Cole Kmet

I was just playing football, doing what I've always been doing.

Nothing really changed.

I didn't change anything in the offseason.

I didn't change anything during the season.

I kind of just stuck to my routine and went out there and executed.

People that know me know I'm about the work and football.

I give my whole life to this sport every single day.

I don't love football.

I am obsessed.

I've been playing tackle football since I could watch.

I don't give a f*** besides playing football and winning football games.

Max!

I really did get off of kind of looking at everything.

I was listening to a podcast.

I think your name is Brene Brown.

And she said the algorithm in social media is to validate what you already believe or to show you what you fear the most.

And as it hit me, and no one's described it that way, I was like, if I'm going to leave this organization, I have to get off of that.

Because if I'm acting out of fear or acting out of closed-mindedness, then we're not going to be in a good spot.

And that's given me a lot of freedom to kind of weather the storm, but to see things the way they are.

There's a couple situations, even with Caleb, where for some reason when things just feel like they're ebbing away from you, it almost validates like,