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Blogging The Boys: You were a team captain at Penn State. How did you approach that responsibility? In what ways can a captain help the team?
Sean Lee: I always say, obviously, that the captain needs to be one of the leaders of your team. To be a leader you need to lead in two ways, the first way you start leading is by example. And that's by coming to work everyday, working extremely hard, doing it the right way, and what Coach Garret said, the Cowboy Way, every single day. After you have some success, and as you grow older, you start to become a vocal leader, and filling the role of an older leader for some of the younger guys on the team. So a guy like Keith Brooking, there's a guy who leads by example every day, and he's a guy who has been around and had a ton of success, so he's also a great vocal leader. That's a guy I tend to model myself after.
BTB: How important has Keith Brooking been in your development?
SL: Keith and Bradie James have been instrumental, they really have brought me along, they showed me how you need to work each day. Anytime I have a question about a defense, how we're going to play a certain play the offense is running, they are guys who are bringing me along and really helping me. I owe a lot to those guys and I don't think I'd be developing as well if I didn't have them.
BTB: Talk about the injuries in training camp and the early part of the season. It must have been disappointing for you.
SL: Sure, I mean, the combination of us not playing well, and me being injured, and when I got back I don't think I had gotten enough practice and I wasn't playing well when I first got back. So that was extremely frustrating for me, the combination of losing and me not playing the way I wanted to and dealing with injuries. I just kept my head down, tried to work hard each week, and tried to help anyway I could, I tried to maximize the role I had. I think I got better each week as I got more and more healthy. It's something to build on for next year.
Blogging The Boys: You were a team captain at Penn State. How did you approach that responsibility? In what ways can a captain help the team?
Sean Lee: I always say, obviously, that the captain needs to be one of the leaders of your team. To be a leader you need to lead in two ways, the first way you start leading is by example. And that's by coming to work everyday, working extremely hard, doing it the right way, and what Coach Garret said, the Cowboy Way, every single day. After you have some success, and as you grow older, you start to become a vocal leader, and filling the role of an older leader for some of the younger guys on the team. So a guy like Keith Brooking, there's a guy who leads by example every day, and he's a guy who has been around and had a ton of success, so he's also a great vocal leader. That's a guy I tend to model myself after.
BTB: How important has Keith Brooking been in your development?
SL: Keith and Bradie James have been instrumental, they really have brought me along, they showed me how you need to work each day. Anytime I have a question about a defense, how we're going to play a certain play the offense is running, they are guys who are bringing me along and really helping me. I owe a lot to those guys and I don't think I'd be developing as well if I didn't have them.
BTB: Talk about the injuries in training camp and the early part of the season. It must have been disappointing for you.
SL: Sure, I mean, the combination of us not playing well, and me being injured, and when I got back I don't think I had gotten enough practice and I wasn't playing well when I first got back. So that was extremely frustrating for me, the combination of losing and me not playing the way I wanted to and dealing with injuries. I just kept my head down, tried to work hard each week, and tried to help anyway I could, I tried to maximize the role I had. I think I got better each week as I got more and more healthy. It's something to build on for next year.
