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Speaker 1: g Good morning, brother, Good morning, how you doing. I'm

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Speaker 1: good man, good glad to have you. Now, let's just say,

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Speaker 1: the fifty five or seventy two? Fifty five? Okay? You

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Speaker 1: think I knew I'm born to ray Chicago. Brother? All right, yeah, shot, yeah,

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Speaker 1: show up football? How's first of all, how's the season

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Speaker 1: the end. So one and old man, tell us a

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Speaker 1: little bit, man about this NFL journey. Man, you know

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Speaker 1: europe phenomenal athlete. I remember when you got picked up

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Speaker 1: this NFL journey just getting started. You know, it's kind

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Speaker 1: of hard to get my foot in the door. I

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Speaker 1: got hurt in my pro day, and I didn't have

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Speaker 1: the best seen season, but I heard my pro day.

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Speaker 1: I couldn't do the combine, and you know, I got

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Speaker 1: I got healthy just in time to do a workout.

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Speaker 1: I ended up getting on getting on the team like

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Speaker 1: three days into camp last year, you know, and battling

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Speaker 1: my butt off. Got some opportunities throughout that preseason, which

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Speaker 1: I got waived, And so last year around this time

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Speaker 1: In the process, what have you learned to be very

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Speaker 1: patient to? Um? You know, just keep my faith, Just

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Speaker 1: building relationships, being a student of the game. UM. Just

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Speaker 1: having fun and competing. You know, I have fun every

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Speaker 1: day coming into the facility with all the guys, having fun, joking,

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Speaker 1: us about that wide receiver room. Man, what's that room like?

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Speaker 1: It's young? It's young. I'm young myself. You know, it's

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Speaker 1: much as my second year. We're led by Jeron Brown

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Speaker 1: and Tyle Lockett, you know season vets, and you know

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Speaker 1: they're showing us the ways. We have a good time.

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Speaker 1: You know, we're really close. We do things outside of

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Speaker 1: just the facility. You know, we have a good relationship

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Speaker 1: and I receive a room is very unique, a lot

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Speaker 1: Like it's it's we're all over the place, but you

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Speaker 1: know we feel well together. What I would like, I

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Speaker 1: when you guys choreographed the dances and everything like that.

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Speaker 1: Tell us about that how that goes down? Oh that

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Speaker 1: It's all about having fun. You know, at the end

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Speaker 1: that's what we do. Right now. You got one of

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Speaker 1: It makes it easier for us. You know, we're in

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Speaker 1: I think he's a great leader. You know, just yesterday

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Speaker 1: So we'll tell us about Malik off the field. Man,

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Speaker 1: from football? Malik loves binge, watching shows on Netflix. All

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Speaker 1: what shows were watching? What we got by the way,

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Speaker 1: that Netflix is my favorite. That's my workout time we

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Speaker 1: go here. My Stranger Things just had season three. I

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Speaker 1: did you come to love football? Man? Well, early on,

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Speaker 1: It's just I just love doing it and have fun

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Speaker 1: when I got the news, I FaceTime my old family

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Speaker 1: because we know all the sacrificing and her work that's

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Speaker 1: going into it. How often do you talk to mom

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Speaker 1: every day? Every day? Yeah? Some days I may not

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Speaker 1: was in town right now, and she said, but Lee,

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Speaker 1: what you want for dinner? Give me one meal, Give

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Speaker 1: me your favorite meal that your mama gonna make it.

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Speaker 1: I want to start with breakfast and go to dinner.

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Speaker 1: But oh yeah, yeah, when you started the first of all,

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Speaker 1: I'm getting my mom's saucers, biscuits and gravy. That's that's

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Speaker 1: cook it. It's not the same, but it gets the

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Speaker 1: job done. But sauce, biscuits and gravy for breakfast for dinner,

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Speaker 1: You know what I mean. Chili cook off, have a

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Speaker 1: a game would be dope and Malik's chili cook off, Well,

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Speaker 1: Malik man. All the best of luck to you man,

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Speaker 1: good luck to season. Thank you for jumping in the car,

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Speaker 1: for driving with you. Thank you, sir, Yes, sir,