Q.  "Friday Night Lights" will be premiering a new season shortly, what can viewers expect to see?

A.  I am trying to win the State Championship and Joe McCoy is breathing down our neck.  It has a lot of twists and turns this year and it looks like an exciting season.

Q.  What originally made you want to be a part of the show?

A.  I am from Texas and I'm a football guy.  We live and bleed football out in Texas and it's a great project to be a part of.  The industry itself loves the show and NBC is a great network to be a part of and the people.  I had the opportunity to work with Jeffery Reiner a long time ago on a project for NBC called "Surface."  That was the first project I did when I started acting about four and a half years ago.  He was one of the directors of "Friday Night Lights"' and he hired me in episode two to be a private swim coach.  We shot it but they ended up cutting it and going a different direction.  Last season they had an opening for a new private coach for the quarterback position.  I was brought in, read for it, and it was just a good fit.  I would work with him again any time, he's just an amazing director, and I really, really enjoy working with him.  Now when you have people like Kyle Chandler, Connie Britton, and all of the kids, it's a great group of friends, it's like a big family.  There is a lot of freedom, Peter Berg came in and shot the first few episodes and the way they shoot the show with giving the actor freedom to create the character.  We pretty much get to say what we want to say as long as we keep it in the direction that it needs to go.

Q.  Where do you continue to draw from for your portrayal?

A.  I brought my own element!  My coach from high school, Coach David Williams, is my complete inspiration for my character.  That man had a lot to do with my growth and who I am today as a person.  He was just a hell o a coach, he was stern in he had harsh words when he would say them, but you knew he meant well.  He was very active with the kids, and that's what I am on field, I am really active with all of the players.  I am getting in their face, I'm blocking them, I'm throwing them around, and showing them things on a positive level.  Coach Williams was like that, he was always in our face, so what better role model to use?

Q.  Is there anything about the role that challenges you?

A.  Every day you want to make sure you're staying true to him.  I want to do the character justice.  His background is that he's a USC quarterback and he played for the Kansas City Chiefs and he got injured.  He started off being a private head coach for rich families who have young and upcoming sons who want to be quarterback.  I didn't want him to have arrogance, I wanted him to be sincere and true to who he was.  I wanted him to have passion behind that and I think that was the biggest challenge at first.  The third season when they introduced me, Kyle and I were talking, and he's just a hell of a nice guy.