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Speaker 1: moment like to He's like the cowboy. It's been a

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Speaker 1: surreal moment. Since I started playing football, I always wanted

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Speaker 1: my chance. Let's take advantage of it. Where did you

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Speaker 1: do you have any idea where you thought you might

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Speaker 1: get drafted? No? I mean all I just needed was

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Speaker 1: so I'm just grateful, you know. I mean, obviously the

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Speaker 1: probably drafts dropped your draft stock. Uh Like, just how

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Speaker 1: I mean, I just told you have the astute reason.

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Speaker 1: I'm not. Everybody know I have surgery and there ain't

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Speaker 1: no secrets. But I mean, at the end of the day,

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Speaker 1: the blocking of the day doctors telling you you're might

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Speaker 1: I'm taking them one day at a time. You know,

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Speaker 1: I'm not thinking about nothing down the row. It's a

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Speaker 1: possibility for me. But you know, one day at a time,

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Speaker 1: you weren't number eight. Lu that means a lot over there.

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Speaker 1: What does that honor mean to you? But am I

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Speaker 1: honor for me to wear two years. You know. The

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Speaker 1: Davis White. So I mean that's a great company to that.

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Speaker 1: You see that the linebacking code with your thoughts on

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Speaker 1: know that another great player like myself. You know, you

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, God, there is that having for

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Speaker 1: well as coach Jones D Jones, you know, being a

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Speaker 1: you reap the benefits. You know, I just you know,

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Speaker 1: How were you feeling pretty good coming out of that

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, I feel really good. You know, you

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Speaker 1: kind of take far You'll see it when when you

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Speaker 1: I mean when I when I found out, when I

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Speaker 1: I'm saying. I want to play football, but you know,

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Speaker 1: the uh, what's it's been like in terms of justice?

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Speaker 1: Obviously you're your a little more limited disciplines you go

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Speaker 1: everything happen for a reason. I gotta attack my rehab

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Speaker 1: And you know, the more you know, the more lots

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Speaker 1: nigger head area. It was the toughest lay in the

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Speaker 1: bed because I was said, I'm sure they said, you

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Speaker 1: you know, any what's your relationship like with Jabrill? Uh?

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