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Speaker 1: What's up. How y'all doing? Going pretty good? At twenty

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Speaker 1: one units right now? Yeah, twenty, I was at uh,

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Speaker 1: I was at fourteen last year. I just built seven.

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Speaker 1: I bought a personal in Atlanta and built a two

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Speaker 1: tribe places back. I'm great about it. I'm building the whole.

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Speaker 1: I got a whole twenty four unit build out going

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Speaker 1: near Georgia Southern at Statesboro in Statesboro, Georgia. So when

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Speaker 1: I get done with that, it'll be it'll be like

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Speaker 1: thirty six total, and then hopefully I'll keep bawling. You

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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, keep building. Thank you appreciate that. Yep. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean I feel like I've been here so many times,

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Speaker 1: from being at the rock bottom, not able to walk around,

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Speaker 1: not able to my girl helping me throughout the house,

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Speaker 1: my mom, my grandma, my whole tribe helping me around, flying,

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Speaker 1: having to sit a particularly see because I had to

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Speaker 1: kick my foot up, just just the grind of it.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it took its toll. But you know what

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Speaker 1: I'm saying, I'm blessed to be able to be back

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Speaker 1: out here on the field doing my thing. I try

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Speaker 1: not to think about it as much when I come

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Speaker 1: out in the field. I thank God for another opportunity

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Speaker 1: and keep it going. First game, yeah, this this season, Man,

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Speaker 1: every time I touched the field on kickoff, defense, punt,

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Speaker 1: punk return, anything, it is. Man, I just got the

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Speaker 1: mentality that, like one I can't be blocked and two

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Speaker 1: I need to go make the tackle. I'm out there

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Speaker 1: as if in my mind, as if I'm the only

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Speaker 1: guy on the field and I gotta go make the tackle.

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Speaker 1: Just the mentality. I think this game was it the

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Speaker 1: first kickoff I'm talking about last game? This game too. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm just out there with the mindset like the guy

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Speaker 1: leading up into it, just going as hard as I

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Speaker 1: can as if it's a real game rep and it

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Speaker 1: translates over to the game and it shows whatever the

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Speaker 1: kids a lot of I've learned a little something about

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Speaker 1: myself watching film, watching other guys. What lessons mean? Did

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Speaker 1: you learn all that expended? Tim? You're interested in? Man,

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Speaker 1: I just learned that I need to eat better. You

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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Be be better like everything around football, stretching, rehydrating,

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Speaker 1: eating better, like getting massages, working out, make sure I

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Speaker 1: stay in a routine and working out. Make sure it's

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Speaker 1: not just during the off season when I'm at the

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Speaker 1: training facility doing it every day, but when I'm here

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Speaker 1: at you let doing the same, just keeping the same

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Speaker 1: process going. And I learned who was in my circle,

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Speaker 1: who was out of my circle. You know what I'm saying,

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Speaker 1: Who who got my back and who don't got my back?

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Speaker 1: And I actually learned for myself, like to be better

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Speaker 1: with money. You know what I'm saying outside of football

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Speaker 1: in that room. I mean, uh, of course the linebacker room, man,

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Speaker 1: but uh, remindre your Kevin Harris, me and him went

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Speaker 1: to We're from the same area, Ben Jilani, Me and

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Speaker 1: Taki Taki. Over the last couple of months have been

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Speaker 1: building a great relationship, Joe. All the linebackers, they always

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Speaker 1: got my back. Man gotchall Me and him got drafted

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Speaker 1: together in Miami. Anthony, I can't. I can name a

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Speaker 1: lot of people, man, the guys that you see me

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Speaker 1: around on the field talking to. And uh, I know

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Speaker 1: I talked to everybody, but those are kind of the

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Speaker 1: guys that I stick to and I gravitate to because

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Speaker 1: of their energy and it permeates to me too. Like

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Speaker 1: I know, what it was like, Oh oh, look at

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Speaker 1: my last year getting hurt, getting injured. Man. It was

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Speaker 1: just I was just dropping, like a regular day I had.

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Speaker 1: We had that. We had maybe four or five practices

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Speaker 1: leading up to that day, and that was our first

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Speaker 1: time in helmets and stuff like that. Just a regular drop,

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Speaker 1: same thing I've been doing over the last couple of days.

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Speaker 1: I think Michael Secki was here. He he did a

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Speaker 1: stop route and I had planned to drive on the

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Speaker 1: ball and I went to plant and it gave out.

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Speaker 1: It just popped and then I fell to the ground.

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Speaker 1: Looked back behind me to see if anybody's behind me. No,

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Speaker 1: nobody was there. Uh of course, frustrated, pissed off. But

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Speaker 1: we're here now in this well, four fifteen months out,

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Speaker 1: feeling blessed the good. Yeah yeah physically yeah you I

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Speaker 1: mean yeah, you kind of want to go out on

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Speaker 1: something that you you you hit somebody and it get hurt.

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Speaker 1: When it's a self inflicted woman, it kind of demoralizes

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Speaker 1: you a little bit. And the road sometimes work out, YEA.

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Speaker 1: Relationships like and you and the guys know rehab and training,

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Speaker 1: the style and how muld you come back over today

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Speaker 1: and help bring you to get back out here today. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I feel like New England is the best of the best,

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Speaker 1: uh when it comes to getting back. Obviously, with my

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Speaker 1: first ACL I d I'm a second ACO did here

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Speaker 1: and then coming to back off the Achilles, So I

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Speaker 1: I didn't I didn't R. I didn't really know for

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Speaker 1: myself that I was gonna be able to come back

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Speaker 1: and and play like I do now. But uh, here

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Speaker 1: in New England, they did a great job building a

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Speaker 1: plan for me. C you know what I'm saying, Uh,

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Speaker 1: all of them coming, bringing their minds together about how

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Speaker 1: I can get back to playing to how I usually did.

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Speaker 1: We watched videos of how I was moving before I

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Speaker 1: got hurt, and they translated it to now and and

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Speaker 1: how you know what I'm saying, how we looking and

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