Travis Hunter, NFL’s dynamic playmaker opens up on his unwavering decision to play both sides of the ball, Trevor Lawrence, Liam Coen, return from injury, Jaguars’ expectations, Fatherhood & rewriting the headlines of how the world sees him.

“I cannot sit on the sideline.”Travis Hunter Couldn’t come to Duuval and not talk to our guy Travis Hunter!! We were able to catch him for a few minutes on his off day while he was at the facility with his family and we had to ask him all the things everyone wants to know and put truth to the headlines and rumors that constantly surround this young star. Heading into his second year with the Jacksonville Jaguars, Travis keeps it real with us about life on and off the field. Coming off an injury, He opens up about his determination to continue playing both sides of the ball, the physical and mental demands that come with it, and the expectations surrounding one of football’s most unique young playmakers. Ryan and Channing push back on all the snaps he takes and being a Hall of Famer at one position is tough let alone trying to compete at two! But Travis makes it clear and lets the guys know what drives him to be out there for both! Travis’ bond with Trevor Lawrence is what keeps him grounded and confident on the field as well as the respect and brotherhood he has with his teammates on both sides of the ball, although they have labeled him with a “cheat code” nickname… He reflects on becoming a dad, balancing family and football, and navigating the pressure to live up to the hype while continuing to grow into the player and person he wants to be. The growth and perspective this young man has at such a young age is truly remarkable. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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• 0:01Speaker 00

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• 0:30Ryan Clark?

  Yes, sir, the pivot's in Duval. It's the city where Freddie T. gained fame. And today, y'all, it's a special drop. We're sitting down with one of the most unique players in the NFL, former Heisman Trophy winner and Jacksonville Jaguar star Travis Hunter. After going through an extensive rehab process and getting himself fully healthy, Travis made it clear he doesn't just want to contribute. He believes that his greatest impact comes from playing both sides of the football. He's leaning on the veteran leadership in both rooms, embracing the expectations that come along with being the face of the franchise. And you know what happens if Trav gets beat at practice? He's gonna hear it in both meeting rooms. But what's driving Travis now goes beyond football. It's about his wife and his son.

• 1:13Ryan Clark?

  It's about his family and the purpose that they've given him. That's his new why. And that's why you're not gonna see Travis comfortable sitting on the sideline. He doesn't want to watch. He wants to play every single snap, never taking a play off. Even when he's put under pressure, he's just not giving away the answer to whether or not he believes he's a better corner or wide receiver. Because the dude truly wants to do both. That's also why Trevor Lawrence and Liam Cohen continue to stay on him. Because before anything else, mastering the playbook and knowing exactly what to do is what's going to allow Travis to make the impact he knows he's capable of. So don't expect to see a lot of shots of Trav sitting on the bench. He's gonna be on the field. Every single snap they let him.

• 1:57Ryan Clark?

  The pivot has stopped in Duval before to sit down with incredible people, but this time we have a great young man, an elite competitor, and one of the most fascinating players in the game. So Duval, let's get into it. Now, we have Travis Hunter.

• 2:15Speaker 02

  Can I hold the baby?

• 2:16Ryan Clark?

  See, I told...

• 2:17Speaker 02

  Oh.

• 2:18Ryan Clark?

  She said yes?

• 2:19Speaker 02

  I would be so loud during this interview, I gotta wake that baby up.

• 2:22Ryan Clark?

  Thank you.

• 2:25Fred Taylor?

  He's like a real-life baby whisperer.

• 2:28Ryan Clark?

  Bro, he swear to God, every baby like him, bruh.

• 2:31Ryan Clark?

  They do.

• 2:31Ryan Clark?

  What's up, my dog? Okay, we been in the gym? Okay? He already know. He gonna realize. Oh, you know.

• 2:39Fred Taylor?

  Oh, y'all wanted him to be.

• 2:40Ryan Clark?

  Hey, Chad, you already know, the fast ones automatically bad when they were little kids.

• 2:44Channing Crowder?

  Yeah, cuz that's how they get there to get an escape. They had escaped them butt whuppers.

• 2:48Ryan Clark?

  Yeah, like, all the fast ones?

• 2:50Speaker 02

  I don't wanna know how fast I had to get up out of that.

• 2:52Fred Taylor?

  I already know what neighborhood you grew up in, too.

• 2:54Ryan Clark?

  Hit that door, hit that, into that bed.

• 2:58Ryan Clark?

  Knew you was in trouble.

• 2:59Channing Crowder?

  You can catch me in that street, you can catch me in that living room.

• 3:01Ryan Clark?

  Bro, I ran from my daddy one time. I jumped over the bed, and he jumped over the bed, too.

• 3:07Speaker 02

  That's what happened with my cousin, I got hit.

• 3:10Speaker 02

  I don't even know how that happened.

• 3:11Ryan Clark?

  Oh, man, Travis Hunter, man, welcome back, man. Excited to do this again. It's Channing Crowder, Fred Telling, Ryan Clark, Pivot fam. We appreciate y'all pivoting with us. Man, I wanna get into this, Trav, man. I remember watching you on October 19th. Think you had 14 targets, something like that, 8 catches, over 100 yards, 34-yard touchdown. I felt it coming around for you, right? We were getting to see the talent show. How difficult was it for, when it felt like you were getting your footing, to then be injured and have to miss the rest of the season?

• 3:46Speaker 02

  All part of God's plan. You know, I wasn't distraught, I was distraught about it, but, you know, I just had to keep my head up. You know, I had my family, I was having a newborn, so I had something I could look forward to while I was getting at home, you know? I just know I had to put my head down and just work harder. You know, the coaches, they stayed on me, made sure I stayed in my playbook, made sure I stayed around the team so I can still feel that energy of still being a part of the team. So that was my main thing, is just keeping my head up. Well, I gotta go back to sitting right outside of Coach Prime's office. Uncle's trying to tell you, brother.

• 4:20Speaker 02

  You can't play a hundred damn snaps in the league. And you said, "I don't wanna choose." And you are very talented at both, but has your thought process changed on that? No, definitely haven't changed. Even after getting injured? No, that was just, like I said... It was a fluke? Nah, I wouldn't say it was a fluke, it's part of God's plan, you know? A lot of people say, "Oh, he gonna get hurt, he not gonna be able to do it when he get back." Now, it's just my time to show everybody that I can do it, no matter what happened, what optical come in front of me, just gotta be myself, so... I just know I gotta put my head down and continue to work. Not, it's not about proving somebody wrong or proving somebody right, it's just me going out there and being myself.

• 4:57Fred Taylor?

  Who gonna save Travis from Travis?

• 5:01Speaker 02

  Who gonna save him from himself? You just seen that little dude over there.

• 5:06Speaker 02

  I gotta, I gotta be able to stay on the field and stay healthy. It's my biggest thing. Like y'all said when I walked in, "Oh, you look bigger, you look a lot stronger." That was my, my main focus, you know? After getting hurt was become, come back stronger, come back bigger, be more, more in tune with my body, be healthier. That was my main focus.

• 5:24Fred Taylor?

  Right, so when they sent a tweet out saying Travis Hunter is gonna be, play one position this year? And I think you tweeted later saying, "I don't know who said that, or where y'all get that from."

• 5:34Speaker 02

  We didn't get that memo.

• 5:35Fred Taylor?

  Right, we didn't get that memo. I mean, just, just even a thought there, so that conversation had never been had?

• 5:42Speaker 02

  Nobody ever said that to me, nobody ever came to me. You know, I go up there and talk to him, so I feel like something bothering me, so... Somebody tweeted that, I tweeted back and went up there and talked to him, had that conversation, make sure it wasn't true.

• 5:52Ryan Clark?

  What was, what was that conversation like for you, Trav? Did you just walk in and say, "Hey, just tell me the real, is this a, is this a real thing?"

• 6:00Speaker 02

  Nah, it wasn't more so like that, like, the coaches got social media, too, so they seen, they seen the tweet, too, so first thing he did was, "Oh, let's talk about the schedule, let's talk about what we're gonna, how it's gonna look going forward." You know, he been upfront with me, not sugarcoating, nothing, so... Went upstairs the next, I think it was the next day. Whatever day it was, we went upstairs, we talked about it. We planned the whole thing out before when I was gonna be ready at the OTAs and everything.

• 6:24Ryan Clark?

  You know, in going into your second year, you know, they always talk about that jump, especially for extremely talented players, because you can now understand the mental part of the NFL game. How much further along do you feel from a playbook standpoint on both sides of the ball this year, as opposed to last year when you were coming into camp?

• 6:47Speaker 02

  I feel great. I feel great, you know? I can go in there and talk to my coaches, we got a better room in there. We call it the active room, where we got all the TV. It's probably like 6, 8 projectors, where I can see the whole formation, I can hear the play call, goal line up, tell them what I gotta do, my technique and everything, before it's even played out. So I can do that, I do that in the morning before I even go to the practice field. So when I go to the practice field, limit my MAs, limit my thinking process, just go out there and play fast. And to be the best college football player in college, and you dropped to the league? Yeah. What did you learn that first year? Cuz I would say, I remember, everyone, everybody asked about Randy Mosses and Marshawn Lynch's. I was like, "Man, them damn linemen are big and fast." That was the thing that hit me when I got to the league.

• 7:31Speaker 02

  I was like, "Man, these boys 350, and they, they shuffling when I shuffle." What did you see that first year? My first year? I probably just said, the playbook was the hardest thing. The playbook was the hardest thing. Me, I'm learning two different playbooks. So coming in here and learning one playbook, and I also wanna be on the other side of the ball, cuz I cannot sit on the sideline for nothing. So I gotta learn that playbook inside and out, so when they call my name, I can be ready. They won't feel, they won't have lack confidence in me. So the playbook was my biggest jump. But I probably say now, just understanding the formations from the defensive side of the ball. They come out in this formation, or we at this, this alignment, we in this fringe, we in this red zone, what plays I'm getting, what routes I'm getting.

• 8:13Speaker 02

  So that's one thing that I took a big jump in, off the side of the ball. You know, still, you gotta still work on routes, technique, you gotta go in there and block. The coach wanna run the ball, so... You gotta be ready to go in there and block. That's, that's, that's one of the main things I had to learn, is like, go in there and block no matter what. You know, go get to your man, make it an effort to not let your man touch the ball at the end of the play. So that's one of the...

• 8:37Fred Taylor?

  Do you, do you get it, do you get as excited for that? Knowing you just gotta go and ram your head into somebody? Versus when you have to line up and jam somebody from the other side of the ball?

• 8:48Speaker 02

  I, I love going to, I love going to block, cuz... You see that replay, they gonna be like, oh, look at this block from this player. Because a lot of people don't think receivers on the block.

• 8:58Fred Taylor?

  Right.

• 8:58Speaker 02

  So the first thing is if I go in there and not smack a safety or buy him up a safety, they gonna be like, oh, they gonna keep putting out on replay. And then if running back break a good run, you definitely gonna be on TV for that.

• 9:09Fred Taylor?

  Especially if you got men back.

• 9:10Speaker 02

  And then if I at corner, they bring that tackle or that guard around and I blow him up, that's another big thing that a lot of people would like to see. So I love both of those.

• 9:20Fred Taylor?

  The real question that I wanted to ask Trav is more in line with the mental side of the game. Because I had been there. I had my share of injuries. I actually was doing math the other day. I missed 55 games in 13 years, which is insane. I mean, that's besides the point. I'm just saying, like, you have to mentally sort of kind of readjust yourself from injury to your return. You've been great on every level.

• 9:46Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 9:47Fred Taylor?

  I'm not sure if you've ever dealt with that type of adversity, but from the outside looking in, I don't think you have, because every time we looked up, we saw you at the game doing something spectacular.

• 9:56Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 9:57Fred Taylor?

  High school highlights, college highlights, Heisman, all those different highlights. What I do know is rehab can be a lonely place, right? You just in there, you hurting, you trying to get through it. Then it's, you know, you, you, you hurt yourself again, you making progress, and then it's not as much as you think. And that's all frustrating. But to be able to go through it and then return, like, you have, something has a click. You have to learn something about yourself in that process. What did you learn about Travis Hunter throughout that time? And how's your, your, your mental, you know, now that you're out of and you, you're fully healthy right now?

• 10:31Speaker 02

  I learned how humble I gotta be, you know? There's a lot of people that's gonna talk down no matter what. So like, soon as I got hurt, oh, I told him this is gonna happen. They need to go ahead and put him on one side of the ball. They don't even know what happened. They don't even know how I got injured. They don't even know if I, I just took one wrong turn or, or I just, I ran into something. They don't know, they don't even know. They just, oh, we told him this is gonna happen. He can't do it at both levels. So I just remember telling myself, man, I'm that dude, you know? Go out there and just ball out when it's your time. So I took the, the, I took that treatment process, like, that rehab process, like, hey, let's go ahead and knock this out the park. Let's come back bigger, stronger, faster. Let's do it, let's stick to the plan. Let's not fool around with it. You don't want to be in the same situation again, you know?

• 11:15Speaker 02

  That's a lot of money out there on the table if I'm not at the plan. So definitely, I definitely can't leave that out there. And I gotta go out there and work for my family, you know? I really look forward to my family every day, you know? I had some, some long nights. But yeah, that first week, that first week was rough, you know? I had to, right, I got my boy Dylan Boom. He works up at the facility. He came, I, hey, they was calling him, talking about some, come here, he need your help. You know, he like, he coming in, trying to help me do the best. But we look, we look back at it now, it's like, right, you were just in pain. You were just so dramatic, you know? We play around about it. We joke about it, but hey, I looked at it, I was like, man, whatever I gotta do to get back on the field and continue to stay focused and be humble,

• 11:56Speaker 02

  that's the most important thing that I realize about myself. Like, I'm real humble.

• 12:01Fred Taylor?

  Yeah.

• 12:01Speaker 02

  I don't go out there, I don't try to showbo, I don't try to talk too much to people. I just go out there and just do my thing. Go back to the house, chill with the family, go fishing, do whatever I need to do. But I definitely looked, looked and seen, man, just be humble, continue to stay focused. My mental state was all over the place at first. You know how that be, not on the field, you see your team out there. Some games they win and some games they lost. Like, the last game we lost, I'm like, dang, man, it's just only if I was out there to help them. But I gotta stay focused. I gotta be able to keep myself healthy, you know? That starts with me. Not, not nobody here. I gotta be able to stay focused, stay healthy, continue to treat my body right. So I loved that myself and just made sure I was in the right mind state by just going home and seeing my son. Just going out there and playing with him.

• 12:44Speaker 00

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• 13:12Ryan Clark?

  The, the thing that struck me the most when we got to meet you the first time, I was like, this young dude is so likeable.

• 13:20Fred Taylor?

  Yeah.

• 13:20Ryan Clark?

  Like, really. And it made you look at people who would sort of, sort of try to cast this narrative of you and this perception. I looked at them in such a negative light, because I was like, if you met him, you'd see him totally different than some of the things that you think he would be. For you now, though, man, like, last time we talked to you, you know, you weren't married yet, you didn't have a child. How, how has that changed you, though? You mentioned about how you wanted to go home and see them. But, you know, you talk about having to be out there to make sure you can take care of them. How has having a child and being a father now made you different about the way you go about life?

• 14:01Speaker 02

  Oh, I just gotta be more focused, you know? I gotta be more intent. When I'm up here, this is what I'm focused on. This is what he would want me to do if he was older, you know? I know y'all have older kids, so they'll be like, dad, go handle your business. I'm, I'm gonna be home when you, when you come back. So that's, that's how I look at it. I know he, soon as I come on, he jump on me, latch on me, don't let me do nothing for the rest of the hours that I'm there. So when I'm here, focused, locked in, make sure I'm doing everything I need to do, because if I go home and tell him I had an MA, he gonna be like, what you doing? Why you got an MA? Why you, why you doing this? Why you ain't paying attention? Why you not focused? His mom right there, too.

• 14:37Fred Taylor?

  Yeah.

• 14:37Speaker 02

  This is why they ain't, they ain't paying you on the field. That's why people say this about you. Be focused, lock in. Don't worry about what's going on here. I got him. So that's just having the right corner, you know? Just being focused is my main thing when I'm here, is be focused, be locked in. And when I go home, I get on my time.

• 14:52Ryan Clark?

  I love that. So, all right. I'm glad we got all the pleasantries out the way. I am on record of saying, I think you are a Hall of Fame corner. I do. I think you'd get the football like the Derrick Stingleys of the world. I think you'd cover and lock down people. We had the conversation recently. I also think you're a Pro Bowl caliber wide receiver.

• 15:14Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 15:15Ryan Clark?

  The people who become those things, though, Travis, they play every snap in the game at that side of the ball. They practice every snap on the field. How do you feel you can reach your full potential at both positions if you have to split time?

• 15:33Speaker 02

  Work at it. We all get the same 24 hours, but what am I gonna do different with them?

• 15:39Fred Taylor?

  Yeah.

• 15:39Speaker 02

  How I'm gonna take care of my body? That's the main thing. If I could take care of my body, I believe I could do whatever I need and whatever I set my mind to.

• 15:45Channing Crowder?

  Well, Trav, I'm gonna tell you now, you got 24 hours, but you're two, you're, you're really being two different people.

• 15:50Speaker 02

  Yeah, yeah.

• 15:51Channing Crowder?

  You just said a Hall of Fame corner and a Pro Bowl receiver. The Hall of Fame corners got 24 hours to be Hall of Fame corners. You trying to be both in a 24-hour period.

• 16:00Ryan Clark?

  And the Pro Bowl receiver got the same 24?

• 16:02Channing Crowder?

  So like, you said the numbers, the numbers don't work out.

• 16:06Speaker 02

  If I'm trying to be the best, how you gonna be the best if you ain't trying to be the best? If you ain't trying to compete and do the, do the best to be the best?

• 16:13Channing Crowder?

  Yeah.

• 16:13Speaker 02

  So my main focus is be the best. So I'm gonna do everything I can do to be the best. I don't want to be the best at one position. There's a lot of people that's, that's at one position. Ain't nobody yet been the best at both full-time.

• 16:27Ryan Clark?

  Trav, but that's a, there's a reason, because it's hard.

• 16:30Speaker 02

  And that's why you make a difference.

• 16:31Ryan Clark?

  Like, it, it's, it's hard to do. If, what do, what do you feel, this is, what do you feel you're better at? Like, honestly, if you had to, if you had to pick one, and they were, listen, I need to, I need to know.

• 16:43Channing Crowder?

  I asked him this when we were in Colorado.

• 16:45Ryan Clark?

  Like, if they said, hey, if you had to play this all game and practice this all the time, which one could I be better at? What would you, what do you?

• 16:54Speaker 02

  Which one would I make an impact on? If they don't throw the ball on my side, what am I doing out there?

• 17:00Ryan Clark?

  Is that why, is that why you want to play offense? So you can try to find ways?

• 17:04Speaker 02

  I need, I need to touch the ball. I need to, I need to put the ball in the end zone. I need to put some points on the board. If I'm just locking down one side of the field, you gonna be like, oh, Trav ain't do nothing this game. But the whole time, he over there doing his job, handling his business. So I like the spectacular plays, too. I like to be on the field. I like to see some highlights. I don't want to see no highlights of me just sitting there locking one dude up for the whole game. So I like playing both sides of the ball, but I get, if I catch a pick, it's like, it's like catching the touchdown pass.

• 17:32Fred Taylor?

  Yeah.

• 17:32Speaker 02

  I like doing both. I like being able to lock somebody up, catch a pick. I like being able to route somebody up and score a touchdown. So I like doing both. And I cannot sit on the sideline. I don't think nobody noticed that yet. I hate the sideline. I do not want to sit there. I can't sit there and just watch football. I gotta be on the field.

• 17:49Ryan Clark?

  You know, it's like 52 other guys on the team that at some point sit there.

• 17:53Speaker 02

  That's, that's, that's their problem. That's their problem. I can't sit on the field.

• 17:57Channing Crowder?

  Let me rephrase this. I think we figured, I think I figured this thing out. I got him now. Trav lineup at receiver, Trav lineup in front of Trav. I got him now. Who about to win?

• 18:11Speaker 02

  Trav?

• 18:11Fred Taylor?

  I'm in the situation.

• 18:14Speaker 02

  Depending on the situation, man.

• 18:18Speaker 02

  I don't wanna say I got an ego, it's just like, if the ball in the air.

• 18:22Ryan Clark?

  Is yours.

• 18:23Speaker 02

  It's gotta be mine.

• 18:24Ryan Clark?

  I agree with that.

• 18:25Speaker 02

  It's gotta be mine. I don't, I don't like the, oh, Travis not in this position, he at this position. Man, if the ball in the air, no matter what side of the ball I'm on, I'm trying to go get it, no matter what.

• 18:34Ryan Clark?

  I do have this question though, cuz you have two really good rooms. Like you really do. Uh, you know, with guys like Jordan in the room, with guys like Jacoby in the other. Like you have veteran leadership, good young players. Talk about a little bit of what you've learned from being in the room with true professionals, but also really good players at their position.

• 18:54Speaker 02

  I can tell you one thing, learn all the positions. Don't just learn your spot. J. Lou taught me that, Jacoby taught me the same thing. Don't just try to learn your position cuz you wanna know what the next person gonna be and where he's supposed to be. And if you learn that, everything just slows down. They call one play, I know he's dropping underneath for me, so I know where I got help at. They call a play on offense side of the ball, we flip it. Or coach needs somebody to go in at this position, I could just run in there happily, knowing what I gotta do. So, my main thing is, number one's taught me is like, learn every position, don't just learn your position. You wanna know the reads of the quarterback, why he threw the ball here, what was he thinking? You wanna know what the defense looked like before you even get up there at the line at receiver.

• 19:39Speaker 02

  Defense, you wanna know what formation they come out in, what shots they can take, what they gonna do, if they finna run. So, they taught me to learn all the positions.

• 19:46Ryan Clark?

  I love that.

• 19:47Speaker 02

  Main focus, you gotta know everything, not just your job, everybody's job.

• 19:51Fred Taylor?

  Last year when we sat in here with, uh, BTJ, he said, he said it was something like, uh, you were almost cheating?

• 19:59Speaker 02

  They, they say that to me all the time. They're like, Travis, bro, he got, he got the script, he know everything. He gotta play both sides of the ball. He just go in his room, tell them what they doing over there, and he go in the other room, tell them what they doing.

• 20:09Fred Taylor?

  You know by the splits, you know the formation, you know everything, and it make your job easy. But no, seriously, like.

• 20:14Speaker 02

  That's true.

• 20:15Fred Taylor?

  Really, when you're, when you're lined up across from BTJ, Brian Thomas Jr., Parker Washington, Jacoby Myers, how much does competing against that room make Travis Hunter, the cornerback, better? Versus when you're at cornerback and Travis Hunter, receiver, making you better?

• 20:34Speaker 02

  Well, I can tell you what's gonna make me better at receiver. They like to talk. Receivers like to talk, so when they going against me, if they get a play and I gotta go in that meeting that same day, aw, man, they gonna talk to them like, look at this corner y'all got going against you. You hit them with this, you gonna be open. So, they like to talk smack to me, you know? And same thing, vice versa for the defense. Defense, they get a, get a PPU on me or lock me up one play, they, they in there just talking. I defend the coach, he gonna talk. He gonna let, he gonna let you hear it.

• 21:04Ryan Clark?

  Right.

• 21:04Speaker 02

  So, I mean, I just gotta go in there and compete, you know? They want me to be at a certain level, they want me to be at the top, they want me to be the best. So, they gonna come, compete, give me everything they got each and every day.

• 21:14Ryan Clark?

  Did you have a, a chance to talk to Prime last year when you were trying to get back? When you were injured, talk to Coach Sanders?

• 21:22Speaker 02

  Uh, yeah, I talked to him a little bit, but my main focus, man, get back on the field.

• 21:26Ryan Clark?

  Yeah.

• 21:26Speaker 02

  Get right, you know? I could talk to any and everybody, you know? I talked to him a little bit, he know like, I'm gonna be that dude. So, he tell me, go be that dude, attack this treatment process, attack this rehab process, and go be great. We know what you can be, so show them what you can be.

• 21:43Ryan Clark?

  What were some of the differences in coming to the league and going from Deion Sanders to Liam Cohen? Because college coaches have a different responsibility than NFL coaches. You know, college coaches, they're there to help you become grown men. They're there to, in some situations, be an uncle or a father figure. NFL coaches, they here to win games.

• 22:06Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 22:06Ryan Clark?

  And your job is to help them win those games. What are some of the differences you saw in your head coaches stepping up to the NFL level?

• 22:15Speaker 02

  Gotta be professionals. He gonna treat you like a professional. He expect you to know what you got, what you gotta do. So, he not there to babysit me, you know? Liam go, hey, Travis, this is how you do it. He try to coach me probably twice as much as everybody here. As soon as I hit the offensive side of the ball, cuz you know, I, he want, he want me, he have a certain expectation for me. So, as soon as I hit that field, if I, if I'm off by an inch, he gonna let me know, do this right. So, he want me to be a great professional, be able to be the top of my game at any time I touch the field.

• 22:45Fred Taylor?

  How have you and, uh, Trevor been able to bond since you got here in Jacksonville?

• 22:49Speaker 02

  It's been great, you know? That's, that's my, that's my guy. I can't say not enough nice names about him, you know? He come in there and just try to help me as much as possible cuz, you know, I'm learning both playbook, so he try to help me. Soon as I get in the, he hit, he see me in the huddle, he make sure he let me know, you know? Travis, pay attention to this, or he'll like, you good? All right, bet, let's go. Take a deep breath. He make sure I take a deep breath. Cuz you know, I'm coming off the side of deep side of the ball, he like, take a deep breath first. All right, and then he'll call a play and let me know, go, you know?

• 23:19Fred Taylor?

  But what, what about when he sees you on the other side, if you leave offense to go to defense, do they go at you right now?

• 23:24Speaker 02

  They gonna go at me. If it's open, if they feel that I, I'm not in the right technique. If, if it's not the right technique, and he feel like he got that shot, he wanna take that matchup, he gonna take.

• 23:35Speaker 02

  He ain't gonna shot away from me.

• 23:38Ryan Clark?

  And, and you as a, is it tough to be a leader, year two, after missing games? To go in there and, cuz that was one thing, being a young kid, a young player starting, was like, it was uncomfortable for me to yell at a 30-year-old, I'm 21. This dude got three mortgages and six kids, like, I'll be, god damn it, man, then I'm like, no, no, no, man. He, you know, is it, is it, what's your leadership role on this team? You're one of the biggest names on this team, but you still a puppy.

• 24:04Speaker 02

  Yeah, my leadership on this team is just go out there and just be me, do my, do my job. You know, we, we all bounce off each other, and everybody is here, and all people is here. Everybody's on the same floor, we on the same slate, you know? We just trying to help each other. We wanna win the big game, we wanna win all the games, we trying to get there. So, we just here to help each other, help everybody out. So, I don't feel like I gotta be a super vocal leader, but when it's time for me to talk, I'll talk.

• 24:30Ryan Clark?

  Did you, uh, I remember at the end of the game, uh, against the Rams, Devonte King spoke to you, Matthew spoke to you. How important was it to earn some of the respect of your peers last year, even in a very short time in the league?

• 24:46Speaker 02

  I feel like I, I earned a little bit of respect, but at the same time, I still gotta do better. I feel like I still got much to prove. They, they've been watching me in college and the high school, watching me come up, so they, they felt like they had the respect, but they, they didn't have to, you know? But they seen me go out there and play, and I did my thing, personally, I did everything I could do, you know? So, they, they showed the respect, cuz you know, I'm always show respect. I looked up to them guys, they, how many years in?

• 25:12Ryan Clark?

  Shoot, uh, Matthew, 30, 80, then they're 20. Shoot, Devonte 13.

• 25:19Speaker 02

  So, me seeing them do that for me, man, that was, that was a blessing, you know? I've been watching them for a long time, and Devonte Adams, one of my favorite receivers. So, being able to go out there, cover him, and also see his work, see how he was out there moving and just running his routes, and being clean and sharp, and then, you know, I, I had a very great amount of respect for him cuz they came out there and showed me how to be a professional, you know, go out there and just work.

• 25:42Ryan Clark?

  I think, man, for, for us, we always rooting for you.

• 25:45Speaker 02

  Yes, sir.

• 25:46Ryan Clark?

  After sitting with you in Colorado, man, and just getting to see what type of human you were, bro, like, I, I wanna see you win, I wanna see you do well. I'ma stop politicking for you to play defense only, you know what I mean? I'm just trying to get you, I'm just trying to get you a gold jacket, Travis.

• 26:02Speaker 02

  I'ma get one.

• 26:02Ryan Clark?

  Travis, I'm just trying, I'm just trying to get you a gold jacket.

• 26:04Speaker 02

  Can he get two gold jackets?

• 26:07Ryan Clark?

  That'd be the first.

• 26:08Fred Taylor?

  That would be the first.

• 26:10Ryan Clark?

  That'd be the first. Man, we appreciate you, man. Best of luck this year, man.

• 26:14Speaker 02

  No, he got, that would be cold, if they gave him an offense jacket and a defense jacket.

• 26:23Speaker 06

  Every game day, you show up for your team. Now, it's your time.

• 26:34Speaker 06

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