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Speaker 1: by Andrew Callahan. Oh yeah, Dannie, welcome to New England.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Alan, appreciate it, my pleasure. Got a question for

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Speaker 1: into your decision to sign here? Yeah? Absolutely, U you

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Speaker 1: know it's it's there's only a handful of teams in

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Speaker 1: Thanks Danny. My next question Andrew killing him. Hey, Dan,

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Speaker 1: for you so far. I've been great. Actually, a little

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Speaker 1: Appreciate you great? Definitely. Do you prefer to go by

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Speaker 1: Dan or Danny? Uh, It's funny, I actually go by Danny. Um,

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Speaker 1: I'm a full names Dan Michael Vitally the third. So, um,

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Speaker 1: you know my grandfather who passed last year, but he

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Speaker 1: was always Dan. My dad was Danny, and then I

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Speaker 1: was always little Danny. But uh, I'm the biggest out

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Speaker 1: I've graduated to Danny. So so we'll go with Danny.

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Speaker 1: And and what is your daughter's name if if you

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Speaker 1: don't mind me asking. Yeah, her name's Bella, Bella Lynn.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, we kept a little little Italian there

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Speaker 1: in the beginning. Still there you go. Well, congratulations on that.

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Speaker 1: And I just wanted to follow up on something you

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Speaker 1: had mentioned when you were talking about the fullbacks and

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Speaker 1: how everyone sort of brings something different, um to that group.

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Speaker 1: What for those who aren't as familiar with your style

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Speaker 1: that position? Yeah? Absolutely, Um, you know, when I was

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Speaker 1: I kind of had to learn how to play as

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Speaker 1: a different type of fullback in different types of offenses

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Speaker 1: over the last couple of years. Like we were talking

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Speaker 1: when I was in Tampa Bay, I was more of

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Speaker 1: in Green Bay did a little bit of both. I

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Speaker 1: was kind of all over the field. They would split

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Speaker 1: I think the biggest thing that I've learned about my

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Speaker 1: to be versatile and trying to use, you know, my

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Speaker 1: so whenever they need somebody to step in, I can

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Speaker 1: fill that role. So um. You know, that's kind of

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Speaker 1: how I would describe my style of play. Appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: We have got two final questions Megan to Brian and

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Speaker 1: philpt H Danny, congratulations to you and Kay. Thanks Megan,

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Speaker 1: go cats for those I don't know we went to

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Speaker 1: question about that versatility. You moved around and played in

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Speaker 1: a lot of different spots, but what do you feel

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Speaker 1: like it's really your strong point as a fullback? Yeah? Absolutely, Um,

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Speaker 1: you know I think my abilities with the ball in

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Speaker 1: my hands as well. UM, that's a that's a huge

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Speaker 1: advantage I think, UM in my style of play, UM

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Speaker 1: is being able to be a playmaker when you need it. UM.

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Speaker 1: I think it showed a little bit last year as well,

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Speaker 1: UM in Green Bay and UM looking forward to hopefully

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Speaker 1: getting some more opportunities to do that here in the

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Speaker 1: near future. I will say at the end of the

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Speaker 1: the tough guy and having that mentality is important and

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Speaker 1: that's something I feel like I can bring as well.

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Speaker 1: I'll do any job that they ask me to do. Um.

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Speaker 1: You know, I'll play hard every single play, and you

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Speaker 1: Ye last lation pheel period, Hey Danny, thanks for doing

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Speaker 1: this of course. Thanks Phil. Sort of building on the

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Speaker 1: last two questions there. I'm curious just because the fullback position,

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Speaker 1: have a relationship with Kyle? Do you guys is there

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Speaker 1: a little fraternity of fullbacks in the NFL? And do

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Speaker 1: in the way it has last few years? Yeah? Absolutely. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, I actually talked to Kyle a bunch. Um,

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Speaker 1: he's a he's a good buddy of mine, and um,

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Speaker 1: you know, we got to do the whole jersey swap

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Speaker 1: and everything like that last year and um, you know,

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Speaker 1: playing him twice last year when I was in Green Bay,

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Speaker 1: Green Bay. But yeah, I think he's, like you said,

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Speaker 1: of teams are moving towards. Um, obviously, every offense is different,

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Speaker 1: great things, uh you know, since his career in Baltimore

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Speaker 1: he's kind of the player that I like to model

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Speaker 1: you know, different teams have different schemes and need their

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Speaker 1: fullbacks to fill different roles. So obviously that's you know,

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Speaker 1: I think he's a good guy to look up to. UM.

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Speaker 1: As far as there being a full back fraternity, that's

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Speaker 1: that's definitely something that was kind of kicked off all

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Speaker 1: gear and clothing and everything. So we've we've all become

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Speaker 1: you know, pretty good buddies over the last year or so,

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Speaker 1: I would say, and we keep in contact and it's

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Speaker 1: fun watching a lot of guys have some success to

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Speaker 1: Is there a is there a mottel that that's slapped

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Speaker 1: you guy? Yeah, yeah, Keith. Keith put make fullbacks great again,

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Speaker 1: So we all kind of bought into that. I think

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Speaker 1: even James got some some hats and stuff from Keith,

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Speaker 1: and UM, you know, I still talk to um. Uh,

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Speaker 1: you know obviously Kyle and everything. He wrote that on

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Speaker 1: the jersey that that we swapped. So um, you know,

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Speaker 1: we're doing our best to keep the fullback position alive

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Speaker 1: and thriving. So thanks for at the end of course, Danny,

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Speaker 1: thank you very much. We appreciate it. We'll let you

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Speaker 1: you soon, we hope. Awesome. Thank you, thank you, every

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Speaker 1: appreciate it. Thanks, Thanks Fred