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Speaker 1: James, I hope all's well with you and your family,

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Speaker 1: and just wanted to ask just, you know, how are you,

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Speaker 1: how are you doing, and what's it what's it been

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Speaker 1: like to return to I'm doing all right, Just kind

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Speaker 1: of trying to take a day by day. Honestly, all

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Speaker 1: that stuff still seems kind of surreal to me. Um

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Speaker 1: my mom's continues to improve and progress and get better

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Speaker 1: to that, you know, easy a little bit, and being

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Speaker 1: out on the football field kind of sease my mind

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Speaker 1: a little bit too. So I'm just trying to push through.

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Speaker 1: That's what my dad wanted to do. So I'm trying

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Speaker 1: to tell you one day, one thing at a time,

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Speaker 1: and just find a way to look all the positive

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Speaker 1: in my life. Hey, what's going with Matt? Go ahead,

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Speaker 1: Matt with your question. How about of your teammates and

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Speaker 1: kind of even people around the team get helped kind

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Speaker 1: of there for you in this time and in what

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Speaker 1: you're going through. I mean, my teammates were there for

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Speaker 1: me every step of the way. Um. You know, family

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Speaker 1: atmosphere in the locker room, you know from text, the

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Speaker 1: phone calls, tweets, the old teammates, fans, you know, everybody,

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Speaker 1: everybody reaching out and make a lot Um. It was.

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Speaker 1: It was really extremely tough for me. Um. I mean

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Speaker 1: my mind still came out wrap itself and everything going on.

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Speaker 1: Was just still trying to process everything I said. Just

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Speaker 1: hand from them and then being there for me. Definitely, Hill.

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Speaker 1: I don't see any other hands raised, Um, anybody else

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Speaker 1: have a question for James? Please? Man James, I'll follow James.

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Speaker 1: You had you had playing in his uh, his first

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Speaker 1: real sustain action as a Patriot. What did you see

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Speaker 1: from him tonight? What did uh? What did he give you? Guys?

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Speaker 1: He did a great job and his you know, first

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Speaker 1: time being in there and getting all those carries. He

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Speaker 1: ran up, played tough. He was really excited to be

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Speaker 1: out there and gave us a gotta give a credit

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Speaker 1: to the office. A line I blocked extremely hard. Tightenge

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Speaker 1: receivers played a good football team obviously that played a

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Speaker 1: lay wanted too, but I thought Damian played really are Okay,

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Speaker 1: We'll go with Nicole Yang go ahead and Nicole, Um,

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Speaker 1: I'm just guess what the emotions were celebrating your son's

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Speaker 1: first birthday so soon after losing your father. I know

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Speaker 1: you posted on Instagram, but just what was going through

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Speaker 1: your mind to that day. UM, Honestly, there was a

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Speaker 1: lot of stuff going on in my mind. I tried to,

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Speaker 1: you know, make the little guys day kind of especially

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Speaker 1: as possible, and there's a lot of emotions. I was

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Speaker 1: like at the possible with my mom all day long

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Speaker 1: and just came home for you know, a couple of hours,

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Speaker 1: so you know, just give him like a cake and

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Speaker 1: things of that nature, and I went back to stay

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Speaker 1: the night with my mom. A lot of stuff going on.

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Speaker 1: I just try to make his day, especially as possible,

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Speaker 1: a little differently than obviously usually would have happened. But

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Speaker 1: I think he enjoyed it. Karen, we'll go ahead with

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Speaker 1: Karen's question. Hi James, my condolences to you and your family.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. UM. I don't know if this has been

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Speaker 1: asked of you before, but I was just wondering, Um,

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Speaker 1: what's gotten you through this time and what it's been

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Speaker 1: like being back with your football family and what that's

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Speaker 1: done always got me through. I think it's my family,

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Speaker 1: as you said, UM, continue to recover. Um, being around

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Speaker 1: my wife, my son, my teammates and them, just you

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Speaker 1: know kind of uplift the name. You know, these guys

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Speaker 1: like a family like atmosphere in his locker room, and

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Speaker 1: I said, there's plenty of calls, plenty of texts now

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Speaker 1: every night that I was down that Florida with my

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Speaker 1: family from from these You're trying to keep my mind

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Speaker 1: at ease and just trying to I was just trying

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Speaker 1: to keep you know, as much positive thoughts in my

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Speaker 1: mind as possible. I said, I don't know how long

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Speaker 1: going to take me there, you know, kind of push

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Speaker 1: through it all. It just all seems so surreal, but

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Speaker 1: me in the locker room kind of keep my mind ease.

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Speaker 1: Tay Zack Cox here next, Hey, Jim's just how difficult

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Speaker 1: was it for you to come back and join the

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Speaker 1: team and then have everything that's happened in these last

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Speaker 1: couple of days happened with the positive test and all

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Speaker 1: the uncertainty there? Just how difficult was that? Oh? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it was. It was definitely a difficult you said, coming back,

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Speaker 1: you know, from Florida and everything and then dealing with um,

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Speaker 1: you know, positive tests and whatnot. And I I bring

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Speaker 1: your wife at home, so you know, a lot of

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Speaker 1: that too. So there's kind of a lot going on

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Speaker 1: at one time one out on the field, just kind

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Speaker 1: of trying to focus focus on your job. Um said this.

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Speaker 1: A lot of things run through your mind out there,

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Speaker 1: especially mine. Let's trying to lock in when he's out there.

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Speaker 1: Our next question is from Matt. Matt, go ahead, James,

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Speaker 1: I just wanted to if you wanted to just to

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Speaker 1: comment on this. Can you kind of mentioned maybe your

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Speaker 1: dad meant to your football career and and how much

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Speaker 1: of that were you thinking about at at points tonight.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he meant a whole lot. He's one of

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Speaker 1: the biggest reasons why I played football. Me and a

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Speaker 1: little kid, seeing my brother play, knowing that my dad

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Speaker 1: there and play football. My dad, he was a coach

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Speaker 1: for me growing up. You know, obviously it's not always

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Speaker 1: fun having your dad be your coach, but he pushed me. Um,

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Speaker 1: maybe who I am today? I mean, I'm missed you

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Speaker 1: those You know that text that he sent me on

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Speaker 1: Saturday nights number four games and give me sorry no

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Speaker 1: just simple text he was saying to get me prepared

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Speaker 1: for the games and stuff. Um, now I kind of

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Speaker 1: look back at the last text I got the Saturday

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Speaker 1: before the Seahawks get kind of reminiscent that he meant

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Speaker 1: everything for me. He pushed me, uh would I always

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Speaker 1: tell me what I wanted to here, but he just

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Speaker 1: always wanted me to do the right thing and push

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Speaker 1: myself be the best I could be. James thinks, so

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Speaker 1: for sharing that, that's really appreciate that