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Speaker 1: All right, welcome to this week's Ozone podcast. And uh,

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Speaker 1: they're all fun right now, because this is a fun

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Speaker 1: team to be around. But I've been looking forward to

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Speaker 1: this for a little while talking to this young man

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Speaker 1: again because talked to him late last season and a

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Speaker 1: little bit of a different kind of season for him

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Speaker 1: and the team Jaguars left tackle now Walker a little.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you joining this. I appreciate you doing this today,

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Speaker 1: of course, appreciate And it struck me when thinking about

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Speaker 1: this today. Your life has changed a lot in the

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Speaker 1: last six weeks. Does that ever strike you? You know,

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Speaker 1: you went from a backup on a team that was

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Speaker 1: two and six to a starter on a team that

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Speaker 1: can't seem to lose right now. Yeah, I mean it's

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Speaker 1: definitely been a world win of the last few weeks. Um,

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Speaker 1: I had, you know, totally a chance to kind of

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Speaker 1: as you play one game, you roll in the next.

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Speaker 1: But it's been really special, you know, into this year,

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Speaker 1: I guess the beginning of the new year now, Um, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean this this team has been uh so much

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Speaker 1: fun to be a part of. And you know, I've

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Speaker 1: been happy to build a play role in it. Um.

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Speaker 1: I want to get to some of your story here

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Speaker 1: in a little bit because it's fascinating the preparation that

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Speaker 1: it must take to do what you've done. Uh, it's

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Speaker 1: a pretty cool story. But tell me first about the

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Speaker 1: feeling you sort of touched on it. But being a

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Speaker 1: part of this when this sort of thing's uh starts

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Speaker 1: to happen, fans love it and get energized by it.

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Speaker 1: But as a player, do you realize what you're a

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Speaker 1: part of right now? Yeah? I would say, Uh, we

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Speaker 1: definitely realized that. You know, we're doing a lot of

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Speaker 1: things right I don't know if we quite have a

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Speaker 1: when you're in it, Uh, it's hard to kind of

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Speaker 1: on you know, that opponent that week, and then once

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Speaker 1: that happens, uh, you kind of flush in. You gotta

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Speaker 1: move on pretty quickly to the next week. Um. But

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Speaker 1: I know at the end of the season we're a

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna look back and realize how special it is.

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Speaker 1: But at this point, you know, we're trying to make

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Speaker 1: a run here and for us doing the jobs really

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Speaker 1: not finished and um, we have the utmost belief that

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Speaker 1: you know, we can win every game we play in.

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Speaker 1: Have you had a chance at all? Um? I started

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Speaker 1: the same question, but sure or not? Uh? To speak

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Speaker 1: with any fans during this and what's the reaction right

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Speaker 1: now when they see a Jaguar? Yeah, I mean I've

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Speaker 1: I've spoken just to some of my friends that have

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Speaker 1: you know, there aren't Jacks players that live here in

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Speaker 1: Jacksonville and they're just so having one to just kind

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Speaker 1: of see this team winning again. And uh in the city,

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Speaker 1: I know is is having a good time with it

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Speaker 1: having the city behind us these last two home games,

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Speaker 1: I mean night games, primetime games have been pretty special.

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Speaker 1: Um to have the whole stadium, but you know, Jacksonville

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Speaker 1: I know the city is loving this just as much

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Speaker 1: when I asked players about this question, they don't really

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Speaker 1: for that. And it's not a locker room without leaders.

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Speaker 1: But there's not really one leader, do you know what

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Speaker 1: me a good Brandon Sheriff story for a guy who

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Speaker 1: I guess the tone center the offensive line. Why yeah,

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Speaker 1: And he's a super helpless player. UM. And you know

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Speaker 1: A lot of veterans to take off after practice and everything.

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Speaker 1: at that point, you know, it's kind of what everyone expects.

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Speaker 1: how to phrase this question, But it just struck me

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Speaker 1: you played and started as many games in a row

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Speaker 1: as you are right now? Yeah, I mean it's definitely

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Speaker 1: So yeah, So that is interesting because obviously you've come

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