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Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass Podcast. It's Friday, January two,

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Speaker 1: and the Ravens just got off the practice field. Is

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Speaker 1: they finished preparation for Sunday nights AFC North title game

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Speaker 1: against the Steelers. After practice today we had a chance

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Speaker 1: to hear from head coach John Harble.

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Speaker 2: Okay, good seeing you guys. Appreciate everybody being here, good day,

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Speaker 2: good week. Preparing for the big opportunity Sunday night and

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Speaker 2: we'll be ready. What question do you have John?

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Speaker 3: You know, heavy into a big game year, but with

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Speaker 3: vision riable, you know, everything else on the line.

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Speaker 2: How would you kind of describe the kind of the

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Speaker 2: written you of the attitude of the mindset for the team.

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Speaker 2: A lot of people go does the team tell you know?

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Speaker 3: How about how have you seen the Well?

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Speaker 2: Definitely not tight. I mean I see a team as

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Speaker 2: high energy, ready to go. Was a great team meeting.

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Speaker 2: It was a lot of fun, but it was also

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Speaker 2: very focused and detailed. The same way with the group

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Speaker 2: meetings that we had practice was the same way. Guys

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Speaker 2: are locked in for football. We got a bunch of

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Speaker 2: guys that love football and they love the opportunity that

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Speaker 2: they have and they want to go make the most

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Speaker 2: of it. John Hell's beatman doing it. We didn't see

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Speaker 2: Marlin out there today. Yeah, both guys sick. Bateman has

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Speaker 2: been had pretty serious flu situation all week. So he

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Speaker 2: got out there early, moved around. He's around. I thought

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Speaker 2: he was going to go. I think he did some

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Speaker 2: you know. So I would think that would be cleared

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Speaker 2: up by Sunday. And then Marlon just the same thing

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Speaker 2: happened to him today, so I would think he'd be

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Speaker 2: cleared up by Sunday. I think a lot of teams

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Speaker 2: are dealing with this right now around the league.

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Speaker 1: John Lowland into the decision to wait.

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Speaker 2: Thanks keeping yes today probably numbers more than anything. You know.

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Speaker 2: There's still a chance made we get him back to

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Speaker 2: the practice squad if we could, we will, but we

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Speaker 2: didn't really have a roster spot and put him on

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Speaker 2: at this point in time, just for you know, immediate

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Speaker 2: needs right now is what is the kind of final

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Speaker 2: message of It was a final message to the guys.

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Speaker 1: Says aying different this week than in previous week.

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Speaker 2: Every week is different, you know, every message is different

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Speaker 2: every week. It depends on where we're at and what

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Speaker 2: we're facing kind of our place and time, so to speak.

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Speaker 2: So the message has been been clear, but it's been

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Speaker 2: it's been a message. I think we all understand. I

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Speaker 2: don't think I really need to lay it all out,

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Speaker 2: and we understand what's a stake, and we're gonna go

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Speaker 2: the messages to player best football game, you know, play

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Speaker 2: our most complete game, play toughest game player, player, most

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Speaker 2: detailed game, and go out there and.

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Speaker 4: Letter rip don gihn a little lighter note.

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Speaker 2: How much grief did GM give you about not? I

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Speaker 2: got a little on that. I got a little heat

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Speaker 2: on the family word, you know, you know, it topped

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Speaker 2: up on the family world somehow, and I took some

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Speaker 2: shots you know there. I didn't have time to do

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Speaker 2: the world just for the record for the fans out

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Speaker 2: there and been doing the world. Who's got time for

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Speaker 2: the world. But it's, uh, you know, it's crazy, I

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Speaker 2: mean because I did not know that right right away.

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Speaker 2: As soon as it was like Jim, I was like,

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Speaker 2: oh my gosh, it couldn't be anybody else. I'm not

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Speaker 2: trying to think that Pete Carroll plain in the NFL.

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Speaker 4: He didn't.

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Speaker 2: I did have a couple of good lines though. You

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Speaker 2: get that leather helmet line.

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Speaker 4: That was pretty good.

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Speaker 2: I think I shouted Kevin O'Connell to to you love

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Speaker 2: you Kevin, But Kevin o'connon and I didn't play. He

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Speaker 2: didn't play, so, uh, that was fun. I'm gonna tell

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Speaker 2: you Jim Barbell was underrated, man, I mean he's underrated.

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Speaker 2: Didn't have great offensive lines, the great receivers. He did

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Speaker 2: us some really good running backs. He had Marshall Falk

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Speaker 2: and uh, he used to make a bunch of plays. Man.

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Speaker 2: That was back when quarterbacks could get hit too. Remember,

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Speaker 2: back back in the day.

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Speaker 4: He seemed surprised. You want from the.

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Speaker 2: Video you're saying Jim's surprised that Jim was the answer.

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Speaker 2: That's good?

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Speaker 4: Said how many? Like two yards?

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Speaker 2: He? I mean, yeah, he did have a great linder,

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Speaker 2: he said. He said bull looked a lot better.

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Speaker 4: Doing it than he did.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that was that was funny. That was great. That's

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Speaker 2: a great question. You know what, that's a really great question.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for asking that question. Good anything else, And we're

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Speaker 2: definitely not tight. We're not tight, So all right, this guy.

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Speaker 4: Football fans know that traditions matter. They're what inspire us

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Speaker 4: to make our massa in tostitos the traditional way, starting

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Speaker 4: with whole corn kernels, no artificial flavors, colors, or preservatives,

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Speaker 4: all to give you that perfect crunch. Discover your next

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Speaker 4: tradition this football season. Head to the store, grab your

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Speaker 4: Tostito's team bag and scan the code for a chance

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Speaker 4: to score an epic experience with the Baltimore Ravens Tostitos

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Speaker 4: tradition matters.

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Speaker 1: That was head coach John Harball. Next up, we heard

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Speaker 1: from nose tackle John Jenkins, who ainked an extension with

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Speaker 1: the Ravens on Friday.

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Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure y'all done, y'all job. You know, I've

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Speaker 3: been around the whole America. I didn't have my first

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Speaker 3: extension in thirteen years. You know, I'm excited.

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Speaker 2: What was it about this organization that makes you want

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Speaker 2: to say?

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Speaker 3: I mean, I think you should ask them because they're

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Speaker 3: the one that believed in me to give me the

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Speaker 3: opportunity in the first place, and then to say, hey,

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Speaker 3: we want you to come back.

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Speaker 2: Right. So I'm here.

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Speaker 3: I'm just doing my job, man, trying to be the

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Speaker 3: best that I can. But it takes, you know, to

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Speaker 3: the tangle in regards of Hey, I want you to

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Speaker 3: stay here, and I love the way how you present

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Speaker 3: yourself and you have a good value to our organization,

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Speaker 3: which I appreciate that and I'm I'm very grateful for that.

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Speaker 2: Were you surprised at all or or did you see

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Speaker 2: a count? Were you surprised at all or do you

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Speaker 2: just kind of expected to see it coming? Man?

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Speaker 3: I been on I wanna say, eleven single digit single

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Speaker 3: contracts right? One year it deals? So yeah, I was surprised.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, what's it take to play your position for this all? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Just know that it's not very glorified. You know, I

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Speaker 3: call I make a joke where pat ricarr he's a

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Speaker 3: no sackle to the offense. You know, it's it's not

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Speaker 3: so we just grind do our job and just you know,

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Speaker 3: set set people up to make lays. It's more express

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Speaker 3: than you've called. Since I haven't called anybody. I was

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Speaker 3: waiting for y'all to leave so I can like I'm

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Speaker 3: just being brutally honest. But it's okay though, I'm reach

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Speaker 3: out to my family and everybody. Yeah, I didn't when

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Speaker 3: and how did you find out finally come about? I

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Speaker 3: were just having some you know, being in this position.

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Speaker 3: Thirteen years you start thinking about life after football, right,

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Speaker 3: So I was just having some conversation with some people

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Speaker 3: then would you like, hey, listen, you still got it?

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Speaker 3: I'm like you think so? And then like I say, know,

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Speaker 4: Are you talking about playing as long as you have?

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Speaker 1: How excited are you to have after all this team

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Speaker 1: has been through, to have a shot to go to

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Speaker 1: the playoffs and maybe do something if you guys can

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Speaker 1: get in man through.

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Speaker 3: My of course, my career, I've been to the playoffs

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Speaker 3: a few times, but I never got an opportunity to

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Speaker 3: make a run. I really wanna I'm excited with this opportunity,

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Speaker 3: but I'm really just focused on just one game at

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Speaker 3: a time. You know, I'd never and now I just

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Speaker 3: don't wanna jump into that. I just really wanna just

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Speaker 3: focus on what's in front of me right now and

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Speaker 3: just have an opportunity to play this game.

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Speaker 2: Wou's it been like? Uh? Playing with with Travis as

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Speaker 2: you just seemed like, you know, he's he's wreckingg Avoc.

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Speaker 3: You wanna hear a fun fact about that?

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Speaker 1: So?

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Speaker 3: Uh, his old line coach in high school was my

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Speaker 3: it's kind of crazy because Trap being from Connecticut and

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Speaker 3: same college, but it's another one you coming from s

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Speaker 3: it's it's pretty awesome to see him to develop. Does

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Speaker 3: that mean you knew about him coming up?

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Speaker 1: Maybe?

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Speaker 3: the guys back home hit me up or whatever. So

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Speaker 3: it was like that kind of like brotherhood moment right

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Speaker 3: there for us. So trying a lot of places, why

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Speaker 3: do you feel like this place, it's it's such a.

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Speaker 2: Pretty fit from where you are.

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Speaker 3: It's see your because you know, unfortunately, when the things happen,

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Speaker 3: you know what the other guys, you know, Brodick Beaks

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Speaker 3: and all that they believed in me to not bring

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Speaker 3: somebody else in. So when that that says a lot

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Speaker 3: when uh, when things like that happens. I remember my

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Speaker 3: rookie year, my old vet Proger Bunkley went down the

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Speaker 3: first game of the season. This is two thousand and

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Speaker 3: thirteen in New Orleans. He said, man, don't give him

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Speaker 3: a reason to bring somebody in. So with that being

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Speaker 3: said and letting me know that they they have faith

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Speaker 3: in me, you know, least enough for them to say, hey,

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Speaker 3: let's see how what he's gonna do, and then if

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Speaker 3: he does what we need him to do, then we

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Speaker 3: can just keep it rolling. So I'm very grateful for that.

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