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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Ozone podcast presented by by Star Credit Union,

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Speaker 1: featuring Jaguars senior writer John Oser and executive producer Dave

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Speaker 1: de Candice. I think some Jaguars scans have an idea

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Speaker 1: about this guy based teen at and hardcore football fans

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Speaker 1: know about you know a lot about his history. I

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Speaker 1: don't know that all Jaguars scans know as much about

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Speaker 1: him as they're going to find out this week. Jaguars

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Speaker 1: tight end Tyler Eiffort Video Zone Podcast. Tyler, first of all,

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you doing this. I'll get right to it.

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Speaker 1: Tell me about your year personally on the field. Uh,

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Speaker 1: and it's an injuries and stuff like that, but overall,

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Speaker 1: just tell me about that year. Obviously, it hasn't been

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Speaker 1: what anybody has wanted on the team or what we expected. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's not fun losing in the NFL after

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Speaker 1: we won that first game in at home against Indie.

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Speaker 1: I mean, just remind you how much fun it is

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Speaker 1: to win in the NFL. So definitely not what we've

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Speaker 1: we've wanted. And for me personally, you know, I never

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Speaker 1: set goals as far as catches and yards and all

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Speaker 1: that stuff. I just try to control what I can control,

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Speaker 1: and that's you know, making sure I know where I'm

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Speaker 1: supposed to be. I know the offense, I'm working hard

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Speaker 1: to stay in shape and um and then now that

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Speaker 1: I'm later in my career, just trying to help some

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Speaker 1: things that I've learned throughout the years. I was gonna

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Speaker 1: ask you about that in terms that you mentioned being

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Speaker 1: later in your career or more advanced in your career. Um,

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Speaker 1: is this sort of a season in terms of how

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Speaker 1: to approach the day to day? Meaning when you're losing

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Speaker 1: like this, you can sort of lean on your professionalism.

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Speaker 1: I guess it would have been harder to deal with

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Speaker 1: this kind of a season as a rookie when you

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Speaker 1: didn't know how to approach the day to day. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I think for me personally, always just tried to be

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Speaker 1: the same guy throughout the season, every day coming to work.

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Speaker 1: You know, never get too high, never get too low,

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Speaker 1: whether we're winning a bunch of games, you know, just

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Speaker 1: be consistent. And you know I try to as far

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Speaker 1: as me being a leader, I try to be a

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Speaker 1: leader in that way. Is you know I'm not I'm

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Speaker 1: not a guy you're gonna have to worry about. You're

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Speaker 1: gonna get the same guy every day no matter what's

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Speaker 1: going on. So just just keeping that mindset and and

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Speaker 1: setting an example for for some of the other guys.

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Speaker 1: I suppose you could ask this if any player this

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Speaker 1: year with COVID, because it's been a year unlike any other,

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Speaker 1: but your year personally, you leave a team and in

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Speaker 1: an area that you were very close with to come

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Speaker 1: to a new team during the pandemic, during all this, UM,

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Speaker 1: I guess there's no way in nineteen that you could

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Speaker 1: have ever dreamed what you would have been like, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, especially being in the same spot for for

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Speaker 1: And even though the reality of the NFL is that

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Speaker 1: hardly anybody ends their career where they started. And and

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Speaker 1: I enjoyed Cincinnati. I really liked the city, the people there.

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Speaker 1: Um lived out on some land, so that was enjoyable

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Speaker 1: I've I've really enjoyed my time, uh the short time

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Speaker 1: and uh I'll tell you that this time of year,

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Speaker 1: even though it's a little bit chilly today, the weather

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Speaker 1: mean playing some cold weather games and it used to

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Speaker 1: we're talking on Wednesday, and everybody knows the temperature on Wednesday.

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Speaker 1: Tell me you didn't bundle up this morning. I got

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Speaker 1: my sweats of my uh my sweat shirlot, I don't.

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Speaker 1: I don't have the big jacket. That's I always think

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Speaker 1: that's funny being in Florida. When it gets blow like

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Speaker 1: I lived in Indy for ten years, but it only

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Speaker 1: obviously disappointing. Nobody wants to be one in ten. But

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Speaker 1: everybody I've talked to, all the players, say it's pretty

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Speaker 1: remarkable how this team has held together. Uh do you

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Speaker 1: Some people could from the outside read it one of

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Speaker 1: there's not there's no infighting, or you know, some people say,

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Speaker 1: well people are raising their voice and calling people up

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Speaker 1: We know, like people work hard at practice every day,

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Speaker 1: not that far off. I mean, just that's the nature

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Speaker 1: And I think guys really believing each other that if

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Speaker 1: know in Cincinnati when you played um Andy Dalton pretty

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Speaker 1: the season. How does that affect you? Is that a

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Speaker 1: just you just kind of play through it. Um. I

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Speaker 1: you know, just little things it you can't really you

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Speaker 1: How did that happen? Well? I played basketball, I am

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Speaker 1: That had to be a dream, right, Notre Dame football. Well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: like you said, Um, with my dad playing basketball, Purdue,

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Speaker 1: I I can understand that. Now, Why they why they

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Speaker 1: with the Cincinnati Bengals as the same? I said, what

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