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Speaker 1: How you feeling good? Feeling good? Uh, it's one day

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Speaker 1: bad How you can with the guys. Uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm joying. It's it's cool. You know, turning camp is different.

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Speaker 1: Now I can see faces of my teammates. I got

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Speaker 1: to know the different guys. Uh, getting with Rob Sale,

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Speaker 1: It's it's all. It's going good. I really enjoy this.

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Speaker 1: So when when you got hurt, Joe said something like,

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Speaker 1: if you even hurt, you would like chew out of

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Speaker 1: Like I like to practice, you know, I like to practice.

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Speaker 1: I like to work. I want to get better every

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Speaker 1: single day, and I'm just taking it. You on the

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Speaker 1: day at the time. What's how scary? Was that injury? Scary?

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Speaker 1: Yere An? You know it's football. You know it's football.

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Speaker 1: You know it's so happens, you know, And I've been

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Speaker 1: single day, even though you know, I might not be

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Speaker 1: Rode when the car takes you off ride and oh

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Speaker 1: I was, I was mad. You know, it's it's you know,

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Speaker 1: it's whatever you know happened and what happened to happened. Uh,

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Speaker 1: I'm just trusting this treatment staff and the plan in

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Speaker 1: the process to get back and keep going. How do

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Speaker 1: you how do you scared? You scared? Did did you

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Speaker 1: know that? What? You know? I didn't know what to expect.

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Speaker 1: I didn't know what to expect, and um, you know

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Speaker 1: of the doctors and our our staff said, and I was,

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Speaker 1: you know more, I was more concerned at that part

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Speaker 1: about missing the rest of practice. You know, how do

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Speaker 1: I'm sure you've had a chance to break down the

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Speaker 1: film and stuff like when you look back, like what

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Speaker 1: every single year and from my football career, it's every

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Speaker 1: off season there's highs and there's lows. There's sayings you

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Speaker 1: I had some struggles last year, but I think you know,

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Speaker 1: every single year since I was a little kid, I

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Speaker 1: had struggles. So taking him not not in a negative view,

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Speaker 1: but saying like, Okay, this is an opportunity where I

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Speaker 1: can come and fix my game this year. It's not

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Speaker 1: you know, it's not a negative. Don't put it in

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Speaker 1: a negative. Take it next year and build off of it.

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Speaker 1: And there's positive to build out too. So it's I

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Speaker 1: think it's I think it's keeping it even keel and

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Speaker 1: just staying right down in the middle and just continue

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Speaker 1: to get better. I know what I gotta work on,

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Speaker 1: and that's that's the biggest key right now is knowing

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Speaker 1: so you can get better at every one day. You

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Speaker 1: met and Andrew were all drafted in the same draft.

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Speaker 1: Fust But is there kind of like, you know, added chemistry,

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Speaker 1: I think we're we're really tight group. And I think

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Speaker 1: you know, even Kenny Wiggins now soldiers. Nice having him back.

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Speaker 1: you Freddie rab than they all bring in valuable experience,

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Speaker 1: being back out there today. Shame was it? As a

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Speaker 1: nine years and that's a personal decision. You know, I

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Speaker 1: I can't speak on that because those guys are vets.

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Speaker 1: They've seen it all. And I'm, you know, blessed to

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Speaker 1: You know, I'll keep on playing. Well well you know well,

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Speaker 1: and I have a great relationship and I was you know,

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Speaker 1: I didn't feel sorry for myself at all. I didn't.

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Speaker 1: It's not like that. I was obviously, like I said,

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Speaker 1: that's all I was going through my own kind of

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Speaker 1: the way I was taught playing this game, it's set

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Speaker 1: of physicality and nastiness and uh, you know, if that's

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Speaker 1: what you know, but if you can talk about it,

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Speaker 1: but you can do it, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 1: And if you watched tape, you want to be able

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Speaker 1: I'd rather walk the walk and to talk to talk.

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Speaker 1: Do you see something obviously like there's highs and flows.

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Speaker 1: There's times where I'm not and there's times there are

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Speaker 1: it's it's not my job to name myself as a

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Speaker 1: nasty player. Did you Did you change your periods? I

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Speaker 1: last year just wasn't as good. I still I work

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