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Speaker 1: We're joined now by Grovers toward. I got to talk

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Speaker 1: about one particular day in your NFL career that hasn't

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Speaker 1: been done in so long. And I'm talking about a

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Speaker 1: twelve tackle day last game that you had as an

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Speaker 1: interior lineman hasn't been done since nineteen ninety four. Can

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Speaker 1: you just walk her through the kind of day that

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Speaker 1: you had and having creating havoc in the backfield? It

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Speaker 1: was like you're playing defensive tackle, not safety with those tackles. Yes, Hare, So, Man,

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Speaker 1: I don't think I had in my mind is the

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Speaker 1: big game changing? I said, I'm gonna go out here

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Speaker 1: and make a well all the players I can making

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Speaker 1: be by the ball every time the ball snap. So, Grover,

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Speaker 1: you've gotten better every year you've been here. What's the secret?

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Speaker 1: How are you doing that? Just out beat myself? Man?

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Speaker 1: Like getting better each week each year. He just talked

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Speaker 1: about the development. Why do you think you've taken off

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Speaker 1: in this scheme under Gus Bradley, that's a different scheme.

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Speaker 1: They allowed me to attack them more so I don't

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Speaker 1: have to worry about read them block that have to

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Speaker 1: read me. And only thing I'm doing penetrating get enough

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Speaker 1: for you reckon the shop. Have you noticed that the

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Speaker 1: more attentions come in your way as the season's going along.

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Speaker 1: Are you noticing more double teams and more focus on you? Yes,

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Speaker 1: sir man. I mean I've been averaging the least five

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Speaker 1: types of games. So I just gotta keep going. Man,

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Speaker 1: the rick and shot free my guys up. Then whenever

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Speaker 1: they go to them, they free me up. So do

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Speaker 1: you find that when you're playing against a certain offensive

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Speaker 1: lineman that's a characteristics that they have, maybe you found

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Speaker 1: in film or some series of that game that you say, hey,

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Speaker 1: I can get him on this because he does that.

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Speaker 1: I mean, are you finding those little secret little avenues

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Speaker 1: that you can go down to overcome these guys? Because

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Speaker 1: it really does look like you're my man versus boys

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Speaker 1: right now. So my biggest thing is, uh, they got

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Speaker 1: to block me, so I'm gonna get off and they

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Speaker 1: just have to react off of me. Man, what about

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Speaker 1: your off season? What what did you do in the

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Speaker 1: off season that you think has helped guiding you to

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Speaker 1: this in terms of your breakout potential? Here? Each off season, man,

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Speaker 1: I train hard, so like I don't really see like

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Speaker 1: any change in that I worked with my defensive line

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Speaker 1: coach from Auburn the state and uh, pretty much just

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Speaker 1: grounding up every day every day, so like that's every

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Speaker 1: off season. But you did change the diet right a

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Speaker 1: few years now, but you went you went to not

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Speaker 1: completely vegan, but somewhere in that neighborhood crack. So during

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Speaker 1: the season, I was completely vegan. Okay, I did it

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Speaker 1: for like five or six months. Then when I got home,

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Speaker 1: I had to give him some good food, you mean

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Speaker 1: after after the season ended, right, Yeah, How tough was

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Speaker 1: that on you to be that discipline in terms of

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Speaker 1: what you're putting in your body. It was really tough,

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Speaker 1: Like at the beginning because you were like and and

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Speaker 1: I want that hamburger, I want that chicken. You're like, man,

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Speaker 1: I feel great, like trying like different things and see

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Speaker 1: how my body reacts. So I had a lot of

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Speaker 1: energy though. Yeah, did you notice a difference And what

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Speaker 1: were those differences? Oh? Yeah, I wasn't being sore. Um.

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Speaker 1: I was working up with a lot of energy. Um,

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Speaker 1: Like my joints and everything just feeling great. This defense

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Speaker 1: is playing crazy good from the front to the back

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Speaker 1: on this thing. Obviously offense, there's some changes coming in

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Speaker 1: the offensive leadership. What's been the secret with this defense?

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Speaker 1: Obviously Gus Bradley had a partner, but you know, holding

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Speaker 1: teams to field goals, keeping Patrick Mahomes under twenty points, etc.

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Speaker 1: That's playing ball. Now. We just got to keep going, man,

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Speaker 1: Like all defense is to win a game, Like that's

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Speaker 1: all mentality, and like stop to run, get takeaways, and

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Speaker 1: that our offense control the game. So what do you

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Speaker 1: make of as someone that plays on the defensive side

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Speaker 1: of the ball, what do you make of the changes

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Speaker 1: on offense at quarterback? I mean, I'm on the defense

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Speaker 1: side of the ball, So like the only think I

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Speaker 1: could do is my job. Yeah, and like had a

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Speaker 1: back at end U point out the game right, no doubt.

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Speaker 1: Twelve tackles, the most by a Colts defensive tackle in

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Speaker 1: a game since at least nineteen ninety four. Grover Stewart,

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Speaker 1: my man, keep balling out and good luck this weekend. Yes, Sarah,

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Speaker 1: thank you,