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Speaker 1: How your coach Amy Connell was mentioned Club thirty one.

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Speaker 1: Can you talk about you know, that great tradition of safety.

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Speaker 1: So at the University of Minnesota. What is it about

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Speaker 1: the coach and the program that just produces the guys

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Speaker 1: of that quality.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I really think it's it's a collection of everybody.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you know guys like Tweets, Uh, Angeline Winfield

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Speaker 3: Howden, the guys that that started that off.

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Speaker 2: Uh, there were great examples for me coming up in

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Speaker 2: the in the program and being able to see how

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Speaker 2: they handle their business and how they were a pro

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Speaker 2: before they were a pro.

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Speaker 3: So I think it's it's a trickle down effect.

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Speaker 2: From from everybody, from the coaches to the players, Uh,

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Speaker 2: everybody in the in the in the program at Minnesota

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Speaker 2: where you know, we strive for greatness and we have

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Speaker 2: a lot a lot of detail on what we do.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, I think I think that's just what it is,

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Speaker 2: is a trickle down effect from everybody.

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Speaker 4: Tell me, it's obviously not a lot of physical things

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Speaker 4: that you guys do today.

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Speaker 3: What are the things that they drafted you for was

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Speaker 3: supposed to be coming to be a leader.

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Speaker 4: Are you able to flex those muscles a little bit

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Speaker 4: in in these meetings and the and and with the script.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean right now, I'm just trying to learn as.

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Speaker 2: Much as possible, Uh, be as vocal as I can

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Speaker 2: try to you know, put myself and everybody else in

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Speaker 2: in position to succeed. So just being being able to

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Speaker 2: to learn and be as sponge and suck up as

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Speaker 2: much as possible and be able to get that to

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Speaker 2: other guys, That's that's my main goal right now.

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Speaker 3: Do you think that you could be a leader on

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Speaker 3: an NFL team as a lucky Uh?

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Speaker 2: I mean, I I think everybody can be a leader.

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Speaker 2: I think everybody can be a leader on a football team,

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Speaker 2: no matter who you are. So I I think, you know,

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Speaker 2: like I said, I'm gonna try to learn as much

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Speaker 2: as I can, soak up as much information as possible

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Speaker 2: so I can be able to help myself and my teammates.

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Speaker 3: Help tyl Oft. With all of the interceptions you've had,

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Speaker 3: Does the ball find you or do you find the ball? Uh?

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Speaker 2: I mean I think all my my intercestions come from

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Speaker 2: my preparation really, and in how I approach the game

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Speaker 2: and and how I study and and how I work

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Speaker 2: throughout the week. So it it's hard work, you know,

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Speaker 2: it's it's a lot that goes into you know, making

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Speaker 2: plays on on Saturdays and Sundays.

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Speaker 3: So you know, I'm still learning and I can't wait

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Speaker 3: to keep learning. You take ran in that aspect of

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Speaker 3: being able to make play.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I I definitely take pride in being

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Speaker 2: able to help my team. I wouldn't be able to

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Speaker 2: help my team anyway possible. Whatever job they want me

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Speaker 2: to do, uh, whether that's going to get the ball,

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Speaker 2: whether that's dropping down, uh, making tackles. I I take

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Speaker 2: probably in any any job that I have, So uh,

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Speaker 2: whatever I gotta do, I'm gonna do it.

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Speaker 4: Was today a big day for you, you know, first

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Speaker 4: time on the field to the Giants, was it?

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Speaker 3: You know? Putting on that stuff is a big day

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Speaker 2: I almost almost shed a tier when I saw my

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Speaker 2: uh my helmet in my locker.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 2: It's it's just awesome, man, just being able to be

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Speaker 2: out here play the game. I love again, especially uh

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Speaker 2: for this great story the organization.

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Speaker 2: I I couldn't thank this this organization now.

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Speaker 3: So you put all this stuff and do it.

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Speaker 4: But you know, you're not gonna you know, you you're

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Speaker 4: you're not you're you're competing, but you're not playing right,

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Speaker 4: So it is is it hard to kind of get

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Speaker 4: you know, and then I would here to just kind

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Speaker 2: Anytime I lay the cleats and I'll get on this grass,

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Speaker 2: I'm loving it. I'm enjoying it. So uh, whatever you

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Speaker 3: So it doesn't matter a person.

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Speaker 4: I shually end up from the leak being around him,

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Speaker 4: the way he carries himself and meeting flockers, or on

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Speaker 3: Yeah, bro, he's definitely a pro man.

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Speaker 2: I think you know he he's gonna be able to

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Speaker 2: help us and you know, be that be a leader

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Speaker 3: So you know, I'm excited to see what he does.

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Speaker 4: I heard some of the coaches saying that take it

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Speaker 4: slow out there, sep of the players that difficult at

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Speaker 4: this stage like, are you fired up?

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Speaker 3: Ready to go? You have to hold back?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely a little bit, a little bit tough to

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Speaker 3: For sure when one of the last two weeks, because

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Speaker 3: you have searched the getting to do that, but then

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Speaker 3: you gotta wait here out of here. Yeah, what was

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Speaker 3: that like for him?

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Speaker 2: I mean it was terrible. I was itching to get

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Speaker 2: out here for real. They wouldn't let me come out

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Speaker 1: Man.

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Speaker 3: It was.

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Speaker 2: It was crazy, just you know, going from you know

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Speaker 3: So it it was awesome, man, it was. It was

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Speaker 3: a whirlwind for Shure. You were able to do some

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Speaker 3: zooms with your position coaches. So what was what was

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Speaker 3: those like one on ones or were they groups?

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Speaker 2: Uh? Yeah, it was it was uh me and and

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Speaker 2: a couple of coaches coach Mike, coach wrong, uh, coach Pop.

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Speaker 2: Just being able to go through a couple of calls

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Speaker 2: as much as possible before.

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Speaker 3: I get here. So I could, you know, have a

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Speaker 4: Do you have any time to enjoy New York taking

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Speaker 4: any of the uh sights and sounds?

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Speaker 3: Not yet?

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Speaker 2: No, Yeah, I I definitely will find some time though

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Speaker 2: for so uh honestly everything. I've never really explored the

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Speaker 3: Uh, you know, swinging through the city. Uh, but you know,

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Speaker 3: seeing it in real life it is gonna be cooler,

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Speaker 4: You. Probably you're not. Probably the contract probably said you

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Speaker 3: Yeah no, probably not. Probably, Yeah, that's probably a bad idea.

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Speaker 3: For sure. You have any kind of cool moment with

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Speaker 3: Chris autumn Bell, like when he's signed here to catch.

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Speaker 2: You call you like, oh yeah yeah, I call. I

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Speaker 2: called him right away, man, right right when I see

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Speaker 2: him yesterday. I gave him a big hug.

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Speaker 2: Just just happy for that kid, cause you know he's

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Speaker 2: been he's been through a lot. He's been through a

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Speaker 2: lot more than uh a lot of us. Have and

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Speaker 2: he just keeps battling back. Man, He's super resilient. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: I'm I'm just happy to see him, you know, be

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Speaker 2: able to be out here. What would you like New

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Speaker 2: York fans to know about you as a player and

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Speaker 2: as a person?

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Speaker 3: Getting a dog man?

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Speaker 2: You getting somebody that's that's not gonna stop until that's

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna sacrifice for this team,

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Speaker 2: for this city, and i'm'na love doing it.

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Speaker 4: How eager are you to to you know, get into

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Speaker 2: I mean, I'm I'm just excited to even be here

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Speaker 2: I'm more excited to learn and and learn how they

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Speaker 2: play defense, learned the intricacies of of how we manipulate

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Speaker 2: our defense, how we manipulate our coverages, things like that,

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Speaker 2: and then just going to work, man.

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Speaker 3: That's that's what I'm really excited for.

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Speaker 4: For sure, those little study sessions, those zooms, did they

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Speaker 4: pay you off? I mean you're able to see it

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think they they definitely paid off. Man.

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Speaker 2: You know, just being able to get into playbook and

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Speaker 2: able to just take take my time and going to

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Speaker 2: the playbook, that's that's helpful.

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Speaker 3: Shore coach chat.

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Speaker 4: One Coach Bowen's had a lot of good safeties where.

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Speaker 3: He basically tennesseee uh. Any of those guys that you studied,

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Speaker 3: of making good safety? Yeah, for sure.

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Speaker 2: I've been a fan of a lot of the Tennessee

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Speaker 2: safety for a while, like Hooker, Kevin byerd Uh, guys

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Speaker 2: like that that have been making plays for a while.

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Speaker 2: Definitely have studied those guys, you know, even before I

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Speaker 2: So yeah, it's it's awesome, man. So I can't I

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Speaker 2: can't wait to be be a safety in his defense

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