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Speaker 1: What would you say about the culture here, you know,

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Speaker 1: in the workouts in the locker room. I mean, the

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Speaker 1: biggest impression is that everyone just comes in here on

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Speaker 1: what it is. You know, everyone's here to get better.

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Speaker 1: Should you give us a sense of help? This whole

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Speaker 1: kind of came together for you. Were you surprised when

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Speaker 1: you got the call? Were you excited about? What was?

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Speaker 1: What was that process like for you? Um? So it

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Speaker 1: was actually kind of a crazy store how this whole

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Speaker 1: Saturday from my agent saying, hey, you know they're interested,

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Speaker 1: they want you to come up and visit. But you know,

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Speaker 1: my wife was almost nine months pregnant and we're like,

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Speaker 1: you know, we can have the baby any day now.

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Speaker 1: And so I talk to my wife, you know, um,

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Speaker 1: I'd really like to go up there, and you know

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Speaker 1: it's a team i'd love to play for. So she's like, Okay,

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Speaker 1: just get up there and then get back as soon

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Speaker 1: as you can. So um on earth. Yeah, So Sunday

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Speaker 1: I get the call from you know, I just saying like, hey,

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Speaker 1: once you up there on Monday. Um, so I fly

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Speaker 1: out on Sunday, which is Easter, get in and then

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Speaker 1: you know, meet with all the coaches and I mean

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Speaker 1: it's just awesome. They're just um, they're just on top

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Speaker 1: and I called her. I'm like, I called my wife

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Speaker 1: and I was just like, hey, you know you're all right,

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Speaker 1: Just want to make sure everything's good. And she's like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: we're ahead of the hospital. I think my water broke

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Speaker 1: and so so you know, I'm stuck here and we're

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Speaker 1: kind of like, well, can I got an earlier flight out?

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Speaker 1: Blah blah blah you know, and I pretty much met

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Speaker 1: with everybody and but you know, the flight that I

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Speaker 1: had was the best flight to get on. So flew back,

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Speaker 1: made it back to the hospital, was able to get

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Speaker 1: we had my baby daughter. So yeah, crazy turn of events,

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Speaker 1: but so romy Nicholas, yeah ro o m y. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it a long. It wasn't a long fight right as

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Speaker 1: long as flight of my life. You know, I'm not

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Speaker 1: sure if I was going to make it back or not.

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Speaker 1: So where was the fight too? Back to Phoenix earlier?

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Speaker 1: Was that just about the right time? Two days early? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so April fifth was the due date. Sure, you're about

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Speaker 1: to start catching footballs from Tom Brady. Um, what conversations

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Speaker 1: have you had with him? And understanding how much he

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Speaker 1: utilizes your position? What excites you about it? Um? You know,

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Speaker 1: it's just like the first couple of days of OTAs

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Speaker 1: and we haven't really gotten anything specific, and everything that

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Speaker 1: I do here is going to have to be earned,

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Speaker 1: and so um, you know, we haven't got any intaining specifics,

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Speaker 1: and so I'm just looking forward to getting to getting

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Speaker 1: to work and you know, showing them what I can do.

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Speaker 1: And then you know, you know, I faith that they'll

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Speaker 1: they'll place me where they think I can best help

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Speaker 1: the team. The roser don't know you what would you

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Speaker 1: say the strength center your dam um? I'd say blocking, um,

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Speaker 1: first of all, and then you know those like close

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Speaker 1: quarters you know, uh, you know, ten to fourteen yard

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Speaker 1: range and in between the numbers and catching well in

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Speaker 1: terms of the timeline, you know, after your child was born.

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Speaker 1: How much longer until you've got the contract and decided

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Speaker 1: to end up in doing what it? Um, So pretty

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Speaker 1: much when I got here, I you know, I had

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Speaker 1: gone around and UM pretty much knew instantly, you know,

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Speaker 1: You know, was just like telling my wife, UM, you

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Speaker 1: made you think that? Um, you know, just the people,

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Speaker 1: UM number one. UM, everyone's very dedicated, they're hard working,

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Speaker 1: me a lot of the time I spent at Notre Dame.

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Speaker 1: You know, there's some similar contrast with the type of

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Speaker 1: was most excited about my visit. When you were coming

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Speaker 1: Patriots and like back then even it might yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: before the draft, and you know, I was really excited

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Speaker 1: how the draft is. You know, you don't really get

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Speaker 1: my time in Arizona, very thankful that they drafted me

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Speaker 1: and had, you know, a great time there. So what

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Speaker 1: I'm really excited about it. He's obviously one of the

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Speaker 1: excited to learn from him and play with it. And

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Speaker 1: then you know, yeah, what do you think you can

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Speaker 1: learn from him? Um? It's kind of hard to say exactly,

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Speaker 1: but there's just something about you know, players um like

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Speaker 1: I'm just excited to learn some of those like little

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Speaker 1: things that he does in his game. UM that makes

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Speaker 1: him great. Have you had a chance to talk to

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Speaker 1: him that, Um, you know, it's you know, we're just

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Speaker 1: have kind of modeled your game after going in college.

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Speaker 1: In college. Um, you know, when I was in college,

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Speaker 1: I was I didn't watch like a ton of football

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Speaker 1: But um, you know when I was coming out for

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Speaker 1: For who told you you were similar to groundcast was

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Speaker 1: you know how they like do that. It's kind of

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Speaker 1: a disgrace to the players in the NFL. It's a

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Speaker 1: roaming with you or like how is that? Are you

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Speaker 1: gonna give them to come up? Yeah? So they they

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Speaker 1: on Saturday, and it was only you know, ten days

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Speaker 1: with the Yeah, that's first, and you came easter Sunday,

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Speaker 1: that was your trip. Yeah, came out landed around you know, eleven,

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Speaker 1: Coast time, So I got out that like twenty to twenty.

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Speaker 1: But so you loving this weather, you know, Um, it's

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Speaker 1: it's just like perfect every day almost, So it's kind

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Speaker 1: of nice to get you know, some some clouds and

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Speaker 1: some rain for once, that's all different. Yeah, very much,

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Speaker 1: So thanks Troy, all right, thank you very much. Congratulations,

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Speaker 1: thank you