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Speaker 1: It's good. I love, happy to be back to the Northeast,

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Speaker 1: close to home, Excited to be a part of this

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Speaker 1: organization and you know, kind of add value where I

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Speaker 1: can can tell us how I kind of this came about.

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Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I mean they called a few weeks before

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Speaker 1: training camp, said there was interests. We're just trying to

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Speaker 1: hammer out like the finer details and then you know,

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Speaker 1: kind of reaching agreement. Obviously. I think it was Tuesday

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Speaker 1: and I was here or Monday night and that's here

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Speaker 1: Tuesday afternoon, so you know, nothing exciting, just kind of

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Speaker 1: figuring out the contract, right. Talk about calm and Brisollo, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: h you and you and Jermaine kind of coach he is.

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Speaker 1: I had my best like professional like career or year

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Speaker 1: of my career with karm, so happy to be back

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Speaker 1: around him. He's a great like X's and O's coach.

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Speaker 1: Really does a good job of marrying like the run

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Speaker 1: game with the pass game schematically, so you kind of

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Speaker 1: like you're never at a disadvantage as an offensive lineman.

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Speaker 1: So it's a good system to play in, and he

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Speaker 1: does a really good job communicating like the expectations and

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Speaker 1: it's just you know, obviously him being here, Jermaine being here,

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Speaker 1: familiarity a little bit, the system just felt like a

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Speaker 1: natural fit for me. What's about you feel most comfortable?

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Speaker 1: And obviously played right last year week best around several times. Yere, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I played right most recently. I mean I started a

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Speaker 1: bunch of games left guard early in my career when

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Speaker 1: I just never happened to play in a game until

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two at center. So I've started at all

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Speaker 1: three positions inside. That's kind of why I have that.

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Speaker 1: I guess value is my versatility, and you know, it's

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Speaker 1: just one of those things where you can put me

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Speaker 1: And I think that's a big reason why I'm here.

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Speaker 1: You're joining the team that gave up eighty five SATs

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Speaker 1: last year, no matter how they happened. What is your

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Speaker 1: take on that and how much you can help solve

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Speaker 1: some of that. Yeah, I think like a big reason

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Speaker 1: Karms here is because of that problem. You know, I

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Speaker 1: don't know how many sacks we gave up in Vegas

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Speaker 1: last year, but we didn't have nearly as mobile a

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Speaker 1: quarterback as Daniel is, so you know, hopefully that'll help

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Speaker 1: a little bit. And then just with you know, kind

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Speaker 1: of making tweaks the technique and system, and you know,

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Speaker 1: you want to stay out of those obvious kind of

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Speaker 1: past situations and you want to try and not be

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Speaker 1: playing from behind. So just if you can control games

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Speaker 1: and you can kind of dictate how you want to

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Speaker 1: run plays like, you'll be in a much better situation

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Speaker 1: as a team and position as an offensive line. You

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Speaker 1: mentioned Daniel. What is your initial impression of Daniel Jones.

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Speaker 1: So I've met Daniel a few years ago. Actually he's

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Speaker 1: from Charlotte. I was with the Panthers for a few years,

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Speaker 1: so I've been around him a little bit, and you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm excited to be his teammate. And he's really tall.

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Speaker 1: That struck me. But he's a hell of a a

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Speaker 1: hell of a player, and I'm excited, you know, to

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Speaker 1: you know, be around him and help the team. He

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Speaker 1: else what makes it. I'm a good coach, Like not

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Speaker 1: a lot of coaches are as in tune to the

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Speaker 1: rest of the offense, uh as he is when it

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Speaker 1: comes to like how the run game kind of fits.

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Speaker 1: So like how you formation things, the emotions and stuff

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Speaker 1: like there's no run play that when we line up

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Speaker 1: in the formation, you know, like that's a run. Like

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Speaker 1: you can do multiple things that might be a play action,

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Speaker 1: job of making sure that we're in you know, good positions,

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Speaker 1: I guess and at an advantage. Has that come from

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Speaker 1: his time and just meetings, his time studying Where do

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Speaker 1: you like? I think it's just like the years in

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Speaker 1: the system. So it's just like it takes a long

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Speaker 1: time to learn any offense, like specifically this one. It's

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Speaker 1: not easy. There's a lot of like checks, different ways

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Speaker 1: like this is really hard for us to do and

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Speaker 1: like we can't do it, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 1: So it's just like we're gonna be in positions have success.

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Speaker 1: How much football do you typically need to play to

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Speaker 1: get in football shape. It's obviously, I mean today was

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Speaker 1: I'm in shape. Football shape is a little bit different.

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Speaker 1: I think the science has like twenty full speed like

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Speaker 1: you rather like the in and get it going or

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Speaker 1: do you like being I said, I'm not going to

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Speaker 1: complain about reps off, especially my advanced age for the sport,

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Speaker 1: but they were taking care of me today on a

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Speaker 1: little bit of pitch count because you know a lot

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Speaker 1: of guys everyone else ramped up to get to this

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Speaker 1: point and I just got here, you know, yesterday, So

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Speaker 1: they're they're making sure that I'm not just going too hard,

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Speaker 1: too fast. Yeah, tongue and yes, take us through the

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Speaker 1: process a little bit back. When the season ends, you

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Speaker 1: have your beat, you know, you have your best season

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Speaker 1: of your career. What was your mindset? I mean, were

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Speaker 1: you looking to get offers right away in March. Did

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Speaker 1: you want to take your time, wait the right fit,

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Speaker 1: what do you I think it was a combination of things.

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Speaker 1: So I had my first child at the end of December,

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Speaker 1: and you know, we're from Long Island, so we want

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Speaker 1: to get back home. We had offers of the beginning

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Speaker 1: free agency, but nothing really uh exciting, I guess, or

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Speaker 1: worth kind of moving across the country again. So we

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Speaker 1: and her family and my family. So just one of

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Speaker 1: can still play at high level. So I didn't want

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Speaker 1: kind of fall into place. But you were playing, it

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Speaker 1: wasn't I got a few years left to me, you

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Speaker 1: know what I mean? Like this is we'll see how

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Speaker 1: this year goes and then hopefully stack a few more