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Speaker 1: Austin, can you just talk about this whole journey for you,

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Speaker 1: going undrafted, then having to kind of wait your turn

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Speaker 1: to get this opportunity, and just what you've kind of

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Speaker 1: done to keep yourself focused and not get discouraged. Yeah. Yeah, No,

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Speaker 1: it's been a grind. I've been really focused and knowing that, um,

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Speaker 1: it wasn't gonna be easy at the end of the day,

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Speaker 1: just come in, work hard, put my head down, um,

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Speaker 1: and just wait for an opportunity and whenever there was

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Speaker 1: an opportunity, just trying to maximize it, um, and just

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Speaker 1: keep competing each and every day. Thanks. Hey, hey, Austin,

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Speaker 1: how are you. What's going on? I'm good you So,

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Speaker 1: I'm good. Hey. Coach Coach Toilbert the other day referred

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Speaker 1: to you as an enforcer in the runnee, and I've

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Speaker 1: never heard a wide receiver you know, referred to that way.

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Speaker 1: What does that mean to you? And you know how

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Speaker 1: important is that part of the job. It's extremely important.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's the that's the role I was given

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Speaker 1: when I had the opportunity to be able to be

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Speaker 1: a part of this team. Um, so I'm gonna do

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Speaker 1: it the best of my ability. Uh. Something that coach

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Speaker 1: Mark taught me back of the High State was just

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Speaker 1: too you know, you can't play receiver until you play

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Speaker 1: specially teams, until you block for your running backs, and

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Speaker 1: and that just same mindset. I just think I lived

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Speaker 1: by and trying to trying to have that identity. Thank you,

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Speaker 1: Peter Austin. I when the when the touchdown was overturned

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Speaker 1: the other day, UM, did you see that coming? And

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Speaker 1: how disappointing was it for it to get overturned. I mean,

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Speaker 1: obviously it's very disappointing, but it just it just means

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Speaker 1: hopefully in the future that I can get get another

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Speaker 1: shot at that. Um. I thought I was in there,

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Speaker 1: I ain't gonna lie, and then I saw the replay.

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Speaker 1: I was like, okay, but then Wayne had to put

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Speaker 1: it in for for for six. So obviously disappointed, but

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Speaker 1: excited hopefully for the future to come and get more

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Speaker 1: opportunities than anybody anybody else art Hey Austin, Uh, looking

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Speaker 1: back on your career a little bit. I know out

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Speaker 1: in Columbus it's kind of a big deal when you

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Speaker 1: got the stripe taken off the helmet back when you

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Speaker 1: were a freshman. I'm just curious if the mindset you

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Speaker 1: had back then helped you get to the point where

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Speaker 1: you are now as a rookie with the Giants. And

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Speaker 1: if so, what was your mentality? Uh? Yeah, I think

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Speaker 1: I think you can tie that in a little bit

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Speaker 1: more than anything. UM, I think my mindset kind of was,

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Speaker 1: you know, you're not giving anything right now. Um, you

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Speaker 1: have to go earn every single you know, respect the

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Speaker 1: opportunity to even be here. Um. And that was just

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Speaker 1: my mentality. I didn't care that went to a house state.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't matter in the NFL. Everybody comes from all

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Speaker 1: different divisions and it's just a matter of just coming

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Speaker 1: out here improving yourself and you're worth your value to

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Speaker 1: the team. UM. So that's just been my whole mindset

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Speaker 1: moving forward. How often did you hear about separation and

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Speaker 1: whether or not you were fast enough to play at

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Speaker 1: this level? And do you think you're ability as a

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Speaker 1: route runner kind of makes up for what people may

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Speaker 1: perceive as a lack of a forty time don't really

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Speaker 1: hear that too much? Um, And to me, I just

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Speaker 1: do what I can to make sure that you know,

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Speaker 1: I make the opportunities that I'm I'm open on film. Um,

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Speaker 1: if the ball comes my way, I just make the play.

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Speaker 1: Uh if that makes sense, sure, thanks, man, I'll take

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Speaker 1: one more, Tom Rock Austin. You're, you know, an undrafted

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Speaker 1: rookie on this team. You were given an opportunity last week.

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Speaker 1: Was there anything though that you learned from sort of

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Speaker 1: being in the background and watching how things unfolded with

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Speaker 1: Golden and you know the uh you know what happened

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Speaker 1: between him and him and coach and everything else. Uh

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Speaker 1: Man for for really for Golden, uh Man, he's been

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Speaker 1: a great big brother to me. Uh He's He's taught

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Speaker 1: me so much so far. And it's kind of just

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Speaker 1: this whole room, you know, being this young guy on

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Speaker 1: the team and that receiver room with Chep Sleigh and

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Speaker 1: and GT and all other guys. Man, I just really

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Speaker 1: just trying to, you know, take in all the information

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Speaker 1: from the guys and just keep learning and keep stacking

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Speaker 1: up the days, coming to work with some energy, and

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Speaker 1: then you know, always just trying to make sure that uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, I always get better. You know you kind

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Speaker 1: of loose sight of that, but I'm always just trying

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Speaker 1: to get better. And you can learn a lot from

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Speaker 1: guys like Golden and Sheep and and a lot of

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Speaker 1: these old guys, these veterans