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UW wide receiver Jalen McMillan explains why he returned.
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00:00 I'm not even sure he might have been capping, but I think he has he might have it. I'm asking
00:04 I need to hear that inside a napkin telling grub you're coming back. Yeah, I
00:09 Think I think I was in grubs office and then
00:14 I
00:17 Gotta get the story, but it's a funny one. I'll make sure I get it to you
00:21 Let me ask you this
00:26 You know how negative things can go viral seems like positive things can too and
00:31 For everybody to have ended up coming back from last year's team
00:35 Could you tell me from the inside like what that evolution was like like?
00:40 Okay, like one domino felt like he's coming back like did it did it go like that or was it different?
00:45 So I was in I was in the weight room and then coach the board came up to me
00:49 He was he was just talking about how he thinks my season went and then I think I interrupted him and I was like coach
00:55 I'm coming back and then he like
00:57 Was all stunning like wait what?
00:59 I was like, I'm coming back. I didn't like how the season went for me and then he was just like
01:03 Okay, cool. Like all right
01:05 and then ever since then it was just straight on with him and then they got to talking with
01:12 JP and Rome and then the whole line fell and it was just all dominoes like you said, so
01:22 I just I knew there's more to tank for me. I know there's more to tank for me. So
01:25 For sure yards up the kids that and also just catching every ball on my way, you know
01:32 Do you feel like breaking one as returners? Oh, yeah
01:36 Hopefully the order I want to do with the organ game
01:45 Oh, yeah, oh, yeah
01:51 I know you're probably be around to see it
01:53 Yeah, it's kind of crazy that the pack is like kind of dying out
02:01 But I mean the big ten with Ohio State and like what Michigan and all them that's that's that's big-time football. So
02:08 Keeps chasing Germany here, but now that's dope just playing Ohio State and all them team the big team
02:15 So it'll definitely do a lot of recognition
02:17 Yeah, maybe
02:22 Jalen Rome told me he's got this whiteboard with this specific
02:25 Statistical goals that he's shooting for
02:29 Any visual, you know, he sees those things every day, right?
02:32 Do you have a similar thing for your personal goals? Do you have personal goals?
02:37 Are they more are they statistical are they more ethereal than that? Um, I have saw my mirror in my bathroom
02:43 I have on the right side
02:45 I have a whole bunch of quotes on the right side that I go by and on the left side
02:48 I have all the reasons why I play football and I mean, I really feel like yeah
02:54 you could be a stat person but at the end of day like numbers are just
02:56 Just for individuals and I feel like if I do enough within myself
03:01 To get better and to play how I play and I'm gonna have my team
03:04 What's the most meaningful quote to you right now? You may not you might not understand it now, but you will later
03:10 Why?
03:12 Because there's a lot of there's a lot of things that that happened to me and there's a lot of situations
03:17 I was in so I didn't really understand it and then
03:19 At the end it all came full circle and I totally understand why it happened just to help me grow
03:23 So, awesome.