Austin James
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154 appearances
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Apr 2025
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Oh, I mean, I get pretty excited for a lot of our games. This one obviously has the most weight behind it as far as importance of our season and kind of a legacy. So that's a new excitement. There's different types of excitements that I had, like even like my first start after my contract, that was a new. So there's there's different instances.
So this is definitely one of those of being, hey, you know, being in the, you know, the championship game.
conference championship game anyway so it's uh yeah definitely a new excitement to this game and uh rightfully so but at the same time again just making sure to lock in right got it we can't get distracted all right let me think about the super bowl you stay stay where you are okay right i know i know i got people asking me about tickets and stuff i'm like we'll get to that we'll we'll ask oh no no no no you don't call those people back they don't care about you i'm telling you right now
Yeah, I think it came, I think DQ said it well. He mentioned just kind of using the home crowd or their home crowd as like an energy. And that's kind of how I've actually approached even just crowds in general during away games. because at away games, right.
They're extremely loud when the offense is on the field, which is, which is awesome because you want that, you know, electric, vibrant, like feeling. Um, and when everyone's loud, it kind of energizes you, um, as a player. Um, cause there's just like more just raw emotion coming from everywhere. Um, And so we enjoy it. We play well in it because we run a no huddle offense.
So we don't even talk to each other anyway out there for the most part. And so it's just give some signals, get lined up, let's run. And like I said, use it as energy for our advantage. You know, a lot of the stuff is perspective. How can we twist this in a narrative for ourselves of like, hey, this is positive for us.
And, you know, us going no huddle, us using it as an energy, you know, is something that we've been using and it's been working out for us.
So funny you say that, because not not recently, but like when I used to play on special teams, like that's a whole different mindset than playing on offense. like special team is like run and hit, you know, like that's, that's special teams. Like I'm running, like my life depends on it. Get down there type of energy. Like that's what I was running with.
And that's how I ended up making the team and, and get myself into a position to play on offense. But that type of psych, like I remember, like I listened to heavy metal rock music blasted in my ears, right. I'm getting ready. I'm getting juice for this game. And I would find myself when I started, when I was splitting my second year, I would have to calm myself down.
Cause I was like too amped for offense where I, you can still, you still got to have the mentality that I'm going to run through somebody's face, but you also have to pay attention and hear the play, right? You have to know the adjustments. You have to see the defense. You have to know the, all the, all the front structures, what you're reading.
And so there was a little bit more thinking that went into it. And so ever since I kind of transitioned over to a full-time offensive player, it's been more so, okay, like, let me get my mind kind of in a status of like really calm, but aggressive. Yeah. And so, yeah, I used to get amped up a lot, but not not anymore since I joined the offensive side of the ball primarily.
Yeah, you know, I think one of the positive things about the media is they do shed light on, you know, some people that are having some career years. And that's definitely something that I absolutely admire, not just in the running back position, but just, you know, players in general.
And I'm biased, obviously, for the running backs, but just seeing running backs have success and make a huge impact on their team and help their team out. Like Saquon, unfortunately, you know, not this week, you know, good time we ever play him. You know, I hope they run for negative yardage. Yeah. You know, but other than that, you know, they can have a great career and he's I mean, a season.
So, yeah, he's done that. And, you know, looking forward to the defense, you know, trying to put the cork in that this year. But yeah, him like Gibbs to even Derek, man, had a great year this year. So it's cool.
And even even Josh, like it's really cool to see, especially the guys that were kind of getting shuffled around and kind of, oh, I don't know if these guys can still play or if they'll make an impact. Yeah. Like the Giants, like, oh, what a joke over there letting this guy go. You know, prime Saquon. Right now you have to play him, right? I don't know who's going to pay this guy $12 million.
Well, he's going to carry your offense. So, I mean, everybody. But anyway, so don't get me started there. I'm glad he did. Yeah, I'd love to see that.
Man, I feel like there's just there's these ebbs and flows like it was just like ups and downs and it just happened to kind of be in a place where maybe it wasn't as of, you know, kind of a flourishing year for the running backs and it happened to be that we're all going to be in this kind of free agent position to.
And so there was this narrative spun out there that the devaluing of the position and, you know, do you pay these guys or not? And it just maybe just a bad timing because I feel like even especially after this year, it's really hard to justify that. Hey, running backs can't help you get to a place where you have a chance to go in.
it's not just again this is my narrative from the beginning it's not just running back it's playmakers like if you have playmakers on the team you should be compensated for being that type of impact player i don't care what position you play that was the narrative i wasn't saying hey every running back needs to be paid but the guys that were coming up on contract were those impact players and we're seeing those same impact players impact their team in a very positive direction so i'll still stand on that not again not saying every running back needs deserves top dollar because because
they don't that's just like every other position but the people that are making the biggest impact absolutely do uh you you gave us a quote from dan quinn earlier you stole it from him you said he stole it from someone else have you ever sat there like listening to a coach and being like hey i heard that somewhere like has that happened to you often um not that's like stood out that's like okay i've heard that from somewhere else um but there's some funny one-liners um out there that you'll hear every once in a while um
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