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Speaker 1: All right, fans, we are joined now by Sam Ellinger.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna look forward, Sam, because I love doing that

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Speaker 1: with your career, but I want to look back for

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Speaker 1: a second. Buffalo comes up, You're ready, getting your reps

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Speaker 1: out there and absolutely moving the ball, keeping the chains

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Speaker 1: moving as well, scoring touchdowns, throwing touchdowns. Did that afternoon

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Speaker 1: blossom into the way that Sam Ellinger thought at kickoff? Absolutely? Absolutely?

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Speaker 1: I mean to get back out there and just play,

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Speaker 1: to be out there with the teammates in Buffalo, love

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Speaker 1: that stadium, playing against a great team. It was awesome

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Speaker 1: to get back out there, and you know, really work

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Speaker 1: so hard all the all offseason thinking about that moment

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Speaker 1: to be able to get out there and let it,

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Speaker 1: It felt really good. But this is to you, not

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Speaker 1: new because you've played as a you know, early in

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Speaker 1: your high school career. All of a sudden, Sam's a leader.

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Speaker 1: Go to Texas, Sam's a leader. As a freshman. You

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Speaker 1: come up here, you got a fight between a couple

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Speaker 1: of guys. You just keep showing up. What's that mentality

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Speaker 1: all about. I think it's just being ready in the momentum,

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Speaker 1: controlling the controlling what you can control. You know, there's

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Speaker 1: so many outside external circumstances that nobody has control over,

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Speaker 1: and all you control of is yourself and the way

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Speaker 1: that you prepare and are you going to be ready

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Speaker 1: in the moment. And you know, going into this training camp,

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Speaker 1: I knew reps would be limited, but um, I think

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Speaker 1: my mentality was kind of sniper mentality. Yeah. You know,

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Speaker 1: snipers get one shot, one kill, and so you know,

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Speaker 1: just taking it, take off. Oh. I love just taking

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Speaker 1: advantage of every red. That's what That's what I'm trying

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Speaker 1: to so good. That goes over a lot of things.

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Speaker 1: If you're an outdoorsman, I mean, if you're a better

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Speaker 1: if you get sometimes you only get one shot. I know,

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Speaker 1: that's exactly right. I love it. So so a lot

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Speaker 1: of people are talking great idea, great stuff out of

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Speaker 1: Sam in week one and stuff she's hed a battle?

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Speaker 1: Is he a backup to Matt Ryan, stuff like that.

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Speaker 1: And then I look over at the lunch table and

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Speaker 1: you and Nick Foles are having a good old lunch

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Speaker 1: just talking away. At the same time. I know they're

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Speaker 1: friends of yours, but you're learning a lot from these

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Speaker 1: two veteran corsolutely, no question. Um. You know, it's very

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Speaker 1: unique that you get to be on a roster with

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl MVP and a League MVP. UM, and both

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Speaker 1: of the goes. Those guys obviously have years of experience.

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Speaker 1: And you know, Nick and I went to the same

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Speaker 1: high school. Wow, he's ten years older than me. Um,

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Speaker 1: So growing up it was him and Drew Brees. We

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Speaker 1: years apart. So Drew as ten years older than Nick

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Speaker 1: and Nick's ten years older than me. And so just

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Speaker 1: to be in the room with guys like that, to

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Speaker 1: the way they carry themselves, the xs and os. Just

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Speaker 1: learn as much as I can. And Kyl and Granton too, right,

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Speaker 1: went to your high school and you guys were teammates. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Kyl and we were teammates in high school. So we

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Speaker 1: got on this roster. We have three guys that went

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Speaker 1: and Nick Cross and Rodney McLeod man. I love it.

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Speaker 1: It's so cool. I want to talk about you though,

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Speaker 1: going going back to this time last year, Sam, how

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Speaker 1: much more comfortable would you say you are now compared

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Speaker 1: Just how much more at ease would you say you

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Speaker 1: are right now? Night and day? Yeah, night and day.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. You know, he looked at me like I

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Speaker 1: was asking a dumb question, and I didn't think I was. No, No,

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Speaker 1: not a dumb question at all, Very valid and very true.

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Speaker 1: I last year was like, oh my gosh, what is

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Speaker 1: about the same thing from where you came from, losing

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Speaker 1: your brother, loosing your father, trying to make a living

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Speaker 1: in the NFL. Try to compartmentalize what he says, that's maturity.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's strength, that's up and that's something on

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Speaker 1: this team, this coach, and this general manager and owner

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Speaker 1: That's a great question, you know what I mean? Is

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Speaker 1: that is that just from playing the position? I think

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Speaker 1: you know, also just having great role models to look

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Speaker 1: go and I continue to fight and scratch and claws.

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Speaker 1: They're with you every day, every time you take the field.

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Speaker 1: I know that. So how's Indianapolis been for you? Obviously

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Speaker 1: for your family and stuff like that. Yeah, it's awesome.

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Speaker 1: It's awesome. Um, We've really enjoyed it, Enjoyed the people,

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Speaker 1: My wife and I just moved into the Carmel area,

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Speaker 1: so I'm getting familiar with all that. Really really love

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Speaker 1: again from last year. Where do you think you've improved?

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Speaker 1: Where do you think how do you think you're a

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Speaker 1: And how did you improve in that department? How did

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Speaker 1: my knowledge on you know, biomechanics, timing, function, fitness, all that.

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Speaker 1: where I need to increase it. You know, not all

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Speaker 1: muscle mass is good, but increasing that and then sleep

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Speaker 1: in nutrition, you know, fixing all those things. Then mind

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Speaker 1: how do you go through a progression as a quarterback

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Speaker 1: if there is heat? We saw it against Buffalo. You

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Speaker 1: Sim Ellinger is our guest Colts quarterback with us in

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Speaker 1: a roster spot. You've got Desmond Patman, Mike Strown, Samson, Nkua.

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Speaker 1: How have you seen them progress so far? And camp?

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Speaker 1: any elder elder point of view. You're getting there, Sam, No, no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: luxurious is it to have these guys at tight end

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Speaker 1: as a quarterback? Oh, it's incredible. Um, I think that

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Speaker 1: that's something that the league does a great job of

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Speaker 1: you watch nationally televised pro games when you're not playing?

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Speaker 1: Do you look at the game differently as a fan?

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Speaker 1: Do you look at it like you're in the film

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Speaker 1: night game, or do you even not even look at it? Say, hey,

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Speaker 1: I got to bury myself in the playbook. Yeah, to

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Speaker 1: be honest, I don't really. I don't really watch. I mean,

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Speaker 1: if it's on, I'll look at it, but I can't

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Speaker 1: watch the game as a spectator anymore, Like, wow, that

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Speaker 1: was a great play, right, I'm always looking at what

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Speaker 1: we're looking at, so front coverage rotation. So it's kind

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Speaker 1: of tainted my enjoyment of watching football. But we'll take it. Okay, Okay,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure when the kids come around, you'll go back

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Speaker 1: in a dad and coach mode after the playing careers,

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Speaker 1: no doubt, no doubt. Hey, last one for me, give

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Speaker 1: me something on Texas. I saw they got snub they

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Speaker 1: weren't ranked at the time five. I don't give me

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Speaker 1: something on Texas this year. The hype surrounding the Longhorns

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Speaker 1: this upcoming season. Well, I mean, I think there's always

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Speaker 1: going to be hype. It's the University of Texas. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's always that's always going to be a thing, and

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Speaker 1: it's just about going out and doing it. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I think they're gonna have a great year. I'm very optimistic.

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Speaker 1: I think coach Sarks an incredible, incredible coach and incredible

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Speaker 1: offensive mind, and I'm looking forward to see them put

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Speaker 1: up a lot of points. Sam Ellinger more popular than

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Speaker 1: the governor of the state of Texas for four years

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Speaker 1: as the starting carterback. That's just how it is. Sam.

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Speaker 1: So one last Texas thing. There's a guy who played

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Speaker 1: Canton named Peyton Manning, who has a nephew that is

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Speaker 1: an awful good quarterback by the name of Arch Manning,

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Speaker 1: who happens to be going to Texas. And I want

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Speaker 1: to ask Sam Ellinger, was there any recruitment by the

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Speaker 1: former quarterback to the future quarterback of the Texas Well,

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Speaker 1: we definitely spent some time together and I just got

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Speaker 1: to say I was unbelievably blown away real by you know,

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Speaker 1: his mannerisms, his maturity. You know, you go to and

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Speaker 1: you talk to a lot of recruits and they want

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Speaker 1: to be pitched. And Arch was not that he asked

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Speaker 1: the right questions. He wanted to know the right things.

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Speaker 1: You could tell that he had people pouring into him,

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Speaker 1: ask the right questions and know what was really important.

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Speaker 1: And I think that obviously he has an incredible team

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Speaker 1: he was unbelievably impressive. And we spend a good amount

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Speaker 1: of time together and still talk periodically, and I'm excited

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Speaker 1: for his progression and obviously a great family and he's

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Speaker 1: in great hands. Yeah, you'll be down to Texas on

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Speaker 1: those bye weeks and checking out the long Larners for sure.

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Speaker 1: Sam Ellinger joins us. Great job against Buffalo. Can't wait

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Speaker 1: to watch you do your thing against the Lion. Sam.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, guys. I really appreciate