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Speaker 1: How did you find out about the trade? Where were

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Speaker 1: you and what do you remember most about it?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so I was actually in Uganda a couple of

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Speaker 2: days ago before the trade happened. And yeah, so it

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Speaker 2: wasn't much of like a surprise because obviously, like I

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Speaker 2: knew that it was a possibility and knew that it

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Speaker 2: was gonna happen. And then I got on the phone

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Speaker 2: with coach Mike and just the way that he was

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Speaker 2: talking and just his like enthusiasticness and his passion, Like

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Speaker 2: I just really saw a vision like for me to

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Speaker 2: come in here and play and hopefully help this team

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Speaker 2: win lots of games.

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Speaker 1: What will it be like do you think playing with

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Speaker 1: DK Metcalf another physical receiver?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, I mean it's gonna be fun. Like I actually

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Speaker 2: texted him and just let him know that it's gonna

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Speaker 2: be a lot of physical ball, and I think that

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Speaker 2: we're gonna have lots of fun.

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Speaker 1: What else do you know about the Steelers offense?

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Speaker 2: Well, I know that we got a group of younger

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Speaker 2: guys too. I know that Mike likes to throw the

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Speaker 2: ball a lot, you know, and with Rico now you know,

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Speaker 2: like he's been playing playing great. So just know that

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Speaker 2: this offense can be explosive. You know, you got Darnell Washington,

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Speaker 2: you got Pat too, So like I feel like there's

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Speaker 2: a lot of really skilled guys here.

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Speaker 1: Does it matter that there's not necessarily a quote unquote

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Speaker 1: number one quarterback that you know of right now?

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Speaker 2: Oh? No, I mean that doesn't bother me. I mean, like,

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Speaker 2: if you look at my history, I've had a different

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Speaker 2: quarterback every single year I've been in the NFL, and

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Speaker 2: even back to college. I think in college I had

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Speaker 2: Sam Darnold for one and a half years, So like

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Speaker 2: that's the longest stretch I've had the same quarterback. So

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Speaker 2: I'm no stranger to like turn over and change and

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Speaker 2: whoever out there, Like, I'm gonna do my best to

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Speaker 2: help him out and just do whatever I can to

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Speaker 2: make their job easier.

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Speaker 1: You had over one hundred receiving yards when you were

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Speaker 1: here in Pittsburgh last season. And the physicality do you

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Speaker 1: feel like you give off hinz Ward vibes? Almost?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So I've actually got that a lot, especially early

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Speaker 2: in my career, talking about like the like blocking aspect,

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Speaker 2: because that's something that I take pride in is going

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Speaker 2: out there and blocking and just that like physicality. So

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Speaker 2: I mean that's like the ultimate compliment, I think, because

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Speaker 2: he was a great player and everything that he's done here.

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Speaker 2: So I hope to continue to do that, and I

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Speaker 2: hope that Steelers fans can see that same intensity that

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Speaker 2: he had in the way.

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Speaker 1: That I play now. In terms of off the field,

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Speaker 1: I had read that you and your brother started an

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Speaker 1: aviation school and you're working towards your pilot's license. How

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Speaker 1: did this happen?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so I actually have my pilot's license now, okay.

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Speaker 2: And all started with him. So he played football and

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Speaker 2: he had to medically retired due to a neck injury.

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Speaker 2: He didn't really know like what he was gonna do,

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Speaker 2: and then he got into flying planes and he asked

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Speaker 2: me to buy a plane that he could teach people in.

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Speaker 2: So a month later he calls me, he's like, hey,

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Speaker 2: we need two planes. We need another instructor. And then

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Speaker 2: like another month went by he's like, all right, we

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Speaker 2: need three more planes. We need a front desk person,

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Speaker 2: we need a hangar, we need this and that, and

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Speaker 2: then it just blossomed into a full scale company and

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Speaker 2: now I think we have over thirty five students right now.

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Speaker 2: We have seven planes, Like it's just crazy, like where

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Speaker 2: it went, Like I didn't see this happening, and it's

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Speaker 2: all because of him and his passion like that he

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Speaker 2: has towards a flying very cool. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Is there anything else that you want Stealers Nation to

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Speaker 1: know about? You?

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Speaker 2: Just know that I'm gonna come in every single day

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Speaker 2: and just bring that fire and passion and that I'm

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Speaker 2: excited to get to work.

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Speaker 1: Perfect. Thank you very much, thank you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah,