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if you know, or if an offense knows, like, hey, this is cover two, these are your known rushers, this...

I mean, you're gonna get diced.

Uh, and that's why, you know, defenses are always trying to look for advantages of, uh, you know, how can we make that quarterback get off his first read? How can we make him hold the ball in the pocket just a little bit longer? Um, and that's, you know, when you have five guys, uh, you can either rush all five and you have five one-on-ones with the offensive lineman, or you can drop one, you can drop two.

You can bring a lot of different multiple looks at quarterbacks to hopefully get them to their secondly, or second read and hold the ball and create negative plays.

Um, and yeah, I mean, our outside linebacker group has done a really, really good job about, you know, learning the new terminology and, you know, playing in space, uh, you know, not necessarily as much, um, thinking more defensive end sort of jetting, but more that outside linebacker where, uh, I was always told that you really have to play in the gray.

Did you do that in LA, and, and if so, what makes you comfortable kind of taking on that added responsibility?

You know, here now.

So I knew like I was a COVID, I was 2020.

So I was a COVID graduating class, no pro day, not many Ivy League guys get combine invites.

So I was kind of out on my own, just sending film out to whatever teams will put eyeballs on me.

Knew that I was gonna go, seventh round, but most likely undrafted.

So it wasn't like a surprise that I went undrafted, but I knew Rams, Bengals and Falcons were all sniffing around.

Rams gave me the biggest signing bonus and palm trees and football at the time sounded like a great idea.

Who's been the biggest influence in your life, either on the field, off the field? Like when I ask that question, who's the first person that comes to mind and why?