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Speaker 1: All right, Deante, you have made it through the first

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Speaker 1: quarter of your first NFL season. How has it been

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Speaker 1: going so far? Maybe other than the record that everyone's

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Speaker 1: not very happy with, it's been going pretty good. Actually,

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Speaker 1: just taking each day at a time, just making sure

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Speaker 1: I go out there knowing what I gotta do, helping

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Speaker 1: your team out for it's like my position or what not.

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Speaker 1: Although we started out slow, but we got the win

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Speaker 1: last week, so I'm just happy to be honest. What

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Speaker 1: has it been like trying to earn the trust of

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Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger and now having to form a relationship and

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Speaker 1: earning the trust of Mason Rudolph. To me, it was

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Speaker 1: kind of kind of tough because I didn't really know

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Speaker 1: how to approach being at first. But as the days

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Speaker 1: went on and he seemed like my work ethic and

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Speaker 1: coming along and like learning the offense, he started talking

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Speaker 1: And then now with Mason, me and Mason kind of

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Speaker 1: got a connection because we've been going going with each

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Speaker 1: Down wants to throw its track, Big Rush throws it down.

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Speaker 1: The pield of Man Black also up jus up touched

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Speaker 1: up unch forty three yards and the Steelers are having

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Speaker 1: fun very football. Take me through your touchdown on Monday night.

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Speaker 1: Why did that work? Um? Juju kinda took two defenders

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Speaker 1: with him, the safety rand with him. I was able

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Speaker 1: zone from there. Going back earlier in the game, what

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Speaker 1: happened on the fumble? Did you go back and watch that? Um? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: kinda then cover the ball, which time I went down

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Speaker 1: with winning and the defender was able to get his

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Speaker 1: hand in there and knock the balls out. Did anybody

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Speaker 1: say anything to you after that? Maybe lift your spirits

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Speaker 1: or tell you to keep going? Juju? James Connor, Mason

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Speaker 1: Toiler to keep my head up, let that play go

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Speaker 1: to move forward, because if I would have kept thinking

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Speaker 1: about that play out with it went downhill from there

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Speaker 1: and I couldn't let that happen. How much does it

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Speaker 1: help you that you were able to redeem yourself in

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Speaker 1: the same game you didn't have to wait till this

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Speaker 1: following week to do it. Helped me out a lot,

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Speaker 1: get me more confidence to keep going. I mean, like

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Speaker 1: if the football stuff like that is gonna happen and

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Speaker 1: just how you respond from those moments. Ben Roethlisberger was

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Speaker 1: at the game on the sidelines. Did he help you

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Speaker 1: at all in game or is there anything you noticed

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Speaker 1: in terms of him helping the offense. Yeah, he was

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Speaker 1: out there helping out a lot with Mason, and he

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Speaker 1: helped me out on that play. Actually a couple of

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Speaker 1: players just telling me to make sure I'm stand on

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Speaker 1: my route, don't make sure I know what I'm doing.

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Speaker 1: How hopeful is that for a young offense trying to

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Speaker 1: overcome losing a franchise quarterback. It's very helpful. Close this

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Speaker 1: someone out there with extra eyes on the offense, as

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Speaker 1: were like, and the defense. So that gives us kind

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Speaker 1: of actually where to call different lays and whatnot. He

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Speaker 1: gave from the right puisition. Ramone Foster told me Um

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Speaker 1: earlier this year that he has sort of taken you

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Speaker 1: under his wing. I think he's gonna go special talent here. Um.

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Speaker 1: He's got his head on right, He's he's got a

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Speaker 1: lot to prove. A small school guy, he's wanting to

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Speaker 1: leave a mark. He's the guy that I'm I'm high

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Speaker 1: on right now. What is that relationship like and how

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Speaker 1: is an offensive alignment, helping you. Oh, that's my guy.

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Speaker 1: I look out to him a lot. I mean everything

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Speaker 1: he says to me, I'll try to soak it up

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Speaker 1: as much as I can because he always wants to

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Speaker 1: see him to do good and he's nothing but positive

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Speaker 1: to him every day. And that's something guy come to

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Speaker 1: work looking forward to sitting there because we all got

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Speaker 1: a druguity choking around with each other or not that.

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Speaker 1: He just he just helped me out get through my

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Speaker 1: days at practice when it's tough. Was not. On the

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Speaker 1: other side of all, Joe Hayden has raved about maybe

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Speaker 1: your technique, your routes, just getting off the line, how

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Speaker 1: does it help going against him at practice, or maybe

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Speaker 1: even just you know, using him as somebody to ask

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Speaker 1: questions to. Joe is a great football player, and just

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Speaker 1: going up against him every day just making me better

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Speaker 1: and I'm making him better as well. I mean he

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Speaker 1: still has two feet and picked the ball off any

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Speaker 1: time he wants to. Just just making him better and

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Speaker 1: m making me better at the same time. It's just

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Speaker 1: a great feeling