Austin James
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154 appearances
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1 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Apr 2025
Austin James’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And so this is one of the cases that for me as a person, I'm still not an East Coast person as far as when I live here long-term. Play football, grind it out during the season, yes. But I don't know if you saw that me, I had to swipe like four inches of snow off my car the other day. And I was like, you know what?
west coast don't sound so bad uh i'm wondering how long it took before you realized like oh man i need some new clothes yeah it was uh it was 19 degrees this morning i'm like you know what the playoffs is about the only thing that makes me excited to be out here right now as far as you know like hey this is this is the reason this is worth it being out here other than this take me back to the warm weather and i'll come back out here in the in the summer you know
Well, you don't really know the caliber of different until you get a few games in because you got to think when we're in training camp and OTAs, there's no full speed. So you don't know. Did they sack him? Did they not? We don't know. We blew the whistle because the defense got him, you know, like got him, you know, touched him or something like that.
And so you get into preseason, he gets some opportunities. He doesn't get many. He's playing in like the first quarter, you know, the first few plays and that's that's it. You're out because they're anticipating starting him for the for the first game. And so we kind of move through Marcus and him or Marcus is starting for a lot of training camp and OTAs. kind of just taking that leadership role.
And so then Jaden starts to, as we get closer to the first game, get to a position where he's starting to take some of the reps with the ones. And then we eventually get through preseason, get to the first game. And then the man is dynamic, running, sprinting for his life out there. I think it was just him being in his first game.
He ran the ball like 19 times that game, you know, was just taken off.
And that's when it kind of came alive of like, okay, this guy is extremely fast. Like, like he's, he's running real fast and dodging and ducking and diving and all that. And then with him throwing the ball, I guess that's another thing where, okay, you're a runner, but now you run to throw. So that's one of the things that he's learned to do instead of run to run. Now he's running to throw. Okay.
Hey, You're the quarterback. Let it ride. Let these guys that are paid to run, run for you. Even though you can, now he's starting to kind of unlock some of these kind of tricks that he has. And so as he's been going through these games, we've seen that. We've seen him be a runner. We've seen him run to throw the ball. We've seen him... run and get out of scramble, make plays down the field.
And so now our offense is kind of taking the shape of, okay, let's get Jaden's legs activated. And then also, hey, he can sit in the pocket and throw it too. We've seen some amazing throws to Terry. So I think as time's gone on, it's been like, oh yeah, he's good. Oh, he's really good. Oh shoot, this guy's rookie of the year good. Like, oh, he's next level good. So it's been awesome, man.
It's been so cool.
Yeah, I think it's, I think it's actually good that people are talking about it just because I think, you know, brain health and concussions in particular are a good topic to make sure that people are educated on, um, especially when you're going through them. And so for me, um, this was my second concussion of the year. This one, obviously I said, you know, had memory loss knocked out.
I remember, I remember running out in the field and then all of a sudden I started like remembering things and I saw Mel, my wife sitting next to me in back in our like locker room. And I'm like, what the heck? Like what, like what just happened? Um, and so that, yeah, definitely freaks my wife out. She thought I died on the field. Like that's literally her word.
She's like, you were laying there unconscious. I thought you were dead. And so obviously, that's not great for her to go through and her mental health and her mental health affects my mental health and my mom as well. You know, Colin, she wasn't even at that game. So she was terrified. So there's a lot of emotion that goes into that.
And then I went and just continued to kind of educate myself around concussions and learn from a few experts out there. And yeah. felt comfortable at a place where, hey, I didn't have any long-term sustained damage as far as being able to recover. There was no permanent damage. There's nothing, no bleeding on the brain, no fractures or anything like that on the spinal cord or stuff like that.
So it was a concussion. And just because I was knocked out doesn't mean it was any worse than any of my other concussions. What you kind of determine it with is how many symptoms do you have? I had some blurred vision, stuff like that. So progressed through that at a normal pace. And based off of that and all the information that I gathered was like, hey, if you're,
progressing, coming back at a normal rate and there's nothing permanent, you're at a position where, hey, if the fact of you getting a worse one is probably still really close to the same type of odds as if you didn't have that concussion in the first place. So with that knowledge, I was like, OK, I'm not any more risk than anyone else is right now. I feel comfortable coming back to play.
So that's that's what it went into all that.
Both. So yeah, I had the conversation. And the thing is, if, if I, it wasn't, it's not like I felt like my equipment was unsafe. Like I'm out there and oh, I don't have the best equipment. My helmet's really good, rates really high. Like my equipment is solid. And if it wasn't, then I would upgrade it. And then also on top of that, the Guardian Hap definitely does affect your performance.
Like I remember wearing that thing a couple of years ago when they first came out with it and I just felt top heavy. Like it's just like an extra pound or so and a half of weight on your head.
And so just even me as a runner, right, keeping my balance and all this stuff is definitely thrown off just a little bit running with this thing on my head, being a little bit more top heavy, go down probably a little bit more easy. I remember I actually had a neck guard one time because I got speared in the face. but I couldn't put my neck all the way back.
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