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Speaker 1: Welcome to the ozone Podcast, presented by by Star Credit

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Speaker 1: Union with Jaguars senior writer John Osan. All of these

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Speaker 1: are fun because it gets no players we haven't gotten

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Speaker 1: to know before. This one should be especially fun. We're

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Speaker 1: talking to remember of the rookie class. I'll make it quick.

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Speaker 1: It's Chad Muma from Wyoming and Chad, thank you for

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Speaker 1: joining us today. No, thank you so much for you know,

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Speaker 1: having me here and get me on the podcast. I love,

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Speaker 1: you know, just being finally in Jacksonville. You know this

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Speaker 1: is gonna run next week, so I'll tell the listeners

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Speaker 1: add up front, but this is being recorded on the

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Speaker 1: first practice of rookie Minicamp, so obvious question. Tell me

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Speaker 1: about your experience with it, and uh, just tell me

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Speaker 1: about the day so far in the weekend. So far, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the weekend has been great. You know, we first got

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Speaker 1: into our meetings last night and you know it's a

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Speaker 1: lot to install, but I think, you know, the communication

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Speaker 1: out there today it was great by the whole. You know,

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Speaker 1: at least I'm speaking for the defense. Everyone was really

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Speaker 1: communicative and you know, I've had a good fill with

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Speaker 1: you know, the defensive guys that we have here. At

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Speaker 1: this rookie camp and you know, you can see the

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Speaker 1: leadership out there and you know, players wanting to push

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Speaker 1: each other and make each other better. So it was,

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Speaker 1: you know, a great first day. Now I've talked to

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Speaker 1: your defensive coordinator from college already. Um he assured me

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Speaker 1: that picking up the scheme won't be a problem for you.

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Speaker 1: You uh, pride yourself on that. Correct, No, correct, I

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Speaker 1: definitely probably myself on that. And you know, definitely you

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Speaker 1: know it's the first day. You're gonna have some little

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Speaker 1: things here and here and there that come up. But

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Speaker 1: you know, I really probably myself on you know, being

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Speaker 1: able to pick up things not only for what I'm

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Speaker 1: supposed to be doing out there, but more specifically everyone

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Speaker 1: around me. Do you ever get tired of being described

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Speaker 1: as a green dot linebackers? The first time IVE ever

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Speaker 1: heard the turn by the way, and all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: that's all I read when I hear about Chad MoMA. Yeah, no,

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Speaker 1: I never get out of that. I think I kind of,

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Speaker 1: you know, go back to that pride thing about you know,

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Speaker 1: knowing what I'm doing out there and being able to

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Speaker 1: really communicate to everyone on the defense and talk to

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Speaker 1: everyone So that's definitely something that I probably myself and

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Speaker 1: being described as and talking to guys who have played

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Speaker 1: that role before, Uh, the first thing they always say

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Speaker 1: is if you're gonna be that guy, you better be

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Speaker 1: playing at a high level as well. I assume you

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Speaker 1: subscribed to that theory. Yeah, no, definitely, you gotta you know,

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Speaker 1: when you're the green dot player, you can't let that

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Speaker 1: communication get in the way of your play. And I

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Speaker 1: think you know that it's kind of goes to that

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Speaker 1: leadership style where if you're that green dot player and

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Speaker 1: you're leading everyone out there, you've gotta be one of

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Speaker 1: the best players, if not the best player. Uh. When

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Speaker 1: you're communicating to everyone and you know, making the place yourself,

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Speaker 1: it kind of gets everyone going a little bit. How

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Speaker 1: do you come in here as a rookie. You've got

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Speaker 1: to balance confidence with uh, knowing that it's a process

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Speaker 1: to get to where you want to go. When you

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Speaker 1: think about next season, think about what your role is.

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Speaker 1: Do you think about that at all or is it

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Speaker 1: all okay, I'm gonna focus on today, then the next day,

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Speaker 1: then the next day is definitely a day to day thing.

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Speaker 1: Is you know, every single day you gotta come in

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Speaker 1: your head down and not talk too much. But you

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Speaker 1: know you're gonna still be out there leading. But you know,

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Speaker 1: my philosophy about is take every day at a time

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Speaker 1: a lot of rookies because it hasn't been a thing

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Speaker 1: for a lot of guys in college. The year of

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Speaker 1: COVID you only played four or five games, right, correct, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we had six games that year. How did that when

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Speaker 1: you're facing that and thinking about your career coming up

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Speaker 1: mind at all? No, it definitely was. You know, to

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Speaker 1: if you had wanted to correct? Correct? Uh? When did

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Speaker 1: you sort of know? Okay, I think I'm ready. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: It was kind of a communication with my head coach

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Speaker 1: And so that's what I did. And then come to

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Speaker 1: to your coordinator coach saw he told me a story.

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Speaker 1: He said basically, he was telling people before this season, look,

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Speaker 1: And on a more serious time, we talked before we

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Speaker 1: me first about that. I've read a little bit about it,

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Speaker 1: but it's fascinating how you must try to deal with

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Speaker 1: So when I was first diagnosed, I was, you know,

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Speaker 1: And it's something correct me if I'm wrong that you

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Speaker 1: in that and in practice at the same time, but

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Speaker 1: that it's very important for you to help in educating

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Speaker 1: Am I reading that right? Yeah? So when I was yeah,

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Speaker 1: kind of be those voice for all those different sports sports.

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Speaker 1: Very cool final question on these lines, and it would

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Speaker 1: do something fun here at the end. When I talk

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Speaker 1: to your coordinator, he said the thing that stood out

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Speaker 1: the most to him was that you're the same guy

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Speaker 1: every day Tuesday, practice, Saturday game, whatever. What does that

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Speaker 1: mean for you to hear that? I assume that's something

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Speaker 1: Rex Orange Counties music. A good answer, best player you've

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Speaker 1: appreciate you doing this. I know it's a busy weekend

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