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Speaker 1: You probably didn't expect to be answering questions about something

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Speaker 1: that Baker Mayfield said about you, but you obviously heard

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Speaker 1: what we told what he said. What's your reaction to Uh, Um, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean I I try not to to listen to

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Speaker 1: too much it's said, and you know, I think I've

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Speaker 1: done a pretty good job of that. But you know,

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Speaker 1: I heard that, heard that before. I mean, I think

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Speaker 1: the same kind of same mindset, and just uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: I certainly have a lot to focus on here. I

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Speaker 1: got a lot to worry about here, and I'm you know,

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Speaker 1: focused on that. So it's uh, yeah, it's uh, it's

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Speaker 1: been good. But you know, just just just focus on

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Speaker 1: what I'm what I'm doing here. It's any different, you know.

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Speaker 1: You you've obviously know that there has been criticism of

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Speaker 1: the pick from the media and other places. But to

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Speaker 1: have a player in the league express that, is that

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Speaker 1: a little different? Um, I don't think so. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think it's uh, like I said, my focus is

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Speaker 1: is here in the building. Um, you know, teammates, coaches, everyone,

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Speaker 1: you know, part of this organization. I think, you know,

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Speaker 1: it's been my focus and and when you get outside

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Speaker 1: the building, I don't. You don't think it does a

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Speaker 1: whole lot to focus on that for me. So, um,

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Speaker 1: you know, setting the focus here you motivate you to

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Speaker 1: approved people? Wrong, Um, I mean I don't think that's

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Speaker 1: a main motivator for me. I think there's um a

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Speaker 1: lot of things before that that that motivate me. Um

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Speaker 1: to be honest, But um, yeah, you know him at all,

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Speaker 1: but I don't know, never never cross passed him. So

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Speaker 1: I guess if it kind of it seems kind of

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Speaker 1: out of left field to us, come out of left

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Speaker 1: field to you, Like what the heck is that? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Um yeah, I mean a little bit. But um, you know,

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Speaker 1: like I said, I don't I don't know him. I've

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Speaker 1: never never spoken to him. But um, he's got an

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Speaker 1: opinion up with Bouts said still still waters run deep,

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Speaker 1: which I had to look it up. But it means, uh,

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Speaker 1: there's more than meets the I like, just because you're

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Speaker 1: commonly outside, I mean you're not, it's not firing you

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Speaker 1: up on the inside. Is that the case? Um? I mean,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. Like I said, I think there's there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of things that motivate me before something like

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Speaker 1: that would. But but uh, yeah, I mean I think

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Speaker 1: I'm a I'm a very passionate person. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: think I have um you know, you know, I don't

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Speaker 1: always don't always show up, but I think I'm a

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Speaker 1: very very passionate person. What would you say when someone

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Speaker 1: looks at your stats and especially your record, it says, well,

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Speaker 1: you know, this guy is a mediocre quarterback because look

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Speaker 1: at his record. Um yeah, I mean I think, uh,

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Speaker 1: going back to Duke, I mean, I mean, I think

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Speaker 1: there was a lot of things that um, you know,

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Speaker 1: I wish we we did won more games, and I

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Speaker 1: played a big part in that. So you know, I

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Speaker 1: take take responsibly before that, I definitely, you know, don't uh,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, I wish we did win more games

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Speaker 1: that you know, our goal was always to to win

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Speaker 1: a CC championships and to to uh you know, go

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Speaker 1: to big Bowl games, and and we weren't able to

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Speaker 1: do that. So um yeah, I mean that's uh, I

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Speaker 1: don't you know, look back on that, uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: without a large responsibility for you, do you feel you

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Speaker 1: feel you're a leinner? I do. I mean I think,

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Speaker 1: uh yeah, I've always felt like I am, and you know,

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Speaker 1: growing up competing and I think I'm a competitor. I

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Speaker 1: think I'm I'm winner. Can you change as someone like

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Speaker 1: Baker's perception if you're not playing, like is it annoying

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Speaker 1: that you have to wait to play to prove people

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Speaker 1: like that wrong and set them up? Um? You know,

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Speaker 1: I don't. I don't. I don't think so. I think there's,

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Speaker 1: like I said, there's a lot that I need to,

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Speaker 1: need to do to to improve to to make sure

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Speaker 1: I'm moving forward. So, um, so that's what I'm focusing on.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I I don't think. Um, you know, I don't.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure that's the best motivator if that's your

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Speaker 1: the one you know, the thing you're looking forward to

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Speaker 1: doing the most is is proving them wrong. I'm not

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Speaker 1: sure that's the best way to improve every day or

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Speaker 1: the best way to really get where you want to go.

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Speaker 1: If we were on a heel that a player said

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Speaker 1: that to you, would you trash talk back? I don't.

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Speaker 1: Maybe i'd say something, but I don't know. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I don't. I'd uh and make sure we won the game.

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Speaker 1: Maybe do the people who know you best. Um, I

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Speaker 1: think that it's really hard to get, make you angry,

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Speaker 1: or they rarely see you angry. Yeah, probably, I mean

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Speaker 1: for the most part. Maybe my little brother would say

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Speaker 1: something else, but I don't. I mean, yeah, I think,

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Speaker 1: in control of myself. Would you have to be Do

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Speaker 1: you agree you have to be kind of wired to

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Speaker 1: be like that. Some people are just wired to be

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Speaker 1: a little bit more triggered by things. Yeah, I mean

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Speaker 1: I think, uh, yeah, I do think that's just part

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Speaker 1: of my personality. Maybe are you ever sitting there saying,

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Speaker 1: why are you bothering with me? Have to worry about?

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Speaker 1: I don't. I mean, I think, um, I'm not sure

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Speaker 1: I would do it that way, but UM, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Everyone's got a different, different way of doing things. And

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Speaker 1: like I said, my my, uh my focus is here,

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Speaker 1: you know, I think, you know, our focus is here.

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Speaker 1: You know, I think I speak to the team where

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Speaker 1: we um you know, we're we're very focused on what

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Speaker 1: we're doing here and making sure we're ready to play. Um.

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Speaker 1: You know, going into the season, have you seen have

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Speaker 1: you seen Baker play, and what do you think of

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Speaker 1: him as a quarterback. Yeah, I've seen him, seen him

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Speaker 1: play Washington College and and some a little bit last year.

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Speaker 1: I think he's a I think he's a great player.

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Speaker 1: You can throw it and and enjoy Washington play. Let's

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Speaker 1: change the topic now, how about you're gonna play on Thursday.

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Speaker 1: Why don't you just tell us that? I don't I

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Speaker 1: don't know. I really don't know. Um, I think you

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Speaker 1: know that's up to up to coach and UM, we'll

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Speaker 1: see how it goes. But look forward to getting back

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Speaker 1: out there. You're interested in in a in a in

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Speaker 1: a road you know, a real road game. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: think it'll be fun. Um on the road and h

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Speaker 1: our first experience on the road. But it'll be uh,

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Speaker 1: it'll be excited. Thank you,