Checking In With Logan Fife

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Episode Transcript

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All right, all right, allright, welcome back to bring the Juice.
I'm your host, Frank to Lenatoday on the pod grass to stay
quarterback, logan five logan, longtime coming. Happy to have you in
studio. Energy is high as always, good to be here as always.
I'm excited. H not to bethat guy, but your official hair is
really nice today, Thank you.I just got a trimmed yeah. You
know, are you a lineup guy? Yeah? A thousand percent. Otherwise

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it gets too whiskery, you know, starts yelling at me, my U
my brothers. Mac you know him, he's the one who's like, hey,
you do you start lining yourself up? Because I was just shaving my
face, letting it grow out tolike wear wolf style shaving my face.
He's like, no, there's amiddle ground there. You could you could
get it. I also went tothe same haircut lady ages zero to twenty

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five and a half. And thenMax's like, dude, you need to
get a barber, like like abarber, got to know someone or Mac
and Joe you just shave each other'sheads. That's a classic. You guys
do that at least once a year. I think it's a great tradition.
Sometimes you just need to make achange, and it's always random. Yeah,
I think I've outgrown the head shavephase. But at the same time,

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like you catch you on the rightday, then it'll just happen.
If you shaved your head right now, I would shave my head right now.
That's kind of where I'm at.Yeah, I remember, that's what
I think. Stephen Comstock was inthat predicaments in that particument Kyle Ridering has
been in that particumenty. There's beena few predicaments like that. Yeah,
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eat your pistachios, eat those nutskids, Logan, do you think
are you a pistaschio guy? Bychance? Oh yeah, really? You
know, I know there are agreat source of protein and antioxidants, but
do you think they've helped you dowell at the quarterback position for freens of
stable dogs? By chance? Wejust had them a two weeks ago before
we got on the plane actually toLogan, Utah. Those are our pre

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plane snack. Great win by theway, that was good to get.
Yeah, I love Someone tweeted LoganFife Greater Land sign Logan, Utah,
it's just so easy. I didn'tthink of that, that you'd be the
guy to get that roll. Youknow what. I was more on the

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that should have been targeting on Mac. Yeah. Sure, there's a little
bit of sidetracking during that game,Logan. Want to start off to really
our first encounter personally. I don'tknow if you remember it, but when
I was a player at Fresno State, and I know you've worked the camp
many times now many times, yep. Well there was a point and just

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for a little hindsight here, whenyou work at Frisday football camp, you're
already a player. This is yourday off. They pay you like fifty
bucks to just go out there withthe sun hat on, yep, and
do a few drills where these kidsare going to get two reps. But
you've done this drill ten thousand timesto perfection, right, And I'm out

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there and like slides some socks.I think we already practiced that day.
Like we're going into the weekend.I'm trying to get fifty bucks to go
out to Wahoo's this weekend. SoI'm like, hey, I'm going to
Jervo's Deli something along those lines.And anyways, you and Mac are same
class. I'm hyped because Mac hasn'tgot the offer yet and we're thinking as

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a family. Max my brother butalso one of my best friends. I'm
like, ball out, good thingswill come right one fastest man got the
offer. Now, there's one otherthing about that camp I remember, and
that is we're about halfway through andTeddy coach Jeff Tedford says, hey,
Frankie, I need you to dome a favor. Go get your cleat

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song. I need you to runjust like a few routes. Yeah.
I'm like, I'm pretty sure of. The camp was on a Friday afternoon,
right, I'm like, bro,I just had the conditioning test today.
We just ran stadiums Coach. Iwasn't quite that, but I was
like, dude, I don't okay, a couple of routes. Sure.

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I remember walking to the locker room, putting my cleats on, I got
my gloves and I'm jogging out hatbackwards. Yeah, I must stand here,
catch a few catch it in place. Bro Tedford, you know what
I'm talking about. You know I'mgoing to Yep, Tedford basically gets me.
We go the whole camp staff andthere's like four hundred kids here.

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I leave watching Mac because Tedford dragsme over to the side field where there's
whet and there's like maybe five quarterbacks, right, stuff like that whiptid who
cares. And it started off withlike me just staying in place, you
guys would do a drop, I'dact as if I just ran a slant,
I'd catch him, okay, noproblem, and then eventually progressed to

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me having to run like fifteen yardouts and you guys rolling out and he's
trying to see who can make thepast because that's one of the hardest passes
in football. Reason yeah right,thrown on the run. Yeah yeah.
So a few things I remember aboutthat. One, I ran fifty seven

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routes in thirty minutes, and Teddyknows I wouldn't complain, so I did
it, yep. Two you wereone of there, I forget the other
guy's David. You and the oneother the only ones that can make the
throw. Yeah. And three youwere Neon Shorts. Oh yeah, every
camp. Okay, So this iswhat I want to get into because I

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have a little side adventure where I'vehelped kids. I think there's a you
know, obviously, to get recruited, you got to have that dog in
you. Yeah, you don't havethe If you don't have the stats or
the highlight tape, I can't helpyou. But if you do, you're
just not getting looks. And yougo to these camps. There is ways

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to go to a camp and likeseparate yourself from the pack because, like
we said, there's four hundred kidsat this camp. Yeah, dude,
you got to separate yourself somehow.As a wide receiver, I learned early
as you can receivers always. Yeah, but long intro. Talk to me

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about the neon shorts. I startedgoing to camps early in my high school
days. I think my that wasthanks to my dad. He do all
this research and sent me to right, we're gonna go to sax State camp.
We're gonna do this, and thenhe's like, there's so many kids
like you gotta find a way tostand out or have someone to remember you
by. So I remember me andmy dad went and bought these neon shorts,

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probably from Target or somewhere, DickSporting Goods, and then that was
just what I wore every camp,because you know every college camp they give
you a shirt, so you werein the same shirt number. Yeah,
the same shirt as a thousand otherkids. So I'd always wear my same
neon shorts and I'd wear a backwardscamo hat and that was just that was

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just what I wore at every campfrom freshman year to junior senior year.
Whenever I stopped camps, It's justwhat I wore. And I went to
Fresno camp I think all three orfour years of high school, and that's
where I got familiar with Mac.But yeah, it was just a way
for me to kind of stand out. And then as time went on,
the years went on, the coachwould be like, hey, I always

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see you in these in these shorts, like and then they start to kind
of remember me, and I obviouslyI start to perform a little bit better
and better each year that I wentto these camps, and then it was
kind of a way for them toremember me. By translation, all I
heard, the neon shorts worked.They thousand percent worked. Our coach is
still asked about it to this day. Dude, I'm telling you and I've

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used this, I've used you asan example, I should give you commission
for some of the business because youhave to separate yourself from the pack in
anything you do in life, andwhether it's talent, this, that and
the other. But it can bethat simple where you say, listen,
I'm I I'm a baller. There'sa lot of ballers out there. And

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you know, one of Dion Sanders'sfavorite little clips going around on Instagram besides
him dancing or the sunglasses lady ishe says, Uh, you know,
the lights aren't on you, butkeep making plays. The cameras aren't on
you, but just keep making plays. Your name is not getting called yet,
but keep making plays. And I'veI mean that speaks loud and clear

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to me in my life of dude. Yeah, there's there's guys in my
corner getting a little more attention,bigger headlines, more opportunity for them to
have fast tracked success, whatever mightbe different competitive advantages. And I do

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believe in a few things in life, and one of them is if you
keep your head down and work youroff, it will work out. It
just does. Now you pair upfaith in there and being a good person.
I think you're invincible personally. Yeah, but talk to me a little
bit, Logan just about how thatthat separating yourself on those knee on shorts

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led to you at Fresno State.I think that you just always, like
you were saying, you have tofind the slightest edge possible to do better
in your competition. And I thinkjust from a young age, my parents
kind of instilled that in me.And no matter what it was, my
dad was finding ways. He knewI loved sports, so my parents found
ways to I wrestled, I playedbaseball, played football, and it was

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always what can we do to getyou a little bit better, or like
like, what do you want todo that you think will help you.
So I think from a young age, my dad I was always working out
in the garage, and whether Iwas sparring with my dad or lifting weights,
going to the park with my sisterbecause she played soccer as well.
It's just all these things. AndI think as a kid, you don't

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really recognize like, all right,I'm gonna outwork all these kids in high
school whatever, But it's just alwaysdoing something. And then as I started
started to get into high school,it was the same thing. I was
starting to go to a strength andconditioning coach. I think I started going
my first quarterback trainer in the eighthgrade. So there's all these things to

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kind of get a competitive advantage andbe better than my competition. And so
I think everybody's good in use sports. What it's about, can you do
good on Friday nights? And thoseare the things that I knew. I
was training to be a really goodquarterback, but I was doing things that
even guys on my high school teamweren't doing. So I carried myself with
that confidence on Friday nights, andI think those things did give me an

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edge. And then in the offseason, I wasn't highly recruited. I
go to camps. I see allthese guys at four and five stars.
I'd play seven on seven when itwas starting to get hot. Yeah,
same thing, a bunch of guyswith all these stars and big offers.
But you can't worry about those things. No, you just got to go
out there, perform, do yourbest, and keep working. At the

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end of the day, you gotto let the rest take care of itself.
But when I go to the camps, whether it's like we're saying,
the slide edge is where you gotto find so whether that's a quarterback trainer,
a speed coach. I know Macwent to a speed coach when he
was younger, or whatever. Hewas telling me strength and conditioning or even
wearing neonce shorts to make sure coachesremember you by something. You got to

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find those small ways to get anedge it and I want to get dived
deeper into it later in the episode. But that competitive edge we're discussing,
it's razor thin because everyone in themom wants to be d one. Yeah,

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and when you choose the quarter position, you have to know going into
it there's only one guy that couldbe on the field at once as a
quarterback. Yeah, take out,you know, take some hill type situations,
right, but pretty much exactly,and with that comes a lot of
opportunity but also a lot of uphillbattles. Ye. So it's not it's

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not so simple. It's not soblack and white. Everyone has their journey.
Yeah, but before we get intoyour journey of the college level seven
on seven you kind of much inmy experience, both as a player,
as a guy who ran some campsand as a guy who has little brothers
that went through that kind of systemwhere seven on seven became really big,

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really fast. Camps got really big, really fast. Do you think there's
Do you think seven on seven andnormal football are even close to the same
sport. No, I don't thinkthey correlate at all, And I really
think that. I think from myposition, I think it's only beneficial to

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quarterbacks because you kind of get usedto it. Really you can help just
focus that on the secondary and likeyour reads and your progressions and getting better
at seeing those things. But alot of the stuff's just not It doesn't
correlate to real football whatsoever. Soyou're not getting hit, you're catching something
over the middle, you're not worriedabout someone knocking you. Yeah, So

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as far as like, there's nophysical aspect in seven on seven from that,
and then nowadays it's just obviously we'veseen how flashy it's gotten and it's
almost about more than everything, butactually just playing football. Yeah, I
see the I see pitt vipers andjamas pajamas. Who knows what else they're

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doing. Hey, I don't kidsthese days. Yeah, that's weird to
say. I'm twenty one years old, but that's what I want to say
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now you're at Fresno State and youare a quarterback in the room. Let's

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just talk quarterback position at the collegiatelevel. Yeah, and it's not something
where you could really, you know, from a receiver standpoint, bump up
and down the depth charts, getplaying time as a quarterback on like special
teams. Well, le's you're StephenComstock. But but like, what was

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the biggest challenge only in as afreshman understanding like, hey, they already
kind of have their dude, Ineed to be a sponge, learn the
system, learn how to be apro because because you, Jake Canner was
was the dude when you came in. Yep, yeah, so how did
what was the mindset and approach?How have you grown since that? I

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mean you kind of said you haveto be a sponge and learn and I
was. I mean I was adeer in headlights when I first got here.
My high school not a very complicatedoffense, kept as simple. We
ran a triple option. I thinkmost of what I learned was through seven
on seven and kind of learning simplethings like what a smash concept was and

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going through your progressions. Like butat my high school, we didn't really
do much of that. So whenI got to Fresno and Ryan Grebb is
our offensive coordinator, camele on toBord just came back and took the head
coach job at the time. Soit's during COVID I'm trying to learn Division
one football through a computer because ofCOVID. So it was kind of a
lot at once. I didn't knowa lot of things that they were talking

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about, but I had to learnearly. And like you're saying, be
behind a guy like Jake who talkabout preparing himself like a pro. The
guy was a definition of it.He taught me a lot and he kind
of took me under his wing early. We kind of had a bond early
and he helped me out throughout thatprocess. And if I couldn't get a
question out in the meeting, Iwould ask Jake and he kind of helped

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me along and show me the ropes. But it was a lot at once,
and there's a lot to learn atthis level and then not only just
learning it and being able to memorizeall this stuff, but then go out
there on a field and see itand how fast it goes. Yeah,
it's it's It was a shock tome for sure, just the speed of

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it, how much you need toknow, and the decisions you have to
make. It was definitely a lotat once. What about the and you
talk about, you know, thespeed of it, the transitions. Do
you have any things you've done inyour growth. Now between that deer in
the headlight slogan to where you aretoday, what have you done to mentally?

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I said, iron sharp and sion, But what have you done to
elevate your game mentally? Because obviouslythey're studying your plays, there's watching film,
yeah, and every guy has theirtheir thing. Do you have your
thing that you you consistently do?I wouldn't say I have a thing.
I kind of just I do,like I watched my film. But it

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was really I think a lot ofit comes with repetition, and in my
first two years I wasn't. Ikind of realized that, Okay, I'm
not just going to learn everything atonce, Like what can I hone in
on? And my first two yearsit was all about learning the offense,
and it's like, well, howam I supposed to know what the defense
is doing if I don't even knowwhat the third guy in the progression has.

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So it was kind of really justfocusing on knowing my plays and if
I was going to get one repat practice or fifteen, I gotta take
advantage of that one rep or thatfifteen reps. Because when I got here,
I was a third string guy didn'tsee much at practice, so I
really just had to learn the offense. But since then, I think the

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last two years, I've been ableto kind of watch film from different points
of view as far as seeing whatthe defense is doing and knowing where to
go with the ball in certain coverages. So I wouldn't say there was like
some special technique I had, butover the years, just endless amounts of
film watching and knowing how to watchfilm a certain way is just kind of

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what I focused on. And then, like I said, in the last
two years, I was able tokind of change my mindset from I already
know what my guys are doing,but what is the other team doing?
How can I get an how canI get a step on them? Where
can we beat them? Certain thingslike that. That growth, you know,
it's not necessarily Oh, I'm makingleaps and bounds of this crazy growth.

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Overnight. I went from eighteen yearold logan to a nine year old
logan, and I'm so mature.All of a sudden, these little steps
of growth, they're razor thin.But at the same time, it's that
razor thin step is the difference betwetween. It's the difference between being you know,
good and great elite and not beingthe guy who gets put on scholarship

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at President State versus the guy whogoes and plays at you know, Eastern
It, T T Tech or someof that. Right, So you got
it it. There's these margins andyou look at the NFL. I mean,
you think everyone for the NFL wentto either you know, Bama or
Georgia. Right, there's a lotof dudes in the league from these random
cologies. People think, oh,friend of State's on the map. Don't

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like, there's dudes on the collegefrom everywhere. What do you what are
you doing here? Yeah? Yeah, a thousand. So I guess what
I should say is those margins ofgrowth are so razor thin. And the
higher you climb the mountain, Ipreached this someth bring the juice. We
need a shirt with this. Thehigher you climb the mountain, the steeper

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it gets. Also astra on theshirt. The more people with bon and
arrows behind you trying to knock youoff this mountain the greatness and it's difficult
to And this is from any standpointwhere it's like if you're if you were
a five star recruit last year atAlabama as a running back, and they

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told you you're going to be thedude we want you. Blah blah blah
blah blah. What's happening the nextyear when you're a freshman. There's another
five star running back that's coming foryour head, that's coming for your head,
and ultimately iron sharpens iron. Don'tget me wrong, but you have
to mentally stay locked in and seekeeps saying, I know people are breathing

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down my back, but I gotmy targets set on a mountain ahead of
knee, right, I need togo those razor thin steps of growth.
You're not a frushman anymore, learningthe offense. Now, how do you
grow now? How do you growtoday to tomorrow? What do you do?

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How locked in are you in thein the present right now? Yeah?
Well, I mean you have toput in the work every single day.
And like I said, at beingyoung, I kind of a little
bit of a culture shock when Igot to present state. You don't really
know how to handle all this informationthrown at you at once. But now

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I've been here, I've had mytime. I think I've been through a
lot of different situations. I've hada lot of things thrown at me,
whether good or bad, and I'vehad the moments where I feel like I'm
on cloud nine and then moments wherei feel like there's nothing to help me.
So it's just it's literally putting inthe work every single day. How

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can I be better than yesterday?And what can I do to help my
team be better? What can Ido to help my team win? And
I think that was a big kindof lesson for me to learn as far
as I've been a backup since I'vebeen here. Obviously I got to take
the reins for a couple of gameslast year, didn't have quite the start
I wanted help win a championship though. Yeah yeah, But that's what I

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mean is just knowing that it's notalways just about myself, and especially being
a backup quarterback, it's like,I'm gonna prepare myself like I'm the starter
week in and week out, andI might not see the field sure,
or you might be at USC infront of sixty thousand and Jay Canner gets
hurt and it's time. Are youready or are you not? Because if

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you're not ready, no one caresabout your excuse. So but if you
are, then you, you didyour job. So it's all about doing
your job. And I think forme, I kind of open my eyes
so that in the last two yearsis like, what can I do to
make my team better If I'm notmaking myself better day and day out,
whether it's in the film room orin the training room, in the weight
room, like I can't. Ican't expect something from the other guys on

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my team if I'm not doing itmyself. So I think just the small
things day in and day out,the hours go by, the minutes go
by, and it's like are youwasting them or are you putting them to
use? Because everybody gets the sametwenty four hours in a day. So
I mean, just it's just endlesswork. I think everybody preaches it.
Anyone who's been on Bringing the Juiceknows the amount of work that's put in,

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and it's pretty and it's always theit's always the work that people don't
see, and it's it's it's alwaysthe work people don't see, always work
people don't see, you know,everyone just sees the the moments on TV
when you lose the Yukon or whenyou do good versus USC. So it's
just it's just always finding ways toto help yourself become better because there's a
bigger picture and if and if that'sand it works. Or being a backup

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quarterback on a divisional football team,you have to know your role and you
got to do your job. Yougot to own it, your own your
role, anything in life, anythingin life, Ligan Like, I think
that you're an insanely great example toall young athletes. And you know,

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one thing I'll bring the juice iswe don't ask you, hey, well,
just you feel like a score touchdown? It feels a great score touchdown?
How did it feel a thorny interception? Feels like a thorny interception?
I don't ask stupid here. Butone thing that I've found value in that
people can relate to, and andthis is whether you're quarterback and divisional football

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team or the left tackle on afreshman football team or a sixth thrade girl
goalie, you just lost to payLike when you feel like your rock bottom,
you're low. We're taught to talk. We're taught to block out the

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outside noise. Social media is sobig in our era and outs where it's
like all right, man like,people can DM you. They can tweet
out, you can do this,they can mail your house. Everything can
happen at the end of the day. And I'm know coach Tedford preaches it,
the only thing that matters is thepeople in this room, quote unquote
room, the locker room, peoplein the build. Well, there's a
lot of outside noise and whether youblock it out or not, you you

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know where you're at internally, andwhen you're on those those points where you
feel you feel low, what doyou do to remind yourself? I need
to keep going and chase greatness.Yeah, I'm I'm feeling emotion, I'm
feeling all come type, all differenttypes of way right now. What is
the that you keep going? Ithink you, well, even coach Stepford

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talks about you got to flip forwardand flip back, like when you put
your head on a pillow before thenight before a game, like flip forward
of those moments you've had your wholelife of scoring touchdowns, doing all the
great things you have. But Ithink like the short term of that is
just is just going back to theconfidence that you carry yourself with. I
think that a lot of people losetheir confidence when things don't go well,

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and I've I've definitely been there,and I've been through not even just games
here, whether good or bad,or moments that you've had, but even
practices you're in the middle of fallcamp and you just had a horrible practice,
Like you can't let that that practiceor that one play or an interception
affect you for the next play orthe next practice or the next game.

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So I mean, easier said thandone, Easier said than done, for
sure. I think just as athletesin general, you're gonna have your high
moments, You're gonna have your lowmoments, but you have to you have
to resort back to the confidence thatyou've carried yourself with when you are making
those plays, when you are whenyou are killing it, when you're doing
good. So I mean, it'sjust you gotta have the confidence that I'm

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gonna bounce back from this and tomorrow'smaybe a better day. And if the
moment's not right now, it's downthe road. Like bad times don't last
till people do, so like youjust got to keep working. I think
it's again, this is all Ishould have a disclaimer. Much easier seven
done, Yeah, one thousand.Those situations you don't you're not just all

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right, I'm gonna get through thiswell. Is too when you become older,
Like when you're a freshman and youhave a bad day at fall camp,
Yeah, you're like, damn,had I had two drops today?
That's not good. When you're ajunior and you have two drops, you're
like, I'm I'm gonna get judgedreally hard for this. I might the

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depth chart might change, I mightget less reps tomorrow now, right,
every day does matter, and everyonehas their own situations, their own you
know, approaches. I guess whatI should say is you're never really safe
now and you understand like there's there'sthere's repercussions coming, Like even if at

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this point you can understand outside blockout the outside noise. Yeah, you
know, you're like, all right, outside noise, it's coming at my
at my car. I'm not toget a hit with the tornado. Yeah.
And it's just unideal, but mucheasier said than done. But well
said Logan. I don't know howelse to put this besides the young folks

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out there, Besides I think ofbaseball as the cleanest example. At bats
right, oh yeah, you strikeout first at bat right, where's your
head at gotta get it back.Now you start out that second at bat,
what are you thinking, Yeah,it's not my day. Now,
let's say you do it back toback games and you're am I good at

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baseball? They Let's say you threegames in a row in your batting average
is two, yeah, and youfrom hitting three in the lineup to eight
eight? Yeah? Good. That'swhat I'm feeling. Should I even be
allowed to play baseball? And thenyou go from hitting yeah, you hit
four times a game to hey,let Jimmy start. Jamie's gonna start today.

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You'll get your eye bad in theseventh though, Right it's over,
it's over. It's really hard tocome back from that. And you know
you could fall a mile, butyou had an army crawl inch by inch
to get back to it. It'sjust part of it. But I want
to point this out. That isin football, that is in baseball,

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that's in everything. It's also inlife life. It's in life. You
get knocked on your every once ina while, you get kicked in the
teeth, and it's like, howam I going to find a way to
get back to where I should be? Let alone where I should be?
And go to my goals, getto those goals and realize I didn't aim
high enough. I got bigger holes. I need to get out right.

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And that's just that's that internal fire, that internal it's it is consistently bringing
the juice every day because you can'tjust do it some days. No,
you're not gonna get anywhere. No, you do it every day. Yeah,
break by brick every day, dayafter day, day after day after
day. High highs, you've gotlow lows, everything in between. But

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when you get thrown into the fire, and let's just let's just pinpoint like
the USC game last year, Okay, hyped up game USC. Yeah,
Hain is on this high, folam. Two of our leaders go down right,
you get thrown at the fire.And I want to give a quick

(30:45):
shout out to my buddy Christian Holmesaka SIP. He's a corner for the
Washington Commanders. He's been to stunhis whole career. And he said the
hardest part about one of the harderthings about adjusting to the NFL from college
is like I was the dude wholelife, right, and now I'm preparing
for maybe like a bunch of puntreps and we'll see what happens. But

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he got his name called, buttwo dudes ahead of him got hurt the
first play. All of a sudden, he's got sixty defensive reps in the
National Football League, right, andhe had a great story. Check out
check out the SIP episode. Butlogan, okay, you it's it's time
to go. You can't think aboutoh am I prepared. No, you

(31:26):
got to prepare like the starter weekin week out. Ye talk to me
about the mindset it takes to prepareweekend in week out as a starter.
Yeah, and then also build offthat, hey, it's time to go.
Yeah it's and you went yeah,no, I mean it's it's definitely
tough, and it takes you bysurprise, but it's something that you can't

(31:48):
think about. I think you knowyou just like I said, you prepare,
or at least for myself, prepareevery week like the starter. Like
I have to be ready to gono matter what. But and like I
said earlier, that no one caresabout your excuse if you go in and
play horrible because you weren't prepared.But once I was in that moment,
it was really all about like,while I'm here, you know there's nothing

(32:13):
that There's no one I could goto. There's no one I could look
at to help me. Now like, all right, it's time to go,
and I'll never forget. That wasmy first We tried to get an
easy completion first play. I dirtedit the screened ammes and I was like,
well, at least I got thatout of the way. I was
like, can't get much worse thanthat now, So after that, it

(32:34):
was kind of like, well,shake the dust off her shoulder and keep
moving. And I knew there wasmore plays to be made, and trust
the work that I put in mywhole life. You like we were talking
about you have to think back tothe confidence you've had your whole life of
like, I've made plays my wholelife. I've done this since I was
a kid, you know, hereon accident. Yeah, like you're meant

(32:57):
to be here, own it andjust let it loose. So it's kind
of one of those things where it'slike, all right, well what now?
And so after that, I think, I mean, we had a
few plays, but obviously the gamedidn't go how we wanted. But it
was something I kind of resort backto even now. I think, right
now obviously not in the position Ithought I was going to be in in

(33:19):
the off season going into where I'mat now. But it's the same thing
I prepare myself every week, likelike I'm going to play all eighty so
plays of a game, sure,and whether I get no snaps or I
have to step up and try andhelp a game winning drive, then that's
that's my job, that's my role, and I have to be ready to
do it, so I hold myselfto that standard. Goes back to what

(33:43):
we were saying, you got tohold yourself to a standard, and it
might not be easy through the week. You have long hours that you know,
he's like, I don't want tobe in this film room right now,
Like for what I want to gohome, let me take a nap.
Like those thoughts might go through yourhead, but you have to think
of of why you're doing it andwhy you're here, and you just got
to keep putting in the work.And I've had some games and plays go

(34:06):
my way, and I've had somegames and moments that have not, but
I'm grateful for all of them.I've learned through every single one of them.
Yeah, and uh, and I'mjust gonna stay ready to go?
How do you stay? And I'mthinking for a mental perspective now, like
cool, calmic collected. That's somethingthat when your number is called, you

(34:30):
have to be like, yeah,you you block I know, you block
out the outside noise and you layyour focus, But how do you how
can you be that cool comic collectedof like hey, you're playing playing the
colseum all sudden? Yeah, goahead, buddy, you know. I
think that aspect of it. Ithink sometimes some people have just have it

(34:53):
and some people don't. And I'vereally never been too big on like,
I don't know. I just Ithink some some people are able to stay
calm at certain situations and some peoplearen't, and you can improve those skills
and improve that mindset. But Ithink maybe think to improve that mindset.

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I wouldn't say so, I wouldn'tsay it's something I focus on. But
I like to I like to beloose. That's just who I am.
I like to have a good time. I don't overstress any situation. My
I think even growing up, mymom's like we have to eat this before
a game, you have to eatthat, or like you have to do
certain things. It's like to me, I just I go. You know,
it's it's another game, it's anotherFriday, It's it's another away game,

(35:38):
it's another stadium. Like, I'venever thought too much of of where
I'm at or who I'm meeting,or who I'm playing, Like, I'm
never like, I don't. There'sno reason to go out there and think,
Oh, that guy's gonna get draftednext year and be a first round
draft pick from USC. You don'tthink about those things. You don't.
You don't make situations bigger than theyare. And I think I've a maybe

(35:59):
that's who I am and who I'vebeen my whole life. But in a
huddle, I'm I like to messaround and I kind of just play loose.
I don't overthink situations. Yeah,I just you know, I play
loose. I don't think too muchof like we need to do this,
we need to do that right,because at the end of the day,
you just got to trust your preparation, trust the work, and like I

(36:21):
said, let it loose, havefun, and just know that you're supposed
to be in that moment and thatyou're gonna you're gonna kill it. Well.
I think that's a great example oflike I'm not gonna rise to the
occasion. I'm gonna fall back onmy training. Yep, exactly. And
if you in this whole pod sofar, all you've just talked about is

(36:42):
you're prepared. You are preparing.It's it's it's hard. It is hard
when you're like, hey, Idon't know what's gonna happen there, I
don't know what's gonna happen. Idon't you And you know, full exposure,
you can play zero games of afootball game. Yeah, you're prepared
like the starter. Yeah, andyou're locked in every play. You're reading
the look. And when you're ifyou're not in, you're reading the play.

(37:05):
What's the defense doing? What's goingon? You? You're getting a
mental rep and when your number iscalled, it's not a matter of you
know what are Yeah, Yeah,it's like okay, this is yeah,
So it is. I think it'sit is one of the things that separates
players who can make it versus theplayers that they just don't really pan out.

(37:30):
Maybe they whether it's uh, youknow, I want to try another
school, want to maybe just stopplaying football, stop playing their sports.
This is the same thing. Wantto change. It's not the end of
the world. And that doesn't meanthey're necessarily not mentally tough, not at
all. But again I bring backlike I think of that guy who's who's

(37:57):
mining for diamonds, and it's likethe picture on top, it's halfway stops,
there's one the one below it,and he makes it all the way.
Yeah. Did you just got tokeep your head down and keep going,
keep going? Oh yeah, thework gets tedious, that's for sure.
I think it just gets tedious.It gets tedious. And I think
even for me being a backup likeI luckily, I've had such great parents

(38:22):
that have been there for me throughanything and everything, and I think when
times get tough, I resort andgo to them. Sure, those are
my rocks in my in my life. But worre we just we were talking
about the work. It gets tedious. But when I, like I call

(38:42):
my parents, I say, youknow, I feel like I've been throwing
water against a rock for three orfour years. I've been a backup.
I have to prepare, I haveto do all this stuff. And it's
like and my my parents have beendoing that their whole life. It's the
work has to be put in andyou might be doing the same thing for
for six months, Like I'm gonnaprepare to play some games and I probably

(39:02):
won't play, but you still gotto put in the work. And it
gets annoying and it feels like you'redoing the same thing every day. Feels
like groundhog Day. But one daylike it'll come to fruition, like you're
gonna get your moment and you're gonnabe thankful that you did put in the
work and you are prepared because youtake advantage of that opportunity and it'll all
be worth it in the end.You can't cheat the man. No,

(39:24):
you can't cheat the man is doevery day, every day. And I
do believe good things come to thosewho work enough, and it's amazing that
it does happen. But also,you know, we're talking football. There's
guys who've been working the same salesjob years. They make the minimum commission.

(39:46):
They're kind of you know, they'reliving paychecks to paycheck month to month.
They haven't hit that grand Salami homerun yet. They're chasing necessarily,
and this is much easier said thandone. And it's like football is a
game at the end of the day. It's something that can make you a
lot of money and do great things. But it is a game. And

(40:07):
I think my translation to those bringingthe Juice listeners out there to day that
are just trying to get good grades, or trying to get that better promotion,
or trying to be a good father, a great husband, or great
brother, a great son, whatever, whatever your point is in life.
All good things take time, man, And it's it's there's this, Uh,

(40:31):
you're in this pressured chamber during collegefootball because you have a timer.
Yeah, you can't just keep gettingbetter. You're after you, No,
you got you got four years eligibilityto get better. And there's a lot
of business moves, political moves,coaching moves, players moves, personnel moves.

(40:54):
It's so it's the wild West atthe end of the day, and
all you could do is control whatyou can control. Oh yeah, And
we talked about it from a footballstandpoint because like it's such high stakes,
which it is, yeah, whichit is. Yeah, Fox Sports shout

(41:15):
out to Fox Sports Radio, bringthe juice, four o'clock on Thursdays.
Let's go. But I always thinkback to how intense it is to be
in that locker room and in thosepractices. Yeah, to get top twenty
five and win championship rings and winpole games. Dude, like there's so
much more to life. Yeah,not saying that's not everything, because guess

(41:37):
what, in your time in life, this is everything. Yeah. And
I even I'll go to class andit's funny because all I've known in my
whole life is football in sports.So I've never done an internship. I've
maybe had one real job. Iwere at a golf course for like four
months. Like that's not a job, you know what I mean. I
only had like a legitimate paycheck likeonce in my life. So but you

(41:59):
go to class and you know peoplethat do all these internships, and like
you try to talk to a businessperson, it's like, I don't know
anything about the business world. Butwhat I can tell you is that I've
learned all these lessons. I haveall these traits that I've gotten through football
and sports and what I've learned throughthe highs and the lows and everything in
between. As I can take thatto the business world, and I know

(42:22):
I can be successful because I havethe confidence that I'll outwork anybody in the
room because that's what I had todo at Fresno State to play, and
so I think sometimes maybe US athleteslose track of that, or I've even
done it recently. Like I'm sobothered about the position I'm in, But
what am I? I'm getting madthat I'm not starting at Fresno State,

(42:45):
Like I have a great life.I'm living out my dream of playing Division
on football and I love all thestruggles that come with it because it's to
make me a better person. Atthe end of the day, it does
stick with you. Yeah, andone thing I try to pre chumpering the
juice is struck iron top because it'srare to be able to play divisional football
in a city and a valley likethis. Yes, but you got traits

(43:07):
where you know how to show upon time and help a team win.
A team is just like a business. It's just like a family. You
want to kick you know. Thefoundation's there now, the attachments there are
what they are. But I meancoach Tedford, like you said earlier,
Yes, he helps you become greatfootball players, but he breeds great young
men. And ultimately that's who Iwant my son to play for, is

(43:30):
a man who's going to help breedgreat young men. Yes, so organize
I wrapped this up. What doyou any sendoffs to bring the Juice Nation
or the red wave anything, Andto bring the Juice Nation nation has grown
quite a bit. We got thatgreat job on that. It's everybody a

(43:53):
part of bringing the Juice family.I just obviously, if you're listening this
podcast, you know that you gotto be gritty. You got to bring
the juice every day. You gottawork hard. The work gets tedious,
but you got to keep putting inthe work. But I'd say just at

(44:13):
the end of the day, yougot to love what you have and be
grateful for the things that that youhave and what you've worked for. Don't
lose don't lose sight of what youlove in your life. I think everyone's
so distract on what they want andwhat they could have and what they don't
have. But to be grateful forwhat you do have and and kind of
slow it down a little bit,look around once in a while, but

(44:37):
then get back to work. Uhhuh. Yeah, So the work will
never stop. Don't be too obsessedwith Chasey Grady is that you forget how
far you come. Every once ina while. You need now, every
once in a while, you gotto come back and say, damn,
but guess what. Put your headback down and go high and keep going
very fantol line a gray area likeyou said, can't cheat the man rent

(45:00):
is do every day, ladies andgentlemen. Logan five, Logan we will
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