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Speaker 1: How you feeling.

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Speaker 2: Feeling really good man, really blessed Christian.

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Speaker 3: You've been this sort of a social media and sort

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Speaker 3: of teasing that's come back season, if you will. What

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Speaker 3: puts you the confidence after you know, dealing with a

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Speaker 3: serious enough that not once to place last year the

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Speaker 3: US are good?

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Speaker 4: Well, confidence is really just like you know who I am,

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Speaker 4: where I came from. You know what I'm saying it

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Speaker 4: just you know, my family supported me, My teammates supported me,

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Speaker 4: the medical teams supported me, and they you know make

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Speaker 4: me just you know, like you know, grind hard every

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Speaker 4: day to make me you know, just like you know

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Speaker 4: the guy that just wanna keep working hard, just like

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Speaker 4: the guy that wants to keep you know, keep getting better,

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Speaker 4: and just like literally just you know, worry about the future.

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Speaker 1: It's the biggest challenge.

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Speaker 4: The challenge really just you know, just you know, how

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Speaker 4: can I say it just the bathroom with myself, you

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Speaker 4: know what I'm saying, just you know, like, let you know,

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Speaker 4: like last year really hit me because like you know,

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Speaker 4: I'm using it as motivation and anger because you know,

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Speaker 4: just making me work even harder because like you know,

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Speaker 4: that situation and was like, uh, I could've lost a lot,

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Speaker 4: and literally, you know, all the work I put in

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Speaker 4: coulda been you know, tooken away, and I've been really hurt.

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Speaker 4: So just like you know, I can never take things

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Speaker 4: just you know, keep doing god playing, you know, Chris,

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Speaker 4: and and you had to.

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Speaker 1: Think any changes, uh, either physically in what you do

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Speaker 1: or did.

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Speaker 5: You diet or anything specific to kind of help you

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Speaker 5: along with the process.

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Speaker 4: I mean, you know, die well, I w I really

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Speaker 4: was never a god to like, you know, be overweight.

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Speaker 4: You know, I was never a type of god to

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Speaker 4: be like, you know, forty pounds every weigh. I never

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Speaker 4: came in since I've been in the league, you know,

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Speaker 4: like overweight. Don't be wrong, I've probably been up a lot,

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Speaker 4: but I never been like overly like weight. But I say, like,

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Speaker 4: you know, just about being really healthy, you know, and

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Speaker 4: just you know, stay away from sign stuff, you know,

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Speaker 4: really just doing like a lot of cardio whiles.

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Speaker 6: Christian I don't know, just told us to the day

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Speaker 6: that you guys have to some effects.

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Speaker 2: Going on getting here first.

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Speaker 4: Yes, my guy, yeah, my boy, yeah, yeah, it's like

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Speaker 4: you know, we'd be like he said, like you know whoever,

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Speaker 4: like we be see if the first one in the

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Speaker 4: weight room, who are the first one to me?

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Speaker 2: He roung you know, we be always going at it.

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Speaker 4: My guy, you know, he just he make me work

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Speaker 4: hard man, and he's a hell of a worker, a

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Speaker 4: hell of a guy, you know, healthy player. So it

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Speaker 4: just you know, really excited definitely to see him and

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Speaker 4: just really excited you know, you know, be be right

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Speaker 4: with him.

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Speaker 7: He's in your feeling.

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Speaker 4: I really got at to me take us to a

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Speaker 4: lot of but it's like, can you give us a

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Speaker 4: little more detail.

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Speaker 8: I'm just like you've seen you out there, Eve, because the.

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Speaker 1: Videos with you out there with the two is how's

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Speaker 1: y'all going yet?

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Speaker 4: What's that status of really just enjoying the game that

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Speaker 4: I love again, you know, just not worrying about the

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Speaker 4: stuff that was holding me back from you know last

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Speaker 4: year stuff you know, and really just you know, enjoying

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Speaker 4: you know and blessing me playing the game.

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Speaker 2: You know, just feeling better, you know, keep.

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Speaker 4: Getting better, you know, feeling good, more confidence in myself,

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Speaker 4: back to my you know, breathing. So it's just like,

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Speaker 4: you know, I'm just feeling really good, you know, talking

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Speaker 4: my smack yeah all that.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Christian, uh are you are you excited about potentially

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Speaker 5: want the defense who you who know changes on the defensive?

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Speaker 5: Excited about the impact potentially may the guys can make.

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Speaker 4: Yes, I'm really excited, really excited because we g I

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Speaker 4: got literally like we got some hungry dogs literally and

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Speaker 4: it's just there's stuff like, you know, I'm really excited.

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Speaker 4: It's just like how like how's it like really looking

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Speaker 4: like I'm really like I look at them, the team

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Speaker 4: like all the time.

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Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, like.

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Speaker 4: It's gonna be it's gonna be a dog like, it's

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Speaker 4: gonna be good. But I feel I just feel like,

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Speaker 4: you know, it's a guy, like a real good you know,

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Speaker 4: just love the defense.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So if you're got your trash coffee baptist the best

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Speaker 1: time so.

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Speaker 4: Far, I say me, key on, you know, key on.

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Speaker 4: You know we be just talking small. You know it's

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Speaker 4: my guy. You know, we be just gonna add you know,

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Speaker 4: let like you know, me be competing, you know what

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Speaker 4: I mean, him, you know, just starting stuff.

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Speaker 2: You know who puts more weight? You know he's strong

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Speaker 2: at hell. So like, yeah, my guy, you're tying. You

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Speaker 2: turn to probing so much.

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Speaker 5: Then they're not here.

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Speaker 2: They know what cost you turn undy clouds in the curtains.

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Speaker 2: That's so next week I'm talking, I took any since

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Speaker 2: you're out there working. You you didn't clear field football

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Speaker 2: at Technoy, you know it's you think clears for football,

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Speaker 2: antenv s whatever. Yeah, that's so. Yeah, obviously things can

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Speaker 2: change any now in September.

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Speaker 5: But do you anticipate being ready to go before we want?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, that's the go. Yeah. You know, I just

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Speaker 2: gotta keep following the medical teams.

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Speaker 4: But everything' looking real well yeah.

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Speaker 6: Prisimally you are you a full participant when it goes

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Speaker 6: to practices?

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Speaker 2: It got one next week?

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Speaker 8: Yeah, Christian, go back to last seon how difficult was

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Speaker 8: that kind of roller coaster of being away, coming back,

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Speaker 8: having to step away again, just that whole.

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Speaker 2: Process, that's it.

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Speaker 4: Yes, I mean it was hardly hard, man Like, it

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Speaker 2: I wanted to be out there. I wanted to support

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Speaker 2: my brothers.

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Speaker 4: You know, I feel like I did everything my power

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Speaker 4: just you know, just wanted to come back, and especially me,

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Speaker 4: I wasn't you know, it wasn't the way it wasn't,

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Speaker 4: functually that's I wasn't not ready to come back. And

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Speaker 4: it's just unfortunately, like you know, I paid my faith

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Speaker 4: just keep doing what I gotta do.

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Speaker 2: And it's all I can say.

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Speaker 1: Who haven't been through what you've been for?

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Speaker 6: You know, you get to come back play football and

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Speaker 6: then you're told if you can again.

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Speaker 7: What what were you feeling.

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Speaker 4: In December when the symptoms recur?

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Speaker 2: What happened next?

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Speaker 4: I said, I was really confusing, anger, and just really

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Speaker 4: like mind blowing because like I was paying a lot

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Speaker 4: that work I put it for none. It feels like

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Speaker 4: it's like cause I was doing everything I can just

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Speaker 4: to come back for this team last year, and.

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Speaker 2: It's just like, you know, like.

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Speaker 4: I don't ever want it ever be in a situation again,

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Speaker 4: or who who anybody in the world to go through

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Speaker 4: that because like that stuff was not no joke, and

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Speaker 4: it's like somebody's just like it was just like a

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Speaker 1: Like i'd say, were you afraided all that they might

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Speaker 1: recur again? No, m I'm curious to new coaching stuff.

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Speaker 8: That's tell all you were working with you.

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Speaker 5: I'm kind of night Braval.

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Speaker 7: Then with what happened to you and how's that kind

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Speaker 5: Kind of changing, kind of having to explain maybe a

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Speaker 5: little bit more about what you went through last year

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Speaker 5: and how that applies.

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Speaker 2: To this year.

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Speaker 4: Like verbe Man, just a guy that you know I

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Speaker 4: could talk to, Just a guy that you know, he's

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Speaker 4: like literally every time I talked to him, he's there

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Speaker 4: for me, you know, just a god that literally hu

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Speaker 4: he teld he told me you needy Dan, Like literally

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Speaker 4: like just a guy that I really respect because like

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Speaker 4: he played a game and he know, he knows, he

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Speaker 4: and he just like I just love talking to him

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Speaker 4: and he just he picked me up and I really

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Speaker 2: Yeah, like you thank you, thank you for sat that.

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Speaker 7: He's going a yeah, yeah, definitely thanks for making contract.

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Speaker 7: Yeah absolutely, I just go ahead and go for here.

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Speaker 2: How's unming on treating so far?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, that's been great, especially when we get some nice weather.

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Speaker 6: Had a few good days like that. He finally got my,

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Speaker 6: my wife and some moved out here. So doing a

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Speaker 6: the area. It's a it's been it's been nice for sure.

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Speaker 2: So let's what's up.

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Speaker 1: It's a doctor in nickname?

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Speaker 2: Uh is that coach brable or not? An start? Yeah?

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Speaker 6: I guess that was my rookie year. He's just started

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Speaker 6: calling me doctor Gibbee. Uh like in rookie mini camp

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Speaker 6: and stuff.

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Speaker 2: Uh, I was answered.

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Speaker 6: He likes to ask a lot of questions quiz people

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Speaker 6: me doctor. I had to let him know that I

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Speaker 6: didn't study medicine school, but uh yeah, he's let me

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Speaker 6: know it was a joke.

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Speaker 2: So when you come back here, is that that continued

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Speaker 2: just him?

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Speaker 1: Really?

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Speaker 6: Not many other people have caught on to it, but

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Speaker 6: uh yeah, he still calls me doc every now and then.

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Speaker 2: What's the idea to playing for Yeah?

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Speaker 6: I definitely just really appreciate, uh the type of program

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Speaker 6: that he builds where it's built on effort and knowing

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Speaker 6: what to do, playing really hard, being accountable to your teammates.

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Speaker 6: He hold everyone to the same standard, and I think

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Speaker 6: he gives opportunities. He always says that they're gonna treat

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Speaker 6: you how you treat the team, and uh, I really

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Speaker 6: appreciated that with my time in Tennessee. And that's a

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Speaker 6: a big reason why I wanted to come out here,

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Speaker 6: is just I just love the accountability and kind of

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Speaker 6: the you get what you work for here.

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Speaker 2: What does that mean, Mike?

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Speaker 6: You said that a number of times, how you treat

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Speaker 6: the team in your in your mind.

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Speaker 5: With what does that mean?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 6: So, I mean if you treat the team right, you

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Speaker 6: show up every day prepared, you play hard, you're a

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Speaker 6: good teammate, like, then they're gonna treat you the right way.

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Speaker 6: If you're somebody who's not, uh, like, you're just not

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Speaker 6: gonna get as many opportunities. If you're not holding up

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Speaker 2: Thank you?

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Speaker 8: How are you feeling from this?

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Speaker 4: Austin them?

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Speaker 6: I'm out there doing everything and kind of working through it,

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Speaker 7: Like Spelling and others.

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Speaker 8: What's an example of that, like dug next level, that's

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Speaker 2: For sure.

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Speaker 5: Take two more, guys, you're only back day last year

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Speaker 2: Me of something.

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Speaker 1: Jack good, this your journey long long ups right, Yeah,

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's kind of been a crazy journey for me,

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Speaker 2: Thanks, thanks for all doing