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Speaker 1: Good, good, congratulations, thank you, thank you. What does that

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Speaker 1: mean for you if you get that? Uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm grateful, you know, I'm happy. I'll put it in

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Speaker 1: the work for it. And you know, being able to

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Speaker 1: I was given and being able to be player of

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Speaker 1: the week, you know that's a that's a big feat.

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Speaker 1: But you know, I'm on the Carolina now, so it's like,

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm happy I got that, but it's it's

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Speaker 1: on to the next Nah, none of that. None of that.

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Speaker 1: Just a bunch of congratulations and pass on the back

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Speaker 1: and stuff like that. The safeties in the corners are

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Speaker 1: sort of one one group here together. What have you

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Speaker 1: noticed from just the corner group as it's sort of

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Speaker 1: evolved over the course of the year. Yeah, it's all

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Speaker 1: about just being comfortable playing with each other. You know,

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Speaker 1: we had Step here for so long. Step and JC

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Speaker 1: worked together for a few years that kind of knew

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Speaker 1: how each other working. We got Ja Mills now and

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Speaker 1: all just getting comfortable with each other. And then you

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Speaker 1: have to communicator back there with John Jones and John

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Speaker 1: Jones ends up getting hurt. Now you got mouthed. So uh, Basically,

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Speaker 1: the main thing you see with those guys is just

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Speaker 1: they sitting next to each other and they're always talking

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Speaker 1: we can we can execute flawlessly. So that's been the

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Speaker 1: biggest thing over the over a few weeks that we played,

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Speaker 1: just those guys getting more comfortable playing with each other anywhere.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he can run any ride on the field

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Speaker 1: and they feed him the ball. So uh, we're going

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Speaker 1: to the game knowing that he's gonna get his touches.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be us up to us to make sure

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Speaker 1: we got somebody in his face and make sure that

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Speaker 1: we make it competitive for him here year season, What

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Speaker 1: was your IMPERSONI as he got to be his teammate.

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Speaker 1: You know something you learned about him that surprise you

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Speaker 1: were kind of didn't do it. Yeah, he's a true

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Speaker 1: pro man. Like seeing him. I've been fortunate enough to

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Speaker 1: like play around good corners, but like seeing them and

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Speaker 1: his workout. Thinking he doesn't say much. I think when

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Speaker 1: I first got here and the meetings were virtual too.

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Speaker 1: So when I first, you know, I first got here

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Speaker 1: in the meetings, I think for like the first four days,

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Speaker 1: and I'm telling my wife like, man, he doesn't really,

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Speaker 1: he don't really speak much, you know. And we get

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Speaker 1: and we meet each other and then you just go

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Speaker 1: he attacks every single day like that. Just a true

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Speaker 1: pro favorite step story. Uh yeah, but I can't I

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Speaker 1: can't say I know Hubbert's run the ball well for them,

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Speaker 1: But just remember McCaffrey is such a different kind of player.

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Speaker 1: How much would have changed if he's in the lineup. Dude,

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Speaker 1: at the opportunity you guys out now you've been fighting

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Speaker 1: and fo Yeah, you just can't squander it away. But

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Speaker 1: That rule at your coach math the Senior Bowl earlier

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Speaker 1: and like he does all of that. Like and he

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Speaker 1: anybody else as fault as his and he's gonna get

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Speaker 1: it fixed. You know, he's not the super big raw

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Speaker 1: want to see in your quarterback. You think you might

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Speaker 1: have had the way to do a little bit. Obviously

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Speaker 1: Cam was here for a while when he first Uh,

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Speaker 1: him seeing Cam, I don't think that really dimmed his light.

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Speaker 1: And then you had a similar beginning to your current

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Speaker 1: Like just seeing a guy like that, he works super

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Speaker 1: I worked hard too, So being able to see him

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Speaker 1: and all the questions that he asked like me, Dad

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Speaker 1: but it was a pick. And you know, that just

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Speaker 1: he's only a second year, but like being around other

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Speaker 1: other young guys that I've been around in the league,

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Speaker 1: like he's passed all of those just because of the

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Speaker 1: Everybody before he started, What does it mean that I

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Speaker 1: really didn't notice for Yeah, like you said, everybody can

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Speaker 1: work hard, like in the beginning when everybody's fresh their

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Speaker 1: the dog days of camp? What are you doing week fifteen,

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Speaker 1: Week sixteen, seventeen. Are you still coming in at five

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Speaker 1: Are you still doing a little things that matter? Are

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Speaker 1: you checking your technique? Are you watching film like you're

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Speaker 1: the type of stuff that we look for. Scott Report,

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Speaker 1: quarterback I don't know, man, what do you say report

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Speaker 1: with two quarterbacks? I mean, everybody know about sound darnad.

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Speaker 1: He's a gun slinger PJ. Walker. He can throw the

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Speaker 1: both can run. That's the crazy thing about it. So

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Speaker 1: we both got to just be ready to aff the

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Speaker 1: scramble drill when they get out of their pockets. But

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Speaker 1: both of them are good quarterbacks. Yep, jobbing