Bobby Okereke

Yeah.

I mean, most of the day in college, you're probably spending three, four hours in football just because you have school and you have homework and extracurricular activities.

But, I mean, if you're an NFL team, you're at the facility working.

eight to nine hours a day and you're playing football, you're doing football all day long.

Whether you're in four hours of meetings, you're in an hour and a half of a lift, an hour and a half of a run, two and a half hours of practice, you're really wringing everything you can out of a football experience.

Yeah, you're installing.

That's kind of the football colloquial term.

But coaches have their systems they're trying to put in place.

You have your special teams meeting.

Then you'll have your unit defensive meeting.

And then you'll break into your position meetings, linebackers, corners, et cetera.

And coaches are breaking down the, I guess,

concepts of the defense they're breaking down the techniques of your position and then you're watching film you're watching a bunch of opponent film you're watching film of that offensive coordinator trying to figure out what family tree he comes from and whether he's pulling from maybe the 2008 Raiders or the 2012 West Coast offense with the Rams like there's all these different family trees so

You're really just trying to give yourself as much information out there so you can play as instinctual and free as possible.

It's intense.

You definitely got to put your ego aside.

I remember my rookie year, our position coach used to come up, and he would rank us.

We'd have about seven linebackers in the room, and on the right side of the board, there'd be a power ranking, and he would say, number one, 58, number two, 53, number four, or number three, 54, and so on and so forth.

So every day, you came into the room, and you knew where you stood.

Yeah, but I would say part of that environment too, our coach did a good job of making it a cohesive, collaborative environment, and all of us linebackers understood that competition breeds excellence.