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Speaker 1: Kenny. I know it's been said, but you know, quick

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Speaker 1: trip to your new home. What is it like just

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Speaker 1: coming back to Pittsburgh and knowing it's slowly walking across

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Speaker 1: the building. Yeah, it's it's an unbelievable feeling. Um, I

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Speaker 1: really can't put in a word. It still hasn't been

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Speaker 1: twenty four hours yet, so I really just been enjoying

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Speaker 1: it with my family. Hopped on a plane. I'm here now. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, meeting a lot of new people. So it's

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Speaker 1: been great. Uh, Steeler's helmet, you know, lots of names

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Speaker 1: up there. You're gonna be added when you look at that.

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Speaker 1: What's you know what jumps out? Probably just guys that

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Speaker 1: I played with and I played with Quadie Henderson. I

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Speaker 1: looked up to get a chance to play with James,

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Speaker 1: but he was, you know, a rookie in my first

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Speaker 1: year here. So, um, a lot of great players I've

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Speaker 1: come through here and you know now playing next door

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Speaker 1: and I get to join them. Now. When you heard

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Speaker 1: that you were a Steeler coach, Tomlins, the one that

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Speaker 1: called you, it looked like you were bending down, you

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Speaker 1: putting here take me through you know that night? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: as soon as I saw the phone number I knew

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Speaker 1: was you know what what the call was. That that

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Speaker 1: was more of me breaking down and just emotionally just

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Speaker 1: coming overcoming emotions. Just all my hard work pay off

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Speaker 1: and it was special have my family there with me.

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Speaker 1: All right. You know this bench, well I do, uh

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Speaker 1: coach someone's out here a few times with you he did.

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Speaker 1: I mean I would come off, I take my cleats off,

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Speaker 1: and I would watch practice. So that's where kind of

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Speaker 1: we would we would bump bump into each other and

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Speaker 1: just have you know a couple of minutes conversation. It

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Speaker 1: built over those five years. You're forever going to be

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Speaker 1: connected with Dan Marino and what you were able to

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Speaker 1: accomplish a pit. Um, I knew you have a relationship

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Speaker 1: with him. So how has that helped you just you know,

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Speaker 1: get prepared to enter the pros and now that you're

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Speaker 1: staying in Pittsburgh with the Steelers. Yeah, just having you know,

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Speaker 1: the time talk to him before the process started. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, he gave me some great advice and you know,

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Speaker 1: he's someone I know I can reach out to, you know,

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Speaker 1: if I need any advice moving forward. So it's definitely

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Speaker 1: a great connection to have. I wanted to ask you

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Speaker 1: about your parents and just your upbringing. How much did

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Speaker 1: sports play roll in it? Huge? She I mean I

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Speaker 1: was a three sport you know kid growing up, you know,

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Speaker 1: just always playing, and you know my mom was dropping

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Speaker 1: me around. My dad was my coach. So you know,

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Speaker 1: we're just tight family. So that's why, you know, everyone's

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Speaker 1: pretty emotional. I got that call last night and it

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Speaker 1: was a really special moment. All right, let's go to

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Speaker 1: Steelers side. You can lead the way. I think you

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Speaker 1: know where it is. Coach Salmon has mentioned a few

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Speaker 1: things about quarterbacks obviously leading up to this draft in

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Speaker 1: the process, mobility and ultimate competitor. How do you fit

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Speaker 1: those two things? I think those are your two strengths

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Speaker 1: of my game. Um, you know, I feel like I

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Speaker 1: can make a lot of plays outside of the pocket

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Speaker 1: and use my legs and gets something the coach Canada

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Speaker 1: likes to do. And uh, you know, I just I

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Speaker 1: just always want to be the most competitive guy in

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Speaker 1: the building. So I'm excited to join this team and

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Speaker 1: I know that's the mindset every guy in here. I

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Speaker 1: know you have a history with Coach Canada, although you

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Speaker 1: have not played with him yet. Um, is that exciting?

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Speaker 1: Is it weird? You know, how do you feel about,

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Speaker 1: you know, getting a chance to learn from him finally

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Speaker 1: after how many years? Now? Five years now? You have

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Speaker 1: recruited me to pit and I think, get a chance

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Speaker 1: to play for him. And that was the first thing

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Speaker 1: he said when he called me. How you know how

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Speaker 1: great it will be. I can finally play for him,

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Speaker 1: he can coach me. Um, it's been a long time coming,

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Speaker 1: but you know, glad it finally happened. What do you

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Speaker 1: like about his offense? And you know what the Steelers

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Speaker 1: are trying to do? You have nagy? You know they

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Speaker 1: got some reinforcement on the offensive line in free agency, right, Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I mean I think it's a lot of versatility and

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Speaker 1: motions and just trying to confuse the defense. But I

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Speaker 1: know how he installs it. It's pretty simple on our end.

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Speaker 1: So I'm really excited to, you know, hop back into

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Speaker 1: his offense. And I know it changes every year and

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Speaker 1: he's evolving and putting new stuff in, So I'm really

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Speaker 1: excited to learn. All right, the trophies, I know you've

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Speaker 1: seen these before. Um, curious what you knew about the

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Speaker 1: Steelers before you came to pick because you were not

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Speaker 1: a Steelers fan growing up. I was not, but I

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Speaker 1: had some I have some best friends at are so

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Speaker 1: they keep me updated on everything. And uh, if you

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Speaker 1: saw Terrible Towels last night, they were they were the

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Speaker 1: ones who brought him in. So I'm excited to be here.

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Speaker 1: Do you feel like they were manifesting that because I

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Speaker 1: know everybody gets the hats, but the Terrible Towels meant

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Speaker 1: that there were some die hard Pittsburgh Yes, yes, they

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Speaker 1: were definitely manifesting it. And uh, I think they were

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Speaker 1: crying more than I was when I got that call.

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Speaker 1: So it was great. What is the one thing that

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Speaker 1: you want to accomplish as a Pittsburgh Steeler right here?

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Speaker 1: Out of this, out of his trophy kids, and it's

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Speaker 1: just the ultimate goal. It's the ultimate championships. I can't

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Speaker 1: wait to, uh, you know, start chasing that. All right,

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Speaker 1: Thanks Kenny, welcome back, Thank you appreciate