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Speaker 1: Did you know that you were going to have to

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Speaker 1: go through free agency? Did the Patriots give you a

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Speaker 1: heads up or did you kind of find out maybe

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Speaker 1: when everyone else did. Bill had spoken to me and

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Speaker 1: kind of told me what his plans were, so I

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Speaker 1: kind of had an idea that I wasn't gonna get tendered. Um.

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Speaker 1: And then from there on it was just kind of

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Speaker 1: free range. And I became a free agent and we

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Speaker 1: were talking to some teams and I was pumped from Pittsburgh, Colt.

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Speaker 1: How did What was it that got you here? Um?

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Speaker 1: The opportunity of a two year contract? Really just showing

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Speaker 1: that a team really believes in me and they want

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Speaker 1: to have me in for two years at least and

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Speaker 1: then maybe something more after that. Um. But and then

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Speaker 1: being be able to play for the Pittsburgh Steelers organization

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Speaker 1: was a big plus two. I know their first rate

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Speaker 1: and everything they do, so that was exciting. Have you

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Speaker 1: had a chance to meet Danny Smith yet? I have?

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Speaker 1: What do you think of him? I think we're gonna

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Speaker 1: get along just fine. Why do you say that? It

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Speaker 1: seems like my kind of guy. He's in there, he's

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Speaker 1: he's allowed guy, and he likes to talk football. And

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Speaker 1: so do I. You said, when you came into town,

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Speaker 1: you went to Permianny's. How did you know that that's

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Speaker 1: where you had to go. My driver that picked me

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Speaker 1: up from the airport, I was asking when I was like, Pittsburgh, man,

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Speaker 1: tell me about it. He said, he's been there for

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Speaker 1: forty seven years. His name is Mike. Mike, if you're

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Speaker 1: watching this, what's up. He drove me by Hinesfield first

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Speaker 1: and he told me. I said, I'm hungry. He said,

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Speaker 1: you gotta get you a pronancy sandwich. I was like,

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Speaker 1: right on. So I got set up in the hotel,

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Speaker 1: walked down downtown Pittsburgh somewhere I don't even know where

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Speaker 1: I was going, and I found the place and order

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Speaker 1: the sandwich. It was good, which I never had sarkraut before,

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Speaker 1: which was a surprise because I am Polish my last name,

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Speaker 1: but I like StarCraft. I guess speaking of your last name,

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Speaker 1: tell us how to say it so that everybody gets

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Speaker 1: it correctly. Oh yes, everything silent but the O and

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Speaker 1: the ski pretty much. That's what I tell people. All Right,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna make sure Steelers fancy this. Um. Is there

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Speaker 1: anything that Steelers told you in terms of maybe an

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Speaker 1: opportunity on offense. Yeah, I know. They said they're going

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Speaker 1: to give me a chance to come out and play ball,

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Speaker 1: and that's all I mean you can really ask for.

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Speaker 1: I like having the ball in my hands. I like

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Speaker 1: return the punts and kicks, and anytime I can get

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Speaker 1: the football, it's a good time to me. So I'm

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Speaker 1: looking forward to showcasing what I can do with it

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Speaker 1: on the offensive side as well. When I was reading

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Speaker 1: up on you, I saw you know you played football

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Speaker 1: and baseball in college. When did football become maybe your

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Speaker 1: first lover or where you knew that was what you

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Speaker 1: wanted to I knew I was never gonna be able

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Speaker 1: to pick between the two, and really decision got made

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Speaker 1: for me when I broke my hand my junior year

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Speaker 1: baseball first game of the season, I slid in the

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Speaker 1: second broke my hand, and then football teams kind of

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Speaker 1: started calling, and I knew I was going to get

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Speaker 1: a chance to play my senior football, which my plan

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Speaker 1: was to get drafted for baseball, leave college, leave the

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Speaker 1: school behind, and go play ball. But I got to

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Speaker 1: play my senior football, and then that opportunity presenting itself

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Speaker 1: to go to the next level for that, so I'd

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Speaker 1: say the decision got made for me, which is good

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Speaker 1: because I could have never picked between the two. What

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Speaker 1: is the mentality of a specialist? You gotta love everything

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Speaker 1: about football, the hitting, the blocking, the running, the receiving.

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Speaker 1: Every part of the football game comes together on a

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Speaker 1: special team's play, and that's what I think you gotta

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Speaker 1: love about it. If you're gonna play special teams and

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Speaker 1: you're gonna, you're gonna you're gonna take some shots. For sure.

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Speaker 1: It's a high speed collision play, So that part, you

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Speaker 1: gotta love that