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Speaker 1: Chep. We talked during the week about this potentially being

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Speaker 2: Really just trying to take it all in. Like I

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Speaker 2: told you guys earlier in the week, you know, I

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Speaker 2: of it. And that's exactly what I did.

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Speaker 1: You should you had wanted to get into the top

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Speaker 1: five of the Giants receiving category. You did pass Jeremy

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Speaker 1: Shockey and get into that fifth spot. How much did

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Speaker 1: it mean to you?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it meant a lot that I grew up watching

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Speaker 2: Being able to get it wasn't easy. Uh, but my

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Speaker 2: be any other way. Uh, but uh, yeah, it was

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Speaker 1: Quan and said, you epitomize being a giant. What does

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Speaker 1: that mean to you to find that if you can

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Speaker 1: for me, it.

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Speaker 2: Means so much. I mean, because that is the reason

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Speaker 2: why I play this game, for those guys, you know

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Speaker 2: what I mean that that's what ex players will always

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Speaker 2: come back and tell you. They'll tell you that they

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Speaker 2: missed the guys and being around and the camaraderie. And

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Speaker 2: you know, for for guys to be able to compliment

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Speaker 1: Final thought, what does it mean the last couple of

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Speaker 1: years as you've come back from injuries to make it

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Speaker 1: back onto this roster, and of course coach Brian Dable

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Speaker 1: and his staff really showed you a lot of love

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Speaker 1: and a lot of respect these last couple of seasons.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm just very appreciative of the opportunities that they

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Speaker 2: gave me because they didn't really have to do that,

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Speaker 2: I tried. I tried to put my best foot forward

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Speaker 2: every day trying to fight back from those injuries, and

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Speaker 2: thank god I was able to do that, and thank

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Speaker 2: god we have the coach of staff that we have

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Speaker 2: and the ownership that we have. I'm very appreciative of

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Speaker 2: those guys.

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Speaker 1: How sweet to go out beating the Eagles.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that was what I was going to get to.

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Speaker 2: I mean, that's the team that we've been druggling with

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Speaker 2: the past couple of years. And I'm just happy that

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Speaker 2: And uh, especially my last time being in blue. Uh,

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Speaker 2: being able to get those guys. Probably I don't like

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Speaker 2: those guys, you know, you know what I mean, worst

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Speaker 2: was good to get those guys at the end.

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Speaker 1: What do you want you.

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Speaker 2: Like fans to be living really for? You know what?

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Speaker 2: What what I brought to the team. You know, whether

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Speaker 2: I was hurt or out there on the field, I

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Speaker 2: you know what I mean. I try to give everybody

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Speaker 2: And you know that's the that's the legacy I want

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Speaker 1: Would you would you thank yourself? So?

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Speaker 2: Uh? I guess so. I mean I've had my fair

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Speaker 2: that's something that was very important to me, and that's

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Speaker 2: something that was playing through my mind the whole time

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Speaker 1: What was it like going through the tunnel? You said

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Speaker 1: you were looking forward to it? Yeah, what was that

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Speaker 2: And the feeling that that everybody loves. I mean, if

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Speaker 2: like no other. And it wasn't anything short of that today. Uh,

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Speaker 2: I'm I'm so happy that I was able to, you know,

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Speaker 2: They they rolled with me through ups and downs, and

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Speaker 2: I'm very appreciative of them as well. I wouldn't I

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Speaker 1: So picture before the game online. What did you mean

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Speaker 2: Man, he came up to me and said he would

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Speaker 2: miss it for the world, and that means so much

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Speaker 2: to me. I remember walking in as a rookie and

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Speaker 2: half fast time flies man, because yeah, it seems like

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Speaker 2: it was just yesterday me seeing those guys, and it

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Speaker 2: as Big Tough.

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Speaker 1: When do you think you'll sit down and decide as

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I got to discuss it with my family,

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry if you said coach said that young Shepherds touchdown.

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Speaker 2: Really it comes back down to the fundamentals. Man, I

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Speaker 2: but it is what it is. We got we got

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Speaker 2: the job done, We won the game. To tell you that,

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Speaker 2: what does it mean to you?

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Speaker 1: Your teammates spoken so highly of you, they love you

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Speaker 2: And I love them. I mean, like I've told you before,

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Speaker 2: for those relationships and for my brothers that I grind

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Speaker 2: So you know too, to have them speak of you

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Speaker 1: One saying he pulled you in right at the end

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Speaker 2: My that's my brother. Like blood, couldn't make us any closer,

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Speaker 2: be locked in for life. So, you know, this.

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Speaker 1: Season, for.

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Speaker 2: Obviously I wish it would have went better for the team,

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Speaker 2: So you know, I'm I'm very pleased with Uh, the

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Speaker 1: Look back and say that, yeah, if it's this is

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Speaker 1: a repeat, I apologize.

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Speaker 2: I wasn't here for all of it.

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Speaker 1: What does it mean for you and sake? Want to

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Speaker 1: have a bond that is gonna go beyond you know

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Speaker 2: Ah, man, it it means the world to me. I mean, uh,

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Speaker 2: It's uh, yeah, it's a it's a great feeling. I mean,

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Speaker 2: that's that's my boy. Do you think it made you

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Speaker 2: closer because you both did overcome and have to overcome

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Speaker 2: adversity time and again. I think, yeah, I think that

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Speaker 2: mean we whenever he came in, we were both new dads,

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Speaker 2: that bond formed to him obviously, because you know what,

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Speaker 2: with stuff. So that's anymore just.

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Speaker 1: Coaching one of the things that you think about.

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Speaker 2: You know, Luckily, I have a lot of opportunities, you

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Speaker 2: So I think that is an option and something that

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Speaker 2: lot of things that I can that I can choose

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Speaker 2: I ain't doing college because you got to deal with

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Speaker 2: all the n i L stuff and all the recruit

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Speaker 2: or you gotta deal with recruiting everywhere. But I probably

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Speaker 2: go with the league. That's what I've been told is

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Speaker 2: the best for'ro oute