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Speaker 1: Did you get a sense of what skills they saw

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Speaker 1: on you that would allow you to play wide receiver? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think they just saw the you know, a small guy,

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Speaker 1: lover of the ground quick kind of like he said

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Speaker 1: something like Danny Amndola, you know he's another Texas boy.

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Speaker 1: Saw I mean that that was cool to hear from that,

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Speaker 1: and uh so I just want to prove him right now,

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Speaker 1: proved that I can do this. Have you played receiver

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Speaker 1: even in high school? Nope? What did you play school?

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Speaker 1: I played dB? I played safety. Yeah, I played a

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Speaker 1: little bit of high receiver my junior when my brother

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Speaker 1: was a quarterback he was a senior. But then I

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Speaker 1: broke my hand in three places that year, so I

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Speaker 1: had to wear cast the rest of the season. Suder,

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Speaker 1: playing receiver, Has it come naturally to you, because it

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Speaker 1: looks like you look pretty natural catching the ball, running

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Speaker 1: routes and everything. Yeah. I joked about it that moving

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Speaker 1: from DBA receiver, it'll be easy because I played receiver.

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Speaker 1: I know where I'm going. But DV you know you

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Speaker 1: backbone and they have fifty three yards to work with.

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Speaker 1: But it definitely hasn't been easy. That's definitely not true.

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Speaker 1: But I catch the ball well. I moved the ball well,

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Speaker 1: and just play confidence. I think so. Yeah. So when

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Speaker 1: you first were approached about changing about coming here and

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Speaker 1: changing positions, what was what was your your your mindset

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Speaker 1: like and what was your you know, your thought problems.

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Speaker 1: My mindset was, I don't I told him I'll play

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Speaker 1: anything here. If y'all just want me to be a holder,

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Speaker 1: I'll be the best holder I've ever seen. So I

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Speaker 1: really do anything, get in the field, up, play anywhere,

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Speaker 1: and uh, yeah, I was excited. What what coaching tips

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Speaker 1: have you taken from from other guys like Edelman and

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Speaker 1: those guys. I just I just try to follow you know,

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Speaker 1: Edelman around and uh Slater on special teams especially, but

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Speaker 1: tips you know, it's just uh protecting the ball big thing.

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Speaker 1: Play dB. You can run however you want with the ball.

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Speaker 1: After you get interception or running routes, you just gotta

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Speaker 1: keep it, keep your cuts nice and tight to protect

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Speaker 1: the ball. Uh, and just catch everything and play with confidence.

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Speaker 1: Do you have any special teams background? All? I returned

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Speaker 1: punts all through college, but they wouldn't let me on

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Speaker 1: any of our special teams. I always told them I

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Speaker 1: want to play gunner I want to play gunner, want

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Speaker 1: to be on Kickoff, and now I'm finally get the

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Speaker 1: opportunity to do that. And I love tackle, I love

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Speaker 1: getting my nose dirty, and so I'm excited to play

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Speaker 1: a lot of special teams or get the opportunity to

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Speaker 1: reaction like that you are patriot. I don't really know

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Speaker 1: what the reaction has been. Like, I talked to my family,

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Speaker 1: but I stay off social media for the most part.

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Speaker 1: How about your family? So, yeah, it was It was

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Speaker 1: actually really cool. I was from a Wednesday to a

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Speaker 1: Wednesday after Rookie minicamp. I got sent home and I

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Speaker 1: didn't know what was going on. I was just at home,

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Speaker 1: you know, worked with my dad digging ditches. And then

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Speaker 1: Wednesday of a sudden, I got called around like four

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Speaker 1: thirty I think it was, and they were like, hey,

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Speaker 1: you know, be on a plane an hour. Can you

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Speaker 1: be on a plane an hour? And I was like,

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Speaker 1: I'll be there. I'm on the way right now. So

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Speaker 1: I grabbed a bag, waited for my mom to get home.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna cook stakes that night, and she come in

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Speaker 1: and I told her. I was like, Mom, would get

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Speaker 1: your keys, We're going to going to airport. And she

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Speaker 1: just dropped the stakes and she started crying. And my

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Speaker 1: grandma was there, my brothers and they were just so

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Speaker 1: happy to seeing me go because kind of been moping

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Speaker 1: around the house just wondering if I'm ever gonna play

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Speaker 1: football again, you know. So it was it was awesome.

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Speaker 1: They're all happy for me. All drove the airport together,

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Speaker 1: me and my brothers, my mom and my grandma and

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Speaker 1: dropped me off and said go get them what hobby

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Speaker 1: down in Houston. So I in a small town ouside

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Speaker 1: of Houston, Alvin, Texas, so Nolan Ryanstown. Yeah, that's our

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Speaker 1: claim to fame, at least till I'm done playing. You know,

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Speaker 1: what's your self assessment so far? You know it's very early,

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Speaker 1: but how do you feel? You though, I'm catching the

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Speaker 1: ball and uh, I'm moving. I think I'm moving good

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Speaker 1: from film wise, and like I said, I just try

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Speaker 1: to kind of follow Edelman around and kind of moved

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Speaker 1: like he does and see how his little jump cuts

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Speaker 1: and all that. But self assessment, I just got to

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Speaker 1: get better mentally. Mentally, it's very very challenging for me.

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Speaker 1: I'm never learn an offensive play book before, and I

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Speaker 1: hear that this one's pretty hard to learn. So, um,

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Speaker 1: I think my mental assessment is good on field stuff,

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Speaker 1: but mentally bad, and I need to that's what I

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Speaker 1: need to work on for the most part. Yet that

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Speaker 1: you're actually here has the sunken yeah, I think. So

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Speaker 1: I try not to really think about too much. You know,

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Speaker 1: at the end of day, I'm still just playing football.

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Speaker 1: It's a big jump from you know, D two to

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Speaker 1: NFL style. You know, we get free gatorades and all

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Speaker 1: the food you can eat, and that's pretty cool. He

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Speaker 1: got all the fan and see salt tubs and float

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Speaker 1: in so that's probably a really cool part of it.

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Speaker 1: Being at D two school. You know, we had a

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Speaker 1: bar on cleats and the first day I got here,

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Speaker 1: when the equipment room, They're like, here's this and this,

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Speaker 1: and I got gloves and cleats and I was just like,

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Speaker 1: tell my boys about home, like it's awesome. Grab as

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Speaker 1: much as you can. As much as you can. I can't.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely I appreciate it.