Kansas cornerback Cobee Bryant talks about the strides that the defense has made this season after a big defensive win over the BYU Cougars.
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00:00 >> I'm depending on you.
00:03 >> That's great, yeah, okay, well you get them credit for it.
00:05 Go ahead if you want.
00:06 >> Yeah, man.
00:07 >> I'm good for right now.
00:08 I'm just- >> Okay, yeah.
00:10 The opportunity to flip a game defensively, your hit is big six.
00:17 That hasn't been here, right?
00:20 You guys know what people said about you last year,
00:21 how you had to get better for this team to get better.
00:25 Now you guys are doing that, and I know it's still early, but what does that feel like?
00:29 >> Feels good.
00:30 We know a lot of people sleep on that.
00:31 But I guess everybody kind of know now we really got the best defense in the country
00:36 and the best secondary in the country.
00:38 So I kind of want to prove, we prove to everybody that we the best secondary.
00:42 A lot of people still sleep on that, and we kind of gonna wake them up every week.
00:46 So we just want to know we the best defense and the best secondary in the country.
00:50 >> And you felt that way a long time ago, not just today.
00:52 >> Yeah, I guess a lot of people just started noticing now, so yeah.
00:56 >> Yeah, you've had some experience with what Kenny got to do,
01:00 getting in the end zone after an interception.
01:02 When you got over to him, any words for him?
01:03 What'd you tell him?
01:04 >> I said, man, I love you, man.
01:05 You told me you're gonna get one.
01:07 So, you know what I'm saying?
01:08 Just see him smile, cuz Kenny got that big smile, it just changed a lot of people.
01:12 You feel me?
01:12 Mine, just see him smile, having fun with the game, that was just good.
01:17 He told me, he promised me, he said, I'm gonna get one, cuz every week he'd promise me,
01:20 he said, get one.
01:21 But now I wanna play big time, make big time plays.
01:24 So when he did it, I'm like, okay, I knew it was gonna come.
01:28 >> Yeah, did he look relieved, surprised, anything like that?
01:31 He's been waiting a long time.
01:32 >> He wasn't surprised, I guess he kinda knew.
01:34 He kinda knew, cuz like I said, we all watched a lot of him in the secondary, so
01:38 we kinda knew we were gonna make a lot of plays today.
01:41 >> Great.
01:41 >> How does the success from this season feel different from last season?
01:46 >> The bond we got now, and then last year, we got really close.
01:52 >> Yeah, I was gonna say, last year there was a lot of, I think,
01:54 individual kinda recognition early in the season, and
01:56 people really started to pay attention.
01:58 That hasn't necessarily come nationally yet at this point.
02:01 What's the feeling around the locker room about the ability to kinda make that case
02:05 moving forward from here?
02:06 >> Just really proving a point to a lot of people,
02:09 cuz a lot of people don't believe what we got.
02:11 We changed the program, changed the culture, so a lot of people don't realize
02:16 what we got going on, cuz this is real life brotherhood here.
02:18 So just to see us grow as a team, that's just good on our side, excellent.
02:25 >> And then one more question for you.
02:27 On the defense, who do you think is gonna have a breakout later this year that
02:31 hasn't had a chance to show it yet?
02:32 >> The whole defense, absolutely, the whole defense.
02:34 We all gonna have a breakout season in mind,
02:36 cuz everybody making plays on the defense side.
02:38 So we all gonna make plays, and I feel like we got the biggest defense in
02:43 the country, for real, cuz everybody making plays.
02:46 We just shocking the world right now.
02:47 >> Gotta ask, when Quinton and his brother right there at the sideline,
02:52 really early in the game, what was that interaction like?
02:56 >> So I'm in my own room in the hotel, so
03:00 Quinton talking a lot of crazy myths all night long.
03:06 >> He was looking forward to playing his brother.
03:09 >> He been saying, hey, you gotta get him tomorrow.
03:13 >> [LAUGH] >> This game means a lot to him.
03:15 Just see, he was pumped up about his game.
03:18 Just see him have a big smile on his face about seeing his brother,
03:21 playing his brother.
03:22 The extra fire, that was fun to watch, for real.
03:25 I was like, okay, I told Quinton, I said, come on, your brother on this side,
03:29 come on, give me this play.
03:30 >> [LAUGH] >> Now I'm gonna get him.