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Speaker 1: Did they really fall on the franchise? Uh So, I

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Speaker 1: guess it's a funny story. You know. I had a

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Speaker 1: buddy um on the offensive line with me. He's like, yeah, man,

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Speaker 1: uh I don't know if you heard about like Daniel,

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Speaker 1: He's like carving up the defense and all this stuff.

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Speaker 1: And I'm like, yeah, I mean I don't know, like

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Speaker 1: that's cool, Like I don't know, you know, I'm not

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Speaker 1: like a scout or anything like that of talent of

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Speaker 1: a freshman and so um. Yeah. I kind of I

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Speaker 1: always laugh at that like reaction that I had because

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Speaker 1: I'm like, now, look at him, he's you know, doing

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Speaker 1: so well. But uh yeah, that's kind of like my

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Speaker 1: one funny story that I had number six pick in

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Speaker 1: the draft back Yeah, I was, I guess. So I

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Speaker 1: was just like, I mean, he looks the part. You know,

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Speaker 1: he's tall, he's big, smart um. But I think, yeah,

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Speaker 1: he was freshman. I was right trout senior. So it

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Speaker 1: was just kind of like two polar opposite phases of

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Speaker 1: our career. But you worried at all that left guard

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Speaker 1: here is no, no, not at all. No, it's just unfortunate,

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Speaker 1: like you know I've had if you obviously had injuries

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Speaker 1: and um seeing injuries like all across the board. So no,

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Speaker 1: I'm not curse aside how comfortably are if you have

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Speaker 1: to play there, because I think you've mostly played sanity,

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Speaker 1: you played guard at different points, but most of how

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Speaker 1: comfortable would you be there? Yeah? No, it's just getting

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Speaker 1: reps at it, and that's just the biggest thing is

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Speaker 1: working on it, doing extra work. So definitely been feeling

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Speaker 1: more comfortable and uh yeah, it's just getting reps in

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Speaker 1: with the rest of the offensive line. The communication. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be loud down in New Orleans, so it's

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Speaker 1: just um making sure we're all on the same page.

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Speaker 1: And if it takes extra time together then then that's

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Speaker 1: what it is. How hard is it when you talked

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Speaker 1: about like the off field stuff getting together and helping

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Speaker 1: build your chemisture there? But how hard is it? Just

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Speaker 1: similar speed up the process of getting to know how

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Speaker 1: to play next to each other, because that's obviously an

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Speaker 1: important part off that. Yeah, I mean it is tough,

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Speaker 1: but um, I don't know, you just kind of get

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Speaker 1: thrown to the fire and you just kind of do

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Speaker 1: it and then you go back to meetings. See, just

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Speaker 1: like really small things that you can work on as

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Speaker 1: an offensive line. And yeah, it's just all it's all

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Speaker 1: communication and making sure everyone once on the same page.

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Speaker 1: The first couple of weeks you're working more at center

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Speaker 1: or guy before like maybe things got sped up a

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Speaker 1: little bit here. Yeah, no, I was working at ALL three,

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Speaker 1: so at least I was, like, you know, getting the

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Speaker 1: field body wise at ALL three. So when west Martin

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Speaker 1: gets here two days ago, do you approach him as

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Speaker 1: a veteran of this offensive line? You know, I know,

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Speaker 1: it's it's weird as I think it's like the new

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Speaker 1: guys are out numbering the old guy, like the guys

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Speaker 1: who have been here. So it's it's uh yeah, just

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Speaker 1: trying to onboard him as fast as possible, like get

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Speaker 1: us all together, make sure we're eating lunch together and

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Speaker 1: you know, breaking bread a little bit. So yeah, just

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Speaker 1: uh yeah, trying to create that chemistry as fast as

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Speaker 1: possible a lot for sake. Kwan Barkley is like, what

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Speaker 1: is it like, I mean, I know you haven't done

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Speaker 1: it yet, but what are your expectations. I mean, he's

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Speaker 1: just a playmaker. The I mean I saw him do

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Speaker 1: like that a little spin out move where he made

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Speaker 1: two guys miss last game and get some yards. I'm like,

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Speaker 1: that's that's impressive. You don't see that, especially from a

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Speaker 1: running back. And so I know how special he is

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Speaker 1: and he's an explosive I just can make one cut

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Speaker 1: and jump and make guys miss. So I'm definitely excited

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Speaker 1: to be part of that event. If you can in

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Speaker 1: some way anticipate that he's going to do things that

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Speaker 1: maybe you're not expecting in regards to switching fields and

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Speaker 1: cutting and you look at it that way, No, you can't. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, it was kind of like when we were

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Speaker 1: playing I was playing with Lamar. You just kind of

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Speaker 1: have to, you know, do your job and then you know,

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Speaker 1: let them be themselves and you can't force them into

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Speaker 1: doing one thing or the other. Um, they'll make you

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Speaker 1: look right,