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Speaker 1: Welcome into the lounge presented by Draft Kings. We have

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Speaker 1: the pleasure of sitting down with the Ravens rookie Tavius Robinson. Tavis,

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Speaker 1: we gotta start here, all right, So we got to

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Speaker 1: get into your hockey background. Okay, so you're from Canada,

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Speaker 1: so obviously you played hockey obviously, right. We got this

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Speaker 1: story from Eric Tacosta. Can you tell us your side

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Speaker 1: of the story about being a hockey goalie.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna be honest.

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Speaker 3: When I first saw that story, I saw the Instagram

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Speaker 3: and I was watching.

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Speaker 2: I was like, what, like, this is not me, Like,

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Speaker 2: what are we talking about?

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Speaker 4: They draft a different guy.

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Speaker 2: I was so confused.

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Speaker 3: And then all of a sudden, I saw that and

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Speaker 3: I was dying laughing, and I showed my family and

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Speaker 3: they were dying laughing.

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Speaker 2: Funny.

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Speaker 4: So good. Yeah, I mean he got us. I mean,

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Speaker 4: you know, I won't lie.

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Speaker 1: Like when you're from the States and you think of Canada,

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Speaker 1: you think of hockey. So when he started going into it,

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Speaker 1: I was I was hookline sacre. I was like, what

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Speaker 1: he was a sick goalie.

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Speaker 3: He had got my agent too, Like my agent text

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Speaker 3: me was like what, Like how did I never know

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Speaker 3: about this, and I was like, no, you got to

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Speaker 3: keep watching the video.

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Speaker 5: That makes me feel a little better video, Yeah, because

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Speaker 5: a lot of people are giving me a hard time,

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Speaker 5: like come on, you fell for that, like six seven

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Speaker 5: goalie who went to play football in.

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Speaker 6: The Deep South, Like come on now, no way.

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Speaker 5: But at least your agent fell for it too, so

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Speaker 5: that makes me feel a little better about it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: No, did you ever play hockey?

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Speaker 2: Never?

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Speaker 1: Never?

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Speaker 6: In your life?

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Speaker 4: You skate?

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Speaker 2: I can skate, yeah, hockey no for me?

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Speaker 5: Okay, So you grew up in golf, right, gwelo Okay.

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Speaker 6: So what's life like there? This is about an hour

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Speaker 6: away from Toronto, so.

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Speaker 2: It's a small town. It's a university town.

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Speaker 3: I went to the university there too, so basically was

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Speaker 3: there my whole life until I went to Ole, miss

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Speaker 3: But a small town, good people there. It's growing now

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Speaker 3: so it's a lot. Every time I come back, it's

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Speaker 3: it's a lot bigger than I remember. But yeah, actually

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Speaker 3: a good town overall for sure.

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Speaker 4: And it's not too far from where Brent Urban grew up.

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Speaker 3: Right, No, I believe he's from Mississauga, like around the

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Speaker 3: Toronto era, So like literally forty five minutes. And then

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Speaker 3: I was talking the other day and actually his sisters

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Speaker 3: or went to Guelph like same universe that I did.

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Speaker 3: So I'm not sure at what time, but uh yeah,

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Speaker 3: same university that I went.

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Speaker 4: So are you an herb hitting it off?

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Speaker 1: And and how many like a's do you drop when

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Speaker 1: you're talking to him?

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Speaker 3: For everybody else, I haven't heard any from him, but no,

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Speaker 3: we we've definitely been talking a lot, just because you know,

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Speaker 3: he was like one of the very I think he

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Speaker 3: was like the twenty sixth or twenty fifth Canadian ever drafted.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so you know, it's.

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Speaker 3: Been good to get knowledge from him as as a

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Speaker 3: vet and not only in football, but then you know

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Speaker 3: the stuff that comes with being on a visa and

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Speaker 3: all that.

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Speaker 2: That background type stuff.

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Speaker 6: What number are you I don't even know, Okay.

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Speaker 2: I think we're in the seventies now.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Well, there was a record number of Canadians drafted

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Speaker 1: this year, right there was? Yeah, I mean, yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: gonna be cool. What did that mean to you so much?

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Speaker 3: I mean there was there was guys before us that

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Speaker 3: you know, us as Canadians, we all looked up to that.

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Speaker 3: There was because the numbers small and there's not there's

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Speaker 3: so many great Canadian football players, but I just feel like,

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Speaker 3: you know, it's harder for us to get the chance,

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Speaker 3: and now as the number is growing, good to see.

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Speaker 3: So it's it's good and it's good to like set

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Speaker 3: the standard for the kids who look up to us now.

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Speaker 2: And you know, let them live up their dreams as

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Speaker 2: we did.

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Speaker 1: So were there any Canadian football players that you in

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Speaker 1: particularly looked up to other than your uncle?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Neville Gallimore, Jesse Luketta, guys like that.

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Speaker 2: Were Canadians who you know, went and played D one.

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Speaker 3: So those guys kind of guys that looked up to

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Speaker 3: you and then yeah, they did it before me, and

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Speaker 3: then yeah, nice.

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Speaker 6: So I'm just when you were growing up, like what

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Speaker 6: sports did you play? Football?

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Speaker 2: Football?

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Speaker 6: When did you start playing football?

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Speaker 2: Around ten or eleven so kind of at a young age.

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Speaker 3: And then I played basketball in high school and I

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Speaker 3: did track in high school as well, so those were

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Speaker 3: kind of my three main sports I played.

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Speaker 6: So you just talked about the guys that you looked

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Speaker 5: I'm curious, like, was the idea of playing NFL football

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Speaker 5: like for a lot of kids in America that's the dream, Like,

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Speaker 5: was that your dream or not?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, No, one hundred percent was my dream. I just

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Speaker 3: knew it was going to be a harder path, like

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Speaker 3: on the path that I was taking. But like at

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Speaker 3: my university school, for example, like we have all the

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Speaker 3: CFL helmets on the wall, and then we have an

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Speaker 3: NFL helmmet like no names on it, So like every

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Speaker 3: time I would walk by that wall, I would touch

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Speaker 3: the NFL helmet and then my uncle's name, and like,

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Speaker 3: because I knew I always wanted to play in the NFL,

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Speaker 3: I knew it was gonna be hard, like if I

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Speaker 3: stayed at GWELP for those whole years, because obviously the

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Speaker 3: film's not the same, but it's what I wanted for sure.

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Speaker 5: So wow, So you like that was something that you

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Speaker 5: like manifested that, like you would touch that helmet every

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Speaker 5: day and that you wanted to be sitting here. So

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Speaker 5: I got to believe when that moment happens, Like there's

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Speaker 5: probably every player feels that excitement, that emotion, but like

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Speaker 5: for you, it's kind of a long path to get

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Speaker 5: to this point. Like what was that moment like when

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, it was. It was definitely a crazy moment.

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Speaker 3: You know, all the work led up to this point.

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Speaker 3: But for me, I'm very like in the moment, like

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Speaker 3: I'm here now, but now I got so much more

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Speaker 3: definitely a great moment and something that I had set

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Speaker 3: I got to gwelf, you know, wanted to be there

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Speaker 3: and getting here is great, and then now I gotta

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Speaker 3: you know, excel here and set higher goals.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, so I want to back up a little bit.

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Speaker 1: You said he started playing when you were like ten

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Speaker 1: eleven years old. Who was it that first introduced you

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Speaker 3: Really just kind of seeing the pictures around my house,

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Speaker 3: Like my dad played football and then my uncle obviously

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Speaker 3: played in the CFL. So seeing those pictures, I wanted

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Speaker 3: to play at a young age. My parents were great

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Speaker 1: So but in Canada, is it like you know, I

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Speaker 1: feel like a lot of players like Zay it was

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Speaker 1: like five years old I started playing football full paths.

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Speaker 1: But you know, is it like just later in Canada

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Speaker 1: that generally kids get a little bit of a later starter.

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Speaker 2: It's a little bit later.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it kind of starts off with like

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Speaker 3: flag and all that stuff, but I went straight into

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Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, and I'm sorry.

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Speaker 1: Your uncle played for the Ottawa rough Riders, right, and

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Speaker 1: he was a DV for ten years in the CFL.

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Speaker 1: So like, was he somebody that you always kind of

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Speaker 1: like looked up to him and you're like, all right,

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Speaker 1: you know, I think think I can get to that level.

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Speaker 2: Most definitely him.

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Speaker 3: And then my dad was also a great football player

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Speaker 3: he didn't have the chance to, you know, play university

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Speaker 3: football and eventually go on. But yeah, so my uncle

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Speaker 3: that's how kind of how I got into an at

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Speaker 5: So got you when you first sign up? Did you

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Speaker 5: always go defensive end outside linebacker? Passed rusher? Was that

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Speaker 5: the initial position? Were you just terrorizing guys out there

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Speaker 4: Like for you.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so my very first position was actually O tackle,

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Speaker 4: So you've seen both sides and linebacker.

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Speaker 3: Linebacker, okay, and then uh, and then eventually I moved

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Speaker 3: UH played once I got to my old years in

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Speaker 3: high school that I was middle linebacker.

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Speaker 1: But ye were you always the big kid? Were you

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Speaker 1: like always kicking butt out there?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I was.

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Speaker 3: I was always the big kid for sure, always the tallest,

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Speaker 3: but I was skinny at one point in time, like

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Speaker 3: very skinny and tall, but eventually got caught up.

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Speaker 5: So, so walk me through the recruiting process when you're

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Speaker 5: in high school and wanting to go to college, Like,

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Speaker 5: what was that recruiting process?

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Speaker 2: Like?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so it's very similar to how it is here.

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Speaker 3: But all the Canadian schools, you know, they come out,

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Speaker 3: they watch your games, they take you on official visits,

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Speaker 3: but it's just not to the same scale. So like,

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Speaker 3: for example, a full scholarship in Canada's is forty five

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Speaker 3: So like guys in Canada in the summers, like we

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Speaker 3: have to work jobs to pay for the upcoming school

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Speaker 3: year and that type of thing. So it's it's the

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Speaker 3: same recruiting process and says that coaches are talking to you,

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Speaker 3: you're going on visits, but it's just not at the

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Speaker 3: same scale as it is here.

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Speaker 5: And did you know, like, all right, I want to

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Speaker 5: stay in Canada, Like did you at that point where

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Speaker 5: you're coming out of high school did you consider.

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Speaker 1: Try any colleges that were in from the States that

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Speaker 1: were recruiting you at that time or yeah.

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Speaker 3: So that's kind of the thing, like having high school

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Speaker 3: film in Canada, it's not as like, obviously the film

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Speaker 3: so coaches like kind of look at that film. They

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Speaker 3: don't like they don't see it as good of like

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Speaker 3: you're not playing against great talent as they compare it.

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Speaker 3: So obviously I wanted to play D one, that was

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Speaker 3: my goal, but like the film just wasn't going any where.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I was dominating the film, but it was

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Speaker 2: But I was ready for the opportunity when it came,

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Speaker 1: Right, I mean you had offers from like LSU and

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Speaker 5: You know, everyone else starts finding out like, may maybe

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Speaker 2: For sure.

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Speaker 4: Do it all.

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Speaker 5: I gotta believe that, Like when you're talking to teams.

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Speaker 5: You literally had to you know, you had to knock

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Speaker 3: Most definitely it means so much again because there's just

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Speaker 5: man a quarterbacks. If I'm a quarterback and I see

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Speaker 5: you coming around the edge, I am.

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Speaker 6: Running for my life. Okay, So like, how would you

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Speaker 6: describe your game?

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Speaker 3: Physical, tough, disruptive player first and foremost, and then just

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Speaker 3: a relentless player Like I'm someone who doesn't take plays

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Speaker 3: off and when I'm running too the ball, I'm running

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Speaker 3: to the ball to be the one to make the play,

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Speaker 3: you know, So just a disruptive player who doesn't take

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Speaker 3: plays off for sure.

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Speaker 4: That's one thing that all the scouts really raised about

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Speaker 4: with you is like your motor. You know, just how

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Speaker 4: hard you ran to the ball. Where does that come

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Speaker 4: from for you?

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Speaker 2: Really?

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Speaker 3: It was really instilled in me at Old Miss through

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Speaker 3: coach Joiner. It's one thing that it's it's not it's

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Speaker 3: it doesn't take a skill to run to the ball

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Speaker 3: and have efforts. So that's something that is your choice.

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Speaker 3: You either have effort or you don't, so and it's

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Speaker 3: something that can separate you for sure. So that's that's

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Speaker 3: something that I believe that's how the game is supposed

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Speaker 3: to be playing.

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Speaker 1: So do you see it also as like just taking

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Speaker 1: the long road to get here, you know, and having

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Speaker 1: to set out your tape and having to do all

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Speaker 1: that that the hunger of the drive kind of that.

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Speaker 1: That's like, it's like I got to go full tilt

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Speaker 1: if I'm going to reach the potential that we're talking about, right,

474
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Speaker 1: Like you're just scratching the surface of what that potential.

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Speaker 4: If you're going to reach that, you got to be

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Speaker 4: run into every play, you know what I mean?

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Speaker 2: And like doing everything possible to become the best is

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Speaker 2: kind of my mindset.

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Speaker 5: So right right when you went through the process, did

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Speaker 5: you think the Ravens were a likely team for you

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Speaker 5: to end up?

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Speaker 2: Truthfully, I didn't. I didn't talk to them a whole lot.

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Speaker 3: But again, as soon as I saw that call from

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Speaker 3: the Ravens, I was like, like, the Ravens is known

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Speaker 3: for defense and so many great defensive players of here

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Speaker 3: someone I saw it was the Ravens.

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Speaker 2: I was like, you know, I belong here, you know

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Speaker 2: I want I want to be here.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, so where'd you think you were going?

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Speaker 2: I got to know the team that the Bengals were

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Speaker 2: on me a ton.

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Speaker 4: Oh, that's even that's the storm.

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Speaker 1: Got it?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean like text, that's where I thought I

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Speaker 3: was going for sure. Yeah, it just came out and

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Speaker 3: over and then you know.

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Speaker 1: That's Tony And I'm curious. You know, your position fit

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Speaker 1: in the NFL, I think is one question. You know

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Speaker 1: because kind of your last year at Old Miss, you're

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Speaker 1: mostly handing the dirt right kind of a four to

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Speaker 1: three end, and here you kind of project more as

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Speaker 1: an outside linebacker.

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Speaker 4: That's your position.

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Speaker 1: Where's your comfort level with that? Where do you ultimately

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Speaker 1: see yourself fitting?

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Speaker 2: Is it both? What is it? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I think it's both because you know, my first two

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Speaker 3: years at GWELF was stand up, and then my first

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Speaker 3: year Old Miss was stand up, and then just the

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Speaker 3: previous two years was handing the dirt. So it is

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Speaker 3: I kind of have to go back to kind of

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Speaker 3: the old stuff I was doing standing up, which which

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Speaker 3: is good. So I think I'm versatile on that. Just

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Speaker 3: got to knock out some rusts with a stand up.

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Speaker 3: But also the coach had been really great and allow

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Speaker 3: me to you know, get my hand in the dirt

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Speaker 3: sometimes in passing situations.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, stuff like that.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, Mike, it likes to get creative, so that's

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Speaker 4: good for you.

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Speaker 5: So we got a long way to go before the

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Speaker 5: start of the season and even training camp when the

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Speaker 5: pads come on and like, that's always I think an

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Speaker 5: eye opening day for rookies and you get out there

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Speaker 5: and it's like, okay, things have gone up and notch.

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Speaker 5: But what would you say is your focus between now

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Speaker 5: and then.

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Speaker 3: Really just getting the playbook masters. That's something I'm really

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Speaker 3: focusing on because once that's you know, second nature, I

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Speaker 3: can just place fast and.

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Speaker 2: Just focus on football.

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Speaker 3: So continue to study the playbook every day, and then

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Speaker 3: again continuing to learn from the guys who've been here,

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Speaker 3: you know, talking to guys like Jabbo Urban, all those guys.

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Speaker 3: You know, they've been here, they've done it, so getting

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Speaker 3: tips from them has been helpful so far, and I

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Speaker 3: think it will continue to be helpful.

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Speaker 4: So all right, last question for me.

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Speaker 1: As I was walking up here to do this interview,

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Speaker 1: I was just chatting with a coworker and I was like, hey,

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Speaker 1: you know, we're talking to Tavius.

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Speaker 4: Got any questions for me, you know?

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Speaker 1: And he was like, I always like to ask players

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Speaker 1: what their like hype up song is, you know, and

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Speaker 1: I was like, well, Drake, right, I mean he's Canadian, right,

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Speaker 1: so is it confirmed.

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Speaker 2: Or a lot of Drake? But okay, yeah for sure.

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Speaker 4: All right, Well there you go.

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Speaker 1: My intuition was right, Well, good luck man, good luck

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Speaker 1: with the NFL career and the hockey career, you know,

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Speaker 1: fucking those pucks.

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Speaker 4: Thanks thanks for taking the time, man.

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Speaker 5: Thank you big thank you to Tavius for stopping by

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Speaker 5: ahead and get that done today. So really enjoyed the

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Speaker 5: conversation with him. Interesting guy, obviously an interesting story and

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Speaker 5: I hope everyone just enjoyed learning about his path to Baltimore.

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Speaker 5: It's not the one that you always often hear.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so just comes like a good dude, easy guy

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Speaker 1: to root for, and uh, you know, it is kind

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Speaker 1: of crazy, Like you look at his number. I mean

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Speaker 1: he had seven sacks last year and five force fumbles,

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Speaker 1: which I think was tied for the league, the lead

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Speaker 1: in the nation, missed the nation, And you're like, all right,

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Speaker 1: how does this guy not get drafted earlier?

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Speaker 4: You know what I mean?

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Speaker 1: Like he's a here, a fourth round pick and like

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Speaker 1: big time production at ole miss yeah right in the

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Speaker 1: sec Like what what did I miss?

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Speaker 2: Here?

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Speaker 1: And it just seems like kind of people. And on

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Speaker 1: top of that, it's not like you look at him

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Speaker 1: and you say, oh, he's maxed out. It's opposite. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's just kind of scratching the service, like late start,

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Speaker 1: like he's just learning, you know, not just learning the game.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to exaggerate, but like you know, coming

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Speaker 1: from Canada, like he's adjusting to football at this level.

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Speaker 6: Right, seems to be pointing up clearly on him.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, the error is pointing up on every rookie.

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Speaker 1: You would certainly hope, but like he has a lot

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Speaker 1: of room to grow physically. You know, you look at

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Speaker 1: the body that he's working with, like there's just a

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Speaker 1: lot there to like in terms of the upside, and

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Speaker 1: he already put up pretty good production. So I mean,

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Speaker 1: it just seems like the Ravens got a steal in

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Speaker 1: the fourth round.

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Speaker 3: Well.

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Speaker 5: The other thing I'll say, too, is like when he

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Speaker 5: walked in the room, You're like, whoa, this is a

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Speaker 5: big guy. He is a big guy, and so in

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Speaker 5: terms of what you like at that position, and like that,

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Speaker 5: you know, your question about where he ultimately ends up

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Speaker 5: playing hand in dessert is it right on the edge,

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Speaker 5: Like what how do the Ravens use him? I think

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Speaker 5: that will be interesting, Like is there any way, whether

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Speaker 5: it's this year or another year, where he slides and

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Speaker 5: side in certain packages and plays like the Kalays Campbell

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Speaker 5: tight role.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think there could be. That's what I kind

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Speaker 4: of think. Yeah, I mean when I look at.

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Speaker 6: Him, I'm like, you're a big guy who could fill

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Speaker 6: in there at times.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, that's exactly what I'm thinking.

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Speaker 1: In past or situations where they like to get a

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Speaker 1: bunch of rushers on the field, like you could certainly

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Speaker 1: put him as end, put his hand in the dirt

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Speaker 1: and still have two outside linebackers outside of him, you know,

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Speaker 1: a Jabo, Oway, Tias whatever you want, you know, and

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Speaker 1: now you got some you have some major pass rush potential.

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Speaker 1: I think there's definitely the opportunity for that, even as

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Speaker 1: a rookie. I mean we saw, you know, Zadarias Smith,

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Speaker 1: the guy that Eric the Cosa compared him to, certainly

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Speaker 1: did that, yeah, you know, especially later in his Ravens career.

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Speaker 1: So I think that there's potential for that for Tavious. Well.

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Speaker 6: The other thing too, is like.

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Speaker 5: The Raves are looking for guys to get after the quarterback,

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Speaker 5: and like we've talked about this many times here, there's

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Speaker 5: a need there, you know, as of now justin Houston,

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Speaker 5: still out there on the market, and so they may

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Speaker 5: find themselves in a position where they need to make

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Speaker 5: a lot of sack production. Certainly David Ajabo can help

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Speaker 5: do that, and Ada fe Oway talked last week about

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Speaker 5: how he expects to have a better season and last

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Speaker 5: year was a learning year for him, so I think

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Speaker 5: that he's gonna improve in that regard. But like they've

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Speaker 5: got sacks to make up for with koalas gone as well.

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Speaker 2: Yep.

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Speaker 5: So I think Tavius Robinson they could use him in

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Speaker 5: some creative packages and find ways for him to get

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Speaker 5: after the quarterback. And you know, if he continues to

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Speaker 5: do what he did at oh Miss, then that's gonna

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Speaker 5: be pretty good thing for this defense.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 1: And in this draft class, they make five, well six picks,

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Speaker 1: five of which are gonna play this season. Every one

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Speaker 1: of those guys they ultimately see as being a starter

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Speaker 1: and for this year contributing. Right, It's not like they're

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Speaker 1: drafting a bunch of well yeah, in a couple of years,

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Speaker 1: these guys, we'll see what happens. Like with five picks,

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Speaker 1: those rookies are going to have a chance to make

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Speaker 1: an impact, and I think Tavis can certainly do.

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Speaker 6: That, Yeah, no doubt about it.

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