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Speaker 1: All right, welcome to Pittsburgh. Let us know. How did

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Speaker 1: you find out about the trade? Uh? Late last night,

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Speaker 1: I got a phone call from Chris Greer GM over

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Speaker 1: at the Dolphins with a little conversation and at the

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Speaker 1: end of a putt much just told me that they

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Speaker 1: made a deal and that I was going to be

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Speaker 1: heading to Pittsburgh. First thoughts when you hear you're now

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Speaker 1: a Pittsburgh Steeler. I was excited, honestly. You know, Pittsburgh

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Speaker 1: is a historic program, always been known for a great defense.

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Speaker 1: Coach Thomlin is a great coach. He spoke to a

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Speaker 1: couple of times before the draft last year, and um,

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Speaker 1: you know, I just had a real good feeling about

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Speaker 1: him and just as a coach and as a man.

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Speaker 1: And I told my mom a the memos he's coach

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Speaker 1: I definitely like played for uh you know one day

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Speaker 1: and you know, I'm I'm excited about it. You said

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Speaker 1: that when you were still at Alabama. Yeah, what was it?

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Speaker 1: What was the interaction that made you say that? Well,

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Speaker 1: they was just the way he cared himself. Uh. You know,

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Speaker 1: obviously I've seen the coach before on the field, and

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Speaker 1: then I got to meet him as a in person

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Speaker 1: as a man, and I just just affirmed everything else

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Speaker 1: said about him. Know, he's the players coach. He Uh,

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Speaker 1: it's easy to talk to. He wouldn't trying to be

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Speaker 1: too cool or too too mean or anything like that.

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Speaker 1: He's just being himself and he's definitely something like I

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Speaker 1: said that I'll love to play for one day. Do

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Speaker 1: you look at this as a fresh start? Is that

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Speaker 1: fair to say? Uh, That's exactly what it is. Uh,

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Speaker 1: it's a fresh start, clean slate. Um man. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's another opportunity just to to to prove much, to

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Speaker 1: prove myself what I could do. Uh, you know, and

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Speaker 1: just uh, you know, just adding to this team. What

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Speaker 1: do you like about playing safety? Oh? I like if

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Speaker 1: you get to move around, do a bunch of different things.

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Speaker 1: I think when you you know, if you play certain positions,

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Speaker 1: you just you know, you do the same thing every

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Speaker 1: snap or uh, you don't get to move around. Uh.

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Speaker 1: With safety or just defensive back in general, there's a

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Speaker 1: lot of flexibility. I can do a lot of different things.

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Speaker 1: You can blit, you can cover, you can cover half

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Speaker 1: you cover in the field. So I definitely definitely like

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Speaker 1: that aspect of coach, said one of your strengths is

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Speaker 1: your versatility. Do you agree, Yeah, I'll agree. I think

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Speaker 1: I'll play uh naster my first my rookie year, Um,

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Speaker 1: I played all over the fields, played at a high

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Speaker 1: level when they put me. Yet, obviously things I can

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Speaker 1: improve on, but I think I did a pretty good job.

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Speaker 1: And um, you know that's why I'm here to to

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Speaker 1: keep you on, keep improving on my strengths, on my weeknses,

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Speaker 1: and you know, just keep going. Are you a play

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Speaker 1: the ball or play the man guy? Depending on the situation,

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Speaker 1: depends on what I'm matt from from right on them

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Speaker 1: or playing the ball from kind of behind the playing

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Speaker 1: the man played through the head coach Tomlin already said

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Speaker 1: Sunday in San Franrancisco against the forty Niners, you're gonna

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Speaker 1: play safety. What are the challenges that come new team,

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Speaker 1: new playbook, just new city, knew everything and being inserted

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Speaker 1: right away. Yeah, I think you hear them all as

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Speaker 1: a new playbook, new team, new players who playbood, new

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Speaker 1: coaches to work gainst and um, you know, I think

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Speaker 1: you know football football at the end of the day. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, Uh, it's the determinology. Is the thin that's

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Speaker 1: that's that's the hard part to learn. But if you

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Speaker 1: tell me to go cover with curl flat cover currl flat.

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Speaker 1: But when this uh you know green saving too, right,

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Speaker 1: it's a little bit different. But um, you know that

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Speaker 1: that will come. The more website I get, the more

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Speaker 1: stuff film I study. Um, but yeah, don't just gotta

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Speaker 1: keep keep working at So what are you gonna have

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Speaker 1: to do this week besides going out to the practice field,

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Speaker 1: sitting in meetings just to make sure that you feel

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Speaker 1: you're at your best on Sunday. Um, I'm gonna have

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Speaker 1: to be in the playbook heavy. I'm gonna have to

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Speaker 1: communicate with my teammates and and uh and coaches heavy. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, just just get comfortable with it, you know

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Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Just uh, get comfortable with going out

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Speaker 1: there and just playing with this with this new team

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Speaker 1: and uh this this this new staff. Because I want

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Speaker 1: to go out there and be able to play fast.

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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. I want to have to think.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to have to over process and just

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Speaker 1: want to go out there and be able to play fast,

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Speaker 1: playing my instincts and play my game. Trrell Edmonds is

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Speaker 1: from your draft class from the same round. How well

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Speaker 1: do you know him? I know him a good bit.

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Speaker 1: We we're training together a little bit down to Florida

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Speaker 1: before the Combine for a couple of weeks. Um, and

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Speaker 1: you know, he's a competitive every every single year we're

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Speaker 1: doing we're competing on the workouts, were rather competing. And

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm excited to working with him. He's a

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Speaker 1: he's a professional. Um. He had carried himself the right

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Speaker 1: way on enough a few and then I'm excited just

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Speaker 1: to be working with him. What we you two need

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Speaker 1: to do to get on the same page. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: spend a lot of time together one just just uh

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Speaker 1: seeing how each other operates on the field, how we communicate,

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Speaker 1: what do we see? You know what I'm saying, Uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, just just how we think about the game. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, because I say, you've got to communicate a

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Speaker 1: whole lot doing the same page, because you know, you

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Speaker 1: safety for a reason. And the last night in the face,

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Speaker 1: so he was gonna be in the same page. And

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Speaker 1: like I said, we're gonna have to spend a lot

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Speaker 1: of times you're to communicating and talking and getting knowing

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Speaker 1: each other. We found the YouTube video that must have

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Speaker 1: been before your draft. UM, just kind of documenting how

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Speaker 1: your family lost everything in a hurricane. Um how has

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Speaker 1: that changed you just as a person and maybe even

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Speaker 1: as a football player. Oh. I say, during that time,

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Speaker 1: I definitely learned a lot about myself, about about my

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Speaker 1: my family, and as anybody that goes or anything, you

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Speaker 1: always learned a lot about yourself. But it definitely told

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Speaker 1: me to appreciate the little things because after that, I

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Speaker 1: didn't have any clothes and hug anything like that, and uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, go to the people for for that, you know,

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Speaker 1: told me to appreciate little things in life. Told me

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Speaker 1: to appreciate my family. Um, and just told me how

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Speaker 1: to work hard because after that, me and my family

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Speaker 1: had to pretty much rebuild our house on our own. Um,

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Speaker 1: we had to. You know, I just shift my focus

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Speaker 1: from uh school to work to football, you know what

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Speaker 1: I'm saying. And it just taught me how to manage

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Speaker 1: my time. Uh and honestly be be I have a

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Speaker 1: professional mindset at a young age and just grow and

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Speaker 1: grow up a little bit fashion and most people