DJ Turner II on Adjusting to NFL, Bengals Secondary and More
DJ Turner II on Adjusting to NFL, Bengals Secondary and More
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00:00 You have a couple practices under your belt now.
00:03 First installment going on at the moment.
00:05 How are you feeling as you enter your first year in the NFL?
00:09 I'm feeling great.
00:11 Definitely good from the help of my teammates
00:13 introducing the defense.
00:14 And just if I have questions or anything going on,
00:18 the leaders on the team is doing real good,
00:20 just teaching me with the defense.
00:22 One of the leaders, especially in the secondary,
00:24 is Chittabay Awuzie.
00:26 He was cleared this week.
00:28 What does it mean to have someone
00:30 like him, who is so good and such a vet, a pro,
00:33 out there helping you?
00:34 I mean, it's great.
00:35 I mean, he's many years in the league.
00:38 He's done stuff to where he can tell me, oh, no, don't do that.
00:40 I've done it before and it didn't work.
00:42 And so I try to learn from other people.
00:44 I don't have to experience it to learn from it.
00:46 And so it's just very good that he's coming back
00:48 and I'm happy for him.
00:49 Is having him in the meeting rooms with you and stuff,
00:52 does that help you, I guess, learn Lou Anarumo's scheme
00:55 a little bit better?
00:56 Because he runs a complicated defense.
00:58 100%, yeah.
00:59 I mean, just having a player perspective on stuff
01:03 is much different.
01:05 And so it's just great for him to just break it down to us.
01:08 As a player, sometimes the coach can break it down.
01:10 He might not understand it as well as a player breaking it
01:13 down to you.
01:13 And so he does a great job sometimes
01:16 in transferring information.
01:18 For you personally, what are your goals in training camp
01:20 as you get ready for 2023?
01:23 Just get respectable to my teammates and get out healthy.
01:25 And those are the top two.
01:27 And that's what I'm trying to do.
01:28 And now that you've got a little bit of experience
01:30 around these guys, what do you think about this locker room
01:32 right now?
01:33 Oh, it's great.
01:34 Yeah, it's definitely a good locker room.
01:36 I feel comfortable in here.
01:38 And I definitely fit in.