Jacobian Guillory is back at LSU with unfinished business. In this exclusive sit-down, the veteran defensive lineman opens up about why he returned, what it's like playing for Brian Kelly, his thoughts on quarterback Garrett Nussmeier, and how life as a father has shaped his journey on and off the field. From the grind of the SEC to the responsibility of parenthood—this is Guillory’s story.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Once you have those three letters across your chest, it's
just like you just represent for a lot more than yourself.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Gar's been here for a while too.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
He has not once thought about leaving, getting a chance
to just put on for like just Louisiana.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
I just love the as you.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
What's good, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome into yet another
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rolling out these interviews, man, but this one, this one,
I think it's gonna be one of my favorites. Today
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we have another special guests, joining us as a formidable
defensive tackle for the LSU Tigers. Standing at six to
two and weighing three hundred and twenty pounds. He heils
from Alexandria, Louisiana, where he was a three sports standout
in football, powerlifting, which is where I originally met him at,
and track at Alexandria Senior High. A two time five
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A state champion in the shot put, he showcased his
exceptional strength early on. Since joining LSU, he's appeared in
forty one games, starting five and accumulating fifty one career tackles,
two tackles for lost, and half a sack. Now, he
did have a season ending injury last year, but he
is coming back for yet another year to help anchor
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that defensive line.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
And I'm talking about mister Jacoby and Guillery.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
How you doing man?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Doing good? Man? How about you good bro? Doing good? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Man, it's been a long time coming, bro.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
I remember walking in I think it was Pineville High
School and they kept saying that this this kid that
can squat like six seven hundred pounds. That said, I
got to see it to believe it. And I go
in there and you were their kid. Doing it, man,
And now here we are some six seven years later
now and here you are in your another year here
at LSU.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Man.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
For you, you know, let's start with last season.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
You know, you get in, you come in for what
would have been your senior year, but unfortunately you suffer
an injury and it cuts your season short. Just talk
about like how difficult that was, especially knowing how much
you know, excitement and then hype you had going into
the year.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Oh really, Like, oh, I'll say.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
It was like I had my high my hopes set
so high for something and then like you know, for
whatever reason, I was just brought back down. But like
like every guy is a playing for everybody, and I'm
just you know what I'm saying. The course, so like
really with that being said, like it was a lot,
you know what I'm saying, Like the middle part was
definitely like a big part of it. But like, thank
God I have my family, you know what I'm saying,
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you know, be my backbone that loved them, I really
would be nothing.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
You ain't the only one with shoulders, bro.
Speaker 6 (03:11):
First of all, let me go ahead and put that
out there, But you ain't the only one. But no, seriously, man,
you get you have a major injury. Uh, and it's
the transporter was the hottest thing right now, let's be
honest with college sports.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
Why didn't you want to enter the transport and go
somewhere else?
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Because when I signed that dot line, like you know,
it was like it was more than just about LSU.
Was like, it's playing for my stage, playing in front
of like, you know, the team that I watched as
I was a little kid, like getting a chance and
just put on for like just Louisiana.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
It really just it's more than just about football to me.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
I just love LSU and I just never would like
thought about thought about that.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Now.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Obviously the original you know, head coach that you came under,
was it or you Ryan? But then eventually Brian Kelly
takes over and he's become an entry piece and trying
to get LSU back to the national championship that they
were in some years ago. What has he been like
for you as a head coach and how has he
kind of helped walk you through a lot of the
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process as you have you as you've grown as a
college football player.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Uh, I'll say, like like the first like practice, I
always go back to that as like I had got
into a little scuffle and like our relationship kind of
started off a little rocky. But like ever since that day,
like we've just like literally grown from that moment and
just like just become like he's just such a like
I don't know how to put in the words like
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like just are you to your development as like player
player coach relationship has just gotten so much better.
Speaker 6 (04:46):
Now elaborate on that, because you know a lot of
people when I see Brian Kelly, I think he's more
of a chill guy.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
You know, he gets you know that Coca cola, and
you know, you know, he.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
Just don't seem like he's out there and just yelling
a lot, Like what how intense n Z with you guys?
Speaker 1 (05:03):
I mean, obviously they found the camera. He's going to
act a certain way because that's how he is. But
like he really does get fired up and he really
does show his pats for football when we're out there
between the white lawns.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Yeah, I remember it was one time. I can't remember
what fall camp that was.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
It might have been like two years ago, and somebody
wouldn't get out of the drill and he yelled and
he was like get back, like get out of the way.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Like he definitely is that guy that that sets the tones.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
And like from that standpoint, knowing that you have, you know,
a college coach that has been successful, you know where
everywhere he's been, whether that's you know, Notre Dame or whatever.
Having that, how much does that continue to elevate the
standard that's already like LSU is the standard when it
comes to the state of Louisiana.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
But having somebody that.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Also has had a great standard for themselves in the career,
how does that raise the level of intensity where you
guys are I think for one, I.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Think, for one, really like he has like he has
a like set of rules that he follows and he's
carried through all like every every every program he's been
in that stuff. I was like, it works so like
the thing like with us, it's like you just having
guys bought all the way in, you know what I'm
saying to what he preaches and stuff like, like just
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having guys bought in is really well really preaches.
Speaker 6 (06:20):
Now another guy that a coach that's on the coaching
staff is Kyle Williams new addition out there with the
defense aligned coach. I know, coach Davis just recently just
took off. But how has that been with Kyle the
former Buffalo Bill defense alignment.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
It's really been like a dream come through because when
I was in high school, Like I remember a coach
all talking about this guy named Kyle, and I didn't
know who he was talking about. And then I went
home and looked him up and I've seen that he
was like a guy that played like played there LSU,
had a long career in Buffalo, Like you know what
I'm saying, Like I've always bought it, like try to
model my game kind of like after his because I'm
not the tallest guy in the mirror, you know what
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I mean. But you know I just I kind of
he thriveted on the like not being the taller, tallest
or the biggest or the strongest, Like he thrived, you know,
being that guy. So just watching this game and just
continue to get better. It's just like the dream come
true because I've been watching in high school.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
And with that in mind, Like how or how different
is it that he is somebody that not only has
been in you guys' shoes literally on the field, but
he is being where you guys want to go.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
So he knows not just what it takes to be
good there in the SEC, but he knows what it
takes to be successful in the NFL too.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
I think really like listen, like just being all the
way bought into what he's saying because obviously he knows
what he's talking about. He played, Like how many years
you playing the NFL? Like I think it was thirteen?
Was he with the Bills or twelve? I can't, I don't,
I don't even know, but like just like knowing that
he like he knows how to get to the like
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he knows how to get there and stay there, like
and he and he's literally just giving us little nuggets
every day of practice.
Speaker 6 (07:57):
Now, now you also have some young devise lineman in
that room. Man, what's my man name from Katie in
ninety six? Dominic McKinley, Dominic McKinley. You you got you
got him coming up and a bunch of other guys.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Man.
Speaker 6 (08:10):
I remember last time we talked, Mason Smith was the guy
that you was trying to be under the wing of.
Now that you're that older guy, what is it like
with you trying to lead that young people?
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Someone?
Speaker 5 (08:19):
Right now?
Speaker 1 (08:21):
I mean, no, just willing to get guys that are
willing to just work, like like a my bro like
like really like all the guys that in the rooms,
you're willing to work. But like it's really like it's
not it's not fake, you know what I mean? Like
as I say, like no one's like faking it. Like
everyone's literally willing to work, wanting to learn more information
every day and stuff like that. So just glad to
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have a group of guys I just willing to work,
ready to work every day.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
And when you look at not just the defensive line room,
but like the whole landscape of the SEC, like the churches,
there are the best of the best. Like whether it's Vanderbilt,
you're going against Arkansas, Texas A and m Texas is
like you guys are going against the best of the
best every single week, Like what is the trench warfare?
Like on a Saturday, you know, whether it's in Death
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Valley or if it's on the road.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
I think for us it's like we like the what
you want to do is kind of make practice harder
than the game. So our preparation in practice, like you
you named all these guys, we still have guys on LSU,
you know what I mean. So we go against these
guys every single day of the week. So like, like
I know in my head, if I'm doing what I
have to do against these guys that on Saturday, it
would just be that much easier.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
Now do you do you talk a lot of jump?
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Oh? Not really, not unless I'm talking too all right.
Speaker 6 (09:40):
So, so who who's on that defensive line that that
ain't afraid to let you have it?
Speaker 5 (09:46):
If they're kicking your butt up and down the field.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Against me, that that would be me?
Speaker 1 (09:51):
No, man, everybody, because everybody else nice. You know, Diamond's
really nice. Diamonds nice. But he did with something today
that made me, you know what, say, you got a
little main side to him. But I think I think
it'll be me for sure.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
Now for sure. Domd is a quiet one.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
I remember when we were talking to him when he
was committing and everything.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
It was like very short, simple to the point.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
But when he gets on the fields, it's a whole
different ball game, I guess.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Man.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Like you know, when you look at what LSU has
produced in the past few years along the defensive line,
like what does it mean to you to know that
you're a part of that the next step of you know,
I remember when when you were coming in and Rashard
Lawrence had number ninety and he was the one that
gave you the nickname Tank and all that good stuff. Man,
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like to know that you're a part of all of
that along the way, What does that mean to you?
Speaker 1 (10:46):
I mean, it's it's it's honestly, like it's honestly a blessing.
Because like that's why that's one of the one of
the key reasons I never thought about leaving here, because like,
once you have those three letters across your chest, it's
just you, like you just represent for a lot more
than yourself. So that's like like you being a part
of a brotherhood like that runs so deep where I
can literally talk to anybody in the NFL and get
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pointings on anything. It was like, it's literally a blessing.
Speaker 6 (11:13):
Now, I know, it's only spring practice, so you know,
you're still getting working and stuff like that.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
Campus not here just yet. But is there anybody in
the secondary the linebacker room.
Speaker 6 (11:23):
That you could say that you could see could be
one of those guys when Saturday night come for Devil
and Devil.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
There's a lot of guys that shoes from to just
pick one. Uh, I pick it younger. I like divine keys,
like like I like linebacker played really good in the
ball game. But I think like going off the ball game,
I think he's just going to play that much better.
I think this is going to really be a good
season for him, and I I open the season for
everybody else.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
No doubt.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Man, you brought up the linebacker room. That helps me
to pivot into this. You know, Harold Perkins also got
hurt last season. He comes back for another year, and
he's moving more to that star position. How has that
or how have you seen him kind of embrace that role?
And then also like how much does it help when
you got people that have so much experience in college
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football like yourself, him and so many others.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
I know, I mean I've been with her for a
while now, so I know in the back of my head,
like I know if Harold just wants to make plays,
so I don't care. He doesn't He doesn't care if
he's at safety, he could be a corner, he could
be a star, he could be a will be on
on the front. He doesn't care. He wants to make plays.
So regardless of what position he's at. I know he's
gonna play it to the best his ability. He's gonna
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play one hundred percent to make plays.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
Now I want to switch Garretts to the officer side
of football.
Speaker 6 (12:45):
You had the luxury to be around Jaden Daniels and
now you get to see Garrett for a year two.
Speaker 5 (12:51):
What makes Garrett in your eyes so special?
Speaker 1 (12:56):
I think we like the same things that we talked
about with me is Gary's been here for a while too.
He has not once thought about leaving. And like guys
that like I like that, Like you know, there's something
special about him, and I just can't wait to for
this year's for everything. It's just being full swings, just
forgetting to have everything down, just go out and perform.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
To the best of like I know he's gonna perform.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Really, when you look at that offensive line, since we're
staying on this side of the ball, you got a
couple of new guys that are feeling in spots. You
had a very experienced offensive line last year. How have
you seen that group kind of gel together? You know,
I'm seeing notes coming out of practice of different guys,
you know, going in and out of different positions. How
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have you seen those guys try to come together to
become the five is one?
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Uh, it's not necessarily trying to become a five. I
know Brad Like, he just like he wants the whole
room to be league. So it's not about just having
a five guys, but he really wants all fifteen fourteen
guys to be able to play on Saturday night. So
he coaches every guy the same. So like with Brad Like,
he literally wants everybody to be in a starting file.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
So he's gonna give you a shot. It's just it's
just a matter of what you do with it.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
And to me, the addition of the offensive line. But
he's also a receiver. Man, I love Green.
Speaker 6 (14:14):
I love it man. It's like he can do it all.
He can do it all. Talk to me, what what
what what makes him a little different? I know he
stopped playing basketball to get back to football workouts this year,
So what makes him different?
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Man? Uh, it's a six seven tight end.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
I mean like literally six seven, but really like like
he can run routes like a receiver, but he can
also you know, come down and run the run the
over routes and all that, like just just short cous
that the quarterback really likes the throws in the red zone.
And I mean once you throw it up, I mean
it's kind of hard to jump off a god that's
already six seven. So I mean, I don't know, I
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don't know nothing about being six seven because I'm barely
six one. I mean he's a really big Like the
red zone is into his house, like I can't I
just can't wait to see it and see it again
on Saturday nights.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
Yeah, bro, he is he is a walking cheek hode.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Especially like watching him in that ball game, I was like, bro,
he is he tearing these boys up right now? So
it's gonna be crucial coming in next year when you
you know, sit down to you know, prepare and you're
you know, trying to continue to craft and get better
as a defensive lineman. What's the first thing that you
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look at to to get better at technically?
Speaker 5 (15:31):
Is it the hand placement?
Speaker 4 (15:32):
Is that your footwork?
Speaker 3 (15:33):
What is it that you look at to say, like,
all right, if I can hone in on this even more,
like I'm gonna really be able to make some more
special plays coming into the year.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Really like hand tips and feet like that's like the
like the really like the basic playing defensive line. So
once you get that into order, I mean there's nothing
like you you can't do. So like when I say
hands hit the feet, like the first thing you're firing
out of was like the first thing to moving is
your hand because your hands on in the ground. But
then you got your feed coming out your hips, but
you're making contact with your hands to have your hands
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in the right spot, you know a movie, your feed
in the right place, making sure you're coming out your hips.
Like really, hips, hands and feet is like really the
biggest thing I focus on.
Speaker 6 (16:14):
Now that was that something that you feel like you
need to work on, but since you're sitting out or
when you set out because of the injury, or do
you have something else that you was working on because
you wanted to just bring that and bring improvement to
your game.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Really, just one to bring that improvement to my game
because I mean it's been a watts you know, I've
been on a football field, but like, you know, just
really focused on that. Like my day one like really focused,
like Monday, I was really focusing on just hips, hands
and feed, no.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Doubt, man, How like how good did that feel? Just
getting back to football. Like spring football is always that
that that feeling you get on the field, that the
freshly cut grass. You know, y'all know, y'all got morning
practices that y'all do here and there too. Like, what
was that moment like when you were able to finally
get back out there, especially in the pads and get
you get too popular.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
I really feel like I was at home, you know
what I mean, Like it wasn't too big of a moment,
went to smaller a moment. It felt like I was
where I needed to be, and I really I felt
like my first day was really like I opened the
how this process is going to go moving forward?
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Now?
Speaker 6 (17:17):
Speaking of the spring man spring games are looking a
little different for a couple of teams. I mean, I
know Ole Miss did some things last year where they
did like a slam dunk contest and stuff like that
on the sidelines.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
What what do you feel like about the spring games?
Speaker 6 (17:30):
Do you feel like it should be something invented here
or do you feel like they should go back to
their old ways.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
What do you think spring games should look like in
the future.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
I mean, I liked I like playing football, so I
mean I like the football part of it. But the
only thing I would like to tweak about is just
trying to get more people to come out, you know
what I mean. I really would like to see like
a sod out stay in for a spring game like
stuff like that. But like all the other stuff, I don't.
I'm not really too much big of a fan of it.
I like playing football, no no.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
No facts.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
At the end of the day, you got to play
ball to make it work. Like that's it.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
For you.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
When it comes to like playing especially defensive tackle, like
what do you take the most pride in, Because like
a lot of people think that D line is just, oh,
you just got to sack the quarterback and if you
don't have the numbers, then you're not a good defensive lineman.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
But it's a lot more to that.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
It's the double teams, it's all those other things that
you're dealing with. What do you take the most pride
in and trying to be a good defensive lineman.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
I take the most riding like beating double teams, Like
being a shorter of guys kind of easier for me
because I'm literally already download to the ground. But I
really do take pride and like beating double teams, coming
off a double team, being clean held like you know
what I mean, like not being on the ground like
stuff like that. I really take pride of that.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
Now, do you always feel like because you know you
got the three letters across your chips? Do you always
feel like it's a ton of pressure on you guys?
Because to me, it's always championship or bust for you guys.
Do you feel like it's always pressure because of that?
Speaker 1 (18:59):
No, I mean, at the end of the day, I
give a hundred ten percent on the field, and knowing
that there's no pressure, I don't really pay to the
media stuff. Like I said, Like I like playing football,
so I don't really phase me.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
No doubt. Man, you've been there for some time.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
When you look back and where you were at the
beginning of your career to where you are at this
position now, how have you seen yourself grow in so
many different ways physically, emotionally, mentally, all of those things like.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
That really just becoming not only a better football player,
but becoming more of a better man, you know what
I mean. Like, like I've been there for a while,
I've been through a lot of coaches, Like you know,
just being able to change on the fly, being able
to adapt in my environment no matter no matter what
the environment is, and just being a husb a lot
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of football players when I.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Came in here.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
Now, Death Valley is always number one. We all know that.
But if you had a road game, what stadium do
you really like playing in? D sc Mmm?
Speaker 2 (20:07):
And I was talking about this today.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
I'm not gonna say that because I might get some
hate for that.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
I don't know. I don't like playing in Florida. I
hate playing in Florida.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
I'll have to say Bama because of the lights, and
that's that's literally the only reason. And Obama because it's
it's just like the fastest transition out of the game,
in and out of the game, flights included, and of
the lights, and that's that's literally about it.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
Obama is dope.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
I've never been to it, but like seeing a lot
of the way media look at like the shots that
they get in all that stuff. But like, my favorite
thing that I loved that y'all do before a game
is like after y'all warm up, y'all run over to the.
Speaker 5 (20:52):
Student section and y'all get real hype like that.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
How like, how fun is that?
Speaker 3 (20:56):
When y'all get that moment, it's like all right, but
like we did all the warm ups, it's time to
play now, how does it feel.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
It's nice until you out of breath? I used to
so like I used to do a lot, a lot
in like my earlier career, and then like I literally
just stopped doing it because like it's just energy wasted
and wasted all your energy before a big game. But
I mean it is a nice interaction with the fans.
Don't get me wrong, but like, yeah, I need all
enagy I can.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
Get, but a season with that now.
Speaker 6 (21:29):
And then and then another question I got for you
with coach Baker, Man, I know he came from a
zules his first year last year with the defensive philosophy.
How much do you feel like you have grown with
with that defensive coordinator and how things are supposed to
be ran?
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Oh Man, this is my third year coach Baker, because
I was here when he was first year as a
long record coach. So I mean having having a relationship
like prior to him already been here you know that already.
It helped me out a lot because he's always messing
with me and stuff like that. And I mean as
a as a like as a player, like you want
something like that because you know it's at the end
of the day, you know, he really cares about you.
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So like like this year, it's like like literally like
I literally know everything.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
I don't know our new calls or our new cause.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
That we're installing for the spring, like smalling stuff we're in.
Last year, I'm literally just spot on everything and everything,
like helping some of the younger guys because so it's
just really like being able to say, I read those
calls last year.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
Let's take a step off the field for a minute, bro.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Like I had a really I feel old moment when
I got on Instagram one day and I saw that
you had a baby in your hand. I said, boy,
these these these guys are grown for real man, Like you,
how has that like changed you so much?
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Man?
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Because now it's not about just yourself, like you are
responsible for a whole human life, Like how has that
changed you?
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Oh? I mean for real?
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Like with the injury included, like it really made me
seem like differently because like at first it was you know,
it was cool having a sun playing football like that
was my like night and day, not like really my
day to life. But like then, like I got a
chance to, you know, see what it is like with
my injury, see what it is like, See what what
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the life life is like for my girlfriend her side,
you know, because she's at home. She's at home with
the oars son all the time. And like at first
I was, I was limited to what I could do,
so I wasn't like just home with him, and you know,
just really like appreciating those moments and stuff like that,
appreciating the stuff that she does for me, and appreciating
life just you know, having being able to raise like
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just a beautiful boy like him.
Speaker 6 (23:43):
I'm not on daddy duties yet. Man, Hopefully one day
I can get there. But give me some advice. What
is the hardest thing to do? Is it changing the diaper?
Is it trying to figure out why the baby's crying?
What's the hardest thing for you?
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Now?
Speaker 1 (23:55):
I think the hardest thing is literally like when you
when you're like dead tired for the day, like I
like this has literally been like the toughest day of
practice for the week. And I come home and I
try to go to sleep, and when we're all sleep
and this is the middle of the nighties just starts crying.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Hen won't go back to sleep.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Man, he doesn't do that regularly, but like it's it
one type boom.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
He'll just just just stay up all night.
Speaker 5 (24:26):
That's it, bro, That's it.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Talking about like where you come from, man, obviously that's
what we crossed past in Alexandria. How how much does
your home life, Alexandria, where you're from, where things started
for you? You know, how much does that shape you
as the person you are?
Speaker 1 (24:46):
I mean really like it's shaped me as a man.
But I really like being like someone that like everyone
Alexander can see, like like he literally did it, Like
you know what I'm saying. He got to college, he's
going to go to the next level. He knows how
to do it. He has to plan. But you know
what I'm saying, being like like something like that young
young kids and Alexandria could look up to.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
When I come back home, it's always like like happy
smiles and hugs and all and all that. So like
just being someone like like everyone else can look up to.
Speaker 5 (25:15):
Well, you power lift? Right, what is your max right now?
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Years ago? Dude? I don't know. I don't do that
no more.
Speaker 5 (25:25):
No, no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Once you stick to five hundred.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Yeah, man, once you get to a certain number, bro,
it's like all thrown out in HIV and weight around.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
They ain't no more.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Five hundred every now and then for.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Real, man, because now you just you lifted to maintain
At this point, it ain't no more I'm the strongest
in the weight room.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
Like, no, I'm here to lift weights and not get injured.
Speaker 5 (25:49):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Fact.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
But the the but lost of numbers all nice with
five hundred, Like you know, like like we have like
a little tracker that like tracks our speed how fast
we can pushed up, like the max out put to
be put with like putting force to the ground.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
So like it's some good numbers that I do with
five hundred, but.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Like I don't used to go over that, yeah for sure.
Like how different is that? Like I see a lot
of guys with the different technology and things that y'all have.
How much does that help you? Not just to understand
like how your body reacts to certain exercises and things,
but really for you to be able to learn yourself
better and to become a better athlete when you're out.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
There it really teaches you how to like make sure
like you give a hundred typ of shent the right way,
you know what I mean, like like making sure like
like every every movement is efficient. So like really like
the football is like like really so like the minus
what I what can I say? Like the small lest
minute detail can be off and like that I'll mess
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up the whole place. So like really like honing in
on like the little muscles that we have to get
strong and stuff like that. So because literally it could
literally like like getting off the ball and like I'm
reacting to what the office linement is doing, so like
that happens in a half a second. So like training
those little musters to react a half a second like
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literally get you that much better.
Speaker 5 (27:14):
I like that facts man, Now now off the field? Man,
Who are you man? For the people that want to
know who you are? What kind of person are you?
Off the field?
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Got dad?
Speaker 1 (27:25):
But I mean other than that, like I just like
to I just like to, you know, be at home
and chill my family.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
That's about it. My family.
Speaker 6 (27:31):
Man.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
I like to go fishing and stuff like that. I
like to do events with John Deere.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
I want to like do more stuff for Alexandria this year,
So like I want to kind of start with like
a back to school drive like something small. No, Budd
talked about trying to do a few things this off season,
so like really just you know, just being a man
with other people for real.
Speaker 5 (27:52):
I love that, man.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
You you you brought up Budd Man, Like y'all boys
go way back, like from the beginning and everything.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
Man, he's coming back for another year.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Me and both start going to school together like fourth grade.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
Wow, child, man, that's crazy. That's crazy.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
Like talk about that type of relationship where it goes
beyond football, Like y'all have gone to completely different schools,
You've made names for yourselves.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
And in different spaces on your careers.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
Just talk about how you guys are always still able
to interact and stay close with each other.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
I mean, like, Lily, this is the day I met him.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
I knew he was going to like he was an athlete,
and I've always tried to compete with him, like just
try to stay fast with him and stuff like that.
But like I literally just can't so like just to
see like the stuff he's done at TCU. I mean
like it's just like I watched like I got a
chance to literally watch every CCU game this year and
like just watch them go out there and just there
knowing he's out there doing what he loves. I'm just
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I'm literally just so happy for him, man, Like you know,
he has his son, and his son's a little bit
older than mine, but like like he's literally like just
been not only like a good you know friend in
a football since, but like literally a good friend, like
just a good friend over like literally since we've known
each other since since fourth grade?
Speaker 5 (29:10):
How crazy is this?
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Is it? That?
Speaker 5 (29:12):
I mean?
Speaker 6 (29:12):
I know Bug had this on you, Like you said previously,
you guys are both that now like you know, fourth
grade to actually being family.
Speaker 5 (29:19):
Man, Now is it? How crazy is that for you?
Speaker 2 (29:22):
I mean I't even thought about like that.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
It's crazy, literally, like who would have thought that?
Speaker 5 (29:29):
Crazy?
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Man?
Speaker 5 (29:31):
I'll get you out here on this one.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Man.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
When you are you know, not just done it at LSU,
but done with football in general, Like what do you
feel like you want to do next? Like is there
a vision or a goal that you kind of have
in mind of what football life after football looks like
for you? Or you still just kind of enjoying it
day by day.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
The thing is about like like I wouldn't even like
the work like the word first workforce. Now it's like
you can literally go into so many different you know,
like things, so like not just one necessarily main job
can make be all your income. You can literally have
five different streams of income. So like just finding a
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way to like I mean I was, yeah, I would
like to coach, but like not just coach, but like
having like multiple sources of income to benefit the team
that I had, Like you know, I'm helping with like
coaching on like really that's my main thing. Like it's
being a coach, but being able to financially support my
team also because I mean I remember I remember coming
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up through like ash and we didn't obviously now that
had a third field.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
We didn't have a turf field.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
We had the trash indoor, the grass field, the sandy
practice field, like you know what I mean, like just
being able to coach on the team and have us
financially stable.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
And that's like really.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
One of my biggest things, you know, to where like
the kids don't have to worry about anything, just sign
up and try out.
Speaker 5 (30:59):
No doubt. Man.
Speaker 6 (31:00):
And then my last question to you, man, is basically
like being on the pod. We definitely appreciate you for
taking the time of doing this, but if you can
see somebody else doing it, whether it's teammates, somebody you know,
who would you say that could come on this pod
and when you say the name, you've got to help us,
get us to get him up here.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
One dude, I say, is like Prince.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
It's like Prince is another guy that got injured, but
he got injured in the first gave me towards a
cl and miniscence, I believe, but he's coming back from
injury also, and like he's another guy that's you know
what I'm saying, that's really like he's just gonna have
that linebacker room.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
Yeah, talking about Prince Malburn right, M yeah, yeah yeah.
Lafty Leffy is the lef Christian star man. I know
Prince for sure, we get that we'll get this set up,
but like he said, you got to help.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Us to set out.
Speaker 5 (31:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
Yeah, but for sure, we appreciate you for coming on.
Jacobean man. Uh, very proud of you brother, watching you
grow up as a as a young man, and we
look forward to to seeing what you do coming up
this season. Man, we'll be in touch, Ladies and gentlemen.
That has been Jacobe and Guillery, defensive tackle for the
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LSU Tigers, come in here on the Fist Take podcast
and like I said, man, I've been knowing their kids
since his like junior year of high school. So to
see how much he's grown now into the young Man
of the Year is like does how.
Speaker 5 (32:28):
You know you've been in the game a minute.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
It's like, man, like you see kids go from this
then they Man, it's crazy, It's crazy for sure.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Man.
Speaker 6 (32:36):
I remember first time I interviewed him, it was this
was Jaden's daniels last last year, and he was saying
that they want to get a championship. Of course, they
competed their butts off to get out there. There was
the top scoring offense. I know Jacobe and did well defensively.
So again, man, it's cool to see that. Man, see
them grow and especially play for the Dream School and
try to.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
Make a difference, no doubt about it.
Speaker 5 (32:58):
Man.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
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Once you have those three letters across your chest, it's
just like you just represent for a lot more than yourself.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Gar's been here for a while too.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
He has not once thought about leaving, getting a chance
to just put on for like just Louisiana.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
I just love the as you.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
What's good, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome into yet another
episode of the Fits Take Podcast. I'm your guy Jamarkins Fitzpatrick,
but you know you can always call me Fits. That
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is Apple, Spotify, iHeartRadio, or Amazon Music. And we've been
rolling out these interviews, man, but this one, this one,
I think it's gonna be one of my favorites. Today
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we have another special guests, joining us as a formidable
defensive tackle for the LSU Tigers. Standing at six to
two and weighing three hundred and twenty pounds. He heils
from Alexandria, Louisiana, where he was a three sports standout
in football, powerlifting, which is where I originally met him at,
and track at Alexandria Senior High. A two time five
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A state champion in the shot put, he showcased his
exceptional strength early on. Since joining LSU, he's appeared in
forty one games, starting five and accumulating fifty one career tackles,
two tackles for lost, and half a sack. Now, he
did have a season ending injury last year, but he
is coming back for yet another year to help anchor
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that defensive line.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
And I'm talking about mister Jacoby and Guillery.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
How you doing man?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Doing good? Man? How about you good bro? Doing good? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Man, it's been a long time coming, bro.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
I remember walking in I think it was Pineville High
School and they kept saying that this this kid that
can squat like six seven hundred pounds. That said, I
got to see it to believe it. And I go
in there and you were their kid. Doing it, man,
And now here we are some six seven years later
now and here you are in your another year here
at LSU.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Man.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
For you, you know, let's start with last season.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
You know, you get in, you come in for what
would have been your senior year, but unfortunately you suffer
an injury and it cuts your season short. Just talk
about like how difficult that was, especially knowing how much
you know, excitement and then hype you had going into
the year.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Oh really, Like, oh, I'll say.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
It was like I had my high my hopes set
so high for something and then like you know, for
whatever reason, I was just brought back down. But like
like every guy is a playing for everybody, and I'm
just you know what I'm saying. The course, so like
really with that being said, like it was a lot,
you know what I'm saying, Like the middle part was
definitely like a big part of it. But like, thank
God I have my family, you know what I'm saying,
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you know, be my backbone that loved them, I really
would be nothing.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
You ain't the only one with shoulders, bro.
Speaker 6 (03:11):
First of all, let me go ahead and put that
out there, But you ain't the only one. But no, seriously, man,
you get you have a major injury. Uh, and it's
the transporter was the hottest thing right now, let's be
honest with college sports.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
Why didn't you want to enter the transport and go
somewhere else?
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Because when I signed that dot line, like you know,
it was like it was more than just about LSU.
Was like, it's playing for my stage, playing in front
of like, you know, the team that I watched as
I was a little kid, like getting a chance and
just put on for like just Louisiana.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
It really just it's more than just about football to me.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
I just love LSU and I just never would like
thought about thought about that.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Now.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Obviously the original you know, head coach that you came under,
was it or you Ryan? But then eventually Brian Kelly
takes over and he's become an entry piece and trying
to get LSU back to the national championship that they
were in some years ago. What has he been like
for you as a head coach and how has he
kind of helped walk you through a lot of the
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process as you have you as you've grown as a
college football player.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Uh, I'll say, like like the first like practice, I
always go back to that as like I had got
into a little scuffle and like our relationship kind of
started off a little rocky. But like ever since that day,
like we've just like literally grown from that moment and
just like just become like he's just such a like
I don't know how to put in the words like
(04:37):
like just are you to your development as like player
player coach relationship has just gotten so much better.
Speaker 6 (04:46):
Now elaborate on that, because you know a lot of
people when I see Brian Kelly, I think he's more
of a chill guy.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
You know, he gets you know that Coca cola, and
you know, you know, he.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
Just don't seem like he's out there and just yelling
a lot, Like what how intense n Z with you guys?
Speaker 1 (05:03):
I mean, obviously they found the camera. He's going to
act a certain way because that's how he is. But
like he really does get fired up and he really
does show his pats for football when we're out there
between the white lawns.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Yeah, I remember it was one time. I can't remember
what fall camp that was.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
It might have been like two years ago, and somebody
wouldn't get out of the drill and he yelled and
he was like get back, like get out of the way.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Like he definitely is that guy that that sets the tones.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
And like from that standpoint, knowing that you have, you know,
a college coach that has been successful, you know where
everywhere he's been, whether that's you know, Notre Dame or whatever.
Having that, how much does that continue to elevate the
standard that's already like LSU is the standard when it
comes to the state of Louisiana.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
But having somebody that.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Also has had a great standard for themselves in the career,
how does that raise the level of intensity where you
guys are I think for one, I.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Think, for one, really like he has like he has
a like set of rules that he follows and he's
carried through all like every every every program he's been
in that stuff. I was like, it works so like
the thing like with us, it's like you just having
guys bought all the way in, you know what I'm
saying to what he preaches and stuff like, like just
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having guys bought in is really well really preaches.
Speaker 6 (06:20):
Now another guy that a coach that's on the coaching
staff is Kyle Williams new addition out there with the
defense aligned coach. I know, coach Davis just recently just
took off. But how has that been with Kyle the
former Buffalo Bill defense alignment.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
It's really been like a dream come through because when
I was in high school, Like I remember a coach
all talking about this guy named Kyle, and I didn't
know who he was talking about. And then I went
home and looked him up and I've seen that he
was like a guy that played like played there LSU,
had a long career in Buffalo, Like you know what
I'm saying, Like I've always bought it, like try to
model my game kind of like after his because I'm
not the tallest guy in the mirror, you know what
(06:56):
I mean. But you know I just I kind of
he thriveted on the like not being the taller, tallest
or the biggest or the strongest, Like he thrived, you know,
being that guy. So just watching this game and just
continue to get better. It's just like the dream come
true because I've been watching in high school.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
And with that in mind, Like how or how different
is it that he is somebody that not only has
been in you guys' shoes literally on the field, but
he is being where you guys want to go.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
So he knows not just what it takes to be
good there in the SEC, but he knows what it
takes to be successful in the NFL too.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
I think really like listen, like just being all the
way bought into what he's saying because obviously he knows
what he's talking about. He played, Like how many years
you playing the NFL? Like I think it was thirteen?
Was he with the Bills or twelve? I can't, I don't,
I don't even know, but like just like knowing that
he like he knows how to get to the like
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he knows how to get there and stay there, like
and he and he's literally just giving us little nuggets
every day of practice.
Speaker 6 (07:57):
Now, now you also have some young devise lineman in
that room. Man, what's my man name from Katie in
ninety six? Dominic McKinley, Dominic McKinley. You you got you
got him coming up and a bunch of other guys.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Man.
Speaker 6 (08:10):
I remember last time we talked, Mason Smith was the guy
that you was trying to be under the wing of.
Now that you're that older guy, what is it like
with you trying to lead that young people?
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Someone?
Speaker 5 (08:19):
Right now?
Speaker 1 (08:21):
I mean, no, just willing to get guys that are
willing to just work, like like a my bro like
like really like all the guys that in the rooms,
you're willing to work. But like it's really like it's
not it's not fake, you know what I mean? Like
as I say, like no one's like faking it. Like
everyone's literally willing to work, wanting to learn more information
every day and stuff like that. So just glad to
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have a group of guys I just willing to work,
ready to work every day.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
And when you look at not just the defensive line room,
but like the whole landscape of the SEC, like the churches,
there are the best of the best. Like whether it's Vanderbilt,
you're going against Arkansas, Texas A and m Texas is
like you guys are going against the best of the
best every single week, Like what is the trench warfare?
Like on a Saturday, you know, whether it's in Death
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Valley or if it's on the road.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
I think for us it's like we like the what
you want to do is kind of make practice harder
than the game. So our preparation in practice, like you
you named all these guys, we still have guys on LSU,
you know what I mean. So we go against these
guys every single day of the week. So like, like
I know in my head, if I'm doing what I
have to do against these guys that on Saturday, it
would just be that much easier.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
Now do you do you talk a lot of jump?
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Oh? Not really, not unless I'm talking too all right.
Speaker 6 (09:40):
So, so who who's on that defensive line that that
ain't afraid to let you have it?
Speaker 5 (09:46):
If they're kicking your butt up and down the field.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Against me, that that would be me?
Speaker 1 (09:51):
No, man, everybody, because everybody else nice. You know, Diamond's
really nice. Diamonds nice. But he did with something today
that made me, you know what, say, you got a
little main side to him. But I think I think
it'll be me for sure.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
Now for sure. Domd is a quiet one.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
I remember when we were talking to him when he
was committing and everything.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
It was like very short, simple to the point.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
But when he gets on the fields, it's a whole
different ball game, I guess.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Man.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Like you know, when you look at what LSU has
produced in the past few years along the defensive line,
like what does it mean to you to know that
you're a part of that the next step of you know,
I remember when when you were coming in and Rashard
Lawrence had number ninety and he was the one that
gave you the nickname Tank and all that good stuff. Man,
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like to know that you're a part of all of
that along the way, What does that mean to you?
Speaker 1 (10:46):
I mean, it's it's it's honestly, like it's honestly a blessing.
Because like that's why that's one of the one of
the key reasons I never thought about leaving here, because like,
once you have those three letters across your chest, it's
just you, like you just represent for a lot more
than yourself. So that's like like you being a part
of a brotherhood like that runs so deep where I
can literally talk to anybody in the NFL and get
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pointings on anything. It was like, it's literally a blessing.
Speaker 6 (11:13):
Now, I know, it's only spring practice, so you know,
you're still getting working and stuff like that.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
Campus not here just yet. But is there anybody in
the secondary the linebacker room.
Speaker 6 (11:23):
That you could say that you could see could be
one of those guys when Saturday night come for Devil
and Devil.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
There's a lot of guys that shoes from to just
pick one. Uh, I pick it younger. I like divine keys,
like like I like linebacker played really good in the
ball game. But I think like going off the ball game,
I think he's just going to play that much better.
I think this is going to really be a good
season for him, and I I open the season for
everybody else.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
No doubt.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Man, you brought up the linebacker room. That helps me
to pivot into this. You know, Harold Perkins also got
hurt last season. He comes back for another year, and
he's moving more to that star position. How has that
or how have you seen him kind of embrace that role?
And then also like how much does it help when
you got people that have so much experience in college
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football like yourself, him and so many others.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
I know, I mean I've been with her for a
while now, so I know in the back of my head,
like I know if Harold just wants to make plays,
so I don't care. He doesn't He doesn't care if
he's at safety, he could be a corner, he could
be a star, he could be a will be on
on the front. He doesn't care. He wants to make plays.
So regardless of what position he's at. I know he's
gonna play it to the best his ability. He's gonna
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play one hundred percent to make plays.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
Now I want to switch Garretts to the officer side
of football.
Speaker 6 (12:45):
You had the luxury to be around Jaden Daniels and
now you get to see Garrett for a year two.
Speaker 5 (12:51):
What makes Garrett in your eyes so special?
Speaker 1 (12:56):
I think we like the same things that we talked
about with me is Gary's been here for a while too.
He has not once thought about leaving. And like guys
that like I like that, Like you know, there's something
special about him, and I just can't wait to for
this year's for everything. It's just being full swings, just
forgetting to have everything down, just go out and perform.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
To the best of like I know he's gonna perform.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Really, when you look at that offensive line, since we're
staying on this side of the ball, you got a
couple of new guys that are feeling in spots. You
had a very experienced offensive line last year. How have
you seen that group kind of gel together? You know,
I'm seeing notes coming out of practice of different guys,
you know, going in and out of different positions. How
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have you seen those guys try to come together to
become the five is one?
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Uh, it's not necessarily trying to become a five. I
know Brad Like, he just like he wants the whole
room to be league. So it's not about just having
a five guys, but he really wants all fifteen fourteen
guys to be able to play on Saturday night. So
he coaches every guy the same. So like with Brad Like,
he literally wants everybody to be in a starting file.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
So he's gonna give you a shot. It's just it's
just a matter of what you do with it.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
And to me, the addition of the offensive line. But
he's also a receiver. Man, I love Green.
Speaker 6 (14:14):
I love it man. It's like he can do it all.
He can do it all. Talk to me, what what
what what makes him a little different? I know he
stopped playing basketball to get back to football workouts this year,
So what makes him different?
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Man? Uh, it's a six seven tight end.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
I mean like literally six seven, but really like like
he can run routes like a receiver, but he can
also you know, come down and run the run the
over routes and all that, like just just short cous
that the quarterback really likes the throws in the red zone.
And I mean once you throw it up, I mean
it's kind of hard to jump off a god that's
already six seven. So I mean, I don't know, I
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don't know nothing about being six seven because I'm barely
six one. I mean he's a really big Like the
red zone is into his house, like I can't I
just can't wait to see it and see it again
on Saturday nights.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
Yeah, bro, he is he is a walking cheek hode.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Especially like watching him in that ball game, I was like, bro,
he is he tearing these boys up right now? So
it's gonna be crucial coming in next year when you
you know, sit down to you know, prepare and you're
you know, trying to continue to craft and get better
as a defensive lineman. What's the first thing that you
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look at to to get better at technically?
Speaker 5 (15:31):
Is it the hand placement?
Speaker 4 (15:32):
Is that your footwork?
Speaker 3 (15:33):
What is it that you look at to say, like,
all right, if I can hone in on this even more,
like I'm gonna really be able to make some more
special plays coming into the year.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Really like hand tips and feet like that's like the
like the really like the basic playing defensive line. So
once you get that into order, I mean there's nothing
like you you can't do. So like when I say
hands hit the feet, like the first thing you're firing
out of was like the first thing to moving is
your hand because your hands on in the ground. But
then you got your feed coming out your hips, but
you're making contact with your hands to have your hands
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in the right spot, you know a movie, your feed
in the right place, making sure you're coming out your hips.
Like really, hips, hands and feet is like really the
biggest thing I focus on.
Speaker 6 (16:14):
Now that was that something that you feel like you
need to work on, but since you're sitting out or
when you set out because of the injury, or do
you have something else that you was working on because
you wanted to just bring that and bring improvement to
your game.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Really, just one to bring that improvement to my game
because I mean it's been a watts you know, I've
been on a football field, but like, you know, just
really focused on that. Like my day one like really focused,
like Monday, I was really focusing on just hips, hands
and feed, no.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Doubt, man, How like how good did that feel? Just
getting back to football. Like spring football is always that
that that feeling you get on the field, that the
freshly cut grass. You know, y'all know, y'all got morning
practices that y'all do here and there too. Like, what
was that moment like when you were able to finally
get back out there, especially in the pads and get
you get too popular.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
I really feel like I was at home, you know
what I mean, Like it wasn't too big of a moment,
went to smaller a moment. It felt like I was
where I needed to be, and I really I felt
like my first day was really like I opened the
how this process is going to go moving forward?
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Now?
Speaker 6 (17:17):
Speaking of the spring man spring games are looking a
little different for a couple of teams. I mean, I
know Ole Miss did some things last year where they
did like a slam dunk contest and stuff like that
on the sidelines.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
What what do you feel like about the spring games?
Speaker 6 (17:30):
Do you feel like it should be something invented here
or do you feel like they should go back to
their old ways.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
What do you think spring games should look like in
the future.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
I mean, I liked I like playing football, so I
mean I like the football part of it. But the
only thing I would like to tweak about is just
trying to get more people to come out, you know
what I mean. I really would like to see like
a sod out stay in for a spring game like
stuff like that. But like all the other stuff, I don't.
I'm not really too much big of a fan of it.
I like playing football, no no.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
No facts.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
At the end of the day, you got to play
ball to make it work. Like that's it.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
For you.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
When it comes to like playing especially defensive tackle, like
what do you take the most pride in, Because like
a lot of people think that D line is just, oh,
you just got to sack the quarterback and if you
don't have the numbers, then you're not a good defensive lineman.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
But it's a lot more to that.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
It's the double teams, it's all those other things that
you're dealing with. What do you take the most pride
in and trying to be a good defensive lineman.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
I take the most riding like beating double teams, Like
being a shorter of guys kind of easier for me
because I'm literally already download to the ground. But I
really do take pride and like beating double teams, coming
off a double team, being clean held like you know
what I mean, like not being on the ground like
stuff like that. I really take pride of that.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
Now, do you always feel like because you know you
got the three letters across your chips? Do you always
feel like it's a ton of pressure on you guys?
Because to me, it's always championship or bust for you guys.
Do you feel like it's always pressure because of that?
Speaker 1 (18:59):
No, I mean, at the end of the day, I
give a hundred ten percent on the field, and knowing
that there's no pressure, I don't really pay to the
media stuff. Like I said, Like I like playing football,
so I don't really phase me.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
No doubt. Man, you've been there for some time.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
When you look back and where you were at the
beginning of your career to where you are at this
position now, how have you seen yourself grow in so
many different ways physically, emotionally, mentally, all of those things like.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
That really just becoming not only a better football player,
but becoming more of a better man, you know what
I mean. Like, like I've been there for a while,
I've been through a lot of coaches, Like you know,
just being able to change on the fly, being able
to adapt in my environment no matter no matter what
the environment is, and just being a husb a lot
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of football players when I.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Came in here.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
Now, Death Valley is always number one. We all know that.
But if you had a road game, what stadium do
you really like playing in? D sc Mmm?
Speaker 2 (20:07):
And I was talking about this today.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
I'm not gonna say that because I might get some
hate for that.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
I don't know. I don't like playing in Florida. I
hate playing in Florida.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
I'll have to say Bama because of the lights, and
that's that's literally the only reason. And Obama because it's
it's just like the fastest transition out of the game,
in and out of the game, flights included, and of
the lights, and that's that's literally about it.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
Obama is dope.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
I've never been to it, but like seeing a lot
of the way media look at like the shots that
they get in all that stuff. But like, my favorite
thing that I loved that y'all do before a game
is like after y'all warm up, y'all run over to the.
Speaker 5 (20:52):
Student section and y'all get real hype like that.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
How like, how fun is that?
Speaker 3 (20:56):
When y'all get that moment, it's like all right, but
like we did all the warm ups, it's time to
play now, how does it feel.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
It's nice until you out of breath? I used to
so like I used to do a lot, a lot
in like my earlier career, and then like I literally
just stopped doing it because like it's just energy wasted
and wasted all your energy before a big game. But
I mean it is a nice interaction with the fans.
Don't get me wrong, but like, yeah, I need all
enagy I can.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
Get, but a season with that now.
Speaker 6 (21:29):
And then and then another question I got for you
with coach Baker, Man, I know he came from a
zules his first year last year with the defensive philosophy.
How much do you feel like you have grown with
with that defensive coordinator and how things are supposed to
be ran?
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Oh Man, this is my third year coach Baker, because
I was here when he was first year as a
long record coach. So I mean having having a relationship
like prior to him already been here you know that already.
It helped me out a lot because he's always messing
with me and stuff like that. And I mean as
a as a like as a player, like you want
something like that because you know it's at the end
of the day, you know, he really cares about you.
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So like like this year, it's like like literally like
I literally know everything.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
I don't know our new calls or our new cause.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
That we're installing for the spring, like smalling stuff we're in.
Last year, I'm literally just spot on everything and everything,
like helping some of the younger guys because so it's
just really like being able to say, I read those
calls last year.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
Let's take a step off the field for a minute, bro.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Like I had a really I feel old moment when
I got on Instagram one day and I saw that
you had a baby in your hand. I said, boy,
these these these guys are grown for real man, Like you,
how has that like changed you so much?
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Man?
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Because now it's not about just yourself, like you are
responsible for a whole human life, Like how has that
changed you?
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Oh? I mean for real?
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Like with the injury included, like it really made me
seem like differently because like at first it was you know,
it was cool having a sun playing football like that
was my like night and day, not like really my
day to life. But like then, like I got a
chance to, you know, see what it is like with
my injury, see what it is like, See what what
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the life life is like for my girlfriend her side,
you know, because she's at home. She's at home with
the oars son all the time. And like at first
I was, I was limited to what I could do,
so I wasn't like just home with him, and you know,
just really like appreciating those moments and stuff like that,
appreciating the stuff that she does for me, and appreciating
life just you know, having being able to raise like
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just a beautiful boy like him.
Speaker 6 (23:43):
I'm not on daddy duties yet. Man, Hopefully one day
I can get there. But give me some advice. What
is the hardest thing to do? Is it changing the diaper?
Is it trying to figure out why the baby's crying?
What's the hardest thing for you?
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Now?
Speaker 1 (23:55):
I think the hardest thing is literally like when you
when you're like dead tired for the day, like I
like this has literally been like the toughest day of
practice for the week. And I come home and I
try to go to sleep, and when we're all sleep
and this is the middle of the nighties just starts crying.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Hen won't go back to sleep.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Man, he doesn't do that regularly, but like it's it
one type boom.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
He'll just just just stay up all night.
Speaker 5 (24:26):
That's it, bro, That's it.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Talking about like where you come from, man, obviously that's
what we crossed past in Alexandria. How how much does
your home life, Alexandria, where you're from, where things started
for you? You know, how much does that shape you
as the person you are?
Speaker 1 (24:46):
I mean really like it's shaped me as a man.
But I really like being like someone that like everyone
Alexander can see, like like he literally did it, Like
you know what I'm saying. He got to college, he's
going to go to the next level. He knows how
to do it. He has to plan. But you know
what I'm saying, being like like something like that young
young kids and Alexandria could look up to.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
When I come back home, it's always like like happy
smiles and hugs and all and all that. So like
just being someone like like everyone else can look up to.
Speaker 5 (25:15):
Well, you power lift? Right, what is your max right now?
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Years ago? Dude? I don't know. I don't do that
no more.
Speaker 5 (25:25):
No, no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Once you stick to five hundred.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Yeah, man, once you get to a certain number, bro,
it's like all thrown out in HIV and weight around.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
They ain't no more.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Five hundred every now and then for.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Real, man, because now you just you lifted to maintain
At this point, it ain't no more I'm the strongest
in the weight room.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
Like, no, I'm here to lift weights and not get injured.
Speaker 5 (25:49):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Fact.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
But the the but lost of numbers all nice with
five hundred, Like you know, like like we have like
a little tracker that like tracks our speed how fast
we can pushed up, like the max out put to
be put with like putting force to the ground.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
So like it's some good numbers that I do with
five hundred, but.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Like I don't used to go over that, yeah for sure.
Like how different is that? Like I see a lot
of guys with the different technology and things that y'all have.
How much does that help you? Not just to understand
like how your body reacts to certain exercises and things,
but really for you to be able to learn yourself
better and to become a better athlete when you're out.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
There it really teaches you how to like make sure
like you give a hundred typ of shent the right way,
you know what I mean, like like making sure like
like every every movement is efficient. So like really like
the football is like like really so like the minus
what I what can I say? Like the small lest
minute detail can be off and like that I'll mess
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up the whole place. So like really like honing in
on like the little muscles that we have to get
strong and stuff like that. So because literally it could
literally like like getting off the ball and like I'm
reacting to what the office linement is doing, so like
that happens in a half a second. So like training
those little musters to react a half a second like
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literally get you that much better.
Speaker 5 (27:14):
I like that facts man, Now now off the field? Man,
Who are you man? For the people that want to
know who you are? What kind of person are you?
Off the field?
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Got dad?
Speaker 1 (27:25):
But I mean other than that, like I just like
to I just like to, you know, be at home
and chill my family.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
That's about it. My family.
Speaker 6 (27:31):
Man.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
I like to go fishing and stuff like that. I
like to do events with John Deere.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
I want to like do more stuff for Alexandria this year,
So like I want to kind of start with like
a back to school drive like something small. No, Budd
talked about trying to do a few things this off season,
so like really just you know, just being a man
with other people for real.
Speaker 5 (27:52):
I love that, man.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
You you you brought up Budd Man, Like y'all boys
go way back, like from the beginning and everything.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
Man, he's coming back for another year.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Me and both start going to school together like fourth grade.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
Wow, child, man, that's crazy. That's crazy.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
Like talk about that type of relationship where it goes
beyond football, Like y'all have gone to completely different schools,
You've made names for yourselves.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
And in different spaces on your careers.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
Just talk about how you guys are always still able
to interact and stay close with each other.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
I mean, like, Lily, this is the day I met him.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
I knew he was going to like he was an athlete,
and I've always tried to compete with him, like just
try to stay fast with him and stuff like that.
But like I literally just can't so like just to
see like the stuff he's done at TCU. I mean
like it's just like I watched like I got a
chance to literally watch every CCU game this year and
like just watch them go out there and just there
knowing he's out there doing what he loves. I'm just
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I'm literally just so happy for him, man, Like you know,
he has his son, and his son's a little bit
older than mine, but like like he's literally like just
been not only like a good you know friend in
a football since, but like literally a good friend, like
just a good friend over like literally since we've known
each other since since fourth grade?
Speaker 5 (29:10):
How crazy is this?
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Is it? That?
Speaker 5 (29:12):
I mean?
Speaker 6 (29:12):
I know Bug had this on you, Like you said previously,
you guys are both that now like you know, fourth
grade to actually being family.
Speaker 5 (29:19):
Man, Now is it? How crazy is that for you?
Speaker 2 (29:22):
I mean I't even thought about like that.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
It's crazy, literally, like who would have thought that?
Speaker 5 (29:29):
Crazy?
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Man?
Speaker 5 (29:31):
I'll get you out here on this one.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Man.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
When you are you know, not just done it at LSU,
but done with football in general, Like what do you
feel like you want to do next? Like is there
a vision or a goal that you kind of have
in mind of what football life after football looks like
for you? Or you still just kind of enjoying it
day by day.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
The thing is about like like I wouldn't even like
the work like the word first workforce. Now it's like
you can literally go into so many different you know,
like things, so like not just one necessarily main job
can make be all your income. You can literally have
five different streams of income. So like just finding a
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way to like I mean I was, yeah, I would
like to coach, but like not just coach, but like
having like multiple sources of income to benefit the team
that I had, Like you know, I'm helping with like
coaching on like really that's my main thing. Like it's
being a coach, but being able to financially support my
team also because I mean I remember I remember coming
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up through like ash and we didn't obviously now that
had a third field.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
We didn't have a turf field.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
We had the trash indoor, the grass field, the sandy
practice field, like you know what I mean, like just
being able to coach on the team and have us
financially stable.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
And that's like really.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
One of my biggest things, you know, to where like
the kids don't have to worry about anything, just sign
up and try out.
Speaker 5 (30:59):
No doubt. Man.
Speaker 6 (31:00):
And then my last question to you, man, is basically
like being on the pod. We definitely appreciate you for
taking the time of doing this, but if you can
see somebody else doing it, whether it's teammates, somebody you know,
who would you say that could come on this pod
and when you say the name, you've got to help us,
get us to get him up here.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
One dude, I say, is like Prince.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
It's like Prince is another guy that got injured, but
he got injured in the first gave me towards a
cl and miniscence, I believe, but he's coming back from
injury also, and like he's another guy that's you know
what I'm saying, that's really like he's just gonna have
that linebacker room.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
Yeah, talking about Prince Malburn right, M yeah, yeah yeah.
Lafty Leffy is the lef Christian star man. I know
Prince for sure, we get that we'll get this set up,
but like he said, you got to help.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Us to set out.
Speaker 5 (31:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
Yeah, but for sure, we appreciate you for coming on.
Jacobean man. Uh, very proud of you brother, watching you
grow up as a as a young man, and we
look forward to to seeing what you do coming up
this season. Man, we'll be in touch, Ladies and gentlemen.
That has been Jacobe and Guillery, defensive tackle for the
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LSU Tigers, come in here on the Fist Take podcast
and like I said, man, I've been knowing their kids
since his like junior year of high school. So to
see how much he's grown now into the young Man
of the Year is like does how.
Speaker 5 (32:28):
You know you've been in the game a minute.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
It's like, man, like you see kids go from this
then they Man, it's crazy, It's crazy for sure.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Man.
Speaker 6 (32:36):
I remember first time I interviewed him, it was this
was Jaden's daniels last last year, and he was saying
that they want to get a championship. Of course, they
competed their butts off to get out there. There was
the top scoring offense. I know Jacobe and did well defensively.
So again, man, it's cool to see that. Man, see
them grow and especially play for the Dream School and
try to.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
Make a difference, no doubt about it.
Speaker 5 (32:58):
Man.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
So, ladies and gentlemen, that is gonna wrap up yet
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and Amazon Music. Signing out for Elijah Nixon, I'm JaMarcus Fitzpatrick.
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