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Speaker 1: Wait, yeah, it feels amazing. I mean that feeling after

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Speaker 1: on my teammates. Um, just knowing how long it's been

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Speaker 1: it's just it means a lot to me. Um. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Like the last time I had our opportunity was rookie

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Speaker 1: and uh, you know, I actually talked to some of

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Speaker 1: took seven years to get back there is uh, it's crazy.

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Speaker 1: So I was trying to let everyone know the the

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Speaker 1: meaning of like, you know, um, that these opportunities don't

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Speaker 1: you know. And we did. We went out there and

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Speaker 1: play one of our best games as a team, and

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Speaker 1: we played a really good like team football and it

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Speaker 1: paid off. But are you feeling I feel I feel

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Speaker 1: all right. I've been battling through it for a few

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Speaker 1: weeks now. Um, it's something that really isn't gonna get

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Speaker 1: better until I'm not playing football, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 1: So this is something that's probably gonna go away during

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Speaker 1: the off season. But I'm you know, I'm taking care

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Speaker 1: of as much as possible during the week. The team

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Speaker 1: imagine it feel pretty good in about a week and

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Speaker 1: a half. Yeah, I mean, it's all been worth it.

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Speaker 1: You know, the pain has been you know, I've been

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Speaker 1: dealing with it and uh playing and you know it's

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Speaker 1: playoff spot, so you know it's worth it. But you

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Speaker 1: didn't miss a lot of games for a lot of

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Speaker 1: losing seasons. That I said, you didn't miss a lot

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Speaker 1: of games in a lot of losing seasons, and now

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Speaker 1: this year you're playing through the page. Yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's definitely been tough dealing with injuries this year because

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Speaker 1: I've never dealt with injuries much of my career. And

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Speaker 1: to be on the sideline while my teammates are on

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Speaker 1: the field, you know, fighting for a game is. Uh,

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Speaker 1: it's very tough for me, something that I had to

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Speaker 1: but you know it's it happens to everybody at some

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Speaker 1: been dealing with it. Yeah, the winning makes it better,

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Speaker 1: the best year. What do you think is the biggest

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Speaker 1: reason you guys have become such a force up front? Uh?

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Speaker 1: I mean I think a big reason is because we

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Speaker 1: for us to communicate with each other on and off

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Speaker 1: comes to me and says, like a Leo, I feel

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Speaker 1: like this is holding you, I'm not gonna be offended

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Speaker 1: because I know that it's coming from a good place.

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Speaker 1: Because we're not only good teammates, I feel like we're

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Speaker 1: And I feel like it was cool to hear that

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Speaker 1: free agency. He's got the fifth year option next year,

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Speaker 1: but he certainly do for a big contract. What do

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Speaker 1: you think he's showed? What? What do I think he's shown? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: if he hasn't shown it years before. He's definitely done

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Speaker 1: excited to see that, like now the world is giving

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Speaker 1: which I've been doing all year. Whatever gonna get our

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Speaker 1: end of the day, our goal, every team's goal in

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Speaker 1: and uh, you know that's our goal and the end

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