Q. How are you?
PHILLIP LINDSAY: Not as bad as yesterday. Feel a lot better.
I used to come down here in the summers when my dad was stationed in Alaska, California and Washington, we would all drive down in the summer, in the countryside. I never really went inside the city until I moved out here -- until I signed out here, really. Again all my family is on the outskirts, a couple in Missouri city, Richmond, Beaumont.
Q. What's it like to be here?
PHILLIP LINDSAY: Honestly it's a great feeling. I've seen my parents more this year than I have probably in the last two or three years combined because they are only 20 minutes from the stadium, 26 minutes from where my apartment is. It's a blessing to have them come out and watch a game and not have to get on a four-four or five-hour flight to New York or California or something like that. It will be a blessing for me to have my grandparents at a game, if not a couple of them.
Q. Inaudible.
PHILLIP LINDSAY: It definitely instilled my work ethic and the way I am towards people in charge everything and like that because growing up if things weren't done a certain way you was getting reprimanded for it and I'm all for getting whooped. If I ever got out of line, my dad pulled out that belt and you got it; that military upbringing, it's an upbringing I want for everybody.
I like to set my stuff off power rushes, I feel like me and JG growing up under Todd Grant, a lot of rushes the same way. I'm going to try to out-work a lot of guys and use my strength to set up all my counter moves.
Q. Do you feel like -- inaudible?
PHILLIP LINDSAY: Now it's getting the rust off, like these last two days, it's just I'm out there just trying to feel my way around because last time I had on pads and got after it, was probably December 9. Now it's about getting the rust out and getting back comfortable. I did a couple long arms and it felt pretty nice. Just about getting the rust off now.
Q. You worked a lot this off-season --
PHILLIP LINDSAY: Yeah, because a lot of stuff we used to do with BT over the summer, we used to see how each other rushes, what moves to set up another one, so when we are all out there at the same time, we already have that second thought and know how they are going to rush so you can cater your rush and you counter off of that. It helped out a lot because a lot of us we spent a lot of time together in the summer.
Q. What is the tone that Coach Culley tries to set?
PHILLIP LINDSAY: Coach Culley is a guy I respect a lot. From day one they haven't switched up. It wasn't one thing to get me here and now that you're here it's a totally different thing. He's been the same thing from front to now and all about character and having the right attitude and making sure guys stay the same and keep working. He's holding everybody accountable and not letting guys just B s around. While you're here, you're going to get after it and there's ifs, ands or buts about it and you're going to get after it and have fun doing it.
Q. What was the worst Grant ever yelled at you?
PHILLIP LINDSAY: There was a time we were playing South Carolina -- I had to take the quarterback, went for the dive, Connor Shaw ran it back about 30, 40 yards. TG might have said two or three words that weren't curse words, very intense session, long-two-minute session.
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