. Jason Pennock, I played

with that, my boy, he was that corner. Uh, and they moved into safety last year, so I didn't really know too much about what he could do at safety and then watching them now being with him every day watching film, Uh, he's very smart and just you know, he knows the game and once he learns how to really just do the little things that being in that safety position instead of corner, and he's gonna take it to the next level. He's long range, e very athletic.

And then the Marcus Joiner you know, vetting Rent in the room. Uh, he's coaching me up, teaching me a lot of new things. Um. I get to see him on film, and I watched him in the past, just you know, being uh, being older than me, I looked up to. We got the same agent, so I really got the divel in when I was younger and watching him and the way he plays, He's like me, you're not the biggest guy. He's gonna hit you. He's gonna

go after the ball. And he he plays man and man very good as a safe for a safety you know, he's not Safety's gonna play a lot of man. But if you watch him, he sticks on receivers like a nickel. Do you think that's a missing owner about this defense? I know you haven't taken a snap under Robert sala Yeah, but everybody thinks San Francisco Seattle play zone all the time, where Salad says, hey, we play a little bit more

man than you guys might think. Yeah, just from being doing situational football now you will see a lot of man and uh still mixing in his zone. They could do a great job of mixing. The coverage is up though, but just on certain situations you know what you're getting, you know where where to run and uh you gotta be ready to really a sticky man and man and um lockdown. You gotta have a lot of confidence playing

man and that's what you know. We're growing at um getting confidence and then you know, taking our techniques and just proving them. Want to feel how much can you and LaMarcus compliment each other a lot? You know, we similar players and we could do similar things. Um, you know when we get into camp more and find the strengths and our weaknesses, get to play with you short more get chemistry. Um, we will all this tell a

little bit more. But just from talking, I could just tell how like sere, what we both are just you know, being able to interchange that free safety, strong safety. Yeah, do you hate the term box safety because when people talking about Jordan White had Yes, we know you can thrive in a box, right, But you just talked about being interchangeable with Marcus and the books did use you in different situations, and I think that Robert Salad Jeff all Bricker gonna continue to do that. Here do you

not like that terms? So there was a where I didn't like the term box safety because it's like limiting you like, oh, he's a linebacker, he can't cover. But for me, I tried myself in now as all right, I'm box safety, but yeah, I'm gonna be the best in the run, best box safety in the run, and then I'm also be able to cover um, you know, tight ends. And then last year I was flexed out a little bit on the U Z receiver plan zone

a little bit. So you know, I don't take People will say box safety, but if you watch the whole game, you would know that it's not just the box safety Position's not live in New Jersey and they're bringing the excitement of win Las Vegas to online sports betting, getting on all your favorite teams, players and sports from tho step Partleys to live in game odds on every major sport.

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If you're someone you know has a gambling problem called one hundred two seven zero seven one one seven, keep talking about the way TV used to last year and the Todd Bowls former Jets head coach the defensive coordinate and Tampo is now the head coach there and how did you develop underneath them? Yeah, so he actually taught me a lot. Um you know just when he when

they came in that coaching staff Tar Bowls. Uh, he met with me and he he taught me a lot because it was the same defense that they ran here with the Jets. So I used to watch the Jets jabal items I used to watch and how he played, um, you know, the box safety position, a strong safety position and to coach Bowls taught me run reads and coach with put my safety coach given a lot of credit. Taught me a lot of safety reads and run reads like linebackers do, which safeties usually don't get to learn.

And we spent a lot of time with that, um, so we worked together. So it was really it was pretty big, and that's why we were probably the number you know one run defense a couple of years, just because of how deep detail we really were. And then taking it here, I really feel like it's kind of similar. It's not the same eight man front, but um, it's similar. You guys work together with the backers. These work with backers, and once you get all on the same page, it's

gonna make a dominant run defense. And I was reading about it, he said that, or you've mentioned that, TV said I gotta talk more. Yes, was that natural for you? Because I've talked to you a few times since you signed, and you're a pleasant dude. People get along with you in the building. You can see that your team's uh teammates gravitate towards you. But was that not natural for you at first? So when I first got in the league, it was kind of more. I was, I'm like shy,

just letting everything happen. Um. But when he got there, he and walked through talk talk talk if not running the back what what did you see you that say anything to play? Kind of like that? So walk through in in the film room taught me to talk more. So it definitely stuck with me. And every day doing walk through, I could just remember walk through him just you know, behind me, moving me, just saying talk and then stuff still sticks me to this day. And they're

big one it here. So I'm trying to get everybody in the room to get on that same type of communication level. When it takes you a long way. You gotta be verbal and communicate both on the field and in the classroom. But this is a new team, years old, four season the National Football League, new team, new system. Do you find yourself absorbing a little bit right now and knowing that, hey, once we get to the summer and get through a preseason game or two, I'm even

gonna be talking more. Oh definitely, we'll be talking more when I understand the defense completely. Um, right now, just knowing they're becoming great defense, you gotta talk. There's gotta be somebody calling out every call, um reiterating the emotions. You know, you just gotta keep on talking. So that that's why I pry myself on you know, first intend

what personnel it is. I'm saying that every snap, just a just to let the guys know around me, like giving them a little tenants up like this is might go on and it's helping me out. I say, they give me the call. CJ gives a call, I say my rules in my head to tell their safety. Just overre on the same page, and it takes you a long way. If I don't know the call, he knows it. It's gonna help us out. Everybody knows we played the wrong thing. Everybody plays the same thing. They're on the

same page. It could work out with that being said. Mostly is a mic linebacker. How close do you guys have to be YouTube specifically? Right? Yeah, so you know after if I don't know something, because I'm new to this and he knows it like the back of his head, I'm asking him questions all the time. Um, it could be a little thing just like do you want me to say? Do you want me to do this? Just so because it's like, you know, he it's his defense.

He's been a part of it. So I'm trying to see what he wants and he's doing a great job. Just communicated with me back what he expects and then I'm just giving my points into I just I used to watch him a lot with the ravens Obama. I used to watch so I know the type of player he is. I know you smash mouth, You're gonna run you down, hit you, the type of players. So you know, I like that, and I just try to follow the league. You do follow the league, and you mentioned that a

couple of times. Who do you study in terms of your position safeties out there that you like, not necessarily running the same system, but the guys that you appreciate their game for sure. So for me, when I first, like I said, Jamal Adams from studying that tape, his aggressiveness um to be able to take on blocks and get to the quarterback tackles for lost all that. I used to study him a lot. Buddha baker Um, just

his physicality, his speed, how he closes on tackles. There's a lot of guys like I usually I love watching Troy paulamalu um old tape, just the way he plays, you know, all around player, tackle loo interceptions. And then just another guy that could go back to my old team, Antoine Winfield Um younger than me, but just how he plays, um detailed guy. I enjoy watching him play. The other thing that we haven't talked about is you're effective rushing

the pastor blitzing. Is that something you envisioned doing a little bit here? Oh for sure. Yeah, we had a lot of blitzes down of a tall bowls. Um. You know, Brick does a great job of you know this guy defenses and you're gonna get a free shot. And uh, just to show them when we get pads on, UM, really show the show the coaches what I can do. And that's probably one of my strengths. Uh, you know, coming downhill like that. I'm definitely looking forward to it. Well,

you're known as a big hitter. Um, I wanted to ask you there are a couple of hits that have stood out as far as your careers to this day. So yeah, we played in Division with the Panthers, the Saints, the Falcons. But my favorite running backs watching playing was Kamara, you know, it was McCaffrey. So I would every time we played them twlice the year. I have a target like a chick with my shotter, Like I need to

get a good hit on them. So my best games will come against the Saints and the Panthers, and I would I would before the game be wanting to get a clean shot, clean safe shot on the running back and McCaffrey, camar and I had a couple of tags with them, and the game moves so fast. What's it like in that split second for half a second when you know you're gonna have an opportunity for a big leg, You know, it's it's a great feeling after um, you

stop them short. I had a couple of Mike Thomas third a short hit him short of the snakes, get up and you know it's a it's a good feeling. One thing I can say about those big hits though sometimes they hurt a little bit. Get up. You gotta act like they don't. You celebrate it, get back to the signline. You're like, all right, that kind of I hit him, But you know I felt it too. How much you guys stressed and takeaways out here, because you mentioned Ashton before he picked up two in his many days.

We're taping here in the spring, it's mid June. With that being said, for this defense to go to the next level, get more takeaways, and then also from your perspective when you have to hold back from the hit and maybe say, hey, I got a chance to get to the ball. Yeah, that's a big thing in my game that I'm trying to uh tune up a little bit. You know, Um that ball is in error. Defensive player of misset need to be go get the ball. Sometimes

you get sold out in about to knock this guy out. You, Um, you don't potential to the ball as much. So, uh, the ball gets you points. The ball get you win. So that's the biggest thing. And uh, you know, having as many dropped the interceptions I have my career, I'm going for the ball only I can't even count. It's

too many. I there's too many. Is that why you're playing on the defensive side of the ball, you know, Colors, I was running back, so yeah, I once I got any receptions, but I got I got some tosses and things like that. Tom Brady, you were a team and at his What did you take away from that experience? You know, just really how to take practice like a game,

rap every every rep you get. And you know it's like he was so dialed in and so cretic, like he criticizes you know, it was it was I would say on his offensive players, he would really be hard on them if they didn't run the right route. Um. It was constructive though, So I took that as you know, it's not it's just practices walk through. It's walk through, but you need to pay attention, you need to be dialed in. The walk throughs weren't walk through they were

jog throughs, you know. And I was the first time, like I saw that on offensive side. So it carries over here. They do it here too, but it was just that was first new for me. How he just so detailed and everything he does. Team meeting, the head coach is talking about a defensive player and he's taking notes. So I kind of just took like, all right, maybe one day he's or he's gonna be playing against that guy.

Now he knows his weakness, or he's gonna be on the same team as him, and now he knows, like you know, So it's just little things like that. I paid attention to a lot of that stuff. Did you ever get in this zero I talked to him, Uh, asked him about just what he reads um with his keys before the snap, and you know, he told us that he breathes the safeties pretty much most of the time as the safeties he's reading and I just show me that really, if you disguise and play around with

the quarterback, it can mess everything up. So I'm trying to just implement that in my game a little bit more. Um, that's gonna come a repetition. Let's go back to Pittsburgh. What's the connection with Thurrell first cousin. Yeah, he's just star Grandma's Grandma's um. No, at his draft when I was younger, went to like high school basketball games. Remember going to his games. Was at his draft party, um that night. So it was just like a lot not a lot of memories when I was younger with him,

but you know, he would be around. He was a busy guy at Pig going to college. I remember just asking for his practice jersey at pick twenty five and I had that. I used to wear that like it was, you know, with the greatest jersey ever boll it is. But but it was just like little things. I can remember growing up just watching them playing basketball football games. Um, how good a basketball player was Riff he was. He was real good. They everybody said that was his best

board at home. Um, I don't remember. I was just young. I just remember like, yeah, he had a lot of I think he had a couple offers with basketball. I remember he's always dunking. You know. He had a great great Hawks, great defense. To be from Pittsburgh El Equippa specifically, can you talk about out what the expectation is. There's pretty much nothing to do. There's sports. You know, it's

football or basketball, um all day. And when you grow up, it's like our little league is like the super Bowl, Like they take it so serious. My uncle was the coach. You know, he's argue with other coaches after the game because it's just so serious. Like and um, growing up, Um, we're working out, me and my cousin, my three cousins.

His dad's getting us up. We're working out. We're doing football drills, basketball drills, whatever season it is, and just that mentality being from wester p A. Um, it's it's tough nosed football. You know, it's cold out, it's snow, and you know you're running the ball really know, like in high school, we didn't pass too much. It's just you running the ball, you're tackling. That's kind of just like my mode to this day is like, you know, if it's a run, I'm coming at full speed to

tackle you. And if I'm running back, you know, I'm trying to chuck you, running you over. It's kind of just mindset there. What was your favorite sports? Run off? It was always football, it was it was baseball, then I went to football. I stopped baseball young but it was just too slow, too boring, and then I fell in love with football. I would say, I would say pretty much when I got the ninth grade. When I was younger, I used to play and I was good at it. But when I got to like high school,

I really I really took it serious. But you said in the mindset like there was never shining away because there's there's people you know they're good at athletes, but when they get around contact, things changed. There was never an episode for you when you were younger, but like,

I know, if that good. When I was five years old, my first year ever, I was in between soccer and football and I had I had the farm Church strap, you know, the the week one I know you Patty, and I was like it might have been a corner and they had this big guy coming to block me. Like three plays in a row hitting me, and I was like, you know what, my mom want a sideline, was like, I'm done crying, walked off the field. I

went to my soccer game. I think my mom said I had like two or three goals, and I said, I quit that year of football and I sat out the whole next year. My uncle trying to get me back to play, and finally I came back when I was seven. We won the championship and I just kind of like a like, all right, I'm playing football now. Um. Knowing as a thumper, how much you pride yourself on

setting the tone or maybe turning momentum. There are times during games where it could be slipping where you might say to yourself, Hey, I gotta do something right right. So yeah, definitely before the game, like pre game and then going into the first job. I try to bring the energy. Um, just the you know it's it's it's easy to start off slow, that's u It happens a lot. So you just need guys. They see that first hit early. It turns up the guys like just a defensive mindset.

Somebody gets hit, everybody's hyped up, ready to go in. You get a quick three and out changed the whole game. So that's just my thing. Starting off fast I was our thing um last year, starting fast, and that's just it really stuck with me in practice. Start fast and um, you know you're going down and then you need a momentum switch and you get a big hit, big fumble or something like that. It changed the game. Momentum is real. You watch the NBA Finals now, like the momentum is real.

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describe what this team is right now? You know everyone in a long time definitely has a lot of talent and new pieces like yourself, draft picks, you got free agents who wanted the National Football League. What do you see her? I see a bunch of guys like this is from O. T A S. The phase Phase one. They work, Um, you know every day there's not special team drills. They're working defensive drills, offense drills, they're working weight room lifts. Are like it's like a college atmosphere.

The way the guys work. Um, they take it serious, like this O t AS. We've been missing for a couple of years, so um, this is like kind of new for me too. And then now I see it's like we're in season, we're dialed in. Um, you know, we're doing drills, we're doing seven or seven And it's kind of good to start this early because I'm just thinking about last year just working out on my own. But now it's like they're actually getting better in football sense.

And I think these guys here, like like you said, I haven't been winning, but I think they got a chip on their shoulder, and I could see I see that the guys know that the pieces they have in this room. I'm telling the guys honestly, like we have the pieces, Like there's not a drop off from the last team I was in. And that's just the truth from the guy's working, the guy's making plays, and um, you know, I just I really believe in this team going a long way. What do you tell dudes when

they ask you about playoffs? When I ask you about the postseason football, Yeah, that it's it's a different level with the intensity goes up. Um, And that's kind of like when I'm trying to get to this first game, Like you take that the playoff atmosphere. Playoffs entirely from the first game. You know you can. You can, you can win a lot. Um, you just gotta take it. When week at the time and you take one game,

I guess the playoff game you lose, you're done. Uh. You know that changed your mindset, That changes how you work, and you know that changes the outcome of the game. We got a little bit of ways until it happens. But September eleven, Baltimore coming to town. You talked about that fan base. You talked to be about being around, Um them, what do you think the environment's gonna be

like it my life? Oh, it's gonna be crazy for sure. Um. New York September eleven, first game versus ravens Lamar Jackson coming to town. Um, you know you can't ask him than that. That's that's you know, that's a definitely uh circle on my calendar. Um, I'm excited just to be with the Jets new team. I mean, I'm excited to be in New York. You know what about week for Pittsburgh's circling that one? On accounting, I'm definitely circling that one.

That's that's a hometown team, that's a you know, childhood team. Uh. Got a bunch of friends on that team too, and then Saint Pittsburgh a lot of family will be there. So I'm definitely gonna, you know, play to my best ability that game. Have you started hitting guys up for tickets yet? I haven't. I haven't. Um, you know, my for me since I was in college, I don't handle tickets. My mom does it. She's real, She's she handles a lot. She's the best mom you know out there. And uh,

I let her hand over. At what point did you know, Hey, the NFL was realistic for you? You know, I really always had that dream since I was since I was younger, came back and won the championship. When I was seven, I had to dream of going to NFL. Of course, Durell being um just you know, family, and I always had that mindset. And that's just where I'm from. That's the mindset everybody thinks you're going to the NFL, you know.

And uh, when I got to college and I was at Corner and our dudes, because our duzy put me the safety, I really had the first game and I really decided like, Okay, I gotta take this series because this is the first step we do three years here that could be the first step to go into the NFL. And um kind of college is when it really got a first, Like my first offers comment, I started thinking more. But when I got to college, um, I really became

like reality, what's gonna be next for you? You finished mandatory mini camp? And then what you gonna do this summer? How do you get away? And then as on the other side of the coin, they're like, hey, it's coming, I gotta be ready, you know, quick vacation, get it out the way. But now like having O t A is gets that get your feet in the water kind of like, Okay, the season is coming up, you know. Um so now my mamset is on football. I'm like, I'm dialed in. I'm gonna take a week off and

then I'm gonna get back to work. Um, just because i know, like what we could be special here and when the seasons comes, it's it's locked in. You're locked in for six months and you know those wins they count, and um, it's various. It's your job. You take it serious. And I just think, um, the last couple of years, you know, not being able to have these f t as and coming in later, a lot of guys don't really put the work in that they need to, just

because just you're at home relaxing. It's easy to be relaxed. And uh, I don't know, I just feel I feel different this year being on a new team, being with these guys. I'm feeling feeling a great energy. What's something we might not know about Jordan Whitehead but we should hmm, let me see. All right, all right, I'm just gonna go with when I was in high school, I had two gymnastics. Um, I just wanted to learn how to

go back back to back flip. And then you know, I got put in a class with a bunch of little girls and like kindergarten, first grade and it was just my mom. That was the funniest thing and all. It took it for like a month and I was with those kids, and like, I learned my back talk, but I was just experienced that I go back to that.

I'll never forget just the type of time. It was like what I was doing at the time, it was funny to me, but now I look back and it was like it was It's kind of cool just to get that experience maybe after an interception again in the past. So hopefully that's coming someone. We're gonna be looking forward to that. Jordan's appreciate the time. I had a lot of fun. Thank you. I appreciate it.

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