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Speaker 1: How was the speed of the game for you? You

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Speaker 1: come from D two Washburn. You know you had training camp,

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Speaker 1: you had practice, but now this was live action. What

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Speaker 1: was it like? Um? I've always felt like I could

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Speaker 1: So the speed of the game wasn't two different or

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Speaker 1: to you know, uh different for me. But UM, I

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Speaker 1: think I handled it well. UM. And I think I'm

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Speaker 1: fast enough to keep up with them and physically enough

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Speaker 1: to keep up with them as well. So what did

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Speaker 1: you learn about how they got the cold pass interference

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Speaker 1: in this league? They got you for that one p I. Yeah, you,

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Speaker 1: which is certainly unique situation. How that we have reviewed

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Speaker 1: in this league. Yeah, Um, it's definitely different. Um, I'm

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Speaker 1: not sure you know exactly how it was PR So

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Speaker 1: I'll go and talk with it about my with my

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Speaker 1: coach about it. But UM, I mean now that they

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Speaker 1: can review it, I think it's a whole different ball game.

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Speaker 1: So maybe I just need to be a little more discipline,

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Speaker 1: um with my technique and UM play the ball better.

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Speaker 1: And you know that's why I try to catch the

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Speaker 1: ball at the second time instead of batting away. And

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Speaker 1: then you know, I won't have that issue. So it

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Speaker 1: seems as though over the last week your star is

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Speaker 1: clearly on the up and you're just opening more and

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Speaker 1: more eyes every time you go out onto the field.

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Speaker 1: Can you feel that and how does that how does

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Speaker 1: that kind of manifest itself in your own mind? Is

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Speaker 1: your your chances to play on this team? Yeah, I'm

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Speaker 1: just getting more comfortable, Um, trying not to think so

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Speaker 1: much and just reacting more. Um, you know, not let

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Speaker 1: letting the play but get get ahead of me and

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Speaker 1: and just going out there and playing playing the game

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Speaker 1: that I played since you know, the fourth grade. Um,

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Speaker 1: it's just at a higher level now. And um, I

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Speaker 1: just gotta go out there and make plays, you know.

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Speaker 1: And this is something I've always wanted to do since

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Speaker 1: I was young, and now the time is here, and

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Speaker 1: you know, I've just gotta you know, do my thing

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Speaker 1: and make sure that everybody knows that I belong here.

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Speaker 1: I know it's only one pre season the game. Can

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Speaker 1: you reflect on the cry you have right now? And

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Speaker 1: you've now played in the NFL game even though it

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Speaker 1: didn't count, and you accomplished awful. Yeah, Um, you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm just continuing to improve. That's really what I want

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Speaker 1: to do. Go out here and put my hand in

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Speaker 1: the pile and help this team win the championship. Is

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Speaker 1: is my real goal. Um. I mean, yeah, this was

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Speaker 1: a game, and I think I did some things well,

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Speaker 1: but I think I have some things to improve on

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Speaker 1: as well. So I'm gonna go back to practice, go

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Speaker 1: back to the drawing board, and um, you know, clean

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Speaker 1: some things up and hopefully I can go from here bound. Congratulations,

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Speaker 1: best to luck to you, thank you, Yeah, something like that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean that was that. Did they just want you

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Speaker 1: to return it or did you just see something? Now? Um,

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Speaker 1: A little bit of both. I think the first one

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Speaker 1: I just got a little bit ahead of myself and

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Speaker 1: I was looking downfield and I was just so ready

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Speaker 1: I I handed a little bit better, But UM, I

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Speaker 1: think they wanted to see what I can do. I

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Speaker 1: think I'm back there because they know what I can

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Speaker 1: you know. So I enjoy being back there and I'm joined, Um,

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Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to doing more in the future. And UM,

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Speaker 1: yeah I think so. I mean I hope so, um,

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Speaker 1: some good things back there. Um you know that was

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Speaker 1: and um, you know, just trying to you know, transition

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Speaker 1: and and you know, play good technique and not you know,

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Speaker 1: get a defensive interference like the first one, and um

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Speaker 1: just make a play on the ball being an athlete

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Speaker 1: and um, you know, play the game that I've been

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Speaker 1: On that one, did you know they were running? Did

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Speaker 1: you know they're run overturning? I didn't know, but um,

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Speaker 1: I had forgot that they made that rule where they

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Speaker 1: could look at look at the defensive pass interference. So um,

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Speaker 1: you know, once they had up on the big screen

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Speaker 1: and I kind of figured like, okay, they might they

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Speaker 1: you know, make a play on the ball the first one.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, well, looking looking forward to get more

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Speaker 1: for want any more? I mean, oh no, no, I

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Speaker 1: thought you meant the interceptions. Oh no, I bad no, no, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: and I'm not and I'm not sure how you know.

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Speaker 1: So I guess we'll look at it more when I

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Speaker 1: get into the UH coaching room. But some of the

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Speaker 1: things you're gonna look to clean up going to practice

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Speaker 1: this week in the next game, Yeah, I mean, just

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Speaker 1: to playbook a little bit more of being more confident

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Speaker 1: in what I'm doing, and um, you know, just going

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Speaker 1: I kind of took a little bit to you know,

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Speaker 1: I think I just need to start faster, and I'm

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Speaker 1: definitely gonna work on that for next He's a tough

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Speaker 1: coming because there's no tackle on the practice and go

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Speaker 1: into the first game, and then, like you just said,

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Speaker 1: you took some angles, maybe some angles man techniques. Is

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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think it's a problem. I'm a

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Speaker 1: It's just I got to be more disciplined, that's all.

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Speaker 1: It is a lot of guys knock away those balls

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Speaker 1: it's hard. It's hard. I mean, but I've been playing

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Speaker 1: I said, the first one, I tried to bat away

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Speaker 1: just try to catch it. You can't be pr that way,

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Speaker 1: so so you know, looking forward to more of those.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you what you doing here? During the

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Speaker 1: range of light the hour, we were going over the film,

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Speaker 1: like you know, looking at yeah, looking at plays, were

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Speaker 1: getting in formations we were getting and figuring out how

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Speaker 1: huddled around, Yeah, huddle around coach, looking at the iPad,

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Speaker 1: trying to figure out how we're gonna play certain things.

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Speaker 1: And um, the older guys were kind of giving us

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Speaker 1: were doing to make the rest of the games, like

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Speaker 1: running around two and here to stay loose or No,

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Speaker 1: I wasn't running around, Um I was. I was trying

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Speaker 1: to relax because it's my first game, you know what

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Speaker 1: I'm saying, So I'm trying not to let my nerves

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Speaker 1: get to me. I was sitting down. I was hydrating

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Speaker 1: trying to hydrate, make sure you know my body was right,

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Speaker 1: you know, just trying to get ready to go back

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Speaker 1: out there drinking. We're drinking fluids, even bananas, making sure

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