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Speaker 1: Colts linebacker balling out Zaire. Franklin is with a Zaire,

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Speaker 1: thanks for the time, man. How are you today? I'm good,

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Speaker 1: I'm good. How are you doing today? I'm taking I'm

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Speaker 1: taking it one day at a time, just like you

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Speaker 1: guys are one game at a time. With that of mind,

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Speaker 1: take me back to last week. How important was it

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Speaker 1: stop a three game losing skid, and also get a

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Speaker 1: Saturday there? Oh, I mean it was huge, Um, you

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Speaker 1: know for a lot of reasons. A lot of emotions

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Speaker 1: last week, a lot of ups and downs, like I

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Speaker 1: finally show up. Man, you know, everybody do what they

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Speaker 1: say they wanted to do. I'm on Sunday. Definitely something great,

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Speaker 1: you know for you know, for our organization and something

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Speaker 1: for us to build on, you know, moving forward? Right

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Speaker 1: loaded question here, I know, what has it been like

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Speaker 1: to be you the last eleven days or so? Because

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Speaker 1: I know you've been your listen. I know you're close

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Speaker 1: with head coach Frank Reich. Yeah, you know, Jeff Saturday

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Speaker 1: Changes all around you. How have you as a leader

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Speaker 1: on this team, how have you processed all of this? Um?

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Speaker 1: Honestly just taking a day by day. Um, that's really

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Speaker 1: just how I do. Just putting out, you know, whatever

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Speaker 1: I guess the way I was doing it just making

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Speaker 1: the person that didn't need me to be. How difficult

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Speaker 1: is it to carve out Zyr's time, right, because you're

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Speaker 1: you're balancing you're still a dad and a husband, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean that's that's tough. Yeah, you gotta steal it.

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Speaker 1: You gotta steal it. My fiance. She always yells at

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Speaker 1: uh now, it's always it's always good obviously seeing your

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Speaker 1: You know. Every time I get to go home and

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Speaker 1: definitely got to you know, get you a little one

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Speaker 1: on one time. No job about that. That's well said,

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Speaker 1: right there, Zaire Franklin with US Colts linebacker. Now on

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Speaker 1: the other side of the coin, how have you seen

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Speaker 1: the locker room respond to Jeff Saturday. Um, honestly, it's

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Speaker 1: he's been through a lot. I mean, there's nobody that

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Speaker 1: loves ball and loves the camaraderie of the locker room

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Speaker 1: of like what he's been through mentally and psychologically trying

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Speaker 1: to get back and knowing that his body's just not cooperating. Man. Um,

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Speaker 1: it's just been you know, feels like a never ending

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Speaker 1: I could just feel the frustration coming out of you know,

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Speaker 1: there's always something else. Um. You know, he's doing every

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Speaker 1: literally everything he can. You know, it's times we got

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Speaker 1: to leave it, man, Like I gotta go get on

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Speaker 1: the table. He's on the table till twelve in the morning,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean, one in the morning, just

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Speaker 1: trying to get the ankle right, trying to get his

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Speaker 1: literally every single thing he possibly can, just try to,

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Speaker 1: start to get progress and then you get another setback,

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Speaker 1: it's just extremely disappointing. But you know we definitely you know,

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Speaker 1: their for him. You know we got this back no

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Speaker 1: matter what. We always tell them that, and we're gonna

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Speaker 1: help him, support him any everywhere we can. Zaire Franklin

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Speaker 1: with us. All Right, the Eagles eight and one, are

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Speaker 1: they for real? Yeah? I mean they're a good team,

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Speaker 1: you know, I think you know, anytime you're able to

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Speaker 1: go undefeat it, like you know, regardless of you know,

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Speaker 1: who you play or whatever, that sure you win. It's

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Speaker 1: hard to win every game, and this is the NFL.

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Speaker 1: Everybody's good, so you know, definitely put us in them.

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Speaker 1: But you know, they're a great team, and you know,

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Speaker 1: we're just looking forward to the challenge. You know, every

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Speaker 1: team has weaknesses, um, and you know we're just looking

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Speaker 1: to exploit that. What would it mean to get this

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Speaker 1: win against a guy you know well and Nick Sirianni,

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Speaker 1: but also to as you said, keep stacking good performances

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Speaker 1: off to a slow start. We made changes, but we're

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Speaker 1: still a good ball club here. Yeah, I think the

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Speaker 1: biggest message is always, you know, it's it's the it's

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Speaker 1: the biggest game of the season, just because it's the

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Speaker 1: next game. You know, this is kind of how we

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Speaker 1: always got to approach. Um. Yes, we got a great

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Speaker 1: opponent coming in. Yes, a lot of hype. You know,

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Speaker 1: I'm probably the most popular team in the NFL right now,

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Speaker 1: and oh that's cool. But the biggest thing for us

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Speaker 1: is get back to and just go play our game.

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Speaker 1: We know when we play our game, we know we're

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Speaker 1: a dominant defense. We know we're our offense that could

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Speaker 1: run the ball, hit shots, and we know we're special

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Speaker 1: teams that make difference. So, um, I think we just

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Speaker 1: play our game. You know, we're back home defending Lucas

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Speaker 1: Oil like we always want to. Um, you know, have

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Speaker 1: a great game on Sunday, and just get this thing rolling.

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Speaker 1: I told you guys, it only takes one. It just

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Speaker 1: takes one, and get going to one. That's true. Let's

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Speaker 1: just get it rolling, so true, so true, no doubt

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Speaker 1: about that. I could talk to you all day, and

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Speaker 1: my friend, I appreciate the time, best of luck on Sunday,

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Speaker 1: stay warm, cold weather and snow in November. Man was

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Speaker 1: supposed to be maybe in December, but not yet. But

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Speaker 1: I appreciate the time is always good luck. All right,

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Speaker 1: let's say thank you,