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Speaker 1: Year nineteen and after not being here for most of

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Speaker 1: the off season, Just what has this last week been

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Speaker 1: like for you just integrating back into the next with

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Speaker 1: the team. Good. Yeah, it's been a you know, it's

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Speaker 1: been good to be out here and get to work.

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Speaker 1: So we've got a lot of a lot of work

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Speaker 1: to do. It's just the beginning and uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: obviously not a lot of things are perfect at this point,

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Speaker 1: so just trying to you know, focus on one day

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Speaker 1: and try to get better and improve certain things. And

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Speaker 1: we talked about the things need to be corrected and

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Speaker 1: try to uh, you know, improve in the next practice.

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Speaker 1: So it's kind of the start of year for everyone.

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Speaker 1: It's exciting and um, you know, hopefully you can make

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Speaker 1: the most of it. So what would your take on

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Speaker 1: any of the turmoil or the rumor of turmoil that

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Speaker 1: you guys had in the off season between yourself? It's

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Speaker 1: in craft helps. I have no thoughts it's this off

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Speaker 1: season at any different for you, Tom with the approach

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Speaker 1: that you took, Well, yeah, I mean I had you know,

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Speaker 1: more time, um, you know with my family, but I

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Speaker 1: also you know, spend a lot of time doing football.

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Speaker 1: So um, yeah, you had talked about filling up your bucket.

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Speaker 1: You have the idea to fill it up so that

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Speaker 1: when you come here you can be the best view

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Speaker 1: for your team. Yeah, do you feel like you filled

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Speaker 1: up the bucket? Yeah, I mean I've I've. Um, you know,

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of commitment, a lot of sacrifice from

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Speaker 1: a lot of people would play the game. And our families, um,

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Speaker 1: you know they they work just as hard, just like

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Speaker 1: every working family, you know, shares the burden at different times,

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Speaker 1: and um, you know it's a full time commitment for

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Speaker 1: this team and and um you know everyone's gotta you know,

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Speaker 1: do whatever it takes elp us win. So I feel

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Speaker 1: good ready and trying to you know, improve like everybody else.

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Speaker 1: And uh, it's a daily process. Football is a very

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Speaker 1: humbly sport. And you know, you never have it quite

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Speaker 1: figured out. And every year there's different things, challenges, play schemes, opponents, conditions, situations,

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Speaker 1: and um, you know, it's just about adapting to what

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Speaker 1: you have in the situation. It's never perfect. Hopefully there's

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Speaker 1: a lot more good than bad. But um, you know,

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Speaker 1: you just work at it every day and try to,

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Speaker 1: you know, do better each day. CEO offseason workouts. Are

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Speaker 1: you maybe behind where you normally being a good receivers

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Speaker 1: right now? I don't know. Yeah, I don't know, And

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Speaker 1: we have a long time. We got a lot of

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Speaker 1: work to do. Um. You know, we do the best

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Speaker 1: we can every day to get the work in where

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Speaker 1: we can and you know, try about there and have

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Speaker 1: a great year. You're doing something different to improve, you know,

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Speaker 1: work on this footwork one year, one off season. Is

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Speaker 1: there anything in particularly you wanted to improve on this offseason?

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Speaker 1: You know, there's a lot of things. It's it's really everything.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think after every season, you know, you're

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Speaker 1: trying to maintain certain things. Um, you know, I'm always

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Speaker 1: working on my footwork, my mechanics. UM. Spent a lot

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Speaker 1: of time doing that this off season, you know, trying

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Speaker 1: to you know, I think a lot of it is

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Speaker 1: is playing good football and staying healthy. That's what it

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Speaker 1: comes down to being a being a professional athlete, and

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Speaker 1: it's being in good condition, being in good shape, making

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Speaker 1: the right plays and reads, techniques, fundamentals for your position.

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Speaker 1: I spent a lot of time doing that, and now

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Speaker 1: it's got to transfer over the field. Julius, right now,

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Speaker 1: he would you say, getting away from the game a

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Speaker 1: little bit more. It's actually maybe gonna benefit in terms

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Speaker 1: of your focus and your readiness for camp. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I've always football is very very important to me. It

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Speaker 1: always has been in UM, you know, I love being

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Speaker 1: out here with my teammates, So it's great. Um. You know,

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Speaker 1: as you get older, you have different responsibilities, you know,

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Speaker 1: and I think that's just part of life, and everyone's

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Speaker 1: got to deal with those responsibilities differently and what what

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Speaker 1: works for them. And you know, football is a huge

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Speaker 1: part of my life. I love being here with my

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Speaker 1: teammates and playing and hopefully we can have a great season.

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Speaker 1: Tom Josh is back, and I think maybe that's surprised

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Speaker 1: some people. How excited did you have them back? And

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Speaker 1: did you play any role and sort of getting in

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Speaker 1: his ear and saying stick around, I love I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think Josh and I have had a great relationship

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Speaker 1: for eighteen years, and you know, we're he's one of

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Speaker 1: my best friends. M you know, I love working with

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Speaker 1: them and we've got a very special relationship that I cherish,

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Speaker 1: and um, you know, it's kind of been that way

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Speaker 1: for a long time. Did you talk to him at

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Speaker 1: any point during that I know, you're getting ready for

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Speaker 1: a game. But if you're talking him at any point

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Speaker 1: and I always talked to him about everything, And like

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Speaker 1: I said, he's a great friend of mine. So, um,

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Speaker 1: you know I love him, I love his family, and

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Speaker 1: we were very close. You work together with someone for

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Speaker 1: that long, Um, you have a great rapporting relationship, and

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm just I'm happy he's on our team,

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Speaker 1: happy he's coaching me, and um, you know I want

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Speaker 1: to go out there and do well by him. You

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Speaker 1: spent some time what you've missed the first Poets games

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Speaker 1: this season, the mettle Julian is going to be doing

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Speaker 1: the same. Did you at any point say this is

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Speaker 1: what you kind of have to do to keep yourself

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Speaker 1: ready for what I need you when you get back. Yeah. Um,

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Speaker 1: I haven't talked to him about that much. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's just for all of us. We're just at a

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Speaker 1: certain point and you're building to try to be the

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Speaker 1: best you could be for this season, and everyone's gonna

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Speaker 1: have a different situation and a different role, and you know,

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Speaker 1: whether you're not out there for one reason or another.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we've just got to adapt and adjust and

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Speaker 1: try to do the best we can. And the more

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Speaker 1: good players we have out there, the better it is,

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Speaker 1: the more productive it is for all of us. And

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Speaker 1: you know, everyone's working on something different, so everyone's got

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Speaker 1: a little different situation, a little different role, and you know,

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Speaker 1: how we adapt those situations and roles, we'll determine, you know,

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Speaker 1: how will we do. Tom. When Julian tested positive, a

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Speaker 1: lot of people connected it to Alex Sturero. Just what's

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Speaker 1: your reaction to that? Do you think it's fair? I

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Speaker 1: have no comments. Yeah, it's just ridiculous. Tom, come out,

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Speaker 1: see you guys. Thanks,