It's been a good ride. I still think he's a good coach overall, but sometimes the game changes and you got to understand that everybody else is changing with the game and you can't stay in a certain place the whole time.

He told me that I don't respect him and he's going to let me go so I can play for a team and a coach that I do respect. That's straight up what he said.

The first thing that I thought about was that wall. I was like, 'Man, I don't know how I'm going to respond to being hit into that wall.' It's already hard enough being hit by a player. On top of that, being hit into a wall, that's extra contact that I don't need.

Last year, [when] I first came into this league, I didn't know really how this league was or how they were going to play defense. I wasn't sure how to go at my releases and it was difficult and I was learning on the move. Coming into to training camp, that really helped me. So I got to get a lot of different looks. Bigger players coming to jam me, when to go in, when not to go in.