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Speaker 1: People on game Game. It presents conversations with e lecgend

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Speaker 1: best of Show and now here's LeVar Arrington.

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Speaker 2: You was you was ready?

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Speaker 3: No, no, I was ready to read. I was ready

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Speaker 3: to play football. But I think the realization of that

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Speaker 3: one percent, like when you're playing NFL. You bought it

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Speaker 3: at one percent? Now, where are you at in that

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Speaker 3: one percent? Are you at the bottom of that one percent,

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Speaker 3: in the middle of that one percent? It at the

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Speaker 3: top of that one percent. Well, I was just ready to,

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Speaker 3: you know, prove my worth.

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Speaker 1: And that's what it was.

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Speaker 2: All right.

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Speaker 4: For those out there that don't know what Pee Valley is.

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Speaker 2: Just look it up, all O. Look it up. But

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Speaker 2: it's a great segue.

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Speaker 5: I mean pe Valley, Viking, Viking boat, Viking boat Valley.

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Speaker 5: I mean you was representing the ship in Minnesota.

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Speaker 1: But you know what, La, Let's be honest. You a

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Speaker 1: history guy. You love history. I know this about you.

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Speaker 6: You're sure.

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Speaker 2: I'm a fan. I'm a fan.

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Speaker 1: Check this out. Viking's been doing this since the early

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Speaker 1: seventeen hundreds.

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Speaker 3: Like everything we did on that they've been doing since

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Speaker 3: the early seventeen hundred. I just got too much into character,

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Speaker 3: you know, what I'm saying, Fred the red I got

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Speaker 3: too much into character. And you know me, I'd like

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Speaker 3: to take my position seriously, they asked me, and I

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Speaker 3: give but.

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Speaker 1: Did you did you really have no, don't really have.

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Speaker 2: A double purple.

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Speaker 1: Listen, this is what happened.

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Speaker 2: You have a double purple?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 2: I was walking Can we get can we get the exclusive?

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Speaker 2: Can you give me the exclusive? Here? What really happened?

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Speaker 2: And this is this is open for them, so you

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Speaker 2: ain't got a whole nothing back. This is open for him.

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Speaker 2: All right, give me the exclusive of the boat ride.

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Speaker 3: I was literally just walking past. I know what you're

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Speaker 3: bringing up, the whipping, the mass distruction. I was walking past, right,

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Speaker 3: and somebody said, Fred, could you hand me that weapon?

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Speaker 1: And I said, who am I to deny you? Who

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Speaker 1: am I?

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Speaker 2: I'm the one.

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Speaker 3: I take it, take it, take it. It's like the

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Speaker 3: Lord of the Rings. Once you had that ring over,

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Speaker 3: you know, hey, you do what you do. I let

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Speaker 3: it happen, little b I wasn't.

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Speaker 1: And then what I didn't know that I understand. I

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Speaker 1: was the new guy.

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Speaker 3: You know in Washington, how we hate guys, and you

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Speaker 3: got to take us to the steakhouse.

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Speaker 1: And then take us to the club. Ain't really nothing

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Speaker 1: else to it.

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Speaker 3: Well, when I got there as a veteran, they was like, no,

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Speaker 3: we take up money staring with the first rounders and

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Speaker 3: we throw a party.

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Speaker 1: I was like, all right, that's fine.

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Speaker 3: We end up having two first rounders Troy when in

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Speaker 3: the rats mus James right, uh huh. When we took

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Speaker 3: up that party, it was like eighty plus thousand to

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Speaker 3: throw this one party, Like, yeah, we fly everybody in

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Speaker 3: and all land.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, this unbelievable.

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Speaker 2: Brian McKenny, Brian mckennie, and that's not.

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Speaker 4: That's a horror. That is a horrible combination. Fred Smooth

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Speaker 4: and Brian McKinnon's a it's a horrible That is a horror.

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Speaker 4: That is a horrible recipe for mass destruction weapons all.

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Speaker 7: All over place.

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Speaker 1: Listen, party animals.

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Speaker 3: Like I thought we partied in DC, but when I

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Speaker 3: made it to Minnesota, they had a whole another level.

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Speaker 3: Like nobody ever brings up the Twin Cities when it

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Speaker 3: comes to places to visit. I placed this fund. I'm

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Speaker 3: here to tell you the home of ten thousand Lakes.

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Speaker 3: Please take a visit there. It's a fun place to visit.

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Speaker 2: How many lakes. Did y'all hit out of the ten thousand.

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Speaker 3: I think I went nine thousand, one hundred.

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Speaker 1: Yes, I think I did.

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Speaker 4: Was there anything else that happened on the boat? Can

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Speaker 4: you clear up anything else the boat?

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Speaker 1: Let's be honest.

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Speaker 6: It was give me it was.

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Speaker 4: It was overrated it And that's what I want. That's

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Speaker 4: what I want to know. That's because that's that's that's

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Speaker 4: what happened. People blow stories up, they sensationalize the stories,

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Speaker 4: and then it goes from their boom.

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Speaker 2: And you, because of the personality you are, you're always

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Speaker 4: You're always going to get the overblown story every time.

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Speaker 3: Every time. And like I said, I was the new guy.

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Speaker 3: I wasn't there but three months, for months before happens

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Speaker 1: Uh. If it happened in Miami, d C, New York,

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Speaker 1: l A. You never hear about that.

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Speaker 3: Nobody everybody the floating bachelor party, Like that's the whole

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Speaker 3: thing about it is normal people do it all the

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Speaker 3: time and nobody says anything.

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Speaker 1: But because it's young athlete, millionaire.

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Speaker 6: It was you.

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Speaker 2: It was you. Yeah, because it was you just say,

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Speaker 2: just keep it real. It's because it was you.

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Speaker 1: The mouth of the South.

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Speaker 3: Sometimes you talk your way into stuff, and anytime it's

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Speaker 3: some fun, exaggerated stuff, they gonna look at me.

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Speaker 1: And guess what. I laughed it off.

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Speaker 3: Then I laugh it off now, And I'll never forget

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Speaker 3: having a conversation with my with my agent, bus Cook,

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Speaker 3: he could hear it in my voice that I was

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Speaker 3: worried about it. He was like, son, don't worry about this.

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Speaker 3: Y'all didn't break no laws. They're gonna blow it up.

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Speaker 3: They're gonna make it disposal, but it's gonna make you infamous.

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Speaker 3: I understand it. They'll never forget you. They will never

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Speaker 3: forget you, So don't you worried about it. It's good

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Speaker 3: on both sides.

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Speaker 6: And I'm gonna be honest with you.

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Speaker 4: Man.

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Speaker 8: It's crazy to say this, but every single guy that

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Speaker 8: I grew up with that I was really really, really

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Speaker 6: And you know what I'm saying, it's just me, you know.

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Speaker 8: And and every time I see them, every time I

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Speaker 8: I see them around, they be like, bro Damn. I

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Speaker 8: wish I just would have followed you. I wish I

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Speaker 8: would have just did this because some of these guys

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Speaker 4: On the football field, probably better than that, you know

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Speaker 4: what I'm saying, something that was better, Yeah, right there,

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Speaker 4: right there with you, but just couldn't couldn't.

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Speaker 8: Care, and they just they just couldn't. They mindset was different.

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Speaker 8: We want to, they want to, but I'm trying to

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Speaker 8: get some money.

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Speaker 7: How do you avoid that pitfall?

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Speaker 4: If you're giving advice to this Hart generation, because that's

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Speaker 4: what this is ultimately about.

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Speaker 7: How do you how do you avoid that?

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Speaker 8: It's hard, man, I say that the hardest thing to

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Speaker 8: do with somebody that you've known since you were four

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Speaker 8: years old all the way to eighteen. The hardest thing

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Speaker 8: to do to stay consistent with that is to say no, man,

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Speaker 8: because she's gonna be times where they want you to go.

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Speaker 8: And I'm not saying this is everybody, but my situation,

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Speaker 8: there was times where people wanted me to go smoke weed,

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Speaker 8: And as enticing as that is, of course, I want

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Speaker 8: to go party. You know what I'm saying, I'm sixteen, Yeah,

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Speaker 8: I can't do that.

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Speaker 6: I got it. I got something in mind.

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Speaker 8: I got a goal ahead of me that's gonna I'm

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Speaker 8: not going to fulfill this goal today tomorrow. This is

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Speaker 8: this long time time. You know what I'm saying, This

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Speaker 8: to hunt me. All these decisions will come back to

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Speaker 8: haunt me whenever I get to that point. And oh, well,

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Speaker 8: you was a party animal in high school. Because when

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Speaker 8: I did my interviews at the combine, they knew I

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Speaker 8: got suspended in middle school. They knew about all of this.

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Speaker 8: You know, oh lagar got to suspended for fighting in

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Speaker 8: middle school. They knew all about this. So and growing up,

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Speaker 8: you don't know that they know about that. You don't

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Speaker 8: know what they asking about all that stuff. But you

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Speaker 8: it's gonna be consequences to every decision that you make.

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Speaker 8: You know what I'm saying, And I'm not saying I

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Speaker 4: All right decisions sense we because no one can speak

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Speaker 4: on this better than you. I had the same I

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Speaker 4: had a similar incident play out for me that played

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Speaker 4: I stood on on my principal values. You're you're disciplining

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Speaker 7: And I was like, I'm not gonna play.

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Speaker 8: But at the same but at the same time, you felt,

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Speaker 8: I'm pretty sure you felt like if I tell my story,

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Speaker 8: they gonna make it seem like I'm making an excuse, right,

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Speaker 6: Right, So you and you between the rock and the

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Speaker 6: hard place, just lose, lose for us.

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Speaker 7: So what happened?

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Speaker 4: So all right, So I'm this is gonna be my

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Speaker 4: first time ever ever like explaining the story.

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Speaker 7: Because this is this is like I've you.

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Speaker 8: Know what I mean, never explained the story. So okay,

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Speaker 8: we go back. We played them last year. The year

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Speaker 8: before we played them. They came to Oregon, they came

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Speaker 8: to Eugene. They beat us. They yeah, yeah, they came

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Speaker 8: to Eugene, they beat us. They hit my quarterback late

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Speaker 8: And Sports Illustrated came to cover the game the next

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Speaker 8: or the next season. And Sports Illustrated came and talked

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Speaker 8: to us this, that and the other, and they were

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Speaker 8: just like, so, what about last year's game. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 8: they they hit your quarterback, knocked them out. They didn't

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Speaker 8: get no flag for it. They didn't get no flag

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Speaker 8: for it. And I'm like, ship, we owe them ass whipoping.

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Speaker 8: So that's what we're planning on going out there doing.

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Speaker 8: We we whoop an ass. That's what we want to do.

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Speaker 8: And Sports Illustrated came out with the article boom, and

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Speaker 8: then we went out there and Uh, all we see

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Speaker 8: is we're gonna whoop they ass. Everywhere he posted whoop

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Speaker 8: they ass. We see that all over our locker everything.

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Speaker 8: So it's game time. Were bawling, all right. So fast forward,

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Speaker 8: We're done lost and at the end of the game,

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Speaker 8: they beat our ass. I ain't do shit. I'm kind

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Speaker 8: I done got hit with like three or four spits,

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Speaker 7: You know, you lived it.

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Speaker 9: Something about LeVar Man when he was out there, that

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Speaker 7: You were I'm humble.

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Speaker 4: how is it going to get better?

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Speaker 7: What was like?

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Speaker 2: How was it for you?

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Speaker 4: Because for a linebacker, it's like, I'm a linebacker, like

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Speaker 4: we might lose, but I know this, I'm knocking somebody

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Speaker 4: hell out the right, right, like I come out this game, somebody,

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Speaker 4: somebody's going to sleep because of me. And when loser draw,

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Speaker 4: I know, I gave it this and you saw it,

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Speaker 4: and he experienced it and I touched his life too.

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Speaker 4: I hate we lost, but all I can do is

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Speaker 4: what I can do. How does a quarterback at the

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Speaker 4: most important position, the number one guy, Because if it's

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Speaker 4: not Super Bowl, if it's not playoffs, it's automatically your bus, automaticallytical.

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Speaker 7: They're already like I was called a bus.

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Speaker 4: I made three Pro Bowls. I'm still called a bus.

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Speaker 4: We're called we're being called bus. But you're a quarterback.

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Speaker 4: That pressure level is different. How Like, what were some

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Speaker 4: of the things you had to to deal with in

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Speaker 4: order to be able to try to still thrive in

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Speaker 4: that type of environment.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, that's that's a good question.

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Speaker 9: You know, I think you know, when you come in

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Speaker 9: as a number one pick, there's so many expectations on

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Speaker 9: you immediately, you know, from your from your fans, from

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Speaker 9: the media, even your own teammates. You know, your teammates

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Speaker 9: you're sitting in the locker room like, hey man, you're

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Speaker 9: the number one pick. We're counting on you. You got to

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Speaker 9: go win. These games for us, you know, get us

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Speaker 9: over the hump, you know, kind of get us going.

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Speaker 9: So that's a lot of pressure room. And I was

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Speaker 9: only twenty years old when I went to the NFL

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Speaker 9: y'all turn twenty one in training camp that year, So

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Speaker 9: I was a young kid out there. Man, You're in

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Speaker 9: the huddle with guys that are, you know, thirty years

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Speaker 9: old for ten years, got families and stuff, and it's

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Speaker 9: a it's a big difference in being in a in

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Speaker 9: a college huddle. Uh So you feel a lot of responsibility,

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Speaker 9: a lot of expectations, and you know, like I said,

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Speaker 9: the mental part was tougher on me than the physical part.

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Speaker 9: You know, I was always a you know, a big guy,

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Speaker 9: physical guy could take the hits, but you know the

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Speaker 9: mental part where you're just losing games week after week

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Speaker 9: after week, and you know, you're just like, damn, what

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Speaker 9: I gotta do to win a game? Because I'm like,

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Speaker 9: you know, I'm kind of I'm playing well, but you know,

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Speaker 9: we're still not winning. It's always a you know, a

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Speaker 9: player or two here or there, and we just can't

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Speaker 9: just can't find a way to win games. And you

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Speaker 9: know how tough it is to win a game in

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Speaker 9: the NFL, it's the difference in winning and losing. Is

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Speaker 9: is like that, So you know, you start questioning yourself.

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Speaker 9: You start questioning, you know, Kylie, can I even make

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Speaker 9: it here? Do I want to even be here? All

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Speaker 9: those thoughts come in your mind.

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Speaker 2: Uh, you know.

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Speaker 9: But at the end of the day, I think as

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Speaker 9: a quarterback, you just put your head down and say,

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Speaker 9: I gotta I just gotta keep working. I gotta keep

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Speaker 9: working harder. Man, I gotta keep believing in myself because

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Speaker 9: you know that you have to have the ultimate confidence

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Speaker 9: at that position, because you know it's people. The media

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Speaker 9: is going to be crushing you. They're gonna be writing

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Speaker 9: stories about you each and every week, good or bad.

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Speaker 9: So you have to have that belief in yourself that

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Speaker 9: that you know you can play at that level and

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Speaker 9: you can get it done. And that was probably the

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Speaker 9: toughest part.