Cam McCormick | Media Availability | 8.23.24

all right we'll stick with the tight end room and we'll have questions for tight end cam McCormack as a reminder please use the hand raise function so we know to call on you and we'll start with Adam at the Sun Sentinel Adam go ahead hey Ken how's it going good how you guys doing good good um so I asked Elijah you know the same question but um just how have you guys been preparing for you know a rockus environment in the swamp and um you know H how have you guys been handling the the you know pipe In Crowd noise during practice and stuff yeah I think obviously we uh we practice with crowd noise as well and it's hard to replicate 990,000 people but um at the end of the day it's about honing into to the quarterback to the offense and being all on the same page um so just trying to put ourselves in situations to where you know we can um succeed when we get get there and and you know the crowd noise isn't going to be a factor to us um that's that's what we try to replicate at practice so um by just putting ourselves in those positions to you know I guess try and get the most game like here in at practice next we'll go to Jordan mcferson Jordan go ahead hey there cam how are you I'm great uh wanted to ask with after month of Camp all the hype all the excitement just what's your guys' eagerness level to finally gets thing started again with the season just opener being just a week away yeah I think as a team we're um we're excited um you know we've been going against each other for a long time now and um we get to play Act actual game coming up so um we're excited for that opportunity um to go down there to Gainesville um play the Gators um we're super excited to just get back into playing football you know the season I think that's what all the guys are you know around the locker room is just talks of like being excited to you know play football again you know next we'll go to Marcus Benjamin Marcus go ahead hey cam how's it going good how you done good uh just kind of wanted to ask about uh the offense's progress uh from scrimmage one to scrim scrimmage two uh what specifically have you kind of seen as far as uh the progress with the offense and who do you think won scrimmage two offense or defense that's hard to tell who who won uh scrimmage two I feel like obviously the offense will say we did but the defense will say they did so um it it's it's more so who's getting like are we're getting the offense is getting the defense better and that's all that matters when it comes to the you know the game day that you know we play as as a whole um um and um I think as an offense I think that the guys are we're playing together we playing fast we're playing confident and um I feel like that's all that you can ask for from the coaching staff and even as the players is like guys go out there and give it give it their all and and buy into you know the offense and and the guys around us next we're go to Matt showell Matt go ahead yeah hey cam um so you know you you sort of are a one of the the older wiser guys and I was curious have you noted maybe a change in mentality as as Mario Chris balls really sought to intill his culture which you remember obviously from Oregon as well onto this program can repeat the question yeah I was curious if you've noted you know Mario chrisal obviously has talked a lot about the culture and getting the culture right at Miami as part of his blueprint for getting this team to a championship level you know it from Oregon when you were there with him are you seeing what he laid down at Oregon starting to replicate itself here you know in year three for him I mean I think it's it's different you know from Oregon to here um I'm not like I don't think he's just like copying and printing what he did over at Oregon to try to do over here like it's there's different people there's different people he has to kind of um you know work with and everything so I think that but but you know his culture is his culture and he stands by that so it's really a process of getting guys to just buy into that culture over the offseason and I think that the guys on this team have done a really good job of buying in um and kind of seeing the vision and and understanding of you know where he sees this team going and and where he believes that we can go so ultimately it's you know that he believes in all of us and we have to sit there and now go perform on Saturday because we're the ones on the field and we'll go excuse me we'll go to Adam for one last question Adam go ahead hey again um just you know your early preparations for the gator just what have you seen uh you know from their their defense in particularly their front seven yeah they're they're they're fast they're physical and they're big they're big guys um I'm excited for you know to play them um obviously it's the first game and and I guess you look back on film from last year and those are guys that are some of them are there some of them are gone so we're not sure really I guess what to expect but we know that they're going to be a good group of guys they're going to be physical they're going to be big and they're going to fly the football so you know when we get out there and we we got to play hard we got to play fast we got to play physical and and we got to you know be ready to go great thanks cam have a good weekend appreciate you