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Speaker 1: Command, this family, welcome into a very very special version

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Speaker 1: of Next Man Up. This one is special because we

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Speaker 1: have one of the greatest to do it of all time.

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Speaker 1: Now this the greatest to do it in a Washington Jersey,

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Speaker 1: but one of the greatest in NFL history to ever

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Speaker 1: play the game. We're talking about wide receiver, one of

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Speaker 1: your favorite wide receivers.

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Speaker 2: I know that for sure. My good brother, Art Monk,

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Speaker 2: All right, how are.

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Speaker 3: You doing so? I'm doing well, man, how are you?

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Speaker 2: Oh man, I'm blessed to have you here.

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Speaker 1: I know you don't do a ton of media, but

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Speaker 1: I know this is a very very special occasion, so

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Speaker 1: we appreciate you taking the time.

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Speaker 2: To jump on with us.

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Speaker 3: Sure, glad to be on with you, yes, sir.

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Speaker 1: And of course that special occasion is getting your jersey retired.

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Speaker 2: Now your jersey is crazy.

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Speaker 1: Your jersey is the only jersey, only Redskins jersey that

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Speaker 1: a young boy grew up in California owned. I found

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Speaker 1: it in a like not a pond shot, but like

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Speaker 1: what a thrift store in that our Monk jersey was

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Speaker 1: hanging there looking good. And then I learned all about you.

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Speaker 1: You became one of my favorite wide receivers. So first

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Speaker 1: things first, thank you. When you think about that jersey,

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Speaker 1: it's going to be retired and infamy.

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Speaker 2: Now, what did it mean to you to find that out?

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Speaker 4: Well, obviously it's a very special honor. I mean, you know,

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Speaker 4: I started playing this game because I just loved to play.

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Speaker 4: I didn't think anything about I didn't even think about winning.

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Speaker 4: I mean, obviously when you want to win when you

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Speaker 4: I just wanted to play it and anytime I had

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Speaker 4: a chance to do so. And it's talking about when

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Speaker 4: I was younger, I did, but and then doing that

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Speaker 1: And that love of the game really showed, and I

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Speaker 2: But not only a teammates, not only the coaching staff,

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Speaker 2: but this fan base. Where did that love of the

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 4: I grew up in the streets of New York white

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Speaker 1: I don't know the name of those friends that got

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Speaker 3: Insane, that's right.

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Speaker 1: So when you're on the street right you're playing with

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Speaker 3: Not at all, man.

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Speaker 4: It just my love for the game never took me

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Speaker 4: Like I said, I started as an offense and deep

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Speaker 1: Well, sometimes God's plans bigger than ours, and it was

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Speaker 2: We speak so highly of you having them there, the Posse,

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Speaker 2: your people's there. Yeah, what did that mean to you?

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Speaker 1: Knowing all the blood, sweat and tears that y'all shared

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Speaker 3: Well, I couldn't. I don't know if I'd be.

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Speaker 4: If I would have been where I was if it

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Speaker 3: And so I mean, yeah, I can. I can stand

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Speaker 4: Take all the credit, sit here and take all the credit,

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Speaker 1: And you hear that to every member of the Posse

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 2: You had the Posse and then you had the fun bunch.

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Speaker 1: So I got to ask, it's like a fan, what

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Speaker 3: Well, it was a lot of fun, I'll tell you what. Practice.

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Speaker 4: And you know, so I a lot I'm like, especially

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Speaker 4: Time, man, it was just we fed off of each other,

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Speaker 4: We challenged each other. Like I said, it just if

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Speaker 1: All Right, it's so flat talking to you guys, because

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Speaker 1: y'all are literally like the best at what you guys did.

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Speaker 1: But instead of talking about yourselves, you'll always found a

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Speaker 1: Now we gotta show you your flowers.

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Speaker 2: It gives you so love though you're very humble.

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Speaker 1: But not many guys can have three super Bowls with

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Speaker 1: Some guys barely get it with one quarterback. They play

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Speaker 4: Super Bowls, Well, it was just I immediately think of

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Speaker 4: Coach Gibbs and just him always calling us together and saying, look,

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Speaker 3: You are you can't go by your You're not by

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Speaker 4: You can't survive, you won't succeed without the other. And

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Speaker 2: And it takes a whole team to find that success, right.

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Speaker 1: But in order to be involved in success, especially through

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Speaker 1: That is something that I think everybody that knows you

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Speaker 2: Guy got it done. He was consistent, He did things consecutively.

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Speaker 1: How do you manage, especially in the league where we

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Speaker 4: Well, first of all, you just you just have to

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Speaker 3: And so.

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Speaker 4: You know, I didn't take any shortcuts. You know, I

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Speaker 4: that first my rookie year, the over the Hill gang

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Speaker 3: So it's just always that extra that gave.

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Speaker 1: And it's so great to hear the people from that

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Speaker 1: These guys talk about it their family, They believe in

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Speaker 1: I don't think there is a prouder fan base than

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Speaker 1: Can you put into words what it means for this

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Speaker 4: Well, it's it's hard to describe the our fan base.

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Speaker 3: Has for their team, for their home team.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, every every team says that, you know, our fans

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Speaker 4: And we would not have we would not have won

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Speaker 2: You know, are you not going to get any arguments

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Speaker 1: I've seen in real time how this fan based travels,

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Speaker 2: Now, I said it to start three ser.

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Speaker 4: Well, in order to move forward, you always got to

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Speaker 4: Well, I gosh, it's really really hard to say. And

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Speaker 4: I could not I would not be here. Well, i'd

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Speaker 2: Well, it's definitely a team game. However, it can't be

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Speaker 1: What you were able to do for so long, what

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Speaker 2: This fan base.

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Speaker 1: You mean so much to us, so I cannot wait

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Speaker 1: that only our Monk can truly were Art. Thank you

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Speaker 1: so much for your time, brother. We appreciate you, and

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Speaker 3: Well, thank you, thank you so much. I'm looking forward

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Speaker 1: Sir, command this family, our next man up, one of

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Speaker 2: Thanks to Art Monk. Thank you, sir.

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Speaker 3: All right, thank you too. Man all right now,