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Speaker 1: Howdy George.

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Speaker 2: Is the is the constant drum beat of disrespect for Brock.

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Speaker 2: to he seems like he's a guy who admits that

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Speaker 3: I don't think it'll have a negative effect. I don't

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Speaker 3: think broccerly listens to too much. Like I don't think

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Speaker 3: he uses any type of social media very much. And

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Speaker 3: you know, I think he's kind of like me. You

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Speaker 3: don't really read anything unless your mom sends you it, So,

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Speaker 3: you know, I think Brox is going to be dialed

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Speaker 3: the way that he has been all season the last

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Speaker 3: two years for us, and you know, people can say

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Speaker 3: whatever they want to say, and he's just gonna go

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Speaker 3: out there and be Brock. Or it's like the four

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Speaker 3: teams left all will like pretty heavily on the tight end.

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Speaker 1: That they do. Is that what do you think or

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Speaker 1: is something about the position or what do you think

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Speaker 1: of it?

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Speaker 3: I feel like if you look back at you know,

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Speaker 3: most of the last Super Bowl winners, every team has

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Speaker 3: like a very very talented tight end that they use,

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Speaker 3: you know, whether that's run game or in the past game.

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Speaker 3: You know, Titans just they give you an ability to

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Speaker 3: mismatch different you know, you get on linebackers, you go

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Speaker 3: in safeties, you want to use two guys to cover them,

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Speaker 3: it doesn't matter.

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Speaker 1: It opens up other people.

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Speaker 3: So you have someone that can dominate the middle of

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Speaker 3: the field, makes a lot easier on your quarterback.

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Speaker 1: Obviously know him pretty well. What I mean.

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Speaker 3: Sam's fantastic. His film speaks for itself. He's second team

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Speaker 3: All Pro Pro Bowl in his first year as a rookie.

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Speaker 3: That's really hard to do, you know, not very many

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Speaker 3: people do that. He's planned at a high level. He's

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Speaker 3: in an offense where you know, the quarterback trusts him,

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Speaker 3: they throw him out there on third down. He's running

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Speaker 3: wide receiver routes, he's inside dominating the middle. He's doing

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Speaker 3: everything that you wanted to do as a rookie and

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Speaker 3: more so. Yeah, I'm very proud of Sam, and uh,

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Speaker 4: You're a pretty big supporter of his throughout the pre

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Speaker 2: Yes, is there just anything that's even surprised to you?

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Speaker 2: Maybe about the success he's had given the difficulty of

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Speaker 3: No, not really. I mean, like I worked out with

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Speaker 3: a little bit. He's super smart and just like watching

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Speaker 3: was ready for it. He's got to stick forward, lean

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Speaker 3: to him. He knows how to run in and out

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Speaker 3: of cuts, catches everything with his hands. Like I knew

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Speaker 3: he was a player just watching him. You know, you

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Speaker 3: could see it in college, but just working around it,

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Speaker 3: like when he's working out with all these other NFL guys. Sorry,

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Speaker 3: you could tell like he didn't stand out in a

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Speaker 3: He has understanding what the Lions want from him, and

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Speaker 3: you know when you put him out there with you know,

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Speaker 1: You know, this is your fourth NFC championship for five years.

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Speaker 2: Is there a different.

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Speaker 3: Vibe to it or confidence or hunger compared to those

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Speaker 3: past months. No, I've been pretty hungry at all of them.

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Speaker 3: You know, I won one lost too. It's not really

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Speaker 3: hungry for him. I think the whole team is, the

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Speaker 3: high level this long. Let's just keep going out there

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Speaker 3: and play football at a high level. Play a team

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Speaker 1: So now, I don't know.

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Speaker 3: If the vibe is different, it's a it's just a

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Speaker 4: How difficult it is to make this climb four times

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Speaker 4: in five years to get to this.

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Speaker 3: Point, yeah, I mean it's really hard. I mean, like

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Speaker 3: And every year is just so unique. That's what makes

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Speaker 3: like that, it's changing. You know, you can't keep everybody,

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Speaker 3: you can't pay everybody. You have to fill gaps, you

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Speaker 3: have to bring new guys in, you have to try

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Speaker 3: to keep your culture. There's just so many things that

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Speaker 3: It's very difficult. But at the end of the day,

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Speaker 3: And you know, we haven't done that yet.

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Speaker 4: Understanding the pressure of the situation, but what does what

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Speaker 4: home yet in terms of hey, how many more opportunities

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Speaker 3: I turned on to think of it like that. It's just, hey,

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Speaker 1: And hey, we're here.

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Speaker 3: We made all the right decisions and we've done the

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Speaker 4: I guess how impressed have you've been with the way

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Speaker 3: Impressed if you've been with the way Kyle has brought

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Speaker 3: It's just really fun to be a part of that

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Speaker 3: for that, and I'm actually pretty disappoint he hasn't been

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Speaker 3: Coached of the Year yet.

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Speaker 4: With regards to your dad's pre game letters, does anything

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Speaker 1: And do you expected to him? Like do you know

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Speaker 3: Usually, like the the bigger the game, the more aggressive

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Speaker 1: So I'm always a huge fan of that.

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Speaker 3: You know, there's times where he's kind of like, uh,

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Speaker 3: what is it the turtle from Kung Fu Panda?

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Speaker 1: You know, very wise, very like sage like.

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Speaker 3: And then there's times where it feels like it's you're

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Speaker 1: And it's part of the switch that his flipped.

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Speaker 3: I think what the forty nine ers put on tape

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Speaker 3: here countless times I've said that, So I don't They're

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Speaker 3: a very physical team. They go out there and they hit,

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Speaker 3: they do all the things that they're supposed to do,

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Speaker 3: and I feel like we do the same thing. So

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Speaker 1: Kind of energy did Depot give you today? Being on

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Speaker 1: the practice field, Deeple was always great. He just excited

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Speaker 3: He's just such a you know, huge part of our

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Speaker 3: confident him. NBA together is its own, you know, it's

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Speaker 3: its own thing entirely. So very excited have Dbo out

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Hi, Nick. Not mine