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Thanks @RaiderNation and @Mooty99 for your questions! I hope there are many more to come!

1. What do you think your strengths and weaknesses are?

That is an excellent question! One of the biggest problems a lot of athletes have is judging themselves on where they truly excel and where they need help. Me personally? I've always been an open book. I think one of my biggest strengths is my willingness to never give up on a play. It doesn't matter if I'm being double teamed, if the play has moved 30 yards away from me, or if I'm simply having an off day. I'll always keep pushing, I'll always keep grinding, and at the end of a play you won't see me standing there with my hands on my hips watching the ball carrier down the field. No matter how unlikely it is, there is a chance to make an impact on ever play and I love taking every possible chance I can get. Then there is the fact that I live and breathe this sport. Without football, I don't know who I am. I get up every morning and train. I eat lunch and I study plays. Then I train some more. Then I study some more. In my life there is only football and you'll consistently see me as one of the most prepared players on game day.

As for my weaknesses? I always feel like there is room for improvement in conditioning. I want to be out there for every play. I want to be on the field for an entire game, no matter if that's 30 snaps or 80. I want to make an impact and the more chances I have out there, the better. Right now though I'm not sure my endurance is where it needs to be to match those goals. More than that, a focus on endurance allows the ability to get stronger and faster and having a better athlete on the field never hurts. I think that will be one of my biggest focuses in the future. But there is also tacos. I've always had a huge weakness for tacos and can easily put a taco truck out of stock in a single sitting. I would eat tacos 24 hours a day if there was a place stocked well enough. I would trade anything for tacos. In short, keep tacos away from the training facilities and all shall be well.

2. Are you taking up a liking to any team in the NSFL or DSFL?

I'm a color guy to be honest. We live in a world full of color, but people avoid a lot of them. You usually see reds and blues and blacks and whites. They're all great colors, don't get me wrong. I just like a little color variety in my life. I enjoy the unique and different. For that reason San Jose and Orange County my be my favorite NSFL teams. You don't get a lot of teams in professional sports rocking dark green or orange and I have to respect them for their choices. On the DSFL side I absolutely adore the purple and gold of the Coyotes. Something about those two colors just seem to mesh absurdly well and it may be my favorite color scheme of either league. For that reason, the Coyotes may very well be my favorite team at the moment. That said, I can make any color look good. So regardless of what team I'm on, you can make damn sure I'll make those colors look fine!

3. What are your personal goals for your first season in the league?

I'm still new to all of this and am figuring things out as I go. As it turns out, things drastically change once you leave college. Its a wide world out there and you have to realize that there are realistic goals and there are dreams. My personal realistic goal is to take advantage of every training opportunity I can get. I want to make an impact on this league and you don't do that by taking a lackluster approach. I want to be drafted into the NSFL as a top 10 player and to pull that off, it'll require focus and drive. I strive to better myself and I'll take every chance I can get to improve my game.

As far as a dream? I want Bjørn Ironside to leave his mark in a way that may never be replicated. I want to be a force of nature, unblockable and dominant. I want to get myself in position to be drafted first over all. I'm going to push myself, promote myself, and never let a single opportunity pass me by. I need to get stronger, faster, smarter, and ensure on draft day I'm the best available prospect. I certainly hope I can get there.

4. Who in the NFL do you think your game replicates?

I love this question. There are so many great defensive tackles in the NFL and to be compared to any of them is an absolute honor. That said, I've always striven to be the absolute best. The honest truth is, the best DT in the NFL right now is none other than Aaron Donald. I admire what he's been able to do in the league. He has truly become unlike anything we've ever seen before and is force that may never be replicated. His ability to both stop the run and create interior pressure is beyond what any other player in the league can match. We may never see another Aaron Donald, but that doesn't mean you can't try. We're all athletes here. If you're not aiming to be the best, then what are you doing? For that reason, I've really tried to model my game after Aaron Donald. Will I ever be able to replicate him and do the things he's done through his career? I suppose we'll have to see once I hit the field!

1. What sort of personality are you in the locker room?

Man, the first thing that comes to mind when you mention personality is energy. I'm always upbeat, always striving to be better, always looking for the best solutions instead of focusing on the problems. I do my best to bring everyone to that level because energy and positivity is important in this sport. Its easy to get on a losing streak or find yourself losing hope during a bad game, but that's not me. There is always a chance to turn things around and make a run and that is the kind of mentality I think you need to succeed. Other than that? I enjoy helping the new guys. Any team is only as weak as its weakest player, so anything I can do to help get other players get up to speed is my jam. I want to see them succeed because if they succeed, I succeed. It's always been my mentality.

2. It there any QB you are looking forward to sacking?

I almost feel like this is a trick question. It almost has to be Falconi, right? I mean who wouldn't want to sack that? Jokes aside, there is always the obvious answers. Most guys want to get after the best, the guys who put up the most stats. Guys like Bigsby and Showbiz. They were arguably the two best in the league last season and I'm sure there are plenty of guys who would like to go out and put the top guys in the ground. I personally like a challenge. Did you know that Baltimore only allowed 8 sacks last season despite being one of the top teams in the NSFL in pass attempts? That offensive line was on absolute fire last season. They may be the best that is out there at the moment and that is intriguing to me. At the end of the day, as a DT, your real opponent is the guy across from you. He's the guy you have to beat to have any success at all. You get past them and you can basically do whatever you want with the person behind them. If I had to pick, I think I would absolutely want to go after whoever Baltimore is protecting at the time. To be the best, you have to beat the best and I would love to add a few more sacks to their numbers.

3. How much wood can a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

He'd chuck all the wood that a woodchuck could if a woodchuck could chuck wood. Actually, did you know that a wildlife conservation officer did the math on this question? To dig their burrow, a woodchuck must dig 35 square feet of soil to make their burrows. A single cubic foot weighs roughly 20 pounds, so you would be looking at them chucking 700 pounds of dirt to build their burrow. As weight doesn't really matter when it comes to the substance you are moving, were a woodchuck so inclined he could likely chuck 700 pounds of wood. The more you know!