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Speaker 1: What's your reaction to all that hut embarrassing you know

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Speaker 1: from all you guys. No, but uh, I mean definitely honored,

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Speaker 1: you know, and uh exciting. Any any some thoughts on

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Speaker 1: what this surprise announcement? Yeah, uh, you know, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: just wait it out, you know, I honestly o hobviously

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Speaker 1: forgot my birthdays tomorrow too, so that shows you where

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Speaker 1: my mind is at right now. Thank you? All right

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Speaker 1: you guys, you guys all right right If you don't

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Speaker 1: get the game, it's my fault, right Yeah. Oh, super exciting,

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Speaker 1: you know. I think you know, people abo sometimes obviously

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Speaker 1: I'm not aware of how how big football has gotten

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Speaker 1: in Germany, and it's a lot of kids it's playing

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Speaker 1: football right now, and a lot of people watching. So

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Speaker 1: I think I think it would be really big for

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Speaker 1: the game and expanding the game to bring a game over.

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Speaker 1: I don't think so, man, but it's uh. Last time

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Speaker 1: I was back home, I did get recognized a couple

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Speaker 1: of times, obviously increased now that I have this tremendous

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Speaker 1: hair color. So we'll see how it goes next time

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Speaker 1: I go. I try not to be superstitious, but you know,

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Speaker 1: we've been on playing pretty good ever since I changed

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Speaker 1: the color, so you know, you don't don't want to

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Speaker 1: change the running program I did. Yeah, yeah, first time

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Speaker 1: for an NFL game obviously, like my rookie year, things

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Speaker 1: were just going so up and down. I didn't want to,

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Speaker 1: you know, make nobody come out here to watch me

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Speaker 1: sit on the bench. And then last year, obviously coronavirus,

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Speaker 1: nobody was able to come over. And then I think

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Speaker 1: the boarders opened up just in in November and one

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Speaker 1: of my cousins made it through, So I was awesome.

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Speaker 1: You've had some moments something games with fans from yeah,

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Speaker 1: imagining this, Yeah, I was. I mean, I'm I'm surprised

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Speaker 1: by that just as well. I just, uh, after the game,

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Speaker 1: I see the Germany flags in the stands and and

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Speaker 1: I try to, you know, at least go over and

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Speaker 1: say hello. I mean, these these guys spent a lot

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Speaker 1: of money on flights and tickets. So yeah, it's been

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Speaker 1: exciting to see what are those moments like for you,

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Speaker 1: Like what are what are you are you talking with

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Speaker 1: these fans? Like what are they saying? What are you

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Speaker 1: sort of communicating to them? Yeah, I mean most of

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Speaker 1: these guys, I mean they're just uh, they're excited that

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Speaker 1: I'm coming up to talk to them or whatever. So

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Speaker 1: I just you know, I asked whether from a lot

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Speaker 1: of these guys play football themselves at small club teams

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Speaker 1: in Germany. So um, it's trying to be really you know,

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Speaker 1: it means a lot to them and and and their

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Speaker 1: their teams back home. They put it all over their

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Speaker 1: social media and stuff. So uh yeah, it's just you know,

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Speaker 1: when when they put in all this effort to come

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Speaker 1: see me, uh, the least I can do is go

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Speaker 1: say a little take a picture teammates here. Yeah, now

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Speaker 1: now they do. Yeah. Actually, I hope I can get

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Speaker 1: maybe some of the guys who come over in the

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Speaker 1: offseason when whenever NFL players come over, you know, it

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Speaker 1: means a lot to like, like I said to the

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Speaker 1: fans over there, they don't get to see people up close,

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Speaker 1: you know, every year, so it would be a big

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Speaker 1: big deal. I can't mention the progress you've made. What

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Speaker 1: is that you have in the spot when you first

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Speaker 1: planned to hear? Um? Probably not, you know, but I

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Speaker 1: just I try to keep my head down and keep

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Speaker 1: getting better, stick to the work, and um, continue doing

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Speaker 1: what what the coach is asking me, not really. Uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, every day is a is a different challenge

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Speaker 1: in the NFL. Every day the coaches will throw something

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Speaker 1: different at you. UM. Something Coach Mayo told us rookies

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Speaker 1: my first year was like every day you want to

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Speaker 1: work to find these moments um Off called the moments

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Speaker 1: of confirmation. I think, uh, kind of moments that prove

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Speaker 1: to yourself that Okay, you do belong here and and

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Speaker 1: you do have a way, and you want to just

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Speaker 1: keep building that confidence, keep building the confidence that that

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Speaker 1: the coaches having you and that your teammates having you.

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Speaker 1: And um, you know, you do that every day and

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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, you'll you'll like where

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Speaker 1: you'll be at. You know. UM it's a little weird,

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Speaker 1: you know because uh, sometimes in back home, people pick

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Speaker 1: their favorite team just based off like a mashcot that

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Speaker 1: they like or um, just whichever player is kind of

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Speaker 1: the most famous during the time. But since the Patriots

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Speaker 1: have had so much succes that's through the through the

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Speaker 1: past twenty years and and I have had so many

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Speaker 1: uh I want to say, kind of popular and known players. UM.

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Speaker 1: I would say it's probably the biggest fan base in

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Speaker 1: Germany for sure when you were, when you were growing up.

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Speaker 1: When I can't even say that in this microphone, I'm

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Speaker 1: so ashamed I would say I was. I was a

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Speaker 1: big Ray Lewis fan growing up. Yeah, I'm gonna leave

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Speaker 1: it at that. Yeah, there's another in Washington. Yeah, David Bottom, Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I try. I try to do my best to to

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Speaker 1: help him out. You know, he's, uh, he didn't. He

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Speaker 1: didn't go to college route. He went straight from the

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Speaker 1: German League into the NFL. So um. Sometimes he calls

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Speaker 1: me as like little questions about just life in America,

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Speaker 1: and you know, so I try. I try to help

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Speaker 1: him out where he's where I can, right, He's appreciate

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Speaker 1: you guys,