November 8, 2024 • 16 mins
Jaguars Senior Writer John Oehser is joined by 3-year DE Travon Walker on the O-Zone Podcast. Three years into the league Travon makes it known he's grown full circle from infectious positivity to adding pass rush moves to his belt. Travon touches on his fumble return touchdown in Week 9 vs. the Eagles and the principles at his core that keep him motivated through rough patches like the Jaguars are currently experiencing in the 2024 Season. Catch up on how Travon Walker is doing on this episode of the O-Zone Podcast.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, welcome into this week's ozone podcast. And I
always enjoy having Jaguars defensive end Trayvon Walker on this
and Trayvon, first of all, I appreciate you joining us.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
So tell me about this team right now two and seven,
not where you want to be. What's the mindset going in?
How do you move forward right now?
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Just starting off this is a obviously I feel like
everybody sees it's a great team. We have all the
talent in the world, but it's just like those little
small things to where we're not finishing or what we're
it's simple mistakes that we're messing up on the critical
moments of the game. That we can't do that if
we want to be a top team in the NFL.
But I feel like as long as everybody just continuously
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have the mindset that we do have now still to
this day, which is come in, work hard, take it
day by day, and just try to go get one
win at a time, I feel like.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
We'll we'll be pretty good. We just have to finish strong.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Tell me about your play. It seems to me from
the time watching as a rookie, you always talk about
just getting better every day. That's sort of your motto.
But it really seems like just progressively week to week
over the course of your career and even now just
a little better every day. Do you feel that Do
you feel that progress.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Most definitely as me personally, I do feel that I
am progressing every day. That's like you said, that's something
that I live by on a day to day basis,
and I just want to continuously grow as a person
on the field and off the field. And with that,
then no one can really say that, Oh he's whatever
they want to say. Yeah, just say I'm not progressing,
But I just want to continuously try to bring whatever
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I can bring you to the table to help my
team win.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
And then where's your confidence of it? Right now? It
strikes me you've always been confident. We've talked a few
times over the years, but it seems this year, and
I'm not sure how to quantify it, but just a
little more confident around the building, easier talking to the media,
taking more of a leadership. Maybe am I reading that
(02:02):
rioter or something there?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Oh, yeah, you can't say that. It's just for me.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
I'm the type person the longer that I'm around, like
a certain individual as I meet. As a person, I'm
a person I'm very laid back at first once I
first meet you, but as I'm around you a lot more,
I sat back and observed you felter your energy. I'm
just the type person I don't like to invite any
negative energy in my space. So that could go for
anybody in the building or media, or whatever the case
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may be. But the more I'm around somebody, the more
I grow comfortable with that person. And that's how I
feel like I am. I've been here a part of
the Jaguars for going on three years now, so obviously
I'll be a lot more comfortable in the building with
the coaches and the players as well, and then also
just with the media.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
I've learned as I've grown.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
When I was younger, I just tried my best not
to say anything that would give the team another team
of advantage.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
And now I think that's just how I go about
media in general.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
And then I'm a I'm a very blunt person, so
I get straight to the point and that's it.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
I got you. So the fact that you avoid me
in the lockerom means you don't trust me.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
It's not that I don't trust you.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
It's just more so that I have to We have
to build that trust. Just like respect, it's earned, and
I feel it's the same way with that I got you.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
So tell me about the play. Everybody's talking about it,
the fumble return. I guess, having watched you over the years,
not surprising that you showed that sort of power athleticism.
But I guess take me through it. Have you watched it,
were you impressed or is that just another play to you?
Speaker 3 (03:40):
I definitely watched it, and I was definitely impressed with myself.
But that's one of those things that were in the
moment of the game. It's just it's more sort of
an instinct feel. Like I said on a previous interview,
I seen the ball on the ground. It's kind of
like the Super Bowl commercial from a couple of years back,
where you see the ball and the commercial just holding
around god diving at it. That's one of those ones
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you have to get on it as a defensive player,
and then my instincts just kicked in trying to score
help my team win. But in the end, once it happened,
I really I enjoyed it because I felt it once
I got on the sideline. I felt the energy that
it brought to my team, But I mean it would
have been a lot better food to one food on
that game, then that would have probably been a player
that'll be talked about a lot longer that and maybe
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talked about.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
It strikes me just watching you in that play several
others over the last few weeks, and maybe you've been
doing this before and people just didn't notice, but you
seem to be having fun playing football and sort of
feeling like, you know, I guess fun or in the moment,
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maybe talking a little bit to opponents, just kind of
feeling like you belong and you're playing to your potential.
And I didn't say that very well, but there's something
in the way you're playing, almost backyardist, where it's like, yeah,
this is where I'm supposed to.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Be almost definitely.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
It's just even though things aren't going going as playing
as far as the team wise, as far as our
record wins and losses, I just like, I love the
game of football and that's something that I don't want
to let the because I'm very hard on myself and
I'm very hard on I take losing very serious, so
I don't want to set aside the incite, the excitement,
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and the enjoy that I get out of the game
of football. So that's why I just always try to
attack it every day, be that seven year old kid
that I was when I first started playing football, and
I just don't want the losses to start to take
strip my love away from the game. I don't think
that'll ever happen, So I just have to come out, attack,
attack the field, and have fun with my with my
fellow my teammates every week, every week we step on
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the field, every practice that we step on the field,
I just try to make it enjoy for him. As
I continuously do that, I feel like I can bring
a lot of other people along with me who may
not be feeling the same way about the team or
whatever the directions that we're headed in. But I just
want to be that positive person on the field at
all times, or in the locker room, whatever it may be.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
I just want to be positive.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Is some of that confidence too, more confident as you
go on to sort of be yourself on the field.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Oh yeah, that does. It does help boost up my
confidence as well. But I feel, like I said, I've
always been confident. It's just you know, once you start
making those plays that everybody expects you to make, it
kind of just becomes a little easier, you know what
I'm saying. Other than that, just going out there having
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fun with my guys.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Now you're asked about this yesterday and you said no comments.
I'll ask you again the way you ran. Are you
going to Doug and saying I want to play fullback
or could you play full back? I know they probably
won't do that.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
I could play fullback, but me as the person that
I am, no, I'm not going up to Dug and
being like you put me at fullback?
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Da da dada dah.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
But I mean, obviously, if he felt that way, and
if the offensive coordinator, if they felt that way in
order for us to win games, then I'll do whatever
to help my team win game. That's like I say,
I'm here for the love of the game.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Well, now we've talked before a bit how much offense
is in your background. How much have you carried the ball?
Speaker 3 (07:20):
I like to say I carried the ball of pretty
good bit from my middle school to high school days.
And then you know, obviously college just starts to transition
more into a business. So I was more so just defense.
But high school I played a lot of wildcat, quarterback,
tight end, receiver, play some of everything.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
I think we've talked about it before, but I'm sure
there were moments where when you were playing wildcat in
high school it was almost unfair.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Uh yeah, you could say that, But at that point
the defense, I already kind of expect what's going to happen.
But I feel like my high school coach did a
great job of kind of mixing in the little red
zone here and there. For me, the way the ball
is not always in my hand, it's just it's more
of a direction out to me. But I mean, I
feel like that's high school for it in Georgia. So
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whatever you like, that's true, that's true. That's part of
my mindset as well. So I just did whatever my
team needed for me to do the win. Back then
and still to this day.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
When you picked up the ball and bounced off the
first guy who hit you, did that come back, meaning
just the moves.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
And as soon as I picked up the ball out
that instinctly, it just came back just like that.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
It was like you swing me, had a swim move
at the end I do.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
That was just a little.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
I seen how it was pursuing Jarry, and he gave
him a nice little shove to get him off of
his ain'to a little bit, So I just took cut
back inside with swim over the top of him. He
didn't want to tackle me for real anyway, So I
had to finish that play.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
At what point did you know you were scoring?
Speaker 3 (08:44):
That was probably at the point once I seen Jared's
get the nudge on him, and then I was like, oh, yeah,
I got this, because I mean I had the idea
that he was probably going to try to cut me
at first, but once he got that nudge on me,
he had a little too much moment.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
I'm going forward and I just cut back inside.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
He wouldn't to try to bring it.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Yeah, Nah, he wasn't gonna try to hit me up top.
Sure here's a strong guy, don't get me wrong, but
he wasn't to go try to hit me up top.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
So a topic with you ever since your rookie has
been pass rush and it seems again going back to
what we talked about earlier, week to week, month to month,
whatever it is, it seems like you just get better
and better and better. There are you improving. Are your
moves improving, is your technique improving? Just tell me about
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that a little bit.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
What you've worked on personally, I like to think that.
I mean, I've still been doing a lot of the
same moves that I did. Coming in as a rookie
is just more of a set up feel of when
I'm going to work this power rush or when am
I going to work this edge rush, because like I said, I.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Still past rush plan.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
People talk about it, yeah, coming in with a plant
more so coming in with a plan. That's from my
rookie year to now. As a rookie coming in, I
really didn't understand how to set up my rushes. But
as the years went along, obviously I've gotten a lot
more comfortable with doing different things, attacking all three edges
instead of just going speed to power to help set
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me up. So I feel like with me working all
three edges, that's that's part of my game plan. So
as we're coming into a game that just keeps the
offensive tackle on his heels on not always expecting my power.
Even though I am stronger than a lot of guys.
I mean, we're all grown in, but I feel like
I'm stronger than a lot of guys. And my mentality
with what I run, my power rush with that helps
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set up every other move that I got my rush
And that's just part of my athleticism as well.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
And that's just also part of a growing from a
rookie to a vet understand what it takes in the
NFL when the margins are that slim in terms of talent.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Right, that's just the details of being a professional.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
What in your third year do you still feel like
there's a lot more to go for you?
Speaker 3 (10:56):
I mean, if anybody who really knows me from a
football respect them and how I attack the game of football,
they know I really still I'm still just now scratching
the surface as far as past rushing things of that nature.
But I feel like I can go out there and
continuously get better every day and I can be a
lot better than what I've been playing.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
As well.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
You mentioned earlier like what people say noise, that's always
a thing around you. People have their thoughts how do
you not pay attention to that? But again from talking
to you over the years, a few times everybody says
they don't listen to it. I sort of get the
feeling that you have the capacity to not listen with
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the most guys.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Me just how my mind says wired.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
I'm the type person I control what I control, and
then obviously people are always going to have something to
say about everyone in the world, no matter what's the situation.
I just I just tend to go about it and
do what I have to do amongst what I'm being
asked to do. You know what I'm saying, other people,
they're going to have their opinions. Everybody's opinion is not
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going to be the same. So that's why another reason
I don't pay the critics any attention then, for one,
like I told somebody as well, I mean, people are
always going to critique, but if they was good enough
to do it, then they would be in my position
as well. So obviously they're not there. It's social media
for a reason. Everything on social media is more so
for clickbait or just for attention, and.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
That's an intriguing thing. I've talked to a lot of players.
Where does that come from? That sort of it's a
maturity beyond your years, I would say.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
I'll just say it mainly comes from how I was raised,
my mom and dad, how they brought me up. I
was always the biggest kid growing up as well. Too soon,
and at the same time I was, I was still
dominating as when I was younger. It's just as I
got older, they still had things to say, whether it
was good, bad, or kind of mediocre. But somebody's always yeah,
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it's always going to always want to have something to say.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Just block it out.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
They're gonna when I do good, they gonna have something
good to say by me, and then they go find
the little smallest thing that I do wrong just to
try to critique it. Because I've been doing good for
so long. I mean, what can you explore?
Speaker 1 (13:12):
You as sure? I got you, so you have that perspective.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Just I just stay levelhead and keep going and block
out out the noise and know that I'm in the
position that I'm in because of God put me in
that position, and if He didn't want me in that position,
I wouldn't be there in the first place.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
The solut to service, what does that mean to you?
To be involved with that this way and it's very
important to.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
You salute the service.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
It means a lot to me just for the simple
fact of I come from kind of the service background.
My dad he served as a marine. His father as
well was in the Service as well, and then obviously
all the hard work that all of the branches that
they that they put into it, it kind of helps me.
I look at it kind of like how we attack
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the game of football is how they attack whatever that they.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Have going on.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
And with me being a part of salute the Service
for a little while on the NFL, I've started to
learn a lot more from all these different branches, just
to see their perspective on life. And at a lot
of times they don't choose to be put in certain situations,
and that's kind of like us as football players. But
they still have to go out there and serve the country,
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and a lot of people really take that for granted,
and that's something that I really don't take lightly. These
people are really out here fighting hard tooth and nail
for the country of the United States, and I mean
they should be committed for that.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
That moment's gonna matter to you a lot.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
On Sunday, yes, sir, almost definitely.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
The last thing we do the ozone five. Five quick
questions Trevon Walker, what was your last binge watch? If
you have.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Last bench watch.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
I'm really not a TV show God, But I want
to say, the last full TV show that I watched
was BMF.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Okay, the last song you heard this morning on the way.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
In the last song be Different solo.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
You I know about your most recent touchdown? What was
your first touchdown that you can recall?
Speaker 2 (15:06):
My first on the defense side of the ball.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Even if it's back when you were playing offense when
you were a kid. I mean, if you remember.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Your first score, it's so many on offense from playing offense,
But I remember my first defense touchdown in high school.
It was on a little screen. Caught it for like
twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Yards, picked off the screen. Sir, okay, got you best
Georgia player other than yourself?
Speaker 2 (15:34):
That's a hard one. Uh.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
I'm a defensive minded guy, so it's definitely gonna be
somebody on the defensive side of the ball. I'm gonna
go a cocann He's one of those ones that you consistently, consistently,
consistently see every week near the ball, making plays, impactful
plays up and that helps bring his team to win.
And the mindset that he brings to the game put
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me in in the mindset of Ray Lewis and Ray Lewis,
He's one of my favorite defensive players.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
I got you, when's the last time you mowed the lawn?
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Last time out? Probably like two years ago when I
went home.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Just and always.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
It was a year.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
It was probably the beginning of this year or in
the last year sometime. Whenever I went home, I just
helped my dad. He was out cutting grass, so I
just went out to help him.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
And it's always, I mean, for the backstory of people
don't know, your dad always had you mowing the lawn,
and it was always a thing growing up. I used
to wear your helmetself or not wearing the helmet anymore,
but still the lawn still mold alawn to this day. Traymond,
I always enjoyed talking to you and this. I always
enjoy you giving the time to do this. People appreciate it.
Thank you for joining the ozone Podcasts, sir.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Thank you all for having me again as well.
All right, welcome into this week's ozone podcast. And I
always enjoy having Jaguars defensive end Trayvon Walker on this
and Trayvon, first of all, I appreciate you joining us.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
So tell me about this team right now two and seven,
not where you want to be. What's the mindset going in?
How do you move forward right now?
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Just starting off this is a obviously I feel like
everybody sees it's a great team. We have all the
talent in the world, but it's just like those little
small things to where we're not finishing or what we're
it's simple mistakes that we're messing up on the critical
moments of the game. That we can't do that if
we want to be a top team in the NFL.
But I feel like as long as everybody just continuously
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have the mindset that we do have now still to
this day, which is come in, work hard, take it
day by day, and just try to go get one
win at a time, I feel like.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
We'll we'll be pretty good. We just have to finish strong.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Tell me about your play. It seems to me from
the time watching as a rookie, you always talk about
just getting better every day. That's sort of your motto.
But it really seems like just progressively week to week
over the course of your career and even now just
a little better every day. Do you feel that Do
you feel that progress.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Most definitely as me personally, I do feel that I
am progressing every day. That's like you said, that's something
that I live by on a day to day basis,
and I just want to continuously grow as a person
on the field and off the field. And with that,
then no one can really say that, Oh he's whatever
they want to say. Yeah, just say I'm not progressing,
But I just want to continuously try to bring whatever
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I can bring you to the table to help my
team win.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
And then where's your confidence of it? Right now? It
strikes me you've always been confident. We've talked a few
times over the years, but it seems this year, and
I'm not sure how to quantify it, but just a
little more confident around the building, easier talking to the media,
taking more of a leadership. Maybe am I reading that
(02:02):
rioter or something there?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Oh, yeah, you can't say that. It's just for me.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
I'm the type person the longer that I'm around, like
a certain individual as I meet. As a person, I'm
a person I'm very laid back at first once I
first meet you, but as I'm around you a lot more,
I sat back and observed you felter your energy. I'm
just the type person I don't like to invite any
negative energy in my space. So that could go for
anybody in the building or media, or whatever the case
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may be. But the more I'm around somebody, the more
I grow comfortable with that person. And that's how I
feel like I am. I've been here a part of
the Jaguars for going on three years now, so obviously
I'll be a lot more comfortable in the building with
the coaches and the players as well, and then also
just with the media.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
I've learned as I've grown.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
When I was younger, I just tried my best not
to say anything that would give the team another team
of advantage.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
And now I think that's just how I go about
media in general.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
And then I'm a I'm a very blunt person, so
I get straight to the point and that's it.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
I got you. So the fact that you avoid me
in the lockerom means you don't trust me.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
It's not that I don't trust you.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
It's just more so that I have to We have
to build that trust. Just like respect, it's earned, and
I feel it's the same way with that I got you.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
So tell me about the play. Everybody's talking about it,
the fumble return. I guess, having watched you over the years,
not surprising that you showed that sort of power athleticism.
But I guess take me through it. Have you watched it,
were you impressed or is that just another play to you?
Speaker 3 (03:40):
I definitely watched it, and I was definitely impressed with myself.
But that's one of those things that were in the
moment of the game. It's just it's more sort of
an instinct feel. Like I said on a previous interview,
I seen the ball on the ground. It's kind of
like the Super Bowl commercial from a couple of years back,
where you see the ball and the commercial just holding
around god diving at it. That's one of those ones
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you have to get on it as a defensive player,
and then my instincts just kicked in trying to score
help my team win. But in the end, once it happened,
I really I enjoyed it because I felt it once
I got on the sideline. I felt the energy that
it brought to my team, But I mean it would
have been a lot better food to one food on
that game, then that would have probably been a player
that'll be talked about a lot longer that and maybe
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talked about.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
It strikes me just watching you in that play several
others over the last few weeks, and maybe you've been
doing this before and people just didn't notice, but you
seem to be having fun playing football and sort of
feeling like, you know, I guess fun or in the moment,
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maybe talking a little bit to opponents, just kind of
feeling like you belong and you're playing to your potential.
And I didn't say that very well, but there's something
in the way you're playing, almost backyardist, where it's like, yeah,
this is where I'm supposed to.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Be almost definitely.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
It's just even though things aren't going going as playing
as far as the team wise, as far as our
record wins and losses, I just like, I love the
game of football and that's something that I don't want
to let the because I'm very hard on myself and
I'm very hard on I take losing very serious, so
I don't want to set aside the incite, the excitement,
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and the enjoy that I get out of the game
of football. So that's why I just always try to
attack it every day, be that seven year old kid
that I was when I first started playing football, and
I just don't want the losses to start to take
strip my love away from the game. I don't think
that'll ever happen, So I just have to come out, attack,
attack the field, and have fun with my with my
fellow my teammates every week, every week we step on
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the field, every practice that we step on the field,
I just try to make it enjoy for him. As
I continuously do that, I feel like I can bring
a lot of other people along with me who may
not be feeling the same way about the team or
whatever the directions that we're headed in. But I just
want to be that positive person on the field at
all times, or in the locker room, whatever it may be.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
I just want to be positive.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Is some of that confidence too, more confident as you
go on to sort of be yourself on the field.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Oh yeah, that does. It does help boost up my
confidence as well. But I feel, like I said, I've
always been confident. It's just you know, once you start
making those plays that everybody expects you to make, it
kind of just becomes a little easier, you know what
I'm saying. Other than that, just going out there having
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fun with my guys.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Now you're asked about this yesterday and you said no comments.
I'll ask you again the way you ran. Are you
going to Doug and saying I want to play fullback
or could you play full back? I know they probably
won't do that.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
I could play fullback, but me as the person that
I am, no, I'm not going up to Dug and
being like you put me at fullback?
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Da da dada dah.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
But I mean, obviously, if he felt that way, and
if the offensive coordinator, if they felt that way in
order for us to win games, then I'll do whatever
to help my team win game. That's like I say,
I'm here for the love of the game.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Well, now we've talked before a bit how much offense
is in your background. How much have you carried the ball?
Speaker 3 (07:20):
I like to say I carried the ball of pretty
good bit from my middle school to high school days.
And then you know, obviously college just starts to transition
more into a business. So I was more so just defense.
But high school I played a lot of wildcat, quarterback,
tight end, receiver, play some of everything.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
I think we've talked about it before, but I'm sure
there were moments where when you were playing wildcat in
high school it was almost unfair.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Uh yeah, you could say that, But at that point
the defense, I already kind of expect what's going to happen.
But I feel like my high school coach did a
great job of kind of mixing in the little red
zone here and there. For me, the way the ball
is not always in my hand, it's just it's more
of a direction out to me. But I mean, I
feel like that's high school for it in Georgia. So
(08:04):
whatever you like, that's true, that's true. That's part of
my mindset as well. So I just did whatever my
team needed for me to do the win. Back then
and still to this day.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
When you picked up the ball and bounced off the
first guy who hit you, did that come back, meaning
just the moves.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
And as soon as I picked up the ball out
that instinctly, it just came back just like that.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
It was like you swing me, had a swim move
at the end I do.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
That was just a little.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
I seen how it was pursuing Jarry, and he gave
him a nice little shove to get him off of
his ain'to a little bit, So I just took cut
back inside with swim over the top of him. He
didn't want to tackle me for real anyway, So I
had to finish that play.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
At what point did you know you were scoring?
Speaker 3 (08:44):
That was probably at the point once I seen Jared's
get the nudge on him, and then I was like, oh, yeah,
I got this, because I mean I had the idea
that he was probably going to try to cut me
at first, but once he got that nudge on me,
he had a little too much moment.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
I'm going forward and I just cut back inside.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
He wouldn't to try to bring it.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Yeah, Nah, he wasn't gonna try to hit me up top.
Sure here's a strong guy, don't get me wrong, but
he wasn't to go try to hit me up top.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
So a topic with you ever since your rookie has
been pass rush and it seems again going back to
what we talked about earlier, week to week, month to month,
whatever it is, it seems like you just get better
and better and better. There are you improving. Are your
moves improving, is your technique improving? Just tell me about
(09:26):
that a little bit.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
What you've worked on personally, I like to think that.
I mean, I've still been doing a lot of the
same moves that I did. Coming in as a rookie
is just more of a set up feel of when
I'm going to work this power rush or when am
I going to work this edge rush, because like I said, I.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Still past rush plan.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
People talk about it, yeah, coming in with a plant
more so coming in with a plan. That's from my
rookie year to now. As a rookie coming in, I
really didn't understand how to set up my rushes. But
as the years went along, obviously I've gotten a lot
more comfortable with doing different things, attacking all three edges
instead of just going speed to power to help set
(10:06):
me up. So I feel like with me working all
three edges, that's that's part of my game plan. So
as we're coming into a game that just keeps the
offensive tackle on his heels on not always expecting my power.
Even though I am stronger than a lot of guys.
I mean, we're all grown in, but I feel like
I'm stronger than a lot of guys. And my mentality
with what I run, my power rush with that helps
(10:27):
set up every other move that I got my rush
And that's just part of my athleticism as well.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
And that's just also part of a growing from a
rookie to a vet understand what it takes in the
NFL when the margins are that slim in terms of talent.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Right, that's just the details of being a professional.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
What in your third year do you still feel like
there's a lot more to go for you?
Speaker 3 (10:56):
I mean, if anybody who really knows me from a
football respect them and how I attack the game of football,
they know I really still I'm still just now scratching
the surface as far as past rushing things of that nature.
But I feel like I can go out there and
continuously get better every day and I can be a
lot better than what I've been playing.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
As well.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
You mentioned earlier like what people say noise, that's always
a thing around you. People have their thoughts how do
you not pay attention to that? But again from talking
to you over the years, a few times everybody says
they don't listen to it. I sort of get the
feeling that you have the capacity to not listen with
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the most guys.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Me just how my mind says wired.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
I'm the type person I control what I control, and
then obviously people are always going to have something to
say about everyone in the world, no matter what's the situation.
I just I just tend to go about it and
do what I have to do amongst what I'm being
asked to do. You know what I'm saying, other people,
they're going to have their opinions. Everybody's opinion is not
(12:03):
going to be the same. So that's why another reason
I don't pay the critics any attention then, for one,
like I told somebody as well, I mean, people are
always going to critique, but if they was good enough
to do it, then they would be in my position
as well. So obviously they're not there. It's social media
for a reason. Everything on social media is more so
for clickbait or just for attention, and.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
That's an intriguing thing. I've talked to a lot of players.
Where does that come from? That sort of it's a
maturity beyond your years, I would say.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
I'll just say it mainly comes from how I was raised,
my mom and dad, how they brought me up. I
was always the biggest kid growing up as well. Too soon,
and at the same time I was, I was still
dominating as when I was younger. It's just as I
got older, they still had things to say, whether it
was good, bad, or kind of mediocre. But somebody's always yeah,
(12:59):
it's always going to always want to have something to say.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Just block it out.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
They're gonna when I do good, they gonna have something
good to say by me, and then they go find
the little smallest thing that I do wrong just to
try to critique it. Because I've been doing good for
so long. I mean, what can you explore?
Speaker 1 (13:12):
You as sure? I got you, so you have that perspective.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Just I just stay levelhead and keep going and block
out out the noise and know that I'm in the
position that I'm in because of God put me in
that position, and if He didn't want me in that position,
I wouldn't be there in the first place.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
The solut to service, what does that mean to you?
To be involved with that this way and it's very
important to.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
You salute the service.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
It means a lot to me just for the simple
fact of I come from kind of the service background.
My dad he served as a marine. His father as
well was in the Service as well, and then obviously
all the hard work that all of the branches that
they that they put into it, it kind of helps me.
I look at it kind of like how we attack
(13:53):
the game of football is how they attack whatever that they.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Have going on.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
And with me being a part of salute the Service
for a little while on the NFL, I've started to
learn a lot more from all these different branches, just
to see their perspective on life. And at a lot
of times they don't choose to be put in certain situations,
and that's kind of like us as football players. But
they still have to go out there and serve the country,
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and a lot of people really take that for granted,
and that's something that I really don't take lightly. These
people are really out here fighting hard tooth and nail
for the country of the United States, and I mean
they should be committed for that.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
That moment's gonna matter to you a lot.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
On Sunday, yes, sir, almost definitely.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
The last thing we do the ozone five. Five quick
questions Trevon Walker, what was your last binge watch? If
you have.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Last bench watch.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
I'm really not a TV show God, But I want
to say, the last full TV show that I watched
was BMF.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Okay, the last song you heard this morning on the way.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
In the last song be Different solo.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
You I know about your most recent touchdown? What was
your first touchdown that you can recall?
Speaker 2 (15:06):
My first on the defense side of the ball.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Even if it's back when you were playing offense when
you were a kid. I mean, if you remember.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Your first score, it's so many on offense from playing offense,
But I remember my first defense touchdown in high school.
It was on a little screen. Caught it for like
twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Yards, picked off the screen. Sir, okay, got you best
Georgia player other than yourself?
Speaker 2 (15:34):
That's a hard one. Uh.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
I'm a defensive minded guy, so it's definitely gonna be
somebody on the defensive side of the ball. I'm gonna
go a cocann He's one of those ones that you consistently, consistently,
consistently see every week near the ball, making plays, impactful
plays up and that helps bring his team to win.
And the mindset that he brings to the game put
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me in in the mindset of Ray Lewis and Ray Lewis,
He's one of my favorite defensive players.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
I got you, when's the last time you mowed the lawn?
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Last time out? Probably like two years ago when I
went home.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Just and always.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
It was a year.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
It was probably the beginning of this year or in
the last year sometime. Whenever I went home, I just
helped my dad. He was out cutting grass, so I
just went out to help him.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
And it's always, I mean, for the backstory of people
don't know, your dad always had you mowing the lawn,
and it was always a thing growing up. I used
to wear your helmetself or not wearing the helmet anymore,
but still the lawn still mold alawn to this day. Traymond,
I always enjoyed talking to you and this. I always
enjoy you giving the time to do this. People appreciate it.
Thank you for joining the ozone Podcasts, sir.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Thank you all for having me again as well.
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