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Speaker 1: What's Good command Is Family?

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Speaker 2: Brian Corper Junior here with your starting running back Brian

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Speaker 2: Robinson Jr. He is our first guy up on our

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Speaker 2: Next Man Up Podcast. We're talking about him being a

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Speaker 2: mama's boy. We're talking about the way he's acclivated into

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Speaker 2: this offense. We're talking about his mentality and also, b Rob,

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Speaker 2: lets us know what him and our Commander's family needs

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Speaker 2: from the commander's fans. In week three, What's Good Commander's Family?

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Speaker 2: Brian Coper Junior here, And this is your first ever

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Speaker 2: episode of the Next Man Up Podcast where I sit

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Speaker 2: down with your favorite Commanders players and we get into

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Speaker 2: the guy behind the helmet. You know, we're not really talking,

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Speaker 2: excell and as we're talking more about life, more about

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Speaker 2: what makes these men who they are, and when it

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Speaker 2: comes to stories, I don't know if there's a better

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Speaker 2: one in the NFL right now. So of course my

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Speaker 2: first guest had to be Brian Robinson Jr. Our starting

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Speaker 2: running back, second year man out of Alabama.

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Speaker 1: Brother, how you doing today, man?

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Speaker 3: Great?

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Speaker 1: I'm doing good man. I appreciate you.

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Speaker 3: Man.

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Speaker 2: Now I gotta go right into last Sunday Bro two

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Speaker 1: What was going right for you, Sunday.

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Speaker 4: Man, just really getting the rhythm, you know, finally catching

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Speaker 4: the rhythm of the game, and you know, just seeing

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Speaker 4: you know how that was going to attack me, and uh,

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Speaker 4: you know what was the best best way for me

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Speaker 4: to attack them?

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Speaker 3: Man? Uh?

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Speaker 4: You know by the time they start feeding me the ball,

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Speaker 4: I had it all figured out. You know, I knew

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Speaker 4: how I wanted to attack. Yeah, I just made the

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Speaker 4: most of my opportunities.

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Speaker 1: And brother, you definitely made the most of your opportunity.

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Speaker 2: And after one of your touchdowns, we in Mount High,

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Speaker 2: but you jumped into the fans, right, you jumped into

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Speaker 1: What was that like? Knowing that Commander fans?

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Speaker 3: Was that?

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Speaker 1: Did you know they was there when you jumped in?

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Speaker 2: Like?

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Speaker 1: What was that? What was that? Like?

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Speaker 3: What's how went into celebration mode?

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Speaker 4: I was like, you know, if I'm gonna do it,

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Speaker 4: like I always you know, I've seen people jump jump

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Speaker 3: Just it was a clear opportunity. I just took it.

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Speaker 4: I think that was probably what kind of influenced it

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Speaker 4: but like, you know, to just jump in their stands

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Speaker 3: You know that that felt good?

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Man, we got a lot of football to talk about.

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Speaker 2: But before that, man, I want to really get into you.

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Speaker 3: Man.

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Speaker 2: Like I said, you got an amazing story and you've

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Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. You have the incident, you

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Speaker 2: I mean, you come back very quickly. October ninth, twenty

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Speaker 4: I was just really disappointed, you know, from you know,

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Speaker 4: You know, guy here, you know, got started to get

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Speaker 4: I just really learned that I'm a super super resilient

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Speaker 2: You know, at this level, you've definitely came back and

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Speaker 1: Sometimes we feel a little alone.

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Speaker 2: Who is there for you during this process of the

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Speaker 1: Was anybody particular that helped you in that.

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Speaker 3: Uh, I get credit.

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Speaker 4: You know everybody around this building, you know, uh you

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: And I'm sure you had a whole city behind you

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Speaker 4: H Just you know, growing up there, you know, very

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Speaker 3: Until you know, Washington called me.

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Speaker 4: So I'm very thankful you know, from you know for uh,

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Speaker 2: And man, we're thankful that you ended up here, man,

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Speaker 2: what she's done for you, the sacrifice she made you mentioned, man,

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Speaker 2: she put her job on hold for you just to

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Speaker 4: Honestly, that was probably just the minimum of you know,

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Speaker 4: and we just you know, we just talked like adults now,

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Speaker 3: Now I'm telling you.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Now it's just me and you talking, right, Anybody else

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Speaker 3: So I was in the house.

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Speaker 4: It was just me and my sisters, like my oldest sister,

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Speaker 3: Everybody just got to flying every way.

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Speaker 4: And she told me she was gonna tell on me,

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Speaker 4: Like I don't even care to tell now you know

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Speaker 1: To this day. So she had no idea that you

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Speaker 2: There was no like smoke like any like nothing on

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Speaker 4: Oh you lucky that she didn't pay like she used

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Speaker 4: Then you know, by that time she getting home, we

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Speaker 4: So I'm really waiting up to see if my sister

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Speaker 2: You know, those similist stories are fun, man. You know

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Speaker 1: Now you're a big guy. You got to be a

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Speaker 2: I heard your mom used to have to walk around

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Speaker 1: They didn't believe you was the age that you were

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Speaker 4: So like my little league football games, I just come

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Speaker 4: you know the age, you know, the age group in

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that gotta be a little ego boost though

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Speaker 4: Like I was just having so much fun, Like I

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And a lot of folks can't fathom greatness R,

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Speaker 2: When was that moment when you were like, Okay, this

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Speaker 4: You know, so taking that jump from pee wee to

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Speaker 4: And I knew if I just outworked some you know,

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Speaker 2: Right, It's not something easy to do, especially when you

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Speaker 4: It's like my mom she very independent, self motivated, you know,

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Speaker 3: Why I couldn't apply myself.

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Speaker 4: And she used to, you know, hold me accountable to

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Speaker 4: So like it was hard for me to you know,

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Speaker 2: And man, I mean clearly it helped you get to

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Speaker 2: have handled the obstacles you had your rookie year and

440
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Speaker 2: come back so quickly. I mean, four weeks out, come

441
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Speaker 2: back week five. We talked about October nine. Now, brother,

442
00:18:05,200 --> 00:18:09,200
Speaker 2: you got the coldest walk out I've probably ever seen. Man,

443
00:18:09,760 --> 00:18:11,280
Speaker 2: I need to go back there with you. I need

444
00:18:11,320 --> 00:18:13,720
Speaker 2: you to talk to me about that many men's playing.

445
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Speaker 2: Did you know the song was playing? Did you know

446
00:18:15,440 --> 00:18:18,080
Speaker 2: that was coming? What's going through your mind right there? Man,

447
00:18:18,160 --> 00:18:20,840
Speaker 2: you are finally fulfilling your dream to be on an

448
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Speaker 2: NFL stage.

449
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Speaker 4: Talk about it, man, I honestly I was so emotional,

450
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Speaker 4: Like I didn't I didn't.

451
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Speaker 3: I didn't know about the song preference.

452
00:18:30,040 --> 00:18:32,399
Speaker 4: I ain't know who you know, preferred the song or

453
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Speaker 4: you know, decided to play it.

454
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Speaker 3: You know.

455
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Speaker 4: It just kind of like it caught me off guard,

456
00:18:36,680 --> 00:18:38,080
Speaker 4: just as much as it probably caught a lot of

457
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Speaker 4: more people out guard. Like, but I was so emotional,

458
00:18:41,520 --> 00:18:43,720
Speaker 4: just kind of caught up any emotions of you know,

459
00:18:43,880 --> 00:18:46,479
Speaker 4: about to finally be able to get my first career snap,

460
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Speaker 4: you know, and just being able to take the field again,

461
00:18:49,600 --> 00:18:52,399
Speaker 4: and you know, the entrance was you know, it was

462
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Speaker 4: it was it was lit like it was it was exciting,

463
00:18:55,560 --> 00:18:57,919
Speaker 4: you know, just because you know, I was listened to

464
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Speaker 4: fifteen minutes my whole life and like just that specific

465
00:19:01,359 --> 00:19:03,200
Speaker 4: song like men and Man if you listen to it,

466
00:19:03,280 --> 00:19:06,520
Speaker 4: like clearly, like you know exactly what he's saying. Yeah, So,

467
00:19:06,640 --> 00:19:10,639
Speaker 4: like it just was all we was just all working together,

468
00:19:10,720 --> 00:19:13,879
Speaker 4: you know, just for the perfect comeback entrance.

469
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Speaker 1: Real and it really was the perfect comeback.

470
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Speaker 3: Man.

471
00:19:16,040 --> 00:19:18,520
Speaker 2: And now we're in year two, two games and you

472
00:19:18,560 --> 00:19:22,399
Speaker 2: got three touchdowns? Would you say right now at this point,

473
00:19:22,600 --> 00:19:25,359
Speaker 2: because like I said, you didn't have a regular rookie season, right,

474
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Speaker 2: would you say, right now at this point, you're fully comfortable,

475
00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:30,480
Speaker 2: You're fully back, You fully feel like yourself again.

476
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Speaker 4: I definitely feel like I'm going one hundred miles an

477
00:19:37,160 --> 00:19:40,080
Speaker 4: hour in the right direction. You know, I can't really

478
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Speaker 4: tell you, like, you know, what my body was dealing with,

479
00:19:42,880 --> 00:19:46,400
Speaker 4: just with the trauma like gunshots and stuff like that,

480
00:19:47,160 --> 00:19:50,240
Speaker 4: but it's something that I feel like I can, you know,

481
00:19:50,359 --> 00:19:51,840
Speaker 4: eventually be able to put behind me.

482
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Speaker 3: And it's working progress.

483
00:19:53,280 --> 00:19:55,639
Speaker 4: And I've been working my butt off, you know that

484
00:19:56,040 --> 00:19:58,320
Speaker 4: I've been working my butt off so that I can

485
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Speaker 4: show up on Sundays and you know and look polished

486
00:20:01,160 --> 00:20:05,080
Speaker 4: and you know, look healthy and good regardless of you know,

487
00:20:05,640 --> 00:20:08,200
Speaker 4: what my body is, you know, going through like I said,

488
00:20:08,240 --> 00:20:11,000
Speaker 4: you know uh what I went through, you know, just

489
00:20:11,040 --> 00:20:14,600
Speaker 4: the trauma from you know, the gunshots. It's just a

490
00:20:14,680 --> 00:20:19,600
Speaker 4: work in progress to get you know, my muscles and everything.

491
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Speaker 3: Back up the part.

492
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Speaker 4: So man, I'm enjoying the process, you know, uh, you know,

493
00:20:26,160 --> 00:20:28,960
Speaker 4: still having fun, you know, making plays on Sundays. And

494
00:20:30,040 --> 00:20:32,359
Speaker 4: I ain't gonna complain. I ain't gonna complain about it

495
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Speaker 4: at all.

496
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Speaker 2: Oh man, that's beautiful, man, And a big part of

497
00:20:35,920 --> 00:20:38,120
Speaker 2: this dominance that we're seeing only from you, but from

498
00:20:38,119 --> 00:20:41,439
Speaker 2: this offense is new offensive coordinated, right Eric b Ene

499
00:20:41,520 --> 00:20:44,119
Speaker 2: me talk about Eb for a little bit and what

500
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Speaker 2: him being added to the puzzle has helped you and

501
00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:49,800
Speaker 2: your journey as a second year running back.

502
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Speaker 4: Well, you know, Eb, he is his own guy, man,

503
00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:56,640
Speaker 4: like he he literally is himself. You know, he can't

504
00:20:56,680 --> 00:20:59,399
Speaker 4: he can't be nobody but himself, and I respect that

505
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Speaker 4: bottom you know, Uh.

506
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Speaker 3: He pushed us, you know, to limits.

507
00:21:02,960 --> 00:21:04,920
Speaker 4: You know, you know some guy probably never thought their

508
00:21:05,040 --> 00:21:09,000
Speaker 4: reach and push us to those limits as a unit

509
00:21:09,280 --> 00:21:11,480
Speaker 4: and always making sure that we're playing for each other,

510
00:21:11,880 --> 00:21:14,320
Speaker 4: you know, and not letting the guys you know, you

511
00:21:14,320 --> 00:21:17,399
Speaker 4: know create you know, selfish behaviors and stuff like that.

512
00:21:17,560 --> 00:21:19,919
Speaker 4: Just make sure that we all playing together. And I

513
00:21:19,920 --> 00:21:23,440
Speaker 4: think that's the biggest thing that he emphasized that really

514
00:21:23,480 --> 00:21:25,800
Speaker 4: helps us, you know, kind of get on the same

515
00:21:25,880 --> 00:21:28,199
Speaker 4: page as an offense. You know, the fact that you know,

516
00:21:28,240 --> 00:21:31,639
Speaker 4: we all got to play for each other eventually, because

517
00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:34,399
Speaker 4: if the line don't block, I can't run. If I

518
00:21:34,440 --> 00:21:37,160
Speaker 4: don't block, the quarterback can't through. And just make sure

519
00:21:37,200 --> 00:21:40,560
Speaker 4: that we all know that, like you know, we were

520
00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:44,479
Speaker 4: all in this together, and just pushing us, you know,

521
00:21:44,560 --> 00:21:46,680
Speaker 4: to those limits that you know, guys never thought that

522
00:21:46,760 --> 00:21:47,920
Speaker 4: they can reach for real.

523
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Speaker 1: And he's clearly pushing you guys.

524
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Speaker 2: And another guy that seems to be getting pushed and

525
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Speaker 2: seems to be doing very well along yourself, as Sam Howell. Right,

526
00:21:54,320 --> 00:21:56,760
Speaker 2: you know, got a young quarterback here. You know a

527
00:21:56,800 --> 00:21:58,720
Speaker 2: lot of expectations was on him coming into the season.

528
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Speaker 2: How do you feel he's handle that? And just talk

529
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Speaker 2: about Sam Howe as a leader for you guys.

530
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Speaker 4: Sam has been probably one of the most poised guys

531
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Speaker 4: in the whole locker room dealing with you know what

532
00:22:07,160 --> 00:22:09,600
Speaker 4: he's been dealing with. Uh, there's a lot of pressure,

533
00:22:09,680 --> 00:22:11,560
Speaker 4: a lot of pressure to be a quarterback, a lot

534
00:22:11,600 --> 00:22:15,199
Speaker 4: of pressure to you know, be a starting quarterback. And

535
00:22:15,720 --> 00:22:17,919
Speaker 4: you know, you know, franchise like this, and you know

536
00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:20,119
Speaker 4: a lot of you know fans that hyped about it,

537
00:22:20,160 --> 00:22:23,960
Speaker 4: and it's a lot of pressure. And I feel like

538
00:22:24,040 --> 00:22:26,840
Speaker 4: he's probably the most poised. You know, he's humble. He

539
00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:29,200
Speaker 4: you know, he he sticks to the game plan or

540
00:22:29,560 --> 00:22:32,120
Speaker 4: you know what he needs to do to know, perform

541
00:22:32,520 --> 00:22:35,359
Speaker 4: and help the team win. And regardless of you know,

542
00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:37,800
Speaker 4: any ups and downs, you know, he keep his head

543
00:22:37,840 --> 00:22:40,520
Speaker 4: up high and he thinks he's I feel like he

544
00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:44,280
Speaker 4: has the perfect intent, you know, for you know, what

545
00:22:44,280 --> 00:22:46,680
Speaker 4: we're trying to do for this offense and we're trying

546
00:22:46,680 --> 00:22:49,040
Speaker 4: to win games. We're trying to score points, and I

547
00:22:49,040 --> 00:22:51,240
Speaker 4: feel like he has to you know, the right attitude

548
00:22:51,280 --> 00:22:53,960
Speaker 4: you know for uh, you know, as a leader for

549
00:22:54,040 --> 00:22:55,280
Speaker 4: our offense, you know, in our.

550
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Speaker 3: Whole locker room.

551
00:22:56,280 --> 00:22:58,720
Speaker 4: And we just got to continue to just keep him motivating,

552
00:22:58,720 --> 00:23:00,440
Speaker 4: you know, keep him clean, keep him up the ground.

553
00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:02,840
Speaker 4: And I feel like, hell, you know, he will continue

554
00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:03,919
Speaker 4: to impress a lot of people.

555
00:23:04,359 --> 00:23:06,480
Speaker 2: You talk about winning games, baby, y'all two and o

556
00:23:07,119 --> 00:23:09,720
Speaker 2: two and no first time y'all done this since twenty eleven.

557
00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:11,400
Speaker 2: I don't know if you know that right What does

558
00:23:11,440 --> 00:23:13,280
Speaker 2: that mean to you right now? Two and on week

559
00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:13,960
Speaker 2: three coming up?

560
00:23:13,960 --> 00:23:17,000
Speaker 4: Does that mean to I mean a lot to me, honestly,

561
00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:19,080
Speaker 4: you know, just you know, it's hard to do in

562
00:23:19,119 --> 00:23:22,680
Speaker 4: this league, very very hard, you know, to win games,

563
00:23:22,760 --> 00:23:25,200
Speaker 4: very hard to you know, remain undefeated, you know, week

564
00:23:25,240 --> 00:23:27,520
Speaker 4: by week. And you know, I feel like, you know,

565
00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:30,119
Speaker 4: that's just you know, part of us taking that next step,

566
00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:32,919
Speaker 4: you know, to be something special, you know, uh. And

567
00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:34,399
Speaker 4: I feel like guys got to keep that in the

568
00:23:34,440 --> 00:23:36,679
Speaker 4: back of their head and realize, you know what what

569
00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:39,280
Speaker 4: we're really up to, you know, this season and what

570
00:23:39,320 --> 00:23:42,919
Speaker 4: we can really accomplish. You know, we we're putting all

571
00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:44,919
Speaker 4: the you know, the right habits out and you know,

572
00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:47,080
Speaker 4: making sure that we stand on top of you know,

573
00:23:47,200 --> 00:23:49,280
Speaker 4: what we got to do to play well and you know,

574
00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:51,480
Speaker 4: not you know, come out of playing slow and try

575
00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:52,720
Speaker 4: to pick up on the back end.

576
00:23:52,960 --> 00:23:55,560
Speaker 3: Just everything we need to do to come.

577
00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:58,080
Speaker 4: Out fast, play fast, and you know, finish the game

578
00:23:58,160 --> 00:24:00,520
Speaker 4: strong and you know, continue to win games.

579
00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:02,600
Speaker 2: And we definitely believe, man, y'all gonna keep winning. We

580
00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:05,439
Speaker 2: got a big, big matchup for week three, Buffalo Bills.

581
00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:07,960
Speaker 2: We back here FedEx, We back home for the second time.

582
00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:10,240
Speaker 2: That's your ISO cam right there, And need you look

583
00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:11,920
Speaker 2: into that camera right there before I let you go,

584
00:24:12,119 --> 00:24:14,040
Speaker 2: And I need you to talk to the fans and

585
00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:16,480
Speaker 2: say what you need for them when y'all are back

586
00:24:16,520 --> 00:24:18,600
Speaker 2: home at FedEx fil. I know they was rocking week one,

587
00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:20,639
Speaker 2: even though it was raining. What do y'all need from

588
00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:23,480
Speaker 2: the fans week three? Before we end the show week three,

589
00:24:23,520 --> 00:24:24,720
Speaker 2: what we need from the fans.

590
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Speaker 4: We need to show that that y'all gonna show up

591
00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:31,440
Speaker 4: for us consistently, you know, Like we all know, we

592
00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:34,080
Speaker 4: was all expecting everybody to show up, you know, week one.

593
00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:36,040
Speaker 4: You know they was talking about, you know, it's being

594
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Speaker 4: a sellout, you know, for you know, a week two

595
00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:41,520
Speaker 4: weeks prior. We wanted to see if y'all gonna show

596
00:24:41,560 --> 00:24:45,280
Speaker 4: up for us like that consistently, you know, and continue

597
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Speaker 4: to bring the energy that we need in the stadium,

598
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Speaker 4: and we're gonna we're gonna pull out the win for y'all.

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Speaker 1: Trust And man, I got no doubt about that.

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Speaker 2: Brian Man, I appreciate you man for being part of

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Speaker 2: the first episode of the Next Man Up podcast command

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Speaker 2: This Family. We will be back every week with a

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Speaker 2: new Commanders play. Just getting into it, hanging out talking man.

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Speaker 2: We appreciate your insight, Bro. I appreciate you being so

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Speaker 2: honest and vulnerable with us Commander's family. This is the

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Speaker 2: Next Man Up Podcasts. I'm Brian Coble Junr here with

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Speaker 2: Brian Robinson.

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Speaker 1: JNIR appreciate you brother, sure, thanks love this interview where

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Speaker 1: we got more for you.

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