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Speaker 1: I'm sorry that can I stand up? And that's okay? Sorry,

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Speaker 1: all right dad. Since we got out here, I think

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Speaker 1: everybody who's in good everybody's in good shape. Everybody's best

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Speaker 1: shape of their life coming off rehabs. I think everybody

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Speaker 1: that's talked about it has mentioned you as a driving

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Speaker 1: force and a leading factor in that. And you talked

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Speaker 1: on this briefly a minute ago. But how much of

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Speaker 1: that is is conscious on your part? And how much

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Speaker 1: of is it just innate that everybody seems to credit

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Speaker 1: you with giving them that that desire to give it

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Speaker 1: there all to get in shape for this, I mean

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Speaker 1: that's humbling to hear that. Um, that's it a part

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Speaker 1: of it. I mean, it's just me going out there

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Speaker 1: trying to be my best, um and knowing what it takes.

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Speaker 1: It takes a lot of hard work, it takes a

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Speaker 1: lot of commitment, um as I said, rebound and having

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Speaker 1: fun nice, but knowing you've got to come in and

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Speaker 1: you've got to you've got to go earn it the

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Speaker 1: next day. So um, just to hear that, um as

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Speaker 1: I said, that's humbling, I'm grateful to be a leader

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Speaker 1: like that to my teammates. But but at times it

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Speaker 1: is conscious. I mean, at times, as I said, when

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Speaker 1: I do certain things that I know what that perception

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Speaker 1: is and what that that's doing for these other guys.

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Speaker 1: And during the rehab process, when you're training along along

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Speaker 1: some guys and they're struggling, I know, I've got to

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Speaker 1: find it within myself to try to push harder so

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Speaker 1: maybe they can do the same. It's not a new development,

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Speaker 1: but I'm just curious the decision to put the field

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Speaker 1: guys over there offseason workouts, When did that idea crop

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Speaker 1: up into your head and how important was it to

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Speaker 1: you to have that way to get everybody together. Well,

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Speaker 1: I mean, the idea of having a football filled in

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Speaker 1: my backyard was probably when I was a little kid

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Speaker 1: and dreamed about being a quarterback in the NFL. And

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Speaker 1: so when it became something that was obviously realistic was

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Speaker 1: during COVID and I'm sitting sitting to my house with

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Speaker 1: able to find places to throw, and so I figured

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Speaker 1: And it also gives us the privacy. It gives us

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Speaker 1: the safe place to go in to work on different

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Speaker 1: things and just to become better and the privacy of

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Speaker 1: our of our own. Is everybody just that driven or

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Speaker 1: is there like an expectation that four is going to

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Speaker 1: be on their case if they're not at the house.

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Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, I'm gonna question them, I'm asking them

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Speaker 1: sending some text messages. But but I'm also going to

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Speaker 1: understand whatever it is that may not keep may keep

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Speaker 1: them from not being there. Um. So whenever we have

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Speaker 1: throwing sessions or wherever we're doing anything, guys show up.

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Speaker 1: I don't necessarily think they feel pressure from me. Sometimes

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Speaker 1: if a guy didn't get a message, he may come

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Speaker 1: back at me and ask me why why he wouldn't

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Speaker 1: getting messages. So, um, I think it's just a great

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Speaker 1: culture that we have here. It's a great accountability that

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Speaker 1: we hold each other too. From the time you got hurt,

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Speaker 1: I don't think anybody ever questioned your work ethic and

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Speaker 1: am curious when you were still at the point when

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Speaker 1: miserable was that? It was definitely miserable, um, But but

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Speaker 1: me to make myself better, to grow mentally, um, to

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Speaker 1: get mentally tougher. So I read, I read a couple

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Speaker 1: UM and obviously I was watching football. I mean, football

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Speaker 1: system around me that allowed me to get through those

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Speaker 1: tough days. You've talked a lot. A lot of people

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Speaker 1: have asked you about the mental health aspect tonight, and you,

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Speaker 1: clearly healthy, and those of us that are around you

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Speaker 1: hear about it. The TV channels that do the games

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Speaker 1: it's just something that will probably follow you, at least

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Speaker 1: I mean it's something that I've accepted. Uh, whether I'm

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Speaker 1: or whatever it may be, everybody asked me, how's your lag?

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Speaker 1: And how's your lag? That's what my question is back

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Speaker 1: to them because mine's great now and I've done I've

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Speaker 1: done a lot of rehab and been through a long

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Speaker 1: process to get it here. Um, So I wouldn't say

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Speaker 1: it's frustrating something that I've accepted, something that that I've owned. Um,

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Speaker 1: But um, it's part of it. It's part of it

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Speaker 1: when when you go through something like that, and it

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Speaker 1: was such a big moment for anybody that was watching

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Speaker 1: to see something gruesome, they all want to tell me

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Speaker 1: what they were doing and what their situation was. So, um,

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Speaker 1: it's something that that I have fun with. Now are

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Speaker 1: you aware? Do you care that you're playing the giants

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Speaker 1: at at and T the same weekend as that weekend

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Speaker 1: is that significant to you on any level? Uh No,

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Speaker 1: not necessarily. Um, I did just get become a way digital.

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Speaker 1: I come aware of that like literally two days ago. Um,

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Speaker 1: I guess I was doing a dance out here at

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Speaker 1: practice that somebody captured. My girlfriend sent it to me,

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Speaker 1: and then from there I was like, you know, I

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Speaker 1: a video of me practicing the dance on October tenth,

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Speaker 1: and she says, well, why don't you make it all

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Speaker 1: come full circle again? So I'm actually excited about it.

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Speaker 1: You still eat chicken with ranch and pasta for before

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Speaker 1: games or do you have something new? No, I don't.

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Speaker 1: I eat healthy. I get my vegetables. I ate some chicken,

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Speaker 1: depends on what time, the time of the day the

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Speaker 1: game is, but not necessarily on the chicken and the ranch. Anymore.

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Speaker 1: Taste buds change and you know, you find some better outlets.

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Speaker 1: I was like, twenty four year old stuff. Now, yeah, okay, exactly, thanks, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: appreciate