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Speaker 1: All right, welcome into this week's Ozone podcast. And we're

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Speaker 1: touch tight on time with a weird schedule this week,

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Speaker 1: so I'll quickly welcome in Jaguars wide receiver Parker Washington.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for doing this, buddy, I appreciate you. So

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Speaker 1: tell me about your opportunity this week. You've played before,

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Speaker 1: but this is clearly an extensive opportunity going forward with

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Speaker 1: Christian being out. Now, I do you Are you aware

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Speaker 1: of that opportunity and are you excited about it?

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Speaker 2: Definitely? You know, like I said, similar opportunities for my

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Speaker 2: rookie year. Sure, I feel like through this off season

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Speaker 2: I got more trust from QB one and my coaches

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Speaker 2: to be able to have more opportunity in game. I'm excited,

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Speaker 2: of course. I mean, I definitely see the opportunity. The

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Speaker 2: business don't stop, the team doesn't stop. We got to win.

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Speaker 2: So being ready to step up, that's my job, gotcha,

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Speaker 2: and I'm excited for this opportunity now.

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Speaker 1: Last year, though, when you stepped in, you had maybe

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Speaker 1: played three or four games, you were coming on of

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Speaker 1: an injury. You're a rookie. I guess the obvious question,

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Speaker 1: how much more prepared do you feel now? Than a

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Speaker 1: year ago, because in the NFL, second year versus rookie

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Speaker 1: is a big difference.

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Speaker 2: Definitely mentally, I feel like mentally that it's not the

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Speaker 2: issue for me. It is more physically, like you said,

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Speaker 2: coming off of injury. So I feel like just confidence

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Speaker 2: it showed a little bit and glimpses here and there

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Speaker 2: this year. You know it's it's going to be broadcasted

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Speaker 2: a little bit more now, just with the opportunity ahead.

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Speaker 2: So I just got to be ready to step up.

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Speaker 2: But just it's just confidence. I feel like, just confident

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Speaker 2: in my confidence in myself to be too ready to perform.

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Speaker 1: Tell me about the second year jump. Everybody talks about it,

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Speaker 1: heard about it for years. Do you feel that it

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Speaker 1: is the game a little slower, just a little more

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Speaker 2: Definitely? Definitely. I mean I know what I'm getting myself into. Okay,

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Speaker 2: that's how it goes as a rookie. You have no idea,

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Speaker 2: You have no idea. You know it's the NFL dream.

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Speaker 2: You know it's a dream. Now I feel like I'm

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Speaker 2: I'm here now, So it's I know what I'm getting

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Speaker 2: myself into. I have a better routine schedule like all that.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it all goes intoccount and I'm just excited.

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Speaker 1: They tell me about Christian Kirk your emotions as a friend,

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Speaker 1: and I assume a little bit of a mentor when

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Speaker 1: he gets hurt last.

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Speaker 2: Week, definitely, And I was in on the play. As

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Speaker 2: soon as I seen it, I was like no, Like

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Speaker 2: I instantly just like took a knee by him, like no, no,

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Speaker 2: don't be too don't be too serious because I mean,

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Speaker 2: like just said, just right before my rookie year, I

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Speaker 2: had a similar injury, Like not similar injury, but I

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Speaker 2: had an injury that took me out for a while.

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Speaker 2: It's tough, and you know, I can definitely relate to that,

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Speaker 2: and you know, it's just a process. It's a journey

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Speaker 2: that you have to get through and go through, like

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Speaker 2: just a process when you get injured and have to

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Speaker 2: be out for a long time. So I felt felt that. Man,

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Speaker 2: it was just a tough situation. But like you said,

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Speaker 2: I mean start to try and finish a game. I

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Speaker 2: for him, But you know that's what it's about, you know,

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Speaker 2: doing that, for doing this for him and continuing to

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Speaker 2: make sure the Jaguars are handling business.

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Speaker 1: Got you. Now you've been compared with him because relatively

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Speaker 1: similar sized, similar position, it appears on paper, similar skill set.

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Speaker 2: What is he taught you?

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Speaker 1: What have you learned from him? I would think just

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Speaker 1: sort of watching his approach every day is one of

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Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely, I feel like, really not even just approach.

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Speaker 2: I would just say just his actual gameplay, actually the

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Speaker 2: like I said, it's just a great opportunity. I feel

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Speaker 2: like for me, just in my journey, this was the

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Speaker 1: Tell me about the feeling on a Sunday when all

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Speaker 1: I what's that moment like? And what are you thinking?

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Speaker 2: One play at a time, right, you know, just one

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Speaker 2: it was a lot of no huddle, so I was

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Speaker 2: You know. I feel, like I said, it goes back

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Speaker 1: How much you were a big story during training camp

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Speaker 1: because it was clear the steps you would take and

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Speaker 1: you were getting open easier. You just looked different. Does

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Speaker 1: that just sort of part of your growth? You know,

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Speaker 2: I mean definitely, I would say just from off season,

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Speaker 1: Work payoff, seeing it all the time, right, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Seeing that work payoff, that's what it's all about. And

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Speaker 2: But most importantly, I was just out there just trying

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Speaker 2: I just want to approach each day to get better,

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Speaker 2: grow that way because it might not be right now

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Speaker 2: But that's not what it's about. I know that time

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Speaker 1: How much of a lift At the end of the

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been you know, just this year, Loan's been tough.

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Speaker 2: like it's done a good job this week at practice

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Speaker 1: Now, Christian was such a I hate the phrase safety

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Speaker 1: such a good chemistry with Christian and Trevor. Is that

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Speaker 2: Definitely, you know, and then having good conversation, getting on

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Speaker 2: I felt like him hearing that is always good. And

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Speaker 2: then then going out there and putting a good ride

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Speaker 2: I feel like I just got to you to carry

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Speaker 1: The last thing we do we call it the ozone five.

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Speaker 1: I'll call it the two minute driller today because we're

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Speaker 1: up against time. Uh five quick questions, A lot of fun.

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Speaker 1: Parker Washington, What was your last binge watch?

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Speaker 2: I watched Blacklist.

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Speaker 1: Good. That's a long binge watch. I didn't it takes

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Speaker 2: The only show of that I didn't finish it, but

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Speaker 2: The only show I've ever finished is prison Break.

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Speaker 1: Okay, got you? You have no attention span, is what

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Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, It's just every series that I

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Speaker 1: It takes time.

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Speaker 2: And I watched Friday Night Light. I finished that.

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Speaker 2: I like Friday Night Light. So yeah. I mean most

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Speaker 2: just super long. And I finished out of Max.

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Speaker 1: Okay, the last song you heard on the way in

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Speaker 1: this morning.

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Speaker 2: You've already won.

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Speaker 1: William Murphy first touchdown ever in your career, in your life,

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Speaker 1: in my whole life. Can you remember it?

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Speaker 2: Oh? I can remember it?

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Speaker 2: It was flag football. I was like kindergarten. Oh. My

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Speaker 2: mom was screaming crazy. She was screaming crazy. It was

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Speaker 2: like a super long touchdown. The first time I ever

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Speaker 2: touched the ball I scored.

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Speaker 1: Did you know then you were bound for the NFL?

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Speaker 2: No, I was just I didn't. I didn't. It's funny,

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Speaker 2: I didn't. I never thought NFL until I got my

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Speaker 2: first offer to Indiana a freshman year of high school.

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Speaker 2: Then I was like, okay, college, I was like, it

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Speaker 2: was just I was always yeah, I just I was

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Speaker 2: just always just in the moment, and I never looked

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Speaker 2: too far ahead. And I feel like that's helped me,

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Speaker 2: and it's helping me now too.

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Speaker 1: Got you your best touchdown.

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Speaker 2: Ever, my best touchdown ever. I gotta say that that

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Speaker 1: Really that high school of high school.

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Speaker 2: I got close. I got you. That was my first

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Speaker 1: Probably too good to return them in high school, right,

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Speaker 2: Was receiver, one of the main guys. But yeah, that

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Speaker 2: was my first time ever scoring like a special teams touchdown,

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Speaker 2: and it.

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Speaker 1: Opened right up for you. Hard had to work for it.

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Speaker 1: Final question, The person or people most responsible for you

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Speaker 1: being in the NFL.

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Speaker 2: Definitely my parents, my sister, and then my trainer Alonzo

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Speaker 2: for it.

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Speaker 1: But your sister couldn't even get you with a bear.

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Speaker 2: She did have that type of Yeah, she would love

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Speaker 2: to have me there, she would love to have me there, but.

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Speaker 1: Her pay grade definitely Park Washington, I know you're up

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Speaker 1: against time today. Thank you so much for doing this.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you joining the ozone podcast.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate you appreciate that