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Speaker 1: What's it like been getting the pats back on for

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Speaker 1: the first time and just.

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Speaker 2: Being able to go out there and do that after

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Speaker 2: your injury. No, it's been a blessing. It has been

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Speaker 2: a blessing to play football again and get back out there.

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Speaker 2: It's been a long year, so it's good to get

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Speaker 2: back out there and play football again.

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Speaker 3: Andrew Crane, Hey, Darren, I'm just curious what's the most

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Speaker 3: difficult part of your returnvent and was it maybe something

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Speaker 3: different than what you expected going into training camp.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I'll probably just say the waittime how long it takes

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Speaker 2: to recover from this injury. But besides that, it's just

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Speaker 2: been and just taking the game of football away, I

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Speaker 2: would probably think is the two biggest things. I've been

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Speaker 2: playing football since I was seven every year, so sitting

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Speaker 2: out of season is kind of different for you. So

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Speaker 2: I'll probably say.

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Speaker 4: You that.

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Speaker 3: Was there a moment during the first session or the

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Speaker 3: first week, or any sort of practice where you kind

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Speaker 3: of felt like back in a groove and back in

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Speaker 3: a rhythm.

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Speaker 2: I think it's like a continuous thing. The more and

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Speaker 2: more practices, more and more reps that I give, the

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Speaker 2: more and more I feel I guess more comfortable, as

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Speaker 2: you would say. But now I said, it's just been

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Speaker 2: a blessing to play football again. Have the chance to

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Speaker 2: put the pads back on.

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Speaker 3: Tim Jones.

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Speaker 2: Yea, I'd be a.

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Speaker 5: Mute sorry rookie mistake, and I'm not a rookie. I apologize, Hi, Darien.

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Speaker 2: How are you good?

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Speaker 5: Good? You good? Thank you so much. You know you've

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Speaker 5: alluded to it a couple of times. But when you

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Speaker 5: have a game that you love, in this case, taken

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Speaker 5: from you, you know, do you come back with maybe

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Speaker 5: even a more appreciation for it. I don't want to

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Speaker 5: put words in your mouth, but how did the injury

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Speaker 5: kind of affect maybe the way you take the field now,

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Speaker 5: or maybe the way you look at the game.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's still football at the end of the day,

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Speaker 2: so it's still a fun sport. Like I said, since

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Speaker 2: I played since I was seven. But I'd say maybe

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Speaker 2: it made me sit back and humble myself. That not

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Speaker 2: not to take it for granted, I would say, in

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Speaker 2: a way, but besides that, it's a football and you

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Speaker 2: when you come back, when you're on that field, everything

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Speaker 2: blanks out and you just want to play football.

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Speaker 5: How do you look at the linebacker room and the

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Speaker 5: group now with some new additions obviously.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think we did a good job

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Speaker 2: in an off season getting a bunch of players in

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Speaker 2: here that are new and trying to make this team

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Speaker 2: the best team that we can make. I mean, and

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Speaker 2: that's as good whatever. The better, the better the players,

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Speaker 2: the better it is.

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Speaker 5: So And if I can just slide one quick one

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Speaker 5: in with joint practices, you know, on the horizon for

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Speaker 5: you guys in Detroit, I'm not sure if that's something

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Speaker 5: you've been a part of before or how do you

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Speaker 5: look at the opportunity to go against you know, obviously

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Speaker 5: an opponent, I think camp.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's great. I think it's great to

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Speaker 2: I guess, practice against a different team, different players, and

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Speaker 2: just see where you're at. I think it would be

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Speaker 2: good for this team, and I guess good for the season.

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Speaker 5: I appreciate you.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Charlotte, Carol.

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Speaker 2: Darian.

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Speaker 1: It's again you talked about just having to learn to

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Speaker 1: live without football.

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Speaker 3: I guess did you do anything differently to come that

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Speaker 3: time besides.

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Speaker 2: All of the rehab that you were doing.

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Speaker 1: Whatever you were able to do, I mean.

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Speaker 2: Not really, it was mostly just doing rehab and then

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Speaker 2: trying to stay off the feet as much as possible.

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Speaker 2: I got, which probably made it seem longer, just sleeping

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Speaker 2: a bunch of times and just relaxing all the time.

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Speaker 2: But now it was just doing rehab and then going

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Speaker 2: to stay off my feet.

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Speaker 4: We have time for two more. Art Stapleton, Hey, Darien.

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Speaker 1: How's it going?

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Speaker 2: Man? Good? How about you good?

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Speaker 1: I was curious. I know we talked a little bit

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Speaker 1: about it. But for you, now, when you're into it,

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Speaker 1: the pads are there, is it physical? Has the mental

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Speaker 1: kind of gone away?

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Speaker 5: Now?

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Speaker 1: Like you said, you step on the field and everything

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Speaker 1: goes away. But is there any apprehension for you to

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Speaker 1: this point getting back to where you want to be.

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Speaker 4: No.

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Speaker 2: So when I'm on the field, I don't even think

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Speaker 2: about what happened or anything like that last year. So

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Speaker 2: for me, it was just I want to be the

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Speaker 2: best I could be on the field, So I want

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Speaker 2: to know. There's so much stuff that I had to

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Speaker 2: do pre snap before play to even worry about my

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Speaker 2: need to be honest, So, like I said, when I'm

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Speaker 2: out there, I got so much other stuff going on

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Speaker 2: that that's the last thing on my mind.

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Speaker 4: Thanks man, last one, Tom Cannevan, Hi, Darian.

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Speaker 2: How you doing good?

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Speaker 4: Good?

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Speaker 2: How about you good?

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Speaker 4: Real good? Have they well, I mean preseasons coming up

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Speaker 4: in the game wise, have they had all said that

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Speaker 4: we're gonna hold you back in when contact starts, or

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Speaker 4: are you full go or what?

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Speaker 2: To be honest, I'm just taking it day by day.

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Speaker 2: So to be honest, I'm if I'm practicing, I'm practicing,

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Speaker 2: so they'll let me know that before the practice are

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Speaker 2: the game. So right now, I'm just going day by

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Speaker 2: day and I know we have a practice today and

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna go out there and practice full Paddy today.

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Speaker 4: All right. I have one other quick question. With all

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Speaker 4: the veterans now getting days off, are you sitting there

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Speaker 4: going coach, I don't want.

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Speaker 2: A day off. I mean for me, Yes, Like I said,

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Speaker 2: I need as most as reps as possible, the most

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Speaker 2: reps I can get, the most time practice I can

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Speaker 2: get on the field doing football is very important to me.