Beanie Bishop Jr. Duke's Mayo Bowl Media Day
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00:00 - Bowl games, you get a lot of time between the games.
00:02 You got a lot of unknowns.
00:04 As a defender, do you keep, I guess,
00:06 the possibility of trick plays and stuff
00:08 that you maybe haven't seen on film?
00:10 Maybe a little bit more emphasis on that in this game?
00:12 - Yeah, for sure.
00:13 You know, it's a bowl game.
00:15 You know, some guys, you know,
00:17 you get a lot of time away from the game,
00:20 kinda, you know, more free time and things like that.
00:23 So, you know, some guys come in
00:25 less focused and things like that.
00:27 So, you know, everywhere I've been, you know,
00:31 coaches practice and practice trick plays
00:33 and, you know, have the little thought and idea,
00:38 put it in your head, like,
00:39 oh, you know, they might run something, you know,
00:42 they might run a fake, whether that's on field goal,
00:46 you know, punt and things like that.
00:48 'Cause I watched the West Virginia game
00:52 versus Minnesota in 2021, you know,
00:54 and they ran a fake field goal.
00:56 So, you know, I'm always alert for those things.
00:58 You know, it's just a little edge to, you know,
01:01 to help win the football game.
01:03 - Keeming, I know you're end of the season,
01:06 you're exhausted, you're beat down and everything,
01:08 but you're playing at such a high level.
01:10 How do you maintain that through the bowl game
01:12 with just practice?
01:13 - You know, I just try to, I try to not,
01:17 I try not to put things in my body that, you know,
01:20 won't help me and don't do things out the ordinary.
01:24 And I like to do a lot of recovery things,
01:26 whether that's taking an Epsom salt bath,
01:29 stretching, doing, just doing the little things to,
01:33 you know, keep my body right.
01:34 - How do you keep the on field stuff short,
01:36 outside of practice?
01:38 - You know, just talking to the coach,
01:40 watching film and things like that, you know,
01:42 it's, you can never watch too much film,
01:44 especially when you have so much time away from the game.
01:46 Our last game was three or three, three weeks,
01:52 three, four weeks ago.
01:52 So, you know, you just have to get back into the groove
01:56 and, you know, stay sharp and keep your edge.
01:59 - Has it hit you yet that you're only putting on that jersey
02:01 one more time?
02:02 - I think it had hit me,
02:04 I think it had hit me after the game, you know,
02:06 I haven't really, really thought about it.
02:08 I've been having a lot of fun with the guys, you know,
02:10 building on the relationships that I have with
02:12 the people on the team.
02:14 I think it has settled in more towards, you know,
02:16 game time and once the game's over with.
02:20 - This season you've had,
02:22 not everybody would necessarily choose to play in this game.
02:24 Why did you?
02:25 - I'm a competitor, you know,
02:27 I don't look at it as, oh, you know, could get hurt.
02:31 You know, we play football, it's a violent sport, you know,
02:33 so I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna help the team win eight
02:38 games, you know, and, and just be like, oh yeah,
02:41 it's time to get ready for the NFL.
02:43 That's not how, that's not how I want to look at it.
02:44 And that's not how I want to leave West Virginia, you know,
02:47 I want to be able to help us win this last game, you know,
02:49 and get to nine wins, you know,
02:51 which coach Brown told us it hasn't been done since like the
02:56 2012 season, our 16 season, one of them,
02:58 but it's only been done like two or three times since then,
03:01 you know, so just being able to help us win the last game,
03:05 you know, and send those,
03:07 send me off and the rest of the seniors off, you know,
03:11 and hopefully, you know,
03:12 end on a high note for the guys that'll be on the 2024 team.
03:16 - What do you expect from their offense?
03:17 Obviously not a ton of film on the quarterback.
03:20 So what, I guess, what kinds of things have you hoped
03:23 that you've picked up on over these last few weeks
03:25 to prepare for?
03:26 - I think it'll be a lot of quarterback, Marin Game,
03:28 and, you know, them taking shots down the field.
03:30 Cause we watched the quarterback, the freshman dude,
03:33 you know, he's, he's mobile.
03:36 He's a fast guy, bigger guy, you know,
03:38 and he has good arm strength.
03:40 We had to go back to, you know,
03:42 some of his high school film and stuff like that.
03:44 Since he, he doesn't have a lot of film in college
03:46 since it's his first year and stuff.
03:48 So just seeing, he can, he throws the deep ball very well
03:51 and, you know, some of the intermediate passes,
03:53 and he, and he's good, you know, using his legs.
03:56 So I feel like we'll get a lot of run game,
03:58 quarterback run game.