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Speaker 1: D j Oui langa lay I'm.

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Speaker 2: Dowey what d j unga la ooy unga lay.

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Speaker 1: Dj introduced yourself to the podcast.

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Speaker 2: Man, now, thanks for thanks for joining us right before

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Speaker 2: we popped on. It seems like you guys grew up

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Speaker 2: in similar areas. Uh, Delaney, he takes great pride. He

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Speaker 2: is great pride and Promona Pomona.

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Speaker 3: You know what it is, bro, Stop playing well. So

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Speaker 3: we he was like, I bet you he's not from Pomona.

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Speaker 2: I said, Look, I said, no, I said, I said,

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Speaker 2: I said, Uh. The page we got said he is

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Speaker 2: from Riverside. He said, he ain't from Riverside. He from

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna ask him. You from the town, You're already

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Speaker 2: gonna know what's up?

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Speaker 4: He said. He do know what's up.

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Speaker 1: He said. Now, my grandparents grew up there, That's what

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Speaker 1: he said.

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Speaker 5: But my grandparents lived there. Oh, my dad, my brother,

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Speaker 5: my dad's brothers, i' my uncles. Yeah, I grew up

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Speaker 5: in Pomona. I lived there for a couple of years

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Speaker 5: at my grandparents house for a couple of years. But

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Speaker 5: no ship, I said, from the Empire.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, talk about I want to get into right away

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Speaker 2: because I feel like you have. You've had a fascinating

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Speaker 2: journey starting at Clemson. You were like you were like

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Speaker 2: you were the man coming out of high school. You

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Speaker 2: go to Clemson, transferre to Oregon State. Now you're transferred

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Speaker 2: to Florida State. Talk us through like the process of

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Speaker 2: now the transfer portal and your kind of journey of

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Speaker 2: going from Clemson, the Oregon State now Florida State.

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Speaker 5: I think, honestly, Man, it's nothing now I would have

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Speaker 5: thought of when I was coming out of high school

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Speaker 5: like this, what I would have been at here at

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Speaker 5: Florida State.

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Speaker 4: I would have been at three different colleges.

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Speaker 5: But I mean, I think at the end of the day,

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Speaker 5: I think that's part of the journey, what guys had

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Speaker 5: for me. I think that's the blessing in it. I've

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Speaker 5: learned a lot in my five years being here in

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Speaker 5: college and then for me, Man, I'm happy to be

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Speaker 5: here at Florida State.

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Speaker 4: I'm excited for the next journey. But it's been a blessing.

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Speaker 1: Man.

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Speaker 5: Guys put me through some trialge stribulation, some good, some

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Speaker 5: ups and downs. But for me, Man, I've been able

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Speaker 5: to come out of the fire on the other side

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Speaker 5: and just learn through the times that God's giving me.

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Speaker 2: So I've been blessed in the When you were at

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Speaker 2: Clemson that was like the pre and ile era, right.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, right before the state, right before.

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Speaker 2: I think about talk about how that's just developed over

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Speaker 1: Be here if the transferport and all that stuff wasn't

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Speaker 1: going on. Talk about how like you've witnessed it all

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Speaker 4: I think it's been crazy.

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Speaker 5: I think Nil transfer portal, I think for me Man

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Speaker 5: and I, al's been a blessing. I think it's been

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Speaker 5: huge for me. For me, Man, it's been able to

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Speaker 5: take care of my family, be able to make extra

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Speaker 5: able to pay for different stuff for my parents, mom

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Speaker 5: I would have never thought of. That's helping my family

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Speaker 5: lot easier. And then transfer portal, I think it's something

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Speaker 5: be able to tri If it wasn't for the transport,

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Speaker 5: So for me, Man, I'm super excited about my time

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Speaker 5: for this next year of Florida State. I'm thankful the transferport.

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Speaker 5: I think it's a great tool as long as people

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Speaker 5: use it the right way. But I think it's great.

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Speaker 4: So what made you come back to the ACC though?

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Speaker 4: Coming back? For me, Man, I feel like Florida State

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Speaker 5: I feel like coach Norvel, coach to Cards, coach Atkins,

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Speaker 5: I feel like they're on the rise, Like they had

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Speaker 5: a great season last year. Should have been the playoffs

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Speaker 5: in my opinion. But I feel like, Man, everyone's here

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Speaker 1: In their coach novel, why don't why didn't it work

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Speaker 5: I think it's a multitude of things. I think for me, Man,

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Speaker 5: it was a blessing. I think coach Dad would think

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Speaker 5: all the people there, my boy coach Streeter, my quarterback coach,

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Speaker 5: and all the guys that were there. But I think

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Speaker 5: it was just it just didn't work out for I

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Speaker 5: I think things went well, but obviously things didn't work

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Speaker 4: So that's why I ended up going to Oregon State.

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Speaker 1: Do you feel like it was like a clean break break?

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Speaker 5: I think I think so. For me, Man, I wanted

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Speaker 4: Played my strengths better.

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Speaker 3: Us being in this our age and not being able

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Speaker 3: What is the feeling like after leave leaving a team,

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Speaker 3: do they feel like you turn your back on them, Like,

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Speaker 3: I mean, what's that feel like?

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Speaker 4: Locker room?

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Speaker 5: I mean, honestly, when I left Clumps, it was tough

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Speaker 5: three years, coaching staff, the guys, support staff, all my players.

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Speaker 5: I mean all those guys. I was boys. I was

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Speaker 5: But it's also like kind of like a business ission, Like, man,

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Speaker 5: So leaving that part it's tough. We obviously know in

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Speaker 5: But and depending on how you are as a teammate

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Speaker 5: you know what, DJ could be your best, like do

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Speaker 5: I forget that dude.

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Speaker 4: If that dude like man, we ain't want to hear anyways.

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Speaker 5: I think that depends on I think that shows what

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Speaker 4: And then the people around you.

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Speaker 3: So did you ask for their blessing when you did

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Speaker 4: Like I just want to know, like, do you go

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Speaker 1: I'm about to I'm thinking about making a move.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm like, yo, you know I didn't. It's not

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna do this anyway. I just wanted to see,

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Speaker 3: like what your blessing is because we didn't get to

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Speaker 4: Yeah one percent.

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Speaker 5: I mean I think my first time I told I

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Speaker 1: I'm nervous for you.

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Speaker 5: I was definitely yeah, I know, like, yeah, I was

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Speaker 5: you know what, man, I think I'm leaving. So I

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Speaker 5: mean that conversation wasn't It wasn't. It wasn't the easiest.

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Speaker 5: But coach I think Coach Sweeney he understood where I

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Speaker 5: So I appreciate Coach Sweety for that making that conversation

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Speaker 1: You live in the world.

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Speaker 2: We're all we all we all love capitalism, we all

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Speaker 2: love making money, we all love having all of our

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Speaker 2: decisions after our careers. Everything revolves around you know, what

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Speaker 2: are they paying here? What are they paying there? Since

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Speaker 2: you are somebody who has experienced the pre in IL

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Speaker 2: and now the NIL for what it is today, Like

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Speaker 2: when you're making the decision to go to a school

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Speaker 1: Is it a football factor?

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Speaker 2: You look at all these different assets of why you

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Speaker 1: How does that change?

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Speaker 2: Like how much more does that like maybe not mean

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Speaker 2: I think high school I think is definitely different. I

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Speaker 2: on case the case scenario. I think depends on the athlete.

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Speaker 2: What are there means? Like some athletes say, hey man, no,

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Speaker 2: oh see everyone their.

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Speaker 5: Goal is trying to get to the NFL and get

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Speaker 5: you get developed.

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Speaker 4: But in il it's it's also a plus. You know.

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Speaker 5: It's like, hey, you know what I do want to

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Speaker 5: make some money. I want to be paid for. Like

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Speaker 5: So it is blessing and stuff like that. But I

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Speaker 5: think where it gets tricky is where people just want

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Speaker 1: Like that's what our decisions are based around. Then too,

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Speaker 1: Because they're like, you know what I mean, they're young.

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean once you stop performing at a high level,

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Speaker 4: Drop when they won't pay you. It's just like the NFL.

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Speaker 3: Once you don't perform at a high level, what you get,

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Speaker 5: It's no different than free agency. You're in the pus.

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Speaker 4: So that's where I think, because.

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Speaker 2: You feel like the locker room overall has like shifting

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Speaker 5: Honestly, I don't think so. I think it depends on

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Speaker 4: You make your money. But like at the end of

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Speaker 5: You know, no matter how much money you make, how

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Speaker 4: No money here.

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Speaker 5: So that's why I feel like in Florida State, there's

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Speaker 5: I've been here, it's like is your brotherhood, man, You're

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Speaker 4: There's a standard to be met. You know how much.

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Speaker 3: Money you make and you know what I do with

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Speaker 3: some research on you, like if these guys don't know

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Speaker 3: like you really care about football, because you did. You

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Speaker 4: Appreciated there about the game. And the money really doesn't matter.

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Speaker 3: You just want to be in the NFL and I

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, and that's why they worked so hard to

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Speaker 1: You know, definitely, No, That's what I said.

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Speaker 2: It's everybody's curiosity is so high with all this all

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Speaker 2: your fifth year. Yeah, fifth year? What what what made

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Speaker 5: My head coach left, So after our last game and

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Speaker 1: So I'm like, dang, yeah. Like when that left, and.

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Speaker 5: Then the Pac twelve, like not having a conference anymore,

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Speaker 5: I want to be able to compete for a national championship.

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Speaker 5: I didn't know like being in he can't, but I've

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Speaker 4: It's kind of hard to compete for that national championship.

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Speaker 1: Verd So was that when the Big twelve kind of

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Speaker 5: To be at Pack twelve, it was crazy, like it's

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Speaker 4: I grew up a SC fan.

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Speaker 5: Years of me watching the Pack ten Pac twelve just

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Speaker 4: It was crazy.

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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, but I mean you you're in a greater

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Speaker 4: You know, we'll be excited to watch and see what

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Speaker 3: Definitely, when when we found out I was interviewed, I'm like,

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I know, I'm like.

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Speaker 1: I'm for really Laney Walker Delaney was fired out.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I was fed like, yeah, that was my dog. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: So I'm glad that you got to do this interview

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Speaker 1: So you know, we wish you the best. I appreciate

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Speaker 1: you to find the stead real quick. Y'all didn't play?

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Speaker 1: Uh if y'all play Colorado. Last year we played Colorado.

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Speaker 1: They remember they Colorado Oregon. No Colorado's they start falling down?

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Speaker 2: I got you, because if y'all played them earlier, I'll

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Speaker 4: There's Hella cameras on the field. That's all I remember.

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Speaker 5: Like I got to the field and it was packed

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Speaker 4: I was like, damn, it's crazy.

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Speaker 5: Constant show. Yeah, constant show. It was wild, Like I

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Speaker 1: It was.

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Speaker 4: It was wild, Like on players, it was crazy following plays.

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Speaker 5: I think they had Kirk Franklin there. I was like, damn,

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Speaker 5: Hella celebrities and Kirk Franklin like k yeahs and stuff

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Speaker 4: Like oh damn this this Hella fire. Kirk Franklin.

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Speaker 2: They let a lot of yeah, they let a lot

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what I was like, Man, who's coming to

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Speaker 1: Like who? Your thoughts? Your thoughts on not making the

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Speaker 5: Yeah, obviously I wasn't on the team, but I think

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Speaker 5: I think, honestly, I think they should have made it.

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Speaker 4: I think that sucks. I mean, when you go.

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Speaker 5: Underfeel, I don't think they should have made it here.

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Speaker 1: I think they just like sitting back, didn't get in.

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Speaker 4: I think it sucks. I think I knew. I mean,

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Speaker 4: I know in Florida State about saying.

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Speaker 4: I know, yeah, about saying a tough position.

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00:17:01,400 --> 00:17:04,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, we always got we gotta mess with people every time.

440
00:17:04,720 --> 00:17:10,760
Speaker 3: But uh yeah, I mean my situation with that, the

441
00:17:10,800 --> 00:17:13,280
Speaker 3: Florida State situation, you know, I don't it was a

442
00:17:13,320 --> 00:17:18,280
Speaker 3: tough one th quarterback. I think that was a big play,

443
00:17:18,400 --> 00:17:20,359
Speaker 3: but yeah, it was. It was the play.

444
00:17:20,920 --> 00:17:21,639
Speaker 4: That's what that was.

445
00:17:21,680 --> 00:17:24,320
Speaker 2: Like, they have the top two guys, the top two

446
00:17:24,359 --> 00:17:24,919
Speaker 2: cats went down.

447
00:17:25,080 --> 00:17:27,960
Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying. So that hurts you. I think that,

448
00:17:28,520 --> 00:17:30,680
Speaker 3: but you know, Alabama is the Alabama ball.

449
00:17:31,040 --> 00:17:31,240
Speaker 1: Yeah.

450
00:17:31,280 --> 00:17:33,680
Speaker 2: I was just hoping I wanted Michigan to go down,

451
00:17:34,480 --> 00:17:38,679
Speaker 2: and so in my subjective personal opinion, I thought Alabama

452
00:17:38,920 --> 00:17:41,919
Speaker 2: was more of a viable option, a healthier option to

453
00:17:41,960 --> 00:17:42,760
Speaker 2: take down Michigan.

454
00:17:43,320 --> 00:17:45,000
Speaker 1: So there was nothing against Florida States.

455
00:17:45,040 --> 00:17:47,879
Speaker 3: Then against Florida State. I just didn't have trust me.

456
00:17:47,920 --> 00:17:51,320
Speaker 3: I wanted y'all. Yeah, I know that's that's better though.

457
00:17:51,359 --> 00:17:54,240
Speaker 3: I'm glad they're doing that because they realized they jacked

458
00:17:54,560 --> 00:17:58,080
Speaker 3: Florida State, so they was like, we gotta put twelve.

459
00:18:00,280 --> 00:18:03,119
Speaker 4: You know, you want to championship and don't go like,

460
00:18:03,560 --> 00:18:04,840
Speaker 4: I mean, what else are you supposed to do?

461
00:18:04,920 --> 00:18:06,800
Speaker 5: You know, even with an injury with you and Travis

462
00:18:06,840 --> 00:18:08,879
Speaker 5: getting hurt, Like, man, when you win your conference without

463
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Speaker 5: your starting quarterback.

464
00:18:10,040 --> 00:18:11,200
Speaker 4: I mean, that's gotta say a lot.

465
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that that was an unfortunate I mean, yeah, yeah,

466
00:18:14,200 --> 00:18:15,200
Speaker 2: that was a tough situation.

467
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Speaker 1: But hey, thank you, man, we appreciate you coming on

468
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Speaker 1: to watch. We got to come out. We was we

469
00:18:21,840 --> 00:18:22,560
Speaker 1: was out last night.

470
00:18:22,600 --> 00:18:24,440
Speaker 4: We hit the township.

471
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Speaker 3: I don't think he goes to that type of stuff,

472
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Speaker 3: but I heard about it just like, you know, I.

473
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Speaker 4: Just said township. He like, what go to that?

474
00:18:32,880 --> 00:18:33,280
Speaker 1: Going out?

475
00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:35,200
Speaker 4: Tell you he don't do that stuff?

476
00:18:35,680 --> 00:18:39,760
Speaker 3: Is being a yeah great the great athlete?

477
00:18:39,920 --> 00:18:44,359
Speaker 4: Yeah athlete, Yes, that's absolutely bro.

478
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Speaker 1: Do they Miami in Northwestern didn make you watch the

479
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Speaker 1: Year of the Bull for each season?

480
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Speaker 4: No, make you watch it, but you watched it.

481
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Speaker 1: I watched it.

482
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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a stable Yeah, I watched it. Definitely watched that.

483
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Speaker 6: She was crazy you yeah?

484
00:19:00,560 --> 00:19:00,760
Speaker 4: Yeah?

485
00:19:02,480 --> 00:19:04,879
Speaker 2: Or the shower or the shower postgame meetings are they

486
00:19:04,920 --> 00:19:05,640
Speaker 2: a little different now?

487
00:19:06,240 --> 00:19:06,440
Speaker 6: Yeah?

488
00:19:06,520 --> 00:19:07,200
Speaker 4: A little different?

489
00:19:07,200 --> 00:19:09,600
Speaker 6: When well, I was there with coach maxes that it's

490
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Speaker 6: basically the same. He just he can't move as much

491
00:19:12,560 --> 00:19:15,400
Speaker 6: like coach Max. He was a deeper coordinator on new videos.

492
00:19:15,680 --> 00:19:17,280
Speaker 6: He was the head coach when I was there, but

493
00:19:17,880 --> 00:19:19,880
Speaker 6: he was he was exactly the same when it came

494
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Speaker 6: to screaming and cuts and all that. But but he

495
00:19:22,560 --> 00:19:24,200
Speaker 6: couldn't really slop people, you.

496
00:19:24,119 --> 00:19:26,840
Speaker 4: Know, running around. We can't really move as well as

497
00:19:27,160 --> 00:19:28,680
Speaker 4: did you ever try? You? Yeah?

498
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Speaker 3: Everybody, everybody get it.

499
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Speaker 6: I remember one time we was after like our first

500
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Speaker 6: two games. It was in the gym, and he was

501
00:19:37,960 --> 00:19:40,639
Speaker 6: going player for player, like even all the star players

502
00:19:40,640 --> 00:19:42,760
Speaker 6: on the team like it was me Cam Kitcheners from

503
00:19:42,800 --> 00:19:47,200
Speaker 6: Miami to safety Ramelo Grenson. He telling everybody what they're

504
00:19:47,200 --> 00:19:49,280
Speaker 6: doing wrong. He came, he said, Patrick, I don't care

505
00:19:49,320 --> 00:19:52,320
Speaker 6: how many touchdowns he school, you still ain't doing nothing

506
00:19:52,480 --> 00:19:52,840
Speaker 6: this year.

507
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Speaker 4: He was one of those type of players, like everybody respect.

508
00:20:00,960 --> 00:20:03,879
Speaker 3: How did they feel being rookie defensive Rookie of the

509
00:20:03,920 --> 00:20:06,719
Speaker 3: year for the ACC It felt great because like just

510
00:20:06,720 --> 00:20:08,560
Speaker 3: going through the season, I didn't even know I was

511
00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:10,280
Speaker 3: how it turns to even wind over.

512
00:20:10,520 --> 00:20:12,800
Speaker 6: I was just trying to play in just put my

513
00:20:12,920 --> 00:20:15,680
Speaker 6: name out there and make plays for the team. And

514
00:20:16,040 --> 00:20:19,080
Speaker 6: at the end of the season, coach Novel called me.

515
00:20:19,119 --> 00:20:21,120
Speaker 6: All the coaches just called me out. Woke up one morning.

516
00:20:21,200 --> 00:20:23,879
Speaker 6: I thought I was in trouble, but everybody called me.

517
00:20:24,440 --> 00:20:27,840
Speaker 6: They congratulated me, and I just felt great. I felt

518
00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:31,200
Speaker 6: love from the similar family and everybody.

519
00:20:31,680 --> 00:20:34,359
Speaker 3: And that's what's up. Like they come out be rookie

520
00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:37,639
Speaker 3: defensive Rookie of the year, ball out, do what you

521
00:20:37,680 --> 00:20:40,040
Speaker 3: do and then to come back, you know what I mean,

522
00:20:40,119 --> 00:20:43,800
Speaker 3: and still be successful here and uh, you know, we

523
00:20:43,920 --> 00:20:45,720
Speaker 3: got to talk about it because we heard about it.

524
00:20:45,760 --> 00:20:49,480
Speaker 3: But the portal, why did you mention the portal when

525
00:20:50,080 --> 00:20:52,560
Speaker 3: after having so much success here in Florida State.

526
00:20:52,920 --> 00:20:57,199
Speaker 6: It was a personal matter with like us and my

527
00:20:57,320 --> 00:21:00,639
Speaker 6: family when it came to certain stuff with and I

528
00:21:00,960 --> 00:21:03,600
Speaker 6: and all that. But I had to put my mind

529
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Speaker 6: to it just knowing that then I really is at

530
00:21:06,440 --> 00:21:09,960
Speaker 6: the next level for real, and I love Florida State.

531
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Speaker 6: So it was like, I know, it was a big

532
00:21:12,600 --> 00:21:14,840
Speaker 6: mistake on mind behind like when I think about it

533
00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:16,760
Speaker 6: some day, I'll be trying to think about it. When

534
00:21:16,760 --> 00:21:18,359
Speaker 6: I do think about it, I know why I messed up.

535
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Speaker 3: Money can to that because you're a Miami guy, so

536
00:21:21,080 --> 00:21:24,080
Speaker 3: you Florida all day, like being here in Florida State,

537
00:21:24,119 --> 00:21:26,399
Speaker 3: not too far from your family. But I understand what

538
00:21:26,480 --> 00:21:30,280
Speaker 3: you're saying about situations with your family and you got

539
00:21:30,280 --> 00:21:32,840
Speaker 3: to do the right thing for your family to be successful.

540
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Speaker 4: So I understand that.

541
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Speaker 3: When we read that, I just wanted to hear it

542
00:21:37,080 --> 00:21:39,240
Speaker 3: because she was like, no, I'm not hitting the portal.

543
00:21:39,280 --> 00:21:40,320
Speaker 4: I'm actually gonna stay.

544
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Speaker 3: And I see that as a big thing because you

545
00:21:42,400 --> 00:21:44,200
Speaker 3: look at some of these players that's coming out of

546
00:21:44,200 --> 00:21:47,639
Speaker 3: Florida State right now, top ten draft picks, dudes moving

547
00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:50,320
Speaker 3: up in their stock, and you are one of those

548
00:21:50,359 --> 00:21:54,080
Speaker 3: guys that's on the board already, it's being can be

549
00:21:54,119 --> 00:21:56,400
Speaker 3: in the top ten. You know what I mean if you,

550
00:21:56,400 --> 00:21:58,720
Speaker 3: you know, keep doing what you're doing, practice your craft,

551
00:21:58,720 --> 00:22:00,920
Speaker 3: and be successful as you are here in Florida. Stay

552
00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:03,880
Speaker 3: And I see that just by watching your film and uh,

553
00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:05,480
Speaker 3: the way you go out there and play the game.

554
00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:08,879
Speaker 2: Yeah, man, how how quickly do you feel like you

555
00:22:08,880 --> 00:22:11,280
Speaker 2: were acclimated to the to the game speed or being

556
00:22:11,280 --> 00:22:13,280
Speaker 2: out there on game. They coming from Miami Northwestern, you

557
00:22:13,320 --> 00:22:15,800
Speaker 2: obviously played at a high level in high school, But

558
00:22:15,880 --> 00:22:18,360
Speaker 2: how quickly did you realize like, oh, yeah, yeah, I'm

559
00:22:18,359 --> 00:22:20,760
Speaker 2: still the same cat that I was. I was still

560
00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:22,720
Speaker 2: the same cat, and I'll be able to catch on

561
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Speaker 2: all this stuff quick.

562
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Speaker 4: It was really the year I won the Richie of

563
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Speaker 4: the Year.

564
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Speaker 6: We was playing against Louisville and I know, y'all know

565
00:22:29,560 --> 00:22:33,239
Speaker 6: jer Verse that saying he had got hurt. And so

566
00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:35,160
Speaker 6: when he got hurt, he just came off a big

567
00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:38,120
Speaker 6: game to LSU. So everybody looking at him like, oh,

568
00:22:38,200 --> 00:22:40,280
Speaker 6: he's the guy, He's the guy. Like even I was

569
00:22:40,440 --> 00:22:42,679
Speaker 6: like that still my god to this day. But he

570
00:22:42,760 --> 00:22:44,720
Speaker 6: had got hurt. He had a little mind, a little

571
00:22:44,760 --> 00:22:47,000
Speaker 6: injury that he couldn't play for the rest of the game,

572
00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:51,040
Speaker 6: and I just knew, like I knew something. They needed

573
00:22:51,040 --> 00:22:53,360
Speaker 6: somebody to step up at the time, and I had nothing.

574
00:22:53,840 --> 00:22:55,800
Speaker 6: Went in like I ain't even ask my coach if

575
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Speaker 6: I was in, and I just went in and I

576
00:22:58,080 --> 00:23:00,000
Speaker 6: made a player on the first very play I was

577
00:23:00,080 --> 00:23:01,760
Speaker 6: and it was a screen. I ran down the screen.

578
00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:03,919
Speaker 6: I made the play, and that's when my mind it

579
00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:06,760
Speaker 6: just slowed down, knowing like okay, Pat, you got this.

580
00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:09,000
Speaker 6: And I just went on the rest of it again.

581
00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:11,600
Speaker 6: I just made it plays. Then the next week came

582
00:23:12,080 --> 00:23:13,760
Speaker 6: and then I just went on from there.

583
00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:16,800
Speaker 1: Just started getting more wraps. When you were you ran

584
00:23:16,920 --> 00:23:19,000
Speaker 1: in and nobody was even saying.

585
00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:21,920
Speaker 6: Nobody saying nothing. He just I looked at him, I said, man,

586
00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:24,120
Speaker 6: and I went and out there, and then the next

587
00:23:24,119 --> 00:23:26,320
Speaker 6: week I had got my first sack, and then I

588
00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:27,520
Speaker 6: just went up there from there.

589
00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:31,640
Speaker 3: So if you had twenty eight solo tackles, seven sacks,

590
00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:34,800
Speaker 3: two force fumbles.

591
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Speaker 1: Several people used yeah, like.

592
00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:41,760
Speaker 4: Yeah, fresh, I mean.

593
00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:44,560
Speaker 3: Hey, that's what you want to see when somebody go down, You.

594
00:23:44,560 --> 00:23:45,600
Speaker 4: Going the game.

595
00:23:47,560 --> 00:23:51,200
Speaker 1: Ball like that. He was nervous when you first went in.

596
00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:52,040
Speaker 4: A little bit.

597
00:23:52,480 --> 00:23:54,639
Speaker 6: It was a big game to playing Louisville on a

598
00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:58,600
Speaker 6: Friday night, everybody watching. We was our first time winning

599
00:23:58,640 --> 00:24:02,280
Speaker 6: the all white uniformia. Yeah, I was a little nervous.

600
00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:04,040
Speaker 6: Yeah yeah.

601
00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:07,800
Speaker 2: Take us to the moment where you guys are all

602
00:24:07,840 --> 00:24:11,520
Speaker 2: sitting around watching for the College Forball playoff and Florida

603
00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:12,560
Speaker 2: State doesn't get picked.

604
00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:17,679
Speaker 6: I mean, it was very heartbreaking just knowing like we

605
00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:21,040
Speaker 6: worked so hard from January all the way to December

606
00:24:21,160 --> 00:24:24,280
Speaker 6: just to try to show the world what Florida State

607
00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:27,480
Speaker 6: football is all about. And it really hurt me because

608
00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:30,600
Speaker 6: of my own main man, Jordan Travis. I know he

609
00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:32,960
Speaker 6: felt like in the moment, like everything was his fault.

610
00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:35,160
Speaker 6: I knew what he was going through the first few

611
00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:38,360
Speaker 6: weeks he got hurt like it was really because of him,

612
00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:41,520
Speaker 6: because I knew he felt like, oh if Alli never

613
00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:44,119
Speaker 6: got hurt, we was gone in the playoffs. That's what

614
00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:45,960
Speaker 6: it really was on my mind. I knew it was

615
00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:48,480
Speaker 6: hurt for the whole team too, but I just I

616
00:24:48,560 --> 00:24:51,280
Speaker 6: felt so bad for Jay trying because it wasn't his fault.

617
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Speaker 4: For real, It's just football. That's so true.

618
00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:55,960
Speaker 3: What he just said is kind of true, Like to

619
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Speaker 3: be that player and didn't hear everyone say that's the

620
00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:01,399
Speaker 3: reason why they didn't get in.

621
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Speaker 1: Yeah, like, yeah, did you.

622
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Speaker 2: Guys have an inkling that y'all weren't gonna get picked him?

623
00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:09,160
Speaker 2: I mean, where did you guys feel confident?

624
00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:14,320
Speaker 6: I felt like we felt confident coming off the Louisville

625
00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:18,760
Speaker 6: game because our defense we played so good, and we

626
00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:22,040
Speaker 6: had a true freshman out there quarterback respect the block game.

627
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Speaker 4: It was his first game really out there. You know,

628
00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:25,880
Speaker 4: a lot of a lot.

629
00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:27,920
Speaker 6: Of kids can't just go out there as a quarterback

630
00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:30,040
Speaker 6: and just go out there and just play like Joan

631
00:25:30,119 --> 00:25:32,280
Speaker 6: Travis on their first game out there. And then our

632
00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:36,040
Speaker 6: second sing quarterback he got a percussion in the Floorida

633
00:25:36,080 --> 00:25:39,000
Speaker 6: game too, So that just made our defense play so

634
00:25:39,119 --> 00:25:42,600
Speaker 6: good that game. So knowing that that was our mindset

635
00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:44,440
Speaker 6: when we go in these playoffs. If we get into

636
00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:47,080
Speaker 6: the playoffs, we just gonna play as hard as we

637
00:25:47,119 --> 00:25:47,800
Speaker 6: can on defense.

638
00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:49,919
Speaker 4: If they can't score, they can't win. And that's what

639
00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:50,680
Speaker 4: we did. We hold.

640
00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:53,840
Speaker 6: We held Louisville six points, two field goals, And that's

641
00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:55,400
Speaker 6: that was really our mindset.

642
00:25:56,119 --> 00:25:59,400
Speaker 3: That's real, that's really how that scenario win. Starting quarterback

643
00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:04,119
Speaker 3: go out extreme quarterback concussion started true freshman and the

644
00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:07,640
Speaker 3: Louisville Game championship. You get you know what I'm saying,

645
00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:12,800
Speaker 3: and it's still get overlooked.

646
00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:17,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that was a tough I'm sure it sucked.

647
00:26:17,359 --> 00:26:17,680
Speaker 4: It does.

648
00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:20,720
Speaker 3: I mean from hearing it from they mouth, it's sound

649
00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:22,320
Speaker 3: even worse just because it's like.

650
00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:24,879
Speaker 1: The result is ultimately out of your control.

651
00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:28,440
Speaker 3: Nothing y'all went what was it twelve and oh thirteen

652
00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:30,960
Speaker 3: and oh thirteen and oh that was the first time.

653
00:26:31,760 --> 00:26:33,760
Speaker 1: What happened? What happened with the Georgia game.

654
00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:34,640
Speaker 4: Georgia game.

655
00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:41,320
Speaker 6: I felt like, it's just Georgia, though the Georgia people

656
00:26:41,359 --> 00:26:43,280
Speaker 6: know that if we had our full team out there,

657
00:26:43,320 --> 00:26:45,200
Speaker 6: it would have been a complete different game.

658
00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:45,960
Speaker 4: We just had.

659
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Speaker 6: It was really how many starters on the on the

660
00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:52,640
Speaker 6: D line, it was one started out me and then

661
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Speaker 6: linebackers we oh we had d little one starter, you

662
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Speaker 6: know dB only one starter sha He Brown in the

663
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Speaker 6: same anything. It was for the offense, it's just all

664
00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:05,639
Speaker 6: our guns felt like they had to go put together

665
00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:08,760
Speaker 6: their training and get right and stay healthy for when

666
00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:11,879
Speaker 6: they come for their pro day and draft time. So

667
00:27:11,960 --> 00:27:13,840
Speaker 6: I respect them boys for doing what they had to

668
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Speaker 6: do because that's that's them boys career.

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Speaker 4: But that's all it was.

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Speaker 3: I mean, because y'all that y'all kind of looked at

671
00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:21,879
Speaker 3: the game as meaningless pretty much because they like, we

672
00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:24,800
Speaker 3: just we should have been in the national championship. Since

673
00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:27,280
Speaker 3: we been in a national championship, we about to go

674
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Speaker 3: get ready for this draft. And I understand that, and

675
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Speaker 3: that was probably like a team decision, because I like

676
00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:33,720
Speaker 3: that's how we heard.

677
00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:34,280
Speaker 4: It was like a.

678
00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:36,600
Speaker 6: Team decision where like, again, we're not gonna play so

679
00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:40,119
Speaker 6: and then Georgia came out with that mindset, Oh, we

680
00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:42,520
Speaker 6: should have got in too, so we're finn show the world.

681
00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:44,879
Speaker 6: Yeah we finished show y'all what we're finna do to

682
00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:47,840
Speaker 6: Florida State to get in with with their whole team, right,

683
00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:50,960
Speaker 6: So that's it was just it was just I wish

684
00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:52,879
Speaker 6: we could have had our whole team against them. They

685
00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:55,840
Speaker 6: was out there talking trash all. I just couldn't even

686
00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:58,639
Speaker 6: say nothing because I feel me I could have been like,

687
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Speaker 6: next year, bro, what we do next year?

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Speaker 2: Growing up in uh uh ain't going to Miami Northwestern?

689
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Speaker 2: What were some of your favorite schools growing up? Was

690
00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:11,760
Speaker 2: Florida State your favorite? And that's what you want to

691
00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:12,040
Speaker 2: play for.

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Speaker 6: It wasn't Miami was as crazy as Florida State wasn't

693
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Speaker 6: my favorite.

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Speaker 4: I used to like Miami. My daddy. It was the

695
00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:20,320
Speaker 4: biggest Florida State fan.

696
00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:22,920
Speaker 6: Ever since I've been able to talk, he'd been talking

697
00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:26,080
Speaker 6: about Florida State Deon Sam's guys like that, even when

698
00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:28,440
Speaker 6: they won the national championship. I watched the game with him.

699
00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:32,119
Speaker 6: He'd been his dream was for me to go to

700
00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:35,720
Speaker 6: Florida State. You don't matter what what sport I played, whatever,

701
00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:37,640
Speaker 6: He just wanted me to come play for Florida State.

702
00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:40,240
Speaker 6: I really was a big Miami fan growing up, just

703
00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:42,640
Speaker 6: because growing up in Miami is right there. You see

704
00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:44,960
Speaker 6: it every weekend. Your grandma got it on until he

705
00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:48,480
Speaker 6: got it on. And then what's crazy is nah, my

706
00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:51,400
Speaker 6: whole family don't even wear Miami no more. Everybody West

707
00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:54,320
Speaker 6: Florida State. It's just but it was a yeah, it

708
00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:56,560
Speaker 6: wasn't really a dream. It was a dream school just

709
00:28:56,680 --> 00:28:58,000
Speaker 6: knowing it's in Florida.

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Speaker 2: Right, But it was Were they close? Were they close

711
00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:02,840
Speaker 2: in your recruiting process? Like, were you close to going

712
00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:04,720
Speaker 2: to Miami or somewhere else over Florida State?

713
00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:05,560
Speaker 4: Not Miami?

714
00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:08,800
Speaker 6: Because I guess like no direspect to the new coach style,

715
00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:11,320
Speaker 6: but the old coach style they scheme was a little different.

716
00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:12,600
Speaker 4: In their positions.

717
00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:16,200
Speaker 6: They seen defent ends that's like outside linebacker and stand

718
00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:20,000
Speaker 6: up linebackers. So I guess they didn't really see me

719
00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:22,760
Speaker 6: as one of them big interior detail because.

720
00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:24,360
Speaker 4: You know, I was very skinny and stuff like that.

721
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Speaker 6: So there's no disrespect that like Mario crystaball or nothing

722
00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:30,120
Speaker 6: of it, because I know, like he's a big like

723
00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:31,960
Speaker 6: he could recruit a lot of people down there, so

724
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Speaker 6: I know if he was like coach, it would have

725
00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:35,200
Speaker 6: been a little closer.

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Speaker 4: But nah, they didn't really recruit me at all for real.

727
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Speaker 3: But Jo Pops really was like Florida State, It don't

728
00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:44,840
Speaker 3: even matter like all these other schools Florida States where

729
00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:45,800
Speaker 3: you're going pretty.

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Speaker 6: Much like you got on that zoon with coach novel,

731
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Speaker 6: just listening to him talk and even if how bad

732
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Speaker 6: I record was he had on first got here though,

733
00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:55,240
Speaker 6: so I wasn't really paying attention to that. I was

734
00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:58,280
Speaker 6: just focused on the way he talked and Holloway coach

735
00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:00,840
Speaker 6: O'Dell talked because he was here for so but just

736
00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:02,800
Speaker 6: listening to him on that zoom.

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Speaker 4: It just it clicked.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, what what team in the A C C Do

739
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Speaker 2: you look forward to playing two most this year?

740
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Speaker 6: This year, I feel like it's gonna be Clemson because

741
00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:14,800
Speaker 6: it's gonna be a big game. It's gonna be a

742
00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:17,480
Speaker 6: solid it's gonna be here. And you know our new

743
00:30:17,520 --> 00:30:21,040
Speaker 6: quarterback DJ I know him like in his mind what

744
00:30:21,120 --> 00:30:23,000
Speaker 6: type of game it's gonna be for him. So I

745
00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:24,760
Speaker 6: know what type of game that's gonna be when we

746
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Speaker 6: play Clemson, when we play Miami again.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that's gonna be the two big games there.

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Speaker 1: You gotta you got any any other question for him? No?

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Speaker 3: I think everything you answered was great and we had

750
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Speaker 3: a great time talking to you.

751
00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:39,040
Speaker 4: Man.

752
00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:41,480
Speaker 3: I look forward to seeing you doing your thing. So

753
00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:43,880
Speaker 3: you're gonna be a star in the NFL. Man, just

754
00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:46,400
Speaker 3: keep your head straight and keep grinding.

755
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Speaker 2: That's but it's nothing we got to hit in in

756
00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:56,160
Speaker 2: the interview.

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Speaker 1: Who is it smelliest guy in the locker room? Present

758
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:02,640
Speaker 1: a boy, dude, Kennon. We'll get right. We got to

759
00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:06,040
Speaker 1: smell goods. We brought the goodies, so needs it the most.

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Speaker 6: I'm gonna say, you gotta say one of the big

761
00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:12,360
Speaker 6: guys the old line of d Line.

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Speaker 4: It's one of one of the three hundred pound guys.

763
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Speaker 4: But I feel like we got it going. We're good.

764
00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:28,120
Speaker 4: But just for I'm gonna just say, Julian Urmela, I'm

765
00:31:28,160 --> 00:31:29,080
Speaker 4: just trying to get you right.

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Speaker 3: That's a free shout out with no shout out.

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Speaker 2: Pat Thank you, bro. This is awesome man. That wish

768
00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:39,880
Speaker 2: you all all the luck in the world. And yeah,

769
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Speaker 2: I hope you become a monster in the NFL because

770
00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:43,880
Speaker 2: we'll know we got to sit with you like right

771
00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:45,960
Speaker 2: out of here, a c C Freshman of the Year.

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Speaker 2: But but thank you, man, seriously, thank.

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Speaker 4: You, Thank you. Bros.

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