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Speaker 1: Really, what's your approach like this week? Has it changed

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Speaker 1: at always time goes by here and kind of how

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Speaker 1: much more comfortable are you getting as you go through

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Speaker 1: your preparation. Yeah, as far as preparation, nothing's gonna change.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep doing the same thing I've been doing

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Speaker 1: for the last seven weeks now, you know, kind of

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Speaker 1: with the Monday game of course, we got kind of

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Speaker 1: get an extra data, you know, get on the onto

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Speaker 1: the bears, and just this week working on some things

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Speaker 1: that we saw the last few weeks of the film,

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Speaker 1: like fundamental wise working on that in practice, but that

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Speaker 1: nothing's gonna really change at all. It seems like you

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Speaker 1: really are getting more comfortable each time you're on the field.

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Speaker 1: Why have you gotten so comfortable in this offense? Um?

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Speaker 1: I think it's just really just staying a day by

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Speaker 1: day every day, getting better, getting more comfortable, understanding the plays,

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Speaker 1: understanding the concepts. Um. Really just taking it as we

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Speaker 1: keep saying, day by day really and just getting better

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Speaker 1: every day with it, mainly with like some of the

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Speaker 1: subtleties of things that you've developed as you've gotten here

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Speaker 1: and gotten better at how much growth would you say

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Speaker 1: there's been since you enter this facility back in the spring.

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Speaker 1: In terms of you know, learning taking the snap under

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Speaker 1: the center, coming out with last things of that nature,

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Speaker 1: just in general feel all development. Um, It's definitely learned

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Speaker 1: a lot in that aspect. That's something I never really

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Speaker 1: did in college or high school, so when I came

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Speaker 1: here it was kind of a little new world for me. UM.

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Speaker 1: But learning those things, that's something that I had to

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Speaker 1: do to you know, being at this be in this position,

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Speaker 1: being this league, And of course there's some things that

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Speaker 1: I could continue to work on. UM. But that's a

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Speaker 1: great thing about in practice is more than just the

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Speaker 1: coaching you're getting or doing a lot of the do

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Speaker 1: a lot of those things on your own. Yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: some stuff that you know, getting getting snaps with centers

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Speaker 1: before and after practice, getting with the running backs for

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Speaker 1: and after practice, just getting the extra work in outside

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Speaker 1: of you know, the two and a half hours or

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Speaker 1: halving many hours we have practice wise, What is it

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Speaker 1: like for you just kind of not knowing what's gonna

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Speaker 1: go on on the course of the week, not knowing

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Speaker 1: if you're going to be the starter coming Monday night,

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Speaker 1: and what is your mindset going into it? IM just

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Speaker 1: doing what I've been doing for the last seven weeks,

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Speaker 1: taking advantage of every rep that I get in practice,

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Speaker 1: you know, just trying to get better every day. Let's

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Speaker 1: come on mindset. And how important is it to take

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Speaker 1: advantage of the opportunity to Every young player will say that,

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Speaker 1: just take advantage of what what you can do. How important

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Speaker 1: is that for you? Is that your goal? Kind every

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Speaker 1: time you go out, Yeah, that's one hundred sitting my goal.

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Speaker 1: And it's very important because you don't know when you

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Speaker 1: know your next opportunity is going to come. So I

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Speaker 1: think once you get the opportunity, you gotta take advantage

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Speaker 1: of it. And I hope you get another one. But um,

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Speaker 1: as far as practice, goal is just every rep that

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Speaker 1: I get, take advantage of it. And different in the

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Speaker 1: one chair if you will, and you're going through the

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Speaker 1: game plan and knowing you're gonna go out there and

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Speaker 1: get to rep it as opposed to see when you

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Speaker 1: were backing out when you were free you're doing scout

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Speaker 1: team stuff. Um, I think I think it's still for me,

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Speaker 1: it's still saying mentally the way I approach it. Um,

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Speaker 1: I'll still study the game playing the same way I

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Speaker 1: would whether like you said I was third string or starting. Um,

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Speaker 1: that's condimentality that I'd take into it every week. Um,

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Speaker 1: that's the mentality I'm gonna take it to this week.

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Speaker 1: So I think that's gonna carry on throughout the rest

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Speaker 1: of the year. Really, two years ago you were Houston Baptist.

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Speaker 1: Did you always kind of believe that you could get

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Speaker 1: to this point? Is this is this something that or

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Speaker 1: or does this feel surreal how quickly you went from

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Speaker 1: there to year? Um? You know, of course that's you know,

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Speaker 1: I had a little confidence that I'd be able to

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Speaker 1: make it in myself. But uh, you know, it's still

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Speaker 1: for me, it's still surreal to be in this position

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Speaker 1: and be in the NFL, be a quarterback in NFL.

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Speaker 1: And I don't think it would ever you know, I

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Speaker 1: don't think I will ever come to me that I'm

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Speaker 1: playing in the the NFL. I think I'll still always take

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Speaker 1: advantage every day and live this dream that you know,

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Speaker 1: I've had since I was five. Did the speed that

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Speaker 1: you you picked it up quickly at Western and give

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Speaker 1: you confidence to do it here? Um? Well, the offense

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Speaker 1: same offense I had at Houston Baptist, So that was

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Speaker 1: a lot easier for me. But um, coming in the NFL,

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Speaker 1: you know, I leaned on a lot of people to

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Speaker 1: help me learn, um, you know, learn different schemes, different

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Speaker 1: stuff like that. So really, how is mac Jones helping

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Speaker 1: you over the last Oh, he's up a lot, um,

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Speaker 1: you know. Of course, he's been in the league for

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Speaker 1: you know, a whole year of course above me and um,

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Speaker 1: I've been able to pick his brain. I've been able

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Speaker 1: to ask him questions and you know, he's been giving

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Speaker 1: me a great feedback answering him, and you know, he's

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Speaker 1: been a lot of help. Memories as a child with

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Speaker 1: your earliest memory of Monday night football, I mean that's

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Speaker 1: been a long time. Um, I'm not quite sure, but

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Speaker 1: I've definitely been watching it for a long time. You'll

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Speaker 1: play in the mondaynight football game. Um, you know it's

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Speaker 1: a great environment, it's a primetime football. But right now

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Speaker 1: I'm just kind of focused on practice next week and

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Speaker 1: getting ready practice them all. How much since your confidence

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Speaker 1: growing throwing the ball deeper down the field like things

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Speaker 1: a boy like the throat of DeVante on Sunday and

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Speaker 1: stuff like that to kind of push it gotten more. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think that just goes into receivers that we have

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Speaker 1: on this team, giving those guys a chance. If you

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Speaker 1: give those guys a chance, it's more unlikely that they're

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Speaker 1: going to come down with the ball. And you know,

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Speaker 1: with everybody that we have in the receiving corps, we

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Speaker 1: have great confidence and ever seeing one of those guys

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Speaker 1: and just like, for example, that throw to DP, that

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Speaker 1: gonna throw it up there, let him do what he does,

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Speaker 1: and most of the time he's gonna come down with it. Thanks,

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Speaker 1: thank you,