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Speaker 1: Welcome to Dudes on Dudes. I'm Julian Edelman and we're

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Speaker 1: bringing you one of our favorite segments from the show

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Speaker 1: talking about one of our favorite dudes in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: Let's go jump into the dude that Steven Ridley wanted

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Speaker 1: to break down. Set the clock. Let's get our AI anopsis.

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Speaker 2: So let's explain to rid kind of what we do

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Speaker 2: here on our show Dudes on Dudes. We talk usually

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Speaker 2: about a dude or two or three each episode Rid

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Speaker 2: and we break them down. We talk about his game

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Speaker 2: for about ten minutes, what type of player he was,

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Speaker 2: but overall, after the ten minutes, we try to put

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Speaker 2: we put label them guy and label them into a

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Speaker 2: category of what type of dude they are. And there's

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Speaker 2: five different categories that you can label them.

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Speaker 1: One is dog, the other is a stud. There's a stud,

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Speaker 1: there's a whiz, a dude's dude, and a freak. Yes,

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Speaker 1: whiz being a guy that is innovative of this guy's brilliant,

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Speaker 1: he's revolutionized something. A freak being a Randy Moss due

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Speaker 1: that's just this isn't that doesn't look like a doesn't

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Speaker 1: look like he doesn't look like a freak of nature

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Speaker 1: stud is someone who's had the pedigree his whole life.

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Speaker 1: He's supposed to be that Joe Burrow, Joe Burrow, you

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Speaker 1: know guys that were first of all draft pick Heisman

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Speaker 1: got you know what I mean? They always thinking to

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Speaker 1: steal him a dog that is.

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Speaker 3: So.

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Speaker 1: It's motivated, had to maybe go the long road, but

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Speaker 1: always like physically mentally fucking tough, will bite your face off.

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Speaker 1: Not liked by many people, but fucking respected by everything.

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Speaker 1: And then you got the dudes. Dude who's like a

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Speaker 1: glue guy in the locker room, the guy in the

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Speaker 1: locker room that was, you know, a vibe guy. He

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Speaker 1: he he knew how to be a great leader. He

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Speaker 1: was the guy that would cool the the room when

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Speaker 1: it needed to be cool, but light it up if

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Speaker 1: it needed to be lit up.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So now let's get onto the A I synopsis. The

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Speaker 2: guy we're the dude we're supposed to be talking that,

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Speaker 2: we'll be talking about that Ridley picked here today. Standing

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Speaker 2: at six foot one and weighing two hundred and twenty pounds,

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Speaker 2: this dominant running back was selected seventh overall in the

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Speaker 2: two thousand and seven NFL Draft. The year I graduated

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Speaker 2: from high school. He grew up in Palestine, Texas, and

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Speaker 2: starred at Oklahoma, where he sat an NCAA freshman rushing

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Speaker 2: record and was a Heisman finalist. He holds the NFL

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Speaker 2: single game rushing record with two hundred and ninety six

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Speaker 2: yards and was named twenty twelve NFL MVP after nearly

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Speaker 2: breaking the single season rushing record. He went on to

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Speaker 2: play fifteen seasons in the NFL for seven different teams.

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Speaker 2: Let's get on Adrian Peterson, jeezus and written, what's.

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Speaker 1: The first thing.

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Speaker 3: Let let's get his head shot?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, first we need ritch headshot up here. Man,

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Speaker 2: I forgot about you. Man thinks about the head shot.

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Speaker 2: I didn't forget about you. I forgot about the headshot.

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Speaker 2: So let's get your big ass up there, and let's

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Speaker 2: get this smooth, smooth criminal Adrian Peterson up here as well.

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Speaker 2: Put those one of the best running backs to play

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Speaker 2: the game. But what's the first thing you think of

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Speaker 2: of Adrian Peterson? Why did you pick him?

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Speaker 3: I think of AP. I remember everybody called him a

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Speaker 3: d all day aby, and I just remember him Oklahoma.

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Speaker 3: Oh you know when I was coming up playing ball,

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Speaker 3: I'm watching this guy run in Oklahoma, and I just

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Speaker 3: remember as a running back, like how aggressive downhill and

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Speaker 3: violent he ran, Like you just didn't want to be

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Speaker 3: in his way, and so as running back me, that's

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Speaker 3: what jumped out to me on his film. And I

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Speaker 3: always kind of like to say, I tried to pattern

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Speaker 3: somebody that you didn't want to tackle for four quarters.

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Speaker 3: And Ap was really that guy. I think for the

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Speaker 3: when he was healthy, he was elect man. He's electric,

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Speaker 1: He's never hung out.

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Speaker 3: I bumped shoulders with him a few times. I had

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Speaker 3: Ap to sign something and has a picture and it's

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Speaker 1: Was like he was explain how dominant he was at Oklahoma.

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Speaker 3: I think back to those days, it was like Reggie Bush.

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Speaker 1: Was kind of doing this THINGGGIEGGI arguably best football player

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Speaker 3: But both of them same position, two night and day,

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Speaker 3: was that guy that really just wore a defense down,

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Speaker 3: like you knew, everybody knew in the ballpark he was

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Speaker 3: he's the man that they have to stop for that

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Speaker 3: game and they couldn't stop him for how many years

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Speaker 3: fifteen in college and foreign I mean fifteen in the

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Speaker 3: for me, I tip my hat and I say, it's

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Speaker 3: hard to say who's better.

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Speaker 2: What are the few traits that makes him so good

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Speaker 3: His explosiveness, His explosiveness, him being able to finish a run,

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Speaker 3: and then the physicality he played with.

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Speaker 2: And I could tell that you know, he definitely was

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Speaker 2: that you molded your game as well.

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Speaker 3: Read.

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Speaker 2: You were explosive off the line of scrimmage. You were

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Speaker 2: a physical guy. It was hard to take you down.

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Speaker 2: You plowed through defenders. Not one guy was tackling you,

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Speaker 2: just like Adrian Peterson. So that's cool, man, that's really

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Speaker 2: cool that you get to look up to him and

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Speaker 2: mold your game after him as well. And now we're

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Speaker 2: here talking about him here on dudes, on dudes.

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Speaker 1: What's your You said two unbelievable running backs in college football,

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Speaker 1: and you know you could argue in both and pro

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Speaker 1: certainly a d Reggie had a really good career as well.

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Speaker 1: But college football Mount Rushmore of running.

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Speaker 3: Backs, Reggie's up there, top for sure.

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Speaker 1: But what's the college what's the mount Rushmore? You get

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Speaker 1: four four top four in college time that I watched,

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Speaker 1: So we're going, I'm gonna go Reggie. Reggie's up there, I.

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Speaker 3: Must say a PWO. I will go. I was younger,

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Speaker 3: but I remember watching these boys down in Miami. Willis

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Speaker 3: McGahee Williams. That's you.

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Speaker 1: That's your four right there.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if that be the but like what

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Speaker 1: I was Barry Sanders, who want a heisman?

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Speaker 3: That was before my you know, Barry was a little

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Speaker 3: who did I watch? We're talking my ear that I

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Speaker 3: Ricky Williams, I was. That was the next guy. I

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Speaker 3: was about to say, Ricky was nasty in Texas, man.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Ricky Williams was a fucking load.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. So when I think of backs like that, and

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Speaker 3: These are the guys that I like watch. So when

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Speaker 3: I see the game now, it's like, to be a

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Speaker 3: when I was coming up, we're banging it out with

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Speaker 3: I mean. So you had to be a bull. And

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Speaker 3: when I think of a bull and like dogs in

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Speaker 3: between the tackles, Reggie did something that no back and

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Speaker 3: do ap I would have I would have Ricky up

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Speaker 3: mc nasty he did? They did? I tore mine twice?

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Speaker 3: You know. I kind of can look at guys that

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Speaker 1: College. So you have who.

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Speaker 3: Reggie, Reggie ap ap, Ricky Williams, Ricky Williams, I'd say

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Speaker 3: either that I mcgahere, Clinton Porters, both of them. You gotick,

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Speaker 3: let's come McGahee. Then all right, let's go.

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Speaker 1: So these are the Mount rushmorees of Stephen Ridley, people

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Speaker 1: that he.

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Speaker 3: Watched yes at running Back, Yes, yes, patter of mc

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Speaker 3: These are guys I was looking at like I want

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Speaker 1: That's a that's a solid for ap. Dude. He ran

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Speaker 1: for two thousand yards after an a c L. He

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Speaker 1: was eight months out. Okay, it's it's not human, no,

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Speaker 1: He was he was legit probably like It's kind of

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Speaker 3: That's the standard. Yeah. Yeah, because it is an ACO recovery.

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Speaker 3: Blew it out as normally like a nine month recovery,

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Speaker 1: I feel until eighteen.

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Speaker 3: And it takes time. But you know, some guys come

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Speaker 3: that the very next year, That'll never happen again, man,

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Speaker 3: because they literally put the load on them right fresh

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Speaker 3: in the day, they were like apee feed them, you

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Speaker 1: So he was, I mean he rushed or he tears

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Speaker 1: his ACL. He toured in December, toured in December. Wow,

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Speaker 1: comes back and gets twenty ninety seven yards, thirteen touchdowns,

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Speaker 2: And he's the last running back to win m v P.

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Speaker 3: Still yeah, still off of that season, Off of that.

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Speaker 1: Season, I mean, if anyone was gonna do it, it'd

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Speaker 2: There's one last year, well one trade as well that

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Speaker 2: we haven't talked about, and it's it's his vision. He

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Speaker 2: can see down the field. He can see defenders coming

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Speaker 2: out and make them miss. That's what makes him such

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Speaker 2: a great running back, as well as strength with his

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Speaker 2: physical traits and his strength obviously, but he runs upright,

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Speaker 2: taught growing up as a kid. It's always have you

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Speaker 2: know your shoulders down. He runs straight up right. But

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Speaker 2: he's such a physical freak of nature that when the

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Speaker 1: Week eight, two thousand and seven versus San Diego Chargers,

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Speaker 3: Thirty touches in the NFL, y'all. When do you see

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Speaker 1: I wonder how many touches he for a while, like

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Speaker 3: Like I would say by the game, I would say

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's this is crazy, and for him to do

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Speaker 3: But look those first one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Hey,

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Speaker 1: Sixteen he's total. Hello that like you said, he's a

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Speaker 3: Bro like And he was, And he was he was

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Speaker 2: I was in Pittsburgh my senior year when he was drafted,

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Speaker 2: He was the NFL at one point, you know, he

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Speaker 1: Estibull against Boise State with the Statue of Liberty game

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna have to say, you got to give him,

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Speaker 1: Come on, that's a freak.

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Speaker 3: That's a freak.

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Speaker 2: And on top of it looks like a freak of

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Speaker 1: He's a frizzle chest chisel legs as well. Don't want

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Speaker 3: You don't want that.

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Speaker 2: I'm its pregame ritual included eating two packs of peanuts,

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Speaker 2: Or did he love those peanuts, AM and ms that

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Speaker 1: What do you think? I think it was Probably it

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Speaker 1: became a superstition thing early on. I mean running backs

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