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Speaker 1: Oh soon.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Ozone Podcast with Jaguars senior writer John Osher.

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Speaker 2: All Right, welcome to this week's Ozone podcast. And I'm

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Speaker 2: of people are. He's become a fan favorite because of

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Speaker 2: end Brenton Strange. Thanks for doing this on a important

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you having me on.

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Speaker 2: Have some fun and tell me about before we get started,

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Speaker 2: the mood of this team this week. I assume ultra

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Speaker 2: focus knowing what's at hand.

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Speaker 1: You know, I think we're just a hungry team.

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Speaker 3: Man. You know, every single opportunity that we have, we

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Speaker 3: want to rise to the occasion and just go out

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Speaker 3: That's the most important thing, is just going out there

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Speaker 3: and being who we are. And uh so, I just

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Speaker 2: Is this a you get a sense for the Titans

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Speaker 2: Jags rivalries? It becoming a thing? I mean, is it?

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Speaker 2: There's some chippiness with this game. There's some chippiness whenever

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think every game in the division

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Speaker 3: got to see them two times a year, so it's

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Speaker 3: always going to be some chippiness within it. Football is

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Speaker 3: you know, it just ends up being a little bit

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Speaker 2: Like I said, I know you guys think week to

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Speaker 3: I'll say, personally for me and my journey, I just

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Speaker 3: That's what we work hard for and there's no there's

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Speaker 3: So it's just about the preparation leading up to the

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Speaker 2: You strike me as a guy and who does things right,

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Speaker 2: immediately when this regime came in that it was going

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Speaker 2: Did you? And I guess how early did you feel

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Speaker 3: Not to speak on anybody else or anything in the past,

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Speaker 3: And I've said it every single time somebody asked me

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Speaker 3: But my favorite thing personally is just the energy that

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Speaker 2: I'm not going to put words in your mouth, but

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Speaker 3: It's very positive for me. I feel like my job

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Speaker 3: I asked me to do a lot. But that's the

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Speaker 2: So when they came in and said we're going to

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Speaker 1: Go, let's do it.

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Speaker 2: Gotcha. I think we talked about that a little last

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Speaker 2: And maybe that's why you were so ready this year.

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Speaker 2: How did you maintain that sort of confidence? And am

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Speaker 3: I mean I look back on it a lot too,

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Speaker 3: What can I do to make an impact for this team?

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Speaker 3: And in my first year, in the second year, it

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Speaker 3: But I was just you know, I put my head

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Speaker 1: I don't ever look at it anymore than that.

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Speaker 2: If I'm reading this wrong, let me know, But I

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Speaker 2: There's not a whole lot else that you like doing.

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Speaker 2: Is this sort of your hobby and your career? How

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Speaker 3: I I love football Without football, I mean, I still

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Speaker 3: But you know, I'm willing to do that. I'm willing

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Speaker 2: What's your second hobby after football?

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Speaker 3: it's just I've been so focused on this and trying

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Speaker 3: But right now it's football is the main thing, and

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Speaker 2: I'll put you to the test, what would you have

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Speaker 3: like that, you know, sadly, I mean, just like where

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Speaker 2: Have you always talked as much on the field as

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Speaker 2: I mean, it seems like you're having fun.

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Speaker 1: That was something that.

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Speaker 1: See what, see how how they're feeling today.

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Speaker 3: You know, you can say something to somebody and that

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Speaker 3: Then we're going to compete for the whole entire game.

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Speaker 3: So uh, it's it's just having fun with it, man,

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Speaker 2: I've asked this before, but I always love the answer.

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Speaker 2: I was asking tight ends this Prefer to block, prefer

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Speaker 2: to catch?

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Speaker 1: I mean what I answered last year, Well, you.

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Speaker 2: For you because you're good at both. But it seems

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Speaker 3: I just really doing the things to help my team

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Speaker 1: I'm a competitor at the end of the day.

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Speaker 3: So at the end of the day, I just want

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's super important to me. You know.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's one of my favorite parts about this city.

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Speaker 2: Because it's interesting. There's not a lot of guys that

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Speaker 2: Got you last thing we do caught the ozone five?

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Speaker 2: What was your last binge watch? And you can't say tape.

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Speaker 1: I'm watching Good Live right now, so that's it's really good. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I just started up before the game on Saturday night,

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Speaker 2: It's high end good. That's really good. Uh do you

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Speaker 1: This is what I do.

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Speaker 2: Got you your best sport than football?

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Speaker 2: That's fair. Your go to athlete.

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Speaker 2: Gotcha, Yeah, I never saw Jordan and his prime and

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Speaker 1: My go to show as a kid. I would probably say, like,

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Speaker 3: I watched a lot of different things growing up, but

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Speaker 2: That's right now, all rights all Britton Strange. I appreciate

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Speaker 2: doing podcast. Always enjoy.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate you, Appreciate you, sir,