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Speaker 1: If someone said, can you name every stop you've been

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Speaker 1: at in order, could you do it? You could do it.

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Speaker 1: I went to the Jets for like ten days. They

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Speaker 1: caught me. And then I went to Cleveland. No, no, no.

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Speaker 1: Then I went to San franc Seattle, Cleveland, back to Seattle, Jacksonville, Uh, Cincinnati.

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Speaker 1: I traded to Denver, back to Cincinnati. There was a

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Speaker 1: of the Wikipedia. But what what was that experienced? Like,

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Speaker 1: I mean, to be so transient, you know, as a

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Speaker 1: they want to play ten years and stuff that you

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Speaker 1: start to realize. Um, especially after when I was a

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Speaker 1: Seattle the first time around. Um, you know, I learned

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Speaker 1: so much from Bobby and kJ in a matter of

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Speaker 1: two weeks that you know, I knew I had so

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Speaker 1: much more to improve on as a player and as

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Speaker 1: a person as well. And um, I knew once I

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Speaker 1: got a second chance again, a matter where I was

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Speaker 1: gonna be, I was gonna just try to make the

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Speaker 1: most of it. And I had a whole new approach

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Speaker 1: cooling too. My second year for sure. Did you have

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Speaker 1: like any doubts along the way about like you know what,

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Speaker 1: maybe they're just not gonna no, I mean, um not

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Speaker 1: really just because you know, once once I was in

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Speaker 1: crazy for me. It was just you know, a matter

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Speaker 1: of getting that opportunity. Yeah, so surprises this locker room

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Speaker 1: that Blake isn't Blake was lek Um. You know, I'm

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Speaker 1: I'm not really sure. I mean, you know, we we've

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Speaker 1: I think we're all you know, gell and good in

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Speaker 1: the chemistry is there right now and you know, going

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Speaker 1: to week one, that's definitely what we want. Um, I

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Speaker 1: guess what would you say, like who giants fans look

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Speaker 1: at us since you know, they know who Blake Martinez

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Speaker 1: other guys and are so like what would you say

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Speaker 1: to say, like, you know what, it's gonna be fine,

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Speaker 1: like ye down, Um, you know I got I got experience.

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Speaker 1: I played before. Um, I actually grew up like minutes

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Speaker 1: over here, so this is home for me and um,

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Speaker 1: you know, there's a little more comfortability here and not

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Speaker 1: traveling over the place. My dogs right down the road

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Speaker 1: and my family and um, you know, I think a

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Speaker 1: lot of these guys. You know what people don't realize

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Speaker 1: right now is especially the linebacker room. We got a

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Speaker 1: bunch of guys who got come in here every day

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Speaker 1: and grind and um, you know the teams I've been on,

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Speaker 1: like the Bengals, you know you have a room. There's

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Speaker 1: only one or two big name guys. The only thing

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Speaker 1: got a group. It's want to do that. And I'm

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Speaker 1: excited to see where you go. Where did you go? Dambray, Connecticut?

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Speaker 1: It's like an hour and you shod your your daughter.

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Speaker 1: There's no dog. Dog, I got a little puppy. Yeah

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Speaker 1: it dozen shouldn't say the dog doesn't stay with you. No,

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Speaker 1: my my family is taking camera right now. But I

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Speaker 1: gotta get a situation. You're busy, Yeah, I'm a little busy.

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Speaker 1: Last made a start. There's two thousand nineteen, So what's

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Speaker 1: it going to be like if you're on the field

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Speaker 1: for the first play like this week. Is it emotional?

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Speaker 1: Is it nerve wracking? Is excited? Like what they go

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Speaker 1: three years without a start in Little League and then

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Speaker 1: get one. It's pretty unusual. Yeah, I mean, I'm definitely excited.

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Speaker 1: I've been waiting for this opportunity to come around, and

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Speaker 1: I knew I could do it. Like I said before,

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Speaker 1: it's just a matter of getting you know, a group

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Speaker 1: of coaches in the front office that believes in being

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm happy I found I found that here

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Speaker 1: and um, you know, I'm just gonna keep playing fast

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Speaker 1: What do you think it says about you that you've

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Speaker 1: gotten so many opportunities? It's a league that kicks people

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Speaker 1: that's crazy. Um, I think more than anything, it's just

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Speaker 1: hard to you know, put my feeling the ground. Um.

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Speaker 1: But here they're trying to create culture and we've got

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Speaker 1: a bunch of guys in this locker room. More than

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Speaker 1: want to do that, so I'm happy to be a

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Speaker 1: faced Derrick Henry? Yeah, Jacksonville, Okay, Yeah, what's it like

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Speaker 1: to tackle Derrick Henry versus any other running back? I

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Speaker 1: when you're moving around all that time, like you've just

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Speaker 1: Like from just a him and being perspective for living

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Speaker 1: on would tell U did you ever get an apartment?

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Speaker 1: My rookie year was only year I was really bounced

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Speaker 1: around like that. Um. And then after that for the

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Speaker 1: beginning of the the week, the beginning of the season, I

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Speaker 1: I didn't fully look at that kind of blended together

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Speaker 1: as I'm sure it has potentially there a little bit

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Speaker 1: for you right, Yeah, blended together. Yeah, I mean there

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Speaker 1: it all worked out well. It does get cold there.

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Speaker 1: You can get a little chill. Yeah, you got a

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Speaker 1: little chillly tjuis the end. But I was on the

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Speaker 1: beach every proday, so