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Speaker 1: The Bengals Booth Podcast. The Hit the Road Jack addition,

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Speaker 1: as we take you to Chicago for an extended preseason

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Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears. Coming up, I'll talk to first round

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Speaker 1: draft pick of Marius Mims about the pectoral injury that

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Speaker 1: has temporarily stalled his rookie season. Dave Lapham joins me

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Speaker 1: to discuss the latest training camp news and compare notes

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Speaker 1: about Thursday's joint practice with the Bears. And finally, it's

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Speaker 1: This is my fourteenth years the Bengals radio play by

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Speaker 1: had some great rookies, but the two who have impressed

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Speaker 1: me the most in training camp are Joe Burrow and

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Speaker 1: a Marius Mims. We knew that Mims looked like an

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Speaker 1: offensive lineman built in a lab, but what we didn't

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Speaker 1: know is how coachable he is, how smart he is,

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Speaker 1: That's why it was so disappointing to learn after the

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Speaker 1: first preseason game that A Marius has a strained pectoral

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Speaker 1: for several weeks. Hopefully he'll be back in time for

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Speaker 1: the season opener on September eighth, A Marius sat down

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Speaker 1: of training camp that preceded it. All right, A Marius,

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Speaker 1: You've had a little time to process the pectoral strain

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Speaker 1: that's going to keep you out of action for a

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Speaker 1: few weeks. Are you bummed? Are you disappointed? What word

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was definite saying I low disappoint it just

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Speaker 1: I watched every snap from that first preseason game. I'm

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Speaker 1: sure your standards are different from mine just watching it,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, man, it's it's more like I said, I take

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Speaker 1: We just walked out of the locker room where your

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Speaker 2: Oh man, May Orlando will talk a lot, not even

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Speaker 2: So he's definitely He's definitely helped me out in a

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Speaker 1: You've had an excellent camp and you've almost made it

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Speaker 1: Honestly, football's a violent game. Injuries happen. I know you

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Speaker 2: It's crazy because I haven't had anything like like, I've

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Speaker 2: that's all I had. And then I just this this recently,

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Speaker 2: Nah, I don't know where that narrative came from, but

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Speaker 1: So Trent Brown was available to step back in and

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Speaker 4: I knew he can do it.

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Speaker 2: Like I said, I know, I know what kind of

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Speaker 2: I watch I watch transfilm like you won't. You won't

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Speaker 2: And like I said, I mean, I'm Tom. Tom Ain't

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Speaker 2: I'm glad I get to watch him every day in

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Speaker 1: I ask offensive Cordner Dan Picture about you recently. I

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Speaker 1: Do you feel that that's a good description.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I think culture, like I said, I love,

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Speaker 2: I just try to, you know, like stay confident because

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Speaker 2: will not last. And like I said, it just comes

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Speaker 2: That's how you get confidence in this league, Like I said,

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Speaker 2: it's good, it's gonna be it's gonna be a long

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Speaker 2: I said, stick to guys like Trenton Orlando who've been

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Speaker 2: and you know, try to ask as many questions as possible, because,

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Speaker 2: like I said, I'm new to it. I'm not familiar

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Speaker 2: all said.

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Speaker 1: And it's been really fun to watch you so far.

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Speaker 1: Look forward to seeing you back on the field soon.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for the time, Yes, I appreciate you. Now time

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Speaker 1: for some observations from Thursday's joint practice against the Bears.

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Speaker 1: The weather was miserable. It rained pretty much throughout and

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Speaker 1: We shouldn't make it seem like it was all bad

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, and you know, I think he was going to

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Speaker 3: Football League, the better chance you have continued to collect

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Speaker 3: the paycheck in the National Football League. So, whether it

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Speaker 3: be here in Cincinnati or elsewhere, Man Logan Wilson, you

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Speaker 3: get to love the guy. Every every seems like every

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Speaker 3: opportunity he gets, he steps up and capitalizes. You know,

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Speaker 3: that's all you can ask for. So I know, I

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Speaker 3: know his teammates have a ton of respect for him too.

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Speaker 1: This is our first conversation for this podcast since the

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Speaker 1: Amarus Mims injury. What's he gonna miss while he's out

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Speaker 1: with this strain pectorial?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean missed a lot of a lot of

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Speaker 3: reps today, you know, valuable.

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 3: You know, Joe Burrow was talking after the game about

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Speaker 3: how starting as a rookie the Bengals drafted him and

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Speaker 3: he was told by Zach Taylor's gonna be the starting

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Speaker 3: quarterback instead. Those reps. Reps are invaluable, and you know

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Speaker 3: he's talking about in the regular season obviously, but the

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Speaker 3: reps that you get in press are invaluable to get

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Speaker 3: you ready for that first regular season game. He's immensely talented,

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Speaker 3: there's no question about it. And I mean watching him,

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Speaker 3: you can project it. Yeah, he can play in this league,

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Speaker 3: and he can play well, and he's gonna play for

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Speaker 3: a long time, but you still like to have that repetition.

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Speaker 3: Repetition breeds comfort level, and uh, you know he's gonna

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Speaker 3: miss He's gonna miss a ton of reps and he's

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Speaker 3: gonna have a potentially a short period of time to

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Speaker 3: get ready for the New England Patriots, who you know,

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Speaker 3: there's solid defense lay. I mean, that's not gonna be

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Speaker 3: a it's not gonna be an easy challenge for him.

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Speaker 3: I think because of the amount that you have to

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Speaker 3: get ready for. I mean, there's so much to prepare

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Speaker 3: for with an NFL defense, and particularly in Week one,

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Speaker 3: you don't know exactly what kind of wrinkles they're gonna

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Speaker 3: throw out there. You know, they haven't shown anything in

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Speaker 3: the preseason, so there's a lot of factors in there

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Speaker 3: for him.

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Speaker 1: Bengals and Bears will meet again Saturday afternoon. Let's hope

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Speaker 1: the weather is much much better because my feet are soaked.

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Speaker 3: I'm telling you, man, it was moist out there.

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Speaker 4: To say the least.

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Speaker 1: I realized after the fact that each of us called

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Speaker 1: Logan Woodside Logan Wilson once during that conversation. We'll try

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Speaker 1: to get it right on Saturday. The Bengals Booth Podcast

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Speaker 1: latest edition of Five Questions with a Rookie as we

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Speaker 1: get to know a seventh round draft pick who is

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Speaker 1: having an outstanding training camp. Time for five Questions with

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Speaker 1: Rookie desjn Anthony. Question number one the Bengals. All I

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Speaker 1: always post video of Zach Taylor calling the draft picks

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Speaker 1: to let them know that they're about to be selected,

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Speaker 1: and your call was the most entertaining one this year.

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Speaker 1: Describe the scene in the background because it sounded like

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Speaker 1: there was a serious party going on.

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Speaker 5: My family kind of set up my draw party to

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Speaker 5: whoever came to one of my games college games, they

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Speaker 5: could come to my draw party. So I had a

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Speaker 5: lot of I used to have like fifty people at

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Speaker 5: every Liberty game, so I had like one hundred people there.

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Speaker 5: And my agent just called me literally like a minute ago,

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Speaker 5: and he was like, the Bengals or Dallas rather, they

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Speaker 5: gonna get you in the seventh round, And literally I

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Speaker 5: got out the phone with him.

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Speaker 4: I was getting nervous, so I was sitting down.

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Speaker 5: I got up and went outside with the rest of

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Speaker 5: my family because it was like a big cookout and

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Speaker 5: I was just chilling. And next thing you know, I've

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Speaker 5: just seen cincinn out of the Ohio go across my

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Speaker 5: phone and I answered it and everybody just started yelling,

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Speaker 5: and it was just one of the most amazing experiences

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Speaker 5: I ever felt in my life.

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Speaker 1: You might have set the record for the most time

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Speaker 1: saying the word yes sir, her words. I guess when

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Speaker 1: you were talking to Zach.

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Speaker 5: I couldn't I couldn't hear them, so I knew the

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Speaker 5: right answer is, yes, sir, I couldn't hear nothing.

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Speaker 4: Coach Taylor was saying. All I could hear was.

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Speaker 5: My people streaming, people crying, my auntie, and like, you know,

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Speaker 5: my grandmother passed and that was one of her biggest

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Speaker 5: dreams for me, Like, Dejon, just stay locked into football

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Speaker 5: and get to the NFL because that's your dream and

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Speaker 5: that's how bad I wanted for you. So I just

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Speaker 5: could just feel her energy in the room. So I

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Speaker 5: really couldn't hear nothing. Coach Taylor said, Now, one time,

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Speaker 5: I didn't hear nothing. All I was just yes, sir,

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Speaker 5: and then I just said I love you, coach.

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Speaker 1: All right, that's a great segue. Question number two for

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Speaker 1: Dejon Anthony. Your grandmother whom you mentioned, literally dreamed that

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Speaker 1: you would be an NFL draft pick. How long ago

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Speaker 1: did she have that dream and did it make it

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Speaker 1: a more of a goal for you?

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Speaker 5: So Grandma, she was like always supportive of everything I did.

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Speaker 5: So when I left Division two and I went to Liberty,

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Speaker 5: and that's when she kind of found out she had

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Speaker 5: stage four cancer. So while I was at Liberty my grandma.

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Speaker 5: I used to drive home every day after practice because

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Speaker 5: it was only an hour and thirty minute drive, I

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Speaker 5: used to drive home to go see her. And I

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Speaker 5: drove home and she kind of she seeing all the campuses.

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Speaker 5: She seen how good Liberty did the COVID year against

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Speaker 5: Coastal winning the Bowl, finishing seventeen. She was like when

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Speaker 5: I got there, she was like, days, I had a dream.

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Speaker 5: And I was like about what. She was like, you

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Speaker 5: got drafted to the command like the Redskins, And I

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Speaker 5: was like, no, I hope that's not right. But she

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Speaker 5: was like, you're doing to the NFL, and she was

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Speaker 5: like she kept every day I came home, she was like,

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Speaker 5: she couldn't dream of nothing else of me going.

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Speaker 4: To the NFL.

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Speaker 5: So she had probably like teen dreams of just me

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Speaker 5: going to the NFL and getting drafted. So it was

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Speaker 5: that was a super super cool and it was a blessing.

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Speaker 1: And you're from Richmond to Washington would be the near

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Speaker 1: NFL team.

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Speaker 4: Last ten was the news.

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Speaker 5: But my whole family dollars Cowboy fans, So that's why

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Speaker 5: it was like funny at the time because everybody liked

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Speaker 5: the Cowboys.

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Speaker 1: Question three for Dejohn Anthony. Your path to the NFL

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Speaker 1: is amazing. You started your college career at Shepherd University,

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Speaker 1: a Division two school in West Virginia. Why didn't you

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Speaker 1: have any scholarship offers?

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Speaker 4: Just in high school?

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Speaker 5: I was always kind of like a good football player

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Speaker 5: playing dB, but I played receiver my first three years,

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Speaker 5: and then I had this transfer stuff, so I tried

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Speaker 5: to go from Hermitis to Holland Springs, and they found

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Speaker 5: out I didn't live in that school district. So I

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Speaker 5: ended up missing the first five games of my senior

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Speaker 5: year and I ended up going to Henriiko High School.

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Speaker 4: And I caught like.

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Speaker 5: Six interceptions in five games, four picks in one game,

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Speaker 5: and I still didn't get no offers, so only to

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Speaker 5: had two offers, Virginia State and Shepherd University.

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Speaker 1: You had non usual way to get ready for training

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Speaker 1: camp this year. This is question number four. You practiced

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Speaker 1: against high school kids. How did that come about? And

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Speaker 1: describe what you did.

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Speaker 5: So my trainer was like, you know, running, you need

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Speaker 5: to run a lot when you're getting ready for conditioning,

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Speaker 5: But one thing that's going to prepare you the most

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Speaker 5: is football conditioning. And I do a lot of stuff

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Speaker 5: for the kids and high schoolers and middle school like

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Speaker 5: out here, I did a back to school drive, took

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Speaker 5: kids to the mall shopping spree.

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Speaker 4: So I love doing stuff for the kids.

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Speaker 5: So my trainer was like, we need to do some

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Speaker 5: football conditioning instead of just running all the time because

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Speaker 5: we was running so much. He was like, man, I'm

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Speaker 5: gonna get them to stay out the weight room and

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Speaker 5: we're gonna get on the field and do football conditioning

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Speaker 5: with the high schoolers.

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Speaker 4: He was like, it would be super cool for you

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Speaker 4: to come out there.

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Speaker 5: So I went out there and we did like at

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Speaker 5: least three sessions with them guys, and we were just working.

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Speaker 1: Fifth and final question for Dayjon Anthony, tell us something

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Speaker 1: about you that not many people now.

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Speaker 5: Every thing I do is like for my family, Like

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Speaker 5: I love my family so much.

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Speaker 4: I had it.

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Speaker 5: I had a hard time growing up, and I fully

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Speaker 5: changed because growing up I was grew up in hard

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Speaker 5: parts and now like I just fully changed and trust

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Speaker 5: God and my faith with God that have grew so much.

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Speaker 4: And I really just love playing football.

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Speaker 5: That's something that like I would down thefield if I could, Like,

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Speaker 5: I love football so much and I'm just super blessed

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Speaker 5: to be here, so but do it.

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Speaker 4: That would be the thing.

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Speaker 5: I'll tell people like, I love my family a lot

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Speaker 5: and I'll do anything for him.

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Speaker 1: You're off the hot seat, appreciate your time. Best the

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