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Speaker 1: Hello, Hello, Welcome to the latest edition of Falcons in Focus.

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Speaker 1: Today we are joined by Zach Robinson. Per usual is

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Speaker 1: Tory mcelhaney, and I Tarren Walk. Of course, of all names,

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Speaker 1: I almost forgot my own. Welcome to your first Falcons

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Speaker 1: in Focus, and of course we got to start it

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Speaker 2: Well done. Yeah, there you go.

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Speaker 3: I know at some point I'm gonna have it memorized.

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Speaker 3: I mean yeah, I'm gonna wake up to dot com slash.

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Speaker 4: All right, So where do we want to start?

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Speaker 5: Terren?

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Speaker 3: When were you born? I'm just kidding. He's looking at

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Speaker 3: me like, please don't.

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Speaker 4: He's like, this is not what I signed up for.

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Speaker 1: I don't think he's ready either. All right, Well, let's

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Speaker 1: go back to your Oklahoma state days. Do I want

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Speaker 1: to start with Marquis's question? We had a cameo earlier

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Speaker 1: today with Marquis Williams, special team coordinator, and he wanted

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Speaker 1: me to ask you what was your favorite place in Stillwater?

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Speaker 5: Ooh, favorite place or like eating purposes or for like.

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Speaker 2: We can go two ways. You can go two ways

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Speaker 2: with it, all right. First of all, we'll go with

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Speaker 2: the PG version, which is Eskimo Joe's, which is like

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Speaker 2: the famous in the South. They have great cheese fries.

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Speaker 2: It's a really cool atmosphere, cool bar. During college on

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Speaker 2: like Thursday nights, it was like five dollars all you

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Speaker 2: can drink beer, which was three to two beer. You know,

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Speaker 2: So that's and then gosh, I'm trying to think there's

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Speaker 2: a batter. Ads barbecue is a good place. But yeah,

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Speaker 2: I'll stick with Eskimo Joe's in the barbecue.

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Speaker 3: Is there a reason he wanted to know this question?

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Speaker 2: Of all questions to ask, I have no idea. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: If there was something story you didn't flinch.

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Speaker 5: So obviously we we know, and I think the people

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Speaker 5: also know that it's spent on your career, your college

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Speaker 5: career at Oklahoma State. But what's interesting and something that

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Speaker 5: Taryn found that I didn't know was that your dad

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Speaker 5: was a walk on kicker at Oklahoma. I'm really curious

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Speaker 5: about the dynamics here because I also found that your

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Speaker 5: mom graduated from OSU was really big into like football

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Speaker 5: recruiting as well.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, oh yeah, we went really deep in the archives,

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Speaker 4: but I.

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Speaker 3: Should have started with when you were born.

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Speaker 5: To tell me a little bit about how split your

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Speaker 5: mom's side the family, big Georgia tech people. My dad

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Speaker 5: went to UGA, So I understand the dynamics.

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Speaker 4: So tell us a little bit about growing up in

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Speaker 2: So, like you said, so my dad and his whole

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Speaker 2: side went to OU So brothers, sisters, his parents, everybody

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Speaker 2: one of six, my dad's one of four, my mom

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Speaker 2: is one of six. They're all Oklahoma state like all

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Speaker 2: the way through and through cousins, aunts, uncles like that site.

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Speaker 2: It could not be more divided and could not have

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Speaker 2: more hatred, rivalry, rivalry. But so my dad, you know,

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Speaker 2: growing up, you know you always are, are kind of

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Speaker 2: he was a walk on place kicker at OU. U

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Speaker 2: So I grew up, you know, really both teams went

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Speaker 2: like in the mid nineties weren't very good, but I

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Speaker 2: In nineteen ninety nine, they won the national title. So

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Speaker 2: My dad, brother and I would watch it upstairs. Oklahoma

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Speaker 2: State would like score and they would come taunting, like

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Speaker 2: I was gonna go play at Oklahoma State. I'll never

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Speaker 2: forget with Oklahoma was waiting on a quarterback named Chris

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Speaker 2: And we were walking in to go sign Oklahoma State.

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Speaker 2: My dad comes up. He goes, hey, that was Bob stoops,

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Speaker 2: we were all in on Oklahoma State. The situation was

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Speaker 2: he lost out. Yeah, no, he he went he was no.

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Speaker 2: He he always like once we were all going to

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Speaker 2: to see really, even my aunt's uncles, everybody I had,

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Speaker 2: still rooting for you, Like I know you're playing today,

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Speaker 5: I love that And I also read kind of as

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Speaker 5: we were doing our initial research is there was a

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Speaker 5: I think is very interesting because your dad was pretty

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Speaker 3: Obviously your grandpa was a running.

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Speaker 2: Back, right he was, Yeah, he was.

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Speaker 4: What did you learn from your grandpa?

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Speaker 5: Because I feel like that is a very specific thing

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Speaker 5: for your dad to have said that, like, these two

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Speaker 2: Sure. Yeah, So my grandfather on my dad's side, like

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Speaker 2: my dad grew up mostly playing baseball, basketball. He was

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Speaker 2: But my grandfather was a really good running back and

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Speaker 2: he always would give my grandpa the you know, the

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Speaker 3: Does the line of football players go back even more?

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Speaker 2: Not really, it was. It was more you know, even

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Speaker 2: It was a lot of baseball on on that side

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Speaker 3: How'd you settle on football?

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Speaker 2: Then it was you know, always grew up playing you know,

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Speaker 2: before age eight, soccer, baseball, basketball, and then once age

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Speaker 2: go sign up and go play? Signed up? Started playing.

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Speaker 2: I was too big to play quarterback at the time,

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Speaker 2: it was always, you know, like most kids, it's whatever

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Speaker 2: But football always was. When it was football season, that

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Speaker 2: was the most fun, and then probably baseball after that.

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Speaker 2: But football was always kind of at the forefront of

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Speaker 2: But yeah, it was not that many other people in

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Speaker 3: Oh you, oh u osu.

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Speaker 1: I was looking online when looking at your collegiate career

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Speaker 1: and I saw you were on the cover of the

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Speaker 1: two thousand and nine Sports Illustrated College Football.

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Speaker 3: He's in preview. How many copies did you get, family?

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Speaker 2: How many? Yeah, they're the amount that my mom has

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Speaker 2: at the house is like like they're randomly in the basement,

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Speaker 2: different places. I'm like, it's been I mean, how many years,

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Speaker 2: like fourteen years now since then, but we still they're

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Speaker 2: it was very cool thing to have. But to answer

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Speaker 2: your question, we have a ton of copies.

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Speaker 3: You were like pointing in it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we were. It was like you in.

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Speaker 3: The center, the center, and down behind me, I'm.

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Speaker 2: Getting a snap and he's like, of course got made

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Speaker 2: fun of a lot for it, but but yeah, it

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that was That's a great guys. Really, you guys

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Speaker 5: It's kind of sometimes it's kind of creepy. I feel

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Speaker 2: after the game to put me back down on practice squad.

436
00:21:03,440 --> 00:21:06,439
Speaker 2: And then I get a call from John Schneider and

437
00:21:06,480 --> 00:21:09,960
Speaker 2: Pete Carroll on a Tuesday and they were like, I'm

438
00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:11,880
Speaker 2: thinking I'm gonna go back up there and just resign

439
00:21:11,960 --> 00:21:14,439
Speaker 2: my practice squad. Papers like okay, hey, I'm back on

440
00:21:14,480 --> 00:21:16,920
Speaker 2: the team. Said hey, you know we messed up here.

441
00:21:16,960 --> 00:21:18,359
Speaker 2: We should have kept you on the roster. You just

442
00:21:18,359 --> 00:21:20,800
Speaker 2: got cleaned off of waivers by the Detroit Lions. And

443
00:21:20,840 --> 00:21:23,240
Speaker 2: I was like, I was like, what does that mean, Like,

444
00:21:23,320 --> 00:21:25,679
Speaker 2: come on up here, you know, bring your playbook. We

445
00:21:25,720 --> 00:21:27,960
Speaker 2: want to say by to you. So I had my

446
00:21:28,280 --> 00:21:32,040
Speaker 2: financial advisor lived in Seattle, fortunately had somebody that I

447
00:21:32,119 --> 00:21:35,440
Speaker 2: knew there. Basically had to pack up my entire apartment

448
00:21:35,560 --> 00:21:39,560
Speaker 2: into my car, left like some couches and all that stuff,

449
00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:43,080
Speaker 2: but packed it up into my car. Left that night.

450
00:21:43,600 --> 00:21:46,399
Speaker 2: It was a red eye flight flew to Detroit. This

451
00:21:46,600 --> 00:21:48,640
Speaker 2: was a you know, Tuesday night to a Wednesday morning,

452
00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:50,720
Speaker 2: which you guys know Wednesdays in the NFL that's like

453
00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:54,640
Speaker 2: the heavy install day. So oddly enough, it was that

454
00:21:54,720 --> 00:21:58,959
Speaker 2: previous week, Stafford had hurt his shoulder and so he

455
00:21:59,080 --> 00:22:00,600
Speaker 2: was going to be out for some time. And that's

456
00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:03,840
Speaker 2: why they claimed me off of waivers full circle because

457
00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:07,639
Speaker 2: obviously it was with you know, Matthew for for a

458
00:22:07,680 --> 00:22:11,080
Speaker 2: handful years in LA. But but yeah, show up, show

459
00:22:11,160 --> 00:22:15,359
Speaker 2: up Land. I think at like six am in Detroit,

460
00:22:15,720 --> 00:22:19,280
Speaker 2: go to a hospital, get a physical, walk into meetings.

461
00:22:19,359 --> 00:22:21,640
Speaker 2: They're right in the middle of install and they're like, oh,

462
00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:25,360
Speaker 2: here's you know, there's new QB. Like I was like tired,

463
00:22:25,760 --> 00:22:30,000
Speaker 2: like what's going on? Completely different system. Go out to practice.

464
00:22:30,080 --> 00:22:34,560
Speaker 2: They'd only had only one quarterback available with Shawn Hill,

465
00:22:34,600 --> 00:22:37,480
Speaker 2: so I had to go practice that day like take

466
00:22:37,520 --> 00:22:40,160
Speaker 2: the scout team reps and it was like a total whirlwind.

467
00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:41,960
Speaker 2: So I ended up saying, all right, I'm not going

468
00:22:42,040 --> 00:22:44,240
Speaker 2: to get an apartment here, so I just stayed in

469
00:22:44,320 --> 00:22:47,960
Speaker 2: like an extended stay hotel for the rest of the

470
00:22:48,040 --> 00:22:53,159
Speaker 2: season and then that following season. No one getting a

471
00:22:53,160 --> 00:22:55,680
Speaker 2: little long winded here, but the following season went into

472
00:22:55,680 --> 00:22:59,400
Speaker 2: training camp with the Lions. They kept Stafford, Sean Hill

473
00:22:59,480 --> 00:23:03,199
Speaker 2: was the back who's awesome, and then Drew Stanton, so

474
00:23:03,240 --> 00:23:05,760
Speaker 2: they had really three really good players. I kind of

475
00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:08,440
Speaker 2: knew where I fit in. And then the next day

476
00:23:08,480 --> 00:23:11,199
Speaker 2: is when I went to Cincinnati after that and was

477
00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:13,399
Speaker 2: there for three years. So that first but the first

478
00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:17,520
Speaker 2: like really six months from like may you know to

479
00:23:17,560 --> 00:23:19,639
Speaker 2: the middle of that season was just like my own

480
00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:22,119
Speaker 2: yeah spin, and it was all three different playbooks, so

481
00:23:22,119 --> 00:23:24,560
Speaker 2: it was like there was no everything I got there

482
00:23:24,600 --> 00:23:27,000
Speaker 2: was like number system, yeah, West Coast.

483
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Speaker 5: Well that's the thing is like I was curious, and

484
00:23:29,480 --> 00:23:31,440
Speaker 5: I'm sorry to interrupt you, but like that was the part,

485
00:23:31,560 --> 00:23:32,840
Speaker 5: the piece of all of this that I was most

486
00:23:32,880 --> 00:23:35,800
Speaker 5: curious about, Like how that time period shaped you. As

487
00:23:36,119 --> 00:23:37,760
Speaker 5: I know, at the time, you're this young guy, you're

488
00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:40,360
Speaker 5: coming out of college. You're probably not thinking about down

489
00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:41,960
Speaker 5: the road, I'm going to be a coach and I'm

490
00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:44,600
Speaker 5: going to be a teacher of this game. But how

491
00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:48,199
Speaker 5: much did that time period specifically impact you and your

492
00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:51,760
Speaker 5: ability as a coach and a teacher when you do

493
00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:55,200
Speaker 5: have these moments of quarterbacks coming in and teaching them

494
00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:57,399
Speaker 5: and getting them up to speed very quickly.

495
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Speaker 2: One hundred percent. That's like I attributed that all the time,

496
00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:03,159
Speaker 2: and because I was around so many good coaches with

497
00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:05,760
Speaker 2: you know, obviously it's belchick but it was it was

498
00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:08,720
Speaker 2: Billy O'Brien who was the offensive coordinatord quarterback coach. Learned

499
00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:11,360
Speaker 2: a ton from him. I go to Seattle and it's

500
00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:14,440
Speaker 2: Jedfish and Jeremy Bates and just seeing like the cultural

501
00:24:14,680 --> 00:24:16,960
Speaker 2: cultural stuff from Pete Carroll that was really cool. And

502
00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:21,639
Speaker 2: then went to Detroit, I was around Scott Lenahan and

503
00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:23,960
Speaker 2: Todd Downey was the assistant quarterback coach. And then I

504
00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:27,120
Speaker 2: go to Cincinnati and learned some great technical things from

505
00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:31,240
Speaker 2: Ken Zampeazi. Uh. And so they all had just in

506
00:24:31,280 --> 00:24:34,800
Speaker 2: their own way, different ways of impacting what I now

507
00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:38,439
Speaker 2: know as coaching. But in that time where I'm getting coached, uh,

508
00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:41,560
Speaker 2: you're you're picking picking things up just from all those

509
00:24:41,560 --> 00:24:45,760
Speaker 2: different experiences. So it definitely helped shape. And just being

510
00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:48,840
Speaker 2: in different quarterback rooms too, and seeing the different personalities

511
00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:52,600
Speaker 2: between different starters and Tom Brady and Matt Hasselback and

512
00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:55,680
Speaker 2: Matthew Stafford and different backups and Sean Hill and Charlie

513
00:24:55,720 --> 00:24:58,720
Speaker 2: Whitehurst and Brian Hoyrit. So you get around so many

514
00:24:58,720 --> 00:25:01,520
Speaker 2: different guys and you really get a feel for what

515
00:25:01,560 --> 00:25:04,000
Speaker 2: that quarterback room is like, what it's like to teach,

516
00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:06,440
Speaker 2: you know, the quarterback, what it's like from a mental

517
00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:11,359
Speaker 2: standpoint of what the daily grind is for a quarterback

518
00:25:11,359 --> 00:25:14,080
Speaker 2: and what that's like just taking a toll throughout the season,

519
00:25:14,160 --> 00:25:16,560
Speaker 2: and it's got to be a safe having place for

520
00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:18,840
Speaker 2: the quarterback to just come in and be able to

521
00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:21,760
Speaker 2: speak speak freely, you know, so they can feel good

522
00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:25,200
Speaker 2: about what they're doing on Sunday. So all those experiences,

523
00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:27,480
Speaker 2: like you're saying, tour just kind of helped shape to

524
00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:29,080
Speaker 2: you know, where we are right now.

525
00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:31,399
Speaker 1: I know one thing I really want to get to

526
00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:35,760
Speaker 1: before we jump to rapid fire is your acceptance here

527
00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:39,960
Speaker 1: because twenty minutes before you brought your son into the world,

528
00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:42,400
Speaker 1: can you take us through those like twenty.

529
00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:43,639
Speaker 3: Half hour or whatever it was?

530
00:25:44,359 --> 00:25:48,560
Speaker 2: Chaos still wants to kill me about the whole situation.

531
00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:53,680
Speaker 2: This was you know, had an idea, So Raheem got

532
00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:58,560
Speaker 2: officially hired on a Thursday, and then so this was like,

533
00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:00,720
Speaker 2: you know, you don't know how things are going to

534
00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:02,920
Speaker 2: work out. There was still some other teams out there,

535
00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:08,760
Speaker 2: and so nothing became official until Saturday, Like you're saying,

536
00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:11,399
Speaker 2: right before my son was born, So on that Saturday,

537
00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:14,919
Speaker 2: you know, we were at the house. Why she starts

538
00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:19,160
Speaker 2: going into labor. While she was like kind of going

539
00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:21,480
Speaker 2: into labor. I didn't really know what was going on

540
00:26:21,520 --> 00:26:23,719
Speaker 2: because the first time we did you know, don't get

541
00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:26,080
Speaker 2: into it. But we did the inductions. We showed up

542
00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:28,679
Speaker 2: to the hospital. She wanted to go, you know, different

543
00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:31,040
Speaker 2: route this time. So we're at the house and I'm

544
00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:35,000
Speaker 2: talking to I'm talking to Sean McVay and we're talking

545
00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:38,000
Speaker 2: about like he's like, hey, man, really excited for you,

546
00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:40,920
Speaker 2: you know, like talking about staffing and all those things,

547
00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:43,040
Speaker 2: because we knew that it was probably looking like it

548
00:26:43,119 --> 00:26:47,800
Speaker 2: was going that direction to go with Rahiem and land here. Meanwhile,

549
00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:51,520
Speaker 2: her perspective of it was like, I can't believe you

550
00:26:51,560 --> 00:26:54,560
Speaker 2: were on the phone with Sean for the last thirty minutes.

551
00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:57,280
Speaker 2: Like So she comes out of the room and I

552
00:26:57,320 --> 00:26:59,000
Speaker 2: see her, and I'm like, oh, we got to roll.

553
00:26:59,720 --> 00:27:02,520
Speaker 2: This is about to go. This So this is like

554
00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:07,560
Speaker 2: at noon, end up going to the hospital and then

555
00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:13,199
Speaker 2: you know, so sons born and then I mean it

556
00:27:13,359 --> 00:27:16,840
Speaker 2: was seriously like twenty minutes later, I get a face

557
00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:19,720
Speaker 2: time maybe in fifteen, I get a FaceTime from Raheem

558
00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:22,280
Speaker 2: and he's like, hey, you're all good to go, Like

559
00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:25,960
Speaker 2: contracts good to go, and I'm like and then like

560
00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:29,639
Speaker 2: it was going to be announced, you know that it

561
00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:31,320
Speaker 2: was going to be announced as you guys know, it

562
00:27:31,359 --> 00:27:34,040
Speaker 2: gets through you know, rap report and all all those

563
00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:36,520
Speaker 2: guys end up reporting those things. And so there was

564
00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:39,560
Speaker 2: still teams that I wasn't sure, you know, how I

565
00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:41,200
Speaker 2: was going to shake out. So there were still teams

566
00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:44,480
Speaker 2: I needed to let know that, you know, like, hey,

567
00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:46,679
Speaker 2: this is where I'm going to go with Raheem to

568
00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:48,880
Speaker 2: the to Atlanta, which they already knew, but it wasn't

569
00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:50,479
Speaker 2: official yet. I just wanted to make sure that they

570
00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:52,399
Speaker 2: didn't see it on Twitter. So I'm sitting in the

571
00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:55,680
Speaker 2: hospital room and I'm like calling a few other coaches.

572
00:27:55,720 --> 00:27:59,159
Speaker 2: I'm like hey, And meanwhile she's like on the in

573
00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:02,879
Speaker 2: like I mean she wanted to you know anyway, but

574
00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:06,639
Speaker 2: she was ready to Yeah, no, and she was great

575
00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:09,000
Speaker 2: in that moment. But once, of course, once at the

576
00:28:09,119 --> 00:28:12,040
Speaker 2: dust settled, she was like, I can't believe that.

577
00:28:12,359 --> 00:28:15,000
Speaker 3: But it was, uh, it was really on the phone

578
00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:15,920
Speaker 3: with his family.

579
00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:19,320
Speaker 2: Yeah exactly. It all happened so fast. I was like,

580
00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:21,000
Speaker 2: oh my gosh, I gotta call you know, so and

581
00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:24,760
Speaker 2: so and then but it was obviously a really cool moment,

582
00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:27,000
Speaker 2: went and grabbed my daughter after that, she was staying

583
00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:30,080
Speaker 2: at the house with some neighbors, went and grabbed her

584
00:28:30,080 --> 00:28:32,280
Speaker 2: and then once once I brought her to the hospital

585
00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:33,800
Speaker 2: and it was just like us four. I was like, oh,

586
00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:37,040
Speaker 2: this is the coolest thing ever. So but yeah, crazy

587
00:28:37,119 --> 00:28:41,080
Speaker 2: day and something we'll always remember. And I hope my

588
00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:41,800
Speaker 2: wife can.

589
00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:43,160
Speaker 3: Forgive me one story.

590
00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:46,880
Speaker 1: Literally had the time stamps of six seventeen pm. Cooper

591
00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:50,360
Speaker 1: is born six thirty seven pm. You accept the job.

592
00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:52,360
Speaker 1: I hope they got the time stamps from you or

593
00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:54,600
Speaker 1: at least someone in the fam and not just stocking.

594
00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:56,960
Speaker 2: But no, it was yeah, there was like some.

595
00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:01,640
Speaker 1: But literally twenty minutes and your life changed in two

596
00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:03,600
Speaker 1: major ways personally and professionally.

597
00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:07,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was cool. Something will definitely always always remember and.

598
00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:11,800
Speaker 3: Won't do again. Probably try not to always on mute.

599
00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:14,880
Speaker 4: Yeah, honestly is the real MVP of.

600
00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:19,719
Speaker 2: She is way cooler than me, She is way tougher like.

601
00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:22,000
Speaker 2: She is definitely the MVP.

602
00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:25,920
Speaker 4: It great note to end on right before rapid Fire.

603
00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:27,760
Speaker 1: I know there was one thing I really wanted to

604
00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:29,240
Speaker 1: get into and be like, you've been holding out on

605
00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:31,960
Speaker 1: us with your media background, but I think I'll yell

606
00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:33,120
Speaker 1: at you about that off camera.

607
00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:36,200
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, pff yeah, we'll circle back.

608
00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:42,480
Speaker 2: To that media background. Yeah, I was more studying film

609
00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:44,960
Speaker 2: and they were like, hey, can you do this? I

610
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:46,800
Speaker 2: was like, I mean, I guess I don't want to

611
00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:49,920
Speaker 2: do this at all. You guys are way. You guys

612
00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:51,880
Speaker 2: are good at your job. I was more. I was

613
00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:55,240
Speaker 2: more football like, just but there was a couple you were.

614
00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:57,320
Speaker 3: Still on this side. You were on the dark side

615
00:29:57,560 --> 00:29:58,600
Speaker 3: for a second. This is.

616
00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:02,040
Speaker 5: Wait, this is not the dark side. This is the

617
00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:04,520
Speaker 5: side that is helpful in certain ways.

618
00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:07,040
Speaker 3: That's right, That's right, I like the dark side more.

619
00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:10,720
Speaker 1: But now we end every falcons and focus with a

620
00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:16,240
Speaker 1: rapid fire question for our ones people every single person gets,

621
00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:18,440
Speaker 1: and then we kind of mix in a personalized fifth one.

622
00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:19,840
Speaker 1: So toy, you want to kick us off?

623
00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:23,360
Speaker 4: Yeah, So, what is your favorite play of your career?

624
00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:26,160
Speaker 5: And this can be you playing, or it could also

625
00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:28,360
Speaker 5: be you kind of just experiencing.

626
00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:32,600
Speaker 2: As experiencing, I would say the Tampa Bay playoff game

627
00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:36,280
Speaker 2: with the Rams, when Matthew hit Cooper down the middle

628
00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:38,520
Speaker 2: of the field. We had it was you know, obviously

629
00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:40,880
Speaker 2: two minute drive at the end of the game. Those

630
00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:44,280
Speaker 2: guys connect on an unbelievable play. Two guys making a

631
00:30:44,320 --> 00:30:47,000
Speaker 2: play in a huge moment. We spiked the ball kick

632
00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:49,520
Speaker 2: a field goal. I got goosebumps sing about it, knowing

633
00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:51,600
Speaker 2: that that was the game to take us to the

634
00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:55,160
Speaker 2: NSC Championship game to play the forty nine ers. But

635
00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:57,560
Speaker 2: that was just like a special moment that I'll never

636
00:30:57,560 --> 00:31:00,479
Speaker 2: forget seeing that ball go through the air, seeing coverage

637
00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:02,920
Speaker 2: that they ended up playing, and saying, oh my gosh,

638
00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:05,160
Speaker 2: what an unbelievable throw and catch by those two guys.

639
00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:05,320
Speaker 5: It was.

640
00:31:05,360 --> 00:31:06,080
Speaker 2: It was really cool.

641
00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:08,320
Speaker 1: Okay, but now I'm gonna make you answer what your

642
00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:09,600
Speaker 1: favorite play is of yourself.

643
00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:12,600
Speaker 3: He jumped on experience right away.

644
00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:17,480
Speaker 2: I honestly, golly, I can't even think off the top.

645
00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:22,320
Speaker 2: I used to like to like when I would carry

646
00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:24,240
Speaker 2: out a fake and like the running back would end

647
00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:26,720
Speaker 2: up like bouncing the ball back. I used to like

648
00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:28,719
Speaker 2: to like try to go get a block. And so

649
00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:32,160
Speaker 2: we were playing against Nebraska and I handed off, and

650
00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:35,080
Speaker 2: our coaches were like, after you carry fake, you got

651
00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:36,880
Speaker 2: to carry it out for five yards otherwise you get

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Speaker 2: a loaf. And so we were playing against Nebraska, hand

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Speaker 2: the ball off to the left, I carry out my

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Speaker 2: fake to the right, running back ends up bouncing it

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Speaker 2: and he ends up. I'm like, oh crap, he's right

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Speaker 2: behind me. So I'm like, I'm at this point full

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Speaker 2: attack mode. Safety came down. I ended up cut blocking

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Speaker 2: the safety and like chopped his legs out. We had

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Speaker 2: a big play on it. I looked the sideline, everybody's

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Speaker 2: going nuts. So that was honestly probably my favorite play.

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Speaker 1: Nice love that, all right, your favorite player, whether regardless

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Speaker 1: of the sport.

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Speaker 2: Favorite player growing up. I like to prep Farv. I

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Speaker 2: like to watch Prett far I was from Denver, which

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Speaker 2: should be John Elway, but I just liked to watch

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Speaker 2: him Farv. I loved watching him play, how much excitement

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Speaker 2: he played me. He's like a kid out there just playing.

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Speaker 2: And obviously he was super talented, but just the energy

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Speaker 2: and the passion that he played with. Always tried to

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Speaker 2: emulate the way that he played Nice.

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Speaker 5: I like it so obviously, new parent of two and

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Speaker 5: new job. So I don't know how much time you

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Speaker 5: have to watch TV or movies, But if you could

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Speaker 5: recommend a TV show or a movie to the people listening,

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Speaker 5: what would that be?

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Speaker 2: All Right? TV show, I don't watch a ton of

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Speaker 2: TV movies. I'm I'm very I'm really bad at movies.

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Speaker 2: To the movies and forever, which is like, but I

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Speaker 2: used to love of like you know, old school and

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Speaker 2: like wedding crashers like those are my like two favorites, uh,

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Speaker 2: you know growing up in college TV show to recommend.

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Speaker 2: Oh man, I can't even think off the top of

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Speaker 2: the last thing.

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Speaker 4: I know, it's hard because I know, like.

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Speaker 2: I watched honestly, like I watched golf when I'm I'm

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Speaker 2: like it's Sunday afternoon and I'm tossing on the golf

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Speaker 2: tournament and like that's that's kind of it.

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Speaker 3: Have you watched Full Swing?

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Speaker 2: Full Swing is a great one? There we go. Full Swing.

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Speaker 5: I literally just started watching it because my sister is

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Speaker 5: really big into golf and my younger, my youngest sister,

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Speaker 5: and so I've been watching it and I'm like, this

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Speaker 5: is this is a great storytelling?

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Speaker 3: Is there so good?

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Speaker 2: So good? Yeah? No, seeing like those guys up close

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Speaker 2: and they're different, like personal bat like the Brooks kept going, yeah.

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Speaker 1: All right, if you could have any superpower, what would

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Speaker 1: it be? And why super?

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Speaker 2: I mean, Golley, I don't really know. I can't think.

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Speaker 5: I mean a big one for a lot of guys

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Speaker 5: is teleportation because now that guys are like I live

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Speaker 5: in Atlanta, it'd be so much easier.

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Speaker 2: Actually, I mean like X ray V. I don't know,

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Speaker 2: like yeah, something like that. I don't know, something I'm

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Speaker 2: thinking of, something that would.

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Speaker 3: Make like thinking straight x men.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, no, thinking like about okay, maybe from a

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Speaker 5: quarterback standpoint, like the X ray vision or like mind

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Speaker 5: reading from a quarterback stand.

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Speaker 2: Point, something that could give you.

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Speaker 4: Like that makes sense, yeah, or like if.

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Speaker 2: You could just yeah, I don't know. That's all right.

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Speaker 3: Well, last ones are the hardest thing.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they really are. Last one.

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Speaker 5: Now that you and your wife are playing man to

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Speaker 5: man with two kids, what's some parenting advice that you

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Speaker 5: would give the people free?

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Speaker 2: All right? So it is man home when you get home,

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Speaker 2: Like you got to be all in on the kids

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Speaker 2: all the time, because that like hour from when the

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Speaker 2: two year old wakes up from a nap at say

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Speaker 2: three to four too, when they go to bed at seven,

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Speaker 2: by the time that your wife has like had the

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Speaker 2: kids all day, Like you've got to step in and

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Speaker 2: you've got to make a play. So that is what

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Speaker 2: I've learned the most is as soon as you get home,

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Speaker 2: you don't know what's transpired throughout the day. You're just

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Speaker 2: getting in fresh. So like make sure that when you

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Speaker 2: get get home it's like however, you can take the

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Speaker 2: stress off of you know, your wife, that's the biggest thing,

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Speaker 2: because you don't know what's going on. You hear later

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Speaker 2: on like you wouldn't believe what Maddy did you know,

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Speaker 2: like and so that that would be my advice. Get

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Speaker 2: home in that afternoon, that like four to seven window.

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Speaker 3: You got to be dialed in and ready to help

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Speaker 3: dad mode engage.

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Speaker 2: That's right.

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Speaker 4: The longest two minute drill ever is the kid.

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Speaker 3: Well, this has been fun.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I appreciate and I'm sure Tory appreciates you coming

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Speaker 1: on today.

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Speaker 3: I hope you didn't scare you overwhelming you.

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Speaker 2: To you guys weren't too bad. You guys aren't too intimidating.

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Speaker 3: I feel like we're slacking for intimidating. No, this is great.

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Speaker 4: I really enjoyed this conversation for sure.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's great. Appreciate you guys, And.

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Speaker 1: For everyone listening in, be sure to like and subscribe

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Speaker 1: Network on Spotify, Apple, and really anywhere you can get

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Speaker 1: to podcasts. I don't know how many platforms are now.

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Speaker 1: YouTube yes, the main one. I forgot ye, but thank

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Speaker 1: you again, and thank you to everyone who listened.

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Speaker 2: Awesome Thanks guys,