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Speaker 1: Saw that, uh that tweet from Xavier. Yes. Uh, I

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Speaker 1: guess even though you're transferred, you're still viewed as by

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Speaker 1: some of these guys as an Alabama guy. UM. Just

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Speaker 1: curious what's it like to h to come up here

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Speaker 1: Alabama tized. Yeah, you know x specifically, No, Um, I

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Speaker 1: remember him when he when he first got up to

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Speaker 1: school and you know, just just trying to connect the

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Speaker 1: bond with him, you know, Um, he's a great guy.

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Speaker 1: You know. I'm ready to get up there, you know,

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Speaker 1: get to work with some great dudes, get around some

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Speaker 1: great coating, you know, pretty much just you know, set

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Speaker 1: set this down there, uh, you know, with with the

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Speaker 1: with the brotherhood up there and go to work. What

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Speaker 1: do you think you bring to the table. Uh, you

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Speaker 1: know that's definitely a competitive edge about myself, you know. Um,

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Speaker 1: a guy who's willing to uh take it from every angle. Uh.

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Speaker 1: That's culture um and and accepted in my my own game,

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Speaker 1: you know. Um. You know, I really just want to

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Speaker 1: bring guys along, you know, including myself, you know, to

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Speaker 1: create something else, specially thanks at Leonard Daily News. Hey,

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Speaker 1: and I think I think one thing the Giants really

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Speaker 1: like about you is how physical you are and that

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Speaker 1: you can play man and man. That's something they weren't

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Speaker 1: able to do as much last year. What does it

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Speaker 1: take to be as consistently physical and effective as you are,

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Speaker 1: um at that position on the outside. Yeah, you know, Um,

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Speaker 1: that pretty much comes with the game of football, you know. Um,

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Speaker 1: I feel like I always favored that, you know, the

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Speaker 1: day from the side of the ball a little bit

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Speaker 1: more growing up planet and then UM, you know that

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Speaker 1: that's that's that's pretty much, you know, a pleas in

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Speaker 1: my game. You know that that that I you know

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Speaker 1: pretty much. I want to say that that I pretty

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Speaker 1: much you know, um, take advantage of you know, and

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Speaker 1: come with every player you know A hundred and so. Um.

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Speaker 1: I mean that's that's pretty much back. Thanks Tom Rock Newesday, Aaron,

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Speaker 1: How important was it keep for you to get to

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Speaker 1: the Senior Bowl and to have that opportunity to meet

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Speaker 1: with the various teams and then, uh, just to follow

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Speaker 1: up on that when you're done with that, what do

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Speaker 1: you remember about your meetings with the Giants? Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: having that opportunity, you know, to get up their mobile

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Speaker 1: to compete against to compete against, you know, some of

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Speaker 1: the best in college football this past year. Um, it

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Speaker 1: was a great opportunity, you know for me to pretty

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Speaker 1: much expose myself a little bit more and um, you know,

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Speaker 1: have that great opportunity. Uh, you know, ron those reps

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Speaker 1: and get those reps something outside and pretty much you know,

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Speaker 1: so it's those skills as well. Uh and during those practices. So, um,

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Speaker 1: it was definitely a great opportunity for mysell phone. What

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Speaker 1: I remember from you know, meeting with the Giants, you know,

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Speaker 1: was was the last you know, through conversation, you know,

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Speaker 1: pretty much pretty much just enjoying that, enjoy that moment

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Speaker 1: with those with those coaches up there and you know

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Speaker 1: pretty much coming up now. So I felt like, you know,

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Speaker 1: so that's what I remember. And then if I if

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Speaker 1: I just ask you a real quick one, were you

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Speaker 1: on Darius team at the Senior Bowl or did you

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Speaker 1: did you go against him at all? I was against

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Speaker 1: I was on Darius team. Um, you know, we pretty

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Speaker 1: much had one great rep one on ones, you know,

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Speaker 1: a couple of a couple more reps, darantinae reps. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know pretty much just compete and you know against

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Speaker 1: one another. Up that trying trying to earn something, so

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Speaker 1: respect to him as well A Schwartz New York Post. Hey, Aren, congratulations. Um,

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Speaker 1: the fact that the Giants traded up to get you, Um,

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Speaker 1: does that mean something extra to you? Yeah? You know, definitely, Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, just another great opportunity, you know, you know,

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Speaker 1: thank thank those guys up there, you know for believing

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Speaker 1: in me. And you know, um that just you know,

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Speaker 1: pushed me to I want to get up there and

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Speaker 1: work you know, ten times all the foot. You know,

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Speaker 1: some guys that definitely believe in man. Um, you know

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna take advantage that you know wrong with them. Sure,

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Speaker 1: thank you, Dan Duggan the athletic And you have to

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Speaker 1: kind of forgive me for doing my scoutering import on

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Speaker 1: the fly. But did you play mostly in the slot

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Speaker 1: in college? Correct? And we you're saying the senior ball

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Speaker 1: gave you a chance to play outside? Correct? So do

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Speaker 1: you feel you can play both to the next level?

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Speaker 1: Are more comfortable one or the other? Um? You know what? Well,

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Speaker 1: I'm needed, you know, um, you know, wherever I'm needed,

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Speaker 1: I'm willing to learn that playbook, you know, get in

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Speaker 1: with my coaches and you know, spend a lot of

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Speaker 1: time around those guys, around those guys in the locker

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Speaker 1: room as well. You know that the really the learning

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Speaker 1: and you know, go out there and perform, you know,

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Speaker 1: to the best of my ability. And did you guys

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Speaker 1: play a lot of manner zone in college? Uh? You know,

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Speaker 1: we mixed it up. Coach Sanna definitely mixed it up

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Speaker 1: for us. Gave a lot of a lot of looks

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Speaker 1: and you know pretty much you know her best a

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