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Speaker 1: Soon.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Ozone Podcast with Jaguars senior writer John Osher.

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Speaker 3: All Right, welcome into this week's Ozone podcast, and I'm

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Speaker 3: excited to be joined by one of the few local

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Speaker 3: guys I've recovered. We were just talking high school sports

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Speaker 3: before we went on. Uh, Darius Williams, who played high

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Speaker 3: school with Creekside, now cornerback for the Jaguars. I appreciate

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Speaker 3: you doing that. That's my first question. You know, it's

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Speaker 3: got to be in a way a dream to play

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Speaker 3: for your hometown team. What has that been like?

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Speaker 1: Obviously came to the games when I was younger.

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Speaker 4: I was able to serve some some money, You get

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Speaker 4: some tickets, you got all my friends. But you know,

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Speaker 4: it's it's definitely another thing just just playing at home.

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Speaker 4: You know when now my family can just drive down

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Speaker 4: the road come see me play rather than take a

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Speaker 4: flight or drive or whatever the case may be. So uh,

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Speaker 4: I mean, it's it's always fun and being back home

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Speaker 4: and just knowing the city that you grew up in.

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Speaker 3: Big Jaguars fan growing up followed him a little bit,

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Speaker 3: or how would you describe that?

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Speaker 4: Noah, I wouldn't. I wouldn't say I was a big

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Speaker 4: Jaguars fan. I would come, Like I said, if I could,

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Speaker 4: you know, dig up some money to come on. But

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Speaker 4: uh no, of course I was. I was like a

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Speaker 4: La Dani and Thomason fan. Okay, man Adrian Peterson.

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Speaker 3: So I was followed players more than teams.

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Speaker 1: Correct.

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Speaker 3: Now, how did you go from following those guys to

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Speaker 3: play in corner or or are you running back in

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Speaker 3: high school?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I did.

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Speaker 1: I played a little running back high school.

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Speaker 4: I played both corner and running back in high school,

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Speaker 4: but I mean running back. You know, I figured I'm

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Speaker 4: more of a defensive guy. I'd rather be I'd rather

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Speaker 4: hit somebody than be hit. So that was my transition.

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Speaker 4: And obviously my high school coach showed me, you know,

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Speaker 4: you you got a real good shot, you know, going

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Speaker 4: to college football playing defense.

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Speaker 3: Okay, now we'll get to that in a little bit,

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Speaker 3: because your story is fascinating. I know you've told them before,

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Speaker 3: but it's such an interesting path. But the l but

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Speaker 3: two interceptions the last couple of weeks, what's been going

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Speaker 3: right for you? Is that circumstance? Are you playing or

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Speaker 3: how would you describe?

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Speaker 4: Uh No, I just think you know, I'm I'm you

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Speaker 4: know I'm in my position not to say that, you know,

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Speaker 4: any other position isn't, but obviously want to do us

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Speaker 4: best for the team at all times. But you know,

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Speaker 4: I'm a lot more comfortable. I feel like I could

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Speaker 4: see a whole lot more stuff at corner, and I

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Speaker 4: feel like we just were being taught, you know, the

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Speaker 4: game plans being broken down to us, and we're just

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Speaker 4: able to go out there and put whatever we see

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Speaker 4: on film onto the field.

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Speaker 3: Got now, both of them terrific plays. Pick six gets

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Speaker 3: maybe a little more publicity. But which was the better

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Speaker 3: play in your opinion? Or maybe it's not a fair.

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Speaker 4: Question, right, You know, I wouldn't. I wouldn't really say

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Speaker 4: one was better than the other. I just think, you know,

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Speaker 4: whenever I could try to make a play, you know,

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Speaker 4: when when the team needs a play, and I like

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Speaker 4: that was probably more Buffalo.

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Speaker 1: It was kind of a standstill.

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Speaker 4: I wouldn't even have the greatest game then, but it

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Speaker 4: was kind of just kind of like a standstill and

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Speaker 4: was able to make a play, not even thinking that

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Speaker 1: But you know, it ended up ping. It's giving us

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Speaker 1: a lot of momentum.

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Speaker 3: Now, stand still there was some wrestling for the ball

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Speaker 3: with that play right right? How did that go? Can

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Speaker 3: you take me through those couple of seconds.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, So I just at one point, you know, I

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Speaker 4: just was running. Obviously we're in a deep post the

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Speaker 4: so I just really turned to the receiver. So Stefan

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Speaker 3: I jumped before him a little bit of a tie, right,

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Speaker 1: His hands on it.

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Speaker 4: Like it just was like, oh shoot, like we all

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Speaker 4: know how offense, like, we all know the game is right,

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Speaker 4: so if we both come down with this thing. That

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Speaker 4: was the only thing I was thinking, like literally right

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Speaker 1: It's going to him so soon I gotta win.

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Speaker 4: Like as soon as it hit the ground, I just

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Speaker 3: Okay, that's just one of those moments that you know,

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Speaker 3: when are you talking to NFL player, Sometimes you just

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Speaker 3: got to make a play, and that was one of

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Speaker 3: those moments. Right now, A pick six. Take me through

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Speaker 3: the moment when you know it's six, meaning you play

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Speaker 3: a long time, there's only so many pick sixes that

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Speaker 3: you get. What kind of moment is that?

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's a great moment. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I mean obviously as soon as I picked it, you know,

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Speaker 4: I tried to hit straight our sideling because I knew

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Speaker 4: nobody's gonna be there. But obviously just just having a

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Speaker 4: pick six is just big, just big energy for the team. Sure,

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Speaker 4: you know, and I think too that kind of kind

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Speaker 4: a little bit. And that's really the best part of it,

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Speaker 4: is just bringing a minimum and dropping the morale.

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Speaker 3: Now did you enjoy the Andy's room celebration.

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Speaker 1: With Oh yeah, it was real cool.

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Speaker 3: Now it again to me through it for people who

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Speaker 3: don't know after Darius's uh pick six, they didn't and

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Speaker 3: your room celebration, I assume that that was in your

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Speaker 3: wheelhouse growing up toy story right, absolutely? Okay, so when

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Speaker 3: they come to you with that beforehand, take me through that.

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Speaker 3: Did Zay come to you guys with it saying you

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Speaker 1: No, it was actually Ciscom.

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Speaker 4: So Cisco told us like, look, we got this toy

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Speaker 4: story theme going on, So he was like, like, whoever

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Speaker 4: scores He basically threw out there. He's like, whoever scores

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Speaker 4: got to do the andy, you gotta walk from the

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Speaker 4: room and everybody plays dead.

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Speaker 3: Now did everybody know immediately what he was talking about? Yeah, okay,

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Speaker 3: so all you guys had grown up on it. Toy

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, oh yeah, everybody knew. So from the spot on,

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Speaker 3: Okay, that's pretty cool. I mean, that's that's I'm too

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Speaker 3: old for it. But my son, you know, of course,

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Speaker 3: would have gotten it immediately. So that was a very

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Speaker 3: very cool thing. Why is the defense playing so well

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Speaker 4: I just think, you know, it always comes probably with

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Speaker 1: You're just trying to figure out players, vice versa.

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Speaker 1: I just think we.

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Speaker 4: ride off that momentum, right off that high and now.

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Speaker 1: We know when we believe, you know, we could be

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Speaker 4: I think it's just all and that's just our team

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Speaker 3: So don't want to circle back on that. You said

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Speaker 3: the interception gets Buffalo and maybe not the greatest game

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Speaker 3: before that for you, How does a corner do that?

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Speaker 3: Meaning have a couple of plays. It's a tough league

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Speaker 3: got to maintain confidence. It's easy to say that, but

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Speaker 3: how do you do it?

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Speaker 1: Right? I mean, that's that's how you got to be built.

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Speaker 4: So you can't you can't think it's either a feast

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Speaker 4: so like regardless of you know, obviously you know.

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Speaker 1: The game is good.

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Speaker 3: Coaches are good.

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Speaker 4: They know how to scheme up stuff, they know how

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Speaker 4: to do stuff. So you just all always one play

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Speaker 4: got to stay in the game. There's there's not ever

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Speaker 4: a reason why you think like you gotta be down,

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Speaker 4: you can't make a play, and then you got teammates

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Speaker 1: Like I got some of the best players on our team.

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Speaker 4: We got great edge rushers, we got great secondary guys.

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Speaker 4: We got Tyson Cambell on the other side, so we

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Speaker 4: got guys that can pick up everybody else, right, So

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Speaker 4: there's no reason, like number one is just to let

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Speaker 1: So you always just got to stay in it.

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Speaker 3: So it's one thing to give up a play, but

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Speaker 3: it's worse to have that play cause you to give

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Speaker 4: Right, and then just to think like you would let

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Speaker 4: something's bad happening. And then me too, I'm thinking if

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Speaker 4: and like it's gotta keep coming. So I got it,

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Speaker 4: Like if I tap in, I can make a play, right,

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Speaker 4: and I can just make the play when it counts.

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Speaker 1: Gotcha.

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Speaker 3: Now you already know your story, but I'm gonna kind

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Speaker 3: of go over it and hit the high points Creek

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Speaker 3: side start. Then you went to Marietta College Division III,

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Speaker 3: went and tried out at UAB Craig had to ask

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Speaker 2: It right right, didn't get it, didn't get it, didn't

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Speaker 3: Just kind of kept at it.

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Speaker 4: Whoever the coach was in twenty fourteen unfortunately got fired Bill,

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Speaker 4: but fortunately for you for me, Bill Clark came in

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Speaker 4: and then he was on that made it.

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Speaker 3: Then they dropped the program. At this point, you're saying,

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Speaker 3: what the heck's going on? But you came back to

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Speaker 3: when UAB started again then undrafted. How do you stay through?

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Speaker 3: I mean, how do you keep going? And I know

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Speaker 3: you've asked that. I've talked about that before, but that's

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Speaker 3: a tough road.

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Speaker 4: I Mean, the real and truest answer I can give

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Speaker 4: is is I'm a big believer in faith. I'm a

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Speaker 4: big man of God. So one thing is just biggest,

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Speaker 4: It's big to trust. And that's all I did, really

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Speaker 4: was I just trusted in God, trust in the situation.

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Speaker 4: And I never let you know any any adversity or

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Speaker 4: that He has for me. And that's really the truest

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Speaker 4: answer I can give, sure, because that's that's what I do.

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Speaker 1: Like I'm read my Bible. I'm always faithful.

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Speaker 4: You know, adversities are goncome, things are gonna hit in

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Speaker 3: Now. At this point, during this your DEA, F, S, CJ,

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Speaker 3: want to go play, I want to have my education

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Speaker 4: Yes, I was just really thinking like if the opportunity came,

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Speaker 4: Like I'm more of like a like family orient a

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Speaker 4: but I was like, shoot, if it does, it does

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Speaker 3: I got you. So you weren't sure that you even

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Speaker 3: wanted to keep it going. You weren't ready to quit,

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Speaker 3: but you weren't sure that correct, But that was where

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Speaker 1: Nice.

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Speaker 3: I got you at peace during that time with that.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely okay, yeah, one hundred percent and UAB starts up

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Speaker 3: One more shot.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: My coach call, he was like, first I was, I

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Speaker 1: My co worker he was like, yeah, man, they brought

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Speaker 4: Literally as soon as I stopped talking to him, my

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Speaker 1: You want to come back?

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Speaker 3: And I was like so he was going back to yeah, yeah, yeah, okay,

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Speaker 1: I mean I didn't.

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Speaker 4: the programming I could.

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Speaker 1: I had it. I was walking on and had a.

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Speaker 4: Pretty good little season, and then when we came back,

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Speaker 4: just was always praying. I was like, man, like I'm

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Speaker 4: Right, And I was just always saying like, I'm gonna

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Speaker 4: I was like, nah, Like, if it is like it

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Speaker 4: remember a scout like he came and talked to me.

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Speaker 4: It was like, you know, you probably you probably won't

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Speaker 4: But he had told me it was like, yeah, you

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Speaker 1: Know, people are like.

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Speaker 4: Like they try to, I guess, label you before you

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Speaker 3: Got you now, I assume the answer is very much so,

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Speaker 3: But how much does all that help you and shape

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Speaker 4: But I mean that's that's always my goal is to

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Speaker 3: Got you being a part of this meaning the jag

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Speaker 3: since for you guys got here being from here understanding

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Speaker 1: I mean it's it's special.

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Speaker 4: It's always special, you know, to be a part of

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Speaker 4: sixteen sure, Uh, you know, we got Tyson Campbell. We

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Speaker 4: it's it's always cool to help start a whole new road,

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Speaker 4: not like you can't ever be just satisfied on what

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Speaker 3: I think we do. It's it's real quick to call

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Speaker 3: it the zone five five very quick questions. What's your

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Speaker 3: current binge watch? Oh?

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Speaker 4: My current binge watch? I got a lot. I don't

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Speaker 4: know if I got just one. I'm on the I'm

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Speaker 4: on the challenge R now, I had a low key yeah,

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Speaker 3: This got Uh the last song you listened to in

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Speaker 1: Of the Gospel song?

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Speaker 3: Uh? First Jaguars memory anything you're growing up? Any stand out?

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Speaker 1: Uh? Fred Taylor? For some reason, Fred Taylor.

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Speaker 3: He had some vivid memories. Best opponent you've ever played

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Speaker 3: as in team or player player?

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Speaker 4: Oh, I'm a I'm a big fan of Mark Cooper.

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Speaker 4: I think if he if he just wanted to be

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Speaker 4: as crazy as he could.

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Speaker 1: Be, he would he would dominate.

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Speaker 3: Uh, A person or people most responsible for you.

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Speaker 4: Being here obviously, God, my family, friends, everybody all that support.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Darius, I can't thank you enough on a on

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Speaker 3: a busy week coming back from Monday not to do this.

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Speaker 3: I enjoyed it, and I think the fans are gonna

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Speaker 3: enjoy listening to your New Zone podcast. Thank you very much, Yes, sir,

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Speaker 3: thank you