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Speaker 3: Welcome everybody. Welcome, Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukah, Happy Victory Monday.

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Speaker 3: What brow Look at this? What a great We have

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Speaker 3: It could be because it's Victory Monday.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I like the energy.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Or it could be because our special guest tonight

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Speaker 3: is Cowboys offensive lineman brock Hoffman. Maybe that's the reason.

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Speaker 3: I think, hold on man. Maybe it's because our guest

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Speaker 3: tonight is brock Hoffman. Was that was week the second time? Brockhaffman,

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Speaker 3: Cowboys dot Com. Hi, how you doing? Thanks for joining us?

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Speaker 3: So uh did we mention it's Victory Monday. The Victory

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Speaker 3: Monday Club is here. It's easy to get used to

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Speaker 3: these things again. And uh and brock Hoffman is just

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Speaker 3: like the people's choice right now. I feel like you

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Speaker 3: people who don't know your story, we wanted to have

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Speaker 3: you out here so that they can get to know

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Speaker 3: who Brock Kaufman is more than just a name and

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Speaker 3: a number, right because it's a great story. And I

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Speaker 3: have a feeling we haven't heard the last year so

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Speaker 3: and you've worked hard hard to put yourself in that position.

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Speaker 3: But let's pull a lens back a little and start

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Speaker 3: with a wider view. Why is the offense seemingly functioning

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Speaker 3: so much more smoothly than it did the first three

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Speaker 6: Weeks of the year.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I feel like when you go through that that

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Speaker 7: tough stretch in that middle road of the season, right

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Speaker 7: where we lost all those games in a row and

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Speaker 7: then we had some injuries go down, And when I

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Speaker 7: in the season, like we really have nothing to lose.

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Speaker 7: You know, obviously weren't eliminated from the playoffs at that time,

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Speaker 7: but you know, our record wasn't good.

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Speaker 6: We were kind of struggling. I was like, guys, like, let's.

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Speaker 7: Just be free, play, free play fast, Like we have

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Speaker 7: nothing to lose, Like if you make a mistake, who cares.

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Speaker 7: I mean, we've already lost so many games at this point.

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Speaker 7: It's like, you know, let's just move on and play

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Speaker 7: enjoy every moment. And I feel like as a unit

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Speaker 7: and I feel like that's kind of seeped over into

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Speaker 3: You know, you're young, young as a group in the line,

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Speaker 3: And the way coaches make it sound is that this

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Speaker 3: is just especially for Cooper Bebee and Tyler Geiton, this

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Speaker 3: same thing was going on this year, So I'm wondering,

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Speaker 3: I'm wondering what's why that is? And then how long

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I feel like, you know, obviously, at the end

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Speaker 7: It is a lot of growing pains in that in

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Speaker 7: are monsters, right, and you see all these different fronts

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Speaker 7: like it just took some time for us to jell

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Speaker 7: I felt like the offensive line was definitely taking steps

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Speaker 8: When you have guys going down, Zach Martin out and

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Speaker 8: having to play different positions on the offensive line, it

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Speaker 5: What's the biggest challenge in having to overcome that?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I think when you got guys moving around different places. Honestly,

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Speaker 7: how guys see different things. You know, people may think

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Speaker 6: It's a different.

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Speaker 3: I'm glad you brought that up, because it was not surprising.

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Speaker 3: First of all, if I didn't know better, I would

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Speaker 3: think Mike McCarthy's your uncle, the way he rages about

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Speaker 3: your attitude. But so you you've been playing right guard.

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Speaker 3: Now Cooper gets a concussion, you slide over. It's a

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Speaker 3: that's fine, and I'll just move back over here. What

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Speaker 3: was the challenge in that for you?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, just like I said, you know, really

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Speaker 7: you know, taking a set at right guard as compared

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Speaker 6: So it's just.

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Speaker 7: Little things like that that are definitely challenges throughout the week.

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Speaker 7: But you know, I've always once I wasn't going to

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Speaker 7: you know, I started working left guard right guard, and

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Speaker 5: Do you prefer to play center or guard?

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Speaker 6: I don't really have a preference.

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Speaker 7: I was definitely getting comfortable at guard though during that

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Speaker 6: I felt like we were rolling as an offensive line.

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Speaker 5: And also obviously makes you more valuable too.

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Speaker 8: When you play more positions, you're able to give more point.

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Speaker 3: You know. I actually asked Mike on his pregame show yesterday,

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Speaker 7: So now, we haven't really talked about it too much

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Speaker 3: I'm glad you touched on that because a lot of

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Speaker 3: there's I don't know, are you online much? Do you

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Speaker 6: Here? A little bit? Not too much?

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Speaker 3: In the season, Okay, there's been a lot of what

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Speaker 7: Not really, Honestly, I feel like the culture in our

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Speaker 7: That really comes from you know, Mike McCarthy and our

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Speaker 3: Welcome back to Brad Sham, Nicole Hutchinson with our very

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Speaker 3: that show. So North Carolina boy went to Coastal Carolina

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Speaker 6: No, I was eighteen when she first got.

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Speaker 3: I don't know how mature a teenager you were, but

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Speaker 7: Yeah, definitely, Uh, definitely makes you never take anything for

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Speaker 6: Because you never know, once someone could leave us.

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Speaker 3: You know this planet, and at that young age, did

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Speaker 6: One hundred percent.

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Speaker 7: I always remembered when my mom was going through all

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Speaker 5: Something that I've learned about you is obviously family is

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Speaker 8: How did you manage that time? I mean, obviously it's

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Speaker 3: and by your own admission, you don't mind mixing it.

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Speaker 3: You'll you'll you'll have a little conversation with a guy

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Speaker 6: Sorry, you're how old I was in fourth grade?

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Speaker 7: Okay, I'll never forget my mom my mom looked at me.

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Speaker 7: I was like, the only reason you're on Thesters because

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Speaker 7: And she called me, call me soft basically is what

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Speaker 7: From then, I told myself I was never, never going

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Speaker 6: One hundred percent? She's been around the game.

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Speaker 7: She's damn never been around the game longer than I have,

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Speaker 7: She was right at the time. I was definitely soft,

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Speaker 3: So you you made sure that no one, let alone

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Speaker 6: Yep, go ahead.

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Speaker 5: What does she say now?

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Speaker 6: She tells me to tone it back a little bit,

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Speaker 6: That's what she tells me.

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Speaker 3: I love that. So was there a time that you

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Speaker 7: Have they No, I don't think I've ever been called dirty.

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Speaker 7: I've definitely pushed that line for sure, But yeah, maybe

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Speaker 7: A couple of them were like late hits on the

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Speaker 3: something that would be interesting for you to know. Brock

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Speaker 6: Did you?

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Speaker 3: Was there stuff that you had to learn to be

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Speaker 7: No, I definitely feel like when I got to Coastal,

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Speaker 7: and my upbringing, just being around football my whole life,

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Speaker 7: and like I said, with him being a coach, just

443
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Speaker 7: learning a different ins and outs of the game as

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Speaker 7: a second third fourth grader, you know that young, just

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Speaker 7: being around it, you really developed like a high level

446
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Speaker 7: football IQ, even without kind of realizing that because you're

447
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Speaker 7: just involved.

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Speaker 6: In the game so much.

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Speaker 7: So I would definitely say my dad played a big

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Speaker 7: role on that, and definitely my my coach at Coastal.

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Speaker 8: The technique's obviously different, so how do you how long

452
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Speaker 8: did it take you to adjust to playing difference the center.

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Speaker 6: And guard at Coastal when I first got there.

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Speaker 7: So yeah, when we when I got there, we were

455
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Speaker 7: running the triple option, so I had never gone out

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Speaker 7: of the gun, so you know, yeah, I had never

457
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Speaker 7: really run that before, so it was really just lean

458
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Speaker 7: lean in your stands, run off the ball, and you're

459
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Speaker 7: cutting second level defenders and different things like that.

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Speaker 6: So it was definitely a.

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Speaker 7: Little bit of an adjustment because you know, in high

462
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Speaker 7: school you're running spread and different things like that. But

463
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Speaker 7: you know, you get the college, you're running the triple option.

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Speaker 7: It's a different game for sure.

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Speaker 3: All Right, well, now we've got you, We've got you

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Speaker 3: from Coastal to Virginia Tech, and now it's time to

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Speaker 3: get brock Hoffman through the beginning, just the beginning of

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Speaker 3: his NFL journey. And we will do that when we

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Speaker 3: come back. We are at Sidecar Social at the Star

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Speaker 3: District in Frisco, Brad Sham and Nicole Hutchinson and brock Hoffman,

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Speaker 3: and we'll be back right after.

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Speaker 2: This No Cowboys to the Miller Lite Cowboys AU supported

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Speaker 2: by Albertson and broadcasting live from Sidecars Social at the

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Speaker 2: Star in Frasco.

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Speaker 3: Welcome back to the Cowboys Hours Victory Monday. It's Christmas

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Speaker 3: Victory Monday. Everybody into the eggnog already. Brad Sham and

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Speaker 3: Nicole Hutchinson and our special guest Cowboys offensive lineman brock Hoffman.

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Speaker 3: I hope everybody has heard that the time of the

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Speaker 3: Cowboys game Sunday has changed. Was going to be a

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Speaker 3: three thirty Central, three twenty five Central in Philadelphia. Now

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Speaker 3: it's going to be a noon game and TV reasons.

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Speaker 3: And that's great because we get back three hours. Oh yeah, yeah, everybody.

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Speaker 3: Everybody's happy about being back from Philly three hours earlier.

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Speaker 3: So we've gotten brock Hoffman through high school and college,

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Speaker 3: and I'm guessing that with that football background, playing pro

486
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Speaker 3: football was something that had been on your mind for

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Speaker 3: quite a.

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Speaker 6: While, for sure, since age as as early as I

489
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Speaker 6: started playing.

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Speaker 3: Honestly, Okay, do watch the NFL when you grew up?

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Speaker 6: Yeah? I did.

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Speaker 3: Washington fan, No, I was not.

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Speaker 7: Actually, my dad is a huge or was a huge

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Speaker 7: Chiefs fan, all right, and I wanted to root against

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Speaker 7: somebody against him basically, you know, just have a little

496
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Speaker 7: father son rivalry. So I just like the way like

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Speaker 7: ray Lewis played the game. So I was a Baltimore fan.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, very good. Sorry. So now you're you're

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Speaker 3: done at Virginia Tech and you're not drafted. Did you

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Speaker 3: expect to be drafted?

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Speaker 6: Yeah? I mean I definitely did.

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Speaker 7: I definitely thought I could could have got drafted in

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Speaker 7: those later rounds.

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Speaker 3: For sure, I would have agents to an agent telling you, yeah,

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Speaker 3: you're gonna go in the fifth round.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, my agent felt, you know, pretty confident

507
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Speaker 7: I was gonna be at least a Day three pick,

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Speaker 7: you know, probably in that later round, like sixth, seventh round.

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Speaker 7: But we had had a we had talked about and

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Speaker 7: we had a plan that, you know, if I was

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Speaker 7: gonna go undrafted, you know, where where options could be

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Speaker 7: in different things like.

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Speaker 3: That when you get to the seventh round, you'd almost

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Speaker 3: rather be undrafted when because now it's.

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Speaker 6: Up to you.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, and you got to get to choose where where

517
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Speaker 7: you want to go and definitely put you in a

518
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Speaker 7: better situation.

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Speaker 3: How many people were sniffing around after you?

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Speaker 7: I would say about I mean Dallas was definitely one

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Speaker 7: of them too, where that's crazy. Yeah, I would say

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Speaker 7: about six different teams Miami, Cleveland, Dallas, Baltimore. I can't

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Speaker 7: remember the other two, but there was a couple that

524
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Speaker 7: were calling me. Dallas definitely called me twice on draft day.

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Speaker 7: But you know, I was kind of at that point,

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Speaker 7: I was pretty sentence stone on going to Cleveland and

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Speaker 7: why my agent had trusted you know, if I could

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Speaker 7: go there, I could definitely get developed as a as

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Speaker 7: a pro lineman. Plan for you know, Bill Callahan, who's

530
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Speaker 7: a legend o line coach here, you know, So.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I know.

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Speaker 7: I think he just trusted that, you know, he had

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Speaker 7: a good relationship with him, and that he could develop

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Speaker 7: me as a as a pro lineman.

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Speaker 3: So you're with them as a rookie free agent through camp,

536
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Speaker 3: cut signed to the practice squad. That did you. It's

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Speaker 3: amazing to me how players absorb that transition. Some guys

538
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Speaker 3: when they get cut, that's like, crap, I'm done. I've

539
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Speaker 3: been cut. I don't play anymore. But a lot of

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Speaker 3: them understanding you signing the practice squad and that you're

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Speaker 3: abb Did you where were you?

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Speaker 6: Yeah? No, I remember on.

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Speaker 7: Right after the Bears game, He's like, I don't you know,

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Speaker 7: I don't know what's gonna happen, but more than likely

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Speaker 7: you will probably end up back here on our practice squad, if.

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Speaker 6: Not the active So.

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Speaker 7: Once I, once I got cut and then they signed

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Speaker 7: me back to peace squad, it was still just about

549
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Speaker 7: coming to work every day and just seeing what I

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Speaker 7: could do to get better. And you know Cleveland at

551
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Speaker 7: the time, I had a pretty good d line. So

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Speaker 7: it's just you know, good competition and good good room

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Speaker 7: for me to grow. You know, I wasn't I wasn't playing,

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Speaker 7: and I was just practicing. So I was going out

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Speaker 7: there every day and taking practice, dis entreating it like

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Speaker 7: game days and really just trying to improve my game overall.

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Speaker 3: And by the way, just so people know, it's not

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Speaker 3: what you want, what everybody what every player wants us

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Speaker 3: to play. It's not a terrible job, No, it's not.

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Speaker 3: I mean a fairly well paying job.

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Speaker 7: Nah, I mean definitely, I mean being an undrafted guy

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Speaker 7: and you know, getting cut, being on peace squad, it's

563
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Speaker 7: still more money than I made. You know, some of

564
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Speaker 7: these guys making now in college. You know, like these

565
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Speaker 7: guys in college are rolling in.

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Speaker 6: Some big bucks.

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Speaker 7: So maybe they think it's a downgrade, but no, back then,

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Speaker 7: definitely was still a nice life.

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Speaker 6: For sure.

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Speaker 3: You like a lot of us, you came along a

571
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Speaker 3: little too early, but that's alright, all right. So now

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Speaker 3: so then then you're released from Cleveland, And how did

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Speaker 3: it come about that you you finally came to Dallas.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, so I got released from Cleveland, went home that day.

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Speaker 7: Was definitely definitely upset. You know, it was middle of

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Speaker 7: the season. Didn't really know it was gonna happen.

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Speaker 3: Twenty three Yeah, middle of season twenty three two.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, so middle of the season twenty two. Uh, spent

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Speaker 7: a day in Cleveland. I just packed my stuff up

580
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Speaker 7: and I just drove home. And I was home for

581
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Speaker 7: like four days and agent called me. It was like,

582
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Speaker 7: Dallas supposed to play in for a workout in two days.

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Speaker 7: So you know, I know, I know, you're still in

584
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Speaker 7: shape and whatever because you've been you've been on a team.

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Speaker 7: But it was like, just go out there and do

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Speaker 7: what you do and try to impress them. So that's

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Speaker 7: pretty much how it worked out. It was a really

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Speaker 7: quick turnaround. I was definitely very thankful. I wasn't at

589
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Speaker 7: you know, home on the street for too long.

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Speaker 3: And they so they didn't let you go. I mean,

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Speaker 3: you cowboys, you got here, you worked out, and they shaid, okay,

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Speaker 3: stay yep.

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Speaker 6: Yeah. I signed signed a peace squad that day. And

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Speaker 6: they had.

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Speaker 7: Told me, like the day I signed, I remember they

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Speaker 7: had told me to, uh, you know, pick up the

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Speaker 7: playbook as fast as you can because you'll probably be

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Speaker 7: elevated here in the.

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Speaker 6: Next couple of weeks so and which stood true.

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Speaker 7: I was elevated for three games, and then it wasn't

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Speaker 7: for that last game of Washington, and then I got

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Speaker 7: elevated for that San fran playoff game.

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Speaker 5: What was your first thoughts when you got picked up

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Speaker 5: for the Cowboys?

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Speaker 7: Man, I'm on America's team. You know, it's kind of

606
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Speaker 7: it's kind of crazy, for sure, but I was. I

607
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Speaker 7: was honestly just like super thankful after you know, going

608
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Speaker 7: through what I went through in Cleveland and being cut midseason,

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Speaker 7: I was just thankful I.

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Speaker 6: Was on a team and and with an.

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Speaker 7: Organization, have an opportunity to grow and in my role

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Speaker 7: for sure.

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Speaker 3: Did did the Browns ever elevate you?

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Speaker 6: No?

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Speaker 3: So this you came here and they showed you they

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Speaker 3: were serious about having you here by getting you into

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Speaker 3: a few games, right? And what did that do for

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Speaker 3: your confidence and your sense?

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Speaker 6: So?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I do I do belong here. I can play here.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: I always remembered my agent and telling me, you know,

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Speaker 7: not every team's gonna love you, but you just need

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Speaker 7: one team to love you.

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Speaker 6: And I've definitely been super thankful and blessed that. You

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Speaker 6: know that that that.

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Speaker 7: Jerry Jones and the Dallas Cowboys obviously have given me

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Speaker 7: a home here, and definitely when I got elevated, those

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Speaker 7: at the back half of that that rookie year just

630
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Speaker 7: definitely built confidence.

631
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Speaker 6: In me and let me know that, you know, I

632
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Speaker 6: can't I can't play ball at this look, at this level.

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Speaker 7: And you know, obviously I wasn't starting or anything, but

634
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Speaker 7: I knew that if guys went down that the team trusted.

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Speaker 6: To put me in.

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Speaker 8: It also helps too when you have guys like Zach

637
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Speaker 8: Martin who believe in you. I remember you telling me

638
00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:23,480
Speaker 8: that he's been a huge help in as far as

639
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Speaker 8: keeping you locked in focused.

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Speaker 5: Dak Prescott's spoken very highly.

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Speaker 7: Of you as well.

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Speaker 5: So what does that do for your confidence? When you

643
00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:30,799
Speaker 5: have guys like that that believe in you?

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Speaker 6: Yeah? No, it means the world.

645
00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:34,640
Speaker 7: When you got guys that are you know, looked at

646
00:37:34,640 --> 00:37:36,719
Speaker 7: as superstars and guys that are you know, gonna be

647
00:37:36,719 --> 00:37:38,640
Speaker 7: Hall of Famers one day, that believe in you, I

648
00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:41,719
Speaker 7: mean you should have unlimited confidence after that, you know.

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Speaker 3: And and am I remembering this right? Tyler Biadas got hurt.

650
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Speaker 3: You played center for a game uh twenty three?

651
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I started Week three versus Arizona at center.

652
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Speaker 3: And then you and then later in the year you

653
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Speaker 3: played did Zack go out?

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Speaker 6: Have you played right now? Yeah?

655
00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:05,880
Speaker 7: So Washington the week eighteen, Washington Week was crazy because

656
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Speaker 7: Beyondage was sick all week.

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Speaker 3: That's what it was. That's what I'm thinking.

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Speaker 7: So I was thinking I was going to start at

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Speaker 7: center again, and then Beyondage was fine. But then Zach

660
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Speaker 7: like an hour before the game, like had a big

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Speaker 7: like flu attack.

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Speaker 3: I remember, that's right, That's why I remember that now.

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Speaker 6: So he couldn't play. So then I started at right

664
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Speaker 6: guard in that game.

665
00:38:25,080 --> 00:38:29,919
Speaker 3: So prepare for center, prepare for center, play right guard. Yeah,

666
00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:33,040
Speaker 3: And I remember the reason that that that I brought

667
00:38:33,080 --> 00:38:36,759
Speaker 3: it up is I remember Beyondish could not shut up

668
00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:39,080
Speaker 3: about how well you played. You were tight. You and

669
00:38:39,120 --> 00:38:39,759
Speaker 3: Tyler are tight.

670
00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:40,680
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, we're tight.

671
00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:44,920
Speaker 3: So uh, he would not shut up about how well

672
00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:49,840
Speaker 3: you played in that opportunity. So now people are starting

673
00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:53,160
Speaker 3: to kind of pay attention a little bit. Kay, I

674
00:38:53,160 --> 00:38:56,440
Speaker 3: think we've got enough time for this. Uh introduces to

675
00:38:56,560 --> 00:38:57,320
Speaker 3: Duke Manyweather.

676
00:38:58,360 --> 00:38:58,600
Speaker 6: Yeah.

677
00:38:58,719 --> 00:39:03,000
Speaker 7: No, I think Duke has definitely helped helped me out

678
00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:05,440
Speaker 7: a lot this offseason in terms of training and just

679
00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:07,080
Speaker 7: you know, different skill sets that you got.

680
00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:08,759
Speaker 3: To if you're second. For those of you who don't know,

681
00:39:08,840 --> 00:39:15,399
Speaker 3: Duke Manyweather is an independent offensive line coach. He really

682
00:39:15,480 --> 00:39:19,520
Speaker 3: is very well thought of around the whole industry. Some

683
00:39:19,560 --> 00:39:25,000
Speaker 3: people would call him a guru, and so he and

684
00:39:25,160 --> 00:39:27,279
Speaker 3: teams don't mind you working with it, right.

685
00:39:27,920 --> 00:39:30,880
Speaker 7: No, I mean, there's about this offseason there was probably

686
00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:33,040
Speaker 7: fifty oh linemen from around the league that worked out

687
00:39:33,080 --> 00:39:35,279
Speaker 7: with him. So it was different groups, Like in the

688
00:39:35,320 --> 00:39:38,600
Speaker 7: morning it was like six am was like centers, and

689
00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:41,279
Speaker 7: then guards and then tackles, different things like that. So

690
00:39:41,320 --> 00:39:44,520
Speaker 7: he definitely the nice thing about working with him is

691
00:39:44,560 --> 00:39:48,120
Speaker 7: he separates us in groups by position. But what he

692
00:39:48,200 --> 00:39:49,800
Speaker 7: did with us, because there was a bunch of Dallas

693
00:39:49,800 --> 00:39:53,640
Speaker 7: Cowboys O lineman working out with him, he's he's right

694
00:39:53,640 --> 00:39:56,399
Speaker 7: across the street, you know, I mean, so he kept

695
00:39:56,480 --> 00:39:58,600
Speaker 7: us in our own little group and we got to

696
00:39:58,719 --> 00:40:02,280
Speaker 7: spend really good, like quality time in terms of working

697
00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:05,160
Speaker 7: out and doing like the extra things that you can't

698
00:40:05,200 --> 00:40:07,440
Speaker 7: really do in the facility with you know, the rules

699
00:40:07,480 --> 00:40:08,640
Speaker 7: and whatnot with the CBA.

700
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Speaker 6: So no, I mean that time.

701
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Speaker 7: For us to develop was definitely huge because even though

702
00:40:15,360 --> 00:40:17,040
Speaker 7: we got through the season, we still i mean, think

703
00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:18,960
Speaker 7: about all the time we spent together and how long

704
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:21,960
Speaker 7: it takes to really gel as a unit. Things like

705
00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:24,120
Speaker 7: that really take time that people don't people don't really

706
00:40:24,200 --> 00:40:26,400
Speaker 7: understand unless you're alignment in the NFL.

707
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Speaker 3: And that's the reason I'm bringing it up is people

708
00:40:29,520 --> 00:40:31,400
Speaker 3: who followed what was going on in the off season

709
00:40:31,480 --> 00:40:34,640
Speaker 3: started to suddenly realize you were working your butt off

710
00:40:34,880 --> 00:40:36,759
Speaker 3: with Duke, and apparently you don't work with Duke if

711
00:40:36,800 --> 00:40:39,239
Speaker 3: you don't work your butt off, right, Yeah, And you

712
00:40:39,320 --> 00:40:43,719
Speaker 3: were working really hard to get better so that when

713
00:40:43,719 --> 00:40:45,840
Speaker 3: you came into twenty four you were going to be

714
00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:47,440
Speaker 3: a different player. You were going to be a much

715
00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:50,760
Speaker 3: more prepared player. And I just think that's an important

716
00:40:50,760 --> 00:40:53,439
Speaker 3: part of your story because it shows how much work

717
00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:59,160
Speaker 3: you were willing to do on your own to get better. Yeah,

718
00:40:59,200 --> 00:41:02,160
Speaker 3: and how he specifically make you better.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: No, I think after twenty three, you know, I got

721
00:41:05,960 --> 00:41:08,160
Speaker 7: those two starts, and I felt like I played pretty

722
00:41:08,160 --> 00:41:11,880
Speaker 7: well in those games, and that really like let me know, like,

723
00:41:12,600 --> 00:41:14,479
Speaker 7: all right, you've done it. You've played in this league.

724
00:41:14,680 --> 00:41:16,799
Speaker 7: You know you can do it. You got a whole

725
00:41:16,840 --> 00:41:19,359
Speaker 7: offseason to make yourself as good as you can, and

726
00:41:20,080 --> 00:41:22,000
Speaker 7: working with Duke, and then I worked with my guy

727
00:41:22,080 --> 00:41:24,200
Speaker 7: Adam Malick down in Carrollton.

728
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Speaker 6: He's my pet.

729
00:41:25,719 --> 00:41:28,799
Speaker 7: So I was doing like lifting and position work with Duke,

730
00:41:28,840 --> 00:41:31,320
Speaker 7: and I was doing physical therapy and like my sprint

731
00:41:31,320 --> 00:41:33,680
Speaker 7: work and mobility different things like that with Adams. So

732
00:41:34,320 --> 00:41:36,080
Speaker 7: it was really like kind of a two a day.

733
00:41:36,120 --> 00:41:39,040
Speaker 7: And then I was working with Georgia and Cohen boxing

734
00:41:39,080 --> 00:41:41,319
Speaker 7: on the extra on like those side work or.

735
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Speaker 6: You know, three days a week.

736
00:41:43,880 --> 00:41:45,680
Speaker 7: But yeah, no, I was doing I was doing a lot,

737
00:41:45,719 --> 00:41:49,480
Speaker 7: but Duke really helped me in terms of just building

738
00:41:49,520 --> 00:41:51,680
Speaker 7: that like consistent consistency in.

739
00:41:51,680 --> 00:41:55,680
Speaker 6: Terms of sets, fuck footwork and different things like that, to.

740
00:41:57,239 --> 00:42:00,759
Speaker 7: Really going to OTA's and not really miss a b

741
00:42:00,960 --> 00:42:01,640
Speaker 7: in terms of that.

742
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Speaker 3: All Right, we got to take our last break. I

743
00:42:05,239 --> 00:42:07,240
Speaker 3: just wanted you guys to have a little clear picture

744
00:42:07,280 --> 00:42:10,640
Speaker 3: of how hard brock Hoffman has worked to put himself

745
00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:13,440
Speaker 3: in the position to take advantage of the opportunity that

746
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Speaker 3: he's had this year. More to come, including some of

747
00:42:16,480 --> 00:42:20,600
Speaker 3: your questions. We're on the Cowboys Hour at Sidecar Social

748
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Speaker 3: the Star District in Frisco. And did you think I

749
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Speaker 3: forgot Nicole is sitting here's got She's got the sponsor

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Speaker 3: rate up on her laptop. I didn't and as she knows,

751
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Speaker 3: I haven't called for yet, so I just look over

752
00:42:33,440 --> 00:42:36,960
Speaker 3: and with her thumb, she just kind of motion to

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00:42:37,040 --> 00:42:40,399
Speaker 3: the screen like you thought. I forgot you like that?

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Speaker 10: Why?

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Speaker 3: Why did you have to do me? Who else is

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Speaker 3: bringing us this fine program?

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Speaker 3: I don't forget all that much stuff yet, give me

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00:43:04,120 --> 00:43:06,319
Speaker 3: a minute. We'll be back with Rock Hoffman in just.

764
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Speaker 1: A bum.

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Speaker 9: Cow Cowboys, No Cowboys, No Cowboys.

766
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Speaker 2: Tis for the Millert Cowboys Hour, supported by Albertson and

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Speaker 2: broadcasting live from Side Cars Social at the Star Infrasco.

768
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Speaker 3: Welcome back, Sidecar Social Cowboys Hour. Thanks for being here

769
00:46:22,640 --> 00:46:26,640
Speaker 3: on Victory Monday, Christmas Victory Monday, Nicole and I will

770
00:46:26,680 --> 00:46:30,400
Speaker 3: be back here next week on New Year's hopefully Victory Monday.

771
00:46:30,480 --> 00:46:32,440
Speaker 3: What do we have? Scott A Gold Nick two shows left,

772
00:46:32,840 --> 00:46:35,279
Speaker 3: this one and one more. Not a dry eye in

773
00:46:35,320 --> 00:46:39,880
Speaker 3: the house. Delighted to have brock Hoffman with us. And

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00:46:39,960 --> 00:46:42,080
Speaker 3: I don't know why I thought of this just during

775
00:46:42,080 --> 00:46:46,919
Speaker 3: the break about the that was a really physical game

776
00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:47,440
Speaker 3: last night.

777
00:46:47,920 --> 00:46:50,840
Speaker 6: Yeah, it was. It was. It was. It was physical.

778
00:46:50,880 --> 00:46:53,520
Speaker 6: It was ugly, but we got it done well.

779
00:46:53,680 --> 00:46:56,279
Speaker 3: The first half wasn't ugly. The second half. It doesn't

780
00:46:56,320 --> 00:46:58,600
Speaker 3: necessarily have a frame around it for the offense, but

781
00:46:58,640 --> 00:47:01,359
Speaker 3: that's all right. Did you how close were you? Did

782
00:47:01,400 --> 00:47:05,839
Speaker 3: you see the play where Turpin was ran the ball

783
00:47:05,920 --> 00:47:09,879
Speaker 3: and beat Avea picked him up and just threw him

784
00:47:09,920 --> 00:47:12,840
Speaker 3: down and Turp just bounced right back up in his face.

785
00:47:12,920 --> 00:47:14,000
Speaker 6: Did you see that? Yeah?

786
00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:17,000
Speaker 7: I did, I saw it. I saw it on on Twitter.

787
00:47:17,040 --> 00:47:19,480
Speaker 7: Abby has showing me as us walking in here actually

788
00:47:19,560 --> 00:47:20,960
Speaker 7: so uh yeah.

789
00:47:21,360 --> 00:47:23,960
Speaker 6: I mean Turp's small, but I mean he'll take the hits,

790
00:47:23,960 --> 00:47:26,560
Speaker 6: He'll pop right back up. He's a dog for sure.

791
00:47:27,200 --> 00:47:28,440
Speaker 3: Is not small, not at all.

792
00:47:28,480 --> 00:47:30,640
Speaker 7: I mean whatever he's listed at you can go ahead

793
00:47:30,640 --> 00:47:32,400
Speaker 7: and probably add another forty to it.

794
00:47:32,600 --> 00:47:35,240
Speaker 6: So he's pushing four bills for sure.

795
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Speaker 3: I mean is he is he as good as he

796
00:47:39,400 --> 00:47:39,759
Speaker 3: is big?

797
00:47:40,480 --> 00:47:43,040
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean he's good I mean, for a guy

798
00:47:43,120 --> 00:47:46,960
Speaker 7: that that is, that is that size and they're dropping

799
00:47:47,040 --> 00:47:49,759
Speaker 7: him into coverage on third down, I mean like, I mean,

800
00:47:49,800 --> 00:47:53,480
Speaker 7: he's a freak athletically, right, So it's he's definitely definitely

801
00:47:53,520 --> 00:47:53,880
Speaker 7: a good.

802
00:47:53,719 --> 00:47:54,600
Speaker 6: Player for sure.

803
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Speaker 5: How impressed were you with that play?

804
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Speaker 8: I think it was the second half where he did

805
00:47:58,880 --> 00:48:01,240
Speaker 8: they did drop him in a coup bridge. How impressed

806
00:48:01,239 --> 00:48:02,879
Speaker 8: were you with just the movement and his.

807
00:48:02,880 --> 00:48:03,960
Speaker 5: Ability to move like that?

808
00:48:04,160 --> 00:48:05,600
Speaker 6: Well, see they had done that.

809
00:48:07,800 --> 00:48:10,319
Speaker 7: At least twice before that last one. We made the

810
00:48:10,320 --> 00:48:13,160
Speaker 7: tackle on third and I remember it's third down. I'm

811
00:48:13,360 --> 00:48:15,799
Speaker 7: getting down to my stance and I'm like this, this

812
00:48:15,880 --> 00:48:18,400
Speaker 7: dude's in a two point stance, like standing up like

813
00:48:18,440 --> 00:48:21,440
Speaker 7: off the bomb, like thinking, all right, he's.

814
00:48:21,239 --> 00:48:22,319
Speaker 6: Either gonna do two things.

815
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Speaker 7: He's gonna full tilt bull rush right now, or he's

816
00:48:25,600 --> 00:48:27,839
Speaker 7: or he's running a game, and he would he didn't

817
00:48:27,840 --> 00:48:30,480
Speaker 7: do either of them. He dropped in the coverage. I'm like, dang, dude, Like,

818
00:48:30,600 --> 00:48:33,320
Speaker 7: I mean, when you got a guy that's that big,

819
00:48:33,400 --> 00:48:37,000
Speaker 7: that athletic, I mean, definitely is a special player for sure.

820
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Speaker 3: Let's buckle up because this is now about to take

821
00:48:41,560 --> 00:48:44,279
Speaker 3: a turn. We're gonna take some questions from the right

822
00:48:44,400 --> 00:48:47,800
Speaker 3: from the audience. Some of these people have been saving up. Okay,

823
00:48:47,880 --> 00:48:48,360
Speaker 3: go ahead.

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Speaker 11: It evening brought My name's Rambo.

825
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Speaker 6: Do you know what I mean?

826
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Speaker 3: You have a busy schedule, obviously.

827
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Speaker 11: Do you ever get a chance to take tom out

828
00:49:00,360 --> 00:49:04,040
Speaker 11: of your schedule to go look at the very competitive

829
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Speaker 11: high school talent that we have here in North Texas

830
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Speaker 11: for high school football?

831
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Speaker 6: No, you know, I wanted to.

832
00:49:09,719 --> 00:49:13,359
Speaker 7: I was going to go to a game this this year,

833
00:49:13,400 --> 00:49:14,880
Speaker 7: but I just never got around to it.

834
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Speaker 6: But I definitely want to check some games out for sure.

835
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Speaker 7: And hearing about Tyler Smith talking about his old uh,

836
00:49:20,360 --> 00:49:24,040
Speaker 7: I'm pretty sure his old high school won the States.

837
00:49:25,160 --> 00:49:25,960
Speaker 6: He's pretty pumped.

838
00:49:27,200 --> 00:49:29,120
Speaker 7: But yeah, I know, with schools like prosper Now and

839
00:49:29,160 --> 00:49:31,440
Speaker 7: all that, I definitely need to go check check those uh,

840
00:49:31,840 --> 00:49:34,000
Speaker 7: check those kids out, because there's definitely some high school

841
00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:36,760
Speaker 7: ballers compared to when I was in high school.

842
00:49:37,320 --> 00:49:39,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, some of them probably, but as big as you

843
00:49:39,200 --> 00:49:45,040
Speaker 3: guys are. Yeah, exactly, Yeah, go ahead, how are you? Uh?

844
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Speaker 12: We all know that the the mentality of an offensive

845
00:49:48,880 --> 00:49:52,600
Speaker 12: linement is.

846
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Speaker 6: Is down dirty.

847
00:49:52,360 --> 00:49:52,760
Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 12: But with that said, how would rock Hoffman teach a

849
00:49:57,480 --> 00:50:02,879
Speaker 12: young pop one offensive line.

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Speaker 6: This is a great question. That is a good question.

851
00:50:05,239 --> 00:50:07,080
Speaker 7: I think if I was coaching a young kid, a

852
00:50:07,120 --> 00:50:12,400
Speaker 7: Pop Warner kid, I would honestly focus focus on the

853
00:50:12,400 --> 00:50:16,719
Speaker 7: fundamentals of the game early and the mentality stuff that

854
00:50:16,760 --> 00:50:19,040
Speaker 7: comes along when you get older and you start developing

855
00:50:19,080 --> 00:50:21,920
Speaker 7: and become more mature in the game. And you know,

856
00:50:22,239 --> 00:50:24,279
Speaker 7: that's one of the things I'm super thankful for is

857
00:50:24,320 --> 00:50:26,440
Speaker 7: my dad always taught me the fundamentals of the game

858
00:50:26,480 --> 00:50:29,239
Speaker 7: at an early age. You know, obviously took my mom,

859
00:50:29,400 --> 00:50:31,520
Speaker 7: you know, some side conversation to get me a little

860
00:50:31,680 --> 00:50:33,920
Speaker 7: a little more motivated, but I would definitely focus on

861
00:50:33,960 --> 00:50:36,000
Speaker 7: the fundamentals of the game. And then as a guy

862
00:50:36,080 --> 00:50:38,760
Speaker 7: gets older and develops, that's when that's when that attitude

863
00:50:38,760 --> 00:50:40,239
Speaker 7: and that nastiness starts to come out.

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Speaker 3: Do you get parental critiques today?

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Speaker 7: Oh yeah, one hundred percent. My dad called me after

866
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Speaker 7: after the game. He's ready to talk.

867
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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Say.

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Speaker 7: He said, you know, there's about five or six plays

870
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Speaker 7: you want back, and you know that it was pretty solid.

871
00:50:54,480 --> 00:50:56,319
Speaker 7: I was like, yeah, I can agree with that. There

872
00:50:56,360 --> 00:50:59,160
Speaker 7: was definitely a couple of play stretch there. I definitely

873
00:50:59,160 --> 00:51:01,719
Speaker 7: want it back, but you know, it's the NFL. You're

874
00:51:01,719 --> 00:51:03,719
Speaker 7: gonna get got sometimes and you just gotta roll with

875
00:51:03,719 --> 00:51:04,160
Speaker 7: the punches.

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Speaker 5: How do you take criticism from your parents?

877
00:51:08,160 --> 00:51:10,880
Speaker 7: I usually take about I need, I need before my

878
00:51:11,000 --> 00:51:13,400
Speaker 7: dad calls me, I need about twenty four hours, to

879
00:51:13,440 --> 00:51:18,200
Speaker 7: be honest with you. But uh no, I definitely listened

880
00:51:18,239 --> 00:51:19,800
Speaker 7: to listen to what my dad has to say. He

881
00:51:19,840 --> 00:51:22,240
Speaker 7: has a lot of football knowledge, so it's uh definitely

882
00:51:22,239 --> 00:51:24,719
Speaker 7: listened to him and you know, apply what I can do.

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00:51:24,800 --> 00:51:25,960
Speaker 3: They ever call separately?

884
00:51:26,680 --> 00:51:29,240
Speaker 6: Oh my mom? Yeah, oh yeah, definitely separately.

885
00:51:29,280 --> 00:51:31,600
Speaker 7: My mom usually talks about, you know, if I got

886
00:51:31,600 --> 00:51:33,680
Speaker 7: a personal foul, you know, you know, you need to

887
00:51:33,719 --> 00:51:34,160
Speaker 7: be smarter.

888
00:51:35,080 --> 00:51:36,040
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

889
00:51:36,040 --> 00:51:37,640
Speaker 7: My dad's like it's part of the game. It's part

890
00:51:37,640 --> 00:51:40,719
Speaker 7: of the game, you know, sidebar conversations. He's walking into

891
00:51:40,760 --> 00:51:42,880
Speaker 7: the room because he hears she's on the phone with me.

892
00:51:42,960 --> 00:51:45,800
Speaker 6: But yeah, no, we we definitely usually have separate conversation.

893
00:51:46,160 --> 00:51:47,640
Speaker 3: Well, you're gonna get everything covered?

894
00:51:47,760 --> 00:51:48,520
Speaker 6: Yeah that way?

895
00:51:50,120 --> 00:51:50,480
Speaker 7: All right?

896
00:51:50,640 --> 00:51:51,399
Speaker 6: Rock yes, sir.

897
00:51:53,120 --> 00:51:57,719
Speaker 10: Now you're starting to develop a reputation very similar to Conrad.

898
00:51:57,760 --> 00:52:01,719
Speaker 3: Well, easy, easy, easy Now Conrad Dobler.

899
00:52:02,040 --> 00:52:02,920
Speaker 10: Conrad Dobler.

900
00:52:03,080 --> 00:52:04,600
Speaker 3: Do you know anything about Conrad Dobler?

901
00:52:05,200 --> 00:52:05,719
Speaker 6: I do not.

902
00:52:06,880 --> 00:52:11,239
Speaker 3: You can't. He's got a reputation. Brock has a reputation

903
00:52:11,440 --> 00:52:15,120
Speaker 3: for show of hands. Here in the sidecard social hold

904
00:52:15,160 --> 00:52:17,560
Speaker 3: up your hand if you know who Conrad Dobler was.

905
00:52:18,800 --> 00:52:22,920
Speaker 3: One two, three four people Conrad Dobler was. He was

906
00:52:22,920 --> 00:52:25,759
Speaker 3: an All Pro player and he played for the Cardinals

907
00:52:25,760 --> 00:52:27,719
Speaker 3: mostly when they were in Saying Louis. But he was

908
00:52:27,760 --> 00:52:30,839
Speaker 3: also the dirtiest man in football. He was well known

909
00:52:31,080 --> 00:52:34,520
Speaker 3: in days when you know, safeties were allowed to carry

910
00:52:34,560 --> 00:52:38,719
Speaker 3: tire irons to hit receivers coming across the middle. Conrad

911
00:52:38,760 --> 00:52:43,080
Speaker 3: Dobler would bite, he would do, he would you know legwape,

912
00:52:43,160 --> 00:52:46,040
Speaker 3: the master of the leg whip, and yeah, he was

913
00:52:46,080 --> 00:52:49,480
Speaker 3: the dirtiest man. Now, you cannot take a guy in

914
00:52:49,520 --> 00:52:53,239
Speaker 3: his second year in the NFL whose reputation is that

915
00:52:53,360 --> 00:52:56,799
Speaker 3: he is combative and he will mix it up and

916
00:52:56,840 --> 00:52:58,920
Speaker 3: compare him to the guy who was the dirtiest man

917
00:52:58,960 --> 00:53:01,279
Speaker 3: in football. Do you think it's a little bit of

918
00:53:01,320 --> 00:53:01,680
Speaker 3: a reach.

919
00:53:02,120 --> 00:53:05,400
Speaker 10: I see your point, Thank you, thank you.

920
00:53:05,520 --> 00:53:06,719
Speaker 3: The defense rest.

921
00:53:07,040 --> 00:53:10,040
Speaker 10: The direction I was heading to is the reputation that

922
00:53:10,120 --> 00:53:13,239
Speaker 10: you can have would be the meana nasty, but in

923
00:53:13,280 --> 00:53:15,680
Speaker 10: a cleaner way where it's acceptable.

924
00:53:15,719 --> 00:53:16,360
Speaker 3: In the NFL.

925
00:53:18,560 --> 00:53:20,200
Speaker 6: What are you so? What are you asking?

926
00:53:20,800 --> 00:53:23,320
Speaker 10: Would you accept a nickname like the mean and nasty?

927
00:53:23,760 --> 00:53:26,080
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, for sure? For sure.

928
00:53:26,120 --> 00:53:28,400
Speaker 7: I mean I feel like I definitely play the game nasty.

929
00:53:28,520 --> 00:53:30,279
Speaker 7: I'm not a dirty player. I would never say I'm

930
00:53:30,280 --> 00:53:33,440
Speaker 7: a dirty player. I definitely pushed the envelope, but uh yeah,

931
00:53:33,520 --> 00:53:34,960
Speaker 7: I just feel like that's the way the game's got

932
00:53:34,960 --> 00:53:35,360
Speaker 7: to be played.

933
00:53:35,360 --> 00:53:38,240
Speaker 3: Now, what is nasty? How do you define nasty when.

934
00:53:38,080 --> 00:53:42,360
Speaker 7: You're going to you know, you're driving a guy and

935
00:53:42,719 --> 00:53:43,680
Speaker 7: you put him, put him in.

936
00:53:43,680 --> 00:53:45,480
Speaker 6: The ground, and you give him a little, you know,

937
00:53:45,480 --> 00:53:47,200
Speaker 6: a little extra shoving in the ground. That's what I

938
00:53:47,239 --> 00:53:47,680
Speaker 6: would say.

939
00:53:47,840 --> 00:53:51,240
Speaker 8: But only offensive line do you feel like it gets

940
00:53:51,360 --> 00:53:53,080
Speaker 8: the most fueled off of you?

941
00:53:53,719 --> 00:53:54,600
Speaker 5: Most fired up?

942
00:53:56,680 --> 00:54:01,040
Speaker 7: I would say probably Terrence because I'm aside them. But

943
00:54:01,080 --> 00:54:03,799
Speaker 7: I would also say Tyler Smith. Tyler Smith definitely gets good.

944
00:54:03,840 --> 00:54:05,799
Speaker 6: I can see Smith see me too.

945
00:54:07,520 --> 00:54:10,560
Speaker 7: Terrence is definitely a little quieter right like off the field,

946
00:54:10,640 --> 00:54:13,240
Speaker 7: but now when we get going on the field, Terrence

947
00:54:13,280 --> 00:54:13,920
Speaker 7: will mix it up.

948
00:54:13,960 --> 00:54:14,319
Speaker 6: For sure.

949
00:54:14,680 --> 00:54:18,759
Speaker 3: Is it your experience that if an offensive line is

950
00:54:18,800 --> 00:54:22,359
Speaker 3: really going to be good, one of them has got

951
00:54:22,400 --> 00:54:24,280
Speaker 3: to be that guy. One of them has got.

952
00:54:24,040 --> 00:54:27,239
Speaker 7: To have a real serious edge, Yeah, I would say,

953
00:54:27,520 --> 00:54:32,319
Speaker 7: And I just view offensive line playing in that way.

954
00:54:32,440 --> 00:54:32,960
Speaker 6: Honestly.

955
00:54:33,040 --> 00:54:35,600
Speaker 7: You know, that's the way I have always tried to

956
00:54:35,600 --> 00:54:36,160
Speaker 7: play the game.

957
00:54:36,239 --> 00:54:38,640
Speaker 6: And I feel like, you know, you're really good. Old

958
00:54:38,640 --> 00:54:39,239
Speaker 6: lines are.

959
00:54:39,160 --> 00:54:42,640
Speaker 7: Definitely, maybe not always the best in terms of technique

960
00:54:42,719 --> 00:54:45,040
Speaker 7: or fundamentals, but they always play really hard and they

961
00:54:45,040 --> 00:54:46,280
Speaker 7: play physical and nasty.

962
00:54:46,360 --> 00:54:46,719
Speaker 6: For sure.

963
00:54:46,920 --> 00:54:48,840
Speaker 8: Has there ever been someone that you've played with on

964
00:54:48,880 --> 00:54:51,520
Speaker 8: the offensive line where they've kind of been a little

965
00:54:51,560 --> 00:54:53,440
Speaker 8: soft and you have to give them a little talking to.

966
00:54:54,360 --> 00:54:58,120
Speaker 7: Maybe some guys in college, but nah, not since I've

967
00:54:58,120 --> 00:55:00,200
Speaker 7: been in the league. Honestly, I feel like, you know,

968
00:55:00,239 --> 00:55:03,200
Speaker 7: whatever group I've been a part of, I feel like, guys,

969
00:55:03,320 --> 00:55:04,520
Speaker 7: guys go for sure.

970
00:55:04,800 --> 00:55:06,520
Speaker 3: We got about a minute and a half left, and

971
00:55:06,600 --> 00:55:09,400
Speaker 3: I don't want to I don't want to get you

972
00:55:09,440 --> 00:55:13,000
Speaker 3: in trouble or let any cats out of the bag.

973
00:55:13,000 --> 00:55:15,520
Speaker 3: Because you said your girlfriend's here. Are you done with

974
00:55:15,560 --> 00:55:16,400
Speaker 3: your Christmas shopping?

975
00:55:18,600 --> 00:55:18,759
Speaker 2: Uh?

976
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I am for the most part. You know, I

977
00:55:20,840 --> 00:55:22,120
Speaker 6: got I got one more.

978
00:55:21,960 --> 00:55:25,520
Speaker 7: Gift that's uh, Like, I guess it's gonna be sent digitally,

979
00:55:25,600 --> 00:55:27,920
Speaker 7: but like other than that, but but you've you've.

980
00:55:28,239 --> 00:55:29,960
Speaker 6: I got to wrap it. I got them. I got

981
00:55:30,000 --> 00:55:31,400
Speaker 6: all the gifts at the house. I just got to

982
00:55:31,400 --> 00:55:34,600
Speaker 6: finish wrapping them, you know, over there, like.

983
00:55:34,760 --> 00:55:37,719
Speaker 7: I want to know what it is, but it's I mean,

984
00:55:37,719 --> 00:55:38,919
Speaker 7: it's not even Christmas Eve.

985
00:55:39,000 --> 00:55:40,319
Speaker 6: That's I got plenty of time.

986
00:55:41,520 --> 00:55:44,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, and is that Are you gonna do the wrapping yourself?

987
00:55:45,120 --> 00:55:47,480
Speaker 6: Yeah? I started wrapping them a little bit this morning.

988
00:55:47,640 --> 00:55:48,640
Speaker 6: When when I.

989
00:55:48,600 --> 00:55:50,919
Speaker 7: Saw my presidence starting to get stacked under the tree,

990
00:55:50,920 --> 00:55:52,680
Speaker 7: I was like, man, I gotta start wrapping them up

991
00:55:52,719 --> 00:55:54,799
Speaker 7: and uh and start getting them under there.

992
00:55:55,040 --> 00:55:56,879
Speaker 5: What do you typically do for Christmas?

993
00:55:58,040 --> 00:55:58,200
Speaker 10: Oh?

994
00:55:58,440 --> 00:56:00,440
Speaker 6: Well, my rookie year, I was alone and so that

995
00:56:00,600 --> 00:56:01,400
Speaker 6: was great.

996
00:56:01,200 --> 00:56:03,200
Speaker 7: But uh because my parents were all kind of caught

997
00:56:03,239 --> 00:56:05,279
Speaker 7: up in that Southwest.

998
00:56:04,719 --> 00:56:06,480
Speaker 6: Like flight stuffy.

999
00:56:07,320 --> 00:56:13,200
Speaker 7: So but last year Abby flow into town. Now obviously

1000
00:56:13,239 --> 00:56:15,759
Speaker 7: now we live together, but uh yeah, we'll just be

1001
00:56:16,440 --> 00:56:18,759
Speaker 7: hanging out. We'll cook a good dinner and then coach

1002
00:56:19,160 --> 00:56:22,120
Speaker 7: I will I will, I will cook for sure, probably

1003
00:56:22,120 --> 00:56:25,000
Speaker 7: smoke something on the trigger, and then you know, we'll

1004
00:56:25,000 --> 00:56:27,040
Speaker 7: put on a Christmas movie, probably the Grench.

1005
00:56:27,560 --> 00:56:29,239
Speaker 6: It's our go to do.

1006
00:56:29,280 --> 00:56:31,960
Speaker 3: You see why we love rock Coffee. Thank Brock for

1007
00:56:32,000 --> 00:56:36,400
Speaker 3: being with us. Day off with us. Thank you Brock,

1008
00:56:36,440 --> 00:56:40,239
Speaker 3: and enjoy Christmas. Uh and uh we'll say good luck

1009
00:56:40,280 --> 00:56:43,200
Speaker 3: in Philadelphia and Nicole and I will see all of

1010
00:56:43,239 --> 00:56:48,719
Speaker 3: you next Monday, on New Year's Victory Monday, on our

1011
00:56:48,800 --> 00:56:52,480
Speaker 3: next Cowboys Hour. Merry Christmas, everybody.

1012
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Speaker 6: Thank you.

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