1-on-1: Kevin Dotson - February 6, 2023

1-on-1: Kevin Dotson - February 6, 2023

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Kevin, Uh, you made it through this season completely healthy,
and I'm sure that had to be something that that
you really wanted to do this year after your your
first couple of seasons getting a little nicked up here,
and there was that something that was a goal of yours. Yeah,
you know, I just I was trying to just you know,
change some people in mind sets on me. I've never

(00:20):
been known to be that that person to miss anytime,
So that was kind of a crazy thing to hear.
There's a lot of background noise of people and who
thought I was like, say soft, I guess saying I
wouldn't finish. I couldn't finish the season, even though up
to the season I never missed the game until I
got to the league. So I mean, I just wanted

(00:41):
to change the perception of me, and that played out
for the entire offensive line. I mean, there's a group
you guys stayed on the field together. How much did
that help over the course of the season to get
that kind of continuity and have that kind of continuity, Yeah,
it helps a lot um because the office line, you know,
it's it's the team on on a team, and it's
it's one of those things where the more time you

(01:03):
have me and the more experience you have with the
people around you, the more you feel comfortable, and the
faster you can play new guys. You're right this year
in Mason Cole, but damn more to your left and
you guys obviously played together last year. Do you guys
feel like you're developing a nice chemistry together. I do
feel like that. I feel like we've we've bounded a

(01:23):
lot this last year. I feel like we're just going
to get better and keep staking. In terms of how
the running game progressed over the course of the season,
I mean that has to be I mean, offensive linemen
love to run the football. Did you take a sense
of pride and hey, we have a hundred fifty yards
of game basically over the second half of the season,
you guys go seven and two because of that running game.

(01:45):
We definitely love that. We love to have, you know,
all the pressure put on us. We want to run
the ball, and we love to run the ball. As
some muys, we're pretty much having competition with the right side,
just talking about who's gonna be the best on the
back side of the play, on the front side of
the play, and it makes us play even harder. You
guys had that camaraderie this year despite having some new
faces in there. How did that develop so quickly? I

(02:09):
think just the group of guys that we have a
different type of personalities and stuff. All male are pretty
good and I think that's that's really what it was.
Everybody personality kind of managines with everybody else's personality. There's
no real divas, there's no nobody who's think that's better
than everybody else. We all just trying to come together.
It help that you're all around the same age. Yeah,

(02:29):
that that definitely helps. You know, it's good to have
vets sometimes, but sometimes it's good to have a young
group that all wants to work. And you had a
new line coach this year as well. We pretty much
used him as a vet, so that was that was
I think that was a good fit for us. What
did he do differently that you hadn't done in the past.
He was a lot more technical and more say gentle

(02:52):
in his approach when it came to things. Because he's
been a coach for so long. He understands that you
can't win everywhere up. He understands that U you have
off day. He doesn't the person that really just yells
at you trying to get that out of you because
he knows what you can do already. In terms of
the first season with with Kenny Pickett, obviously there's some

(03:12):
some difference there. You had played with Ben Pickett obviously
brought the mobility factor to the game. Did that change
how you approach things or how you block? You try
to block the same um. Ben had his benefits of
you know, he was getting the ball out really fast,
and I think that's what he made up for in
his mobility. He got it out and like one point

(03:34):
eight to say it. So you kind of block a little,
just get on fast and you'll be able to get
it off. And Kenny the mobility factor, maybe have to
block a little longer, not that much longer, but he'll
be able to get out of the pocket. I'll be
able to move and get where it needs to get
to this throw. You feel like the way you guys
finished the season, you can carry that over. Yeah. I

(03:58):
feel I feel like well to get better. So I'm
I can't wait till next week, next year,