Hey, Tylan, I'm curious on the kickoff play the other day
against Auburn, what was --
kind of take me through that from your perspective.
And I was curious, at any point did you hear a whistle
before you got to the ball?
Before I got to the ball, I didn't.
I didn't actually hear a whistle until I was in the end zone
and I had landed on the ball. But it's just on kickoff,
you see the ball rolling like that
and I figured he had touched it
just because of the way he reacted.
So just my instinct was just go get the ball
because I figured he touched it. It was a free play right there.
So it was just go get the ball for me.
Was there any conversation down there
on the field when that happened?
I mean, at what point did you realize
that the officials were waving it off?
I actually didn't realize it till I had got back
to the sidelines. Then I see Auburn hurrying up.
Then I kind of realized what was going on then.
I kind of knew they wasn't going to review it.
So then they hurried up and snap, got the ball off.
So then I kind of knew that, yeah,
they had got us on that one.
What's that been like this weekend
since that happened, I guess?
How much conversation have you had out
and about on the team, that kind of thing, about it?
I mean there's been a lot of talk about it.
But that's not the only thing that lost us the game.
We had a couple plays here
and there that we could have made up for that play.
But we just can't put out a loss on one thing.
It was a team effort at the end of the day.
So it was like we had several other opportunities
to close the game out, which we didn't do.
But we can't just put it on that one play right there.
Parrish, go ahead.
Tylan, in moving over to defense,
how much carryover did you have from
when you played defense earlier in your career?
How much did you remember,
and did that help in the new scheme?
Oh, yeah, it most definitely helped.
You know, defense really don't change too much.
All you've got to do is just learn the new terminology.
And once you learn the terminology,
defense is always going to be defense.
Cover two is still going to be cover two.
So once you learn the terminology,
I feel like it's pretty.
But the carryover, I think that really helped me,
gave me some experience in that field my freshman year
to carry over this year.
How much understanding did you have
when you were in the game about scheme
and where you needed to be and that sort of thing?
I really had a pretty good understanding.
You know, I kind of spent a lot of time
in the film room the past week,
as I plan to do this week, just to prepare
and try to be in the right position to make a play.
But film - that took me a long way.
That helped me out a whole lot,
really just knowing where my help is,
understanding where I line up and stuff like that.
Is this a temporary move, or is that still a discussion?
To be honest, I'm not going to be able to say that.
I'm just here to play wherever they need me to play.
Thanks. Go ahead, David.
Hey, Tylan, going back to that initial question Neil asked,
I mean I know you guys don't live under a rock.
There's been a lot on social media.
Coach Kiffin has, I guess, been outspoken on the matter
to the point where he was fined. But as a player,
how does it make you feel when your head coach
has the wherewithal to speak out on something that was as bad
and as wrong as that call - even to his own detriment?
I just feel like that just goes to show
how far that goes that he has our back,
that he's really for us and he really has our back.
And that just goes to show -- that was just a perfect example
to show how much he's really behind us.
Thank you. Yes, sir. Nick, go ahead.
David asked what I was going to ask,
but I guess I'll follow up on that.
Do you guys, as a team, pay attention
to when Lane is tweeting about that sort of stuff?
Do you guys share it around?
Do you kind of engage with the jokes at all?
Most definitely - we most definitely take notice
as to the things he says.
Some are kind of good, some not as good.
But we all see it.
I mean just little mini chatter about it,
nothing too serious honestly. There's locker room talk -
did you see this, did you see that?
But nothing beyond that.
At the end of the day, we know he's our head coach
and he wants nothing but the best for us.
Is he as funny on the field coaching
as he is on social media,
or is that a completely different person?
Nah, he's the same person wherever.
He's a trip. I'm going to say that he's a trip.
He's hilarious. We'll go back to David.
Tylan, what has Lane's message
been to you guys about that particular situation?
The situation in which -
you're speaking on the kickoff situation?
Yeah, the kickoff, yeah.
It really wasn't just a whole lot of talk about it.
Just keep playing, really.
The only thing that I could have got
from what he was saying from it
was just keep playing until you hear the whistle.
You can't call plays for the refs.
So it's just keep playing until you hear the whistle.
Go back to Nick.
Tylan, when do the coaches let you know
if you're going to be playing offense or defense?
Well, last week they let me know I was going
to be playing defense I want to say Sunday.
So like yesterday last week, I kind of found out
that I was going to be playing defense.
So I came in and started getting film in that Sunday.
So I was over here last week. So I was over here
since Sunday - probably about a week.
Today makes a week and a day that I've been on defense.
Gotcha. Back to David.
Tylan, is there a feeling on this team
that you guys have to win Saturday,
that failure is not an option,
in an effort to kind of get some wind
behind your back for the rest of the season?
Oh, man, I don't feel that we go into a week that we have to win.
I feel like - my mindset, we go into every week trying to win.
We never go out there to lose.
No matter the circumstances, no matter the game,
we've never gone out there to put an "L" on our record.
We're are always going out there trying to go 1 and 0 every week.
That's our plan, go 1 and 0 every week.
Yeah, but at 1 and 4 and having lost three in a row
with four tough games remaining after this weekend,
is this game critical -- crucial for you guys?
You know, if you look at our schedule,
to me I feel like all our games are crucial.
Just in my opinion, I feel like all our games are crucial,
none more -- greater than the other one.
But, yeah, I do feel like that we must get a win.
We definitely need the luck to start rolling our way.
But that just comes in practice.
There ain't no secret recipe to it.
We've just got to go out there and work hard
and practice for it.
Thanks, man. Yes, sir.