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Speaker 1: This is Thursday night. For however many snaps you get,

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Speaker 1: you participate, You'll get some snaps for sure. Um, he's

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Speaker 1: that kind of a milestone to get through. You know

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Speaker 1: you said training camp was and pads was, and is

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Speaker 1: that the next one to get hit? Maybe getting knocked down? Absolutely? Absolutely, Yeah. Games,

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Speaker 1: game reps are huge for me, you know, especially coming

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Speaker 1: from the injury from last year. This is gonna this

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Speaker 1: is gonna be the real test um, live flying bullets.

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Speaker 1: So I'm looking forward to it, not only for me

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Speaker 1: but for the group. What's been the more agonizing weight

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Speaker 1: from last year's injury to this or for that first

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Speaker 1: game ever for five years you have to wait? I

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Speaker 1: think I think the injury more than every Yeah, because

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Speaker 1: um just because like I worked so hard to get

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Speaker 1: to that point and then it just got taken away

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Speaker 1: from me like that. So it's like I'm waiting again,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So I think this, this

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Speaker 1: waiting game was a lot longer. You feel like a

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Speaker 1: guy who's played more than eight career starts, like I mean,

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Speaker 1: it feels like you're counted on as like kind of

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Speaker 1: a sure thing. And when I look at only eight

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Speaker 1: career starts, isn't that many. There's rookies, but more than that,

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Speaker 1: you know, yeah, sure, yeah, I mean yeah, I only

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Speaker 1: have eight games under my belt, and you know, I

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Speaker 1: just plan on making it more. And by by doing that,

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Speaker 1: I just got a quiet there and execute every day

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Speaker 1: with the ones. So I'm not looking at you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm not looking at my game reps. You're just trying

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Speaker 1: to build all day by day from here on out, John,

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Speaker 1: is the very thing your game has lost or gained

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Speaker 1: during your calmon lessons during your come back here? Um,

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Speaker 1: not so much my game. The only thing I gained.

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Speaker 1: I just more appreciation for the game. You know. I

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Speaker 1: just when I worked so hard to get to the

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Speaker 1: point where I was last year, I never thought I

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Speaker 1: was gonna get hurt and never crossed my mind. So

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Speaker 1: I just had more appreciation for the game for sure.

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Speaker 1: You know. Obviously getting hurt that early stinks. Yeah, getting

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Speaker 1: hurt any of time, guys, But I mean it also

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Speaker 1: gave you more time. I mean, it's post a guy

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Speaker 1: getting hurt in weeks seventeen. I mean, do you do

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Speaker 1: you feel that there's been so much time that gives

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Speaker 1: you that much more confidence? It's all absolutely yeah, Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, I just took. I just took for what

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Speaker 1: it was when I got hurt, you know, I just

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Speaker 1: that's I accepted that I was going to be hurt

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Speaker 1: that year, I wasn't gonna play. So I just rehab,

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Speaker 1: got stronger, try to get um, you know, just try

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Speaker 1: to get healthy and then just try to get um

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Speaker 1: into that playboard, try to get familiar with the system.

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Speaker 1: And it's paid off for me for sure because now

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Speaker 1: this year versus last year, UM schematic wise, the scheme wise,

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Speaker 1: I'm much more comfortable this year than last year because

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Speaker 1: you're you. You look back out here in the spring

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Speaker 1: and you really haven't missed anything, yeah this summer. Do

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Speaker 1: you think people underappreciate or undervalue the severity of your

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Speaker 1: injury and how just how bad it was, Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: mean I think people do. But I mean, I mean

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Speaker 1: people are just expecting results. Man, They just wanted you

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Speaker 1: can either do the job or you can't. So I

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Speaker 1: think that's where I'm at right now. I'm just trying

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Speaker 1: to get it done for our group, for the old

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Speaker 1: line group, and for our teenagers. So do you even

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Speaker 1: think about it anymore? No? You got rolled up on

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Speaker 1: once earlier in camp I remember twice. That's why, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't I don't think about it. I don't even

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Speaker 1: wear tape anymore out there. I just the only time

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Speaker 1: I think about Somebody asked her about it so far, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: did you know you were going to be back? Did

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Speaker 1: they like in December? Did they say, hey, don't worry

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Speaker 1: Because they didn't actually resign until like February. There was

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Speaker 1: no for sure answer. Um. I had good conversations with

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Speaker 1: my coaches here and there towards the end of the season, UM,

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Speaker 1: here and there with Gettlement, but there was no for

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Speaker 1: sure answer that was coming back. But I just knew

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Speaker 1: that if I just kept trying to, you know, get healthy,

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Speaker 1: you know, get back to where I was physically and mentally,

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Speaker 1: I'd have a chance. So