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Speaker 1: Congratulations, Thank you so much. I appreciated it. What's um,

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Speaker 1: what was your level of can he kind of walking

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Speaker 1: through you know, talking to coach Bilvin or Blascow or

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Speaker 1: whomever was kind of leading up to today's selection, Like

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Speaker 1: what was your conversations like with them? And when did

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Speaker 1: those touch points happen? You know what I mean? It

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Speaker 1: started out to combine. I had a formal interview with them,

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Speaker 1: UM coach McCarthy and UM coach Flaska. I think I

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Speaker 1: really started there um. And then last week had a

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Speaker 1: zoom interview coach Filman. He he really liked, you know,

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Speaker 1: my style of play and you know, my overall ability,

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Speaker 1: my trades about me. So I think, you know, just

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Speaker 1: going through it everye I knew they were a team

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Speaker 1: of the contention for sure. Can you talk about your

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Speaker 1: style of play? What is that like? How would you

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Speaker 1: describe your game? Someone hasn't seen you play? You know.

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Speaker 1: I like to you know, prop myself on life Aletta

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Speaker 1: sism I think her guy my side. I can move well,

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Speaker 1: I can bend well. Um. And then also like my nastiness, Um,

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Speaker 1: I love you know a good after guys and Finnish guys.

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Speaker 1: Whenever I can so, yeah, how did you end up

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Speaker 1: at North Dakota UM? Since I'm out of high school.

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Speaker 1: They were my only Vision one scholarship opers, so I

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Speaker 1: just took it and ran with it. He played mainly

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Speaker 1: on the left side of teams. Talking about playing on

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Speaker 1: the other side at tackles. I don't know if you

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Speaker 1: get any vets at the Senior bow on the right

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Speaker 1: side either. Um. Yeah, I mean my career, I've played

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Speaker 1: both sides, right in the left. Um. But I mean,

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Speaker 1: you know, whatever her position, you know, having me players

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Speaker 1: when I'll played at the highest highest level I can

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Speaker 1: play at. So how was that Senior Bowl work for you?

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Speaker 1: I mean I was thing, You're going against a lot

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Speaker 1: of different players there. What did you think of that process?

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Speaker 1: You know, I enjoyed it a lot, definitely, you know,

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Speaker 1: coming from a smage school and definitely gave me a

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Speaker 1: chip on my shoulder to prove to prove myself to

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Speaker 1: do the teams and you know, the set run around

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Speaker 1: the league that I can, um, you know, play with,

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Speaker 1: play with the best of the best and the best competition.

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Speaker 1: You did. Jake ferguson Wisconsin tight ends. Who's not your

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Speaker 1: teammate or teammates immobile. Did you guys talk much while

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Speaker 1: you were there? Yeah, I mean we you know, we

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Speaker 1: got practice reps together and um, you know, just kind

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Speaker 1: of going through it. It was it was fun to

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Speaker 1: work with him, and um, I think you know, he's

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Speaker 1: phenomenal player and you know, it's just excited to work

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Speaker 1: with him again. Accupy at times will have like a

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Speaker 1: sixth offensive linement on the field kind of has a

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Speaker 1: heavier personnel type of look. Have they discussed any of

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Speaker 1: that with you or I mean I appling the leaves,

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Speaker 1: but like have any offensive kind of way to look

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Speaker 1: like when you get here and perhaps you're used your development. Um, no,

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Speaker 1: nothing too in depth yet. Just you know, I'm just

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Speaker 1: happy to play, whether it's tackle, um guards, you know,

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Speaker 1: wherever along that lie I can you know, holp this

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Speaker 1: team went out, Um, I'll be more than happy to

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Speaker 1: to play. Baslay. In your conversations with teams during this process,

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Speaker 1: was there anything that you kind of took that you know,

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Speaker 1: teams kind of want to see you take that next

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Speaker 1: step in your development into any specific areas. Um? You

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Speaker 1: know I would say, um, just keep you know, just

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Speaker 1: keep continue to get better. Um. I think me come

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Speaker 1: from a small school. I'm still a little raw. Um,

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Speaker 1: I think I do have a lot of outside and

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Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of folk. Of my best

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Speaker 1: football is ahead of me, So I think I think

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Speaker 1: that quiet. You know, the Cowboys took a shot at

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Speaker 1: me and yeah, here we are. I was your daylight today.

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Speaker 1: Did you wake up thinking, oh, I'm gonna get a

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Speaker 1: lot of calls or nervous when it was the daylight? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, I woke up and I was like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: praying that today today, today some team will you know

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Speaker 1: fall in love with me and pull the trigger and

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Speaker 1: ultimately as the Cowboys. But yeah, I mean it was

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Speaker 1: I was a little a little anxious going through going

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Speaker 1: through the first part of it, but now that now

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Speaker 1: that i'm pay it's definitely definitely surreal, feeling ager heights

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Speaker 1: and length. Do you believe you'll be able to add

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Speaker 1: some bolt to your frame without you know, the having

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Speaker 1: it be a detriment to your game and if you

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Speaker 1: talk to the coaches about that, Um, I haven't talked

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Speaker 1: to the coaches about that, No, But I think, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think I can add You know, I'm sitting about

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Speaker 1: three fifteen right now. I think I can add even

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Speaker 1: more on my frame um and still still move around. Well,

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Speaker 1: it's still been well for sure, playing with thirty six

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Speaker 1: inch arms. You keep maybe the detail what that link

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Speaker 1: does for you. Yeah, you know it definitely uh um

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Speaker 1: helps me definitely a pass bro um just to get

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Speaker 1: on guys faster and just to make that edge wider.

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Speaker 1: I think, you know, I'm just blessed God bless me

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Speaker 1: if this this and so we're going not to you know,

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Speaker 1: use it to the best of my ability, but I

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Speaker 1: think going to this organization Coach Bilban will definitely definitely

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Speaker 1: helped me get there. M hm. And thank you Bill, Yeah, OK, sure,

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Speaker 1: so appreciate it. Matta, thank you, Thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: Matt You're still there.