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Speaker 1: Welcome into the lounge presented by DraftKings. We are thrilled

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Speaker 1: to sit down with wide receiver Rashad Bateman. Rashot is

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Speaker 1: the resident fashion guy. Like when you're talking fashion on

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Speaker 1: the team, you're talking to Rashad Bateman.

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Speaker 2: So we'll start here. What do you think of.

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Speaker 1: You got to ignore the shorts? All right, he's just

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Speaker 1: got better fashion team and Garrey. I guess we'll leave

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Speaker 1: with that.

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Speaker 2: This should be easy.

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Speaker 3: I feel like rights right now.

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Speaker 2: We actually do kind of we do kind of have

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Speaker 2: the same I mean, because it's what you want. I

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Speaker 2: like that. I like that be yourself yourself.

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Speaker 1: I like that.

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Speaker 2: Like that's that was That was a charitable answer. That

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Speaker 2: was a nice guy answer.

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Speaker 1: Just you know, everybody's really excited for you in this season.

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Speaker 1: It feels like, you know, a lot of things are

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Speaker 1: coming together that is really setting you up to have

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Speaker 1: a great year. Does it feel like that for you

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Speaker 1: that you know it's cliche to say the stars are aligning,

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Speaker 1: you know, but like that that these different pieces of

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Speaker 1: personal life, football, health, all those things are kind of

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Speaker 1: aligning for you.

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Speaker 3: I would say so more so my life, yeah, you

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Speaker 3: know outside of football. Yeah, I had to make a

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Speaker 3: lot of changes there. I went through a lot there,

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Speaker 3: but football, Yeah, we're heading in the right direction. I'm

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Speaker 3: just blessed to be healthy right now. Yeah, it's still

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Speaker 3: a lot of work to be done, but I'm excited

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Speaker 3: to you know, being up to just that I'm in today. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Can you elaborate a little bit as much as

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Speaker 1: you feel comfortable with about the personal changes that are

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Speaker 1: going on in your life that are setting you up

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Speaker 1: for success.

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Speaker 3: I mean it kind of started in twenty nineteen when

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Speaker 3: I lost my my father, figured my uncle at the

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Speaker 3: end of the year. After that, it was like COVID and

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Speaker 3: then Draft and then injure and then my grandma passing away,

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Speaker 3: my grandma's sister passing away, my my cousin convincedicide injuries

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Speaker 3: back to back. Yeah, it was a whole mental you know,

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Speaker 3: up and down for the past couple years. So I'm

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Speaker 3: definitely better now. You know, I'm happy I went through that.

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Speaker 3: It made me stronger, It made me well aware of

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Speaker 3: who I am, you know, who my surroundings are, So

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Speaker 3: you know, it was a bad thing at first, but

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Speaker 3: you know, I'm blessed if I went through that.

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Speaker 2: How do you how did you handle the turmoil. You know,

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Speaker 2: it's you've experienced a lot as a as a young person,

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Speaker 2: a lot of challenges and and unfortunate strategy tragedy. How

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Speaker 2: how did you go about handling it?

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Speaker 3: Just talking to myself. I feel like a lot of times,

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Speaker 3: you know, you're getting those positions and there's always a

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Speaker 3: lot of people that want to, you know, talk to

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Speaker 3: you and you know, be that for you, and there's

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Speaker 3: nothing wrong with that. But I think for me, I

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Speaker 3: more so had to you know, look in the mirror,

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Speaker 3: going on in my life, you know, and change things

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Speaker 3: that you know I needed to change. But you know,

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Speaker 3: I think on top of that, it's just you know,

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Speaker 3: having confidence to myself no matter what's going on, and

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Speaker 3: just knowing that I can do it as well. You know,

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Speaker 3: I feel like us as humans, we always you know,

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Speaker 3: want to put trust in somebody else because that's what

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Speaker 3: we're taught. But you know, I think sometimes we lose

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Speaker 3: ourselves through that process as well. And you know, I

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Speaker 3: was able to find myself again, you know, be able

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Speaker 3: to stand on you know, my two feet and just

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Speaker 3: walk forward in life.

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Speaker 2: How long?

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Speaker 1: How long? Was that process, you know of kind of

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Speaker 1: talking to yourself and talking yourself through and building yourself

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Speaker 1: up in that way.

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Speaker 3: I feel like that kind of came when I got

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Speaker 3: to the NFL, because life when you get here, just

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Speaker 3: for some reason, just become more intense. You know, my

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Speaker 3: job is more intense. It matters more. I've definitely said

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Speaker 2: Yeah, how how important do you think it is to

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Speaker 2: have the personal the mental side in a good place

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Speaker 2: in order to succeed on the football field? Like, is

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Speaker 2: that is that paramount?

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Speaker 1: Man?

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Speaker 3: Is it is? To answer your question, but I took

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Speaker 3: what I went through, I just think that it's the

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Speaker 3: most important thing really, you know, as a human being

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Speaker 3: of guys can play, you know with emotions going on,

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Speaker 3: but that's because they're able to turn off whatever they want.

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Speaker 3: They turn off for the game. But you know, as

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Speaker 3: soon as that game is over, everything's back. But eventually,

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Speaker 3: no matter who you are, it catches up to you

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Speaker 3: you know, find your way, find your path.

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Speaker 2: You have always struck me as a guy that's like

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Speaker 2: super introspective. Even as we're having this conversation, I think

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Speaker 2: that that's that's evident. And you're also very honest, you know,

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Speaker 2: pretty raw, even on Prescot and stuff like that. You're

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Speaker 2: pretty honest, which I always appreciate. Have you always been

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Speaker 2: that way? Is that part of the process that you're

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like that's part of the process I'm

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Speaker 3: talking about because I used to not be that way,

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Speaker 3: and I feel like a part of me got tired of,

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Speaker 3: you know, holding back you know, what I thought, what

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Speaker 3: I felt, and just being able to speak freely. You know,

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Speaker 3: I feel like, you know, being an NFL. You know,

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Speaker 3: Lamar Jackson is the perfectest apple. He's the perfect ext

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Speaker 3: apple to look at somebody when just do what you

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Speaker 3: want to do, you know, but in a respectful way.

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Speaker 3: You know, he does in a very respectful way, and

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Speaker 3: you know, he's shooting himself. And that's what I've always

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Speaker 3: you know, wanted to be. But there's things that happen

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Speaker 3: in my life that calls me not to you know.

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Speaker 1: Be that.

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Speaker 3: But I definitely feel like I'm back on track now.

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Speaker 1: How do you go about, you know, when you are

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Speaker 1: in those dark times? Of kind of making sure that

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Speaker 1: doesn't bleed into other parts of your life, you know

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Speaker 1: what I mean, Like, how do you compart mentalize?

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Speaker 3: It's very hard, honestly, man. I'm still working on it

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Speaker 3: do because if you don't, if you don't handle it,

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Speaker 3: then it can bleed over it into you know, other relationships,

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Speaker 3: gonna get better in one day. And I think that's

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Speaker 3: kind of what you know, frustrated me is I wanted

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Speaker 3: like it was affecting, you know, everything else around me.

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Speaker 1: I feel like life is harder for young NFL players

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Speaker 1: or whatnot today than it was let's say, fifteen years ago,

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Speaker 1: twenty years ago, your first round picked then whatever, and

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Speaker 1: you didn't pick up the newspaper that day. You were

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Speaker 1: all right, you weren't gonna hear anything. Social media exactly

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Speaker 1: now it follows you.

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Speaker 2: Ever.

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Speaker 1: It's people like Garrett, you know, especially social media guys,

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Speaker 1: like a big point, you know, Like I mean, honestly,

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Speaker 1: like I feel about social media. It's beautiful in some ways,

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Speaker 1: and it's opened up a whole world to people that

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Speaker 1: has a lot of negatives about it.

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Speaker 3: It does have a lot of negatives about it.

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Speaker 1: How have you dealt with that? What would your advice

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Speaker 1: be to people? You know, you've gone through that and

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Speaker 1: seem like you're in a much better place with that now.

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Speaker 1: How did you do that? And what would your advice

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Speaker 3: For social media? You just gotta ignore it, man, You

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Speaker 3: just gotta just gotta ignore it. Half the people don't

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Speaker 3: had to take time to myself. Like I was saying earlier,

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Speaker 3: I never loved social media. I love social media. It's

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Speaker 3: social media. It's hilarious. You know, you get to, you know,

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Speaker 3: learn a lot, Like I feel like a lot of

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Speaker 3: what I learned on TikTok. I use my every day life.

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Speaker 3: But for me, I just you know, had to, you know,

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Speaker 2: Talk about, people have no idea. A lot of people

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Speaker 2: you weren't sure if you were going to be able

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Speaker 2: to play last year. Yeah, and that extended all the

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I wasn't sure at all. Like when obviously I

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Speaker 3: and I was rehabbing, and the foot would not heal,

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Speaker 3: It still kind of happened when they found out that,

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Speaker 3: you know, I missed, you know, training camp due to

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Speaker 3: my injury. But you know, that stuff's out of my control, man,

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Speaker 2: And so like a, who why did you At what

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Speaker 2: point did you know that you were going to be

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Speaker 3: Maybe two weeks before the game? Really yeah, I had

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Speaker 3: why when I first came back, I wasn't even playing

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Speaker 3: me and Odell was kind of like you in because

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Speaker 3: I had missed all the training camp. You know, from

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Speaker 3: a coach's perspective, it's hard to just stole somebody in

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Speaker 3: the game in a very important game. You know, if

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Speaker 3: no matter what I think I can do. You know,

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Speaker 3: that's you know, the office coordinator job. And I have

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Speaker 3: to respect him about that, And I can't be mad

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Speaker 3: It seems like no part of that. I don't at all,

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Speaker 3: Everybody thought was gonna happen, myself included. But you know,

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Speaker 3: I mean, for sure, you're thinking about how my career

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Speaker 3: Well, my agent called me and they told me that

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Speaker 3: But I honestly just burst it off. I was like,

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Speaker 3: because at this time I was prepared to being you know, traded.

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Speaker 3: It was already like rumors, you know, going around about it.

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Speaker 3: It definitely eases the burden of knowing you know, where

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Speaker 1: Is this the best that you have felt all around

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Speaker 1: That's cool. I mean that's gonna be a great feeling.

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Speaker 3: you know, some chemistry in certain places. It definitely helps us,

435
00:21:27,080 --> 00:21:29,360
Speaker 3: you know, in our confidence a lot. And as far

436
00:21:29,359 --> 00:21:31,840
Speaker 3: as me and Zay, I mean, ever since being here,

437
00:21:31,880 --> 00:21:35,040
Speaker 3: all we've talked about is, you know, the duo turning up,

438
00:21:35,080 --> 00:21:37,320
Speaker 3: you know, doing our thing, you know, because we got

439
00:21:37,359 --> 00:21:40,400
Speaker 3: similar you know, we played different, but we just kind

440
00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:42,680
Speaker 3: of moved the same. You know, it just looks different.

441
00:21:43,160 --> 00:21:45,119
Speaker 3: So you know, me and him connect, We talk, We

442
00:21:45,200 --> 00:21:47,439
Speaker 3: give each other's details that we passed along to other guys.

443
00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:50,600
Speaker 3: But me and Zay are definitely you know, descarted to

444
00:21:50,600 --> 00:21:51,439
Speaker 3: go out and play together.

445
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Speaker 1: When I when I think about you, I always think

446
00:21:54,240 --> 00:21:56,560
Speaker 1: about it was what Dolphins, right, the slant that you

447
00:21:56,640 --> 00:21:59,200
Speaker 1: took to the to the house. I think about the

448
00:21:59,280 --> 00:22:02,360
Speaker 1: Jets long touchdown there and all the Dolphins is doing

449
00:22:02,520 --> 00:22:06,920
Speaker 1: the Dolphins is the war that guy Dolphins is doing? Yeah,

450
00:22:06,960 --> 00:22:07,600
Speaker 1: that is sick.

451
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Speaker 3: I mean I look at all my best games Dolphins.

452
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Speaker 3: This year's rookie year, I can't like I didn't play

453
00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:15,480
Speaker 3: had Sammy Watkins and I came in on the back

454
00:22:15,720 --> 00:22:17,840
Speaker 3: half of the game and played.

455
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Speaker 1: Well, that's right. It was a rough game played well

456
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Speaker 1: ye ye yeah.

457
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Speaker 3: This year after that was the slant game, and even

458
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Speaker 3: this year, I guess Miami was kind of like my best.

459
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Speaker 1: Game is Miami on the schedule this year?

460
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Speaker 3: We get around at this point, at this point, I really.

461
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Speaker 1: Do, right, I mean so so for you without hyping

462
00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:40,679
Speaker 1: it too much, like do you kind of do you

463
00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:42,880
Speaker 1: also think back to those times and you're like, man,

464
00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:45,639
Speaker 1: like here in that stadium or roughing and I remember

465
00:22:45,800 --> 00:22:48,080
Speaker 1: after that slant touchdown you coming to the sideline, You're

466
00:22:48,119 --> 00:22:49,960
Speaker 1: just like looking up in that crowd and all that

467
00:22:50,040 --> 00:22:52,879
Speaker 1: Like is it does that get you really excited for

468
00:22:52,920 --> 00:22:55,400
Speaker 1: this season thinking about those moments and have more of them.

469
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Speaker 3: That moment, I mean, like the Miami game, that's like

470
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Speaker 3: the highlight of my NETFL right now, so that that

471
00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:05,760
Speaker 3: whole game does the whole game like really was, But

472
00:23:05,920 --> 00:23:10,600
Speaker 3: that play you know, definitely replays in my head a

473
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Speaker 3: lot because I want to recreate that feeling, you know,

474
00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:16,280
Speaker 3: for the team. I want to feel that for myself. Yeah,

475
00:23:16,320 --> 00:23:19,600
Speaker 3: I want to feel that. You know, that football like good,

476
00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:24,120
Speaker 3: you know, energy, creating, big plays, crowd going crazy. That's

477
00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:25,840
Speaker 3: what every kid dreams of, you know when they want

478
00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:28,959
Speaker 3: to play football. So just being able to you know,

479
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Speaker 3: stay healthy and go out and.

480
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Speaker 1: Play and lastly for me. Uh, we were talking as

481
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Speaker 1: we were walking into this about your fashion line, and

482
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Speaker 1: I would be remiss if I didn't give you an

483
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Speaker 1: opportunity to kind of to tease that a little bit.

484
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Speaker 1: We said, you're the most fashionable guy certainly in this room,

485
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Speaker 1: probably on the team. I know that there would be.

486
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Speaker 2: Some guys I would argue that problem.

487
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Speaker 1: Right, this is challengers, But tell fans a little bit

488
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Speaker 1: about what's ahead for you.

489
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm definitely excited about my clothing brand coming out.

490
00:23:57,640 --> 00:23:59,399
Speaker 3: It's called With Our Lords. You can go follow them

491
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Speaker 3: on Instagram, and it's a business for a group of

492
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Speaker 3: me and my friends. A lot of my best friends

493
00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:10,760
Speaker 3: like work with me, not for me. One of my

494
00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:13,879
Speaker 3: best friends, he is a creative design He's in school

495
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Speaker 3: for fast and Design. He makes clothes from like scratch

496
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Speaker 3: and he's also the head creative designer for our brand.

497
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Speaker 3: The guy that used to shoot pictures for me in

498
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Speaker 3: high school. It's the one who like works the whole

499
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Speaker 3: media company for the brand. So every day, like, I

500
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Speaker 3: love it because everybody that I work with inside like

501
00:24:30,760 --> 00:24:33,480
Speaker 3: that is you know, I know them, I grew up

502
00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:36,000
Speaker 3: with them, or is somebody that I met you know

503
00:24:36,040 --> 00:24:39,879
Speaker 3: in college that we're real close. It's like a family,

504
00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:42,240
Speaker 3: you know, a family brand and good vibes, good energy.

505
00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:46,119
Speaker 3: But we definitely are excited about the close aspect. We

506
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Speaker 3: believe in our vision and what we you know, what

507
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Speaker 3: we see and I hope people see that too.

508
00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:52,200
Speaker 2: Well, what's the closed drop? We're gonna have to up

509
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Speaker 2: our game for sure, We're gonna be coming your way.

510
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Speaker 2: And what's the closed off? Trying to get appreciate it? Well,

511
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Speaker 2: you shak apreciate it. Thank you so much. I appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: super honest raw at times conversation with Rashad, which you like,

525
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Speaker 2: we said to him, I appreciate the honesty. I appreciate

526
00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:44,200
Speaker 2: the openness. You know. I think that some of the

527
00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:46,960
Speaker 2: stuff that he was talking about is probably not the

528
00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:50,400
Speaker 2: easiest to discuss, and I really commend him for forgiving

529
00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:51,960
Speaker 2: us the time and being so honest with it.

530
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Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. I mean he was at a low

531
00:25:54,359 --> 00:25:58,240
Speaker 1: point last year less than a year ago at this point,

532
00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:01,919
Speaker 1: you know, and the foot's not responding. His grandmother dies,

533
00:26:02,119 --> 00:26:07,200
Speaker 1: his cousin dies, That's that's that's the dark times. That's tough.

534
00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:10,840
Speaker 1: And I think it really speaks to his resolve that

535
00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:15,200
Speaker 1: he got through that time, you know, and and got

536
00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:17,600
Speaker 1: back on the field. I mean, that's when you're talking

537
00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:19,679
Speaker 1: about stuff like that, getting back on the field seemed

538
00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:23,399
Speaker 1: that's minimal, right, That's like that's like the smaller of

539
00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:26,119
Speaker 1: the priorities there. It's kind of getting your head on straight,

540
00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:28,600
Speaker 1: you know. And and for him to do that from

541
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Speaker 1: a mental standpoint and then from a football standpoint to

542
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Speaker 1: to kind of respond the way he did, despite the

543
00:26:33,240 --> 00:26:36,080
Speaker 1: challenges of being behind Odell and kind of behind where

544
00:26:36,119 --> 00:26:38,480
Speaker 1: the offense had gotten to that point, not getting the

545
00:26:38,520 --> 00:26:39,320
Speaker 1: targets once and.

546
00:26:39,320 --> 00:26:39,920
Speaker 2: All that stuff.

547
00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:44,840
Speaker 1: You just see a mature reshod bateman, you know, and

548
00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:48,240
Speaker 1: and people who've gone through what he's gone through in

549
00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:50,000
Speaker 1: his life. You you have to grow out fast. But

550
00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:52,800
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean you're grown up, you know what I mean? Yeah,

551
00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:55,440
Speaker 1: And like I feel like listening to him here today,

552
00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:57,320
Speaker 1: you're like, man, this is a grown up, you know

553
00:26:57,359 --> 00:26:57,800
Speaker 1: what I mean.

554
00:26:58,200 --> 00:26:59,920
Speaker 2: I'm suill a young guy, I think twenty four years old,

555
00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:01,960
Speaker 2: you know, so he's still a super young guy to

556
00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:04,800
Speaker 2: have experienced all that, you know, And like, just from

557
00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:08,840
Speaker 2: a pure health standpoint, we have said many times on

558
00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:12,000
Speaker 2: on this podcast that Eliz Frank is a super serious

559
00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:15,320
Speaker 2: injury that is offened a two year injury. Ollyoo Brown

560
00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:17,000
Speaker 2: said the same thing. Jimmy Smith said the same thing.

561
00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:19,239
Speaker 2: You go all the way down the line that like

562
00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:21,800
Speaker 2: the recovery time from that, there's a time when you

563
00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:23,119
Speaker 2: get back on the field, and then there's a time

564
00:27:23,119 --> 00:27:24,960
Speaker 2: where you start to feel like yourself again. And like

565
00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:27,760
Speaker 2: oftentimes there's like a year gap between those two and

566
00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:29,959
Speaker 2: so the fact that he was you know, really on

567
00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:32,080
Speaker 2: the fence going into last season, but then he was

568
00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:33,800
Speaker 2: still able to stay healthy all year. I think says

569
00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:35,600
Speaker 2: a lot about you know, the kind of the work

570
00:27:35,640 --> 00:27:38,120
Speaker 2: and the progress that that he went through last year.

571
00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:41,080
Speaker 2: And I do I think that I think that things

572
00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:42,680
Speaker 2: he doesn't you know, want to be part of the

573
00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:45,880
Speaker 2: hype train, and you know, I think that, Like I'm

574
00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:48,320
Speaker 2: not going to sit here and like, well, too much smoke,

575
00:27:48,359 --> 00:27:50,040
Speaker 2: but I think that, like, I think that things are

576
00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:53,080
Speaker 2: aligning to your point in that conversation, like for him

577
00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:55,199
Speaker 2: to have a really good season. I think Zay Flowers

578
00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:57,000
Speaker 2: and him are a really nice duo. I think they

579
00:27:57,040 --> 00:27:59,399
Speaker 2: compliment each other really well. He's going to be a

580
00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:01,840
Speaker 2: starter this year. The Ravens gave him that extension because

581
00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:04,480
Speaker 2: they believe in him, and so I think that that

582
00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:06,480
Speaker 2: he could have a really big season and he's gonna,

583
00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:10,960
Speaker 2: he's gonna he's a incredibly important piece of this offense. He's, oh,

584
00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:12,520
Speaker 2: for sure, massive piece of this offense.

585
00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:15,399
Speaker 1: Absolutely yeah. I mean he's going to be relied on

586
00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:18,560
Speaker 1: in that X role that does a lot and he

587
00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:22,560
Speaker 1: the talent has always been there. There's never since Rashad

588
00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:26,439
Speaker 1: Bateman stepped onto the field as a rookie. The talent

589
00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:30,080
Speaker 1: was obvious. He's got it in spades, the way he moves.

590
00:28:30,119 --> 00:28:32,080
Speaker 1: I think it said something that Nate Wiggans said, Yeah,

591
00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:34,639
Speaker 1: Rashat Bateman's been the hardest guy to cover. You know'sas

592
00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:37,720
Speaker 1: that that tells you a little bit of something about

593
00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:40,640
Speaker 1: Rashat Bateman. And and the tape, like you said, doesn't lie.

594
00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:42,840
Speaker 1: You see it when you flip it on. This dude

595
00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:46,000
Speaker 1: is turning, spinning the some of the best cornerbacks in

596
00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:47,320
Speaker 1: the league around like their tops.

597
00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:47,640
Speaker 2: Yea.

598
00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:51,280
Speaker 1: And so you know, it's really a matter of all

599
00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:54,680
Speaker 1: those other pieces in his life, and particularly when it

600
00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:57,600
Speaker 1: comes to football, his health and those things come together,

601
00:28:57,640 --> 00:29:00,360
Speaker 1: and the fact that he feels better than ever right

602
00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:03,680
Speaker 1: now really feels like, hey, this is a guy that's

603
00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:04,840
Speaker 1: going to put up some big numbers.

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00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:05,200
Speaker 3: Yeah.

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00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:08,760
Speaker 2: I think that he's a he's going to certainly be

606
00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:11,560
Speaker 2: again a huge piece of the offense. And and he's

607
00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:13,600
Speaker 2: somebody that when you when you talk to him and

608
00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:16,320
Speaker 2: you listen to him, it's it's hard not to root

609
00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:19,400
Speaker 2: for him given what he's overcome to this point. So

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Speaker 2: friend of the friend of the lounge, Friend of the

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00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:26,320
Speaker 2: lounge and the lounge and certainly lounge listeners are going

612
00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:28,200
Speaker 2: to be rooting for him. So I wish the best

613
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Speaker 2: for a Shaw Bateman this year. As always, viewers and listeners,

614
00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:33,760
Speaker 2: you can email us at the lounge at Ravens dot

615
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Speaker 2: NFL dot.

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00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:37,760
Speaker 1: Wait, I'm going to interrupt you for one second. Tell

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Speaker 1: the viewers who wrote down that Whereshaw Bateman is going

618
00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:44,720
Speaker 1: to have a thousand yard season as a Raven did

619
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Speaker 1: for this organization when he was drafted. Who wrote it

620
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Speaker 1: down on a piece of paper. You put yourself on

621
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Speaker 1: the board, signed it. Well, you moved out of You

622
00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:52,640
Speaker 1: moved out of your old space, so now I took

623
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Speaker 1: it with me.

624
00:29:53,160 --> 00:29:54,440
Speaker 2: Okay, it's that with me.

625
00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:56,240
Speaker 1: I don't have a tag board right now. Okay, I'm

626
00:29:56,280 --> 00:29:59,520
Speaker 1: still kind of moving in. It's in a drawer, signed, sealed, delivered.

627
00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:02,040
Speaker 2: Well it's not good. Yeah you have delivered yet.

628
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Speaker 1: But I'm just saying, when it happens, I want to

629
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Speaker 1: rewind Bryson. I want to rewind the tape when it happens.

630
00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:10,720
Speaker 1: And I'm like, okay, so you got you got to

631
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Speaker 1: find because Rashade will want me to say if, yeah,

632
00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:14,760
Speaker 1: if it happens, I want I just want to come

633
00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:15,200
Speaker 1: back to this.

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Speaker 2: I want you to find that paper. And in order

635
00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:19,520
Speaker 2: if this, you need to find the paper. It's in

636
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Speaker 2: the drawer. We'll see I got it. We'll see you

637
00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:23,680
Speaker 2: need to got the paper. If he hits a thousand,

638
00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:26,120
Speaker 2: you don't have the paper, doesn't count, all right.

639
00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:28,400
Speaker 1: It's one of those brewing things. It's in a box.

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00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:31,680
Speaker 2: It's there, Okay, it's there, all right, all right. Well again,

641
00:30:31,840 --> 00:30:33,479
Speaker 2: you can email us at Blonge that rate one's dot

642
00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:36,480
Speaker 2: NFL dot net. We always appreciate your questions. This is

643
00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:38,640
Speaker 2: the off season time, and this is a break time

644
00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:40,600
Speaker 2: for a lot of these guys, and we would love

645
00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:42,560
Speaker 2: to hear from from you, guys a listener, So thank

646
00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:44,360
Speaker 2: you so much for listening and for watching, and we

647
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Speaker 2: will talk with you again this