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Speaker 1: Soon.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Ozone Podcast with Jaguars senior writer John Oser.

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Speaker 3: All Right, welcome to this week's Ozone podcast, and I'm

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Speaker 3: joined this week by Jaguars left tackle Camra Robinson. I'm

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Speaker 3: excited about this because, as I told him right before

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Speaker 3: the start, if I'd ask Cam to come in here

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Speaker 3: six seven years ago when he first got here, might

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Speaker 3: have gotten an eye roll, might not have gotten a

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Speaker 3: guy to show up because it just didn't like doing it.

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Speaker 3: First of all, welcome in, and I appreciate you doing this.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, no problem.

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Speaker 3: Am I right in that because you've become sort of

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Speaker 3: a guy that the media likes talking to. And I

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Speaker 3: know you probably don't love it. You don't mind it

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Speaker 3: like you were, ye talk about that change.

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Speaker 2: A little bit.

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Speaker 1: Oh No, I think it's just something that happened naturally.

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Speaker 1: I'm still not the most.

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Speaker 3: Oh.

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Speaker 1: I think it's just my confort level. Should have to

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Speaker 1: get extremely comfortable with people just because I mean, like

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Speaker 1: if you, for example, if you see me in the

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Speaker 1: locker room, just like on an everyday basis, then like

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Speaker 1: my teammates have known about my personality for right forever.

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Speaker 1: It's because I'm around them the most and that they

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Speaker 1: see it a lot and they see me a lot.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, I think it's just I think that's the

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Speaker 1: only thing that's really changed, honestly, got you.

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Speaker 3: Is it crazy to think I was prepping for this

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Speaker 3: last night seventh year. I assume it's gone by in

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Speaker 1: Flowing by. It's it's flowing by. I can't even I

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Speaker 1: can't even can't even explain it. It's been crazy.

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Speaker 2: But it's like you blame come in right, that's probably

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Speaker 2: told you that.

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Speaker 1: I don't even know if it was that, I didn't

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Speaker 1: believe them. It's just kind of something that when you

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Speaker 1: your you're you kind of learn being the moment more

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Speaker 1: appreciate every situation because you I mean, you know, you're

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Speaker 1: just something that you eventually started to develop appreciation for

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Speaker 3: I was thinking about this last night, and I guess

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Speaker 3: your career you have seen and been through just personally,

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Speaker 3: I'm talking about you tear your ACL and year two

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Speaker 3: have you come back from that? Have an injury last year?

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Speaker 3: Also you play on the franchise tag, you wait and

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Speaker 3: get the big contract. I guess my point is you've

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Speaker 2: What's the key to sort of making it through a

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Speaker 3: What do you know about the NFL now that you

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Speaker 2: Just how to make it? I guess because you're a pro.

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Speaker 1: I think, well, the the thing I did was when

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Speaker 1: I mean, because you're you're green, and you just I

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Speaker 3: compared to what you are now. Well, just to sort

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Speaker 1: Right, I think what you do is well when you're younger,

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Speaker 1: I think you're just trying to find yourself. You're just

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Speaker 3: I'm always fascinated to talk to Alabama guys. There's such

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Speaker 3: a I guess the fraternity maybe the way Miami used

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Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, I think it's funny because I think

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Speaker 1: funny story. I remember so after my sophomore year, we

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Speaker 1: And so we're in our meeting I think it was

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Speaker 1: that worker's mentality and with that just never never getting complacent,

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Speaker 2: Are there's still times you hear him in your head

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Speaker 1: I think it's just I don't even know if it's

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you're walking through maybe doing good work out that day, like, well,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Yeah. It's just kind of like it's just

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Speaker 1: It's not just gonna happen. You've got to work for it,

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Speaker 1: There's no switch. You can't just turn it on and

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Speaker 1: And yeah, I think just that just that worker's attitude.

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Speaker 3: I know you're a guy who follows the league, you're

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Speaker 3: analysis some give me. I'm always probably more with offensive

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Speaker 2: Correct, as far as as far as well just when

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Speaker 1: Say, hey, oh other people like all us.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this lineman did this, because I know from experience

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Speaker 3: outsiders to analyze you guys, because you got to do it.

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Speaker 3: But you don't understand the blocking scheme.

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Speaker 1: It's just a lot that goes into it. I honestly don't.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of analysts that really do a good

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Speaker 1: Going to be all good like. Somebody's gonna have something

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Speaker 2: Because you knew.

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Speaker 3: feedback that you want and need that matters.

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Speaker 1: Yep, while your teammates, while you're in the building.

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Speaker 3: So you learn to sort of just trust that and

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Speaker 3: listen to the cliche you can't worry about the haters.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well I was not even the yeah, yeah, wonderful,

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Speaker 1: I get what you're saying. Definitely not. But I think

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Speaker 1: it's just the fact that you just learn who's in

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Speaker 1: You learn whose opinion is actually like important, right, And

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Speaker 1: it's just, like I mentioned, that natural instinct to want

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Speaker 1: everybody to like you want everybody to say nothing but

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Speaker 1: good stuff about you. I won't never, but I think

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Speaker 1: me it was sure the year for it, that year

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Speaker 1: four or year five, And I honestly think that's when

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Speaker 2: That's when you know you're a pro. Right, That's that's

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Speaker 2: sort of the.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's part of it.

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Speaker 3: Now. Remember when I first got back here in twenty eleven,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because some days when you come into teammates is

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Speaker 2: Do you like that leadership? Well, I mean you probably

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Speaker 3: In the locker room. I guess like it's probably even

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Speaker 3: On a week like this where you've tough losses obviously,

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Speaker 2: Is that a big message to younger teammates or they

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Speaker 1: That's what it was. And not put too much start

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Speaker 1: It's special, It's special. It's extremely special. And the older,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, to come out the other side, it's pretty cool.

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Speaker 3: The last thing we do, call it the ozone five.

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Speaker 3: Very quickly what's the best binge watch ever?

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Speaker 3: I'll show you a hip Bama here. He's got a

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Speaker 3: Album Best Ex Bama player in the NFL. Right now,

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Speaker 1: Man that guess for me deep defensively, there's two probably

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Speaker 2: These guys were different.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, And when I first well offensively, I would

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so people forget Amaro was like OSMA finalists in college.

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Speaker 2: I can see why. Yes, talking about national championships.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was absolutely. I can name them all. I

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Speaker 1: My freshman year, we lost the regular season game the

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Speaker 2: So three three losses, yeah, three, Yeah.

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Speaker 3: It was very often your memory best NFL moment when

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Speaker 3: it stands out sick man.

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Speaker 1: Does there have to be a game or can it

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Speaker 1: just be like just after my after my my rookie year,

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Speaker 1: we came back here and like all the fans that

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Speaker 1: like gathered in the stadium after we after the plane

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Speaker 1: landed and we came back here to get in their

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Speaker 1: cars to get ready at home, and the it was

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Speaker 1: the fans in the stadium and we went in the stadium.

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Speaker 1: It just had a moment. I remember Jalen Ramsey grabbing

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Speaker 1: was that was that was a special moment, just because

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Speaker 1: of the the gravity of the moment. We're headed to

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Speaker 1: the AF Championship. It's just that was the team, the guys,

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Speaker 1: all the guys on the team. That was just that

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Speaker 1: was That was probably one of my favorites. We played

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Speaker 1: Seattle here my rookie year and we've been here in

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Speaker 1: the night gear and that was pretty fun.

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Speaker 2: Soon that was cool. Cam. I always enjoy it.

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Speaker 3: Can't thank you enough on a busy week, a tough

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Speaker 3: week for joining us. Uh as always thanks for joining.

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Speaker 2: It was on podcast, well, I appreciate it.