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Speaker 1: What's up. I'm Randall Cob for a Green Bay Packtor. Hello,

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Speaker 1: But he was not a sports prodigy or even a

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Speaker 1: So like I get there, like we're landing, and like

429
00:24:59,760 --> 00:25:01,920
Speaker 1: my first thought was like, how must have got on

430
00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:07,199
Speaker 1: the wrong plane, Like, I'm not a farce. There's no

431
00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:12,280
Speaker 1: way that there's a team. Uh you know, lad get

432
00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:16,520
Speaker 1: off the plane and the rest is history. Yeah, how

433
00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:20,399
Speaker 1: special is that place? The town of cream Bay. No

434
00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:24,520
Speaker 1: place like it, No place like it, live free, eat

435
00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:30,359
Speaker 1: football there. They love their teams, they love supporting their team.

436
00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:35,119
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter if it's uh charity basketball game, a

437
00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:40,440
Speaker 1: charity softball game, you know, it doesn't matter. They're supporting.

438
00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:44,320
Speaker 1: They're gonna be. There's pack always. You know, if you

439
00:25:44,359 --> 00:25:48,080
Speaker 1: have a charity event, they're they're coming, they're donating, you know.

440
00:25:48,320 --> 00:25:50,840
Speaker 1: And not only just city of Green Bay, but the

441
00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:55,680
Speaker 1: Packer fans in general. Like whenever I travel around the country,

442
00:25:56,040 --> 00:25:58,720
Speaker 1: always it doesn't matter what country I'm in, it'll be

443
00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:01,359
Speaker 1: a Packer fan will come up to the like, I mean, Spain,

444
00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:03,359
Speaker 1: how do you even like, how do you even know?

445
00:26:04,119 --> 00:26:08,879
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? It's nothing like, Yeah, you

446
00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:15,560
Speaker 1: have had so many amazing iconic moments for the franchise,

447
00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:19,679
Speaker 1: what's your favorite? I got I got to what she was.

448
00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:22,160
Speaker 1: I want to hear yours. One. I was there. I'm

449
00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:24,680
Speaker 1: sure we talk. I'm sure I hugged you and an

450
00:26:24,720 --> 00:26:31,399
Speaker 1: inappropriately a snug embrace. That one was the Hail Mary

451
00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:35,640
Speaker 1: against the Giants, uh in the in the playoffs, Hail

452
00:26:35,720 --> 00:26:38,240
Speaker 1: Mary at the end of the first half. That really,

453
00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:41,480
Speaker 1: for all intents and purposes, you just sort of felt

454
00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:43,159
Speaker 1: it in the stadium that just kind of took the

455
00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:46,840
Speaker 1: air out of them and ended up having a fairly

456
00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:50,359
Speaker 1: decent win there, that catch, and it was one of

457
00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:52,719
Speaker 1: those I mean, I'm sure you're better at it than

458
00:26:52,760 --> 00:26:54,439
Speaker 1: I am, but I've watched a lot of football, and

459
00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:58,399
Speaker 1: when you're live sometimes you see it happening, you know,

460
00:26:58,600 --> 00:27:02,399
Speaker 1: when you you you see all of the pieces of

461
00:27:02,440 --> 00:27:07,160
Speaker 1: the chessboard happening at one second, and I knew knew

462
00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:11,360
Speaker 1: where he was going. I saw it all. Whether there

463
00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:14,080
Speaker 1: was just i mean just the slightest of push offs,

464
00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:17,280
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't care. It was so it

465
00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:22,520
Speaker 1: was that was so great that but by far for

466
00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:27,560
Speaker 1: me the game I remember so well, which was probably

467
00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:31,560
Speaker 1: quite frankly, probably a couple of weeks after the night

468
00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:35,800
Speaker 1: that you referenced you'd been injured, you broke your your leg,

469
00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:42,439
Speaker 1: and Aaron was out with you're out. We're at a

470
00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:44,560
Speaker 1: bar before a game in Green Bay because I had

471
00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:47,800
Speaker 1: planned to go and that game. Actually, I think I

472
00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:52,720
Speaker 1: have pictures of you and Aaron and me on the

473
00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:55,720
Speaker 1: sideline before the game for the only time because neither

474
00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:59,360
Speaker 1: of you were playing. And the last game of the season,

475
00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:02,560
Speaker 1: the Packers against the Bears, the winner goes to the

476
00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:06,560
Speaker 1: playoff and he hits you with about a fifty yard

477
00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:08,840
Speaker 1: forty eights what it says here, but about a fifty

478
00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:15,800
Speaker 1: yard just beautiful past run catch right up the seam

479
00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:19,919
Speaker 1: to win that game. That one, Yeah, that one, I'll

480
00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:22,359
Speaker 1: I don't know if I'll ever forget that one because

481
00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:25,680
Speaker 1: it was just so it was just so sweet, man.

482
00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:28,600
Speaker 1: That was That was a special one. That's that's one.

483
00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:33,199
Speaker 1: That's one B. That one, Okay, that's one B. And

484
00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:37,199
Speaker 1: the only reason is be is because one A my

485
00:28:37,320 --> 00:28:41,040
Speaker 1: first game coming out of the the lockout, first game back

486
00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:47,840
Speaker 1: football Saints, first Packers is the last two champions, Packers

487
00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:52,160
Speaker 1: one of the year four year before that, and it's

488
00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:56,520
Speaker 1: my first game in the NFL ever and ever catch

489
00:28:56,560 --> 00:29:01,040
Speaker 1: a touchdown and then I had kick off return that

490
00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:04,320
Speaker 1: tied the record at the time, and like it was

491
00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:07,959
Speaker 1: just so surreal, right, like everything that had happened up

492
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:10,160
Speaker 1: until that point. I thought I was getting cut in

493
00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:13,200
Speaker 1: training because like I got like a thy contusion because

494
00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:15,120
Speaker 1: just a few days of practice, and I was like,

495
00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:17,560
Speaker 1: I'm get really get cut and then I make the

496
00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:22,680
Speaker 1: team and then that happens, right, So it was just like, yeah,

497
00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:25,600
Speaker 1: it was just like this coming out party from me

498
00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:28,880
Speaker 1: and this like moment that it was like you can

499
00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:32,080
Speaker 1: really do this, like not like you just made it

500
00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:34,920
Speaker 1: to the NFL, like you can you can be a

501
00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:37,640
Speaker 1: difference maker, you know what I mean. So that for me,

502
00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:41,160
Speaker 1: that was like a personal moment that was just like

503
00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:45,320
Speaker 1: solidified that I was right where I was supposed to be. Uh.

504
00:29:45,360 --> 00:29:47,680
Speaker 1: So that that's why it's one eight for me and

505
00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:50,080
Speaker 1: then one be Like you said the game in Chicago,

506
00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:53,840
Speaker 1: I was coming off of a broken leg that missed

507
00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:56,840
Speaker 1: ten weeks that season and before I get hurt, Before

508
00:29:56,880 --> 00:29:59,280
Speaker 1: I get hurt that season, like I was on page

509
00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:02,840
Speaker 1: for most fourteen hundred yards until I touchdowns. That's what

510
00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:05,400
Speaker 1: I was on paste for before I've heard uh. And

511
00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:08,160
Speaker 1: that's my third year and then I get hurt and

512
00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:11,360
Speaker 1: I remember the locker room this time for the game, right,

513
00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:13,960
Speaker 1: and I don't know. I hope I'm still the same

514
00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:17,040
Speaker 1: player that I loved before. And then I ended up

515
00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:20,440
Speaker 1: with a couple of touchdowns in that game and having

516
00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:23,680
Speaker 1: that play that sent us to the playoffs obviously, and

517
00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:26,480
Speaker 1: had missed most of that season. I had missed most

518
00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:29,040
Speaker 1: of that season. And for us to have that connection,

519
00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:32,040
Speaker 1: and I think that's a special thing about sports, right,

520
00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:35,560
Speaker 1: we have these moments in time that we all have

521
00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:40,120
Speaker 1: a different perspective of how it happened and seeing it

522
00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:43,040
Speaker 1: from a different land and being able to be a

523
00:30:43,080 --> 00:30:46,520
Speaker 1: part of that. Emmy Packer fan, that's like one thing

524
00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:50,080
Speaker 1: that they always read up. Yeah, yeah, that's that's so awesome.

525
00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:53,040
Speaker 1: You know, it occurs to me. It occurs to me now.

526
00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:56,480
Speaker 1: The lockout. I had forgotten about the lockout and the

527
00:30:56,520 --> 00:31:00,240
Speaker 1: fact that the lockout happened, and the fact that in

528
00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:04,160
Speaker 1: that first game the only game on no one else

529
00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:08,840
Speaker 1: is watching anything but that, and that Erin trusted you

530
00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:11,880
Speaker 1: enough to throw you the ball. I mean that that

531
00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:15,360
Speaker 1: that you had already. I'm not talking shit about you

532
00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:20,760
Speaker 1: know the story behind that, right, No, tell me so

533
00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:24,360
Speaker 1: on the play that he throws it for me. I

534
00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:26,320
Speaker 1: was I was actually my second catch of the game

535
00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:30,600
Speaker 1: on that play, my first ever touchdown in the NFL

536
00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:34,640
Speaker 1: from Aaron Rodgers. He checks the play, and he checks

537
00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:36,440
Speaker 1: the play to where I'm supposed to run a flat

538
00:31:36,520 --> 00:31:38,880
Speaker 1: route to the sideline James Shawn's is supposed to run

539
00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:41,880
Speaker 1: a slant. It's a simple check. It's a simple concept.

540
00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:45,120
Speaker 1: But like in my mind, he gave the signal and

541
00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:47,920
Speaker 1: I thought the signal was like, it's a slant and

542
00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:50,600
Speaker 1: a flat. So in my mind, I was thinking, oh,

543
00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:52,600
Speaker 1: he's giving me the slant. He wants me to run

544
00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:55,320
Speaker 1: a splint right now. So I run the slant under

545
00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:58,920
Speaker 1: own route just happened to be open. He sees the

546
00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:03,680
Speaker 1: open grows, I'll make a guy missed before staving in.

547
00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:07,720
Speaker 1: So I have absolutely no idea. I'm thinking, oh yeah,

548
00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:11,040
Speaker 1: like me and him are like this, like I'm here

549
00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:15,240
Speaker 1: with you. Uh. It wasn't until I got back to

550
00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:20,120
Speaker 1: the sidelines and I found out all route. Yeah, did

551
00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:21,960
Speaker 1: you get a pound on the back at least? Or

552
00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:24,720
Speaker 1: did you just get chewed out for running the wrong route? No,

553
00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:26,760
Speaker 1: I gotta I gotta pat on the back. I got

554
00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:29,239
Speaker 1: a pat on the back, and uh he was. He

555
00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:31,880
Speaker 1: was like, hey, we got a joke. From from that

556
00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:33,840
Speaker 1: point on, and it's always like, hey, run the wrong

557
00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:39,840
Speaker 1: route and get the ball until that pick comes right

558
00:32:39,880 --> 00:33:02,600
Speaker 1: over the middle and then you're in big drum. Oh yeah,

559
00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:06,120
Speaker 1: but you know, I gotta bring it up. In twenty nineteen,

560
00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:10,360
Speaker 1: you leave for the Cowboys. How was that? Were you

561
00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:14,080
Speaker 1: excited for a new opportunity in a new place or

562
00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:17,880
Speaker 1: was that was that really difficult for you? Uh? Well, first,

563
00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:22,240
Speaker 1: I'm I'm gonna say it, leaving wasn't. My contract was

564
00:33:22,320 --> 00:33:25,560
Speaker 1: up and it didn't get renewed or I didn't get

565
00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:29,520
Speaker 1: another offer, so it wasn't. I was like, okay, Well

566
00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:33,440
Speaker 1: free agency comes around and I don't hear anything from anybody,

567
00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:37,320
Speaker 1: and I was like, okay, is this is this? How

568
00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:41,680
Speaker 1: it all? It's for me? And then uh the Cowboys called.

569
00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:45,560
Speaker 1: I was like, man, okay, let's do this. They just

570
00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:49,440
Speaker 1: came off a playoff run. They got to mar It's

571
00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:54,160
Speaker 1: some opportunity for me. Good team, good scene. I was excited.

572
00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:57,520
Speaker 1: I think be hindsight, looking back on it, it was

573
00:33:57,560 --> 00:34:00,400
Speaker 1: the best thing that could happen from my career at

574
00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:04,040
Speaker 1: that time because I had been in Green Bay so

575
00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:08,640
Speaker 1: long that I think going somewhere else rejuvenated me and

576
00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:12,000
Speaker 1: gave me a different challenge, right because when you do

577
00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:15,920
Speaker 1: something for so long, it becomes kind of mundane, right,

578
00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:18,359
Speaker 1: Like that's just kind of what it is. And it's

579
00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:21,719
Speaker 1: like everybody knows who did, who you are, what you

580
00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:24,640
Speaker 1: what you do. And I had to rebuild all that

581
00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:28,120
Speaker 1: I had to. I had to show my teammates like, okay,

582
00:34:28,160 --> 00:34:30,239
Speaker 1: like who is Randall cop? Who was who is this

583
00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:32,640
Speaker 1: guy that's coming in? So I had to earn my

584
00:34:32,640 --> 00:34:34,600
Speaker 1: teammates trust, I had to show the coaches what I

585
00:34:34,640 --> 00:34:38,040
Speaker 1: could do. Every day. It was like a proved type

586
00:34:38,040 --> 00:34:41,040
Speaker 1: of day for me. And you know, I think I

587
00:34:41,040 --> 00:34:43,920
Speaker 1: think that was something that kind of kick started the

588
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:47,400
Speaker 1: second part of my career. You know, I loved my

589
00:34:47,480 --> 00:34:50,160
Speaker 1: time to that. Was had a great time. Uh. Coach

590
00:34:50,239 --> 00:34:53,160
Speaker 1: Garrett was great. I really enjoyed the time with him.

591
00:34:53,680 --> 00:34:57,040
Speaker 1: The Jones family nothing but loved and respect for you know.

592
00:34:57,200 --> 00:34:59,880
Speaker 1: They they took me in and want to cowboy all

593
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:03,560
Speaker 1: the cowboys what they say, and I'm very fortunate for

594
00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:07,000
Speaker 1: what opportunity they gave me down there. Tell them more

595
00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:10,919
Speaker 1: excellent play caller. I loved him. I think he's gonna

596
00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:13,880
Speaker 1: be a great head coach one day. Yeah, so that

597
00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:17,239
Speaker 1: was that was a fun year. That's awesome. We didn't

598
00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:19,920
Speaker 1: we didn't win. We didn't win, we didn't make it playoffs.

599
00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:23,719
Speaker 1: But it was a fun year. Yeah. I I had

600
00:35:23,719 --> 00:35:26,719
Speaker 1: not heard that from you before that that you know

601
00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:29,600
Speaker 1: that that rejuvenated you. And that totally makes sense, right.

602
00:35:29,719 --> 00:35:34,400
Speaker 1: I mean it's a change of environment, a new system.

603
00:35:34,520 --> 00:35:38,160
Speaker 1: You have to be adaptable and and changeable, and I

604
00:35:38,520 --> 00:35:42,920
Speaker 1: can understand how that gives you a renewed energy. You

605
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:47,919
Speaker 1: go to Houston and then you get a call from

606
00:35:47,960 --> 00:35:53,279
Speaker 1: the packers about coming back to join them. Talk to

607
00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:55,440
Speaker 1: me a little bit about that. And the decision to go, well,

608
00:35:55,480 --> 00:35:58,759
Speaker 1: i'll call it home. The decision to go home, yeah, yeah,

609
00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:01,560
Speaker 1: to come back to come back where it all started again,

610
00:36:01,600 --> 00:36:04,520
Speaker 1: that wasn't a decision for me. It wasn't It wasn't

611
00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:08,040
Speaker 1: an option. I got traded and it was the biggest

612
00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:10,360
Speaker 1: blessing that I could I had the year that I

613
00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:14,040
Speaker 1: had in used to like all of us during COVID

614
00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:16,839
Speaker 1: that first year, we were all going to stuff right,

615
00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:18,920
Speaker 1: and I don't think that was in a great place.

616
00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:21,919
Speaker 1: It wasn't a It wasn't the environment that I thought

617
00:36:21,960 --> 00:36:25,600
Speaker 1: it was going to be. You know, it wasn't. It

618
00:36:25,719 --> 00:36:27,760
Speaker 1: wasn't what I what I thought that I was walking

619
00:36:27,760 --> 00:36:31,000
Speaker 1: through too, And uh, it was difficult. I had a

620
00:36:31,080 --> 00:36:34,000
Speaker 1: lot of tough talks with my wife about it, and

621
00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:37,120
Speaker 1: I honestly thought about retiring after that season. So I

622
00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:39,560
Speaker 1: was like, I just don't. I don't love the game anymore.

623
00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:43,520
Speaker 1: It wasn't fun. It was like nothing about it was fun. Yeah,

624
00:36:43,560 --> 00:36:46,320
Speaker 1: So that was that was very a very difficult place.

625
00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:50,279
Speaker 1: But we we actually played the Packers that season when

626
00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:52,120
Speaker 1: I was in US. Was actually when I was in

627
00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:55,000
Speaker 1: Dallas and played Packers and was used to play back up.

628
00:36:55,480 --> 00:36:58,600
Speaker 1: But I remember before that game it was like right

629
00:36:58,640 --> 00:37:02,279
Speaker 1: before the trade deadline what we played the pacts, and

630
00:37:02,360 --> 00:37:04,359
Speaker 1: I remember going out for warm up is just like

631
00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:07,760
Speaker 1: trying to go with everybody like please come get me, please,

632
00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:12,360
Speaker 1: somebody I was going to like I would have to,

633
00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:16,960
Speaker 1: like Mark Murphy like please, like I let's go up

634
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:23,800
Speaker 1: to groop everybody. Uh obviously like we can't. They couldn't

635
00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:27,520
Speaker 1: do anything about that, but uh yeah, it all ended

636
00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:30,960
Speaker 1: up working out in and I was able to come

637
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:34,399
Speaker 1: back last year. Then I loved enough here. I love

638
00:37:34,520 --> 00:37:40,239
Speaker 1: planning for this organization and and representing recundation, And like

639
00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:42,880
Speaker 1: I said, it's a special places, a special bond that

640
00:37:42,960 --> 00:37:45,400
Speaker 1: you have, and you know, I've been going away for

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Speaker 1: a couple of years. Just made me realize even more

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Speaker 1: what it meant to be a part of this organisation. Yeah. Yeah, Well,

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Speaker 1: I know a lot of people missed you when you

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Speaker 1: left and are glad that you're back. I am hoping

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Speaker 1: and praying for you and the Packers that that you

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Speaker 1: have just an absolutely awesome year. I Uh. I know

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Speaker 1: last year ended not the way everybody wanted it too.

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Speaker 1: But this year, I'm I'm optimistic and I'm ready. I'm excited.

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Speaker 1: Good you are, You're excited, You're ready. I'm excited for sure.

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Speaker 1: Now it's gonna be It's gonna be a fun year,

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Speaker 1: you know. I think it's it's gonna be some different

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Speaker 1: challenges for us, but I'm excited about it. I think

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Speaker 1: that it could be for the better. Our defense completely

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Speaker 1: stacked going into this season. You look at every level

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Speaker 1: of our defense and you just got to play makers,

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Speaker 1: you know, from from from Kenny and the rookie we

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Speaker 1: just drafted on the behind and the guys rotating in

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Speaker 1: their custon you know, coming back University of Georgia, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: basically Georgia North. Yeah, so we we got We've got

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Speaker 1: some guys in our defense. We got Aaron Jones and

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Speaker 1: j Tilling is gonna carry the low for us in

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Speaker 1: the backfield. And any time you got to well, you

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Speaker 1: get the opportunity. And what I've seen from a couple

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Speaker 1: of our rookies and from our receiver business off season,

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Speaker 1: I think we'll be in a good place. I'm confident

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Speaker 1: and in that and I think for our offense, it'll

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Speaker 1: it'll be great because you'll have so many guys that's

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Speaker 1: getting involved. You have see me that's coming in, Kemmy

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Speaker 1: Watkins and Alan coming back. AMR who's made some strides

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Speaker 1: this off season. I can't wait to see, you know,

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Speaker 1: what what happens with his career as this year goes on,

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Speaker 1: and the opportunity he said he's gonna get, you know,

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Speaker 1: And I'm really just trying to make sure that I

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Speaker 1: helped those guys understand what's in front of him. After

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Speaker 1: the career that I've had and the ups and downs

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Speaker 1: that I've went through, the valleys that I've I've been

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Speaker 1: in and the mountain peaks that I've touched, being able

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Speaker 1: to pass on the wisdom and learn have helped them

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Speaker 1: learn from the mistakes that I may have made my

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Speaker 1: earlier career and just see the big picture and understand

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Speaker 1: that we're we're all instead of puzzle. That's the that's

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Speaker 1: the the special thing about football is like, it don't

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Speaker 1: matter how good when person is, like, they can't go

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Speaker 1: by themselves. You know, even as great as Aaron is, Like,

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Speaker 1: you gotta have an offensive line protecting. You gotta have

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Speaker 1: receivers that catch the ball. That's right. You can't you

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Speaker 1: can't just throw Joe Smoke from Westford University out there

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Speaker 1: inspected that he's gonna make plays against plow corners, against

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Speaker 1: Jalen Ramses, you know, and and all these guys like,

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Speaker 1: we're still guys, we're still pros that you know can

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Speaker 1: get it done. So I look forward to the seeing

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Speaker 1: all those young guys coming to their own and myself

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Speaker 1: included being able to um make some plays and be

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Speaker 1: a piece at that puzzle and help put it all together. Well, listen,

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Speaker 1: you're truly one of the good guys. Like and I

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Speaker 1: mean that, I mean that sincerely. I respect you as

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Speaker 1: a person. I loved hearing your story today and your transition,

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Speaker 1: your decision to choose longevity and an amazing career. Thank

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Speaker 1: you so much for coming on and uh and talking

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Speaker 1: to me and to us and uh yeah uh go

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Speaker 1: pack go. Thanks Randolph Man. I appreciate all right. I'll

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Speaker 1: say it again. I'll say it a thousand times. Go

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Speaker 1: Pack go. Thank you Randall for joining me. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: see you in Green Bay here in just a few months.

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Speaker 1: Have an amazing season. I know you will. As always, listeners,

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Speaker 1: executive produced by me Brian Baumgartner, alongside our executive producer Langley.

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