 alright all you beautiful people how are we what is going on welcome back to another video guys as you can see by the title I'm feeling pretty fucking pumped right now for various reasons I find myself in Melbourne right now again one of those reasons was to finally come full circle with this whole journey I've been on on YouTube which is playing American football reacting to it loving it and wanting to play okay I need you know even if I played one game and then left to go back up to Alice Springs I need to to bring this journey full circle I need to play and now it's not as a kicker and now it's not as a receiver which I made a stupid mistake last time I came down I was too scared to say I want to be running back I was literally too anxious too scared too nervous to tell them that I wanted to be a running back so I put my hand up for receiver went through a few receiver routes actually got my finger jam twice and you know the rest is history I didn't play I didn't get to play that weekend I was only down for two weeks at the time so anyways we were here literally like nearly a year later we're back down here it's preseason I just went down it's Sunday today I went down we did a three hour training first thing I did when I got there was I said I want to be running back but you know what man even this time even with me telling myself the whole way to the ground tell them you want to be a running back I could take take nothing less tell them you want to be running back go with it you know if your shit whatever man you're gonna improve okay with even with all of that prep talk that I gave myself I got there and he asked me okay what position you want to play first first instance I was like oh no I don't want to say running back because I don't want to stuff up but I said I said running back and then I was like oh no only no you know only if you don't have too many I mean obviously there's gonna be heaps of running backs that's what I said I said running back but obviously there's gonna be heaps how do I know there's gonna be heaps man and how do I know I'm not gonna be better than some of them you know you've got to have confidence in yourself and that's something I am realizing man it's something I especially going into a new sport not knowing anybody wanting to actually do well I mean I don't want to be a laughing stock so you know you've got to have confidence confidence in yourself and and I've got to say that after today I do have a lot more confidence in myself and I will be playing running back I ain't going to receive it no fucking way I'm going running back and that's it so today we had a great training there's a guy there's a guy down there called whitey I said what's your name he goes people call me whitey and I was like sweet whitey from what I'm lead to believe is a top running back in Australia he's played for Australia he took about six of us through six of us running backs through some drills we did some warm-up drills we did some some some handoffs you know running having two lines three down there three down here just running off running towards each other and giving a little handoff getting used to you know getting used to having the leading elbow up as far as possible you know further further up is probably the better because the last thing you want is that is that ball of the quarterback's hand to hit your elbow so yeah practicing that taking the handoff and then running up to the other guy and giving a little pop into his red basket as they say so that was the first thing then we did one called the gauntlet where we ran through holding the ball nice and tight and the other guys on the side are trying to either hit the ball out or try and rip it out after that we we lined up we did some inside drives we did some counters we did some passes we did some blocking we set up with a single back and we also set up with two running backs and to be honest man it was just great it was just great being in that position getting down right getting down okay behind the quarterback knowing that you're gonna get the handoff you know what I mean and we didn't have any offensive linemen we didn't have any defensive players it was just us just us running backs just practicing some handoffs running into the gaps I really quite like the the passing routes I quite like that we did a couple we did an out route okay so the running back runs through he's gonna cut out he's gonna turn backwards look for that ball then we've got like a swing route where basically that first step that you take after the snap is either gonna be a big left foot step and you want to actually go backwards so then you can go around so then when the quarterback comes out this way he's gonna give you a nice like flat pass fuck what do we do like a Texas like like a flag like slot receiver route the kind of thing all sorts man all sorts it's just it's it's it's it's he asked me do you have any questions I said nah man I'm just taking it all in and that's exactly what I was doing man it's so good you know this training was a hell of a lot better you know I got I got so much more out of this training than I did out of the last one because of the fact that I wasn't gonna take no for an answer I was gonna train his running back and that's what I see to myself I was like man I don't even care if I play in this team I just want to train as a running back I want to be around the other running backs I want to be able to show what I can do and you know a good thing is that I'm the biggest running back as far as size height weight probably except for this guy whitey so why he's probably an inch taller than me he's about six one six two he he'd weigh at least 225 pounds I'd say he's pretty thick he's a thick guy he's got loads of highlights on YouTube's you know what I'm gonna I'm gonna have a look at some of those playing for my national so playing for Australia and you know it was it was it was just fantastic mate you know this just being around the players and learning after all of our specific running back stuff we all went over and came together as a team there was you know less numbers than what they'd usually expect so there was three rotations of receivers and running backs two of us went with one two with the other and two with the other if they called a single back then one went on if they called a two running back play then a receiver would come off and the second running back would go on so I had only one snap in that particular thing because I was just I was just watching to be honest I just wanted to watch where the running backs were setting up I wanted to see their blocking techniques I just wanted to watch I'm quite happy doing that it's my first day but I did get one route and it was a flat route and so I was lining up as the half back to the left of my quarterback the fullback was behind the quarterback and when the snap went I went about three or four yards on a 45 degree angle up to the line of scrimmage or the effective line of scrimmage and then I turned with a big right foot step out to the left on a flat route and then I turned around and lo and behold the ball's coming and I caught it and I turned around and then I ran into someone it was a pretty shit catch I got off whitey said to me goes you rushed that didn't you I said yeah maybe I did you know great guys whitey mate if you ever see this video I want to say thank you thank you for bringing me into the team thank you for making me feel welcome from the start man welcome completely welcome completely comfortable and he gave me some some some awesome tips he gave me some encouragement you know a little bit of encouragement after you make a capture after you make a run or something after you make a turn anything a little bit of encouragement is goes a long way you know what I mean especially for me so I don't want to talk too much more it was three hours long the next one's on Wednesday and then sat and then Sunday again then Wednesday then Sunday then Wednesday and then the first game is on so the awesome thing is that the Warriors have two teams they suit up with two teams two complete teams every week and that means that regardless of what happens you know I'm gonna be able to get some snaps as a running back which which means that I'll most probably plan the second team but we'll see what happens man this there's two more weeks of preseason training yeah I'm just happy man I'm happy to be here I'm happy to have done that I'm happy to come out injury-free one other thing man you know I'm definitely going running back I'm not going to receive it now because I don't want to get my fingers jammed okay and it's inevitable and if I was to get my finger jam tonight or yesterday today then I wouldn't be able to play I wouldn't be able to train properly I wouldn't be able to do anything so I got through without any fingers being jammed without any thumbs being jammed it was a fantastic took me about two months to recover from other one got my hand on the ball and look I got to say I got to just make a quick reference back before I do go to a previous video that I shot probably the last one you saw before this one which was just down at the field doing my last little bit of training getting the ball in my hand running around some cones running through the agility ladder just getting that ball in my hand is getting used to it running a few wire outs I went down by myself I got what I needed out of it which was a little bit more confidence a slight bit more confidence and I took that into my session today and it went well so I'm not gonna say I'm gonna say anything guys I'm just gonna leave it there my dream my goal is to get some highlight footage to put on YouTube of Jacob McDonald playing running back you know in a proper game okay and if we can do that just once I'll be happy and if we do it more than once well I'll be even more happy so guys I want to say thank you man thank you for coming on for the ride we're here in Melbourne and well I'll be heading back to Alice at some point I just don't know exactly when so with all that being said guys I want to wish you a fantastic day wherever you are on the world I'm pretty amped right now I'm pretty up you know in a couple hours it would have calmed back down again and we ought to go go through my afternoon nicely with some editing I'm gonna start editing this top 100 series guys it's gonna be a good one top 100 players of 2019 be there or be square