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00:00 Running back, Jaheim White.
00:02 Questions for Jaheim?
00:04 Yeah?
00:07 Jaheim, Coach Brown continues to mention
00:08 your progression in practice
00:11 and how it comes over and plays out during a game.
00:15 Are there specific lessons, specific things
00:17 that you're doing in practice that you feel like
00:19 are really having an effect here,
00:21 or is it just kind of an overall thing
00:23 of how you're approaching the game?
00:26 Oh, it's just really going hard, you know,
00:27 every time I get the ball.
00:30 Like, game-like rep, I, like, score every time
00:34 I get the ball, you know, at practice,
00:35 so it leads in the game.
00:39 Did you take us through the long touchdown catch
00:41 to start the second quarter?
00:44 Well, so they called it in the huddle,
00:47 and I saw the DB.
00:51 He was right there, and it was like a little 50-50,
00:53 but, you know, my arms -- I'm a little sore.
00:55 So my arms -- I reached out, got it,
00:58 and then once I saw the green, it was just a go.
01:01 Coach Brown talked about that actually was a play
01:03 that you guys have been handing it off to Rodney
01:05 and you've been a blocker on.
01:07 So was that something that you were kind of ready for,
01:10 or was it just kind of spur of the moment?
01:12 No, I was ready for it.
01:13 We've been practicing that all week, yeah.
01:15 Do days like this sink in at all?
01:17 Will it hit you when you wake up tomorrow, or what --
01:21 No, I don't.
01:23 Like, I've been waiting to, you know, actually show my talent,
01:27 and for me to start tonight was a big jump for me,
01:31 and I just wanted to, you know, show the world,
01:34 show WB my talent.
01:36 [laughter]
01:38 What did you kind of know, you know, with CJ dealing with injury?
01:41 What did you kind of know this was going to be your game?
01:44 Right after that injury, like, right after it,
01:47 I knew I had to step up.
01:50 With that, did you go out the week any different?
01:53 I mean, being the number one guy in your practice
01:54 was a little bit different,
01:55 but did you approach it any differently?
01:57 Nah, just the same mentality.
01:59 You showed your strength on a couple of those inside runs,
02:02 too.
02:03 How did it feel to just kind of push the pile
02:05 and show people you can do that, too?
02:07 I mean, the little man wins, so, you know,
02:10 and for me to be, you know, the smallest or whatever,
02:13 I got more power to the ground, you know, for me to push,
02:15 and then my linemen, they helped me out, so, yeah.
02:20 Anybody that you know about what you're doing,
02:22 not only are you having big games,
02:24 but even the historical significance
02:26 and getting mentioned with guys like Steve Slayton
02:29 and even Pat White on the ground, I mean,
02:32 obviously legendary names in program history.
02:34 No, I haven't got those yet, but, yeah.
02:36 What does it mean to you to be mentioned with those guys
02:38 so early in your career,
02:39 knowing what they established here
02:41 and that your numbers are already getting there
02:42 in individual games?
02:43 It means a lot.
02:45 Like, it's a real big time for me,
02:47 but, like, it's a real big time.
02:49 I can't, like, you know, put a big time on it.
02:55 Jay, when Garrett runs for 154 in three touchdowns,
02:58 what does that do for you?
02:59 How much -- How does that aid you?
03:03 Well, it opens it up for me,
03:05 and it obviously opened it up for him
03:08 because, like, you know, like, we always run the ball,
03:12 so they always, you know, got their eyes on us,
03:15 the running backs, and for him to do that,
03:17 like, that was just amazing.
03:18 It was good.
03:20 So when they have to have a defender on here,
03:24 can you feel that?
03:25 I mean, when there's just one less guy out there for you?
03:28 Yeah, yeah, yeah, I feel that.
03:31 Do you always feel --
03:33 Was today one of those "I feel unstoppable" days,
03:36 or do you always feel that way?
03:38 No, I always feel like that.
03:40 Stand on business.
03:42 Stand on business.
03:46 If you don't run with that sort of attitude,
03:48 that sort of approach, does that hurt you?
03:50 Is it -- Do you feel like that's part of --
03:52 Yes. -- just being able to be successful?
03:53 Yes. Yeah.
03:55 Okay, anything else for Jaheim?