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Speaker 1: This is the OTP. I'm Amy Wells. Well, guys, since

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Speaker 1: it's the Christmas season, we figured we would give you

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Speaker 1: a little holiday gift. We've talked a lot about some

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Speaker 1: of the younger guys on this team and really building

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Speaker 1: the foundation for what the Tennessee Titans will be not

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Speaker 1: only in twenty twenty five, but twenty twenty six and beyond.

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Speaker 1: So in that spirit, it felt like the perfect time,

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Speaker 1: given the holidays and all, to give you a little

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Speaker 1: extra treat. And we've talked about it on various platforms.

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Speaker 1: You heard on an OTP earlier this week. Who this

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Speaker 1: person is? Taylor Zarzer spent some time with quarterback of

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Speaker 1: your Tennessee Titans, cam Ward, and I could spend a

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Speaker 1: lot of time talking about it and previewing it, but

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Speaker 1: I don't really think that's necessary. I don't think anybody

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Speaker 1: wants that. So we are just going to get straight

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Speaker 1: to the good stuff. Here's our very own TZ with

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Speaker 1: cam Ward.

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Speaker 2: Here he is, the quarterback has made his way to

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Speaker 2: the studio. Cam Ward coming off of a great performance

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Speaker 2: at least in my mind, twenty one to twenty eight,

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Speaker 2: passing two hundred twenty eight yards two touchdowns, a QBR

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Speaker 2: quarterback rating of one twenty two point three and most

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Speaker 2: importantly a twenty six to nine victory. When I say

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Speaker 2: all of that, what do you say.

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Speaker 3: I'd say it's good football from both sides. Complimentary. I

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Speaker 3: think offensively is our best game, being efficient the run

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Speaker 3: game in the past game. And I think that's why

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Speaker 3: I led to everybody, you know, having some good stats.

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Speaker 2: Why do you think that you guys played your best game?

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Speaker 3: Just the preparation, I would say, each and every week,

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Speaker 3: but every week we us as rookies were getting better

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Speaker 3: at some little that's gonna end up being a big

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Speaker 3: factor for us down the road. And you get a

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Speaker 3: chance to you know, bild with guys is gonna be

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Speaker 3: in the building for another year or two. And just

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Speaker 3: really the coaching staff, you know, putting together a great plan.

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Speaker 2: All right, We're gonna get back to present day in

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Speaker 2: a moment. But I have to know this, when did

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Speaker 2: you first love football?

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Speaker 4: First love football?

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Speaker 3: When I was when I was little, I liked playing it,

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Speaker 3: I would say, But I wouldn't think I cherished to

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Speaker 3: love for it until I would say it really like

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Speaker 3: towards the end of high school, early college, just because

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Speaker 3: I was always a big basketball guy. So when I

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Speaker 3: actually started taking football serious and you know, figuring out

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Speaker 3: what I could do, you know, with the football in

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Speaker 3: my hands, on learning more about offenses, I think just

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Speaker 3: every day just you know, got it trigguing to me

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Speaker 3: to you know, trying to get better at it.

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Speaker 2: So when you were a kid, there was a time

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Speaker 2: where you thought, I'm going to be a professional basketball player.

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Speaker 4: Yep.

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Speaker 3: I wanted to be a pro or something, whether it

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Speaker 3: was baseball, basketball and football. That was just always been

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Speaker 3: I got older, you know, my best chance you know

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Speaker 4: You know, I really just poured, you know, everything into it.

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Speaker 2: I know you have sisters that have been involved in basketball,

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Speaker 2: that have been involved in track and field. Your mother

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Speaker 2: was a high school basketball coach for a while. What

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Speaker 2: sport did the Ward family love the most?

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Speaker 4: Basketball? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Mom, Dad, sisters were big basketball family. To this day,

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Speaker 3: you know, they still love going to basketball games outside

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Speaker 3: of my games, but you know it is good to

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Speaker 4: Though.

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Speaker 2: Do you have a basketball team that you cheer.

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Speaker 3: For that I cheer for professionally? Yeah, I'm a Lakers guy,

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Speaker 3: big Kobe Bryant fans. So you know, I've always been

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Speaker 2: Whole family or Lakers fans or just you.

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Speaker 3: Really just me, okay that I can speak for. I'm

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Speaker 3: trying to my sisters should tell she's she likes the Lakers.

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Speaker 3: But I know I know us too for sure.

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Speaker 2: Now you just mentioned this. It was somewhere around the

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Speaker 2: for college that you really loved football. When did you

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Speaker 3: This game, really right once I got to UIW from

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Speaker 2: Because you were a wing tea quarterback in high school

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Speaker 2: be a big time thrower of the football until Eric Morris,

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Speaker 2: your head coach at an Incarnate Word, and until you

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Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure.

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Speaker 3: And I would say, really the the all the way

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Speaker 3: the ball just comes out different. And you know, Coach

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Speaker 3: Morris was, you know, the only coach to give me

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Speaker 2: So you go to Incarnate Word for a couple of years,

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Speaker 2: you come to the NFL. I'm wondering, Cam, what was

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Speaker 2: the biggest transition, the hardest one that you've ever had

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Speaker 3: I'd say the hardest transition I had to make was

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Speaker 3: probably the FCS to the FBS level, just because.

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Speaker 4: That's the true gap in.

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Speaker 3: You know, the defensive lines, the rush getting back there faster,

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Speaker 3: the fronts, because all the guys are the same, no

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Speaker 3: matter whether you FCS, FBS, or NFL. Everybody can you know,

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Speaker 3: run fast, catch the ball. But the biggest difference in

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So going from incarnate Word to Wazoo for Washington State,

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Speaker 2: I would imagine that was a personal adjustment too, from

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Speaker 3: Going to that cold man it ain't no joke. But

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Speaker 3: I mean football, you don't know where football could take you.

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Speaker 3: I'm glad I was able to you know, live you know,

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Speaker 3: I mean that place ain't nothing like it You're talking

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Speaker 3: love a football there. They got great people there. Uh

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Speaker 3: So it is a good two years for me.

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Speaker 2: I know you had a great experience there. Cam what

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Speaker 2: have you learned about yourself this year?

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Speaker 3: I think I learned about myself that I just have

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Speaker 3: to continue to, you know, get better each and every day,

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Speaker 3: no matter this year to next year, even in the future.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna have, you know, bad days, whether it's practice,

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Speaker 3: where it's games. But I think the more I continue

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Speaker 3: I'll be where I wanna be.

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Speaker 2: How would you describe this season playing on the Titans, I.

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Speaker 3: Would say from from a from a from a team standpoint,

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Speaker 3: from a feeling standpoint, has been nothing like it because

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Speaker 3: each and every week, the the margin area is so small,

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Speaker 3: and when you're in a lot of games like us

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Speaker 3: and then you have, you know, a couple bad plays,

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Speaker 3: you know it it unless you know you know where

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Speaker 3: you gotta get and what you can't do on certain Sundays.

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Speaker 4: So, uh, it's been fun.

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Speaker 3: I mean, the the locker room we have is great

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Speaker 3: guys from vets to to young guys, like myself. So

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Speaker 3: you know, I'm excited. You know what they have here

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Speaker 2: I can see it that you hate losing. You don't

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Speaker 2: like it when your team doesn't win. You desperately wanna win.

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Speaker 2: But I can also tell to what you just said,

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Speaker 2: the culture is really strong with your teammates.

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Speaker 3: It is for sure, nobody in the locker room wanna lose,

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Speaker 3: and we all take it to heart. You know, even

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Speaker 3: still got to be able to, you know, do something's

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Speaker 3: better to you know, not have them happen again at

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Speaker 3: right and we just got continue to you know, get

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Speaker 2: I also notice the practice each day. You love feedback.

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Speaker 2: You You're totally for it, whether it's your quarterback coach,

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Speaker 2: film study. You're always wanting feedback outside of this building, Cam,

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Speaker 2: who else do you get feedback from?

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Speaker 4: Really nobody.

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Speaker 3: I would say if if someone did, he'll give us

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Speaker 3: some feedback and I'll actually pay attend to it, probably

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Speaker 3: be my dad, Okay, But I mean a lot of

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Speaker 3: a high level, So why would you entertain it. It's

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Speaker 3: more of you know, everything stays in the building, and

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Speaker 3: you know the building knows the real problem.

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Speaker 4: We got to fix it as a building.

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Speaker 2: The reason why I asked is because I had a

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Speaker 2: chance to visit with Peyton Manning this offseason and he

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Speaker 2: said cam Ward called me unsolicited, just called me and

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Speaker 2: asked me a bunch of questions, and I thought that

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Speaker 2: was fascinating that you would reach out to somebody that

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Speaker 4: Yep, him, him, for sure.

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Speaker 3: And and Payn's more of a guy that I'll reach

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Speaker 3: you know what we got to do better as a team,

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Speaker 3: because I want to reach out to guys who's been

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Speaker 3: in my position, not be able to get what they

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Speaker 3: want early, gotta lose some games and really just trying

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Speaker 3: to get better each and every day. So you know,

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Speaker 3: having him in my corner, you know, it's it's the

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Speaker 3: me and him just texting every now and then.

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Speaker 4: You know, he really helps my game.

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Speaker 2: I've noticed this year that you like to get to

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Speaker 2: the facility. You like to get to the stadium before

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Speaker 2: everyone else. And when you're out at practice or preparing

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Speaker 2: for a game, you want to take every rep. When

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Speaker 2: I can see you you want to take their reps too.

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Speaker 3: Comes from being a sports family, honestly talking about somebody

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Speaker 3: It's just something that you, you know, you should want

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Speaker 3: I like playing the game, and really football, I mean football,

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Speaker 2: The season is going to end on Sunday, January the fourth.

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Speaker 2: How long How many days will you not pick up

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Speaker 3: I just you know it'll it'll never leave your mind.

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Speaker 4: Cam.

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Speaker 2: It's an honor to watch you play.

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Speaker 2: Merry Christmas. Let's get some more wins, sir, appreciate you.

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