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Speaker 1: Again, it seems like training camp was the last time

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Speaker 1: find out that you would be elevated from the practice

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Speaker 1: squad for the game and what was your reaction. I

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Speaker 1: think I found out Friday or Saturday. I was just

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Speaker 1: ready to go, just prepared our year for this. So

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Speaker 1: it finally came and hopefully I did what I did.

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Speaker 1: But we got to win, so that's the best thing.

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Speaker 1: And on your performance to catch two touchdowns, what is

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Speaker 1: your reaction to that. I'm just doing whatever I can

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Speaker 1: to help the team win. It doesn't matter if it's

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Speaker 1: a catch or blocking, just trying to help the team win.

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Speaker 1: Loving read in the back. We got a chance to

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Speaker 1: see you play in the preseason and you and Mac

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Speaker 1: Jones seemed to have a connection. How important was that

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Speaker 1: going into this game, even though it's so far down

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Speaker 1: the line, that you were able to have that connection

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Speaker 1: so early on. You know, in this season, we've been

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Speaker 1: working hard all year, so it's just every it's day

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Speaker 1: by day, so the chemistry is always there, and just

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Speaker 1: staying focused and being ready to go on your numbers called.

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Speaker 1: Jacoby talked about you being here all year, showing up

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Speaker 1: first earlier in the morning, six am or whatever. Can

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Speaker 1: you talk about what it was like and you know,

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Speaker 1: did you ever think that's this moment would come, that

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Speaker 1: you would finally get the opportunity. Oh, I feel like

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Speaker 1: there's just a standard here to come in and work

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Speaker 1: hard every day. So it's not like I think about it,

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Speaker 1: but just working hard is the standard here pretty much.

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Speaker 1: If you want to make it or play, you got

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Speaker 1: to work hard, be on top of your game, and

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Speaker 1: know what you're doing out there. For the coaches from

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Speaker 1: Jackson Vilemental, Christian, could you just talk about your assessment

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Speaker 1: of Mac Jones even though he's a rookie, you know,

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Speaker 1: obviously got more playing experience than you do, but in

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Speaker 1: terms of age and all that stuff, he's kind of

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Speaker 1: the same. Because could you just give you give us

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Speaker 1: your evaluation of him and how he's just handled this

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Speaker 1: whole rookie year. Oh. I love playing with Mac and

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Speaker 1: playing for Mac a leader. He tastes commands, so it's great.

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Speaker 1: That's all I got. Christian. You came out early for

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Speaker 1: warm ups and it looked like Josh mcgandels came over

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Speaker 1: to you. You guys had to talk for about a

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Speaker 1: minute or two minutes without giving away any trade secrets.

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Speaker 1: What was the gist of that conversation? Like, you know,

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Speaker 1: what was he saying to you? What was it? What

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Speaker 1: was it all about? He was just giving me confidence,

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Speaker 1: telling me I've been prepared for it and I'm ready

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Speaker 1: to play, and pretty much just giving me confidence and

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Speaker 1: telling me what I needed to do. So, Um, Christian

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Speaker 1: Bill has spoken as before about your ability to kind

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Speaker 1: of simulate number one receivers on the scout team. This week, Um,

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Speaker 1: did you split your time between scout team and the

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Speaker 1: starting offense? And if you are on the starting offense,

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Speaker 1: how do you feel that practice time went. Oh, I

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Speaker 1: did the same thing. I'll do it at practice every

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Speaker 1: every day and every week. So it's the same thing. Um,

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Speaker 1: just trying to get better. Really, whoever lines up in

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Speaker 1: front of me or whatever receiver I'm plan, if it's

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Speaker 1: on our offense or the Scout team, I just want

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Speaker 1: to be the best receiver out there and do my

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Speaker 1: best to work hard Christian to come away with your

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Speaker 1: first catch and first touchdowns of your career. Who's the

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Speaker 1: person you have heard from or are going to hear

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Speaker 1: from today that is most meaningful for you? Along this journey. Oh,

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Speaker 1: it's a lot of people. I can't really say my mom,

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Speaker 1: my dad, my brother, Andrew. So there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: guys in that catch. It was good, but I gotta

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Speaker 1: work harder to catch everything that comes my way. It

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Speaker 1: sounds like Jacoby has a lot of appreciation for you.

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Speaker 1: What's your appreciation for him? He's a guy undrafted, you know,

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Speaker 1: only two touchdowns in his career. You got to today.

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Speaker 1: Can you talk about your relationship with with Jacoby? Now,

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Speaker 1: this is my brother, Like he's the best teammate. He

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Speaker 1: really took me in really this summer and just looked

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Speaker 1: out for me. Tell me what I need to know.

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Speaker 1: I ask some questions all the time. One of the

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Speaker 1: smartest guys I've been around, football wise. M I can

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Speaker 1: go on and talk about Jakobe Man. He's a great player,

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Speaker 1: great teammate, great person, and I love him so Christian,

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Speaker 1: how much do you feel like you've improved as a

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Speaker 1: player since you first got here last September? Whenever? That

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Speaker 1: was Oh, my lot, and it really helped me to

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Speaker 1: get confident, like whoever in front of me, I can

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Speaker 1: win going against the best, one of the best defenses.

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Speaker 1: I feel like in the NFL, so I'm going to

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Speaker 1: gainst them every day, so you have nothing but to

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Speaker 1: it's tremendous jump, but that's not for me to say.

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Speaker 1: Just you gotta keep my head down and keep working,

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Speaker 1: trying to be the best, try to do everything to

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Speaker 1: help my team win, no matter what it is.