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Speaker 1: when I first rolled my ankle, uh, I kind of

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Speaker 1: just frustrated. Uh. I knew that I had to say

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Speaker 1: out the rest of the game, and um, I feel

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Speaker 1: looked like you didn't want to get on the cart

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Speaker 1: for a while, or that just because you didn't want

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Speaker 1: to believe that you had the Uh. Yeah, I didn't

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Speaker 1: So I didn't want to have that mentality. But as

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Speaker 1: clear as you guys saw, my ankle's kind of hard

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Speaker 1: But yeah, that was a constantly telling I had behind it.

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Speaker 1: Was there any point where you thought it was worse

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Speaker 1: than it is, like where you thought it was problem,

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Speaker 1: You never know until you get the X rays and

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Speaker 1: m rs um, yeah, going into it, obviously you want

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Speaker 1: to have positive thinking, um, positive thoughts. But obviously you know,

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Speaker 1: just coming from a major knee injury then an ankle

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Speaker 1: but what it could have been? We were up, we

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Speaker 1: were now any wise, I guess ldy wise what what

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Speaker 1: taking the day by dad, Uh, listen to the trainers, Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, just gonna attack to rehab process and uh,

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Speaker 1: there on the um, go out there and trying contribute.

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Speaker 1: This is obviously every situation is different, but in nineteen

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Speaker 1: you had the high ankle in week two. Last year

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Speaker 1: out maddening frustrating. Is it that these things keep popping

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Speaker 1: last year, they wrecked your year. You know, like, um, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'll be honest, it's frustrated. H doesn't make sense, Um,

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Speaker 1: why is happening? But you know, obviously when you get hurt,

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Speaker 1: the ankles runing. Obviously it was knee injury. It's probably

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Speaker 1: a little longer, but you have those days to reflect

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Speaker 1: But you can't keep that, you can't keep that mondseet

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Speaker 1: having that mindset. You're not getting anywhere with it. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, just you gotta look on the right aside

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Speaker 1: everything have before reasons this could slow me down, to

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Speaker 1: help me out in other ways, to get get myself

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Speaker 1: ready and whenever I'm get back on the field, just

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Speaker 1: me back next week? I don't. I don't plan to

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Speaker 1: put any expectations on you know, the the day or

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Speaker 1: and take advantage of it. Play on a bad acto before?

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Speaker 1: Would you be any more cautious and try to heal

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Speaker 1: it more this time just because you've just gotten back

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Speaker 1: present rather than playing on a bad act um. I

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Speaker 1: don't think that I can contribute or I don't think

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Speaker 1: that I can protect myself. So no matter if this

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go. You said three more. You said, can

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Speaker 1: blessing in disquise. I'm I'm creative to be a blessing

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Speaker 1: but just gonna be a little bumping, just gonna take

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Speaker 1: advantage of you know, continue to rehab money and get

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Speaker 1: I maybe we'll go back out there before go and

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Speaker 1: attack it any after me. When you got hurt, so

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Speaker 1: you're set another bench, your holments off and got looking

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Speaker 1: I mean I don't I don't mean it sounded like

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Speaker 1: guy's mind if you just rehab for ten of eleven

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Speaker 1: got hurt by rolling your ankle, by stepping on someone

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Speaker 1: else foot. Um, you're gonna be frustrated, You're gonna be exhausted. Um.

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Speaker 1: You know you're human. Human, so obviously you have those

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Speaker 1: But like I said, I'm human, and it's it's it's

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Speaker 1: ready to go back to work and continue get better.

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Speaker 1: You want to have long term financial security in this league.

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Speaker 1: Everyone knows, you know, most guys don't want to play

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Speaker 1: yet another thing where, through no faults of your own,

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Speaker 1: that's the last thing that's crossing my mind is you know,

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Speaker 1: my only focus is going home, rehaving still trying to

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Speaker 1: be the best Dada I can be, be the best brother,

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Speaker 1: back on football field and doing what I love and

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Speaker 1: playing support that I love since I was a little kid.

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Speaker 1: Yeah that your ship said, the place just mad yourself

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Speaker 1: what love man, whatever you're blame in your song. Um,

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Speaker 1: I mean yeah, I guess so. I mean who else

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Speaker 1: And I guess some people are saying that it might

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Speaker 1: have been intentional. I mean, I just happened to land

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Speaker 1: amazing him like that I did on purpose. Now I've

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Speaker 1: uh since I've been in NFL. Um, he's not that

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Speaker 1: mean and me and being mad at myself, that's the

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Speaker 1: one thing I could be right there. Uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: you just got hurt again. Um you know you're gonna

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Speaker 1: be out for how long? You don't know, So you're frustrated.

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Speaker 1: So that's what I meant about saying. Now,