 You still haven't gotten out there with him to work on syncing things up with Harold. Where do you stand with that? I mean, today's age that's part of it, COVID is real. And it happens, we're something that we really can't control. We're doing all the right protocols to avoid that. But sometimes in life then things just come at you and that's one of it. But I'm excited to be back on the field, just doing the things that I can do right now. And once Harold get back, man, I feel like next week, I feel like we can pick up and just keep it going fast. When you guys aren't able to work on the field together, what kind of dialogue are you guys able to have? I don't know, maybe you zoom right now because he's in quarantine. But just what kind of communications are you able to have with him? Work, make film, study, stuff like that when you can play together? More so right now, basically a lot of game playing stuff, preparing for AZ. He's got a lot of more time right now to watch film than us, obviously. So he's available to see things and tell us. And we're pointing things out to him via Zoom. So he's getting the opportunity to watch the practices together and it means with us as well. So we're still having that same communication and Coach Crow is doing a great job of that. When you have a quarterback like Kyle and Mark, you can break the clock and step up and do things. Teared past rushes, is that something that kind of comes naturally? Or do you guys have dialogue like I'm gonna go deep this time and you know what I mean? Yeah, so anytime you got a mobile quarterback is always option. You don't wanna, especially guys that break the pocket and make explosive plays like Colin Murray does. And other quarterbacks in the league that are very explosive once they get outside the pocket, the main thing you wanna do is just kind of limit that. And you have to have a group that works together in the rush and don't let them escape and make those big plays that he makes with his legs as much down the field and down the scratch of the game cuz they can hurt you tremendously. So is that something like where on one play you'll go a little bit deeper and the other they're going to opposite side? Yeah, you gotta control the rush, you definitely gotta control the rush. The guys can't be, two guys can't be behind a quarterback. So somebody gonna do speed rush man, you gotta kind of like let guys know what's going on. And that's something in the game playing that you kind of can work with throughout the week, get a feel for. And that way if guys like Harry wanna go rush on the outside, people on the other side gotta make sure we're gonna speed the power, just maintaining their emphasis. How do you evaluate your progress so far bud in terms of coming back from the injury? You got no brace, anything like that? You feel pretty good about how things have gone? So yeah man, so the whole thing man is devastating at the beginning. But I feel like I handle the process well, even the rehab late lately. I've still been making sure I'm on top of my game as far as that man. So I can be ready for week one. It takes a lot of people a year maybe more usually recover from ACL. Do you feel like you're tracking ahead of schedule or what? Yeah, definitely man, with the work you put in, the work you put in man, you gotta take it upon yourself to make sure that you are doing the most you can do and doing the best ability. Because that's the only thing, my rehab is the only thing that can hold me back from being on the field at the beginning of the season. And you want to be, so the coaches are saying that we want you out there. We want you to have everything lined up so you can be prepared to go out there and play in rehab is a step that you need to take. Were there certain hurdles that you kind of had to be able to play? But were there certain hurdles out here in the practice field that you wanted to cross that kind of gave you confidence along the way? Were there certain additional things or anything like that? Yeah, so I started off with just doing pass version, change the direction, change the direction drill. Once you start feeling comfortable with that and then you go into the team emphasis like yesterday, actually feel somebody push on you and you push them back on them and that's the next step. That's what you really want to feel. And I was out there enough, had great confidence and I'm just excited to keep going and getting more and more involved in the game plan. What's next from there? I don't know if that was one. What's next from there? So next from there just doing the whole practice. You gotta go out there and you gotta make sure you're practicing the whole day, running to the ball, actually getting the contact drills and things that aren't so much scripted. You ready for that? Oh yeah, definitely. I guess that's the build off that. The opener was this afternoon. Do you feel like you could go or do you still have a couple of things you're checking off on the next? Oh, the opener was this afternoon. He told me to go out there, I'm gonna go out there. So it's either what it is, I'm gonna be ready to go out there. In terms of, you said you need to go through all the practice and your condition is part of it. Is there anything that you're trying to test specifically on the knee? Or just on your body in general? Yeah, pretty much everything I've written on tests and checked the bosses off so far. They're doing a great job of making sure I'm doing that here. That's one that hats off to the training staff and hats off to Coach Ray before just allowing me to be able to go through that process. But conditioning is the last aspect of it. It's nothing like you can run all day, run all night, out the field. But it's nothing like actually being on the field with another 300 pound of pushing you and you run chasing a guy like Derek around. So that's the fun part about it, but also that's the real part about football and we all need that to be conditioned. What about the mental aspect of that feeling mentally like, okay, I could plant and do what I need to do on that knee. Where are you in that process? Yo, mentally wise, man, I'm always above. My bullet in that game is always going to be A1. So I'm never going to be thinking about injury, man. Because I feel like in football anyway, man, it's 100% injury, right? So if you get hurt, you're just going to get hurt, regardless. So I ain't going out there with a mindset that I'm nervous about my knee. Nervous about anything. I'm just going out there to try to be my old self and be better than I was last year. When you're rushing on third down, does it make any difference to you if the goalers were playing on the line of scrimmage versus back up in terms of giving you more time? No, it don't really matter. Russian coverage work together. So those guys doing their job on the back end, we do our job on the front end. It'll all work out. You had time yet, Bud, to enjoy being back down south after a few years up north there? You enjoy being back? Yeah, definitely, man. I'm excited to be back close to my family. Georgia's on a three and a half, Atlanta's on a three and a half hours away. So it's fun for that. I'm excited just to be back in this type of atmosphere. Like I said, I went into school and could take it that's not too far away as well. And I love the South man and the South just put you in that homey feeling. And that's something I was going to tell you. I told you that this defense can kind of get the ground running in a week before you guys have been out for a lot of season, but just the pieces around you. Man, we're very optimistic, you know, a lot of guys are excited, you know, you got the veterans coming back and got a lot of new faces on the defense as well. You know, and we're all trying to play that role with what we can't here to do, you know, and get on this rolling train and, you know, make everything glue. We're building that, we're building that bond right now, building that camaraderie and just trying to keep moving forward and building it on communication-wise so we can go out and just play very fast. And then have as much fun as we can. How did you see Rashad Rowe throughout the pre-season? Rashad? Yeah, man, grow, man. When I got here, he was doing good. So I don't know yours. So, you know, he's one of those guys that is a very, like a real linebacker. You know, he's making the calls. You know, he's making plays, you know, that's what he does. And he's taking the series each and every day. Rashad, Rashad, Weaver, Weaver, Weaver, Yeah, yeah. Oh, we, okay, okay, yeah, that's on me. Yeah, man, we've been doing good, man. He started, he came in with the Ricky mindset and then now he's taking each and every day serious, man. He's trying to get better. He's coming out with something to work on. You know, his practice is coming in. He's very practicing very well, man. And the coaches are keep raving on him and they are excited about him as well. People sit here around, what do you hear from, like, fans or people about being here? What kind of impact did they make? Yeah, I don't really got a chance to really go a lot of places like that yet, just because of the COVID protocols. But man, you know, just from Instagram and Twitter, man, a lot of people showing love and that's from you guys who's making the videos and people seeing me at, seeing us at practice. So, you know, that's exciting to see that, that they're excited about that as well. So, you know, I'm just excited to be around the fans, to see some fans, you know, in person and continue for that growth.