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Speaker 1: I felt good. Uh it felt good too to actually

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Speaker 1: strengthen it. Uh Like I said, the strange staff and

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Speaker 1: trainers have been doing a great job with me, uh, conditioning,

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Speaker 1: just felt great to be back out there. A little

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Speaker 1: bits left, I don't I don't know. In college, I

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Speaker 1: doing more stuff on on my own and conditioning. Um,

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Speaker 1: but in college, I really didn't take crazy loads in practice.

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Speaker 1: So it's kind of similar to me. So I guess,

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Speaker 1: um that kind of helped preparing me for moments like this.

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Speaker 1: So you're going from a speed of the game and

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Speaker 1: like from all the mental reps that you've been doing

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Speaker 1: and just from having that first taste of the preseason game.

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Speaker 1: If you don't play against the Jets of the Patriots,

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Speaker 1: when you feel comfortable week one, what I feel coopable,

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Speaker 1: What I feel comfortable week one playing? Um? Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: mean obviously I would love to be out there and

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Speaker 1: But you know, you know that that's party game. Injuries

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Speaker 1: are party game. UM. That's even say if I wasn't

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Speaker 1: You know there's some guys that don't take as as

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Speaker 1: I have to take that mindset and when my when

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Speaker 1: I gotta be a hundreds are ready. Yesterday, Eli said

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Speaker 1: continued to ask him questions? Uh, it's kind of hard

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Speaker 1: continue to grow everything to day. So I guess that

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Speaker 1: the questions have haven't been as much as they've usually been.

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Speaker 1: I'm how do you feel in REGARDSS to, like, are

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Speaker 1: you able in your mind to just go out there

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Speaker 1: Or do you still feel like the hamstring is something

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Speaker 1: it's not quite a d percent yet. Yeah. Personally, the

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Speaker 1: I'll be honest, I feel I feel feel good. I

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Speaker 1: But you know that that's what the trains get pay

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Speaker 1: for it. It's you know, they tell me stories all

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Speaker 1: boom and it happens again, it's a setback, and I

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Speaker 1: don't I don't want any setbacks at Allso, UM, that's

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Speaker 1: why I've just been, you know, just just trying to

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Speaker 1: be a team player there. Just listen and fall fall instructions,

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Speaker 1: and I know that they have a great game plan

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Speaker 1: be ready. You're always uh me and Donald um M.

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Speaker 1: I mean the question is like how I feel about that? Uh,

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Speaker 1: that don't really cross my mind. Um. You know, we

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Speaker 1: I don't want to see Sam to see as much

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Speaker 1: I hope they have great careers. Question. I hope you

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Speaker 1: all personally? For me? I don't. I don't think so. UM,

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Speaker 1: I don't think so, because you know, every everyone learns differently. UM.

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Speaker 1: Some people learn better on the field and actually actually

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Speaker 1: For me, I kind of do a little bit of both.

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Speaker 1: to continue to get better the mental part. Family. Get

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