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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Ozone Podcast presented by by Star Credit

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Speaker 1: with Jaguars senior writer John Osan. All Right, welcome into

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Speaker 1: this week's Ozone podcast. And I'm excited about this. He

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Speaker 1: hasn't been a guest on the Ozone Podcast in a

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Speaker 1: couple of years, but anytime you get a chance to

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Speaker 1: talk to Jaguars outside linebacker Josh Allen, it's a good day,

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Speaker 1: a lot of insight, and I know he's excited about

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Speaker 1: this season. First of all, Josh, welcome, Thank you, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: thank you for having me on. And like you said,

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Speaker 1: it's been a minute. I'm glad the covid is over.

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Speaker 1: You know, have fun last night with the fans. So

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Speaker 1: it's good, tough like going slowly getting back into the

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Speaker 1: groove of normalcy. So, uh, thank you for having me on,

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Speaker 1: and I'm excited to talk. Now. Why is what I

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Speaker 1: said at the top true? Why are you excited about

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Speaker 1: this season? I know there's a lot of reasons, but

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Speaker 1: I want to hear your reason. Uh mainly, you know,

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Speaker 1: for first off, man is what I can bring to

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Speaker 1: this team. Uh so I'm excited about that. Uh. Like

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Speaker 1: I said, man, for shoot, I'm still working, I'm still

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Speaker 1: trying to find my craps. I'm still trying to put

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Speaker 1: the pieces together, but I know I'm taking the strates

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Speaker 1: to where I need to be. And uh So, I'm

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Speaker 1: confident in my game right now. If I know, if

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Speaker 1: I stay committed, to stay true to what I do,

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Speaker 1: uh you know, it's gonna it's gonna come through. Uh

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Speaker 1: So I know with that the confidence my confidence is

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Speaker 1: is really high right now and it's gonna continue to

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Speaker 1: stay high, ups and downs, whatever, I'm going to continue

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Speaker 1: to go and continue to work. Uh So, just having

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Speaker 1: that mentality for me, man, I feel like your best

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Speaker 1: players has to be the best place every week to

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Speaker 1: win in this league. And you know, I want to

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Speaker 1: be one of those guys that can contribute a lot

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Speaker 1: every week. And for this team, Man, we just got

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Speaker 1: we got weapons, we got offensively, defensively, special teams. Uh

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Speaker 1: I think we got a really good group here. I'm

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Speaker 1: It's been and again, I know players don't want to

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Speaker 1: talk down what's going on in the past in terms

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Speaker 1: of either teammates, et cetera. But from listening to you,

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Speaker 1: you truly believe I think that this is the best

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Speaker 1: roster you've been around, just like from offensively and defensively.

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Speaker 1: I think it. I think it is, and I think

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Speaker 1: it is. I'm excited about this group. I feel like

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Speaker 1: we are a young group, but we're a young experienced,

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Speaker 1: you know group. You know, we have guys that came

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Speaker 1: in this year that had success in the league. For

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Speaker 1: you you know, I'm saying he got the NFL and tackles.

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Speaker 1: It's hard to do that to be as smart as

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Speaker 1: he is to run to the ball, to be physical,

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Speaker 1: to have the mindset of you know what your job is,

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Speaker 1: and you communicate that through all everybody each that he's

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Speaker 1: that guy. That's that's how, that's O milbacker. And having

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Speaker 1: a guy like that just makes it a lot easier

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Speaker 1: we add and Foley, who's just you know, a dominant

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Speaker 1: man's naturally just a dominant and visual. And then you're

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Speaker 1: looking at the back and I'm not talking, I'm just

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Speaker 1: telling all the new people. And then you're looking the

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Speaker 1: just you know, I can't wait to see him play

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Speaker 1: because he's won a Super Bowl. He played on that team.

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Speaker 1: He was a huge part of that team. So now

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Speaker 1: the experience and the wealth that he got from being

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Speaker 1: in practice. I want to be I want that to

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Speaker 1: if we got them up front. So just having that mentality, bro,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna do a bad job of getting to the

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Speaker 1: fegar how to ask this, But You've always been a

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Speaker 1: a lot of NFL players and everybody wants to win.

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Speaker 1: But you've always been a leader, even from day one

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Speaker 1: What does that mean? I mean, that's the whole idea

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Speaker 1: that's again, that's the reason why I had to change

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Speaker 1: But I felt like I could have done more like

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Speaker 1: COVID hit. I'm not making excuses, but it was the

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Speaker 1: my mentality of coming into that season. I wasn't physically prepared,

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Speaker 1: I wasn't you know what I'm saying. All that coming

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Speaker 1: all season. Man, It's just how can I group all

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Speaker 1: for me, man, I just come to work. I'm not

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Speaker 1: all Pro backer. You have to win, just like myself,

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Speaker 1: I want to be a defensive player year. They're not

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Speaker 1: like that's the mentality that I'm I'm on that mentality

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Speaker 1: that's not a want to thing. That's more in your

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Speaker 1: fourth year and now you realize what it takes, right,

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Speaker 1: Like it was prepared, No, it was, it was. It

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Speaker 1: I'm confident. Uh, I want everybody else to be around

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Speaker 1: gotta make plays. And for me, I gotta be myself

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Speaker 1: every day in practice, in the game, walk through whatever.

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Speaker 1: We gotta be locked there, we gotta execute, we gotta communicate,

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Speaker 1: Everybody got the job, and everybody's doing their job. You know,

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Speaker 1: is gonna come with it. I'm blessed. You know. My family.

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Speaker 1: I want to set my family for generational wealth. That's

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Speaker 1: that's been my biggest focus, you know, having my kids,

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Speaker 1: his generational wealth. And I'm in a position to do that.

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Speaker 1: Uh So you need the right things. All that takes

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Speaker 1: Trayvon Walker. I the relationship with him, uh it's the

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Speaker 1: So it was almost a competition, but we kind of

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