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Speaker 1: How your life changed and with fifty hours or whatever

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Speaker 1: it's been. I mean, besides some Instagram Twitter followers, nothing's

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Speaker 1: really changed. Who would you hear from that? You were like, wow,

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Speaker 1: I didn't think I did hear from that. I mean, honestly,

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Speaker 1: every every person I feel like I've ever met my

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Speaker 1: life reached after me. It was pretty cool, and I

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Speaker 1: tried my best to get back to everyone because I'm

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Speaker 1: just enjoying the moment right now. But I knew coming

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Speaker 1: back today I was time to get back to work.

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Speaker 1: What was that like? Mom would like when Coachrmer called

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Speaker 1: you up after in the locker room today game? That

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Speaker 1: was cool. I mean, it's nice. It's cool to see

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Speaker 1: guys like genuinely happy for you. I mean, these guys

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Speaker 1: are are awesome, and uh, something like that is something

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Speaker 1: I remember first of my life. For sure. I would

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Speaker 1: imagine if everything you hear about you is accurate, that

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Speaker 1: you're not necessarily focused on the play you made. You're

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Speaker 1: focused on trying to find plays that you didn't make Thursday.

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Speaker 1: What are some of the things you saw when you

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Speaker 1: broke down the film the following day? Yeah, for sure,

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Speaker 1: I mean, even on the play on the pick It's

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Speaker 1: like I couldn't get around the tackles. So I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's a that's not a good job by me. I

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Speaker 1: need to get around here and make a sack. But

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Speaker 1: thankful I me that play. And then there's other places

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Speaker 1: where I didn't get the ball quick enough and whatnot,

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Speaker 1: and uh I could have hustled on another play later

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Speaker 1: in the game. So I had a good play, but

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Speaker 1: there's many things I could correct. And I'm going to

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Speaker 1: How realistic were you with yourself when camp began? What

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Speaker 1: what do you You obviously said the goal is to

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Speaker 1: make the team. Does your mindset change as you go

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Speaker 1: practice to practice week to week? Honestly, no, I mean,

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Speaker 1: coming in, I knew it was gonna be a challenge

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Speaker 1: for sure. I knew it was gonna be talking from

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Speaker 1: D two, coming from small school. But they gave me

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Speaker 1: a shot, and I was then give me a shot out.

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Speaker 1: So thankful for and I knew I was gonna give

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Speaker 1: a percent every single day and just to prove to

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Speaker 1: them and give them a reason for me being here.

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Speaker 1: And uh so every day take the same. And I

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Speaker 1: got a great group of guys around me and coaches

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Speaker 1: around me, and they helped me so much so it's

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Speaker 1: easy coming out and working for them because you may

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Speaker 1: give a jump from division two. Do you feel that

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Speaker 1: you have to make the spectacular plays to get noticed

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Speaker 1: or can you just get noticed by your work ethic

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Speaker 1: and your dedication to the game. I think it's both.

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Speaker 1: I think the players definitely helped, for sure. But at

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Speaker 1: the same time, some of the coaches will come up

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Speaker 1: to me and tell me how they see me in

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Speaker 1: film running around and hu hustling guys, and I think

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Speaker 1: that's where where it really comes into play. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you just gotta run around and you'll get noticed if

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Speaker 1: you're going all out. And thankfully I'm starting to get

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Speaker 1: some notice, but I'm nowhere near where I want to

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Speaker 1: be and I'm not going to settle. Now. What do

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Speaker 1: they do for your confidence? It helps? I mean it's

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Speaker 1: cool to to to look back and think I wasn't

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Speaker 1: even sure if I was really gonna get in the game,

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Speaker 1: and then make a play like that. It's pretty cool.

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Speaker 1: And then, uh, it definitely makes me feel more comfortable.

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Speaker 1: And then coming out, I was just excited to get

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Speaker 1: to work. Honestly, it was cool little two days off,

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Speaker 1: but I was ready to get back to it. Are

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Speaker 1: you surprised with the reaction on the sideline, especially for

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Speaker 1: some of the older guys, and it seemed like they

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Speaker 1: kind of made a gauntlet for you. Yeah, I mean

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Speaker 1: I wasn't too surprised. Like I said, there's some really

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Speaker 1: good dudes around here, and uh, the team's really tight

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Speaker 1: and uh, I mean it was just a great time.

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Speaker 1: And whenever someone makes to play, everyone's valuing and whatnot.

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Speaker 1: So to see the guys acting like that, it was

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Speaker 1: a really cool moment. To feel like the endzone was

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Speaker 1: never gonna come to New York. You feel like he

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Speaker 1: just kept Yeah. I thought I could have sworn someone

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Speaker 1: was right on right behind me. So I was sprinting

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Speaker 1: as fast as I could, and I don't even care

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Speaker 1: someone that they could have jumped on my back. I

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Speaker 1: was gonna score you the way. But it was cool.

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Speaker 1: When we had talked to you the other night, you

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Speaker 1: didn't know where the football was down. Yeah, someone found

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Speaker 1: it and they put my locker yesterday morning, so I

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Speaker 1: actually went home and gave it to my pass. Cool

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Speaker 1: feeling was that, yeah, real cool. I mean, my family's uh,

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Speaker 1: pretty excited. I'm one of eight, so there's there's a

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Speaker 1: bunch of us, and I get a bunch of messages

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Speaker 1: messages from them, so I actually went home yesterday just

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Speaker 1: to uh see them and whatnot, and everyone's uh pretty happy.

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Speaker 1: Which number, I'm the second youngest, so I got my

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Speaker 1: baby bro. It's going up to Cortland this week. He

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Speaker 1: plays up there. And then, uh, everyone else is just older.

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Speaker 1: So I got a bunch of nieces and nephews and

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Speaker 1: everyone's enjoying it right now. One