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Speaker 1: Public relations. Yup, get ready there, We're ready, mindy there, yes, sir, alright,

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Speaker 1: go for gradual. How was the congratulations, man? I appreciate it. Man.

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Speaker 1: What was there your communication like with the Cowboys throughout

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Speaker 1: this process? Uh? I mean we you know, they kind

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Speaker 1: of kept its simple. You know, they had the the

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Speaker 1: uh the draft visit or or the combine visit. When

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Speaker 1: I went out to the combine and we kind of

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Speaker 1: kicked it, chopped it up for a little bit, and

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Speaker 1: uh then you know, I you know kind of you know,

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Speaker 1: they didn't really talk to 'em much. But then uh

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Speaker 1: they flew me out for a uh thirty visit and

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Speaker 1: came and spent a lot of time with they, with they, uh,

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Speaker 1: with the all the THEY personnel in there, and got

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Speaker 1: to know all the coaches and got to know everybody.

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Speaker 1: And uh, I left telling pretty feeling pretty good. You

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Speaker 1: know they I did. I didn't know, you know, what

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Speaker 1: they was thinking, but you know, they they apparently didn't

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Speaker 1: like me, so you know it's all good. Okay, you

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Speaker 1: had any communication with them in the in the last

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Speaker 1: week or so? Uh? Uh not really like that, Nah,

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Speaker 1: not really like that much. You know, I I had

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Speaker 1: Uh I didn't have much communication with anybody or really

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Speaker 1: aside from uh, you know, calling to make sure confirmed

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Speaker 1: draft numbers, draft they numbers and stuff. What do you

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Speaker 1: bring to this defense? Uh? Dog, A big dog, you

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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. A big fella, big physical guy.

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Speaker 1: Got never been afraid of contact, never been afraid of ball.

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Speaker 1: You know, God gonna get in somebody's face. A guy

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Speaker 1: who h ain't gonna make it easy. So Micah was

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Speaker 1: very happy when they announced your selection. Had you had

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Speaker 1: any contact with Mica over the last couple of weeks, Nah,

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Speaker 1: I ain't talk to I ain't talk to Michael Man.

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Speaker 1: He a dog man. I I'm excited I got somebody

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Speaker 1: like that, happy to have me on the way there now.

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Speaker 1: I'm happy to be there, happy to help him. You know,

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Speaker 1: hopefully he helped me too. You know, I know you will.

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Speaker 1: What makes you so strong against the run? Uh? Man?

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Speaker 1: I I'm like three hundred and twenty five pounds first though,

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Speaker 1: you know, and then uh you know, got real power

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Speaker 1: in my hands. You know I've been strong my whole life.

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Speaker 1: You know I've been strong. I came out my mom say,

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Speaker 1: I came out the womb looking like out there push ups.

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Speaker 1: You know, it was doing push ups in there. So

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Speaker 1: you know, I've just been strong my whole life. You know.

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Speaker 1: I figured out how to how to use it on

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Speaker 1: the steel, figure it out the right technique, figured out,

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Speaker 1: you know, the right stance to get into it, and

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Speaker 1: just started striking blocks, destroying my key and uh, making

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Speaker 1: sure they went backwards. When you got to come from

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys, I don't know if you got to come

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Speaker 1: from Jerry or Mike or Dan that what did they

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Speaker 1: tell you? What, Rolard? They say they wanted you to

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Speaker 1: play dude. They told me, they said, uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: the first person I talked to was uh, mister Jones,

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Speaker 1: and uh, you know, he told me, you know, congratulations

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Speaker 1: on a great career. You know, uh come help us,

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Speaker 1: you know, gonna come help him and uh and uh,

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Speaker 1: you know they told me that the first and foremost, uh,

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Speaker 1: my job was to come in there and and be

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Speaker 1: that elite run defender that they need in the middle

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Speaker 1: of the defense. And but then after that, my second job.

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Speaker 1: My second job is to show everybody that I I can.

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Speaker 1: I can I can work at edge and I could

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Speaker 1: affect the the the quarterback. And that's something that I

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Speaker 1: need to work on. That's something that I gotta phone

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Speaker 1: in on. But you know, can't lose sight of the

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Speaker 1: first goal. First goal to make sure I stopped that

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Speaker 1: in the middle. You know, are the pass rush numbers

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Speaker 1: due to the fact that just Michigan asked you to

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Speaker 1: just clog it up the pass rush numbers. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you know you kind of gotta just turn on the tape.

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Speaker 1: You know, Uh, the tape tell a different story. You

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Speaker 1: just kind of got a no, no ball. There's times

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Speaker 1: where I'm uh in positioning the past russ in position,

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Speaker 1: you know, working pass rush moves and affecting the pocket.

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Speaker 1: But it's times where I'm I am focused on the

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Speaker 1: run cause I know that's what we had to do.

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Speaker 1: That's where we had to stop that if we was

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Speaker 1: gonna win the game and the big ten, they gonna

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Speaker 1: run the ball. And so you know, we knew that.

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Speaker 1: And when I knew that every game and that was

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Speaker 1: that was my ain't focused you know, I know teams

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Speaker 1: always ask you about a lot of different things. Uh,

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Speaker 1: did you resolve a gun charge you had? Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's aund good. So you have your gun license as

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Speaker 1: soon s I'll have it shortly. I have it in

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Speaker 1: uh in the next week or so. Anybody you compare

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Speaker 1: your game too, Uh, there's nobody I really compare my

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Speaker 1: game to. Only guys that that I look that I

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Speaker 1: look to for for only guys that I look to for. Uh.

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Speaker 1: The point is how how I wanna play? You know.

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Speaker 1: I look at uh Jeffrey Simmons and I look at

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Speaker 1: Drawing Payne. Those are two guys that I look at

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Speaker 1: and UH see uh, big physical guys, you know, doing

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Speaker 1: doing playing the game how it's supposed to be played.

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Speaker 1: So I was just trying and pick up little tips

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Speaker 1: and tricks watching they tape. What do you love about football? Uh?

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Speaker 1: I love the physicality man. Uh put football and taking

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Speaker 1: care of me my whole life, you know. Uh even s.

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Speaker 1: I was playing since I was seven, and uh, you

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Speaker 1: know missed the year and that year I missed thinks

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Speaker 1: feel right? So, Uh, I don't know what I'd do

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Speaker 1: if I couldn't put that helmet on and hit somebody.

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Speaker 1: You know, That's just that's just my nature. You know,

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Speaker 1: that's just kind of in my blood. You know, It's

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Speaker 1: just something that I feel like I was designed. I

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Speaker 1: was designed to do and forever thankful to God that

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Speaker 1: I I got this opportunity kind of influence with your grandparents,

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Speaker 1: you know, my grandparents. You know, I grew up with

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Speaker 1: my mom's you know. Uh my grandpa was like my father,

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Speaker 1: and I didn't grow up my dad. So you know

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Speaker 1: my grandma, you know, she like my mother, my second mother,

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Speaker 1: you know, and uh they uh and I just wish

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Speaker 1: they was here, like not to be honest with you.

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Speaker 1: You know, my my grandma, her favorite team was the Cowboys.

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Speaker 1: You know, she loved her some some Uh it was

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Speaker 1: a it was a quarterback name then I love uh

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Speaker 1: the quarterback we talking about, uh what's name? Oh start back. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's just so good. I'm I'm on a f I'm

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Speaker 1: onna but it's all good. But my nah My Nigner,

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Speaker 1: my Nner love the Cowboys. So I knew she was here,

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Speaker 1: you know, since you could see you know what she watching. Alright,

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Speaker 1: you thank you, You may thank your momsy Yeah for

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Speaker 1: sure for grass song, I'll soon, for the draft, for

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Speaker 1: bread cover day. You gonna good