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Speaker 1: goes down and I go out there and I pee

427
00:19:16,840 --> 00:19:20,480
Speaker 1: in my pants, right because now now when I come

428
00:19:20,520 --> 00:19:22,280
Speaker 1: back and I say, hey, make sure you're ready, they're like, man,

429
00:19:22,320 --> 00:19:24,480
Speaker 1: you weren't ready, right right. You didn't. You didn't played

430
00:19:24,480 --> 00:19:25,800
Speaker 1: the whole year, you didn't played in a year and

431
00:19:25,800 --> 00:19:27,480
Speaker 1: a half, and you weren't ready. But you're preaching to

432
00:19:27,560 --> 00:19:29,640
Speaker 1: me to be ready, right And I think that that's

433
00:19:29,680 --> 00:19:31,879
Speaker 1: important to have that cloud, to be above approach, to

434
00:19:31,880 --> 00:19:33,879
Speaker 1: to tell those guys and when you do say something,

435
00:19:34,160 --> 00:19:36,520
Speaker 1: to actually listen. So I think that's important for Lamar

436
00:19:36,600 --> 00:19:39,199
Speaker 1: now because he has that. There's before he was just

437
00:19:39,240 --> 00:19:41,720
Speaker 1: a rookie out there, you know, maybe getting eight or

438
00:19:41,720 --> 00:19:44,680
Speaker 1: ten snaps the game. Now he's starting, Now, he's playing

439
00:19:44,680 --> 00:19:47,200
Speaker 1: a lot. Now, guys are gonna listen a lot more.

440
00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:50,240
Speaker 1: I'm curious when you came here, did you have to

441
00:19:50,320 --> 00:19:53,199
Speaker 1: sort of think about how you conducted yourself off the

442
00:19:53,240 --> 00:19:57,639
Speaker 1: field because there's this persona and you were your Rookie

443
00:19:57,680 --> 00:20:00,359
Speaker 1: of the Year at the Trophy winner and one of

444
00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:02,639
Speaker 1: the faces of the NFL, and you come here and

445
00:20:02,680 --> 00:20:04,679
Speaker 1: I'm sure a lot of guys everyone knows you, and

446
00:20:04,720 --> 00:20:07,040
Speaker 1: a lot of guys are thinking, how's he gonna conduct himself?

447
00:20:07,040 --> 00:20:09,359
Speaker 1: Like is he gonna be this is about me? Or

448
00:20:09,880 --> 00:20:11,360
Speaker 1: was that something that you kind of had to think

449
00:20:11,400 --> 00:20:13,359
Speaker 1: about from a leadership standpoint when you got here to

450
00:20:13,359 --> 00:20:15,280
Speaker 1: be hey, I'm just gonna come in Because every player

451
00:20:15,320 --> 00:20:17,800
Speaker 1: talked about it, like even after game on Sunday. I

452
00:20:17,840 --> 00:20:19,719
Speaker 1: was talking to Nick Boyle, he said, I really admire

453
00:20:19,800 --> 00:20:21,600
Speaker 1: him because he came in and started working from day

454
00:20:21,640 --> 00:20:25,119
Speaker 1: one and was sort of did it quietly? Did you

455
00:20:25,160 --> 00:20:27,879
Speaker 1: have to kind of think about how you present yourself

456
00:20:27,920 --> 00:20:31,280
Speaker 1: when you first arrived. I you know, it's a difficult

457
00:20:31,320 --> 00:20:34,879
Speaker 1: question to answer because for me, I don't wanna I

458
00:20:34,880 --> 00:20:36,399
Speaker 1: didn't want to come in here and be someone that

459
00:20:36,440 --> 00:20:38,359
Speaker 1: I'm not right, So I didn't want to put on

460
00:20:38,359 --> 00:20:41,159
Speaker 1: a facade. And guys can see through that, right, you know,

461
00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:43,680
Speaker 1: our bs meters are off the off the wall, it

462
00:20:43,760 --> 00:20:45,679
Speaker 1: all goes out the window. Well, we can see like

463
00:20:45,720 --> 00:20:47,520
Speaker 1: in the locker room like, Okay, this guy is totally

464
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Speaker 1: b S and me. So I didn't want to be

465
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Speaker 1: S anybody. So I came in and just tried to

466
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Speaker 1: be myself. What I was aware of was, look, man,

467
00:20:54,680 --> 00:20:56,840
Speaker 1: this is Joe's team. Joe's a starter, has been a

468
00:20:56,840 --> 00:21:00,359
Speaker 1: starter for forever, right, It's his team that draft Lamar.

469
00:21:00,480 --> 00:21:03,080
Speaker 1: Lamar is the future. Okay, So how do I how

470
00:21:03,080 --> 00:21:05,439
Speaker 1: do I find my role within the team to be

471
00:21:05,560 --> 00:21:09,240
Speaker 1: a leader but not step on anybody's toes. That's more

472
00:21:09,280 --> 00:21:11,879
Speaker 1: so what I came in and understood because I had

473
00:21:11,880 --> 00:21:14,000
Speaker 1: a feeling, you know, and they were honest had a

474
00:21:14,040 --> 00:21:15,879
Speaker 1: feeling they were going to draft the quarterbacks. Didn't know

475
00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:18,080
Speaker 1: who was it was going to be Um and then

476
00:21:18,080 --> 00:21:20,000
Speaker 1: once it was Lamar, I looked at it like, man, okay,

477
00:21:20,040 --> 00:21:22,280
Speaker 1: like I think I can really help help this kid,

478
00:21:22,560 --> 00:21:26,600
Speaker 1: you know, being really successful faster, you know. And so

479
00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:28,320
Speaker 1: for me it was more so that where do I

480
00:21:28,359 --> 00:21:32,080
Speaker 1: find my role? My role was work hard, uh, lead

481
00:21:32,119 --> 00:21:34,480
Speaker 1: by example, which was easy for me because that comes

482
00:21:34,560 --> 00:21:36,120
Speaker 1: natural for me. It's what I've done my whole life,

483
00:21:36,200 --> 00:21:39,560
Speaker 1: you know, my military family, and you know, discipline and

484
00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:41,439
Speaker 1: all those things. Finish what you start. So I just

485
00:21:41,480 --> 00:21:44,000
Speaker 1: tried to come in and do that. Lead by example,

486
00:21:44,119 --> 00:21:48,200
Speaker 1: work hard. Hey, Joe's not practicing today, alright, cool. First

487
00:21:48,240 --> 00:21:51,119
Speaker 1: couple of practices and training camp, I was leading it.

488
00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:54,320
Speaker 1: I'm running it boom easy. No one said anything about

489
00:21:54,359 --> 00:21:56,480
Speaker 1: it because one needed to say anything about it. I

490
00:21:56,480 --> 00:21:58,760
Speaker 1: don't have to pound my chest and say, yeah, I

491
00:21:58,840 --> 00:22:02,000
Speaker 1: led them today. Me today, I don't have to say that.

492
00:22:02,320 --> 00:22:04,760
Speaker 1: And I think that's why Boil will say say things

493
00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:07,320
Speaker 1: like that, because I I tried not to make it

494
00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:10,000
Speaker 1: about me. You know, it's been about the team. That's

495
00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:12,120
Speaker 1: part of the reason I came to this organization because

496
00:22:12,160 --> 00:22:15,680
Speaker 1: I knew they had an identity, and that identity play

497
00:22:15,760 --> 00:22:18,080
Speaker 1: like a raven. What does that mean? I'm trying to

498
00:22:18,119 --> 00:22:20,040
Speaker 1: figure out what it what it meant. I think I

499
00:22:20,080 --> 00:22:21,720
Speaker 1: know what it means now and haven't been in those

500
00:22:21,760 --> 00:22:24,880
Speaker 1: meetings and and been here the whole year. That's been

501
00:22:25,280 --> 00:22:28,119
Speaker 1: really beneficial to me. So I just wanted to show

502
00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:34,920
Speaker 1: coach uh Marty Morning with James Irvin, Steve Bashotti, Ozzy

503
00:22:35,080 --> 00:22:39,280
Speaker 1: and Erica Costa that them bringing me in wasn't as

504
00:22:40,119 --> 00:22:42,520
Speaker 1: maybe a step out of putting their neck out as

505
00:22:42,520 --> 00:22:44,800
Speaker 1: everybody might have thought. It would have been because of

506
00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:47,960
Speaker 1: those things. All he's had success. Why would he come

507
00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:51,520
Speaker 1: here and be a two, possibly a three? Why would

508
00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:53,399
Speaker 1: he do this? You know he's done this, he's done that,

509
00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:55,520
Speaker 1: he's done this. I just want to play football. I

510
00:22:55,560 --> 00:22:57,639
Speaker 1: just want to help. And I think that's kind of

511
00:22:57,640 --> 00:22:59,920
Speaker 1: the attitude I tried to bring into it to wash

512
00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:02,520
Speaker 1: all those other worries away. Can you take us just

513
00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:05,320
Speaker 1: rewind a little bit into your year off and the

514
00:23:05,359 --> 00:23:08,080
Speaker 1: decisions you were making then. I remember the Washington Post

515
00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:12,080
Speaker 1: story talked about how you were legitimately debating becoming an

516
00:23:12,080 --> 00:23:19,119
Speaker 1: Olympic athlete along with your Estonian hipped athlete. There you go,

517
00:23:19,520 --> 00:23:22,800
Speaker 1: and so can you just take us into that thought process?

518
00:23:22,840 --> 00:23:25,000
Speaker 1: How close you were to doing that? I mean, I

519
00:23:25,040 --> 00:23:27,879
Speaker 1: know fire football is always like burned inside you. You

520
00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:29,800
Speaker 1: know it's a fire inside of you. But how close

521
00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:32,760
Speaker 1: were you legitimately? I don't know if I was that close.

522
00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:40,280
Speaker 1: Um what happened was I was in Orlando training seriously serious, serious,

523
00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:48,280
Speaker 1: So yeah I was. I don't know if I was

524
00:23:48,320 --> 00:23:51,720
Speaker 1: that close. I was in Orlando training at Tomshaw Performance

525
00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:54,560
Speaker 1: Institude at Disney. If you don't know, Tom Shaw is

526
00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:57,280
Speaker 1: now the strength coach for the Raiders. So when he

527
00:23:57,359 --> 00:23:59,440
Speaker 1: when I was there, he had already agreed to go

528
00:23:59,560 --> 00:24:02,560
Speaker 1: with Gruden, but he was still working there and they

529
00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:04,840
Speaker 1: had a track coach there, and my wife needed a

530
00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:07,360
Speaker 1: track and a tract coach to culture, so we got

531
00:24:07,359 --> 00:24:10,680
Speaker 1: in touch with the track coach down there, and um

532
00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:12,200
Speaker 1: he asked me, you know, I asked him if I

533
00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:14,760
Speaker 1: could work with him as well. So as I'm training,

534
00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:17,000
Speaker 1: I'm doing my speed. I wanted to make sure my

535
00:24:17,119 --> 00:24:19,760
Speaker 1: speed was at a point that I was comfortable with

536
00:24:20,359 --> 00:24:23,960
Speaker 1: because there had been some doubt, like Kenny still run, Kenn,

537
00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:26,240
Speaker 1: he still do this, Maybe the injuries are taken a

538
00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:28,520
Speaker 1: toll on them. So I wanted to make sure when

539
00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:31,840
Speaker 1: I showed up, he felt I was fast and I

540
00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:34,960
Speaker 1: felt good. So through that training I got to the

541
00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:37,919
Speaker 1: point where I'm like, man, I'm actually running faster than

542
00:24:37,920 --> 00:24:41,280
Speaker 1: I've ever run based off of those times and how

543
00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:43,320
Speaker 1: I felt. And then I had to try out here

544
00:24:43,359 --> 00:24:45,960
Speaker 1: ro Baltimore, and you know, they're saying the same things.

545
00:24:46,520 --> 00:24:48,160
Speaker 1: I'm like, all right, well that's good. You know, as

546
00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:49,760
Speaker 1: as long as I look fast to them and I

547
00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:52,000
Speaker 1: feel good, then it's and then it's okay, Well I

548
00:24:52,080 --> 00:24:54,680
Speaker 1: got to the point where after the workout, Uh, now

549
00:24:54,720 --> 00:24:58,119
Speaker 1: I was starting to fringe upon Man, I'm out here

550
00:24:58,160 --> 00:25:00,440
Speaker 1: training with Justin Gatlin and La Shawn mayor it, and

551
00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:04,000
Speaker 1: I'm actually, you know, I'm doing pretty good. So it

552
00:25:04,080 --> 00:25:06,199
Speaker 1: got to the point where the track coaches talking to

553
00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:10,080
Speaker 1: me about, no, well, if this doesn't work out, would

554
00:25:10,080 --> 00:25:12,720
Speaker 1: you want to come and continue to train for another

555
00:25:12,840 --> 00:25:15,400
Speaker 1: year to get ready to go and try to make

556
00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:18,760
Speaker 1: it to the Olympics, which has always been a dream

557
00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:21,159
Speaker 1: of mine. Anyway, I was a foreigner hurdler. You know,

558
00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:24,240
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna go into all that, but you're good

559
00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:27,000
Speaker 1: on the track. So I got a call from the Ravens,

560
00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:29,919
Speaker 1: from Ozzie and them, and they offered me a contract.

561
00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:33,280
Speaker 1: And I'm sitting there talking with my wife family and

562
00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:36,720
Speaker 1: the coach and the track coach, and uh, you know,

563
00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:38,879
Speaker 1: I'm just like, okay, they offered me this. You know,

564
00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:41,439
Speaker 1: it's an opportunity. There's a door. I can walk right

565
00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:43,800
Speaker 1: through that door and go, you know, put it all

566
00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:46,320
Speaker 1: on myself and and bet on myself and make that happen.

567
00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:48,280
Speaker 1: And the track coach kind of just looked at me

568
00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:49,920
Speaker 1: and he said, well, I mean, who else you gonna

569
00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:52,480
Speaker 1: bet on, and I said, you know what I got you?

570
00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:55,000
Speaker 1: So I took the offer, which most would say wasn't

571
00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:58,119
Speaker 1: a great offer, but um, I felt like the Ravens

572
00:25:58,160 --> 00:25:59,760
Speaker 1: had come to me twice two years in a row.

573
00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:02,600
Speaker 1: Not at the same time, because the year before it was,

574
00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:04,760
Speaker 1: you know, right before the preseason, but they came to

575
00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:05,840
Speaker 1: me two years in a row, and that was a

576
00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:07,760
Speaker 1: sign for me that God wanted me to to go

577
00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:10,680
Speaker 1: ahead and take that opportunity. There's an opportunity there, why

578
00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:12,920
Speaker 1: not go ahead and exercise that? And I think it's

579
00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:15,320
Speaker 1: the best decision I could ever made. It's got to

580
00:26:15,359 --> 00:26:19,680
Speaker 1: be hard, though, too, to reach probably the level that

581
00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:21,640
Speaker 1: you want to get back to, right, Like I mean,

582
00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:23,119
Speaker 1: you come here and like you said, like you're the

583
00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:25,280
Speaker 1: number three quarterback, like to get back to being the

584
00:26:25,359 --> 00:26:29,639
Speaker 1: number one guy, starter face of franchise. Like how do

585
00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:32,000
Speaker 1: you approach that? Like do you feel like, hey man,

586
00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:34,560
Speaker 1: it's it could take three years and I'm fine with that,

587
00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:37,000
Speaker 1: Like it could take whatever, you know what I mean,

588
00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:39,280
Speaker 1: Like you had to know when you took the contract

589
00:26:39,320 --> 00:26:41,600
Speaker 1: here that it was still gonna be a little bit

590
00:26:41,640 --> 00:26:44,560
Speaker 1: of a mountain to climb, right And and obviously Initially,

591
00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:47,199
Speaker 1: when I first took the contract, it was to be

592
00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:50,280
Speaker 1: the two behind Joe, and uh, you know, through the

593
00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:53,840
Speaker 1: preseason and through everything, I was maintained as the two,

594
00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:57,000
Speaker 1: and Lamar was doing the Lamar packages, and that's why

595
00:26:57,000 --> 00:27:01,280
Speaker 1: I was addressing um. You know. So for me it

596
00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:05,400
Speaker 1: was I understood what my role was on this team,

597
00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:08,920
Speaker 1: but that role could easily change. Right, So Joe gets hurt,

598
00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:12,960
Speaker 1: Now you have an opportunity to play. Something happens to Lamar,

599
00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:15,320
Speaker 1: Now you have an opportunity to play. And I think

600
00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:18,439
Speaker 1: those those moments are what you prepare for for a

601
00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:20,680
Speaker 1: guy in my in my seat. You know, I'm not

602
00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:24,920
Speaker 1: content being a backup. I'm not content being a three

603
00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:28,080
Speaker 1: or whatever it may be, Um, but I do know

604
00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:31,280
Speaker 1: how to exercise that role, you know what I'm saying.

605
00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:33,480
Speaker 1: And I think any backup would tell you they want

606
00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:36,520
Speaker 1: to be a starter, right, but they're not gonna go

607
00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:39,560
Speaker 1: in there and make waves to try to become the starter.

608
00:27:39,760 --> 00:27:42,440
Speaker 1: How do you become the starter? Work your ass off,

609
00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:44,560
Speaker 1: you work hard, you come to work every single day.

610
00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:46,199
Speaker 1: You gain the trust of your coaches and your teammates,

611
00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:48,520
Speaker 1: and that how it That's how it happens. So for me.

612
00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:50,320
Speaker 1: It was the long It was the long game that

613
00:27:50,359 --> 00:27:53,760
Speaker 1: I was more focused on. I think I can do

614
00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:57,679
Speaker 1: this for another fifteen years. So where do I start, Booms,

615
00:27:57,720 --> 00:27:58,840
Speaker 1: This is where I start. All Right, this is a

616
00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:01,840
Speaker 1: great organization, great coaches. Now I gotta go prove it

617
00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:04,320
Speaker 1: to them. I feel like I have. I'll continue. I'll

618
00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:07,280
Speaker 1: continue to do that every single day and moving forward.

619
00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:09,520
Speaker 1: It's like, I don't know, it could be next year,

620
00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:11,439
Speaker 1: it could be the year after that. I don't know

621
00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:12,920
Speaker 1: when it will be, but I can tell you what

622
00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:15,720
Speaker 1: I'll be ready. Well, kind of the thing is, I mean,

623
00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:17,800
Speaker 1: you sign a one year contract, but if you're here

624
00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:20,160
Speaker 1: next year and and Lamar were to be the start,

625
00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:22,679
Speaker 1: that's kind of how it works with mobile quarterbacks, right,

626
00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:26,560
Speaker 1: you know, you know, like unfortunately you get have some

627
00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:29,679
Speaker 1: risks with the rewards and injuries can happen more prevalent

628
00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:32,560
Speaker 1: where a guy like you is even more valuable in

629
00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:35,719
Speaker 1: that scenario, right, just because because the offensive you can

630
00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:37,720
Speaker 1: run with Lamar, you can run with me, right, And

631
00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:40,000
Speaker 1: I think that I think that's what people what you're

632
00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:43,280
Speaker 1: getting that um and then the good thing and I'm

633
00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:45,440
Speaker 1: just saying, like having a really good backup you know

634
00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:52,040
Speaker 1: not just because teams are paying guys because they know

635
00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:54,840
Speaker 1: that they need too deep and now in today's league,

636
00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:57,040
Speaker 1: with the size and speed of the defenses and the

637
00:28:57,080 --> 00:28:59,760
Speaker 1: defensive guys on that side of the ball, uh, you

638
00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:02,360
Speaker 1: need too right, it's not just mobile guys that are

639
00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:04,320
Speaker 1: going down, it's non mobile guys that are going down.

640
00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:07,160
Speaker 1: And uh, and I think that's what teams look at.

641
00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:10,200
Speaker 1: You gotta have two guys that you're like, Man, if

642
00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:12,840
Speaker 1: anything ever happens to this guy, we trust this guy

643
00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:16,400
Speaker 1: because because typically unless you're the Redskins, you don't have

644
00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:18,480
Speaker 1: two guys go down and in two or three weeks.

645
00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:21,520
Speaker 1: It just doesn't happen like that too often. But yeah,

646
00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:23,680
Speaker 1: so I get that. If you know, if whatever was

647
00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:25,560
Speaker 1: to happen in Lamar as a starter, yeah, I think

648
00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:27,800
Speaker 1: there would be some value in them keeping me here.

649
00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:29,520
Speaker 1: But I'm on I am on a one year deal,

650
00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:31,520
Speaker 1: so I don't know what the future might hold. But

651
00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:33,600
Speaker 1: I just try to put my best foot forward so

652
00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:36,880
Speaker 1: that whether it's here or somewhere else, I've you know,

653
00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:40,360
Speaker 1: gone enough interests and value that they say, okay, well

654
00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:42,200
Speaker 1: this guy can do it, and he can do it

655
00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:46,080
Speaker 1: in multiple in many different ways. So you have such

656
00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:50,000
Speaker 1: a unique path because the highs and the lows are

657
00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:54,360
Speaker 1: pretty remarkable in a short time span. Um, do you

658
00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:56,600
Speaker 1: when you kind of think back through your career do

659
00:29:56,640 --> 00:29:58,080
Speaker 1: you how do you look at it? Do you think

660
00:29:58,080 --> 00:29:59,960
Speaker 1: of what could have been if I never get hurt?

661
00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:01,880
Speaker 1: Do you look at it as, Hey, this is just

662
00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:03,479
Speaker 1: my journey and I'm happy to be where I am

663
00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:05,680
Speaker 1: right now? Like? How do you look at it? Um?

664
00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:07,160
Speaker 1: And is it hard not to play like the what

665
00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:09,120
Speaker 1: if game? Because I'm sure that kind of creeps in

666
00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:11,120
Speaker 1: at times? Yeah, I mean I don't. I don't play

667
00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:14,520
Speaker 1: the what if game too much? Um, I would be honest,

668
00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:17,160
Speaker 1: I don't anymore before I did. Um, you know what

669
00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:19,560
Speaker 1: if I got drafted by a coach that wanted me.

670
00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:22,280
Speaker 1: You know what if I got that probably makes a victim.

671
00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:26,120
Speaker 1: What if I got you know, the full my full

672
00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:29,040
Speaker 1: rookie deal to prove myself right? Those are things that

673
00:30:29,080 --> 00:30:32,800
Speaker 1: I asked myself before. Um. But in that year off,

674
00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:36,160
Speaker 1: really it started when I went to Cleveland. I just

675
00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:38,480
Speaker 1: tried to let all of that go. But really, in

676
00:30:38,520 --> 00:30:40,720
Speaker 1: my year off, I let all of it go because

677
00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:42,800
Speaker 1: then it became to me, well, if I keep thinking

678
00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:46,640
Speaker 1: about these things in the past that I can't control anymore.

679
00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:53,680
Speaker 1: We got seriously phone calls. I'm next year financial advisors.

680
00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:56,880
Speaker 1: So if I continue to let these things in my

681
00:30:57,040 --> 00:31:00,280
Speaker 1: past control what I'm thinking about now, I'll never get

682
00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:04,160
Speaker 1: past them. Uh So, you know team, you know, I

683
00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:06,400
Speaker 1: see things online they're like, hey, would you go back

684
00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:08,800
Speaker 1: to Washington? Would you do this? And It's like, hey, man,

685
00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:11,240
Speaker 1: I'm not holding any grudges. I'm not holding any grudges,

686
00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:13,880
Speaker 1: and I'm not really focused on any of the negativity

687
00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:16,000
Speaker 1: from the past because I can't I can't do anything

688
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:18,320
Speaker 1: about that. So I had to let that go because

689
00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:20,920
Speaker 1: if I went out here and I'm like, man, you know,

690
00:31:21,280 --> 00:31:23,040
Speaker 1: I'm I'm supposed to be the man I'm supposed to

691
00:31:23,080 --> 00:31:25,520
Speaker 1: be doing this, and I'm not getting any reps in practice,

692
00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:27,520
Speaker 1: well guess what. I wouldn't been able to go out

693
00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:30,000
Speaker 1: against the Dolphins in the preseason, not practice all week

694
00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:32,000
Speaker 1: and perform. Well, I wouldn't have been able to do

695
00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:34,400
Speaker 1: that because I'd have been you know, throwing a fit

696
00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:37,360
Speaker 1: or or pouting because I wasn't getting any any reps

697
00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:39,600
Speaker 1: or doing it the way that I want to do it. Um.

698
00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:42,280
Speaker 1: So I think that year off of football really really

699
00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:44,560
Speaker 1: helped me let go of that stuff and really just

700
00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:46,720
Speaker 1: helped me start over. It's part of the reason I

701
00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:48,720
Speaker 1: changed my number. It's part of the reason I cut

702
00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:51,800
Speaker 1: my hair. I just needed to start over, right, Everybody

703
00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:54,120
Speaker 1: they it's number ten. Oh, it's the guy with the

704
00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:56,120
Speaker 1: long hair, and I just needed to I needed to

705
00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:57,600
Speaker 1: let it go. Doesn't mean I won't grow my hair

706
00:31:57,640 --> 00:31:59,360
Speaker 1: back out. It doesn't mean I won't change my number

707
00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:01,720
Speaker 1: back to ten. Just it was symbolism for me to

708
00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:04,400
Speaker 1: say I gotta let that stuff go. Doesn't mean I

709
00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:06,640
Speaker 1: have to let go of that the accolades that were

710
00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:09,160
Speaker 1: accomplished or how I played, Because I've already proven that

711
00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:10,680
Speaker 1: I can play at a high level in this league.

712
00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:13,080
Speaker 1: It's a matter of how can I go out and

713
00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:15,120
Speaker 1: prove it to the coaches and find a coach or

714
00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:17,840
Speaker 1: a few coaches or organization that that's gonna believe in me,

715
00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:20,040
Speaker 1: and the Ravens believe in me, and that means a

716
00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:22,560
Speaker 1: lot to me. So um, I think that's kind of

717
00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:24,600
Speaker 1: the approach I tried to take and not just look

718
00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:26,920
Speaker 1: back at that and say, man, what if what if this?

719
00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:29,120
Speaker 1: I could do that all day? We could all do

720
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:30,800
Speaker 1: that all day in our lives, like what if this happened?

721
00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:31,920
Speaker 1: You know, what if I would have done this? What

722
00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:35,360
Speaker 1: if I had made this decision? But hindsight, Um, but

723
00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:37,880
Speaker 1: if you move forward knowing like I learned from whatever

724
00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:40,240
Speaker 1: mistakes I made and I got the lesson and I

725
00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:41,800
Speaker 1: can carry it forward in my life and I'll be

726
00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:43,640
Speaker 1: better from it. And that was part of the thing

727
00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:45,840
Speaker 1: too with you know, when you first came here, you

728
00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:48,280
Speaker 1: wanted to be called Robert, right like RG three, Like

729
00:32:48,360 --> 00:32:50,640
Speaker 1: you kind of shed r G three? Am I am?

730
00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:53,280
Speaker 1: I correct? And that that's what I was. I didn't.

731
00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:55,400
Speaker 1: It's just what I've tried to tell people is people

732
00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:58,000
Speaker 1: who call me RG three, usually fans, you know, guys

733
00:32:58,040 --> 00:32:59,600
Speaker 1: in the locker room might call me RG three because

734
00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:02,080
Speaker 1: they're you know, playing around, joking. But people who know

735
00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:04,040
Speaker 1: me call me Robert, call me Rob, call me Griff,

736
00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:06,200
Speaker 1: call me three. So it wasn't that I was shedding

737
00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:08,280
Speaker 1: RG three because someone tried to say that to me

738
00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:09,880
Speaker 1: in the preseason, Hey have you tried to shed the

739
00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:12,200
Speaker 1: RG three label? And I'm like, I don't think there's

740
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:15,000
Speaker 1: anything bad. I don't think there's anything bad about the

741
00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:17,160
Speaker 1: RG three label. Right? What is r G three. It's

742
00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:20,680
Speaker 1: my name. It's not like my it's my it's not

743
00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:24,520
Speaker 1: my nickname is swift or cool Daddy or something like that.

744
00:33:24,560 --> 00:33:30,360
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Like you know what I'm saying.

745
00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:32,800
Speaker 1: RG three is my name. It's Robert Griffin the third.

746
00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:34,640
Speaker 1: So I don't think there's a bad label about that,

747
00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:37,360
Speaker 1: and I haven't tried to to necessarily shed it. But

748
00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:39,360
Speaker 1: if I if you walked up to me and I

749
00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:41,680
Speaker 1: asked you to call me by my moniker, you would

750
00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:45,200
Speaker 1: think a certain way about. And I've never requested to

751
00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:49,760
Speaker 1: be called r G three. Hey hey Robert, No, no, no,

752
00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:54,080
Speaker 1: RG three. It just it doesn't come off the right way.

753
00:33:54,120 --> 00:33:55,840
Speaker 1: So whenever people ask me, hey, what do you want

754
00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:57,480
Speaker 1: to be called? That's the one thing I never say.

755
00:33:57,720 --> 00:33:59,440
Speaker 1: And the only reason I say this because I just

756
00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:02,080
Speaker 1: think it's it'd be weird. You know. I don't know

757
00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:04,160
Speaker 1: if Shock's walking around telling people to call him Diesel.

758
00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:08,719
Speaker 1: Right for you, at what point did you feel like

759
00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:11,600
Speaker 1: I am? Did you? I'm sure I'm during that time

760
00:34:11,640 --> 00:34:14,080
Speaker 1: all off, you're thinking at the start, I'll get a

761
00:34:14,160 --> 00:34:17,120
Speaker 1: job soon. The phone's gonna phone's gonna ring. It's gonna

762
00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:19,520
Speaker 1: be a matter of time. Then all of a sudden,

763
00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:22,520
Speaker 1: it's August and September and you know, the months start

764
00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:24,359
Speaker 1: going to buy. Are you thinking, am I head we're

765
00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:26,240
Speaker 1: gonna play again? Like, at what point did it shift

766
00:34:26,280 --> 00:34:29,560
Speaker 1: from the call is coming tomorrow too? I don't know

767
00:34:29,640 --> 00:34:32,280
Speaker 1: if I'm ever going to get in the league. Um,

768
00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:37,960
Speaker 1: I would say it. That's a tough question because earlier

769
00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:39,719
Speaker 1: in the year, like Joe got hurt with his back

770
00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:41,200
Speaker 1: in the preseason. So I got a call from the

771
00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:44,920
Speaker 1: Ravens right well, then later I had a trial with

772
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:47,520
Speaker 1: the had a try with the Chargers before that. So

773
00:34:47,560 --> 00:34:50,440
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, it's gonna start ramping up my experience.

774
00:34:50,520 --> 00:34:52,440
Speaker 1: They're gonna look at me as a valuable piece, as

775
00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:54,680
Speaker 1: a backup possibly if not a starter, because I wasn't

776
00:34:54,680 --> 00:34:58,120
Speaker 1: in any offseason program. So it's gonna happen. That didn't happen.

777
00:34:58,160 --> 00:34:59,840
Speaker 1: I'm like, all right, cool. You know, first week of

778
00:34:59,880 --> 00:35:02,640
Speaker 1: this season, nobody gets hurt. I'm like, okay, all right,

779
00:35:02,680 --> 00:35:07,920
Speaker 1: oh god. You know, then the second quarter of the season,

780
00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:10,120
Speaker 1: guys started getting hurt. Guys started going down. You know,

781
00:35:10,160 --> 00:35:13,799
Speaker 1: if I believe Aaron Rodgers got hurt, right, and uh, Um,

782
00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:15,520
Speaker 1: I was expecting to get a call from the Packers.

783
00:35:15,560 --> 00:35:17,759
Speaker 1: Did get a call from the Packers. They wanted to

784
00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:22,880
Speaker 1: see how it was gonna go with Huntley. And so

785
00:35:22,920 --> 00:35:25,879
Speaker 1: then I'm sitting there after all the guys have been

786
00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:28,480
Speaker 1: injured and I haven't been getting calls. I think Deshaun

787
00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:31,560
Speaker 1: Watson got hurt, right, So I know for a fact

788
00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:33,640
Speaker 1: by watching the tape Deshaun Watson. And then we're running

789
00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:35,440
Speaker 1: the exact offense I ran in two thousand twelve and

790
00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:38,560
Speaker 1: two thousand and thirteen in Washington, right same place I'm watching.

791
00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:40,920
Speaker 1: I'm calling the place right like, man, Okay, well, this

792
00:35:40,960 --> 00:35:43,000
Speaker 1: would be a great spot if they want to, you know,

793
00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:45,120
Speaker 1: go for the playoffs and push for the playoffs. They

794
00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:48,160
Speaker 1: decided not to do that. They brought in Brandon Weedon

795
00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:50,600
Speaker 1: into a bunch of other guys. So I'm sitting there

796
00:35:50,600 --> 00:35:54,040
Speaker 1: and I'm like, Okay, now, what is this really about?

797
00:35:54,120 --> 00:35:57,080
Speaker 1: Because it's not about playing ability because the guys that

798
00:35:57,120 --> 00:36:00,520
Speaker 1: are getting these calls, uh and everything don't have more

799
00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:04,280
Speaker 1: ability than I have. So why am I not getting

800
00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:06,759
Speaker 1: that opportunity? You know what I mean? So then it

801
00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:09,759
Speaker 1: did become am I ever going to be able to

802
00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:14,080
Speaker 1: play again? Because maybe there is some some bad connotation

803
00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:17,080
Speaker 1: out there about who Robert Giffrom the Third is or

804
00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:20,359
Speaker 1: whatever whatever it may be. Uh, So that movement's got

805
00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:22,839
Speaker 1: to really hurt. I mean that's good because because it's

806
00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:25,279
Speaker 1: just different when you know, when you know that you

807
00:36:25,320 --> 00:36:27,960
Speaker 1: can play, you know you're better, you know you're better,

808
00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:30,600
Speaker 1: and you know that, like I have something that I

809
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:35,560
Speaker 1: can offer this franchise. Uh and it's not negativity. You know,

810
00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:39,720
Speaker 1: um that I haven't done anything illegal, I haven't broken

811
00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:42,200
Speaker 1: any laws, and you're not getting that opportunity. Then it's

812
00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:44,799
Speaker 1: like okay, all right. So yeah, my wife's asking me,

813
00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:48,359
Speaker 1: you know maybe November December, I'm going and working out.

814
00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:51,160
Speaker 1: You know, I'm throwing. There's a bit video of me

815
00:36:51,239 --> 00:36:56,840
Speaker 1: throwing at palm trees at one point Instagram, right because

816
00:36:56,840 --> 00:36:58,359
Speaker 1: she she was just like, I bet you can't hit

817
00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:00,239
Speaker 1: that tree over there. So I just dropped I can

818
00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:03,799
Speaker 1: hit the tree. Because she can't hit that tree. I'm like,

819
00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:05,440
Speaker 1: all right, you know you can challenge me, but I

820
00:37:05,440 --> 00:37:09,440
Speaker 1: can hit these trees. Um. But if she's she's asking

821
00:37:09,480 --> 00:37:12,920
Speaker 1: me like, why are why are you even doing this anymore? Right?

822
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:16,080
Speaker 1: Like my wife enjoys me being home every day. You know,

823
00:37:16,440 --> 00:37:18,879
Speaker 1: I'm twenty seven at this point. I enjoy being home

824
00:37:18,920 --> 00:37:22,000
Speaker 1: every day as well. I think any football player would say, Man,

825
00:37:22,040 --> 00:37:24,040
Speaker 1: if I could make all this money play on Sundays,

826
00:37:24,040 --> 00:37:25,600
Speaker 1: but be at home every day and I have to practice,

827
00:37:25,640 --> 00:37:27,480
Speaker 1: I would do it right, because you want to see

828
00:37:27,480 --> 00:37:29,000
Speaker 1: your kids grow up, you want to spend time with

829
00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:33,000
Speaker 1: your wife. Um, but I wanted to be playing, and

830
00:37:33,040 --> 00:37:34,360
Speaker 1: she would ask me, why are you Why are you

831
00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:36,279
Speaker 1: doing this. There's no guarantee that you're ever going to

832
00:37:36,360 --> 00:37:39,040
Speaker 1: get back, right, There's no guarantee you're ever gonna get back.

833
00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:41,200
Speaker 1: And I just told I said, you know, I just

834
00:37:41,280 --> 00:37:42,680
Speaker 1: know this is what God has called me to do.

835
00:37:43,120 --> 00:37:44,880
Speaker 1: Because me being out of that that whole year, I

836
00:37:44,920 --> 00:37:46,799
Speaker 1: could easily just said, you know what it is, what

837
00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:49,920
Speaker 1: it is, I'm gonna go stop running, stop working out,

838
00:37:49,920 --> 00:38:00,360
Speaker 1: stop throwing the football of it. But you know, I

839
00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:02,600
Speaker 1: didn't do that, And I felt like that was my

840
00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:04,960
Speaker 1: God's way of showing me, like, this is my passion,

841
00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:07,000
Speaker 1: this is what I'm here to do, and I'm supposed

842
00:38:07,040 --> 00:38:09,480
Speaker 1: to use my platform as a football player to to

843
00:38:09,560 --> 00:38:11,400
Speaker 1: help change the world. And that's you know, that's just

844
00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:14,040
Speaker 1: what I believe. And uh, I think that kind of

845
00:38:14,040 --> 00:38:16,319
Speaker 1: solidified it for me and I find out what I

846
00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:18,400
Speaker 1: needed to let go of and to be able to

847
00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:20,919
Speaker 1: move forward and be a better player. And I think

848
00:38:20,920 --> 00:38:22,719
Speaker 1: I was able to do that. Also, Well, we're glad

849
00:38:22,719 --> 00:38:24,840
Speaker 1: that you ended up here. Yeah, for sure, Thank you

850
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Speaker 1: so much, Thank you, Thank you guys, all right, thanks

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Speaker 1: to Robert for his time. He's just a great interview

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Speaker 1: smart guy. Always enjoy talking to him. He's just got

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Speaker 1: such a unique story. I think I think that it's

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Speaker 1: cool that he is kind of willing to discuss the

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Speaker 1: highs and the lows of his career. Some guys get

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Speaker 1: a little sensitive if you're talking about the lows, but

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Speaker 1: he he's willing to answer those questions and talk about it,

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Speaker 1: and I think kind of embraces it. Literally, every time

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Speaker 1: we talked to Robert, whether it's podium setting or just

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Speaker 1: a conversation or whatever, Like, whenever I talked to him

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Speaker 1: and then I talked to you for we're both there,

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Speaker 1: we always walk away We're like, dude, that guy is

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Speaker 1: so good. Yeah, he's great, Like I mean, gosh, he

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Speaker 1: just he just he really gets it, you know. And uh,

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Speaker 1: he's an easy guy to root for. So I hope

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Speaker 1: that you know, I hope he's here for a little

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Speaker 1: while long ago. You know, as he said, La Mars

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Speaker 1: the future. If the Mars started next year, I could

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Speaker 1: very easily see a scenario where where Robert is his backup.

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Speaker 1: And like I said, considering the injuries uh two quarterbacks,

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Speaker 1: it wouldn't surprise me if he saw action. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it'll it'll depend, I think on what interests other teams

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Speaker 1: have this off season. I think that this much is clear.

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Speaker 1: He's going to be in the NFL again next offseason.

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Speaker 1: He's proving himself that he's at the very least equality backup,

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Speaker 1: and I think he could start and win games for

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