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Speaker 1: Think you know, what did you hear about the right? Um,

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Speaker 1: it was just in practice, a middle practice beard. Alright,

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Speaker 1: what's your reaction? I mean, right, you guys are obviously

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Speaker 1: very closely about that, and kind of him get trades

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Speaker 1: is kind of officially you're you're the guy at center

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Speaker 1: if it wasn't already, but friendly. Yeah, I'm just I'm

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Speaker 1: just happy for him. It sucks to see my friend go.

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Speaker 1: And that's the tough part about his business. You you

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Speaker 1: build relationships like this, but you know that, you know,

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Speaker 1: sometimes it doesn't go that way for us to be

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Speaker 1: together forever, you know what i mean. It's not a marriage.

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Speaker 1: So I'm just happy for him because it's closer to

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Speaker 1: home for him, and you know, he gets an opportunity

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Speaker 1: to go out there and play and display um, you know,

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Speaker 1: his talents and what he brings to the game. And

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Speaker 1: he's a good player. John, What doesn't mean to you,

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Speaker 1: after all the kind of us that you've taken your

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Speaker 1: career and now it looks like you are the starting

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Speaker 1: center And I'm just you know, it's still it doesn't

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Speaker 1: cross my mind that i'm you know, I'm still I'm

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Speaker 1: still just you know, competing like I'm not the starter,

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Speaker 1: you know. I feel like I'm just gonna keep approaching

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Speaker 1: it that way until week one. And you know, right now,

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Speaker 1: I'm just focused on trying to get you know, everybody

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Speaker 1: on the same page and trying to get this run

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Speaker 1: game going and just you know, just trying to improve

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Speaker 1: one day, one day at a time. You have a

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Speaker 1: chance to talk to Brand, No, No, hopefully I can

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Speaker 1: after this. Have you ever seen anything like that where

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Speaker 1: I gotta get traded and get pulled off the practice field. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: my rookie year when they showed it. When I was

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Speaker 1: with the Patriots, they traded logan makings. What do you

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Speaker 1: think the number one reason is that the coaches are

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Speaker 1: confidence in you for this job. I mean, I would

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Speaker 1: like to think that, you know, I'm I'm improving every day.

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Speaker 1: I would like to think that I'm ascending as a

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Speaker 1: player at that position. And you know that's I mean, ultimately,

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Speaker 1: that's a better question for coach Hermer. I'm just here

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Speaker 1: trying to control what I can control, and that's trying

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Speaker 1: to be on the right, on the same page as

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Speaker 1: the other four offensive line. How much where you are

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Speaker 1: now you're the center. You give credit to Brand and

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Speaker 1: you talk, you talk how he's helped you learned to

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Speaker 1: play the position. Yeah, I mean I give a lot

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Speaker 1: of credit to him. Like I said before, when I

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Speaker 1: first started playing center, you know, he's he's helped me

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Speaker 1: through you know, snapping and helping me you know, understand

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Speaker 1: the game. UM, just everything, you know, hats off to Brett.

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Speaker 1: And uh, you know I always think him, you know,

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Speaker 1: for if it wasn't for him, I wouldn't be in

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Speaker 1: this position. So I know you said you're you're sorting

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Speaker 1: is say competition and everything, but are you surprised at

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Speaker 1: where you are? I mean, in this time last year,

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Speaker 1: you imagine you'd be where you are at the starting

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Speaker 1: center and um, as a center. Yes, I'm surprised I'm

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Speaker 1: a center, But I'm not surprised that I'm still playing

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Speaker 1: here because I was ultimately what I kept working for

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Speaker 1: that I knew eventually that my time will come, and

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Speaker 1: I just had to keep training and keep working hard

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Speaker 1: for it. So I'm not surprised that I'm still playing,

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Speaker 1: But I am surprised. I'm saying, I guess to answer

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Speaker 1: your question, what kind of obviously it all goes? Well,

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Speaker 1: these guys might not play, but I have veterans like

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Speaker 1: Recco and Jerry, I'm a second team off. What does

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Speaker 1: that do for you guys in terms of depth and

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Speaker 1: having a known quantity, I guess as Yeah. I mean

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Speaker 1: those guys are veteran players. They have a lot of

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Speaker 1: game starts in their belts, a lot of games played, UM,

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Speaker 1: a lot of snaps under the belt. So it feels

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Speaker 1: good that we have those veteran leadership, you know, in

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Speaker 1: the in the depth um in our room. So when

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Speaker 1: it kind of, you know, it just happened, when it

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Speaker 1: kind of through that trade, what do you get the

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Speaker 1: fact that you're now the guy I know you said

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Speaker 1: it's got to be some party. That's pretty pretty excited,

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Speaker 1: pretty happy. Yeah, I mean I'm just excited to, you know,

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Speaker 1: just keep playing with the road that I've taken it

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Speaker 1: be here. I'm just in that aspect of me is

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Speaker 1: just continuing the plane. That's what I'm happy for is

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Speaker 1: that I'm still able to play. Um. You know, I

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Speaker 1: feel like it won't hit me until week one. I'm

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Speaker 1: just still trying to We're still in training camp. I'm

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Speaker 1: still trying to compete, trying to get better. You know,

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Speaker 1: we're not a finished product. There's nothing to be proud of,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. We didn't win a super

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