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Speaker 1: Ready for Christmas and Hanukkah and what everybody else it's celebrating.

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Speaker 1: Oh okay, bill, Um when you hear him like independent contractor,

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Speaker 1: do you see a lot of rookies can do the

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Speaker 1: wrong thing or you know in that way. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: think we all are right to a certain degree. Um,

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Speaker 1: but we come as a team and we all help

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Speaker 1: each other out. This place especially helps uh younger guys

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Speaker 1: try to grow. They have a lot of older guys

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Speaker 1: to look up to, um, including myself. I'm now an

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Speaker 1: older guy. But you have a lot of veteran presence

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Speaker 1: here now, so I've seen Jakobe grow just from where

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Speaker 1: he started to where he's at now. I professional wise, Um,

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Speaker 1: how he's made fun of him, Mike, you know you

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Speaker 1: have an opportunity. You need to get your in shape,

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Speaker 1: you know, because he was huffing and puffing as a

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Speaker 1: rookie and he was getting reps with the first team

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Speaker 1: and he's in the best shape he's ever been, and

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Speaker 1: he's looking fabulous, and he's blocking his ass off. He's

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Speaker 1: doing a lot of good things and a lot of

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Speaker 1: people it goes unnoticed with Jacobi, but he's doing a

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Speaker 1: really good job being a professional and handle it on

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Speaker 1: the field and off. I know this summer a lot

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Speaker 1: of passes now. Last year in Miami and you said

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Speaker 1: ten this year. It's something click, you know, and I'm

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Speaker 1: part of your gamer getting Did anything change or what

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Speaker 1: would you attribute to just to the success that you're having,

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Speaker 1: sort of like the past defense game. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I feel like I've always had a knack for the ball.

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Speaker 1: I mean since I've been here, I've been anytime there's

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Speaker 1: been a turnover. I feel like I try to hold

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Speaker 1: when it happens or be the cause of it. As something,

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Speaker 1: I pride myself on being disruptive player, and I think

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Speaker 1: a lot of guys in there do the same thing.

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Speaker 1: You just try to be very disruptive on defense. I've

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Speaker 1: done that ever since I've gotten here, and you know,

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Speaker 1: this year has just been a little bit more towards that.

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Speaker 1: I take pride in being good at everything. Set in

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Speaker 1: the edge. I stole a comment from John Simon. Usually

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Speaker 1: we play on Sunday, so the edge is set on

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Speaker 1: Saturday and during while I'm playing in coverage, you know,

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Speaker 1: just try to make the playoff. It's in my area.

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Speaker 1: So just things are instinctual this year, and guys, everybody's

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Speaker 1: on a string and we're just playing good ball right now.

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Speaker 1: Just got to keep it going. You say that again,

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Speaker 1: you know I I did. I played a lot of

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Speaker 1: dropping in the half, uh and quarters, So you know,

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Speaker 1: tribute to college coaches getting me right for being able

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Speaker 1: to digest a lot of different coverages in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: Said earlier this week that you do a good job

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Speaker 1: good job of listening to the quarterback? That's nice. Snap

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Speaker 1: stuff help you especially in this Uh. Yeah, I like

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Speaker 1: to say I'm one of the smartest players in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: You know, like I do a lot of study. I

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Speaker 1: I listened to older guys when they talk to me

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Speaker 1: growing up, you know, as you get older, your athleticism

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Speaker 1: knowing what the other team's doing. And it's fun calling

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Speaker 1: out their plays and you know, there's it goes back

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Speaker 1: But you know that's sick like you do. I'm I'm

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Speaker 1: like Tony Romo for a second, you know, but I

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Speaker 1: pride in it. It's it's not just me as a group.

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Speaker 1: you know you like to listen to older guys for advice.

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Speaker 1: unfortunately we traded our guy Jamie who we're all we're

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Speaker 1: So he didn't. He had liked me for a little bit, right,

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Speaker 1: And um at first I had to ask him where

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Speaker 1: I was like, you know what, I gotta this to

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Speaker 1: make it his job easier. I gotta learn the defense

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Speaker 1: at that point, I think they gave me the green

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Speaker 1: that he didn't ever have to worry about what I'm doing.

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Speaker 1: But then it happened so fast to where we're on

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Speaker 1: he's thinking, but imagine that. But now I have guys

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Speaker 1: You know, same thing with Jamie, same thing with ban,

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Speaker 1: same thing with LG. D. Mac. And we're just trying

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Speaker 1: to make that even more, grow that group as fast

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Speaker 1: everybody's going to be at the exact moment, and that's

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Speaker 1: when you're playing good football. Right now, we're playing good football.

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Speaker 1: We just got to keep doing that consistently. But it's

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Speaker 1: do his job. Does it help you too? And you know,

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Speaker 1: for whatever reason something goes wrong because every one of

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Speaker 1: the defense understands it from a larger accountabolistic, a bigger picture.

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Speaker 1: One hundred percent, Yeah, one hundred percent. I think if

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Speaker 1: you have the bigger picture, if everybody understands that, but

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Speaker 1: make up for it. And then PFF can give you

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Speaker 1: a good grade. Let me stage, well, what do you

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Speaker 1: think underrated? Right taught one of the best safeties to

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Speaker 1: ever play the game. Right goes unnoticed, does his job

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Speaker 1: communicates It's like a picture out there calls a perfect game.

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Speaker 1: People don't have. People have no idea. Right, it's kind

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Speaker 1: of it's kind of wild that he's not up with

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Speaker 1: some of the best um each and every year. He

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Speaker 1: can do it all cover man to man, drop half

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Speaker 1: tackles really pretty good. Uh just can do it all.

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Speaker 1: And he's a really good player. And you know, I

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Speaker 1: how d Yeah, I think he's done unbelievable. Um. Obviously

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Speaker 1: it's no easy task to be the Patriots signal call

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Speaker 1: or slash face of the defense for a long time. UM,

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Speaker 1: you have to have a lot of trust from um

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Speaker 1: the headman. So that just is kudos to him of

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Speaker 1: this is just beyond football too. He talked to somebody

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Speaker 1: and how regard. That's just who he is. And it

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Speaker 1: thing for me. He holds me to a high standard,

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Speaker 1: and I appreciate it. It's made me a better football player.

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Speaker 1: It's made me try to reach higher heights because that's

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Speaker 1: the standard. He has for himself. I mean, he's still

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Speaker 1: But to him it means the world. And that's why

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Speaker 1: guys could argue when he's done that he's a gold coat,

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