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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Dolls. On the podcast is O g Rod.

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Speaker 1: I'm very excited. I got my big three here with

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Speaker 1: me today, Charlie, Corey and d Hop the specialists, our

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Speaker 1: big three.

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Speaker 2: I like that.

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Speaker 3: Come on, I've never heard that one, but it might be.

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Speaker 2: Walking up.

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Speaker 4: Let's kick things off, man, how was the how was

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Speaker 4: the off season?

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Speaker 2: Good? Good man?

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Speaker 4: Any special tricks?

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Speaker 3: No, man.

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Speaker 5: We we get back down to Florida, and uh, once

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Speaker 5: we get the kids backed up and settled, man, we're there.

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Speaker 2: We don't. I don't know.

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Speaker 5: It's it's a hassle, you know, it's it's a it's

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Speaker 5: a whole thing trying to get kids on a plane

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Speaker 5: going somewhere. So we're just happy to be home and

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Speaker 5: enjoy the family, enjoy the friends down there, and we're

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Speaker 5: just we get settled.

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Speaker 6: Well, we just got to play something Denver, so we

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Speaker 6: were busy setting that up. Went out to Hawaii like

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Speaker 6: we do every summer. Go visit some family, all right,

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Speaker 6: both sides of new home, new money. We'll get on

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Speaker 6: that later, no worries.

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Speaker 3: And then uh we just we laid pretty low too.

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Speaker 3: We had a baby. We laid low. My wife's like, yeah,

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Speaker 3: I was doing some work there, you know. But uh yeah,

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Speaker 3: we had we have babies, shoot five months and some

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Speaker 3: change now, so that kept me busy, you know what

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Speaker 3: I'm saying. And then uh, we did one of those

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Speaker 3: kind of rough kids like a four day trip where

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Speaker 3: travel was you know, not the best.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, it was good, it was good.

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Speaker 4: Your your go ahead.

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Speaker 5: We actually did we we did take a trip I

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Speaker 5: forgot we we went to Arizona, so we did the

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Speaker 5: union meetings out there, and we brought the kids and

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Speaker 5: we took them much of the Grand Canyon and uh,

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Speaker 5: it's about three and a half hours north of where

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Speaker 5: we were at Scottsdale, and we we took all all

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Speaker 5: three of them up there, got there and realized there

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Speaker 5: was there was no guardrails.

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Speaker 2: So my daughter's trying to run away. I'm trying to

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Speaker 2: snag her hand.

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Speaker 5: We ended up having to strap up the little one

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Speaker 5: on my wife's back and put her in the stroller.

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Speaker 5: She's four and way too tall for the stroller, but

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Speaker 5: I had to just strap her up because she was

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Speaker 5: about to freaking run run off the edge of that thing.

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Speaker 5: And she just kept saying, well, Dad, you'll come get me.

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Speaker 5: And I'm like I don't know if there's any come

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Speaker 5: getting you there. It's like a two mile drop or

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Speaker 5: whatever it is. It was terrifying. So yeah, word, do

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Speaker 5: the wise with your kids a little older taking.

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Speaker 2: The Grand Canyon.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, see, I just stepped into fatherhood, right, baby girls.

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Speaker 4: Two months to date, let's go.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but those flights kind of had up a little

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Speaker 1: bit right at the age two, I hear.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, when they're when they're real young, they tend

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's like I say, it's like one and a

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Speaker 5: half two, they start getting a little more active. Like,

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Speaker 5: for instance, to Arizona. My youngest was around one and

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Speaker 5: a half and he was at that screeching phase where

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Speaker 5: he was just screeching the entire time. He did the

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Speaker 5: entire flight four and a half five hours. Felt bad

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Speaker 5: for everybody around us, but it just was what it was.

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Speaker 5: We couldn't do anything about it. The other two they're

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Speaker 5: at the age where you give some snacks in the

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Speaker 5: coloring book.

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Speaker 2: They're they're good.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, no, the young time, they're good to go.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the youngest was, he was brutal in that way.

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Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, max it out.

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Speaker 3: I got an example for you ready, This is this

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Speaker 3: past trip. I mentioned I'm not very confrontational person in general.

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Speaker 3: I will if I have to, but I'm not really confrontational.

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Speaker 3: We get on the plane and one of the first

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Speaker 3: My oldest is having a tough time in the seat too,

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Speaker 3: So we're making as a family, We're making a lot

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Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 3: They haven't, I don't. I don't know if y'all have

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Speaker 3: noticed this there recently. I feel like planes are hotter

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Speaker 3: be a regulation. I don't know. Anyway, I'm sweating my

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Speaker 3: turns to somebody next to him. He's like, loudly, it

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Speaker 3: was like, it's gonna be a long flight, huh. And

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Speaker 3: I was like, I guess dad mode clicked on. I

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Speaker 3: was like, hey, hey, it's not too late. Now's the

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Speaker 3: time where it was? It was on a an airline

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Speaker 3: So I was like, hey, it's not too late, buddy.

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Speaker 3: I was like, move now, because it might be a

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Speaker 3: long flight, but you have a choice right now. You're

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Speaker 3: not going to hurt our feelings if we choose to move,

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Speaker 3: you know. So it's like one of those moments where

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Speaker 3: it's like you're you're just you're sweating, you're tired, your

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Speaker 3: dad and you're like, hey, make the decision.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, if you want to hold road to yourself,

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Speaker 4: bring the child.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah it was. It was a family

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Speaker 3: of four one row.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, lovely, lovely.

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Speaker 1: So we're on the topic of obviously fatherhood and you know,

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Speaker 1: when to miss a training camp right now, we all

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Speaker 1: know the daily grind, the physicality that exists for training camp.

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Speaker 1: It's very challenging on us. But as fathers, right and

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Speaker 1: as you go off into training camp or even throughout

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Speaker 1: the season, how hard is it during those days where

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Speaker 1: or even just throughout the season when you leave your

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Speaker 1: home and that time is now lost. You know, as

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Speaker 1: So talk to us a little bit about how you

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Speaker 1: guys have dealt with that and how does it feel

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Speaker 1: for you now.

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Speaker 5: I mean it's definitely difficult. I mean, you know, packing up,

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Speaker 5: leaving your family. I mean, you know, now that we're older,

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Speaker 5: camps a little different. We get to go home at night,

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Speaker 5: you know, once we're back. But honestly, I would argue

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Speaker 5: it's harder on the moms, you know. I mean they're

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Speaker 5: they're they're grunting.

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Speaker 2: All by themselves, all by themselves.

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Speaker 5: And you know, I'm Facetimer trying to FaceTime at least

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Speaker 2: But yeah, it's a challenge, man.

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Speaker 5: She's got three on her own, trying to keep them

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Speaker 2: Like it's that's that's a job, dude.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I mean me, I definitely try to take

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Speaker 6: of the time, I'm just I'm a dad, you know,

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Speaker 6: nothing else matters, and it's also time for my wife

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Speaker 6: training camp in season, like she's the one that handles

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Speaker 6: the baby, you know, especially like at night if she

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Speaker 6: be rusted up to go to work and stuff. How

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Speaker 6: days during the season is my day to be, you know,

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Speaker 6: my dad or be the dad, and she gets to

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Speaker 6: go out and do whatever, and it is. It's exhausting. Honestly,

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Speaker 6: I give her a lot of praise. And you guys

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Speaker 6: with multiple kids, I mean.

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Speaker 5: The wives are built different, man. The level of patience,

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Speaker 5: it's there. They're built differently.

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Speaker 4: Come, let's give them the praise.

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Speaker 3: Like I sure with y'all yesterday is like, man, the

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Speaker 3: amount of sacrifice that moms have to go through physically

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Speaker 3: thank you. I think I speak for all of us,

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Speaker 3: thank y'all back at home.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, when women, I mean, they they're superheroes. Moms are superheroes.

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Speaker 1: I've I've gained a deeper level of respect for all

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Speaker 4: Know what I observe for.

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Speaker 1: You know, over the course of these ten months up

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Speaker 1: until you know that that date, and even now just

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Speaker 1: seeing how much they have to they have to sacrifice

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Speaker 1: and the job is never over, right, this is something

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Speaker 1: it's a full time jobs that we've all signed up for,

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Speaker 4: Lies on these women and our wives.

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Speaker 1: So I think it's important for you to get the

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Speaker 1: right teammate, right, like the right teammate, because not every

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Speaker 1: our time, responsibilities in day to day so you know oursolute,

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Speaker 1: you know our wives, you know, for for being that

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Speaker 1: backbone for us, you know when we need them. And honestly,

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Speaker 1: and I would say, probably the best teammate that i've

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Speaker 1: you know, I've had to date.

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Speaker 3: That's right answer, You're absolutely right, man, I tell guys,

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Speaker 3: younger guys they'll ask me when they find out I've

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Speaker 3: asked a questions about marriage and I'm like, man, when

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Speaker 3: you find the right woman, and like, thank the Lord

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Speaker 3: I have, it's the best decision I've ever made outside

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Speaker 3: of become a believer. It's like, it's it's the best

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Speaker 3: could be one of the worst worst decisions you've ever made,

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Speaker 3: you know.

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Speaker 2: So it makes it breaks your life.

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Speaker 5: Man, It's the most important decision you make in your life,

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Speaker 5: like as your partner for.

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Speaker 2: Life, you know, so.

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Speaker 5: No, like who you settle down with, Like that's that's

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Speaker 5: the key to your happiness.

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Speaker 2: Man.

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Speaker 5: Like you guys ask me about that all the time too,

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Speaker 5: And they're like, you know, the lialion, like ask what

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Speaker 5: it's like to have kids, And I'm like, you know,

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Speaker 5: would you recommend having kids young?

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Speaker 2: Waiting a little bit like whatever, And I'm like.

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Speaker 5: Well, that's, you know, obviously up to you, but I

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Speaker 5: will tell you, like, does not make this job any easier,

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Speaker 5: Like you know, we've we've got to we've got to

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Speaker 5: sleep at night. You know, that's when we you know,

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Speaker 6: Well.

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Speaker 4: But it's tight end. But the tight end, the tight

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Speaker 7: Oh, we got a special special guests, special special guests.

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Speaker 7: We were just talking about tight ends too, right, the

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I just came when I heard that he was

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Speaker 5: Man, I'm thirty four years old schools four years now.

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Speaker 6: It's too late.

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Speaker 1: It's never, it's never really too late.

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Speaker 4: And Pa pa Pa covered that tuition.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, that's true.

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Speaker 4: You know, man, what's good? So you appreciate you Yeah.

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Speaker 2: You're doing right, but this is life. You lose your shirt?

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Speaker 6: Yeah on baby, Yeah I found it.

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Speaker 2: Oh got what you got?

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Speaker 6: What you got for words? Gift? I was.

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Speaker 8: I just finished Oxygen right and I saw Dom and

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Speaker 8: and I was like, I gotta come.

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Speaker 1: Come on, come on, you know what I mean. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: So we're gonna get it. We're gonna get a special

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Speaker 6: You're the boss? You telling me to do and I'm

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Speaker 3: Maybe thirty thirty? I know part of it, you know

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna try cup Cub, I'm gonna try it.

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Speaker 3: So maybe that's I forgot about that.

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Speaker 6: Kevin wasn't having it though.

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Speaker 8: Kick I'm strong, let me con that's a point in

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Speaker 4: I don't know why, Like I can kick and there

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Speaker 6: But I can definitely kick. And if it's a hup

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Speaker 1: We're looking we're looking for somebody, you know, potentially the

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Speaker 6: To do, to do what you said, kick or kick.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and then and they gonna make the tackle. I'm

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Speaker 6: My whole you offers a guy whatever offense.

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Speaker 4: But I see you wrestle. I see you wrestle in the.

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Speaker 8: Locker when when I get mad, but I'm not mad

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Speaker 6: Don't get me mad. Don't do that.

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Speaker 8: I can I can tell you're gonna push your buttons

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Speaker 8: noctually coming all right, you huh?

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Speaker 4: I mean we got space.

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Speaker 2: There's no room here.

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Speaker 6: For sure. No thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, come on, man, that's blessing the pleasure, all right,

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Speaker 4: We got some competition, you got some competition.

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Speaker 3: Hey, let me keep this job, all right, let me

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Speaker 1: All right now. We were on the Cory your journey.

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Speaker 1: I don't recommend this route. Okay, it's not for not

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Speaker 6: out the soccer team who wants to kick and punt,

443
00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:29,159
Speaker 6: And so I was like, you know, I talked to

444
00:20:29,160 --> 00:20:30,920
Speaker 6: my coach, can I get out of practice to go

445
00:20:31,480 --> 00:20:33,760
Speaker 6: do this? And he was like sure, that was the

446
00:20:33,840 --> 00:20:35,480
Speaker 6: end of it. I don't have to run anymore and

447
00:20:35,480 --> 00:20:38,119
Speaker 6: I can just go kick a ball. So training with

448
00:20:38,200 --> 00:20:39,959
Speaker 6: him for a couple of months, got the job and

449
00:20:41,280 --> 00:20:41,960
Speaker 6: never looked back.

450
00:20:42,560 --> 00:20:46,399
Speaker 1: You know, I know, well, I know the process. Was

451
00:20:46,440 --> 00:20:49,400
Speaker 1: it just a straight line, you know, to to where

452
00:20:49,440 --> 00:20:50,720
Speaker 1: you are right now?

453
00:20:50,960 --> 00:20:54,240
Speaker 6: Yeah, I almost stopped playing a couple of times. Coming

454
00:20:54,240 --> 00:20:56,840
Speaker 6: out of high school. I was all state my senior

455
00:20:56,960 --> 00:21:01,639
Speaker 6: year and was going to go to Sacramento State, you know,

456
00:21:01,960 --> 00:21:04,159
Speaker 6: somewhat you know, six hours away or so, kind of

457
00:21:04,160 --> 00:21:08,280
Speaker 6: close to home, not too bad. But cal Pauly sam

458
00:21:08,359 --> 00:21:10,359
Speaker 6: Luis Obispo also had some interest and they're real good

459
00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:11,920
Speaker 6: engineering school and that's kind of what I wanted to

460
00:21:11,920 --> 00:21:14,520
Speaker 6: go to school for. Uh So, towards end of my

461
00:21:14,560 --> 00:21:17,160
Speaker 6: senior year, you know, I called Sacramento State. I'm like, hey, sorry,

462
00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:19,679
Speaker 6: like I'm going you know, not even football reasons, just

463
00:21:19,760 --> 00:21:22,199
Speaker 6: education wise. I want to go here for engineering. And

464
00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:24,040
Speaker 6: they're like, cool, we get it, no worries, you know,

465
00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:25,760
Speaker 6: it's just a preferred walk on. So it wasn't a

466
00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:27,520
Speaker 6: big deal. I think it was two or three days

467
00:21:27,520 --> 00:21:30,040
Speaker 6: before I graduated high school, We're having our senior farewell

468
00:21:30,040 --> 00:21:32,240
Speaker 6: assembly and I get a call from a coach at

469
00:21:32,280 --> 00:21:35,040
Speaker 6: cal Pauly. So I step outside real quick, get on

470
00:21:35,080 --> 00:21:37,399
Speaker 6: the phone. Hey man, what's up. How's it going? And

471
00:21:37,440 --> 00:21:39,679
Speaker 6: he's like, hey, buddy, here's the thing. Roster's full. We

472
00:21:39,720 --> 00:21:43,480
Speaker 6: can't have you come out anymore, like spots taken. Sorry, Bud,

473
00:21:43,760 --> 00:21:45,560
Speaker 6: go to a junior college or something. We'll get you

474
00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:48,959
Speaker 6: at the semester. You know, Like all right, so go

475
00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:54,080
Speaker 6: to junior college. Freshman year terrible, wasn't good, reach out

476
00:21:54,080 --> 00:21:57,080
Speaker 6: to the coach. Nothing, never hear back. They call it

477
00:21:57,400 --> 00:22:04,280
Speaker 6: ghosted me. Yeah, first of many and and uh they

478
00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:06,240
Speaker 6: scholarship some other kid, you know, and it was just

479
00:22:06,320 --> 00:22:09,760
Speaker 6: kind of left hang, you know basically, And you know,

480
00:22:09,800 --> 00:22:11,800
Speaker 6: we had a pretty good junior college. You know DJ

481
00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:14,760
Speaker 6: Reid places for the Jets. We were teammates there. Uh

482
00:22:15,119 --> 00:22:17,760
Speaker 6: Kyle Peckoh, he's a d lineman I think with the Broncos.

483
00:22:17,800 --> 00:22:19,800
Speaker 6: Now maybe you know he went there, so you know,

484
00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:22,080
Speaker 6: it's a good program. So if you know what these

485
00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:24,480
Speaker 6: other guys are getting, looks someone will see me. No

486
00:22:24,560 --> 00:22:30,080
Speaker 6: big deal. Uh, USC comes out before my sophomore season,

487
00:22:30,080 --> 00:22:33,320
Speaker 6: and I had your offensive coordinator tells the scout like,

488
00:22:33,680 --> 00:22:35,520
Speaker 6: this kid's gonna be an All American punter. You guys

489
00:22:35,520 --> 00:22:37,040
Speaker 6: are gonna have a next year. And I was like, yo,

490
00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:40,760
Speaker 6: us C, like let's go, Like that'd be sweet. Go out.

491
00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:44,560
Speaker 6: End up being an All American that season. Uh, reached

492
00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:48,440
Speaker 6: him out to him nothing the scholarship, some Australian kid

493
00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:50,399
Speaker 6: who ended up losing his job the next season to

494
00:22:50,640 --> 00:22:53,680
Speaker 6: walk on freshman. Uh. And it you know, there's this

495
00:22:53,800 --> 00:22:58,400
Speaker 6: nothing I had to offer from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. Uh,

496
00:22:58,600 --> 00:23:01,560
Speaker 6: New Mexico where I ended up going, and then Indiana State.

497
00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:02,600
Speaker 8: Uh.

498
00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:05,240
Speaker 6: And you know I was expecting a little bit. I

499
00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:08,159
Speaker 6: guess bigger schools just with what I had done. You know,

500
00:23:08,359 --> 00:23:10,000
Speaker 6: maybe my ego was just a little big and I

501
00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:13,760
Speaker 6: didn't realize it. Uh. But yeah, went to New Mexico.

502
00:23:14,119 --> 00:23:14,479
Speaker 4: Uh.

503
00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:18,240
Speaker 6: Junior year wasn't great. Senior year was pretty good. Got

504
00:23:18,280 --> 00:23:21,600
Speaker 6: to play with Jason Sanders, Miami's kicker. Uh. We kind

505
00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:24,600
Speaker 6: of helped push each other in a couple of ways.

506
00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:28,040
Speaker 6: And then you went undrafted, went to New England and

507
00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:31,640
Speaker 6: again claimed by Buffalo and skip around country a couple

508
00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:32,080
Speaker 6: of times and.

509
00:23:32,080 --> 00:23:37,000
Speaker 1: Here ash respect power power in the story. You know,

510
00:23:37,119 --> 00:23:41,040
Speaker 1: the perseverance in there. Uh you know, like I said,

511
00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:44,280
Speaker 1: I know the role here wasn't wasn't easy, but you

512
00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:47,800
Speaker 1: stay with it. I know about the undrafted life, you know,

513
00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:50,639
Speaker 1: we had, we had that in common. Uh was some

514
00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:53,720
Speaker 1: thirteen Yeah, thirteen, and.

515
00:23:53,760 --> 00:23:54,520
Speaker 4: You're now, what year?

516
00:23:54,560 --> 00:23:56,879
Speaker 6: What this is year seven for me? Yeah? Seven? Yeah,

517
00:23:56,920 --> 00:23:59,439
Speaker 6: you know define the odds. Yeah, I mean, shoot my

518
00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:02,720
Speaker 6: rookie year week one, I think there was eight starting

519
00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:05,479
Speaker 6: rookie punters and I think three or four of them

520
00:24:05,480 --> 00:24:08,520
Speaker 6: were drafted. And I think there's two or three of

521
00:24:08,600 --> 00:24:09,760
Speaker 6: us left, you know.

522
00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:14,760
Speaker 1: So, And that's the difference though between our worlds though, right,

523
00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:17,920
Speaker 1: Like at my position, let's say give it a take,

524
00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:22,320
Speaker 1: you keep six, right, maybe six safeties, five or active

525
00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:24,639
Speaker 1: one practice squad, maybe four or five whatever.

526
00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:27,040
Speaker 4: In your world it's one.

527
00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:28,840
Speaker 2: There's one we play forever.

528
00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:34,159
Speaker 5: Yeah, It's like you might have like what two or

529
00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:37,280
Speaker 5: three spots of like true rookies coming in that that

530
00:24:37,520 --> 00:24:40,119
Speaker 5: make a team. Like it took me three years of

531
00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:42,280
Speaker 5: It wasn't until my fourth year out that I finally

532
00:24:42,359 --> 00:24:44,360
Speaker 5: made a fifty three college.

533
00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:48,520
Speaker 6: Yeah, I didn't play in the preseason my rookie year.

534
00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:50,639
Speaker 6: They helped me out sitting. They're like, oh, I'm just

535
00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:53,000
Speaker 6: gonna be on the practice squad. Go get a free ring,

536
00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:57,600
Speaker 6: I guess, and the Buffalo said, nope, you're coming with us. Yeah,

537
00:24:57,880 --> 00:24:58,840
Speaker 6: six and ten babies.

538
00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:03,120
Speaker 1: Hey, we chased it for whatever in this year though,

539
00:25:04,119 --> 00:25:08,040
Speaker 1: come on, all right, d d hot.

540
00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:12,680
Speaker 3: Let's see. I grew up playing if it was a sport,

541
00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:15,840
Speaker 3: I was in like love playing sports. It was a

542
00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:17,919
Speaker 3: huge part of my identity at that point. You know,

543
00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:21,040
Speaker 3: like being good at sports is like part of who

544
00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:26,720
Speaker 3: I was. And you know, played soccer football. From the

545
00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:29,920
Speaker 3: earliest stage you can play either and football. It was

546
00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:32,840
Speaker 3: always like like, hey, who can kick? And be like

547
00:25:32,960 --> 00:25:36,200
Speaker 3: I can kick, and I feel like God had had

548
00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:37,760
Speaker 3: given me a gift to just kick the ball farther

549
00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:39,720
Speaker 3: than my peers. Even from a young age, it was

550
00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:42,080
Speaker 3: just like I can just kick the ball far, and

551
00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:46,679
Speaker 3: so I kicked for my football team and play soccer.

552
00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:48,919
Speaker 3: But kicking was never like a primary thing. It's like,

553
00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:52,119
Speaker 3: my my favorite player was either like Terrell Davis or

554
00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:56,280
Speaker 3: Deon Sanders, you know what it was like, Yeah, you know,

555
00:25:56,359 --> 00:25:59,080
Speaker 3: like dudes like position players that were like doing stuff.

556
00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:02,440
Speaker 3: So it was I always thought like, man, I'll do that,

557
00:26:03,560 --> 00:26:07,360
Speaker 3: and so then you know, fast forward, I'm still doing both.

558
00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:11,400
Speaker 3: Kicking is still a side thing and I get hurt,

559
00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:15,400
Speaker 3: like my freshman year, and every time I'd go to sprint,

560
00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:18,000
Speaker 3: it would feel like the injury would not go away.

561
00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:19,720
Speaker 3: It felt like I did it yesterday. It was just

562
00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:22,680
Speaker 3: like I would rest two weeks, do some pte, try

563
00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:25,159
Speaker 3: to work my way running again, and it was still

564
00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:28,040
Speaker 3: the same. Like and when you're when you're young like

565
00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:30,520
Speaker 3: that and sports are like a part of your world.

566
00:26:31,119 --> 00:26:34,320
Speaker 3: It was you know, we're grown now with kids, it

567
00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:36,560
Speaker 3: doesn't it doesn't matter. But at that point it was

568
00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:40,640
Speaker 3: like a big deal. And for some reason, I could

569
00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:42,720
Speaker 3: swing my leg through and it didn't hurt to do.

570
00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:44,800
Speaker 3: Like so I couldn't run, but I could swing my leg.

571
00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:45,919
Speaker 3: So I was like, well, this is all I can

572
00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:47,320
Speaker 3: do to be a part of a team. Then like

573
00:26:47,840 --> 00:26:50,320
Speaker 3: I'll become a better kicker. So I went to a camp,

574
00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:54,800
Speaker 3: a kicking camp. Shout out Cole's kicking. He's he's been

575
00:26:54,800 --> 00:26:58,040
Speaker 3: my coach since then. But anyway, so go to a

576
00:26:58,040 --> 00:27:00,800
Speaker 3: camp and I was looking for instruction. I didn't even

577
00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:03,280
Speaker 3: know that they did rankings at that time, but they

578
00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:05,960
Speaker 3: have camps all over the country and they did rankings,

579
00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:08,879
Speaker 3: and so I went for instruction and got some instruction,

580
00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:10,560
Speaker 3: and then after the fact, I think one of my

581
00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:14,200
Speaker 3: parents were looking it up online and they had ranked

582
00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:16,920
Speaker 3: me like it was like two or three in the

583
00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:20,119
Speaker 3: country or something like that the very first time somebody

584
00:27:20,119 --> 00:27:22,760
Speaker 3: had seen me. And so that kind of opened my

585
00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:26,320
Speaker 3: eyes of like, yeah, maybe I could maybe I could

586
00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:29,080
Speaker 3: be a position player somewhere like a maybe a smaller

587
00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:31,480
Speaker 3: school or something. I was like, or you can just

588
00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:34,800
Speaker 3: walk in something that is clearly something that I was

589
00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:36,639
Speaker 3: gifted at. Yeah, And I was like, well, I think

590
00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:39,480
Speaker 3: that's probably going to be the road to play major

591
00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:43,919
Speaker 3: Division one football. Yeah, And so went that route, got

592
00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:47,480
Speaker 3: a scholarship to Florida State another you know, met my

593
00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:49,040
Speaker 3: wife there. So it was one of the best decisions

594
00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:51,320
Speaker 3: I've ever made. And the people they were awesome as

595
00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:53,919
Speaker 3: a school that appreciates kickers because they've been on the

596
00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:57,880
Speaker 3: bad and the good side of that. And now I'd

597
00:27:57,960 --> 00:28:02,320
Speaker 3: argue we're kicker you you know a man Janakowski, Graham Gano,

598
00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:07,400
Speaker 3: Roberto Yo, Me and there's some other good ones that Yeah,

599
00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:11,200
Speaker 3: Scott Bentley that touched touched the league. But there's a

600
00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:12,159
Speaker 3: few of us, you know.

601
00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:16,960
Speaker 1: Kick you you heard it right here DAWs only podcast

602
00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:20,719
Speaker 1: can't here you somebody get that T shirt, doesn't get

603
00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:21,280
Speaker 1: a T shirt?

604
00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:21,960
Speaker 6: Right?

605
00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:22,560
Speaker 2: Yeah?

606
00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:25,920
Speaker 3: Then then uh bounce around the league a number of

607
00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:32,760
Speaker 3: different teams, Uh, through injuries, good performances, bad performances.

608
00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:33,560
Speaker 5: Uh.

609
00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:38,200
Speaker 3: I was thinking about the other day. I think maybe

610
00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:40,360
Speaker 3: maybe there's one. I don't think I've been picked up

611
00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:42,440
Speaker 3: off waivers, But other than that, I think I've been

612
00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:44,960
Speaker 3: a part of every type of transaction you can be

613
00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:46,600
Speaker 3: a part of in the league. Like I've been on

614
00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:49,640
Speaker 3: Peace squad. I was, I guess, except.

615
00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:51,280
Speaker 6: I was draft.

616
00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:52,760
Speaker 3: I was drafted. I was on Peace squad.

617
00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:53,600
Speaker 1: Uh.

618
00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:58,120
Speaker 3: I've been active, but on the non active like on

619
00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:01,240
Speaker 3: game day, I've been on I R. I've been traded.

620
00:29:01,560 --> 00:29:03,040
Speaker 3: It's like I've checked.

621
00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:10,800
Speaker 6: Years. You that's grazy.

622
00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:14,880
Speaker 1: So obviously you're the only person here that was drafted

623
00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:20,680
Speaker 1: six sixth round right, six round draft pick. Talk about

624
00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:26,120
Speaker 1: that day, like, how did that moment feel for you?

625
00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:26,800
Speaker 4: Your family?

626
00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:30,440
Speaker 1: Uh? And honestly, I'm just gonna I'm just gonna say

627
00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:32,720
Speaker 1: the truth because like you know, coming in I was

628
00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:35,880
Speaker 1: undrafted twenty twelve. I thought I always had a chance

629
00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:37,720
Speaker 1: to go to the rams. They had like six picks,

630
00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:39,560
Speaker 1: and one of them was it. They took the kicker

631
00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:42,600
Speaker 1: and you were a bitter Oh my god, I said,

632
00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:45,080
Speaker 1: what world are we living in where they took a

633
00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:51,040
Speaker 1: kicker over over a skilled position like me? And and

634
00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:53,160
Speaker 1: I didn't know at that time, but as my man

635
00:29:53,160 --> 00:29:57,160
Speaker 1: Greg de lay so much respect the Gregs and like you,

636
00:29:57,960 --> 00:29:59,360
Speaker 1: you know, so I salute you.

637
00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:00,680
Speaker 4: But how how did it feel?

638
00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:05,320
Speaker 3: They felt awesome? I have my family and friends there. Shoot,

639
00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:06,880
Speaker 3: even though it's like a low round, you feel like

640
00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:08,640
Speaker 3: it's like you might as well have been a first rounder.

641
00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:09,400
Speaker 3: Just the feeling.

642
00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:10,280
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know what I'm saying.

643
00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:14,360
Speaker 3: I don't even think I don't I don't think I

644
00:30:14,440 --> 00:30:16,080
Speaker 3: drink it. But we had a bottle of champagne that

645
00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:18,320
Speaker 3: I was like shooting off. I don't even think I

646
00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:19,880
Speaker 3: had had a drink, but it was still just like

647
00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:22,800
Speaker 3: you know, so it's it's a good memory. See the

648
00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:27,000
Speaker 3: people you love in the time, they they don't know firsthand,

649
00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:28,760
Speaker 3: but they know about as close as anybody. The time

650
00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:31,760
Speaker 3: you invest all of us that you know, how much

651
00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:33,600
Speaker 3: you put into your craft to try to be as

652
00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:35,640
Speaker 3: good as you can. And those people are the ones

653
00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:38,480
Speaker 3: that understand it the most, as closely as they can,

654
00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:40,960
Speaker 3: and so to celebrate that moment with them was is

655
00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:42,960
Speaker 3: a is an awesome memory.

656
00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:44,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's priceless, priceless.

657
00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:47,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, to be honest with you, each of your positions

658
00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:50,680
Speaker 1: we know on the team is like it's valued, right,

659
00:30:50,840 --> 00:30:54,520
Speaker 1: but like to the outside world, similar to your journey

660
00:30:54,800 --> 00:30:57,880
Speaker 1: and even you you weren't once a kicker, or you

661
00:30:57,880 --> 00:30:59,920
Speaker 1: didn't dream of being a kicker. You wanted to sec

662
00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:03,000
Speaker 1: zer roll the one that would ultimately be you know,

663
00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:09,000
Speaker 1: it's like but but honestly, you know, we know the

664
00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:12,360
Speaker 1: value in which all of you guys serve and how

665
00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:17,040
Speaker 1: important it is and how each play that you're a

666
00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:19,360
Speaker 1: part of, how how it's magnified.

667
00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:19,880
Speaker 2: Right.

668
00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:23,720
Speaker 1: Uh talk about like that level of pressure because we

669
00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:27,280
Speaker 1: all deal with pressure, you know, in each of our positions.

670
00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:31,240
Speaker 4: But going out with two seconds on the clock.

671
00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:35,720
Speaker 1: Having another thirty yarder or going out for only let's

672
00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:38,680
Speaker 1: say two punts a game, and your job is you

673
00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:42,240
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, to change change and flip position

674
00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:45,960
Speaker 1: right because the game is about uh field position right,

675
00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:49,000
Speaker 1: and you play a big role in that and then

676
00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:51,640
Speaker 1: obviously you Charlie, like it starts and ends with you

677
00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:56,920
Speaker 1: every time. So talk about like that that moment and

678
00:31:57,040 --> 00:32:01,560
Speaker 1: how do you handle like those clutch moments of pressure.

679
00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:04,840
Speaker 5: I mean, for me, it's a lot of a lot

680
00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:06,960
Speaker 5: of deep breaths, man, Like I do, I honestly do

681
00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:09,120
Speaker 5: do a lot of breath work, like sitting on the sideline.

682
00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:10,800
Speaker 5: You know that moment's coming up. I'm sitting there just

683
00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:13,240
Speaker 5: like controlling the heart rate, controlling the breath, trying to

684
00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:13,800
Speaker 5: stay level.

685
00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:15,520
Speaker 2: And then kind of once you get.

686
00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:17,000
Speaker 5: Out there, man, it really does kind of for me

687
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:18,680
Speaker 5: at least, like turning the muscle memory. You try to

688
00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:20,920
Speaker 5: just forget the situations, just like every other thing you do,

689
00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:23,880
Speaker 5: and you just kind of go out there and I

690
00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:26,520
Speaker 5: throw it back there and I just you know, hoping,

691
00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:30,800
Speaker 5: hoping the thing goes through. And luckily Dustin he's putting

692
00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:33,000
Speaker 5: it through. So it's it's been a good feeling to

693
00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:35,320
Speaker 5: know as long as I'm doing my job, I can

694
00:32:35,360 --> 00:32:39,200
Speaker 5: trust these two guys that do theirs, and uh, it's fun.

695
00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:39,800
Speaker 2: Way to win games.

696
00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:42,680
Speaker 5: I mean, I'm sure it's a it's probably a little

697
00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:47,200
Speaker 5: stressful for everybody else, but.

698
00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:46,719
Speaker 2: I enjoy it.

699
00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:50,320
Speaker 4: Man, Dud's just praying knee and hugging dudes. You'd never

700
00:32:50,360 --> 00:32:54,040
Speaker 4: even tech before you name it, it gets done.

701
00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:56,560
Speaker 6: Look, Charlie was saying, you know, you just that muscle

702
00:32:56,600 --> 00:32:57,560
Speaker 6: memory kind of kicks in.

703
00:32:57,920 --> 00:33:00,360
Speaker 2: I'm sitting there on the on the sideline like stressing.

704
00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:01,000
Speaker 2: I'm trying not to.

705
00:33:01,360 --> 00:33:03,120
Speaker 5: I'm stressing for sure, and then and then once you

706
00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:04,960
Speaker 5: get on the field, you know, it takes over.

707
00:33:05,040 --> 00:33:06,880
Speaker 2: But yeah, I'm leading up to it. I'm sitting there.

708
00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:08,440
Speaker 2: I'm like, here we go.

709
00:33:08,560 --> 00:33:08,800
Speaker 6: Man.

710
00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:11,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, I like it's a good mix between these guys

711
00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:14,240
Speaker 3: for me, you know. And and I think Charlie's making

712
00:33:14,280 --> 00:33:18,120
Speaker 3: himself probably out to be more nervous than I feel

713
00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:20,320
Speaker 3: like he puts off. At least he handles it seems

714
00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:24,120
Speaker 3: like he handles it's like a duck, you know, calm

715
00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:25,320
Speaker 3: on the surface's legs.

716
00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:27,920
Speaker 2: And well you notice I just stay snapping like I

717
00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:28,480
Speaker 2: just keeps.

718
00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:34,560
Speaker 6: My nervous energy, and he's snapping in the NAT's like, Charlie,

719
00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:39,520
Speaker 6: we're done for me.

720
00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:42,880
Speaker 3: I think I think I got like two perspectives, I think,

721
00:33:43,120 --> 00:33:44,880
Speaker 3: and one of them is like a big picture. I'm like,

722
00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:48,720
Speaker 3: eternally speaking, this kick does not matter. Does that make sense?

723
00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:52,040
Speaker 3: Like it's like man like uh kind of like I

724
00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:55,280
Speaker 3: mentioned earlier, as as fathers, you understand that there are

725
00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:57,280
Speaker 3: more important things going on in our life and not

726
00:33:57,320 --> 00:33:58,680
Speaker 3: that you don't want that, and you want to enjoy

727
00:33:58,680 --> 00:34:00,479
Speaker 3: that with your teammates. You want that for like man,

728
00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:02,239
Speaker 3: y'all are out there working hard. I want that for

729
00:34:02,320 --> 00:34:04,880
Speaker 3: y'all as my team. And so it's not a lack

730
00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:07,520
Speaker 3: of desire to do well, but it's more of man

731
00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:09,880
Speaker 3: in the gram scheme of life and eternity. This is

732
00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:13,080
Speaker 3: a very small thing, you know, And so that's one perspective.

733
00:34:13,160 --> 00:34:16,759
Speaker 3: Another perspective also big picture is like my bad day,

734
00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:20,520
Speaker 3: an entire city hates me, okay, And some people hear

735
00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:23,319
Speaker 3: that and they're like, well that's horrible. I'm like, I

736
00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:27,960
Speaker 3: will just move cities, okay, whatever. But like somebody else's

737
00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:30,160
Speaker 3: bad day, like you're in the medical field or you're

738
00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:32,680
Speaker 3: in like you're a soldier, and I look at their

739
00:34:32,680 --> 00:34:34,799
Speaker 3: bad days are so much worse than my bad days.

740
00:34:35,239 --> 00:34:38,120
Speaker 3: I'm like, I can handle I can handle that. Like,

741
00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:41,440
Speaker 3: but like losing a friend or losing a patient or

742
00:34:42,120 --> 00:34:44,960
Speaker 3: like you know, those are tough. Those are tough days.

743
00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:48,600
Speaker 3: So big picture. That's kind of how I like, I

744
00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:50,480
Speaker 3: don't know, take the pressure off. Is just still just

745
00:34:50,520 --> 00:34:54,319
Speaker 3: a game. And then in that moment. In college, there

746
00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:56,439
Speaker 3: are times where you know you have a negative thought

747
00:34:56,480 --> 00:34:58,000
Speaker 3: and you try to replace it and you're kind of

748
00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:01,120
Speaker 3: having that mental battle. And and there was a time

749
00:35:01,120 --> 00:35:04,000
Speaker 3: where that didn't work. And then another time, like I

750
00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:07,360
Speaker 3: was so confident, overly confident going into a kick, like

751
00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:10,239
Speaker 3: and it wasn't like fake and like I really believed it,

752
00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:12,880
Speaker 3: and it that didn't work either, and so what so

753
00:35:12,920 --> 00:35:16,200
Speaker 3: what I found, what I found is is don't be

754
00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:19,480
Speaker 3: results oriented. It's like being that moment and so all

755
00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:22,359
Speaker 3: I'm thinking about as we're walking up and well, let

756
00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:24,920
Speaker 3: me let me backtrack. It's so nice not having to

757
00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:27,560
Speaker 3: think about a snaper a hole, like, because there's been

758
00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:29,080
Speaker 3: times sometimes you're like I don't know what I'm about

759
00:35:29,080 --> 00:35:31,759
Speaker 3: to get here, But having these guys on the front

760
00:35:31,800 --> 00:35:33,960
Speaker 3: end it makes I don't I don't think people out

761
00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:36,360
Speaker 3: there realize, like they know, snapping and holding is important

762
00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:39,400
Speaker 3: to a kick, but how vital like a good picture

763
00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:41,840
Speaker 3: of the football is going in. Yeah, and these guys

764
00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:45,719
Speaker 3: like we're a huge part of our team success. But

765
00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:49,080
Speaker 3: also like my success because of how good they are

766
00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:51,239
Speaker 3: at what they do. So like, I'm really thankful for y'all.

767
00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:53,840
Speaker 4: First of all, come on, Big three starts with a snap,

768
00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:55,160
Speaker 4: mom man, come.

769
00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:58,560
Speaker 3: On, and so. But in that moment, all I'm thinking

770
00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:02,360
Speaker 3: about are are like kind of like I guess a

771
00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:05,520
Speaker 3: golfer would call them swing thoughts. So it might be

772
00:36:05,640 --> 00:36:07,719
Speaker 3: like and it changes depending on the week, depending on

773
00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:09,880
Speaker 3: what's working or not working leading up to that game,

774
00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:14,880
Speaker 3: but it might be patient contact. And that sounds really simple.

775
00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:17,440
Speaker 3: But I'm not smart enough to think of more than

776
00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:19,560
Speaker 3: two things in my head at the same time, you know,

777
00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:21,560
Speaker 3: So that's all I'm just filling my head with those

778
00:36:21,560 --> 00:36:23,719
Speaker 3: two things, reminding myself like, oh, in the swing, I

779
00:36:23,719 --> 00:36:26,280
Speaker 3: want to do this. And if I'm focusing on that moment,

780
00:36:26,320 --> 00:36:29,719
Speaker 3: on those swing thoughts, it doesn't guarantee that you're gonna

781
00:36:29,719 --> 00:36:32,279
Speaker 3: make it, but it gives you. It gives you the

782
00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:33,120
Speaker 3: best chance that you have.

783
00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:33,480
Speaker 6: I think.

784
00:36:33,640 --> 00:36:36,279
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's kind of like like what's the saying, you know,

785
00:36:36,600 --> 00:36:40,840
Speaker 3: working hard doesn't guarantee that you'll win, but guarantee that

786
00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:43,040
Speaker 3: if you don't, you don't have a chance type of thing.

787
00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:44,160
Speaker 2: So it's funny.

788
00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:45,880
Speaker 5: I think we all have to like think about something

789
00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:47,960
Speaker 5: other than what we're actually like doing with our bodies.

790
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:49,880
Speaker 5: It's like I'm not like thinking about like, oh, I

791
00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:51,640
Speaker 5: just got to like throw it right there, Like I'm

792
00:36:51,760 --> 00:36:54,279
Speaker 5: literally just focused on I'll pick some little point on

793
00:36:54,440 --> 00:36:57,880
Speaker 5: his elbow and like I'm just thinking about that point

794
00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:00,360
Speaker 5: on his elbow and the ball just you like your

795
00:37:00,360 --> 00:37:01,080
Speaker 5: body do the rest.

796
00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:03,160
Speaker 2: Like I feel like in sports, at least for.

797
00:37:03,160 --> 00:37:06,319
Speaker 5: Everybody, I think like if you're thinking about it, you're

798
00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:08,600
Speaker 5: probably wrong, you know, So like we probably all have

799
00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:12,479
Speaker 5: our own little ways of like thinking about something that's

800
00:37:12,520 --> 00:37:16,120
Speaker 5: not actually what we're doing, if that makes sense, you know.

801
00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:19,879
Speaker 1: I think what also brings like that level of calmness

802
00:37:20,080 --> 00:37:27,279
Speaker 1: is routine and you know, a regiment, right, So talk

803
00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:30,160
Speaker 1: to us a little bit about on the day to day,

804
00:37:30,440 --> 00:37:34,680
Speaker 1: like what does your general like routine look like in

805
00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:37,800
Speaker 1: order for you to have that success? You know, come

806
00:37:38,440 --> 00:37:40,160
Speaker 1: come on Sundays.

807
00:37:41,080 --> 00:37:42,640
Speaker 2: I snapped to the gold post a little bit to

808
00:37:42,680 --> 00:37:44,560
Speaker 2: warm up, and then I kind of just jumped right

809
00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:46,960
Speaker 2: into it, to be honest with you, Like my warm

810
00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:51,000
Speaker 2: up pretty.

811
00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:53,080
Speaker 3: See that's humble, Charlie. You know, like he lifts, he

812
00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:59,120
Speaker 3: studies films in the off season. I'm walking in a

813
00:37:59,160 --> 00:38:00,560
Speaker 3: couple of days early and I was like, what are

814
00:38:00,560 --> 00:38:02,200
Speaker 3: you doing here? He's like, I'm watching some tape.

815
00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:02,440
Speaker 1: Yeah.

816
00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:06,319
Speaker 3: I was like, it's precent having started care.

817
00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:08,200
Speaker 1: I was like, man, it's like, how are you ensuring

818
00:38:08,280 --> 00:38:12,719
Speaker 1: that those snaps are Chris? How you ensuring that you

819
00:38:12,840 --> 00:38:15,520
Speaker 1: keep your seat? You feel me year to year like

820
00:38:15,640 --> 00:38:19,320
Speaker 1: all of those things that contribute to uh this thirteen

821
00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:21,719
Speaker 1: years that you you've been playing ball.

822
00:38:22,120 --> 00:38:24,520
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, who want to go in the weight room?

823
00:38:24,520 --> 00:38:26,320
Speaker 2: Like I do take the weight room like very serious.

824
00:38:26,960 --> 00:38:29,759
Speaker 2: You know, it's it's different. It's a different You gotta

825
00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:31,040
Speaker 2: being in coverage, you feel me.

826
00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:32,520
Speaker 3: You gotta a man right there.

827
00:38:32,560 --> 00:38:36,120
Speaker 5: Ye well no, I do think like that's that's how

828
00:38:36,120 --> 00:38:37,520
Speaker 5: you make it through a season. Like you can't just

829
00:38:37,520 --> 00:38:39,360
Speaker 5: come in without lifting you your body has to be

830
00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:41,640
Speaker 5: used to the forces that you know come at you

831
00:38:41,719 --> 00:38:43,480
Speaker 5: during the season. So it starts there.

832
00:38:44,680 --> 00:38:44,840
Speaker 2: You know.

833
00:38:44,880 --> 00:38:47,480
Speaker 5: I'm snapping in the off seasons, Like I'll start snapping

834
00:38:47,480 --> 00:38:49,279
Speaker 5: in March, Like I'll take like two months off and

835
00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:50,160
Speaker 5: it's back to it.

836
00:38:51,480 --> 00:38:51,640
Speaker 2: You know.

837
00:38:52,239 --> 00:38:54,440
Speaker 5: Even my poor wife's out there catching snaps from the

838
00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:55,719
Speaker 5: off season sometimes.

839
00:38:57,080 --> 00:38:59,960
Speaker 4: See I'm telling you, yeah, best teammate ever.

840
00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:07,920
Speaker 5: Tell man, look like whatever you and I mean, we

841
00:39:08,080 --> 00:39:09,919
Speaker 5: try to get together the off season, but it doesn't

842
00:39:09,920 --> 00:39:11,960
Speaker 5: always work out, like we're in different cities or whatever.

843
00:39:12,040 --> 00:39:14,560
Speaker 5: But yeah, I know my wife catches. She's been catching

844
00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:15,359
Speaker 5: snaps for a long time.

845
00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:20,080
Speaker 6: Yeah right there. Yeah, my wife snaps for me what

846
00:39:20,120 --> 00:39:22,080
Speaker 6: she used to know. We got the baby.

847
00:39:22,360 --> 00:39:22,720
Speaker 2: Wow.

848
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:27,440
Speaker 6: But I try to keep practice exactly what I do

849
00:39:27,880 --> 00:39:30,279
Speaker 6: warming up for a game, you know, so I go

850
00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:32,880
Speaker 6: through no steps, one steps, and then full step punts.

851
00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:35,680
Speaker 6: I do six of each each direction. Do the same

852
00:39:35,680 --> 00:39:39,279
Speaker 6: thing at practice, and then after that, I kind of,

853
00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:43,160
Speaker 6: depending what the wind is, you know, just try to

854
00:39:43,160 --> 00:39:45,920
Speaker 6: get a feel for what it's doing at different spots

855
00:39:45,960 --> 00:39:47,359
Speaker 6: on the field, so I know when I have to

856
00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:50,239
Speaker 6: switch to ossie ball, you know that backspin of them

857
00:39:53,120 --> 00:39:57,600
Speaker 6: you catch it, and yeah, I mean I just kind

858
00:39:57,600 --> 00:39:59,400
Speaker 6: of figure out what it's doing that day, if anything,

859
00:39:59,520 --> 00:40:02,319
Speaker 6: you know, then kind of have a general plan going

860
00:40:02,360 --> 00:40:05,040
Speaker 6: into the game and then just kind of wing it.

861
00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:13,440
Speaker 9: See what happens, Humble, This guy's got himself out there

862
00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:16,160
Speaker 9: like he's yeah, yeah, just wing it.

863
00:40:16,280 --> 00:40:16,480
Speaker 6: Man.

864
00:40:16,640 --> 00:40:19,520
Speaker 4: It just bombs it.

865
00:40:19,520 --> 00:40:21,080
Speaker 3: It's a beautiful part of his play. It's just as

866
00:40:21,080 --> 00:40:22,279
Speaker 3: like I'm gonna go out there and do the things.

867
00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:22,919
Speaker 6: Just do whatever.

868
00:40:23,160 --> 00:40:24,439
Speaker 4: Yeah that Cali life.

869
00:40:24,560 --> 00:40:26,640
Speaker 2: Yes, it works for a lot of guys.

870
00:40:26,840 --> 00:40:29,200
Speaker 6: I will say, yeah, I feel like that. I mean,

871
00:40:29,960 --> 00:40:32,359
Speaker 6: playing in Cleveland, you know you'll get a thirty forty

872
00:40:32,440 --> 00:40:34,000
Speaker 6: mile an hour win. You know, I was in Buffalo

873
00:40:34,080 --> 00:40:37,360
Speaker 6: for three years. I mean, holy smokes, Like you almost

874
00:40:37,440 --> 00:40:42,120
Speaker 6: have to like not not care, but like just accept

875
00:40:42,239 --> 00:40:45,160
Speaker 6: what's going on and just like listen, it is what

876
00:40:45,200 --> 00:40:45,440
Speaker 6: it is.

877
00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:47,319
Speaker 2: At this point, I can't There's only so much you

878
00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:47,640
Speaker 2: can do.

879
00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:49,920
Speaker 6: Yeah, so all those indoor guys out there.

880
00:40:52,440 --> 00:40:53,680
Speaker 2: Cory's jealous, That's what he meant.

881
00:40:55,160 --> 00:40:55,360
Speaker 6: I do.

882
00:40:55,520 --> 00:40:57,960
Speaker 5: Remember one time we're lining up and you're putting out

883
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:00,719
Speaker 5: of the dog Pound end zone and I'm lining up.

884
00:41:00,719 --> 00:41:03,080
Speaker 5: I'm looking between my legs at you, and a gust

885
00:41:03,520 --> 00:41:05,959
Speaker 5: out of hell just comes out of nowhere and it's

886
00:41:06,080 --> 00:41:08,759
Speaker 5: like it went from like twenty miles prout or like

887
00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:09,600
Speaker 5: fifty miles per hour.

888
00:41:09,719 --> 00:41:13,520
Speaker 2: Just I don't know. I don't remember the game. I

889
00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:18,200
Speaker 2: look between my legs and Corey's like, please don't stop.

890
00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:20,480
Speaker 6: Wait. I look up at the.

891
00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:22,240
Speaker 2: Play clock and I'm like, we gotta go, dude.

892
00:41:23,280 --> 00:41:25,880
Speaker 6: That thing moved five feet from the left to the right.

893
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:26,239
Speaker 7: Yeah.

894
00:41:26,560 --> 00:41:28,040
Speaker 5: I tried to wait as long as I could, and

895
00:41:28,080 --> 00:41:29,480
Speaker 5: I was like this, this gust ain't stopping.

896
00:41:29,520 --> 00:41:31,360
Speaker 2: Dude, it's coming and you just wing it.

897
00:41:31,760 --> 00:41:35,799
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's it, and you just got natural hands. Now

898
00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:38,279
Speaker 4: I think about it, you forget about I.

899
00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:41,120
Speaker 6: Know these guys cool, David. They think they're great at catching. Sure,

900
00:41:41,239 --> 00:41:43,680
Speaker 6: go ahead. I got the most receptions on the team

901
00:41:43,680 --> 00:41:46,400
Speaker 6: every year. You got all the pumps and feel it.

902
00:41:46,640 --> 00:41:49,560
Speaker 6: I would catch anybody on the team. But out a drop,

903
00:41:49,920 --> 00:41:51,879
Speaker 6: I'll drop. I don't glosse. They'll use glose. I don't

904
00:41:51,920 --> 00:41:52,320
Speaker 6: use gloves.

905
00:41:52,520 --> 00:41:55,040
Speaker 2: I used to operate the drugs machine for him every day.

906
00:41:56,200 --> 00:41:59,440
Speaker 3: A lot of fourteen yard receptions. Dam at fourteen and

907
00:41:59,440 --> 00:42:03,640
Speaker 3: a half? Was it depends on Okay, we're on routine, right, yeah.

908
00:42:03,920 --> 00:42:06,400
Speaker 6: Do we have enough time? Alright?

909
00:42:07,239 --> 00:42:10,680
Speaker 2: The longest longest warm up routine in the NFL.

910
00:42:10,719 --> 00:42:15,960
Speaker 3: There gives me a hard time. Long whatever you gotta do,

911
00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:17,239
Speaker 3: I just.

912
00:42:17,360 --> 00:42:19,680
Speaker 5: Know we're close to you when you put the footballs

913
00:42:19,719 --> 00:42:23,719
Speaker 5: under your butt and stretch up, you know.

914
00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:28,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, Rob, maybe you can relate to this a little bit. Okay,

915
00:42:29,080 --> 00:42:31,760
Speaker 3: I feel like the longer you play, there are certain

916
00:42:31,760 --> 00:42:33,239
Speaker 3: parts of your body, you got to warm up that

917
00:42:33,520 --> 00:42:34,719
Speaker 3: maybe you didn't have to warm up.

918
00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:36,439
Speaker 4: When yeah, I'm there too, I'm there.

919
00:42:36,640 --> 00:42:37,279
Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying.

920
00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:39,960
Speaker 3: So as you go through and maybe you're like, oh,

921
00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:41,319
Speaker 3: there was a piece of maintenance that I had to

922
00:42:41,320 --> 00:42:43,759
Speaker 3: do for X amount of time, it kind of gets

923
00:42:43,840 --> 00:42:46,160
Speaker 3: added to your warm up. And so that's kind of

924
00:42:46,160 --> 00:42:48,080
Speaker 3: how mine over the years is kind of like one

925
00:42:48,080 --> 00:42:51,080
Speaker 3: thing gets added, nothing gets added, and here we are.

926
00:42:51,160 --> 00:42:57,960
Speaker 2: Nothing got deleted, nothing I kept. So we got that.

927
00:42:58,000 --> 00:42:59,560
Speaker 3: I got a long warm up, all right, I get it,

928
00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:02,279
Speaker 3: guess And I think guys that previously played with it

929
00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:03,279
Speaker 3: would say the same thing.

930
00:43:05,200 --> 00:43:09,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's got to come out because at the end

931
00:43:09,480 --> 00:43:12,560
Speaker 1: of the day, it got you paid, right, it got

932
00:43:12,600 --> 00:43:12,959
Speaker 1: you paid.

933
00:43:13,560 --> 00:43:17,040
Speaker 4: Here that's what we're going. That's what we're going, both

934
00:43:17,040 --> 00:43:20,200
Speaker 4: of you, guys. This is the this is very high price.

935
00:43:20,920 --> 00:43:23,799
Speaker 3: Corey got our dinner last night and I'm too poor

936
00:43:23,840 --> 00:43:24,320
Speaker 3: to bed.

937
00:43:24,760 --> 00:43:27,000
Speaker 2: We did a credit card roulette, Corey loss.

938
00:43:27,280 --> 00:43:30,120
Speaker 6: I love it. Some hurt more than others, But that's

939
00:43:30,200 --> 00:43:31,400
Speaker 6: us trying to be like the DBS man.

940
00:43:32,320 --> 00:43:36,000
Speaker 1: No little credit card, that's that's just a staple. That's

941
00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:38,040
Speaker 1: a staple in the league in general.

942
00:43:37,760 --> 00:43:40,360
Speaker 2: What's your strategy strategy for roulette?

943
00:43:40,600 --> 00:43:45,560
Speaker 1: I play. I played Last man standing. Okay, yeah, there's

944
00:43:45,600 --> 00:43:48,640
Speaker 1: really no no strategy. I probably throw. I probably do

945
00:43:48,760 --> 00:43:52,120
Speaker 1: throw in the car that has a little material, different

946
00:43:52,120 --> 00:43:52,759
Speaker 1: material than.

947
00:43:52,680 --> 00:43:53,799
Speaker 3: The rest, Like.

948
00:43:55,280 --> 00:43:56,080
Speaker 6: That's how you get picked.

949
00:43:56,320 --> 00:43:58,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I'm last man standing, right, so it's like

950
00:43:59,080 --> 00:44:02,399
Speaker 1: you keep going until whoever, whoever, whatever the last card

951
00:44:02,560 --> 00:44:06,239
Speaker 1: is that's in there is the one that I like.

952
00:44:06,400 --> 00:44:08,120
Speaker 5: I've got a metal card and I've got a plastic card.

953
00:44:08,200 --> 00:44:09,719
Speaker 5: The metal card I never put in there because it

954
00:44:09,760 --> 00:44:12,440
Speaker 5: like sinks to the bottom of the hat and I.

955
00:44:12,360 --> 00:44:14,200
Speaker 3: Feel like they might think if they feel a metal

956
00:44:14,239 --> 00:44:16,000
Speaker 3: card like this person should pay.

957
00:44:16,080 --> 00:44:18,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's a normal card. It's just happened to.

958
00:44:19,560 --> 00:44:22,319
Speaker 1: Probability is different though for you guys three versus maybe

959
00:44:22,360 --> 00:44:23,280
Speaker 1: a group of fifteen.

960
00:44:23,560 --> 00:44:26,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, but then the implications are much lower for

961
00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:28,320
Speaker 3: us fifteen.

962
00:44:28,760 --> 00:44:29,160
Speaker 4: That's true.

963
00:44:29,239 --> 00:44:29,759
Speaker 3: I'm not going to do.

964
00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:32,480
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I've only got picked selected ones for

965
00:44:32,600 --> 00:44:35,240
Speaker 4: credit card. But let maybe one thirteen years yeah.

966
00:44:35,080 --> 00:44:40,160
Speaker 1: One time, and the times I play, I'm good, but

967
00:44:40,200 --> 00:44:43,239
Speaker 1: I do I do, I do right by my guy.

968
00:44:43,360 --> 00:44:48,319
Speaker 1: So I think God just looks out, you know, no need,

969
00:44:48,400 --> 00:44:50,919
Speaker 1: He's he took care of it at a different time.

970
00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:54,000
Speaker 4: Okay, not this time. Somebody else needs to do it.

971
00:44:54,440 --> 00:44:56,320
Speaker 1: We talked, we were talking to we on the topic

972
00:44:56,360 --> 00:44:59,440
Speaker 1: of the of the money on top of his money,

973
00:44:59,440 --> 00:45:03,200
Speaker 1: honest money, but there's money that's in here now, like honestly,

974
00:45:03,280 --> 00:45:06,080
Speaker 1: Like how how does how does that feel for you guys,

975
00:45:06,560 --> 00:45:10,239
Speaker 1: you know, for the organization to honor you with you know,

976
00:45:10,280 --> 00:45:11,760
Speaker 1: both you know, new deals.

977
00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:15,480
Speaker 6: I mean, it's the first time I've resigned somewhere, you know,

978
00:45:17,040 --> 00:45:18,960
Speaker 6: so I'm grateful for that to be able to stay

979
00:45:19,200 --> 00:45:21,920
Speaker 6: in one place, especially with the family now, Like it

980
00:45:21,960 --> 00:45:24,759
Speaker 6: was hard enough moving with two dogs, my wife, you know,

981
00:45:24,800 --> 00:45:27,320
Speaker 6: and I got traded like that was just a disaster

982
00:45:27,760 --> 00:45:30,480
Speaker 6: having a baby now, just I mean, you guys don't

983
00:45:30,520 --> 00:45:33,480
Speaker 6: get it, you know, put the stick with these guys,

984
00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:36,120
Speaker 6: keep this group going, working with Bubba and Bravo and

985
00:45:36,200 --> 00:45:38,439
Speaker 6: this team kind of where the direction of the team's going.

986
00:45:39,040 --> 00:45:39,439
Speaker 6: It's good.

987
00:45:39,800 --> 00:45:42,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, the echoes and what Corey said, I think anytime

988
00:45:42,160 --> 00:45:44,799
Speaker 3: a team has a desire to bring you back is

989
00:45:44,800 --> 00:45:47,880
Speaker 3: like that's a good feeling, you know, Like, yeah, it's corny,

990
00:45:47,920 --> 00:45:50,319
Speaker 3: but it's like it's nice to be wanted, you know.

991
00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:51,280
Speaker 3: I think as a player.

992
00:45:51,719 --> 00:45:52,960
Speaker 6: We all want to Yeah.

993
00:45:52,800 --> 00:45:56,200
Speaker 3: You want, you want that, you know. So I think

994
00:45:56,560 --> 00:45:58,520
Speaker 3: a huge part for me was just how the team

995
00:45:58,520 --> 00:46:01,160
Speaker 3: has treated me from day one coming in, Like as

996
00:46:01,160 --> 00:46:03,440
Speaker 3: soon as I got traded, I felt like I was

997
00:46:03,480 --> 00:46:05,799
Speaker 3: welcomed here like in a way that no other team

998
00:46:06,760 --> 00:46:10,439
Speaker 3: I don't know that had welcomed me before. So from

999
00:46:10,440 --> 00:46:13,839
Speaker 3: the very jump to how they've h I don't know,

1000
00:46:14,239 --> 00:46:16,400
Speaker 3: I feel like in a lot of ways prioritize family

1001
00:46:16,480 --> 00:46:20,879
Speaker 3: more than other places I've been. Is that's a huge

1002
00:46:20,920 --> 00:46:23,000
Speaker 3: piece for me of wanting to be a part of

1003
00:46:23,120 --> 00:46:26,920
Speaker 3: what we have here culturally, in addition to that of

1004
00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:29,480
Speaker 3: like all the pieces we have in place, it's exciting,

1005
00:46:29,560 --> 00:46:32,319
Speaker 3: and you want to be a part of a winning team.

1006
00:46:33,320 --> 00:46:35,440
Speaker 3: And I think another piece of that is is you

1007
00:46:35,480 --> 00:46:38,360
Speaker 3: want to be paid. But we talked about all the

1008
00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:42,480
Speaker 3: work you put in, how much you invest not just

1009
00:46:42,480 --> 00:46:46,000
Speaker 3: physically and mentally, but like like emotionally in your craft.

1010
00:46:46,200 --> 00:46:49,279
Speaker 3: You know, so you want to be you want to

1011
00:46:49,320 --> 00:46:51,359
Speaker 3: be paid in a way that you feel like, oh man,

1012
00:46:51,400 --> 00:46:54,160
Speaker 3: i feel like I'm I'm with like in this tier

1013
00:46:54,200 --> 00:46:57,320
Speaker 3: guys or whatever. In I know some guys want to

1014
00:46:57,360 --> 00:47:00,000
Speaker 3: set the market. For me, it was just about of

1015
00:47:00,840 --> 00:47:03,080
Speaker 3: wanted to be in a group that I thought was like, oh,

1016
00:47:03,160 --> 00:47:06,120
Speaker 3: these these are a section of upper echelant kickers that

1017
00:47:06,160 --> 00:47:09,680
Speaker 3: I feel like I'm a part of. And like you said,

1018
00:47:09,760 --> 00:47:13,000
Speaker 3: I just do feel very honored that like the organization,

1019
00:47:15,160 --> 00:47:17,640
Speaker 3: like we saw eyed eye on that, you know. So,

1020
00:47:19,120 --> 00:47:22,399
Speaker 3: and shoot the fan base, not to mention like I've

1021
00:47:22,400 --> 00:47:24,239
Speaker 3: been a part of some fan bases, some really good,

1022
00:47:24,360 --> 00:47:27,239
Speaker 3: some not as good. And to go out there on

1023
00:47:27,280 --> 00:47:29,719
Speaker 3: a day that is like, let's be honest, the weather

1024
00:47:29,840 --> 00:47:34,879
Speaker 3: is horrible a lot and for them to be like, Yo,

1025
00:47:34,960 --> 00:47:37,279
Speaker 3: we're gonna fill this place up still, We're going to

1026
00:47:37,360 --> 00:47:39,480
Speaker 3: be loud and we're going to stay for the whole game.

1027
00:47:39,800 --> 00:47:42,680
Speaker 3: It's like, as a player, that means a lot when

1028
00:47:42,680 --> 00:47:45,600
Speaker 3: your fan base is committed, for sure. So that's a

1029
00:47:45,680 --> 00:47:46,240
Speaker 3: that's a really.

1030
00:47:46,160 --> 00:47:49,600
Speaker 1: Nice aspect too real, you know all about it?

1031
00:47:50,120 --> 00:47:53,200
Speaker 4: You know, the longest ten year you know what I'm saying,

1032
00:47:53,560 --> 00:47:54,600
Speaker 4: player on the team.

1033
00:47:55,080 --> 00:47:57,280
Speaker 2: Uh Joel Joe's gotta be about a couple months.

1034
00:47:57,280 --> 00:48:02,640
Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, and give credit whords you're

1035
00:48:02,680 --> 00:48:04,359
Speaker 1: the oldest on the team, am I?

1036
00:48:04,640 --> 00:48:04,879
Speaker 2: Yeah?

1037
00:48:04,920 --> 00:48:09,960
Speaker 1: People tend to think I'm the oldest, know, so I.

1038
00:48:09,920 --> 00:48:11,719
Speaker 4: Got to get it off of me. I'm just going

1039
00:48:11,840 --> 00:48:12,640
Speaker 4: to toss it to you.

1040
00:48:13,640 --> 00:48:16,560
Speaker 1: But honestly, though, like that is a huge, you know,

1041
00:48:16,840 --> 00:48:21,200
Speaker 1: badge of honor and respect from the organization and peers.

1042
00:48:21,239 --> 00:48:22,839
Speaker 4: Like how does that feel.

1043
00:48:23,120 --> 00:48:26,880
Speaker 1: Like knowing that you've been a part of this organization

1044
00:48:26,960 --> 00:48:28,880
Speaker 1: for the past, you know, thirteen years.

1045
00:48:29,040 --> 00:48:31,879
Speaker 5: I mean, we're definitely blessed to like you know, Court

1046
00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:34,120
Speaker 5: kind of touched on it, you know, doesn't touch on it,

1047
00:48:34,160 --> 00:48:36,880
Speaker 5: like like moving your family around, Like we've been blessed

1048
00:48:36,920 --> 00:48:39,000
Speaker 5: to be in one place, Like all my kids have

1049
00:48:39,000 --> 00:48:42,279
Speaker 5: been born in Cleveland, Like there's there's no matter how

1050
00:48:42,320 --> 00:48:45,400
Speaker 5: long we're here, Like Cleveland's always going to have a

1051
00:48:45,400 --> 00:48:47,360
Speaker 5: part in our life, like a part of our family history.

1052
00:48:47,440 --> 00:48:49,000
Speaker 5: Like it's just it's just gonna be a part of

1053
00:48:49,080 --> 00:48:51,800
Speaker 5: us now forever. So like it's it's always gonna have

1054
00:48:51,800 --> 00:48:54,319
Speaker 5: a spot in our heart. And and like you guys

1055
00:48:54,320 --> 00:48:57,080
Speaker 5: were saying, like the fans, you can't beat them, Like

1056
00:48:57,280 --> 00:48:59,120
Speaker 5: it don't matter how cold it is, don't matter if

1057
00:48:59,160 --> 00:49:02,960
Speaker 5: it's reigning or like they're out there and like especially

1058
00:49:02,960 --> 00:49:06,120
Speaker 5: like coming from the seasons where you know, things weren't

1059
00:49:06,200 --> 00:49:08,880
Speaker 5: necessarily going great to like where they are now, Like

1060
00:49:09,360 --> 00:49:11,840
Speaker 5: it's definitely like a you have like a blessed feeling

1061
00:49:11,880 --> 00:49:16,080
Speaker 5: of like you realize, like wins are winds are hard

1062
00:49:16,160 --> 00:49:17,799
Speaker 5: to get, you know what I mean, And so like

1063
00:49:17,840 --> 00:49:19,760
Speaker 5: now that we have like a team with some talent

1064
00:49:20,040 --> 00:49:22,359
Speaker 5: that can really do something, you know, it's just like

1065
00:49:22,480 --> 00:49:23,320
Speaker 5: it's a great feeling.

1066
00:49:23,480 --> 00:49:26,279
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I love it. Man.

1067
00:49:26,680 --> 00:49:29,600
Speaker 1: I just got one last question for you guys. We

1068
00:49:29,640 --> 00:49:34,120
Speaker 1: call this our dog moment, and it really speaks to

1069
00:49:34,560 --> 00:49:39,759
Speaker 1: being able to overcome an obstacle, a challenge. You know,

1070
00:49:40,080 --> 00:49:43,480
Speaker 1: like I said earlier, there is no straight line, you know,

1071
00:49:43,719 --> 00:49:47,000
Speaker 1: to reach in the top of that mountain, right and

1072
00:49:47,040 --> 00:49:50,879
Speaker 1: knowing that we are one percenter and we didn't get

1073
00:49:50,880 --> 00:49:56,040
Speaker 1: here on an easy track. So if you can think

1074
00:49:56,080 --> 00:50:00,000
Speaker 1: of like that one moment in your career or even

1075
00:50:00,040 --> 00:50:04,000
Speaker 1: in life where you had to channel that inner dog

1076
00:50:04,560 --> 00:50:07,040
Speaker 1: that lives inside of all of us, what would that be.

1077
00:50:07,680 --> 00:50:11,359
Speaker 5: I mean, tell me if I'm on the right track here.

1078
00:50:12,640 --> 00:50:14,319
Speaker 5: I mean, for me, it was like at one point

1079
00:50:14,320 --> 00:50:17,160
Speaker 5: in my career, I had gotten I was with Dallas

1080
00:50:17,160 --> 00:50:19,360
Speaker 5: my first two camps. The second camp I got cut

1081
00:50:19,680 --> 00:50:21,239
Speaker 5: and I didn't I didn't play in the preseason. I

1082
00:50:21,280 --> 00:50:24,239
Speaker 5: got cut before the games, and I was a free

1083
00:50:24,239 --> 00:50:26,319
Speaker 5: agent for ten months, sitting here called, didn't hear nothing.

1084
00:50:26,400 --> 00:50:29,040
Speaker 5: I thought I was probably done. Got a random call

1085
00:50:29,120 --> 00:50:32,279
Speaker 5: from the Patriots. They had a scout in Tampa who

1086
00:50:32,320 --> 00:50:33,680
Speaker 5: called me, except meet me at this part.

1087
00:50:33,880 --> 00:50:34,800
Speaker 2: We're gonna do a workout.

1088
00:50:34,920 --> 00:50:38,600
Speaker 5: I was like, cool, you know, almost almost didn't bring

1089
00:50:38,640 --> 00:50:40,560
Speaker 5: a football because I thought it was an NFL workout

1090
00:50:40,760 --> 00:50:43,160
Speaker 5: or footballs. But it's a good thing I did because

1091
00:50:43,160 --> 00:50:50,279
Speaker 5: he didn't have football. He grabbed a lady who was

1092
00:50:50,320 --> 00:50:56,239
Speaker 5: playing basketball to come catch my snaps and I ended

1093
00:50:56,280 --> 00:50:57,279
Speaker 5: up getting signed off of that.

1094
00:50:57,640 --> 00:50:58,040
Speaker 6: Wow.

1095
00:50:58,560 --> 00:51:01,839
Speaker 5: Got cut two weeks later, and I thought at that point,

1096
00:51:01,880 --> 00:51:03,680
Speaker 5: I was like, I'm going to down school, like I'm done.

1097
00:51:03,880 --> 00:51:07,960
Speaker 2: Like and got called from Jacksonville. A couple of weeks later.

1098
00:51:08,000 --> 00:51:11,399
Speaker 5: I'm in the library studying up for my exam, and

1099
00:51:11,480 --> 00:51:13,320
Speaker 5: I didn't even answer the phone because I was like, finally,

1100
00:51:13,360 --> 00:51:16,399
Speaker 5: like set my life a certain way, like I'm moving on.

1101
00:51:17,120 --> 00:51:20,319
Speaker 5: Immediately called my girlfriend now wife, and was like, Jacksonville's

1102
00:51:20,320 --> 00:51:22,480
Speaker 5: calling me, Like what do I do? And she was like,

1103
00:51:22,600 --> 00:51:24,200
Speaker 5: what do you mean, what are you gonna do? I

1104
00:51:24,239 --> 00:51:26,200
Speaker 5: was like, I want to go to dinn school now,

1105
00:51:26,239 --> 00:51:27,960
Speaker 5: like I'm moving on. She was like you're gonna regret

1106
00:51:27,960 --> 00:51:30,680
Speaker 5: that for the rest of your life. And I went

1107
00:51:30,719 --> 00:51:33,400
Speaker 5: to Jacksonville, had the best camp of my life at

1108
00:51:33,440 --> 00:51:36,920
Speaker 5: the time. Yeah, and started making practice squads and eventually

1109
00:51:37,000 --> 00:51:37,520
Speaker 5: ended up here.

1110
00:51:37,760 --> 00:51:41,480
Speaker 2: Yeah. So yeah, that was a big, big moment for me.

1111
00:51:41,600 --> 00:51:42,160
Speaker 4: Absolutely.

1112
00:51:43,760 --> 00:51:47,640
Speaker 6: Going into my third season, I was in another competition.

1113
00:51:47,680 --> 00:51:49,319
Speaker 6: This is actually the first season I haven't had another

1114
00:51:49,360 --> 00:51:53,120
Speaker 6: punter ink camp. It's weird. And going into my third season,

1115
00:51:53,640 --> 00:51:57,920
Speaker 6: Buffalo is a very very high competitive team. They got

1116
00:51:57,960 --> 00:52:01,000
Speaker 6: competitions going on all the time throughout the day OTA's

1117
00:52:01,040 --> 00:52:04,640
Speaker 6: training camp. That's just what they do. And you know,

1118
00:52:04,680 --> 00:52:07,439
Speaker 6: they pushed us a lot, and you know, I didn't

1119
00:52:07,440 --> 00:52:09,239
Speaker 6: have a great second season. You know, a lot of

1120
00:52:09,280 --> 00:52:13,360
Speaker 6: weather that we dealt with. And going into my third season,

1121
00:52:13,360 --> 00:52:15,520
Speaker 6: it was kind of you know, last year rookie contract

1122
00:52:15,880 --> 00:52:18,600
Speaker 6: make or break basically, you know, and the guy was

1123
00:52:18,760 --> 00:52:21,239
Speaker 6: he was real good, best punter I competed against, you

1124
00:52:21,239 --> 00:52:26,000
Speaker 6: know at the time. Somehow, you know, beat him out.

1125
00:52:26,000 --> 00:52:27,439
Speaker 6: And it was during that COVID year, so we didn't

1126
00:52:27,480 --> 00:52:29,680
Speaker 6: have like a real training camp preseason and all that.

1127
00:52:30,960 --> 00:52:32,680
Speaker 6: They cut him and I thought, okay, cool, like I

1128
00:52:32,680 --> 00:52:34,840
Speaker 6: got it, and then they signed another punter like a

1129
00:52:34,920 --> 00:52:38,680
Speaker 6: day later or something like that, and it just kind

1130
00:52:38,680 --> 00:52:40,080
Speaker 6: of felt like no matter what I did, I was

1131
00:52:40,120 --> 00:52:42,399
Speaker 6: always having to fight. No matter what I performed, They're

1132
00:52:42,400 --> 00:52:44,239
Speaker 6: always gonna do something. And so it was like at

1133
00:52:44,239 --> 00:52:46,120
Speaker 6: that point, it's calling kind of like you know what,

1134
00:52:46,320 --> 00:52:49,040
Speaker 6: like if I'm not gonna worry about it, I'm just

1135
00:52:49,040 --> 00:52:52,680
Speaker 6: gonna do my thing, gonna work hard. They bring someone

1136
00:52:52,719 --> 00:52:55,320
Speaker 6: else in, you know, they're just wasting their time. Basically.

1137
00:52:55,360 --> 00:52:57,520
Speaker 6: It's kind of how I took it, and you know,

1138
00:52:57,719 --> 00:52:59,960
Speaker 6: ended up beating them out led the league and punting

1139
00:53:00,080 --> 00:53:04,880
Speaker 6: that year and signs that was good.

1140
00:53:07,280 --> 00:53:10,840
Speaker 3: Professionally. I'd say in twenty fourteen, I was out of

1141
00:53:10,840 --> 00:53:15,759
Speaker 3: the league for like fifteen weeks, which like like you're

1142
00:53:15,920 --> 00:53:18,560
Speaker 3: sitting at home then, like I was doing PTE, trying

1143
00:53:18,600 --> 00:53:21,400
Speaker 3: to get right, and I finally get healthy with three

1144
00:53:21,440 --> 00:53:23,960
Speaker 3: weeks left in the season, and I tell my agent

1145
00:53:24,080 --> 00:53:26,560
Speaker 3: to like, hey, if anybody's interested, to tell them I'm

1146
00:53:26,560 --> 00:53:28,840
Speaker 3: healthy enough to do a workout, because I didn't do

1147
00:53:28,880 --> 00:53:31,080
Speaker 3: a workout earlier because I knew if I wasn't healthy.

1148
00:53:31,760 --> 00:53:34,440
Speaker 3: You know, the NFL's a small place anyway, but especially

1149
00:53:34,480 --> 00:53:36,640
Speaker 3: in the specialist community, like you said earlier, there's only

1150
00:53:37,400 --> 00:53:39,960
Speaker 3: there's only so many coordinators, there's only so many players.

1151
00:53:40,080 --> 00:53:42,200
Speaker 3: And I knew if I put a bad look on

1152
00:53:42,280 --> 00:53:45,719
Speaker 3: tape in a tryout, that word we'll get around. So

1153
00:53:45,800 --> 00:53:48,240
Speaker 3: I wanted to be healthy, So I got healthy. Finally

1154
00:53:48,680 --> 00:53:50,360
Speaker 3: had him put word out, had to try out with

1155
00:53:50,360 --> 00:53:54,239
Speaker 3: the Saints, and they end up signing me to pea

1156
00:53:54,239 --> 00:53:58,799
Speaker 3: squad the last two weeks of that season. But it

1157
00:53:58,840 --> 00:54:00,680
Speaker 3: was a long road when you're on the on the

1158
00:54:00,680 --> 00:54:04,759
Speaker 3: couch and you're like, well, uh, there's times where it's like,

1159
00:54:04,760 --> 00:54:06,319
Speaker 3: I don't know if this football thing is gonna work out,

1160
00:54:06,760 --> 00:54:08,640
Speaker 3: you know, as you could try to do everything you

1161
00:54:08,640 --> 00:54:10,680
Speaker 3: can't you can do within your control, but you just

1162
00:54:11,080 --> 00:54:12,120
Speaker 3: there's questions, you know.

1163
00:54:12,320 --> 00:54:12,640
Speaker 6: And so.

1164
00:54:14,960 --> 00:54:17,840
Speaker 3: I would say that that that timeframe of trying to

1165
00:54:17,840 --> 00:54:20,759
Speaker 3: get healthy and trying and the question of hey, is

1166
00:54:20,760 --> 00:54:23,840
Speaker 3: this thing going to happen? You know, is a and

1167
00:54:23,920 --> 00:54:26,360
Speaker 3: now to fast forward and look back on it, it's

1168
00:54:26,680 --> 00:54:28,480
Speaker 3: I don't know, it's cool, it's cool look back on

1169
00:54:28,480 --> 00:54:31,840
Speaker 3: on those moments and it kind of you said a

1170
00:54:31,840 --> 00:54:35,480
Speaker 3: phrase earlier, but basically it was like, how how those

1171
00:54:35,480 --> 00:54:39,560
Speaker 3: moments tough times helped make like right now so much sweeter?

1172
00:54:40,280 --> 00:54:42,319
Speaker 3: You know, and you didn't say it quite that way,

1173
00:54:42,320 --> 00:54:45,440
Speaker 3: but it was something it was yours, I think nicer.

1174
00:54:45,800 --> 00:54:48,440
Speaker 3: But yeah, i'd say that. I'd say that, and then

1175
00:54:48,480 --> 00:54:52,399
Speaker 3: personally i'd say, uh, Like, my son is special needs,

1176
00:54:52,400 --> 00:54:55,960
Speaker 3: he's on the autism spectrum, and I think, uh, to

1177
00:54:56,000 --> 00:54:57,839
Speaker 3: get well my and my wife is an all star,

1178
00:54:57,960 --> 00:55:00,560
Speaker 3: she's like a hero of mine. But as a father,

1179
00:55:01,400 --> 00:55:03,640
Speaker 3: when that happens, I think you have a picture of

1180
00:55:03,680 --> 00:55:06,759
Speaker 3: what life will look like like as a dad. Like

1181
00:55:06,800 --> 00:55:08,239
Speaker 3: you're like, man, I'm gonna play catch with my son

1182
00:55:08,280 --> 00:55:10,320
Speaker 3: in the front yard. I'm gonna do with these things.

1183
00:55:10,840 --> 00:55:12,560
Speaker 3: And it's not that he can't accomplish those things at

1184
00:55:12,560 --> 00:55:16,399
Speaker 3: some point maybe, but it's just understanding that, hey, life

1185
00:55:16,400 --> 00:55:19,920
Speaker 3: is gonna look different. It's not it's not better or worse.

1186
00:55:20,160 --> 00:55:23,880
Speaker 3: It's just different, and we're gonna enjoy like the gifts

1187
00:55:23,880 --> 00:55:26,000
Speaker 3: in the moments we have, even though it's different than

1188
00:55:26,000 --> 00:55:27,359
Speaker 3: the picture of the life that you had in your

1189
00:55:27,360 --> 00:55:29,960
Speaker 3: mind beforehand, if that makes sense. So I'd say just

1190
00:55:29,960 --> 00:55:32,839
Speaker 3: gearing up for fatherhood is a what is it called

1191
00:55:32,880 --> 00:55:36,040
Speaker 3: the dog moment? The dog moment, just like like, hey,

1192
00:55:36,719 --> 00:55:40,520
Speaker 3: like being a present father every day, Like like I

1193
00:55:40,520 --> 00:55:41,719
Speaker 3: think we all try to be.

1194
00:55:42,800 --> 00:55:46,759
Speaker 1: No, man, it's appreciated each for sharing, and it's it's

1195
00:55:46,800 --> 00:55:48,600
Speaker 1: beauty in all of our struggle.

1196
00:55:48,960 --> 00:55:50,960
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying. But that's it's a part

1197
00:55:51,000 --> 00:55:51,440
Speaker 4: of us.

1198
00:55:51,640 --> 00:55:54,680
Speaker 1: It lives within us, and it's made us who we

1199
00:55:54,800 --> 00:55:56,360
Speaker 1: all are sitting here today.

1200
00:55:56,440 --> 00:55:58,000
Speaker 4: So much respect.

1201
00:55:59,160 --> 00:56:02,800
Speaker 1: Before we get out of here, we got some questions

1202
00:56:02,880 --> 00:56:04,120
Speaker 1: from a few of our fans.

1203
00:56:04,200 --> 00:56:06,960
Speaker 4: I'm just gonna just give y'all one apiece.

1204
00:56:08,680 --> 00:56:11,719
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's a quick hitter, he's a easy you know

1205
00:56:12,360 --> 00:56:16,960
Speaker 1: as nothing. Yeah, yeah, lighthearted fun. Let's go, let's go

1206
00:56:16,960 --> 00:56:19,480
Speaker 1: have averse order here. We're gonna start with with who's

1207
00:56:19,520 --> 00:56:20,920
Speaker 1: the funniest guy on the team?

1208
00:56:21,400 --> 00:56:21,640
Speaker 3: Right now?

1209
00:56:21,719 --> 00:56:22,400
Speaker 6: It's say James.

1210
00:56:25,520 --> 00:56:27,560
Speaker 3: I feel like it's not even that close for sure,

1211
00:56:28,640 --> 00:56:29,359
Speaker 3: so funny man.

1212
00:56:29,800 --> 00:56:30,640
Speaker 6: I love him?

1213
00:56:31,160 --> 00:56:33,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would agree.

1214
00:56:33,200 --> 00:56:33,760
Speaker 2: I would agree.

1215
00:56:33,800 --> 00:56:35,960
Speaker 1: And that was from Aiden Blandon. He asked, who's the

1216
00:56:35,960 --> 00:56:41,359
Speaker 1: funniest guy on the team. This is from Noah Boltonly,

1217
00:56:42,040 --> 00:56:44,640
Speaker 1: what is your what is that personal goal for this

1218
00:56:44,719 --> 00:56:45,920
Speaker 1: season for you?

1219
00:56:47,320 --> 00:56:49,840
Speaker 6: Be a first team All Pro? It's been close a

1220
00:56:49,880 --> 00:56:52,439
Speaker 6: couple of times, so I think this might be leader.

1221
00:56:52,719 --> 00:56:54,279
Speaker 6: Let's do it.

1222
00:56:53,920 --> 00:56:58,640
Speaker 4: Manifest, all right, Charlie.

1223
00:56:59,480 --> 00:56:59,600
Speaker 1: Uh.

1224
00:57:00,200 --> 00:57:05,840
Speaker 4: This is from looks like I can't tell what this is.

1225
00:57:07,480 --> 00:57:10,440
Speaker 1: But we're just gonna we just what is the what

1226
00:57:10,560 --> 00:57:12,839
Speaker 1: is the matchup you're most excited for this year?

1227
00:57:13,800 --> 00:57:15,400
Speaker 2: I always get excited to play the Ravens.

1228
00:57:15,400 --> 00:57:15,640
Speaker 6: Man.

1229
00:57:16,160 --> 00:57:20,040
Speaker 2: Always it's between the Ravens and the Steelers. But I

1230
00:57:20,040 --> 00:57:23,600
Speaker 2: always excited keep it in the divisional Yeah, yeah, I

1231
00:57:23,760 --> 00:57:26,120
Speaker 2: like it, man. That is That is all we have

1232
00:57:26,280 --> 00:57:26,840
Speaker 2: for today.

1233
00:57:27,240 --> 00:57:31,080
Speaker 1: I appreciate you guys for man taking some time out

1234
00:57:31,400 --> 00:57:33,840
Speaker 1: for you know what I'm saying, everybody to get to

1235
00:57:33,880 --> 00:57:34,960
Speaker 1: know you just a little bit more.

1236
00:57:35,400 --> 00:57:35,480
Speaker 8: So.

1237
00:57:36,080 --> 00:57:38,680
Speaker 4: It was an honor and the pleasure. Appreciate y'all.

1238
00:57:39,600 --> 00:57:40,080
Speaker 2: Thank you.

1239
00:57:40,160 --> 00:57:42,200
Speaker 1: We have released the dogs and that's all we have

1240
00:57:42,280 --> 00:57:44,919
Speaker 1: for today. Uh this is your host O g Rod

1241
00:57:45,120 --> 00:57:47,480
Speaker 1: and tune in next time to the Dog's Only podcast.

1242
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