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Speaker 1: How does among this group here after awesome honor and

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Speaker 1: I think to do a vote by the players and

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Speaker 1: then to be vote as a captain. Um, and some

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Speaker 1: of you take very seriously. I think you just try

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Speaker 1: to go out there and be yourself. Though you know

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Speaker 1: I told you landing at obviously is this first time.

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Speaker 1: Just keep doing what you've been doing. Obviously, your leadership

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Speaker 1: is seen throughout the team and they want you to

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Speaker 1: keep doing those things. So, UM, I've always tried to

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Speaker 1: do that. Just be myself and try to be an

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Speaker 1: example of younger guys and tell them a lot what

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Speaker 1: older guys told me when I got here, and just

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Speaker 1: try to continue that. Do your emotions and nerves leading

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Speaker 1: into a week one game change from year after year

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Speaker 1: as you get obviously more comfortable in the NFL. I

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Speaker 1: wish you did, but not really. I think you have

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Speaker 1: the same nerves and excitement each year you go into

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Speaker 1: this thing. Um, it's just a build up. You know,

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Speaker 1: since April we've been going at this, We've been working

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Speaker 1: and you know you're working towards the whole season, but

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Speaker 1: you know you're kind of working towards the opening game

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Speaker 1: as the first challenge that you'll have UM and now

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Speaker 1: that it's here, you know, I think everyone's going to

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Speaker 1: be nervous, excited, ready to go. UM. It's kind of

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Speaker 1: containing that and just kind of going out there and

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Speaker 1: play by play, doing what you're supposed to do. UM.

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Speaker 1: And I think you know, as a veteran, you kind

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Speaker 1: of understand that and you try not to get caught up.

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Speaker 1: But it's tough and UM, but I think we'll I'll

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Speaker 1: be ready to go Sundays. Do you have any pregame

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Speaker 1: rituals that you have to do with for every game?

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Speaker 1: Not really. I mean I do some things I think

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Speaker 1: just routine from doing it for ten years now. But

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Speaker 1: if I don't do it, I'm not like, man, this

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Speaker 1: is I don't really have anything like that. Walk me

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Speaker 1: through your routine on a Sunday, especially with the night game.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure those days can feel kind of long leading

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Speaker 1: up to the game. Well, kind of what do you eat?

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Speaker 1: What music do you listen to to get yourself hyped up? Well?

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Speaker 1: I always saying my wife does most of the world

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Speaker 1: by making sure the kids leave me alone for a

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Speaker 1: couple hours to focus in on the game. But for me,

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Speaker 1: it's you know, maybe listening to some you know music,

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Speaker 1: kind of calm music and just reviewing my notes all

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Speaker 1: throughout the day. Because of the day so long, you

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Speaker 1: could easily, you know, kind of get caught up and

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Speaker 1: doing a bunch of things, but you get to play

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Speaker 1: one time that week, so you try to really stay

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Speaker 1: locked in throughout the whole day. Thanks so much, Roberts

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Speaker 1: first time captain. Um, he's really been pretty persistent. I

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Speaker 1: think the thing with e Rob is very consistent since

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Speaker 1: he's gotten here. He always wants to kind of be

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Speaker 1: like that middle that prototypical middle linebacker of you know,

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Speaker 1: getting a call to everybody, always you know, talking, trying

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Speaker 1: to be vocal. UM. And I think what you've seen

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Speaker 1: is just he's grown as how much knowledge he has,

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Speaker 1: being comfortable all that you know, comes with time. And

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Speaker 1: I think, um, the way he is as a leader

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Speaker 1: has kind of been the same since day one. UM.

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Speaker 1: What I think now because of his growth just as

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Speaker 1: a player and learning more. UM, guys were like, you know,

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Speaker 1: we've seen him do this, you know, the past two

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Speaker 1: years now, UM, and see him as a captain. And

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Speaker 1: I told him, just keep being yourself, keep doing what

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Speaker 1: you've been doing. And I mean you guys vote on it.

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Speaker 1: But were you surprised at all and it came out

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Speaker 1: and that he raps a captain. No, I think, you know,

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Speaker 1: I think from the outside looking and everyone's like, this

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Speaker 1: us in this locker room. And I think that that

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Speaker 1: what matters most to us. Um. And that's why you know,

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Speaker 1: it is a great honor to be voted as a captain,

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Speaker 1: because it is about the players in this locker room, um,

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Speaker 1: and how they view you know, us, and how they

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Speaker 1: who's not, it's it's what the guys really believe in

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Speaker 1: uh ten previous sign Yeah. If not, I wouldn't be

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Speaker 1: playing for the game. Like, yeah, I think everybody does that.

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Speaker 1: I think it's just a part of how we prepare

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Speaker 1: when we're in there watching film. You know, we're watching

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Speaker 1: you know, somebody else played Pittsburgh, but we're talking about

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Speaker 1: our calls, our plays, how we play out to that place.

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Speaker 1: So I think we all do that, especially um in

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Speaker 1: your private time when you're going over your note so

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Speaker 1: about getting an interception or making a set, but you know,

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Speaker 1: thinking of a defensive call to a play and how

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Speaker 1: that really gets you prepared to go out there and play.

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Speaker 1: Get um usually about three three and a half hours. Nahs.

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Speaker 1: I think that's more like the movies type thing. Like

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Speaker 1: I usually riding with my brother so our wives could

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Speaker 1: ride back with us. Like we're talking, we're listening to music.

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Speaker 1: Is we're not like zoned in like that, you know,

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Speaker 1: I think you're you don't really get like that to

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Speaker 1: like we're in here, we're talking, you know, sometimes we're

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Speaker 1: talking about things that will come up. Sometimes we're listening

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Speaker 1: to music. Um. You know, I think it's just easy.

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Speaker 1: Person's kind of different. Nah. You that's more like you

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Speaker 1: see on TV and you give me Sunday. But I

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Speaker 1: mean we like, you'll have some guys in here like that,

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Speaker 1: but some of us are still being here talk and

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Speaker 1: you know, laughing, you know, I think, just being ourselves.

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Speaker 1: But there are always like some sense that unknown just

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Speaker 1: knowing that you guys, it's completely team right, definitely, you know,

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Speaker 1: of people will say these two teams know each other

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Speaker 1: very well, even though we're not in the same division.

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Speaker 1: It's like we played each other every year. Um, but

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Speaker 1: because of Week one and not having a ton of

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Speaker 1: film up this year, uh, there's still some unknowns. We

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Speaker 1: don't know exactly what they're gonna do. The don't know

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Speaker 1: exactly what we're gonna do. So um, it's always some adjustments,

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Speaker 1: you gotta need the playoffs and go so well. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean I think last year was just it was

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Speaker 1: wake up call. I think we worked too hard to

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Speaker 1: just like we kind of were snoozing. And you know,

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Speaker 1: I think the teams every year I've been here at

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Speaker 1: it creates more urgency it. Like I always say, we're

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Speaker 1: chasing the feeling of the win after every Sunday game,

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Speaker 1: every time we go out there and play. It's all

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Speaker 1: And when you don't get it, you know you're you're

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Speaker 1: putting everything in for next week to try to get

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Speaker 1: that feeling. If you don't get it again, I feel

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Speaker 1: like it's even more to build up of just searching

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Speaker 1: for that feeling. And I think that's how NFL players

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Speaker 1: are teams. That's what we're all searching for for each win.

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Speaker 1: Is it get that feeling because you know, you win

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Speaker 1: a game, it's not like we get an extra pay

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Speaker 1: that feeling of feeling like, hey man, we had a task,

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Speaker 1: every week, and I think you'll see a battle of

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Speaker 1: two teams. I've been doing that now for the past

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Speaker 1: two months, searching for that feelings something night