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Speaker 1: know we'll always have them. So I apologize. My first

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Speaker 1: bowl games, playing in the Orange Bowl. I mean I

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00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:52,879
Speaker 1: I had played another big game, so I wasn't like

427
00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:57,520
Speaker 1: I was, you know, playing for a Kent State like

428
00:25:57,640 --> 00:26:00,800
Speaker 1: Julian was. You know, I had a chance to kind

429
00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:13,800
Speaker 1: of understand what those big games are about. Yeah, I mean,

430
00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:16,480
Speaker 1: that's that's part of it. I think. You know, there's

431
00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:18,320
Speaker 1: a lot of great players in the league. Helies one

432
00:26:18,320 --> 00:26:21,639
Speaker 1: of them, and you know he's he's done it against

433
00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:24,920
Speaker 1: us a couple of times and multiple times more than two.

434
00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:27,680
Speaker 1: We played him in the regular season a few times

435
00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:31,160
Speaker 1: where he did it and he's just you know, he's

436
00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:35,359
Speaker 1: a great player. So yeah, I mean, you'd rather be

437
00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:38,879
Speaker 1: out there doing it yourself. But uh, you know, you

438
00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:41,000
Speaker 1: got to give the other guys credit. They make the plays.

439
00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:44,040
Speaker 1: You know, they're extremely talented at what they do, and

440
00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:46,080
Speaker 1: tip your hat to him, and you try to go

441
00:26:46,119 --> 00:26:55,200
Speaker 1: on and fight again successfully. I mean, those are these

442
00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:56,840
Speaker 1: are these are memories you out for the rest of

443
00:26:56,840 --> 00:27:01,359
Speaker 1: your life. So these are how many ways dreams coming true?

444
00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:05,160
Speaker 1: And uh, you know I've been I've been very lucky

445
00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:08,879
Speaker 1: to be in them, and uh say, it's taken a

446
00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:11,040
Speaker 1: lot of support a lot of family and friends over

447
00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:13,199
Speaker 1: the ears that have supported me to this point, and

448
00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:14,480
Speaker 1: I want to about make them proud. I want to

449
00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:26,639
Speaker 1: play my best. Sorry said again in Atlanta. I know

450
00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:36,800
Speaker 1: I've been there before. It's that's a good spot. I've

451
00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:41,840
Speaker 1: been even pretty healthy this week, so she and I,

452
00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:44,040
Speaker 1: I don't know. It'd be eleven eleven thirty at night,

453
00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:46,200
Speaker 1: so I don't know if that's if that's the night

454
00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:47,840
Speaker 1: you got to make it along. I gotta start like

455
00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:49,280
Speaker 1: six pm if I want to make it one of

456
00:27:49,320 --> 00:28:12,520
Speaker 1: those nights. Yea, it's been a while. Well, I was

457
00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:14,520
Speaker 1: just happy, you know, everyone was here at that point,

458
00:28:14,560 --> 00:28:18,600
Speaker 1: and my mom's doing really well. So yeah, so it's

459
00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:22,440
Speaker 1: I know, every family goes through different things and and uh,

460
00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:25,159
Speaker 1: you know, we've had a lot of support for my

461
00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:27,320
Speaker 1: parents and everyone was there to support her. And then

462
00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:51,000
Speaker 1: hopefully it stays that way. Yeah, what's the type of personality?

463
00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:53,680
Speaker 1: Just so I can well, I look that up and

464
00:28:53,720 --> 00:29:09,000
Speaker 1: then yep, that's say I'm those two things. Okay. Does

465
00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:12,400
Speaker 1: that describe me in some ways? In some ways not

466
00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:14,640
Speaker 1: all the time. I mean I think I've you know,

467
00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:16,960
Speaker 1: find a balance between that when I'm competing and when

468
00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:20,200
Speaker 1: I'm not, so I don't. It's not like that twenty

469
00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:22,720
Speaker 1: four seven. Every single day it's you know, I picked

470
00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:26,320
Speaker 1: my moments and I'm not trying to win anything today,

471
00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:31,400
Speaker 1: just trying to huh, I'm not trying to win the

472
00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:34,120
Speaker 1: press conference, just trying to you know, get ready to go.

473
00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:38,320
Speaker 1: This is you know, Sunday is gonna be a great game.

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00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:44,000
Speaker 1: All right, nice to see you again. How are you?

475
00:29:46,920 --> 00:30:08,520
Speaker 1: I remember? That was amazing? What's sorry? What's that wonderful?

476
00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:13,360
Speaker 1: I appreciate it? Thank you? No, why not? Thank you?

477
00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:15,440
Speaker 1: We had such a great trip. These are great memories.

478
00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:22,480
Speaker 1: See me wrestling in sumo? That was a big dude.

479
00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:44,560
Speaker 1: How's that? No? They were sweatpants. How cool is that? Yeah,

480
00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:47,760
Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm not very superstitious, so I try not to,

481
00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:52,720
Speaker 1: you know, think about which shirt I'm gonna wear. You know,

482
00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:55,680
Speaker 1: I just kind of go with the flows. So you know,

483
00:30:55,720 --> 00:30:58,880
Speaker 1: I know what I need to prioritize, and nothing really

484
00:30:58,880 --> 00:31:04,320
Speaker 1: gets in the way of that. Yeah, I mean that's important.

485
00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:06,600
Speaker 1: You know. You can't. Again, I'm not here to waste

486
00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:08,520
Speaker 1: my energy doing a bunch of things that aren't helping

487
00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:11,320
Speaker 1: us be productive toward winning. So I'm not going out

488
00:31:11,360 --> 00:31:13,960
Speaker 1: at night. You know, I'm I'm getting ready to play

489
00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:16,720
Speaker 1: football game. That's what. More so than anything, you remember

490
00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:20,320
Speaker 1: the final score, and you know you just gotta be

491
00:31:21,280 --> 00:31:25,120
Speaker 1: as composed as possible over the course of a long week.

492
00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:31,200
Speaker 1: I learned that it's hard to get to you know,

493
00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:33,800
Speaker 1: that year again. We had to overcome a lot of

494
00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:37,680
Speaker 1: things that year too, and it was a long time ago.

495
00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:42,000
Speaker 1: But I think the characteristics of our team then and

496
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:44,480
Speaker 1: our team now, you know you're trying to keep in

497
00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:48,160
Speaker 1: the same Yeah, I mean, everyone's doing their job. You know,

498
00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:51,920
Speaker 1: you focus on what you can control. You know you

499
00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:55,320
Speaker 1: do the best you can for your team, and you

500
00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:56,800
Speaker 1: know you just can't let anything get in the way

501
00:31:56,840 --> 00:32:15,280
Speaker 1: of what the team's goals are. Um. I mean obviously

502
00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:17,640
Speaker 1: you you'd love to practice well. I think that gives

503
00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:20,160
Speaker 1: everyone confidence that we're really on it. And I think

504
00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:21,560
Speaker 1: you know, you don't want to go out there and

505
00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:24,400
Speaker 1: have a mediocre week of practice because I don't think

506
00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:26,200
Speaker 1: you gain a lot of confidence in what you're doing

507
00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:29,080
Speaker 1: if you're not executing things at a high level. So

508
00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:31,360
Speaker 1: you know, you gotta be making the passage, you gotta

509
00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:33,959
Speaker 1: be running the routes, making the right reads. You know,

510
00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:38,760
Speaker 1: great execution, fundamentals, attention to detail. I mean those all

511
00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:40,280
Speaker 1: those things are going to show up in the game.

512
00:32:40,600 --> 00:32:43,040
Speaker 1: And you know, we've got to be able to take

513
00:32:43,080 --> 00:32:45,440
Speaker 1: what we've learned all last week, you know, all the

514
00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:51,120
Speaker 1: film we studied and put into action. I'm seeing reality

515
00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:58,640
Speaker 1: forty one. Let's put a yeah, it does. I mean

516
00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:01,720
Speaker 1: it's I mean, no one ever imagines these things. So,

517
00:33:02,840 --> 00:33:05,240
Speaker 1: I mean, I think the goals. When I was a kid,

518
00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:07,040
Speaker 1: I hope I was going to be a professional athlete.

519
00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:09,880
Speaker 1: And you know, I've been a professional athlete for a

520
00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:13,560
Speaker 1: long time, so I couldn't have asked for anything better

521
00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:17,440
Speaker 1: or different. You know, obviously I wouldn't change anything. And

522
00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:20,520
Speaker 1: you know, I just love being here. I love representing

523
00:33:20,520 --> 00:33:22,000
Speaker 1: our team. I love trying to go out there and

524
00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:30,400
Speaker 1: win win a world championship. That was a tough That

525
00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:35,080
Speaker 1: was a tough situation. I mean Drew was seriously hurt.

526
00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:38,680
Speaker 1: I mean, I was a major, major injury, and thankfully

527
00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:41,440
Speaker 1: Drew came back and he was able to you know,

528
00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:47,400
Speaker 1: you know, regain everything. You know he's but I mean

529
00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:49,800
Speaker 1: I would say, you know, you have an injury like that,

530
00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:52,320
Speaker 1: you don't know if if you're ever gonna play again.

531
00:33:52,360 --> 00:33:55,160
Speaker 1: But you know, Drew went back in the game after

532
00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:57,800
Speaker 1: that hit. I mean, he was so tough. You know.

533
00:33:57,840 --> 00:34:01,760
Speaker 1: I learned a lot from him about toughness, about mental toughness,

534
00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:04,600
Speaker 1: mental and physical toughness. He was a great role model

535
00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:06,000
Speaker 1: for me to look up to when I first got

536
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:09,840
Speaker 1: in the NFL, and uh, you know, I remember a

537
00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:12,719
Speaker 1: visit him in the hospital that night, and uh, you know,

538
00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:14,360
Speaker 1: he was going through a lot at that time, and

539
00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:16,080
Speaker 1: I just I was trying to go out there and

540
00:34:16,120 --> 00:34:22,879
Speaker 1: play and do the best I could do for the team.

541
00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:25,120
Speaker 1: Well at that point, I was the backup, so I

542
00:34:25,160 --> 00:34:28,799
Speaker 1: mean I was just assumed it was gonna be me. Yeah,

543
00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:32,799
Speaker 1: I finished the game, but Drew got hurt. He went

544
00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:36,239
Speaker 1: back in the next series, and then you know, he

545
00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:40,279
Speaker 1: came back, you know, after a series of playing. We

546
00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:43,239
Speaker 1: didn't you know, we didn't move the ball, and then

547
00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:45,400
Speaker 1: they said Drew's done. You know you're going in And

548
00:34:47,160 --> 00:35:02,760
Speaker 1: I don't remember. Yeah, I don't remember, oh really, yeah

549
00:35:03,239 --> 00:35:13,360
Speaker 1: for years. Yeah, I don't think my dad remembers it

550
00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:19,560
Speaker 1: as well as I do. Yeah, No, I definitely, I definitely,

551
00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:21,600
Speaker 1: you know, broke some remote controls when I was a

552
00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:24,960
Speaker 1: kid at first I was about I had a I

553
00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:29,320
Speaker 1: was a very poor sport. I was a very poor sport,

554
00:35:30,080 --> 00:35:36,360
Speaker 1: and uh that was pretty Uh yeah. I just remember

555
00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:40,480
Speaker 1: losing and taking the remote and slamming it down over

556
00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:43,360
Speaker 1: and over. And if my kids did that today, I

557
00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:44,560
Speaker 1: don't know what the hell I would do, but I

558
00:35:44,560 --> 00:35:48,439
Speaker 1: wouldn't be happy. And then, uh, you know, I think

559
00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:51,000
Speaker 1: I remember punching a hole in the wall in the house.

560
00:35:51,880 --> 00:35:54,760
Speaker 1: Yeah it wasn't there was it for a different reason,

561
00:35:55,719 --> 00:35:59,160
Speaker 1: but uh but yeah, it wasn't. That wasn't that wasn't

562
00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:05,200
Speaker 1: the video game remote. Yeah I remember, Yeah, I know.

563
00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:07,160
Speaker 1: He used to beat me because we bet car washes

564
00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:09,239
Speaker 1: and I would have to wash this car if I

565
00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:10,879
Speaker 1: lost to him. And I lost to him all the time,

566
00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:14,840
Speaker 1: so I probably still owe him some car washes. But

567
00:36:15,120 --> 00:36:17,000
Speaker 1: one day we were going up to see the Giants

568
00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:19,920
Speaker 1: play with my little league baseball team, and we went

569
00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:23,000
Speaker 1: up and played nine holes before the game started, and

570
00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:25,600
Speaker 1: about the sixth hole, I hit a grat bad shot

571
00:36:25,640 --> 00:36:27,880
Speaker 1: and I took my club and I just started slamming

572
00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:30,680
Speaker 1: into the ground, and my dad took me off the

573
00:36:30,719 --> 00:36:32,440
Speaker 1: course brought me to the car. He said, if you

574
00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:35,319
Speaker 1: ever do that ever again, you know, you're never coming

575
00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:38,880
Speaker 1: up here and you're never playing. And man, I was crying.

576
00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:41,520
Speaker 1: I was so sad and went to a Giants game

577
00:36:42,239 --> 00:36:45,040
Speaker 1: and uh, I think that probably hurt my dad to

578
00:36:45,040 --> 00:36:48,799
Speaker 1: do that, you know, as a parent, you know. And

579
00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:52,400
Speaker 1: uh again, you know, after the game, he said, all right,

580
00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:54,560
Speaker 1: we'll go back and we're gonna play play again, you know,

581
00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:59,200
Speaker 1: And I learned a great lesson. So that's a very

582
00:36:59,239 --> 00:37:14,080
Speaker 1: personal story, right, I'm not gonna yeah, I don't know,

583
00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:19,040
Speaker 1: it's it's just, you know, it's I think some people

584
00:37:19,040 --> 00:37:21,719
Speaker 1: are born with a you know, great height, some people

585
00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:25,840
Speaker 1: are born with um great size, you know, great speed,

586
00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:27,719
Speaker 1: you know, and some people are born with other things

587
00:37:27,760 --> 00:37:30,319
Speaker 1: that I would say more are more intangible. And I

588
00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:32,960
Speaker 1: think competitiveness and the ability to compete has been a

589
00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:36,360
Speaker 1: great attribute for me. And it started when I was

590
00:37:36,520 --> 00:37:37,960
Speaker 1: when I was young, and it was really a part

591
00:37:37,960 --> 00:37:40,200
Speaker 1: of my whole family. I mean everyone was the same way.

592
00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:44,480
Speaker 1: So it's definitely in our family's dna um to compete

593
00:37:44,520 --> 00:37:47,239
Speaker 1: and to want to just you know, play to win.

594
00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:49,440
Speaker 1: And I think I was always encouraged to do that.

595
00:37:49,520 --> 00:37:52,680
Speaker 1: My parents never you know, said like, you know, look,

596
00:37:52,680 --> 00:37:54,719
Speaker 1: we should really think about you know what you want

597
00:37:54,719 --> 00:37:57,200
Speaker 1: to do or your goals or my parents always just

598
00:37:57,360 --> 00:37:59,759
Speaker 1: encouraged and let's go for it, and let's you know,

599
00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:02,319
Speaker 1: let's go, let's try to go to the camps with

600
00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:05,000
Speaker 1: these other kids that are, you know, really talented. And

601
00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:07,200
Speaker 1: I think that was just a great thing that my

602
00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:10,120
Speaker 1: parents were able to instill in me, to know, you

603
00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:13,080
Speaker 1: shoot for the stars, you try to do the best

604
00:38:13,080 --> 00:38:15,640
Speaker 1: you could do, and uh, you know, I just grew

605
00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:18,040
Speaker 1: up that way and I still feel that way now.

606
00:38:18,080 --> 00:38:20,600
Speaker 1: I think people would think, you're you're forty one, what

607
00:38:20,640 --> 00:38:21,759
Speaker 1: do you you know? What are you doing? And I

608
00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:23,600
Speaker 1: still have been shooting for the stars and I'm doing

609
00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:42,040
Speaker 1: something I love to do. So were similar athletes. Lebron

610
00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:47,080
Speaker 1: and I both great size and speed, jumping ability, shooting

611
00:38:48,520 --> 00:38:51,200
Speaker 1: not quite now he's a much better athlete than me.

612
00:38:56,200 --> 00:38:58,319
Speaker 1: I might, I might. I know my wife's going. She

613
00:38:58,360 --> 00:39:00,080
Speaker 1: asked me the day if I was gonna go. So

614
00:39:00,719 --> 00:39:06,239
Speaker 1: word spreads fast? I said, word spreads fast. I wrote

615
00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:09,799
Speaker 1: in pencil on the calendar, So I don't know. It's

616
00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:17,839
Speaker 1: got to be permanent, permanent ink. They were very good.

617
00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:25,160
Speaker 1: It was intense. It wasn't it was intense. It wasn't anger. No,

618
00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:28,640
Speaker 1: I love Germans. See you guys, Thank you,