 Leading the team in tackles, leading the team in intercepts, doing everything possible to win ball games. I feel like that's what I get paid to do, and that's the type of player that I am. I'm always going to be harder on myself than anybody will ever be hard on me, so I take everything personal. Kevin Byard heard it. He heard the talk that in 2020, he wasn't as good as he had been in the past. Byard didn't shut out the negative talk for his play last season. He agreed with it. I just take it for what it is. Obviously, the talk of the off season, well, you know, Kevin Byard had a down year last year. It's kind of right. He didn't put up the statistics that I'm normally used to putting up. You know, a lot of excuses can be made whether it's COVID, all different type of stuff, but I feel like, you know, I had to really take a different mental approach this year, because like I said, I felt like I didn't play up to my standard last year, so I had to make sure that, you know, I had to place that chip back on my shoulder that I had in my first couple of years, and it's been working, so I got to make sure I keep that chip. Uh, it's working all right. Through 12 games, Kevin Byard has been the best safety in the NFL. 64 tackles, five interceptions, his first two career touchdowns, and Byard is quick to credit John Robinson and Mike Brable for improving the team's pass rush, but he admits that some off season changes have helped his game as well. This off season, I really worked on my mental a lot, rather than it was meditating in the morning, doing yoga, doing a lot of different stuff, that I mean, stuff that I already did, but I feel like I just took another notch, and also my diet, I switched up my diet a little more. I'm eating a lot of fish now, not a lot of red meat, and I think that's another reason why, you know, I'm flying around and I feel confident going into games. Yeah, I do feel like I'm playing better than I was years ago. And honestly, it's not about the interceptions. It's more about, for me, the leadership, the way I'm leading the guys, it's more about the communication that I've been having with the guys, and it's also more about redifice, playing man coverage, just all the little things that I feel like I'm doing better than I was last year. I'm flying around to the football. Obviously, I think last year, new deco-ordinator, we had new guys last year, but I didn't feel like we meshed well as a defense last year. And, you know, sometimes I felt like I overthought some things in different situations, but I think this year we had a really great training camp, and I feel like we've just been building upon that. So I think I'm flying around and I'm just running around, making plays. You can hear it in Kevin Byrd's voice. There's pride. There's expectation. There's a standard. He knows that if he's playing well, his words is the leader of the Titan secondary mean more. Hey, we're not here to prove nobody wrong. We're here to prove ourselves right today. You know what I'm saying? And being that leader is job number one for number 31. We all need to have the same type of standard. We all had to raise the bar, and I think that's my job as a leader to make sure that my standard is high. To raise everybody else's standard around me, we can all, you know, ball and make plays. So it's been something we've been doing really well this year.