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Speaker 1: Hey, welcome to Andy j. Congratulations, thank you very much.

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Speaker 2: Super excited to be here.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, good, good. So it looks like you've had so

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Speaker 1: much happen on the fly in the last few years.

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Speaker 1: You know, there's been a transfer. You were a tight end,

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Speaker 1: You've gone from one side of the line to the other.

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Speaker 1: What's that been like? And then of course now you're

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Speaker 1: going to the NFL. How has that been? Having to

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Speaker 1: adapt so much?

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Speaker 2: Man, it's been you know a lot of changes. Like

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Speaker 2: I said, I've just had to be be open to everything,

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Speaker 2: you know, be a sponge when it comes to learning.

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Speaker 2: And that's how I've you know, help howe I've succeeded

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Speaker 2: playing you know, basketball, then football and then two positions

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Speaker 2: in football. You know, I've just learned, learned from a

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Speaker 2: lot of guys, you know, trying to trying to be

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Speaker 2: a sponge, like I said, and just take everything in.

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Speaker 3: George Bremmer, Big Will is today like waiting to hear

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Speaker 3: your name being called?

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Speaker 1: And when did the fact that you might be a

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Speaker 1: draft pick become a reality for you?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? You know leading up to the draft. You know,

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Speaker 2: after the Pro day we started get a lot of

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Speaker 2: attention and after that you know, it was all speculation

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Speaker 2: towards the end of the draft, and you know, as

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Speaker 2: the rounds were going on, you know, he obviously things

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Speaker 2: are happening. But you know, the Colts, you guys took

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Speaker 2: the chance on me, and I'm super excited for it.

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Speaker 1: James Boyd Jicks, what I understand.

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Speaker 4: I believe you took a year off from playing you know,

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Speaker 4: football or competitive sports. You've explained just well, just in detail,

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Speaker 4: what pushed you back towards the game, and i'd imagine

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Speaker 4: you think that decision might have paid off a little

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Speaker 4: bit here.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, absolutely. You know, originally I transferred from Michigan Tech,

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Speaker 2: which transferred to Northern Michigan, and I was just you know,

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Speaker 2: just there for my studies for that first semester. I

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Speaker 2: walked on to the team that spring of twenty twenty,

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Speaker 2: and you know, I had a good people in my

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Speaker 2: corner that got me back into it, and you know,

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Speaker 2: it was all about dedication. At that point. I had

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Speaker 2: a full year of COVID that just allowed me to

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Speaker 2: practice sharpen up my game, you know, coming from the

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Speaker 2: high school eight man level to the college eleven man.

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Speaker 2: So you know, that full COVID year was great, and

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Speaker 2: now we're here, all right, We'll.

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Speaker 4: Go a couple more here in Nate Atkins.

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Speaker 3: Hey, Jay, congratulations. I'm just wondering that, after what you

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Speaker 3: just saw about after sitting a year out, coming back

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Speaker 3: kind of late, was the NFL ever on your radar?

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Speaker 3: Did you did you think that this was something out

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Speaker 3: there for you? Is that is your Rives kind of

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Speaker 3: surprised you at all?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I knew I would test well and

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Speaker 2: he's going to be very athletic, you know, in the

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Speaker 2: sport of football. When I originally went out, you know,

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Speaker 2: I got a couple of years of film under my belt,

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Speaker 2: and I started to get the attention of a couple

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Speaker 2: of teams at the league, and you know that that's

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Speaker 2: what really started to kind of domino effect that for me.

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Speaker 2: I got that they had attention from a couple of teams,

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Speaker 2: and then you know, I started looking at some some

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Speaker 2: agents and you know, we've got to work in the

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Speaker 2: spring and the rest is history.

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Speaker 1: All right, Jake Arthur, it seems like you've really kind

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Speaker 1: of started to pop, especially since this this really nice workout.

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Speaker 1: What's your communication with the coltsman like throughout the pre

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Speaker 1: draft process?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know the we're one of the first first

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Speaker 2: teams that actually reached out to me, you know, well

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Speaker 2: before the pro day, and you know, we had good conversations,

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Speaker 2: good interviews with them. You know they obviously at the

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Speaker 2: PRODA we had we had interviews. Then you know, I

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Speaker 2: had a private workout with the Colts a couple of

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Speaker 2: weeks ago, and you know, it's just been great. You know,

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Speaker 2: it's been as the process has unfolded. You know, the

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Speaker 2: Colts have continued to be there as a team that

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Speaker 2: was you know, backing me and wanting me, you know,

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Speaker 2: part of that program the entire time. So I'm just

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Speaker 2: super excited, you know, to be be in Indianapolis and

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Speaker 2: be with a program that you know has has shown

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Speaker 2: that love and support for me since the start.

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Speaker 4: All right, and the last one here, James, can you

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Speaker 4: take us through today, like did you plan on watching

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Speaker 4: the draft? Did you just Hey, I'm gonna go get

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Speaker 4: my head clear and whatever happens if I get a call,

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Speaker 4: like he give us behind the scenes of getting the call,

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Speaker 4: maybe just leading up to you know getting that that

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Speaker 4: that uh, that biggest call your.

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Speaker 2: Life, I would imagine, Yeah, No, biggest call of life

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Speaker 2: for sure. I mean, that's a good way to put it.

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Speaker 2: And I was just here hanging out with family. You know,

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Speaker 2: we're watching the many friends watching the draft, and you

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Speaker 2: were kind of looking at the tackles that are being taken,

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Speaker 2: and you know, the teams that I had corresponded with previously,

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Speaker 2: and watching the draft unfold, started receiving a lot of

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Speaker 2: calls and the you know, sixth and the early seventh round,

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Speaker 2: you know timeframe, and you know, things worked out here

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Speaker 2: and I couldn't be happy. It couldn't be in a

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Speaker 2: better place. So