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Speaker 1: What are you hoping for in lessons, abundance, longevity, you know,

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Speaker 1: being able to play football.

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Speaker 2: They opened the window here for the last three weeks.

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Speaker 1: Not really, I mean Joe told me they were going

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Speaker 1: to make the decision last week. So what it didn't

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Speaker 1: come as to its apply to me?

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Speaker 2: I assumed, like, wait, wait, did you start feeling better physically?

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Speaker 1: Just the progression throughout rehab, you know, just building me up,

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Speaker 1: rapping me up, getting on the field, running, doing this,

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Speaker 1: that and the third and you know, Joe told me

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Speaker 1: say he's thinking about opening up the window. I was like, okay,

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Speaker 1: if you do that, hey, I'll be ready.

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Speaker 2: Is it over this season where I just kind of

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Speaker 2: felt like, okay, not playing it's just kind of weighing

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Speaker 2: a little bit more on you than normal.

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Speaker 1: I guess, I mean, I guess it's safe to say that.

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Speaker 1: I guess. You know, being a football player would feel

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Speaker 1: unnatural for anyone in this league not to play. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's that's our job. Is my job to play football.

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Speaker 1: And when I got put in a position to where

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Speaker 1: you know I couldn't do that, I mean, yeah, it

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Speaker 1: felt different, but obviously that was something that was out

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Speaker 1: of my control. So I just kind of tried to,

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Speaker 1: you know, just go inward, you know, just focus on

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Speaker 1: the avenue, Just focus on the things that you know

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Speaker 1: I can do to continue to keep myself mentally strong,

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Speaker 1: physically strong, and just you know, ready for whatever's nest.

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Speaker 2: How different is your day to day when you know that,

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Speaker 2: let's say, week to week you're not having that opportunity.

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Speaker 2: How different is your day to.

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Speaker 1: Day during your year like this where when I was active?

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Speaker 2: You speaking like you're an E leade athlete has always

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Speaker 2: been active, So in a year like this, how different

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Speaker 2: is your day to day?

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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Whenever you were speaking like

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Speaker 1: earlier on in the season, Yeah, I was was active, correct, Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Well I was preparing as if you know, I would

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Speaker 1: be active every week. You know, I wasn't letting on

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Speaker 1: whether I be active or or in active. You know,

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Speaker 1: usually a lot of time the day before the game

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Speaker 1: or I'll walk into the stadium and then I'll find

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Speaker 1: out whether I'd be active or not, if I had

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Speaker 1: a jersey on my locker or something like that. So

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Speaker 1: I just prepared as if I be active, you know

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Speaker 1: what I'm saying. I came in, I practiced hard, and

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Speaker 1: I just did everything that I could do within the

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Speaker 1: best of my abilities to go out there and play,

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Speaker 1: and would whether it be Friday, Saturday night or a

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Speaker 1: Sunday morning. You know, I pretty much find out, you know,

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Speaker 1: whether I'd be playing or christ.

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Speaker 2: If you get a chance to go back in and play,

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Speaker 2: do you have a preference of where you would play?

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Speaker 1: Guard?

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Speaker 2: Tackle?

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Speaker 1: Wherever they you know, decide to line me up. You

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Speaker 1: know That's what I do. I mean, if I get

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Speaker 1: that opportunity, great, I mean, I don't think anyone on

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Speaker 1: the offensive line is injured at this point. But like

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Speaker 1: I said, I'm poored by the New York Giants, so

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Speaker 1: I'll do whatever they asked me to do. At this point,

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Speaker 1: you look.

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Speaker 2: At yourself in the future as one or the other,

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Speaker 2: Like how do you view it?

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Speaker 1: I'll do myself. I viewed myself with Evan Neil, a

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Speaker 1: football player. I mean, I think I can do both.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'll be act to play in the game

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Speaker 1: this year, a regular season, the game at guard. I

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Speaker 1: have a little film at tackle. I mean, but I

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Speaker 1: think I can do both. At this point, I think

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Speaker 1: it makes me more valuable. My versatility