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Speaker 1: On guys. Check check all right. Oh it's awesome, It's awesome.

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Speaker 1: Um yeah, I'm I'm one of the guys. I like

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Speaker 1: joint practices. You know, you get get different looks, you

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Speaker 1: get to practice against you know, some other players, and uh,

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Speaker 1: it's always a lot of fun when you have guys

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Speaker 1: some other teams come come to town. Um, or you

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Speaker 1: like it. Um, I'm not gonna lie. I'm I'm not

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Speaker 1: involved in those decisions. What I can't tell you. I've

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Speaker 1: known Sony since we played against each other in the SEC.

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Speaker 1: Sony is a great teammate, and uh, yeah, you gotta

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Speaker 1: direct those guys into higher roughs. Sorry, hopefully together. Oh

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Speaker 1: Sonny is always bringing energy and always has a smile

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Speaker 1: in his face, you know, and uh he makes me

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Speaker 1: he's just a hard worker and overall good guy. Sorry, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's a that's a good question. Um. I tend to really,

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Speaker 1: you know, just focus on what I gotta do on

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Speaker 1: every play. You know, I'm just a third year, so

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm not you know, in the evaluating quarterback business

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Speaker 1: like you guys. But uh, what I can't tell you

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Speaker 1: about mac is Um. You know, from from the first

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Speaker 1: he's always been super nice, super friendly and uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: just working extremely hard, you know, always one of the

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Speaker 1: last guys in the building, first guys in, you know.

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Speaker 1: So I'm excited to see what he brings. UM. But again,

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie. That's hard for me to evaluate.

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Speaker 1: You know, I'll leave that up to the coaches. But

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Speaker 1: what I can tell you is that, you know, I

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Speaker 1: love being in a huddle. In the huddle with him,

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Speaker 1: you know, he uh, he brings the energy and you

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Speaker 1: know that it'll be fun next day out here practicing

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Speaker 1: against the giants. I mean, what does a rookie look like,

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Speaker 1: you know, like at the at the end of training camp.

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Speaker 1: You know, at this point, you know, things are getting

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Speaker 1: pretty serious. So you know, I don't think there's anybody

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Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean, you know, I just I just

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Speaker 1: makes it easier, it makes it more fun. Um, well,

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Speaker 1: I think uh, you know, Mac is on a tremendous

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Speaker 1: to do. You know, I can only speak from our

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Speaker 1: small role as a fullback, and to me, Mac is

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Speaker 1: I think it's it's uh, it's always fun when you

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Speaker 1: uh you first beginning of training camp, you know, it's

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Speaker 1: it's it's just us against us and uh, you know

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Speaker 1: while while Iron sh sharp Prince Iron, you know that's

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Speaker 1: a that's a big part of it, you know, you

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Speaker 1: know the linebackers get me to to bring my A game,

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Speaker 1: I'll get the linebackers to bring the A game. You know.

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Speaker 1: It's it's it's always fun when the jersey on the

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Speaker 1: other side, you know it's in a different color, and

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Speaker 1: you know you kind of get to let your aggression

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Speaker 1: Um kind of like a hope to be a German

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Speaker 1: wins or whatever that that that means. I'm down for it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean listen to me. I'll show up and I

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Speaker 1: the tight ends the other day, then then that's fine

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Speaker 1: But a little symbols like that, you know, make it

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Speaker 1: I'm my my experience playing you know now here for

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Speaker 1: um international broadcast off those games. There was no NFL

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Speaker 1: that's a that's that changed the game completely. When when

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Speaker 1: But yeah, just I have you know, my family's still

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Speaker 1: that was awesome. Cool. Thanks for us me some questions.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate you. M