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Speaker 1: All right, Welcome back to Chargers Weekly with wide receiver

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Speaker 1: Andre Patton after joy practices with the Saints. A long

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Speaker 1: one today, a hot one today. Andrea, how are you man?

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Speaker 1: I'm feeling good. It was a little toasty out there today,

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Speaker 1: a little toasty. It's always fun to see you guys

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Speaker 1: interact with another NFL team, another solid NFL team. We

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Speaker 1: talked about the Rams last week. The Saint's coming to

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Speaker 1: town today. Absolutely, it feels good to get new faces

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Speaker 1: and getting new people out there because you know, in

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Speaker 1: cam you're gonna get your your own defense every day.

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Speaker 1: So to finally get up and be able to go

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Speaker 1: against other dbs and another different defense and their style

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Speaker 1: of defense, it actually feels good. Yeah. I saw you

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Speaker 1: link up with Phil in eleven or eleven. It's made

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Speaker 1: a nice snag. Oh yeah, grab a little snack. You know,

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Speaker 1: I love being out there with Phil because he's just

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Speaker 1: able to teach me more than you know, more than

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Speaker 1: I know. Sure, being out there and be able to

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Speaker 1: get that chemistry down now and practice is key and

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Speaker 1: vital so we can do it door the season, no doubt.

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Speaker 1: And you guys are always working after practice. You and

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Speaker 1: Jeremy or Tavis and you guys get a very solid

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Speaker 1: wide receiver's room starting with Keenan and Mike and Travis.

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Speaker 1: What's it like working with those guys on a daily

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Speaker 1: basis Andrea on a daily basis? You know, it's it's work.

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Speaker 1: You gotta go to work every day, and you know

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Speaker 1: there's gonna be days you come in and not feeling

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Speaker 1: like it. But with the type of guys and the

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Speaker 1: type of characters of the guys we got in our room,

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Speaker 1: you know, when one's down, we picked them up. So

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Speaker 1: there's every day we're not coming out here, and you

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Speaker 1: know every day is not a good day, but every

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Speaker 1: day we're gonna you know, we're gonna work hard and

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Speaker 1: do everything. We kind to be one of the toughest

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Speaker 1: receivers groups in the league. Well what's great about it too,

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Speaker 1: is you know, obviously there's competition at the wide receiver three,

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Speaker 1: four or five position. This goes on and on there,

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Speaker 1: but you guys pick each other rough and you're rooting

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Speaker 1: for each other. I saw Jeremy make a play in

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Speaker 1: that Monday night practice and the first person I saw

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Speaker 1: cheering them on it was you, you know, so it's

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Speaker 1: it's cool to see just the camaraderie. Even though you

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Speaker 1: guys are quote unquote in competition, you're really not because

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Speaker 1: it's you know, you guys just make each other better,

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Speaker 1: right exactly. It's like we're making each other better, but

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Speaker 1: there there are sometimes mistakes and practice, and you know,

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Speaker 1: we get on each other. We were each other accountable,

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Speaker 1: right exactly. We hold each other accountable. Rather than hearing

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Speaker 1: it from the coaches. Yeah, that's great, and your wide

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Speaker 1: receivers coach, what's he meant to the wide receiver's room, Phil?

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Speaker 1: I think he's been a big part of just my

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Speaker 1: development within these last two years. You know, one year

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Speaker 1: kind of being my developmental year and getting a playbook

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Speaker 1: under my belt and learning from the older guys that

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Speaker 1: was on the team, and then last year with him

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Speaker 1: coming in kind of had to put me in a

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Speaker 1: whole different perspective because he made me learn the whole

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Speaker 1: offense and not just one position where I can just

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Speaker 1: limit myself and not be a bigger value to the

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Speaker 1: team with only playing one position, but learning the whole offense,

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Speaker 1: the f the acts, Z, the Y concepts. I think

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Speaker 1: with just when me learn the concepts, I'm able to

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Speaker 1: come out here on the field and just play faster

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Speaker 1: and not even think about it anything, no doubt. How

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Speaker 1: does that translate from last year to this year? Do

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Speaker 1: you feel more comfortable in the system? Oh? Absolutely, I

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Speaker 1: feel more comfortable just hearing the plays. I mean our

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Speaker 1: qbs have they speak different, so sometimes you gotta, you know,

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Speaker 1: hone in and lock in a little bit more when

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Speaker 1: you're in there with field rather than cordell or or

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Speaker 1: or even Easton some of the younger guys. But Um,

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Speaker 1: this year is just holding another level of confidence. It's

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Speaker 1: just I just feel good going out there well and

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Speaker 1: you can see it. I mean you can see the

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Speaker 1: confidence I've seen you in seven on sevens eleven eleven

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Speaker 1: period making plays. Um used to do yoga. Do you

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Speaker 1: still do yoga? Oh yeah, I do yoga. I try to, can't.

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Speaker 1: I don't do it as much now because you know,

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Speaker 1: with camp and stuff, But during the season I do

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Speaker 1: it at least twice a week. Is it an off

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Speaker 1: season thing too, you get your get your minor body right?

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah. I like to do it for my mobility

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Speaker 1: and keep me lanky out. I'm real lanky, so I'd

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Speaker 1: like to be very flexible. Big big offseason thing. But

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Speaker 1: during the year, also during the season, I also like

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Speaker 1: would you work on this offseason in an effort to

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Speaker 1: get to that next step? And obviously it's one thing

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Speaker 1: with the system. But just as a player, just as

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Speaker 1: an NFL wide receiver, what did you do this offseason?

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Speaker 1: I worked on my strength a little bit before I

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Speaker 1: even get to that. I also switched my diet. I'm

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Speaker 1: vegan now, Okay, so when did you start that? I

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Speaker 1: actually started not too long ago, almost about two months,

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Speaker 1: two months ago. So I haven't eaten meat, no, no dairy,

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Speaker 1: no eggs. Okay, explain that. So it's no dairy, it's

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Speaker 1: no meat, it's no eggs. So what's what's a typical breakfast, lunch,

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Speaker 1: and dinner look like for you? Typical breakfast for me

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Speaker 1: is I like to go with my oats. I go

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Speaker 1: with some oatmeal, some fruit, strawberries, blueberries. I used. That's

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Speaker 1: using my go to for my fruit strawberry blueberries. Okay.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes I throwing the banana or or some some pineapples,

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Speaker 1: depending on what they got in the calf. And then

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Speaker 1: depending on what I feel like for for dinner or lunch,

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Speaker 1: I usually eat around the same thing. I might have

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Speaker 1: a salad, I throw beans, black beans in it, peanuts,

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Speaker 1: what else. Crazings. I always go with the balsamic vinegar.

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Speaker 1: That's the best. So what kind of flipped the switch

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Speaker 1: for you to do that? I was actually influenced from

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Speaker 1: one of my friends back home. Okay, so you know,

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Speaker 1: she put me on Game and she started sending me

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Speaker 1: a lot of videos and just I give her a

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Speaker 1: shout give her a shout out, Lindsay Webb. Lindsay Webb.

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Speaker 1: She knows who she is, all right, Lindsay. Yeah, she

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Speaker 1: put me on Game and she just started sending me

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Speaker 1: a lot of videos just to kind of like opened

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Speaker 1: my eyes and show me like what the meat industry

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Speaker 1: a lot of people if you actually watched those videos

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Speaker 1: and how they deal with their meat, then like it

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Speaker 1: will kind of make you sick as well. So the

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Speaker 1: big thing about going vegan is just you know, just

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Speaker 1: got to do your research. Yeah, because if one question

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Speaker 1: everyone always asked me is where are you going to

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Speaker 1: subtitute for your protein. But you get protein and a

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Speaker 1: lot of stuff plant based stuff, plant based. I even

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Speaker 1: and they were talking about diets, and Justin was talking

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Speaker 1: was talking about the Beyond Burgers Beyond Burgers. Yeah, Davis

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Speaker 1: Square wasn't a fan, I don't think, but with the

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Speaker 1: Beyond Burgers he said, he said, he, uh, he's seen

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Speaker 1: the results and if it's not broked, and keep doing

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Speaker 1: it right, Yeah, exactly, even with the Beyond Burgers. Like

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Speaker 1: I think, it's once you eat it, it's like, oh

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Speaker 1: it's different, but it gots that acquired taste. But once

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Speaker 1: you get that taste, buddy, you're good. Like to be honest, like,

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Speaker 1: if I'm around meat, like meat, chicken, beef, it smells.

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Speaker 1: You can't do it anymore now. It just smells so bad.

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Speaker 1: And you used to eat a lot of meat though

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Speaker 1: I did, but it wasn't it wasn't like a lot,

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Speaker 1: a lot. I would probably eat like maybe like chicken

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Speaker 1: once or twice a week. Yeah, probably eat some meat

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Speaker 1: or a piece of steak. But I wasn't a really

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Speaker 1: big eating meat eater. Wow that's interesting. You know, it

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Speaker 1: makes you think about your diet, you know, especially if

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Speaker 1: you see the results on the field too. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean it's one thing obviously you do it for

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Speaker 1: you know, off the field purposes as well, but if

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Speaker 1: you're seeing the results, if you feel a little bit faster,

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Speaker 1: gonna give you an edge. It definitely makes my body

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Speaker 1: feel good coming out of here practice. Name feel I

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Speaker 1: feel a difference, especially in the mornings. The morning time

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Speaker 1: I wake up, I got I got a lot of energy,

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Speaker 1: Like as soon as I wake up. Yeah, that's great,

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Speaker 1: that's great. I drive, I look at this secondary and

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Speaker 1: I saw third one had to pick today, And they

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Speaker 1: run into the end zone and celebrate, the jack Boys celebrating.

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Speaker 1: How has it been going up against those guys on

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Speaker 1: a daily basis? They have to make the wide receiving

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Speaker 1: corps better? Oh? Absolutely, absolutely, because you know you got Gus,

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Speaker 1: you got Gus Bradley or DC, and he throw a

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Speaker 1: lot of different stuff out us. So as the receivers

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Speaker 1: sometimes it's hard to determine what defense they're in. So

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Speaker 1: going up against them every day sometimes we may we

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Speaker 1: may go out there, we not. We don't even know

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Speaker 1: what looked they're gonna give us. But just to just

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Speaker 1: knowing that we got those good players on the other

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Speaker 1: makes us work even harder. So you know, at the

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Speaker 1: end of practice, when you look at the film, you

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Speaker 1: just like, dang, you got both sides of the balls

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Speaker 1: going strength for strength exactly. Great competition, I mean, and

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Speaker 1: be honest, you wouldn't want to You won't want to

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Speaker 1: and just abusing every day. You know you're not gonna

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Speaker 1: get better exactly. You know, don't get better that way. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you got your defense. You got the Saints in the

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Speaker 1: Rams defense, I mean, two teams from the NFC Championship

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Speaker 1: Game last year. So to get that work in Sunday,

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Speaker 1: I imagine you'll be getting a lot of run. You

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Speaker 1: gotta be looking forward to these next few weeks as

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Speaker 1: you get ready for twenty nineteen. Absolutely absolutely, you know

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Speaker 1: the preseason because you didn't play week one, right, No,

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Speaker 1: I did not play week one, but week two I'm

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Speaker 1: looking forward to looking forward to make some plays out there.

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Speaker 1: That's great man. We're looking forward to seeing you. I

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Speaker 1: Drake Patton appreciate your time, but absolutely appreciate you