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Robert Hunt – July 31, 2023 Download PDF version

Monday, July 31, 2023

OL Robert Hunt

(Was today your favorite day? Kind of shut those guys up a little bit on the other side?) – “No, I wouldn’t say my favorite day. It’s fun to compete against those guys though. It’s a back-and-forth type of deal. One day they have our number, the next day we might have theirs. It’s good man. Just fun competition.”

(But it’s not fun when you don’t have the pads on, right?) – “Yeah, but that’s when they kind of think they got a little more than they probably would have in a real setting. But we let them have it, and then we try to come back and do what we do. It wasn’t perfect by no means, so a lot of work needs to be done still.”

(You mentioned that back and forth. Is that good to see the competition? It’s not just one side always winning. You guys are on the same team, so you guys are both getting after each other?) – “It’s really good to see, man. We’ve got a team full of competitors and guys, that’s good. It’s fun to compete, man. It’s good to see that it’s going back and forth, it’s not just one side just taking off. You know how they go, and we know how the media like to put it. It’s fun to go back and forth. (laughter)”

(Hold on, so you’re saying we’ve been wrong?) – “I’m a fan of you guys. That’s not what I’m saying. (laughter)”

(Because we saw Friday’s practice. As the offensive line, how do you respond to that?) – “You just got to come in the next day and see what we messed up at on the film where they had all those good plays. They had a really good day, man. They were amped up, and we just didn’t match their intensity nowhere, you know what I mean? So we had to come back the next day, which I think yesterday we did. We came back and we kind of got it rolling a little bit. Today was a back-and-forth type of deal, so it was good.”

(TE Durham Smythe talked a lot about the professionalism of this team, the first day in pads how there’s no fights, there’s no skirmishes. Is that something you guys talk about beforehand? Or is that just where you guys are at?) – “Honestly, do you see how hot it is? I doubt that anybody wants to fight. If you fight, that’s just on you. You different. You got a little more energy than everybody else, you know what I mean? (laughter) Like I have no will and want to fight anybody with that heat. So, we can call it professionalism or whatever you want to call it, but the heat is what it is in my opinion. (laughter)”

(A lot of the offensive guys are talking about how much more comfortable they are in year two of Head Coach Mike McDaniel’s scheme. At right guard and maybe for the offensive line, what are some of the little things that you guys are able to kind of fine-tune more as a group in year two compared to last year?) – “It’s just a lot smoother because it is year two, so a lot of this stuff is repeat things. Everything is like repeat, all the players are repeat. So the only thing you have to do is tune up the small things, the small little things of your game. You work on that and then everything else should be easy, because it’s year two (in the) same system. So it’s pretty good.”

(How would you compare Offensive Line Coach Butch Barry’s coaching style and philosophy to the previous coaches?) – “I won’t compare him to anybody, but Butch is his own guy. He does a fantastic job. I love what Butch brings. He’s a loud personality, but he means well. He knows what he wants, and that’s what you have to respect as a player. Somebody to come in and know what they want, you’ve got to respect that, because that means it’s the standard and that’s what we want to have is a standard. So it’s good.”

(I think my favorite drill is 1-on-1 o-line verse d-line. Do you guys love it as much as I do?) – “No. d-line may. They might love it. It’s a defensive line drill, man. It’s a defensive line drill, but we just got to hold on and do what we do. It’s a lot harder for offensive linemen to win right there in that setting, o-line versus d-line. It’s a lot harder for o-line to win. But if you can in that, you can win throughout the game and throughout the practice.”

(Is that because of the space you guys have to operate in?) – “Yeah, it’s the spaces. I just feel like we know what it is. We know what it is. They’re going straight for it. You just have to try to do what you can do.”

(I thought you handled DE Christian Wilkins pretty good today in that period.) – “Thank you, I appreciate that. (laughter)”

(You mentioned the heat. There’s been talk of record heat and all that, does it feel worse? Do you feel it this year?) – “Yeah, I have felt it this year, especially training in the offseason later on, so maybe late June. It was pretty scorching.”

(Head Coach Mike McDaniel said that you can take advantage of that heat when teams come to play here. Do you think that is possible in football?) – “One-hundred percent. Yeah, I think we definitely can. It is our advantage of playing in South Florida. We’ll take advantage of it as much as we can, so hopefully we can do that.”

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