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Speaker 1: Rico Deldo get to the call. He run really hard,

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Speaker 1: he finds pres and he attacks.

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Speaker 2: He's so hard to fort del.

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Speaker 1: Rico. Was Mike McCarthy the main reason why you wanted

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Speaker 1: to come to Pittsburgh?

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Speaker 2: He was definitely one of the main reasons why I

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Speaker 2: chose here when my agent started talking to them and

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Speaker 2: he was like, Pittsbury the opportunity and like reaching out.

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Speaker 2: But like I said, opportunity and coach McCarthy definitely played

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Speaker 2: a big factor to me choosing Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 1: What did you like about him as a coach.

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Speaker 2: He's a player's coach, you know. One of the main

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Speaker 2: things for me just getting with him. I think it

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Speaker 2: helped me going through injuries in college. Think he helped

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Speaker 2: me get my body to his best form, and it's

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Speaker 2: obviously helped me get to where I'm at today. I

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Speaker 2: think that was one of the major things for me though,

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Speaker 2: just injuries and how he reacts to with his players

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Speaker 2: and stuff like that.

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Speaker 1: You've had back to back one thousand yard seasons. Does

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Speaker 1: that mean anything to you or is that kind of,

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Speaker 1: you know, something a stat that's on the outside and

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Speaker 2: I wanna say it not necessarily does. It doesn't mean

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Speaker 2: something to me, but I mean it's kind of behind

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Speaker 2: me now and now it's can I go do it again?

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Speaker 2: I gotta go do it again this year. It don't

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Speaker 2: it doesn't really matter. I've got to where I'm at now.

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Speaker 2: I did it, and I'm definitely proud and that I've

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Speaker 2: did that, being able to accomplish that being undrafted and

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Speaker 2: things like that. But you gotta continue to go put

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Speaker 2: my best foot for it and do it again. Let's

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Speaker 2: to go.

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Speaker 1: You mentioned being undrafted. Jalen Warren was also undrafted. Is

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Speaker 1: there like a chip on your shoulder because of that

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Speaker 1: or is that kind of in the past?

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Speaker 2: Uh? I think it. It definitely uh puts a chip

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Speaker 2: on your shoulder when you uh, when you go undrafted

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Speaker 2: because for god like me, I always had to make

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Speaker 2: the team fight for my spot and just continue to

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Speaker 2: keep fighting. So it definitely ay, and it kind of

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Speaker 2: gives you the sense that you were overlooked and things

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Speaker 2: like that. But you know, everybody doesn't get drafted. Everybody

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Speaker 2: has their own path. But I definitely would say it

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Speaker 2: puts a chip on your shoulder and it just pushs

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Speaker 2: gets you want.

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Speaker 1: You're as head coach Dave Canalis, he said that you

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Speaker 1: run with tempo and violence. True.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I could say it's some truth to that. Yeah, tempa. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I definitely want to be patient a little bit trying

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Speaker 2: and fill it out and go and then be violent

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Speaker 2: once I do get north and south. So yeah, definitely

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Speaker 2: tape pride and being violent when I'm running football.

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Speaker 1: Has that always been the tape of running back you

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Speaker 1: wanted to be from you know, high school to college

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Speaker 1: before coming to the NFL.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I definitely say I always ran kind of even

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Speaker 2: since I was little. Ya always when you was a

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Speaker 2: little kid, you see somebody get rand over, it's like, oh,

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Speaker 2: like trust that. Yes, I definitely think I've been like

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Speaker 2: that since I was little.

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Speaker 1: I saw in high school. I believe your senior year

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Speaker 1: you had to move to quarterback. Things went extremely well

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Speaker 1: for your team. What did that perspective help in terms

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Speaker 1: of being a running back and seeing more from a

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Speaker 1: quarterback's point of view.

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Speaker 2: I think it helped me like just understand defenses better

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Speaker 2: than honestly, you know, high school. It's not the same

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Speaker 2: level high school as there is in college and the NFL,

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Speaker 2: but just getting back there from from seeing the defense

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Speaker 2: from a quarterback perspective. I've been able to do that

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Speaker 2: and I've been the third like emergency quarterback for the

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Speaker 2: past two for the Cowboys, then for the Panthers last year.

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Speaker 2: I've been the emergency quarterback on game days and things

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Speaker 2: like that. But I definitely think it helped, like see

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Speaker 2: the defense and understanding a little bit better.

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Speaker 1: Last one for you, do you have a favorite player,

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Speaker 1: a favorite running back that you kind of grew up in,

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Speaker 1: like the way that they moved or how physical they were.

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Speaker 2: Oh wait, they move physical. I'll say Adrian Peterson for

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Speaker 2: like physicality, Marshaun Lynch guys like that physicalities. But my

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Speaker 2: favorite running back growing up was Reggie Bush. That's why

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Speaker 2: I we add at number five and things like that.

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Speaker 2: That was my favorite running back ground up.

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Speaker 1: All right, thanks for reco welcome to its perg. Thank you,