Welcome into the lounge presented by Draft Kings. I'm Ryan Mink with Garrett Downing, and we are thrilled to sit down with Roquan Smith today.

And Roquan, you know, you always like to say, we're cooking with grease, and there's been a lot of cooking out there during training camp.

The defense is ball bawling but my question

is if you're cooking any food in grease or with grease what do you cook it has to be chicken

a fish okay okay that's it for you i mean get that nice crisp on it that's nice stuff that's good

stuff do you do much cooking oh yeah i can

throw down a little bit like just giving any given the time you know but in camp right now i'm not

doing much but more so in the off season i like to uh get in the kitchen whip up a couple things

nice what's your specialty uh my specialty uh actually fried chicken being from georgia That's one of them for sure. But I love

salmon as well. So like having salmon and then with different sides and whatnot. Okay. All right. So like we said,

I mean, this defense is cooking out here in practice. And I remember when we talked to you a couple weeks

ago, you said, hey, I know everybody's talked to you a couple weeks ago, you said,

hey, I know everybody's talking about the losses that we had, the players, Mike McDonald,

all that stuff. But I feel like we can be even better this year. Why do you feel like this defense can be even better than the high bar that you set last year? Yeah, absolutely. And I have

a great deal of respect for everybody that helped build this

foundation of this defense like far as last year and years prior. But I say that because I know

each and every one of the guys that we have in the locker room and how hungry each and every guy is

and how each and every guy talks about how they want to be great, but not only talk about it,

but go out on the practice field thus far

and showing it day in and day out, even when it's those dog days, when your shoes are soaked and, you know, your pants, you barely can run,

but guys are finding it in their mind to, like, keep on going and just knowing that we have everything it takes to get to where we want to be.

And I think when the guys have that type of drive, man,

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