 What do you think is the best thing you do? Man, I mean, I think I do whatever the team and coaches have needed. I love winning football games and competing and helping teams win is in whatever way they see fit. So just being a competitor and working hard and playing my tail off. At what point did you become like, did you realize linebacker was maybe your path to get a federal path to your future? Man, so coming out of high school, I got recruited to play linebacker Montana State. And then it went all which ways. But I've always loved playing defense. I love being the physicality and the read and react. All of that stuff that comes with playing linebacker and playing defense in general. So I've always wanted to play that. But I mean, Montana State needed me to play some other things and wanted me to play some other things. And I mean, if I could help them win football games, I was all about it. Appreciate it. Congratulations, man. Thank you. Eli. Greetings, Mr. Anderson. Welcome to Atlanta. Thank you. What was the most difficult thing for you as you had to make that transition to linebacker? I think it was learning where to place my eyes, how to transition them quickly throughout a play, take the tells and reads that you get from the offense each week, and applying them quickly during the game. And, you know, as the season went on, I got a lot more comfortable with that. And, you know, it was a lot of fun. I love playing linebacker. And special teams, how much did they use you on special teams at Montana State? So my freshman year, I played all special teams as freshmen do. And then my sophomore year, I was our starting quarterback. And so they don't really let quarterbacks play special teams. Exactly. In my junior year, I was playing both ways still. So again, not that kind of limited. And this last year, I played a bunch, and it was, you know, awesome. If you can impact the game, it's a third of the game. I mean, you can make so many plays out there on special teams. It's awesome. Thank you. You bet. Charles Odom. You have any concerns that all this demonstrated versatility may have held you back a little bit in terms of your ability to walk in at linebacker. And do you think that might be a factor for you as a rookie? I mean, I think obviously I would love to be perfectly polished and refined, but I feel like I'm a smart player and I can work hard. And I'm extremely, extremely excited to get around great coaches with the Falcons and, you know, other great players and learn from them and really, you know, grind it out and work and improve on those, you know, as a rookie. I mean, I'm not a perfect player by any means, but I can sure as heck work my way to being the best I can be. How important was the senior bowl for you, do you think? It was extremely important. Having the chance, playing at, you know, Montana State, it's an FCS school and having a chance to go down there and test myself and compete and showcase my skills against, you know, the other big schools around the country was awesome. I mean, I love to compete and having that opportunity to go improve myself and build some confidence down there was huge. Josh Kendall. Hey Troy, congrats. I assume you played quarterback in high school as well and that's how you got thrown in the quarterback as a sophomore? Yeah, correct. What was your major in at Montana State? So I was an agricultural business major. And you were the valedictorian in your high school, right? I was, yep. What, you won three state titles, man, staying at three different sports? Yeah, won a couple in basketball, a couple in football and yeah, with track as well. Track. Pretty good basketball player. It was all right, yeah. What do you think, what was the hardest of those things for you to do? What was the hardest position you played on the football field, the one that was least natural to you? I think just with all the mental stuff that comes with it, it has to be quarterback. You know, you're processing so much information pre-snap as well as post-snap and the picture can change in an instant. Defenses are great, disguising coverages. So I do think that playing quarterback was the most challenging mentally, but I think that it's helped me so much in my transition to defense, understanding, you know, spatial awareness and all right, safety's rotating down into cover three. I know where my hook defenders are. I know where my help is in the fits. So I think that, you know, that that year was probably the hardest year, I guess. Right. But it helped me a ton. Thanks, Troy. You're welcome. Nice to meet you. Jeff Schultz. I'm good, thank you. All right, Kelly Price. Hey, congratulations and welcome to Atlanta. I was wondering how many conversations you kind of had with the Falcons and what you kind of talked about throughout this process. Yeah, I've had, you know, a few conversations, some good Zoom calls, conversation with coaches, met them obviously at the senior bowl and the combine as well. And, you know, just talking football and kind of building a relationship, getting to know one another and, you know, then when you get picked by them, it's awesome. I mean, those guys are awesome. I mean, great coaching staff, excited to get down there and start winning football games. I was reading that you grew up on a farm and I wanted to hear a little bit more about that and kind of maybe how that's shaped the player and the person that you are now. Yeah, I mean, I, small town Montana, cattle ranch. So it's, I mean, we had 750, 800 head of cattle and my parents worked extremely hard and, you know, my sister and I tried to help them as much as we could. They provided so much and so many opportunities and growing up on the ranch. I think it instills hard work and just that discipline when you have, I mean, real life animals that are depending on you to eat every day. You just have, you have to show up. So just that, that diligence to show up and work hard every day, I think has rubbed off on me from growing up where I did. Joe Patrick. Yeah, Detroit, congratulations. Just two questions, one real quick. Where are you talking to us from? I'm in Dillon, Montana. It's my hometown, just at my house. Okay, cool. And then just secondly, what do you expect the biggest challenge to be for you, you know, stepping up and playing at the next level? I mean, obviously the competition level is, is huge. Everybody's fighting for a job and everybody's extremely talented. So yeah, I mean, I'm ready to get down there and compete and just, you know, work hard every day and practice and try to, try to gain knowledge from coaches and players and just improve my skills and football ability. Michael Rothstein, any follow-ups? Yeah, come on, ask a little bit more about the cattle ranch. Like, so Joe, are you still on the ranch? What are your responsibilities now, if any? Yeah, so we're still on it. Now it's, I went to school two hours away and I would come back and try to help them out if they needed it. But growing up, I cut all the hay. We'd hay in the summer. So I cut it down and, you know, it was kind of a family deal. I'd cut, my sister would rake, my mom would bail, my dad would stack. So we had a nice little four-man system. But moving cows, branding, just kind of, you know, being outdoors, doing something different every day. It was, yeah, I mean, kind of our responsibilities. Is there anything you're gonna get or buy or do, like, now that you're drafted? Like, was there something that you said, if I get picked and pick relatively high, I want to secure that for myself? No, not really. I haven't thought about it. I just want to, you know, play football. That's what I love doing. So I'm ready to do it. Appreciate it. You bet. Do you like anything else? Yes, Troy, how much pass rush did they ask you to do? Blitz and lies and, you know, or are you comfortable with that part of your game? They need to, you know, to blitz, you know, they've been trying to get the pass rush better around here from all sectors. Yeah, I think I came off the edge quite a bit in 2019, my junior year, and it was awesome. I love being able to affect the quarterback and make them uncomfortable. You know, having played quarterback, you know, if you make the quarterback uncomfortable, it makes their job a lot harder and the defense's job easier. So that's, you know, a tremendous way to impact the game in a positive nature for the defense. So yeah, I mean, I'm excited about that to learn some pass rush moves. And I mean, I think that, you know, I can do it and I'm excited to continue to improve. Well, thank you. You bet. Charles, do you have any follow-ups? Yes, please. A quick follow-up on your third of your three state high school titles. I see your size now and I saw a note that you ran the 100 and 200. Is that what you won stayed in and what was your size then? Yeah, so we ran it, we won a team one in track as well. And then I won the 100 and 200, both my junior and senior year in high school. And I was, I don't know, 215, 210, 215. Charles, Kendall, anything else? Yeah, Troy, I just wondered at what point in this process you started to think you could be an NFL football player. Did you always, I mean, as a kid, did you think that or did it come upon you one day sitting in class? You know, I could make a career of this. Yeah, I mean, I've always been a really great athlete and a really great football player. And it's always in the back of your mind when you're playing in college, you're, man, I think I can do this. You have that innate confidence and belief in yourself. And then it's, you know, try to focus on your college career as well and just getting better every single day. And then when that came to an end, it was, you know, all systems go towards my next stage in my career in the NFL. So I've always had that belief in myself, but it's, I mean, it's hard to look forward. I'm kind of a, you know, one day at a time, always getting better type of guy.