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Speaker 1: Next step that we knew year Brandon knew year. Adm Um,

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Speaker 1: how is it? How much? How nice is it? Rather

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Speaker 1: to have the full running back room full again? It's awesome,

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Speaker 1: Like I mean, everybody brings like their own flavor to

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Speaker 1: the game. But to have everybody back and you know, healthy,

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Speaker 1: is is what you pray for? Question for when when

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Speaker 1: when the running backs, when one of the running backs

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Speaker 1: are out or you know, when everybody has to do

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Speaker 1: more work, does it actually hurt in some respects Um,

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Speaker 1: how much a running back can do because you're actually

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Speaker 1: doing things that you're not necessarily used to. But I

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Speaker 1: don't mean this as a negative. I mean just you know,

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Speaker 1: just how it goes sometimes. Uh, I'm not totally sorry.

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Speaker 1: I fully understand what they're asking, but I mean, OK, ahead, Basically,

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Speaker 1: it's like if Vermond rays out, it's you and you

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Speaker 1: and Damian uh and JJ and basically you're called on

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Speaker 1: to do some things that maybe you not would normally

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Speaker 1: be called upon to do if you have the full

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Speaker 1: compliment of running backs. No, that's what practice is for.

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Speaker 1: We practice for all situations, and we are all prepared

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Speaker 1: to back each other up. That's just how we operate.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Brandon. Next question Tara Sullivan, Hey Brandon, how

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Speaker 1: are you? Hia? Are you good? Thank you? I wanted

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Speaker 1: to ask a question that sort of relates to the Jaguars.

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Speaker 1: Not to ask you about them because it's just your opponent,

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Speaker 1: but obviously we know what they've been through, you know,

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Speaker 1: changing coaches, coming in with an interim coach, and what

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Speaker 1: they've gone through this year. What I wanted to ask

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Speaker 1: you is just what is it like to be in

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Speaker 1: the stability that's around the Patriots? What is it meant

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Speaker 1: to you? What is it meant for your career? Like,

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Speaker 1: what do you kind of just make of it of

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Speaker 1: just at least from the outside, just how stable it seems,

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Speaker 1: especially when not all the NFL is like that. I

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Speaker 1: don't quite know how to answer that. Besides that, I

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Speaker 1: know me personally, I know a lot of my other teammates,

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Speaker 1: current and former. We work out butts off everything we've

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Speaker 1: gotten and whether that's extensions or more playing time or

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Speaker 1: playoff potential over the years, that has been from a

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Speaker 1: lot of blood, sweat and tears and a lot of

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Speaker 1: bad words I can't repeat from Bill, and you know

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Speaker 1: that's why, that's how we get to where we get

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Speaker 1: every year and it's just like I said, it's a

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Speaker 1: lot of hard work and even from the coaches. That's

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Speaker 1: that's where I stability to come from. It is working

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Speaker 1: out butts off perfect. Thank you. Next question, Ryan Hannibal Brennan.

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Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you about your Instagram post from

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Speaker 1: that and you know what made you do it today.

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Speaker 1: I really didn't have a reason for it. I actually

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Speaker 1: that was back from two and eighteen. I was diagnosed

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Speaker 1: with cancer. It's like epomucua dermoy carcianoma or something like that.

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Speaker 1: I got it removed in twenty eighteen and still like

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Speaker 1: was cancer free beginning of this season and feel fine

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Speaker 1: and everything else. And it was just one of those

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Speaker 1: and I was like, I got my full face back,

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Speaker 1: just kind of one of those motivational, inspirational type deals

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Speaker 1: for me, because like I took a lot and it

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Speaker 1: was it was a lot of nay saying from doctors

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Speaker 1: and everything else, and then you know, just here to

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Speaker 1: prove people wrong and continue to grow and get stronger.

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Speaker 1: Did a lot of people not know about this? Like teammates, coaches, likely,

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Speaker 1: we never knew about it. Uh, some of the new

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Speaker 1: new more the more of the newer players, they didn't know.

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Speaker 1: A lot of guys kind of forgot because I don't

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Speaker 1: ever talk about it. I rarely talk about it, um,

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Speaker 1: because it didn't never stopped me from doing anything. It

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Speaker 1: didn't hinder me from anything. It's just one of those

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Speaker 1: things I dealt with, and me and my family dealt

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Speaker 1: So you said it was back in twenty eighteen. Was

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Speaker 1: there ever thought that your career was over? Uh? Yes,

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Speaker 1: And though um the surgery was in twenty eighteen, like

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Speaker 1: it was just a thing. It was. It was right. No,

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Speaker 1: thank you for sharing earlier to and you know answering

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Speaker 1: this question now, bro the next question, Mark Daniels, it branded.

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Speaker 1: You were with Miami? So was this something that happened

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Speaker 1: in the off season. M I had the surgery in

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Speaker 1: the off season. We found out about found out that

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Speaker 1: we found out about the cancer right after right after

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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. It's when I was diagnosed. Um after Yeah,

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Speaker 1: after we played shit and that's when they had told me.

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Speaker 1: It was like we had cancer. I gotta get it

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Speaker 1: removed from everything else. And I was right right after

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Speaker 1: the season. Um yeah, I had surgery, set out for

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Speaker 1: a little while, just lost lost majority of uh functioning

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Speaker 1: everything on the right side of my face, um, and

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Speaker 1: continue to play. It was just my face, It wasn't

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Speaker 1: the rest of my body. So I was okay with it.

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Speaker 1: How much would you say that that changes your your

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Speaker 1: perspective and just everything, whether it be life, football, what happened,

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Speaker 1: it changed the perspective about a lot. Like I thought,

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Speaker 1: I was doing everything to prevent stuff like that happened,

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Speaker 1: and it happened, had surgery, and then it was kind

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Speaker 1: of like that was my reset. I was able to

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Speaker 1: you know, redo it and reprocess how I was doing

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Speaker 1: everything in my life. And here we are, like I said,

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Speaker 1: going on four years of being cancer free. Now, well

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Speaker 1: congrats on that, and again thanks thanks for sharing. I'm

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Speaker 1: sure there are a lot of people have been in

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Speaker 1: similar situations that you know. I appreciate someone like you're

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Speaker 1: sharing the story. Thanks