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Speaker 1: Joining me now the newest Indianapolis Colts and a guy

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Speaker 1: who knows Indy incredibly well.

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Speaker 2: Second round selection by the Colts, Juju Brent, a guy

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Speaker 2: who grew.

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Speaker 1: Up on the east side of Indianapolis, graduated from Warren.

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Speaker 2: Central High School. I don't even feel like we should

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Speaker 2: be doing this on zoom.

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Speaker 1: You should just drive on over right now, because I

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Speaker 1: think you're basically down the street right yeah, right.

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Speaker 3: Around the corner.

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Speaker 4: I might as well just go ahead, come to the

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Speaker 4: facility right now.

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Speaker 2: What has this weight been like?

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Speaker 1: Awaiting that phone call and then ultimately hearing Chris Ballard

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Speaker 1: on the other end of the line.

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Speaker 3: It's crazy.

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Speaker 4: It's just been a blessing, you know, just just going

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Speaker 4: through this process, no playing the waiting game, you know,

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Speaker 4: just dealing with not knowing how I want to play out,

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Speaker 4: just keep my face strong in God and just knowing

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Speaker 4: when I get the opportunity, I'm gonna take the hip,

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Speaker 4: take the most advantage of it.

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Speaker 3: In a what bitter way for.

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Speaker 4: Me to be back at home in my hometown where

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Speaker 4: I grew up, grew up being a coachman. You know,

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Speaker 4: it's crazy. It's harked me really to put it into words,

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Speaker 4: But uh, it's amazing. It's an amazing feeling. You know,

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Speaker 4: I'm kind of just on sky high right now, trying

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Speaker 4: to come back down to earth. But uh, it's crazy.

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Speaker 2: Who is with you right now? Who are you able

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Speaker 2: to share this day with?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, all my friends and family, you know, definitely with

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Speaker 4: me being back home, had the opportunity just to bless

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Speaker 4: them to be able to you know, the ones who's

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Speaker 4: been been there with me, you know, my high school coaches,

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Speaker 4: frands and family, family traveling in town. Definitely my my parents,

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Speaker 4: you know, just to bring in and bring it in

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Speaker 4: with them though. It was great, you know, so just

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Speaker 4: having all my friends and family around me, know, the

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Speaker 4: ones who helped me get to this point.

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Speaker 1: I know you were battling a bit of an injury

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Speaker 1: leading up to this point, through the draft process.

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Speaker 2: You were here for local Pro Day.

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Speaker 1: What vote of confidence is this for the Colts in

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Speaker 1: you selecting you where they did despite maybe some of

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Speaker 1: the limitations that you had in the workout process, local

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Speaker 1: Pro Day and those things.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, it was something I dealt with throughout

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Speaker 4: the season and you know, just playing with it and

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Speaker 4: go ahead and dealing with it after the season and

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Speaker 4: getting that done was small for sure.

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Speaker 3: But man, just I just want to say big thank

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Speaker 3: you to.

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Speaker 4: But this is mister Blaerd and mister R say, you know, uh,

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Speaker 4: just give me this opportunity, man, and believe in me

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Speaker 4: knowing I had, you know, just something minor, but still

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Speaker 4: just putting their trust to me and to come in

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Speaker 4: and get to work.

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Speaker 3: You know, you not winning coach with the Indy on

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Speaker 3: and it's it's great, man.

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Speaker 4: So I'm just looking forward to continue to keep progressive

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Speaker 4: with my rehab and just put my best for it

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Speaker 4: for the coach.

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Speaker 2: You got emotional right there. Described to me the emotion

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Speaker 2: right now, and.

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Speaker 4: It's just you never really know how to We don't

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Speaker 4: really know how the story is gonna be, man, and

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Speaker 4: it's it's crazy.

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Speaker 3: It's tough. No' been through a lot by the adversity.

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Speaker 4: Just continue to keep my head down, continue to keep working,

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Speaker 4: you know, keep my faith in God, and just keep

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Speaker 4: working every day knowing I had this end on my mind,

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Speaker 4: you know, just to see all the the planing and

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Speaker 4: the cultivating I put it and now just finally get

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Speaker 4: to cultivating and uh and Harvard those you know, those

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Speaker 4: all work I'll put in it's a blessing.

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Speaker 1: I know there are so many excited people to see

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Speaker 1: you get here to the cult organization. At the top

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Speaker 1: of that list, Ron my List, who could not contain him.

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Speaker 2: Selfie, I had to call you as quickly as he could.

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Speaker 1: What did Coach my List tell you about the expectation

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Speaker 1: and how excited he is to get you here and get.

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Speaker 3: You to work one hundred percent?

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Speaker 4: This is that you get being part of the organization,

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Speaker 4: you know, just being around great guys, guys like me

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Speaker 4: to just come in, just want to work, man, just

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Speaker 4: want to work. Going an easy bu car and go

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Speaker 4: get it. So that's the saying time of mentality, I'm

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Speaker 4: gonna have. It's got me to this point in my life.

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Speaker 4: I'm a continue to carry that on throughout my journey

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Speaker 4: on in the NFL. So, you know, just calming in

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Speaker 4: and ready to work, man, I'm just so excited to

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Speaker 4: do so.

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Speaker 2: Juju enjoyed celebrating tonight.

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Speaker 1: Hey, since you're still close, we'll just see you here

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Speaker 1: in the facility tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: Okay, we'll go ahead and get to work right now.

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Speaker 3: Let's do it.

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Speaker 1: Congratulat enjoyed this time celebrating with your family.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, I appreciate you,