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Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, and welcome to another edition of the Dave

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Speaker 1: Pash Podcast, Episode seventy four with Cardinals offensive lineman Paris

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Speaker 1: Johnson Junior. Paris last year started every game for the

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Speaker 1: Cardinals at right tackle, but this year he's the Cardinals

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Speaker 1: left tackle, a position he played primarily at Ohio State

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Speaker 1: before being selected number six overall by the Cardinals in

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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty three NFL Draft. As you'll hear from Paris,

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Speaker 1: he's a great talker, very smart guy, very thoughtful, very

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Speaker 1: well spoken, very mild manner, but he's got a nasty streak,

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Speaker 1: which we'll talk about. We'll also ask him about his

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Speaker 1: relationship with Kyler Murray, his thoughts on college teammates C. J. Stroud,

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Speaker 1: and when he thought Marvin Harrison Junior was going to

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Speaker 1: be special.

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Speaker 2: We knew that he would be the one in his

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Speaker 2: training camp, the first training camp of his freshman year.

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Speaker 2: His release is with the catches he was able to make.

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Speaker 2: I think he might have dropped one or two passes

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Speaker 2: in practice his whole first year, and I'm playing quarterback.

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Speaker 1: On We'll also talk about Paris's unique personality, some of

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Speaker 1: the things he studied in college, and why He's different

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Speaker 1: than other offensive linemen that he comes in contact with

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Speaker 1: our conversation with Cardinals left tackle Paris Johnson Junior. Paris,

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Speaker 1: thanks for the time, man, appreciate you stopping by. Yes, sir,

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Speaker 1: you're the first guest to wear gloves for this podcast.

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Speaker 1: You can't prepared for anything. I do appreciate the fact

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Speaker 1: that because a lot of guys will go and shower

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Speaker 1: or take their time, but you wanted to pop up.

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Speaker 1: You wanted to get this over with so you can

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Speaker 1: get back to football. I understand Hu's camp and going

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Speaker 1: for you. How would you compare this to rookie camp?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so so so far. I would say this year

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Speaker 2: has been good for me. This camp has been great

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Speaker 2: for me. My mentality is just trying to win day

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Speaker 2: by day. How can I win today? How I'm able

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Speaker 2: to win in meetings? How can I win during one

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Speaker 2: on ones? How can I win in the lift? Just

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Speaker 2: trying to keep my mind kind of centered, spen my

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Speaker 2: mentality compared to last year, my mentality was kind of

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Speaker 2: the same. It wasn't all too different. But also I'm

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Speaker 2: trying to make sure I understand the whole playbook. I'm

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Speaker 2: trying to understand the speed of the game because now

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Speaker 2: his pads on with the transition to this level, and

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Speaker 2: you know, I'm still concerned about the rookie duties and

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Speaker 2: all those distractions. Now my only concern are spothands eyes,

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Speaker 2: just football, which is great.

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Speaker 1: When you think back to Ohio State, whether it was

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Speaker 1: urban Meyers offense, Ryan Days offense, complicated stuff, and obviously

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Speaker 1: you were around a lot of great players. How did

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Speaker 1: that help you adjust to an NFL offense and being

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Speaker 1: around all great players?

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Speaker 2: Right? So I remember when I was recruit you know,

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Speaker 2: in my head like I had all figured out, Oh yeah,

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Speaker 2: this is a combination. It's the calls. I'd understand that

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Speaker 2: I got to Ohio State, took me forever to learn

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Speaker 2: because compared to high school, my high school plays book

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Speaker 2: Sometimes my coach is pointed me, Paris, you're pulling from

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Speaker 2: as I started to but going into my second year,

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Speaker 2: It's another small reason why I'm happy to be here

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Speaker 2: and our system is because we share the exact same

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Speaker 1: But in terms of the duties for an offensive lineman

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think, I think in terms of calls, terminologies,

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Speaker 2: it might not be the whole offense, but to me,

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Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, Marvin is just like Ohio State, right.

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Speaker 2: He was like, no, no, it's not. But to me,

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Speaker 1: So in terms of what they were asking him to

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Speaker 2: Right, different, But for me, it's about the say.

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Speaker 1: And now you got Chip Kelly at Ohio State. Yes,

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Speaker 1: the legend, it's Ryan Day's guy. People don't realize when

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Speaker 1: Chip took that. A lot of people are like, why

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Speaker 2: Right they go way back. That was a quarterback coach.

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Speaker 1: You played right guard in college and you played both

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Speaker 2: It's a good question. I haven't thought about that. That's

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Speaker 1: You just got done with training camp. You've been here

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Speaker 2: So, honestly, I think maybe the transition in college was

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Speaker 2: Then I do my fundamentals again. Then I got moved

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Speaker 2: the transition to left tackle has been a lot easier

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Speaker 1: You mentioned talking to Marvin. What have you noticed so

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Speaker 2: I think he looked, I mean just seeing in his

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Speaker 2: I'm not in a receiver room. I don't know. I

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Speaker 2: don't know if he's if the route he's running his

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Speaker 2: I think he's ready to go, especially you know, coming

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Speaker 2: he was a college he's a pro guy. He's always

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Speaker 2: My expectations are through the roof for Marvin. But I

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Speaker 2: he's electric. My expectation is that when he has an

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Speaker 2: throw him to do what Kyler does. I think everybody will,

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Speaker 2: how special a player is.

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Speaker 1: So I do all the Cardinals games, but I also

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Speaker 1: think Marvin had a couple of catches, but you had

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Speaker 2: Yeah, honestly, we know that he would be the one.

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Speaker 2: In his training camp, the first training camp of his

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Speaker 2: coaches like, I guess we're having a bad day. He

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Speaker 2: was like, let's see what some real play makers look like.

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Speaker 2: So you guys can get inspired. You know, that's our

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Speaker 2: But you could just see like his releases with the

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Speaker 2: And I'm blame the quarterback, you know what I mean,

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Speaker 2: just because you just never dropped it. So I was like,

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Speaker 2: kind of knew you'd be that guy.

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Speaker 1: How much do you ask questions? Are you a guy

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Speaker 1: that likes to you seem very thoughtful in somebody. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: just based on your background, you're you always want to learn, uh,

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Speaker 1: Sure that much your personality is probably unique, I would

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Speaker 2: How are you seeing this? I'm in college, you know

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Speaker 1: Do you have dual lingo? Do you know what it is?

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Speaker 2: I think that kind of mentality is like a thing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, the see what he did last season

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Speaker 2: So he wants to play the quarter if I got to.

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Speaker 2: And obviously I feel like you know, he's been in

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Speaker 1: Obviously, you look at him just physically and then you

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Speaker 2: I do. I mean, I think I think the coolest

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Speaker 2: I think that's one of his the strongest attributes in

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Speaker 1: Well, Symparis, appreciate the time, man, thanks for coming in,

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Speaker 1: Appreciate that nice chatting with you.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Great stuff from Paris. I just love his whole vibe.

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Speaker 1: He's so laid back, he's so mild mannered, smart, well spoken.

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Speaker 1: Paris Johnson Junior. I work with Ron Wolfley. Wolf is

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Speaker 1: He was a killer, and I think Paris has similar traits.

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