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Speaker 1: NFL Free agency for the Indianapolis Colts continues. We're back

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Speaker 1: inside the Indiana Union Construction Industry radio studio. Good to

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Speaker 1: be with you. I'm Matt Taylor. JJ Stangovitz is across

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Speaker 1: the way chatting up now. Free agent for the Colts.

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Speaker 1: The newest Cults that is Sampson, ebcom defensive end joining

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Speaker 1: the team in free agency. Sampson, thanks for the time, man,

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Speaker 1: It's great to meet you. How are you apreciation man,

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Speaker 1: It's great, man. I just got here not too long

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Speaker 1: ago and already feel welcome. Yeah, It's it's one of

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Speaker 1: those things where there's a lot of excitement this type

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Speaker 1: of year or this time of year. I should say

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Speaker 1: for you when you signed this deal with the Colts,

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Speaker 1: what are some things that attracted you to the Colts

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Speaker 1: and ultimately led you to this decision. I mean, definitely

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Speaker 1: the money is a big factor because I get to

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Speaker 1: like take care of my family and just being this

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Speaker 1: organization that's like so deeply routed in football, Like I

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Speaker 1: know that there's a lot of history here, so I'm

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Speaker 1: trying to just make sure I leave my print in

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Speaker 1: it as well. And a defense is something that I'm

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Speaker 1: familiar with. Already just because like I kind of played

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Speaker 1: the similar thing with the forty nine ers, so I

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Speaker 1: feel like it's just gonna be a great fit. Tell

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Speaker 1: us more about the similarity there, because I know San

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Speaker 1: Francisco plays that attacking front under Chris Kasurik, but coming

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Speaker 1: here the same same idea, same strategy, same idea, same mentality.

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Speaker 1: You know, probably got to tweak some things here, and

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Speaker 1: they're based on what the coach wants. But I'm adaptable,

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Speaker 1: you know, and I'm just I'm here just so I

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Speaker 1: can make sure that I can put my best fee

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Speaker 1: forward and help the team get on the right path

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Speaker 1: to win. How does that penetrating style benefit your game?

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Speaker 1: How do you how do you fit with it? It's easy.

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Speaker 1: I an't gotta think. I just kind of go, you know,

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Speaker 1: if you eliminate the thinking out of the game for

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Speaker 1: the D line, and they can play a lot better,

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Speaker 1: you know, and just play faster, and we can just

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Speaker 1: mess things up in the front and then whoever that's

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Speaker 1: in the back and clean it up. At Samson Ebcom.

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Speaker 1: With us defensive end joining the team in free agency,

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Speaker 1: you just talked about the style of defense for you.

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Speaker 1: You're a really good player and both rushing downs and

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Speaker 1: passing downs. Consistent guy that can get after the quarterback

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Speaker 1: that it can also track down running backs. With that

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Speaker 1: in mind, how would you describe your game? Like, what

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Speaker 1: what kind of player are you? For those that are

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Speaker 1: unfamiliar with your game coming from the West coast now

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Speaker 1: to the Midwest. I mean, it's kind of hard to say,

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Speaker 1: because I don't really I mean, I probably myself with

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Speaker 1: my effort, you know, and just how I play, and

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Speaker 1: that's how I've been my whole life. And it was

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Speaker 1: just because I kind of gotta think my dad for

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Speaker 1: what he instilled. I mean, he just liked to work

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Speaker 1: hard and just to keep my head down on grind.

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Speaker 1: And because of that, I mean, I'm always able to, like, uh,

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Speaker 1: keep going no matter what the circumstances. And it kind

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Speaker 1: of just shows in the football football field, because not

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Speaker 1: everything will be perfect, but if you keep going and

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Speaker 1: you're gonna make the plays that you need to make. Right.

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Speaker 1: The guys you played with over the course of your career,

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Speaker 1: Aaron Donald, Eric Armstad, Nick Bosa, now you come here.

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Speaker 1: He playing with the Forrest Buckner, Grover Stewart, Quitty. Hey,

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Speaker 1: what excites about the group of guys you're joining here.

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Speaker 1: That's pretty awesome. Like I've watched the film of them

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Speaker 1: a lot, and uh we sang high praises of them

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Speaker 1: when I was back in the forty nine ers. I

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Speaker 1: just see their effort and how they played well together,

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Speaker 1: and just to be a part of that got to

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Speaker 1: elevate my game even more. So, I'm I'm excited just

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Speaker 1: to be in a room with them. And I've heard

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Speaker 1: a lot about them, and I heard that they're like

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Speaker 1: real general journalist, like genuine dudes, So like, all right,

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Speaker 1: so it's gonna be awesome to be a part of it.

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Speaker 1: That's exactly right, no doubt about that. Now, studying up

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Speaker 1: on you watching your game from AFAR, noticing that you've

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Speaker 1: only missed two games. Is that right? Two games in

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Speaker 1: your career? Unfortunately, Well, that's a great approach to it.

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Speaker 1: What's your secret? What are some things and steps that

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Speaker 1: you take in order to keep your body right and

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Speaker 1: to stay available for the teams that you're on. A

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Speaker 1: lot of it is really just mentality because some of

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Speaker 1: the things that I play with, like not of the

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Speaker 1: people can really play through and um, yeah, it's just

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Speaker 1: like a mentality that I don't I don't want to

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Speaker 1: miss a game because you never know what's going to

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Speaker 1: happen in that game, you know, and the rest of it.

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Speaker 1: Like as as I've gotten like further into my career,

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Speaker 1: like I kind of figured out what worked for me

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Speaker 1: just to keep my body healthy, whether it's like massage,

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Speaker 1: acupuncture or like anything like that, and I've I've been

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Speaker 1: blessed for sure. God has definitely blessed me with the

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Speaker 1: ability just to keep playing. If Colts fans are looking for,

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Speaker 1: you know, a way to get to know you by

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Speaker 1: watching one of your your best games, you got a

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Speaker 1: game in mind that fans should go watch. Um, definitely

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Speaker 1: the Monday night game with the Chiefs. That was one

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Speaker 1: of you with the pick sex. Yeah. And then another

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Speaker 1: one would be last year versus the Rams. I had

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Speaker 1: two sacks on that one and then another one. I

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Speaker 1: didn't have a sack this game, but I just felt like, uh,

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Speaker 1: I was just disrupting everything that they threw at me.

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Speaker 1: Was the Saints last year? How do you how do

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Speaker 1: you you talk about being disruptive aout getting sack um,

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Speaker 1: you know, sacks or you know they kind of come

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Speaker 1: and go, but that level of disruption, how how important

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Speaker 1: is it to you? Just be consistent with that and

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Speaker 1: then let the sacks kind of faller the may. That's

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Speaker 1: very important because I mean, I want sacks, and I'm

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Speaker 1: really pissed whenever I don't get him because I'm disrupting

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Speaker 1: so much. But I've been I've been all preyed up

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Speaker 1: for a while now, so I know that the sacks

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Speaker 1: will come in God's timing, right. But the disruption factor

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Speaker 1: is definitely it helps a lot as well because the

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Speaker 1: people and people that's in the back, the linebackers are

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Speaker 1: the safeties. Uh, they might be able to get a

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Speaker 1: pick just because I got like a pressure on the quarterback. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and that's that's pretty big because that's a game change

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Speaker 1: in play. So little things like that, Um, it might

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Speaker 1: not add up on the stat sheet for me, but

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Speaker 1: I know that it's going to help you to win

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Speaker 1: the game. And if I can help to win the game,

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Speaker 1: then that's all. That's what I'm about at Sampson ebcom

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Speaker 1: with us defensive and he joins the team in free agency.

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Speaker 1: And I read coming out of high school that you

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Speaker 1: only had two Division one offers. One of them was

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Speaker 1: to Eastern Washington, where you went to school. How much

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Speaker 1: pride do you take in the fact that you know

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Speaker 1: you weren't highly sought after coming out of high school

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Speaker 1: and now here you are in the NFL one of

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Speaker 1: the most consistent defensive ends. Like you said, you can

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Speaker 1: play the run, you can play the pass. I mean,

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Speaker 1: do you ever kind of reflect on your journey and

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Speaker 1: now you're getting this contract with the Colton free agency? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean I never really took a the time to

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Speaker 1: like a couple of weeks ago, and I was like, wow,

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Speaker 1: so I really came from Yeah, this started here. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: this is why I really started in David Douglas High School.

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Speaker 1: And I just kind of grinded. Yeah, I just kind

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Speaker 1: of grinded and just put in the extra work and

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Speaker 1: put my head down. Like I knew that I had

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Speaker 1: a chance to definitely come to the NFL. And we

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Speaker 1: had Cooper Cup as well, and I knew that, uh

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Speaker 1: in pro day that a lot of the scouts we're

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Speaker 1: gonna come look at him. But I was just like,

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Speaker 1: I just need one or two to turn my way.

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Speaker 1: And I've heard I've heard people that's gone through from

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Speaker 1: really complain, like it could always be worse. Like you said,

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Speaker 1: you grew up on the West Coast, Uh played San Francisco,

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Speaker 1: played for the La Rams. Now you're here in the Midwest,

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Speaker 1: in Indianapolis. I know it's only been a short time,

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Speaker 1: but what do you think of the city, the landscape,

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Speaker 1: the weather, just your adjustment coming from the West Coast

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Speaker 1: to Indianapolis. Here, this weather, it's this. It'll get better,

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Speaker 1: I promise, that's what I mean told. I'm like, it'll

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Speaker 1: be hot, it'll be human around training camp, it'll feel

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Speaker 1: like la a little bit. Yeah, it's smooth though, you know.

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Speaker 1: I mean I've played in code games, like even in

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Speaker 1: CHENI like the coldest game that we have was like

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Speaker 1: negative ten chill, so I played. I played in cold games,

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Speaker 1: so I'm not really worried about it. I just got

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Speaker 1: to get all my jackets and yeah, I'll be and

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Speaker 1: you'll be. Everything. Everything will be swea I like it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so far, like everything's just like very calm and uh

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Speaker 1: kind of slow, which is which is good because then

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Speaker 1: I can just focus on football. There's not really much

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Speaker 1: definitely have a positive effect. Yeah. Well he's in the heartland.

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Speaker 1: He's a who's your now, that's Samson, evercom defensive end

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Speaker 1: now in Indianapolis. Colt, thank you so much for the time.

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Speaker 1: Great to meet you, and best of luck. You're in

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Speaker 1: the off season workout program. Appreciate you. Thank you.