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Speaker 1: Do you feel like people underrate your ability to pressure

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Speaker 1: the quarterback? Um? Definitely underrated. You know. It's it's just

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Speaker 1: my it's kind of me just to prove myself right

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Speaker 1: because I know who I am and you know, just

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Speaker 1: prove others wrong. Um. You know, I always been able

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Speaker 1: to collapse the pocket and now just looking a little

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Speaker 1: bit on escaping blocks or finishing the play of things

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Speaker 1: like that. I don't understand the difference between what you've

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Speaker 1: been asked to do to what you can do. Uh,

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Speaker 1: great question. Um, you know, I don't. I don't know

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Speaker 1: how to you know, answer that. It's just kind of

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Speaker 1: just within kind of thing. Uh, you know, just I'm

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Speaker 1: asked to go make plays, you know, so that's what

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Speaker 1: I do. You know. Never never, you know, I always

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Speaker 1: love a challenge. So I never fought, you know, shout

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Speaker 1: away from a challenge. You said through you know who

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Speaker 1: you are. You know, smart, physical, you know you know, instinctive,

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Speaker 1: defensive line and uh you know, tough never never, non

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Speaker 1: quldn't dude, you know, just ready to work and to

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Speaker 1: work every day and to be great You're position. I

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Speaker 1: feel like here, I feel I could play all three

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Speaker 1: positions from the fore the shade or the three technique?

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Speaker 1: What is it that I'm assuming you looked at the playbooks?

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Speaker 1: Is there something you know about the snow they run

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Speaker 1: here that you feel it's going to be, you know,

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Speaker 1: a great fit for your talents. I mean, like I said,

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Speaker 1: I feel I can play anywhere. Um, you know, I'm

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Speaker 1: I don't feel I feel comfortable. You know, today out there,

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Speaker 1: I felt pretty comfortable playing all those three positions. And

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Speaker 1: you know I kind of did that in college as well.

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Speaker 1: It was very multiple. So I'm kind of you know,

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Speaker 1: fluid with it and comfortable with it. That's my guy.

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Speaker 1: Uh Now, I mean going to the game, you know,

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Speaker 1: watching film, you obviously too. He got he's very challenged.

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Speaker 1: Uh but so that gave me a little more motivation

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Speaker 1: to kind of go get him. And um, you know,

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Speaker 1: so he's a great player. You know, I think he's

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Speaker 1: deserved to go six. And I mean, so that's what happened. Actually,

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Speaker 1: you're basically replacing Damon Harrison here. What do you know

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Speaker 1: about him as a player, Like, have you watched him

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Speaker 1: a lot? How do you think maybe you're similar? Different? Uh?

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Speaker 1: I didn't quite watch watch him a lot. Um, I

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Speaker 1: know I've never really got a chance to watch him.

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Speaker 1: In terms of you getting back in the field, obviously

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Speaker 1: you didn't get a chance to play unfortunately in the

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Speaker 1: championship game. But how eager are you because of that? Uh,

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Speaker 1: that's really eager. Um. You know, I haven't played just

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Speaker 1: as long as I played, haven't played football and years.

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Speaker 1: Uh so, you know, since December. And you know today

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Speaker 1: felt great being the first time back on the field

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Speaker 1: since early December. Um, just moving around, pulling my hands

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Speaker 1: on some people. Um, you know, it was it was,

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Speaker 1: it was good. I missed it a lot. Some of

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Speaker 1: the great defensive lineman the Giants have had, and just

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Speaker 1: a history here of how they love to go after people.

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Speaker 1: You know. That's and that's kind of coming here kind

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Speaker 1: of get me a little more motivation because the standard

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Speaker 1: is here, so you gotta try to, you know, beat

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Speaker 1: that standard pretty much or be better than that standard.

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Speaker 1: And um, you know, so it just kind of one

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Speaker 1: of my goals as I'm here, you know, break the standard.

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Speaker 1: All these great d linemen then came through here did

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Speaker 1: that thing, you know, And my thing is always starts out. Friend,

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Speaker 1: let's make the back seven their job. You know, all

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Speaker 1: those jobs easy. Um, you obviously picked this pick that

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Speaker 1: came in the Odell vacuum trade. So when you heard

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Speaker 1: about that trade, what did you think? You know, that's

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Speaker 1: a football fan. Uh, you know going through the process. Uh,

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Speaker 1: howd of feeling? I'll go probably go about four teams.

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Speaker 1: You know, that was really good on me. And when

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Speaker 1: they got another first round pick, because I was like, Okay,

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Speaker 1: that's a little more promising because you know, there was

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Speaker 1: you know, all the talk talking and they can pick

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Speaker 1: a quarterback and stuff like that. So you know, so

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Speaker 1: when they picked that trade, you know, I got got

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Speaker 1: a little a little smiled a little bit more and um,

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Speaker 1: you know, and I so happened to be that pick.

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Speaker 1: So FIRSTY kind of had your sight set on Oh definitely. Um,

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Speaker 1: Like I said, I just grew up a fan here,

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Speaker 1: always wanted to play here, you know, just just because

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Speaker 1: of history. The history is great and you know, just

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Speaker 1: to come out here and and keep and bring that

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Speaker 1: tradition back. What do you make of maybe the potential

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Speaker 1: pressure of being forever linked to that trade? Uh, I

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Speaker 1: don't I don't feel pressure. Uh when they when they

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Speaker 1: call my name, that wasn't on my mind. You know today,

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Speaker 1: that's not on my mind. I'm just I'm a football player.

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Speaker 1: I'm defensive tackle. He was a receiver. You know, it's

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Speaker 1: it's kind of just I gotta go out here and

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Speaker 1: make plays and do do what I can't unfold. But

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Speaker 1: you kind of suspected that you might wind up here. Um. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it was between about four teams. Uh, you know, this

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Speaker 1: is one of the teams I thought, would you know,

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Speaker 1: get drafted by? Uh, you know, my agent was talking

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Speaker 1: all this. He was a little conservatives, so he was

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Speaker 1: talking a little a little down, you know, towards the

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Speaker 1: end of the draft. But I knew, I knew who

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Speaker 1: I was. I knew a kind of player I wasn't

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm in the best bottle clemsure so many

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Speaker 1: Clemson d lineman and the pros, if you picked some

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Speaker 1: of their brains about the ju smitten and what you

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Speaker 1: have to work on. Definitely probably my last year day.

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Speaker 1: Kwan Bowers. Uh, you know, he was a good mentor,

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Speaker 1: you know, talking to us, you know, Grady, Jared Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, just talking to those guys. You know, they

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Speaker 1: just told me just just to work every day and

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Speaker 1: to prove yourself every day, and you know, just you know,

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Speaker 1: do the little things, right, take care of your body,

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Speaker 1: you know, watch a little more film, Just just a

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Speaker 1: little things that that you go up to the big

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Speaker 1: things at the end of the day. Did you change

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Speaker 1: aim a little bit? Were you always I'm always a second? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm always right now. They got me a Lawrence right here,

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Speaker 1: but I got that fixed quick