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Speaker 1: Thank you very much.

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Speaker 2: You have these forty plus days or training camp opened

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Speaker 2: and you weren't here. How did you stay positive? What

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Speaker 2: was going through your mind during.

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Speaker 3: That whole process?

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Speaker 1: A lot, definitely a lot of thinking. There's certain points

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Speaker 1: throughout it that are more stressful than others. But I

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Speaker 1: trust the team around me, and I know that they

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Speaker 1: have my best interest in mind. And I trusted the

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Speaker 1: forty nine ers organization and all of them to work

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Speaker 1: well with with my guys, and I had trust all along.

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Speaker 1: But it definitely was stressful.

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Speaker 2: A point late where you just told your representation get

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Speaker 2: it done. I don't care what it looks like.

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Speaker 1: I think that's always the goal. But I kind of

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Speaker 1: defer to Brian ay Roll. He's the best there is

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Speaker 1: and I trust him to tell me when it's time

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Speaker 1: when And yeah, he's he's as good as it gets.

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Speaker 1: It's fun to fun to watch him do his job.

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Speaker 3: Kyle was saying that as it came down to it

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Speaker 3: for the last weekend, he just resigned himself to the

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Speaker 3: fact that you weren't going to be here, just so

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Speaker 3: he would quit going back and forth in his mind.

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Speaker 3: Did did he get to that point for you? Did

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Speaker 3: you think that there was a good chance you were

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Speaker 3: not going to be here the first game.

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Speaker 1: I always I mean, you don't know what people are thinking.

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Speaker 1: You don't know really what's going to happen. You're just

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Speaker 1: getting updates every once in a while. And the closer

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Speaker 1: he got, the more it seemed like it was a possibility.

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Speaker 1: But I'm very appreciative of of this organization obviously for

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Speaker 1: believing in me, and the York Family for believing in me,

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Speaker 1: and I just want to thank them for for doing that,

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Speaker 1: and John, Lene and Kyle for believing in me. It's

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Speaker 1: definitely an honor to be able to be with this

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Speaker 1: organization for the majority of my career.

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Speaker 4: It was twenty nineteen a guide for you and that

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Speaker 4: you could, you know, go right up until the start

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Speaker 4: of the season and still perform.

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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I think I did kind of the same

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Speaker 1: thing in twenty one. I was around, but obviously, but

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Speaker 1: I wasn't really practicing as much. And yeah, I wanted

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Speaker 1: to get out here at least get a couple of

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Speaker 1: days in. And I mean, I've been training the whole time,

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Speaker 1: but it's different just doing all football stuff. And the

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Speaker 1: past two days it's felt really good. So I'm really confident, Mo,

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Speaker 1: since you've been able to.

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Speaker 2: Do to kind of duplicate what you can do on

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Speaker 2: the field or what you'll be asked to do on Sunday.

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Speaker 2: Is there anything in training that can really get you

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Speaker 2: ready for what you're going to go through on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. And my trainer, Todd Rice me. We work within

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Speaker 1: me and my brother, and all the stuff we're always

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Speaker 1: doing is training for to play the game. Obviously, it's

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Speaker 1: strengthening everything and just improving upon mobility and strength and

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Speaker 1: speed and all that stuff, and strengthening your hamstrings and

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Speaker 1: being ready to take on a seventeen game season. So

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Speaker 1: I've been doing all that, but you can't necessarily do

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Speaker 1: the reps. Obviously, you don't have offensive linemen to go against,

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Speaker 1: and you're obviously managing risk. So there's a little bit

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Speaker 1: of a difference there and it takes a little bit

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Speaker 1: of time. But I'm confident.

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Speaker 3: Playing for a new contract, to get the contract, and

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Speaker 3: then playing with it once you have it.

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Speaker 1: I haven't played yet, but I'm definitely thinking that it's

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Speaker 1: going to be a weight off my shoulders and I'm

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Speaker 1: just going to be able to really not really think

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Speaker 1: about all the negative thoughts that come along with playing

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Speaker 1: this game and just just be free out there and

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Speaker 1: play for one reason and to win games.

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Speaker 2: What are your realistic expectations for Sunday in terms of

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Speaker 2: what your workload?

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Speaker 1: How close to normal can you be? I am confident.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure what Kyle's plan is, but I'd be

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Speaker 1: up for normal workload for sure, but I haven't talked

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Speaker 1: to him yet.

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Speaker 4: Experience after the day, the days after the first game

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Speaker 4: in nineteen and twenty one, I made you feel more

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Speaker 4: sore for not having had going through training camp.

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Speaker 1: I feel like, maybe like your neck and just like

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Speaker 1: the initial contact that you go through playing football and

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Speaker 1: that stuff. But overall your hip flexers, you're growing and

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Speaker 1: stuff will probably feel a little more sore, but it's

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Speaker 1: all just adapting to playing the game.

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Speaker 2: From your teammates.

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Speaker 4: When you came back and what did it feel like

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Speaker 4: for you to be around the.

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Speaker 1: Team again, it was unbelievable. I've been waiting for that moment.

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Speaker 1: That's probably one of the biggest things I was excited for,

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Speaker 1: is to walk in the building and see all the guys.

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Speaker 1: I know they had my back. Players have each other's

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Speaker 1: back in this league because it's business at the end

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Speaker 1: of the day, and it was really cool to see

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Speaker 1: everybody back to back days.

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Speaker 2: A Greek the terms. I know he's a friend of yours.

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Speaker 2: I think same representation too. What was it like going

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Speaker 2: through this process with him going through a similar one

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Speaker 2: at the same time.

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Speaker 1: It was interesting. We we would shoot texts back and

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Speaker 1: forth and be like you almost almost there, almost there,

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Speaker 1: and a lot of it was not much update for

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Speaker 1: weeks on end, and then finally he sent me a

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Speaker 1: the eyes emoji and I knew it was it was

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Speaker 1: time for him. I forget what I sent him when

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Speaker 1: when I got it, But it was cool.

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Speaker 4: With everything you've been going through, you had any time

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Speaker 4: to prepare for the Steelers and what you're going to

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Speaker 4: be going up against and in their offense.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I've been in meetings the past couple

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Speaker 1: of days and I've practiced today, so it should be good.

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Speaker 3: You've got a big contract, any anything on your first purchase,

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Speaker 3: big purchase.

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Speaker 1: Definitely get a house out here, which will be a

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Speaker 1: pretty big purchase in this area. Good