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Speaker 3: Where just can I explain the impact that they had

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Speaker 3: My dad introduced football to me when I was six

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Speaker 2: So you know, they're a huge reason why I'm here today.

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Speaker 4: It was a return man receiver as well, obviously positions

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Speaker 4: that you've played. But was it kind of your goal

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I got to that point, but I was actually

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Speaker 3: playing quarterback at you football growing up, so I was

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Speaker 3: I started playing receiver when I got to high school,

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Speaker 3: and then that's when I could, you know, look up

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Speaker 3: to him and following his footsteps.

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Speaker 1: You mentioned last night that you talked to Brandon Auk.

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Speaker 1: After you were drafted to you had an opportunity to

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Speaker 2: No, I haven't.

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Speaker 3: I just recently met Deebo though he's over training in

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Speaker 2: But yeah, he's good people too, so.

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Speaker 1: Connected with bron Perty at all.

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Speaker 3: He just reached out to me this morning, just congratulating me,

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Speaker 3: saying we won't get to work, and you know that's

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Speaker 3: for sure. And he's from Arizona, so we're gonna get

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Speaker 1: Discuss the seven several hours since your.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I just told him, I'm happy that I'm on

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Speaker 5: Several hours since you got picked to me. But what

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Speaker 2: What did you have to do?

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Speaker 5: You have to get to the airport you just landed

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Speaker 3: Yeah, man, it's been a real moment for sure. I'm

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Speaker 3: just trying to soak it all the man be with

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Speaker 3: I'll be my family's here, my girlfriends here, so you know,

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Speaker 2: Would it like to be here? And you know we're

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Speaker 2: having a great time today. So then you've had twenty

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Speaker 4: What does it mean to you to be drafted in

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Speaker 4: the first round by the San Francisco.

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Speaker 1: Forty nine ers.

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Speaker 3: That's a that's a. That's a great question. Words can't

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Speaker 5: Man.

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Speaker 2: You know, it hasn't hit, It hasn't hit yet.

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Speaker 3: Just trying to soak it all in, like I said, Man,

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Speaker 2: Man, and you know I'm improving them right.

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Speaker 3: So I'm looking forward to, you know, getting the work

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Speaker 1: CJ.

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Speaker 6: Stroud might be your biggest fan.

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Speaker 6: Do you what was your reaction when you I assume

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we're communicating a little bit. We're just showing our

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Speaker 3: And he was just you know, giving his respect to

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Speaker 6: If you had a chance to go out check out

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Speaker 2: So it was it was a cool thing. There a

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Speaker 4: What did you do to develop from you know, when

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Speaker 2: Yeah, man, just putting the work each and every day.

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Speaker 3: And I just got to give all credit to my coaches,

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Speaker 2: So just put in the work for it.

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Speaker 1: Your biggest influence and mentor to help you with your

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Speaker 3: It's a tough question because I had a lot of

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Speaker 3: So it's hard to pick one out of a bunch.

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Speaker 3: But I think all of them played an equal role

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Speaker 3: I think it's you know, the game looks a little

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Speaker 1: Returning in college. Has there been any indication that that's

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Speaker 2: Sure? That's something that I'm definitely gonna harp on doing,

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Speaker 6: Hammers asked who you remind him of? He said, Kyle Shanahan,

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Speaker 6: since you're better at everything. He was, I don't feel

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Speaker 6: I said that a highlight tape, But do you know

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Speaker 3: I gotta see the tape. I gotta see the tap.

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Speaker 3: I gotta watch the tape. So if you guys can

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Speaker 3: find to cut up for me, it's sending my way,

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Speaker 3: I gotta watch it. But that's that's a great compliment though,

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Speaker 2: I don't know. I gotta see the tape, Like I said, we're.

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Speaker 5: Had some really good stuff to say about you, apparently

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Speaker 5: of your transfer more to a grimonious at all. How

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Speaker 3: Yeah, man, I was just put in a position where

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Speaker 2: You know, you're with.

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Speaker 1: Kyle Shannangan's system and what you're going to be asked

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Speaker 3: Well, I think that's one of my strong suits, just

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Speaker 3: I'm excited to see where he's putting me in, uh,

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Speaker 2: Though. You pattern yourself after, kind of modeled your game

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Speaker 3: I watched a lot with Bena, so he was my teammate.

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Speaker 3: So you know, watching a dude like that really helped me,

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Speaker 3: You know, they're doing at a high level, having high

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Speaker 1: Where did that philosophy come from?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, just I mean that just comes from, you know,

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Speaker 6: And offense loaded with weapons, how do you hope to

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Speaker 3: Just add into the the arsenal really of all the

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Speaker 3: and look forward to doing that for this program.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah,