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Speaker 1: We're at Graham Park again after another day of practice

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Speaker 1: for the colts Man. It was so cool to have

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Speaker 1: seven thousand plus fans here and obviously the team feeding

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Speaker 1: off the energy joining us now is Julian Blackman. Julian,

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Speaker 1: my first question to you is, how are you doing this?

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Speaker 1: You are nine months removed from ripping apart your achilles

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Speaker 1: and it's like it never happened. How how are you

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Speaker 1: doing this? Um? You know, through faith, keeping my body,

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Speaker 1: my mind, and my spirit all attack together, and you know,

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Speaker 1: just trusting the process because at the end of the day,

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Speaker 1: stay positive and you know, don't allow these kind of

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Speaker 1: things to hurt my spirit, I will be okay. And

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Speaker 1: so far I am. So it's just a blessing to

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Speaker 1: be back. I mean you said last year that, like

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Speaker 1: you said, it's it's it's a blessing that it happened.

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Speaker 1: Why do you think that, I mean, that's that's so.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's all about perspective. That's unbelievable perspective. I

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Speaker 1: truly believe that anything good doesn't come through just success.

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Speaker 1: I feel like greatness comes through you know, those hiccups

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Speaker 1: that you have and you know how you respond. Um,

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Speaker 1: that's the biggest thing for me. So I felt like,

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Speaker 1: you know, these two setbacks for me were just things

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Speaker 1: you know, so far I have and so it's just

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Speaker 1: meant a blessing to be able to be here now.

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Speaker 1: With that, one of the things that you mentioned early

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Speaker 1: on is that you're good at the rehab process. Now,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure part of it it's you know, the physical,

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Speaker 1: feel you're ahead of that curve? Is that mental part

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Speaker 1: of it? Absolutely? I feel like the mental is actually

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Speaker 1: more important than the physical because you know, day in

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Speaker 1: like groundhog day, man. But you know, being able to

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Speaker 1: with that, with that physical part of it. Was there

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Speaker 1: something with the achilles that you wanted to see yourself

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Speaker 1: something with your athletic ability that you're able to do

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Speaker 1: the kind of said all right, I feel like I'm there.

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Speaker 1: For me, I think it was just being able to

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Speaker 1: sustain jumping on my left foot by itself, getting my

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Speaker 1: it's all calf work. And so just for me, I

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Speaker 1: So for me, as soon as I knew that I

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Speaker 1: You know, it's not on the back of your mind,

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Speaker 1: things that you're doing to prevent it from happening again? Well, man,

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Speaker 1: it's the schedule that I set out. It's very important

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Speaker 1: don't you worry about me. Well, one of the things,

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Speaker 1: let's announce his retirement. You've got Rodney mccleoud they brought

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Speaker 1: It's just it's just really good to have another guy

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Speaker 1: Um and talking about Rodney McCloud, the way that he

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Speaker 1: want to follow a guy like that. He's a good leader.

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Speaker 1: And with Nick Man, Nick's a smart, a talented kid.

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Speaker 1: It's just you know, getting him to understand, you know,

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Speaker 1: for him, what is that biggest gap mentally going from

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Speaker 1: It's those minimal things, man, because he's very good everything else.

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Speaker 1: But you know, like just like anyone, you know, there's

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Speaker 1: Sell he's doing well and we just hope to help

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Speaker 1: him keep going. All right, the Gus Bradley defense, it's

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Speaker 1: you know, they kind of are like, hey, man, like

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Speaker 1: of Yannik and got exactly Man, how important is that

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Speaker 1: that's how we get we all get paid. It's Julian

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Speaker 1: Blackman right there. There's no doubt about that. You're getting

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Speaker 1: crazy thing is, like we've been talking all off season.

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Speaker 1: You guys had thirty three takeaways as a defense last year,

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Speaker 1: and now hypothetically, hopefully you're going to have more pressure

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Speaker 1: over there. Exactly, and that's what the coaches told us. Man,

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Speaker 1: You talked about Stefan Gilmore, he talked the other day

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Speaker 1: Julian Blackman doesn't look like a young guy. When you

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Speaker 1: Roddy McCloud winning a Super Bowl, Stefan Gilmore same. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that to just the locker room. It's very important because

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Speaker 1: You watch those guys and you follow those guys, sooner

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Speaker 1: or later, you're gonna see, Okay, this team's got a chance,

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Speaker 1: can talk a little bit about Cary Willis. Did he

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Speaker 1: consult in you or confide in you about his decision

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Speaker 1: to retire? Yes, sir, so um that was And honestly, man,

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