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Speaker 1: Welcome into an episode of Giants Conversations brought to you

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Speaker 1: by Sony. My name is Madeline Burke, joined by Giants

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Speaker 1: safety Tyler Nuvin Tyler. First of all, congratulations. Rookie season

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Speaker 1: is in the books a lot of ups and downs,

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Speaker 1: But twenty twenty four season, when you look back on it,

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Speaker 1: what's one thing that's going to be defining for you?

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Speaker 2: I say growth.

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Speaker 3: I feel like I grew a lot this year, and

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Speaker 3: not only as a football player, but as a man.

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Speaker 3: Just being around the guys, being around this great staff.

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Speaker 3: You know, just just grinding every day, so just growing

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Speaker 3: together and you know, going through those pains, but you know,

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Speaker 3: getting better at the same time.

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Speaker 1: Rookie season cut short obviously you got the boot on

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Speaker 1: still ankle surgery late in the season in December.

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Speaker 4: How are you feeling.

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Speaker 2: I feel good. I feel all right.

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Speaker 3: You know it was hard at first, but like I said,

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Speaker 3: I got great people around me that you know, kept

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Speaker 3: my head up, supporting me throughout the whole thing. So,

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Speaker 3: you know, we started and get to the tail end

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Speaker 3: of it now.

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Speaker 1: Injury is something that you know, as a professional athlete,

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Speaker 1: you have to learn to tackle in kind of a

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Speaker 1: different way, right Uh, yeah, a little bit.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's basically it's it's really more of a

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Speaker 2: mental thing, especially.

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Speaker 3: In getting back and you know, trying to you know,

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Speaker 3: get back into it, and also being away from the

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Speaker 3: game because you know, you put so much into it,

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Speaker 3: you know, doing this my whole life is really hard

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Speaker 3: to be away from the game that you love. So, uh,

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Speaker 3: it's really more of a mental mental thing than than

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Speaker 3: physical because you know, you're always going.

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Speaker 2: To be working.

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Speaker 3: You know, I'm young, you know, I feel like I'm

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Speaker 3: gonna I'm gonna recover well. But the mental part, that's

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Speaker 3: that's been the hardest.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, when you're away from the game though too, like

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Speaker 1: physically not able to get out in the practice field

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Speaker 1: with your teammates and all that. But how do you

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Speaker 1: keep your mind engaged and sharp and and a part

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Speaker 1: of it all?

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Speaker 2: Honestly, like you said, just staying a part of it.

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Speaker 3: Just just trying to stay attached to the game, keep

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Speaker 3: watching film, you know, keep staying up with the game plan,

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Speaker 3: you know, just trying to see what we're doing throughout

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Speaker 3: the week.

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Speaker 2: But just trying to say as connected as possible.

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Speaker 1: Are you somebody who learns more from watching film from

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Speaker 1: hearing people describe things to you. What what's the way

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Speaker 1: that you best perceive information.

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Speaker 3: Definitely a visual learner, So just watching film, just seeing it.

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Speaker 3: I'm a firm believer like if I see it, I

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Speaker 3: could I could go do it on the fields.

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Speaker 2: So watching film is really big.

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Speaker 1: For me for sure, and it translated it feel like,

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Speaker 1: I mean, your rookie season, you got off to a

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Speaker 1: fast start at the time that you left with injury.

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Speaker 1: You were leading the team in tackles, and you were

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Speaker 1: leading rookies in tackles that way. What was the key

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Speaker 1: for you in just kind of quickly assimilating to the

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Speaker 3: Studying and working honestly throughout the whole summer, listening to

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Speaker 3: my coaches, just watching film, getting really in tune with

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Speaker 3: our defense because obviously it was a new defense for everybody,

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Speaker 3: but just making sure I knew all the details of

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Speaker 3: the defense were, where my guys are going to be at,

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Speaker 3: where I fit into it. And once I understood that,

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Speaker 3: it was just go time.

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Speaker 1: Does it help as a rookie that it is a

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Speaker 1: new defense for everybody? So the entire team as a

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Speaker 1: whole is kind of learning from square one.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, a little bit it kind of you know, leveled

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Speaker 3: the playing field a little bit coming in for everybody

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Speaker 3: that was learning it. But I feel like I would

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Speaker 3: have been able to take advantage, you know, any other way.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, it was, it was.

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Speaker 3: It definitely made it a little bit easier for everybody to

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Speaker 1: What was your favorite on the field moment of twenty

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Speaker 3: The pass breakup against Mike Evans. That was pretty cool.

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Speaker 3: You know, Hall of Fame guy just got his eleventh

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Speaker 3: thousand yard season, So to match up on a guy

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Speaker 3: that was that's Mike Evans. All right, It's pretty cool.

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Speaker 3: But uh yeah, that was definitely one of my one

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Speaker 4: What do you remember about that play?

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Speaker 3: Uh, it was just a safety blitz and I was

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Speaker 3: replacing JP. He was he was showing man off of

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Speaker 3: Mike Evans and I was coming in to replace him

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Speaker 2: A zero blitz.

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Speaker 3: And all that week when Mike Evans was at number two,

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Speaker 3: we were expecting sale routes.

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Speaker 2: And out routes. Uh So, now I'm not gonna lie.

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Speaker 3: If Mike Evans ran anything else, but the out route

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Speaker 3: probably would have be in trouble because I was jumping

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Speaker 3: out no matter what.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, when you think back about this team and this

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Speaker 1: unit as established the twenty twenty four New York Giants,

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Speaker 1: you know, you guys in the dB room especially, how

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Speaker 1: do you remember that group and how do you define

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Speaker 1: that group?

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Speaker 2: I say, resilient no matter what the circumstances was.

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Speaker 3: I feel like everybody came in and went to work

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Speaker 3: every week, had the same attitude, same positive energy. On

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Speaker 3: see a lot of you know, guys dipping and you know,

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Speaker 3: falling off towards the end of the season, especially how

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Speaker 3: hard it was, you know, losing some of those games

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Speaker 3: in a row. So I just, you know, to my half,

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Speaker 3: to those guys that you know, came in with the

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Speaker 3: same positive energy every single week.

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Speaker 2: Made it easy to come into.

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Speaker 1: Work, Yeah, because I mean coming into the NFL, you know,

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Speaker 1: program in this Giants franchise that's struggling this season. And

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Speaker 1: you mentioned how much this team kind of steps together.

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Speaker 1: That's hard to do. Through that kind of adversity, you know.

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Speaker 1: I mean, oftentimes you see a team going through losing

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Speaker 4: How did this one stay together?

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Speaker 2: Good people?

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Speaker 3: I think, just great guys in the locker room that

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Speaker 3: loved going to work with each other every single day.

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Speaker 3: I just I think we had a lot more fun

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Speaker 3: So just the energy that everybody brought. You know, everybody's

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Now you have a younger brother, Jordan, who's still playing

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Speaker 3: Uh? Honestly no, I feel like he really he's got

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Speaker 3: a lot more figured out than I did.

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Speaker 2: That. Yeah, he's he's got it going on, but he'll

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Speaker 4: I think what makes you say that?

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Speaker 3: I mean, I just feel like Jojo has always just

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Speaker 3: been a kid that's just figured it out, you know,

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Speaker 3: no matter what his circumstance, his environment is. He came

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Speaker 3: But you know, he's gonna be great.

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Speaker 1: Having that football family vibe though, too, I'm sure is

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Speaker 1: a great support system for both of you, right, for.

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Speaker 2: Both sides, my mom and my dad's side as well.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, now going into this off season, your first pro

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Speaker 1: off season, how do you approach it?

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Speaker 4: What's your plan?

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Speaker 1: Obviously you got some physical recovery to go through, but

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Speaker 1: what is your goal for yourself this offseason?

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Speaker 2: Honestly, just just come back better.

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Speaker 3: Definitely take care of this foot first, but just making

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Speaker 3: sure that I'm staying on top of everything and coming

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Speaker 3: back smarter, better, more prepared and ready to go and

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Speaker 3: ready to lead in the twenty twenty five seasons.

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Speaker 4: What does comeback better look like? Is there a tangible

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Speaker 3: No, exactly right now, just honestly just improving everything. I

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Speaker 3: just feel like if you get better at one thing

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Speaker 3: every single day, you're gonna you know, be better in

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Speaker 2: So not really too much right now.

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Speaker 1: When you guys had a meeting at the end of

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Speaker 1: the season with the coaching staff as a team and

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Speaker 1: all that.

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Speaker 4: What was their message.

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Speaker 3: To you, Oh, well, as a group, really, it was

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Speaker 3: just making sure that we know that this is a

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Speaker 2: Make sure we're coming back ready to go. I just

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Speaker 3: I come back the most ready out of anybody in

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Speaker 3: come back ready to leave.

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Speaker 4: You can to take some time for yourself personally.

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Speaker 1: I know you recently got engaged, so big big news

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Speaker 1: in the personal life, but how are you going to

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Speaker 1: take care of yourself this off season as well?

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Speaker 3: I'm going to Jamaica, me and yeah, me and wife.

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Speaker 3: We were going and we're going to Jamaica. God, probably

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Speaker 3: a couple more cheers planned, but we haven't deided yet,

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Speaker 3: but definitely definitely going to spend a lot of time.

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Speaker 2: With her and the family for sure.

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Speaker 4: Amazing. I gotta have a little bit of balance in

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Speaker 4: the off season. I can take it right. Awesome.

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Speaker 1: Well, Tyler Newven, congratulations on a great rookie season and

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Speaker 1: wishing you much more success.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much, appreciate it.