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Speaker 1: How y'all doing great? Great?

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Speaker 2: Nah?

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Speaker 1: You good?

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Speaker 2: You good? You good?

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Speaker 1: How would you describe the way your first NFL training camp.

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Speaker 2: No, it's been ups and downs, but I feel like

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Speaker 2: for the most part it's been it's been really good.

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Speaker 2: I've made progress and developed in ways I wanted to

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Speaker 2: to earn, uh, trusting my coaches and my teammates. So

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Speaker 2: I feel like it's been a great first mini camps.

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Speaker 2: I'm wondering if there was a point you might look

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Speaker 2: at say that was the up, maybe the pick or.

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Speaker 1: Maybe the downs.

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Speaker 2: Not really uh, not a p t uh a specific point.

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Speaker 2: It's just like you know, day in and day out.

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Speaker 2: You know it's new to you, the game a lot different.

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Speaker 2: You feel me, so ups and downs every day you

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Speaker 2: feel me, but always trying to just make a progress

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Speaker 2: uphill you feel me. So it's not really a necessary

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Speaker 2: a specific point. Yeah, I'm experience. In college, I play

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Speaker 2: a little bit of it, but here, you know, it's

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Speaker 2: been a big part of my identity, so it's become

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Speaker 2: like a part of me or what I do. So

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Speaker 2: I've been learning from schooler Quinn and just trying to

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Speaker 2: take it all in and especially Slater, so he been

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Speaker 2: helping me out as well. So just trying to take

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Speaker 2: it all in and learn everything I can to be

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Speaker 2: the best at that position. Yes, yeah, yeah, he is.

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Speaker 2: He on the sideline with us whenever we're taking our reps,

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Speaker 2: correcting us and everything that we're doing, and just critiquing

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Speaker 2: us and everything that we can do better in all

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Speaker 2: the ways he messed up to help us try to

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Speaker 2: avoid those same mistakes.

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Speaker 1: Specialties, Oh yeah, for sure.

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Speaker 2: You know, special team is a bit part of it,

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Speaker 2: you know, especially me coming into a stack dB room,

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Speaker 2: So I just got to get in while fits. So

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Speaker 2: I feel like special teams would be away that I

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Speaker 2: can potentially make this team, make this Washington.

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah.

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Speaker 2: So you know, rough game against the Eagles gave them

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Speaker 2: more than I wanted to, But you know, I looked

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Speaker 2: at it as like a learning experience, you feel me.

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Speaker 2: Not every game is gonna go how you wanted to.

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Speaker 2: It's about how you come back from it. So this game,

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna just be locked in, more locked in and

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Speaker 2: just go out there trying to get better at something,

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Speaker 2: no matter what it is, and just be more locked in.

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Speaker 1: How do you feel this rookie that's gone coming to

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Speaker 1: the end of your first training camp up and down

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Speaker 1: just as a whole. Well, I feel like we've we've

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Speaker 1: held our own.

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Speaker 2: We've done a great job at just just taking there

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Speaker 2: all the coaching and taking everything, getting from the vets

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Speaker 2: and everything, just trying to learn being a sponge in

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Speaker 2: the system, you know, and just trying to work our

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Speaker 2: way in work us a role in this on the team.

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Speaker 1: Have you had any conversations with always another rookie guy

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Speaker 1: that's played a lot of specialty. Yeah, yeah, no, for sure. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Me and Dale we talk all the time about it all,

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Speaker 2: and we both have the same mindset towards it, Like

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Speaker 2: we got to get in where we fit in. You know,

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Speaker 2: him in the stacked the safety room with a lot

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Speaker 2: of vets in there than me, like I said, in

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Speaker 2: the stacked deep corner room. You just gotta, like I said,

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Speaker 2: get in where you fit in. And we're definitely on

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Speaker 2: the same page about where our mindset going towards special teams.

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Speaker 1: How much background did you have before you got here?

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Speaker 2: Did him? I heard his name a lot a lot,

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Speaker 2: but I never really locked in and searched him up

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Speaker 2: and found out who he was for real. But I mean,

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Speaker 2: it wasn't coming here, it wasn't pretty hard to understand

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Speaker 2: who he was, how much he meant to this organization, how.

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Speaker 1: Much pressure comes with this last game just knowing, Uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, I don't don't.

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Speaker 2: I don't really try to too much think about the pressure.

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Speaker 2: I just really let go and let god you feel me.

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Speaker 2: So it ain't really I've done everything of my power

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Speaker 2: in my control to to prove to my coaches, proved

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Speaker 2: to my teammates that I should be here. So so

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Speaker 2: I'm just trying to take it all in and just

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Speaker 2: let let go and let God.

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Speaker 1: Like I said, what's the biggest surprise for you, just

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Speaker 1: your most unexpected thing about your first culture in camp.

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Speaker 2: I would say it's a lot different than college, Like,

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Speaker 2: I feel like it's a lot. College was more so

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Speaker 2: bashing heads, hitting on all this everything, but here is

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Speaker 2: more alright, practicing like a professional, high tempo, everything is intense.

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Speaker 2: So I feel like that that was the biggest difference,

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Speaker 2: just the ways that you practice from college to their post.

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Speaker 1: Is that something that you know took a little bit

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Speaker 1: to adjust to or do you feel like you got

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Speaker 1: that down pretty quickly?

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Speaker 2: Uh? Not really, not really, it's nothing. I feel like

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Speaker 2: I got it down pretty quickly. It wasn't anything that

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Speaker 2: that that was a major learning curve for me, you

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Speaker 2: feel me.

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Speaker 1: The phrase that we've heard a couple of others talking

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Speaker 1: about scholarships here, that's oh yeah, nah, yeah, that's that's

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Speaker 1: very true.

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Speaker 2: That the scholarship wild give you kind of a security,

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Speaker 2: like knowing like yeah, I can do whatever I want

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Speaker 2: to or or I can mess up here and they'll

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Speaker 2: be all right, I'm I'm already on the team. So

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Speaker 2: that scholarship definitely gives you that security of knowing like

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Speaker 2: I got a spot already. But here you're trying to

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Speaker 2: work every day to prove yourself and.

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Speaker 1: Not be a repeat offender and all that.

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Speaker 2: So that that is a really good difference, really big difference. Carolina.

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Speaker 2: People different. The driving is way different. It's crazy. You know,

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Speaker 2: people have got some crazy road rage, And I would say, yeah,

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Speaker 2: that's pretty much it. The weather kind of about polar

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Speaker 2: I mean, down South's about one hundred and something every day.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, I feel like those the biggest differences.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, nah for real, Yeah, noah, for sure, Thank y'all,

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Speaker 2: thank you