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Speaker 1: The Colts active once again, an NFL free agency signing,

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Speaker 1: an in house free agent, A very important guy is

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Speaker 1: back defensive end. Tae Kwon lewis inside the Power Home

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Speaker 1: Soldo Radio studio with us. I'm Matt Taylor with Casey

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Speaker 1: Vallee and Lara Overton. Tai Kwon. First of all, congratulations, man,

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Speaker 1: I know the Colts made this priority to bring you

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Speaker 1: back in free agency. What does that mean to you

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Speaker 1: to have another shot here with the Colts? Oh, it

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Speaker 1: means everything to me. You know, despite everything that happened

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Speaker 1: last year, it just goes to show like the organization

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Speaker 1: is a first class organization. Chris still believes. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you know, and the relationships here amongst the trainers and

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Speaker 1: everyone in the building, you know, is the best you

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Speaker 1: could imagine, you know, And I'm thankful, and you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm just excited to get going again. Tai Kwan. Since

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Speaker 1: the end of the season, you've stayed around, You've been rehabbing,

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Speaker 1: you've been working out. I know you've chatted with Chris.

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Speaker 1: What confidence did he re rate in you? Because when

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Speaker 1: he did his season ating press conference, you were one

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Speaker 1: of the names that he noted that he, you know,

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Speaker 1: made a point to touch on the impact that you

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Speaker 1: had on this defense prior to that devastating injury, and

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Speaker 1: it appeared that that was going to be a priority

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Speaker 1: to try to bring you back and make this deal work,

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Speaker 1: to have it for the foreseeable future, right. Um, you know,

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Speaker 1: when I got a drafted here. You know, Chris, he

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Speaker 1: always believed in me, and you know, I mean sometimes

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Speaker 1: I think he believed in me more to believe in

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Speaker 1: myself sometimes, you know. And I appreciate Chris and everyone

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Speaker 1: that's around him, you know, I'm just so thankful like

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Speaker 1: to have like a GM like him. I mean, he's

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Speaker 1: a first class guy, stand up guy. And you know,

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Speaker 1: even when the injury happened, you know, I'm not gonna

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Speaker 1: say I lost confidence. I didn't. I didn't really like

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Speaker 1: lose anything. As soon as it happened, I was like

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Speaker 1: another adverse situation of my life, you know, despite all

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Speaker 1: looked at EB and I was like, eb, let's let's

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Speaker 1: go to rehab. You know, we cracked a smile like

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Speaker 1: I was I mean, the pain, nothing, nothing was existed

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Speaker 1: get ready for this moment. You know, we're just ready

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Speaker 1: to play again. With all the adversity that you'd fought

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Speaker 1: through previously in your career, did that help you? Did

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Speaker 1: initially defeating for you? How quickly were you able to

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Speaker 1: turn the tide to this is an opportunity. Let's just

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Speaker 1: get right back to it, because you you've had this

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Speaker 1: situation similar situations before, right uh when when it happened,

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Speaker 1: I looked down on my leg and I was just like,

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Speaker 1: a person to dwell on something. So I was just like,

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Speaker 1: let's just turn the pace. Let's just get back to it.

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Speaker 1: You know. I was like, we know, like what what

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Speaker 1: what was going to happen? Like moving forward? Like you know,

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Speaker 1: free agent years. Like I'm like i gotta hear that.

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Speaker 1: You know all these things, all these factors, and I'm

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Speaker 1: just like none of it matters right now. The only

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Speaker 1: as a person, as a dad, you know all these things.

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Speaker 1: That's that's the only thing I was thinking about, like

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Speaker 1: because you know, all those things I already went through,

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Speaker 1: Like the only thing that it did was preparing me

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Speaker 1: word was perseverance. And I told him all my life,

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Speaker 1: perseverance was always my word, Like no matter what happens,

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Speaker 1: They were like, all right, here, we're gonna see taekwon

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Speaker 1: the rest of the year, and then we had the injury.

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Speaker 1: So at this point now in your recovery, how's it going.

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Speaker 1: How are you feeling? Oh, I feel amazing, you know,

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Speaker 1: h on my head of schedule. You know, I'm running,

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Speaker 1: I'm just I'm just ready to like keep progressing. Every day.

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Speaker 1: right back where I was. So I got the Jane

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Speaker 1: use it as a frisbee or something. You said, guy

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Speaker 1: vinyl got I gotta give you a turntable too. In home,

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Speaker 1: You know. Here you go, you got me. All the

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Speaker 1: Kanye West albums and the Weekend I'm with. Those are

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Speaker 1: little bit different on vinyl, right, it makes it hit

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Speaker 1: Colts defensive end. He's back in the fold and free

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Speaker 1: But before that, though, I mean, did you feel like

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Speaker 1: whole season, it was like just chipping away like each

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Speaker 1: don't do that. But but where does your great attitude,

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Speaker 1: always gotta believe in yourself, like no, because all you

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Speaker 1: need is opportunity. You know, it doesn't matter how big

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Speaker 1: once you get a little bit of opportunity, you know,

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Speaker 1: open the door so much more. Looking ahead to these

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Speaker 1: next few weeks, the upcoming Ota Minicamp period, this is

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Speaker 1: a highly motivated defense. You guys are bringing back a

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Speaker 1: lot of guys, a lot of big playmakers. You mentioned Mattieberflus.

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Speaker 1: Nate Ollie's the defensive line coach. What conversations have you

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Speaker 1: been able to have with the new guys who are

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Speaker 1: leading this defense. What excites you about the potential there

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Speaker 1: is for growth among this defense, especially along the defensive line.

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Speaker 1: You know, the conversations we has as far as it's

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Speaker 1: going to be an attacking defense where you know we're

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Speaker 1: getting nine techniques, you know, get to roll off the

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