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Speaker 1: Everybody. I'm Miss Matthews with Robert Spillane to talk about

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Speaker 1: another year with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Rob kind of take

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Speaker 1: me through what your process was like. Everybody's is a

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Speaker 1: little bit different. And obviously you weren't an unrestricted free agent. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know this offseason, Uh, I knew essentially I was

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Speaker 1: going to be back with the Steelers for next year.

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Speaker 1: So my goal is just to get myself fully prepared

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Speaker 1: for offseason workouts, training camp, etcetera. And Uh, I gave

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Speaker 1: myself about a week or so after the season to

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Speaker 1: let my body fully recover and rest, and uh, I've

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Speaker 1: been uh foot on the gas pedal since. So I'm

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Speaker 1: I'm excited to get back to Pittsburgh and to see

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Speaker 1: the guys. Hopefully we'll have an offseason training, uh workouts,

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Speaker 1: and I'm just excited to get back. What do you

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Speaker 1: think you learned about yourself and what you can do

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Speaker 1: in this league during that season? Obviously stepping in and

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Speaker 1: doing a great job when Devin Bush went down, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, I think uh more so other people learned

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Speaker 1: about what I could do. I've always trusted my abilities

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Speaker 1: and instincts, and I knew when I was given an

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Speaker 1: opportunity that I would be able to produce. So I

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Speaker 1: think that was more about proven people that didn't believe

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Speaker 1: in me wrong, And uh, I hope to continue to

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Speaker 1: do that next season. What is it gonna be like

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Speaker 1: not having Vince Williams. The unfortunate part of the business

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Speaker 1: of the NFL is that things do change. And I'm

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Speaker 1: sure that's somebody that you leaned on during that season.

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Speaker 1: You know, Ever since I became a Pittsburgh Steeler, Vince

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Speaker 1: is a guy that I looked up to, not just

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Speaker 1: because of um, the teammate he is, but just about

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Speaker 1: how he goes about his business. He's a guy that, um,

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Speaker 1: he might not talk the most, but just watching him

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Speaker 1: work and watching him go through his processes, he does

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Speaker 1: things the right way. So I have the utmost respect

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Speaker 1: for a guy like Vince. And you never know, like

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Speaker 1: you said, it is a business and things happen, but

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Speaker 1: you ever know, he might end up being back a Stealers, so, um,

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Speaker 1: which is what I hope. I love playing with him,

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Speaker 1: I love playing next to him, having him in the room.

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Speaker 1: He's a great guy. So you never know. What has

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Speaker 1: this offseason been like for you? I know you said

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Speaker 1: prior to this interview, you're in Chicago and you're getting

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Speaker 1: to spend some family time while also training. Yeah, it

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Speaker 1: means the world to me having two younger brothers that

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Speaker 1: are playing high school football right now and h during

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Speaker 1: a normal season, I would never be able to go

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Speaker 1: to their games and watch them play. So it means

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Speaker 1: the world to be here for them and to be

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Speaker 1: able to watch them play high school football and um

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Speaker 1: be around family. You know, it's always very important to me.

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Speaker 1: So it's it's good to be home. But like you said,

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Speaker 1: the main goal is to stay ready and just stay training,

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Speaker 1: and that's what I've been able to have the best

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Speaker 1: of both worlds, which is nice. No one happy about

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Speaker 1: the way the season ended, obviously, Uh, do you give

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Speaker 1: yourself time to kind of recharge or have you already

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Speaker 1: gone back and maybe looked at went wrong in that

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Speaker 1: wild card game or go back and look at anything

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Speaker 1: from the previous season. Yeah, it definitely stung. And to

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Speaker 1: go out any season without a championship is essentially a

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Speaker 1: failed season, even when you do other good things throughout

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Speaker 1: the season. You know, the one goal of any good

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Speaker 1: organization is to come home with that trophy. So that's

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Speaker 1: our goal last year, that will be our goal this year.

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Speaker 1: So whenever you don't reach that goal, it's a disappointment

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Speaker 1: and let down. And you know, I think we have

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Speaker 1: a group of guys, especially coming back next year, who

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Speaker 1: are dedicated to learning from our mistakes and growing together.

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Speaker 1: And we have a huge foundation of core group of

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Speaker 1: guys that are willing to be honest with themselves and

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Speaker 1: to look at the tape and to look at the

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Speaker 1: whole season as a whole and break it down and

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Speaker 1: go from there. We have a lot of guys who

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Speaker 1: are gonna come back next year. You know, a family man,

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Speaker 1: an anchor in the middle, a dominant defensive tackle, whatever

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Speaker 1: you want to call him. He's a special person to me.

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Speaker 1: Always walks around the building with a smile and you know,

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Speaker 1: wants to help younger guys. So that's a guy that

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Speaker 1: you love having on the team. And I'm glad that

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Speaker 1: you know, Cam Hayward and Joe Hayden were able to,

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Speaker 1: you know a little bit recruit him to stay. You know,

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Speaker 1: he had COVID luckily, so he wasn't able to fly

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Speaker 1: down to Jacksonville. Hopefully he's feeling much better and healthy.

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Speaker 1: But um just hearing that news the other day that

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Speaker 1: he was gonna actually sign with the Steelers. You know,

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Speaker 1: I call my mom tyson staying, you know, like so,

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Speaker 1: it's fun Ah to hear that he'll be back with

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Speaker 1: the Steelers next season