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Speaker 1: All right, welcome back to colts camp. First full padded

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Speaker 1: practice here in Westfield's just wrapped up. We greatly appreciate

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Speaker 1: the patients of our next guest, JT. Twomloa was with

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Speaker 1: us here in Westfield. JT, how you doing, man?

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Speaker 2: I'm doing great. How are you guys? Man?

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Speaker 1: How was day one in full pads?

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Speaker 2: It was great.

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Speaker 3: I feel like I have been put on paths in

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Speaker 3: a minute. But it's glad to be back home.

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Speaker 1: Do you did you circle this one?

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Speaker 2: Was this one?

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Speaker 1: You know a guy in the trenches that you kind

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Speaker 1: of look forward to this day. The first four it's like,

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Speaker 3: On, Yeah, I mean I feel like if you're not

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Speaker 3: looking forward to a first full padded practice, something is wrong.

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Speaker 3: But you know, this is when I was like, man,

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Speaker 4: So obviously, you come from a program that is one

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Speaker 4: it been like, what's the biggest difference between college and

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I would say you're you're on your own in

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Speaker 3: now it's you know, how do I be my own coach,

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Speaker 3: my own motivator. There's not You don't have a coach

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Speaker 3: Mick to threaten you if you're late, if you're laid,

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Speaker 3: that's on you. So I think here's just how bad

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Speaker 3: do you want it? And you know how much self

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Speaker 4: So actually, one follow up on that because I've heard

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Speaker 4: players talk about the transition from college in the NFL

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Speaker 4: and you don't have like you have your draftmates and

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Speaker 4: I don't know if it's harder the right word, but

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Speaker 3: Yes, at first I was like, man, you know, I'm

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Speaker 2: But when I came in one you do it.

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Speaker 3: You still have to earn your respect, but too, it's

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Speaker 2: The little little little brother right now. But I mean

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Speaker 3: I think it's a very great family aspect. And talking

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Speaker 1: It's the proud of Ohio State had a hell of

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Speaker 1: put that to the side for a second. Congrats. Your

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Speaker 1: Riley Leonard. The amount of smack that you have slid

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Speaker 4: So this is why God gives people talents, because no

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Speaker 3: Oh, I mean, I just feel like you don't really

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Speaker 1: How would you describe lou Anarimo as a defensive coordinator?

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Speaker 3: He's always a coaching to be at your best, and

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Speaker 3: Blessed to have, and especially those those attributes are those

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Speaker 4: When you lined up against a certain player for the

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Speaker 3: I think, yeah, I say the whole line. I mean,

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Speaker 2: So but it's fun always.

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Speaker 1: Number ninety one. Was there any reason behind that? I

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Speaker 3: And I think that kind of keeps the tradition going off.

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Speaker 3: How I've always had my numbers. It's always been like

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Speaker 3: that was what they had in high school. Thirty three

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Speaker 1: Now rookies, I remember this in years past. I don't

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Speaker 1: if they still do it. Did you have to like

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Speaker 3: I think snacks is like it doesn't really show how

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Speaker 1: Okay, walk us through the grocery list.

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Speaker 3: Oh man, so you know I'm a man of varieties.

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Speaker 2: Okay, we got all over.

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Speaker 3: You got from chips to not just any chocolates, the

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Speaker 2: Where are you going?

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Speaker 1: You're going to the local grocery chocolate shops.

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Speaker 3: You have to go to Target because they love Joey

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Speaker 3: which I've known of. You know, I have to go

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Speaker 4: And so along the lines of the unseerious questions we're

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Speaker 4: and you hoop like a football player. You looked at

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Speaker 4: take us through the decision to one choose football, but

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I take pride in my basketball skills.

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Speaker 3: I always tell the boys, like, you know, I'm humble guy,

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Speaker 1: So you would bet Riley Leonard won on one basket.

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Speaker 3: I already told you that that's the only smack talk.

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Speaker 3: he can play. And I don't know if our teams

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Speaker 3: Always came out on top of but but yeah, the

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Speaker 2: And I was like, oh, well, there goes, there goes basketball.

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Speaker 3: But still it's it's it's always funny to get get

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Speaker 1: Twoy malooting his time here in Westfield. You know, I

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Speaker 3: Man, that's hard, that's hard. I don't think there's I

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Speaker 3: don't think there's one person I can choose from. I mean,

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Speaker 3: I talked to so many guys in there, like Buck Man.

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Speaker 3: But Buck's been doing this for a long time and

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Speaker 3: lot to the way he bends. Uh Taekwan Equitty's power,

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Speaker 3: just how they set it up from Sosa's get off.

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Speaker 2: I mean, there's you can just go on and on.

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Speaker 3: So I always try to, you know, make sure my

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Speaker 2: So what would they take from you? Do you think?

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Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know yet.

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Speaker 3: Hopefully they take, hopefully to take my power. Hopefully that

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Speaker 3: will be a compliment if they said they'll take my power.

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Speaker 2: But I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I think I still got to show more to have

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Speaker 3: that statement, have an answer to it.

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Speaker 2: O JT.

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Speaker 1: We can't thank you enough.

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Speaker 2: Man.

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Speaker 1: We hope Indie treats you well. You know, you're a

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Speaker 1: long ways away from home home, but you know from

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Speaker 1: Ohio state since little Midwest hospitality hopefully is here. And

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Speaker 1: thank you very much for being patient with us and

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Speaker 1: hopping on of.

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Speaker 2: Course, no problem. Appreciate you guys. Man,