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Speaker 1: I think I got to a point in rehab. Uh

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Speaker 1: just one one more step of that to that journey

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Speaker 1: the best part of it just to be back out

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Speaker 1: there with my teammates. Um and just be able to practice.

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Speaker 1: You know, if it's a little bit of a lot,

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Speaker 1: wonder It's a good time. Two weeks in the camp.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's not you know, deep deep deep haven't

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Speaker 1: played the game. Get this team. You know, it's just

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Speaker 1: a good time to you to start for stuff. UM, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I would say it's a good time. I think I

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Speaker 1: with my teammates again. And UM, I'm very fortunate that

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Speaker 1: you know, for me, it's just continue listen to my body,

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Speaker 1: you continue listening to coach, Judge Lee, Ronnie and Dr

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Speaker 1: Rodeo and all of them. UM, and take it one

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Speaker 1: it would be So are you gonna be ready to

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Speaker 1: sower I've been giving y'all. UM. And it's not like

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Speaker 1: unbelievable organization. Um that you know, it's actually thinking about

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Speaker 1: time is, when the time is tom um, that would

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Speaker 1: then coming back and got some who's that, um shaking

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Speaker 1: my hand, introducing himself. You know that's all, you know,

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Speaker 1: fun loving games and uh like I said, but it's

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Speaker 1: just it's just fun to be back out there. Um.

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Speaker 1: Those are stuff you miss, Those things you missed, even

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Speaker 1: even at joking around. UM, you know some of some

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Speaker 1: of the guys can't wait till on the defense side.

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Speaker 1: I can't wait to get their hands with me too.

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Speaker 1: I would say that, um, because I do talk a

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Speaker 1: lot of crap when offensive defense is gone. Um, so

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Speaker 1: all that team competitive, spare stuff, I just can't wait

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Speaker 1: to you know whatever, however, the process going was this

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Speaker 1: week was next week we REACA after that. Um, I

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Speaker 1: can't wait to do that stuff too,