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Speaker 1: We were from the Midwest get the recruiting circuit together. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And at the time, he was somebody I looked up to.

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Speaker 1: Really we're the same age, UM, but he kind of

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Speaker 1: set the standard of what I wanted to be as

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Speaker 1: a recruit, as a player. He went to a powerhouse

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Speaker 1: and went to a small school. UM, and we ran

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Speaker 1: in touch, you know, through college and everything like that.

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Speaker 1: And it's it's scary, like he's my age and uh,

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Speaker 1: I mean that's part of this game that you know,

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Speaker 1: is is your You fear it, UM, but you just

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Speaker 1: hope he pulls through. I know he's a strong guy.

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Speaker 1: How much do you find yourself praying for tomorrow? A lot?

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Speaker 1: You know, I was pretty emotional the night it happened. Uh.

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Speaker 1: You know, me and my wife had to talk through it.

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Speaker 1: It's all you think so much. You know, it's a

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Speaker 1: it's a flurry of emotion that that that comes upon you.

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Speaker 1: And I mean, I know a lot of guys in

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Speaker 1: this locker room have felt that as well. It's scary.

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Speaker 1: I feel really, you know, I feel for the Bills

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Speaker 1: organization everybody involved, UM, because that's at your brother as

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Speaker 1: a guy that you have a relationship with. UM. So

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Speaker 1: obviously we could continue to pray from how are the

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Speaker 1: giants dealing with this? You know, we we have, we

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Speaker 1: had some talks today. We have a lot of resources

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Speaker 1: available to us. Uh, you know, our our medical team,

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Speaker 1: our team chaplain Uh and it's yeah, I mean there's resources,

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Speaker 1: are you know, our team like therapists, our mental health

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Speaker 1: uh expert and uh yeah, We're just gonna continue to

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Speaker 1: chop at it. And guys can't be afraid to ask

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Speaker 1: for help because it's a it's a tough time right now.

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Speaker 1: I felt, I felt fearful and I was at home. Um.

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Speaker 1: And so yeah, I mean you just trying to remain

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Speaker 1: the main thing, the main thing, remain optimistic and just

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Speaker 1: try to play the game. But it's one of those

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Speaker 1: things that where you just can't compartmentalize it the way

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Speaker 1: a lot of these guys in this room can usually. Julian, well, um,

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry I missed. Yeah, we met each other in

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Speaker 1: high school. We had the recruiting circuit together. We've been

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Speaker 1: to you know, the whole all the camps. Uh. He

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Speaker 1: was close. It's a lot of my friends in Notre Dame, UM,

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Speaker 1: our whole class. He was my same class coming out

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Speaker 1: in high school. Uh, we made in touch and yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean I'm one of the few I guess that

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Speaker 1: I can say they know him, um. And I think

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Speaker 1: that's what kind of hit home. It's like, you know,

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Speaker 1: the reality of it all. But there's a few guys

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Speaker 1: in locking them are even closer than I am with him.

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Speaker 1: I'm not, you know, particularly too close with him, um,

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Speaker 1: but some guys have been his teammates in college, have

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Speaker 1: been teammates you know, with the bills, and so it's

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Speaker 1: it's scary and a lot of guys in this locker

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Speaker 1: room are hurting right now.