1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:03,360 Speaker 1: Dude, where were you when you got the call? I'm 2 00:00:03,400 --> 00:00:06,720 Speaker 1: down into Sydney, Florida right now with family members were 3 00:00:06,720 --> 00:00:09,440 Speaker 1: renting out of a big house and just all came 4 00:00:09,480 --> 00:00:11,600 Speaker 1: together and had a nice family time and just enjoy 5 00:00:11,640 --> 00:00:14,880 Speaker 1: the process. What was that like kind of walk us through? 6 00:00:14,920 --> 00:00:17,520 Speaker 1: Who called you the you know, was there a celebration? 7 00:00:17,640 --> 00:00:23,400 Speaker 1: What happened? It was so surreal. I mean, uh, you know, 8 00:00:23,440 --> 00:00:25,680 Speaker 1: all my feather members, we just we just were just 9 00:00:25,680 --> 00:00:29,000 Speaker 1: watching TV and at the time, I was just looking 10 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:31,240 Speaker 1: at all the pigs, uh, to see what was going on, 11 00:00:31,320 --> 00:00:33,880 Speaker 1: and I kind of got called in just watching the 12 00:00:34,159 --> 00:00:36,360 Speaker 1: football players and the plays, and all of a sudden 13 00:00:36,520 --> 00:00:40,640 Speaker 1: before thought of ringing, and then I've seen a Massachusetts 14 00:00:41,159 --> 00:00:44,919 Speaker 1: are your code? And when I seen that, my heart 15 00:00:44,960 --> 00:00:47,319 Speaker 1: to start beating and I got so excited. Then once 16 00:00:47,360 --> 00:00:49,000 Speaker 1: I got on the phone to talk to coach Belichick 17 00:00:49,120 --> 00:00:51,520 Speaker 1: and talk to general managers. I mean it's just social 18 00:00:51,600 --> 00:00:53,800 Speaker 1: real man. I mean, this has been a dream come 19 00:00:53,840 --> 00:00:56,240 Speaker 1: through since I was little, um, just being able to 20 00:00:56,280 --> 00:00:59,640 Speaker 1: fulfill my dreams. What was your pre draft visit with 21 00:00:59,720 --> 00:01:03,800 Speaker 1: the Tree It's like, I mean it was great. I mean, 22 00:01:03,880 --> 00:01:08,600 Speaker 1: just going in building that relationship with everyone in the buildings. Um, 23 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:11,600 Speaker 1: just being able to conduct myself in a in a 24 00:01:11,640 --> 00:01:14,560 Speaker 1: positive way. Just everybody can't really get to know the 25 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:16,920 Speaker 1: real side of Duke. And I mean that's really how 26 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:20,800 Speaker 1: the visit went. Duke Duke, you seem to have a 27 00:01:20,840 --> 00:01:23,720 Speaker 1: knack for forgetting your hands on balls. I think you 28 00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:27,839 Speaker 1: had about seventeen passes defence over your last eighteen games. 29 00:01:27,880 --> 00:01:30,160 Speaker 1: Can you just speak to h why had success in 30 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:33,600 Speaker 1: that area? I mean I did go out. I feel 31 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:35,920 Speaker 1: like my coach is preparing me well. Um, every week 32 00:01:36,440 --> 00:01:38,640 Speaker 1: they give us a great game player. I mean I'm 33 00:01:38,680 --> 00:01:41,119 Speaker 1: just going to competing at a high level. Uh, she'd 34 00:01:41,160 --> 00:01:42,480 Speaker 1: like to go out and just have fun with my 35 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:45,440 Speaker 1: with my brothers. Uh. Just being able to being able 36 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:47,200 Speaker 1: to play a team sport with guys that you play 37 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:51,360 Speaker 1: a relationship with. I mean it comes, it gets contagious. 38 00:01:51,360 --> 00:01:54,400 Speaker 1: And to being able to do that, and to see 39 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:56,080 Speaker 1: other guys around me making praises as well, I mean, 40 00:01:56,200 --> 00:01:59,000 Speaker 1: just awesome to see. You said you wanted to introduce 41 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:01,640 Speaker 1: the players at the Patriots to the real side of Duke. 42 00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:05,320 Speaker 1: Can you introduce us to him? I mean I'm a 43 00:02:05,400 --> 00:02:08,480 Speaker 1: very humble guy. I mean I just come in and 44 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:11,600 Speaker 1: do do what's do what I said. Uh, I've never 45 00:02:11,680 --> 00:02:13,799 Speaker 1: been a guy that that came in to seed it cocky. 46 00:02:13,880 --> 00:02:16,320 Speaker 1: I've just always been humble a memo. I'm just laid 47 00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:19,000 Speaker 1: that guy. When it's time to turn it up and 48 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:21,240 Speaker 1: and do the do do the thing that I need 49 00:02:21,240 --> 00:02:23,280 Speaker 1: to do, that's when that's when things about to get 50 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:25,359 Speaker 1: even better for me. Uh. I just liked to come 51 00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:28,840 Speaker 1: in and help in any way that I could. Uh, itybody, 52 00:02:28,880 --> 00:02:31,040 Speaker 1: don't matter what I could put. I just want to 53 00:02:31,040 --> 00:02:33,079 Speaker 1: come in and help the team anyway I can't. Dude, 54 00:02:33,120 --> 00:02:36,160 Speaker 1: how do you feel you're at Florida? Nico Sarrios had 55 00:02:36,160 --> 00:02:38,520 Speaker 1: actually talked about all the different NFL players you played 56 00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:40,840 Speaker 1: with in the secondary. How do you feel that experience 57 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:43,399 Speaker 1: will help you here in the NFL with the Patriots. 58 00:02:44,440 --> 00:02:46,880 Speaker 1: I mean it would help me as well. I mean 59 00:02:46,919 --> 00:02:49,000 Speaker 1: just being able to talk to Quincy Byrne, I mean, 60 00:02:49,600 --> 00:02:52,040 Speaker 1: Marcus may Cheese, I mean all of us. We have 61 00:02:52,080 --> 00:02:55,079 Speaker 1: a very very close relationship. I mean when I first 62 00:02:55,120 --> 00:02:58,440 Speaker 1: came in day one, that relationship has been the same. 63 00:02:58,639 --> 00:03:00,880 Speaker 1: And just being able to to pay at the nation 64 00:03:00,960 --> 00:03:02,959 Speaker 1: with those guys and see those guys doing well. And 65 00:03:03,440 --> 00:03:05,080 Speaker 1: I mean It's just great to see and I just 66 00:03:05,120 --> 00:03:09,080 Speaker 1: want to come in and continue to continue the legacy 67 00:03:09,160 --> 00:03:11,520 Speaker 1: that we have a photo. Duke, you played in a 68 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:14,519 Speaker 1: number of different positions in the secondary. Is that one 69 00:03:14,560 --> 00:03:20,480 Speaker 1: you feel more comfortable with? Not at all? Whatever whatever coaches, Uh, 70 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:22,239 Speaker 1: listen they want to put me in out of the gut, 71 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:23,880 Speaker 1: there just too a comfortble at that time, and just 72 00:03:23,919 --> 00:03:27,520 Speaker 1: play play my rule. Dude. Niko Cirio just told us 73 00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:29,240 Speaker 1: that you've had their on you for a while, the 74 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:32,040 Speaker 1: Patriots have. Did you have a strong indication that the 75 00:03:32,040 --> 00:03:35,560 Speaker 1: Patriots were highly interested in you? Oh? To be honest, 76 00:03:35,640 --> 00:03:37,760 Speaker 1: I didn't know who. Just been just saying all the 77 00:03:38,080 --> 00:03:40,320 Speaker 1: trays and the different things and everything. I don't really 78 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:42,960 Speaker 1: know who were very high meat. I mean I spoke 79 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:45,880 Speaker 1: to a lot of teams, and uh, all the teams 80 00:03:45,880 --> 00:03:48,320 Speaker 1: that I spoke to was was very well. So I 81 00:03:48,320 --> 00:03:50,080 Speaker 1: don't really I really didn't know who's going to pick 82 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:52,640 Speaker 1: me at the time. And so I got the phone call. Dude, 83 00:03:52,720 --> 00:03:55,720 Speaker 1: how strongly did you consider coming out last year and 84 00:03:55,760 --> 00:04:00,800 Speaker 1: what do you feel you gain by playing this past season? Um? 85 00:04:00,880 --> 00:04:04,280 Speaker 1: It was it was sixty fifty. Um. I mean I 86 00:04:04,320 --> 00:04:06,840 Speaker 1: went in to talk to the head coach Jim Mclawaine 87 00:04:06,880 --> 00:04:10,480 Speaker 1: my defensive coordinator, assist in a dum defensive coordinator. I 88 00:04:10,640 --> 00:04:12,360 Speaker 1: mean we just all start to talk about the pros 89 00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:15,080 Speaker 1: and cons and everything, and once you took it everything out, 90 00:04:15,160 --> 00:04:17,320 Speaker 1: I just put my product side and I had to 91 00:04:17,400 --> 00:04:18,800 Speaker 1: come back. I feel like it was more of a 92 00:04:18,920 --> 00:04:22,000 Speaker 1: maturity thing, uh, growing up. And when I seen all 93 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:25,120 Speaker 1: the pros and couver of everything, um decided to come back. 94 00:04:25,160 --> 00:04:27,360 Speaker 1: And finally coming back, I feel like I grew as 95 00:04:27,360 --> 00:04:30,240 Speaker 1: a as a student to an athlete. I grew as 96 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:32,480 Speaker 1: a player on the phil as well. So I mean 97 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:34,040 Speaker 1: just being able to see different things that I didn't 98 00:04:34,040 --> 00:04:36,840 Speaker 1: see my junior year. Seeing my senior year H it 99 00:04:36,960 --> 00:04:41,280 Speaker 1: was very helpful. Dude, you played in the SEC against H. 100 00:04:42,040 --> 00:04:45,360 Speaker 1: Two guys at the Patriots ended up picking. Um, what 101 00:04:45,680 --> 00:04:49,080 Speaker 1: do you remember. Maybe you didn't play against Sonny Michelle, 102 00:04:49,080 --> 00:04:51,280 Speaker 1: but what do you remember about playing against him? If 103 00:04:51,279 --> 00:04:57,000 Speaker 1: you did? I actually remember playing againstund of my junior 104 00:04:57,040 --> 00:05:01,160 Speaker 1: air senior year. Um, that's a I mean, Sony can 105 00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:03,480 Speaker 1: do it all. So I mean being able to have 106 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:05,000 Speaker 1: a guy like that in the fact that it's going 107 00:05:05,080 --> 00:05:08,000 Speaker 1: to be some of them, just seeing a great thing 108 00:05:08,040 --> 00:05:10,040 Speaker 1: that he's done, and I feel like this there's gonna 109 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:13,479 Speaker 1: be a great thing. It's gonna be coming coming ahead. Duke, 110 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:18,200 Speaker 1: the Patriots lost a cornerback this offseason, a notable cornerback 111 00:05:18,240 --> 00:05:21,480 Speaker 1: in Malcolm Butler. What do you know about Malcolm and 112 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:23,640 Speaker 1: what do you know about the Patriots and maybe the 113 00:05:23,720 --> 00:05:27,880 Speaker 1: way they go about utilizing their cornerbacks. I mean the picture, 114 00:05:28,120 --> 00:05:31,000 Speaker 1: I feel like they utilized their corners and the best 115 00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:33,880 Speaker 1: way that they came to see the players just that, Um, 116 00:05:34,320 --> 00:05:38,159 Speaker 1: Malcolm Butler was a great player, came in undrafted. I mean, 117 00:05:38,240 --> 00:05:40,760 Speaker 1: he just came in and working his button, got the respect, 118 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:43,080 Speaker 1: and I mean he's one of the top corners in 119 00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:48,640 Speaker 1: the league in my opinion. Duke, you mentioned being there 120 00:05:48,680 --> 00:05:51,000 Speaker 1: with your family and consuming how many family members did 121 00:05:51,080 --> 00:05:55,120 Speaker 1: you have in the house with you? Roughly? Uh, it's 122 00:05:55,120 --> 00:05:56,880 Speaker 1: a lot. Right now I'm outside looking out all these 123 00:05:56,920 --> 00:06:00,040 Speaker 1: cars lined up. I can't even exact number. So, I 124 00:06:00,080 --> 00:06:02,360 Speaker 1: mean it was just a household people. Is being able 125 00:06:02,360 --> 00:06:05,520 Speaker 1: to be around those those those guys and those those women. 126 00:06:05,839 --> 00:06:09,239 Speaker 1: I mean, it's just great. And with regards to Malcolm Butler, 127 00:06:09,279 --> 00:06:11,840 Speaker 1: one of the things that defined him as his competitiveness 128 00:06:11,960 --> 00:06:14,920 Speaker 1: here and one of the things that people often used 129 00:06:14,960 --> 00:06:16,760 Speaker 1: to describe you, one of the terms as your your 130 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:21,000 Speaker 1: competitiveness and uh how you you tackle as well, something 131 00:06:21,080 --> 00:06:23,680 Speaker 1: that Casserio touched on. Where does that come from? You've 132 00:06:23,680 --> 00:06:26,760 Speaker 1: always been that kind of guy. He has always been 133 00:06:26,760 --> 00:06:30,560 Speaker 1: a competitive sense, so that day one. I mean, my 134 00:06:30,680 --> 00:06:33,080 Speaker 1: uncle he talking to the game of caught, to the 135 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:35,880 Speaker 1: game of ball um since the age of eight. I mean, 136 00:06:36,279 --> 00:06:38,120 Speaker 1: this is always just started unto me there and what's 137 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:41,760 Speaker 1: my dad um down out or whatever? Um. I mean 138 00:06:41,839 --> 00:06:43,640 Speaker 1: he's been on me the same way with me. My dad. 139 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:46,920 Speaker 1: We've never lost the nations, so that he would gone um. So, 140 00:06:47,040 --> 00:06:48,920 Speaker 1: I mean it just it was just always bit in 141 00:06:48,920 --> 00:06:49,440 Speaker 1: the side of me.