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Speaker 1: too bad though. You know, your your confidence growing day

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Speaker 1: with reps, comes with tim um, just being around professionals

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Speaker 1: So my confidence has been growing in that aspect um

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Speaker 1: the contact that the coach gives you on the field

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Speaker 1: here the practice, it's it's probably what you get the

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Speaker 1: least when it comes to practicing football. So, UM, you

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Speaker 1: know when you get these these practice to embrace that.

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Speaker 1: And he says the song ago like everybody's gonna be

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Speaker 1: like you're finally setting settling into the kind of football

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Speaker 1: player you envision yourself to be in the NFL? Yeah, absolutely,

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Speaker 1: I think that's a good way to put it. It's

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Speaker 1: kind of just like becoming myself. Um. Coaches that allow

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Speaker 1: you to be yourself, and you know they embrace, um,

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Speaker 1: you just being yourself and your personality on the field. Um,

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Speaker 1: I am. You know, I like to have fun on

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Speaker 1: Andre takes a lot of calculated risks out there, but

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Speaker 1: he's usually right. Would you say that Trevor's assessment in

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Speaker 1: you know it all it all fits together, and that's

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Speaker 1: what it's about. You don't want to play outside this

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Speaker 1: game so far that you put other guys in bad positions. So, um, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I've been working at and it's been it's been good.

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Speaker 1: The monset is to be your top defense. That's just

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Speaker 1: that's how we've been caring ourselves. We've been talking about

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Speaker 1: what I'm seeing from Arten is, um, he's a pass rusher. Um.

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Speaker 1: I really do regularly hits that judgment team before or

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Speaker 1: that's that's not what you want. You want seven and

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Speaker 1: sevens for yourself, you know. I mean that's that's what

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Speaker 1: more than just making the place when they come. You

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Speaker 1: make a quarterback throw where he doesn't want to go. UM,

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Speaker 1: do those types of things, and that's what we've been

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Speaker 1: working on under I think people know you as a

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Speaker 1: pretty well the other day, I mean most people label

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Speaker 1: you as a good open field tackler. I guess you

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Speaker 1: kind of have to be the last line of defense. UM.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what people will label me as. I

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Speaker 1: know what UM I aim to be, and that's a

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Speaker 1: I've been working on it so year. This year, UM

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Speaker 1: got to look like. Josh has a lot of faith

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Speaker 1: in me, so I appreciate that. I actually rando to

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Speaker 1: that's how I knew it was meant to be. This year.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna have a great time between us. Your friendship

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Speaker 1: seen him grow from last year? Yeah, Tyson. Tyson was

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Speaker 1: me and him been good friends even from pre drive

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Speaker 1: until now. Um. We pray together, We talked about a

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Speaker 1: we joke, and that's my guy. You know, we come

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