Ollie Gordon talks with the media — Aug. 22, 2024

you know a little over a week away from the first game ah you know it feels good just all the um hard work we put in for the past couple weeks you know all the off Seasons the three different seasons we've been through it's been great actually you know actually be a week away from the game you're obviously you want to get first game healthy too so what's this Camp been like for you because when we talked on media day we were talking about how you got to work 10 times harder that sort of thing I mean it's like a typical team you know a couple team got a couple brues and all that but everybody's good you know um nothing series everybody's practicing full speed and that's really what we need coach said today when we were asked about when he was asked about how many carries is ideal for you he's kind of settled on 20 but he said if we need him to carry a 30 for us to win we we'll do that I mean do you have any feeling about how many carries you want or you you feel like you need I mean hey I'm here for the team if my number keeps getting called I'm down for it I'm not saying I don't like it but hey I'm here for it what about more use of VI in the passing game I know how good you are on the jugs and you look pretty comfortable catching passes uh you know like I said whatever Co downfield is right whatever working for us that day you know we're very ver versatile team we can run it we can throw it so it'll be a bunch of stuff we put in there what makes you better later I just feel um you know having coach Gundy and um coach class you know they just push us towards the end of things like when we get towards the end of practice they push us even harder work us even harder so I feel like normally teams don't do that normally they L up at the end of fight but us we push hard hard so and plus I know people not going to keep running with us we all know that so how much your life changed this time last year compared uh last year around this time you know I was just a little sophomore nobody knew about now I'm Junior everybody knows about so that's a change any kind of things you done the off SE uh I feel like it made me I had to work harder for my team not just myself my team and yeah show them that I care about training train the same way yes sir it's train the same way a little bit harder you know coach did talk about thighs today too I mean your coach talking about your thighs it's either really good or really bad right yeah I hope it was good right it uh I mean yeah you know that's that's all coach glass right there uh him putting us through the squads during the offseason shout out coach glass I know who Body By Glass but yeah it's really just all the work he ped us through you know have you lost anything side to side straight on by getting bigger cuz you are bigger but if you lost even a half step a fraction you know I'm going tell you I know so I definitely N I don't think so I know I didn't you know okay cuz you would be the one who wouldn't right right we'll see next Saturday how about the offensive line you notice about the experience I mean does it seem different than last year I hear go chunny say that they're light years ahead of where they were last year keev you noticed that to I mean yeah you can just tell how they work together how they uh communicate you know um if I'm in a pass Pro with them they'll tell me like hey don't do this you know and I got to listen to them because they're older they've been in the game so way longer than me you know so I got to listen to them so um you know you can just tell that they've been working together for a long time that we've been a team for a minute you know same team from last year so we communicate different we're able to communicate without people feel like we stepped on toes or anything so I feel like it's a great thing for us how have Trent and Tessy and the the two freshman behind you come along during F Camp uh it's pretty great everybody knows the Playbook everybody anybody can get in and rotate and play so I mean I feel like we all been doing good especially you know they they definitely been doing good for the short amount of time they've been here they know the Playbook forward and back do you feel like it's upon you to to take a little bit more of a leadership role with those guys I feel like yes just because I've been here the longest and you know but I mean they know how to do it they're great players they're all great players so they'll be fine not like they just need a leader you know coach been complaining he said talked to a week Satur about the penalties things of that nature guys got a lot of strs back clean that up and uh how do you feel ready game I say whenever we get the game next week I feel like we'll have fewer penalties than we ever had you know just off of being here at practice you know penalty is a up down and nobody want to do extra up downs at the end of a long practice so we cut that short a little bit