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Speaker 2: Sham welcome everybody in his Victory Monday.

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Speaker 3: We like that, come win victory Monday.

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Speaker 2: Before into it. Yes, and that's part of the reason

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Speaker 2: our special guest announced himself yesterday in New Jersey, Ryan

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Speaker 2: Flinoy number nineteen. Oh yeah, Okay, now I see why

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Speaker 2: the people are here. Okay. Thank you for having that game,

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Speaker 2: for dropping by. And it is victory Monday. It is

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it was fun. You know, went in playing man.

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Speaker 2: Let's let's talk a little bit about having a game

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Speaker 2: I asked him if he had heard of Miles Austin,

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Speaker 2: What do you what's your favorite route? What do you like?

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Speaker 2: When you won't sneak up on Carolina or anybody else anymore.

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Speaker 3: Real. Did you expect this opportunity to come so soon

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Speaker 2: Like you know, that is one part of your journey

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Speaker 2: We are at Sidecar Social in the Star District in Frisco.

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Speaker 2: I'm Brad Sham with Nicole Hutchinson and our victory Monday

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Speaker 2: special guest Ryan Flinoy, who you did everything but getting

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I got to get in there. Man, did you

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Speaker 2: Want to ask you one thing about him? Uh, he's

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Speaker 4: You know, he was dealing with an injury, and just

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Speaker 2: Is there something about the way Brian Schottenheimer and his

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Speaker 2: And clearly you're not afraid of that. And I think

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Speaker 5: What was the junior college before Iowa Western.

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Speaker 4: And it's like I told you so, but you know

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry. Tell me again, what how old are you?

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Speaker 2: And then what you're in school? Five three?

442
00:24:35,960 --> 00:24:39,280
Speaker 5: And I was freshman I was fourteen years old, freshman.

443
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Speaker 2: In high school.

444
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Speaker 3: I don't even think, I wait, freshman, but.

445
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Speaker 2: You're not playing wide receiver in the NFL and breaking tackles,

446
00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:51,159
Speaker 2: point and and things. So when then did you begin

447
00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:53,359
Speaker 2: to When was the growth spurs? And when did you

448
00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:55,800
Speaker 2: become the physical player that you are?

449
00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:58,600
Speaker 5: My junior year I remember of old school.

450
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Speaker 4: Yeah, of high school. I remember going into my junior year.

451
00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:03,800
Speaker 4: I was five to eleven. I'm looking over. I see

452
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Speaker 4: the top of people's heads now.

453
00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:07,520
Speaker 2: Like you used to see the nostrils.

454
00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:11,400
Speaker 4: Yeah, now I'm looking up now I'm looking down. So yeah,

455
00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:14,120
Speaker 4: my junior year, and like, I took the weight room

456
00:25:14,160 --> 00:25:16,800
Speaker 4: serious after, you know, after my coach told me I

457
00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:18,960
Speaker 4: was too small, I took the weight room serious, you know.

458
00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:22,320
Speaker 4: I got to get stronger, and then I just started growing.

459
00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:25,000
Speaker 4: I had champagne. I was going to the doctor. I

460
00:25:25,040 --> 00:25:28,679
Speaker 4: broke my hand my freshman year too, and the X

461
00:25:28,760 --> 00:25:31,080
Speaker 4: ray said my growth plates were wide open. So I'm

462
00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:34,560
Speaker 4: gonna grow a lot. And my senior year of high school,

463
00:25:34,560 --> 00:25:37,680
Speaker 4: I was six one and about one hundred three years.

464
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Speaker 2: You went from five three and ninety nine, yeah to

465
00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:43,919
Speaker 2: six one and how many.

466
00:25:44,080 --> 00:25:45,679
Speaker 5: Like one sixty one seventy.

467
00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:47,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, my head hurts.

468
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Speaker 3: What did your parents kind of or how did your

469
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Speaker 3: parents kind of help you throughout.

470
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Speaker 2: That entire Yeah, I gotta we gotta know how the

471
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Speaker 2: family react.

472
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Speaker 5: Okay, Yeah, I tell you how my brother reacted.

473
00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:03,000
Speaker 4: Was one summer my brother went with my cousins in

474
00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:05,680
Speaker 4: West Virginia just for the summer, and then he came

475
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Speaker 4: back and I opened the door for him.

476
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Speaker 2: When he came back, you said, well, who are you? Yeah,

477
00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:12,399
Speaker 2: you look like my brother, but who are you?

478
00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:15,240
Speaker 5: So like that was I remember that summer.

479
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Speaker 3: Man.

480
00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:18,600
Speaker 4: He loved telling that story. And then my parents, you know, they.

481
00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:20,280
Speaker 5: Were like, man, I always tried to pray for you

482
00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:21,080
Speaker 5: that you would grow.

483
00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:23,800
Speaker 4: My dad, my dad is like one of my biggest

484
00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:26,000
Speaker 4: fans and you know, a football fanatic, and he was like,

485
00:26:26,560 --> 00:26:28,760
Speaker 4: just just stretch. I try to He tried to hang

486
00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:30,919
Speaker 4: me from the pull up bars, just like a stretch.

487
00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:31,800
Speaker 5: Yeah.

488
00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:36,000
Speaker 4: But yeah, it was crazy to have that Grosburg. I'm

489
00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:38,120
Speaker 4: definitely blessed by God for that.

490
00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:40,520
Speaker 3: How much have your parents and your siblings meant to

491
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Speaker 3: you and through all the adversity that you've been through.

492
00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:44,720
Speaker 5: Man, I mean everything to me.

493
00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:46,879
Speaker 4: You know, it was part of This is why I

494
00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:49,880
Speaker 4: do it, you know, because all the sacrifices and just

495
00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:51,320
Speaker 4: you know, making them happy.

496
00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:59,119
Speaker 3: There and your wife, but the nuclear family came first.

497
00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:00,239
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know.

498
00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:05,760
Speaker 4: They they're super special to me, Like family is everything

499
00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:08,960
Speaker 4: to me. You know, my parents is amazing. You know,

500
00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:11,280
Speaker 4: they made a lot of sacrifices to get me to

501
00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:14,120
Speaker 4: this point. And you know, my siblings is you know,

502
00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:18,680
Speaker 4: some of my biggest cheerleaders. And they they're probably more

503
00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:20,480
Speaker 4: happy of my success than I am.

504
00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:22,760
Speaker 5: And it's great to see.

505
00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:26,760
Speaker 4: And you know, my wife, man, she's amazing. Like I

506
00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:29,119
Speaker 4: can't even imagine the day without her. You know, she

507
00:27:29,359 --> 00:27:32,280
Speaker 4: just keep my head straight and just you know, she

508
00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:33,000
Speaker 4: she's amazing.

509
00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:35,280
Speaker 2: Did you know her when you were five three and

510
00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:36,200
Speaker 2: nine pounds?

511
00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:36,600
Speaker 6: No?

512
00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:39,720
Speaker 2: No, Okay, we're gonna we'll get to that in a minute.

513
00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:40,720
Speaker 2: How many siblings.

514
00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:42,919
Speaker 5: I got two siblings, Riley and Raven.

515
00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:47,040
Speaker 4: My I got an older sister, Raven, and then Riley

516
00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:48,400
Speaker 4: is twenty two, my younger brother.

517
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Speaker 2: Younger brother. Okay, we're gonna take our next break, and

518
00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:55,399
Speaker 2: then we're gonna talk about we're gonna get you to

519
00:27:55,720 --> 00:27:57,720
Speaker 2: Southeast Missouri State, and then we're gonna get you to

520
00:27:57,760 --> 00:28:00,160
Speaker 2: the NFL and then and then somewhere in there we'll

521
00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:02,840
Speaker 2: get you married and we'll find out find out about

522
00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:06,240
Speaker 2: your wife and how your faith informs everything. For sure

523
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Speaker 2: that you have done. Ryan Flinoy is our guest on

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Speaker 2: the Miller Like Cowboys Hour, This evening brought to you.

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532
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534
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535
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Speaker 2: And welcome back to Sidecar Social in the Star District.

536
00:31:41,320 --> 00:31:44,960
Speaker 2: Brad Sham, Nicole Hutchinson, our very special guest, Ryan Flinoy

537
00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:51,920
Speaker 2: one hundred and forty yards yesterday, more yards in the

538
00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:54,600
Speaker 2: first half yesterday than he had as a rookie. But

539
00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:56,360
Speaker 2: if you're not on the field, they can't throw you

540
00:31:56,440 --> 00:31:59,520
Speaker 2: the ball. So that's you really complicated their life. Now

541
00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:02,640
Speaker 2: you know you know that, don't you Yeah, that's what

542
00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:04,640
Speaker 2: they get paid a lot of money to figure out.

543
00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:11,320
Speaker 2: But that that'll be fun to watch develop. Let me

544
00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:16,000
Speaker 2: get back to for a moment. Let's get you to

545
00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:20,720
Speaker 2: Southeast Missouri. We got you at Iowa Western, and Southeast

546
00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:26,080
Speaker 2: offered you, right, and is that in Springfield Cape Girardo.

547
00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:27,880
Speaker 2: I went to Missoi by the way, so I know

548
00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:32,600
Speaker 2: right where Cape Girardo is. Nobody offered me. I begged

549
00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:34,880
Speaker 2: them and they just they let me give them money

550
00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:41,080
Speaker 2: and go to school there. So how at what age

551
00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:44,160
Speaker 2: did you start thinking I want to be in the NFL?

552
00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:45,440
Speaker 5: Really?

553
00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:49,000
Speaker 4: So, my dad always wants to be in the NFL,

554
00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:51,480
Speaker 4: and he just always told me, you know, if you

555
00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:53,880
Speaker 4: work for where, you can do it. And I started

556
00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:57,120
Speaker 4: playing football since I was five, and I really always

557
00:32:57,200 --> 00:32:58,880
Speaker 4: had that dream to play in the NFL.

558
00:32:59,120 --> 00:32:59,280
Speaker 5: You know.

559
00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:03,360
Speaker 4: It was it got to a point where like if

560
00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:05,880
Speaker 4: I was scared of anything, if I was to be

561
00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:07,760
Speaker 4: on the diving board and I was scared to jump off,

562
00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:09,920
Speaker 4: I'll be like, I'm not going to the NFL if

563
00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:12,160
Speaker 4: I don't jump off, and then I end up jumping off.

564
00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:13,760
Speaker 5: So that's that's how bad I wanted it.

565
00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:18,600
Speaker 3: No, Okay, at what point did you start loving the

566
00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:21,120
Speaker 3: game of football When.

567
00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:23,480
Speaker 4: I scored my first touchdown. I remember I was six

568
00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:28,080
Speaker 4: years old. I was running back. We was playing to

569
00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:31,280
Speaker 4: the country club Hill Cougars, and I got the handoff

570
00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:33,920
Speaker 4: and I went down the sideline and I scored and

571
00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:36,600
Speaker 4: my dad and my mom was just so happy and like,

572
00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:38,760
Speaker 4: I'm like, I'm gonna keep doing this, and it was

573
00:33:38,840 --> 00:33:39,520
Speaker 4: it was just fun.

574
00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:41,480
Speaker 2: So what was part of the motivation to see how

575
00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:42,160
Speaker 2: happy they were?

576
00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:44,760
Speaker 5: Yeah, and just the joy it brought me too.

577
00:33:46,520 --> 00:33:50,360
Speaker 2: When did you first think to yourself, oh, wait, I

578
00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:53,640
Speaker 2: can do this. I'm actually I'm actually going to be

579
00:33:53,760 --> 00:33:54,400
Speaker 2: good enough.

580
00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:54,720
Speaker 7: To do this.

581
00:33:57,520 --> 00:34:03,000
Speaker 4: Really when no, probably eighth grade, you know, eighth grade,

582
00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:07,040
Speaker 4: I you know, start developing hands and just start catching

583
00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:07,880
Speaker 4: the ball with ease.

584
00:34:08,200 --> 00:34:09,600
Speaker 5: And that's when I moved to receiver.

585
00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:13,520
Speaker 4: At eighth grade, I was running back all throughout, and

586
00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:16,439
Speaker 4: you know, start catching the ball and start running after

587
00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:18,320
Speaker 4: the catch, and I'm like, oh, yeah, I could definitely

588
00:34:18,360 --> 00:34:18,560
Speaker 4: do this.

589
00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:21,800
Speaker 2: But but then you don't get a big school offer.

590
00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:25,880
Speaker 2: And that didn't do anything to chip away at that confidence.

591
00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:28,239
Speaker 4: Nah, it was it was just a stepping stone. I

592
00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:30,040
Speaker 4: just know it was gonna be harder to get there,

593
00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:31,359
Speaker 4: but I was gonna get there.

594
00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:34,560
Speaker 2: And what did you expect going into the draft?

595
00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:40,200
Speaker 4: I expected, you know, honestly, it was it was the

596
00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:42,560
Speaker 4: draft day was kind of crazy. You know, I expected

597
00:34:42,640 --> 00:34:45,080
Speaker 4: to get drafted, but when you know, you get down

598
00:34:45,160 --> 00:34:47,600
Speaker 4: to the sixth round, the fifth rounds, and you're like, man,

599
00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:50,600
Speaker 4: am I gonna get drafted? And you know, once I

600
00:34:50,680 --> 00:34:53,400
Speaker 4: got that call, man, all that anxiety and all the

601
00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:56,480
Speaker 4: fear of not getting drafted just lifted off my shoulders

602
00:34:57,400 --> 00:34:59,479
Speaker 4: because I felt like I put the work in during

603
00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:02,239
Speaker 4: you know, college and you know, doing the Senior Bowl

604
00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:05,080
Speaker 4: and then during the Combine, and I just noticed in

605
00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:07,160
Speaker 4: God's hands, you know, wherever he wanted me to go.

606
00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:08,560
Speaker 5: That's why I'm gonna go back.

607
00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:11,240
Speaker 3: At that moment when you got the call from Jerry Jones,

608
00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:14,399
Speaker 3: what did you ultimately say to yourself that you want

609
00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:15,360
Speaker 3: to prove in this league?

610
00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:17,399
Speaker 2: After you shoid who's Jerry Jones?

611
00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:18,879
Speaker 5: I knew.

612
00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:25,120
Speaker 4: I said to myself, man, they better get ready, like

613
00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:28,480
Speaker 4: because I know, like, come from small school, I didn't

614
00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:32,320
Speaker 4: play in many big crowds. The biggest crowds I played

615
00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:35,520
Speaker 4: in was probably Iowa State and Kansas State. And you know,

616
00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:39,120
Speaker 4: I was excited to, you know, show the world who

617
00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:41,560
Speaker 4: I am, like you know, as a person, as a

618
00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:43,960
Speaker 4: football player, and just show their toughness. I got, like

619
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Speaker 4: you know, I feel like I played the game with

620
00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:49,440
Speaker 4: a lot of passion, Like I like, I like to hit,

621
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Speaker 4: like you know, I just like to, you know, make

622
00:35:52,040 --> 00:35:54,320
Speaker 4: a statement in games. I just wanted the fans and

623
00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:56,360
Speaker 4: the Cowboys to see that when.

624
00:35:56,280 --> 00:35:59,680
Speaker 2: Your coaches, as you were growing and getting better at

625
00:35:59,719 --> 00:36:03,400
Speaker 2: the saw how physical you were. Anybody ever try to

626
00:36:03,440 --> 00:36:04,240
Speaker 2: make you a safety?

627
00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:04,920
Speaker 3: Uh?

628
00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:05,160
Speaker 2: No?

629
00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:10,200
Speaker 4: I played BB in high school my freshman and sophomore year.

630
00:36:10,239 --> 00:36:13,600
Speaker 4: I was a corner and receiver. You know, I was

631
00:36:13,719 --> 00:36:16,560
Speaker 4: coming down hit because I was the smallest, but I

632
00:36:16,719 --> 00:36:17,200
Speaker 4: had heart.

633
00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:20,080
Speaker 2: And the freshmen you were five three and ninety nine pounds.

634
00:36:20,120 --> 00:36:21,279
Speaker 2: Well you run down, hit a guy and.

635
00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:23,000
Speaker 5: The ankles run ankle.

636
00:36:23,040 --> 00:36:26,239
Speaker 4: We called an ankle biten. Yeah, I just run down

637
00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:29,080
Speaker 4: tripping with the ankles. Tackle philosophy, all.

638
00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:31,800
Speaker 2: Right, But I mean, did anybody try to say, this

639
00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:34,520
Speaker 2: guy is physical, he can we should put him on defense?

640
00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:37,960
Speaker 5: Uh nah, they did good.

641
00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:41,120
Speaker 3: Did you ever think about like saying, let me try

642
00:36:41,239 --> 00:36:41,880
Speaker 3: to stick.

643
00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:44,680
Speaker 5: With safety or no? I like I like scoring the ball,

644
00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:47,000
Speaker 5: like I like you know, putting the ball in the

645
00:36:47,120 --> 00:36:48,040
Speaker 5: end zone and.

646
00:36:48,120 --> 00:36:54,040
Speaker 2: Then your fifth round, right, sixth round. So here you come,

647
00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:59,000
Speaker 2: and uh you you have to look around and see

648
00:36:59,040 --> 00:37:01,000
Speaker 2: who else? Who are the receivers? Who are here? What

649
00:37:01,080 --> 00:37:01,719
Speaker 2: do I have to do?

650
00:37:03,040 --> 00:37:03,080
Speaker 5: What?

651
00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:05,719
Speaker 2: What were you? What's your thought process then about what

652
00:37:06,239 --> 00:37:07,560
Speaker 2: was in front of you and how you were going

653
00:37:07,640 --> 00:37:07,920
Speaker 2: to make it?

654
00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:11,439
Speaker 4: Just to learn from him. You know the receiver room

655
00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:14,080
Speaker 4: last year, you know it was pretty big. You know,

656
00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:19,640
Speaker 4: he had CD B, Cooks, JT JB. Just you know,

657
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:23,839
Speaker 4: really picking their brains, you know, actually going under all

658
00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:26,560
Speaker 4: of their wings, you know, learning something, learning what they got,

659
00:37:26,640 --> 00:37:29,080
Speaker 4: what they bring to the game. And you know they

660
00:37:29,120 --> 00:37:32,560
Speaker 4: all did a great job, you know, helping me accumulate

661
00:37:32,640 --> 00:37:34,480
Speaker 4: to being in the NFL and teaching me how to

662
00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:38,120
Speaker 4: be a pro. And you know that's why, you know,

663
00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:40,440
Speaker 4: that was my whole thought prostitution, you know, just to

664
00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:43,200
Speaker 4: see how they do it and then put my own

665
00:37:43,239 --> 00:37:43,960
Speaker 4: little spin on it.

666
00:37:44,080 --> 00:37:46,880
Speaker 2: Now, my memory is serving me right this year. So

667
00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:49,040
Speaker 2: now you hit the first year goes by my my

668
00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:52,920
Speaker 2: broadcast partner on the games, Babe Lappenberg says this, and

669
00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:55,080
Speaker 2: particularly every time you make a play, He says, when

670
00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:58,680
Speaker 2: you come and babe with baby set passing records in Indiana.

671
00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:02,480
Speaker 2: He was terrific quarterback, played eight years in the NFL,

672
00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:08,200
Speaker 2: and he said, when you come from Southeast Missouri, your

673
00:38:08,800 --> 00:38:11,399
Speaker 2: your rookie year is just it's just that your head's

674
00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:13,719
Speaker 2: spinning and you're just learning. Is that right?

675
00:38:13,960 --> 00:38:14,160
Speaker 5: Yeah?

676
00:38:14,520 --> 00:38:17,800
Speaker 4: My first NFL game against the Rams last year in preseason,

677
00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:22,360
Speaker 4: I dropped the ball. My first catch, I fumbled. I

678
00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:23,960
Speaker 4: felt like I had a horrible game. I felt like

679
00:38:23,960 --> 00:38:25,319
Speaker 4: I was like, oh yeah, I'm getting cut, I'm out

680
00:38:25,320 --> 00:38:27,400
Speaker 4: of here. And then you know, the next game, I

681
00:38:27,560 --> 00:38:30,000
Speaker 4: just really like, I don't have to prove anything. They

682
00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:32,520
Speaker 4: know who I am. Let me just go out there

683
00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:34,799
Speaker 4: and play free and play fast and just be who

684
00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:36,880
Speaker 4: I am. And you know, I think I showed out

685
00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:37,520
Speaker 4: that next game.

686
00:38:37,640 --> 00:38:41,239
Speaker 2: It looked like you were more confident in camp this

687
00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:43,480
Speaker 2: year than last year. Is that correct?

688
00:38:43,560 --> 00:38:45,000
Speaker 5: Yeah? Yeah, correct.

689
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:49,880
Speaker 2: So So when you now, if my memory is right,

690
00:38:49,960 --> 00:38:51,840
Speaker 2: you did make the fifty.

691
00:38:51,600 --> 00:38:53,640
Speaker 5: Three man roster this year, yes, sir.

692
00:38:54,200 --> 00:38:57,479
Speaker 2: Now we've got a numbers game and people are hurt,

693
00:38:57,600 --> 00:39:01,400
Speaker 2: and this happens all the time, and everybody knew they

694
00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:04,160
Speaker 2: did not want to lose you, but they I don't

695
00:39:04,160 --> 00:39:07,440
Speaker 2: remember who was her cornerbacks or whoever it was, and

696
00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:09,960
Speaker 2: so something that we've got to have a roster spot.

697
00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:13,080
Speaker 2: So we're going to take a deep breath and hope

698
00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:17,080
Speaker 2: that nobody claims it. Were you hoping someone claimed you?

699
00:39:18,560 --> 00:39:20,279
Speaker 5: I was hoping. I just wanted to play football. I

700
00:39:20,520 --> 00:39:20,800
Speaker 5: loved that.

701
00:39:21,040 --> 00:39:24,440
Speaker 4: I didn't want to go anywhere. I was hoping nobody claiming.

702
00:39:24,520 --> 00:39:27,600
Speaker 4: I was just that whole day. I think it was

703
00:39:27,640 --> 00:39:30,600
Speaker 4: a Friday where I was on waivers in just the

704
00:39:30,719 --> 00:39:32,920
Speaker 4: twenty four hours felt like two weeks.

705
00:39:33,239 --> 00:39:34,960
Speaker 5: You know, it just feel like, man, what's going to

706
00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:35,520
Speaker 5: happen next?

707
00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:38,040
Speaker 2: And it was.

708
00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:40,879
Speaker 5: It was crazy. Just I was just praying that whole

709
00:39:40,960 --> 00:39:44,360
Speaker 5: day and just like you know, just just make a

710
00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:44,880
Speaker 5: way for me.

711
00:39:45,040 --> 00:39:50,279
Speaker 2: Well, maybe people can understand a little better if they

712
00:39:50,360 --> 00:39:54,440
Speaker 2: hear you talk about it. So you you have if

713
00:39:54,560 --> 00:39:58,279
Speaker 2: you if you are claimed, that means you're still in

714
00:39:58,320 --> 00:40:01,439
Speaker 2: the NFL, but you're not the team you were with. Yeah,

715
00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:04,279
Speaker 2: but if you're not claimed, you can come back to

716
00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:06,759
Speaker 2: the team you were with, but that means nobody wanted you.

717
00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:09,160
Speaker 2: How did you deal with that? Twenty four hours?

718
00:40:09,239 --> 00:40:10,920
Speaker 5: Yeah, that was that was crazy. It was like, man,

719
00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:11,719
Speaker 5: you ain't want me.

720
00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:14,360
Speaker 4: I think I snapped in preseason. It was it was

721
00:40:14,440 --> 00:40:19,440
Speaker 4: an ego you know, ego shock. You know, I got humbled. Man,

722
00:40:19,480 --> 00:40:21,560
Speaker 4: I thought I snapped when nobody want me. You know,

723
00:40:21,680 --> 00:40:23,960
Speaker 4: I'm not product. But I mean it worked out for

724
00:40:24,040 --> 00:40:26,160
Speaker 4: the better. I had one hundred and fourteen yards yesterday.

725
00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:31,640
Speaker 5: I think it worked out. I think God don't make

726
00:40:31,719 --> 00:40:33,880
Speaker 5: no mistakes his time and is perfect.

727
00:40:34,160 --> 00:40:38,200
Speaker 3: Sometimes it's it's unfortunate. But there's like also a business side,

728
00:40:38,719 --> 00:40:41,120
Speaker 3: you know to it. How hard was it for you?

729
00:40:41,320 --> 00:40:44,120
Speaker 3: Kind of like just finally realizing, Okay, there's a business

730
00:40:44,200 --> 00:40:45,799
Speaker 3: aspect to this that I kind of got to get

731
00:40:45,920 --> 00:40:48,560
Speaker 3: used to. But at the same time, like I know

732
00:40:48,760 --> 00:40:50,400
Speaker 3: what type of player that I can be?

733
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:52,759
Speaker 5: How hard was that for you? It's like you got

734
00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:53,880
Speaker 5: to take yourself out of it.

735
00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:56,560
Speaker 4: You don't take anything personal because you know, they say

736
00:40:56,600 --> 00:40:58,680
Speaker 4: it's a numbers game, and it really is. You know,

737
00:40:59,160 --> 00:41:01,040
Speaker 4: you got a lot of great players in the league

738
00:41:01,120 --> 00:41:04,080
Speaker 4: that's not in the league, like that's on practice squad.

739
00:41:04,160 --> 00:41:05,960
Speaker 4: You got a lot of great players that you know,

740
00:41:06,040 --> 00:41:08,160
Speaker 4: don't get to suit up on Sunday. So it's like

741
00:41:08,520 --> 00:41:12,719
Speaker 4: it's a business like and you know, you see it's

742
00:41:12,760 --> 00:41:15,040
Speaker 4: your teammate one week, then next week they on in

743
00:41:15,120 --> 00:41:18,160
Speaker 4: a different suit. So it's definitely a business. That's why

744
00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:20,520
Speaker 4: I have to learn my rookie year. But I feel

745
00:41:20,520 --> 00:41:22,319
Speaker 4: like I'm dealing with it better.

746
00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:24,879
Speaker 3: I want to talk about you leaning on faith God,

747
00:41:25,840 --> 00:41:29,719
Speaker 3: particularly how big has you know your faith been for

748
00:41:29,840 --> 00:41:32,480
Speaker 3: you throughout your entire career in journey?

749
00:41:32,880 --> 00:41:37,759
Speaker 4: Yeah, honestly, I just started my faith in twenty twenty one,

750
00:41:37,920 --> 00:41:41,200
Speaker 4: you know, just really I found God in twenty twenty one.

751
00:41:42,680 --> 00:41:44,680
Speaker 5: I went to an FCA meeting.

752
00:41:44,520 --> 00:41:48,400
Speaker 4: In college and talked talked about the gospel and it

753
00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:51,720
Speaker 4: really just opened up to me. You know, I always

754
00:41:51,760 --> 00:41:54,040
Speaker 4: believed in God, but I didn't know who Jesus was

755
00:41:54,200 --> 00:41:57,720
Speaker 4: or who you know, just believed it was a god somewhere.

756
00:41:57,800 --> 00:42:00,600
Speaker 4: And then after I just devoted my whole lifetime and

757
00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:02,680
Speaker 4: you know, just you just made it away from me.

758
00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:03,000
Speaker 5: You know.

759
00:42:04,120 --> 00:42:05,880
Speaker 4: That's why I played the game of football, just to

760
00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:08,800
Speaker 4: at least I pray that at least once soul is

761
00:42:08,880 --> 00:42:10,080
Speaker 4: saved by the way I play.

762
00:42:10,280 --> 00:42:13,400
Speaker 5: And you know, I weigh Jesus on.

763
00:42:13,440 --> 00:42:16,080
Speaker 4: My wristband just to you know, highlight his name and

764
00:42:16,160 --> 00:42:19,600
Speaker 4: that you know, I'm out there playing. But just it's

765
00:42:19,680 --> 00:42:20,960
Speaker 4: not me, it's him.

766
00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:23,600
Speaker 5: We gotta take our you.

767
00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:24,520
Speaker 3: Can plug that one.

768
00:42:24,560 --> 00:42:27,520
Speaker 2: We're gonna take our last break. We have a microphone

769
00:42:27,560 --> 00:42:30,200
Speaker 2: if anybody in our audience here at Sidecar Social wants

770
00:42:30,239 --> 00:42:32,680
Speaker 2: to ask you anything, and uh and I promised we

771
00:42:32,719 --> 00:42:35,560
Speaker 2: would get you married, so we can come back. We

772
00:42:35,760 --> 00:42:37,600
Speaker 2: we do want to find it because I know how

773
00:42:37,680 --> 00:42:39,560
Speaker 2: proud you are of your wife. You mentioned her, and

774
00:42:39,719 --> 00:42:41,160
Speaker 2: I want to give you a chance to brag on

775
00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:43,840
Speaker 2: her a little bit. And we've got time to do

776
00:42:44,120 --> 00:42:47,120
Speaker 2: all of that with our special guests tonight, Ryan Flinoy

777
00:42:47,239 --> 00:42:50,279
Speaker 2: on the middle Like Cowboys Hour at Sidecar Social at

778
00:42:50,320 --> 00:42:52,319
Speaker 2: the Star District in Frisco. We'll be right back.

779
00:42:53,160 --> 00:44:19,200
Speaker 9: I'll take Lansing, No cow Wars, no Cowboys, no cowboys.

780
00:45:00,040 --> 00:45:13,600
Speaker 7: M hm m m m m m.

781
00:45:15,560 --> 00:45:23,560
Speaker 2: M hm.

782
00:45:53,080 --> 00:45:59,680
Speaker 1: Ba to the Miller Like Cowboys Hour supported by Albertson's.

783
00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:04,680
Speaker 2: At Side Car Socials the Star District did Frisco with

784
00:46:04,920 --> 00:46:09,120
Speaker 2: Nicole Hutchinson. I'm Brad Sham our very special guest, Cowboys

785
00:46:09,680 --> 00:46:14,400
Speaker 2: receiver Ryan Flinoy. So when you come to campus a

786
00:46:14,440 --> 00:46:18,279
Speaker 2: sixth round draft choice, nobody cares how you want to

787
00:46:18,320 --> 00:46:20,279
Speaker 2: pronounce your name. They just look at it on a

788
00:46:20,320 --> 00:46:23,600
Speaker 2: piece of paper and they say, oh, that's Florinoy. Okay,

789
00:46:23,680 --> 00:46:27,400
Speaker 2: we'll call him Florinoy. And then somewhere along the line

790
00:46:27,800 --> 00:46:31,600
Speaker 2: we were told, actually it's flinoy. Did you correct? Did

791
00:46:31,680 --> 00:46:34,320
Speaker 2: you hear pronunciations and correct someone?

792
00:46:35,120 --> 00:46:39,040
Speaker 4: Well, during the first present or the game I scored

793
00:46:39,120 --> 00:46:42,080
Speaker 4: my first touchdown in the preseason, they.

794
00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:43,560
Speaker 5: Said floriny florny.

795
00:46:43,760 --> 00:46:45,880
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I was like, now it's illinoy to our

796
00:46:46,080 --> 00:46:50,320
Speaker 4: silent is French, you know as little so after I

797
00:46:50,440 --> 00:46:51,600
Speaker 4: say that, they corrected it.

798
00:46:51,680 --> 00:46:55,600
Speaker 2: Okay, Well good, So just in case anybody wants to know, Okay,

799
00:46:56,040 --> 00:46:59,440
Speaker 2: before we take questions from our audience, tell us a

800
00:46:59,440 --> 00:47:02,160
Speaker 2: little bit about your bride and when did you meet?

801
00:47:02,760 --> 00:47:05,719
Speaker 2: And I know how proud you are of the work

802
00:47:05,800 --> 00:47:06,360
Speaker 2: she's doing, so.

803
00:47:06,719 --> 00:47:12,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, we actually met at Southeast Missouri. Man, just the

804
00:47:12,800 --> 00:47:15,600
Speaker 4: way she carried herself attracted me to her, you know,

805
00:47:15,920 --> 00:47:18,759
Speaker 4: just because I was finding my faith and I went

806
00:47:18,800 --> 00:47:22,960
Speaker 4: to Southeast Missouri in twenty twenty two and just what

807
00:47:23,160 --> 00:47:25,600
Speaker 4: she posted helped me, you know, help me be a

808
00:47:25,680 --> 00:47:27,160
Speaker 4: better man, honestly, And.

809
00:47:29,160 --> 00:47:29,799
Speaker 5: You know, I was.

810
00:47:31,520 --> 00:47:33,200
Speaker 4: Kind of nervous to talk to her, just because I

811
00:47:33,280 --> 00:47:35,239
Speaker 4: thought her standards was too hot I didn't think I

812
00:47:35,360 --> 00:47:38,759
Speaker 4: met her standards, but you know, I shot my shot.

813
00:47:38,880 --> 00:47:43,839
Speaker 4: That's what we say nowadays, sliding the dms. But yeah,

814
00:47:43,880 --> 00:47:47,040
Speaker 4: I just like, what's your love like, what's your love

815
00:47:47,120 --> 00:47:49,040
Speaker 4: life's looking like? And she said, you know what I'm saying,

816
00:47:49,400 --> 00:47:51,640
Speaker 4: I'm single too, Let's hang out. And you know it

817
00:47:51,800 --> 00:47:55,320
Speaker 4: was you smooth up, just smooth, just smooth, just a

818
00:47:55,360 --> 00:47:59,920
Speaker 4: little suddenness, and you know, just the way she carried herself.

819
00:48:00,200 --> 00:48:03,520
Speaker 5: Just how what her morals are. You know, God first,

820
00:48:04,320 --> 00:48:06,480
Speaker 5: you know, she's godfair.

821
00:48:06,640 --> 00:48:09,320
Speaker 4: It's just it's beautiful to see and it's just obviously

822
00:48:09,440 --> 00:48:10,080
Speaker 4: she's attracted.

823
00:48:10,160 --> 00:48:13,000
Speaker 5: She's yeah, where is shit?

824
00:48:14,080 --> 00:48:16,959
Speaker 2: Oh look at you. Thank you for coming tonight. Thanks

825
00:48:17,000 --> 00:48:19,400
Speaker 2: for letting him out of the house for I mean,

826
00:48:19,480 --> 00:48:21,480
Speaker 2: it's not like you know, he's just hanging around all

827
00:48:21,560 --> 00:48:23,839
Speaker 2: day this time of year. It's great to have you here.

828
00:48:24,080 --> 00:48:27,920
Speaker 2: Thank you. Congratulations on everything you're doing. Yeah, we're proud

829
00:48:27,960 --> 00:48:28,319
Speaker 2: of you too.

830
00:48:28,640 --> 00:48:30,880
Speaker 5: Yeah, we got your married.

831
00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:34,160
Speaker 4: We got married July sixth of twenty twenty four, so

832
00:48:34,800 --> 00:48:36,560
Speaker 4: we've been married a little bit over a year.

833
00:48:36,840 --> 00:48:39,239
Speaker 5: It's been great. You know, that's that's my role. Dog.

834
00:48:39,360 --> 00:48:43,280
Speaker 4: She keep me grounded, she's she helps me like I'm

835
00:48:43,440 --> 00:48:46,480
Speaker 4: very disciplined, you know, with sleep and just what I

836
00:48:46,640 --> 00:48:49,480
Speaker 4: do with football, and she's she's you know, she wants

837
00:48:49,480 --> 00:48:51,200
Speaker 4: to spend time with me, but you know I take

838
00:48:52,040 --> 00:48:55,400
Speaker 4: sleep serious. And like just the way she you know,

839
00:48:56,440 --> 00:48:59,399
Speaker 4: you know, helped me out with everything, you know, don't

840
00:48:59,480 --> 00:49:01,960
Speaker 4: bother me, like not bothering, but don't nag when I

841
00:49:02,040 --> 00:49:04,160
Speaker 4: want to go to sleep and just need to get

842
00:49:04,239 --> 00:49:06,360
Speaker 4: some proper rest, and like she's amazing with it.

843
00:49:06,480 --> 00:49:10,279
Speaker 2: What's your first name, Kayley? How long did it take

844
00:49:10,320 --> 00:49:13,640
Speaker 2: you to learn the two most important words that a

845
00:49:13,760 --> 00:49:14,719
Speaker 2: married man knows?

846
00:49:15,000 --> 00:49:17,040
Speaker 5: Yes, dear, I'm still learning.

847
00:49:17,200 --> 00:49:22,439
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, yes, dear, those are the two words. Those

848
00:49:22,480 --> 00:49:25,160
Speaker 2: are the two words. If you are, I don't know

849
00:49:25,200 --> 00:49:28,319
Speaker 2: how close you are getting married? Okay? How often does

850
00:49:28,360 --> 00:49:29,200
Speaker 2: he say yes dear?

851
00:49:29,480 --> 00:49:30,799
Speaker 5: Often he's actually back there?

852
00:49:30,840 --> 00:49:33,719
Speaker 2: Oh well he's here too, Holy cow, we go? Do

853
00:49:33,880 --> 00:49:34,640
Speaker 2: you say yes dear?

854
00:49:34,800 --> 00:49:35,399
Speaker 10: Regular name?

855
00:49:36,440 --> 00:49:40,160
Speaker 2: Okay? Those I'm not saying that'll do the whole thing.

856
00:49:40,560 --> 00:49:43,759
Speaker 2: Goodness knows. I don't know that, but I do know

857
00:49:43,920 --> 00:49:47,840
Speaker 2: without those two words, you're going to be back walking

858
00:49:47,880 --> 00:49:51,239
Speaker 2: to pt again. Yeah, which, by the way, I'll get

859
00:49:51,239 --> 00:49:55,480
Speaker 2: to your rainbow in one second. When you got to

860
00:49:55,600 --> 00:49:59,319
Speaker 2: torn acl and you're walking forty five minutes each way

861
00:49:59,400 --> 00:50:02,719
Speaker 2: to pt Did nobody in that clinic say, son, I

862
00:50:02,800 --> 00:50:05,080
Speaker 2: don't know if walking on that knee is the best

863
00:50:05,160 --> 00:50:06,799
Speaker 2: thing for you ninety minutes a day.

864
00:50:07,239 --> 00:50:10,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, they really just I was like, I was like, man,

865
00:50:10,600 --> 00:50:12,960
Speaker 4: you're very dedicated. And then we would go through a

866
00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:15,719
Speaker 4: whole workout and I'm like, all right, guys drenched and

867
00:50:15,760 --> 00:50:16,800
Speaker 4: swat all guys.

868
00:50:16,600 --> 00:50:17,359
Speaker 5: Gotta walk back.

869
00:50:17,920 --> 00:50:23,319
Speaker 4: And you know, they are great people, honestly, Like when

870
00:50:23,360 --> 00:50:25,759
Speaker 4: I when I walked, I felt like it was getting better,

871
00:50:26,160 --> 00:50:29,520
Speaker 4: you know, maybe, yeah, because I got back. I'll tell you,

872
00:50:29,600 --> 00:50:32,480
Speaker 4: I remember the second was yestay. At least I toured well.

873
00:50:32,520 --> 00:50:38,600
Speaker 4: I had surgery August twenty second, and then I got cleared. No,

874
00:50:38,840 --> 00:50:41,719
Speaker 4: I had surgery March twenty first, and then I got

875
00:50:41,800 --> 00:50:44,279
Speaker 4: clear August tenth and.

876
00:50:44,640 --> 00:50:49,239
Speaker 5: Was able to Yeah five months. Yeah, it was yeah,

877
00:50:49,320 --> 00:50:49,879
Speaker 5: five months.

878
00:50:49,920 --> 00:50:51,960
Speaker 4: And I was able to play our first game at

879
00:50:52,000 --> 00:50:56,560
Speaker 4: IOWA Western September eighth, which whatever the march.

880
00:50:57,200 --> 00:51:01,640
Speaker 2: You had aco surgery in March and played football in September.

881
00:51:01,800 --> 00:51:04,759
Speaker 4: Yes, And like every single day I felt like because

882
00:51:04,800 --> 00:51:07,120
Speaker 4: I was you know, I was taking care of it,

883
00:51:07,200 --> 00:51:09,640
Speaker 4: but I was walking like, you know, when I was

884
00:51:09,719 --> 00:51:12,320
Speaker 4: able to walk, I was strengthening it, and you know

885
00:51:12,480 --> 00:51:14,759
Speaker 4: it was hungry, like when I say I was hungry.

886
00:51:14,520 --> 00:51:15,040
Speaker 5: I was hungry.

887
00:51:15,440 --> 00:51:17,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, I hear you. Okay, let's get a couple of

888
00:51:17,760 --> 00:51:19,960
Speaker 2: questions while we have a time from our audience.

889
00:51:20,800 --> 00:51:22,640
Speaker 5: Good evening. My name is Rambo.

890
00:51:23,120 --> 00:51:28,760
Speaker 6: That sounds like you're a very spiritual, positive, committed player.

891
00:51:29,520 --> 00:51:31,920
Speaker 6: Do you plan or have you had any youth camps

892
00:51:32,400 --> 00:51:36,480
Speaker 6: to pass down that knowledge? Considering North Texas does produce

893
00:51:36,640 --> 00:51:38,160
Speaker 6: some great football players.

894
00:51:38,680 --> 00:51:41,160
Speaker 5: I will, I will honestly.

895
00:51:42,239 --> 00:51:44,520
Speaker 4: Love to do a youth camp like I would love to,

896
00:51:44,760 --> 00:51:48,200
Speaker 4: you know, spread the word to you know, the youth,

897
00:51:48,280 --> 00:51:50,000
Speaker 4: because I felt I didn't have that when I was

898
00:51:50,040 --> 00:51:53,200
Speaker 4: growing up, and I would love to and we could

899
00:51:53,239 --> 00:51:54,160
Speaker 4: talk about it honestly.

900
00:51:54,320 --> 00:51:56,320
Speaker 2: After this, give him a minute, let him start a

901
00:51:56,640 --> 00:51:59,520
Speaker 2: second game in a row, and then we'll start the camp.

902
00:52:00,400 --> 00:52:03,280
Speaker 2: Are you doing, Ryan Larry from McKinney. This is gonna

903
00:52:03,280 --> 00:52:05,759
Speaker 2: be more of a re quest than a question. Went

904
00:52:05,800 --> 00:52:09,239
Speaker 2: back in April, you had a singing competition with Maurice.

905
00:52:10,480 --> 00:52:10,680
Speaker 7: Be It.

906
00:52:10,800 --> 00:52:13,080
Speaker 2: So my birthday is this Thursday, and I hope you

907
00:52:13,120 --> 00:52:14,799
Speaker 2: could perform just like you did.

908
00:52:15,080 --> 00:52:17,239
Speaker 4: You let me sing you heavy birthday, yes, sir, wait,

909
00:52:17,320 --> 00:52:21,440
Speaker 4: do you you? I don't think marathons, No, we.

910
00:52:21,520 --> 00:52:23,719
Speaker 2: Know Marris Yeah yeah, And me and him had.

911
00:52:23,680 --> 00:52:24,520
Speaker 5: A little competition.

912
00:52:25,160 --> 00:52:27,560
Speaker 4: I sung happy birthday just as a little joke, and

913
00:52:27,640 --> 00:52:29,160
Speaker 4: he sung his heart out.

914
00:52:29,160 --> 00:52:31,760
Speaker 5: I don't know what song, Tennessee whiskey, that's.

915
00:52:32,040 --> 00:52:36,160
Speaker 4: So yeah, but I think you Happy birthday, brouh, Happy

916
00:52:36,280 --> 00:52:42,800
Speaker 4: birth hey to who you, Happy birthday to you, Happy

917
00:52:42,920 --> 00:52:49,920
Speaker 4: birthday Larry, Happy birthday Arry Floyd.

918
00:52:50,120 --> 00:52:52,960
Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, thank you, yes, sir, Hey Ryan.

919
00:52:53,520 --> 00:52:56,440
Speaker 10: So, my son is a huge Cowboys fan, and he

920
00:52:56,640 --> 00:52:58,719
Speaker 10: found out that you wrestled, and so he wants me

921
00:52:58,800 --> 00:53:00,520
Speaker 10: to ask you. He was, he was, I put three

922
00:53:00,520 --> 00:53:02,440
Speaker 10: one hundred and three pounds in his freshman year in

923
00:53:02,480 --> 00:53:04,319
Speaker 10: high school, and he wants to know what was your

924
00:53:04,360 --> 00:53:05,120
Speaker 10: favorite takedown?

925
00:53:06,120 --> 00:53:07,560
Speaker 5: So I forgot what was called.

926
00:53:07,640 --> 00:53:10,520
Speaker 4: But I like to push the little elbow up and

927
00:53:10,600 --> 00:53:12,920
Speaker 4: then get him like this and then roll them and

928
00:53:13,000 --> 00:53:14,040
Speaker 4: then just go to the ground.

929
00:53:14,080 --> 00:53:15,239
Speaker 5: I was. I was pretty good at that.

930
00:53:15,320 --> 00:53:16,879
Speaker 2: It's quick arrest.

931
00:53:16,920 --> 00:53:19,320
Speaker 10: The wrestler's pound for pounds. Some tough, tough people. So

932
00:53:19,680 --> 00:53:21,439
Speaker 10: that surprised me that you're a tough futball player.

933
00:53:21,520 --> 00:53:24,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, so we only had a couple of minutes left.

934
00:53:24,920 --> 00:53:28,880
Speaker 2: We were talking when we sat down before we went

935
00:53:28,960 --> 00:53:31,880
Speaker 2: on the air about technique, things that I think for

936
00:53:31,960 --> 00:53:35,480
Speaker 2: a second year player with no more playing experience than

937
00:53:35,560 --> 00:53:40,400
Speaker 2: Ryan has, he's almost advanced in some of the technical aspects.

938
00:53:40,400 --> 00:53:42,520
Speaker 2: And one of the things I noticed just from watching

939
00:53:42,600 --> 00:53:46,719
Speaker 2: tape of yesterday is your your the use of your

940
00:53:46,880 --> 00:53:50,799
Speaker 2: hands in getting rid of a defender or keeping him

941
00:53:51,160 --> 00:53:53,440
Speaker 2: at least giving you a path to the ball without

942
00:53:53,480 --> 00:53:55,719
Speaker 2: committing a penalty. How do you learn that?

943
00:53:56,320 --> 00:53:56,560
Speaker 5: Really?

944
00:53:57,200 --> 00:53:59,880
Speaker 4: Growing up, I did a lot of sports, like so wrestling.

945
00:54:00,040 --> 00:54:03,160
Speaker 4: You know, it's a lot of hand fights, so you know,

946
00:54:03,440 --> 00:54:08,080
Speaker 4: bringing that to the field. Played baseball was everywhere. I

947
00:54:08,239 --> 00:54:10,600
Speaker 4: was back catcher, I was a pitcher, I was outfield,

948
00:54:10,640 --> 00:54:13,960
Speaker 4: I was shortstopped. So but like that helped me with

949
00:54:14,080 --> 00:54:18,640
Speaker 4: you know, quickness and movement. And I caddied when I

950
00:54:18,800 --> 00:54:21,640
Speaker 4: was younger, freshman year. Me and my cousin Matthew, we

951
00:54:22,239 --> 00:54:27,239
Speaker 4: we caddied at a at a country club, and you know,

952
00:54:27,440 --> 00:54:30,160
Speaker 4: I had to watch the ball. I took pride in

953
00:54:30,239 --> 00:54:32,719
Speaker 4: never losing the ball, and you know I watched the

954
00:54:32,800 --> 00:54:35,040
Speaker 4: ball like your balls over there. Oh man, you're good

955
00:54:35,120 --> 00:54:35,320
Speaker 4: at this.

956
00:54:35,680 --> 00:54:38,160
Speaker 2: So if you can track a golf ball and you

957
00:54:38,200 --> 00:54:39,719
Speaker 2: can catch watching.

958
00:54:39,520 --> 00:54:43,720
Speaker 4: Football, right sir, But like you know, those little skills

959
00:54:44,440 --> 00:54:47,680
Speaker 4: helped me out. You know, I did track, I played volleyball.

960
00:54:48,360 --> 00:54:53,080
Speaker 4: I just you know, I always did the sports like basketball, baseball,

961
00:54:53,200 --> 00:54:53,600
Speaker 4: all of it.

962
00:54:53,800 --> 00:54:55,880
Speaker 2: Were you as good as any of them? As football?

963
00:54:55,920 --> 00:54:58,080
Speaker 2: Or did football have your heart right from the beginning?

964
00:54:58,160 --> 00:55:00,880
Speaker 4: Football always had my heart. But I was talented, you know.

965
00:55:01,000 --> 00:55:04,680
Speaker 4: I was always athletic, athletic enough to get.

966
00:55:04,600 --> 00:55:05,239
Speaker 5: The job done.

967
00:55:06,040 --> 00:55:07,600
Speaker 3: What you say I was talented?

968
00:55:07,719 --> 00:55:10,799
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no, absolutely, But no do you when you.

969
00:55:10,960 --> 00:55:13,720
Speaker 3: Talk about when you were caddie, when you were younger,

970
00:55:14,120 --> 00:55:16,640
Speaker 3: how do you keep working on the ball tracking skills?

971
00:55:16,640 --> 00:55:18,719
Speaker 5: Are there any drills that you specifically.

972
00:55:18,239 --> 00:55:18,680
Speaker 3: Still work on?

973
00:55:18,800 --> 00:55:24,000
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, so after every practice, me and the equipment manager, Blake,

974
00:55:24,200 --> 00:55:28,480
Speaker 4: we go over the shoulders every practice, you know, ten

975
00:55:28,560 --> 00:55:30,600
Speaker 4: on this way, ten on this way, just to help

976
00:55:30,760 --> 00:55:34,440
Speaker 4: you know, with you know, my eyes, my hands and

977
00:55:34,760 --> 00:55:35,360
Speaker 4: just everything.

978
00:55:35,520 --> 00:55:38,600
Speaker 5: So I thank you, Blake man, if you listen to this,

979
00:55:38,760 --> 00:55:39,040
Speaker 5: thank you.

980
00:55:40,920 --> 00:55:44,080
Speaker 2: I'm completely serious when I say this. We've been doing

981
00:55:44,120 --> 00:55:47,320
Speaker 2: this show for a very long time, and I always

982
00:55:47,600 --> 00:55:49,960
Speaker 2: the thing that I like about it is the opportunity

983
00:55:50,160 --> 00:55:54,920
Speaker 2: to give Cowboy fans a chance to know the players

984
00:55:55,040 --> 00:55:59,120
Speaker 2: as human beings, not just numbers on a shirt with

985
00:55:59,239 --> 00:56:04,000
Speaker 2: a cage on your head. But this young man right here.

986
00:56:04,480 --> 00:56:07,279
Speaker 2: This is why we do this. This is exactly why

987
00:56:07,320 --> 00:56:11,120
Speaker 2: we do this show because you need to know who

988
00:56:11,400 --> 00:56:16,360
Speaker 2: Ryan FLINOI is. And now, by golly, the whole dadgum

989
00:56:16,480 --> 00:56:19,239
Speaker 2: nfl has is starting to figure out who you are.

990
00:56:19,400 --> 00:56:21,360
Speaker 2: It's going to be so much fun to watch you

991
00:56:22,120 --> 00:56:25,279
Speaker 2: blend in with everybody else and and see how they

992
00:56:25,360 --> 00:56:27,239
Speaker 2: how these coaches figure out how to make their money

993
00:56:27,280 --> 00:56:30,360
Speaker 2: and work and keep you in keep going. Congratulations, I

994
00:56:30,440 --> 00:56:34,040
Speaker 2: really appreciate you being here, Ryan Flinoy, everybody and Nicole

995
00:56:34,120 --> 00:56:36,000
Speaker 2: and I will be right back here in these very

996
00:56:36,080 --> 00:56:39,759
Speaker 2: same chairs next Monday night at the Center for our

997
00:56:39,840 --> 00:56:44,160
Speaker 2: next victory Monday on the next Cowboys autum