Q&A: Jacobian Guillory realizes urgency on LSU's defensive line

Jacobian Guillory is now the veteran of LSU’s defensive line group and with it was called to talk to the media on Monday after fall camp practice No. 4. Here’s everything he said about the defense, the new-look defensive line, the new coaching staff, and more.

On starting a new week…

“Days like today, coach Kelly challenges us and so it’s either youre going to accept the challenge or you’re not going to accept the challenge. So it’s really he wants to prepare us for how hard the games are going to be. You want the game is to be you want practice to be harder, so the games could be easier.”

On the defensive line..

“Oh, we got a lot of bodies. Guys that have transferred in Geo. You got Sean that’s transferring in you got Jay You got a lot of guys that transferred in and you got guys that’s been here luje me and Jalen Lee. The freshmen Dom and Ahmad. So many guys now so it’s kind of it’s hard to get you is more not hard I would say it’s just getting used to having so many guys trying to bring so many guys along. Just making sure everybody can just be on the same accord and I think every day we’re getting better. You have a guy like Dominick McKinley coming in he’s got to learn from day one and so do the guys from other schools.”

On Bo Davis’ coaching…

“Bo has had so much experience everywhere he’s been, he’s been countless places. The film he shows us is from all over where he’s been. He’s coached taller guys, shorter guys, he’s coached so many guys that when it comes to guys coming in being raw, he already knows, ‘okay, this is what that guy needs’, and he’s catered to them. It’s a slow process, but it’s a process, and every day we get better. Like today was like big with our hands, and I feel like today we practiced slightly better with our hands here than the last practice, so it’s just like, you know what I’m saying, just getting better and better every practice.

How do you feel now being the leader of the group?

“I mean, what more could you ask for? Playing for LSU, getting a strap up every Saturday to play for LSU, this is what I’ve always wanted and I finally got it, so why not go all out for it? This is my last year, why not go all out with everything I do? If it was just as simple as just going, doing a walkthrough, why not go all out in it? The challenge that’s ahead of me, I feel like I’m accepting it, but I know that I still have more to do, just like everyone else in the room has more to do. So when I push myself harder, I know it makes them want to go harder. So just trying to just push myself every day. Waking up every morning, making sure I push myself hard enough so these guys can push themselves harder.”

On Jay’Viar Suggs coming to LSU…

“I’ve seen him make plays against old office alumni that play in the SEC so I have no doubt in my mind he can go out there on Saturday night to play for us in Death Valley.”

On the intensity of Brad Davis and Bo Davis at LSU…

“The intensity, I’m so used to it that it’s just like how can I listen to the messages they’re saying and now apply that to my game or whatever I did wrong. Because it’s like when they’re yelling at you, it’s not that they’re yelling at you, they’re yelling at the problem. It’s kind of like not a F you, a F that. You know what I mean? So in a sense of that. I’ve just had a head of both. It’s just it is good and I know when Brad is getting on offense a lot I’ve listened to make sure you know I’m saying I can keep up with it what they’re doing.”

On facing LSU’s elite offensive line in practice…

“I tell the defensive line, it’s okay if we lose reps, but you got to think about it like this if you go as hard as you can against the best offensive line in the country, then Saturday nights are gonna be that much easier. So just keep just keep a level head and keep going. Like you know if you get knocked down pop back up and run to the ball. I just trying to get in that mindset like you’re not going to see anything better on a Saturday than what you do see throughout the week, so just trying to steal that in everybody, too.”

Do you notice the pulling and new offensive run scheme?

“Oh, yeah, for sure. I told Miles Frazier today, I ain’t never seen nobody get down in a stretch to the left. I never seen nobody cut out or run out and just run out of there. I tell those guys, when you get beat, you got to understand, it’s the reason you got beat. So let’s attack this reason, let’s get better, let’s go out practice, let’s work on it, let’s get better in team reps. And so in the game, it’s just that much easier.”

On stepping up to the challenge…

“Like I said, this is what I’ve always wanted. It puts a smile on my face that you even said that. It’s like people can either run away from a challenge or you can face it head on. So just where I’ve come from, I’ve been here so long, I know the ins and outs, I know that this is what I have to do to get better and get to the next level. Why not attack it full heartedly every single day? It’s my last day because I don’t know when this game can be taken away from me. So just, I know that I have to go out there. I have to go out there and perform for them. But this is for me too. I need to go out there and make sure I’m crisp so I can go out there Saturday nights and also so I can perform.”

On coaches looking at players in the portal and getting motivation on people doubting them…

“I’ve always had a chip on my shoulder. I know how it is now I know, they’re gonna go get guys. I know that we need a defensive line in this offseason at LSU. So I let I let those guys know I was like ‘Guys, they’re probably not gonna tell you but I tell you, They’re bringing guys here to take our spots.” How do you want to hide? That’s another challenge. How do you want to face that challenge? Do you want to run and like not go as hard as practice now that we got guys here now? Or do you want to go even harder and I know that makes me want to go with harder. When they bring guys in it always makes me want to just go harder.”

On the motivation with more guys in the room at LSU…

“It’s not necessarily a scare tactic, it’s the real. It’s college football now, you have to realize we’re trying to win now. Last year is last year, this year’s this year, so we wanna win now. With the effort that we put on for them [in the spring] in practice, we cannot win with us. But the guys understood that in spring, have worked all summer. Now we’re in fall camp, and it’s like a progression every single day to get better. Just focusing on the smallest, minute things, the defensive line can go such a far way. Today was a tough one. It was hot out there, but like you’re gonna get tested. These days is what we mostly need cuz like what are you gonna do when it gets tough, when we’re in the fourth? Like we’re in the fourth quarter of game, we need you. What are you gonna do? I really appreciate these guys getting up every morning coming here meeting we getting in the meeting. We don’t pre -practice going through our practice and like like some of these guys have never been down south, so it’s tough for them, but I really appreciate those guys for fighting through every time We’ve never like lost a defensive lineman at practice and fall camp. So just keep it just keep pushing through that so I can just preaching them every single day.”