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Speaker 1: Is Avier. UM. I was wondering, like, what what has

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Speaker 1: these last couple of months been like for you, especially

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Speaker 1: in like those days and initial weeks after you hurt yourself.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure you know you were really excited about your

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Speaker 1: rookie season and chance to play in the NFL and

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Speaker 1: kind of had that ripped for you for a little

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Speaker 1: bit there. So what was it like in the beginning

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Speaker 1: and then you know, how has it been over the

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Speaker 1: over the months that you progressed? Um, I would say

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Speaker 1: it was it was really tough. Kind of when I

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Speaker 1: got the news, UM, you know, I kind of figured

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Speaker 1: that something was going on. UM, But once I got

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Speaker 1: the news, it was kind of it was pretty fast,

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Speaker 1: so UM, I had to kind of process it really fast.

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Speaker 1: And I actually got surgery the same day that I

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Speaker 1: heard it. Uh So in the beginning stages of it,

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Speaker 1: you know, through my head, it was a little it

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Speaker 1: was a little it was it started off a rough

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Speaker 1: start for me, um, But you know, I just saw

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Speaker 1: it as another opportunity to get better for myself, UM,

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Speaker 1: to learn more UM, and also to make sure my

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Speaker 1: body was you know, up to part with what I

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Speaker 1: needed to be doing to get it back right to

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Speaker 1: come back. So, um, you know, it was tough, you

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Speaker 1: know in the beginning, but as as time went on,

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Speaker 1: you know, I just started working, trying to trying to

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Speaker 1: improve my game. And I know Jerome Henderson I mentioned

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Speaker 1: that he was giving you like homework assignments and you know,

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Speaker 1: study this quarterback this tight end. Like how helpful was

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Speaker 1: that to keep you engaging? How much do you think

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Speaker 1: you've learned being able to take a step back maybe

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Speaker 1: and watch a lot of film and stuff. Yeah, man,

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Speaker 1: I think I've learned a lot. Um, you know they have.

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Speaker 1: They made sure that they you know, they gave me

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Speaker 1: something every week, whether it was you know, it wasn't

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Speaker 1: always big stuff. Sometimes it was kind of like little

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Speaker 1: minor things that maybe, um that I could uh you know,

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Speaker 1: pick out and tell them about maybe that they didn't see, um,

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Speaker 1: and just kind of you know, being able to sit

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Speaker 1: back and like you said, watch film. I was able

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Speaker 1: to watch film on my iPad, and also I was

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Speaker 1: able to watch the actual game copy um, because you know,

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Speaker 1: I would watch the games at home sometimes, so I

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Speaker 1: would be able to watch it on TV just to

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Speaker 1: see um, certain situations, uh, certain formations, certain routes that

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Speaker 1: I've you know maybe never seen or um, something new

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Speaker 1: to me so um. And it was also good for

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Speaker 1: me to be able to study the qbs and different

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Speaker 1: qbs that we played to kind of just get a

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Speaker 1: feel um for you know, how they played and what

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Speaker 1: reason what they kind of did. Thanks Doug Hey, Xavier, Um,

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Speaker 1: you kind of touched at the top there what actually

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Speaker 1: happened because it seems like you know, maybe was it

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Speaker 1: something that happened gradually or the something happened just one

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Speaker 1: time you broke a ball? Uh, Well, it was just

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Speaker 1: something that kind of just gradually. Um, we got a

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Speaker 1: little worse as as the time went on. Um it

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Speaker 1: had been it was getting a little sore here and there.

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Speaker 1: We would kind of ease off of it a little

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Speaker 1: bit um and then you know that one practice, I

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Speaker 1: think we were on the grass first and we went

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Speaker 1: into the turf, um, and you know, it just happened

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Speaker 1: while we were doing uh some tackling circuit. So it

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Speaker 1: just kind of happened at that moment. But it was

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Speaker 1: something that kind of gradually just happened. Basic three months.

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Speaker 1: M to stay focused like uh for me, No, it

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Speaker 1: wasn't really tough to stay focused because going into the season.

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Speaker 1: You know, of course I was really excited about my

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Speaker 1: rookie year and I have you know, big high high

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Speaker 1: goals that I set for myself that I wanted to achieve. Um.

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Speaker 1: So you know, once I got hurt, yet mentally it

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Speaker 1: got to me at first, Um, but at the end

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Speaker 1: of the day, I knew I still wanted to be

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Speaker 1: as best as I could my rookie year, whether I

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Speaker 1: was playing, whether I wasn't, which I haven't been and

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Speaker 1: I've been out, so I've been making sure to to

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Speaker 1: stay in meetings. Um. You know, ever since the day

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Speaker 1: I got hurt or the day I had surgery. Of

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Speaker 1: course I was out a couple of days. They didn't

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Speaker 1: want me to come in, but um, once they tell