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Speaker 1: What's up, guys. We're back with another lights Out podcast

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Speaker 1: with me Sean Merriman. And Uh, this one's gonna be

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Speaker 1: DK Metcalf, he's uh one of the most exciting young

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Speaker 1: What up? What up with you? How you've been man?

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Speaker 1: I've been good, dude. How are you doing all right? Sir?

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Speaker 1: I'm doing real good, doing all right? What you had

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Speaker 1: that call with your agent? Please tell me they about

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Speaker 1: to cut you a new check somewhere? No, my marketing

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Speaker 1: market agent, I just seen that. So you just signed

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Speaker 1: with CIA, right, No, but my marketing with w ME

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Speaker 1: so you're stepping out. Are you getting some uh producer

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Speaker 1: my opinion. I don't you know care what everybody said,

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Speaker 1: ever read or whatever. When you're talking about him possibly

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Speaker 1: going to another team because there's been talking to him,

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Speaker 1: possibly go watch another team, I'm like, man, y'all know

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Speaker 1: what how much this dude is done? You get what

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Speaker 1: I mean, like what he's built in that organization? How

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Speaker 1: when you saw that that same stuff? Man, what did

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Speaker 1: you feel about it? Um? I mean I in my mind,

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Speaker 1: I'd never getting another man's business, right, So yeah, so

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Speaker 1: I just took a step back and you know whatever

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Speaker 1: they got going, uh you know they got going whether

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Speaker 1: talk inside the organization between him. Uh he's still my

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Speaker 1: brother still talked to him about his day to to today.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean that's between now. I stay out

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Speaker 1: there that stuff. No, I I gotta you know you've

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Speaker 1: been uh that that politic right now too? I feel

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Speaker 1: I feel you do uh no no, but for me,

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Speaker 1: uh you guys have opportunity, right, I mean being up

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Speaker 1: there in that division. Um, you know obviously now you

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Speaker 1: know Matthew Matthew Stafford is so you know, and me

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Speaker 1: me personally, how I look at it. I always thought

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Speaker 1: that Matthew staff was underrated. You get what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: It was just watching him and now being in you

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Speaker 1: guys conference that's already stacked. I mean you got Kyla Murray,

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Speaker 1: you got, now you got Matthew staff you know. Now

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Speaker 1: you know Russell Wilson you gotta deal with. So you

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Speaker 1: know when whoever is going to be the quarterback for

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Speaker 1: the forty nine is you guys? Man in that division,

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Speaker 1: it's it's a competition week in a week out. Um, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's it. I think it's the best vision with football

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Speaker 1: right now. Um. I mean you got the fort defensive line,

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Speaker 1: Rams defensive line, and you got Jane Ramsey and then

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Speaker 1: you got the Cardinals defense, and plus they're explosive offense.

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Speaker 1: I don't see a better a more stagnivision, uh you

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Speaker 1: know than ours, No, for sure, And then that's one

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Speaker 1: of those things you gotta it's really no week off

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Speaker 1: because I remember when I was playing and I used

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Speaker 1: see the Raiders on this Raider. This was before Raiders

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Speaker 1: was good. I was like, okay, there's two sacks and

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Speaker 1: be I'm gonna get one here, because you know, you

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Speaker 1: always you always have a couple of games where you

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Speaker 1: either get no sacks, you don't have you don't you

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Speaker 1: don't score no touchdown, but you're gonna you know that

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Speaker 1: two or three score touchdown coming. So when I used

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Speaker 1: to see the Raiders, I'm like, okay, yeah, let me

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Speaker 1: just gonna get too made three sacks and catch back

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Speaker 1: up and so but honestly, man, that you got in

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Speaker 1: your division, that's not the case. You you practically got

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Speaker 1: a dog fight week and a week out. Eight games

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Speaker 1: is gonna be competition, a game down to the wire,

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Speaker 1: hands down. You canna always have somebody right there and

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Speaker 1: you phase, whether it's somebody pressing the quarterback or you know,

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Speaker 1: I got to get off a jam or you know,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be a high school and game. So I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's it's a it's a tough games, and I mean

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Speaker 1: that's what I like. I like a competition. Yeah, So

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Speaker 1: what's next for you, man? Because I mean a lot

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Speaker 1: of people always say the whole sky's the limit ship

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Speaker 1: or whatever. But to be quite honest, man, the sky

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Speaker 1: is really the limit for you. And I was looking

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Speaker 1: at your post and maybe it was a day a

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Speaker 1: couple of days ago you're talking about I ain't made

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Speaker 1: a hunter meal yet. Is there is there like something

491
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Speaker 1: you got set in your mind? Like for me, I

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Speaker 1: wanted a certain amount of sacks. I wanted to, um,

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Speaker 1: you'll be looked at as the best in my position

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Speaker 1: or whatever that case is, or you know, and I

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Speaker 1: wanted that big I got injured, but you know I

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Speaker 1: wanted that big deal. Also, what's what's next? Man in

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Speaker 1: and your you know journey? Uh be my number from

498
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Speaker 1: last year? Um, I know after the Philly game, I

499
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Speaker 1: talked to Calvin Calvin Johnson because there was some comments

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Speaker 1: made and then game about I don't want to be

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Speaker 1: compared to Calvin Calviny's Calvin. I'm I'm detay, but um

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Speaker 1: I just had to talk to him me like, you know,

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Speaker 1: I ain't come off like that. I look up to you,

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Speaker 1: but I want to be the long person. And uh

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Speaker 1: he was like, I want you to go break my

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Speaker 1: record and so just so he said that, Yeah, he

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Speaker 1: said that, Like he was like, uh, you know, you're competitive. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know I think you can break my record, So

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Speaker 1: go breaking um. And you know that's my name's goal

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Speaker 1: is breaking his breakord. There it is, dude, there it

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Speaker 1: I don't I don't know if you because you think

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Speaker 1: you talked about fighting before, right, Yeah, I bought a

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Speaker 1: little bit less. So what what made what makes you

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Speaker 1: pick that up? Uh? Just some new man new cardio.

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Speaker 1: I always tell a lot of dudes, man. And I

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Speaker 1: started like during the after my first year in the

524
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Speaker 1: all season, I was boxing first, and then I started

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Speaker 1: doing a little more tied and I started doing a

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Speaker 1: little m m A pumbling and rolling on the ground.

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Speaker 1: And for one, it's a different training for your body

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Speaker 1: because we get tired of doing the same ship. I mean,

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Speaker 1: we really do. We get tired of the same you know,

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Speaker 1: same cone drills, the same ladder drills, the same you

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Speaker 1: know all that. So for me, I just found it

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Speaker 1: a way too For one, because the ain't know cardio

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Speaker 1: like that. You get that cardio, you can go four

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Speaker 1: or five, three or four minute rounds. That cardio is

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Speaker 1: something different. But also to man with your with your

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Speaker 1: hand eye coordination, you know, getting you know, those those

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Speaker 1: cornerbacks is coming up and trying to jam you off

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Speaker 1: a coverage. Watch how fast your hands end up becoming

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Speaker 1: you know, and being able to catch your hand because

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Speaker 1: you're looking at quick jabs all the time and now

541
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Speaker 1: you're just reacting. So I try to encourage all dudes

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Speaker 1: man pick up something douring the all season, even if

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Speaker 1: it's just hitting mitts. But you know, if you ever

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Speaker 1: want some real smoke, you know I can come up there.

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Speaker 1: You know, you're only a quick fight away, so whenever

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Speaker 1: man appreciate you, dude, that's no problem. Thanks guys for

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Speaker 1: listening in to another lights Out podcast with me. Shawn Merriman.

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Speaker 1: Uh wow, you know it's always fun um to talk

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Speaker 1: to guys. Not only did you love to watch now

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Speaker 1: today's game. Obviously, I've been retired for some years now,

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Speaker 1: but get a chance to watch guys that can transcend

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Speaker 1: athletes from here on four. You know, I've seen him

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Speaker 1: just one of his favorite players to watch growing up.

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Speaker 1: And immediately I was like, man, that is really cool,

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Speaker 1: I was his favorite player to watch. I took about

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Speaker 1: I was the guys that the watch you growing up,

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