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- [Interviewer] We're
here with Jovaungh Gywn,
Jovaugh, just, you're
about tweleve practices
in now. Just how's camp been going
for you personally?
- It's been going pretty good,
it's just a lot of
learning the new playbook,
new plays, and new techniques and stuff.
- [Interviewer] Talk a
little bit about that
Mike Bobo, new offensive coordinator.
How much difference does that make
for an offensive lineman?
- Um, it makes, like a good difference.
It's more offensive line friendly.
I feel like the difference from last year
and this year, just how we run the ball,
throw the ball, everything like that.
- [Interviewer] Spring
ball ended back in March
and a lot of uncertainty over the summer
as to whether we'd even be
having a football season
this year. How did you stay physically,
mentally ready, not knowing
exactly what was going to happen?
- I just tried not to
think about it so much.
I just tried to go day by day.
And then when we got
back here, there's still
more like we didn't know if we were still
going to have a season or not.
And like, sometimes it was horrible.
As a team we just had to stay together,
and keep it positive.
- [Interviewer] What
specifically have you been
working on in camp to try to get better,
just fundamentally?
- Fundamentally, staying low.
My footwork, trying to get faster steps,
stuff like that.
- [Interviewer] You've been working mostly
right guard, I know you've
played some left guard.
Is there any difference,
obviously there's a
little bit of difference
but is there more of a comfort level
for you from one side to the other,
does it make a difference?
- It just depends like,
if I'm at right guard for a long time
then I got to hop back to left guard,
just like fundamentally like
just getting use to if I'm supposed
to take a right left step.
Just different steps.
- [Interviewer] When you came in here,
even as a freshman you were regarded
as one of the strongest
players on the team.
Is that still true, are
you still the strongest
guy out there?
- I'd say it'd be me and Hutch,
yeah me and Hutch.
- [Interviewer] Great,
chemistry on the offensive line
coming together like you would hope
at this point?
- Yeah it is, cause
offensive line we really
we do everything together.
So outside of here,
especially when we came back.
We tried to stay together,
like keep everybody
positive so that kind
of helped once we came
here to fall camp.
- [Interviewer] There
was a little chatter back
in spring before we got shut down,
that you might get a
little work at center.
Did that ever happen, have you taken any
snaps at center?
- Nah, I just I practice
snaps here and there,
but other than that no.
- [Interviewer] So it'd be an
emergency type situation only?
- Yeah emergency type thing, yeah.
- [Interviewer] Tell
us about Coach Wolford
in a meeting room, what's he like?
How does he get you guys ready to go?
- Pretty much, he like,
he stays on top of us.
We do something wrong, he lets us know.
He don't try to like, downplay
it or nothing like that.
He lets us know like, we did this wrong,
how to do it better.
And, he likes to crack jokes,
sometimes they funny, sometimes they not.
But other than that yeah. He's good.
- [Interviewer] Tell us about some
of the young linemen who
maybe caught your eye.
May not be ready this
season but you could see
down the line that
these guys might be able
to help us.
- I'd say Wannamaker,
he's going to be a strong powerful dude.
Vershon, he's real smart.
And then we've got he's Vinny
stepping up into the role.
And then we got Jakai
coming back from last year,
he's getting back.
And, yeah but they've
been doing pretty good.
They just at the, the COVID
stuff set back some people.
We all got set back.
But we're all progressing
now, they're coming along.
- [Interviewer] Tell me
about the defensive line
you go against, anybody
you like to go against?
Anybody you line up every day against,
and you're just tired of beating on em
at this point?
- Nah, everybody's pretty good.
Everybody, we get the
same work from everybody.
They go hard so yeah.
- [Interviewer] Any goals
you've set for yourself
for this season?
- Pretty much just try to be more
of a leader on the offensive line.
Or a leader period on the team, so yeah.
- [Interviewer] Do you see
yourself as more of a leader?
You're only a red shirt
sophomore so you're
still fairly young, but you look
around that room and you may be one of the
more veteran guys, if you will.
- Yeah I just try to keep like,
keep it positive, like show people
my work ethic.
Like try to keep it up, be positive.
And stuff like that, encourage like
the younger group cause I know how it was
coming in freshman not knowing what to do.
Or feeling lost like,
if I got the wrong step
then stayed low, did that in the third
and just getting cussed out about it.
So like, just to know, just keep positive.
- [Interviewer] Is that a little bit of
this time of camp, where
you're kind of mid way through,
you're not close enough to game week yet,
but it's hot out here and you
just got to keep grinding.
- Yeah yeah, keep grinding yeah.
- [Interviewer] Appreciate
it, thanks Jovaughn.
- All right, appreciate you.
