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Speaker 1: Oh he congratulations, Jiling that started. Appreciate it. What was

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Speaker 1: your level of conversation with the Cowboys throughout the free

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Speaker 1: drafting process. I did a private workout with I did

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Speaker 1: two after after prode And how did you feel from

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Speaker 1: that workout? Did you get any sense out? I mean

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Speaker 1: I kind of got a hit from coach and the

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Speaker 1: workout was a great workout, and you know, we both

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Speaker 1: enjoyed it. You know, I showed, you know that I

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Speaker 1: remember asking Coach like, hey, coach, working I work on

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Speaker 1: and he was like, I'll tell you that, we'll make

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Speaker 1: you a Cowboys. So, you know, I kind of got

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Speaker 1: a little hit there. Which coach did you work out with?

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Speaker 1: Coach Print the wide receiver? Coach, do you know much

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Speaker 1: about Michael Gallup and Ceedee Lamb And if so, how

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Speaker 1: do you think you fit with those guys? Uh? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I know Michael Jablo is it's a receiver that goes

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm excited to learn from both of those

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Speaker 1: you have a phone call with Dak before this in

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Speaker 1: this process? I did. He called me a couple of

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Speaker 1: days ago, and I actually thought it was like a call,

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Speaker 1: you know, hey, just is this your draft day number?

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Speaker 1: And I answered he was like JAYL And I was like,

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Speaker 1: you doing? And you know, for a minute, it was

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Speaker 1: like a surreal moment because me, I never knew quarterbacks

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Speaker 1: It was an awesome, great experience. What you had a

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Speaker 1: a great one. I think, you know, we we immediately

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Speaker 1: did you guys talk like? Did you talk scheme? You

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Speaker 1: about my previous relationships with UH, with my quarterbacks. We

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Speaker 1: what what challenges I had to overcome. Also what um

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Speaker 1: to the slid in between CD and Michaels. So you know,

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Speaker 1: all of it. We just talked. So after that car

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Speaker 1: as as a draft progressed today? Uh? Definitely was definitely was. Uh,

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Speaker 1: I played both of this panish year. I was able

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Speaker 1: Were good after he told me, you know, I got

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Speaker 1: What were your thoughts and what were your feelings when

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Speaker 1: I mean, honestly, you know, I learned to say it's

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Speaker 1: that they liked or other teams liked? Which did in

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Speaker 1: a game like that? Uh? Definitely, And you know they

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Speaker 1: help us out as and as many ways as possible.

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Speaker 1: Did you do any special teams or most special teams

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Speaker 1: at stuff? All them? I did? I played it on

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Speaker 1: doing it, but I caught punts this past year a

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Speaker 1: little bit, and then I played some gunner two years ago,

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Speaker 1: off returner last year. So I got, uh, definitely have

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Speaker 1: Have you've any sense that they might work you at

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Speaker 1: but you know, I'll do whatever. What did they tell

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Speaker 1: come in and do? Uh? Now, they just you know,

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Speaker 1: wanted out of a receiver, and so they're excited to

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Speaker 1: And for anyone who hasn't seen you player, isn't familiar

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Speaker 1: as a player. I bring versatility, and you know, one

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Speaker 1: being able to have great body control. So I'm excited

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Speaker 1: to continue to, uh, to improve every aspect of a

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Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, good. Tomorrow is the end. So