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Speaker 1: Your emotions as of today making the fifty three. That

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Speaker 1: can change, of course, as you know, my emotion is

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Speaker 1: I just you know, I've been trying to stay calm

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Speaker 1: all day. Um, but definitely a milestone for me obviously.

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Speaker 1: Um this excitement. Uh, I'm probably gonna you know, enjoy tonight,

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Speaker 1: just uh have it on my mind, of course, but

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Speaker 1: by tomorrow I'm getting in, I'm resetting and getting right

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Speaker 1: back to work. When you came to camp, what were

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Speaker 1: your thoughts about my facing a big hill or what.

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Speaker 1: Um My thoughts were just, uh, you know, you're playing football, man,

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Speaker 1: and I'm playing football all my life, So my thoughts

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Speaker 1: had just come in and just played the game like

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Speaker 1: I know how to play it. Be coachable, you know, listen,

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Speaker 1: take uh take mental notes from the vets and uh

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Speaker 1: and everything will fall in the right spot. How long

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Speaker 1: did it take you to feel like that you belonged here,

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Speaker 1: from the start of the spring through the early part

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Speaker 1: of training camp. I think it took real flee about

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Speaker 1: that first maybe the first two weeks, man, because you

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Speaker 1: know that the speed of the game is a lot

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Speaker 1: faster than college. Um players are a lot better than college.

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Speaker 1: So I would say the first two weeks. It kind

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Speaker 1: of took me just a mentally mentally get right, you know, like, Okay,

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Speaker 1: this is fast game. But I say, after that first

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Speaker 1: two weeks, man, that was smooth selling, and I knew

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Speaker 1: I was in the right place. I knew I was

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Speaker 1: here to stay just two weeks in the spring or

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Speaker 1: the first two weeks. Two weeks in the spring, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: two weeks in the spring. What what do you what

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Speaker 1: do you think you'd bring to this team? Um, besides

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Speaker 1: the obvious reasons, young legs and cheat, but but just

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Speaker 1: a guy who's always going to be coaching more hard work, ethic,

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Speaker 1: you know. Um, and I'm always one of those guys

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Speaker 1: who was always eager to learn. When people think I'm

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Speaker 1: just quiet and I'm just standing around, I'm eager to

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Speaker 1: learn and I'm I'm always trying to learn something new.

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Speaker 1: People think you're quiet for the most part, especially when

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Speaker 1: I first got here. You know, I was very quiet,

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Speaker 1: very reserved. But uh, yeah, but you're not quiet, No, No,

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Speaker 1: I don't think so. How much have you soaked up

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Speaker 1: from the veterans in your room because you do have

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Speaker 1: big personalities, but also guys who have accomplished a lot

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Speaker 1: lately in this league exactly. Um Man, I can't tell

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Speaker 1: you the magnitude of how severe that these guys have

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Speaker 1: helped me. Man, I've I've learned so much from him,

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Speaker 1: and continuously I'm still learning. Huh. I think every day

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Speaker 1: I get in the mind and the brain of Leo

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Speaker 1: and guys like Danny Shelton. I'm just picking their minds

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Speaker 1: every day, like you know, what can I do here? Better?

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Speaker 1: What can I do here? So I have to tell

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Speaker 1: you man, like I've I've been learning from daily and uh,

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's gonna stop. They'll probably be tired

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Speaker 1: of me about time this end the season over. So

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Speaker 1: shored yourself and probably is in the most well known

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Speaker 1: place around here. I mean, did you get recruited by

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Speaker 1: bigger schools or how did that work out? Yeah? I

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Speaker 1: actually did get recruited by a lot of big schools. Uh,

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Speaker 1: I think what high school? I actually, I'll kind of

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Speaker 1: messed myself up because I was I got elgible laid

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Speaker 1: out of high school. So a lot of my big offers,

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Speaker 1: the ones I was leaning on, like DT Uh, I

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Speaker 1: was talking to usc every day. Clempson and those kind

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Speaker 1: of guys, they kind of backed off, so I ended

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Speaker 1: up falling on with Georgia Southern. You know what, I

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Speaker 1: made this joke a couple of a couple of days ago,

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Speaker 1: the idea that they don't give that ninety one out

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Speaker 1: to just anybody in this building. Did you realize the

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Speaker 1: significance of who wore that number? Oh? Man? Yeah? They went. Man,

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Speaker 1: I remember getting a number and I was like, shee's

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Speaker 1: you know, like I didn't even get drafted, you know,

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Speaker 1: so I'm looking like just crazy because not a lot

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Speaker 1: of people know, and I know a lot a lot

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Speaker 1: of fans know, but I'm a huge Giants fan and

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Speaker 1: I grew up watching Justin Tuck. So just to have

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Speaker 1: the opportunity to have this number was huge to me.

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Speaker 1: And I didn't tell you lightly when did you try

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Speaker 1: to grab money? Was here that one day? Oh yeah?

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Speaker 1: I definitely picked his mind a little bit. Man. We talked,

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Speaker 1: uh and you know, basically saying the same thing that

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Speaker 1: you said. Hey man, anybody can't with this number, so

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Speaker 1: you know you better be right. So I took that

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Speaker 1: in the heart. How nerve wracking were these last twenty

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Speaker 1: four hours? Like did you sleep at all last night?

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Speaker 1: Like what I was going through your head. Oh yeah, man,

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Speaker 1: I just love great. You know my approaches to it,

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Speaker 1: man is you know I've done everything I needed to do.

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Speaker 1: You know, Uh, I worked hard, I play hard. You

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Speaker 1: know I've I've learned. You know, I did everything I

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Speaker 1: I'm a I'm big on controlling the controllables and you know,

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Speaker 1: whether they need me or not, you know, make sure

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Speaker 1: I did everything on my end to put myself in

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Speaker 1: the best possible position. So