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Speaker 1: There is when you're going to this season just wondering

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Speaker 1: receiving group. I mean, just where are you at mentally

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Speaker 1: as a player and do you really feel like you

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Speaker 1: can take another step forward for yourself personally this year?

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Speaker 2: Uh?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm in a in a positive place and I

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Speaker 3: put together a strong camp. You know, I worked really

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Speaker 3: to display that to the best of my ability of

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Speaker 3: the season.

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Speaker 1: Do you think that what you overcame last year at

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Speaker 1: the end of camp and really earning a spot early

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Speaker 1: in the season last year was was a big turning point.

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Speaker 2: In your career.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I think it was definitely a stroke of adversity.

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Speaker 3: You know, it was definitely, you know, something I had

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Speaker 3: to overcome. But you know, ultimately it's not somewhere that

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Speaker 3: I hadn't been prior to that, and I'm sure maybe

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Speaker 3: hopefully not again in football, but maybe in some other

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Speaker 3: avenue of life, you know, I'll be in a similar predicament.

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Speaker 3: So I mean, I'm just happy I'm on the other

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Speaker 3: side of it now and be good life experience going forward.

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Speaker 2: Thanks all. Schwartz, Hey Darius the hey good good.

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Speaker 4: When you look at last year versus this year, as

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Speaker 4: far as what you think you're surrounded by in the

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Speaker 4: talent level on the team and the roster, clearly the

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Speaker 4: the front office and the coaching staff wanted to improve

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Speaker 4: the the explosiveness on offense. Certainly if you look on defense,

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Speaker 4: the inside linebacker situation. When you look at this this

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Speaker 4: it just a better, more talented team right now than

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Speaker 4: you think it was last year at this.

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Speaker 3: Time I had a lot of good football players on

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Speaker 3: Lafe team as well, to be honest with you, but

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Speaker 3: I mean, I definitely think they did a good job

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Speaker 3: guys like a Bobby Ocareke on defense. Bobby McCain, a

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Speaker 3: veteran safety obviously. You know, we added the two young

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Speaker 3: Jalen and Darren and Eric Gray, you know John Michael,

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Speaker 3: So you know, I think they, you know, did a

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Speaker 3: good job of accumulating talent and adding guys that you know,

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Speaker 3: would boost our team.

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Speaker 4: I mean, Isaiah was not on the team obviously at

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Speaker 4: this point, and I mean you were on the team

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Speaker 4: going into Week one, but you weren't you know, on

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Speaker 4: the field, So in some ways you and Isaiah could

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Speaker 4: almost seem like new players as far as opening day

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Speaker 4: this year to last year.

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Speaker 2: Do you kind of look at it that way a

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Speaker 2: little bit?

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Speaker 3: I hadn't really thought about it, so you just said it,

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Speaker 3: to be honest, But I mean, yeah, from that standpoint,

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Speaker 3: we would we will be you know, additions as well

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Speaker 3: as far as week one goes to the team as well.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Javis, Him Jones.

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Speaker 3: Boops, Hi Darius, Hello, how are you good? Are you good?

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Speaker 2: Sorry? I'm not new to zoom.

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Speaker 5: When when you look around the locker room and Paul

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Speaker 5: just you know, echoed some of what I was going

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Speaker 5: does it just have a little bit of a different feel?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? I think so. You know, anytime you add new personalities,

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Speaker 3: it's been positive. You know, everybody that we had come

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Speaker 3: You know, it's been perconval, has meshed well with the

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Speaker 5: You're obviously a very young man still, but you're a

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Speaker 5: veteran in that room in terms of knowing everything giants

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Speaker 2: Do you find teammates, maybe.

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Speaker 5: Especially the younger ones, including rookies, asking you questions, asking

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Speaker 2: This this way? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I mean from you know where to live and where

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Speaker 3: know I had not Yeah, you know all that type

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Speaker 3: you know, I do my best to help the young

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Speaker 3: try to give them tips and pointers because we were

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Speaker 3: in the same boat last year when David first got here,

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Speaker 3: we have a lot of young, smart guys, so you know,

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Speaker 5: Last one if I may, do you find that Isaiah

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Speaker 5: is a resource as well given his history with you know,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure. I mean yeah, because technically he's been

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Speaker 3: you know he can kind of give sometimes there's there's

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Speaker 3: he's like, well, no, they you know, we used to

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Speaker 3: do it this way anyways, you know, so you know,

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Speaker 3: he helps give some insight on those types of things.

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Speaker 3: For sure.

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Speaker 5: I appreciate you.

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Speaker 2: Thank you. We'll take two more.

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Speaker 6: Bob broke over, uh, but you've let this team in

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Speaker 6: receiving yards three of the last four years. Would it

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Speaker 6: mean more this year? Given it seems like this receaving

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Speaker 3: I don't know if it would mean anymore than it

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Speaker 3: But you know, I don't really look at it as

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Speaker 3: I think it's just my job to go out there

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Speaker 6: Does a thousand yards mean anything to you? That's even

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Speaker 6: though you've led three or four to a Yeah, that's

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Speaker 3: I mean I think yeah, I mean yeah. I mean

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Speaker 3: I you know, my knees don't work anymore. You know,

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Speaker 3: I could tell my kids, you know, I had a

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Speaker 3: a it's a nice benchmark to have, but you know,

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Speaker 3: obviously to get there, you got to start with game

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Speaker 3: one first. So I just take it one week, one

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Speaker 6: And given what you went through last year and where

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Speaker 6: led to the team three, was it disappointed at all

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Speaker 6: not to be named a captain or voted a captain?

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Speaker 6: I mean, obviously you're a leader on this team. You

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Speaker 6: don't have to be a captain be a leader, But

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Speaker 6: was it disappointing at all not to get that that recognition.

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Speaker 3: I don't really know if I would say disappointing. You know,

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Speaker 3: it's at the end of the day, it's it's something

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Speaker 3: that's voted on as a team. And you know, I

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Speaker 3: think all the guys that we had that were elected

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Speaker 3: can't really say that I was necessarily disappointed, Like you said,

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Speaker 3: you know, I try to lead in whatever way I can,

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Speaker 3: and you know, if, if you know, my teammates ever

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Speaker 3: feel the need to vote me in another year or

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Speaker 3: something like that, then you know, I'll be grateful to

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Speaker 3: accept that.

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Speaker 2: I think they missed the vote, but that's thanks Art Stapleton.

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Speaker 7: Hey Darius, with with you guys moving now to a

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Speaker 7: game week, what kind of advice do you give to

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Speaker 7: preparation now that really the preseason is behind you. Just

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Speaker 7: curious from a from a tips standpoint, preparation standpoint, is

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Speaker 7: this you know much more what you want to be

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Speaker 7: doing on a week to week rather than what you've

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Speaker 3: I think the biggest thing is there's just a different

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Speaker 3: You know, during camp there's especially for rookies, you know,

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Speaker 3: there's always an air of like you're learning, you know,

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Speaker 3: main thing, you know that I try to impress upon

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