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Speaker 1: You were more excited about the interception or more in

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Speaker 1: pain about the shoulder. I was excited about the interception

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Speaker 1: for sure. You know, I feel like I definitely felt

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Speaker 1: it at first when I landed. But you know, whenever

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Speaker 1: I can make a play like that, you know, at

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Speaker 1: the end of the the day, you're playing football and things

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Speaker 1: like that happened. But you know, for me, you know,

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Speaker 1: I felt didn't hurt, but you know, I finished her

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Speaker 1: as a practice just because I was getting good reps

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Speaker 1: and I just feel like this opportunity that couldn't pass,

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Speaker 1: So I was just going out and finish it, even

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Speaker 1: though I was going through pain and then getting check

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Speaker 1: out out there. You didn't know it was broken, no, see,

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Speaker 1: I didn't know it was to the extent it was.

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Speaker 1: You know, I knew it hurt and I could barely

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Speaker 1: raise my arm up. But at the end of the day,

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm a full all player and as my mentality,

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Speaker 1: you know, go out and finish. You know, finished the day.

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Speaker 1: So how much I'm sorry, how much is it a

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Speaker 1: mental thing when you're trying to come back, because now

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Speaker 1: you know, it's not like you're playing a timid position.

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Speaker 1: You gotta go and hit somebody. How much of that

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Speaker 1: was a hurdle for you to get to this point

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Speaker 1: now and knowing that there's no fear of reinjury. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, I feel like the biggest thing is just

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Speaker 1: the mindset. You know, the docks and trainers. They're gonna

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Speaker 1: put you on the path to you know, be safe

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Speaker 1: and come back when you're ready. So you know, for me,

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Speaker 1: I gotta trust that that I'm ready and then you know,

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Speaker 1: go out and play the style of football I know,

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Speaker 1: you know, being physical and being intelligent and just seeing

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Speaker 1: once I got back on the field, I feel like

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Speaker 1: it wasn't a hiccup, but like you know, being scared

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Speaker 1: to hit, you know, I feel like I went out

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Speaker 1: there and then you know, play the way I like.

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Speaker 1: So how much you never want to miss time, but

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Speaker 1: rookie year, where I imagine the learning curve is so

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Speaker 1: huge to miss training camp? How did you make up?

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Speaker 1: How do you make up ground? Like were you doing

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Speaker 1: extra study where you're doing more film than you would

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Speaker 1: have been doing. How do you make up the lost ground?

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Speaker 1: I feel like, you know, to begin with, you know,

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Speaker 1: I watched film, you know, a lot in general, so

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Speaker 1: you know, when I got hurt, it was just continuing that,

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Speaker 1: you know, getting mental reps you know on practice and

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Speaker 1: preseason games, you know, hearing the call and trying to

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Speaker 1: make it you know as I see it, and just

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Speaker 1: you know, uh, I was the coach asked me to

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Speaker 1: make you know, some scouting reports for a couple of

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Speaker 1: the preseason games to you know, steady tight ends and

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Speaker 1: quarterback mannerisms and just trying to pick up on that.

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Speaker 1: You know. I feel like I had good ground from

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Speaker 1: O t as as far as the playbook, so it

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Speaker 1: wasn't too much more I had to learn, So you know,

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Speaker 1: I just continue a build off. That was the biggest

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Speaker 1: state for me. She makes scattering reports that Jerome Henderson

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Speaker 1: or is that Mink? Who is that? Oh? It was

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Speaker 1: both the DV coaches, you know, Roman and Mike, you know,

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Speaker 1: just pick up on things and safety needs to see

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Speaker 1: and just being able to process that as heat as

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Speaker 1: a coach. Was big tired of wearing red. Probably you're

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Speaker 1: not gonna wear red for a while, I'm guessing, oh yeah, definitely, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it was. It was definitely good to be back into

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Speaker 1: you know, a regular jersey, you know, just being back,

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Speaker 1: you know, at full, full participant in practice. So you know,

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Speaker 1: I anticipated now wearing the red hopefully ever again in

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Speaker 1: my career. So you know, definitely it was a good

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Speaker 1: feeling to be back. Friends, family coming in your first

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Speaker 1: game anything. Oh yeah, definitely, my parents, my brother, my

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Speaker 1: girlfriend would come. You know, I feel like my parents

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Speaker 1: have only missed one game and my whole whole life.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's Penn State during the COVID year, so

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Speaker 1: everything else they've been every game. So you know they'll

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Speaker 1: come up this weekend and be able to see me

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Speaker 1: play and spend time with them would be great. Did

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Speaker 1: you get to pop anybody yet with the shoulder. Oh yeah, definitely,

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Speaker 1: you know, yesterday, having pads on, you know, being able

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Speaker 1: using the Solda again. You know, I feel like there's

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Speaker 1: not any hiccups. You know, I feel like I'm you know,

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Speaker 1: fully back, So big relief when you said no surgery.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, definitely. You know, they got the results right away,

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Speaker 1: you know, pretty instantly, and they're like, you know, we

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Speaker 1: at the same time, you know, you can do exercises

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Speaker 1: like we talked about, stay locked in mentally, So that

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Speaker 1: was really what I was doing. What do you think,

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Speaker 1: what do you expect your role to be here? Like

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Speaker 1: third safety, some sub packages, playing with slot. What do

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Speaker 1: you think? You know? Said pretty you know a lot

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Speaker 1: of things. You know, I'm gonna do whatever the coach

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Speaker 1: needs me to do, the type things, so you know,

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Speaker 1: whether that be come down in the box, play high safety,

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Speaker 1: you know, especially on specialties is important. You know, you know,

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Speaker 1: whatever the coaches need me to do, I'll do it

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