Oregon Ducks Matthew Bedford On Recovering From Injury

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Oregon Ducks Offensive Lineman Matthew Bedford On Recovering From Injury

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00:00matt take us back to last august and initially what the injury was all right out for a month

00:10you think it's you're going to be back on track and then what what was going through your mind

00:14when you re-aggravate it and the plan is no longer the plan and it's to come back and go for a seventh

00:19year college yeah um it kind of was just taking it day by day you know believing our faith uh just

00:26kind of taking every day with a stride taking the positives from everything every day it kind of

00:30just got better um as we kind of figure out what was going on i kind of just needed to get that knee

00:34cleaned up get ready to roll so now i'm all better it feels good be able to attack each day yeah

00:40as a veteran in that room with so many new faces what do you think that experience kind of allows

00:47you how much i don't know if i'd say further ahead but you know where does that think what do you

00:51think that puts you this spring yeah it's just easier to talk to the guys in the room you know

00:54guys believe and believe in me and understand i've seen some ball in my day so uh i'm able to

01:00be able to talk to talk them through a couple of situations where they may be a little unclear on

01:03that i've seen before and kind of understand um yeah yeah that's right brett that's obviously not

01:11the first time you've gone through an injury where you've lost a majority of your season maybe it's

01:15not experience you'd like to have but when you look back to the first injury that you dealt with how do

01:18you kind of take into that process the experience that you learned and how do you maybe take that into

01:23this season coming off of an injury yeah it was huge to be able to um be able to look back at the

01:29prior injury and be able to you know kind of just take the same thing take the same process from that

01:34uh again being where my feet are you know approaching every day with a growth mindset of

01:39being able to find you know something to get better at even though i can't do certain things i can't do

01:43other ways to get better so um yeah just kind of taking that and you know applying it to now that i'm

01:49healthy again you know finding something i can get better with every day again whether it be the

01:54playbook on the field off the field you know things like that all right earlier this spring dan said

02:00that god doesn't make many people like isaiah world and alik just went through all the new transfers and

02:06how you know how impressive they are how what's your early impressions of them and kind of what they

02:11bring to the room yeah all these guys are extremely blessed all these guys have done all the work that

02:16has been needed to get to this point to be able to play for oregon to be able to be in this position

02:21so now it's just you know keeping applying it uh not really changing your process and evolving it as

02:27you're in this in this program that you know get to next level which is the goal

02:31you were going through the process this time last year developing chemistry with guys who are already

02:39here all right what is that process for you where now you're coming off an injury yes but you're

02:44developing chemistry with largely a group of guys who were for a year ago yeah yeah um and not not

02:51not much of not much of a change uh kind of just you know getting to know the new guys isaiah world

02:56and all those guys i was hard key you know being able to just get around those guys and build that

03:00trust again you know and uh as you've been able to play during the spring ball so far you definitely

03:06be able to see that on film that trust being able to be built you know i'm saying that this room is

03:10so connected um and it comes through that time that we spend with each other you know off the

03:15field you know so exactly i know that your back is to him most of the time when you're on the field

03:20but early impressions of makai hughes and kind of what he's shown this spring yeah i love my guy he's

03:25he's he comes in every day meets me in the hot tubs in the morning at five o'clock and you know we

03:30kind of just kind of have a similar process of just preparation you know we focus on again every day

03:35taking the good and being able to look at the film and being able to approach things like i

03:40definitely i enjoy watching this process every day thanks what is it like going up against amari and

03:46bear uh in practices here and just what stands out about them and how do they challenge you and make

03:51you better some big guys big powerful strong guys definitely be giving me a look for the guys that

03:56we're going to be going against uh this this fall really excited to be able to get the looks that

04:01i'm able to get with bear and um big mike and those guys um it definitely puts me in a really

04:06great position to be able to train and get better every day you know put some put some good things

04:11on film put some things we need work on film too so that's right bro planning's always talked about

04:17you know the offensive line need to be able to be versatile and fill in any specific role in the line

04:21where they can with only a few spots open how much this offseason or this spring have you been

04:26dabbling and maybe some different positions on the line maybe you haven't really dabbled in that much

04:29and maybe how is that kind of helping your game overall on the line yeah um i've been able to

04:34you know dabble with a little bit of left tackle um again just opening your eyes to the whole offense

04:40being able to see what what you need to be calling when you're at you know left tackle versus right guard

04:45you know i'm saying being on both sides it helps you just be able to see the whole field um for me i can

04:50be able to you know maybe help a younger guy like um you know isaiah world or or um zaire you know

04:56i'm saying those guys that are fresh to the system that need to help with with maybe a call or maybe

05:01uh understand a scheme or something so yeah it's huge all right back left matt last year along the

05:09offensive line you guys had dylan who had seen a ton of different scenarios offensively at the

05:14quarterback position this year it's new it's a new face whoever gets the job how have those guys kind

05:19of commanded the offense and handled their their business from a pre-snap perspective of getting

05:25everyone in line yeah all these guys in my opinion our field generals when they come up to the line

05:30they're speaking with authority uh definitely feeling their confidence behind them don't say

05:34all those guys every like every quarterback that comes up behind us i'm definitely hearing the cadence

05:40feeling confident about and what they're able to do so yeah all right i appreciate wanting to be

05:47where your feet are matt but again when the plan was a year ago for you to be thinking

05:50about a pre-draft process and top 30 visits and the like when some of your former teammates are now

05:56doing that what how much have you paid attention to the combine and because interior spots are so

06:02hit and miss and who gets invited and who doesn't comps how much are you paying attention to those sorts

06:08of things and where you may stack up relative to that because getting invites from the interior spots is

06:13just really really hitting this yeah so for me uh looking at honestly starting from last year just

06:20watching the end of the season and watching these guys going into preparation i just kind of wanted

06:25to take all the good things like uh you know their habits these things that are going to help them

06:31prepare for the next level um kind of just asking questions about you know how are they breaking down

06:37film how are they preparing for drills and things like that so when my time comes i'm prepared

06:41um other than that i really just need to be focused on where my feet are like i need to focus on what

06:48i'm able to do to get better each day so that when i'm when my time comes to be on film i could be

06:52able to put good stuff on film so yeah that's what i meant

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